7 Amendments of Elisabeth SCHROEDTER related to 2008/0267(COD)
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) Regulation (EC) No 1927/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 has established the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (‘the EGF’) to enable the Community to provide support and show solidarity tofor workers made redundant as a result of major structural changes in world trade patterns due to globalisation, in order to ensure that they will quickly be able to find good jobs corresponding to their skills or set themselves up in a self-employed capacity.
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The Commission Communication on “New skills for new jobs: Anticipating and matching labour market and skills needs” and the ‘Common Principles of Flexicurity’ adopted by the European Council on 14 December 2007 emphasises the objectives of fostering the continuous adaptability and employability of workers through better learning opportunities at all levels and through skills development strategies responsive to the needs of the economysociety and the economy, especially as regards their reform along ecological lines, and of helping to ensure that workers can rapidly begin to exploit the new fields of employment opened up by the “Green New Deal”.
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Recital 7
Recital 7
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) In order to bring tThe co-financing rate for EGF support morshould in every case be in line with the intervention rates under the European Social Fund, the co-financing rate for EGF support should be increased and should be increased as and where required by such alignment.
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 – point 2
Article 1 – point 2
Regulation (EC) No 1927/2006
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
A financial contribution from the EGF shall be provided where major structural changes in world trade patterns lead to a serious economic disruption, notably a substantial increase of imports into the European Union, or a rapid decline of the EU market share in a given sector or a drelocalisation to third countries, thus entailing an urgent need for ecologically sound restructuring and which results in:
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 – point 3
Article 1 – point 3
Regulation (EC) No 1927/2006
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point a
‘(a) a reasoned analysis of the link between the redundancies and major structural changes in world trade patterns or the financial and economic crisis, a demonstration of the number of redundancies, and an explanation of the unforeseen nature of those redundancies. Redundancies which occurred before or after the period provided for in Article 2(a) or in Article 2(c) in caswhere an application under the latter derogates from the criteria set out in Article 2 (a), may be covered by the co-financed measures, provided that the redundancies occurred after the general announcement of the projected redundancies and a clear functional link can be established with the event which triggered the redundancies during the reference period. The above shall be accompanied by an explanatory statement and an impact assessment serving to demonstrate the extent to which the co- financed measures are giving effect to the Commission Communication on “New skills for new jobs”;’
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Regulation (EC) No 1927/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2