7 Amendments of Ernest URTASUN related to 2014/2245(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
A b. whereas women are particularly affected by low wages (21.2% in 2010 as against 13.3% for men), especially female employees with a low level of education and those on fixed-term contracts 2 a __________________ 2a ibid
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Calls on the Commission to demand transparency of remuneration in relation to jobs that it creates or funds through cohesion policy, and thereby to reject any unjustified inequality of pay;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the reform of cohesion policy has focused on delivering an investment policy; welcomestakes note of the Commission’s Investment Plan, and endorses its proposal to finance the new EFSI by making national contributions to the fund fiscally neutral as regards the SGP; stresses the interdependence of cohesion policy with the EU’s other investment initiatives; calls on the Commission to create a coherent and effective investment framework;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. WelcomesTakes note of the ‘investment clause’ outlined in the Commission communication on flexibility within the SGP; strongly believes that the investment clause should be symmetrically extended to the corrective arm;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Believes that the possibility ofSupports exempting the nNational cofinancing of the ESIF from SGP deficit calculations should be examined;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Points out that the EFSI project selection process should aim at avoiding crowding-out and reshuffling effects regarding in particular other EU related investments and in particular cohesion policy; underlines that such projects should therefore focus on projects of European added value with a high innovation based potential; which meet the additionality criterion and deliver high social and environmental returns in a measurable way; emphasizes the need to take into account the employment potential of the projects selected in those EU countries suffering from mass unemployment;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Underlines the need to foster collaboration between the EFSI, National and Regional authorities regarding the project election and implementation having a strong impact at the regional level;