Activities of Marc BOTENGA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – point a

(a) the number of economic operators and workers affected by the disruption or potential disruption;

2023/04/03
Committee: EMPL

2022/0278(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

2023/04/03
Committee: EMPL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1

2023/04/03
Committee: EMPL

2022/0278(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 5

5. Member States shall ensure that all affected stakeholders are informed of measures restricting free movement of goods, services and persons, including workers and service providers, before their entry into force. Member States shall ~~ensure a continuous dialogue with stakeholder~~involve trade unions in the elaboration and implementation of such measures, including communication with social partners and international partners.

2023/04/27
Committee: ITRE

2022/0278(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 6

6. The Commission shall ensure that workers, citizens and businesses are informed of the notified measures, unless Member States request that the measures remain confidential, or the Commission deems disclosure of those measures would affect the security and public order of the European Union or its Member States, as well as of the decisions and Member States’ comments adopted in accordance with this Article.

2023/04/27
Committee: ITRE

2022/0278(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Members States shall inform and collaborate with trade unions while putting in place such information system.

2023/04/27
Committee: ITRE

2022/0278(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 3

3. Where the economic operator to which the decision referred to in paragraph 2 is addressed accepts the requirement to accept and prioritise the orders specified in the decision, that obligation shall take precedence over any performance obligation under private or public law. Accepting priority orders shall not in any circumstances be used to undermine or circumvent workers' rights or working conditions.

2023/04/27
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 4

2023/04/03
Committee: EMPL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 6

2023/04/03
Committee: EMPL

2022/0278(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Members States shall inform and collaborate with trade unions while putting in place such information system.

2023/04/03
Committee: EMPL

2022/0278(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Mick WALLACE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 2

2. If an economic operator does not accept and prioritise priority rated orders, the Commission may, at its own initiative or at the request of 14 Member States, assess the necessity and proportionality of resorting to priority rated orders in such cases, the Commission shall give the economic operator concerned as well as trade unions and any parties demonstrably affected by the potential priority rated order, the opportunity to ~~state their position~~be informed and consulted within a reasonable time limit set by the Commission in light of the circumstances of the case. Workers' occupational health and safety must in all cases remain the priority for all economic operators and public authorities. In exceptional circumstances, following such an assessment, the Commission may address an implementing act to the economic operator concerned, requiring it to either accept and prioritise the priority rated orders specified in the implementing act or explain why it is not possible or appropriate for that operator to do so. The Commission’s decision shall be based on objective data showing that such prioritisation is indispensable to ensure the maintenance of vital societal economic activities in the Single Market . Workers affected by such decision whose job would change should be consulted, supported and trained as well as entitled to compensation, including financial ones.

2023/04/03
Committee: EMPL

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2

(2) The unjustified invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation on 24 February 2022 and the ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine has made it clear that it is critical to act now to address the existing shortfalls It has led to the return of high- intensity warfare and territorial conflict in Europe, requiring a significant increase in the capacity of Member States to fill the most urgent and critical gaps, especially those exacerbated by the transfer of defence products to Ukraineeradicate and prevent the root causes of current and future conflicts by investing in diplomatic, political and civilian approaches involving multilateral fora, thus achieving greater collective security and an overall reduction of costs for defence .

2023/02/13
Committee: AFET ITRE

2022/0219(COD)

Mick WALLACE, Marc BOTENGA

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19

2023/02/13
Committee: AFET ITRE

2022/0219(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Mick WALLACE

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19

(19) Grants under the Instrument may take the form of financing not linked to cost based on the achievement of results by reference to work packages, milestones or targets of the common procurement process, in order to create the necAny EU-Instrument should be subject to strict social conditionality, stringent ethical principles and relevant national, Union and international legislation, including the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and its Supplementary Protocols, the precautionary principle, and international humanitarian law, and when contributing to ressear~~y incentive effect~~ch and development, yield proportionate public ownership of intellectual property rights.

2023/02/13
Committee: AFET ITRE

Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point b

(b) trade unions and other workers’ representatives ~~representing individuals working in the value chain concerned,~~

2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Stresses the need to recognise and involve social partners and workplace health and safety representatives in the implementation and enforcement of the OSH legislative framework; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure the involvement of social partners in the formulation of all EU and national policies and in measures taken at all levels; calls on the Commission to start research on concepts and practises of better participation of workers and their representatives in trade unions and Works Councils in all phases of risk assessment and OSH policies as well as to ensure that workplace health and safety representatives are democratically elected by co-workers and not appointed by the employer; Calls on the Commission to assess funding possibilities to strengthen workers participation in OSH at the workplace;

2021/11/17
Committee: EMPL

2021/2157(DEC)

Marc BOTENGA, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Leila CHAIBI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

2021/12/08
Committee: EMPL

2021/2157(DEC)

Marc BOTENGA, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Leila CHAIBI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Calls on the Agencies Network to develop a general policy to not replace permanent staff by more expensive external consultants, in order to guarantee quality working conditions, and to prevent knowledge and experience from being lost;

2021/12/08
Committee: EMPL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the Commission to ~~promo~~facilitate joint procurement and make it standard practice and apply most economically advantageous tender (MEAT) criteria more stringently, in order to help push the price of medicines down; draws attention, in that connection, to the New Zealand Pharmac experiment or the Kiwi model;

2021/06/02
Committee: ITRE

Sira REGO, Marisa MATIAS, Cornelia ERNST, Manuel BOMPARD, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1

Challenges and opportunities for a responsible, sustainable and long-term public planning of the demand

2021/06/23
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12 – point g

The Innovation Fund allocated to each Member State shall support direct public investments in essential sectors and public owned companies and non-profit entities.

2022/02/08
Committee: ITRE

2021/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12 – point g

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10 a – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 2 c

Part of the budget of the Innovation Fund shall be allocated to knowledge transfer and sharing of new technologies with the public sector of low and middle-income countries.

2022/02/08
Committee: ITRE

2021/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12 – point g

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10 a – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 5 a (new)

Moreover, support under the Innovation Fund shall only be granted to companies that: – commit to safeguard or increase quality employment and salaries in current sites of economic activity; – are neither proceeding to share buybacks nor distributing shareholder dividends or executive bonuses; – are neither registered in, nor part of a group having subsidiaries without real economic activity, in tax havens or other non-cooperative jurisdictions; – have not been involved, investigated or prosecuted for money laundering, terrorism financing, tax avoidance, tax fraud or tax evasion;

2022/02/08
Committee: ITRE

2021/0211(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Leila CHAIBI, Özlem DEMIREL, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 – point a

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10 d – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 a

Moreover, support under the Modernisation Fund shall only be granted to companies that: – commit to safeguard or increase quality employment and salaries in current sites of economic activity; – are neither proceeding to share buybacks nor distributing shareholder dividends or executive bonuses; – are neither registered in, nor part of a group having subsidiaries without real economic activity, in tax havens or other non-cooperative jurisdictions; – have not been involved, investigated or prosecuted for money laundering, terrorism financing, tax avoidance, tax fraud or tax evasion;

2022/02/08
Committee: ITRE

2021/0206(COD)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Sira REGO, Marc BOTENGA

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13

(13) A Social Climate (‘the Fund’) should therefore be established to provide funds to the Member States to support their policies to address the social impacts of the ~~emissions trading for build~~green transition, carbon pricings and r~~oad transport~~ising energy prices on vulnerable households, vulnerable micro-enterprises and vulnerable transport users. This should be achieved notably through temporary income support and measures and investments intended to reduce reliance on fossil fuels through increased energy efficiency of buildings, decarbonisation of heating and cooling of buildings, including the integration of energy from renewable sources, and granting improved access to zero- and low-emission mobility and transport to the benefit of vulnerable households, vulnerable micro-enterprises and vulnerable transport users.

2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10

(10) The increase in the price for fossil fuels ~~may~~will disproportionally affect vulnerable households, vulnerable micro- enterprises and vulnerable transport users who spend a larger part of their incomes on energy and transport, ~~who, in certain regions, do not have access to alternative, affordable mobility and transport solutions~~aggravating the pre- existing inequalities. Vulnerable households and vulnerable enterprises mostly do not have access to alternative, affordable mobility and transport solutions including in remote, insular areas and carbon intensive regions with high unemployment rates, and who may lack the financial capacity to invest into the reduction of, and ultimately cut, reliance on fossil fuel consumption.

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

2021/0206(COD)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Sira REGO, Marc BOTENGA, Manuel BOMPARD

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1

(1) ‘building renovation’ means al~~l kinds of energy-related building renovation,~~terations to a building to improve energy performance and indoor climate including the insulation of the building envelope, that is to say walls, roof, floor, the replacement of windows, the replacement of heating, cooling and cooking appliances, and the installation of on-site production of energy from renewable sources as well as the professional removal of harmful substances such as asbestos;

2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE

2021/0206(COD)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Sira REGO, Marc BOTENGA, Manuel BOMPARD

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2

(2) ‘energy poverty’ means ~~energy poverty as defined in point [(49)] of Article 2 of Directive (EU) [yyyy/nnn] of the of the European Parliam~~a household's lack of access to essential and affordability energy services that underpin a decent standard of the Council50 ; _________________ 50[Directive (EU) [yyyy/nnn] of the of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ C […], […], p. […]).] [Proposal for recast of Directive 2012/27/EU on energy efficiency]living and health, including adequate warmth, cooling, lighting and energy to power appliances, in the relevant national context, existing social policy and other relevant policies;

2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b

(b) concrete accompanying measures including policy reform needed to accomplish the measures and investments of the Plan and reduce the effects referred to in point (c) as well as information on existing or planned financing of measures and investments from other Union, international, public or private sources;

2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE

2021/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14 b (new)

(14b) Workers in the building and renovation sectors are particularly at risk of exposure to asbestos. Therefore, requirements for the mandatory asbestos screening, registering, and removal of asbestos and other dangerous substances are needed before any renovation works start. Energy renovations shall be the opportunity to safely remove asbestos from buildings.

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

2021/0206(COD)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Marc BOTENGA, Manuel BOMPARD

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d

(d) where the Plan provides for measures referred to in Article 3(2), the criteria for the identification of eligible final recipients, the indication of the envisaged time limit for the measures in question and their justification on the basis of a quantitative estimate and a qualitative explanation of how the long-term measures in the Plan such as renovation measures, investment in public transport infrastructure are expected to reduce energy and transport poverty and the vulnerability of households, micro- enterprises and transport users to an increase of road transport and heating fuel prices;

2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17

(17) Pending the impact of those investments on reducing costs and emissions, well targeted direct income support for the most vulnerable would help the just transition. Such support should be understood to be a temporary measure in force until investments have allowed for affordable and accessible low-carbon alternatives, aiming to accompanying the decarbonisation of the housing and transport sectors. It would not be permanent as it does not address the root causes of energy and transport poverty. Such support should only concern direct impacts of the inclusion of building and road transport into the scope of Directive 2003/87/EC, not electricity or heating costs related to the inclusion of power and heat production in the scope of that Directive. Eligibility for such direct income support should be limited in timeHowever, the European Union is facing, and is likely to continue to face in the short and medium term, a sharp spike in energy prices. Vulnerable households, vulnerable micro-enterprises and vulnerable transport users are facing higher energy bills while they have been hardly hit by the social crisis of the Covid- 19, exacerbating energy poverty. Therefore, direct income support could be devoted to cover the first kW/h enabling the heating/cooling of vulnerable households’ housings. It could also enable vulnerable households to make the necessary trips to meet their basic socio- economic needs. In both cases, this support would cover all means of heating/cooling, carbon-based and decarbon-based, as well as all means of transport, individual and collective, carbon-based and decarbon-based, until it allows people to meet their basic needs.

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

2021/0206(COD)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Sira REGO, Marc BOTENGA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point a

(a) substantial energy efficiency gains;

2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE

2021/0206(COD)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Sira REGO, Marc BOTENGA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)

(a a) renewable energy generation on- site or as part of an energy cooperative or energy community project;

2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE

2021/0206(COD)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Sira REGO, Marc BOTENGA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point b

(b) building renovation with substantial energy cost saving for occupants;

2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE

2021/0206(COD)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Sira REGO, Marc BOTENGA, Manuel BOMPARD

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point c

2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18

(18) Taking into account the importance of tackling climate change in line with Paris Agreement commitments, and the commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the actions under this Regulation should contribute to the achievement of the target that 30% of all expenditure under the 2021- 2027 multiannual financial framework should be spent on mainstreaming climate objectives and should contribute to the ambition of providing 10% of annual spending to biodiversity objectives in 2026 and 2027, while considering the existing overlaps between climate and biodiversity goals. For this purpose, the methodology set out in Annex II of Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 of the European Parliament and of the Council33 should be used to tag the expenditures of the Fund. The Fund should support activities that fully respect the climate and environmental standards and priorities of the Union and comply with the principle of ‘do no significant harm’ within the meaning of Article 17 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council34 . Therefore, the Fund should not be used to finance projects linked to fossil fuel. Moreover, the Fund should promote high quality employment and decent working conditions. Only such measures and investments should be included in the Plans. Direct income support measures should as a rule be considered as having an insignificant foreseeable impact on environmental objectives, and as such be considered compliant with the principle of ‘do no significant harm’. The Commission intends to issue technical guidance to the Member States well ahead of the preparation of the Plans. The guidance will explain how the measures and investments must comply with the principle of ‘do no significant harm’ within the meaning of Article 17 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852. The Commission intends to present in 2021 a proposal for a Council Recommendation on how to address the social aspects of the green transition. _________________ 33 Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 June 2021 laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund Plus, the Cohesion Fund, the Just Transition Fund and the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund and financial rules for those and for the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund, the Internal Security Fund and the Instrument for Financial Support for Border Management and Visa Policy (OJ L 231, 30.6.2021, p. 159). 34 Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2020 on the establishment of a framework to facilitate sustainable investment, and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 (OJ L 198, 22.6.2020, p. 13).

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20

(20) Member States should submit their Plans together with the update of their integrated national energy and climate plans in accordance with Article 14 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council35 . The Plans should include the measures to be financed, their estimated costs and the national contribution. They should also include key milestones and targets to monitor and assess the effective implementation of the measures. The Plans should be easily accessible to the public, including through the European Commission website. _________________ 35 Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action, amending Regulations (EC) No 663/2009 and (EC) No 715/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Directives 94/22/EC, 98/70/EC, 2009/31/EC, 2009/73/EC, 2010/31/EU, 2012/27/EU and 2013/30/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Directives 2009/119/EC and (EU) 2015/652 and repealing Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 328, 21.12.2018, p. 1).

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

2021/0206(COD)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Sira REGO, Marc BOTENGA, Manuel BOMPARD

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point c

(c) support public and ~~private entities in developing and~~non-for profit entities providing affordable energy efficiency renovation solutions and appropriate funding ~~instrument~~covering the full cost of renovation for energy poor households in line with the social goals of the Fund;

2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE

2021/0206(COD)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Sira REGO, Marc BOTENGA, Manuel BOMPARD

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point d

(d) provide access to zero- and low- emission vehicles and bikes, including covering cost, financial support or fiscal incentives for their purchase as well as for appropriate public and private infrastructure, including for recharging and refuelling; for support concerning low- emission vehicles, a timetable for gradually reducing the support shall be provided along with the implementation of long- term solutions at no additional cost to household beneficiaries;

2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE

2021/0206(COD)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Sira REGO, Marc BOTENGA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point f

(f) support public and ~~private~~non-for profit entities in developing and providing affordable zero- and low-emission mobility and transport services and the uptake of attractive active mobility options for rural, insular, mountainous, remote and less accessible areas or for less developed regions or territories, including less developed peri-urban areas.

2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE

2021/0206(COD)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Sira REGO, Marc BOTENGA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. The above mentioned amount can be increased if the measures taken to achieve decarbonisation have a more significant impact than foreseen.

2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 11

(11) ‘vulnerable households’ means households in energy poverty orand households~~, including lower middle- income ones,~~ at risk of energy poverty, that lack the means to renovate the building they occupy that are significantly affected by the ~~price impacts of the inclus~~cost implications of ~~buildings into the scope of Directive 2003/87/EC and lack the means to renovate the building they occup~~transition toward a climate neutrality;

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

2021/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1

1. Each Member State shall submit to the Commission a Social Climate Plan (‘the Plan’) together with the update to the integrated national energy and climate plan referred to in Article 14(2) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 in accordance with the procedure and timeline laid down in that Article, following the consultation process set in Article 3a. The Plan shall contain a coherent set of measures and investments to a~~ddress the impact of carbon pricing~~ccelerate the decarbonisation of transport and buildings and to pre- emptively and concurrently address the impact of energy and transport poverty on vulnerable households, vulnerable micro- enterprises and vulnerable transport users in order to ensure affordable heating, cooling and mobility while accompanying and accelerating necessary measures to meet the climate targets of the Union while having the objective of reducing climate inequalities. The plan should also focus on the creation of sustainable quality jobs in the mobility and construction sectors.

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

2021/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2

2. The Plan may include national measures providing temporary direct income support to vulnerable households and households that are vulnerable transport users to reduce the impact of the increase in the price of fossil fuels resulting from the inclusion of buildings and road transport into the scope of Directive 2003/87/ECuntil investments have allowed for affordable and accessible low- carbon alternatives to be created, to vulnerable households and households that are vulnerable transport users to reduce the impact of energy and transport poverty, while quickly providing long-term solution for reducing energy and transport cost through building renovations and other measures under Article 6 at no additional cost for the final beneficiary.

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

2021/0206(COD)

(b) finance measures and investments to increase the accessibility and availability of public transports, its affordability, the infrastructure development the uptake of zero- and low- emission mobility and transport.

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

2021/0206(COD)

Leila CHAIBI, Petros KOKKALIS, Özlem DEMIREL, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, José GUSMÃO, Manuel BOMPARD, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Idoia VILLANUEVA RUIZ, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP

8. Calls on the Commission to use the revision of Regulation (EU) No 347/2013 on trans-European energy infrastructure as an opportunity to align the 10-year network development planning with the Paris agreement and the need to achieve climate neutrality by 2050, as well as to include energy system integration in the Regulation’s objectives ~~and the 10-year network development planning~~;

2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE

2020/2241(INI)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Marc BOTENGA, Manuel BOMPARD, Sira REGO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. ~~Welcom~~Notes the adoption of the European Hydrogen Strategy~~; is convince~~ and that renewable ~~and decarbonised~~ hydrogen can help reduce persistent emissions from industrial processes and heavy transport, which cannot be decarbonised through the use of zero- carbon electricity; recognizes that the extension of hydrogen applications to different end use sectors must correlate to the availability of renewable hydrogen; recalls also the need to decarbonise existing hydrogen production by replacing it with renewable hydrogen;

2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE

2020/2241(INI)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Marc BOTENGA, Manuel BOMPARD, Sira REGO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Stresses the need to accelerate research and development o~~n technologies for CO2 capture, storage and reuse~~f energy savings, renewable energy generation, storage and grid-balancing technologies;

2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE

2020/2241(INI)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Marc BOTENGA, Manuel BOMPARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Highlights the need to reduce regulatory barriers, improve access to capital, phase out direct and indirect fossil fuel subsidies and further support energy storage projects along transmission and distribution networks and at consumption sites;

2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE

2020/2241(INI)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Marc BOTENGA, Manuel BOMPARD, Sira REGO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Recalls the importance of interconnectors and cooperation between network operators; ~~welcom~~notes the establishment of regional coordination centres under Regulation (EU) 2019/943;

2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE

2020/2241(INI)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Marc BOTENGA, Manuel BOMPARD, Sira REGO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)

19 b. Highlights the need for a just transition and calls on the Commission and Member States to assure the success of a just transition in all relevant legislative proposals;

2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE

2020/2241(INI)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Marc BOTENGA, Manuel BOMPARD, Sira REGO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Recalls that the ~~primary objective of Union action in the field of~~European Pillar of Social Rights states that enver~~gy is to ensure the proper functioning of the market; calls on the Commission to propose the necessary legislative changes to ensure equal rights for all consumers and undistorted pr~~yone has the right to access essential services of good quality, including water, sanitation, energy, transport, financial services and digital communications and therefore supports for access to such services s~~ignals reflecting the real cost of energy and it~~hall be available especially for those in need; calls con~~tribut~~ the Commission toand the ~~decarbonisation of the economy; welcomes the initiative to revise Directive 2003/96/EC~~Member States to tackle energy poverty and protect vulnerable households by establishing a right to energy and a ban on disconnection;

2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE

2020/2241(INI)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Marc BOTENGA, Manuel BOMPARD, Sira REGO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Is convinced of the need to en~~courage energy consumers to be more active; calls on the Commission to assess the remaining barriers to self-consumption, especially for industrial consumer~~able energy consumers and energy communities to actively shape the energy system and to create social, environmental and economic benefits; calls on the Commission to assess the remaining barriers to self-consumption that exist for industry and individual self-consumers, improve the regulatory framework which would empower renewables self- consumers to generate, consume, store, and sell electricity without facing burdens;

2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE

2020/2241(INI)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Marc BOTENGA, Manuel BOMPARD, Sira REGO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Reiterates the potential of energy communities in a decentralized renewables based energy system and micro grids to develop access to ~~more~~ sustainable energy, e~~specially for remote areas, islands and the outermost region~~ncourage participatory governance, tackle energy poverty, create local jobs and strengthen local communities;

2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE

2020/2241(INI)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Marc BOTENGA, Manuel BOMPARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22 a. Recalls that the energy sector provides an essential public service; calls on the Member States to take responsibility either through regulation, public planning or direct provision of services, where the private sector fails to deliver on the social and environmental challenges ahead;

2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE

2020/2241(INI)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Marc BOTENGA, Manuel BOMPARD, Sira REGO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Recalls that one of the objectives of the Energy Union is to reduce our import dependency; considers that improving energy efficiency, the expansion of renewables, and the creation of synergies can help achieve this objective;

2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE

2020/2241(INI)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Marc BOTENGA, Manuel BOMPARD, Sira REGO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Stresses the importance of increasing the competitiveness of European technologies to ensure the autonomy of the Union in the strategic energy sector; calls on the Commission to support research and innovation through the various structural and sectoral fundsa public industrial policy that promotes sustainable technologies and manufacturing capacities in the Union to meet the needs of the transition towards a sustainable decarbonized energy system; stresses that this requires public planning, democratic governance and substantial support for a strong industrial base; recalls the Union’s ~~global leadership~~capabilities in satellite emission measurement technologies;

2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE

2020/2241(INI)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Marc BOTENGA, Manuel BOMPARD, Sira REGO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. ~~Welcom~~Notes the initiatives undertaken for strategic value chains; ~~calls for~~notes the establishment of ~~an alliance for decarbonised energy technologies; calls on the Commission to encourage the participation of SMEs in these alliances in order to involve more Member State~~industry alliances; calls on the Commission to assure a transparent governance of all alliances including the participation of civil society, NGOs and independent experts, as well as safe guards against fossil and nuclear interests;

2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE

2020/2241(INI)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Marc BOTENGA, Manuel BOMPARD, Sira REGO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)

25 a. Expresses its concern about the involvement of Hydrogen Europe, a fossil fuel-supported lobbying group acting as the secretariat of the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance; denounces the unbalanced composition and the absence of civil society organisations, environmental NGOs, independent experts or even renewable energy companies as members of this Alliance; brands this European Clean Hydrogen Alliance as a greenwashed fossil lobby consortium; calls on the Commission to immediately abolish this Alliance;

2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE

2020/2194(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Highlights the important role that Union agencies play in helping Union institutions to design and implement policies, especially by carrying out specific technical, scientific and managerial tasks; expresses its satisfaction with the high quality work performed by the agencies working in the area of employment, social affairs and inclusion; underlines in this regard the need to equip the Union agencies at a level commensurate to the assigned tasks, with a sufficient number of in-house staff, employed in a stable manner and having sufficient material resources, ensuring their pre-eminence over private contractors; reiterates that the proper functioning of the executive agencies also requires a high-quality social dialogue, closely involving the local staff committees;

2021/01/21
Committee: EMPL

2020/2194(DEC)

Marc BOTENGA, Leila CHAIBI, Özlem DEMIREL, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Highlights that transparency and citizens' awareness of the existence of the Union agencies are essential for their democratic accountability; considers that the usability and ease of use of agencies’ resources and data are of paramount importance; calls therefore for an assessment of how data and resources are currently presented and made available and of the degree to which citizens find them easy to identify, recognise and use;

2021/01/21
Committee: EMPL

2020/2194(DEC)

Marc BOTENGA, Leila CHAIBI, Özlem DEMIREL, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Welcomes and encourages the cooperation among the agencies within and beyond the framework of the EU Agencies Network (EUAN), which constitutes an important inter-agency cooperation platform to ensure efficient communication between the agencies and relevant stakeholders, allowing to build synergies and to exchange ideas and best practices and aiming to achieve more balanced governance, and greater coherence between them; stresses the necessity of improving cooperation between the agencies and Union institutions, avoiding the externalisation of services that can be provided by them;

2021/01/21
Committee: EMPL

2020/2194(DEC)

Marc BOTENGA, Leila CHAIBI, Özlem DEMIREL, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on the EUAN to develop a general policy to not replace permanent staff by more expensive external consultants;

2021/01/21
Committee: EMPL

2020/2194(DEC)

Marc BOTENGA, Leila CHAIBI, Özlem DEMIREL, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Recalls that the yearly exchange of views regarding the annual work programmes and the multiannual strategies of the agencies in the committees responsible is instrumental in ensuring that the programmes and strategies are aligned to the actual political priorities, e~~specially in the context of the implementation of the principles enshrined in the European Pillar of Social Right~~mphasises that the principles of political priorities should be based on investment in social security and not on competition and austerity policies;

2021/01/21
Committee: EMPL

2020/2194(DEC)

Marc BOTENGA, Leila CHAIBI, Özlem DEMIREL, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Encourages the Union agencies to consider adopting a fundamental rights strategy, including a reference to fundamental rights in a code of conduct that could define the duties of their staff and training for staff; setting up mechanisms ensuring that any violation of fundamental rights be detected and reported, and that risks of such violations be swiftly brought to the attention of the main bodies of the agency concerned; establishing, whenever relevant, the position of a fundamental rights officer, reporting directly to the management board to ensure a certain degree of independence vis-á-vis other staff, in order to ensure that threats to fundamental rights are immediately addressed, and that a constant upgrading of the fundamental rights policy within the organisation takes place; developing a regular dialogue with civil society organisations and relevant international organisations on fundamental rights issues; making compliance with fundamental rights a central component of the terms of reference of the collaboration of the agency concerned with external actors, including in particular members of national administrations with whom they interact at operational level;

2021/01/21
Committee: EMPL

2020/2141(DEC)

Lara WOLTERS, Isabel GARCÍA MUÑOZ, Agnes JONGERIUS, Marc BOTENGA, Alicia HOMS GINEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 86 c (new)

86 c. Recalls with disappointment the dismissal of 60 employees working in Parliament’s catering services as of January 2021; notes that the dismissed staff was informed shortly before Christmas 2020 and in the middle of a pandemic; stresses that some of the dismissed staff had worked on Parliament’s premises for decades; recalls Parliament’s repeated calls on companies across the Union to retain their staff during the pandemic; urges the Secretary- General to respond without delay to a letter sent about the dismissal signed by 355 Members; asks to consider if Parliament could guarantee these workers job security by the internalisation of the catering service and directly hiring the catering personnel, following the good example of Parliament's car drivers;

2021/02/09
Committee: CONT

2020/2140(DEC)

Marc BOTENGA, Leila CHAIBI, Özlem DEMIREL, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Emphasises that the ESF must combat the worst situations of unequal development and give local development a boost; stresses, furthermore, that regional actors must be involved more closely and the Member States’ contributions should be reduced in order to reach the weakest regions;

2021/01/22
Committee: EMPL

2020/2140(DEC)

Marc BOTENGA, Leila CHAIBI, Özlem DEMIREL, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Urgently calls on the Commission to take the catering staff in-house in order to be more effective and efficient, and to ensure good working conditions and avoid layoffs;

2021/01/22
Committee: EMPL

2020/2140(DEC)

Luke Ming FLANAGAN, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 192 a (new)

192 a. Is very concerned by the Commission decision to break the contract with the restaurant service provider, which led to the layoff of 400 workers; urgently asks the Commission to revise its decision and to explore any viable solution to protect the workers and avoid layoff, including the internalisation of the catering staff in-house;

2021/03/04
Committee: CONT

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to review Directive 2009/125/EC; stresses that broadening its scope should not lead to any watering down of the results achieved in the field of energy efficiency;deleted

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. considers therefore that the new European circular economy must serve to build an economic system compatible with the nine global limits identified by Rockström et al., and to drastically reduce the Union's ecological footprint in order to ensure that the final consumption, and the resulting waste production, of the Union, and in particular European industries, does not exceed the biological capacities of ecosystems to supply biological materials and assimilate the waste generated, using existing management methods and extraction technologies;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 h (new)

1h. Stresses that the Commission's Circular Economy Action Plan conflates waste prevention with recycling; underlines that a truly circular economy is built on waste hierarchy whereby waste prevention is distinguished and prioritised to recycling; stresses that circular economy activities are often at odds with waste prevention since there is no profit with waste avoidance; considers therefore that the realisation of a truly circular economy, capable of reducing our ecological footprint, is incompatible with the continuous existence of a capitalist economy based on the sole imperative of profitability;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 j (new)

1j. Stresses the great potential for complementarity between a truly ambitious European industrial strategy, in particular regarding the maintaining and strengthening of a strong traditional industrial base, and the establishment of a genuine circular economy; stresses that significant greenhouse gas emissions reduction could be achieved in the industrial sector by increasing material efficiency, developing recycling and the use of recycled products, and producing durable goods with high added value;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 l (new)

1l. Deplores the fact that the territorial aspect of the circular economy is given too little attention in the Commission's Circular Economy Action Plan; points out that the different circular economy sectors are located in territories with specific characteristics, whether in terms of material or energy resources or in terms of employment; considers that the sustainable anchoring in the territories must be an essential element of the new circular economy, in order to encourage the development of productive activities whilst limiting their ecological footprint; stresses therefore the importance of spatial planning and infrastructure development policies; stresses that the sustainable anchoring of circular industrial sectors in the territories requires the establishment of high-quality public services throughout the Union in the fields of education, research, health and transport;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 m (new)

1m. Recalls that circular economy processes are currently at the margin of our mode of production; stresses that in order to be efficient, provide affordable and high-quality secondary raw materials and create secure high-quality jobs in the Union, a real circular economy must be underpinned by industrialised processes;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 n (new)

1n. Calls on the introduction and definition of standards for the industrialised processes of the industrialised circular economy; considers that the usage of these standards should be accessible under Fair, Reasonable and Non- Discriminatory (FRAND) conditions so that the value resulting from these standards can be distributed among all industrial sectors;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 p (new)

1p. Calls on the Commission to introduce a regulation defining, for each category of industrial product sold in the Union, a minimum period of product support; considers that during this mandatory period of product support, the manufacturer should directly or under its responsibility maintain: (a) a sufficient number of spare parts, covering at least as many years of consumption as the mandatory period of product support, or alternatively the specifications and instructions to manufacture new ones, including quality assurance test specification; (b) the product passport with all the necessary information to test, maintain, repair, upgrade, dismantle and recycle in a safe way the product and its constituents or modules, including software modules; considers that after the end of this mandatory period of product support, the information regarding spare parts and the product passport should be made freely available to all in a standard format;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 x (new)

1x. Recalls that the cement industry is both a necessary industry for the realisation of the ecological transition and one of the largest industrial source of greenhouse gas emissions; stresses that the implementation of a truly circular economy could contribute to the decarbonisation of this industry;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a b (new)

1ab. Recalls that four main value chains account for three quarters of EU plastic use: packaging (40%), building and construction (20%), automobiles (9%) and electronics (6%); stresses that actual effective plastic recycling rates are very low in the Union; calls for drastic and binding measures to reduce the use of plastic; recalls that many plastic items are designed in ways that make recycling difficult or impossible; calls on the Commission to introduce biding standards regarding product design to prevent contamination and facilitate the dismantling of products at their end of life; stresses the need for the Union and Member States to support the constitution of a major secondary materials industry for plastic recycling;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a c (new)

1ac. Recalls that resource gains from circularity are particularly large with aluminium, as re-melting aluminium requires only 5% of the energy needed for new production, thus sharply reducing CO2 emissions; stresses that whilst aluminium collection from building and cars is already very high, the rates are much lower for consumer products; calls for the introduction and generalisation throughout the Union of additional deposit system similar to those used for beverage cans; demands the introduction of binding product standards regarding product design in order to ensure easy separation of aluminium components upon dismantling;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a d (new)

1ad. Underlines that construction is a key area of complementarity between the circular economy and emission reductions; demands the introduction of binding eco-design requirements to improve the efficiency and reusability of construction materials; calls on the Commission to ensure that harmonised construction standards and practices are used and promote the use of recycled concrete; calls on the Commission to revise the Construction Product Regulation to enable the setting of EU- wide, product specific environmental standards for construction products; stresses the need for iron and steel products to be separated when building are demolished;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a e (new)

1ae. Emphasises the still under- exploited benefits of replacing single-use products, especially plastics, with long- term sustainable products such as recycled wood; calls on the Commission and Member States to promote the most efficient use of wood according to the cascade principle and to ensure that biologically derived materials, including all wood waste, are brought back into the value chain by encouraging eco-design, increasing recycling targets, and promoting the use of secondary wood raw materials for products before their eventual incineration at the end of their lives;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a f (new)

1af. Is concerned about the environmental and social impact of the electrical and electronics industry which has been developing into one of the largest industrial sector; urges the Commission when preparing the Circular Electronics Initiative to take into consideration the whole product life including the material use, greenhouse gas emissions from the production chemical use and waste, extraction and production of the materials;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a g (new)

1ag. Calls on the Member States to maximise and promote the reuse, recycling, and recuperation of materials, including in their procurement strategies and publicly financed renovation and construction projects, e.g. by reviewing Green Public Procurement (GPP) targets and through streamlining energy efficiency, environmental and social criteria for building renovations;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a h (new)

1ah. Stresses the need for the adequate management and reduction of construction and demotion waste; notes that collection and take back schemes and sorting facilities should be created to ensure appropriate and safe handling of all construction waste, as well as for the recycling or reuse of building materials, for the safe handling, removal and substitution of hazardous substances in waste streams in order to protection the health of occupants and workers as well as the environment; calls on the Commission to propose concrete measures on these issues as part of the Circular Economy Action Plan and the Sustainable Built Environment Strategy;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a i (new)

1ai. Calls on the Commission to support research and development (R&D) programmes for efficient construction materials and, taking into account the social situation, calls for a low cost renewable energy based heating system to be implemented in rural and remote areas;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a j (new)

1aj. Asks the Commission to consider introducing a Digital Product Passport which should provide transparent product information about the environmental and social impacts of the products, including information about the product lifespan and availability of repair services and spare parts;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Underlines that research into sustainable materials, processes, technologies and products, as well as into their industrial scale-up, can ~~provid~~benefit the European companies ~~with a worldwide competitive advantage~~as well as the people and the environment; believes that shortening a number of value chains would ~~make European industrial ecosystems more resilient, competitive and profitable, as well as promote the EU’s strategic autonomy~~lead to sustainable, fair and resilient European industrial ecosystems;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

~~3. Stresses the importance of boosting research efforts in the field of chemical recycling which, paired with organic and mechanical recycling, will complete a technology-neutral framework;~~deleted

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Is of the opinion that ~~the transition towards a digital economy~~digitalisation in all sectors can reduce their environmental footprint, while also boosting the green transition; points out that measures are nevertheless needed to deal with the short- and medium- term costs of the transitions and to make them just;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Believes that the positive role played by social economy enterprises, which are paving the way to circular economy models, should serve as an inspiration to other companies, and that such best practices should be made more visible and adequately supported;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Is convinced that reliable and transparent information is a must in order to build consumers' confidence in the legitimacy of the green claims and to protect them from any kind of "greenwashing";

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7b. Stresses the need for individual firm and sector to be organised as to perform maintenance operations over the long term by training its workforce, and preserving its skills and knowledge about older products, and by setting up and maintaining stocks of compatible spare parts;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)

7c. Stresses the importance of implementing a huge training and re- training programme for all workers negatively impacted by the circular economy; recommends that all workers in waste sorting and recycling be trained in the automated testing of industrial products and modules;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 d (new)

7d. Underlines that the transition to a truly circular economy must be negotiated with the trade unions to guarantee that the health and safety of workers are protected; considers that trade union safety representatives should be elected to check if health and safety regulations are followed and if working conditions are adequate;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 e (new)

7e. Stresses that trade unions have a role to play in forging alliances between formal and informal workers; considers that such alliances would ensure better and safer working conditions for all waste workers whilst expanding circular economic activities; calls for the creation and generalisation of structures associating public authorities, formal workers and informal waste recyclers;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 f (new)

7f. Stresses that whilst automation processes have a potential to create safer work environment for workers, changes to work must be negotiated with trade unions to ensure that automation does not penalise so-called unskilled workers; considers that automation processes should serve as a basis for a wide reduction of working time for all workers;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 g (new)

7g. Stresses that a truly circular economy can only be sustainable if the health and safety of the workers involved in it are prioritised; underlines that some recycling, repair and reuse activities are high risk jobs; stresses that insufficient safe working conditions for the workers can expose our whole society to health and safety risks; denounces the fact that the Commission's Circular Economy Action Plan absolutely ignores the health and safety risks for workers who operate in the circular economy; expresses its deep worriedness that circular economy policies and practices could be developed without risk assessment which take workers' health into account;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 h (new)

7h. Recalls that most waste is generated in construction which contributed over 36% of total waste in the EU in 2016; stresses that construction and demolition waste workers risk exposure to hazardous materials, such as tar, radioactive waste, lead and electrical component containing mercury; underlines that excessive dust in construction and demolition waste recycling plants poses a real health and safety concerns for workers; demands that the voluntarily policy commitments outlined in the EU's Construction and Demolition Waste Management Protocol become binding in order to better protection workers; stresses the need to carry out proper risk assessments and consultation with the relevant trade unions to ensure that the Union increase in its construction and demolition waste recycling capacity in a way that protects workers and the environment;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 i (new)

7i. Considers that remunicipalisation of waste collection services is the better way to ensure that the health and safety of workers are decent and respected and that they are fairly remunerated; calls therefore for the remunicipalisation of these activities across the EU and more generally for the reinforcement of public services and public ownership, management and democratic control over circular economy activities;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 j (new)

7j. Recalls that the life expectancy of sanitation and sewage workers is considerably lower than that of the wider population due to high risk exposure to dangerous biological agents; stresses that the Covid-19 pandemic has amplified the health and safety threats for sanitation workers; demands that sanitation workers be systematically given adequate personal protection equipment; demands that proper risk assessments be carried out in consultation with the relevant trade unions to ensure that sewage workers' health is protection, in particular in regards to the Covid-19 outbreak; urges the Member States to recognise the arduous nature of these jobs and to establish or maintain early retirement schemes for these workers; stresses that workers in these sectors should benefit from social and medical assistance tailored to their needs upon retirement;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 k (new)

7k. Stresses that waste of electronic and electronical equipment (WEEE) is one of the fastest growing streams in the Union; recalls that it is estimated that less of 40% of e-waste in the Union is currently recycled; underlines that the health and safety risks of WEEE are significant as it contains a complex mixture of materials that include hazardous content; stresses as a result repair and recycling of electronic products expose workers to toxic and radioactive materials; demands that workers in this sector be given appropriate personal protective equipment; demands that the right to adequate personal protective equipment be extended to the informal circular economy;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 l (new)

7l. Recalls that the export of WEEE to non-OECD and non-EU countries is illegal; underlines that, according to a study from the United Nations University, up to 90% of the world's e-waste was illegally traded or dumped as thousands of tonnes of e-waste are falsely declared as second-hand goods; recalls that it is estimated that every year 352,474 metric tonnes of e-waste are exported from EU countries to countries of the global South were social, health and safety regulations are lower than those enforced in the Union; condemns this illegal and scandalous practice; calls for harmonisation in the definition of waste in the Union and for the unification of efforts in the field of market surveillance to avoid such illegal exports of waste; calls on the Commission to introduce a biding due diligence on EU companies exporting second-hand products and waste to ensure that they comply throughout their value chain with environmental and social standards equivalent to those prevailing in the Union;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2077(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Sandra PEREIRA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 n (new)

7n. Denounces the creation of private monopolies and the continuing breakdown of energy, water and waste public services, as recently illustrated by Veolia's takeover bid on Suez; urges for a return to public management of waste collection and treatment;

2020/10/27
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas Europe needs a socially effective and environmentally sustainable industrial strategy prioritizing equal development; whereas today EU industry employs around 35 million people and accounts for over 80 % of exports; whereas women still remain under-represented across industrial sectors, occupations and management levels;

2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Sandra PEREIRA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Draft opinion
Recital B

B. whereas the EU industrial strategy must ~~serve as a vector for creating more and better~~guarantee quality jobs and achieve an inclusive and balanced job market that benefits the people, accompanying the transition towards a digital and carbon- neutral industry; whereas the EU industrial strategy must serve as a booster for social cohesion and in that way contribute to the fight against social dumping;

2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Sandra PEREIRA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)

B a. whereas a long-standing focus on competitiveness and market-based approaches has proven unable to solve divergence between Member States and regions, causing the loss of numerous jobs and reinforcing the de- industrialization of entire regions; whereas only strong public industrial strategy can guarantee a truly equal, sustainable and just industrial development, including high quality jobs, and ambitious social and environmental objectives;

2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Sandra PEREIRA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Draft opinion
Recital C

C. whereas digitalisation and artificial intelligence are crucial for all industry sectors~~, increasing competitiveness, creating job opportunities and economic prosperity~~;

2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the Union requires a new industrial strategy that makes its industries more ~~globally competitive, resilient~~, resilient, socially effective and environmentally sustainable; whereas such a strategy should cover the transition of European industries to digitalisation and climate-neutrality, prioritising the safeguarding of quality jobs, equal development, the ‘energy efficiency first’ principles, energy savings and renewable energy technologies; whereas such a strategy is crucial to ensure the respect of our climate objectives, notably the Paris agreement;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Sandra PEREIRA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)

D a. whereas in several factories where workers and trade unions were able to determine production decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic, a quick reconversion of manufacturing towards medical products was observed;

2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Sandra PEREIRA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Draft opinion
Recital E a (new)

E a. whereas any fair and sustainable production model should place workers, their representatives and trade unions, as well as workers’ interests and long standing expertise at its very core to ensure it is oriented on the basic needs of society.

2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the Union’s industrial strategy should ensure the correct functioning of the single market, create a level playing field inside and outside EU and ensure easier access to finance, raw materials and markets, in addition to ensuring appropriate levels of investmentappropriate levels of especially public investment, quality jobs, research and innovation, education and skills to boost ~~competitiveness~~development and sustainability;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Highlights that EU industrial policy must at least be in line with the European Pillar of Social Rights and ~~efficiently~~the European Social Charter and address ~~the~~all social consequences of structural change and the need to continue implementing its principles, in order to support ~~fair working conditions~~good, fair and equal working conditions, quality employment, and equal opportunities, as well as access to well-functioning labour markets and welfare systems;

2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas any fair and sustainable production model should place workers, their representatives and trade unions, as well as workers interests and long standing expertise at the very core of its development to ensure a democratic functioning;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Sandra PEREIRA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Highlights any industrial strategy should place the workers, their representatives and trade unions, as well as the workers’ interests and long- standing expertise at its core to ensure a democratic functioning; calls on the Commission to fully include workers, their representatives and trade unions at every stage of the procedure;

2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Sandra PEREIRA, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Emphasis~~Notes that ~~the~~an European Permanent Unemployment Reinsurance Scheme shcould ~~be adopted as a key instrument that must~~ accompany the twin ecological and digital transition;

2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL

2020/2076(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Highlights that an austerity policy weakens both domestic demand and public investment and is hence incompatible with any ambitious industrial strategy;

2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas the COVID-19 outbreak has illustrated the failure of the market economy in many aspects, notably the failure to produce sufficient first necessity products such as masks, respirators or other sanitary equipment necessary to respond to the crisis;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Sandra PEREIRA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Considers that EU industrial policy must embrace ~~relocation~~public investment strategies that promote the recovery of quality employment and manufacturing opportunities back to the EU, in order to increase competitiveness and avoid excessive dependency on foreign providers, particularly in strategic sectors such as health, digitalisation and energy, thus strengthening the EU’s strategic autonomythroughout the Union, in order to support the equal and sustainable development of all EU regions, particularly in strategic sectors such as health, digitalisation and energy; calls on the Commission to promote the use of public investment to create high-quality jobs and achieve ambitious social and environmental goals;

2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas a long-standing focus on competitiveness and market-based approaches has proven unable to solve divergence between Member States and regions, causing the loss of numerous jobs and reinforcing the de- industrialization of entire regions; whereas only strong public industrial strategy can guarantee a truly equal, sustainable and just industrial development, including high quality jobs, and ambitious social and environmental objectives;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)

Db. whereas, the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent public support measures for private companies followed by massive lay-offs confirm the need for an industrial policy guaranteeing quality jobs, both during the recovery and reconstruction phases;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Is of the opinion that digital and environmental transitions should be at the very core of all Unions strategies until 2050; in this context, calls on the Commission to define a comprehensive industrial strategy which manages these transitions, fosters transformation ~~and~~, guaranteies ~~the Union’s strategic autonomy~~quality jobs and equal development of EU territories within the union;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Sandra PEREIRA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that the ability to recruit and retain a qualified workforce is essential to a ~~competitiv~~stable and sustainable EU industry; considers higher salaries and better working conditions as paramount in this respect; considers education in future- oriented sectors, skills and competences, particularly as regards Vocational Education Training and digital skills, to be ~~essentia~~important as well to address current skills shortages; believes that lifelong learning ~~is a prerequisite~~could help to ensure efficient and timely upskilling and reskilling of workers and should be an integral part of the EU Industrial Strategy; calls, in this regard, on the Commission to ensure complementarity between the aims of the new Industrial Strategy and the anticipated updated Skills Agenda for Europe;

2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Is aware that market dynamics ~~alone~~ do not bridge the fractures created during the transformation process if there is no proper management of the transitions and no strong industrial policies; is, furthermore, aware that ~~while markets, competition and innovation push fast towards transformation,~~ it is society and the environment that face the impact of these transformations; considers that balancing out the number of jobs lost in traditional industries with new jobs created in the digital and environmental sectors is not enough in itself as these new jobs are neither created in the same regions nor taken up by the same workers; calls on the Commission, therefore, to ensure that these transitions are fair and socially just, and that every action aimed at accelerating a transformation process (digital, environmental, etc.) is accompanied by a corresponding initiative to up-skill and reskill workers, with the aim of managing the effects produced by that accelerated process on both regions and people;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. In order to facilitate the digital transformation, it is important to assure that all citizens have the right and access to affordable green energy. This is a prerequisite for participation in economic and social activities in the course of the digital and green industrial transformation, which must include protection and support for vulnerable citizens;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Leila CHAIBI, Sandra PEREIRA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Considers that the recent pandemic has shown the importance of digital solutions, particularly telework, and the need to establish guidelines and regulations at European level; believes that telework offers ~~opportunities such as better~~both risks and opportunities for the work- life balance, reduced CO2 emissions related to the daily commute, and enhanced employment opportunities for people with disabilities; calls on the Commission to propose a legislative framework with a view to regulating telework conditions across the EU defending the highest employment standards and avoiding any weakening of collective bargaining and social partners’ involvement;

2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Highlights that EU industrial policy must address all social consequences of structural change in order to support good, fair and equal working conditions, quality employment, and equal opportunities, as well as access to well-functioning labour markets and welfare systems;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Considers that EU industrial policy must embrace public investment strategies that promote the recovery of quality employment and manufacturing opportunities throughout the Union, in order to support the equal and sustainable development of all EU regions, particularly in strategic sectors such as health, digitalisation and energy; calls on the Commission to Promote the use of public investment to create high-quality jobs and achieve ambitious social and environmental goals;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)

2c. Highlights that any industrial strategy should place workers, their representatives and trade unions, as well as workers’ interests and long-standing expertise at its core to ensure a democratic functioning; calls on the Commission to fully include workers, their representatives and trade unions at every stage of the procedure;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Sandra PEREIRA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Stresses that gender balance and achieving equality between men and women must be core principles of the EU’s industrial strategy; calls on the Commission to include a gender perspective in its industrial policy strategy, particularly in its measures to address the digital and green transformations, and to encourage women’s participation in the digital e~~ntrepreneurship~~conomy, STEM and ICT education and employment in order to ~~avoid~~eliminate any industrial and digital gender gap;

2020/06/17
Committee: EMPL

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Welcomes the Temporary State Aid framework as a way to promptly transfer liquidity where urgently needed; calls on the Commission nonetheless to ensure that the aid provided in the emergency phase does not ~~lead to~~reinforce permanent distortions and inequalities in the single market;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Highlights that emergency public support measures are incompatible with the use of tax havens and the payment of dividends to shareholders, and shall comply with strict environmental and social conditionalities. amongst which safeguarding jobs;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Considers that the economic schemes put in place by individual Member States to help SMEs and companies cope with the short-term cash crunch are useful, but will increase the debt levels of these firms; in this context, therefore, calls on the Commission to facilitate recovery through fiscal schemes that favour equity over debt and grants over loans and/or guarantees;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission to include in the recovery plan a strategy to redeploy industries in Europe and to ~~relocat~~guarantee industrial production in strategic sectors; calls, moreover, on the Commission to adopt a stronger stance on unfair global competition and predatory acquisitions by SOEs and sovereign funds; is of the opinion that, in this context, the Union should implement a provisional TDI schem such as medicines or medical devices, including through public sector initiative;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Highlights that, during this critical phase, the Union should protect ~~its market in strategic sectors and block takeovers and FDI that could further increase its dependency on foreign powers~~and extend the role of public initiative and investment especially in strategic sectors considered too important to be left to the market;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Is of the opinion that the industrial recovery plan should help to create new ambitious and innovative European industrial projects which go hand in hand with the current revision of the guidelines for ‘Important Projects of Common European Interest’ (IPCEI), in order to encourage the emergence of European leaders in strategic industrial sectors that are capable of competing on a global scale; considers that fossil gas should not be considered as a transition energy and therefore should not receive any public money;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Sira REGO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Is of the opinion that the industrial recovery plan should help to create new ambitious and innovative European industrial projects which go hand in hand with the current revision of the guidelines for ‘Important Projects of Common European Interest’ (IPCEI)~~, in order to encourage the emergence of European leaders in strategic industrial sectors that are capable of competing on a global scale~~;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point c

c. distributes the financial aid among the different industrial sectors according to the damage suffered, the social impact, the challenges faced and the amount of national financial support already received through national aid schemes;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point d

d. supports national ~~fiscal~~ schemes that incentivise private sector equity investment ~~and allow companies to convert part of the loans given by the Fund into equity~~in concrete industrial projects;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point d a (new)

da. gives preference to direct public investments in essential sectors and public owned companies;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point f

f. strengthens the EIB guarantees programme and makes it complementary to national programmes in order to ~~strengthen the impact and to progressively replac~~be a valuable addition where national schemes remain necessary;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Highlights the need to support a sustainable and fair recovery beyond the COVID-19 crisis in order to enhance growth in the EU by increasing investment in ~~the~~a just digital and green transitions; asks the Commission to support an ambitious Recovery Fund that is within the framework of a stronger MFF and is integrated in the own resource decision, and to pursue fiscal policy coordination to strengthen the European fiscal framework; is of the opinion that, after the peak of the pandemic, the Fund should become a permanent Reconstruction Fund ~~to foster the~~guarantee just digital and green industrial transitions;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Commission to carry out a detailed impact assessment of the potential costs and burdens for European companies and SMEs before presenting new proposals for legislation or adopting new measures; calls on the Commission to propose commensurate support to the affected sectors whenever a negative impact cannot be avoided;deleted

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Considers that once the emergency phase is over, the Union should embark on a second phase of its industrial strategy: ensuring ~~the competitiveness~~a fair and sustainable production model which can guarantee development, resilience and sustainability of its industries in the long term, and safeguarding jobs;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Highlights the potential of the circular economy for modernising the Union’s economy, reducing its energy and resource consumption and transforming whole industrial sectors and their value chains including a responsible and sustainable supply chain management inside and outside the EU;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Highlights the potential of the circular economy for modernising the Union’s economy, reducing its energy and resource consumption and transforming whole industrial sectors and their value chains; including recycling and reuse to reduce the dependence to raw resources;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Considers that there is significant potential in domestic and global markets for low-emission technologies and sustainable products, processes and services throughout the whole value chain from raw materials to energy-intensive industries, manufacturing and the industrial services sector; considers, moreover, that the Climate Law is a first step towards enshrining climate targets into Union legislation; believes that a more holistic and systematic target framework is also required in order to ensure policy coherence across all Union policies and a homogenous governance approach in all policy areas, paving the way towards a clear and stable strategy for European industries; calls for the strict respect of the Paris agreement;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Sira REGO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Considers that there is significant potential in domestic and global markets for low-emission technologies and sustainable products, processes and services throughout the whole value chain from raw materials to energy-intensive industries, manufacturing and the industrial services sector; considers, moreover, that the Climate Law is anot ambitious enough with the first step towards enshrining climate targets into Union legislation; believes that a more holistic and systematic target framework is also required in order to ensure policy coherence across all Union policies and a homogenous governance approach in all policy areas, paving the way towards a clear and stable strategy for European industries;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Maintains that a truly effective European industrial policy needs a dashboard of climate targets as a roadmap to shape the industry of the future; considers that all sectors should contribute towards achieving the Union’s climate objectives and, in this regard, underlines the importance of g~~as as a means of energy transition and~~reen hydrogen as a potential breakthrough technology; calls also for greater attention to be paid to network security and energy supply; calls on the Council to increase spending from the EU budget on climate change efforts; calls on the Commission to ensure that industries with high carbon leakage do not benefit from EU subsidies, and for better use to be made of the EIB, as the Union’s ‘Climate Bank’, to enhance sustainable financing to the public and private sectors and to assist companies in the decarbonisation process, ~~and to use the Border Carbon Adjustments mechanism as a way to protect EU manufacturers and jobs from unfair international competition~~calls therefore on the Commission to adopt a new IP strategy promoting the transfer of crucial environmental technologies to developing countries by granting free or open licenses for such technologies;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Highlights the need to support a just transition, and believes that a well- designed Just Transition Mechanism, including a Just Transition Fund, would be an important tool to facilitate the transition and reach ambitious climate targets while addressing social impacts; stresses that robust financing of this instrument, including additional budgetary resources, such as a financial or a harmonised 25% minimum effective tax rate on big multinational companies would be a key element for the successful implementation of the European Green Deal;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Calls on the Commission to tailor its industrial strategy to the scaling-up ~~and commercialisation~~ of breakthrough technologies in the Union, by providing ~~risk financing for early-stage technology and developing early value chains to support first commercial-scale,~~high quality public research and development policies to support both medical and climate- neutral technologies and products;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Sira REGO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Considers it imperative to digitalise the Union’s industries, including traditional ones; but with affected employment protection policies; calls on the Commission to invest, inter alia, in the data economy, artificial intelligence, smart production, mobility, and resilient and secure very high-speed networks; invites the Commission, in this respect, to assess the effectiveness of co- financed National Tax Credit schemes that could complement or replace traditional ‘on demand’ grants/tender-based support, especially for SMEs; highlights the importance of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Cohesion Fund (CF) in supporting quality job creation, ~~business competitiveness~~training, wages, business development, economic growth and sustainable development;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Considers it imperative to digitalise the Union’s industries, including traditional ones; calls on the Commission to invest, inter alia, in the data economy, artificial intelligence, smart production, mobility, and resilient and secure very high-speed networks; invites the Commission, in this respect, to assess the effectiveness of co- financed National Tax Credit schemes that could complement or replace traditional ‘on demand’ grants/tender-based support, especially for SMEs; highlights the importance of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Cohesion Fund (CF) in supporting quality job creation, ~~business competitiveness~~training, wages, business development, economic growth and sustainable development;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Calls on the Commission to implement a single European digital and data ~~marke~~environment, to promote the non- profit exchange of data among companies and among public institutions, to develop and process data on European soil, in particular data from public bodies, to build a better digital taxation system in which profits are taxed where companies have significant interaction with users, and to further develop European standards on cybersecurity, in particular for critical infrastructure; calls to tackle the growing energy use of data centres at building, server, and software level, applying strict energy and resource efficiency, renewable energy sourcing and waste heat recovery criteria; the energy efficiency first principle could be used as an evaluation criteria to compare different digital applications;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

20. Considers that industrial transformation requires the integration of new knowledge and innovation ~~into existing markets and their use in the creation of new ones~~; regrets, in this respect, that the Union invests less in R&D as a percentage of GDP than ~~its global competi~~other actors and that it suffers from a serious lack of innovative capacity in small and medium-sized enterprises ~~due to a shortfall in the necessary risk capital~~; calls on the Commission to increase the budget for those programmes that underpin the transformation of the Union’s industry, including Horizon Europe, and to foster synergies between regional, national, and European ~~and private~~ financial sources by taking advantage of synergies among all Union programmes;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Is of the opinion that ecosystems will be key components of the next industrial revolution, providing affordable and cleaner energy, transformative manufacturing and service-provision methods; believes, moreover, that supporting collaboration among industry, academia, SMEs, start-ups, trade unions, civil society, end-user organisations and all other stakeholders will be key to solving market failures and supporting efforts to cross the ‘valley of death’, while ensuring that workers do not pay, in any case, the bill of this efforts including in areas not yet covered by industrial interests;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. Calls on the Commission to provide endogenous growth in Europe, in orienting value through consumption and investment; believes that financialization is a threat for wage and investment in attracting profit from the industries to the shareholders; considers that fiscal policies and international cooperation in this matter should constraint the firms’ Financial strategies to promote surplus repartition for workers and investment instead of for shareholders;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)

21b. Considers that essential sectors for ensuring the autonomy of the EU policy for health, safety, transport and infrastructure need leapfrogging to guarantee their long-term development; calls on the Commission for planning policy in key essential sectors in order to balance the development of such industries across Europe, discussed in stakeholders working groups including the above-mentioned stakeholders; calls for creation in each identified key sector the creation of public platforms for R&D and R&T, in which the above-mentioned stakeholders can identify and support product and process innovations that match the relevant citizens’ needs;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23a. Calls on the Commission to produce guidelines for national statistics agencies in order to gather relevant data about the industries, especially manufacturing, in Europe, to measure the integration of the value chains, the evolution of employment and territorial development;

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2076(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sandra PEREIRA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. In the light of a profoundly changed international economic context, calls on the Commission to review its antitrust rules and to continue to ensure that the enforcement of EU competition law is effective in keeping the Union globally competitive, seeking a balance between support for so-called ‘European champions’ and protection of the supply chain from unfair competition, so as to compensate for the lack of a global level playing field given the higher levels of concentration, margins and inequality visible in the economy;deleted

2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2020/2071(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Sandra PEREIRA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas the coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated the growing problem of medicine shortages across the EU; whereas the ensuing disruption of the global supply chain has highlighted the ~~EU’s dependency on third count~~deficiencies of market mechanisms with research and development, production and trade controlled by multinational enterprises, and the EU’s dependency on these for medicines and active pharmaceutical ingredients;

2020/05/19
Committee: ITRE

2020/2071(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Sandra PEREIRA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

A a. Recognizes that drug shortages are sometimes artificially created by pharmaceutical companies that choose to produce more profitable drugs while neglecting less profitable ones;

2020/05/19
Committee: ITRE

2020/2071(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Sandra PEREIRA, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Manuel BOMPARD, Sira REGO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Insists that the Commission urgently launches a multi-stakeholder consultation to identify key supply chain issues that directly cause or increase the risk of medicine shortages; calls on the Commission to propose ambitious and concrete actions to address these issues in its planned pharmaceutical strategy with, among others, a mechanism to oblige the companies owning the patents to produce the needed medicines even if they are less profitable, and the possibility to impose compulsory licences in order to facilitate, without constraint, the increase of the production of the most needed drugs or vaccines;

2020/05/19
Committee: ITRE

2020/2071(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Sandra PEREIRA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses the urgent need for the EU to reduce its over-reliance on a small number of third countries for medicine manufacturing and as sources of active pharmaceutical ingredients; calls therefore the EU to enable the creation of a European public pharmaceutical hub which will have the responsibility to ensure the production of essential drugs and vaccines and make them available at cost price to the health departments of Member States;

2020/05/19
Committee: ITRE

2020/2071(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Sandra PEREIRA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Highlights the fact that Horizon 2020 has already financed a significant number of health-related research and innovation activities; calls for more funding to be provided through Horizon Europe to create and support medicine- focused ~~research ecosystems.~~public-owned research;

2020/05/19
Committee: ITRE

2020/2020(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas ~~Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union stipulates that the Union is to promote social justice and protection~~the Treaties are primary European Union legislation and are the basis and ground rules for all EU action; whereas Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union stipulates that the Union is to promote social justice and protection; whereas Article 9 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union states that in defining and implementing its policies and activities, the Union shall take into account requirements linked to the promotion of a high level of employment,the guarantee of adequate social protection, the fight against social exclusion, and a high level of education, training and protection of human health;

2020/06/25
Committee: EMPL

2020/2020(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the internal market should serve the welfare of all, in accordance with the tradition of social progress rooted in the history of Europe and mentioned in the Treaties, economic freedoms cannot be interpreted as granting undertakings the right to exercise them for the purpose or with the effect of undermining, evading or circumventing national social and employment laws and practices or for social dumping;

2020/06/25
Committee: EMPL

2020/2020(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital B

B. whereas the free movement of services requires the free movement of workers; whereas the free movement of services must under no circumstances undermine workers’ rights, social protection orand the principle of subsidiarity~~, and~~; whereas access to information about applicable rules as well as effective compliance, monitoring and enforcement, including safe ways to report abuses are necessary preconditions for fair mobility; whereas digital technology can facilitate the supervision and enforcement of the rules safeguarding the rights of mobile workers;

2020/06/25
Committee: EMPL

2020/2020(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas the free movement of services shouldn’t be to the detriment of worker’s representation rights, including the right to negotiate, conclude and enforce collective agreements and to take collective action, and not infringe upon the autonomy of social partners when exercising these fundamental rights in pursuit of social interests and the protection of workers; whereas any fair and sustainable mobility requires placing workers, their representatives and trade unions, as well as workers’ interests and long standing expertise at its core to ensure it is oriented on the basic needs of society;

2020/06/25
Committee: EMPL

2020/2020(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)

Bb. whereas the current Covid-19 crisis has exposed and exacerbated social dumping and the existing precariousness of the situations of many mobile workers and gaps in the implementation and enforcement of existing legislation for their protection; whereas posted workers in the framework of the provision of services have experienced abuses in particular with regard to their working conditions, access to health and safety, social protection, safe transport and decent accommodation;

2020/06/25
Committee: EMPL

2020/2020(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)

Bc. whereas the massive outbreak of Covid-19 in slaughterhouses in Germany, directly related to poor labour and housing conditions as well as the common use of subcontracting based on the free movement of services, illustrates the potential impact of the free movement of services on public health;

2020/06/25
Committee: EMPL

2020/2020(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital B d (new)

Bd. whereas the current rules applicable to worker’s mobility in the European Union allow fraud and social dumping, undermining workers’ rights and damaging fair competition between Member States;

2020/06/25
Committee: EMPL

2020/2020(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital B e (new)

Be. whereas liberalisation of services came along with the assumption that competition would be synonymous with accessible prices and better quality services, while in fact it often lead to a domination of a very small number of large companies, increasingly precarious employment and increased costs for consumers and degradation of the services provided;

2020/06/25
Committee: EMPL

2020/2020(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital B f (new)

Bf. whereas the majority workers in the European Union are employed by SMEs; whereas the protection of workers’ rights must be a priority for every kind of company and every form of employment; whereas initiatives targeting SMEs and start-ups must not provide opportunities for businesses to circumvent existing rules, lower workers’ and consumer protection standards, or increase the risk of corporate fraud, criminal activities and letterbox companies; recalls that unfair competition is the dominant source of difficulties for genuine SMEs;

2020/06/25
Committee: EMPL

2020/2020(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital C

C. whereas the social implications of the free movement of services ~~mean the EU needs a robust cohesion policy and a fair and geographically balanced industrial policy~~can affect both regions of origin (demographic decline, shortage of workers and skills, reduction in tax revenue) and regions hosting mobile workers (social dumping and wage competition); whereas these consequences therefore mean the EU needs a robust cohesion policy and a fair and geographically balanced industrial policy that must reinforce social cohesion and in that way contribute to the fight against social dumping;

2020/06/25
Committee: EMPL

2020/2020(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas the European services card as proposed by the European Commission would mean transferring primary responsibility for the compliance procedure to the home Member State, in contradiction with the established principle of the host country; whereas differences between regulatory models do not in themselves indicate that reform is necessary; whereas many regulations are based on tradition and experience and whereas the principle of 'equivalence' is based on the very existence of these different systems;

2020/06/25
Committee: EMPL

2020/2020(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)

Cb. whereas the revision notification procedure proposed by the Commission would hinder the exercise of legislative and regulatory powers so that a national or local rule which could better achieve objectives for the regulation of service activities could be deprived of enforceability; whereas the implementation of preventive action prohibiting the implementation of a notified measure would unduly constrain the intervention capacities of Member States and local authorities;

2020/06/25
Committee: EMPL

2020/2020(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Opposes the introduction of the country-of-origin principle, and considers that the free movement of services must be achieved without undermining workers’ rights and social rights; considers that the mobility of workers providing these services should not only be free but also fair, notably in regard to equal rights, working conditions and social protection; calls on the Commission and Member States to amend current legislation prioritising workers' rights over the free movement of services.

2020/06/25
Committee: EMPL

2020/2020(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Underlines that in order to be free, safe and fair, the future of the free movement of services needs increasing cohesion in the internal market; highlights the importance in that regard of public investment, fair and progressive taxation, public spending on public services and infrastructures as well as social, workers’ and trade union rights; urges the Commission to review the priorities for the future of free movement of services in this view;

2020/06/25
Committee: EMPL

2020/2020(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Reminds that administrative practices and regulation of services are justified to protect workers, consumers, the environment and secure a level playing-field, legal certainty and predictability for entrepreneurs and business;

2020/06/25
Committee: EMPL

2020/2020(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Recalls that the subsidiarity principle is a fundamental principle of the internal market; recalls the constitutional right of Member States to go beyond the minimum levels established by European Union directives as part of their internal democratic legislative processes in order to reach policy objectives such as ensuring quality services and a high level of protection of workers, consumers and the environment;

2020/06/25
Committee: EMPL

2020/2020(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Considers that post-Covid19 all relevant EU policies including those aimed at strengthening the internal market must embrace the recovery of quality employment and manufacturing opportunities throughout the Union, in order to support the equal and sustainable development of all EU regions;

2020/06/25
Committee: EMPL

2020/2020(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Highlights that any future initiative on the design and implementation of the regulation of professions and free movement of services should place workers, their representatives and trade unions, as well as workers’ interests and long-standing expertise at its core to ensure democratic functioning and high social and environmental standards; calls on the Commission to fully include workers, their representatives and trade unions at every stage of the procedure;

2020/06/25
Committee: EMPL

2020/2020(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote the use of digital tools and provide labour inspectorates with sufficient resources.; calls on the Member States to improve the cooperation and the exchange of information on social security systems: Calls on the Commission to put forward an initiative for a European Social Security Number, providing legal certainty for workers and businesses, while effectively also controlling subcontracting practices, and combatting social frauds such as false self- employment, bogus posting, letterbox companies and other artificial arrangements;

2020/06/25
Committee: EMPL

2020/2020(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Underlines that harmful practices on the free movement of workers affect every Member State; Calls for increased vigour from the Commission to ensure efficient coordination and exchange of information between Member States, so as to improve the enforcement of procedures and checks for the cross-border provision of services, including workers’ rights, effectively detecting abuses and exploitation such as social fraud, false self-employment, bogus posting, letter-box companies and artificial arrangements through subcontracting and in supply- chains; Calls on the Commission and Member States to strength the common labour inspections

2020/06/25
Committee: EMPL

2020/2020(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Expresses deep concern that a European services e-card may create additional loopholes in existing legislation, hinder effective controls and enforcement of the rules in place by effectively introducing the country of origin principle; is of the opinion that such a proposal is a support program for undeclared work, letter box companies, avoiding labour standards, fair pay, collective agreements and social dumping; therefore calls on the Commission to withdraw the legislative services e-card proposal as previously requested by the European Parliament;

2020/06/25
Committee: EMPL

2020/2020(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3c. Considers the Commission proposal for a revised services notification procedure would undermine the legislative competence of the Member States in the field of services and does not comply with the principle of subsidiarity; therefore calls on the Commission to withdraw this proposal;

2020/06/25
Committee: EMPL

2020/2020(INI)

Marc BOTENGA, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Özlem DEMIREL, Leila CHAIBI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)

3d. Calls on Member States to ban subcontracting so that employers take direct responsibility for their workers, minimise worker turnover at the workplace where an acute risk for public health exists and halt the use of precarious contracts;

2020/06/25
Committee: EMPL

2020/1998(BUD)

Marc BOTENGA, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Özlem DEMIREL, Leila CHAIBI, Sandra PEREIRA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Recalls that, before the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 100 million Europeans were struggling with poverty and material deprivation on a daily basis and that the situation is likely to deteriorate as a result of the pandemic; recognises the crucial role of the European Social Fund (ESF), the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI), the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF), the Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) and the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) in the current 2014-2020 MFF; calls for the Union to increase its efforts to boost cohesion and social convergence in Europe; proposes that the ESF budget, and notably the FEAD be doubled to overcome poverty in Europe;

2020/09/07
Committee: EMPL

2020/1998(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Emphasises that, in accordance with Article 151 TFEU, the Union and the Member States, having in mind fundamental social rights such as those set out in the European Social Charter signed at Turin on 18 October 1961 and in the 1989 Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers, shall have as their objectives the promotion of employment, the improvement of living and working conditions, proper social protection, the development of lasting high quality employment and the combating of exclusion;

2020/09/07
Committee: EMPL

2020/1998(BUD)

Marc BOTENGA, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Özlem DEMIREL, Leila CHAIBI, Sandra PEREIRA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that the recovery efforts ~~should boost jobs and~~and the Union budget should benefit the people and be focused primarily on boosting quality jobs and sustainable growth, the resilience of our societies and should be complemented by a strong social dimension, addressing social and economic inequalities and the needs of those hardest hit by the crisis, particularly potentially vulnerable and disadvantaged groups, whose inclusion in the labour market must be supported and fostered;

2020/09/07
Committee: EMPL

2020/1998(BUD)

Marc BOTENGA, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Özlem DEMIREL, Leila CHAIBI, Sandra PEREIRA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Calls for EU programmes to focus on projects that promote and enhance the safeguarding of existing jobs and the creation of quality jobs with rights and stable and regulated pay and working conditions, as well as effectively and incisively combating poverty and social exclusion;

2020/09/07
Committee: EMPL

2020/1998(BUD)

Marc BOTENGA, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Özlem DEMIREL, Leila CHAIBI, Sandra PEREIRA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Welcomes, in light of the expected increase in demand in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the Commission proposal to increase the annual funding available for EGF to EUR 386 million from 2021 onwards and is concerned that the Council proposal to limit this funding to EUR 197 million in 2021 could undermine its paramount role in offering assistance to workers who lost their job in restructuring events; insists that particular emphasis shall lie on Member States and regions having been hit hardest and where the national and regional authorities lack adequate resources for taking the necessary measures; recalls that the EGF is without prejudice to the social responsibilities of the companies concerned, in particular where it concerns their contribution to the social plans for displaced workers;

2020/09/07
Committee: EMPL

2020/0321(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2

(2) The unprecedented experience of the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that the Union should be more effective and transparent in managing the availability of medicinal products and medical devices and in developing medical countermeasures to address the threats posed to public health. The Union’s ability to do so has been severely impeded by austerity measures affecting public health services, insufficient public control on production, and by the absence of a clearly defined legal framework for managing its response to the pandemic, and also by the limited degree of Union preparedness in case of a public health emergency impacting a majority of Member States.

2021/03/26
Committee: ITRE

2020/0321(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17

(17) In order to ensure that safe, high quality, and efficacious medicinal products, which have the potential to address public health emergencies, can be developed and made available within the Union as soon as possible during public health emergencies, an emergency task force driven by public-health needs only should be established within the Agency to provide advice on such medicinal products. The Emergency Task Force should provide independent advice free of charge on scientific questions related to the development of treatments and vaccines and on clinical trial protocols, to those organisations involved in their development, such as marketing authorisation holders, clinical trial sponsors, public health bodies, and academia, irrespective of their exact role in the development of such medicinal products.

2021/03/26
Committee: ITRE

2020/0321(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18

(18) TWhile guaranteeing the independence of any subsequent evaluations, the work of the Emergency Task Force should be separate from the work of the scientific committees of the Agency and should be carried out without prejudice to the scientific assessments of those committees. The Emergency Task Force should provide recommendations driven only by science and public-health needs and not by other interests, with regard to the use of medicinal products in the fight against the disease that is responsible for the public health crisis. The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use should be able to use those recommendations when preparing scientific opinions on compassionate or other early use of a medicinal product prior to marketing authorisation.

2021/03/26
Committee: ITRE

2020/0321(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19

(19) The establishment of the Emergency Task Force should build on the support provided by the Agency during the COVID-19 pandemic, notably as regards scientific advice on clinical trials design and product development, the transparency of related activities, including the rapid publishing clinical data for the products in question, as well as the ‘rolling’ review i.e. on an on-going basis, of emerging evidence to allow a more efficient assessment of medicinal products including vaccines during public health emergencies.

2021/03/26
Committee: ITRE

2020/0321(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22

(22) This Regulation also provides the Agency with a role to support the expert panels on medical devices designated under Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/139612 to provide independent scientific and technical assistance to the Member States, the Commission, the Medical Device Coordination Group (MDCG), notified bodies and manufacturers, while upholding maximum transparency as a condition for fostering trust and confidence in the EU regulatory system. _________________ 12Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1396 of 10 September 2019 laying down the rules for the application of Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the designation of expert panels in the field of medical devices OJ L 234, 11.9.2019, p. 23

2021/03/26
Committee: ITRE

2020/0321(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26

(26) Rapid access and exchange of health data, including when generated with appropriate quality criteria, real world data i.e. health data generated outside of clinical studies, iscan be essential as supportive evidence or signal-eliciting evidence to ensure effective management of public health emergencies and other major events. This Regulation should allow the Agency to use and facilitate such exchange and be part of the establishment and operation of the European Health Data Space infrastructure.

2021/03/26
Committee: ITRE

2020/0321(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2

2. The Medicines Steering Group shall be composed of a representative of the Agency, a representative of the Commission and one senior representative per Member State. Each Member State shall appoint their representative. Members may be accompanied by experts in specific scientific or technical fields. The declarations of interests of all experts shall be made public and all necessary restrictions shall apply where conflicts of interest occur.

2021/03/26
Committee: ITRE

2020/0321(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3

3. The Medicines Steering Group shall be chaired by the Agency. The Chair may ~~invite~~decide to hear third parties, including ~~representatives of medicinal product interest groups and marketing authorisation holders to attend its meeting~~marketing authorisation holders, developers of medicinal products, clinical trial experts, public-health advocacy groups, sectoral trade unions, consumer and patient organisations, as well as healthcare professionals.

2021/03/26
Committee: ITRE

2020/0321(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 4

4. The Medicines Steering Group shall establish its rules of procedure including procedures relating to the working party referred to the paragraph 5 and on the adoption of lists, sets of information, and recommendations. The rules of procedure shall enter into force after receiving a favourable opinion from the Commission and the Management Board of the Agency. After being established, these rules shall be made publicly available.

2021/03/26
Committee: ITRE

2020/0321(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 3 – point e

(e) production, sales and market share data;

2021/03/26
Committee: ITRE

2020/0321(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 3 – point g

(g) mitigation plans including location- specific manufacturing, production and supply capacity;

2021/03/26
Committee: ITRE

2020/0321(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1

1. In order to facilitate the monitoring referred to in Article 7 and following a request from the Agency, marketing authorisation holders for medicinal products included on the critical medicines lists shall submit the information referred to in Article 9(3) by the deadline set by the Agency. They shall submit the information through the points of contact designated in accordance with Article 9(2) and using the reporting methods and system established pursuant to Article 9(1). They shall provide updates whenevere necessary or upon request.

2021/03/26
Committee: ITRE

2020/0321(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 4

4. Where marketing authorisation holders for medicinal products included on the critical medicines lists indicate that the submitted information might contains information of a commercially confidential nature, they shall identify the relevant parts ~~and~~, clarify the reasons for such an indication~~. The Agency shall assess the merits of each request and protect commercially confidential information against unjustified disclosure~~ and offer sufficient, actual and specific evidence of harm stemming from disclosure. The Agency shall assess the merits of each request, considering the benefits for public health of disclosure and act accordingly.

2021/03/26
Committee: ITRE

2020/0321(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1

The Agency shall, via its web-portal and other appropriate means, in conjunction with national competent authorities, inform the public and interest groups with regard to the work ~~of the Medicines Steering Group.~~ and the data used and its sources based on which the recommendations of the Medicines Steering Group are taken. Proceedings and recommendations, including dissenting views, shall be documented and made publicly available.

2021/03/26
Committee: ITRE

2020/0321(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Marisa MATIAS, Sira REGO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – point e

(e) providing, by making publicly available, scientific recommendations with regard to the use of any medicinal product, which may have the potential to address public health emergencies, in accordance with Article 16;

2021/03/26
Committee: ITRE

2020/0321(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 3

3. The Emergency Task Force shall be composed of representatives of the scientific committees, working parties, and staff members of the Agency, the coordination group established in accordance with Article 27 of Directive 2001/83/EC, and the Clinical Trials Coordination and Advisory Group established in accordance with Article 85 of Regulation (EU) 536/2014.21 External experts may be appointed and representatives of other Union bodies and agencies be invited on an ad hoc basis, as necessary. It shall be chaired by the Agency. Members of the Emergency Task Force, including external experts, shall not have financial or other interests in the health industry which could affect their independence and impartiality. They shall undertake to act in the public interest and in an independent manner, and shall make an annual declaration of their financial interests which shall be published. Members of the Emergency Task Force shall declare, at each meeting, any potential conflict of interest with respect to the items on the agenda. In the event of such a conflict of interest, the concerned member shall withdraw from the meeting. _________________ 21Regulation (EU) No 536/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on clinical trials on medicinal products for human use, and repealing Directive 2001/20/EC, OJ L 158, 27.5.2014, p. 1

2021/03/26
Committee: ITRE

2020/0321(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 4

4. The composition of the Emergency Task Force shall be approved by the Management Board of the Agency and made publicly available. The Executive Director of the Agency or their representative and representatives of the Commission shall be entitled to attend all meetings.

2021/03/26
Committee: ITRE

2020/0321(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 5

5. The Chair may invite representatives of Member States, members of scientific committees of the Agency and working parties~~, and third parties, including representa~~ to attend its meetings, and decide to hear third partives ~~of medicinal product interest groups,~~, including marketing authorisation holders, developers of medicinal products, clinical trial ~~sponsors, representatives of clinical trial networks, and interest groups representing patients and~~experts, public health advocacy groups, sectoral trade unions, consumer and patient organisations, as well as healthcare professionals ~~to attend its meetings~~.

2021/03/26
Committee: ITRE

2020/0321(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 8

8. Article 63 of Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 shall apply to the Emergency Task Force as regards transparency and the independence of its members. Declarations of interest shall be made publicly available for all stakeholders and experts consulted. Stakeholders and experts with conflicts of interest shall not participate in the process.

2021/03/26
Committee: ITRE

2020/0321(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 6

6. Where a developer is the recipient of scientific advice, the developer shall subsequently and continuously submit all the data resulting from clinical trials to the Agency following a request made pursuant to Article 16.

2021/03/26
Committee: ITRE

2020/0321(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 2

2. In preparation of the review, the Emergency Task Force may request all relevant information and data from marketing authorisation holders and from developers and engage with them in preliminary discussions. The Emergency Task Force ~~may also, where available, make use of observational studies of health data generated outside of clinical studies taking into account their reliability~~shall use the results of comparative randomized controlled trials when available, but, if not, may also, when necessary, make use of real world data including pragmatic trials as in “close to everyday practice” taking into account their reliability as supportive evidence or signal-eliciting evidence.

2021/03/26
Committee: ITRE

2020/0321(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 3 – introductory part

3. Based on a request from one or more Member States, or the Commission, the Emergency Task Force shall provide independent recommendations, driven only by public-health needs and not by other interests, to the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use for an opinion in accordance with paragraph 4 on the following:

2021/03/26
Committee: ITRE

2020/0321(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1

The Agency shall, via its web-portal and other appropriate means and, in conjunction with national competent authorities, inform the public and relevant interest groups with regard to the work and the data and sources used in the decision- making process of the Emergency Task Force.

2021/03/26
Committee: ITRE

2020/0321(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 2

2. The Medical Devices Steering Group shall be composed of a representative of the Agency, a representative of the Commission and one senior representative per Member State. Each Member State shall appoint their representative. Members may be accompanied by experts in specific scientific or technical fields. The declarations of interests of all experts must be made public and all necessary restrictions shall apply where conflicts of interest occur.

2021/03/26
Committee: ITRE

2020/0321(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Marisa MATIAS, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Sira REGO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 3

3. The Medical Devices Steering Group shall be chaired by the Agency. The Chair may ~~invite~~decide to hear third parties, including ~~representatives of medical device interest groups to attend its meeting~~developers and producers of medical devices, public-health advocacy groups, sectoral trade unions, consumer and patient organisations, as well as healthcare professionals.

2021/03/26
Committee: ITRE

2020/0321(COD)

Marc BOTENGA, Manuel BOMPARD, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Marisa MATIAS, Sira REGO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. All the recommendations made by the Medical Devices Steering Group shall be made publicly available.

2021/03/26
Committee: ITRE

2020/0310(COD)

Özlem DEMIREL, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, José GUSMÃO, Marc BOTENGA

Proposal for a directive
Article 11 a (new)

Article 11 a Social Progress Clause The free movement of goods, the free movement of capital, the freedom to provide services, the freedom of establishment and competition law are to be construed and interpreted in such a way that they do not limit or govern fundamental social rights and principle, including the freedom of association, the right to organise, the right to negotiate, conclude and enforce collective agreements and to take collective action as they are recognized in the relevant ILO Conventions, the Council of Europe European Convention on Human Rights and the European Social Charter, the Community Charter of Fundamental Social Rights of Workers and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. In case of conflict between laws, the exercise of fundamental social rights, including the freedom of association, the right to organise, the right to negotiate, conclude and enforce collective agreements and to take collective action, shall take precedence over economic freedoms.

2021/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2020/0103(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)

(3a) Given its specific recommendations and structural reforms, the European Semester is a tool for EU interference, designed to enforce and circumscribe the Member States’ fiscal and economic policies, and very often it resorts to blackmail and sanctions as a means to apply measures intended to liberalise public services, deregulate labour and enforce austerity policies. Its implementation leads to sluggish economic development, unemployment, poverty and socio-economic and territorial disparities.

2020/09/03
Committee: EMPL

2020/0103(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)

(7a) The Technical Support Instrument may help to build the capacity of national authorities, public and private organisations and the populations that benefit from the projects it supports, paving the way for more efficient and effective use of recovery and resilience funds, with better implementation and a real impact on the delivery of policies that are in line with Member States’ needs and their development strategies, promoting decent work that is fairly paid and based on collective bargaining; that promote public investment in infrastructure and productive sectors, supporting green and innovative development that safeguards social and territorial cohesion; that boost and invest in public services, providing high-quality and universal social responses.

2020/09/03
Committee: EMPL

2020/0103(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1

The general objective of the instrument shall be to promote ~~the Union’s~~ economic, social and territorial cohesion in the European Union by supporting Member States’ efforts to implement ~~reforms necessary~~projects that promote their development, investment in productive and strategic sectors, and the structuring of universal, free and high-quality public services, with a view to achieveing economic and social recovery, resilience and upward economic and social convergence, and to support Member States’ efforts to strengthen their administrative capacity to implement Union law in relation to challenges faced by institutions, governance, public administration, and economic and social sectors.

2020/09/03
Committee: EMPL

2020/0103(COD)

Cornelia ERNST, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Marisa MATIAS, Marc BOTENGA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1

To achieve the general objective set out in Article 3, the instrument shall have the specific objectives of assisting national authorities in improving their capacity to design~~, develop~~ and implement ~~reform~~projects, including through exchange of good practices, appropriate processes and methodologies and a more effective and efficient human resources management. Those specific objectives shall be pursued in close cooperation with the Member States concerned.

2020/09/03
Committee: EMPL

2020/0036(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 a (new)

(15a) The Commission in its Communication Europe's moment: Repair and Prepare for the Next Generation announced its intention to accelerate the digital transformation. The Covid-19 emergency highlighted the dependence on energy for societal participation, the exercise of citizenship and the ability to work in a digital economy. In order to prevent social exclusion and to ensure that EU citizens reach their full potential in the digital transformation the Commission shall ensure that all EU citizens have a right to energy including provisions for access to energy and protection and support for vulnerable consumers.

2020/06/09
Committee: ITRE

2020/0036(COD)

Cornelia ERNST, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Marisa MATIAS, Marc BOTENGA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point a

(a) ~~cost-effectiveness and economic efficiency~~environmental impact and social benefit;

2020/06/09
Committee: ITRE

2020/0036(COD)

Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Marc BOTENGA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point b

~~(b) competiveness of the Union’s economy;~~deleted

2020/06/09
Committee: ITRE

Cornelia ERNST, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Marisa MATIAS, Marc BOTENGA

Giorgos GEORGIOU, Marc BOTENGA, Sandra PEREIRA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls for the creation of budget headings that tackle production-capacity weaknesses and the obsolescence of production means in industry, thus fostering industrial development, with a particular focus on Member States with development deficits in this economic sector;

2020/02/20
Committee: ITRE

Motion for a resolution
Recital G d (new)

Gd. whereas the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe recommended to Member States in CM/Rec(2010)5 that measures should be taken to ensure that access to adequate housing can be effectively and equally enjoyed by all persons, without discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity; whereas it recommended additionally that appropriate attention should be paid to the risks of homelessness experienced by LGBTI persons, including young persons and children who may be particularly vulnerable to social exclusion, including from their own families;

2020/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2019/2187(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, José GUSMÃO, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Özlem DEMIREL, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure access for all to decent housing, including clean and high- quality drinking water and adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene, and to affordable, reliable and sustainable energy, hence contributing to eradicating poverty in all its forms; reaffirms its call for EU- wide action for a winter heating disconnection moratorium; calls, too, for a European winter truce to be introduced; calls on the Member States to meet the standards laid down by the World Health Organization (WHO) for adequate housing temperature; demands that the revision of the air quality regulation be aligned with WHO standards;

2020/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2019/2187(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, José GUSMÃO, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Özlem DEMIREL, Marc BOTENGA, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Chris MACMANUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission to prioritise emissions reductions through housing renovation in the social housing sector and for worst performing buildings in the Renovation Wave, while tackling inadequate housing and housing accessibility and eliminating energy poverty in order to ensure a socially just transition to a climate-neutral economy that leaves no one behind; stresses, therefore, that tenants and owner-occupiers should be fully informed and involved in renovation projects and should not see overall costs increase because of them; calls, therefore, for the cost to the tenant not to exceed the value of the energy savings made by the tenant as a result of the renovations; stresses the need to protect tenants from eviction during housing renovations;

2020/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2019/2187(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, José GUSMÃO, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Özlem DEMIREL, Marc BOTENGA, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Chris MACMANUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Calls for an EU-level goal of ending homelessness by 2030; calls on the Commission to take stronger action to support Member States in reducing and eradicating homelessness as a priority in the context of the action plan on the EPSR; calls on the Commission to propose an EU framework for national homelessness strategies; calls on the Member States to prioritise the provision of permanent housing to homeless people and those who have most difficulty finding accommodation; stresses the importance of reliable data collection on homelessness;

2020/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2019/2187(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, José GUSMÃO, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Özlem DEMIREL, Marc BOTENGA, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Chris MACMANUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Points out that homelessness is also caused and perpetuated by the market and austerity policies pursued by the European Union; urges the European Union to adopt genuine social policies and ambitious employment measures to enable all citizens to live in dignity, without which homelessness can never be eradicated;

2020/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2019/2187(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Commission to specifically address LGBTI homelessness in its upcoming LGBTI Equality Strategy, particularly regarding youth, to create tools for enhanced data collection, to foster research across the EU and to facilitate the exchange of approaches to tackle the problem of LGBTI people experiencing homelessness between member states;

2020/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2019/2187(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, José GUSMÃO, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Özlem DEMIREL, Marc BOTENGA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Points out that women are particularly exposed to the housing crisis; emphasises that women are more affected by poverty, due in part to the wage and pension gap between women and men, enforced part-time working and piecemeal working hours, and lack of recognition of female-dominated trades; calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop a gender approach in their housing policies, particularly by supporting women who face specific situations such as single parenthood, and by taking account of the specific issues faced by homeless women, such as separation from their children, stigmatisation, and lack of safe and secure spaces;

2020/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2019/2187(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, José GUSMÃO, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Özlem DEMIREL, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Welcomes the inclusion of housing affordability in the European Semester; urges the Commission to ensure that all country-specific recommendations contribute positively to the implementation of the principles of the EPSR; stresses the need to refine the House Price Index indicator and to set the reference threshold for the housing cost overburden rate at no higher than 25% of the disposable income of a household; considers that housing is affordable if the remaining funds are at least sufficient to cover other expenditure, such as food, health and education;

2020/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2019/2187(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, José GUSMÃO, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Özlem DEMIREL, Marc BOTENGA, Chris MACMANUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Member States and regional and local authorities to put in place legal provisions to protect tenants and owner-occupiers from eviction and to ensure security of tenure by favouring long-term rental contracts as the default option, together with a rent transparency ~~and~~obligation and binding rent control measures;

2020/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2019/2187(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, José GUSMÃO, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Özlem DEMIREL, Marc BOTENGA, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Chris MACMANUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Points out that 25.1% of European private tenants spend over 40% of their income on rent; points out that rents are constantly increasing; considers that rents must be subject to controls and then reduced so that housing is truly affordable for all;

2020/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2019/2187(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, José GUSMÃO, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Özlem DEMIREL, Marc BOTENGA, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Chris MACMANUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)

13b. Calls for a ban on the eviction of tenants and owner-occupiers without rehousing; stresses that people who are evicted should be able to assert their rights in a court, particularly against banks where the repayment amount demanded by the bank is grossly unfair;

2020/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2019/2187(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, José GUSMÃO, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Özlem DEMIREL, Marc BOTENGA, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Chris MACMANUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Invites the Member States to pursue housing policies that are based on the principle of neutrality between home ownership, private rented accommodation and rented social housing; ~~call~~points out, too, that the rules onf the ~~Commission to respect this principle in the European Semester~~European Semester have reduced investment in affordable housing; calls for the repeal of the European Semester so that the European Union and the Member States have the leeway needed to fund public and social investments, particularly in affordable housing, to the extent necessary;

2020/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2019/2187(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, José GUSMÃO, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Özlem DEMIREL, Marc BOTENGA, Chris MACMANUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Notes with concern the increased financialisation of the housing market, in particular in cities, whereby investors treat housing as a tradable asset rather than a human right; points out that the Covid-19 crisis has drawn attention to the fact that essential workers and public officials have been forced to move out of town centres because prices have increased as a result of the financialisation of the housing market; calls on the Commission to assess the contribution of EU policies and regulations to financialisation of the housing market and the ability of national and local authorities to ensure the right to housing and, where appropriate, to put forward legislative proposals to counter financialisation of the housing market by mid-2021; calls for the creation of a transparency register for property developers and private and corporate landlords to prevent speculation and because everyone has the right to know who is benefiting from their rent; calls on the Member States and local authorities to put in place taxation measures to counter speculative investment, and to develop urban and rural planning policies that favour affordable housing, social mix and social cohesion;

2020/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2019/2187(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, José GUSMÃO, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Özlem DEMIREL, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Points out that the expansive growth of short-term holiday rental is extracting housing from the market and driving up prices, leading to gentrification, and has a negative impact on liveability; calls on the Commission to set up a regulatory framework for short-term accommodation rental that gives wide discretion to national and local authorities to define proportionate rules for hospitality services; calls for short-term rentals to be restricted to owner-occupiers and to a limited period; urges the Commission to include in the Digital Services Act a proposal for mandatory information- sharing obligations for platforms in the short-term accommodation rental market, in line with data protection rules;

2020/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2019/2187(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, José GUSMÃO, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Özlem DEMIREL, Marc BOTENGA, Giorgos GEORGIOU, Chris MACMANUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Points out that over 11 million homes in the European Union are empty; emphasises that those homes could accommodate everyone who is homeless and most of those suffering from severe housing deprivation in the European Union; points out that empty homes contribute to the decline in housing supply and therefore to the increase in prices and speculation; calls on the Member States to put in place binding legislation so that empty homes are put on the rental market in a condition that meets decent housing criteria;

2020/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2019/2187(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, José GUSMÃO, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Özlem DEMIREL, Marc BOTENGA, Chris MACMANUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to close the investment gap for affordable housing as a matter of priority; calls in this regard for a reform of the Stability and Growth Pact allowing for increased fiscal space for sustainable public investments, in particular in affordable housing; calls, in particular, for investments made in affordable housing to be exempt from the Maastricht criteria as affordable housing is never a debt but always an investment; calls, furthermore, for a harmonised accounting for amortisation methodology for affordable housing investments;

2020/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2019/2187(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, José GUSMÃO, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Özlem DEMIREL, Marc BOTENGA, Chris MACMANUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Urges the Commission to adapt the target group definition of social and publicly funded housing in the rules on services of general economic interest, so as to allow national, regional and local authorities to support housing for all groups whose needs for decent and affordable housing cannot be met within market conditions, while also ensuring that funding is not steered away from the most disadvantaged, in order to unblock investment and ensure affordable housing, create socially diverse neighbourhoods and enhance social cohesion; calls on the Commission to authorise State aid for affordable housing for any target group;

2020/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2019/2187(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, José GUSMÃO, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Özlem DEMIREL, Marc BOTENGA, Giorgos GEORGIOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Points out that the Covid-19 crisis has accentuated the housing crisis for an ever increasing proportion of the population who are no longer able to afford private accommodation; urges the inclusion of this population in the target group for affordable housing; calls, too, for an eviction moratorium until 2021 due to the grave economic consequences of the pandemic and the difficulty faced by people in paying their mortgages or rent;

2020/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2019/2187(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, José GUSMÃO, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Özlem DEMIREL, Marc BOTENGA, Chris MACMANUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Deplores the fact that local stakeholders and smaller organisations do not always know about public funding and that European procedures can seem remote or complex; proposes the creation of a single fund to achieve synergies by pooling existing donor funds, thereby allowing local stakeholders and smaller organisations to clearly identify those funds;

2020/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2019/2186(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Motion for a resolution
Citation 44 a (new)

— having regard to Barcelona Social Court Decision No 24 of 12 January 2021; having regard to the Belgian Employment Status Commission decision of 13 January 2021; having regard to Amsterdam Court of Appeal Decision No 200.261.051/01 of 19 February 2021; having regard to the decision of 24 February 2021 by the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office;

2021/03/25
Committee: EMPL

2019/2186(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas platform work can create employment opportunities, increase choice, provide additional income, and lower barriers to entering the labour market; whereas platform work facilitates flexibility for both workers and clients, and the matching of demand for and supply of services, as well as innovation in digital tools, which is a useful vector for growth in times of crisis and recovery, but only if it takes place in conditions which comply with labour law and social standards; whereas platform work facilitates flexibility for both workers and clients; whereas, above all, it facilitates flexibility for platforms which benefit from a legal vacuum that enables them to evade their responsibilities at workers’ expense;

2021/03/25
Committee: EMPL

2019/2186(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas platform work ~~has~~ also ~~raised concerns about~~means precariousness or poor working conditions, lack of access to adequate social protection, fragmented and unstable income, and a lack of occupational health and safety measures for more and more workers, especially for lower-skilled on- location platform workers and workers performing micro-tasks, as highlighted during the COVID-19 crisis;

2021/03/25
Committee: EMPL

2019/2186(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas platform work covers different realities and is characterised by a high level of heterogeneity in the activities carried out; whereas there are different categories of platform work such as online or on-location, requiring a high or low level of skills, paid per task or per hour, performed as a secondary or primary occupation, and that the profiles of platform workers and types of platforms vary widely; whereas, however, according to Eurofound 1a, in 2017 platform- determined and on-location work (meal delivery and passenger transport) represented the largest platform-worker job category; __________________ 1a https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/sites/def ault/files/ef_publication/field_ef_docume nt/ef18001en.pdf

2021/03/25
Committee: EMPL

2019/2186(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas people working in the platform economy are generally classified as formally self-employed; whereas in reality matters are different; whereas, in their work, platform workers are in fact denied the basic rights of their self- employed status, such as to choose their customers or the conditions under which they perform their services; whereas, as such, these people do not benefit from the equivalent social, labour, health and safety protection that are connected to an employment contract in most countries;

2021/03/25
Committee: EMPL

2019/2186(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas, in the absence of both national and European legislation, the blurred distinction between workers and the self-employed often seen in platform work causes uncertainty as regards their ~~rights~~access to employment rights, social protection, entitlements, and applicable rules: whereas there are concerns that more and more sectors ~~are likely to~~will be impacted by this in the future; whereas, in addition, platform work is in fact the most visible form of a wider trend towards the precarisation of work, as can be seen from the constantly rising number of atypical workers 1a; __________________ 1a https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public /---dgreports/---dcomm/--- publ/documents/publication/wcms_53451 6.pdf

2021/03/25
Committee: EMPL

2019/2186(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas a growing number of judgments by European courts and administrative decisions find that digital platform workers are wrongly regarded as self-employed; whereas Member States have developed different approaches, leading to fragmented rules and initiatives; whereas there is a need for European level action to overcome the resulting legal uncertainty and improve platform workers’ rights;

2021/03/25
Committee: EMPL

2019/2186(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Notes that the current European framework is unsatisfactory, with ~~EU legal instr~~platforms circumvent~~s which do not cover all platform workers in their personal scope and which do not address the new realities of the world of work~~ing application of EU legal instruments; regrets that this fragmentation places ~~some~~ platform workers in a legally precarious situation, resulting in some platform workers enjoying fewer or more limited rights than should be guaranteed to all platform workers regardless of their employment status; takes the view accordingly that a rebuttable legal presumption of employment must be introduced, and that the burden of proof must lie with platforms, in conjunction with recognising platforms as businesses that are linked to their sector of activity;

2021/03/25
Committee: EMPL

2019/2186(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Stresses that the meaning of the terms ‘worker’ and ‘self-employed’ are not uniformly defined in all Member States; notes that the boundary between these two terms is less clear for new forms of work, and that some workers are at risk of being misclassified; takes the view accordingly that digital platform workers must have the same rights and the same access to social protection as other workers;

2021/03/25
Committee: EMPL

2019/2186(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Believes that this legal uncertainty must be urgently addressed, while ~~acknowledging that it cannot be easily solved by a one-size-fits-all approach; believes~~taking account of the current digital labour platforms model, where some platform workers are genuinely self-employed and wish to remain so, when others would like to be genuinely self-employed and are denied that anby p~~roposal must recognise the heterogeneity of platforms and of platform workers, and take into account the current~~latforms that require them to enter into a relationship of subordination; takes the view that there should be a European framework, which could be complemented by national legislation or collective bargaining agreements between digital ~~labour~~ platforms ~~model, where some platform workers are genuinely self-employed and wish to remain so;~~ and trade unions; recognises digital platforms as fully fledged businesses that must comply with their obligations, including as regards employer responsibility;

2021/03/25
Committee: EMPL

2019/2186(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses the need to better combat bogus self-employment by means of a directive~~, so as to cover~~; points out that most platform workers ~~which are~~ fulfil~~ling~~ the conditions characteristic of an employment relationship based on the actual performance of work, and not on the parties’ description of the relationship; is of the opinion that special attention should be given to digital labour platforms that strongly organise conditions and remuneration of online and on-location platform work, which could be used as guidance for determining the degree of responsibility of platforms towards platform workers;

2021/03/25
Committee: EMPL

2019/2186(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – indent - 1 a (new)

6. Calls on the Commission, when exploring ways to improve working conditions to: – make it clear that establishing a third status cannot be considered under any circumstances;

2021/03/25
Committee: EMPL

2019/2186(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – indent 1

– ensure that the collective bargaining framework functions properly and efficiently and better implement the prohibition of exclusivity clauses, and ensure all platform workers are permitted to work for different platforms (multi- apping) and not be subject to adverse treatment for doing so;

2021/03/25
Committee: EMPL

2019/2186(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – indent 2

– improve rights in case of restriction, suspension or termination by the platform by ensuring all platform workers have the right to a prior reasoned statement, and, if this is disputed, a right of reply and to effective and impartial dispute resolution providing the possibility to re- establish compliance or rebut the statement;

2021/03/25
Committee: EMPL

2019/2186(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – indent 3

– address the current lack of transparency by ensuring the provision of essential information regarding working conditions, the method of calculating the price or fee, assignment of tasks, the functioning of the algorithm, and transparency in the event of a change in the terms, conditions and procedures for temporary or permanent deactivation, if any, which should ~~be preceded by consultation~~form part of a comanagement process;

2021/03/25
Committee: EMPL

2019/2186(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1

believes that the aforementioned communication should be made in a clear, comprehensive and easily accessible way and be forwarded both to workers and to their representatives;

2021/03/25
Committee: EMPL

2019/2186(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Stresses that some platform workers may be subject to increased health and safety risks; takes the view that digital platform workers must have the same access to social protection as all other workers; is of the opinion that the Commission proposal must address the occupational health and safety of platform workers as well as establish minimum requirements to enable them exercise a right to disconnect without any adverse consequences;

2021/03/25
Committee: EMPL

2019/2186(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Considers that platform workers should receive compensation in case of work accidents and occupational diseases, and be offered sickness and invalidity insurance coverage~~; welcome~~, together with all other entitlements deriving from labour law, such as paid leave and parental leave; considers, in this respect, that the initiatives of some platforms to provide insurance as well as occupational health and safety measures; are a first step that needs to be made mandatory by legislation;

2021/03/25
Committee: EMPL

2019/2186(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Recognises that freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining are fundamental rights for all workers, and believes a directive on platform workers should ensure that these rights are effective, applied in full and enforced; notes the potential for imbalanced and asymmetrical relationships between digital labour platforms and workers, who may lack the individual bargaining power to negotiate their terms and conditions; notes further that there are also practical issues such as a lack of common means of communication and opportunities to meet online or in person, which can prevent collective representation in practice; calls on the Commission to address such impediments in its proposal; stresses the need for platform workers and platforms to be properly represented in order to facilitate social dialogue, collective bargaining and worker representation by trade unions;

2021/03/25
Committee: EMPL

2019/2186(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Regrets the legal difficulties in collective representation faced by platform workers, and is aware that the solo self- employed are wrongly considered ‘undertakings’, and as such are subject to the prohibition on agreements that restrict competition; ~~welcom~~notes in this regard the inception impact assessment published by the Commission16, and calls for the planned initiative to address this obstacle without hampering the legislative initiative to improve the working conditions of platform workers; is convinced that EU competition law must not hinder the improvement of the working conditions (including the setting of remuneration) and social protection of solo self-employed platform workers through collective bargaining; __________________ 16https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/ALL/?uri=PI_COM%3AAres %282021%29102652

2021/03/25
Committee: EMPL

2019/2186(INI)

Leila CHAIBI, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Believes that ~~basic~~ training must be provided to platform workers by the platform at least on the use of their website or the application; believes further that platform workers, in particular less qualified workers, should be offered training enabling skilling and re-skilling to improve their employability and career paths; calls for the facilitation of the recognition, validation and portability of attainments in the field of non-formal and informal learning; believes in this regard that a ‘certificate of experience’ should be issued for platform workers who have participated in such training, which could be uploaded on individual learning accounts;

2021/03/25
Committee: EMPL

2019/2182(INL)

Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 a (new)

— having regard to its resolution of 10 July 2020 on the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability1a, _______________ 1a Texts adopted, P9_TA(2020)0201.

2021/04/05
Committee: EMPL

2019/2182(INL)

Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Leila CHAIBI, José GUSMÃO, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas asbestos is long recognised as a key occupational carcinogen and airborne fibres are very resistant when inhaled and can lead to asbestosis, mesothelioma, cancers of the lung, larynx, and ovary and other non- malignant lung and pleural disorders, including pleural plaques, pleural thickening, and benign pleural effusions;

2021/04/05
Committee: EMPL

2019/2182(INL)

Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)

Hb. whereas asbestos is a highly dangerous carcinogenic agent used worldwide in building and other materials in many areas of our daily life;

2021/04/05
Committee: EMPL

2019/2182(INL)

Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas 80 % of occupational cancers recognised in the Member States are asbestos related; whereas estimates suggest that the cost of occupational cancer in the Union accounts for between EUR 270 and EUR 610 billion per year, or 1,8% to 4,1 % of GDP, and whereas 98 % of the human costs, including the impact on life quality and workers’ families, are endured by workers~~, and whereas direct and indirect costs account for between EUR 4 and EUR 10 billion per year~~;

2021/04/05
Committee: EMPL

2019/2182(INL)

Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Recital L n (new)

Ln. whereas the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee of 18 February 2015 on Freeing the EU from Asbestos (CCMI/130) states that it should be ensured that at Member State level all cases of asbestosis, mesothelioma and other asbestos-related diseases are registered by means of systematic data collection on occupational and non- occupational asbestos diseases, that pleural plaques are categorised and officially registered as an asbestos-related disease, that reliable mapping of asbestos presence is ensured, with the assistance of dedicated observatories, and that medical staff should receive appropriate training so they can perform their duty of sound diagnosis;

2021/04/05
Committee: EMPL

2019/2182(INL)

Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Welcomes Commission communication of 14 October 2020 entitled ‘A Renovation Wave for Europe’- greening our buildings, creating jobs, improving lives’, which seeks to renovate 35 million buildings by 2030; shares the view expressed in the communication that particular attention should be paid to protecting workers renovating old buildings and intervening in emergency operations from exposure to asbestos;

2021/04/05
Committee: EMPL

2019/2182(INL)

Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Insists that any Union initiative supporting energy renovation should include binding measures for the identification of buildings that contain asbestos, the combination of the related information to the databases related to energy retrofit, to lead to the safe removal of asbestos and other hazardous materials;

2021/04/05
Committee: EMPL

2019/2182(INL)

Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Reiterates its call for national public asbestos registers; calls on the Commission to introduce, as part of a proposal for a framework directive, minimum standards for publicly accessible digital national registers for asbestos and other hazardous substances in public and privately owned buildings; stresses that registers for asbestos should be compatible with databases and registers related to energy efficiency and populated via common tools (i.e. building renovation passports);

2021/04/05
Committee: EMPL

2019/2182(INL)

Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Considers that the notions of friable and non-friable asbestos- containing materials should not be used to determine risk levels; believes an individual risk assessment related to the planned work process should determine the necessary and obligatory protective measures;

2021/04/05
Committee: EMPL

2019/2182(INL)

Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Considers that the information included in the notification to the competent authorities should be complemented with the specific areas in which the work will be conducted, the equipment used for the protection and decontamination of workers, the equipment used for waste disposal, and a provisional aeraulic balance for work carried out under confinement; believes furthermore that the notification should include a description of the procedure for the decontamination of workers and equipment, and information about durations of work processes and planned working hours as well as a list of all workers assigned to the site, the individual certificates proving their competence and the training absolved, and the dates of their mandatory medical examinations (with due regard to national data protection rules);

2021/04/05
Committee: EMPL

2019/2182(INL)

Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)

12c. Recalls that sampling must be representative of the personal exposure of the worker, implying that samples must be taken in representative and realistic situations of workers’ exposure to asbestos dust by repeatedly measuring in regular intervals during the specific operational phases; believes that if for whatever reason sampling cannot be done in a way representative of the personal exposure of the individual worker, all available protective measures should be applied;

2021/04/05
Committee: EMPL

2019/2182(INL)

Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 d (new)

12d. Notes that optical microscopy is not the latest available technology to count asbestos fibres in the breathing air and that Analytical Transmission Electron Microscopy (ATEM) is more sensitive and makes it possible to distinguish and count asbestos fibres; calls for the use, wherever possible, of ATEM or similarly advanced methods for fibre counting;

2021/04/05
Committee: EMPL

2019/2182(INL)

Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Emphasises that employers, but also main contractors, contracting authorities, and owners commissioning work should be required to carry out an asbestos diagnosis before the start of any work in buildings, ships, aircraft, on equipment, or products; demands that prior to the start of work on premises that were built before 2005 or the national asbestos ban a comprehensive screening for the presence of asbestos-containing materials be carried out by a qualified and certified operator; believes that screenings should always include a diagnosis adapted to the specific workplace and a report should state either the absence or the presence of asbestos, with a detailed description of the nature of contamination and its precise location and estimated quantities;

2021/04/05
Committee: EMPL

2019/2182(INL)

Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Is concerned that training requirements and the certification of training carried out still vary greatly among Member States, which is a severe hazard for health and safety in the context of the cross-border mobility of workers; calls for a new annex to Directive 2009/148/EC with obligatory minimum requirements for training on work with asbestos, including specific requirements for workers in specialised asbestos removal companies as well as workers who could come into contact with asbestos containing materials while performing their work; in addition to the requirements laid down in Article 14 of Directive 2009/148/EC, believes that the annex should include requirements for a minimum duration of training with regard to the respective type of work, appropriate documentation of such training, and the regular intervals in which an individual worker must attend a training;

2021/04/05
Committee: EMPL

2019/2182(INL)

Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Calls on the Commission to make a proposal for the establishment of national ombudspersons to assist victims of occupational diseases, and especially asbestos-related diseases which have a long latency period, in recognition procedures;

2021/04/05
Committee: EMPL

2019/2182(INL)

Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 g (new)

19g. Calls for a consideration of persons, and especially women, in cleaning jobs, as well as of women who primarily take responsibility for unpaid household chores, which might be carried out with cleaning products containing asbestos, in risk assessments and identification of exposure to asbestos, as well as for an increased consideration of cleaning activities as risk factors when screening for diseases;

2021/04/05
Committee: EMPL

2019/2182(INL)

Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Calls on the Commission to present a proposal for an amendment to Article 7 of Directive 2010/31/EU in the context of “A Renovation Wave for Europe” introducing a requirement for the mandatory asbestos screening, registering, and removal of asbestos and other dangerous substances before any renovation works can start, while having regard to Article 153(1)(a) TFEU on the improvement in particular of the working environment to protect workers' health and safety;

2021/04/05
Committee: EMPL

2019/2182(INL)

Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 4 – point a

(a) accessibility for workers and companies working in a building or infrastructure, owners, inhabitants, firefighters and other emergency services and users;

2021/04/05
Committee: EMPL

2019/2182(INL)

Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 8 – paragraph 1

Before beginning demolition or maintenance work, or renovation works on premises built before 2005, the premise must be screened to identify all asbestos- containing materials, in accordance with the requirements of Part 6 of Annex XVII to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 and Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 305/2011. The screening must be conducted by a qualified and certified operator or authority, taking into account Articles 14 and 15 of this Directive, and the national building law provisions.

2021/04/05
Committee: EMPL

2019/2182(INL)

Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 17 a (new)

17a. Article 21a is inserted: ‘Article 21a In case of a fire, all existing information regarding the presence and location of asbestos, gathered and communicated in line with Article 4 on notification before commenced work and Article 11 on screening of demolition or maintenance sites, shall be made available to firefighters and emergency services.’

2021/04/05
Committee: EMPL

2019/2182(INL)

Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, José GUSMÃO, Leila CHAIBI, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Marc BOTENGA

Motion for a resolution
Annex III – paragraph 1 – point 4

(4) a rev~~ision~~ersal of the burden of proof for the recognition of occupational diseases or at least its effective simplification;

2021/04/05
Committee: EMPL

2019/2098(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Highlights that transparency and citizens' awareness of the existence of the agencies are essential for their democratic accountability; considers that usability and ease of use of agency resources and data are of paramount importance; calls therefore for an assessment of how data and resources are currently presented and made available and of the degree to which citizens find them easy to identify, recognise and use;

2019/12/13
Committee: EMPL

2019/2098(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Encourages the Union agencies to consider adopting a fundamental rights strategy, including a reference to fundamental rights in a code of conduct that could define the duties of their staff and training for staff; setting up mechanisms ensuring that any violation of fundamental rights be detected and reported, and that risks of such violations be swiftly brought to the attention of the main bodies of the agency concerned; establishing, whenever relevant, the position of a fundamental rights officer, reporting directly to the management board to ensure a certain degree of independence vis-a-vis other staff, in order to ensure that threats to fundamental rights are immediately addressed, and that a constant upgrading of the fundamental rights policy within the organisation takes place; developing a regular dialogue with civil society organisations and relevant international organisations on fundamental rights issues; making compliance with fundamental rights a central component of the terms of reference of the collaboration of the agency concerned with external actors, including in particular members of national administrations with whom they interact at operational level;

2019/12/13
Committee: EMPL

2019/2098(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on the Agencies Network to develop a general policy to not replace permanent staff by more expensive external consultants.

2019/12/13
Committee: EMPL

2019/2075(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Appreciates the Foundation’s activities to support the reform of vocational training in the Union’s partner countries; stresses the necessity of providing the agencies with enough material and human resources to fulfil their tasks in a proper manner, while ensuring their pre-eminence over private contractors;

2019/12/13
Committee: EMPL

2019/2075(DEC)

Marc BOTENGA, Sandra PEREIRA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Highlights that transparency and citizens’ awareness of the existence of the agencies are essential for their democratic accountability; considers that usability and ease of use of agency resources and data are of paramount importance; calls therefore for an assessment of how data and resources are currently presented and made available and of the degree to which citizens find them easy to identify, recognise and use; recalls that public awareness in this respect can be raised by Member States through developing a comprehensive plan to reach out to more Union citizens;

2019/12/13
Committee: EMPL

2019/2071(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Appreciates EU-OSHA’s activities to develop, gather and provide reliable and relevant information, analysis and tools on occupational safety and health which contribute to the EU policy aiming to promote healthy and safe workplaces across the Union; stresses the necessity of providing the agencies with enough material and human resources to fulfil their tasks in a proper manner, while ensuring their pre-eminence over private contractors;

2019/12/13
Committee: EMPL

2019/2071(DEC)

Marc BOTENGA, Sandra PEREIRA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Highlights that transparency and citizens’ awareness of the existence of the agencies are essential for their democratic accountability; considers that usability and ease of use of agency resources and data are of paramount importance; calls therefore for an assessment of how data and resources are currently presented and made available and of the degree to which citizens find them easy to identify, recognise and use; recalls that public awareness in this respect can be raised by Member States through developing a comprehensive plan to reach out to more Union citizens;

2019/12/13
Committee: EMPL

2019/2071(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Welcomes the fact that in 2018, EU-OSHA, together with the other EU Agencies under the remit of DG EMPLOYMENT, initiated an analysis on how synergies could be further exploited within the existing framework, especially ~~in relation to the performance monitoring framework~~within and beyond the framework of the EU Agencies' Performance Development Network, allowing to build synergies and to exchange ideas and best practices and aiming to achieve more balanced governance, improved efficiency, reduced costs and greater coherence between them; stresses the necessity of improving cooperation between the agencies and EU institutions, avoiding the externalisation of services that can be provided by them;

2019/12/13
Committee: EMPL

2019/2067(DEC)

Marc BOTENGA, Sandra PEREIRA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Appreciates Eurofound’s work to provide knowledge and expertise to support policies on improving living and working conditions across the Union; stresses the necessity of providing the agencies with enough material and human resources to fulfil their tasks in a proper manner, while ensuring their pre- eminence over private contractors;

2019/12/13
Committee: EMPL

2019/2067(DEC)

Marc BOTENGA, Sandra PEREIRA, Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Highlights that transparency and citizens’ awareness of the existence of the agencies are essential for their democratic accountability; considers that usability and ease of use of agency resources and data are of paramount importance; calls therefore for an assessment of how data and resources are currently presented and made available and of the degree to which citizens find them easily to identify, recognise and use; recalls that public awareness in this respect can be raised by Member States through developing a comprehensive plan to reach out to more Union citizens;

2019/12/13
Committee: EMPL

2019/2067(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Appreciates the Foundation’s cooperation with other EU Agencies under the remit of DG EMPLOYMENT within and beyond the framework of the EU Agencies' Performance Development Network, allowing to build synergies and to exchange ideas and best practices and aiming to achieve more balanced governance, improved efficiency, reduced costs and greater coherence between them; stresses the necessity of improving cooperation between the agencies and EU institutions, avoiding the externalisation of services that can be provided by them;

2019/12/13
Committee: EMPL

2019/2066(DEC)