10 Amendments of Kostas CHRYSOGONOS related to 2015/2222(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas 18 Member States and Norway recognise forms of participation, consultation and information of workers at company level in different forms depending on their economic and social historical development;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas workers’ rights to representation on company boards are recognised by the primary and secondary law of the EU, in the fifth paragraph of the Preamble of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, and in Article 1539, 151 and 153(1) (f) TFEU;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission and the Council, in the event of new legislative acts, particularly in the area of European company law, to determine and publicise the impact on European and national forms of workers participation through an appropriate impact assessment procedure and take appropriate measures to counter any adverse consequences;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines the importance of recent EU legal instruments regulating the participation of workers, in particular Council Directive 2001/86/EC of 8 October 2001 supplementing the Statute for a European company with regard to the involvement of employees1, Council Directive 2003/72/EC of 22 July 2003 supplementing the Statute for a European Cooperative Society with regard to the involvement of employees2, and Directive 2005/56/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2005 on cross-border mergers of limited liability companies3, and calls on the Commission to submit a proposal with a view to revising Directive 2004/25/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 21 April 2004 on takeover bids3a, to ensure that the workers of a bidding company are also consulted, rather than just those of the company subject to the takeover bid; __________________ 1 OJ L 294, 10.11.2001, p. 22. 2 OJ L 207, 18.8.2003, p. 25. 3 OJ L 310, 25.11.2005, p. 1. 3a OJ L 142, 30.4.2004, p. 12.
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to consider making a proposal on how to introduce permanent forms of workers’ participation, by ensuring common minimum standards fordevelop standard rules on workers' participation on supervisory boards within a model Directive, which could be universally applied to all European corporate law directives and which should take into account, but not replace, existing rules on information, consultation and participation;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Recommends that this standard rules should be applied to all forms of company with a supervisory board at European level, i.e. account should be taken of public and private companies, partnerships and limited companies and also workers employed in the affiliated parent and subsidiary companies;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Believes that workers´ representatives on European supervisory boards should have a say in all fundamental decisions of a company and oversee the management board, without interfering in the management board´s right to manage the company; suggests that the nature and scope of decisions requiring approval should be determined in this model Directive which will set up minimum standards, which should be further developed by rules in the Member States1a; __________________ 1a e.g. Article 95 AktG, Austria
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Demands that this model Directive ensure that representatives of the workforce may also be from affiliated companies and, in the case of transnational companies, may also originate from another Member State and that trade union representatives may also be put forward and elected as external representatives;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Calls on the Council, the Member States and the Commission to respect and protect existing national forms of workers representation at supervisory board level in the EU and to counter any attempt to use existing EU law to circumvent or abuse such arrangements;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to define common minimum criteria for workers’ representation at board level, notably on the size of the company, on balanced gender representation, and on the extension of the right to participate in public and semi-public companies;including direct or indirect subsidiaries and affiliates with more than 50 employees, that half of the number of seats on the supervisory board should be reserved for workers or their representatives ; Demands that steps be taken, to ensure a balanced gender representation; Calls on the Council in this connection to expedite the Parliament- backed proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council to improving the gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges and related measures1a and calls on the Commission to extend the gender-balanced representation to public and semi-public companies; __________________ 1a COM(2012)0614