9 Amendments of Javi LÓPEZ related to 2018/2024(BUD)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that robust recovery and sustainable growth are key factors to creating quality jobs, increasing shared prosperity and boosting upward social convergence, and that the European structural and investment funds should be directed more effectively towards promoting inclusive growth, fostering social cohesion and reducing inequalities;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Highlights the necessity to provide resources for combating poverty, especially child poverty and for supporting measures addressing children's basic needs such as food supplies, housing, education and healthcare;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Commits, in order to facilitate an ambitious increase of the Youth Employment Initiative appropriations in 2019 without undermining any other programmes running under the ESF in Member States , to adopt rapidly the needed modifications of the YEI and ESF legislations, potentially to relieve Member States of their ESF appropriations dedicated to Youth employment matching obligation, under the strict conditions that the proposed modifications would not allow to excuse Member States from their already taken financial commitments on the matter and would not imply a decrease in general terms of EU budget appropriations dedicated to the fight against youth employment;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Stresses that the budget lines supporting European social dialogue and workers’ organisations are of prime importance when it comes to strengthening the involvement of Social Partners in the European Semester and in the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights; therefore considers it essential that the funding for these programmes is increased;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Points out that the lack of future opportunities for young people is a very real social emergency in some territories and that requires innovative and focused solutions, prompt in their implementation, in order to bring concrete improvements in the short term; acknowledges that the Youth Guarantee has been an improvement in the fight against youth unemployment, however, during the last months, evidence is showing that the Youth Guarantee is not producing the expected results at the expected pace in some areas, for reasons that are not related to the scheme but to its implementation, mainly because of the lack of compromise and political will from some national governments, the lack of involvement of social partners and regional and local governments, the questionable quality of the offers or failures in the effective integration of the participants into the labour market beyond the duration of the offer; asks the Commission to launch an Emergency Plan for Youth Employment, complementary to the YEI, with a budget scheme of €500 million to support the implementation of quality employment programmes that promote job creation and entrepreneurship opportunities in those European regions where the youth unemployment rate is above 40%; stresses that this scheme should finance innovation, quality and good practices and reward those projects with the highest levels of quality and sustainability in employment creation for people under age 30;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that payment amounts forppropriations provided in the 20178 budget have been less than expecteuntil now sufficient to meet the Member States requests for payments and are expected to correspond to their annual needs according to the European Commission forecast, unlikely to the previous years of the actual programming period, as the structural funds haved not been then absorbed as quickly as anticipated; stresses that as a result adequate payment appropriations need to be provided for in the 2019 budget;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Reiterates that pilot projects and preparatory actions are very valuable tools for initiating new activities and policies; stresses that a number of ideas presented by the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs have been successfully implemented as pilot projects or preparatory actions; calls for Parliament to be given regular and detailed updates on the various stages of the implementation of pilot projects and preparatory actions by the Commission, and calls on the Commission for its part, when implementing these projects and actions, to respect their contents, as agreed and approved by Parliament and the Council; and swiftly implement them;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Highlights the important contribution of all the employment and social affairs Agencies(CEDEFOP, ETF, Eurofound, EU-OSHA) in dealing with a wide range of employment and social issues; against this background, stresses that their tasks are constantly growing and that those agencies must therefore be given the necessary financial and human resources to fulfil their respective remits and ensure the best possible results in support of EU legislative and policy objectives; supports the proposal for the creation of the European Labour Authority which is expected to start operating in 2019; highlights that additional funding will have to be foreseen to ensure the financial resources needed for the establishment of the ELA and that this cannot be done by redeploying the money allocations from the other employment and social affairs agencies;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Reiterates its concern about the negative budgetary impact of the growing Irish country coefficient which increasingly risks undermining the financial capability of Eurofound to deliver on its mandate; expects action to be taken by the Institutions of the Union to offset the effects, as expressed in the Eurofound’s discharge 2016 report; emphasises the need for additional funding in order to maintain the level of research done by the Agency, particularly, to secure the work on the pan-European surveys;