1020 Amendments of Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA
Amendment 4 #
2018/2120(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
Citation 8 a (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 29 November 2018 on the situation of women with disabilities;
Amendment 5 #
2018/2120(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 b (new)
Citation 8 b (new)
– having regards to its resolution of 15 November 2018 on care services in the EU for improved gender equality;
Amendment 6 #
2018/2120(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 c (new)
Citation 8 c (new)
– having regard to European Economic and Social Committee Opinion on Digital gender gap;
Amendment 7 #
2018/2120(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the employment rate for those aged between 20 and 64 stood at 73.2 % in 2017, indicating that the EU is well on track to reach the 75 % employment rate target specified in the Europe 2020 strategy; whereas the EU gender employment gap still stands at 12% and the Europe 2020 employment rate target can be reached faster by ensuring equal opportunities between men and women regarding participation in the labour market and right to affordable care services of good quality;
Amendment 18 #
2018/2120(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas as new forms of work emerge and expand, including platform and own- account work, social protection traditionally geared to covering workers in full-time open-ended contracts will need to be modernised and adapted;
Amendment 22 #
2018/2120(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas although income inequality in the EU decreased slightly in 2017, in- work poverty remains unacceptably high, standing at 9.6 % of the working population and mainly concern women;
Amendment 25 #
2018/2120(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the total number of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) stands at 22.5 % and while this is below pre-crisis levels, the Europe 2020 headline target of reducing AROPE by 20 million remains far from being reached; whereas the AROPE rate for children continues to decline but is still unacceptably high; whereas the AROPE rate for children from single parent households is twice the average for children overall;
Amendment 35 #
2018/2120(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas 80 million Europeans have disabilities and are therefore at greater risk of poverty and social exclusion; whereas 80% of care in the EU is provided by unpaid informal carers and 75% of them are women;
Amendment 39 #
2018/2120(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas the employment rate of women in 2017 is 66.5 %, yet the gender employment gap remains substantial, as does the gender pay gap; and gender pension gap;
Amendment 41 #
2018/2120(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas informal or family carers are at greater risk of experiencing poverty, both during their period of caring and when accessing pension entitlements; whereas majority of carers in Europe are women;
Amendment 42 #
2018/2120(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas significant progress has been made towards reaching the 2020 headline target of an early school leaving rate of 10 % and on reaching the target of 40 % for tertiary education attainment, but large disparities still persist between Member States; whereas the quality of tertiary education should remain at the highest level while achieving 2020 headline targets;
Amendment 44 #
2018/2120(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas more than 40 % of adults in the EU do not have basic digital skills; in the digital era, digital skills are essential for any personal or professional tasks; whereas more than 40 % of adults in the EU do not have basic digital skills; whereas the gender gap in basic digital skills persists among females over 55 years old, but comes down to almost zero among the younger users; whereas the rate of individuals with basic digital skills is 27% for both men and women, but there is a gender gap of 12.9% when digital skills above basic are considered;
Amendment 50 #
2018/2120(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q a (new)
Recital Q a (new)
Qa. whereas low skilled and older workers are significantly less likely to participate in re-skilling and training programmes; whereas MSMEs often lack resources to organise training and re- skilling for their employees;
Amendment 55 #
2018/2120(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes that pension adequacy is still a challenge, as the risk of social exclusion is increasing with age and the gender pension gap of 37% still poses a challenge to many women and the whole society;
Amendment 57 #
2018/2120(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Points out that Member States are faced with structural challenges in the labour market such as low participation, labour market segmentation as well as skills and qualification mismatches; notes that there is a growing need for effective measures for the integration and re- integration of inactive workforce including migrants in the labour market;
Amendment 61 #
2018/2120(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that all Member State economies are forecast to continue growing but at a slower pace; highlights the need to bridge the investment gap for research and innovation in infrastructure; calls on the Commission and the Member States to maximise their efforts in investing in affordable, accessible and targeted high- quality education and training, including digital and transferable skills,reinforcing upskilling and reskilling measures and to promote lifelong learning and skills development including basic, digital and transferable skills; highlights the importance of reinforcing the initial training and continuous professional development of teachers and trainers; calls on the Member States to strengthen their vocational education, apprenticeship and training systems, reality based-learning and increase their alignment with labour market needs;
Amendment 75 #
2018/2120(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. NDespite the fact that the EU unemployment rates are at their lowest level, the job vacancy rate in the EU was 2.2 % in 2018, up from 1.9 % in 2017, notes with concern that skills mismatches are considerable, and calls on the Member States to prioritise quality public investment in quality education and training as a driver of sustainable and inclusive growth; stresses that skills mismatch and shortages in the labour market should be tackled by making education systems cooperate more closely with business and social partners, such as employers’ associations and trade unions, and by promoting dual education, apprenticeship, work-based learning and reality-based learning in all forms and levels of education, including higher education;
Amendment 78 #
2018/2120(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to further support the job mobility portal EURES and other programmes, which facilitate learning and training mobility; notes that mutual recognition of qualifications enhances opportunity for employment especially in countries with high job vacancy rate;
Amendment 87 #
2018/2120(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and all Member States to initiate and/or strengthen the regulation of new forms of work; in this context, expresses concern about the coverage of atypical workers and self- employed workers, who often do not have full access to the social protection system; calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop and promote measures with proven effectiveness in reducing undeclared work, enabling the recognition of domestic and care workers’ labour rights as well as improving working conditions;
Amendment 97 #
2018/2120(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to step up efforts for the further inclusion of people with disabilities in the labour market, by removing legislative barriers to creating incentives for their employment and ensuring the accessibility of workplaces by greater use of new technologies in communication and mobility of people with disabilities;
Amendment 98 #
2018/2120(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes that micro-enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) are important for sustainable and inclusive development and job creation; Calls for further support for micro-, small-and medium-sized enterprises to organise training for employees; calls on the Commission and the Member States to give greater consideration to the interests of MSMEs in the policymaking process;
Amendment 104 #
2018/2120(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. CIs concerned that such little attention was given to work-life balance in Annual Growth Survey 2019: For a stronger Europe in the face of global uncertainty; calls on the Member States and the Commission to take all necessary measures to improve work-life balance and boost gender equality; calls for the development of accessible and affordable high-quality care services and childcare and early education services, as well as; calls for the recognition of informal carers as well as improved working conditions and adequate forms of support for family carers, who deliver the greaterst part of care in the EU; calls for promoting flexible working arrangements and take-up of advantageous maternity, paternity, parental and carer’s leave; deplores the continuing gender pay gap; recognises that this issue requires a multifaceted response, and calls on the Member States to address it as a matter of urgency; is of the strong opinion that a fast adoption of the directive on work-life balance for parents and carers is a necessary step towards improved work-life balance;
Amendment 108 #
2018/2120(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Highlights the fact that gender discrimination is still persisting problem, as evidenced by the gender pay gap (with the average gross hourly earnings of male employees about 16% higher than those of female employees) and the pension gap of 37%; stresses that the pension gap, which is the most important indicator of gender inequality is due to the underrepresentation of women in well-paid sectors, discrimination in the labour market and the high rate of women in part-time work as well as not sufficient mechanisms of reconciliation of family and work-related obligations between men and women;
Amendment 109 #
2018/2120(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Recalls that increasing life expectancy requires the adaptation of pension systems in order to ensure sustainable and adequate pensions; reiterates its call for care credits in pension systems to compensate for lost contributions of women and men due to child and long-term care responsibilities as a tool to reduce the gender pension gap;
Amendment 231 #
2018/0225(COD)
Draft legislative resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
- having regard to the European Parliament’s report on the assessment of Horizon 2020 implementation in view of its interim evaluation and the Framework Programme 9 proposal (2016/2147(INI))
Amendment 245 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) The Specific Programme's actions should be used to reinforce, widen and extend Union's scientific and technological base, tackle major global societal challenges, increase the Union's knowledge and industrial leadership, as well as address market failures or sub- optimal investment situations, in a proportionate manner, safeguarding clear European added value from R&I investments, fully using R&I potential of all Member States, without duplicating or crowding out private financing and have a clear European added value.
Amendment 264 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) The completion of the Digital Single Market and the growing opportunities from the convergence of digital and physical technologies requires a stepping up of investments. Horizon Europe will adequately contribute to these efforts with a substantial increase of spendinvesting in main digital research and innovation activities compared to the Research and Innovation Framework Programme Horizon 20206 . This should ensure that Europe remains at the forefront of global research and innovation in the digital field. _________________ 6 The Communication from the Commission "A new, modern Multiannual Financial Framework for a European Union that deliver efficiently on its priorities post-2020" identifies EUR 13 billion spent in main digital activities under the Research and Innovation Framework Programme Horizon 2020 (https://eur- lex.europa.eu/legal- content/en/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A52018D C0098).
Amendment 279 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
(a a) widening participation in the Programme, including underrepresented EU Member States and EU R&I institutions
Amendment 288 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) connecting and, developing and facilitating wide access to research infrastructures across the European rResearch area;Area and enhancing its involvement in Horizon Europe’s projects
Amendment 345 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point n
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point n
(n) improving skills for research and innovation;
Amendment 372 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
(b) cluster 'Inclusive and Secure Society', as described in Annex I, Pillar II, section 2;
Amendment 379 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b a (new)
(b a) cluster 'Secure Society'
Amendment 398 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 4 – introductory part
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 4 – introductory part
(4) PCross-cutting part 'Strengthening the European Research Area' with the following components:
Amendment 399 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 4 – point a
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 4 – point a
(a) sharpreading excellence and widening participation, as described in Annex I, Part 'Strengthening the European Research Area', section 1;
Amendment 405 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 4 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 4 a (new)
(4 a) citizens and science , as described in Annex I, part “Strenghtening the European Reseach Area'
Amendment 407 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. In accordance with Article 9(1)of Regulation … FP/RfP Regulation, the financial envelope for the implementation of the Specific Programme for the period 2021 to 2027 shall be EUR 94 1120 000 000 000 in curreonstant prices.
Amendment 426 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. For each mission, a mission board may be established for co-designing and steering implementation. It shall be composed of around 15 high level individuals including relevant end-users' representatives. The mission board shall include, inter alia, representatives from academia, research and technology organisations, industry of all sizes, including SMEs, and relevant end-users' representatives and civil society organisations. The members of the mission board shall be appointed by the Commission, following an independent and transparent procedure for their selection, including an open call for expressions of interest. They shall advise upon the following:
Amendment 460 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 5 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Missions shall be implemented through collaborative calls for proposals within the work programmes. Calls for proposals shall allow for excellence- driven projects of all research, technological and societal readiness levels.
Amendment 480 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 7 – paragraph 4
Article 7 – paragraph 4
4. The Scientific Council shall act exclusively in the interest of achieving the ERC’s goals, according to the principles set out in Article 6. It shall act with integrity and probity and carry out its work efficiently and with the greatest possible transparency, maximising ERC’s contribution to achieving the EU R&I policy objectives and Horizon Europe’s goals in particular.
Amendment 486 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall establish a European Innovation Council (EIC) for implementing actions under Pillar III 'Open Innovationve Europe' which relate to the EIC. The EIC shall operate according to the following principles: focus on breakthrough and disruptivenew ideas, which could lead to breakthrough and disruptive societal, economic and technological innovation, autonomy, ability to take risk, efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and accountability, while strengthening EU global competitiveness and R&I capacity of all EU Member States.
Amendment 493 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 9 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. The EIC will be responsible for two instruments, the Pathfinder and the Accelerator, as described in Annex I of this Decision. Both instruments shall aim to develop new innovation patterns capable of supporting research-driven innovation in a systemic way.
Amendment 511 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
The EIC Board shall be composed of 15 to 20 high level individuals drawn from various parts of Europe's research and innovation ecosystem, including entrepreneurs, corporate leaderindustrial leaders, economists, investors and, researchers and academic experts on innovation policy. It shall contribute to outreach actions, with EIC Board members striving to enhance the prestige of the EIC brand.
Amendment 527 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 3
Article 10 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 3
The President shall chair the EIC Board, prepare its meetings, assign tasks to members, and may establish dedicated sub- groups, in particular to identify emerging technology trends from EIC's portfolio. He or she shall promote the EIC and its role in achieving EU R&I goals, act as interlocutor with the Commission and represent the EIC in the world of research and innovation. The Commission may provide for administrative support for the President to undertake his or her duties.
Amendment 535 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
The Programme shall be implemented by work programmes referred to in Article 110 of Financial Regulation. They shall be prepared fimplementation of the Specific Programme shall be based on R&I plans forming a part of the Programme’s legal base. Following athe strategic planning process as described in Annex I to this DecisR&I plan, the Programme shall be implemented by work programmes referred to in Article 110 of Financial Regulation.
Amendment 544 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) all clusters under the pillar 'Global Challenges and Industrial Competitiveness', MSCA, research infrastructures, support to research and innovation ecosystems, sharpreading excellence and widening participation, reforming and enhancing the European R&I System, in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 12(4);
Amendment 556 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – paragraph 1
Annex I – paragraph 1
The implementation of Horizon Europe's programme-level objectives in an integrated manner will be ensured by multiannual S shall be steered by an inclusive and transparent strategic Pplanning. Such planning process of the research and innovation activities funded by the Programme. It will provide the focus on impact for the Programme overall and coherence between its different pillarts, as well as synergy with other EU programmes and support to and from other EU policies. The strategic planning process and the adoption of the strategic R&I plans, forming a part of the legal base of the Programme, will increase ownership and understanding for the purpose of the Programme by a wider public and will allow the co-legislators, stakeholders and Member States to be fully informed on the envisaged initiatives. The Strategic Planning will help to develop and implement policy for the relevant areas covered, at Union level as well as complementing policies in the Member States. It will allow the simplification of the funding landscape, avoid duplication and overlaps between funding possibilities and promote faster dissemination and uptake of research and innovation results.
Amendment 569 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – paragraph 3
Annex I – paragraph 3
It will include extensive consultations and exchanges with Member States, the European Parliament as appropriate, and with various stakeholders about priorities, including missions, under the 'Global Challenges and Industrial Competitiveness' pillar, and the suitable types of action to use, in particular European partnerships.
Amendment 572 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – paragraph 4
Annex I – paragraph 4
Amendment 598 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – paragraph 11
Annex I – paragraph 11
Those 'FET Flagships' supported under Horizon 2020, which have proven their benefits for the Union, provide clear EU added value, contribute significantly to the EU global competitiveness, strengthen the EU knowledge base and contribute to the improved well-being of the EU citizens, will continue to be supported under this Programme. As they present substantial analogies with missions, other 'FET flagships', if any, will be supported under this Framework Programme as missions geared towards future and emerging technologies.
Amendment 637 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part I – point 1 – point 1.2 – point 1.2.1 – paragraph 2 – indent 2
Annex I – part I – point 1 – point 1.2 – point 1.2.1 – paragraph 2 – indent 2
– Starting researchers with excellent ideas in any field of research, both basic and applied one, to make the transition to independence while consolidating their own research team or programme;
Amendment 652 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part I – point 2 – point 2.1 – paragraph 2
Annex I – part I – point 2 – point 2.1 – paragraph 2
Europe is a scientific powerhouse with around 1.8 million researchers working in thousands of universities, research centres and world-leading companies. However, it is estimated that the EU will need to train and employ at least one million new researchers by 2027 in order to achieve the targets beings set for increased investment in research and innovation. This need is particularly acute in the non-academic sector. The EU must reinforce its efforts to entice more young women and men to a career in research, to attract researchers from third countries, retain its own researchers and reintegrate European researchers working elsewhere back to Europe. To achieve that goal, attention should be paid to schemes facilitating the balance between family and work life, including adding more flexibility for researchers of both sexes to facilitate the reconciliation of work and family life. Guaranteeing full gender equality in all sectors including science, technology and innovation is an essential condition for global economic development. In addition, in order to ensure synergies and more widely spread excellence, the Seal of Excellence label will continue to be applied to calls under MSCA; the conditions under which researchers perform must be further improved throughout the European Research Area (ERA), including addressing the remuneration gap among researchers from different EU Members States involved in the EU R&I Framework Programmes’ projects. In this respect, stronger links are needed notably with the European Education Area (EEdA), the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), and European Social Fund (ESF+).
Amendment 686 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part I – point 3 – point 3.1 – paragraph 1
Annex I – part I – point 3 – point 3.1 – paragraph 1
State of the art research infrastructures provide key services to research and innovation communities, playing an essential role in extending the frontiers of knowledge. Supporting research infrastructures at the EU level , including small and medium-sized ones and particularly those financed from ERDF, helps to mitigate what in many cases is the reality of scattered national research infrastructures and pockets of scientific excellence, as well as tacklincreasing the low circulation of knowledge across silos.
Amendment 688 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part I – point 3 – point 3.1 – paragraph 2
Annex I – part I – point 3 – point 3.1 – paragraph 2
The overall aim is to endow Europeimprove Europe's endowment with world-class sustainable research infrastructures, including small and medium-sized ones, open and accessible to all researchers in Europe and beyond, which fully exploit their potential for scientific advance and innovation. Key objectives are to reduce the fragmentation of the research and innovation ecosystem, ensure continuous modernisation, avoiding duplication of effort, and better coordinate the development and use of research infrastructur, use and accessibility of research infrastructures as well as its better involvement in Horizon Europe’s projects, including research infrastructures founded by the EU, particularly from ERDF. This will provide clear synergies between Horizon Europe and conducted national and regional R&I strategies. It is also crucial to support open access to research infrastructures for all European researchers as well as, through the European Open Science Cloud (hereafter 'EOSC'), increased access to digital research resources, specifically tackling the currently sub-optimal embracement of open science and open data practises. Equally, the EU needs to tackle the rapid increase of global competition for talent by attracting third country researchers to work with European world-class research infrastructures. Increasing the competitiveness of European industry is also a major objective, supporting key technologies and services relevant for research infrastructures and their users, thus improving the conditions for supply and utilisation of innovative solutions.
Amendment 695 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part I – point 3 – point 3.1 – paragraph 3
Annex I – part I – point 3 – point 3.1 – paragraph 3
Past framework programmes have made a significant contribution towards the more efficient and effective use of national infrastructures and towards the removal of barriers for use by all areas of European research through trans-national access, as well as developed with the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) a coherent and strategy-led approach to policy making on pan-European research infrastructures. This strategic approach has generated clear advantages, including reducing duplication of effort with more efficient overall use of resources, as well as standardising and harmonising processes and procedures. Creating new excellent R&I networks on the base of research infrastructures founded by the EU seems to be a natural challenge for Horizon Europe.
Amendment 702 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part I – point 3 – point 3.2 – point 3.2.1 – paragraph 1
Annex I – part I – point 3 – point 3.2 – point 3.2.1 – paragraph 1
The establishment, operation and long-term sustainability of research infrastructures identified by ESFRI, including the ones identified by ESFRI as wel las maximising their involvement in excellent Horizon Europe’s projects is essential for the EU to ensure a leading position in frontier research, the creation and use of knowledge and the competitiveness of its industries.
Amendment 742 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part II – paragraph 6
Annex I – part II – paragraph 6
Clusters will support knowledge creation in all its stages of development, including early-stage basic and applied research activities. Clusters will also develop and apply digital, key enabling and emerging technologies as part of a common strategy to promote the EU's industrial leadership. Where appropriate this will use EU space- enabled data and services.
Amendment 916 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part II – point 2 – introductory part
Annex I – part II – point 2 – introductory part
2. CLUSTER 'INCLUSIVE AND SECURE SOCIETY'
Amendment 919 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.1 – paragraph 1
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.1 – paragraph 1
The EU stands for a unique way of combining economic growth with social policies, with high levels of social inclusion, shared values embracing democracy, human rights, gender equality and the richness of diversity. This model is constantly evolving and needs to deal with the challenges from amongst other things, globalisation and technological change. Europe also has to respond to the challenges arising from persistent security threats. Terrorist attacks and radicalisation, as well as cyber-attacks and hybrid threats, raise major security concerns and put particular strain on societies.
Amendment 928 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.1 – paragraph 3
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.1 – paragraph 3
Amendment 941 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.1 – paragraph 5
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.1 – paragraph 5
Amendment 1015 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.2 – point 2.2.4 – paragraph 1
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.2 – point 2.2.4 – paragraph 1
Amendment 1022 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.2 – point 2.2.4 – paragraph 2
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.2 – point 2.2.4 – paragraph 2
Amendment 1034 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.2 – point 2.2.5
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.2 – point 2.2.5
Amendment 1037 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.2 – point 2.2.5 – paragraph 1
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.2 – point 2.2.5 – paragraph 1
Amendment 1042 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.2 – point 2.2.5 – paragraph 2
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.2 – point 2.2.5 – paragraph 2
Amendment 1051 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.2 – point 2.2.6
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.2 – point 2.2.6
Amendment 1056 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.2 – point 2.2.6 – paragraph 1
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.2 – point 2.2.6 – paragraph 1
Amendment 1059 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.2 – point 2.2.6 – paragraph 2
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.2 – point 2.2.6 – paragraph 2
Amendment 1062 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.2 – point 2.2.6 – paragraph 2 – indent 1
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.2 – point 2.2.6 – paragraph 2 – indent 1
Amendment 1064 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.2 – point 2.2.6 – paragraph 2 – indent 2
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.2 – point 2.2.6 – paragraph 2 – indent 2
Amendment 1068 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.2 – point 2.2.6 – paragraph 2 – indent 3
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.2 – point 2.2.6 – paragraph 2 – indent 3
Amendment 1077 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part II – point 2 a (new)
Annex I – part II – point 2 a (new)
Amendment 1848 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part III – point 1 – point 1.1 – point 1.1.3 – paragraph 1 – indent 3
Annex I – part III – point 1 – point 1.1 – point 1.1.3 – paragraph 1 – indent 3
– EIC Challenges, i.e. inducement prizes, to help develop novel solutions to global challengeew breakthrough innovations, bring in new actors and develop new R&I communities and networks. EIC recognition prizes will include iCapital, the Social Innovation Inducement Prize, and the Women Innovators' Prize.29 The design of itsand implementation of these prizes will be linked to EIC towith other parts of the Framework programme, including missions and other funding bodie EIT to ensure complementarity and avoid duplications. Opportunities for cooperation with organisations (such as enterprises, universities, research organisations, business accelerators, charities and foundations) will be explored. The budget dedicated for the prizes founded from different parts of Horizon Europe cannot exceed 1% of the Programme’s financial envelope. _________________ 29 The EIC prizes will take over the management of prizes launched under Horizon 2020 and provide for the design and implementation of new inducement prizes and recognition awards.
Amendment 1922 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 4 – point 1 – introductory part
Annex I – part 4 – point 1 – introductory part
1. SHARPREADING EXCELLENCE33 _________________ 33 innovation excellence will be used to define those Member States and Associated Countries where legal entities need to be established in order to be eligible to submit proposals as coordinators under 'sharing excellence'. This criterion will address the dimensions of the overall economic performance (GDP), research performance and innovation performance in a combined manner normalised to the size of the related countries. The countries identified with this criterion are called 'eligible countries' in the context of 'sharing excellence'. On the basis of Article 349 TFEU, legal entities from Outermost Regions will be also fully eligible as coordinators under 'sharing excellence'. AND WIDENING PARTICIPATION A criterion based on research and
Amendment 1926 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 4 – point 1 – paragraph 1
Annex I – part 4 – point 1 – paragraph 1
Reducing disparities in research and innovation performance by sharing knowledge and expertise across the EU and by widening participation in the Programme will help both countries and regions that are lagging behind in terms of research and innovation performance, including the EU outermost regions, to attain a competitive position in the global value chains and the Union to fully benefit from R&I potential of all Member States. Activities may also be established to foster brain circulation right across ERA and better exploitation of existing (and possibly jointly managed EU programmes) research infrastructures in the targeted countries through mobility and collaboration of researchers and innovators and setting new R&I networks and R&I initiatives on the base of those infrastructures.
Amendment 1928 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 4 – point 1 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Annex I – part 4 – point 1 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Legal entities need to be established in those EU Members States, which are ranked below 70% of the EU27 average of the composite indicator on Research Excellence implemented under Horizon 2020 in order to be eligible to submit proposals as coordinators under 'spreading excellence and widening participation'. The countries identified with this criterion are called 'eligible countries' in the context of 'spreading excellence and widening participation'.
Amendment 1930 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 4 – point 1 – paragraph 3 – indent 1
Annex I – part 4 – point 1 – paragraph 3 – indent 1
– Teaming, to create new centres of excellence or upgrade existing ones in eligible countries, building on partnerships, including through new excellent research and innovation activities, in eligible countries, building on cooperation in all stages of research between leading scientific institutions and partner institutions;
Amendment 1932 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 4 – point 1 – paragraph 3 – indent 2
Annex I – part 4 – point 1 – paragraph 3 – indent 2
– Twinning, to significantly strengthen a university or research organisation from an eligible country in a defined field, in all stages of research, by linking it with internationally-leading research institutions or research initiatives from other Member States or Associated Countries.
Amendment 1933 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 4 – point 1 – paragraph 3 – indent 3 a (new)
Annex I – part 4 – point 1 – paragraph 3 – indent 3 a (new)
- “Excellence initiatives”, to support new ideas aiming to strengthen research and innovation systems in the eligible countries. Actions should complement the other broad lines under this priority, avoiding overlaps
Amendment 1934 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 4 – point 1 – paragraph 3 – indent 3 b (new)
Annex I – part 4 – point 1 – paragraph 3 – indent 3 b (new)
- - “Excellence for EU infrastructures”, to support creation new excellent research and innovation networks or new centres of excellence on the base of research infrastructures financed from ERDF in ‘spreading excellence and widening participation’ eligible countries, to boost new R&I cooperation patterns across Europe and involve those infrastructures in excellent collaborative projects, aiming synergies between national and regional R&I strategies and the Programme.
Amendment 1935 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 4 – point 1 – paragraph 3 – indent 3 c (new)
Annex I – part 4 – point 1 – paragraph 3 – indent 3 c (new)
Amendment 1941 #
2018/0225(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part 4 – point 1 – paragraph 5
Annex I – part 4 – point 1 – paragraph 5
This intervention areae ‘Spreading excellence and widening participation’ priority will support the Horizon Europe specific objectives: Sspread and connect excellence across the EU and widen participation in the Programme, including underperforming Member States; Reinforce the creation of high quality knowledge; Increase cross- sectorial, cross- disciplinary cross-border cooperation. and boost creation of the new R&I activities and networks, involving widening eligible countries and excellent ‘newcomers’ from EU Member States; Support ‘Science and citizens’ activities
Amendment 290 #
2018/0224(COD)
Draft legislative resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
Having regard to the European Parliament’s report on the assessment of Horizon 2020 implementation in view of its interim evaluation and the Framework Programme 9 proposal (2016/2147(INI)),
Amendment 294 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) It is the Union's objective to strengthen its scientific and technological bases and encourage its competitiveness, including in its industry, to strengthen and develop European Research Area, while promoting all research and innovation activities to deliver on the Union's strategic, including fundamental research with social sciences, economics, arts and humanities, to address EU policy objectives and priorities, which ultimately aim at promoting peace, tackling climate change, sustainable development, the Union's values and the well-being of its peoples.
Amendment 303 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) To deliver scientific, economic and societal impact in pursuit of this general objective and maximize the EU added value of its RDI investments, the Union should invest in research and innovation through Horizon Europe - a Framework Programme for Research and Innovation 2021-2027 (the ‘Programme’) to support the creation and, diffusion and transfer of high-quality knowledge and technologies, to strengthen the impact of research and innovation in addressing global societal challenges as defined by the Sustainable Development Goals, and in developing, supporting and implementing Union policies, to support the uptake of innovative solutions in industry and society to address global challengesustainable solutions in the Union’s industry and society to improve people’s well-being and promote EU industrial competitiveness; to foster all forms of innovation, including breakthroughsocietal, economic and technological innovation, and strengthen market deployment of innovative solutions; and optimise the delivery of such investment for increased impact within a strengthened European Research Area.
Amendment 319 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The continuation of “Open Science, Open Innovation, Open to the World cons” attitutde general principles, which should ensure excellence and impact of the Union's investment in research and innovation. They and strengthen R&I capacity of all Member States. This should be adhered in the implementation of the Programme, in particular for the sStrategic planning in respect of the pillar 'Global Challenges and Industrial Competitiveness'R&I Plans.
Amendment 328 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) The conception and design of the Programme should respond to the need for establishing a critical mass of supported activities, throughout the EU Unionuropean Union, with balanced roles of research, academia and industry, and through targeted international cooperation while safeguarding balanced participation of all Member States in the Programme, in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Programme implementation should reinforce the pursuit of this aim.
Amendment 351 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Research activities carried out under the pillar 'Open Science' should be determined according to the needs and opportunities of science, underlining the need of strengthening ERA, attracting new R&I talents and supporting careers of young researchers. The research agenda should be set in close liaison with the scientific community. Research should be funded on the basis of excellence.;
Amendment 367 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) Full eEngagement of the Union’s industry in the Programme, at all levels from the individual entrepreneur and small and medium-sized enterprises to large scale enterprises, should constitute one of the main channels through which the Programme's objectives are to be realised, specifically towards the creation of sustainable jobs and growthnue, specifically towards the creation of sustainable jobs and growth in Europe, strengthening industry-academia cooperation and enhancing R&I investments from the private sector. Industry should contribute to the perspectives and priorities established through the strategic planning process, which should support the development of work programmes. Such engagement by industry should see its participation in the actions supported at levels at least commensurate with those under the previous framework programme Horizon 2020 established by Regulation (EU) No 1291/2013 of the European Parliament and the Council13 ('Horizon 2020'). __________________ 13result in periodic Strategic R&I Plans forming part of the legal base of the Programme.
Amendment 378 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) It is important to support EU’s industry to stay or become world leader in innovation, digitisation and decarbonisation, notably through investments in key enabling technologies that will underpin tomorrow's business. The Programme's actions should be used to address market failures or sub-optimal investment situations, in a proportionate manner, without duplicating or crowding out private financing and have a clear European added value. This will ensure consistency between the actions of the programme and EU State aid rules, avoiding undue distortions of competition in the internal market.
Amendment 386 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) The Commission's Communication on the interim evaluation of Horizon 2020 (COM(2018) 2 final) hasand the European Parliament’s report on the assessment of Horizon 2020 implementation in view of its interim evaluation and the Framework Programme 9 proposal (2016/2147(INI)) have provided a set of recommendations for this Programme, including its Rules for participation and dissemination, building on the lessons learnt from the previous Programme as well as input from EU institutions and stakeholders. Those recommendations include to invest more ambitiously in order to reach critical mass and maximise impact; to support breakthrough innovation; to prioritise Union research and innovation (R&I) investments in areas of high added value, notably through mission- orientation, citizen involvement and wide communication; to rationalise the Union funding landscape in order to fully use the R&I potential of all Member States, including by streamlining the range of partnership initiatives and co-funding schemes; the development of more and concrete synergies between different Union funding instruments, notably with the aim of helping to mobilise under-exploited R&I potential across the Union; to strengthen international cooperation and reinforce openness to third countries' participationbetter involve research infrastructures financed by the EU - especially from ERDF - into the Programme’s projects, to strengthen international cooperation and reinforce openness to third countries' participation while safeguarding EU interest and balanced participation of all Member States in the Programme; and to continue simplification based on implementation experiences from Horizon 2020.
Amendment 388 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) The Programme should seek synergies with other Union programmes and, where possible, their rules should be aligned with Horizon Europe, from their design and strategic planning, to project selection, management, communication, dissemination and exploitation of results, to monitoring, auditing and governance. W, with a view to avoiding overlaps and duplication and increasing the leverage of Union funding, as well as decreasing administrative burden for the beneficiaries. – transfers from other Union programmes to Horizon Europe activities can take place. In such cases they will follow Horizon Europe rules; – co-funding of an action by Horizon Europe and another Union programme could also be foreseen while not exceeding the total eligible costs of the action. In such cases, the rules of Horizon Europe should apply; – Seals of Excellence should be awarded automatically to all proposals which have passed the “excellence” threshold in Horizon Europe but cannot be financed due to budgetary constraints.
Amendment 402 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) In order to achieve the greatest possible impact of Union funding and the most effective contribution to the Union's policy objectives, the Programme shouldmay enter into European Partnerships with private and/or public sector partners, on the basis of the Strategic R&I Plans. Such partners include industry, research organisations, higher education institutions, bodies with a public service mission at local, regional, national or international level, and civil society organisations such as non-governmental organisations and foundations that support and/or carry out research and innovation, provided that desired impacts can be achieved more effectively in partnership than by the Union alone.
Amendment 406 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17 a (new)
Recital 17 a (new)
(17a) FET Flagships have proven to be among instruments to achieve this, delivering benefits for society in a joint, coordinated effort by the EU and it’s Member States; those flagships which have proven their benefits for the Union, provide clear EU added value, contribute significantly to the EU global competitiveness, strengthen the EU knowledge base and improve well-being of the EU citizens, should continue to be supported.
Amendment 409 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) The pillar 'Open Innovationve Europe' should establish a series of measures for integrated support to the needs of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship aiming at realising and accelerating breakthrough innovation for rapid market growth as well as promoting EU’s technological leadership in strategic areas. It should attract innovative companies, including SMEs and start-ups, with potential for scaling up at international and at Union level and offer fast, flexible grants and co- investments, including with private investors. These objectives should be pursued through the creation of a European Innovation Council (EIC). This Pillar should also support the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and Europeanresearch and innovation ecosystems at largein all Member States, notably through co-funding partnerships with national and regional innovation support actors.
Amendment 428 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) The EIC through its instruments – Pathfinder and Accelerator – should aim at identifying, developing and deploying breakthroughresearch-driven market creating innovations and, across all sectors and disciplines, targeted towards new technologies and, together with Invest EU, supporting their rapideffective scale-up to EU and international levels. Through coherent and streamlined support to breakthrough innovation as well as synergies with Invest EU Fund, the EIC should fill the current vacuum in public support and private investment for breakthrough innovation. The instruments of the EIC call for dedicated legal and management features in order to reflect its objectives, in particular market deployment activities.
Amendment 447 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
Recital 25
(25) The Programme should promote and integrate cooperation with third countries and international organisations and initiatives based on commonUnion’s interest, reciprocity and mutual benefits and global commitments to implement the UN SDGs. International cooperation should aim to strengthen the Union's excellence in research and innovation excellence, attractiveness and economic and industrial competitiveness, to tackle global societal challenges, as embodied in the UN SDGs, and to support the Union's external policies. An approach of general opening for reciprocal international participation and targeted international cooperation actions should be followed, including through appropriate eligibility criteria, considering different levels of R&I capacities, for funding of entities established in low to middle income countries need to be applied. At the same time, association of the third countries to the Programme should be promotedall be promoted where relevant and while safeguarding EU’s interest and balanced participation of all Member States in the Programme.
Amendment 454 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) With the aim of deepening the relationship between science and society and maximising benefits of their interactions, the Programme should work to address and overcome barriers to societal engagement and actively engage and involve citizens and civil society organisations, in co-designing and co- creating responsible research and innovation agendas and contents, promoting science education, making scientific knowledge publicly accessible, and facilitating participation by citizens and civil society organisations in its activities. It should do so across the ProgrammHorizon Europe and through dedicated activities in the part 'Strengthening the European Research Area', in order to better align both the R&I process and its outcomes with the values, needs and expectations of the European society. The engagement of citizens and civil society in research and innovation should be coupled with public outreach activities to generate and sustain public support for the Programme. The measures taken to improve the involvement of citizens and civil society will be reported on in Horizon Europe annual reports. The programme should also seek to remove barriers and boost synergies between science, technology, culture and the arts to obtain a new quality of sustainable innovation.
Amendment 461 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26 a (new)
Recital 26 a (new)
(26a) With the aim of strengthening of the European Research Area, significant reduction of the EU research and innovation divide and diminishing the participation gap in the EU R&I actions, all parts of the Programme should contribute to spreading scientific excellence, boosting new R&I cooperation patterns, reducing remuneration gap among researchers within the Union, modernising national R&I ecosystems and ensuring balanced representation in the evaluation panels, expert groups and scientific boards.
Amendment 472 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 34
Recital 34
(34) Pursuant to paragraph 22 and 23 of the Inter-institutional agreement for Better Law-Making of 13 April 2016, there is a need to evaluate this Programme on the basis of information collected through specific monitoring requirements, while avoiding overregulation and administrative burdens, in particular on Member States and beneficiaries of the Programme. These requirements, where appropriate, can include measurable indicators, as a basis for evaluating the effects of the Programme on the ground.
Amendment 482 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 40
Recital 40
(40) In line with the objectives of international cooperation as set out in Articles 180 and 186 TFEU, the participation of legal entities established in third countries and of international organisations should be promoted in the best Union’s scientific, societal, economic and technological interest. The implementation of the Programme should be in conformity with the measures adopted in accordance with Articles 75 and 215 TFEU and should be in compliance with international law. For actions related to Union strategic assets, interests, autonomy or security, the participation to specific actions of the Programme may be limited to entities established in Member States only, or to entities established in specified associated or other third countries in addition to Member States.
Amendment 495 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 44
Recital 44
(44) It is necessary to establish the minimum conditions for participation, both as a general rule, where the consortium should include at least onetwo legal entityies from athe EU Member States, and with regard to the specificities of particular type of actions under the Programme.
Amendment 499 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 45
Recital 45
(45) It is appropriatenecessary to establish the terms and conditions for providing Union funding to participants in actions under the Programme. Grants, being the core financial instrument within the Programme, should be implemented taking into account all forms of contribution set out in the Financial Regulation, including lump sums, flat rates or unit costs, with the view to further simplification.
Amendment 503 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 48
Recital 48
(48) The current system of reimbursement of actual personnel costs should be further simplified building on the project-based, aiming closing the remuneration gapproach developed under Horizon 2020 and further aligned to the Financial Regulation among EU researchers involved in the Programme, including through acceptance of national accounting practices.
Amendment 512 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 51
Recital 51
(51) The key elements of the proposal evaluation and selection system of the predecessor programme Horizon 2020 with its particular focus on ‘excellence’, ‘impact’ and ‘quality and efficiency of implementation’ criteria, should be maintained. Proposals should continue to be selected based on the evaluation made by independent experts. The Commission will organise blind-evaluation pilots and analyse its results in order to implement, if justified, blind-evaluation procedure in all parts of Horizon Europe. Where relevant, the necessity to ensure the overall coherence of the portfolio of projects should be taken into account by independent experts.
Amendment 520 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 52
Recital 52
(52) A widerSystematic cross-reliance on audits and assessments – including with other Union programmes – should be envisagedimplemented for all parts of the Programme, in order to reduce administrative burden for beneficiaries of Union funds. Cross reliance should be explicitly provided for by considering also other elements of assurance such as systems and processes audits.
Amendment 522 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 53
Recital 53
(53) Specific challenges in the area of research ofand innovation should be addressed by prizes, including through common or joint prizes where appropriate, organised by the Commission or funding body with other Union bodies, third countries, international organisations or non-profit legal entities. The budget dedicated for all prizes under Horizon Europe shall not exceed 1% of the Programme’s financial envelope.
Amendment 547 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5
(5) 'mission' means a portfolio of cross-cluster excellence-driven R&I actions intended to achieve a measurable goal within a set timeframe, and impact for science and technology and/or society and citizens that could not be achieved through individual actions;
Amendment 570 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 25 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 25 a (new)
(25a) “citizen engagement” refers to science engagement and science education activities, events or interactions characterised by mutual learning among people of varied backgrounds, scientific expertise and experience, contributing to building effective and sustained cooperation between science and society, focused on identifying new goals for science, recruiting new talents for science and innovation, science education for future generations, promoting gender equality and strengthening of social awareness and responsibility.
Amendment 574 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. The Programme’s general objective is to deliver scientific, technological, economic and societal impact from the Union’s investments in research and innovation so as to strengthen the scientific and technological bases of the Union, and foster itsEU competitiveness, including in its industry, deliver on the Union strategic priorities, and policies, contribute to tackling global societal challenges, includas set out ing the Sustainable Development Goals, and achieve a balanced European Research Area. The objectives will take into consideration societal concerns and implications to contribute to a knowledge- based learning society and strengthen shared values, acceptance of scientific insights and social cohesion.
Amendment 601 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) to support the creation and diffusion of high-quality new knowledge, skills, technologies and solutions to glob, based both on fundamental and applied research, to tackle global societal challenges;
Amendment 608 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
(aa) to promote and spread scientific excellence
Amendment 611 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) to strengthen the impactrole of research and innovation in developing, supporting and implementing Union policies, to strengthen the significance of the EU added value in all R&I projects financed from the Programme’s budget and support the uptake of innovative solutions in industry and society in order to address global societal challenges; and improve people’s well-being
Amendment 633 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) to foster all forms of innovation, including breakthrough economic, social and technological innovation, and strengthen market deployment of innovative solutions;
Amendment 642 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point d
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point d
(d) to optimise the Programme's delivery for increased impact within a strengthened and balanced European Research Area.;
Amendment 652 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
(da) to fully use R&I potential of all Member States and support creating new excellent R&I networks involving also less performing EU Member States
Amendment 685 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
(b) cluster 'Inclusive and Secure Society';
Amendment 690 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b a (new)
(ba) cluster 'Secure Society';
Amendment 716 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 4 – introductory part
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 4 – introductory part
(4) PCross-cutting part 'Strengthening the European Research Area', pursuing the specific objective set out in Article 3(2)(d) and also supporting the specific objectives set out in Article 3(2)(a), (b) and (c), with the following components:
Amendment 719 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 4 – point a
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 4 – point a
(a) sharpreading excellence and widening participation;
Amendment 756 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 6
Article 6 – paragraph 6
6. The implementation of the specific programme29 shall be based on a transparent and strategic multiannual planning of research and innovation activitiesSpecific R&I Plans forming part of the legal base, in particular for the pillar 'Global Challenges and 'Industrial Competitiveness', following consultations with stakeholder. The consultations with national authorities, with the European Parliament, with stakeholders and civil society representatives about priorities and the suitable types of action and forms of implementation to use. This shall ensure alignment with other relevant Union programmes. __________________ 29 …
Amendment 763 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 7 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 7 a (new)
Amendment 764 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 7 b (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Horizon Europe shall ensure multidiciplinarity and support integration of human and societal approach across all activities developed under the Programme
Amendment 767 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 8
Article 6 – paragraph 8
8. Research and innovation activities carried out under Horizon Europe shall have an exclusive focus on civil applications.
Amendment 905 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
1. The financial envelope for the implementation of the Framework Programme for the period 2021 – 2027 shall be EUR 94 1120 000 000 000 in curreonstant prices for the specific programme referred to in Article 1(3)(a) and, in addition, the amount for the specific programme referred to in Article 1(3)(b), as laid down in Regulation…. establishing the European Defence Fund.
Amendment 1046 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point d – point 1
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point d – point 1
(1) EUR 1 76 000 000 000 for 'sharpreading excellence and widening participation';
Amendment 1064 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 3
Article 9 – paragraph 3
3. In order to respond to unforeseen situations or to new developments and needs, the Commission may, within the annual budgetary procedure, deviate from the amounts referred to in paragraph 2 up to a maximum of 10%. No such5%, including the allocation of the contributions from associated countries. No negative deviation shall be allowed in respect of the amounts referred to in points (a) and (b) (6) of paragraph 2 of this Article and the total amount set out for cross-cutting Part 'Strengthening the European Research Area' of paragraph 2 of this Article.
Amendment 1083 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 8
Article 9 – paragraph 8
8. Resources allocated to Member States under shared management and transferrable in accordance with Article 21 of Regulation (EU) XX […Common Provisions Regulation] may, at their request voluntary basis, be transferred to the Programme. The Commission shall implement those resources directly in accordance with point (a) of Article 62(1) of the Financial Regulation or indirectly in accordance wias a national contribution to the budget of the specific project selected under Horizon Europe, if expected results of the point (c) of that Article. Where possible, those resources shall be used for the benefit of the Member State concerned.roject are strategic for the Member State or its R&I communities; transferred resources shall be implemented in accordance with the rules of Horizon Europe
Amendment 1130 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – point d – paragraph 2 – indent 4
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – point d – paragraph 2 – indent 4
– guarantees the rights of the Union to ensure sound financial management and to protect itsEU societal, scientific, industrial, technological and financial interests.
Amendment 1171 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 6
Article 15 – paragraph 6
6. Actions which are not ethically acceptable mayshould be rejected or terminated at any time.
Amendment 1178 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 18 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Entities shall be part of a consortium that shall include at least three independent legal entities, each established in a different Member State or associated country and with at least onetwo of them established in a Member State, unless:
Amendment 1247 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 25 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Scientific excellence remains core evaluation criteria in all Horizon Europe’s calls. Among the proposals having passed the applicable thresholds and evaluated equally as excellent, priority shall be considered to those providing strong EU added value and meeting at least one of the following conditions, contributing directly to 'impact' and 'quality and efficiency of implementation' criteria: – helping to achieve the specific EU policy objectives; – attracting excellent scientists and high-quality industry partners from outside of the EU – using research infrastructure financed by the EU, particularly from ERDF – involving partners from the eligible widening countries
Amendment 1327 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 32 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Amendment 1356 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 35 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
The work programme may provide for additional dissemination obligations while safeguarding EU’s economic & scientific interests.
Amendment 1357 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Article 35 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 1361 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 3
Article 35 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 3
The work programme may provide for additional obligationincentives to adhere to open science practices.
Amendment 1366 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1
Article 35 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1
Unless the work programme provides otherwise, proposals shall include a plan for the exploitation and dissemination of the results. If the expected exploitation entails developing, creating, manufacturing and marketing a product or process, or in creating and providing a service, the plan shall include a strategy for such exploitation. If the plan provides for exploitation primarily in non-associated third countries, the legal entities sh, respecting EU scientific, financiall, explain how that exploitation is still in the Unionconomic and technological interest.
Amendment 1368 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Article 35 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Whenever possible, the beneficiaries shall include public engagement and science education as a goal for communication and dissemination.
Amendment 1412 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 42 – paragraph 5
Article 42 – paragraph 5
5. Horizon Europe and EIC blended finance shall be provided in a manner that does notpromotes EU global competitiveness while avoiding distortion of competition.
Amendment 1442 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 43 a (new)
Article 43 a (new)
Article 43a A dedicated instrument for the incremental innovation targeted at SMEs under a single centralised management system shall be created. It will be implemented primarily in a bottom-up manner through a competitive call tailored to the needs of SMEs.
Amendment 1456 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 44 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 44 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Independent experts shall be chosen from all Member States, on the basis of their experience and knowledge, appropriate to carry out the task assigned to them. When appointing independent external experts the Commission or the EU funding body shall seek balanced representation and composition within the of expert groups and evaluation panels in terms of their fields of expertise, gender, geographical background and types of the institutions they are representing.
Amendment 1474 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 47 – paragraph 2
Article 47 – paragraph 2
2. The interim evaluation of the Programme shall be carried out once there is sufficient information available about the implementation of the Programme, but no later than four years after the start of the programme implementation. It shall include an assessment of the long-term impact of previous Framework Programmes and shall form the basis to adjust programme implementation, as apprond maximise the EU added value and review the programme, considering feedback from the beneficiaries, public and private stakeholders and assessment of the independent high-level experts’ group.
Amendment 1481 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 47 – paragraph 4
Article 47 – paragraph 4
4. The Commission shall communicate and justify the conclusions of the evaluations accompanied by its observations, as well as present the way and schedule of its implementation to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. The Commission is also obliged to communicate those conclusions to the beneficiaries and stakeholders.
Amendment 1504 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 1 – paragraph 1 – point b – paragraph 1
Annex I – point 1 – paragraph 1 – point b – paragraph 1
Areas of intervention: Nurturing excellence through mobility of researchers across borders, sectors and disciplines; fostering new skills through excellent training of researchers; strengthening human capital and skills development across the European Research Area;, supporting European researchers working outside of the Union to return to the EU, improving and facilitating synergies; promoting public outreach.
Amendment 1528 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 2 – paragraph 2
Annex I – point 2 – paragraph 2
To maximise impact flexibility and synergies, research and innovation activities will be organised in fivesix clusters, which individually and together will incentivise interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral, cross-policy, cross-border and international cooperation.
Amendment 1545 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 2 – paragraph 4 – point b – introductory part
Annex I – point 2 – paragraph 4 – point b – introductory part
(b) Cluster 'Inclusive and secure society': Strengthening European democratic values, including rule of law and fundamental rights, safeguarding our cultural heritage, and promoting socio- economic transformations that contribute to inclusion and growth, while responding to the challenges arising from persistent security threats, including cybercrime, as well as natural and man-made disasters.
Amendment 1560 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 2 – paragraph 4 – point b a (new)
Annex I – point 2 – paragraph 4 – point b a (new)
(b a) Cluster 'Secure Society': responding to the challenges arising from persistent security threats, including terrorism, safeguarding external EU borders, cybercrime as well as natural and man-made disasters.
Amendment 1621 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 3 – paragraph 1 – point c – paragraph 1
Annex I – point 3 – paragraph 1 – point c – paragraph 1
Areas of intervention: Strengthen sustainable research and innovation ecosystems across Europe; Fostering the development of entrepreneurial and innovation skills in a lifelong learning perspective and support the entrepreneurial stransformation of EU universitieengths of EU higher education institutions; Bring new solutions to global societal challenges to the market; Synergies and value added within Horizon Europe.
Amendment 1624 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 4 – introductory part
Annex I – point 4 – introductory part
(4) PCross-cutting part 'Strengthening the European Research Area'
Amendment 1630 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 4 – paragraph 1
Annex I – point 4 – paragraph 1
Through the following activities, this part will, in line with Article 4, optimise the Programme's delivery for increased impact and attractiveness within a strengthened European Research Area. It will also support the Programme's other specific objectives as described in Article 3. While underpinning the entire Programme, this part will support activities that contribute to attract R&I talents from outside of the EU and tackle brain drain issues. It will also contribute to a more knowledge-based and innovative and gender-equal Europe, at the front edge of global competition, thereby optimising national strengths and potential across Europe in a well- performing European Research Area (ERA), where knowledge and a highly skilled workforce circulate freelyin a balanced manner, where the outcomes of R&I are understood and trusted by informed citizens and benefit society as a whole, and where EU policy, notably R&I policy, is based on high quality scientific evidence.
Amendment 1634 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 4 – paragraph 2
Annex I – point 4 – paragraph 2
Areas of intervention: Sharpreading Eexcellence; Reforming and enhanc and widening participation through existing Teaming, Twinning, and ERA-Chairs instruments transformed from just networking to both networking and R&I activities, as well as through additional instrument focused on creating new high-quality R&I networks based on the sophisticated research infrastructures financed from ERDF; supporting COST and citizen engagement activities; reforming the European R&I system.s;
Amendment 1652 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – paragraph 2 – indent 6
Annex II – paragraph 2 – indent 6
– Programme co-fund action: action to provide co-funding to a programme of activities established and/or implemented by entities managing and/or funding research and innovation programmes, other than Union funding bodies. Such a programme of activities may support networking and coordination, research, innovation, pilot actions, and innovation and market deployment actions, training and mobility actions, awareness raising and communication, science engagement and science education activities, dissemination and exploitation, or a combination thereof, directly implemented by those entities or by third parties to whom they may provide any relevant financial support such as grants, prizes, procurement, as well as Horizon Europe blended finance;
Amendment 1657 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a – introductory part
Annex III – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a – introductory part
(a) Evidence that the European Partnership is more effective in achieving the related objectives of the Programme, in particular in delivering clear impacts for the EU, its Member States and its citizens, notably in view of delivering on global societal challenges and research and innovation objectives, securing EU global competitiveness and contributing to the strengthening of the European Research and Innovation Area and international commitments;
Amendment 1709 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – point 4 – point b
Annex IV – point 4 – point b
(b) arrangements for complementary funding from ESF+ can be voluntary used to support activities of the Programme that promotinge human capital development in research and innovation with the aim of strengthening the European Research Area;
Amendment 1744 #
2018/0224(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – paragraph 3
Annex V – paragraph 3
The Programme is expected to have scientific impact by creating high-quality new knowledge, strengthening human capital in research and innovation, and fostering diffusion of knowledge and Open Science. The integration of human and societal approaches and the role of basic research in pursuit of its contribution towards a knowledge-based learning society is vital. Progress towards this impact will be monitored through proxy indicators set along the following three key impact pathways.
Amendment 17 #
2018/0208(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) These rights and values must continue to be promoted and enforced, shared among the citizens and peoples within the Union and be at the heart of Europe’s societies, Therefore, a new Justice, Rights and Values Fund, comprising the Rights and Values and the Justice programmes shall be created in the Union budget. At a time where European societies are confronted with extremism, radicalism and divisions, it is more important than ever to promote, strengthen and defend justice, rights and EU values: human rights, respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law between women and men, the rule of law and the principle of non-discrimination. This will have profound and direct implications for political, social, cultural and economic life in the EU. As a part of the new Fund, the Rights and Values Programme will bring together the 2014- 2020 Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme established by Regulation (EU) No 1381/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council10 and the Europe for Citizens programme established by Regulation (EU) No 390/2014 of the Council11 . The Justice programme (hereafter the 'Programme') will continue to support the development of an integrated European justice area and cross-border cooperation, in continuity with the 2014- 2020 Justice Programme established by Regulation (EU) No 1381/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council12 (hereafter 'the predecessor Programme'). __________________ 10 Regulation (EU) No 1381/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme for the period 2014 to 2020 (OJ L 354, 28.12.2013, p. 62) 11 Council Regulation (EU) No 390/2014 of 14 April 2014 establishing the ‘Europe for Citizens’ programme for the period 2014-2020 (OJ L 115, 17.4.2014, p.3) 12 Regulation (EU) No 1381/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme for the period 2014 to 2020 (OJ L 354, 28.12.2013, p. 62).
Amendment 22 #
2018/0208(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) provides for the creation of an area of freedom, security and justice, with respect for fundamental rights and the different legal systems and traditions of the Member States. To that end, the Union may adopt measures to develop judicial cooperation in civil matters and judicial cooperation in criminal matters and to promote and support the action of Member States in the field of crime prevention and protection of victims with due regard for the gender-sensitive perspective. Respect for fundamental rights as well as for common principles and values, such as non-discrimination, gender equality, effective access to justice for all, the rule of law and a well-functioning independent judicial system shall be ensured in the further development of a European area of justice.
Amendment 28 #
2018/0208(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) Pursuant to Articles 81(2)(h) and 82(1)(c) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU, the Union shall support the training of the judiciary and judicial staff as a tool to improve judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters based on the principle of mutual recognition of judgments and of judicial decisions. Training of justice professionals is an important tool to develop a common understanding of how best to uphold the rule of law, fundamental rights and to raise awareness on the practical application of the EU equality legislation. It contributes to the building of the European area of justice by creating a common judicial culture among justice professionals of the Member States. It is essential to ensure the correct and coherent application of law in the Union and mutual trust between justice professionals in cross- border proceedings. The training activities supported by the Programme should be based on sound training needs’ assessments, use state of the art training methodology, include cross-border events gathering justice professionals of different Member States, comprise active learning and networking elements and be sustainable.
Amendment 29 #
2018/0208(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 a (new)
Recital 8 a (new)
Amendment 32 #
2018/0208(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Judicial training can involve different actors, such as Member States’ legal, judicial and administrative authorities, academic institutions, national bodies responsible for judicial training, European-level training organisations or networks, or networks of court coordinators of Union law and equality bodies. Bodies and entities pursuing a general European interest in the field of training of the judiciary, such as the European Judicial Training Network ('EJTN'), the Academy of European Law ('ERA'), the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary ('ENCJ'), the Association of the Councils of State and Supreme Administrative Jurisdictions of the European Union ('ACA-Europe'), the Network of the Presidents of Supreme Judicial Courts of the European Union ('RPCSJUE') and the European Institute of Public Administration ('EIPA'), should continue to play their role in promoting training programmes with a genuine European dimension for the judiciary and judicial staff, and could therefore be granted adequate financial support in accordance with the procedures and the criteria set out in the annual work programmes adopted by the Commission pursuant to this Regulation.
Amendment 34 #
2018/0208(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) Pursuant to Article 67 TFEU, the Union should constitute an area of freedom, security and justice with respect for fundamental rights, to which access to justice is instrumental. In order to facilitate effective access to justice and protection of the victims of crime, and with a view to foster the mutual trust which is indispensable for the good functioning of the area of freedom, security and justice, it is necessary to extend financial support to activities of other authorities than judicial authorities and legal practitioners, as well as of civil society organisations, which contribute to these objectives.
Amendment 35 #
2018/0208(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) Pursuant to Articles 8 and 10 TFEU, the Programme should also support the mainstreaming of equality between women and men and non-discrimination objectives in all its activities. Regular monitoring and evaluation should be carried out to assess the way in which gender equality and non-discrimination are addressed in the Programme's activities.
Amendment 39 #
2018/0208(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) Actions covered by this Regulation should contribute to the creation of a European area of justice, increasing cross- border cooperation and networking and achieving the correct, coherent and consistent application of Union law. Funding activities should also contribute to a common understanding of the Union’s values, the rule of law, to better knowledge of Union law and policies, to raise awareness and improve practical application of the EU equality legislation, to sharing know-how and best practices in using judicial cooperation instruments by all concerned stakeholders, as well as to a proliferation of interoperable digital solutions underpinning seamless and efficient cross-border cooperation, and should provide a sound analytical basis to support the development, enforcement and proper implementation of Union law and policies. Union intervention allows for those actions to be pursued consistently across the Union and brings economies of scale. Moreover, the Union is in a better position than Member States to address cross-border situations and to provide a European platform for mutual learning.
Amendment 42 #
2018/0208(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) to facilitate and support judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters, and to promote the rule of law and fundamental rights including by supporting the efforts to improve the effectiveness of national justice systems and the enforcement of decision and protection of victims with regard to gender-sensitive perspective ;
Amendment 44 #
2018/0208(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) to support and promote judicial training, with a view to fostering a common legal, judicial and rule of law culture and understanding of the EU equality legislation;
Amendment 51 #
2018/0208(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 a (new)
Article 4 a (new)
Article 4 a New Article 5 Mainstreaming In the implementation of all of its actions, the Programme shall seek to promote equality between women and men. It shall also comply with the prohibition of discrimination based on any of the grounds listed in Article 21 of the Charter, in accordance with and within the limits set by Article 51 of the Charter.
Amendment 52 #
2018/0208(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 12 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. The monitoring shall also provide a means of assessing the way in which gender equality and non-discrimination have been addressed across the Programme's actions.
Amendment 54 #
2018/0208(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 3
Article 12 – paragraph 3
3. The performance reporting system shall ensure that data, gender- disaggregated where possible, for monitoring programme implementation and results are collected efficiently, effectively, and in a timely manner. To that end, proportionate reporting requirements shall be imposed on recipients of Union funds and Member States.
Amendment 56 #
2018/0208(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1
Article 13 – paragraph 1
1. Evaluations shall be carried out in a timely manner to feed into the decision- making process and to follow the implementation of actions carried out under it and the achievement of the specific objectives set out in Article 3 and in accordance with Article 5 (mainstreaming).
Amendment 74 #
2018/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The ESF+ should aim to promote employment through active interventions enabling (re)integration into the labour market, notably for youth, the long-term unemployed and the inactive, as well as through promoting self–employment and the social economy. The ESF+ should aim to improve the functioning of labour markets by supporting the modernisation of labour market institutions such as the Public Employment Services in order to improve their capacity to provide intensified targeted counselling and guidance during the job search and the transition to employment and to enhancfacilitate workers’ mobility. The ESF+ should promote women’s participation in the labour market through measures aiming to ensure, amongst others, improved work/life balance and access to childcare. The ESF + should also aim to provide a healthy and well-adapted working environment in order to respond to health risks related to changing forms of work and the needs of the ageing workforce.
Amendment 92 #
2018/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) The ESF+ should provide support to improving the quality, effectiveness and labour market relevance of education and training systems in order to facilitate the acquisition of key competences notably as regards entrepreneurial and digital skills which all individuals need for personal fulfilment and development, employment, social inclusion and active citizenship. The ESF+ should help progression within education and training and transition to work, support lifelong learning and employability, and contribute to competitiveness and societal and economic innovation by supporting scalable and sustainable initiatives in these fields. This could be achieved for example through work-based learning and apprenticeships, lifelong guidance, skills anticipation in cooperation with industry, up-to-date training materials, forecasting and graduate tracking, training of educators, validation of learning outcomes and recognition of qualifications.
Amendment 108 #
2018/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) The ESF+ should promote flexible upskilling and reskilling opportunities for all, notably entrepreneurial and digital skills and key enabling technologies, with a view to providing people with skills adjusted to digitalisation, technological change, innovation and social and economic change, facilitating career transitions, mobility and supporting in particular low-skilled and/or poorly qualified adults, in line with the Skills Agenda for Europe.
Amendment 117 #
2018/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) The ESF+ should support Member States’ efforts to tackle poverty with a view to breaking the cycle of disadvantage across generations and promote social inclusion by ensuring equal opportunities for all, tackling discrimination and addressing health inequalities. This implies mobilising a range of policies and strategies targeting the most disadvantaged people regardless of their age, including children, people with disabilities, marginalised communities such as the Roma, and the working poor. The ESF+ should promote the active inclusion of people far from the labour market with a view to ensuring their socio-economic integration. The ESF+ should be also used to enhance timely and equal access to affordable, sustainable and high quality services such as healthcare and long-term care, in particular family and community- based care services. The ESF+ should contribute to the modernisation of social security institutions and public employment services and social protection systems with a view in particular to promoting their accessibility and effectiveness in responding to the changing realities of world of work.
Amendment 309 #
2018/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point i
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point i
(i) improving access to employment of all jobseekers, in particular youth anddisadvantaged groups such as youth, older people, long- term unemployed, and ofpersons with disabilities, as well as inactive people, promoting self-employment and the social economy;
Amendment 339 #
2018/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point iv
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point iv
(iv) improving the quality, effectiveness and labour market relevance of education and training systems, to support acquisition of key competences including entrepreneurial and digital skills;
Amendment 353 #
2018/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point vi
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point vi
(vi) promoting lifelong learning, notably flexible upskilling and reskilling opportunities for all taking into account entrepreneurial and digital skills, better anticipating change and new skills requirements based on labour market needs, facilitating career transitions and promoting professional mobility;
Amendment 367 #
2018/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point ix
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point ix
(ix) enhancing the equal and timely access to quality, sustainable and affordable services; modernising social security institutions and public employment services and social protection systems, including promoting access to social protection; improving accessibility, effectiveness and resilience of healthcare systems and long-term care services;
Amendment 375 #
2018/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point xi a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point xi a (new)
(xia) (xii) enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders and efficient public administration;
Amendment 377 #
2018/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point xi b (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point xi b (new)
(xib) (xiii) increasing the socioeconomic integration of marginalised communities, migrants and disadvantaged groups, through integrated measures including housing and social services;
Amendment 378 #
2018/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point xi c (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point xi c (new)
(xic) (xiv) improving accessibility to goods, services and physical environment in order to enable persons with disabilities to live independently and participate fully in all aspects of life, on an equal basis with others.
Amendment 381 #
2018/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point 2 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point 2 a (new)
2a. 3. a Europe closer to citizens through poverty reduction and social inclusion measures taking into account the specificities of urban, rural and coastal areas in view of tackling the socio- economic inequalities in cities and regions.
Amendment 454 #
2018/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall allocate an appropriate amount of their ESF+ resources under shared management to address challenges identified in relevant country-specific recommendations adopted in accordance with Article 121(2) TFEU and Article 148(4) TFEU and in the European Semester falling within the scope of the ESF+ as set out in Article 4. This will be complemented by sufficient flexibility at managing authority level to identify priorities and areas for ESF+ investments in line with the specific local or regional challenges.
Amendment 535 #
2018/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 1
The actions addressing the challenges identified in relevant country-specific recommendations (CSRs) and in the European Semester as referred to in Article 7(2) shall be programmed under one or more dedicated priorities. Sufficient flexibility shall be ensured at managing authority level to identify priorities and areas for ESF+ investments in line with the specific local or regional challenges, due to annual character of CSRs and multiannual character of the ESF+ programming.
Amendment 541 #
2018/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 a (new)
Article 11 a (new)
Article 11a Integrated territorial development 1. The ESF+ may support integrated territorial development within programmes under both goals referred to in Article 4(2) of Regulation(EU) 2018/xxxx [new CPR] in accordance with Chapter II of Title III of that Regulation[new CPR]. 2. Member States shall implement integrated territorial development, supported by the ESF+, exclusively through the forms referred to in Article [22] of Regulation (EU) 2018/xxxx [new CPR].
Amendment 554 #
2018/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 2
Article 13 – paragraph 2
2. Member States may support the upscaling of innovative approaches tested on a small-scale (social innovation and social experimentations) developed under the Employment and Social Innovation strand and other Union programmes.
Amendment 555 #
2018/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 3
Article 13 – paragraph 3
3. Innovative actions and approaches may be programmed under any of the specific objectives set out in points (i) to (x) of Article 4(1).
Amendment 558 #
2018/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 4
Article 13 – paragraph 4
4. Each Member State shall dedicate at least one priority to the implementation of paragraphs 1 or 2 or to both. The maximum co-financing rate for these priorities may be increased to 95% for the allocation of maximum 5% of the national ESF+ allocation under shared management to such priorities. The implementing and audit rules for such actions shall be sufficiently flexible to allow risk-taking and creativity.
Amendment 593 #
2018/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 4
Article 17 – paragraph 4
4. The delivery of food and/or material assistance mayshall be complemented with re-orientation towards competent services and other accompanying measures aiming at the social inclusion of the most deprived persons.
Amendment 93 #
2018/0191(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) The Programme should be equipped to become an even greater contributor to the implementation of the Union's policy objectives and priorities in the field of education, training, youth and sport. A coherent lifelong learning approach is central to managing the different transitions that people will face over the course of their life cycle, especially for those over 50 who lack skills required for a swift transition in the labour market. In taking this approach forward, the next Programme should maintain a close relationship with the overall strategic framework for Union policy cooperation in the field of education, training and youth, including the policy agendas for schools, higher education, vocational education and training and adult learning, while reinforcing and developing new synergies with other related Union programmes and policy areas.
Amendment 102 #
2018/0191(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The Programme should take into account the Union work plan for sport which is the cooperation framework at Union level in the field of sport for the years […]32 . Coherence and complementarity should be ensured between the Union work plan and actions supported under the Programme in the field of sport. There is a need to focus in particular on grassroots sports, taking into account the important role that sports play in promoting physical activity and healthy lifestyle, social inclusion and equality. The Programme should contribute to promote European common values through sport, good governance and integrity in sport, as well as education, training and skills in and through sport. _________________ 32In this regards, there is a need to promote sport coaches mobility, especially among those who coach women's sports teams and need support in combating sexism and misogyny. _________________ 32 [Reference]. [Reference].
Amendment 132 #
2018/0191(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
Recital 23
(23) The Programme should also enhance the learning of languages in order to overcome one of the students' mobility barriers, in particular through widened use of online tools, as e-learning offers additional advantages for language learning in terms of access and flexibility.
Amendment 158 #
2018/0191(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 36 a (new)
Recital 36 a (new)
(36a) The levels of financial support in the form of grants, travel or administration lump sums, flat rates and unit costs should be annually reviewed and adjusted to the living and substance costs of the host country and the host city, according to updated Eurostat figures, in order to ensure that it is consistent with reality and that it is not discriminatory;
Amendment 172 #
2018/0191(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 49
Recital 49
(49) In order to simplify requirements for beneficiaries, simplified grants in the form of lump-sums, unit-costs and flat-rate funding should be used to the maximum possible extent. The simplified grants to support the mobility actions of the Programme, as defined by the Commission, should take into account the living and subsistence costs of the host country and the host city. The Commission and national agencies of the sending countries should have the possibility to adjust these simplified grants annually on the basis of objective criteria, in particular to ensure access to people with fewer opportunities. In accordance with national law, Member States should also be encouraged to exempt those grants from any taxes and social levies. The same exemption should apply to public or private entities awarding such financial support to the individuals concerned.
Amendment 212 #
2018/0191(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
Amendment 275 #
2018/0191(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 15 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. The levels of financial support in the form of grants, travel or administration lump sums, flat rates and unit costs, shall be regularly reviewed and adjusted to the living and substance costs not only of the host country but also of the host city, according to updated Eurostat figures;
Amendment 52 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Title
Title
Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL establishing a European Labour Authoritgency (text with relevance for the EEA and for Switzerland) (This amendment applies throughout the text. Adopting it will necessitate corresponding changes throughout.)
Amendment 77 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) A European Labour Authoritgency (the ‘Authoritgency’) should be established in order to help strengthen fairness and trust in the Single Market. To that effect, the Authoritgency should support the Member States and the Commission in strengthening access to information for individuals and employers about their rights and obligations in cross- border labour mobility situations and cross-border provision of services as well as access to relevant services, support compliance and cooperation between the Member States to ensure the effective application of the Union law in these areas, and mediate and facilitate a solution in case of cross- border disputes or labour market disruptions.
Amendment 94 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) The Authoritgency should perform its activities in the areas of cross-border labour mobility, cross-border provision of services and social security coordination, including free movement of workers, posting of workers and highly mobile services. It should also enhance cooperation between Member States in tackling undeclared work. In cases where the Authoritgency, in the course of the performance of its activities, becomes aware of suspected irregularities, including in areas of Union law beyond its scope, such as violations of working conditions, health and safety rules, or the employment of illegally staying third-country nationals, it should be able to report them and cooperate on these matters with the Commission, competent Union bodies, and national authorities where appropriate.
Amendment 109 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) The Authoritgency should contribute to facilitating the free movement of workers governed by Regulation (EU) No 492/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council39 , Directive 2014/54/EU of the European Parliament and the Council40 and Regulation (EU) 2016/589 of the European Parliament and the Council41 . It should facilitate the posting of workers governed by Directive 96/71/EC of the European Parliament and the Council42 and Directive 2014/67/EU of the European Parliament and the Council43 , including by supporting the enforcement of those provisions implemented through universally applicable collective agreements in line with the practices of Member Statesnational law. It should also help the coordination of social security systems governed by Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and the Council44 , Regulation (EC) No 987/2009 of the European Parliament and the Council45 , Regulation (EU) No 1231/2010 of the European Parliament and the Council46 ; as well as Council Regulation (EC) No 1408/7147 and Council Regulation (EC) No 574/7248 . __________________ 39 Regulation (EU) No 492/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2011 on freedom of movement for workers within the Union (OJ L 141, 27.5.2011, p. 1). 40 Directive 2014/54/EU of the European Parliament and the Council of 16 April 2014 on measures facilitating the exercise of rights conferred on workers in the context of freedom of movement for workers (OJ L 128, 30.4.2014, p. 8). 41 Regulation (EU) 2016/589 of the European Parliament and the Council of 13 April 2016 on a European network of employment services (EURES), workers’ access to mobility services and the further integration of labour markets, and amending Regulations (EU) No 492/2011 and (EU) No 1296/2013 (OJ L 107, 22.04.2016, p. 1). 42 Directive 96/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1996 concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services (OJ L 18, 21.1.1997, p. 1). 43 Directive 2014/67/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on the enforcement of Directive 96/71/EC concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services and amending Regulation (EU) No 1024/2012 on administrative cooperation through the Internal Market Information System (‘the IMI Regulation’) (OJ L 159, 28.05.2014, p. 11). 44 Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the coordination of social security systems, (OJ L 166, 30.4.2004, p.1, corrigendum OJ L 200, 7.6.2004, p. 1). 45 Regulation (EC) No 987/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 laying down the procedure for implementing Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 on the coordination of social security systems, (OJ L 284, 30.10.2009, p. 1). 46 Regulation (EU) No 1231/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 extending Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 and Regulation (EC) No 987/2009 to nationals of third countries who are not already covered by these Regulations solely on the ground of their nationality (OJ L 344, 29.12.2010, p. 1). 47 Council Regulation (EC) No 1408/71 of 14 June 1971 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons, to self-employed persons and to members of their families moving within the Community (OJ L 149, 5.7.1971 p. 2). 48 Council Regulation (EC) No 574/72 of 21 March 1972 laying down the procedure for implementing Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons, to self-employed persons, and to their families moving within the Community (OJ L 74, 27.3.1972, p. 1).
Amendment 121 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) The individuals covered by the activities of the Authoritgency should be persons who are subject to the Union law within the scope of this Regulation, including workers, self-employed persons, jobseekers, and economically non-active persons and employers; this should cover both Union citizens and third-country nationals who are legally resident in the Union, such as posted workers, EU Blue Card holders, intra-corporate transferees or long-term residents, as well as their family members.
Amendment 152 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) For these purposes, the Authoritgency should cooperate withfacilitate coordination between other relevant Union initiatives and networks, in particular the European Network of Public Employment Services (PES)54 , the European Enterprise Network55 , the Border Focal Point56 and SOLVIT57 , as well as with relevant national services such as the bodies to promote equal treatment and to support Union workers and members of their family, designated by Member States under Directive 2014/54/EU, and national contact points designated under Directive 2011/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council58 to provide information on healthcare. The Authoritgency should also explore synergies with the proposed European services e-card59 , notably with regard to those cases in which Member States opt for the submission of declarations regarding posted workers through the e-card platform. The AuthoritThe Agency should replace the Commission in managing the European network of employment services (‘EURES’) European Coordination Office established pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 2016/589, including the definition of user needs and business requirements for the effectiveness of the EURES portal and related IT services, but excluding the IT provision, and the operation and development of the IT infrastructure, which will continue to be ensured by the Commission. __________________ 54 Decision No 573/2014/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on enhanced cooperation between Public Employment Services (PES) (OJ L 159, 28.5.2014, p. 32). 55 European Enterprise Network, https://een.ec.europa.eu/ 56 Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament, Boosting growth and cohesion in EU border regions, COM(2017) 534. 57 Commission Recommendation of 17 September 2013 on the principles governing SOLVIT (OJ L 249, 19.9.2011, p. 10). 58 Directive 2011/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2011 on the application of patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare (OJ L 88, 4.4.2011, p. 45). 59 COM(2016) 824 final and COM(2016) 823 final.
Amendment 169 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) To increase Member States' capacity to tackle irregularities with a cross-border dimension in relation to Union law within its scope, the Authoritgency should support the national authorities in carrying out concerted and joint inspections, including by facilitating the implementation of the inspections in accordance with Article 10 of Directive 2014/67/EU. These should take place at the request of a Member State, Member States orand upon their agreement to the Authority's suggestion. The Authorit. The Agency should provide strategic, logistical, and technical support if needed to Member States participating in the concerted or joint inspections in full respect of confidentiality requirements. Inspections should be carried out in agreement with the Member States concerned and take place fully within the legal framework of national law of the Member States concerned which territory the inspection is being carried out, which should follow up on the outcomes of the concerted and joint inspections according to that Member State's national law.
Amendment 215 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
Recital 23
(23) The Authority should directly rely on the expertise of relevant stakeholders in the areas under its scope through a dedicated Stakeholder Group. The members should be representatives of Union-level and sectorial social partners. In carrying out its activities, the Stakeholder Group will take due account of the opinions and draw on the expertise of the Advisory Committee for the Coordination of Social Security Systems established by Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 and the Advisory Committee on the Free Movement of Workers established pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 492/2011.
Amendment 265 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2
Article 1 – paragraph 2
2. The Authoritgency shall assist Member States and the Commission in matters relating to cross-border labour mobility, cross-border provision of services and the coordination of social security systems within the Union.
Amendment 285 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
The objective of the Authoritgency shall be to contribute to ensuring fair labour mobility and cross-border provision of services in the internal market. To this end, the Authority shall:
Amendment 396 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
The Authoritgency shall improve the availability, quality, reliability and accessibility of information offered to individuals and employers to facilitate labour mobility across the Union, in accordance with Regulation (EU) 589/2016 on EURES and Regulation [Single Digital Gateway – COM(2017)256]. To that end, the Authoritgency shall:
Amendment 403 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) provide relevant information on the rights and obligations of individuals in cross-border labour mobility situations and cross-border provision of services;
Amendment 427 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) support Member States in complying with the obligations on the dissemination of and access to information relating to the free movement of workers as laid down in Article 6 of Directive 2014/54/EU, and to the posting of workers as laid down in Article 5 of Directive 2014/67/EU; especially support with the proper functioning of single official national websites;
Amendment 430 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point e
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) support Member States in improving the accuracy, completeness and user-friendliness of relevant national information services and sources, in accordance with the quality criteria laid down in Regulation [Single Digital Gateway – COM(2017)256];
Amendment 453 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) cooperate with other Union initiatives and networks, such as the European Network of Public Employment Services, the European Enterprise Network and the Border Focal Point, in particular to identify and overcome cross-border obstacles to labour mobility; and cross- border provision of services;
Amendment 476 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point b
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point b
(b) facilitate the follow-up to requests and information exchanges between national authorities by providing logistical and technical support, including translation and interpretation services, and through exchanges on the status of cases if requested by concerned Member States;
Amendment 497 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point d
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point d
(d) facilitate cross-border enforcement procedures of penalties and fines if requested by concerned Member States;
Amendment 548 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
1. At the request of one or several Member States, the Authoritgency shall coordinate concerted or joint inspections in the areas under the scope of the Authoritgency’s competences. The request may be submitted by one or several Member States. The Authority may also suggest to the authorities of the Member States concerned that they perform a concerted or joint inspection. Member States take part in the concerned or joint inspection only after their agreement.
Amendment 558 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2
Article 9 – paragraph 2
2. A Member State may decide not to take part in a concerned or joint inspection. Where the authority of a Member State decides not to participate in or carry out the concerted or joint inspection referred to paragraph 1, it shall inform the Authoritgency in writing of the reasons for its decision duly in advancebefore the beginning of the planned inspection. In such cases, the Authoritgency shall inform the other national authorities concerned.
Amendment 576 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 3
Article 9 – paragraph 3
3. The organisation of a concerted or joint inspection shall be subject to the prior agreement of all participating Member States before the beginning of such an inspection via their National Liaison Officers. In the event that one or more Member States refuse to take part in the concerted or joint inspection, the other national authorities may, where appropriate, only carry out the envisaged concerted or joint inspection in the participating Member States. The Member States that declined to participate in the inspection shall keep information about the envisaged inspection confidential.
Amendment 589 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1
1. An agreement for setting up a joint inspection ('the joint inspection agreement') between the participating Member States and the Authoritgency shall set out the conditions for carrying out such an exercise, especially the scope of the inspection and the applicable law. The joint inspection agreement may include provisions which enable joint inspections, once agreed and planned, to take place at short notice. The Authoritgency shall establish a model agreement after consulting all Member States.
Amendment 599 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2
Article 10 – paragraph 2
2. Concerted and joint inspections and their follow-up shall be carried out in accordance with the national law of the Member States concerned where the inspection is taking place. Inspections are being carried out under the supervision of the national relevant authority of the Member State where the inspection is taking place.
Amendment 609 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 3
Article 10 – paragraph 3
3. The Authoritgency shall provide logistical and technical support if requested by the Member States concerned, which may include translation and interpretation services, to Member States carrying out concerted or joint inspections.
Amendment 632 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 10 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Parties being subject of the inspection shall receive the post- inspection report and shall have the right to refer to it and challenge findings in accordance with national law of the Member State, on which territory the inspection has been carried out.
Amendment 640 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 6 a (new)
Article 10 – paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Joint inspections as well as their legal consequences, decisions on administrative fines and penalties as well as rights and obligations of the parties being subject of the inspection shall be with no prejudice to the law applicable on the territory of a Member State where the inspection is taking place.
Amendment 661 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 1
1. The Authority shallgency shall, in cooperation with Member States, assess risks and carry out analyses regarding cross-border labour flows, such as labour market imbalances, sector-specific threats and recurring problems encountered by individuals and employers in relation to cross-border mobility and cross-border provision of services. For that purpose, the Authoritgency shall ensure complementarity with, and draw on the expertise of, other Union agencies or services, including in the areas of skills forecasting and health and safety at work. Upon a request by the Commission or a Member State, the Authority may carry out focused in-depth analyses and studies to investigate specific labour mobility issues.
Amendment 672 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
(aa) identify, analyse and take appropriate measures towards any national provisions which are not proportionate, justified or non- discriminatory as well as any barriers towards cross-border labour mobility and cross-border provision of services;
Amendment 688 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) develop common guidelines for optional use by Member States, including guidance for inspections in cases with a cross-border dimension, as well as shared definitions and common concepts, building on relevant work at the Union level;
Amendment 723 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 2
Article 13 – paragraph 2
2. Upon request of one of the Member States concerned by a dispute, the Authoritgency shall launch a mediation procedure before its Mediation Board set up for this purpose in accordance with Article 17(2). The Authoritgency may also launch a mediation procedure on its own initiative before the Mediation Board, including on the basis of a referral from SOLVIT, subject to the agreement of all Member States concerned by that dispute. Member States concerned take actively part in the mentioned procedure and make at disposal any relevant and/or requested information. The parties being subject of the mediation such as employers, employees, self- employed persons shall also be consulted and involved.
Amendment 847 #
2018/0064(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 20 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
The Management Board shall elect a Chairperson and a Deputy Chairperson from among the members with voting rights, and shall strive for gender and geographical balance. The Chairperson and the Deputy Chairperson shall be elected by a majority of two-thirds of the members of the Management Board with voting rights.
Amendment 5 #
2017/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas education offers a unique opportunity to address all forms of discrimination and stereotypes faced by girls and women, but this potential has not been fully utilised in the European Union; whereas according to 2014 Eurostat data, more women (42.3 %) than men (33.6 %) go on to higher education, yet women are present in greater numbers in the humanities than in scientific fields; whereas only 9.6 % of women students in third-level education study ICT-related degrees, compared to 30.6 % of men; whereas in initiatives such as the EU Code Week, ICT for Better Education, the Startup Europe Leaders Club and the Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs, which are aimed at further fostering e-education and e-skills, women remain largely underrepresented;
Amendment 9 #
2017/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas digitalisation has revolutionised and fundamentally changed the way people access and provide information which as a great potential in the field of education, including educational opportunities for women and girls; whereas there is a significant gender gap in access to professional and educational opportunities in relation to information and communication technologies and to computer skills;
Amendment 13 #
2017/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Highlights that there is strong pressure from the labour market to have more graduates with university diplomas, especially in the fastest growing sectors such as ICT, transport, communication, and STEM-based sectors. Therefore, calls on Member States to encourage young people to choose paths of education such as maths, physics, engineering and IT, which correspond with labour market needs. The incentives should be addressed especially to girls, who are under- represented in the ICT and STEM sectors because of their educational choices rather in humanities, social and health studies, whereas a shortage of employees in the STEM sector in the EU is predicted to be over 200 000 by 2020;
Amendment 19 #
2017/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas women constitute only 20 % of science professionals and account for just 27 % of engineering graduates1 ; whereas only 29 women per 1,000 female graduates, compared to 95 men counterparts, hold a degree in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) with a Bachelors or other first degree,), and only 4 in 1000 women will eventually work in the ICT sector; whereas increasing the number of women in the ICT which is one of the highest paying sectors, mainly through inclusion into ICT and STEM education and university degrees, could contribute to their financial empowerment and independence, resulting in the reduction of the total gender pay gap and enhance women’s financial independence; __________________ 1 European Commission: The Education and Training Monitor 2017, available at https://ec.europa.eu/education/sites/educati on/files/monitor2017_en.pdf
Amendment 21 #
2017/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that despite strong demand in the labour market for high-level skills, and the response of the education system in the form of the massive development of HEIs (Higher Education Instituteions), approximately 20 % of Europeans, including university graduates, lack basic skills such as reading, writing or numeracy1 ; recalls, moreover, that a similar number of Europeans have a low level of basic skills and that 44 % lack basic digital skills2 , which creates serious barriers to their participation in the technologically advanced labour market and everyday life; __________________ 1 http://ec.europa.eu/education/policy/school /math_en 2 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/beta- political/files/digital-skills-factsheet- tallinn_en.pdf
Amendment 28 #
2017/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Notes, that because of shrinking demand for low-level qualification, Member States should take action to limit school drop-out rates and guarantee, that nobody leaves school without basic skills, including basic digital skills. Therefore, calls on Member States to assure that possessing basic skills should be a prerequisite of graduation from every school from a primary to university level, including adult educational centres. Welcomes therefore "A Proposal for Council Recommendation on Key Competences for Lifelong learning', which defines digital skills as basic skills;
Amendment 32 #
2017/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Encourages the Member States to make every possible effort to achieve equal opportunities within their education systems for female and male students, especially for those from socio- economically disadvantaged backgrounds, and to monitor their equal access to high- quality education; encourages the Commission and the Member States to work through open cooperation within the Strategic Framework of Education and Training 2020 on finding solutions and sharing best practices on early digital education, including e-skills and coding which are inclusive for girls, as well as in later stages on programmes aimed at increasing the share of women deciding to pursue and graduating from STEM degrees;
Amendment 33 #
2017/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. points out that low participation of women and girls in ICT-related education, and later in employment, is a result of a complex interplay of gender stereotyping that starts in the early stages of life and education and continues into professional careers; encourages the Commission and the Member States to combat gender stereotypes and foster gender equality in all levels and types of education, including in relation to gendered study subject choices and careers in line with the priorities set out in the “Education and Training 2020”framework;
Amendment 43 #
2017/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Points out that regardless of 2 million job vacancies in the EU, more than 30 % of qualified young people with diplomas are in jobs that do not match their skills or aspirations, while 40% of European employers have trouble finding people with the required skills. Notices that skills mismatch comes not only from inadequate qualifications, but also from under- and over-qualification, while the latter means spending time and money on an expensive form of education that eventually becomes unnecessary. Points out that the future labour markets need advanced transversal and soft skills, which are less likely to be replaced by machines and which, regrettably, are seldom involved in curricula. Therefore, calls on Member States to assure favourable conditions for the acquisition and development of soft and transversal skills for both students and teachers in the education system;
Amendment 46 #
2017/2224(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas open method of coordination used in education allow Member States to create and implement common strategy on education and training and on-line platform ET2020 (Education and Training 2020); whereas benchmarks of this strategy are analysed and evaluated every year in Monitor on Education and Training for Member States and the whole EU;
Amendment 50 #
2017/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission and Member States to place greater emphasis on attracting girls to the STEM and ICT fields, as well as on addressing the digital gender gap through developing their digital skills; encourages the Member States to introduce age-appropriate ICT education in the early stages of school, with a particular focus on inspiring girls to develop interest and talent in the digital field, and urges the Commission and the Members States to promote STEM education to girls from a young age, given that girls move away from science, technology subjects, engineering and math earlier during their educational path due to gender stereotypes surrounding these subjects, a lack of role models, and a segregation of activities and toys, resulting in an underrepresentation of women in these subjects at university, which extends into the work place;
Amendment 53 #
2017/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Underlines the importance of ensuring gender mainstreaming in the education sector by promoting digital literacy and the participation of women and girls in ICT education and training through the inclusion of coding, new media and technologies in education curricula at all levels, as well as extra- curricular, informal and non-formal education, and in all types of education and training, including for teaching staff, in order to reduce and remove digital skills gaps, and to encourage girls and young women to embark on careers in the sciences and ICTs; points to the importance of constant dialogue with social partners in order to overcome the gender gap in this field;
Amendment 60 #
2017/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Points out that the pace of changes in the labour market, the diversity of educational systems and also the growing level of workers’ mobility and migration require that employers and education providers recognize the qualifications, skills and competences acquired also in non-formal and informal learning. Calls on Member States to recognize the importance and usefulness of micro- credentials - short, work-focused courses;
Amendment 62 #
2017/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Points out that the role and achievements of women in history, science and other fields are not always sufficiently reflected and represented in educational curricula and programmes; highlights the need for the Member States in cooperation with the European Commission in relevant areas to undertake action in view to present and include women into educational content in a more visible and balanced way; invites, in the same vein, the Member States and the Commission to organize actions, including campaigns, to spread the knowledge about women in history, science and other fields in also with a view to promote female role models aimed at girls and women at all levels of education;
Amendment 64 #
2017/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Points out the importance of including and promoting within school curricula and educational content the knowledge about the history of women’s emancipation, and in particular women’s suffrage, also on the occasion of symbolic anniversaries (e.g. 100 years of the women’s right to vote in Poland and Germany in 2018) in order to raise awareness with a view to promoting women's rights within educational framework;
Amendment 75 #
2017/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Encourages Member States to support teachers, students and administration workers in learning and improving their knowledge in foreign languages to weaken the major barrier to mobility in Europe and to facilitate cooperation and intellectual exchange between schools. Sees it important to ensure that these actions will address all types of schools and all levels of education, to make the EU labour market available for graduates from universities but also the VET education system;
Amendment 79 #
2017/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notices that different jobs and positions may require the same skills and consist of the same tasks; therefore, is of the opinion that education system should be skill and task- oriented to enable a swift change between positions;
Amendment 91 #
2017/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Notices that, regardless of growing number of students, share of graduates with high-level skills is proportionally small and differentiated between Member States, points out that in the EU number of graduates with very low skills varies between 10% to over 50% in different Member States; insists that the criteria of evaluation in Higher Education policies should be shifted from quantitative ones to qualitative ones - e.g. benchmark 1a for Member States to increase number of students should be focused on the level of skills not the number of diplomas; __________________ 1a Education and Training Monitor 2017
Amendment 97 #
2017/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Highlights that the high number of NEETs could be reduced by preventing early school leaving, as well as by making schools more practical and linked with their environment, like local companies, local authorities, social institutions and NGOs. Notices that dropouts may be reduced by a wider offer of vocational education and practice-based methods of teaching;
Amendment 107 #
2017/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Ensures that the career tracking system which monitors graduate employment rates and other career indicators should also be used for the evaluation of school curricula and teaching organisation, not only to increase the chances of graduates in the labour market, but also to strengthen their position and influence on building the economy and creating new jobs;
Amendment 108 #
2017/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Calls on sex-disaggregated data to be collected on the graduate outcomes from tertiary education and VET to improve possible usage of these data in the context of graduate employment and to assess the quality of education from a gender-based perspective;
Amendment 109 #
2017/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 c (new)
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10c. Calls for further skills forecasting for the development of the labour market; welcomes the fact that users of the Europass platform are provided with skills intelligence to guide them in their learning and career choices;
Amendment 116 #
2017/2224(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Highlights the potential of new technologies to improve the quality of education by meeting more effectively individual learners’ needs, increasing flexibility in learning and teaching, and creating new forms of cooperationmmunication between teachers, students, parents and other stakeholders within education policy;
Amendment 118 #
2017/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Amendment 124 #
2017/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Calls on the Member States to develop more tertiary vocational education and training, apart from university system, to enable students to acquire qualifications relating to practical skills and training;
Amendment 126 #
2017/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 c (new)
Paragraph 11 c (new)
11c. Welcomes ‘A Reality-Based Learning process’ implemented by Cometa Formazione in Italy, a teaching system which responds to an emerging dichotomy between doing and knowing, theory and practice, vocational-technical subjects and “basic” ones. Today, excellence in education and training requires a real integration between school and work; this integration boosts both the quality of numeracy and literacy kids learn, and the professional skills they need to acquire. ‘A reality-Based Learning process’ involves students in creating real products for real customers in school workshops and school companies. As this is not a mere simulation, the urge for professional competency emerges more sharply and, consequently, drags along the urge for learners to acquire all those cultural and human skills that are also mandatory by educational curricula;
Amendment 128 #
2017/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 d (new)
Paragraph 11 d (new)
11d. Highlights that, as shown in the Finnish, Canadian and Singaporean models - which are unanimously considered to be the best in the world- the quality of teachers and their autonomy to conform to education program and choose the education methods is a prerequisite for the quality education which gives the best foundation for pupils to later succeed in the labour market;
Amendment 134 #
2017/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Proposes that the Commission maintains entrepreneurship education and training as one of the objectives of a future Erasmus+ programme in the next financial period (post-2020) in all its actions, including mobility;
Amendment 139 #
2017/2224(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Notes that a learner-centred teaching, team-teaching, group working and other methods of progressive style of teaching need adequate organisation of space in schools and universities; notes that classrooms with traditional desk rows seating arrangements facing a teacher still prevail in European schools and universities; is of the opinion that new arrangements of school space, which encourage students to creative thinking, problem-solving and group working require financial support;
Amendment 163 #
2017/2224(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Notes that early education (age 0- 3) increases ability and effectiveness of further learning and that it is especially important while learning foreign languages;
Amendment 167 #
2017/2224(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Notes that early education is the most effective method of social inclusion, equal chances and social mobility; calls on Member States to offer opportunity of early education to every child, especially to children from underprivileged families;
Amendment 184 #
2017/2224(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Notes that regardless of obligatory, long and free of charge education in all Member States, over 20% of young Europeans according to PISA, lack basic skills and similar number of adults are functionally illiterate, which unable their further learning, working and personal development;
Amendment 314 #
2017/2224(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27 a. Points out that advanced transversal and soft skills (leadership, social and intercultural skills, management, entrepreneurial and financial education, volunteering, foreign languages proficiency, negotiations and creativity) are the most demanded on the labour market and therefore should be fully integrated into European education programmes;
Amendment 359 #
2017/2224(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29 a. Highlights the fact, that quality of education depends on the performance and qualifications of teachers, recommends the Member States to provide incentives to recruit candidates for the teaching profession with the highest-level competencies and adapt their remuneration level accordingly; insists on the importance of providing teachers with continuous training, reskilling and upskilling throughout their careers and to have exchange of best practices among countries;
Amendment 367 #
2017/2224(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29 a. Calls on the Commission to revise benchmarks in ET2020 to make them connected with qualitative as well as quantitative indicators of education system and to monitor level of skills, especially soft skills besides the number of graduates;
Amendment 427 #
2017/2224(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 a (new)
Paragraph 37 a (new)
37 a. Calls on the Commission to focus more on the role of school space in education and evaluation of education; calls for a financial support to provide adequate architectural solutions in schools to enable group work, team- teaching and to stimulate creative thinking and problem-solving as well as other methods of progressive education;
Amendment 428 #
2017/2224(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 b (new)
Paragraph 37 b (new)
37 b. Encourages schools of all levels to take advantage of social media and new technologies in school communication, between teachers and students;
Amendment 445 #
2017/2224(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 a (new)
Paragraph 40 a (new)
40 a. Recalls that Member States shall ensure that students who continue both the vocational education System and the university system of all fields would be required to receive obligatory apprenticeship or reality-based training, internships as part of their curriculum;
Amendment 16 #
2017/2210(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas new technologies are transforming traditional media business models; whereas the audiovisual sector is a highly important industry of economic value, alone directly employing over one million people in the EU;
Amendment 18 #
2017/2210(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas the 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing of 1995 recognised the relationship between women and the media as important to achieve equality between women and men and has incorporated two strategic aims into the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA): (a) to increase the participation and access of women to expression and decision-making in and through media and new technologies of communication and (b) to promote a balanced and non- stereotyped portrayal of women in the media;
Amendment 35 #
2017/2210(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas significant female underrepresentation in the highest levels of the industry structures speaks to the fact that women continue to face the glass ceiling barriers in media industry and might not have equal opportunities for promotion and career advancement;
Amendment 65 #
2017/2210(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas data shows that half of women media workers have experienced sexual abuse, one quarter of them have experienced acts of physical violence and three quarters have experienced intimidation, threats or abuse1a; 1a. International Federation of Journalists’(IFJ) campaign on gender- based violence at work https://www.ifj- stop-gender-based-violence.org/
Amendment 71 #
2017/2210(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Considers that both public and private media services have the responsibility to ensure equality between women and men and prevent any discrimination;
Amendment 74 #
2017/2210(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Reminds that in view of the monitoring of critical area of the BPfA referring to women in media, EIGE developed the indicators: – the proportion of women and men in decision-making posts in media organisations and on the boards of media organisations in the EU; – the proportion of women and men on the boards of media organizations in the EU; – policies to promote gender equality in media organisations;
Amendment 75 #
2017/2210(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Recalls that the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) states that the objectives of this Directive cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can be better achieved at Union level, but does not contain any reference to equal representation in media organizations;
Amendment 89 #
2017/2210(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Condemns the widespread occurrence of sexual harassment and other type of abuse especially in online gaming and social media and encourages the industries to create safe environments where companies are responsive to any instances of harassment;
Amendment 92 #
2017/2210(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Recommends that soft measures such as gender equality plans or guidelines which prove to be an effective tool in addressing equality between women and men shall be given even more prominence in media organizations and advises that these protocols lay out the standards in positive portrayal of women in advertising, news, reporting, production or broadcasting and cover all sensitive content areas such as depiction of power and authority, expertise, decision-making, sexuality, violence, diversity of roles and the use of anti-sexist language;
Amendment 95 #
2017/2210(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Recognizes that equal opportunities and diversity policies may often contain a whole array of measures which a media organization recognizes as necessary for its female staff to enjoy equal opportunities at workplace;
Amendment 112 #
2017/2210(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recommends that regulations issued by media and communication regulatory authorities set out criteria to ensure stereotype-free portrayalsauthorities competent for media and communication set out the criteria guaranteeing a fair and non-stereotyped representation of women and girls and, include the possibility of removingsuspension of offensiveding content; recomme ands that specialist organiszations, such as national equality bodies and women’s NGOs, are involved in monitoring theof implementation of these regulations;
Amendment 149 #
2017/2210(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Commission to earmark special funding for sub- programmes focusing on advancement of women in media industry and to support media associations and networks in putting in place public and sectorial awareness raising campaigns;
Amendment 151 #
2017/2210(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Recommends to national regulatory bodies and the media organizations to follow the Commission recommendation on strengthening the principle of equal pay between men and women1a, to set up the guidance on fair selection procedures, to establish comprehensive equality policies, covering media content and providing for women's advancement indecision-making bodies, as well as to set up internal procedures dealing with harassment at workplace; 1a. http://ec.europa.eu/justice/gender- equality/files/gender_pay_gap/c_2014_14 05_en.pdf
Amendment 43 #
2017/2114(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Reiterates the call for the three new headline employment indicators to be placed on an equal footing with existing economic indicators, thereby guaranteeing that internal imbalances are better assessed and making structural reforms more effective;
Amendment 48 #
2017/2114(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Proposes introducing a non- punitive social imbalances procedure in the design of the CSRs so as to prevent a race to the bottom in terms of social standards, building on effective use of the social and employment indicators in macroeconomic surveillance;
Amendment 146 #
2017/2054(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex – Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – table – row 21
Annex – Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – table – row 21
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Amendment 1 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2
Citation 2
– having regard to Articles 8, 10, 153(1), 153(2), 157 and 15207 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Amendment 2 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)
Citation 10 a (new)
– having regard to the Commission’s report of 13 September 2017 on the Implementation of the Trade Policy Strategy ‘Trade for All’;
Amendment 32 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas trade policies should aim to reduce socio-economic gaps between the Global North and the Global South in terms of development and wealth, andcan contribute to the development and wealth of women, to reduce gaps between women and men, and realisze women’s rights by ensuring decent work conditions for women and finally by contributing to sustainable and equitable economic development while expanding opportunities for women entrepreneurship, access to apprenticeships and work and employment;
Amendment 39 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. Whereas according to a 2017 study of the European Commission almost 12 million women in the EU have jobs that depend on the exports of goods and services to the rest of the world1a; __________________ 1a http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2017 /june/tradoc_155632.pdf
Amendment 60 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the impacts of trade liberalisation on individuals depends also on their geographical localisation and the sector of their economic activities;
Amendment 69 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the current EU trade policy and its ‘Trade for All’ strategy lack a gender equality perspective, as well as any binding obligations to enforce core women’s rights conventions such as the CEDAWis based on three key principles: effectiveness, transparency and values; whereas in order to make trade policy benefit as many people as possible it should include a reference to a gender equality perspective;
Amendment 72 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. Whereas following the provisions included in the CEDAW, the EU should provide the basis for realizing equality between women and men through ensuring women's equal access to, and equal opportunities in, political, economical and public life as well as education, health and employment.
Amendment 82 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the only area of gender equality in which DG Trade has demonstrated an interest so far isDG Trade should make more quantitative gender-disaggregated research in order to focus on matters such as business, science, and technology in order to promotinge female entrepreneurship;
Amendment 87 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas, according to the International Trade Centre, 40% of the world’s SMEs are owned by women;
Amendment 89 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas a review of current EU multilateral and bilateral agreements shows that only 20 % of the agreements with non-European trading partners make reference to women’s rights, and thatstudy recently published by the Commission shows that a gender gap persists in terms of opportunities for access to jobs and that, in 2011, only 40 38% of these agreements include references that aim to promote gender equality; whereas references in these agreements to promoting women’s empowerment are voluntary and almost all relate to non-trading aspects of the agreementsjobs supported by exports to the rest of the world were occupied by women; whereas another study shows that promoting women’s equality could increase global GDP by USD 28 billion by 2025;
Amendment 96 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas there is a crucial need of recognising and better understanding gender specific impacts of trade liberalisation to deliver adequate policy responses.
Amendment 101 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas strong movements have evolved in several countries, criticising, in particular, provisions on investor-state dispute settlement / the investment court system (ISDS/ICS) and intellectual property rights (IPR), as well as non-tariff rules in TTIP, CETA and TiSA, that could lead to breaches of women’schapters on sustainable development should be included in any trade agreement negotiated by the EU, and whereas the purpose of such chapters is to ensure respect of and protection for human rights, labourthe rights, of the environmental protection, consumer rights and public services and good and workers’ rights; whereas the EU’s trade policy should not imply the lowering of any of the EU’s standards, and whereas public services should be excluded from trade negotiations;
Amendment 109 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas in the framework of the Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) and GSP+ systems, aim toing at ensureing the ratification and implementation of human and labour rights conventions in developing countries, it is crucial to monitor on a regular basis and to take actions when needed and pay particular attention to gender equality;
Amendment 116 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas civil society, particularly women’s rights organisations and trade unions, has the knowledge and potential to strengthen women’s economic empowerment, such as the promotion of women entrepreneurs, becoming informed on the issues faced by women in trade agreements, and collecting data that can broaden our understanding of equality in trade;
Amendment 120 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas events such as the International Forum on Women and Trade organised by the Commission on 29 June 2017 enable many economic stakeholders and representatives of civil society to exchange and launch initiatives on the impact of trade on gender equality;
Amendment 129 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas special attention must be given to the negative consequences of trade liberapublic services, existing or future services of general interest, and services of general economic interest should be excluded from the negotiations on, and scope of appliscation as regards basic public services and goods, such as water and sanitation, education and healthcareof, any trade agreement concluded by the EU (including, but not limited to, water, health, social services, social security systems, education, waste management and public transport);
Amendment 143 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that fair and inclusive international trade policies require a clearer framework aiming to enhance women’s livelihoods, strengthen gender equality, protect the environment, and promote social justice and international solidaritytrade can contribute to the development of sustainable growth and job creation; recalls that the EU’s trade policy contributes to the promotion and protection of human rights and the values of the European Union, including gender equality; notes that Article 8 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union stipulates that ‘in all its activities, the Union shall aim to eliminate inequalities, and to promote equality, between men and women’;
Amendment 152 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that the EU’s trade strategy entitled ‘Trade for All’ does not mention gender equality; calls on the Commission to take this dimension into account in the conduct of its trade policy and stresses that trade negotiations may make it possible to promote gender equality on the international scene and ensure that both women and men can benefit from the advantages of trade liberalisation and be protected from its negative effects;
Amendment 158 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Stresses how few data are available on the impact of trade on gender equality; with that in mind, calls for more data to be gathered on this topic; stresses that collecting this type of information will make it possible to improve analysis of the situation, establish a methodology and improve the definition of the objectives and measures to be taken to ensure that women benefit more from trade;
Amendment 161 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Notes that the Report on the Implementation of the Trade Policy Strategy ‘Trade for All’ of 13 September 2017 mentions gender equality in trade and specifies that it is essential to improve our understanding of the impact of trade instruments on gender equality; further notes the view expressed in the report that addressing gender equality would help ensure that the benefits of trade reach everyone, and by the same token maximise the overall gains from trade opportunities; calls on the Commission to continue its work on this matter and supply information and data as soon as possible;
Amendment 164 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Insists that all international trade policies must be based ontrade policy could make it possible to promote the relevant international standards and legal instruments on gender equality, such as the CEDAW, the Beijing Platform for Action and the sustainable development goals (SDGs);
Amendment 178 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines the urgent need to adoptneed for a consideration for gender-sensitive bindingattention to human rights regulationand provide guidelines on an international level to regulate transnational companies (TNCs) and other companieTNCs; welcomes the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights;
Amendment 180 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on Commission and Member States for a combined policy intervention to promote greater gender equality in the distribution of the employment opportunities offered by exports such as education and vocational training policies;
Amendment 186 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. InsistRecalls that all international trade agreements must include safeguard clauses enabling the contracting parties to regulate and also reverse liberalisation in order to protect fundamental objectives such as gender equality, human rights, public health and environmental sustainabian ambitious sustainable development chapter with the aim of enhancing social and environmental standards, as well as respect for human rights, which also encompass gender equality;
Amendment 195 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the need to recognise the risks inherent in trade agreement mechanisms such as ISDS and ICS, which undermine the capacity of individual governments to change their laws to include measures to promote gender equalityRecalls the ongoing process led by the EU to develop a new system for settling disputes between investors and states; recalls that the European Parliament advocates the need to ensure, among other things, stronger labour and consumer rights and advancement in environmental policiesansparency and the right to regulation on the part of the states which will be responsible for carrying out this reform;
Amendment 202 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that IPR provisions in trade can have a significantn impact on women’s health which must be taken carefully; calls for this aspect to be taken into consideration;
Amendment 204 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls for regular events and meetings to be held on gender equality in EU trade agreements with the participation of representatives of the institutions and economic and civil society stakeholders with a view to creating synergy on this issue, holding discussions and setting common objectives;
Amendment 209 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines that basic public services and goods, such as water and sanitation, education and healthcare (notably acPoints out that current and future public services, services of general interest and servicess to sexual and reproductive health and rights services),of general economic interest should be exemptcluded from the scopening up of public procu of application of the agreement and the trade liberalisation agenda, and that safeguards must be put in place to reinforce states’ capacities to provide bas(including, but not limited to, water, health, social services, social security systems, education, waste management and public transport); points out that EU, national and local authorities must retain the full right to introduce, adopt, maintain or repeal any measures with regard to the commissioning, organisation, funding and provision of public services for all;
Amendment 229 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for binding measures to combating exploitation and improve working and living conditions for women in the export- oriented industries, in particular the garment and textile manufacturing and agriculture sectors where trade liberalisation has contributed to precarious labour rights and gender wage gap, to follow the objective of improving the living conditions of women in these countries and sectors;
Amendment 244 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Underlines that the impact of growing agricultural exports ise need for a consideration for genderally less favourable to women than to men, as emerging trends indicate that small farmers, many of whom are women, are often not in a position to compete in overseas marke-sensitive attention to human rights and provide guidelines on an international level to TNCs; welcomes the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights;
Amendment 249 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Insists that binding instruments are needed in EU trade policy to ensure that deccertain elements of EU trade policy, such as the presence of a chapter on sustainable development work standards, women’s rights, human rights principles and environmental protection are at the core of all types of EU trade agreements and that EU trade policy is coherent with the Union’s overarching aims of GSP+ systems, and the monitoring thereof, help promote and uphold human rights, including gender equality, workers’ rights and environmental protection; recalls the overriding importance of consistency between EU trade policy and Union policy as a whole; stresses that EU trade policy contributes to the pursuit of many aims, including sustainable development, poverty reduction and the promotion of gender equality;
Amendment 256 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on the Commission to take gender equality into account when preparing and drafting impact assessments for the purpose of opening trade negotiations; stresses that taking this into account will provide a first glimpse of the benefits that could be gained from a future trade agreement and predict the impact of new trade relations on gender equality;
Amendment 264 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. CRecalls for all EU trade agreements to include binding clauses, in the form of a stand-alone article, that promote and protect women’s rights, gender equality and gender mainstreaming, based on the Beijing Platform for Action and the SDGs, with an appropriate body appointed or an explicit mechanism in place to monitor complianceits request, in respect of trade negotiations with Chile, for the inclusion of a specific chapter on trade, gender equality and the empowerment of women; emphasises that the proposal to include such a dedicated chapter in a trade agreement is now becoming reality for the first time; stresses the need to be informed of the content of this chapter and evaluate it with a view to subsequently taking decisions at a more general level; urges the EU to introduce cross-cutting measures in trade agreements in order to promote gender equality, exchange best practices and enable women to derive greater benefit from trade agreements;
Amendment 274 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. StressesPoints out that trading commitments in EU agreements should neverot overrule human rights, women’s rights or environmental concerns; stresses the importance of enforcing the provisions of agreements on these issues, including chapters on sustainable development;
Amendment 279 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Recalls the importance of SMEs in the EU’s economic structure; calls on the Commission to continue its efforts to support SMEs – particularly in public procurement, with a view to ensuring that micro enterprises and SMEs play a greater role – and to develop specific measures for SMEs owned by women;
Amendment 284 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Is convinced that the CEDAW is of great importance for all policy areas, including trade; invites the Commission, therefore, to take action in this contextthe necessary steps to enable the EU’'s accession to and ratification of the CEDAW Convention, and to include CEDAW as an instrument in trade agreementsand to incorporate the principle of equality of men and women in Member states' legal systems, abolishing all discriminatory laws and adopting appropriate ones prohibiting discrimination against women;
Amendment 290 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls for the EU and the Member States to ensure that binding clauses on labour rights, based on the ILO Conventions, includingReiterates that trade agreements should contain far-reaching commitments on all core labour rights in line with fundamental Conventions of the ILO, and calls for the EU and the Member States to take into particular consideration ILO Conventions No 189 con Dcerning decent work for domestic Wworkers and No 156 on Workers with Family Responsibilities, are included in trade agreements, and that social clauses in trade agreements also apply to informal works it globally addresses the needs for workers to be covered by labour law; asks for social rights, non-discrimination and equal treatment to be taken into account in trade agreements;
Amendment 298 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Acknowledges thatStresses the importance of monitoring the implementation of the EU’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) and GSP+ systems need to be improved by linking economic incentives to the effective adoption and constant monitoring of core human, gender and labour rights conventions, particularly in respect of the implementation of core conventions; points out that among the GSP + conventions that are pending ratification and implementation are the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women of 1979 , Convention No 111, concerning Discrimination in Respect of Employment and Occupation, and Convention No 100, concerning Equal Remuneration for Men and Women Workers for Work of Equal Value; points out that the upholding and implementing such conventions helps further gender equality;
Amendment 312 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for EU legislation similar to UN binding due diligence obligations to ensure respect for human rights, including women’s rights, and adequate social and environmental standardsUrges the EU to foster international cooperation on gender equality in trade relations and encourages the WTO to take this dimension into account in its trade policy; stresses the importance of also addressing this issue in other international and multilateral organisations and forums, such as the UN, World Bank or OECD, with a view to ensuring that women derive greater benefits from international trade;
Amendment 331 #
2017/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls on the Commission to evaluate, in order to create favourable conditions for the participation of women to the opportunities offered by the free trade agreements, the possibility to build up pre-apprenticeship training programs for providers, employers, workforce practitioners, and other industry stakeholders to network with their peers from across the EU and learn from a variety of successful program models;
Amendment 5 #
2017/2008(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas women's economic empowerment and equal opportunities in the labour market are crucial for women individually but also instrumental for EU's economic growth with positive impact on GDP, inclusiveness and competitiveness of businesses as well as challenges related to the ageing population in the EU
Amendment 12 #
2017/2008(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
A b. whereas gender equality policies have a strong impact on GDP and by 2050, improving gender equality would lead to an increase in EU GDP per capita by 6.1 to 9.6%, which amounts to €1.95 to €3.15 trillion (EIGE's estimates)
Amendment 17 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas equality between women and men is a key economic asset to promote fair and inclusive economic growth, and reducing occupational inequality is not just a goal in terms of equal treatment, but also in terms of labour market efficiency and fluidity;
Amendment 27 #
2017/2008(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that equal opportunities for economic independence and the guaranteeimplementation of the principle of equal pay for male and female workers for equal work andor work of equal value applied by the Member States as defined in the article 157 of TFEU are necessary steps for women’'s economic empowerment;
Amendment 34 #
2017/2008(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Member States to promote the well-being of women, by tackling the pay and pension gaps and combating atypical and insecure forms of work and employment, such as temporary contracts or involuntary part-time workand equal opportunities for women, by tackling the pay gap, addressing and eliminating breaches of anti-discrimination legislation in employment, combating insecure forms of work and employment, such as involuntary part-time work or the use of contracts which do not correspond to the nature of the work performed in accordance with the national law;
Amendment 47 #
2017/2008(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Stresses that preventing and eliminating the gender pension gap and reducing women's poverty in the old age first and foremost depend on creating conditions for women to make equal pension contributions through further inclusion into the labour market and safeguarding equal opportunities in terms of pay, career advancement and possibilities to work full-time;
Amendment 50 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas education, qualifications and the acquisition of skills are essential to the empowerment of women at social, cultural and economic level, and education opportunities are recognised as a core element to combat inequalities such as underrepresentation in decision- making and manager posts, engineering and science, thus improving economic empowerment for women and girls;
Amendment 51 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas violence against women is one of the main impediments to equality between women and men and be combatted through education and subsequently social and economic empowerment; whereas workplace violence has serious negative consequences for the female and male workers affected, their co-workers and families, as well as the organisations they work in and the society as a whole;
Amendment 53 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas effective work-life balance hasand family-friendly policies have positive health aspects and promotes economic growth, competitiveness, overall labour market participation, gender equality, reduction of the risk of poverty, and intergenerational solidarity, and also helps address the challenges of an aging society and positively influences birth rates intrigger positive demographic trends across the EU;
Amendment 63 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas equotaal representation of women and men in decision-making positions haves been found to improve the performance of private companies and boost wider economic growth, in addition to bringing about better use of the talent pool in the labour force;
Amendment 66 #
2017/2008(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. points out that digitalisation has a profound impact on the labour market by changing value chains, conditions and nature of work as well as creating new job opportunities and more flexible working patterns; notes that opportunities for flexible and teleworking arrangements brought about by digitalisation may serve as a an effective tool for further inclusion of women into the labour market as well as better reconciliation of professional and domestic duties for both women and men;
Amendment 71 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas trade unions have the potential to strengthen women’s economic empowerment through promoting equal pay between women and men and investing in work-life balance in their sector;
Amendment 72 #
2017/2008(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. highlights that improving digital skills and IT-literacy among women and boosting inclusion into the ICT, which is one of the highest paying sectors, could contribute to their economic empowerment and independence resulting in the reduction of the total gender wage gap;
Amendment 74 #
2017/2008(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3 c. Points out that the demand for digital technology professionals in the EU has grown by 4% annually in the last ten years and the number of unfilled vacancies for ICT professionals is expected to double by 2020; calls therefore on the Member States and the Commission to advance their efforts to promote digital skills and e-literacy among women and girls, who remain underrepresented in this sector, from the earliest stages at school and going through the whole educational cycle as well as in the framework of life-long learning;
Amendment 76 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that women’s economic participation and empowerment are key for strengthening their fundamental rights, enabling them to reach economic independence, to exert influence in society and to have control over their lives; and are instrumental for EU's economic growth with positive impact on GDP, inclusiveness and competitiveness of businesses as well as challenges related to the ageing population in the EU
Amendment 77 #
2017/2008(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3 d. Encourages Member States to introduce age appropriate ICT education at early stages with a particular focus on inspiring and supporting girls to pursue their interest and talents in the digital field and safeguarding them from constraining and negative stereotyping which discourage girls from advancing their e-skills;
Amendment 79 #
2017/2008(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls Recognises that domestic work and provision of household services, which are largely feminised, are often perfor measures to guarantee the economic and social dignity of feminised work, such as domestic workd as undeclared work; calls on the Member States to promote and further develop the formal sector of domestic services through facilitation and incentives to employ domestic workers with the aim of reducing the undeclared work and improving reconciliation of private and professional life for the working families;
Amendment 83 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that the yearly cost of the lower female employment rate corresponded to 2.8 % of the EU’s GDP20 , while the cost of a woman’s exclusion from employment is estimated at between EUR 1.2 and 2 million, depending on her educational level; highlights that gender equality policies have a strong impact on GDP and by 2050, improving gender equality would lead to an increase in EU GDP per capita by 6.1 to 9.6%, which amounts to €1.95 to €3.15 trillion (EIGE's estimates) __________________ 20 In 2013 - see Eurofound: ‘The gender employment gap: Challenges and solutions’.
Amendment 84 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Notes that women constitute 52% of the total European population, but only one third of the self-employed or of all business starters in the EU, facing more difficulties than men in access to finance, training, networking, and in maintaining a work-life balance;
Amendment 85 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Highlights that women's economic empowerment and equal opportunities in the labour market are not only crucial for women individually, but also instrumental for EU's economic growth with positive impact on GDP, inclusiveness and competitiveness of businesses; points out that, according to OECD projections, total convergence in participation rates would result in a 12.4% increase in per capita GDP by 2030;
Amendment 88 #
2017/2008(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls on policy makers, also through the European Platform Tackling Undeclared Work, to recognise household services, family employment and home- care as a valuable economic sector which needs to be better regulated within the Member States with a view to create both secure position for domestic workers and provide families with a capacity to assume their role as employers;
Amendment 89 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Stresses the need to combat all forms of violence against women at the workplace; calls on the Commission and the Member States to embark on concerted action, including public awareness and information campaigns, on violence against women, and to encourage the exchange of good practices;
Amendment 99 #
2017/2008(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to enforce laws and workplace policies that prohibitsure proper application of the existing equal treatment legislation in order to eliminate gender-based discrimination in the recruitment, retention and promotion of women in employment in both the public and private sectors and at work in both the public and private sectors and to offer women a level-playing field in terms of pay and career advancement;
Amendment 111 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls for the adoption of the necessary measures to promote higher participation of women in the labour market in order to meet the challenges of the 21st century; welcomes in this regard the Commission proposal on work-life balance to improve the reconciliation of professional and private life, which will allow women and men to share occupational, family and social responsibilities more evenly, especially where assistance to dependants and childcare is concerned;
Amendment 113 #
2017/2008(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. RecallHighlights the importance of the Women on Boards Directive and calls on the Member States to ensure equal representation and leadership equal representation of women and men in decision-making position in both the public and private sector; recalls the importance of the Women on Boards Directive which aims at balancing the labour market, in economic andshare of the under-represented sex in non-executive board-member polsitical decision-making structures and institutions, as well as in enterprises and on corporate boardons in publicly listed companies, with the exception of small and medium enterprises;
Amendment 114 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Member States to promote and further develop the formal sector of domestic services through facilitation and incentives to employ domestic workers and improved national regulation with a view to create both secure position for domestic workers and to provide families with a capacity to assume their role as employers in order to enhance reconciliation of private and professional life;
Amendment 116 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Emphasises that better work-life reconciliation and strengthened equality between women and men are essential for supporting and enhancing the participation of women in the labour market, in particular women-carers and single mothers, and achieving the goals of women empowerment;
Amendment 122 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. InsistsTakes note that the principle of equal pay for male and female workers for equal work or work of equal value is enshrined in the EU Treaty; highlightnotes, in this context, the Commission’s recommendation on strengthening the principle of equal pay between men and women through transparency;
Amendment 123 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Insists that the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value ifor male and female workers enshrined in the EU Treaty and defined in the article 157 of TFEU needs to be effectively applied by the Member States; highlights, in this context, the Commission’s recommendation on strengthening the principle of equal pay between men and women through transparency;
Amendment 126 #
2017/2008(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States to strengthen and enforce the full exercise of the right of collective bargaining in the private and public sectorssocial partners to use collective bargaining to advance equal opportunities for women and men, to ensure that the existing equal treatment legislation is applied in practice as well as to address and combat the gender pay gap;
Amendment 129 #
2017/2008(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States to implement and enforce public social care policies as well as to provide quality childcare fafurther develop care facilities for the dependent, including children and elderly, with the view of enhancing reconciliaties and promote the equal sharing of unpaid domestic work and co- responsibility in care.on of private and professional life for the working families and increasing women's participation in the labour market as a precondition for women's economic empowerment;
Amendment 134 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Expresses its conviction that achieving equal pay for male and female workers for equal work of equal value requires a clear framework of specific job evaluation tools with comparable indicators to assess ‘value’ in jobs or sectors; invites the Commission, therefore, to delivconsider such a framework and to assist the Member States in implementing it;
Amendment 137 #
2017/2008(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Encourages the Member States based on the provisions of the Public Procurement Directive (2014/24/EU) to promote the use of social clauses in public procurement as a tool for enhancing equality between women and men where relevant national legislations exists and can act as a ground for social clauses;
Amendment 139 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Highlights that improving digital skills and IT-literacy among women and boosting inclusion into the ICT, which is one of the highest paying sectors, could contribute to their economic empowerment and independence resulting in the reduction of the total gender wage gap;
Amendment 140 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Stresses that preventing and eliminating the gender pension gap and reducing women's poverty in the old age first and foremost depend on creating conditions for women to make equal pension contributions through further inclusion into the labour market and safeguarding equal opportunities in terms of pay, career advancement and possibilities to work full-time;
Amendment 151 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Takes the view that initiatives are needed at both national and EU level to enhance female participation in male- dominated sectors and to increase the recognition of women's skills and economic performance at the workplace, so as to overcome horizontal and vertical exclusion and to increase the number of women in decision-making bodies in the political and business sphere;
Amendment 159 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Notes that gender equality plans on a company or sectorial level may contain multiple human resource measures addressing recruitment, pay, promotion, training and work-life balance; that they often include concrete measures such as gender-neutral language, prevention of sexual harassment, appointment of the under-represented gender to top positions, part-time work and fathers participating in childcare, and that a variety of approaches exist in Member States regarding mandatory introduction of such measures;
Amendment 160 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Underlines the importance of promoting gender equality in education and training related initiatives, particularly initiatives taken to alleviate gender imbalances in literacy, including media and digital literacy, also reducing the digital gap as mentioned in the Europe 2020 Digital Agenda;
Amendment 162 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Invites the Member States and the Commission to promote, through information and awareness-raising campaigns, the participation of women in sectors traditionally viewed as 'male', notably the sciences and new technologies, with a view to fully benefitting of the human capital represented by European women and hence enhancing the goals of the Europe 2020 strategy and mainstreaming gender equality in the digital agenda of the forthcoming years;
Amendment 168 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Emphasises that ensuring gender balance in collective bargaining teams is crucial tocan have positive effects in view of ensuring a bn equal ancedd appropriate representation of women and men, and therefore considers thatnotes in this regard the possible benefits of trade unions should strengthening the positions of women within the social partnership structure, in particular in decision-making roles, and should negotiateing gender equality plans at company and sectorial level;
Amendment 171 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls onEncourages the Commission to work closely with social partners in order to strengthen them in their key role of detecting invisiblediscriminatory gender bias in the setting of paywage scales and in providing job evaluations which are free of gender bias;
Amendment 198 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Maintains that current economic models and practices do not take account of gender-based differences and are not responsive to the issue of closing gender gaps; believes in this context that tax policies and spending priorities during crises must be rethought in order to take women into account as economic actors;
Amendment 206 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Encourages the Member States based on the provisions of the Public Procurement Directive (2014/24/EU) to promote the use of social clauses in public procurement as a tool for enhancing equality between women and men where relevant national legislations exists and can act as a ground for social clauses;
Amendment 209 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Encourages Member States to promote measures and actions to assist and advise women who decide to become entrepreneurs, stressing that financial independence is a key to equality; calls on the Member States to encourage women entrepreneurship, facilitate access to credit, cut red tape and other obstacles to women's start-ups;
Amendment 213 #
2017/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)
Paragraph 16 c (new)
16c. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to advance their efforts in putting an end to the digital divide between men and women by increasing women's access to information society, boosting the acquisition of e-capacities and improving ICT literacy among women, with a particular focus on increasing female visibility in the digital sector;
Amendment 1 #
2017/2003(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital -A (new)
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas the collaborative economy offers many opportunities for growth and jobs, especially for people who are distant from the labour market, such as young people, students, women and seniors, and provides innovative new services for citizens and consumers;
Amendment 3 #
2017/2003(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Commission communication entitled ‘A European Agenda for the collaborative economy’ stresses the increasing significance of the platform economy, its important contribution to growth and jobs by providing new opportunities for citizens and innovative entrepreneurs, and its impact on economic and employment policies;
Amendment 5 #
2017/2003(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas with the Communication on a European agenda for the collaborative economy, the EU provides welcomed guidelines on applicable EU rules and recommendations to help citizens, businesses and EU countries to fully benefit from these new business models and promote a balanced and fair development of the collaborative economy;
Amendment 10 #
2017/2003(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the collaborative economy models can help to boost participation of women in the labour market and economy, by providing opportunities of flexible forms of entrepreneurship and employment;
Amendment 16 #
2017/2003(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas the Commission communication on collaborative economy is a starting point of the EU contribution to a balanced and fair development of the collaborative economy, given the rapid evolution of this economy and its related regulatory loopholes and uncertainties that still must be clarified;
Amendment 17 #
2017/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas the collaborative economy models can help to boost participation of women in the labour market and economy, by providing opportunities of flexible forms of entrepreneurship and employment;
Amendment 19 #
2017/2003(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. Points out that collaborative economy offers many opportunities in the labour market, especially for those who are looking for flexible work schedules, cheaper and convenient choices as a result of more competition;
Amendment 20 #
2017/2003(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas the European Commission and the Member States need to address more deeply the social dimension of the collaborative economy by providing in depth analysis and data on new forms of employment, by monitoring the evolving regulatory environment and by encouraging the exchange of good practices among EU countries, in order to overcome the social challenges related to this new economy;
Amendment 22 #
2017/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
B b. whereas, while the recent Commission communication entitled 'European agenda for the collaborative economy' represents a good starting point for promoting and regulating this sector effectively, there is a need to incorporate the gender equality perspective and reflect the provisions of the relevant anti- discrimination legislation in further analysis and recommendations in this field;
Amendment 51 #
2017/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Agrees that the collaborative economy could also generate new entrepreneurial opportunities, jobs and growth, including for the participation of women in the economy, and could play an important role in making the economic system not only more efficient, but also socially and environmentally sustainable;
Amendment 70 #
2017/2003(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Takes note of the multiplication of national and local regulatory initiatives affecting the collaborative economy; Stresses the importance of rapid clarification at European level of the applicable rules in order to limit the fragmentation of the internal market;
Amendment 91 #
2017/2003(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for more reliable data on joband evidence on jobs, skills and working conditions in the platform economy and, if necessary, for the adjustment of related policies to create a level playing field between the platforms and traditional economiebusinesses, especially SMEs, in particular in the field of consumer protection, taxation and working conditions;
Amendment 104 #
2017/2003(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Underlines that the collaborative economy fosters entrepreneurship; Stresses the need to adapt training mechanisms to this new kind of businesses;
Amendment 107 #
2017/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Underlines the importance of preventing any form of discrimination, so as to grant effective and equal access to collaborative services, especially for women, disadvantaged people and communities;
Amendment 111 #
2017/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Considers that those services offered within the collaborative economy which are publicly advertised and offered for profit fall within the remit of the Council Directive 2004/113/EC implementing the principle of equal treatment between men and women in the access to and supply of goods and services and should, therefore, be consistent with the principle of equal treatment of women and men;
Amendment 115 #
2017/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10 b. Considers that depending on the legal nature of the relationship between individual service providers with the platform provider, if the relationship presents labour relationship or self- employment, directives 2006/54/EU or 2010/41/EU alternatively should be applied.
Amendment 125 #
2017/2003(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the European Commission and the Member States to reflect on the appropriate means to ensure that digital platforms inform providers on the regulatory framework that has to be complied with, when offering services, as individuals using platforms are sometimes not even aware of the requirements they should fulfil; considers that digital platforms should play a more proactive role in checking whether the service provider fulfils its legal requirements; Calls on Member States to operate specific controls in order to check if operators stick to the rules, especially in terms of taxation, consumer protection, working conditions and skills requirements;
Amendment 131 #
2017/2003(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Points out that collaborative economy enhance trust between citizens, which is a crucial element of civil society;
Amendment 133 #
2017/2003(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Underlines the fact that consumers should enjoy a high and effective level of protection, regardless of whether services are provided by professionals or peers; highlights, in particular, the importance of protecting consumers in peer-to-peer transactions and looking for solutions which improve security;
Amendment 150 #
2017/2003(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Highlights that the collaborative economy has flourished mainly so far in urban areas; Stresses therefore the importance of deploying broadband in rural areas in order to enable all EU territories to benefit from the potential of the collaborative economy, especially in terms of employment; Calls for Member States to strengthen financial and human resources to enable people from rural areas to acquire basic digital skills;
Amendment 174 #
2017/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Believes that consumers should enjoy a high and effective level of protection, regardless of whether services are provided by professionals or peers; highlights, in particular, the importance of protecting consumers in peer-to-peer transactions; welcomes the Commission’'s initiative to ensure the adequacy of consumer law and preventing abuse of the collaborative economy; stresses the importance of looking for solutions which improve security for consumers and minimise risks of gender based violence while providing or accepting services within the collaborative economy;
Amendment 178 #
2017/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Notes that harassment poses a particular challenge for gender equality in the area of collaborative economy services; highlights that whilst the "zero- tolerance" policy towards harassment adopted by many platforms constitutes a good practice to be further strengthened in the sector, there is a need for the platforms concerned to prioritise prevention of harassment as well as to consider creating clear procedures for reporting abuse cases for users;
Amendment 205 #
2017/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19 a. Stresses the need for clarification of the provisions on liability for providers of goods and services and connecting online platforms on the basis of the Directive 2004/113/EC implementing the principle of equal treatment between men and women in the access to and supply of goods and services, in particular in cases of third-party harassment which predominantly concerns women; calls on the Commission to perform legal analysis and issue guidelines in in this regard;
Amendment 306 #
2017/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Underlines the paramount importance of safeguarding workers’' rights in collaborative services, of avoiding social dumping, and of guaranteeing fair working conditions and adequate social protection; special attention should be paid to prevent precarious employment models, while women are more likely than men to be employed precariously;
Amendment 357 #
2017/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Points out the importance of adequate competences and skills, in order to enable as many individuals as possible to play an active role in the collaborative economy; is of the opinion that the potential of the collaborative economy will be fully unleashed only through effective policies of social inclusion at EU level, starting with confident and critical use of ICT as a key competence for lifelong learning strategies; stresses the importance of encouraging women and girls to acquire ICT related competences and provide them with opportunities of doing so, in order for them to be able to fully enjoy the benefits of collaborative economy;
Amendment 25 #
2017/0355(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) Principle 7 of the European Pillar of Social Rights, proclaimed at Gothenburg on 17 November 2017, provides that workers have the right to be informed in writing at the start of employment about their rights and obligations resulting from the employment relationship, including any probationary period, and that they have the right to access to effective and impartial dispute resolution and, in case of unjustified dismissal, a right to redress, including adequate compensation. Principle 5 provides that regardless of the type and duration of the employment relationship, workers have the right to fair and equal treatment regarding working conditions, access to social protection and training, that employment relationships that lead to precarious working conditions is to be prevented, including by prohibiting abuse of atypical contracts, that any probationary period should be of reasonable duration and that the transition towards open-ended forms of employment is to be fostered. Principle 5 also provides that necessary flexibility for employers to adapt swiftly to changes in the economic context must be ensured. Accordingly, rules applicable to non-standard forms of employment must strike a balance between the need to maintain flexibility in order to foster labor market development, and the entitlement of all workers to social protection.
Amendment 27 #
2017/0355(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) Since the adoption of Council Directive 91/533/EEC,33 labour markets have undergone far-reaching changes due to demographic developments and digitalisation leading to the creation of new forms of employment, which have supported job creation and labour market growth. New forms of employment are often not as regular or stable as traditional employment relationships and lead to reduced predictability for the workers concerned, creating uncertainty as to applicable rights and social protection. In this evolving world of work, there is therefore an increased need for workers to be fully informed about their essential working conditions, which should occur in a written form and in a timely manner. In order adequately to frame the development of new forms of employment, workers in the Union should also be provided with a number of new minimum rights aimed at promoting security and predictability in employment relationships while achieving upward convergence across Member States and preserving labour market adaptability. It must be recognized that flexible forms of employment also have a positive impact on the labour market and workers, as they foster innovation and facilitate access to the labour market to individuals who are not apt to work in a standard form of employment. _________________ 33 Council Directive 91/533/EC of 14 October 1991 on an employer's obligation to inform employees of the conditions applicable to the contract or employment relationship (OJ L 288, 18.10.1991, p. 32).
Amendment 37 #
2017/0355(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) In view of the increasing number of workers excluded from the scope of Directive 91/533/EEC on the basis of derogations made by Member States under Article 1 of that Directive, it is necessary to replace these derogations with a possibility for Member States not to apply the provisions of the Directive to a work relationship equal to or less than 8 hours in total in a reference period of one monthweek. That derogation does not affect the definition of a worker as provided for in Article 2(1).
Amendment 40 #
2017/0355(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Due to the unpredictability of on- demand work including zero-hour contracts, the derogation of 8 hours per monthweek should not be used for employment relationships in which no guaranteed amount of paid work is determined before the start of the employment.
Amendment 43 #
2017/0355(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) Several different natural or legal persons may in practice assume the functions and responsibilities of an employer. Member States should remain free to determine more precisely the person(s) who are considered totally or partially responsible for the execution of the obligations that this Directive lays down for employers, as long as all those obligations are fulfilled. Member States should also be able to decide that in exceptional situations some or all of these obligations are to be assigned to a natural or legal person who is not party to the employment relationship as long as the rules of Members States clearly and in all types of employment relationships identify the responsible person, leaving no doubt for the worker or any person directly or indirectly involved in the employment relationship. Member States should be able to establish specific rules to exclude individuals acting as employers for domestic workers in the household from the obligations to consider and respond to a request for a different type of employment, to provide cost-free mandatory training, and from coverage of the redress mechanism based on favourable presumptions in the case of missing information in the written statement.
Amendment 51 #
2017/0355(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) Probationary periods allow employers to verify that workers are suitable for the position for which they have been engaged while providing them with accompanying support and training. Such periods may be accompanied by reduced protection against dismissal. Any entry into the labour market or transition to a new position should not be subject to prolonged insecurity. As established in the European Pillar of Social Rights, probationary periods should therefore be of reasonable duration. A substantial number of Member States have established a general maximum duration of probation between three and six months, which should be considered reasonable. Probationary periods may be longer than six months where this is justified by the nature of the employment such as for managerial positions and where this is in the interest of the worker, such as in the case of long illness or in the context of specific measures promoting permanent employment notably for young workers. Probationary periods may also be extended in case of certain types of absences from work to the extent that it can be justified by the nature of the absence. Member States will establish a clear and exhaustive list of situations in which the probationary period may be extended.
Amendment 55 #
2017/0355(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 25
Recital 25
(25) Where employers have the possibility to offer full-time or open-ended labour contracts to workers in non-standard forms of employment, a transition to more secure forms of employment should be promoted. Workers should be able to request another more predictable and secure form of employment, where available, and receive a written response from the employer, which takes into account the needs and possibilities of the employer and of the worker.
Amendment 62 #
2017/0355(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
1. The purpose of this Directive is to improve working conditions by promoting more secure and predictable employment while ensuring labour market adaptability and maintaining competitiveness of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.
Amendment 71 #
2017/0355(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 3
Article 1 – paragraph 3
3. Member States may decide not to apply the obligations in this Directive to employers of workers who have an employment relationship equal to or less than 8 hours in total in a reference period of one monthweek. Time worked with all employers forming or belonging to the same enterprise, group or entity shall count towards that 8 hour period.
Amendment 75 #
2017/0355(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 5
Article 1 – paragraph 5
5. Member States may determine which persons are responsible for the execution of the obligations for employers laid down by this Directive as long as all those obligations are fulfilled. They may also decide that all or part of these obligations shall be assigned to a natural or legal person who is not party to the employment relationship, provided that the responsible person can be clearly determined on the basis of national law. This paragraph is without prejudice to Directive 2008/104/EC.
Amendment 78 #
2017/0355(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) ‘worker’ means a natural person who for a certain period of time performs services fperforms work in accor dand under the direction of another person in return for remunece with national law and practionce;
Amendment 102 #
2017/0355(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall, in cooperation with social partners, including representatives of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, develop templates and models for the document referred to in paragraph 1 and put them at the disposal of workers and employers including by making them available on a single official national web site and by other suitable means. Such templates and models may be further adapted by employers to the needs and specific aspects of certain sectors.
Amendment 137 #
2017/0355(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 1
Article 18 – paragraph 1
Member States shall lay down the rules on penalties applicable to infringements of the national provisions adopted pursuant to this Directive or the relevant provisions already in force concerning the rights which are within the scope of this Directive. Member States shall take all measures necessary to ensure that those penalties are applied. Penalties shall be effective, proportionate and dissuasive. They may take the form of a fine. They may also comprise payment of compensation.
Amendment 143 #
2017/0355(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 22 – paragraph 1
Article 22 – paragraph 1
By [entry into force date + 85 years], the Commission shall, in consultation with the Member States and social partners at Union level and taking into account the impact on small and medium-sized enterprises, review the application of this Directive with a view to proposing, where appropriate, the necessary amendments.
Amendment 57 #
2017/0123(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
Amendment 82 #
2017/0123(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The rules on national transport performed on a temporary basis by non- resident hauliers in a host Member State (‘cabotage’) should be clear, simple and easy to enforce, while broadly maicontainuing the level of liberalisation achieved so far.
Amendment 90 #
2017/0123(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) To this end, and in order to facilitate checks and to eliminate uncertainty, the limitation on the number of cabotage operations subsequent to an international carriage should be abolished, while the number of days available for such operations should be reduced.
Amendment 147 #
2017/0123(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4 – point a – point iii
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4 – point a – point iii
Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009
Article 6
Article 6
(xi) the posting of workerssocial and labour law;
Amendment 159 #
2017/0123(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4 – point c
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4 – point c
Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009
Article 6 paragraph 1
Article 6 paragraph 1
(b) define the degree of seriousness of infringements according to their potential to create a risk of fatalities or serious injuries and to distort competition in the road transport market, including by undermining the working conditions of transport workershe threat to the health and safety of the worker posed by the non- compliance with labour law;
Amendment 180 #
2017/0123(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11 – point a – point i
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11 – point a – point i
Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009
Article 16 – paragraph 2
Article 16 – paragraph 2
(h) the number of employees working in the company over the last calendar year;
Amendment 185 #
2017/0123(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11 – point a – point i
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11 – point a – point i
Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009
Article 16 – paragraph 2
Article 16 – paragraph 2
(i) the total assets, liabilities, equity and turnover during the last two years;a copy of the annual financial report or other documents proving financial capacity, of the kind mentioned under Article 7(2).
Amendment 228 #
2017/0123(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point a
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point a
Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2
2. Once the goods carried in the course of an incoming international carriage from another Member State or from a third country to a host Member State have been delivered, hauliers referred to in paragraph 1 shall be allowed to carry out, with the same vehicle or, in the case of a coupled combination, the motor vehicle of that same vehicle, cabotage operations in the host Member State or in contiguous Member States. The last unloading in the course of a cabotage operation shall take place within 57 days from the last unloading in the host Member State in the course of the incoming international carriage’;
Amendment 34 #
2017/0122(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) Drivers engaged in long-distance international transport operations spend long periods away from their home. The current requirements on the regular weekly rest unnecessarily prolong those periods. It is thus desirable to adapt the provision on the regular weekly rest in such a way that it is easier for drivers to carry out transport operations in compliance with the rules and to reach their home for a regular weekly rest, and be fully compensated for all reduced weekly rest periods. It is also necessary to provide that operators organise the work of drivers in such a way that these periods away from homtheir place of residence are not excessively long. Drivers should also be able to choose how they take their rest.
Amendment 39 #
2017/0122(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) There are differences among Member States in the interpretation and implementation of the weekly rest requirements as regards the place where the weekly rest should be taken. It is therefore appropriate to clarify that requirement to ensure that drivers are provided with adequate accommodation for their regular weekly rest periods if they are taken away from home. If this condition is to be fulfilled, the Member States must put sufficient investment into the construction of safe parking areas that are adapted to the needs of drivers.
Amendment 98 #
2017/0122(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 6 – paragraph 3
Article 6 – paragraph 3
(2a) in Article 6, paragraph 3 is replaced by the following: 3. The total accumulated driving time during any twofour consecutive weeks shall not exceed 9180 hours.
Amendment 111 #
2017/0122(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point a
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 8 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) two regular weekly rest periods of at least 45 hours and two reduced weekly rest periods of at least 24 hours., or:
Amendment 116 #
2017/0122(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point a
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1 – point b a (new)
(ba) one regular weekly rest period of at least 45 hours and three reduced rest periods of at least 24 hours.
Amendment 120 #
2017/0122(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point a
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 2
For the purposes of point (b) and (ba), the reduced weekly rest periods shall be compensated by an equivalent period of rest taken en bloc before the end of the thirdfourth week following the week in question.
Amendment 128 #
2017/0122(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point c
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point c
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 8 a – introductory part
Article 8 – paragraph 8 a – introductory part
8a. The regular weekly rest periods and any weekly rest of more than 45 hours taken in compensation for previous reduced weekly rest shall notmay be taken in a vehicle. They shall be taken in a suitable accommodation, with adequate sleeping and sanitary facilities;vehicle if the vehicle is properly equipped for sleeping in, and is parked in a secure and suitably equipped parking area, if possible. Otherwise, these rest periods shall be taken in a suitable accommodation, with adequate sleeping and sanitary facilities; The Commission should encourage Member States to construct safe and suitably adapted parking areas. Two years after the regulation has entered into force, the Commission should draw up a report on the quality and number of parking areas in the Member States. If the Commission finds that the quality and quantity of parking spaces meet the requirements of European international transport, it should submit proposals for relevant legislative changes concerning the possibility to rest in the cabin.
Amendment 135 #
2017/0122(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point c
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point c
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 8 a – point b
Article 8 – paragraph 8 a – point b
(b) at home or at another privateanother location chosen by the driver.
Amendment 141 #
2017/0122(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point c
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point c
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 8 b
Article 8 – paragraph 8 b
8b. A transport undertaking shall organise the work of drivers in such a way that the drivers are able to spend at least one regular weekly rest period or a weekly rest of more than 45 hours taken in compensation for reduced weekly rest at homthe driver’s place of residence within each period of three consecutive weeks. Confirmation that a regular weekly rest period or a weekly rest period of more than 45 hours to compensate for a previous reduced weekly rest period in another location chosen by the driver has been taken shall take the form of a declaration by the driver. The Commission shall draw up a paradigm for this declaration.
Amendment 102 #
2017/0121(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point a
Directive 2006/22/EC
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
These checks shall cover each year a large and representative cross-section of mobile workers, drivers, undertakings and vehicles falling within the scope of Regulations (EC) No 561/2006 and (EU) No 165/2014 and in case of checks at the premises of mobile workers and drivers falling withing the scope of Directive 2002/15/EC.;
Amendment 110 #
2017/0121(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Directive 2006/22/EC
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. Checks at premises shall be planned in the light of past experience in relation to the various types of transport and undertakings. Checks of conformity with Directive 2002/15/EC shall be done solely at premises. They shall also be carried out if serious infringements of Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 or (EU) No 165/2014 or Directive 2002/15/EC have been detected at the roadside.;
Amendment 119 #
2017/0121(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6 – point b
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6 – point b
Directive 2006/22/EC
Article 8 – paragraph 1 a – subparagraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1 a – subparagraph 1
Member State shall submit the information requested by other Member States pursuant to paragraph 1(b) of this Article within 25 working days from the receipt of the request in cases requiring in-depth examination or involving checks at premises of the undertakings concerned. A shorterdifferent time limit may be mutually agreed between the Member States if justified by the nature of the request. In urgent cases or cases requiring simple consultation of registers, such as of a risk rating system, the requested information shall be submitted within three working days.
Amendment 137 #
2017/0121(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point a
Directive 2006/22/EC
Annex I – Part A – point 6
Annex I – Part A – point 6
Amendment 156 #
2017/0121(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Transit operations are fully exempted from the scope of Directive 96/71/EC and this Directive.
Amendment 158 #
2017/0121(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 b (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. International transport operations as defined by regulations 1072/2009 and 1073/2009 are fully exempted from the scope of Directive 96/71/EC and this Directive.
Amendment 179 #
2017/0121(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall not apply points (b) and (c) of the first subparagraph of Article 3 (1) of Directive 96/71/EC to drivers in the road transport sector employed by undertakings referred to in Article 1(3)(a) of that Directive, when performing international carricabotage operations as defined by Regulations 1072/2009 and 1073/2009 where the period of posting to their territory to perform these operations is shorter than or equal to 3 days during a period of one calendar month.
Amendment 218 #
2017/0121(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
3. For the purposes of the calculation of the periods of posting referred to in paragraph 2, a day may not be less than 24 hours respectively spent in the territory of the host Member State. The weekly rest periods shall be excluded from the calculation of the periods of posting. :
Amendment 240 #
2017/0121(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Cabotage operations falling under the scope of this Directive are excluded from rules on long-term posting referred in Article 1 of the legislative act amending Directive 96/71/EC.
Amendment 241 #
2017/0121(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 3 b (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Cabotage operations falling under the scope of this Directive shall be excluded from rules on collective agreements which are not universally applicable as defined in Article [...] of Directive 96/71/EC.
Amendment 246 #
2017/0121(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – introductory part
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – introductory part
4. For the purpose of transport operations covered by this Directive, Article 9 paragraph 1 and 2 of the Enforcement Directive 2014/67/EU is replaced by the following: Member States may only impose the following administrative requirements and control measures:
Amendment 259 #
2017/0121(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point a
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point a
(a) an obligation for the road transport operator established in another Member State to send a postingstandardized, electronic, simple declaration to the national competent authorities at the latest at the commencement of the posting, in electronic form, in an official language of the host Member State or in English, containing only the following information:
Amendment 281 #
2017/0121(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point a – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point a – subparagraph 1 a (new)
For the purposes of this point, the road transport operator may provide a simple declaration covering a period of a maximum of six months. The information referred to in points from (ii) to (vi) shall be updated electronically by the road transport operator in line with current factual situation.
Amendment 288 #
2017/0121(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point b
(b) an obligation for the driver to keep and make available, where requested at the roadside control, in paper or electronic form, a copy of the postinga simple declaration and evidence of transport operation taking place in the host Member State, such as: an electronic consignment note (e-CMR) or evidence referred to in Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
Amendment 304 #
2017/0121(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point d
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point d
Amendment 315 #
2017/0121(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point e
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point e
Amendment 323 #
2017/0121(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point f
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point f
(f) an obligation for the road transport operator to deliver, after the period of posting, in paper or electronic form, copies of documents referred to in points (b), (c) and (ec), at the request of the authorities of the host Member State within a reasonable period of time;
Amendment 329 #
2017/0121(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 –subparagraph 1 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 4 –subparagraph 1 a (new)
During the roadside check, the driver shall be allowed to contact the head office, the transport manager or any other person or entity which may help in carrying out the check. Checks and controls of employment contract or an equivalent document within the meaning of Article 3 of Council Directive 91/533/EEC and/ or payslips shall be carried out solely at the premises.
Amendment 339 #
2017/0121(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 5
Article 2 – paragraph 5
Amendment 343 #
2017/0121(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 5
Article 2 – paragraph 5
5. For the purposes of point (a) of paragraph 4 the road transport operator may provide a posting declaration covering a period of a maximum of six monthsBy ... [two years after the date of entry into force of this Directive], the Commission shall develop the standardised form of the simple declaration containing only the information as specified in paragraph 4(a) (i) to (vi).
Amendment 364 #
2017/0121(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
They shall apply those provisions from […]... [the date when COD 2016/007 -revised Posting of Workers Directive is applicable.
Amendment 74 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) The current Union legal framework provides limited incentives for men to assume an equal share of caring responsibilities. Lack of paid paternity and parental leave in many Member States contributes to the low take-up of such leave by fathers. The imbalance in the design of work-life balance policies between women and men reinforces gender differences between work and care. Conversely, use of work-life balance arrangements by fathers, such as leave or flexible working arrangements, has been shown to have a positive impact in reducing the relative amount of unpaid family work undertaken by women and leaving them more time for paid employment. Furthermore, the availability of quality, accessible, and affordable infrastructure for the care of children and other dependants has proven to be a crucial factor for work-life balance policies that facilitate the rapid return of new mothers to, and an increasing participation of women in the labour market.
Amendment 118 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) In order to encourage a more equal sharing of caring responsibilities between women and men, the right to paternity leave for fathers to be taken within the first year of a child’s life, preferably on the occasion of the birth or adoption of a child should be introduced. In order to take account of differences among Member States, the right to paternity leave should be irrespective of marital or family status as defined in national law. In order to deter potential abuse, the Member States should be able to introduce a requirement of a minimum period of service before a worker is entitled to benefit from that right, with a maximum duration of one year.
Amendment 134 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) In order to provide greater possibility for parents to use parental leave as their children grow up, the right to parental leave should be granted until the child is at least twelveeight years old. Member States should be able to specify taking into account in particular the constraints of micro, small and medium-sized businesses, a reasonable the period of notice to be given by the worker to the employer when applying for parental leave and to decide whether the right to parental leave may be subject to a certain period of service. In order to deter potential abuse, the Member States should be able to introduce a requirement of a minimum period of service before the worker is entitled to benefit from that right, with a maximum duration of one year. In view of the growing diversity of contractual arrangements, the sum of successive fixed- term contracts with the same employer should be taken into account for the purpose of calculating the period of service. To balance the needs of workers with those of employers, Member States should also be able to decide whether they define if the employer may be allowed to postpone the granting of parental leave under certain circumstances. In such cases, the employer should provide justification for the postponement. Given that flexibility makes it more likely that second parents, in particular fathers, will take up their entitlement to such leave, workers should be able to request to take parental leave on a full-time or part-time basis or in other flexible forms. It should be up to the employer whether or not to accept such a request for parental leave in other flexible forms than full-time. Member States should also assess if the conditions and detailed arrangements of parental leave should be adapted to the specific needs of parents in particularly disadvantaged situations, in particular with regard to children with disabilities, serious medical conditions or illness, in accordance with their national law and practice.
Amendment 172 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) In order to provide greater opportunities to remain in the work force for men and women carrying of elderly family member and/or other relatives in need of care, workers with a seriously ill relative in need of care or support dependant relativeue to a serious medical reason should have the right to take time off from work in the form of carers' leave to take care of that relative. To prevent abuse of that right, medical proof of the serious illness or dependency maymedical reason should be required prior to granting of the leave.
Amendment 208 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) In order to encourage working parents and carers to remain in the work force, those workers should be able to adapt their working schedules to their personal needs and preferences. Working parents and carers should therefore be able to request flexible working arrangements, meaning the possibility for workers to adjust their working patterns, including through the use of remote working arrangements, flexible working schedules, or a reduction in working hours, for caring purposes. In order to deter potential abuse, the Member States should be able to introduce a requirement of a minimum period of service before a worker is entitled to benefit from that right, with a maximum duration of one year. In order to address the needs of workers and employers, it should be possible for Member States to limit the duration of flexible working arrangements, including a reduction in working hours. While working part-time has been shown to be useful in allowing some women to remain in the labour market after having children, long periods of reduced working hours may lead to lower social security contributions translating into reduced or non-existing pension entitlements. The ultimate decision as to whether or not to accept a worker’s request for flexible working arrangements should lie with the employer, Specific circumstances underlying the need for flexible working arrangements can change. Workers should therefore not only have the right to return to their original working patterns at the end of a given agreed period, but should also be able to request to do so at any time where a change in the underlying circumstances so requires.
Amendment 220 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 23
Recital 23
(23) Workers exercising their rights to leave or to request flexible working arrangements should be protected against discrimination or any less favourable treatment on that ground. At the same time, in order to ensure balance between the interests of employers and workers, Member States should ensure that employers are protected against any abuse of such rights and detrimental effects for the functioning of companies, taking into account in particular the constraints of micro, small and medium-sized businesses.
Amendment 257 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 30
Recital 30
(30) This DirectiveIn implementing this Directive, Member States should avoid imposing administrative, financial and legal constraints in a way which would hold back the creation and development of micro, small and medium-sized undertakings. Member States are therefore invited to assess the impact of their transposition act on SMEs in order to make sure that SMEs are not disproportionately affected, with specific attention for micro- enterprises and for administrative burden, particularly concerning the impact of arrangements for parental leave and patterns of flexible work on the work organisation, and to publish the results of such assessments.
Amendment 279 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1
Article 2 – paragraph 1
This Directive applies to all workers, men and women, who have an employment contract or employment relationship as defined by law, collective agreement and/or practices in force in each Member State.
Amendment 284 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) "paternity leave" means paid leave from work for fathers to be taken on the on the grounds of the birth or adoption of a child, to be taken within the first year, of the child’s life, preferably on the occasion of the birth or adoption of a child;
Amendment 322 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Member States may specify that two months of parental leave should be taken during the first four years of the child’s life.
Amendment 323 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) "carer" means a worker providing personal care or support in case of a serious illness or dependency of a relativeto a relative in need of care or support due to a serious medical reason;
Amendment 328 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
(ca) "carers' leave" means leave from work for carers in order to provide personal care or support to a relative in need of care or support due to a serious medical reason;
Amendment 345 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point e
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point e
Amendment 375 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that fathers have the right to take paternity leave of at least ten working days within the first year of a child’s life, preferably on the occasion of the birth or adoption of a child.
Amendment 383 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Member States may make the right to paternity leave subject to a period of work qualification or a length of service qualification not exceeding one year. In the case of successive fixed-term contracts, within the meaning of Council Directive 1999/70/EC1a, with the same employer, the sum of those contracts shall be taken into account for the purpose of calculating the qualifying period. __________________ 1a Council Directive of 28 June 1999 concerning the framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP (OJ L 175, 10.7.1999, p. 43)
Amendment 406 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1
Article 5 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that workers have an individual right to parental leave of at least four months to be taken before the child reaches a given age which shall be at least twelveeight.
Amendment 414 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Member States may specify that two months of parental leave should be taken during the first four years of the child's life.
Amendment 425 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 3
Article 5 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall establish framework guidelines for the period of notice to be given by the workers to employers when exercising the right to parental leave, specifying the intended beginning and end of the period of leave. In doing so, Member States shall take into account the needs of both employers, especially micro, small and medium-sized undertakings, and workers. Member States shall ensure that the worker's request specifies the intended beginning and end of the period of leavealso take into account force majeure as well as the possibility for a mutual agreement on changes to the period of notice between the worker and the employer.
Amendment 481 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that workers have the right to carers' leave of at least five working days per year, per worker. Such right mayshall be subject to appropriate medical substantiation of the medical condition of the worker's relative.
Amendment 541 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that workers with children up to a given age, which shall be at least twelveeight, and carers, have the right to request flexible working arrangements for caring purposes. The duration of such flexible working arrangements may be subject to a reasonable limitation.
Amendment 546 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Member States shall establish framework guidelines for the period of notice to be given by the workers to employers when exercising the right to flexible working arrangements, specifying the intended beginning and end of the period of exercising this right. In doing so, Member States shall take into account the needs of both employers, especially micro, small and medium-sized undertakings, and workers. Member States shall also take into account force majeure as well as the possibility for a mutual agreement on changes to the period of notice between the worker and the employer.
Amendment 556 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 2
Article 9 – paragraph 2
2. Employers shall consider and respond to requests for flexible working arrangements referred to in paragraph 1, taking into account the needs of both employers and workers, in particular in micro, small and medium-sized businesses. Employers shall justify any refusal of such a request.
Amendment 567 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Member States may make the right to flexible working arrangements subject to a period of work qualification or a length of service qualification which shall not exceed one year. In the case of successive fixed-term contracts, within the meaning of Council Directive 1999/70/EC1a, with the same employer, the sum of those contracts shall be taken into account for the purpose of calculating the qualifying period. __________________ 1a Council Directive of 28 June 1999 concerning the framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP (OJ L 175, 10.7.1999, p. 43).
Amendment 587 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 10 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Collective agreements Member States may allow social partners to conclude collective agreements, in accordance with national law or practice, which, while respecting the overall protection of workers and the minimum standards laid down in this Directive, establish arrangements concerning the working conditions of workers.
Amendment 628 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 1
Article 13 – paragraph 1
Member States shall lay down rules on penalties applicable to breaches of national provisions adopted pursuant to this Directive or the relevant provisions already in force concerning the rights which are within the scope of this Directive. Member States shall take all measures necessary to ensure that those penalties are applied. Penalties shall be effective, proportionate and dissuasive. They may take the form of a fine. They may also comprise payment of compensation.
Amendment 631 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 1
Article 14 – paragraph 1
Member States shall introduce measures necessary to protect workers, including workers who are employees' representatives, from any adverse treatment by the employer or adverse consequences resulting from a complaint lodged within the undertaking or any legal proceedings initiated with the aim of enforcing compliance with the rights provided for in this Directive.
Amendment 642 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 16 – paragraph 1 a (new)
The implementation of this Directive shall not be sufficient grounds for any regression in relation to the situation which already prevails in each Member State and in relation to the general level of protection of workers in the areas to which it applies.
Amendment 647 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 17 – paragraph 1
Article 17 – paragraph 1
Member States shall ensure that the provisions adopted pursuant to this Directive, together with the relevant provisions already in force relating to the subject matter as set out in Article 1 of this Directive, are brought by all appropriate means to the attention of the persons concerned throughout their territory.workers and undertakings, especially micro, small and medium-sized undertakings, concerned throughout their territory, including through the Single Digital Gateway
Amendment 668 #
2017/0085(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 2
Article 18 – paragraph 2
2. On the basis of the information provided by Member States pursuant to paragraph 1, the Commission shall submit to the European Parliament and the Council a report in which it reviews the application of this Directive, including data, disaggregated by sex, on the take-up of different types of leave contained in this Directive and its impact on micro, small and medium-sized undertakings, accompanied, if appropriate, by a legislative proposal.
Amendment 25 #
2016/2269(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas women's participation in the labour market should be increased through the implementation of the existing legislation on equality between women and men and the modernisation of the current policy framework with a view to improving work-life balance;
Amendment 30 #
2016/2269(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
C b. whereas the austerity policies requested by the Commission and implemented by the Member States, in addition to the economic crisis of the past few years, have increased inequalities and have affected women in particular, exacerbating poverty among women and increasingly excluding them from the labour market;
Amendment 32 #
2016/2269(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
C c. whereas there is a positive correlation between enhanced equality between women and men and stronger economic growth, inclusiveness, job creation and business prosperity;
Amendment 33 #
2016/2269(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C d (new)
Recital C d (new)
C d. whereas gender equality represents a tool for combating poverty among women, as it has a positive impact on productivity and economic growth and leads to increased female participation in the labour market, which in turn has numerous social and economic benefits;
Amendment 34 #
2016/2269(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C e (new)
Recital C e (new)
C e. whereas equality between women and men is a key economic asset when it comes to promoting fair and inclusive economic growth, and whereas reducing occupational inequality is a means not only to achieve equal treatment but also to ensure labour market efficiency and competitiveness;
Amendment 52 #
2016/2269(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
F a. whereas European strategies for the eradication of poverty are necessary for achieving sustainable development for all;
Amendment 77 #
2016/2269(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
I a. whereas women are disproportionately affected by the crisis, and whereas green jobs have proven to be more crisis-resistant than others;
Amendment 96 #
2016/2269(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Deplores the austerity policies which, together with the economic crisis, are helping to increase the rate of poverty, particularly among women;
Amendment 98 #
2016/2269(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Asks the Commission to evaluate to what extent growing inequalities can have an effect on the abovementioned points, and to develop a strategy to counter those threats;
Amendment 108 #
2016/2269(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Calls for the introduction of a European strategy establishing national targets to reduce inequalities;
Amendment 151 #
2016/2269(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Notes that the Commission has responded to its call for a better work-life balance for women and men living and working in the EU, through non- legislative proposals and a legislative proposal setting out several types of leave to meet the challenges of the 21st century;stresses that the proposals put forward by the Commission are a good basis on which to boost work-life balance and flexible working arrangements for both women and men as a means to reduce inequalities in paid and unpaid work;
Amendment 173 #
2016/2269(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Points out that while women represent the majority of university graduates in the EU (60 %), their employment rate and career advancement do not reflect their full potential;stresses that the achievement of inclusive and long-term economic growth depends on closing the gap between women's educational attainment and their position in the labour market, primarily by overcoming horizontal and vertical segregation in employment;
Amendment 177 #
2016/2269(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10 b. Calls on the Commission to produce statistics on growing unemployment in the EU that express inequalities by age and by gender, but also indicate those between individuals living in rural and in urban areas;
Amendment 178 #
2016/2269(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10 c. Stresses that preventing and eliminating the gender pension gap and reducing women's poverty in old age depends first and foremost on creating the conditions for women to make equal pension contributions through further inclusion in the labour market and safeguarding equal opportunities in terms of pay, career advancement and opportunities for working full-time;
Amendment 179 #
2016/2269(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 d (new)
Paragraph 10 d (new)
10 d. Emphasises the fact that female entrepreneurship is an important pillar of the EU economy, which is key to combating inequalities and fostering women's financial independence, and should therefore be promoted and supported, in particular through education and vocational training, the promotion of female ownership, entrepreneurs' networks, access to investment and credit, and the promotion of women's representation in managerial bodies;
Amendment 180 #
2016/2269(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 e (new)
Paragraph 10 e (new)
10 e. Stresses the importance of further encouraging and supporting female digital entrepreneurship, as women constitute only 19 % of entrepreneurs in this sector;points out that digitalisation in the labour market offers new opportunities for entrepreneurship for women, including small-scale digital entrepreneurship, which in many cases does not require significant initial capital, and undertakings pursued within the framework of the social economy that enhance social inclusion;recommends, in this connection, that the Member States boost women and girls' e-skills, e-literacy and digital inclusion, both in the ICT sector and beyond, since an increasing number of jobs require digital skills, given that digital inclusion may be a means to combat existing wage inequalities between women and men, as salaries in jobs involving e-skills tend to be higher in general;
Amendment 181 #
2016/2269(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 f (new)
Paragraph 10 f (new)
10 f. Encourages Member States to consider the introduction of age- appropriate ICT education at an early stage, with a particular focus on encouraging girls to develop an interest and skills in the digital field and protecting them from restrictive and negative stereotypes;
Amendment 191 #
2016/2269(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Calls on the Commission to dedicate special attention to young people under 30 as they are often overlooked, especially if living in regions with high unemployment rates;notes that this neglect is felt by young women living in these areas in particular;
Amendment 194 #
2016/2269(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11 b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to emphasise the need to promote green jobs and boost employment in rural and declining areas and make them more attractive to women;
Amendment 360 #
2016/2269(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29 a. Points out that the face of poverty in Europe is female and that it is single mothers and young and old women in particular who are affected by poverty;points out that the reduction of poverty levels by 20 million people by 2020 can be achieved through anti- poverty policies that are grounded in gender mainstreaming focused primarily on increasing and supporting women's participation in the labour market;
Amendment 368 #
2016/2269(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30 a. Encourages the Member States to guarantee a decent pension provision, including a national minimum pension, to ensure that no-one – and especially not women who are already suffering on account of low pensions resulting from the pay gap during employment years – is then additionally exposed to a worse economic situation during retirement;
Amendment 372 #
2016/2269(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 b (new)
Paragraph 30 b (new)
30 b. Points out that new technologies should be regarded as a fundamental tool for creating new jobs and an opportunity to bring women out of poverty;
Amendment 373 #
2016/2269(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 c (new)
Paragraph 30 c (new)
30 c. Notes that poverty continues to be measured on accumulated household income, which assumes that all members of the household earn the same and distribute resources equally;calls for individualised rights and calculations based on individual incomes in order to reveal the true extent of women's poverty;
Amendment 387 #
2016/2269(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32 a. Recalls the important role of public services in achieving gender equality;notes that expenditure in these fields is to be seen as investment that will bring economic returns and should be given special consideration within the framework of the EU's economic governance and budgetary surveillance rules;
Amendment 389 #
2016/2269(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 b (new)
Paragraph 32 b (new)
32 b. Reiterates its call for the Council to ensure the swift adoption of the directive on gender balance among non- executive directors of listed companies, as an important first step towards equal representation in both public and private sectors;
Amendment 25 #
2016/2242(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Whereas regions around Europe are substantially different; in some cases territories with high unemployment will not be part of the eligible regions when it comes to the allocation of EU funds at NUTS level;
Amendment 38 #
2016/2242(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Is concerned however that YG schemes have not yet reached all young people, who left schools or became unemployed; underlines that all young people not in employment, education or training should be able to profit from the Youth Guarantee schemes, encourages therefore the regions which do not qualify for an EU co-financing to participate in Youth Guarantee;
Amendment 44 #
2016/2242(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Recalls that Youth Guarantee benefits from the EU financial support from the ESF and the YEI which are added to national contribution. Furthermore, supports programming work under the Union's Common Strategic Framework through peer learning, networking activities and technical assistance;
Amendment 46 #
2016/2242(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Emphasises that Youth Guarantee has become a driver for policy reforms and better coordination in the fields of employment and education;
Amendment 48 #
2016/2242(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Calls for an efficient control and monitoring of spending of allocated funds at European and national levels to prevent abuses and wasting of resources;
Amendment 49 #
2016/2242(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Calls for an effective multi-lateral surveillance of compliance with the Council's recommendation establishing a Youth Guarantee within the European Semester and to address specific country recommendations where needed;
Amendment 50 #
2016/2242(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1f. Notes that sufficient economic growth is a pre-requisite for the effective integration of NEETs into the labour market;
Amendment 71 #
2016/2242(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the full potential of exchanging best practices among Member States in implementation of YG-schemes as well as elimination of administrative burden has not yet been realised; notes in this respect the importance of mutual learning aimed at the activation of the most vulnerable groups;
Amendment 79 #
2016/2242(INI)
4. Notes that a more diversified approach in the provision of services to different groups within the youth population is needed in order to avoid ‘cherry-picking’; calls for a stronger outreach to young people facing multiple barriers (e.g. young people with disabilities) by broadening the range of interventions proposed within YG offers;
Amendment 90 #
2016/2242(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Highlights the need to provide tailored solutions to a diverse group of young people and making the non- registered NEETs a key target group;
Amendment 91 #
2016/2242(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Stresses that persistent mismatches between the participant's profiles and the YG's offers results in people's return to NEET status, is of the opinion that good quality offers should be tailored to the profile and qualification level of individuals and therefore boosting their competences to better meet labour-market demands;
Amendment 93 #
2016/2242(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Takes note that the NEET's group is highly heterogeneous, calls on Members States to conduct a comprehensive analysis of NEET population including a skills mismatch analysis in order to facilitate a smooth transition from education to employment and therefore increase employability of the NEETs;
Amendment 94 #
2016/2242(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Highlights the importance of strengthening cooperation between relevant stakeholders such as public and private employment services, education and training institutions, employers, youth organisations and non- governmental organisations working with youth in order to reach the entire NEET population, especially inactive NEETs, who are not covered by the existing systems to enable their effective integration into the labour market; calls on Member States to actively identify and register all NEETs;
Amendment 95 #
2016/2242(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 e (new)
Paragraph 4 e (new)
4e. Calls for enhanced cooperation between education institutions and entrepreneurs to develop curricula tailored to the labour market needs which facilitates a smooth transition from education to employment and tackles skills mismatch;
Amendment 96 #
2016/2242(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 f (new)
Paragraph 4 f (new)
4f. Emphasises that promoting mobility in employment, education, apprenticeships and traineeships can improve the skills-set of young people, as well as tackle the geographical skills mismatch that exists in the EU, therefore encourages Member States to include offers from all European countries in a national Youth Guarantee Scheme through making greater use of EURES (European Employment Services), which is a valuable tool to boost mobility;
Amendment 97 #
2016/2242(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 g (new)
Paragraph 4 g (new)
4g. Stresses that increasing the mobility of workers, for example through deepening international cooperation and by facilitating cross-border recognition of qualifications is effective way of tackling skills mismatch;
Amendment 113 #
2016/2242(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Cautions against the repeated take-up of the YG which goes against the spirit of labour market activation and the aim of transition into permanent employment.lls on Member States to ensure that young people receive good quality offers, tailored to the profile and qualification level of the individuals, in order to prevent them from the repeated take-up of the YG;
Amendment 2 #
2016/2219(INI)
Draft opinion
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
- having regard to the joint staff working document of the European Commission on ‘gender equality and women’s empowerment: transforming lives of girls and women through the EU external relations 2016-2020’,
Amendment 4 #
2016/2219(INI)
Draft opinion
Citation 2
Citation 2
— having regard to UN Security Council Resolutions 1325, 2242, 1820, 1888, 1889 and 1960 on women, peace and security,
Amendment 14 #
2016/2219(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas violence against women and girls is one of the world’s most widespread human rights violations, affecting all levels of society, regardless of age, education, income, social position or country of origin or residence, and representing a major barrier to gender equality between men and women;
Amendment 18 #
2016/2219(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas women and girls in many parts of the world continue to be victims of gender-based violence, including rape, trafficking in human beings, forced marriage, honour crimes, female genital mutilation and other violations of their fundamental rights and freedoms, their right to justice, security, dignity and psychological and physical integrity;
Amendment 23 #
2016/2219(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas sexual and reproductive health and rights are grounded in basic human rights andcare services are essential elements of human dignity and to women’s empowerment; whereas, furthermore, these have not yet been secured in all parts of the world;
Amendment 28 #
2016/2219(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas women and girls belonging to cultural, traditional, linguistic, religious, gender or sexual orientation minority groups experience multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination based on both their minority status and their gender; whereas there are no cultural, religious nor traditional justifications to violations of women’s rights;
Amendment 41 #
2016/2219(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Strongly condemns the continued use of rape and other forms of sexual and gender-based violence against women and girls as a weapon of war; calls on all countries, and in particular EU Member States, which have not yet done so to develop NAPs implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1325; underlines that impunity, including among official armed forces, remains one of the obstacle to exit the vicious circle of sexual violence in some countries ; underlines that the CSDP missions, training, technical and assistance missions of the EU in third countries must contribute to combatting sexual and gender-based violence;
Amendment 44 #
2016/2219(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Underlines that women’s participation in conflict resolution talks is crucial to promote women’s rights and participation, that it is a first step to their full inclusion in the future transitional processes; asks the HR/VP to insist on women’s representation in every conflict- resolution and peace-building frameworks where the EU is represented, especially when it is in the position of mediator;
Amendment 58 #
2016/2219(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Underlines that the massive movement of migrants and asylum seekers disproportionately expose women and girls to gender-based violence and gender- based discrimination in transit and destination countries; notes that some women and girls refugees and migrants are victims of sexual violence by migrant smugglers and also become victims of trafficking in human beings; calls on EU agencies and Member States law enforcement authorities to train adequately their staff to take into account the specific needs and vulnerabilities of women and girls refugees;
Amendment 65 #
2016/2219(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Stresses that gender stereotypes are among the main reasons for violations of women’s rights and inequalities between men and women; calls on the EEAS and the European Commission to emphasise the involvement of men and boys in information and awareness- raising campaigns on women’s rights, both as targets and agent of change; notes that particular attention must be paid to constitutional, legislative or regulatory provisions which discriminate women on the basis of their sex; reiterates that child marriage, early and forced marriage and the failure to enforce a legal minimum age of marriage constitute a violation of children-s rights and an obstacle to women’s empowerment;
Amendment 72 #
2016/2219(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the importance of enhancing women’s and girls’ access to all levels of education and removing genderany barriers to learning, as educating women and girls has proved to significantly improve their future prospects;
Amendment 88 #
2016/2219(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Reaffirms that female genital mutilation is a serious violation of human rights that should be given special attention in the EU’s dialogue with third countries where the prevalence of this practice is significant; recalls that FGM has serious and lasting health consequences of women and thus on development;
Amendment 103 #
2016/2219(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Strongly regrets women’s under- representation in political decision-making, which undermines human rights and democracy; considers that governments should aim for gender equality in democracy-building and maintenance processes; underlines that the Electoral Observation Missions’ report constitute precise guidelines for the political dialogue of the EU with third countries in order to improve women’s participation to the electoral process and to the democratic life of the country;
Amendment 1044 #
2016/2095(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
Amendment 44 #
2016/2061(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Stresses that increasing the employment level of women is a key condition for eliminating the gender pension gap (40,2%) which results from accumulative disadvantages experienced by women in the labour market throughout their lives, such as disrupted and shorter careers due to insufficient means for reconciliation of family and professional life as well as the pay gap;
Amendment 50 #
2016/2061(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Acknowledges that the implementation of the principle of equal pay for the same work andRecalls that in accordance with article 157 TFEU "Member States shall ensure that the principle of equal pay for male and female workers for equal work or for work of equal value is applied" and that this is crucial to reducinge pay and pension gaps and to eliminatinge the risk of poverty among women;
Amendment 82 #
2016/2061(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights the fact that all people have the right to a decent public pension, and rRecalls that the Union recognises the entitlement to social security benefits and social services which provide protection in the event of old age or dependency;
Amendment 114 #
2016/2061(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Believes that this strategy should seek to address not only the impact of the pension gap, in particular on the most vulnerable groups, but also its underlying causes; notes that preventing the gender pension gap in the future depends on ensuring that women and men enjoy equal position in the labour market in terms of the pay, career advancement and opportunities to work full time;
Amendment 135 #
2016/2061(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Asks the Member States to increase minimum wages as an important tool forconcentrate their efforts on eliminating the pay gap between men and women, promoting equal opportunities, increasing women's participation in the labour market and improving reconciliation of work, family and private life in order to narrowing the pension gaps;
Amendment 135 #
2016/2061(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to work together with the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) to develop a formal and reliable indicators on the basis of which to identify the various factors behind the pension gap, as well as to monitor that gap and flag up changes of the gender pension gap both at the EU-level as well as in cooperation with the Member States at the national level and to conduct systematic monitoring of this indicator, as well as to identify the various factors behind the pension gap;
Amendment 138 #
2016/2061(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Considers that the gender pension gap should be regarded as a key indicator of gender inequality in the labour market as it reflects accumulated disadvantages experienced by women throughout their working lives, including horizontal and vertical segregation, discontinuous career paths as well as the gender pay gap; notes that, moreover, the current level of the gender pension gap is very close to the total wage gap (40,2%) which further reaffirms that the gap in pensions accurately demonstrates the magnitude of inequality between women and men in the labour market;
Amendment 152 #
2016/2061(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that EU legislation against gender discrimination is properly implemented and its progress systematically monitored, with a view to making sure that men and women have an equal ability to make pension contributions;
Amendment 159 #
2016/2061(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States to introduce or reinforce pension credits for other social protection measures which mitigate the negative impacts of career interruptions resulting from caringformal care leaves, whatever the family and/or marital status;
Amendment 163 #
2016/2061(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Supports efforts to tackle horizontal and vertical segregation on the labour market by eliminating gender inequalities and discrimination in employment and encouraging women to take up jobs and careers in innovative growth sectors which are currently dominated mainly by men as a result of the persistence of stereotypes;
Amendment 179 #
2016/2061(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that the sustainability of pension schemes can be reinforced by complementing social security with tax contributions;
Amendment 194 #
2016/2061(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to make it easier for employees to negotiate voluntary flexible working arrangements giving themwomen and men a better balance between their working and private lives, so that they do not have to favour one over the other when they are obliged to take on greater responsibility for looking after homes and families;
Amendment 203 #
2016/2061(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission to carry out a thorough assessment of the impacts on the most vulnerable of the restablish a formal indicator of the gender pension gap and conduct systematic monitoring as well as issue Country Specific Recommendations addressed to the Member States onaimed at combating the causes of the gender pensions gap;
Amendment 203 #
2016/2061(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls onsiders it a good practice among the Member States, on the basis of a pooling of best practice, to introduce ‘care credits’ to offset breaks from employment taken in order to provide informal care to family members and to to include the periods of formal care leaves, such as maternity, paternity and parental leave, as well as to make countributions for thoese creditformal leaves towards pension entitlements;
Amendment 207 #
2016/2061(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Considers that as a principle effective policy aimed at eliminating and preventing the gender pension gap should focus on increasing women's employment and opportunities for women to make equal pension contributions as opposed to enhancing compensation mechanisms within the pension systems;
Amendment 219 #
2016/2061(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Urges the Member States to reverse any reforms ofeliminate any elements of their pension systems that aggravate imbalances in pensions (especially gender imbalances) and to take into account the gender impact of any future pension reforms.
Amendment 226 #
2016/2061(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Welcomes the equalising effect on pensions of the Test-Achats ruling which prohibited sex-based actuarial factors in insurance contracts and made unisex premiums and benefits mandatory in private insurance schemes, including pensions; notes that while this ruling applies only to the private schemes, the unisex rule in pensions constitutes a good practice in terms of reducing the gender pension gap;
Amendment 227 #
2016/2061(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on Member States to invest in affordable and accessible quality care for children and other dependents as a way to support women who often have a more disrupted career than men and more often take up care responsibilities in the family.
Amendment 228 #
2016/2061(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Welcomes the decision of some Member States to apply the unisex rule also to their occupational pension schemes in order to ensure equality between women and men in all areas of pension calculation; encourages other Member States to consider following suit, if appropriate;
Amendment 231 #
2016/2061(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Calls on the European Commission and on the Member states to run information campaigns and constantly improve pension literacy among women and men.
Amendment 19 #
2016/2060(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Acknowledges the essential role of civil society organisations and international NGOs to boost positive reforms and measures to protect women's rights and improve their participation to political and economic activities;
Amendment 27 #
2016/2060(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the EaP States to promote and strengthen political participation and leadership by women; underlines that increased participation of women in administrations leading key reforms, such as anti-corruption and economic reforms, would be beneficial; welcomes all efforts aimed at reaching this goal, such as obligatory or voluntary quotas for the lists of candidates, grants, training and support provided to female politicians and activists, and mentoring programmes and awareness- raising campaigns changing the image of women in the media; remarks that in general, an increase of women's participation to the political life and to high administration of EaP countries would contribute to the renewal of the political class and thus to the ongoing political transitions;
Amendment 28 #
2016/2060(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Underlines the positive role that the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly can play to promote women's political participation and their visibility in the Eastern Partnership; welcomes the first meeting of the Euronest Women's Forum which took place in March 2016; also encourages, more generally, the creation and the support by the EU of transnational networks of women's in politics;
Amendment 30 #
2016/2060(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Encourages exchanges of best practices on the promotion of women's political participation in decentralised institutions and local authorities; also highlights that sustainable results in increasing women’s political participation are best achieved when led by political parties; therefore underlines the key role of European political parties and their women’s sections;
Amendment 32 #
2016/2060(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Recalls that EU Electoral Observation Missions and of other international electoral observation missions provide, in their reports, recommendations regarding women’s participation to the electoral process; calls on the EU to make full use of these recommendations in the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy;
Amendment 75 #
2016/2060(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Encourages further efforts towards peaceful resolution of conflicts and calls for greater involvement of women in such processes, in line with UN Security Council Resolutions 1325 and 2242 on Women, Peace and Security;
Amendment 77 #
2016/2060(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Welcomes the project of the Council of Europe on Improving Women's Access to Justice in Five Eastern Partnership Countries, which aims at identifying and supporting the removal of obstacles for women's equal access to justice, and strengthening the capacity of Eastern Partnership countries to design measures to ensure that the justice chain is gender-responsive, including through the training of legal professionals;
Amendment 2 #
2016/2017(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2
Citation 2
— having regard to Articles 8, 10, 153(1)(i), 153(2) and 157 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Amendment 9 #
2016/2017(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5
Citation 5
Amendment 10 #
2016/2017(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6
Citation 6
Amendment 36 #
2016/2017(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas achieving a genuine work- life balance requires comprehensive and coherent policies including incentives and efficient measures for reconciling work, caring for and spending time with family, and time for leisure and personal development;
Amendment 54 #
2016/2017(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas reconciliation policies are to be considered as an improvement of the working environment, enabling good working conditions and the wellbeing of workers, as well as increasing overall labour market participation, and in particular female labour market participation;
Amendment 60 #
2016/2017(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas there is a need to address the low participation of women in the labour market by modernising the current policy framework in view of better balancing caring and professional life;
Amendment 72 #
2016/2017(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas women entering and re- entering working life are playing a leading role in the return to growth and they make it possible for family income to increase, which leads to an increase in consumption, social security contributions and the volume of taxes collected, as well as revitalising the economy;
Amendment 81 #
2016/2017(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas gender equality is a key economic asset to promote fair and inclusive economic growth, and reducing occupational inequality is not just a goal in terms of equal treatment, but also in terms of labour market efficiency and fluidity;
Amendment 90 #
2016/2017(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas family-related types of leave are still often grounds for discrimination and stigmatisation despite existing legislationpolicy framework and legislation, which particularly affects women as main carers using family-related leaves;
Amendment 104 #
2016/2017(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas family-friendly policies are essential in order to better address the demographic challenges faced across the European Union and trigger positive demographic trends;
Amendment 108 #
2016/2017(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas access to childcare services for youngaffordable, adequate and quality childcaren is one of the main factors influencing the participation of women in the labour market; whereas only 11 Member States have met the first Barcelona target (childcare available for at least 90 % of children between the ages of 3 and the mandatory school age) and only 10 Member States have achieved the second target (at least 33 % of children under three years)19 ; __________________ 19 Progress report on the Barcelona objectives of 29 May 2013 entitled ‘The development of childcare facilities for young children in Europe with a view to sustainable and inclusive growth’ (COM(2013)0322).
Amendment 143 #
2016/2017(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Highlights the importance of focusing on the lack of implementation of existing legislation in the Member States before considering the need to submit new legislative proposals in the field of gender equality, work-life balance and different types of leave, in accordance with the Commission's commitment for better regulation;
Amendment 151 #
2016/2017(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that the EU is facing unprecedented demographic challenges – an ageing population, low birth rates, changing family structures and migration; is concerned that austerity measures have had a negative impact on the sustainability of public finances needed forpositive measures and incentives should be aimed at addressing the need for sustainable family-friendly and work-life balance policies, and services thats well as fostering demographic renewal, well-being and sustainable development of EU citizens and society as a whole;
Amendment 181 #
2016/2017(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to put in placromote policies that acknowledge the increasing diversity of family relationships and parenting arrangements, in particular to guarantee that a child is not discriminated against becawhich protect children against discrimination due to the marital or family statuse of itstheir parents’ marital status or family const, with a special consideration to the situation of single mothers;
Amendment 214 #
2016/2017(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Emphasises that better work-life reconciliation and strengthened gender equality is essential for supporting the participation of women in the labour market, in particular women-carers and single mothers, and achieving the goals of women empowerment;
Amendment 277 #
2016/2017(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Strongly regrets that the Commission withdrew the revision of the Maternity Leave Directive and calls as a matter of urgency for it to return with an ambitious proposal; cCalls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that women are paid for the duration of maternity leave; stresses that maternity leave must be accompanied by effective measures protecting the rights of pregnant women, single mothers and new mothers, reflecting the recommendations of the World Health Organisation21 ; __________________ 21 http://www.who.int/topics/breastfeeding/en /
Amendment 292 #
2016/2017(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 296 #
2016/2017(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to publish an implementation report on the Parental Leave Directive and urges it to use the review clause to extend the minimum duration of paid leave from four to at least six months;
Amendment 329 #
2016/2017(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 – point 2
Paragraph 15 – point 2
Amendment 405 #
2016/2017(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls for the adoption of the necessary measures to promote higher employment rates among women, such as flexibility in working hours and places of work, which will make it possible to reconcile their family/private and work lives;
Amendment 415 #
2016/2017(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Points out that excessive working hours and insufficient rest periods, as well as the disproportionate output required, are major factors in increased levels of occupational accidents and diseases; calls on the Commission to initiate infringement proceedings against Member States who are failing to implement the Working Time Directive;
Amendment 441 #
2016/2017(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Points to the need for specific proposals making for better balance in terms of working, family, and personal life by encouraging men and women to share occupational, family, and social responsibilities more evenly, especially where assistance to dependants and childcare are concerned;
Amendment 461 #
2016/2017(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the Member States to put in place adequate income schemesromote measures aimed to enable people to live a life in dignity, to support full participation in society and to ensure independence throughout the life cycle;
Amendment 12 #
2016/2012(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 a (new)
Citation 13 a (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 19 of January 2016 on external factors that represent hurdles to European female entrepreneurship1a, 1a. P8-TA(2016)0007
Amendment 13 #
2016/2012(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas the Article 8 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union states that: “In all its activities, the Union shall aim to eliminate inequalities, and to promote equality, between men and women”;
Amendment 22 #
2016/2012(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the greater difficulty for female entrepreneurs in accessing financing could in part be related to a difficulty in building up sufficient credit history and managerial experience;
Amendment 26 #
2016/2012(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the Member States have the legislative competence to safeguarded equal treatment of women and men in the areas of goods and services which fall outside of the remit of the Directive;
Amendment 27 #
2016/2012(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the Directive is applicable to all goods and services provided against remuneration, within the meaning of Article 57 TFEU and according to the relevant case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU); whereas remuneration must not necessarily be provided by those for whom the service is performed and it can be provided in a form of an indirect payment which does not necessarily involve the service recipient;
Amendment 31 #
2016/2012(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas in the Test-Achats ruling, the CJEU concluded that Article 5(2) of the Directive works against the achievement of the objective of equal treatment between men and women; whereas that provision was considered to be invalid with effect from 21 December 2012 and as a result the unisex premiums and benefits are mandatory in all Member States;
Amendment 37 #
2016/2012(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas the lack of public knowledge and awareness of the Directive and its provisions may result in a lower number of gender discrimination claims;
Amendment 43 #
2016/2012(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas the work of the European Network of Equality Bodies is crucial for enhancing implementation of equal treatment legislation as well as coordinating the cooperation and sharing of best practices between national equality bodies accords the EU;
Amendment 44 #
2016/2012(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the application of the Directive is not uniform across the Member States and that despite progress achieved in this area there are still challenges and gaps in the implementation thereof that need to be addressed in some Member States and across certain sectors; calls on the Commission to prioritise addressing any remaining gaps in the implementation in their dialogue with the Member States;
Amendment 52 #
2016/2012(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Takes note that while the Commission report states that no specific difficulties have been signalled in implementing several provisions of the Directive, this statement is based on very few cases of discrimination reported, and that overall there is very limited information and that data collection in this area varies considerably at Member State level; calls on the Members States, the Commission and the relevant stakeholders to raise the awareness about the provisions of the Directive to enhance the perceived importance of equal treatment in the field of goods and services;
Amendment 54 #
2016/2012(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that only some Member States reported the existence of specific provisions on positive action; calls on the Member States to better integrate and promote provisions on positive action which is based on a legitimate aim and strives to prevent or compensate gender- based inequalities, as outlined in the Directive;
Amendment 58 #
Amendment 63 #
2016/2012(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines thatHighlights that while the Directive expressly prohibits the use of pregnancy and maternity as a way to differentiate in the calculation of premiums and benefits for the purposes of insurance and related financial services, a greater effort needs to be made to protect the rights of pregnant women in this field and safeguard them against unqualified pregnancy-related costs, as well as to raisinge awareness among service providers as to the special protection afforded to pregnant women; in particular there is a need to ensure that transitional periods in different types of insurance, especially medical insurance, do not interfere with the rights of pregnant women to enjoy equal treatment throughout the period of pregnancy;
Amendment 67 #
2016/2012(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls for a holistic approach to female entrepreneurship, aimed at encouraging and supporting women in building a career in entrepreneurship, facilitating access to finance and business opportunities, and creating an environment enabling women to realise their potential and become successful entrepreneurs by ensuring, inter alia, the reconciliation of professional and personal life, access to childcare facilities, and tailor-made training;
Amendment 68 #
2016/2012(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Welcomes the equalising effect on pensions of the Test-Achats ruling which prohibited sex-based actuarial factors in insurance contracts and made unisex premiums and benefits mandatory in private insurance schemes, including pensions; notes that while this ruling applies only to the private schemes, the unisex rule in pensions constitutes a good practice in terms of reducing the gender pension gap;
Amendment 69 #
2016/2012(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on Member States’ governments to collaborate with the financial sector regarding their obligation to ensure equality between men and women in access to capital for freelancers and SMEs; invites them to explore the possibilities of introducing gender equality into their reporting structures on the attribution of loans, into the tailoring of their risk profiles, investment mandates and staff structures, and into financial products and the advertising thereof;
Amendment 70 #
2016/2012(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Welcomes the decision of some Member States to apply the unisex rule also to their occupational pension schemes in order to ensure equality between women and men in all areas of pension calculation; encourages other Member States to consider following suit, if appropriate;
Amendment 75 #
2016/2012(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission and Member States to facilitate the exchange of best practices in this area; calls for focusing on those preventive measures which are consistent with the principle of equality between women and men, as recommended for example in the Istanbul Convention, and which are not limiting to women’s liberties as well as concentrate primarily on addressing potential perpetrators rather than modifying behaviour of women as potential victims;
Amendment 78 #
2016/2012(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Notes that the Istanbul Convention states that “the realisation of de jure and de facto equality between women and men is a key element in the prevention of violence against women” and, therefore, calls on the Member States and the Commission to follow this comprehensive approach in their policy aimed at eradicating violence against women, including the implementation of the anti- harassment provisions outlined in the Directive;
Amendment 81 #
2016/2012(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Highlights that equal treatment of both mothers and fathers with small children in the access and use of services is crucial for gender equality in general as it promotes equal and shared responsibility for childcare between women and men; calls therefore on the Member States to raise awareness among the service providers about the need for equal facilities for both parents available within their premises;
Amendment 82 #
2016/2012(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Notes that integrating the gender- sensitive perspective into the early stages of planning and structuring of the means of transport and other public spaces constitutes a good and cost-efficient practice for eradicating physical barriers which undermine equal access for parents and carers of small children;
Amendment 92 #
2016/2012(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Notes that harassment poses a particular challenge for gender equality in the area of collaborative economy services; highlights that whilst the "zero- tolerance" policy towards harassment adopted by many platforms constitutes a good practice to be further strengthened in the sector, there is a need for the platforms concerned to prioritise prevention of harassment as well as to consider creating clear procedures for reporting abuse cases for users;
Amendment 95 #
2016/2012(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Notes that while the recently published Communication from the Commission on "European agenda for the collaborative economy" is a good starting step for promoting and regulating this sector effectively, in its further stages the Commission should integrate the principles of gender mainstreaming and reflect the regulations of the Directive to safeguard equal treatment of women and men and effectively prevent harassment in the services offered within the collaborative economy;
Amendment 97 #
2016/2012(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Encourages equality bodies and consumer protection organisations to both raise awareness about the limits and conditions for differential treatment among the service providers as well as to enhance awareness about the rights for equal treatment among service users, as it is often reported that users are not familiar with applicable provisions in the field of goods and services;
Amendment 114 #
2016/2012(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Commission to enhance the cooperation with equality bodies and to monitor if the relevant provisions regarding their competences are met in all the Member States as well as to provide support to Member States in systematically identifying the main challenges and share best practices;
Amendment 117 #
2016/2012(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and the equality bodies, potentially in cooperation with consumer protection organizations, to raise awareness about the provisions of the Directive among both service providers and users in order to boost the understanding of equal treatment in this field and reduce breaches of the Directive being left unreported;
Amendment 119 #
2016/2012(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls on the Commission to establish a public database of relevant legislation and case law regarding equal treatment between women and men as a means to raise awareness about the application of the legal provisions in this field;
Amendment 9 #
2016/0404(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The results of the mutual evaluation process revealed a lack of clarity as regards the criteria to be used by national competent authorities when assessing the proportionality of requirements restricting access to or pursuit of regulated professions, as well as uneven scrutiny of such measures at all levels of regulation. To avoid fragmentation of the internal market and eliminate barriers to taking-up and pursuit of certain employed or self- employed activities and therefore boost employment where relevant, it is therefore necessary to establish a common approach at Union level, preventing disproportionate and unduly excessive measures from being adopted.
Amendment 23 #
2016/0404(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8 a (new)
Recital 8 a (new)
(8 a) This Directive establishes rules for proportionality test to be carried out before introducing new, or amending existing, legislative, regulatory or administrative provisions restricting access or pursuit of regulated professions.It has to be underlined, that this Directive leaves the prerogative to regulate access to or pursuit of regulated professions within Member States in respect of principles of non- discrimination and proportionality.
Amendment 31 #
2016/0404(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) The burden of proof of justification and proportionality lies on the Member States. The reasons for regulation invoked by a Member State by way of justification should thus be accompanied by an analysis of the appropriateness and proportionality of the measure adopted by that State and by specific well justified evidence substantiating its arguments.
Amendment 67 #
2016/0404(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) The economic impact of the measure, including a cost-benefit analysis with particular regard to the degree of competition in the market and the quality of the service provided, as well as the impact on the right to work and on the free movement of persons and services within Member States and the Union should be duly taken into account by the competent authorities. Based on this analysis, Member States should ascertain, in particular, whether the extent of the restriction of access to or pursuit of regulated professions within the Union is proportionate to the importance of the objectives pursued and the expected gains.
Amendment 77 #
2016/0404(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 20 a (new)
Recital 20 a (new)
(20 a) The extent and degree of the criteria being used during the proportionality test should be appropriate and adjusted to the content of the provisions being introduced and its impact.
Amendment 80 #
2016/0404(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) It is essential for the proper functioning of the internal market to ensure that Member States provide information to citizens, representative associations, social partners and consumers or other relevant stakeholders before introducing new measures restricting access to or pursuit of regulated professions and give them the opportunity to make known their views.
Amendment 84 #
2016/0404(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) To facilitate the exchange of best practices, each Member State should encouragesure that the relevant competent authorities to share adequate and regularly updated information with other Member States on the regulation of professions. The Commission should take relevant initiatives in order to encourage smooth exchange of information between Member States.
Amendment 133 #
2016/0404(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 3
Article 4 – paragraph 3
3. The reasons for considering that a provision is justified, necessary, non- discriminatory and proportionate shall be substantiated by qualitative and, wherever possible, quantitative evidence.
Amendment 155 #
2016/0404(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 2
Article 5 – paragraph 2
2. The relevant competent authorities shall consider in particular whether those provisions are objectively justified on the basis of public policy, public security or public health, or by overriding reasons in the public interest, such as preserving the financial equilibrium of the social security system, the protection of consumers, recipients of services and workers, the safeguarding of the proper administration of justice, fairness of trade transactions, combating fraud and prevention of tax evasion and avoidance, road safety, the protection of the environment and the urban environment, the health of animals, intellectual property, the safeguarding and conservation of the national historic and artistic heritage, threats to social policy objectives and cultural policy objectives.
Amendment 180 #
2016/0404(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) the nature of the risks related to the public interest objectives pursued, in particular the risks to consumers, patients to professionals or third parties;
Amendment 217 #
2016/0404(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point i
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point i
(i) the economic impact and impact on employment of the measure, with particular regard to the degree of competition in the market and the quality of the service provided, job creation, employment opportunities for young graduates as well as the impact on the free movement of persons and services within the Union;
Amendment 282 #
2016/0404(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 4 – point j a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 4 – point j a (new)
(j a) proportionality of administrative requirements.
Amendment 291 #
2016/0404(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 1
Member States shall, by appropriate means, inform citizens, service recipients, those in relevant training or education, representative associations and relevant stakeholders other than the members of the profession before introducing new legislative, regulatory or administrative provisions restricting access to or pursuit of regulated professions, or amending existing ones, and give them the opportunity to make known their views.
Amendment 299 #
2016/0404(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1
1. For the purposes of the efficient application of this Directive, before introducing new legislative, regulatory or administrative provisions restricting access to or pursuit of regulated professions, or amending existing ones, Member States shall encourage thsure exchange of information with competent authorities of other Member States on matters covered by this Directive, such as the particular way they regulate a profession or the effects of regulation identified in similar sectors of activities, on a regular basis, or, where appropriate, on an ad hoc basis.
Amendment 73 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) It is necessary to guarantee legal certainty by clarifying that aAccess to social security benefits for economically inactive mobile citizens in the host Member State, may be made conditional upon that citizen holding a legal right of residence in that Member State in accordance with Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States.33 For these purposes, an economically inactive citizen should be clearly distinguished from a jobseeker whose right of residence is conferred directly by Article 45 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. __________________ 33only to the extend settled by existing case law C-133/13 Dano, C-67/14 Alimanovic and C-299/14 Garcia-Nieto. OJ L 158, 30.4.2004, p. 77.
Amendment 85 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
Amendment 98 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) In the area of unemployment benefits, the rules on the aggregation of periods of insurance should be applied uniformly by all Member States. With the exception of cross-border workers referred to in Article 65(2), the rules on the aggregation of periods for the purpose of conferring entitlement to unemployment benefits should be subject to the condition that an insured person has most recently completed at least three months of insurance in that Member State. The previously competent Member State should become competent for all insured persons who do not satisfy this condition. In this case, registration with the employment services of the Member State of most recent insurance should have the same effect as registration with the employment services of the Member State, where the unemployed person had been previously insuredone day of insurance in that Member State.
Amendment 127 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) Family benefits intended to replace or grant additional income during child- raising periods are designed to meet the individual and personal needs of the parent subject to the legislation of the competent Member State and therefore are distinguishable from other family benefits as they are intended to compensate a parent for loss of income or salary during time spent raising a child rather than solely meeting general family expenses.
Amendment 160 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Recital 5 – addition
Recital 5 – addition
Amendment 161 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Recital 5
Recital 5
(2a) Recital 5 is replaced by the following: (5) It is necessary, within the framework of such coordination, to guarantee within the CommunityUnion equality of treatment under theacross different national legislationaw for the persons concerned.
Amendment 165 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Recital 5a
Recital 5a
Amendment 168 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Recital 5b
Recital 5b
Amendment 171 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Recital 5c
Recital 5c
Amendment 178 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Recital 24
Recital 24
(24) LIn line with the case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, long-term care benefits for insured persons and members of their families need to be coordinated according to specific rules which, in principle,should, in principle, continue to be coordinated following the rules applicable to sickness benefits, in line with the case law of the Co. However, those rules should take into account the specific naturte of Justicelong- term care benefits. It is also necessary to provide for specific provisions in case of overlapping of long-term care benefits in kind and in cash.
Amendment 184 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Recital 35a
Recital 35a
(35a) Family benefits in cash intended to replace income or grant additional during a periods of child- raising are individual rights which are personal to the parent subject to the legislation of the competent Member State. Given the specific nature of these family benefits, such benefits should be listed in Part I of Annex XIII to this Regulation and should be exclusively reserved to the parent concerned. The Member State with secondary competence may elect that the rules of priority in the case of overlapping of rights to family benefits under the legislation of the competent Member State and under the legislation of the Member State of residence of members of the family should not apply to such benefits. Where a Member State chooses to disapply the priority rules it must do so consistently in respect of all entitled persons in an analogous situation and be listed in Part II of Annex XIII. (Article 1- paragraph 6)
Amendment 207 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point a
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 1 – point c
Article 1 – point c
(a) In Point (c) the term “Title III, Chapters 1 and 3” is replaced by the term “Title III, Chapters 1, 1a and 3”.is replaced by the following: “(c) ‘insured person’, in relation to the social security branches covered by Title III, Chapters 1 and 3, means any person satisfying the conditions required under the legislation of the Member State competent under Title II to have the right to benefits for at least one of the risks covered by the Chapter which has to be applied, in accordance with this Regulation.”
Amendment 211 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point b
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point b
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 1 – point i – point 1 – point ii
Article 1 – point i – point 1 – point ii
(b) In Ppoint (i)(1)(ii) after the term “Title III, Chapter 1 on sickness, maternity and equivalent paternity benefits” the term “and Chapter 1a on long-term care benefits” is inserted., point (ii) is replaced by the following: "(ii) with regard to benefits in kind pursuant to Title III, Chapter 1 any person defined or recognised as a member of the family or designated as a member of the household by the legislation of the Member State in which he/she resides;”
Amendment 216 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point c
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point c
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 1 – point va – point i
Article 1 – point va – point i
(c) In Point (va)(i) after the term “, point (i) is replaced by the following: “(i) for the purposes of Title III, Chapter 1, with regard to (sickness, maternity and equivalent paternity benefits),” the term “and Chapter 1a (long-term care benefits)” is inserted and the last sentence is deleted., (sickness, maternity and equivalent paternity benefits), benefits in kind provided for under the legislation of a Member State which are intended to supply, make available, pay directly or reimburse the cost of medical care and products and services ancillary to that care. This includes long-term care benefits in kind within the meaning of point (vb) of this point.”
Amendment 220 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point d
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point d
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 1 – point vb
Article 1 – point vb
(vb) “long-term care benefit” means any benefit in kind, cash or a combination of both for persons who, over an extended period of time, on account of old-age, disability, illness or or in cash, the purpose of which is to address the care needs of a person who, on account of impairment, require considerables assistance from another person or persons to carry out essential daily activities, including of daily living for an extended period of time in order to support this/heir personal autonomy; this includes benefits granted to or forfor the same purpose to the person providing such assistance;
Amendment 224 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a
Amendment 227 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point ba
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point ba
Amendment 239 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 4 – paragraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 2
Amendment 243 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12 – point a
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 11 – paragraph 2
Article 11 – paragraph 2
(a) In pParagraph 2 the term “sickness benefits in cash covering treatment for an unis replaced by the following: “2. For the purposes of this Title, persons receiving cash benefits because or as a consequence of their activity as an employed or self-employed person shall be considered to be pursuing the said activity. This shall not apply to invalimdited period” is replaced by the term “y, old age or survivors’ pensions or to pensions in respect of accidents at work or occupational diseases or to long-term care benefits in cash”. paid to the person in need of care.”
Amendment 258 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 12 – paragraph 1
Article 12 – paragraph 1
1. A person who pursues an activity as an employed person in a Member State on behalf of an employer which normally carries out its activities there and who is posted within the meaning of Directive 96/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1996 concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services46 or sent by that employer to another Member State to perform work on that employer’s behalf, shall continue to be subject to the legislation of the first Member State, provided that the anticipated duration of such work does not exceed 24 months and that the person is not posted or sent to replace another employed or self-employed person previously posted or sent within the meaning of this Article. __________________ 46 OJ L 018, 21.01.1997 p. 1person sent previously by this employer within the meaning of this Article.
Amendment 278 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 12 – paragraph 2
Article 12 – paragraph 2
2. A person who normally pursues an activity as a self-employed person in a Member State who goes to pursue a similar activity in another Member State shall continue to be subject to the legislation of the first Member State, provided that the anticipated duration of such activity does not exceed 24 months and that the person is not replacing another posted employed or self-employed person..
Amendment 283 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 12 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 12 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Where an employed person covered by paragraph 1 does not complete the task or activity foreseen in the contract and is replaced by the same employer by another sent person to complete the work, the person replacing the previously sent person shall continue to be subject to the legislation of the Member State from which he/ she is sent provided that the total duration of work of that person does not exceed 24 months.
Amendment 286 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 12 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 12 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Amendment 302 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Title III – Chapter 1 – title
Title III – Chapter 1 – title
Amendment 306 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 c (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 c (new)
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 19
Article 19
14 c. Article 19 is replaced by the following: “Article 19 Stay outside the competent Member State 1. Unless otherwise provided for by paragraph 2, an insured person and the members of his or her family staying in a Member State other than the competent Member State shall be entitled to the benefits in kind which become necessary on medical grounds or due to the need for long-term care during their stay, taking into account the nature of the benefits and the expected length of the stay. These benefits shall be provided on behalf of the competent institution by the institution of the place of stay, in accordance with the provisions of the legislation it applies, as though the persons concerned were insured under the said legislation.< 2. The Administrative Commission shall establish a list of benefits in kind which, in order to be provided during a stay in another Member State, require for practical reasons a prior agreement between the person concerned and the institution providing the care. (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32004R0883&from=EN)benefit.” Or. en
Amendment 308 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 d (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 d (new)
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 20 – title
Article 20 – title
14d. In Article 20, the title is replaced by the following: “Travel with the purpose of receiving benefits in kind -— Authorisation to receive appropriate treatment and long-term care outside the Member State of residence (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32004R0883&from=EN)” Or. en
Amendment 310 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 e (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 e (new)
14e. In Article 20, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: “2. An insured person who is authorised by the competent institution to go to another Member State with the purpose of receiving the treatment or long- term care appropriate to his or her condition shall receive the benefits in kind provided, on behalf of the competent institution, by the institution of the place of stay, in accordance with the provisions of the legislation it applies, as though he or she were insured under the said legislation. The authorisation shall be accorded where the treatment or long-term care in question is among the benefits provided for by the legislation in the Member State where the person concerned resides and where he or she cannot be given such treatment within a time- limit which is medically justifiable, taking into account his or her current state of health and the probable course of his illness. (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32004R0883&from=EN)or her illness or within a time limit which is justifiable, taking into account his or her current state of need of long-term care and the probable course of his or her need of long-term care.” Or. en
Amendment 311 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 g (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 g (new)
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 25
Article 25
14g. Article 25 is replaced by the following: “Article 25 Pensions under the legislation of one or more Member States other than the Member State of residence, where there is a right to benefits in kind in the latter Member State Where the person receiving a pension or pensions under the legislation of one or more Member States resides in a Member State under whose legislation the right to receive benefits in kind is not subject to conditions of insurance, or of activity as an employed or self-employed person, and no pension is received from that Member State, the cost of benefits in kind provided to him/her and to members of his/her family shall be borne by the Institution of one of the Member States competent in respect of his/her pensions determined in accordance with Article 24(2), to the extent that the pensioner and the members of his/her Family would be entitled to such benefits if they resided in that Member State. ” Or. en (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32004R0883R(01)&from=EN)
Amendment 313 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 i (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 i (new)
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 27 – title
Article 27 – title
14i. In Article 27, the title is replaced by the following: “Stay of the pensioner or the members of his family in a Member State other than the Member State in which they reside – Stay in the competent Member State – Authorisation for appropriate treatment or long-term care outside the Member State of residence (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32004R0883&from=EN)” Or. en
Amendment 314 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 j (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 j (new)
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 27 – paragraph 2
Article 27 – paragraph 2
14j. In Article 27, paragraph 3 is replaced by the following: “3. Article 20 shall apply mutatis mutandis to a pensioner and/or the members of his family who are staying in a Member State other than the one in which they reside with the purpose of receiving there the treatment or long-term care appropriate to their condition. (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32004R0883&from=EN)” Or. en
Amendment 316 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 l (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 l (new)
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 28 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 28 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
1. A frontier worker who retires4l. In Article 28(1), the first subparagraph is replaced by the following: “1. A frontier worker who retires because of old-age or invalidity is entitled in casethe event of sickness or the need for long-term care to continue to receive benefits in kind in the Member State where he/she last pursued his or her activity as an employed or self-employed person, in so far as this is a continuation of treatment or long-term care which began in that Member State. The term" "continuation of treatment" means the continued investigation, diagnosis and treatment of an illness for its entire duration. (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32004R0883&from=EN)The term "continuation of long-term care" means the continued granting of long-term care benefits in kind due to the need of care which was established before retirement and which continues beyond that date.” Or. en
Amendment 321 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 m (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 m (new)
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 30
Article 30
14m. Article 30 is replaced by the following: “Article 30 Contributions by pensioners 1. The institution of a Member State which is responsible under the legislation it applies for making deductions in respect of contributions for sickness, maternity and equivalent paternity and long-term care benefits, may request and recover such deductions, calculated in accordance with the legislation it applies, only to the extent that the cost of the benefits pursuant to Articles 23 to 26 is to be borne by an institution of the said Member State. 2. Where, in the cases referred to in Article 25, the acquisition of sickness, maternity and equivalent paternity and long-term care benefits is subject to the payment of contributions or similar payments under the legislation of a Member State in which the pensioner concerned resides, these contributions shall not be payable by virtue of such residence. ” Or. en (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32004R0883R(01)&from=EN)
Amendment 327 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 15
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 15
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 32 – paragraph 3 – point a – point i
Article 32 – paragraph 3 – point a – point i
(i) rights available on the basis of an activity as an employed or self-employed person of the insured person, including rights existing in the application of Article 11(2) or (3)(c);
Amendment 329 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 15 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 15 a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 33 a (new)
Article 33 a (new)
Amendment 332 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 16
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 16
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 34
Article 34
Amendment 337 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 16 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 16 a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 34 – paragraph 1
Article 34 – paragraph 1
1. If a recipient of long-term care benefits in cash, which have to be treated as sickness benefits and are therefore provided by the Member State competent for cash benefits6a. In Article 34, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: “1. If a recipient of long-term care benefits in cash, which is provided under Articles 21 or 29, is, at the same time and under this Chapter, entitled to claim benefits in kind intended for the same purpose from the institution of the place of residence or stay in another Member State, and an institution in the first Member State is also required to reimburse the cost of theose benefits in kind under Article 35, the general provision on prevention of overlapping of benefits laid down in Article 10 shall be applicable, with the following restriction only: if the person concerned claims and receives the benefit in kind, the amount of the benefit in cash shall be reduced by the amount of the benefit in kind which is or could be claimed from the institution of the first Member State required to reimburse the cost. (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32004R0883&from=EN)” Or. en
Amendment 339 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 16 b (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 16 b (new)
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 34 – paragraph 2
Article 34 – paragraph 2
Amendment 341 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 16 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 16 a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 34 – paragraph 3 c (new)
Article 34 – paragraph 3 c (new)
Amendment 342 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 17
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 17
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Chapter 1 a
Chapter 1 a
Amendment 351 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 19
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 19
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 61
Article 61
Amendment 356 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 19
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 19
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 61 – paragraph 1
Article 61 – paragraph 1
1. Except in the cases referred to in Article 65(2), the application of Article 6 shall beThe competent institution of a Member State whose legislation makes the acquisition, retention, recovery or duration of the right to benefits conditional upon the person concerned having most recently completed a period of at least three monthcompletion of either periods of insurance, employment or self- employment shall, to the extent necessary, take into account periods of insurance, employment, or self- employment in accordance with the legislation under which the benefits are claimed. (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32004R0883&from=EN)completed under the legislation of any other Member State as though they were completed under the legislation it applies. However, where, under the applicable legislation, the right to benefits is conditional on the completion of periods of insurance, the periods completed under the legislation of another Member State shall be taken into account only if those periods would qualify for the purposes of establishing entitlement to unemployment benefits in the Member State under whose legislation they were completed. Or. en
Amendment 360 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 19
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 19
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 61 – paragraph 1
Article 61 – paragraph 1
1. Except in the cases referred to in Article 65(2), the application of Article 6 shall be conditional on the person concerned having most recently completed a period of at least three monthsone day of insurance, employment, or self- employment in accordance with the legislation under which the benefits are claimed.
Amendment 367 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 19
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 19
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 61 – paragraph 2
Article 61 – paragraph 2
2. Where an unemployed person does not satisfy the conditions for the aggregation of periods in accordance with paragraph 1 because the total duration of his or her most recently completed periods of insurance, employment or self- employmentExcept in the cases referred to in Article 65(5)(a), the application of paragraph 1 of this Article shall be conditional on the person concerned having the most recently completed, in accordance with the legislation under which the benefits are claimed: – periods of insurance of at least one day, inf that Member State is less than three months that person shall be entitled to unemployment benefits in accordance with the legislation of the Member State where he or she had previously completed such periods under the conditions and subject to the limitations laid down in Article 64a. (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32004R0883&from=EN)legislation requires periods of insurance, – periods of employment of at least one day, if that legislation requires periods of employment, or – periods of self-employment of at least one day, if that legislation requires periods of self-employment. Or. en
Amendment 405 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 21
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 21
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 64a
Article 64a
Amendment 449 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 23
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 23
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 68b – paragraph 1
Article 68b – paragraph 1
1. Family benefits in cash which are intended to replace or grand additional income during periods of child-raising and which are listed in Part 1 of Annex XIII shall be awarded solely to the person subject to the legislation of the competent Member State and there shall be no derived right for his or her family members to such benefits. Article 68a of this Regulation shall not apply to such benefits nor shall the competent institution be required to take into account a claim submitted by the other parent, a person treated as a parent or institution acting as guardian of the child or children pursuant to Article 60(1) of the Implementing Regulation. (Article 1- paragraph 23)
Amendment 512 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 1 – point 2 – point e a
Article 1 – point 2 – point e a
(ea) ‘fraud’ means any intentional act or omission to act, in order to obtain or receive social security benefits or to avoid to pay social security contributions, contrary to the provisions of the basic Regulation and the implementing Regulation or the law of a Member State;.
Amendment 514 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point e b (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point e b (new)
(eb) ‘error’ means unintentional wrong conduct or unintentional omission on the part of an institution or of a person falling within the scope of the basic Regulation and the implementing Regulation;
Amendment 515 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 2 – paragraph 5
Article 2 – paragraph 5
5. When a person's rights or obligations to which the basic and implementing Regulations apply have been established or determined, the competent institution may request the institution in the Member State of residence or stay to providetransmit personal data about that person. within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2016/679. The request and any response shall concern information which enables the competent Member State to identify any inaccuracyconsistencies in the facts on which a document or a decision determining the rights and obligations of a person under the basic or implementing Regulation is based. The request can also be madetransmitted where there is no existing doubt about the validity or accuracy of the information contained in the document or on which the decision is based in a particular case, but the information shall be required in accordance with the legislation applicable to the competent institution. The request for information and any response must be necessary and proportionate.
Amendment 522 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 5 – paragraph 1
Article 5 – paragraph 1
1. Documents issued by the institution of a Member State and showing the position of a person for the purposes of the application of the basic Regulation and of the implementing Regulation, and supporting evidence on the basis of which the documents have been issued, shall be accepted by the institutions of the other Member States for as long as they have not been withdrawn or declared to be invalid by the Member State in which they were issued. Such documents shall only be valid ifWhere not all sections indicated as compulsory are filled in, the receiving institution shall without delay notify the issuing institution, which should take the appropriate action.
Amendment 525 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 5 – paragraph 2
Article 5 – paragraph 2
2. Where there is doubt about the validity of a document or the accuracy of the facts on which they are based, the institution of the Member State that receives the document shall ask the issuing institution for the necessary clarification and, where appropriate, the withdrawal of that document, clearly stating the grounds and presenting all the supporting evidence of doubt.
Amendment 526 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) When receiving such a request, the issuing institution shall reconsider the grounds for issuing the document and, if necessary, withdraw it or rectify it, within 25 working day shall inform the competent institutions of the Member States concerned of the result within three months from the receipt of the request. Upon detection of an irrefutable case of fraud committed by the applicant of the document, the issuing institutionrmination that the applicable law was incorrectly certified, the certificate shall be withdrawn or rectify the document immediately and with retroactive effectied, whereby the legislation applicable in the issuing Member State shall be complied with. This shall also be applied to previous periods.
Amendment 527 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 5– paragraph 2 – point a
Article 5– paragraph 2 – point a
(a) When receiving such aa reasoned request, the issuing institution shall reconsider the grounds for issuing the document and, if necessary, withdraw it or rectify it, within 25 working days from the receipt of the request. Upon detection of an irrefutable case of fraud committed by the applicant of the document, the issuing institution shall withdraw or rectify the document immediately and with retroactive effect.
Amendment 532 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 5– paragraph 2 – point b
Article 5– paragraph 2 – point b
(b) If the issuing institution, having reconsidered the grounds for issuing the document is unable todoes not detect any error it shall forward to the requesting institution all supporting evidence within 25 working days from the receipt of the request. In urgent cases, where the reasons for urgency have been clearly indicatedproven in the request, thise validity of the document shall be dconefirmed within two working days from the receipt of the request, notwithstanding that the issuing institution may not have completed its deliberations pursuant to subparagraph (a) above.
Amendment 535 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Regulation (EC) 987/2009
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) Where the requesting institution having received the supporting evidence continues to have doubts about the validity of a document or the accuracy of the facts on which the particulars contained therein are based that the information upon which the document was issued is not correct, it may submit evidence to that effect and make a further request for clarification and where appropriate the withdrawal of that document by the issuing institution in accordance within the procedure and timeframes set out above.and the requesting institution and the issuing institution are not able to come to an agreement, they shall make use of the dialogue and conciliation procedure set out in Decision No A11a. . __________________ 1a. Decision No A2 of 12 June 2009 concerning the interpretation of Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the legislation applicable to posted workers and self-employed workers temporarily working outside the competent State (OJ C 106, 24.4.2010, p. 5).
Amendment 539 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7 (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7 (new)
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 5– paragraph 2 – point c a new
Article 5– paragraph 2 – point c a new
(ca) Forwarding the supporting evidence shall not lead to disclosure of company's secrets or violate the protection of personal data.
Amendment 553 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point a
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point a
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 14 – paragraph 1
Article 14 – paragraph 1
1. For the purposes of the application of Article 12(1) of the basic Regulation, a ‘person who pursues an activity as an employed person in a Member State on behalf of an employer which normally carries out its activities there and who is posted within the meaning of the Directive 96/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1996 concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services52 or sent by that employer to another Member State’ shall include a person who is recruited with a view to being posted or sent to another Member State, provided that immediately before the start of his employment, the person concerned is already subject to the legislation of the sending Member State in accordance with Title II of the basic Regulation.. __________________ 52OJ L 018 , 21.01.1997 p. 1.
Amendment 561 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 14 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 14 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Once a person has been sent in accordance with Article 12(1) of the basic Regulation or pursues an activity as a self-employed person in another Member State in accordance with Article 12(2) of the basic Regulation for a total of 24 months, either continuously or with interruptions of not longer than two months, no new period under Article 12(1) or (2) for the same employed or self- employed person in the same Member State shall start until at least two months have elapsed from the end of the previous period. Undertakings may derogate from the first subparagraph in specific circumstances.”
Amendment 570 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point b
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 14 – paragraph 5a
Article 14 – paragraph 5a
5a. For the purpose of the application of Title II of the basic Regulation, ‘registered office or place of business’ shall refer to the registered office or place of business where the essential decisions of the undertaking are adopted and where the functions of its central administration are carried out, provided the undertaking performs a substantial activity in that Member State. Otherwise, it shall be deemed to be situated in the Member State where the centre of interest of activities of the undertaking determined in accordance with the criteria laid down in paragraphs 9 and 10 is located.. In determining the location of the "registered office or place of business" the following factors shall be taken into account in an overall assessment: (a) the place of residence of the main directors; (b) the places where general meetings are held; (c) the place where administrative and accounting documents are kept; (d) the place where financial and particularly transactions mainly take place; (e) the habitual nature of the activity pursued. The determination shall be carried out in the framework of an overall assessment giving due eight to each of the criteria mentioned above.
Amendment 575 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point c
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point c
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 14 – paragraph 12
Article 14 – paragraph 12
12. If a person who resides outside the territory of the Union pursues his activities as an employed or self-employed person in two or more Member States and if this person, by virtue of the national legislation of one of those Member States, is subject to the legislation of that State, the provisions of the basic Regulation and the implementing Regulation on the determination of the applicable legislation shall apply mutatis mutandis subject to the proviso that his or her residence shall be deemed to be in the Member State where the registered office or place of business of the undertaking or his or her employer or the centre of interest of his or her activities as self-employed person is located..
Amendment 582 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 16 – paragraph 3
Article 16 – paragraph 3
3. If that institution determines that the legislation of another Member State applies, it shall do so provisionally and shall without delay inform the institution of the Member State which it considers to be competent of this provisional decision. The decision shall become definitive within two months after the institution designated by the competent authorities of the Member State concerned has been informed of it, unless the latter institution informs the first institution and the persons and the employers concerned that it cannot yet accept the provisional determination or that it takes a different view on this.
Amendment 587 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10 a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 19 – paragraph 2
Article 19 – paragraph 2
10a. In Article 19, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: "2. At the request of the person concerned or of the employer, the competent institution of the Member State whose legislation is applicable pursuant to Title II of the basic Regulation shall provide an attestation that such legislation is applicable and shall indicate, where appropriate, until what date and under what conditions. As of 1 July 2019, at the latest, such an attestation shall be made solely in the form of the Structured Electronic Document referred to in point (d) of Article 1(2) of the implementing Regulation and using the Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information — EESSI referred to in the third subparagraph of Article 95(1) of the implementing Regulation. Or. en (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/?qid=1515592051048&uri=CELEX:02009R0987-20170411)
Amendment 594 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 20a – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 20a – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt implementing acts specifying the procedure to be followed in order to ensure uniform conditions for the application of Articles 12 and 13 of the basic Regulation. Those acts shall establish a standard procedure includingfor the issuing institution with regard to time limits for:
Amendment 611 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 15
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 15
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 24 – paragraph 3
Article 24 – paragraph 3
Amendment 616 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 15 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 15 a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 25 – paragraph 1
Article 25 – paragraph 1
15a. In Article 25, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: "1. For the purposes of the application of Article 19 of the basic Regulation, the insured person shall present to the health care or long-term care provider in the Member State of stay a document issued by the competent institution indicating his entitlement to benefits in kind. If the insured person does not have such a document, the institution of the place of stay, upon request or if otherwise necessary, shall contact the competent institution in order to obtain one. " Or. en (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:02009R0987- 20170411&from=EN)
Amendment 619 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 15 b (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 15 b (new)
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 25 – paragraph 3
Article 25 – paragraph 3
15b. In Article 25, paragraph 3 is replaced by the following: "3. The benefits in kind referred to in Article 19(1) of the basic Regulation shall refer to the benefits in kind which are provided in the Member State of stay, in accordance with its legislation, and which become necessary on medical grounds or due to the need for long-term care with a view to preventing an insured person from being forced to return, before the end of the planned duration of stay, to the competent Member State to obtain the necessary treatment. " Or. en (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:02009R0987- 20170411&from=EN)
Amendment 621 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 15 c (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 15 c (new)
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 26
Article 26
15c. Article 26 is replaced by the following: "Article 26 Scheduled treatment A. Authorisation procedure 1. For the purposes of the application of Article 20(1) of the basic Regulation, the insured person shall present a document issued by the competent institution to the institution of the place of stay. For the purposes of this Article, the competent institution shall mean the institution which bears the cost of the scheduled treatment or long-term care; in the cases referred to in Article 20(4) and 27(5) of the basic Regulation, in which the benefits in kind provided in the Member State of residence are reimbursed on the basis of fixed amounts, the competent institution shall mean the institution of the place of residence. 2. If an insured person does not reside in the competent Member State, he shall request authorisation from the institution of the place of residence, which shall forward it to the competent institution without delay. In that event, the institution of the place of residence shall certify in a statement whether the conditions set out in the second sentence of Article 20(2) of the basic Regulation are met in the Member State of residence. The competent institution may refuse to grant the requested authorisation only if, in accordance with the assessment of the institution of the place of residence, the conditions set out in the second sentence of Article 20(2) of the basic Regulation are not met in the Member State of residence of the insured person, or if the same treatment or long-term care can be provided in the competent Member State itself, within a time-limit which is medically justifiable, taking into account the current state of healthneed of long-term care and the probable course of illnessneed of long- term care of the person concerned. The competent institution shall inform the institution of the place of residence of its decision. In the absence of a reply within the deadlines set by its national legislation, the authorisation shall be considered to have been granted by the competent institution. 3. If an insured person who does not reside in the competent Member State is in need of urgent vitally necessary treatment, and the authorisation cannot be refused in accordance with the second sentence of Article 20(2) of the basic Regulation, the authorisation shall be granted by the institution of the place of residence on behalf of the competent institution, which shall be immediately informed by the institution of the place of residence. The competent institution shall accept the findings and the treatment options of the doctors approved by the institution of the place of residence that issues the authorisation, concerning the need for urgent vitally necessary treatment. 4. At any time during the procedure granting the authorisation, the competent institution shall retain the right to have the insured person examined by a doctor of its own choice or, in the case of the need for long-term care, by a doctor or another expert of its own choice in the Member State of stay or residence. 5. The institution of the place of stay shall, without prejudice to any decision regarding authorisation, inform the competent institution if it appears medically appropriate to supplement the treatment covered by the existing authorisation. B. Meeting the cost of benefits in kind incurred by the insured persor appropriate taking into account the current state of need for long-term care to supplement the treatment or long-term care covered by the existing authorisation. B. Meeting the cost of benefits in kind incurred by the insured person 6. Without prejudice to paragraph 7, Article 25(4) and (5) of the implementing Regulation shall apply mutatis mutandis. 7. If the insured person has actually borne all or part of the costs for the authorised medical treatment or long-term care him or herself and the costs which the competent institution is obliged to reimburse to the institution of the place of stay or to the insured person according to paragraph 6 (actual cost) are lower than the costs which it would have had to assume for the same treatment or long-term care in the competent Member State (notional cost), the competent institution shall reimburse, upon request, the cost of treatment or long-term care incurred by the insured person up to the amount by which the notional cost exceeds the actual cost. The reimbursed sum may not, however, exceed the costs actually incurred by the insured person and may take account of the amount which the insured person would have had to pay if the treatment or long-term care had been delivered in the competent Member State. C. Meeting the costs of travel and stay as part of scheduled treatment or long-term care 8. Where the national legislation of the competent institution provides for the reimbursement of the costs of travel and stay which are inseparable from the treatment or long-term care of the insured person, such costs for the person concerned and, if necessary, for a person who must accompany him/her, shall be assumed by this institution when an authorisation is granted in the case of treatment or long- term care in another Member State. D. Family members 9. Paragraphs 1 to 8 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the members of the family of the insured persons. " Or. en (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:02009R0987- 20170411&from=EN)
Amendment 623 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 16
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 16
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 28 – paragraph 1
Article 28 – paragraph 1
Amendment 626 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 17
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 17
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 31 – title and paragraphs 1 and 2
Article 31 – title and paragraphs 1 and 2
Amendment 632 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 17 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 17 a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 32 – paragraph 1
Article 32 – paragraph 1
17a. In Article 32, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: "1. When a person or a group of persons are exempted upon request from compulsory sickness or long-term care insurance and such persons are thus not covered by a sickness insurance scheme to which the basic Regulation applies, the institution of another Member State shall not, solely because of this exemption, become responsible for bearing the costs of benefits in kind or in cash provided to such persons or to a member of their family under Title III, Chapter I, of the basic Regulation. " Or. en (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:02009R0987- 20170411&from=EN)
Amendment 637 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 55 – paragraph 7
Article 55 – paragraph 7
Amendment 640 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 22
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 22
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 55a
Article 55a
Amendment 646 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 24
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 24
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Title VI – Chapter I – title
Title VI – Chapter I – title
Amendment 648 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 26
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 26
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 65 – paragraph 1
Article 65 – paragraph 1
1. The annual average cost per person in each age group for a specific year shall be notified to the Audit Board at the latest by the end of the second year following the year in question, with sickness and long- term care benefits in kind indicated separately.
Amendment 649 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 26 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 26 a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 66 – paragraph 2
Article 66 – paragraph 2
26a. In Article 66, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: "2. The reimbursements between the institutions of the Member States, provided for in Articles 35 and 41 of the basic Regulation, shall be made via the liaison body. There may be a separate liaison body for reimbursements under Articles 35 and Article 41 of the basic Regulation. (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:02009R0987- Mutual claims shall be off-set between the liaison bodies. The Administrative Commission shall establish detailed arrangements for such off-setting. " Or. en 20170411&from=EN)
Amendment 650 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 26 b (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 26 b (new)
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 67 – paragraph 1
Article 67 – paragraph 1
26b. In Article 67, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: "1. Claims based on actual expenditure shall be introduced to the liaison body of the debtor Member State within 12 months of the end of the calendar half-year during which those claims were recorded in the accounts of the creditor institution. Claims shall be met, where possible, within one month, and in any event within six months, of the claim. " Or. en (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:02009R0987- 20170411&from=EN)
Amendment 651 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 26 c (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 26 c (new)
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 67 – paragraph 3
Article 67 – paragraph 3
Amendment 652 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 26 e (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 26 e (new)
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 67 – paragraph 5
Article 67 – paragraph 5
26e. In Article 67, paragraph 5 is replaced by the following: "5. The claims shall be paid to the liaison body of the creditor Member State referred to in Article 66 of the implementing Regulation by the debtor institution within 18 months of the end of the month during which they were introduced to the liaison body of the debtor Member State. This does not apply to the claims which the debtor institution has rejected for a relevant reason within that period. The liaison body of the creditor Member State shall reply to such a rejection within 12 months of the end of the month during which the rejection was received. In the absence of such a reply, the rejection shall be deemed to be accepted. " Or. en (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:02009R0987- 20170411&from=EN)
Amendment 654 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 26 f (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 26 f (new)
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 67 – paragraph 7
Article 67 – paragraph 7
26f. In Article 67, paragraph 7 is replaced by the following: "7. The Audit Board shall facilitate the final closing of accounts in cases where a settlement cannot be reached within the period set out in paragraph 6, and, upon a reasoned request by one of the parties, shall give its opinion on a dispute within sixnine months following the month in which the matter was referred to it. The Audit Board shall receive the request no later than nine months after expiry of the period set out in paragraph 6. " Or. en (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:02009R0987- 20170411&from=EN)
Amendment 656 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 26 g (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 26 g (new)
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 68 – paragraph 2
Article 68 – paragraph 2
26g. In Article 68, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: "2. The interest shall be calculated on the basis of the reference rate applied by the European Central Bank to its main refinancing operations plus eight percentage points. The reference rate applicable shall be that in force on the first day of the month on which the payment is due. " Or. en (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:32009R0987)
Amendment 660 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 28
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 28
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 73 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 73 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
In case of a retroactive change of the applicable legislation including situations referred to in Article 6(4) and (5) of the implementing Regulation, at the latest threesix months after the applicable legislation has been determined or the institution responsible for paying the benefits has been identified, the institution which unduly paid cash benefits shall draw up a statement of the amount paid and shall send it to the institution identified as being competent for the purpose of their reimbursement.
Amendment 661 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 28
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 28
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 73 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 3
Article 73 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 3
If the amount of unduly paid contributions exceeds the amount the legal and/or natural person owes to the institution identified as being competent, the institution which unduly received contributions shall reimburse the amount in excess to the legal and/or natural person concerned. in accordance with national law.
Amendment 662 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 28
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 28
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 73 – paragraph 4
Article 73 – paragraph 4
4. The existence of time limits and application procedures under national legislation shall not be a valid ground for the refusal of the settlement of claims between institutions under this Article.
Amendment 682 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 39
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 39
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 85 a – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 85 a – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. By agreement between the applicant party and the requested party and in accordance with the arrangements laid down by the requested party resulting from existing national law or practice, officials authorised by the applicant party may, with a view to promoting mutual assistance provided for in this Section:
Amendment 685 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 39 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 39 a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 86
Article 86
39a. Article 86 is replaced by the following: "Article 86 Review clause 1. No later than the fourth full calendarwo years after the entry into force of the implementing Regulationexpiry of the transitional period referred to in Article 95, the Administrative Commission shall present a comparative report on the time limits set out in Article 67(2), (5) and (6) of the implementing Regulation. On the basis of this report, the European Commission may, as appropriate, submit proposals to review these time limits with the aim of reducing them in a significant way. 2. No later than the date referred to in paragraph 1, the Administrative Commission shall also assess the rules for conversion of periods set out in Article 13 with a view to simplifying those rules, if possible. 3. Administrative Commission shall present a report specifically assessing the application of Chapters I and III of Title IV ofThe report shall include a review of when settlement on the basis of fixed amounts, as referred to in Section 2 of Chapter I of Title IV, can be deleted. On the basis of this report, the Commission may, as appropriate, submit proposals to shorten those timplementing Regulation, in particular with regard to the procedures and time limits referred to in Article 67(2), (5) and (6) of the implementing Regulation and to the recovery procedures referred to in Articles 75 to 85 of the implementing Regulation. In the light of this report, the European Commission may, if necessary, submit appropriate proposals to make these procedures more efficient and balanced. e limits as well as a proposal to delete Section 2 of Chapter I of Title IV. " No later than 1 May 2015, the Or. en (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:02009R0987- 20170411&from=EN)
Amendment 687 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 40 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 40 – point b
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 87 – paragraph 6
Article 87 – paragraph 6
However, if the institution which was requested to carry out the check also uses the findings for the granting of benefits on its own account to the person concerned under the legislation it applies, it shall not claim the expenses referred to in the previous sentence..
Amendment 696 #
2016/0397(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 7 a (new)
Annex I – point 7 a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Annex XIII a (new)
Annex XIII a (new)
7a. The following annex is added: “Annex XIIIa Long-term care benefits in cash provided in derogation from Article 33a(a) of Chapter I (Article 33a(2))”
Amendment 38 #
2016/0265(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a a (new)
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a a (new)
Regulation (EU) No 99/2013
Annex I – point I – point 1 – point 1.1 – point 1.1.1 – paragraph 2 – new indent
Annex I – point I – point 1 – point 1.1 – point 1.1.1 – paragraph 2 – new indent
Amendment 112 #
2016/0264(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) In the context of the Europe 2020 Strategy21 and the strengthening of economic governance, social indicators play an essential role in informing and supporting the Union’s key priorities for growth and job creation, gender equality, the reduction of poverty and social exclusion, skills, mobility and the digital economy. In particular, social indicators must provide a sound statistical basis for developing and monitoring the policies introduced by the Union to address those priorities. __________________ 21 Communication from the Commission - EUROPE 2020 A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth COM (2010) 2020 of 3 March 2010.
Amendment 116 #
2016/0264(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) In shaping European Social Statistics due attention should be given to Article 10 TFEU. Therefore it is essential to ensure gender-segregated data collection to prevail, allowing for a solid factual basis to assess in how far equality has been achieved and discrimination has been tackled.
Amendment 119 #
2016/0264(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 a (new)
Recital 2 a (new)
(2a) In line with the "Beyond GDP" initiative1a , it is important to complement GDP with high level indicators reflecting other dimensions such as quality of life including work-life balance, inclusion, well-being and social cohesion, highlighting the importance of ensuring that the relevant data can be segregated in order to identify, for example, gender- specific issues; __________________ 1a http://ec.europa.eu/environment/enveco /pdf/SWD_2013_303.pdf and http://ec.europa.eu/environment/beyond_ gdp/index_en.html
Amendment 136 #
2016/0264(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) The developments described above need to be gradually streamlined, and statistical legislation in the area of social statistics needs to be modernised, in order to ensure that the high quality social indicators are produced in a more integrated, flexible and efficient manner. At the same time, due consideration must be given to the needs of users, to the burden placed on respondents, to Member States resources, the reliability and accuracy of the methods used, technical feasibility of producing the statistics, the time within which they can be available and the reliability of the results. To achieve data of high quality, due consideration should be given to the reference manual "Developing Gender Statistics: a practical tool”, prepared by the UNECE Task Force on Gender Statistics Training for Statisticians with contributions from various experts1a. __________________ 1a http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/st ats/publications/Developing_Gender_Stati stics.pdf
Amendment 146 #
2016/0264(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) Data collections in the domains of time use and consumption are currently carried out voluntarily by many Member States, on the basis of agreed general guidelines. Research based on the Time Use Survey has shown its utmost importance in assessing among others gender equality in sharing work and care responsibilities. The gender dimension is also of high importance in the field of household consumption. Therefore, among others, gender equality as fundamental principle of the Union, provides for another reason to integrate those two surveys fully into the set of European Social Statistics. These two domains should be modernised, so as to take full advantage of new technological advances. Data collections in these two domains should be organized in accordance with this Regulation so as to open possibilities and create opportunities for further developments in the future, ensuring data that are more timely and relevant, and produced more efficiently. In the meantime, the Member States’ current approaches should not be changed.
Amendment 148 #
2016/0264(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) Due to their specificities, demographic statistics23 , population and housing censuses24 , business surveys and statistics based on mainly administrative sources are not covered by this Regulation and should be governed separately by specific frameworks adapted to their characteristics. Statistical data is essential to describe, assess and support the improvement of life and well-being of citizens, the economy and the environment. It is of utmost importance for Union policies to be embraced by citizens. Statistical data should in this sense further advance the fundamental principle of European citizenship including non-discrimination and gender equality. __________________ 23 Regulation (EU) No 1260/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 November 2013 on European demographic statistics (OJ L 330, 10.12.2013, p.39). 24 Regulation (EC) No 763/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 on population and housing censuses (OJ L 218, 13.8.2008, p. 14).
Amendment 138 #
2016/0152(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10 a (new)
Recital 10 a (new)
(10a) In case the commercial practice of the trader does not correspond to his or her indication pursuant to Article 8a, Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 593/2008 and Article 18 of Regulation (EU) 1215/2012 should apply. Moreover, this should be without prejudice to any trader's liability for misleading or unfair practice pursuant to Directive 2005/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council 1a. _______________ 1aDirective 2005/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2005 concerning unfair business-to- consumer commercial practices in the internal market and amending Council Directive 84/450/EEC, Directives 97/7/EC, 98/27/EC and 2002/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (ʻUnfair Commercial Practices Directive’) (OJ L 149, 11.6.2005, p. 22).
Amendment 220 #
2016/0152(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
Recital 25
(25) Directive 2015/2366/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council28 introduced strict security requirements for the initiation and processing of electronic payments, which reduced the risk of fraud for all new and more traditional means of payment, especially online payments. Payment service providers are obliged to apply so-called strong customer authentication, an authentication process that validates the identity of the user of a payment service or of the payment transaction. For remote transactions, such as online payments, the security requirements go even further, requiring a dynamic link to the amount of the transaction and the account of the payee, to further protect the user by minimising the risks in case of mistakes or fraudulent attacks. As a result of theose provisions, the risk of payment fraud in national and cross-border purchases ihas brought to an equal level and should not be used as an argument to refuse or discriminate any commercial transactions within the Union. een significantly reduced. However, in case of direct debits where the trader might not be able to assess a consumer's creditworthiness properly, or it would require entering into a new or modified contract with the payment solution providers, the trader should be allowed to request an advance payment via SEPA credit transfer before dispatching the goods or providing the service. Different treatment is therefore justifiable in situations where there are no other means available to the trader to verify the creditworthiness of the consumer. __________________ 28 Directive (EU) 2015/2366 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2015 on payment services in the internal market, amending Directives 2002/65/EC, 2009/110/EC and 2013/36/EU and Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010, and repealing Directive 2007/64/EC (OJ L 337, 23.12.2015, p. 35– 127).
Amendment 281 #
2016/0152(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 3
Article 1 – paragraph 3
3. This Regulation does not apply to the activities referred to in Article 2(2) of Directive 2006/123/EC with the exception of point (g) in Article 2(2) of Directive 2006/123/EC.
Amendment 362 #
2016/0152(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(ba) receive electronically supplied services, the main feature of which is the provision of access to and use of copyright-protected works or other protected subject matter, in respect of which the trader has the requisite rights for the territory from which the consumer seeks to receive such services;
Amendment 43 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Citation 4 a (new)
Citation 4 a (new)
Having regard to the reasoned opinions issued by national parliaments from 11 Member States objecting the Commission proposal on the grounds of subsidiarity;
Amendment 51 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) The free movement of workers, freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services are fundamental principles of the internal market in the Union enshrined in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). The implementation of those principles is further developed by the Union aimed at enhancing social cohesion among Member States and guaranteeing a level playing field for businesses and respect for the rights of workers.
Amendment 63 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) The freedom to provide services includes the right of undertakings to provide services in another Member State, to which they may post their own workers temporarily in order to provide those services there. Charging a lower price for a service should not be regarded as engaging in unfair competition where that price is the result of generally lower costs, wages and minimum rates of pay in the Member State in which the posted worker normally works and the posted worker does not earn less than other workers in that Member State.
Amendment 81 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) Almost twenty years after its adoption, it is necessary to assess whetherenforce the rules and confirm that the Posting of Workers Directive still strikes the right balance between the need to promote the freedom to provide services and the need to protect the rights of posted workers.
Amendment 118 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) In view of the long duration of certain posting assignments, it is necessary to provide that, in case of posting lasting for periods higher than 24 months, the host Member State is deemed to be the country in which the work is carried out. In accordance with the principle of Rome I Regulation, the law of the host Member Sates therefore applies to the employment contract of such posted workers if no other choice of law was made by the parties. In case a different choice was made, it cannot, however, have the result of depriving the employee of the protection afforded to him by provisions that cannot be derogated from by agreement under the law of the host Member State. This should apply from the start of the posting assignment whenever it is envisaged for more than 24 months and from the first day subsequent to the 24 months when it effectively exceeds this duration, unless two Member States concerned agree on derogation. This rule does not affect the right of undertakings posting workers to the territory of another Member State to invoke the freedom to provide services in circumstances also where the posting exceeds 24 months. The purpose is merely to create legal certainty in the application of the Rome I Regulation to a specific situation, without amending that Regulation in any way. The employee will in particular enjoy the protection and benefits pursuant to the Rome I RegulationIn order to take into account characteristics of various sectors, the 24 months should be calculated within the reference period of 36 months. For the purpose of calculating the posting period the concept of "the same task at the same place" is also clearly defined and should be determined taking also into consideration the nature of the service provided and the work to be performed.
Amendment 122 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) In view of the long duration of certain posting assignments, it is necessary to provide that, in case of posting lasting for periods higher than 24 months, the host Member State is deemed to be the country in which the work is carried out. In accordance with the principle of Rome I Regulation, the law of the host Member Sates therefore applies to the employment contract of such posted workers if no other choice of law was made by the parties. In case a different choice was made, it cannot, however, have the result of depriving the employee of the protection afforded to him by provisions that cannot be derogated from by agreement under the law of the host Member State. This should apply from the start of the posting assignment whenever it is envisaged for more than 24 months and from the first day subsequent to the 24 months when it effectively exceeds this duration. This rule does not affect the right of undertakings posting workers to the territory of another Member State to invoke the freedom to provide services in circumstances also where the posting exceeds 24 months. The purpose is merely to create legal certainty in the application of the Rome I Regulation to a specific situation, without amending that Regulation in any way. The employee will in particular enjoy the protection and benefits pursuant to the Rome I Regulation.
Amendment 139 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) It is settled case law that restrictions to the freedom to provide services are only admissible if justified by overriding reasons in theof public interest and must be proportionate and necessary. The overriding reasons relating to the public interest which have been acknowledged by the Court include the protection of workers and in particular the social protection of workers in the construction industry.
Amendment 141 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9 a (new)
Recital 9 a (new)
(9a) Directive 2014/67/EU on the enforcement of Directive 96/71/EC provides a number of provisions to make sure that rules on posting of workers are enforced and are respected by all service providers. Article 4 of the enforcement directive provides a list of elements that should be assessed in order to identify the genuine posting and prevent abuse and circumvention.
Amendment 150 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) Because of the highly mobile nature of work in international road transport, the implementation of the posting of workers directive raises particular legal questions and difficulties (especially where the link with the concerned Member State is insufficient). It would be most suited for these challenges to be addressed through sector-specific legislation together with other EU inwhich should be addressed through sector-specific legislation. Accordingly, this directive should apply to international road transport in a way that would not hinder internal road transport market nor compromise the principles of sincere cooperation and solidarity between Member States, while some non- posting categories of international road transport such as international haulage, transit or linked cabotage should be considered as being out of the scope of the directive. Member States are also obliged to refrain from imposing excessive requirements on carriers in posting sitiuatives aimed at improving the functioning of the internal road transport maons, namely refrain from requirements likely to render posting legally uncertain for posted workers and undertakings, and thus compromise the protection of worketrs.
Amendment 158 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) Because of the highly mobile nature of work in international road transport, the implementation of the posting of workers directive raises particular legal questions and difficulties (especially where the link with the concerned Member State is insufficient). It would be most suitTherefore transport services such as transit, international transport and linked cabotage are excluded forom these challenges to scope of this Directive and should be addressed through sector-specific legislation together with other EU initiatives aimed at improving the functioning of the internal road transport market.
Amendment 162 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) Because of the highly mobile nature of work in international road transport, the implementation of the posting of workers directive raises particular legal questions and difficulties (especially where the link with the concerned Member State is insufficient). It would be most suited for these challenges to be addressed through sector-specific legislation together with other EU initiatives aimed at improving the functioning of the internal road transport market. In cases where a short posting assignment involves a number of Member States, and thus a range of pay rates, pay structures, leave arrangements and allowance types and rates, as well as languages in which the relevant information is available, it is extremely complicated to calculate the amounts payable. Most micro-enterprises in the international road haulage sector may find the new requirements to be brought in under this proposal amending Directive 96/71/EC to be impossible to meet. There is also a risk of workers being dismissed after the first 24 months of a posting assignment because of the complications and costs involved in calculating the rate of pay that is to apply after that period. Accordingly, some of the changes to Directive 96/71/EC that are to be brought in under this proposal should not apply to the international road haulage sector.
Amendment 195 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) It is within Member States' competence to set rules on remuneration in accordance with their law and practice and in compliance with article 56 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. However, national rules on remuneration applied to posted workers must be justified by the need to protect posted workers and must not disproportionately restrict the cross-border provision of services.
Amendment 211 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The elements of remuneration under national law or universally applicable collective agreements should be clear and transparent to all service providers and posted workers. It is therefore justified to impose on Member States the obligation to publish the constituent elements of remuneration as defined by national law and applicable collective agreements on the single website provided for by Article 5 of the Enforcement Directive as the transparency and the access to information is a key element for service providers. The provision of information on the single website should be in line with national law and practice and respect the autonomy of the social partners.
Amendment 215 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The legal elements of remuneration under national law or universally applicable collective agreements should be clear and transparent to all service providers and posted workers. It is therefore justified to impose on Member States the obligation to publish the legal constituent elements of remuneration on the single website provided for by Article 5 of the Enforcement Directive as transparency and access to information are key elements for service providers.
Amendment 216 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The elements of remuneration under national law or universally applicable collective agreements should be clear and transparent to all service providers. It is therefore justified to impose on Member States the obligation to publish the constituent elements of remuneration on the single website provided for by Article 5 of the Enforcement Directive. The elements of remuneration under national law or universally applicable collective agreements should be clear, up to date and transparent to all service providers. It is therefore justified to impose on Member States the obligation to publish the constituent elements of remuneration on the single website provided for by Article 5 of the Enforcement Directive. In order to provide more transparency and clarity generally applicable collective agreements should be also accompanied by clear information on applicable elements of remuneration. Social partners are also obliged to make public all collective agreements, which are applicable according to this Directive. Similarly, foreign subcontractors should be informed in writing about terms and condition of employment including remuneration they should apply towards posted workers
Amendment 219 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The elements of remuneration under national law or universally applicable collective agreements should be clear and transparent to all service providers. It is therefore justified to impose on Member States the obligation to publish the constituent elements of remuneration on the single website provided for by Article 5 of the Enforcement Directive. It is important for each Member State to ensure that its website works properly and is updated on a regular basis. The Commission should ensure that the addresses of those websites and details of how frequently the sites are updated are available in one place.
Amendment 230 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) Laws, regulations, administrative provisions or collective agreements applicable in Member States may ensure that subcontracting does not confer on undertakings the possibility to avoid rules guaranteeing certain terms and conditions of employment covering remunerationMember States have the freedom to establish on their territory appropriate measures applicable to local and foreign service providers in order to ensure compliance with the applicable rules concerning posting in case of subcontracting chains. In the case of the construction sector Member States are obliged, by the Directive 2014/67/EU, to introduce appropriate liability measures in order to ensure fair competition and workers’ rights. WThere such rules on remuneration exist at national level, thefore laws, regulations, administrative provisions or universally applicable collective agreements applicable in Member States may apply them in a non- discriminatory mannensure that subcontracting does not confer ton undertakings posting workers to the possibilitsy territory provided that they do not disproportionately restrict the cross-border proviso avoid rules guaranteeing certain terms and conditions of servicesemployment.
Amendment 258 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point -1 (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point -1 (new)
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 1 – paragraph 2
Article 1 – paragraph 2
(–1) In Article 1, paragraph 2 is amended as follows: "2. This Directive shall not apply to merchant navy undertakings as regards seagoing personnel as well as transport services such as transit, international transport and linked cabotage."
Amendment 273 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point -1 (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point -1 (new)
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 1 – paragraph 4a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 4a (new)
Amendment 301 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 2a – paragraph 1
Article 2a – paragraph 1
1. When the anticipated or the effective duration of posting of an individual worker exceeds twenty-four months, the Member State to whose territory a worker is posted shall be deemed to be the country in which his or her work is habitually carried out.
Amendment 307 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 2a – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 2a – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. The duration of posting of an individual worker shall be calculated within a reference period of 36 months, with a possibility to refrain from the application of par.1 following an agreement between the two Member States concerned.
Amendment 311 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 2a – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 2a – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. This article shall not apply to undertakings operating in the international road transport sector.
Amendment 322 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 2a – paragraph 2
Article 2a – paragraph 2
2. For the purpose of paragraph 1, in case of replacement of posted workerscalculating the effective duration of posting of an individual posted worker according to paragraph 1, in case of replacement of that individual posted worker by another worker performing the same task at the same place, the cumulative duration of the posting periods of the workers concerned shall be taken into account, with regard to workers that are posted for an effective duration of at least six months.
Amendment 323 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
2. For the purpose of paragraph 1, in case of replacement of posted workerscalculating the effective duration of posting of an individual posted worker according to paragraph 1, in case of replacement of that individual posted worker by another worker performing the same task at the same place, the cumulative duration of the posting periods of the workers concerned shall be taken into account, with regard to workers that are posted for an effective duration of at least six months.
Amendment 336 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 2a – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Article 2a – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
For the purpose of calculating the posting period the concept of "the same task at the same place" shall be understood as the very same working place (address) where the worker is posted to the same working position to perform the same task under agreement between the same service provider and the same service receiver.
Amendment 342 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 2a – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 2a – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. When a period of two months have elapsed from the date of expiry of the previous posting period, the calculation restarts.
Amendment 357 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 2
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 2
– by collective agreements or arbitration awards which have been declared universally applicable within the meaning of paragraph 8: insofar as they are published on the single official national website referred to in Article 5 of Directive 2014/67/EU: (This amendment applies throughout the text. Adopting it will necessitate corresponding changes throughout.)
Amendment 368 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 2 – point c
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 2 – point c
(c) remuneration – and, in the case of undertakings operating in the international road transport sector, minimum rates of pay –, including overtime rates; this point does not apply to supplementary occupational retirement pension schemes;
Amendment 406 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 408 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
For the purpose of this Directive, remuneration means all minimum rates of pay and other elements of remuneration rendered mandatory by national law, regulation or administrative provision, collective agreements or arbitration awards which have been declared universally applicable and/or, in the absence of a system for declaring collective agreements or arbitration awards to be of universal application, other collective agreements or arbitration awards within the meaning of paragraph 8 second subparagraph, in the Member State to whose territory the worker is posted.
Amendment 415 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Direktice 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2a (new)
In respect of undertakings operating in the international road transport sector, for the purpose of this Directive, the concept of minimum rate of pay, as referred to in paragraph 1(c), shall be defined by the national law and/or practice of the Member State to whose territory the worker is posted.
Amendment 416 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
Amendment 427 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Member States shall publish inensure that the single official national website referred to in Article 5 of Directive 2014/67/EU the constituent elements of remuneration in accordance with point (c). works properly and is updated on a regular basis and shall publish on that website the constituent elements of remuneration, and in the case of undertakings operating in the international transport sector, the elements of the minimum rate of pay, their territorial and personal scope and the method used to calculate them, in accordance with point (c). The Commission shall post on its website a list of the addresses of those official national websites, together with details of all updates made to them.
Amendment 430 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Member States shall specify in a transparent way different elements of remuneration applicable to their territory. They shall publish in the single official national website referred to in Article 5 of Directive 2014/67/EU the constituent elements of remuneration in accordance with point (c). In case of universally applicable collective agreements a separate clear information on the applicable remuneration shall be published.
Amendment 432 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Member States shall publish in the single official national website referred to in Article 5 of Directive 2014/67/EU the constituent elements of remuneration as defined by national law and applicable collective agreements in accordance with point (c).
Amendment 445 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 b (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 b (new)
Posted workers shall be entitled to the gross amount of remuneration which does not have to comply with all the mandatory elements but with the amount required.
Amendment 446 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 c (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 c (new)
Miscalculation of remuneration due to a posted worker resulting from wrong or insufficient information published in the single official national website or transmitted to subcontractors in written form shall not be sanctioned.
Amendment 457 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 a
Article 3 – paragraph 1 a
1a. If undertakings established in the territory of a Member State are obliged by law, regulation, administrative provision or collective agreement, to sub-contract in the context of their contractual obligations only to undertakings that guarantee certain terms and conditions of employment covering remuneration, , the Member State may, on a non–discriminatory and proportionate basis, provide that such undertakings shall be under the same obligation regarding subcontracts with undertakings referred to in Article 1 (1) posting workers to its territory. This paragraph does not apply to undertakings operating in the international road transport sector.
Amendment 463 #
2016/0070(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1a – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1a – subparagraph 1 a (new)
In case of subcontracting the national contractors shall be obliged to inform their subcontractors in writing about applicable terms and condition of employment including remuneration.
Amendment 6 #
2016/0062(NLE)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5
Citation 5
– having regard to Articles 21, 23, 24 25 and 256 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;
Amendment 35 #
2016/0062(NLE)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15
Citation 15
Amendment 49 #
2016/0062(NLE)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 21
Citation 21
– having regard to the Commission roadmap on a possible EU accession to the Istanbul Convention, published in October 2015;
Amendment 52 #
2016/0062(NLE)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 22
Citation 22
Amendment 56 #
2016/0062(NLE)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 23
Citation 23
– having regard to the Third Quarterly Activity Report of the Commissioner of Human Rights of the Council of Europe of 16 November 20176, in relation to the definition of gender-based violence in the Istanbul Convention,
Amendment 129 #
2016/0062(NLE)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas exposure to physical, sexual or psychological violence and abuse has a severe impact on victims; whereas children do not need to be directly affected by the violence to be considered victims as witnessing domestic violence is also traumatising;
Amendment 133 #
2016/0062(NLE)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the Istanbul Convention clearly in art.3 defines “gender-based violence” as “violence that is directed against a woman because she is a woman or that affects women disproportionately” and furthermore defines “gender” as “the socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for women and men”;
Amendment 187 #
2016/0062(NLE)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the fact that on 4 March 2016 the Commission proposed the EU’s accession to the Istanbul Convention – the first comprehensive legally binding instrument on preventing and combating violence against women at international level;
Amendment 197 #
2016/0062(NLE)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Deplores the fact that women and girls are often exposed to domestic violence, sexual harassment, sexual violence and rape, forced marriage, honour killings, feminicide, female genital mutilation and other forms of violence, which constitute a serious violation of the human rights and dignity of women and girls; denounces that more and more women and girls are victims of gender-based violence on the internet and on social media; Calls on Member States to adopt concrete measures to address these new forms of crimes, including sex- extortion, grooming, voyeurism and revenge pornography, and protect victims, who experience serious trauma leading sometimes even to suicide;
Amendment 229 #
2016/0062(NLE)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point c
Paragraph 5 – point c
(c) To ask the Commission to initiate, without delay, a constructive dialogue with the Council and Member States, in cooperation with the Council of Europe, so as to address reservations, objections and concerns expressed by Member States; and clarifyin particular to clarify misleading interpretations of the Istanbul Convention, in particular on on the definition of gender-based violence and the definition of gender in Article 3(c) and (d), in accordance with the General Remarks of the Commissioner of Human Rights of the Council of Europe;
Amendment 233 #
2016/0062(NLE)
(ca) To produce practical guidelines on the application of the Istanbul Convention to facilitate a smooth implementation and enforcement of the Convention in countries that have already ratified it as well as to respond to the concerns of those that have not yet ratified it and encourage them to do so;
Amendment 236 #
2016/0062(NLE)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point e
Paragraph 5 – point e
(e) To envisage rendering thesure a EU accession to the Istanbul Convention as broad as possible and without reservations;
Amendment 263 #
2016/0062(NLE)
(i) To ensure preventive measures in order to address the specific needs of vulnerable persons, such as women with disabilities and child victims, including specialist support services and safe accommodation for women who have been the victims of gender-based violence and their children;
Amendment 269 #
2016/0062(NLE)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point i a (new)
Paragraph 5 – point i a (new)
(ia) Take into account significant incidents of violence against women and domestic violence when determining custody and visitation rights; the rights and needs of child witnesses should be also taken into account when providing protection and support services to victims;
Amendment 315 #
2016/0062(NLE)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Member States to fully implement Directive 2011/99/EU on European Protection order, Regulation (EU) on mutual recognition of protection measures in civil matter and Directive 2012/29/EU on protection of victims as well as Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in Human being and Directive 2011/92/EU on preventing and combating child sexual abuse and exploitation;
Amendment 21 #
2015/2330(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 a (new)
Citation 34 a (new)
- - Having regard to the Commission's Recommendation on the active inclusion of people excluded from the labour market (October 2008),
Amendment 25 #
2015/2330(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 b (new)
Citation 34 b (new)
- - Having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,
Amendment 28 #
2015/2330(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 c (new)
Citation 34 c (new)
- - Having regard to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities' Concluding Observations on the initial report of the European Union (September 2015),
Amendment 88 #
2015/2330(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas one of the five Europe 2020 targets aims at reducing by at least 20 million the number of people in or at risk of poverty and social exclusion; whereas almost 123 million people in the EU are in this situation; whereas in 2013 26.5 million children in the EU28 were at risk of falling into poverty or social exclusion; whereas in 2012 32.2 million persons with disabilities over 16 years are in this situation;
Amendment 139 #
2015/2330(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that good and qualityquality and inclusive jobs constitute an essential pillar for social fairness, promoting human dignity for all; believes that in this sense employment and growth must be placed at the centre of EU policies, especially for youth, as a way to construct a more sustainable social European Union;
Amendment 155 #
2015/2330(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to foster, at Member State level, forms of cooperation involving governments, enterprises, educational institutions , individualised support services and social partners, with a view to adapting Member States’' education and training systems to the needs of the labour marketsupport access to and retention of employment in the open labour market for all people in Europe;
Amendment 248 #
2015/2330(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to gradually shift taxes from labour to other sources, and to implement tax rules that foster incentives to entrepreneurship and employment creation, especially for highly qualified young people, in order to boost research and innovation projects within European enterprises;
Amendment 296 #
2015/2330(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Points out that enterprises in the social economy, including social services face as many difficulties as traditional enterprises in obtaining public or private financing; underlines the need to give them more support, especially as regards access to the different forms of financing, such as European funds; calls on the Commission to support investment into the social economy;
Amendment 312 #
2015/2330(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Points out that investment priorities must be oriented to infrastructurale and human capital development projects where these are clearly needed in order to ensure social fairness or enhance sustainable growth; calls on the Commission to require both a prior presentation of the expected social and economic outcomes of any EU-funded investment project and its subsequent monitoring and evaluation;
Amendment 349 #
2015/2330(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5
Subheading 5
Social inclusion as a challengen opportunity for society
Amendment 377 #
2015/2330(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Points out to the Member States, in view of the ageing of Europe’'s citizens, the social risk implied in not being able to guarantee the sustainability and effectiveness of social security systems over the coming decades;
Amendment 402 #
2015/2330(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. WelcomesCalls on the Commission recommendatioto develop a plan on how the eEuro area, which consolidates the joint analysis and definition of strategies of the social and economic dimensions of Member States under EMU, stressing the need for these criteria to be reconciled;pean Semester could be used to implement the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; in particular by assessing access to quality community- based services for all people in Europe.
Amendment 418 #
2015/2330(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Welcomes the fact that the Commission has clearly distinguished a European and a national phase with regard to the European Semester; stresses the need for closer coordination between the European institutions in the design, implementation and evaluation of the European strategy for growth; calls on the Commission to establish a clear agenda in this respect, also involving the social partners and civil society and the national parliaments;
Amendment 14 #
2015/2326(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights the fact that in 2014 there were 3715 new complaints registered and the Commission received its highest number of new complaints (666) in the area of employment, social affairs and inclusion since 2011;1 b ; ___________ 1b Monitoring the application of Union law, 2014 Annual Report, p. 8
Amendment 20 #
2015/2326(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Points out that the number of new late transposition cases infringement cases in the area of employment (17)increased slightly in 2014 compared to the previous year (13) and all of these were related to labour law;1 a; ___________ 1a Commission Staff Working Document, 2014 Annual Report, Part I: Policy areas, p. 40
Amendment 25 #
2015/2326(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that at the end of 2014, there were 1347 infringement cases opened including 72 which were related to employment4 a ; ___________ 4a Monitoring the application of Union law, 2014 Annual report, p. 15
Amendment 27 #
2015/2326(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Takes note of the fact that reasons for late transposition of directives varies from country to country, urges the Commission to conduct an in-depth analyses in Members States in order to gain comprehensive knowledge in this area and to combat future late transposition by providing solutions which are compatible with legal contingencies of particular Member States;
Amendment 28 #
2015/2326(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Welcomes the fact that the Commission has made the effort to decrease the number of formal infringement procedures in the last five years through effective structured dialogue with Member States via EU Pilot initiated before a formal infringement procedure was launched;
Amendment 38 #
2015/2326(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Underlines the important role of social partners and other stakeholders in the creation of legislation by monitoring through reporting shortcomings in transposition and application of EU law by Member States; takes note of the Commissions acknowledgment of stakeholders' role by launching, in 2014, new tools which facilitate this process;
Amendment 51 #
2015/2326(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. CWelcomes the European Commission's ongoing revision of the existing legislation under Better Regulation Agenda which aims at ensuring the high quality of EU legislation in terms of transparency, public consultation, implementation and compliance with the principle of subsidiarity, therefore calls on the Commission and the Member States to coordinate their efforts at an earlier stage of the legislative process with a view to ensuring that future EU law can be implemented more effectively, since overregulation might cause more harm to business and employment;
Amendment 54 #
2015/2326(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that the principle of equal treatment and non-discrimination is well established in the Community law, therefore it should be taken into consideration and respected while drafting EU legislation;
Amendment 61 #
2015/2326(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission to give greater support to the Member States with regard to implementing EU law by providing tailor-made tools, such as detailed implementation plans and guidance documents which are a result of enhanced and mutual cooperation between the Commission and Member States starting at an early stage of legislation creation.
Amendment 25 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the treatment of women and girls seeking asylum across Member States is inconsistentdiffers hugely, and very significant shortcomings remain;
Amendment 35 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has reported instances of violence and abuse, including sexual violence, against refugee women and children, particularlythroughout their journey and including in overcrowded reception centres in the EU;
Amendment 58 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that, to improve the security and safety of women refugees,and girls refugees, Member States should use all safe and legal routes to the EU must be made available for receiving those fleeing conflict and persecution; stresses in particular that more Member States should participate to the EU Resettlement Programmes; believes that legislation and policies relating to irregular migration should neverot prevent access to EU asylum procedures;
Amendment 67 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reiterates its call for all Member States and the European Union to sign and ratify the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women (Istanbul Convention);
Amendment 91 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to amend Regulation (EC) 862/2007 on Communitythoroughly gather statistics on migration and international protection with a view to adding more gender disaggregated data categories, particularly in relation to stages in the asylum process after an initial decision has been made;
Amendment 101 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. NotWelcomes the Commission’'s proposal to establish a common EU list of safe countries of origin; demands that all appropriate steps be taken to ensure that this approach is consistent with the principle of non-refoulement and that the rights of women, children and other vulnerable groups are not undermined; calls for gender differentiation to be applied; believes that claims based on fear of gender-based violence or discrimination should never, in principle, not be subject to accelerated asylum procedures bearing in mind that member states should apply the European asylum laws;
Amendment 113 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Member States to give reasons for positive asylum decisions in order to make available useful data on the consideration given tocases of gender- based violence and to provide transparency about the Convention grounds on which asylum claims have been granted;
Amendment 117 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Stresses that women and girls are particularly vulnerable to exploitation by smugglers; calls therefore on Member States to increase their police and judicial cooperation, including with Europol, Frontex, Eurojust and EASO to effectively combat smuggling and trafficking of migrants;
Amendment 140 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Strongly condemns the use of sexual violence against women as a weapon of war; considers that special attention should be given to migrant women and girls abused in conflicts by ensuring access to medical and psychological support;
Amendment 154 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Stresses that the needs of vulnerable people such as women victims of violence and girls, in particular unaccompanied girls, should be prioritised in the reception procedures;
Amendment 159 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Highlights that many women asylum seekers and refugees have experienced extreme violence and that detention may exacerbate their trauma; calls for an immediate end, in all Member States, to the detention of girls because of their status of migrant and stresses that the need of pregnant women seeking asylum and the detention of survivors of rape and sexual violence are more appropriately accommodated in tailored facilities;
Amendment 165 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses the urgent need for independent investigations into all allegations of abussexual abuse and gender based violence at places of immigration detention and for access to be granted to journalists;
Amendment 168 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Urges all Member States to reduce maximumkeep limits to the duration of detention prior to removal to belowto the limit stipulated in the Return Directive; considers that prolonged detention disproportionately harms vulnerable groups;
Amendment 183 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Member States to develop and implement specific measures to facilitate labour market participation of women refugees and asylum seekers, including language classes, lifelong learning and training; stresses the importance of widening access to higher education for women and girls refugees; calls for robust and transparent procedures for recognising qualifications obtained abroad;
Amendment 197 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
Amendment 78 #
2015/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. having regard to the fact that there is no legal definition of social dumping which may create confusion and stigmatise cases of legal competitiveness based on lower labour costs;
Amendment 85 #
2015/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
C b. whereas undefined terms in the EU acts favour arbitrary interpretation which may lead to different national solutions, aimed at fighting the abuses but contrary to fundamental freedoms of the single market;
Amendment 89 #
2015/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. having regard to the balance between social and economic rights stipulated in the Treaty and confirmed by the European Court of Justice in its several judgements (Laval und Partneri (C- 341/05), Rüffert (C-346/06), Luxembourg (C-319/06), proving that the exercise of certain rights constituting a restriction to the basic freedoms of movement cannot always be justified with regard to the objective of protecting workers;
Amendment 261 #
2015/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Takes the view that the competent authorities should be able to suspend the provision of services in cases of serious breaches of legislation on postings that endangers the life or health of workers;
Amendment 463 #
2015/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls on a stronger cooperation of the national transport agencies;
Amendment 19 #
2015/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Regrets the absence of a more recognisable branding for CLLD and ITI and encourages the Commission and the Member States to make both tools as visible and understandable as possible for their users, while avoiding any additional bureaucratic burden and making further efforts in simplifying rules and procedures;
Amendment 23 #
2015/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to create channels of communication with Member States and local agents and points out that CLLD and ITI will only achieve success with the commitment and ownership of all the stakeholders involved; calls on the Commission to establish a coordination unit for effective implementation of CLLD and ITI;
Amendment 35 #
2015/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes the potential of the bottom-up approach of CLLD in creating job opportunities and encouraging sustainable rural development, and would welcomes the inclusion of urban areas in this mechanism;
Amendment 43 #
2015/2224(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission, in view of the limited use of the European Social Fund within the method in question andfact that only 13 Member States has set- up CLLD funding schemes for the European Social Fund and given the absence of a centralised managing authority in most Member States, to use the mid-term review of the MFF to address the difficulties that have already been identified in the application of the instruments and to find sustainable solutions;
Amendment 16 #
2015/2129(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Is concerned that the non- consensual distribution of erotic or pornographic material, including online and through social media, such as the phenomenon of so-called ‘revenge porn’– a rapidly increasing form of abuse and persecution – overwhelmingly affects women and girls, some of whom are under the legal age of consent; calls on the Member States to step up concrete measures to combat this new form of crime and on the internet industry to take their shared responsibility; emphasises the need to educate young girls on the possible consequences of taking intimate photographs or videos of themselves;
Amendment 22 #
2015/2129(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises the need to raise awareness at an early stage among all girls and boys about staying safe and about the importance of respecting the dignity and privacy of others in the digital era; encourages Member States to share best practices on education material and training programmes for all actors involved, such as teachers, educators, law enforcement authorities on grooming and other forms of risk to the safety of children online, in particular for girls;
Amendment 32 #
2015/2129(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Member States to step up measures to protect victims of child sexual abuse and to improve the role of national helplines, with a gender sensitive approach;
Amendment 43 #
2015/2129(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3e. Calls on the Member States to step up cooperation and to exchange data to identify children victims of sexual abuse, including missing children, especially girls who are particularly vulnerable to trafficking and sexual exploitation;
Amendment 8 #
2015/2118(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8
Citation 8
– having regard to the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the European Parliament Resolution of 27 November 2014 on the 25th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child;
Amendment 32 #
2015/2118(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas THB takes many different forms across many legal and illegal activities, including, but not limited to, agriculture, food processing, prostitution, sexual exploitation of children online, domestic work, manufacturing, care, cleaning, other types of forced labour (particularly in the service industries), forced begging, forced criminality, forced marriage, illegal adoptions and the trade in human organs;
Amendment 60 #
2015/2118(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas particular attention should be given to children, unaccompanied minors and migrant women as they face multiple risks;
Amendment 71 #
2015/2118(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas 70% of victims of trafficking and 70% of suspects traffickers in the EU are EU-nationals, according to the 2016 Report of Europol on trafficking in human beings in the EU;
Amendment 72 #
2015/2118(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas a majority of the registered victims are women and girls trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation, together comprising up to 95 % of the victims trafficked for sexual exploitation12 ; whereas trafficking is a form of violence against women and girls; __________________ 12 Idem, Eurostat report.
Amendment 78 #
2015/2118(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas there is a clear distinction between THB and human smuggling, but undocumented migrants are particularly vulnerable to exploitation and further victimisation, especially children and women;
Amendment 81 #
2015/2118(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas trafficking is a serious organised crime that generates high profits of about 150 billion dollars a year; whereas there is still too low risk of being prosecuted and too low sanctions to be applied to deter crime compared to the high profits;
Amendment 84 #
2015/2118(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital K b (new)
Recital K b (new)
Kb. whereas in order to be effective any legislation to combat trafficking must be accompanied by a clear cultural shift from a culture of impunity to a culture of zero tolerance against trafficking;
Amendment 88 #
2015/2118(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Member States to speed up the full and correct enforcement of Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in Human beings and protecting its victims;
Amendment 90 #
2015/2118(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Member States to combat impunity, criminalise trafficking and ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice and that sanctions are strengthened as well as adequate to be dissuasive; calls on Member States to improve collection of evidence to combat trafficking and to increase police and judiciary cooperation including with Europol, Eurojust and Frontex with particular attention to the gender dimension of THB;
Amendment 94 #
2015/2118(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. AcknowledgeCommends the good work done by the office of the EU Anti-Trafficking Coordinator in the development ofing knowledge and evidence on the various aspects of THB, including research into the gender dimension and the particular vulnerability of children;
Amendment 98 #
2015/2118(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Member States to strengthen cooperation in order to track and confiscate assets of traffickers, in particular linked to abuse and sexual exploitation of women and girls; calls on Member States to use all existing tools available more efficiently such as mutual recognition of Court judgements, joint investigation teams and the European investigation order;
Amendment 100 #
2015/2118(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Considers that migrants are particularly vulnerable to trafficking, especially children and women; calls on Member States to increase cooperation, including in the hotspots, to identify potential victims and to use all means to combat traffickers and smugglers;
Amendment 105 #
2015/2118(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines that under Article 11 of the directive, Member States have an obligation to establish mechanisms to ensure the early identification of, assistance to and support for victims, in cooperation with relevant support organisations; calls on Member States to implement Articles 11 to 17 of the Directive concerning protection and support of victims with a gender sensitive approach and to fully apply Directive 2012/29/ EU establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime to ensure proper support and assistance for victims of THB;
Amendment 117 #
2015/2118(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes the huge and increasing role of the internet in the recruitment of victims and the exchange of information between criminal networks; calls on the Member States to ensure that their respective anti- trafficking policies take account of this and that law enforcement efforts addressing cyber technologies have the gender expertise needed to tackle this in the best way; stresses that new technologies, social media and the internet should also be used to raise awareness and alert potential victims on the risks of trafficking;
Amendment 128 #
2015/2118(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes that the principal source of information for the registration of victims is the police, pointing to the need for targeted and specialist training for police officers; highlights that using prisons and detention centres as registration sources shows a failure of the system;
Amendment 136 #
2015/2118(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to develop guidelines based on best practices to develop and mainstream gender expertise into the activities of law enforcement bodauthorities across EU;
Amendment 141 #
2015/2118(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. CRecalls on the Commission and the Member States to work together tothat training of practitioners and officials is crucial to early identify potential victims and prevent crime; calls therefore on the Member States to fully apply art 18. 3 of the Directive 2011/36/EU and to share best practices in particular when createing gender-sensitive training programmes for persons coming in contact with victims of THB in an official capacity, including police officers, border officers, judges, magistrates, lawyers, front-line medical staff and social workers; stresses that training should include detection of victims, the formal identification process and appropriate, gender-specific assistance for victims;
Amendment 149 #
2015/2118(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Member States actively to include social partners, private sector, trade unions and civil society in their initiatives to prevent THB, particularly in the field of labour exploitation, including as regards the identification of victims and awareness- raising activities;
Amendment 154 #
2015/2118(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Notes that while sexual exploitation of children is illegal in all Member States, this does not prevent trafficking of children for sexual exploitation; calls on the CommissionMember States to fully implement Directive 2011/92/EU on combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child pornography and to step up their police and judicial cooperation to prevent and combat child sexual exploitation; calls on the Commission in cooperation with the Member States to examine how the demand for sexual services drives child trafficking, and how beston Member States to share best practices to reduce demand;
Amendment 181 #
2015/2118(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Notes that it is already illegal under Directive 2009/52/EC for employers to use the work or services of third-country nationals with no legal residency status in the EU with the knowledge that they are victims of THB,; and is concernedacknowledges that EU nationals who are victims of THB are not included under this legislation; asks that the Commission examine the impact of this apparent loophole and assess the need to change the legislation in order to close itcalls on the Member States to ensure that in their national legislation EU- nationals victims of trafficking are protected from labour exploitation and relevant sanctions are put in place;
Amendment 182 #
2015/2118(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Recalls that according to Europol about 10.000 unaccompanied children have disappeared after their arrival in the EU in 2015 and that they could be victims of trafficking and exposed to all sort of exploitation and abuse; calls on the Member States to register children upon their arrival and ensure their inclusion in the Child protection systems; calls on the Member States to increase information sharing in order to better protect migrant children in Europe who are particularly vulnerable to trafficking;
Amendment 223 #
2015/2118(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Calls on the Member StatesRecalls that according to Directive 2004/81/EC Member States are bounded to allow a period of reflection and recovery for victims of trafficking in human beings; Calls on the Member States when determining the duration of such a period to take into account art.13 of the Council of Europe Convention on action against trafficking in human beings and to assess the possibility of extending the minimum 30-day recovery and reflection period included in the Council of Europe Convention for women trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation, given the significant and sustained harms of this form of violence against women;
Amendment 225 #
2015/2118(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Notes that the current EU Strategy towards the Eradication of THB comes to an end in 2016, and calls on the Commission to evaluate the current strategy and introduce a new one that includes a clear gender dimension and contains concrete actions in this regard; calls for this strategy to be integrated and made coherent with other policy areas, with a view to ensuring effective implementation of anti-trafficking measures, including, but not limited to, security, migrationgender equality, migration, cybersecurity and law enforcement.
Amendment 229 #
2015/2118(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
41. Asks thatCalls on the Member States to collect more detailed data by compiling reliable statistical information gathered from all main actors, by ensuring that the data is disaggregated by gender, age, type of exploitation (within the subsets of types of THB), country of origin and destination, and by including internally trafficked people, to better assess the gender dimensionidentify potential victims and precvent trendcrime; calls ion THB, as well as by collecting data on recovthe Member States to increase data sharing to bettery and reflection periods, residence permits and victim compensationssess the gender dimension and recent trends in THB and combat trafficking more effectively; calls on the Members States to ensure that national rapporteurs play a more significant role in the coordination of data collection initiatives, in close cooperation with relevant civil society organisations active in this field;
Amendment 240 #
2015/2118(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44
Paragraph 44
44. Asks that the Commission produce a study onto include in its upcoming report on the Implementation of Directive 2011/36/EU the links between different types of trafficking and the routes between them;
Amendment 33 #
2015/2116(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the current refugee crisis is used by extremists to proliferate a negative attitude towards ethnic and religious minorities across the Member States, which undermines core values of the EU;
Amendment 46 #
2015/2116(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas the employment rate of women with disabilities in the EU (44%) is significantly lower compared to the employment rate of men with disabilities (52%);
Amendment 50 #
2015/2116(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas only half of the people between 55 and 65 are in employment, and long- underlines the fact that the female employment rate in this age group in some Member States is around or less than 30%, and the gender employment gap is the highest - 14,5 pps compared to the gap for the middle age group (30-54 years old)- 12.4 pps and the young group (20-29 years old) - 8.3 pps1a , takes the view that long-term unemployment is particularly prevalent among younger and older employees;, especially women; __________________ 1a Source: Eurostat, LFS, 2012
Amendment 66 #
2015/2116(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Points out that according to the EU Agency of Fundamental Rights all forms of discrimination, including multiple and intersection discrimination, to a great extent hinder the deployment of human capital and constitutes a barrier in career development; underlines the fact that people with disabilities are often victims of those types of discrimination;
Amendment 68 #
2015/2116(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Takes the view that the protection against discrimination on the grounds of religion and belief in the European Union is currently provided in both human rights law and anti-discrimination law and these two are mutually influencing each other;
Amendment 91 #
2015/2116(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Believes that the general exception in Article 2(5) is broadly drafted, and hopes, therefore, that the courts of justice will assess its boundaries very carefully; notes that Article 2(5) is in accordance with Member States' national laws, which is of particular importance in the context of social tensions arising from the migration crisis;
Amendment 98 #
2015/2116(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Encourages the Member States to interpret the EU law in such as way as to provide a basis for a wide concept of disability, following the definition from the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and combining those elements that are advantageous for disabled persons, and regrets that some Member States still have legislation in place that require a threshold of 50 % of incapacity and official medical certification17 ; __________________ 17 Ibid.
Amendment 115 #
2015/2116(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Welcomes the fact that all Member States offer grants or subsidies to employers providing reasonable accommodation, thereby incentivising employers to adapt the workplace in order to hireso that people with disabilities can have access to an open labour market;
Amendment 116 #
2015/2116(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Highlights the need to recognize social clauses in public procurement procedures as the potential tool for achieving social policy objectives; takes the view that socially responsible public procurement could be used as an instrument to integrate people with disabilities and other vulnerable groups into the labour market;
Amendment 122 #
2015/2116(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Encourages the Member States to contemplate the adoption of a universal design standard for creating working surroundings that take into account the needs of persons with disabilities; underlines the importance of promotion and the inclusion of the principles of universal design into the Members States national laws regarding design for the workplace and public space, calls on Member States to respect EU commitments on accessibility, welcomes therefore the progress in works on the European Accessibility Act;
Amendment 155 #
2015/2116(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Underlines the importance of having elderly in the workplace who can pass on their knowledge and experience to younger workers, and regrets the fact that age is the first grounds for employment discrimination;
Amendment 171 #
2015/2116(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Notes that, thanks to policy changes, people aged 55-64 make up an increasing share of workers; regrets, however, that the employment rate for this group has increased too slowly and remains below 50 % in the EU19 ; is concerned about howunderlines therefore theat digital market will affect employment, in particular forization has a substantial impact on the labour market by creating new job opportunities and more flexible working conditions such as telecommuting or teleworking which could serve as an effective tool against the exclusion of people over 50, and about how little prepared the EU and the Member States are to address this issue; s well as for better reconciliation of professional and domestic duties for both women and men, emphasises in this context that the continual improvement of digital skills is a perquisite to benefiting from digitalization; __________________ 19 Businesseurope , ‘Position paper on Promoting diversity in employment and workplaces’, Nov. 2013.
Amendment 182 #
2015/2116(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Recalls that the most important resource of the EU and the Member States is their human resources; calls for investment in the development of the digital and soft skills needed in the future, including throughtakes the view that e-skills are essential for older workers over 55 in order to safeguard them from the exclusion from the labour market and to facilitate them in finding new employment, calls on the Commission and the Member States to support and invest in life-long learning, as well as comprehensive training and schemes and the retraining of older employeeswhich prepare for a better adaptation to growing demand for e-skills in many different sectors, stresses therefore that older workers over 55, especially women should have continuous access to trainings on ICT;
Amendment 213 #
2015/2116(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Recalls that the scope of protection from discrimination available to trans people, especially in the area of employment, education and healthcare, remains uncertain in many Member States; calls for measures to implement effectively national legislation transposing the Gender Equality Directive (recast); points out that such measures could include improved legal definitions and the extension of protections for trans people to include others than those undergoing or have undergone gender reassignment21 ; __________________ 21 Ibid. Ibid.
Amendment 220 #
2015/2116(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
Amendment 270 #
2015/2116(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Recalls that pursuing court cases, and ensuring adequate representation, is still problematic in some cases22 , and urges the Member States to find ways to help victims in this regard, including by means of tax exemptions, legal aid and assistance from specialised NGOs, etc., and by ensuring legal redress and adequate representation; __________________ 22 EPRS, op. cit.
Amendment 287 #
2015/2116(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31a. Calls on employers to create anti- discriminatory working environments for their employees through respecting and implementing the existing anti- discrimination directives based on the principle of equal treatment regardless of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age, sexual orientation; calls on the Commission to monitor the implementation of the related measures;
Amendment 84 #
2015/2103(INL)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. an answer must be found to the question of which areas might see restrictions or a ban on total automation in order to safeguard employment levels, taking into account demographic changes and sustainability and any unintended social consequencesn how to safeguard employment levels challenged by growing automation.
Amendment 6 #
2015/2095(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas women and girls asylum seekers and undocumented migrants are particularly vulnerable to all forms of violence, including sexual violence, at all stages of their journey;
Amendment 28 #
2015/2095(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on Member States to exchange good practice on how to integrate refugees into European society and labour market; calls on the Commission to take advantage of Member States' experiences and come up with a set of recommendations on how to complete this process in an effective way;
Amendment 28 #
2015/2095(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas there exist disparities across the Member States in the treatment of women and girls seeking asylum and a holistic EU approach to asylum and immigration must ensure that consistent and gender-sensitive procedures are in place;
Amendment 37 #
2015/2095(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that, regardless of legal status, decisions to detain should take into account oif past histories ofwomen have undergone trauma including experiences of sexual violence, and that the needs of pregnant women are more appropriately accommodated in tailored facilitie or FGM; considers that pregnant women in particular and single mothers should receive a treatment that takes into account their condition; stresses that girls should never be detained because of their status of migrants;
Amendment 55 #
2015/2095(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Points out that the majority of asylum seekers whose applications have been rejected in any Member States stay in the EU without any legal status, which means that there are a growing number of illegal migrants without right to work and access to education for their children; stresses therefore a need to control and monitor illegal migrants as they are at risk of social exclusion and poverty, which makes them susceptible to all types of external influences including radicalism;
Amendment 70 #
2015/2095(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on Member States to carefully screen their education systems in order to identify ways on how to integrate refugees’ children as soon as possible into the education process;
Amendment 72 #
2015/2095(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the additions made by the Recast Reception Conditions Directive, namely the inclusion of victims of human trafficking and FGM as separate categories of vulnerable persons; expresses its deep concern that only 12 Member States have applied vulnerable person status to victims of human trafficking; calls on the remaining Member States to implement the provisions of the Recast Reception Conditions Directive;
Amendment 76 #
2015/2095(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Member States to fully implement Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims and Directive 2012/29/EU on establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime;
Amendment 80 #
2015/2095(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Stresses that women and girls are particularly vulnerable to exploitation by smugglers; calls therefore on Member States to increase their police and judicial cooperation including with Europol, Frontex, Eurojust and EASO to effectively combat migrant smuggling;
Amendment 85 #
2015/2095(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission and Members States to carry out an information campaign in migrants' countries of origin in order to provide them with proper, adequate information on procedure of granting asylum in the EU, as well as their rights and obligations in Members States in order to ensure that those who travel have a valid legal claim for asylum;
Amendment 88 #
2015/2095(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that, notwithstanding fluctuation in migration flows which may put pressure on reception facilities, the needs of vulnerable people including women and girls, in particular unaccompanied girls, should be prioritised at all times;
Amendment 91 #
2015/2095(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. CHighlights the need to strengthen the importance of the EU Blue Card, which is applicable to highly-qualified workers from third-countries, and which helps to address demographic challenges in the EU by filling shortages in the EU's labour markets, stresses the fact that highly- qualified migrants could be an asset in integrating and assimilating other non- EU nationals to European societies; calls on the Commission to adopt an ambitious approach when revising the ‘Blue Card’ Directive3 in order to improve its implementation and make it clearer and more effective in attracting highly qualified labour. __________________ 3 Council Directive 2009/50/EC of 25 May 2009 on the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purposes of highly qualified employment, OJ L 155, 18.6.2009, p. 17.
Amendment 95 #
2015/2095(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on Member States to duly take into account non- governmental organisations and other relevant stakeholders when designing integration strategies as well as information campaigns addressed to local communities;
Amendment 96 #
2015/2095(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Underlines in particular the importance of ensuring access to education for migrant girls, especially when unaccompanied;
Amendment 100 #
2015/2095(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Considers that economic independence is key to equality and to integration; calls therefore on Member States to facilitate access to work for migrant women;
Amendment 102 #
2015/2095(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Strongly condemns the use of sexual violence against women as a weapon of war; considers that special attention should be given to migrant women and girls abused in conflicts by ensuring access to medical and psychological support;
Amendment 107 #
2015/2095(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Encourages the UNHCR, EASO and Member States to ensure that the highest possible standards are in place for recruitment and that training which promotes a gender-based approach is provided for all staff.
Amendment 54 #
2015/2094(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. Having regard to social challenges such as population ageing or social exclusion as well as the need to facilitate reconciliation of work with family life,
Amendment 60 #
2015/2094(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. having regard to the fact that household services, family employment and home care have a potential to improve economic and social cohesion in the EU,
Amendment 63 #
2015/2094(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. having regards to the fact that an adequate regulation of this sector would contribute to fighting with undeclared work,
Amendment 135 #
2015/2094(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on policy makers to recognise household services, family employment and home care as a valuable economic sector that needs to be better regulated within Member States with a view to create a friendly environment for domestic workers and provide families with a capacity to assume their role as employers;
Amendment 78 #
2015/2088(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. StressesPoints out that regardless of 2 million unfilled vacancies in the EU there are many over-qualified youth unemployed whose skills do not match demand of the labour market, stresses therefore, the need to build up partnerships between local authorities, education and employment services and the business community to support the creation, implementation and monitoring of employment strategies and action plans; calls for closer and structural co-operation between education, public administration, business and civil society, especially youth organisations;
Amendment 96 #
2015/2088(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the importance of administrative capacity; calls thereforefor the strengthening of the partnership principle as well as for the provision of appropriate training for local and regional authorities as well as other relevant stakeholders in order to use European funds more effectively and strategically;
Amendment 130 #
2015/2088(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Underlines that entrepreneurial skills can be acquired also through skills development programmes organised outside of the general education system and that these programmes may include coaching and mentoring activities supplied by experienced trainers, entrepreneurs and business experts that facilitate not only valuable business know-how, advice and feedback to potential entrepreneurs but also allow them to develop valuable network of contacts with existing enterprises and entrepreneurs that could otherwise take very long time to achieve;
Amendment 147 #
2015/2088(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Recalls that employers and entrepreneurs play a great role in training in the workplace as well as providing apprenticeships and that this should be further supported and developed;
Amendment 165 #
2015/2088(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Recalls that good quality educational guidancetailor-made guidance and support at all stages of education is necessary and can lower the risk of early school-leaving as well as help to overcome difficulties in accessing the labour market;
Amendment 171 #
2015/2088(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Stresses the importance of regular monitoring of the future skills needs' and encourages therefore Member States and all relevant stakeholders to share good practice in this regards and further develop monitoring and forecasting tools;
Amendment 194 #
2015/2088(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Stresses the need to develop measures to encourage girls to engage in STEM subjects and establish quality careers guidance to support them in continuing their professional careers in this field since women remain largely underrepresented in STEM-related professions, accounting for just 24% of science and engineering professionals and since STEM occupations are among the top 20 bottleneck vacancies in the EU Member States;
Amendment 206 #
2015/2088(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls for enhanced cooperation between education institutions (both on vocational and higher level) and entrepreneurs in developing curricula adjusted to the labour market needs;
Amendment 209 #
2015/2088(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Underlines the importance of developing digital skills and media literacy from the earliest stage at school and going through the whole education cycle;
Amendment 231 #
2015/2088(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Welcomes the recent decision by EU co-legislators on increasing pre-financing for the Youth Employment Initiative, which aims to smooth the implementation of this important initiative for regions and states facing financial difficulties; calls Member States and local and regional authorities to use the available funds for bringing forward the necessary structural reforms and creating sustainable instead of only ad hoc solutions;
Amendment 235 #
2015/2088(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Points out that, despite high youth unemployment rates in some Member States and unfilled job vacancies in others, intra-EU labour mobility remains low; recalls therefore the importance of the mobility of workers for a competitive labour market, and stresses the need to reduce the linguistic and cultural barriers that are liable to restrain it by providing sector-specific language courses and trainings on intercultural communication for the unemployed;
Amendment 244 #
2015/2088(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Stresses that skills development should also be considered as a mechanism leading to equal opportunities for people from disadvantaged groups, in particular for children and young people from families affected by poverty, the long-term unemployed, including second-generation unemployed, immigrants and people with disabilities; stresses that prevention as well as life-long support and counselling at anfrom the earlyiest stage possible are of the outmost importance, because although enabling people who are at a disadvantage to develop skills and to enter the labour market requires time and resources it is also socially and economically profitable; also stresses the need to provide support and skills development via training for employers, recruiters and human resources managers to support the inclusion of disadvantaged groups into the labour markets;
Amendment 253 #
2015/2088(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Points out that while women represent the majority (60%) of university graduates in the European Union, their employment rate and promotion trajectories do not reflect their full potential; stresses that the achievement of inclusive and long-term economic growth depends on closing the gap between women's educational attainment and their position in the labour market, primarily through overcoming horizontal and vertical segregation;
Amendment 12 #
2015/2007(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Points out that digitalisation has a substantial impact on the labour market by modifying job dynamism, creating new job opportunities and more flexible working conditions such as telecommuting or teleworking which could serve as a an effective tool for better reconciliation of professional and domestic duties for both women and men;
Amendment 13 #
2015/2007(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Paragraph -1 a (new)
-1a. Points out that only 20% of 2.7 million people working in the ICT sector are women, they are underrepresented at all levels in the ICT sector, especially in decision-making positions;
Amendment 14 #
2015/2007(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 b (new)
Paragraph -1 b (new)
-1b. Highlights the fact that the Commission's estimations show that allowing more women to enter the digital jobs market can create an annual € 9 billion GDP boost in the EU area;
Amendment 15 #
2015/2007(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 c (new)
Paragraph -1 c (new)
-1c. Stresses the importance of improving digital skills and IT-literacy among women and boosting their inclusion into ICT, which is one of the highest paying sectors, which could contribute to women's financial empowerment and independence resulting in the reduction of the total gender wage gap and future pension gap;
Amendment 16 #
2015/2007(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Points out that low participation of women and girls in ICT-related education and later in employment is a result of a complex interplay of gender stereotyping that starts at early stages of life and education and continues to professional career; takes note of the fact that factors limiting women and girls from participating in the ICT education and employment include: lifelong stereotyping, segregation into "typically female and male" activities, hobbies and toys that starts at the earliest levels of education, a relative lack of female role models in the ICT sector as well as the limited visibility of women in this sector especially in leadership position;
Amendment 26 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas digitalisation has an enormous impact on the labour market by changing value chains and creating new job opportunities and more flexible working patterns; whereas women, in particular, face possible negative consequences such as the erosion of workers’ riopportunities for flexible and teleworking work arrangements broughts and working time boundaries as well as boundaries of professional and non- professional responsibilities, increasing low-paid and less secure types of employment andbout by digitalisation may serve as a an effective tool for better reconciliation of professional and domestic duties for both women and men; whereas these flexible working arrangement and digital technologies which facilitate work from home could also contributinge to the challenge of maintaining a work-life balancinclusion into the labour market of disadvantaged groups of women, such as women with disabilities or with caring duties which require presence at home;
Amendment 30 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas improving digital skills and IT-literacy among women and boosting inclusion of women into the ICT which is one of the highest paying sectors could contribute to their financial empowerment and independence resulting in the reduction of the total gender wage gap;
Amendment 31 #
2015/2007(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Highlights the fact that the ICT sector is characterised by both vertical and horizontal segregation which is even higher that the other sectors, as well as a gap between women's educational qualifications and their position in the ICT sector; whereas the majority (54 per cent) of women employed in ICT sector occupy lower paid and lower skill-level positions and only a small minority of them (8 per cent) are in the high skill software engineer positions; whereas women are also underrepresented in the decision-making within this sector with only 19,2 per cent of ICT sector workers having female bosses compared to 45,2 per cent of non-ICT sector workers;
Amendment 35 #
2015/2007(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Stresses that the ICT sector is rapidly growing, creating around 120,000 new jobs every year, however skills shortage in ICT and related services might cause up to 900,000 unfilled vacancies by 2020, due to a skills mismatch, stresses therefore the importance to make a full use of women's potential and talents to fill up those vacancies and include women to the ICT sector in order to boost economy in the EU and women's employment opportunities as well as offer a level of protection against exclusion from the labour market;
Amendment 35 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas, in the digitalised labour market, responsibility is increasingly shifted away from the company to the individuation offers new opportunities for entrepreneurship for women, including small scale digital entrepreneurship which in many cases does not require significant initial, changapital as well as enterprises pursued withing the termsframework of social security membership of the self-employed and freelancers; whereas digitalisation often uncouples the ponomy which enhance social inclusion; whereas there is need to support female digital entrepreneurship as women constitute only 19 per cent of entrepreneurs in this sector; whereas digitalisation of the labour market is likely to increase micro entrepreneurship, self-employment and freelance of work from the enterprise, challengingwhich in cases of multiple individual contracts within various companies and institutions may render the monitoring of the principle of equal pay for equal work at the same workplace, which is of utmost importance for a truly equal society, more challenging;
Amendment 38 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the entry of more women into the ICT sector would boost a market in which labour shortages are foreseen and in which an equal participation of women would lead to a gain of around EUR 9 billion for EU GDP each year; whereas in the existing male-dominated workforce leads to many women leaving the ICT sector within a few years of completrealities women remain heavily underrepresented in ICT degrees where they constitute only around 20 per cent of graduates ing their university degree field;
Amendment 40 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
E a. whereas the ICT sector is characterised by particularly high vertical and horizontal segregation as well as a gap between women's educational qualifications and their position in the ICT sector; whereas women's share in the ICT sector amounts to less than 20 per cent; whereas the majority (54 per cent) of women in ICT jobs occupy lower paid and lower skill-level positions and only a small minority of them (8 per cent) occupy high skill software engineer positions; whereas women are also underrepresented in the decision-making within this sector with only 19,2 per cent of ICT sector workers having female bosses compared to 45,2 per cent of non-ICT sector worker;
Amendment 41 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
E b. whereas women over 55 are at a particular risk of unemployment and labour market inactivity with the average EU employment rate for women aged 55- 64 being only 42 per cent compared to 58 per cent in case of men; whereas low level of IT literacy and e-skills further amplifies this risk; whereas improving and investing in digital competences of women over 55 would boost their employment opportunities and offer a level of protection against exclusion from the labour market;
Amendment 46 #
2015/2007(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Highlights the fact that some Member States (Germany, Spain, Sweden) initiated policies to encourage a positive gender balance within Europe's ICT professions, and these policies are primarily aimed at promoting ICT-related studies and career paths for girls and women from an early age;
Amendment 47 #
2015/2007(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Points out that digitalisation in the labour market changes nature of work and relations between employer and employee as well as creates new possibilities of organisation of work; stresses that these new opportunities require rethinking and redefying terms such as place and boundaries of work time; stresses that employees labour rights guaranteed by Member States' labour law, should be safeguarded independently of new forms and organisation of work brought by digitalisation;
Amendment 47 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas sexism and gender stereotyping is a burden for economic development and the competitiveness of the EU, further widening the already strong digital gender gap in participation of women in the field of ICT, media and information society;
Amendment 55 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas ICT, like any technology, can be used and abused to threaten women, their rights and freedoms, and ultimately their empowerment, such as in the case of cyber-bullying, cyber-stalking, trafficking of human beings through the internet, hate speech, incitement to hatred, discrimination and violation of fundamental rights; whereas anonymity the Internet contributes to the proliferation of these forms of violence against women; whereas such new challenges and risks need to be identified and addressed appropriately by policymakers as well as by enterprises, companies and civil society organisations, while providing room for information exchange on the internet;
Amendment 57 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
H a. whereas new communication and information technologies are used to create channels and platforms which facilitate the expansion of prostitution, also involving minors; whereas universal accessibility and easiness of using these new digital channels as well as anonymity they offer contribute to widening of the spectrum of potential actors involved, in particular among the most vulnerable groups in terms of sexual abuse, such as teenage girls; whereas there is a need for relevant law enforcement professionals to recognize the transformations in the way prostitution is carried out through the digital medium as well as to monitor relevant Internet platforms from this perspective, when there is a justified reason for suspecting a crime; whereas there is also a need to raise awareness among relevant education professionals about these new forms of digital threats in order to safeguard minors;
Amendment 62 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
H b. whereas social awareness about digital forms of violence both among the general public and the relevant professionals, such as law enforcement agents and teachers, remains insufficient to ensure adequate prevention, monitoring and assistance for victims; whereas different forms of online violence are not yet fully reflected in the criminal law as well as modes and procedures of prosecution in all member states; whereas there is a need for a recognition at the EU-level of the potentially transborder nature of the abuse and violence on the Internet;
Amendment 64 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H c (new)
Recital H c (new)
H c. whereas low participation of women and girls in ICT related education and later in employment is a result of a complex interplay of gender stereotyping that starts at early stages of life and education and continues to professional career; whereas factors limiting women and girls from participating in the ICT education and employment include: lifelong stereotyping, segregation into "typically female and male" activities, hobbies and toys that starts at the earliest levels of education, a relative lack of female role models in the ICT sector as well as the limited visibility of women in this sector especially in leadership positions;
Amendment 82 #
2015/2007(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the opportunity for a better work-life balance for women in the digital age; emphasises the risks posed by potential demand for a constant accessibility of employees (e.g. burnout); advocates, therefore, a ‘right to log off’ for workerstresses therefore the need for respecting working time arrangements under flexible hours employment contracts in order to maintain the boundaries of working time as defined by the labour law in the individual Member States;
Amendment 94 #
2015/2007(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Takes the view that women over 55 are more likely to have depreciated e-skills due to the lack of life-long learning and that digitalization constitutes an important barrier for older job seekers with limited e-skills, calls on the Commission and the Member States to support life-long learning as well as training and schemes which prepare for a better adaptation or a potential change of career path according to the growing demand for e-skills in many different sectors with a special regard to women over 55 in order to safeguard them from the exclusion from the labour market;
Amendment 112 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and social partners to promote gender equality in ICT companies, representative bodies and training institutions and to closely monitor and follow up the progress made as well as share best practices in this area;
Amendment 121 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Urges the Commission and the Member States to safeguard fundamental workers’ rights and the socmonitor changing work patterns and potential protecliferation of employees and to combat precariousatypical working conditions; urges the Commission to propose, and the Member States to further develop, new protection mechanisms adapted to thetracts that accompanies digitalisation to ensure that types of contracts applied correspond to the nature of performed working and career patterns shaped by digitalisation, paying particular attention to the situation of womenincludes appropriate measures of social protection, as defined by the labour law in the individual Member States;
Amendment 128 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Notes that the digitalisatEncourages the Commission ofand the labour market requires adaptation of both labour market policies and the underlying social security systems; callsMember States to recognize the full potential of flexibility offered by digitalisation in the area of work-life balance; on the Commission and the Member States, with regard to the Commission’'s roadmap ‘'New start to address the challenges of work-life balance faced by working families’,' to address the impactidentify the opportunities and challenges of digitalisation oin workers with care responsibthe area of reconciliaties, as regards working conditions and the need for adaptation of the workplace, skills development and lifelong learning opportunitieson of work and family duties for both women and men to ensure that the flexibility sector is used to improve work-life balance;
Amendment 130 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support life-long learning as well as training and schemes which prepare for a better adaptation or potential change of career path according to the growing demand for e-skills in many different sectors with a special regard to women over 55 in order to safeguard them from the exclusion from the labour market;
Amendment 140 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Encourages Member States to introduce age appropriate ICT education at early stages with a particular focus on inspiring girls to develop interest and talent in the digital field and to safeguard them from constraining and negative stereotypes as well as segregation of activities and toys whereby digital-related themes are associated with "natural predispositions of boys" which discourage girls to advance their e-skills;
Amendment 160 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Urges the Commission, within the scope of the Digital Single Market Strategy, and more specifically with regard to the reference to building an inclusive e- society, to increase the visibility of women in technology by starting an endowed professorship for women in ICT, setting up a pilot project on a European online university specifically focused on ICT and technical engineering and introducing a tailored scholarship programme for women in the area of ICT and new media;
Amendment 186 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls for identification of the challenges posed by the use of ICT and the internet to commit crimes, issue threats or perpetrate violence against women based on misogyny, homophobia or transphobia; urges policymakers to address these issues properly taking into account the challenges related to online anonymity and potential transborder nature of such crimes and abuses;
Amendment 199 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to consider the changed realities of women and girls, on account of digitalisation, in the implementation of future EU data protection legislation; emphasises that data controllers may only use sensitive data for limited purposes and may under no circumstances further share such data;
Amendment 205 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Calls on the Commission to launch and support e-literacy and training programmes, as well as awareness campaigns, thereby raising awareness of the potential risks of the digital world and how to counter them among relevant parties concerned, such as students at all levels of education, teachers, education and law enforcement professionals; calls on the Commission to promote campaigns against stereotypes in social media and digital media;
Amendment 212 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls for the EU institutions, agencies and bodies, as well as the Member States and their law enforcement agencies, to cooperate and concretely coordinate their actions to counter the use of ICT to commit crimes related to trafficking in human beings, cyber-harassment and cyber- stalking as they are often transborder in nature and a European-level coordination is vital for persecuting these crimes; calls on the Member States to review and potentially revise their criminal law to ensure that new forms of digital violence are clearly defined and recognized as well as that appropriate modes of persecution are in place; calls for the EU Cybersecurity Strategy and the Europol Cybercrime Centre to cover these issues; calls on the Commission to promote training and capacity-building for victim support in digital matters, for police and judicial authorities, as well as psychological support during court cases related to the issue;
Amendment 215 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26 a. Calls on the Member States to sign and ratify the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence and calls on the European Commission to initiate the necessary steps for the accession of the European Union to the Convention, as outlined in the recently issued EC Roadmap on EU Accession to the Istanbul Convention; stresses that ratification of the Council of Europe Convention is instrumental to eradication of violence against women, including digital forms of violence since it introduces harmonized legal definitions and modes of prosecution of crimes that are facilitated by the new communication technologies, such as trafficking in human beings and stalking;
Amendment 1 #
2014/2252(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Takes the view that employment and social policies are mostly in the area of Member States competence and where the EU has a remit to take measures to ensure the coordination of the Member States' employment policies, by defining guidelines and in particular by normative documents for labour market; encourages therefore the European Commission and Member States to intensify discussions on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality in the field of this policy;
Amendment 4 #
2014/2252(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the closer participation of national parliaments in the European legislative process, which has resulted in a positive increase ing awareness of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality in the interinstitutional context;
Amendment 13 #
2014/2252(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes the importance of regional parliaments, especially those with legislative powers, and of their territorial impact and closeness to its citizens, and calls, where appropriate, for their greater involvement in the early warning system;
Amendment 15 #
2014/2252(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Encourages national parliaments to issue reasoned opinions not only to the European Commission's legislative documents but also to those non-legislative, which precede the drafting of EU legislation, in order to increase effectiveness of influencing future EU initiatives and legislation;
Amendment 27 #
2014/2252(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 34 #
2014/2252(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Takes note of the fact that in 2013 national parliaments, for the second time ever, exercised the right to 'yellow card' procedure in the context of the subsidiary control mechanism which shows increasing interest, role and added value of national parliaments in development of the EU law;
Amendment 35 #
2014/2252(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Highlights that yellow card procedure, which is an instrument of influencing the EU decision-making, could effectively be strengthened by an earlier exchange of information on positions of national parliaments, therefore encourages national parliaments to exchange views on the scope and evaluation methods used to assess the conformity with subsidiarity and proportionality principles;
Amendment 36 #
2014/2252(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Takes the view that the meaning of the subsidiarity and proportionality principles is not clear and therefore national parliaments interpret it in various ways which causes difficulties in reaching agreements and achieving compliance of their decisions; welcomes the fact that the European Commission has established common criteria to assess compliance with the principle of subsidiarity and proportionality; encourages national parliaments and other institutions to use those criteria in order to increase compatibility assessment and coordination and effectiveness of the subsidiarity control mechanism;
Amendment 55 #
2014/2252(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Welcomes the European Commission's ongoing revision of the existing legislation, which is concentrated on areas with a significant European added value in accordance with principle of subsidiarity, since overregulation might cause more harm to business and employment; express the view that the European institutions should take more frequently into account the principle of subsidiarity.
Amendment 85 #
2014/2250(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Points out that while women represent the majority (60%) of university graduates in European Union, their employment rate and promotion trajectories do not reflect their full potential; stresses that the achievement of inclusive and long-term economic growth depends on closing the gap between women's educational attainment and their position in the labour market, primarily through overcoming horizontal and vertical segregation.
Amendment 103 #
2014/2250(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for all EU countries to invest consistently in the production of information and motivational campaigns for girls and boys to choose non- stereotyped professions, as well as reflecting on the influence of gender identities and perceptions on girls' life plansin case of girls ICT and engineering professions in particular, as well as reflecting on the influence of stereotyped perceptions of gender roles on girls' life plans and later on their position in the labour market, promoting discussion of educational and career choices in the classroom;
Amendment 119 #
2014/2250(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Emphasises the need for national and local institutions to promote programmes to integrate migrant communities in schools and all minorities that make up the European social space, as well as financial assistance programmes for needy families in need of support in order to prevent students dropping out, particularly girls;
Amendment 57 #
2014/2235(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is concerned that unemployment rates in the EU remain relatively high (December 2014, EU 28: 9.9 %), and draws attention to the considerable differences between Member States, with the lowest unemployment rate being in Germany (4.8 %) and the highest in Spain (23.7Greece (25.8 %);
Amendment 62 #
2014/2235(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Draws attention to the fact that the average employment rate for women in the EU is more than 10 percentage point lower than that of men and stresses that the achievement of the 75% employment rate target as outlined in the Europe 2020 strategy is conditional upon increasing the employment rate for women through policies aimed at reconciliation of work and home duties in particular.
Amendment 86 #
2014/2235(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Points out that the intra-EU labour mobility remains low (EU27: 0.29 %), with by international comparison, and it is almost 10 times lower than that of the United States and 5 times lower than in Australia, regardless of high unemployment rates in some Member States and unfilled job vacancies in others;
Amendment 94 #
2014/2235(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that the economic and motivational incentives to work are too low in many European countries; brings attention to the fact that the primary reasons for labour market inactivity among women in the EU are family responsibilities and domestic duties, and therefore calls the Member States to further reinforce work-life balance policies, including childcare facilities.
Amendment 105 #
2014/2235(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Believes that in order to achieve a competitive EU labour market, ambitious reforms are needed which increase inclusiveness, flexibility and mobility, in the light of constantly changing labour markets and production patterns; stresses that economic growth and competitiveness in the EU are dependent on closing the gap between women's educational attainment and their participation and position in the labour market, in particular the reduction of horizontal and vertical segregation.
Amendment 133 #
2014/2235(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recalls the importance of the mobility of workers for a competitive labour market, and stresses the need to reduce the linguistic, administrative and linguisticcultural barriers that are liable to restrain it by providing sector-specific language courses and trainings on intercultural communication for the unemployed in both the sending and destination countries; encourages raising of awareness of and further improvement of the EU- wide EURES job portal;
Amendment 207 #
2014/2235(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. UPoints out that regardless of 2 million unfilled job vacancies in the EU there are many over-qualified youth unemployed whose skills do not match demand of the labour market, underlines therefore, the importance of better synergies between education systems and the labour market, including exposure to the workplace and cooperation with businesses;
Amendment 293 #
2014/2235(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Stresses the importance of innovation and digitalisation for competitiveness and growth, and, in this respect, of the need to provide the knowledge and skills that are needed, as well as of motivation and determination on the part of employees and prospective employees with a view to creating innovative, creative and digital products and services; stresses that older workers should have continues access to trainings on ICT in order to be in demand in the labour market;
Amendment 44 #
2014/2228(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas an ambitious and balanced agreement with the US may support the reindustrialisation of Europe and help achieve the 2020 target for an increase of the EU’s GDP generated by industry from 15 % to 20 %; whereas it has the potential to create opportunities especially for SMEs, which suffer more from non-tariff barriers (NTBs) than larger companies; whereas an agreement between the two biggest economic blocs in the world has the potential to create standards, norms and rules which will be adopted at a global level, which would serve to the advantage of third countries as well;
Amendment 54 #
2014/2228(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point iii a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point iii a (new)
(iii a) to ensure that on the margin of the TTIP negotiations, the mutually beneficial mobility package arrangements will be achieved, considering the visa facilitation for the European service and goods providers as well as enabling professionals to work in the USA by recognising their qualifications as one of the key elements in taking full advantage of the TTIP agreement;
Amendment 73 #
2014/2228(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas, given the growing interconnectedness of global markets – up to 40 % of European industrial products are manufactured from imported upstream products – it is crucial that policymakers shape the way these markets interact; whereas proper trade rules are fundamental to creating added value in Europe, since industrial production takes place in global value chains;it is crucial that Europe benefits from participation in global supply chains, while maintaining and developing a strong, competitive and diversified industrial base in Europe; (For consistency with the Recital A European added value should not be built only on e.g. costs of marketing, storage and/or distribution of imports. Also resolution should not quote data without reference to sources. TTIP should first and foremost promote trade of goods manufactured in the EU or the US but the imported goods only repacked/relabelled/assembled in the EU or the US.)
Amendment 78 #
2014/2228(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas EU's attempts to deal with the challenges of climate change, environmental protection and consumer safety have resulted in high regulatory costs for EU enterprises, coupled with high energy feedstock and electricity prices, which - if left unaddressed in TTIP - may accelerate the process of delocalization, deindustrialization and job losses thereby threatening EU reindustrialization and employment targets, that will also defeat the very policy targets that EU regulations seek to achieve;
Amendment 114 #
2014/2228(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas many economic impact studies on TTIP should be taken with caution as they are built on computable general equilibrium economic models with veryased on many general assumptions and optimistic predictions about the capacity of the EU and the US to reduce regulatory barriers to trade; whereas the TTIP alone will not resolve economic problems in the EU and no false hopes and expectations should be raised in that respect;
Amendment 185 #
2014/2228(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas President Juncker has clearly reiterated in his Political Guidelines that – while the EU and the US can go a significant step further in recognising each other’s product standards and working towards transatlantic standards – the EU will not sacrifice its safety, health, social and data protection standards or our cultural diversity, recalling that the high level of safety of the food we eat and the protection of Europeans’ personal data are non- negotiable;will be maintained; (It is important to stress that we are not talking about lowering standards in negotiations rather than saying that issues of food safety are not-negotiable, as it is not true - issues of food safety or SPS are being negotiated, but we don’t want to decrease level of protection in this negotiations. That is the difference.)
Amendment 324 #
2014/2228(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point ii
Paragraph 1 – point b – point ii
(ii) to aim at the elimination of all duty tariffs, while respecting sensitive agricultural and industrial products on both sides;
Amendment 331 #
2014/2228(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point ii a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point b – point ii a (new)
(iia) to keep in mind that EU climate change, environmental, labour, consumer safety and animal welfare legislation imposes disproportionate cost burden on EU enterprises, that - in many sectors is - not borne by similar industries in the United States giving US industries a regulatory and cost advantage in those fields - and therefore the European Commission is encouraged to protect these sectors by, including, but not limiting to, negotiating the longest possible transitional periods;
Amendment 337 #
2014/2228(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point iii
Paragraph 1 – point b – point iii
(iii) to keep in mind that there are important offensive interests for the EU in the services sector, for instance in the areas of engineeringprofessional services, telecommunications and transport services;
Amendment 350 #
2014/2228(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point iii a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point b – point iii a (new)
(iiia) to ensure that mutually beneficial mobility package is provided for, which includes visa facilitation for providers of services and goods from all Member States and recognises their professional and technical qualifications;
Amendment 361 #
2014/2228(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point iv
Paragraph 1 – point b – point iv
(iv) to increase market access for services by mutual recognition for EUs professional service providers, according to the ‘positive list approach’ whereby services that are to be opened up to foreign companies are explicitly mentioned and new services are excluded while ensuring that possible standstill and ratchet clauses only apply to non- discrimination provisions and allow for enough flexibility to bring services back into public control;
Amendment 528 #
2014/2228(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point xiv
Paragraph 1 – point b – point xiv
(xiv) to ensure that the negotiations on rules of origin aim at reconcilinge the EU and US approaches; given the conclusion of the negotiations for the Compreh in a way that as far as possible takes into account the interests of European producers and that thus contributes to economic growth and promotes job creation in the EU while protecting the sensitive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between EU and Canada and the potential upgrade of the EU-Mexico free trade agreement, the possibility and scope of cumulation will need to be considered; products; however it must be kept in mind that the purpose of TTIP is to facilitate trade in genuinely US and EU made products and not to allow imports from third countries; Exclusions for certain products will need to be considered on a case by case basis and exclusions from all type of cumulation should be granted for sensitive sectors;
Amendment 550 #
2014/2228(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c – point i
Paragraph 1 – point c – point i
(i) to ensure that the regulatory cooperation chapter promotes an effective, pro- competitive economic environment through the facilitation of trade and investment while developing and securing high levels of protection of health and safety, consumer, labour and environmental legislation and of the cultural diversity that exists within the EU; negotiators on both sides should strive to achieve the best outcome in each sector; however, they need to identify and to be very clear about which regulatory measures and standards are fundamental and cannot be compromised, which ones can be the subject of a common approach, which are the areas where mutual recognition based on a common high standard and a strong system of market surveillance is desirable and which are those where simply an improved exchange of information is possible, based on the experience of one and a half years of ongoing talks;
Amendment 635 #
2014/2228(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point ii
Paragraph 1 – point d – point ii
(ii) to ensure that the sustainable development chapter aims at the full and effective ratification, implementation and enforcement ofreaffirmation of the Parties' commitment to shared key principles stemming from the eight fundamental conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and their content, the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda and the core international environmental agreements; provisions should be aimed at improving levels of protection of labour and environmental standards; an ambitious trade and sustainable development chapter should also include rules on corporate social responsibility based on the Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and a clearly structured civil society involvement; (Commission in its position paper on Trade and Sustainable Development suggests less stringent provisions. We have to be careful in obliging US to ratify all ILO conventions, as this is probably non- negotiable issues for them.)
Amendment 684 #
2014/2228(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point vii
Paragraph 1 – point d – point vii
(vii) to ensure that in course of the negotiations the two sides examine ways to facilitate natural gas and oil exports, so that TTIP wouldTTIP abolishes any existing export restrictions on energy between the two trading partners, thereby supporting a diversification of energy sources in the EU and to consider conditioning tariff reduction on energy intensive goods on effective free flow of US energy to the EU in order to enhance European negotiating position;
Amendment 765 #
2014/2228(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d – point xiv
Paragraph 1 – point d – point xiv
(xiv) to ensure that foreign investors are treated in a non-discriminatory fashion and have a fair opportunity to seek and achieve redress of grievances, which can be achieved withrout the inclusion of an ISDSgh a national court systems or, where appropriate ISDS; all dispute mechanism;s such a mechanism is not necessary in TTIP given the EU’s and the US’ developed legal systems; a state-to- state dispute settlement system and the use of national courts are the most appropriate tools to address investment disputes;et in place within the TTIP- framework must uphold full transparency and be subject to democratic principles and scrutiny with CETA solutions serving as a basis; (It is crucial to include in the ISDS provisions the so called fork-in-the-road provision, which creates an option for the investor to choose EITHER national court system OR investment arbitration; parallel claims should be prohibited. Intergovernmental dispute settlement would leave decision on initiation of an investment dispute to a state, which would inevitably involve political considerations and would limit access of SMEs to dispute settlement.)
Amendment 23 #
2014/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the fiscal consolidation policies being pursued by Member States are primarily affecting the public sector, in which women are represented more strongly and of which they are the main beneficiaries, and are thus hurting in two ways, and whereas these policies are making employment more insecure, not least because of the increase in part-time working and temporary contractsconstitute a responsible financial strategy, it is crucial to ensure that they are not followed at the expense of equality policies which are essential for an inclusive and competitive growth based on diversity;
Amendment 36 #
2014/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. Highlights the significant levels of undeclared work also among women - most significantly in domestic and care work - and especially those at the intersection of different forms of inequality, such as women from ethnic minorities and migrant groups, which negatively impacts both women's social security and Europe's GDP levels;
Amendment 41 #
2014/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the existing taxation systems in some Member States are predicated on a narrow view of the family to the extent that they are biased towards families in which only one of the two parents is working inasmuch as, in many cases, they deter women from going out to work and fail to provide sufficient support todo not always successfully promote the employment of both men and women, and insufficiently account for the difficult circumstances of the single- parent families;
Amendment 62 #
2014/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the failure to promote policies making for work-life balance in general and the lack of childcare facilities in particularinsufficient incorporation of work-life balance policies into the mainstream social and family policy and the deficient care infrastructure for children, disabled and the elderly pose a major obstacle to increase women’'s economic independence and their rise to positions of responsibilityparticipation in the labour market and to overcome horizontal and vertical segregation;
Amendment 97 #
2014/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas access to sexual and reproductive rights are fundamental human rightshealthcare has a significant impact on women's health and family planning and should be taken into account in the EU’'s action programme in the field of health;
Amendment 133 #
2014/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points to the imperative need to reduce gender pay and pension gaps; urges the Member States to give full effect to the rights related to Directive 2006/54/EC, including the principle of equal pay and pay transparency, and to revise their national laws on equal treatment with a view to their simplification and modernisation; calls on the Commission to keep the transposition of gender equality directives under regular reviewstrengthen the policies aimed at enhancing women's participation and position in the labour market through promotion of work-life balance arrangements for women and men, female entrepreneurship, combating stereotypes regarding gender division of domestic labour and perceptions of women's employment, primarily through education to boost female participation in high reward sectors, such as the ITC and engineering;
Amendment 226 #
2014/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
Amendment 2 #
2014/2152(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1a (new)
Paragraph -1a (new)
-1. Emphasizes that in the last decade global economy has missed out on 27% of GDP growth per capita due to the gender gap in the labour market and stresses that GDP would grow between 15% and 45% in the EU Member States if gender gaps in employment were eliminated
Amendment 30 #
2014/2152(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that economic growth and competitiveness in the EU are dependent on closing the gap between women’s educational attainment (60% of university graduates in Europe are women) and their participation and position in the labour market;
Amendment 49 #
2014/2152(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas, owing to traditional structures and tax disincentives, women have had second-earner status imposed on them, in the form of both vertical and horizontal segregation in the labour market, an incomplete employment history and gender-specific wage inequality, and whereas also unpaid care, nursing and domestic work is performed much more frequently by women who thus have less time available to pursue paid work, which in turn results in a much lower pension, which is why the compatibility of work and family life, in particular to achieve the objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy, should continue to be supported by practical measures, a process in which men in particular need to become more involved;
Amendment 52 #
2014/2152(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that the unequal division of family responsibilities is at the root of the unequal position of women in the labour market; stresses that reconciliation of work and home duties is a key condition for gender equality, which should be promoted by: a) investment in care infrastructure andfor children, people with disabilities, elderly and sick as women are primary carers and their employment is negatively affected by these unpaid duties, b) encouragement of men’s participation in domestic labour by means of legislation on parental and paternity leave and flexible working time arrangements, c) promotion of positive models of work- life balance arrangements for both women and men in educational materials in schools at all levels;
Amendment 67 #
2014/2152(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that the feminisation of poverty is the result of factors including women’s career breaks, the gender pay gap (16,4%), the pension gap (39%) and poverty in households headed by single mothers, and that the reduction of poverty levels by 20 million by 2020 can be achieved by anti- poverty policies that are grounded in gender mainstreaming;
Amendment 71 #
2014/2152(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the face of poverty in Europe is female, and it is particularly single mothers, young and old women who are affected by poverty and social exclusion, a situation aggravated by the crisis and specific aust; stresses that the reduction of poverity measures because it is particularly public sector jobs and services in the care sector that are being eliminatedlevels by 20 million by 2020 can be achieved by anti-poverty policies that are grounded in gender mainstreaming;
Amendment 76 #
2014/2152(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that the gender pay gap arises from insufficient participation of women in the labour market, vertical and horizontal segregation, and the fact that sectors where women are over- represented often have lower salaries. Stresses the need for monitoring the gender pay gap in both the public and private sector and the need for transparency in acknowledging the gender pay gap in workplaces;
Amendment 91 #
2014/2152(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Takes the view that initiatives and measures must be taken, principally in the field of education, including higher education, to combat stereotyped perceptions of female employment, promote female entrepreneurship, career in science and the ICT sector which would significantly boost Europe's economic growth and competitiveness;
Amendment 94 #
2014/2152(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Supports the introduction of gender quotas for non-executive members in company boards, transparent procedures on their appointment, encourages the public and private sector to envisage voluntary schemes to promote women in managerial positions and calls on the European Council to finally adopt a common position after the first EP reading of the Women on Boards directive;
Amendment 106 #
2014/2152(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Highlights the need to recognize public procurement as the potential tool to enhance social inclusion policies, takes the view that public procurement should be used as an instrument to advance gender equality by considering to set requirements on anti-discrimination and gender quality criteria as prerequisites for public procurement contracts where applicable;
Amendment 261 #
2014/2152(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to support Member States in creating incentives for employers to convert unofficial work into official employmentand employees to move from the informal to the formal economy; insists that undeclared work negatively impacts both women's social security and the EU's GDP levels;
Amendment 311 #
2014/2152(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission to present specific measures to ensure the transparency of salaries and thereby to reduce the gender pay gap within the next 5 years to less than 10% on average in the EU and to submit an annual progress report on this matter; proposescalls on the Commission and thate Member States should be encouraged also to review theto examine whether social clauses in public procurement might be used as a potential tool to enhance social inclusion policies, takes the view that social clauses in public procurement procedures dirmight be effective as and to expand them to include the social aspect of instrument to advance gender equality by considering to set requirements on anti- discrimination and gender equality in line with the EU 2020 strategy; emphasises in this connection the possibility of introducing fines for companies;criteria as prerequisites for public procurement contracts where applicable; acknowledges that EU legislation on competition must be complied with in developing this idea.
Amendment 65 #
2014/2059(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the Commission’s use of the new employment and social scoreboard for this year’s CSRs; considers it regrettable, however, that Member States' targets regarding these indicators havwere not been made bindingsufficiently ambitious in view of the current employment and social emergency; calls on the Commission, therefore, to put them on an equal footing with macroeconomic indicators, and to include additional indic and the objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy; calls on the Commission, therefore, to further insist on the full implementation of the European Platfors – such as child poverty levels, access to healthcare, homelessness, and a decent work index – in the scoreboardm against Poverty and Social Exclusion, The Youth on the Move and the Agenda for New Skills and Jobs, in order to allow more effective analysis of Member States’ employment and social concerns;
Amendment 83 #
2014/2059(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the new Commission to make the employment recovery a true priority by establishing an ambitious and holistic strategy for quality job creation, which should involve all the new Commissioners dealing with subjects which have an impact on the EU labour market; takes the view that, to this end, eachthose Commissioners should draw up a quality employment plan for their specific policy area, including concretewith recommendations for measures, a budget allocation and a calendar for its implementation;
Amendment 117 #
2014/2059(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission to strengthen EU industry through the application of a more flexible competition policy in favour of competitiveness and employment, together with an ecological and digital transition plan; reiterates its call on the Commission to draw upanalyse the necessity of a proposal for a legal act on the provision of information to, and consultation of, workers and the anticipation and management of restructuring in order to ensure economic and socially responsible adaptation to change by EU industry;
Amendment 183 #
2014/2059(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Commission to propose a binding European framework for the implementation of the Youth Guarantees so as to prevent the funds being misused in such a way as to aggravate national internal wage devaluation processes; takes the view that this legal framework should introduce binding minimum standards for the implementation of the Youth Guarantees, including the quality of apprenticeships, decent wages for young peoplequality of job offers and access to employment services, and should cover young people aged between 25 and 30; calls on the Commission and the Member States to make the Youth Guarantees a priority and to increase the available budget, at the latest in the promised mid- term review of the multiannual financial framework, up to at least the sum of EUR 21 billion estimated by the International Labour Organisation to be necessary to resolve the problem in the eurozone;
Amendment 194 #
2014/2059(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Urges the Member States to go above and beyond the March 2014 Council recommendation for a Quality Framework for Traineeships in order to prevent discrimination and exploitation of young workers; calls for the adoption of a directive on decent conditions and minimum standards for internships and traineeships, giving interns and trainees clearly defined rights that include access to social protection, binding written contracts and fair remuneration and introducing limits on the use of trainees and interns in companies so as to prevent abuses;
Amendment 199 #
2014/2059(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Observes with concern that female unemployment rates are higher than the total rates (11.7 % in the EU-18 and 10.4 % in the EU-28, compared with 11.5 % and 10.2 % respectively); calls, therefore, for specific decentquality-job creation plans with targeted measures for women; calls for the establishment of specific recommendations with a view to reducing the gender pay gap, which is not only a drag on the economy and on competitiveness but also a sign of social injustice;
Amendment 209 #
2014/2059(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Is deeply concerned that long-term unemployed people and senior workers are experiencing higher unemployment rates and additional difficulties in re-entering the labour market; calls on the Commission and the Member States to make full use of the European Social Fund to help these workers; urges the adoption of a directive on decent working conditions, defining core labour rights for all workers and introducing common minimum standards so as to prevent this kind of labour discrimination;
Amendment 230 #
2014/2059(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Regrets the fact that the Commission recommendations on pensions were made without taking into account Parliament’s position on the Green and White Papers on pensions; is concerned that reforms to guarantee the sustainability of pensions have focused solely on population ageing, without taking into account the importance of the employment rate, especially in pay- as-you-go systems; recalls that guaranteeing decent pensions above a minimum level is an effective way to fight poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 33 #
2014/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 a (new)
Citation 34 a (new)
– having regard to the Commission statistical report of April 2014 titled ‘Single parents and employment in Europe’,
Amendment 67 #
2014/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas due to the unequal work- life balance between men and women, women have much longer working days leaving little time for social and community inclusion or economic participation;
Amendment 79 #
2014/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas stereotypes relating to the incompatibility of motherhood and full time professional work may deter young women from proceeding with higher education or career investments; while they may also deter full time employed women from having children;
Amendment 99 #
2014/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Recital M a (new)
Ma. whereas many financial resources that come with full time employment, such as benefits or pension systems, are only available to those actively participating in the full time labour market which in turn causes many women to become ineligible for these benefits as they tend to stay with part time employment due to familial responsibilities;
Amendment 119 #
2014/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital R a (new)
Recital R a (new)
Ra. whereas in sectors relating to, but not limited to, goods, services or agriculture, there is an uneven access to economic and financial resources such as assets, capital, productive resources and credit between men and women;
Amendment 129 #
2014/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital T a (new)
Recital T a (new)
Ta. whereas women are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence, violence online, cyber bullying, stalking and physical violence;
Amendment 176 #
2014/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to promote initiatives focused on girls and women obtaining higher education in the fields such as science, technology and IT to lead them into these job fields after graduation;
Amendment 192 #
2014/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Commission to analyse the benefits of investing in child and elderly care facilities as it may promote the participation of mothers in the full time work force and allowing them to have greater local and social inclusion;
Amendment 216 #
2014/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Urges the Commission and the Member States to put in place all juridical measures to fight against the phenomenon of violence against women online and cyber bullying; in particular asks to the EU and the Member States to combine forces in order to create a criminal offence framework that obliges online corporations to delete or to stop the spreading of degrading, offensive and humiliating content; it also asks to put in place psychological support for women victims of violence online and girls cyber bullied;
Amendment 159 #
2014/0002(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 36
Recital 36
(36) The power to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission in order to ensure that the obligations imposed on the Member States for the authorisation of the organisations to join the EURES network as EURES Partners and to provide common indicators on the performance of those organisations can be amended in light of the experiences gained with their application or to take into account evolving needs on the labour market, as well as to make it possible to change the scope of assistance services for workers and assistance services for employers. It is of particular importance that the Commission carry out appropriate consultations during its preparatory work, including at expert level. The Commission, when preparing and drawing- up delegated acts, should ensure a simultaneous, timely and appropriate transmission of relevant documents to the European Parliament and Council.
Amendment 247 #
2014/0002(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
(ea) to support smooth transition from education to work in the Union labour market.
Amendment 335 #
2014/0002(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 5
Article 7 – paragraph 5
5. The National Coordination Office promotes the collaboration with stakeholders such as career guidance services, universities, chambers of commerce, organisations representing vulnerable groups on the labour market such as woman, people with disabilities, elderly people, migrants and organisations involved in apprenticeships and traineeships schemes.
Amendment 336 #
2014/0002(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 5
Article 7 – paragraph 5
5. The National Coordination Office promotes the collaboration with stakeholders such as career guidance services, universities, chambers of commerce, organisations representing vulnerable groups on the labour market such as women, people with disabilities, elderly people, migrants and organisations involved in apprenticeships and traineeships schemes.
Amendment 400 #
2014/0002(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Applicant organisations can choose to participate in the EURES network according toby means of the following options:
Amendment 401 #
2014/0002(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) to contributeing to the pool of job vacancies in accordance with Article 14(1), paragraph (a);
Amendment 404 #
2014/0002(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) to contributeing to the pool of job applications and CV’s in accordance with Article 14(1), paragraph (b);
Amendment 407 #
2014/0002(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) to provideing support services to workers and employers in accordance with Chapter IV or.
Amendment 409 #
2014/0002(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point d
Amendment 490 #
2014/0002(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 5
Article 15 – paragraph 5
Amendment 507 #
2014/0002(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 3
Article 16 – paragraph 3
3. To that end, by 1.1.2017within three years of the adoption by the Commission of the classification referred to in paragraph 1, each Member State shall establish an initial inventory to map all its national, regional and sectoral classifications to and from the classification referred to in paragraph 1, and, following the introduction of the use of the inventory on the basis of an application made available by the European Coordination Office, regularly update the inventory to keep it updated with the evolution of recruitment services.
Amendment 566 #
2014/0002(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
Article 20 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
(aa) to provide training on intercultural communication and sector-specific language courses;
Amendment 588 #
2014/0002(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 20 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt, pursuant to Article 33, delegated acts regarding changes to the services provided for in this article.
Amendment 612 #
2014/0002(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 21 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt, pursuant to Article 33, delegated acts regarding changes to the services provided for in this article.
Amendment 658 #
2014/0002(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Article 26 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Data shall be gender-disaggregated where applicable.
Amendment 693 #
2014/0002(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 2
Article 33 – paragraph 2
2. The delegation of power referred to in Articles 8 and, Article 20(4a), Article 21(4a) and Article 29 shall be conferred on the Commission for an indeterminate period of time from the date of entry into force of this Regulation or from any other date set by the legislator.
Amendment 695 #
2014/0002(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 3
Article 33 – paragraph 3
3. The delegation of powers referred to in Articles 8 and, Article 20(4a), Article 21(4a) and Article 29 may be revoked at any time by the European Parliament orand by the Council. A decision of revocation shall put an end to the delegation of the power specified in that decision. It shall take effect on the day following the publication of the decision in the Official Journal of the European Union or at a later date specified therein. It shall not affect the validity of any delegated acts already in force.
Amendment 697 #
2014/0002(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 5
Article 33 – paragraph 5
5. A delegated act adopted pursuant to Articles 8 and, Article 20(4a), Article 21(4a) and Article 29 shall enter into force only if no objection has been expressed either by the European Parliament or the Council within a period of 2two months of notification of that act to the European Parliament and the Council or if, before the expiry of that period, the European Parliament and the Council have both informed the Commission that they will not object. That period shall be extended by 2 months at the initiative of the European Parliament or the Council.
Amendment 699 #
2014/0002(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 37 – paragraph 1
Article 37 – paragraph 1
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. Article 14(1) to (7) shall apply from … [two years after the date of entry into force].