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75 Amendments of Margot PARKER

2017/2002(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Welcom~~Notes the Commission proposals for actions to reduce disparity in education and disadvantages throughout the lifetime of a person, but draws attention to a number of administrative ‘bottlenecks’ which are slowing progress in attaining those objectives in relation to mobility, recognition of qualifications and the social dimension;

2017/03/28
Committee: IMCO

2017/2002(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. ~~Calls on the Commission to provide significant support for~~Recognises that the development of digital abilities in all age groups, irrespective of employment status, could act as a first step towards the better alignment of labour market shortages and demand; ~~to that end, encourages the Commission to increase the funding under Horizon 2020, fostering inclusive, innovative and reflective European societies to get~~considers this to be of the greatest benefit to the elderly, the unemployed and poorly educated, migrants, people in need of care, people living in remote or poorer areas, persons with disabilities, and the homeless ~~to fully participate in society and the labour market~~;

2017/03/28
Committee: IMCO

2017/2002(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Asks the Commission to come forward with a methodology for the recognition of the new digital professions and to make provision for appropriate funding for the new educational framework for digital skills.deleted

2017/03/28
Committee: IMCO

2016/2325(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls for the Commission, through the structural and investment funds and by other financial and non-financial means, to give generous and forward- looking support and encouragement not just to space research activities in the field of industrial and applied science but also to fundamental research in this field, because fundamental space research not only has a direct impact on applied technology but also provides the sector with highly-qualified staff, who are the most important innovation factor of all;deleted

2017/05/04
Committee: IMCO

2016/2061(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital O

~~O. whereas traditional working time arrangements make it impossible for couples in which both partners wish to work full time to strike a proper work-life balance;~~deleted

2016/10/25
Committee: FEMM

2016/2061(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital U

U. whereas Member States have sole responsibility for the organisation of pension systems; ~~whereas, nonetheless, the European Union has a supporting competence in this area;~~

2016/10/25
Committee: FEMM

2016/2061(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that the ~~strategy must be in keeping w~~Member States have the sole responsibilithy t~~he division of competences between the Union and its Member States in accordance with the subsidiarity principle~~o organise their pensions systems and the EU should not interfere in any way;

2016/10/25
Committee: FEMM

2016/2052(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Acknowledges that the current geopolitical environment and the situation in Europe call for the Union to assume greater responsibilities in the fields of both external and internal security and to pursue more ambitious goals such as a European Army, and welcomes the European Council’s conclusions of June 2015 asking for further development of both civilian and military capabilities and the strengthening of Europe’s defence industry;deleted

2016/09/07
Committee: IMCO

2016/2052(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Notes that sovereignty concerns and divergent threat perceptions in the different Member States and differing national industries and operational capabilities hamper integration of the defence sector and contribute to market fragmentation, and believes that a European Defence Union may create more trust, align the different plans for development of national capabilities and ultimately lead to more common projects and the opening of the markets.deleted

2016/09/07
Committee: IMCO

2015/2325(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the relevant acts making up the Common European Asylum System must be ~~transposed and implemen~~repealed as the only legitimated in ~~accordance with~~ternational law is the Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and other relevant instruments;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas criminal networks are taking advantage of regional instability and conflict and the vulnerability of women and girls trying to flee in order to exploit them through trafficking, prostitution and sexual exploitation, which the free movement of people across the EU has provided the perfect environment for;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Believes that, to improve the security and safety of women refugees, safe and legal routes to the EU must be made available for those fleeing conflict and persecution; believes that legislation and policies relating to irregular migration should never prevent access to EU asylum procedures;deleted

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Insists it is for individual Member States to decide refugee and asylum policy in compliance with the Geneva Convention; Furthermore calls for Member States to be allowed to impose their own border controls and immigration system;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

~~4. Calls for a new, comprehensive set of EU-wide gender guidelines to be adopted as part of wider reforms to migration and asylum policy;~~deleted

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission to amend Regulation (EC) 862/2007 on Community 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;deleted

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Urges ~~the Commission to develop interpretative guidelines on FGM which give full consideration to~~Member States to adopt a zero- tolerance policy towards FGM and to take in to account the UNHCR Guidelines on gender-based persecution and Guidance Note on FGM ~~and which clearly outline Member States’ obligations~~;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. ~~Not~~Opposes 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 an~~believes that only the Member States should thatve 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 be subject to accelerated asylum procedures to decide asylum applications in compliance with the Geneva Convention;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Motion for a resolution
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 to gender-based violence and to provide transparency about the Convention grounds on which asylum claims have been granted;deleted

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. ~~Urges the Commission and the Member States to guarantee full access to sexual and reproductive health and rights~~Insists it is only for Member States to decide access to healthcare, including access to safe abortion, and tohe allocat~~e additional~~ion of resources to healthcare provision ~~as a matter of urgency~~, in line with any agreed international law;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the ~~Commission and the Member States to take immediate measur~~Member States to ensure that reception conditions are safe and adequate, with separate accommodation and sanitation facilities for women and families;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Urges all Member States to reduce maximum limits to the duration of detention prior to removal to below the limit stipulated in the Return Directive; considers that prolonged detention disproportionately harms vulnerable groups;deleted

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Motion for a resolution
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 refugees; calls for robust and transparent procedures for recognising qualifications obtained abroad;deleted

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

~~19. Believes that mutual recognition of positive asylum decisions would enable better opportunities for jobs, integration and family reunification;~~deleted

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2255(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Notes that in certain sectors women are the most affected by social dumping, including housekeeping and the care sector (especially home care), but also in traditional ‘posting’ sectors such as the meat processing or transport sectors; calls on the Commission to evaluate those sectors in which women experience social and wage dumping or undeclared work as the worst form of social dumping, as well as the existing related EU legislation;

2015/12/17
Committee: FEMM

2015/2255(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Recommends the establishment of a network of information offices and a website providing assistance and information on the rights of women workers posted or temporarily transferred to another Member State and employers’ obligations;deleted

2015/12/17
Committee: FEMM

2015/2255(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Calls on the Commission to ensure~~Insists that only thate Member States ~~reinforc~~have the right to ensure effective control measures and sanctions for employers in sectors in which women are victims of social dumping ~~and introduce a blacklist for employers that do not comply with EU legislation~~.

2015/12/17
Committee: FEMM

2015/2255(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Points out that the best way to counter social dumping is to end the free movement of people, allow Member States to reintroduce border controls and decide their own employment laws.

2015/12/17
Committee: FEMM

2015/2223(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas women and their dependent children are disproportionately at risk of poverty and social exclusion, and the economic crisis and EU imposed austerity policies have exacerbated these inequalities~~, leading to a ‘feminisation of poverty’; whereas income distribution within households is unequal and gendered, requiring individualised measurements of income and costs~~;

2015/12/14
Committee: FEMM

2015/2223(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Urges the Commission to incorporate a more robust social dimension and a gender pillar in the European Semester, and to include country-specific recommendations (CSRs) which address the gender aspects of poverty;deleted

2015/12/14
Committee: FEMM

2015/2223(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls for more ambitious action to tackle energy poverty, which disproportionately affects single-parent and female-headed households, by repatriating all parts of EU energy policy back to Member States;

2015/12/14
Committee: FEMM

2015/2223(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Believes that EU energy policy has led to increased fuel poverty, loss of jobs, unsustainable costs for business and higher household costs; calls therefore for the repatriation of energy policy back to Member States;

2015/12/14
Committee: FEMM

2015/2223(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

~~5. Urges a move towards the individualisation of rights in social equality policy, where costs and income are calculated on an individual basis.~~deleted

2015/12/14
Committee: FEMM

2015/2222(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on all the Members States to introduce legislative measures requiring quotas in order to increase gender balance in worker representation at board level; calls for a monitoring system to be put in place and any non-compliance with quota requirements to result in sanctions consistent with national company laws;deleted

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2222(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Takes the view, furthermore, that best practices to promote gender balance in worker representation at board level should be encouraged – such as voluntary initiatives that influence organisations from within, ranging from effective corporate governance codes resulting in transparency, accountability and peer pressure to the implementation of the ‘comply or explain’ rule obliging companies to clarify why gender balance is lacking;deleted

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2222(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Invites the appointing authorities, such as trade unions, to implement positive action measures to increase the number of female representatives of workers on boards in order to reach a critical threshold of 40% or, where appropriate, to present a gender balanced list of candidates for this function;deleted

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2222(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Asks the Commission and the Member States to step up their capacity for collecting gender-segregated statistics about worker board-level representatives in order to monitor the number of women and men in key decision-making positions so as to ensure the promotion of gender equality at board level in Europe.deleted

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2147(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. ~~Is concerned about th~~Recognises that there are different national approaches taken to regulating the internet and the sharing economy; ~~urges the Commission to take action to preserve the integrity of the single market and the internet as an open and global platform for communication and innovation;~~

2015/10/21
Committee: ITRE IMCO

2015/2147(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Believes that a full harmonisation of the legal framework governing online sales irrespective of whether they are cross-border or domestic sales, while maintaining the coherence of online and offline rules regarding legal remedies, constitutes the most practical and proportionate approach;deleted

2015/10/21
Committee: ITRE IMCO

2015/2147(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

~~13. Calls on the Commission to explore the possibilities of introducing an EU trustmark for online sales in order to induce trust, particularly in relation to cross-border online sales;~~deleted

2015/10/21
Committee: ITRE IMCO

2015/2147(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. ~~Calls for an ambitious enforcement framework for~~Notes the Services Directive; encourages the Commission to ~~make use of all means at its disposal to ensure the full and correct~~respect Member States who do not wish to implement~~ation of~~ existing rules~~, including fast-track~~; believes that EU infringement procedures ~~whenever incorrect or insufficient implementation of the directive is identified~~against Member States is, in fact, an infringement on national sovereignty;

2015/10/21
Committee: ITRE IMCO

2015/2147(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Stresses that since the development of over-the-top services has increased demand and competition to the benefit of consumers, modernisation of the telecommunication framework ~~should~~must not lead to more regulatory burdens, but should drive innovation and fair competition;

2015/10/22
Committee: ITRE IMCO

2015/2147(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. ~~Stresses that uniform enforcement of~~Considers that the Connected Continent package, ~~including the~~which includes plans to end of roaming surcharges ~~and~~in the ~~net neutrality principle, requires the establishment of a single~~EU, will come at a great financial cost to mobile operators across Europe an ~~telecommunications regulator~~d will likely increase domestic tariff prices;

2015/10/22
Committee: ITRE IMCO

2015/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas women tend to self-assess the level of innovation of their businesses lower than men and only a small percentage of patents from the European Patent Office (EPO) are awarded to women1; __________________ 1Commission (2008), Report on ‘Evaluation on policy: promotion of women innovators and entrepreneurship’.deleted

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

2015/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

~~K. whereas the greater difficulty for female entrepreneurs in accessing financing could in part be related to a difficulty in building sufficient credit history and managerial experience;~~deleted

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

2015/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital O

O. whereas data show that women, despite beliefs that female investors are better risk managers5 , are likely to have a greater risk aversion tendency and a greater lack of confidence; whereas this may lead to a lesser ability to generate confidence from external parties and could subsequently influence their financing possibilities; __________________ 5KPMG (2015), Report on ‘Women in Alternative Investments’.deleted

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

2015/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on Member States to collect gender-disaggregated data, including on social entrepreneurship, and to report regularly on the number of female entrepreneurs; recommends that data are collected and consolidated at a European level with the support of the European Institute for Gender Equality and Eurostat;deleted

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

2015/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on Member States’ equality bodies to raise awareness levels among financiers regarding their obligation to ensure equality and to explore possibilities of introducing gender equality into investment mandates;deleted

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

2015/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote the visibility of financing entrepreneurial activity through microfinance under the European Progress Microfinance Facility and to look into collaboration with the private sector for investment in ‘female’ sectors, such as government loan guarantees;deleted

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

2015/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Commission and Member States to start accumulating gender- disaggregated data on entrepreneurs’ access to finance and to further explore whether there is any hard evidence of direct or indirect discrimination against women in this context and, if so, how the external factors that influence investors’ assessments about the viability of female- led start-ups should be addressed;deleted

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

2015/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Encourages Member States to promote an entrepreneurial culture in education and training curricula; highlights the importance of financial, entrepreneurship and new business development courses in secondary education, especially in subject areas mostly attended by girls, such as health care and other services;deleted

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

2015/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Commission and Member States to conduct research that seeks to explain women’s greater entrepreneurial activity in social entrepreneurship and its possible multiplier effect on traditional entrepreneurship;deleted

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

2015/2111(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Calls on the Commission and Member States to support the development of financial instruments that value companies in correlation with their contribution to society and the development of trustmarks for social and environmental entrepreneurship;deleted

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

2015/2038(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Competence over negotiating and concluding international trade agreements should be repatriated from the EU back to Member States to ensure democratic accountability, the protection of citizens’ rights and the safeguarding of public services.

2015/10/23
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Urges the Commission and the Council to~~Insists that only the Member States have the right to legislate and fully exploit the potential that the information society, ICT and the internet have to promote women’s empowerment, women’s rights and freedoms as well as gender equality;

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission to exploit and better target the Digital Agenda and the Digital Single Market Strategy with a view to addressing the severe gender gap within the ICT sector, fostering education and training of women and girls in ICT, increasing the visibility of women in the digital arena, enhancing gender equality and participation of women through better access to funding and supporting civil society and women’s organisations in making an inclusive internet a reality;deleted

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Urges the Commission to include in the upcoming Strategy for Equality 2016- 2020 specific actions to support the integration and participation of women in the information society and to strongly promote women’s networks online as they are the manifestation of a self-organised, bottom-up approach to female empowerment and should receive all the support necessary for them to become long-term;deleted

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Notes the Commission communication on ‘A Digital Single Market Strategy for Europe’, but regrets its narrow focus, as it underestimates the considerable potential that digitalisation can have with regard to an inclusive, equal and participatory society and fails to give sufficient recognition to the opportunities that targeted support and funding infrastructure can provide for women’s empowerment;deleted

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Calls on the EU and~~Insists that only the Member States have the right to develop, support and implement the actions promoted by the UN and its bodies, notably in the framework of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and of the World Summits on the Information Society (WSIS), in order to strive for women’s empowerment in the digital age at European and global level;

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to make better use of the considerable potential that digitalisation has at all levels of political participation and the inclusion of women in decision- making processes; hHighlights the major opportunities that digitalisation holds with respect to access to information, transparency and greater government accountability;

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the Commission to make full use of the ‘Europe for Citizens’ programme to specifically target civil society and women’s organisations working in relation to digitalisation and ICT, in order to improve conditions for civic and democratic participation of women and to pay special attention to the gender-specific objectives in the upcoming evaluations of implementation;deleted

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to address the severe underrepresentation of women in the ICT sector, in particular those in higher positions and on boards; urges the Commission and the Member States to unblock the Directive on Equal Representation of Women on Executive Boards; urgently reminds the Commission of its responsibility to take any action that could help break the deadlock in the Council as regards EU legislation addressing transparency and greater balance in recruitment for decision- making positionreject and withdraw the Directive on Equal Representation of Women on Executive Boards;

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. ~~Urges the Commission and~~Insists that only the Member States have the right to safeguard fundamental workers’ rights and the social protection of employees and to combat precarious working conditions; urges the Commission to propose, and the Member States to further develop, new protection mechanisms adapted to the working and career patterns shaped by digitalisation, paying particular attention to the situation of women;

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Notes that the digitalisation of the labour market requires adaptation of both labour market policies and the underlying social security systems; calls 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 impact of digitalisation on workers with care responsibilities, as regards working conditions and the need for adaptation of the workplace, skills development and lifelong learning opportunities;deleted

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. 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 integration of coding, new media and technologies in education curricula at all levels and in all types of education and training, including for teaching staff, in order to reduce and remove digital skills gaps; highlights, in this connection, the importance of open educational resources (OERs), which ensure better access to education for all;deleted

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Commission to promote digital technologies as tools for reducing barriers to entry in the labour market in the framework of lifelong learning and to set EU benchmarks for public and private investment in skills as a percentage of GDP;deleted

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Motion for a resolution
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;deleted

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to make funds available and to improve access to funds for female entrepreneurs to create ICT-related businesses and digital start-ups, fostering innovation and investment within the EU;deleted

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Calls on the Commission in relation to the Digital Agenda to thoroughly monitor and evaluate the application of gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting within the framework of EU funds in accordance with Article 7 of the Common Provisions Regulation on European funds, and calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure the involvement of women’s organisations in the monitoring committees of funding programmes in order to guarantee that targeted actions strengthening the role of women in ICT are implemented; recalls the Commission’s commitment to gender budgeting;deleted

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Calls on the Commission, in cooperation with the European Investment Bank, to set up support programmes in relation to investing in ICT through the European Structural and Investment Funds, including favourable credit conditions and loans for firms, civil society organisations and start-ups in the ICT sector in which 40 % of the workforce are female;deleted

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Calls on the Commission to support and promote a digital entrepreneurial culture for women, promote and financially support a European networking and mentoring platform for women and further strengthen the role of women in existing programmes;deleted

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Motion for a resolution
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; calls on the Commission to promote campaigns against stereotypes in social media and digital media;deleted

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2014/2015(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

~~7. Calls on the Commission to put forward an ambitious, comprehensive package of legislative and non-legislative measures regarding work-life balance as part of the Commission Work Programme 2017;~~deleted

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2014/2015(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. ~~Reiterates its c~~Calls on the Council to ~~state its position on~~reject the proposal for a directive on gender balance among non- executive directors of listed companies~~, so as to enable the legislative process to continue as soon as possible~~;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2014/2015(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Reiterates that the ~~gender dimension of preventing and~~best way to combat~~ing~~ trafficking in human beings ~~must be consistently monitored in the implementation of EU anti-trafficking legislation~~and cross-border crime is to close down the Schengen area, aend repeats its call on the Commission to continue to monitor this in its assessment of Member States’ compliance with and implementation of the directive, while ensuring that the reporting obligations and timetable as outlined in the directive are metthe free movement of people and allow Member States to control their own borders in line with international law;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2014/2015(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Underlines that the impact of climate change is greater for women than men, with women more likely to bear the greater burden in situations of poverty, and reiterates the need to adopt a gender perspective in designing, planning and implementing climate policy and in the development of gender-responsive climate action;deleted

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM