13 Amendments of Maria ARENA related to 2015/2284(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to conduct thorough impact assessments of all trade agreements. Sectors identified as vulnerable should be closely monitored. Social partners and Member States with sectors at high risk should be duly informed and assisted in the process of applicationThese ex ante and ex post analyses should be used to highlight the challenges resulting from such agreements in terms of employment and business competitiveness in the EU;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Whereas trade agreements are liable to expose European companies to stronger competition and thus have an adverse impact in some sectors and European regions in terms of employment;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Having regard to the Commission’s Communication of 29 June 2011 entitled ‘A Budget for Europe 2020’, in which it recognises the role of the EGF in acting flexibly to support workers who lose their jobs and help them find another job as rapidly as possible;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Having regard to the Commission’s Communication of October 2015 entitled ‘Trade for all – Towards a more responsible trade and investment policy’, in which it recognises that trade agreements can involve disruptive impacts for some regions and workers, if new competition proves too intense, but also that the EGF is an essential tool providing significant support to communities facing job losses, as in the case of factory closures in the EU due to international competition;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Whereas the scope of the Regulation establishing the European globalisation and budgetary adjustment fund tends towards supporting workers made redundant owing to a major change in the structure of world trade resulting both from globalisation and from the financial and economic crises which have affected the single market;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Whereas, also, the emphasis is on helping young people not in employment, education or training in those regions which are eligible under the Youth Employment Initiative;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1f. Is disappointed that the EGF only intervenes on a remedial basis in response to the negative effects of globalisation and economic and global crises. It is vital for the EGF also to be able to take preventive action in order to anticipate market changes by supporting action based on sectoral and regional impact assessment carried out alongside trade agreements concluded by the EU;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Member States to prepare, on the basis of these impact assessments and together with the social partners, strategies to anticipate the projected labour market changes. Applications to the EGF should be based on these strategiSectors identified as vulnerable should be subject to enhanced and continuous monitoring. It is essential for the Commission, in cooperation with the Member States and the social partners, to provide recommendations to Member States affected by these changes;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls for an extension of the EGF’s powers to allow it to provide financial support to Member States’ retraining policies in vulnerable sectors. That will require an appropriate increase in the resources available under the EGF;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Regrets the lack of advertising of the scope of the EGF and the eligibility conditions. The EGF must be made more intelligible for its recipients, including the Member States and social partners;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to strengthen the Information and Consultation Directive. Workers’ representatives and trade unions should be made aware in good time of all plans for restructuring or plant closure arising from the effects of trade, so that negotiations for a suitable social plan can take place in fair conditions with equal access to information. In this way it should be ensured that companies assume their full responsibilities. Calls, therefore, for the Information and Consultation Directive to be strengthened;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Opposes any initiative to consider the EGF, in its current form, as an intervention tool for jobs lost in the European Union as a result of trade strategies decided at EU level, including future trade agreements or those already in place;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Considers that if the EGF has to be used as a tool for communities facing job losses as in the case of closing a business in the EU due to the trade agreements, it is crucial, beforehand, to extend the EGF' competencies to allow it to financially support reconversion policies of the member states in the activities of vulnerable sectors; to achieve this, considers it necessary to increase the funds available within the EGF