Activities of Siôn SIMON related to 2014/2150(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme (A8-0208/2015 - Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann)
Amendments (13)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recognises that REFIT represents a first step towards reducing the burden of regulation on businesses and eliminating barriers togood regulation can benefit businesses and workers alike and help promote economic growth and job creation;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls for REFIT to focus less on reducing regulation and concentrate on quality legislation and its ability to protect and promote the interests of EU citizens. Impact assessments should also evaluate the social and environmental consequences of non-legislation and its impact on the fundamental rights of citizens at EU level. Financial cost-benefit analysis should not be the only criteria applied. When fitness checks are carried out, fundamental rights and employment and health and safety considerations should be given the same weight as financial considerations, and when there is conflict, fundamental rights must take precedence;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Supports in principle the Commission’'s commitment on cutting red tape and better regulation; believes that cutting red tape should deliver proportionate, evidence- based protection for workers, while ensuring that businesses can grow, create jobs and boost competitiveness; notes that deregulation and better regulation are not mutually exclusiveto better regulation; emphasises, however, its concern about the threat of deregulation, in particular in the fields of employment and health and safety legislation, under the guise of 'cutting red tape', and the importance of the precautionary principle in these areas;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes efforts to identify genuine opportunities for simplification of legislation; stresses the need for simpler, clearly-worded rules that remove complexity and can be implemented in a simple manner in order to improve compliance, particularly in the area of health, safety and employment legislation; notes with concern, however, that four members of the High Level Group on Administrative Burdens opposed several of the Group's conclusions presented in its final report and produced a dissenting opinion; expects the Commission to take into account the concerns of all parties involved;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. WelcomesRemains strongly opposed to the Commission’'s indicatention that the maternity leave directive should be consideredo withdraw a number of legislative proposals, in particular the directive on musculoskeletal disorders and the revision of the carcinogens directive; deplores the fact that the proposal for the withdrawals was announced without justification and in the absence of consultation with the partners involved;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. WelcomeDeeply regrets the Commission’'s indication that the maternity leave directive should be considered for withdrawal; calls also on the Council to speed up the adoption of the directive concerning the implementation of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of pregnant workers, workers who have recently given birth and women who are breastfeeding and reiterates the European Parliament's will to negotiate in a pragmatic way;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Asserts that REFIT should not be a pretext for undermining agreements reached between social partners at the European level and that the autonomy of the social partners needs to be respected; underlines that Article 155 TFEU guarantees that social partner agreements become European legislation at the joint request of the signatory parties; calls therefore for the hairdressers social partner agreement on occupational health and safety to be adopted;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the SME test; cCalls on the Commission to use lighter regimes for micro-enterprises and SMEs and to consider exemptions for micro-enterprises on a case-by-case basis, while not compromisreview the SME test to ensure this does not risk lowering onthe health, and safety and employment standardrights and protections of workers in SMEs;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for further measures to check that legislation is doing what it was intended to doensure effective monitoring and enforcement of legislation and to identify areaal with damaging loopholes where therey are inconsistencies and ineffective measuresise;
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 123 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 146 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the committee responsible to systematicallyto review Commission impact assessments and review IMPA’s analysis as early as possible in the legislative process, and to call for impact assessments on its own reports to ensure they have taken due consideration of the social and employment impact.
Amendment 153 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses that EU legislation sets only minimum standards which can be improved by Member States through national legislation; emphasises that the Commission focus on 'gold-plating' as a negative practice for employment legislation runs contrary to the principles of the EU Treaty, including Article 151 for the protection and improvement of living and working conditions.