32 Amendments of Elisabeth SCHROEDTER related to 2011/0269(COD)
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) In order to maintain the European nature of the EGF, an application for support should be triggered when the number of redundancies reaches a minimum threshold. In small labour markets, such as small Member States or remote regions, and in exceptional circumstances, applications may be submitted for a lower number of redundancies. As regards farmers, the necessary criteria should be determined by the Commission in relation to the consequences of each trade agreement.
Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) Redundant workers should have equal access to the EGF independently of their type of employment contract or employment relationship. Therefore, workers with fixed term contracts and temporary agency workers made redundant as well as owner-managers of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and self-employed wself-employed workers or workers who would like to establish a new undertaking or take over an existing one in orkders who cease their activities and farmers who change or adjust their activities to a new market situation following trade agreements, to generate a new source of income or those who cease their activities should be regarded as redundant workers for the purposes of this Regulation.
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Financial contributions from the EGF should be primarily directed at active labour market measures aimed at reintegrating redundant workers rapidly into employment, either within or outside their initial sector of activity, including the agricultural sector. The inclusion of pecuniary allowances in a coordinated package of personalised services should therefore be restricted.
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) To facilitate the implementation of this Regulation, expenditure should be eligible either from the date on which a Member State incurs administrative expenditure for implementing the EGF or from the date on which a Member State starts to provide personalised services or, in the case of farmers, from the date set in a Commission act in accordance with Article 4(3).
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) In order to cover the needs arising during the final months of each year, it is necessary to ensure that at least one quarter of the annual maximum amount of the EGF remains available on 1 September. Financial contributions made during the remainder of the year should be allocated taking into account the overall ceiling laid down for support to farmers in the Multiannual Financial Framework.
Amendment 48 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2
Article 1 – paragraph 2
The aim of the EGF shall be to contribute to social and territorial cohesion, economic growth and employment in the Union by enabling the Union to show solidarity towards workers made redundant as a result of major structural changes in world trade patterns due to globalisation, trade agreements affecting agriculture, or an unexpected crisis, and to provide financial support for their rapid reintegration into employment, or for changing or adjusting their agricultural activities.
Amendment 49 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) workers made redundant as a result of major structural changes in world trade patterns due to globalisation, demonstrated, in particular, by a substantial increase in imports into the Union, a rapid decline of the Union market share in a given sector or a delocalisation of activities to non- member countries, where these redundancies have a significant adverse impact on the local, regional or national economy;
Amendment 52 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point c
Amendment 56 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) ‘a worker’ means owner-managers of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and self-employed workers (including farmers) and all members of the household active in the business, provided that, if farmers, they were already producing the output affected by the relevant trade agreement before the measures concernself-employed workers and workers who would like to establish a new undertaking or take over an existing one in order to generate a new source of income and all members of the household active ing the specific sector were implementedbusiness.
Amendment 60 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3
Article 4 – paragraph 3
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 4
Article 4 – paragraph 4
4. Where owner-managers of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and self- employed wself-employed workers or workers who would like to establish a new undertaking or take over an existing one in orkders change or, in the case of farmers, to generate a new source of income have to change or readjust their previous activities, such situations shall be considered as redundancies for the purposes of this Regulation.
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) For owner-managers of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and self- employed workers (including farmers)self-employed workers and workers who would like to establish a new undertaking or take over an existing one in order to generate a new source of income, the redundancy shall be counted either from the date of cessation of the activities caused by any of the conditions set out in Article 2, and determined in accordance with national law or administrative provisions, or from the date specified by the Commission in the delegated act adopted in accordance with the Article 4(3).
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point c
Amendment 71 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
A financial contribution may be made for active labour market measures that form part of a coordinated package of personalised services, designed to facilitate the re-integration of the targeted redundant workers into employment or self- employment or, in the case of farmers, to change or adjust their previous activities. The coordinated package of personalised services may include in particular:
Amendment 72 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) job-search assistance, occupational guidance, advisory services, mentoring, outplacement assistance, entrepreneurship promotion, aid for self-employment and business start-up or for changing or adjusting activity (including investments in physical assets), co-operation activities, tailor-made training and re-training, including information and communication technology skills and certification of acquired experience;
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) special time-limited measures, such as job-search allowances, employers' recruitment incentives, mobility allowances, subsistence or training allowances (including allowances for carers or farm relief services), all of which limited to the duration of the documented active job search or life-long learning or training activities;
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) a reasoned analysis of the link between the redundancies and the major structural changes in world trade patterns, or the serious disruption of the local, regional or national economy caused by an unexpected crisis, or the new market situation in the agricultural sector in the Member State and resulting from the effects of a trade agreement initialled by the European Union in accordance with Article XXIV of the GATT or a multilateral agreement initialled within the World Trade Organisation as per Article 2(c). This analysis shall be based on statistical and other information at the most appropriate level to demonstrate the fulfilment of the intervention criteria set out in Article 4;
Amendment 79 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
(aa) where the company continues its activities after lay-offs, it should provide a detailed explanation of the legal obligations it is under and of the measures that it has taken in order to take care of redundant workers;
Amendment 82 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point g
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point g
(g) the procedures followed for consulting the social partners or other relevant organisations on national and on regional level as applicable;
Amendment 83 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point i a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point i a (new)
(ia) information as to whether the undertaking has been a beneficiary of previous funding with Union Cohesion or Structrual Funds or obtained indirectly from Union Support Programmes viah funding for infrastructure and projects related to the company's or its workers' activities in the preceding 10 years;
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
1. Support for redundant workers shall complement and not replace actions of the Member States at national, regional and local level.
Amendment 85 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2
Article 9 – paragraph 2
2. The financial contribution shall be limited to what is necessary to provide solidarity and support for individual redundant workers. The activities supported by the EGF shall comply with Union and national law, including state aid rules and they shall not replace actions for which Member States or companies are responsible .
Amendment 86 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 1
1. At the initiative of the Commission, subject to a ceiling of 0,51 % of the annual maximum amount of the EGF, the EGF may be used to finance the preparation, monitoring, data gathering and creation of a knowledge base relevant to the implementation of the EGF. It may also be used to finance administrative and technical support, information and communication activities, as well as audit, control and evaluation activities necessary to implement this Regulation.
Amendment 88 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 4
Article 11 – paragraph 4
4. The Commission's technical assistance shall include the provision of information and guidance to the Member States for using, monitoring and evaluating the EGF. The Commission mayshall also provide detailed information on using the EGF to the European and national social partners.
Amendment 89 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1
Article 13 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall, on the basis of the assessment carried out in accordance with Article 8(3), particularly taking into account the number of targeted workers, the proposed actions and the estimated costs, evaluate and propose as quickly as possible the amount of a financial contribution, if any, that may be made within the limits of the resources available. The amount may not exceed 50 % of the total of the estimated costs referred to in Article 8(2)(e) or 65 % of these costs in the case of applications submitted by a Member State on the territory of which at least one region at NUTS II level is eligible under the ‘Convergence’ objective of the Structural Funds. The Commission, in its assessment of such cases, will decide whether the 65 % co-funding rate is justified, by taking into account indicators of the social and employment situation, such as adjusted disposable income after social transfers.
Amendment 91 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1
Article 14 – paragraph 1
Expenditure shall be eligible for a financial contribution from the dates set out in Article 8(2)(h) on which the Member State starts the personalised services to the targeted workers or the administrative expenditure to implement the EGF in accordance with Article 7(1) and (3) respectively. In the case of farmers, expenditure shall be eligible for a contribution from the date set in the delegated act taken in accordance with Article 4(3).
Amendment 92 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1
Article 19 – paragraph 1
1. By 1 August of every second year year, and for the first time in 2015, the Commission shall present to the European Parliament and to the Council a quantitative and qualitative report on the activities under this Regulation and Regulation 1927/2006 in the previous two years. The report shall focus mainly on the results achieved by the EGF and shall in particular contain information relating to applications submitted, decisions adopted, actions funded, including their complementarity with actions funded by other Union Funds, notably the European Social Fund (ESF) and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), and the winding-up of financial contributions made. It should also document those applications that have been rejected or reduced owing to a lack of sufficient appropriations or to non- eligibility.
Amendment 93 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23
Article 23
Amendment 139 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) workers made redundant as a result of major structural changes in world trade pattereconomic transitions due to e.g. globalisation, demonstrated, in particular, by a substantial increase in imports into the Union, a rapid decline of the Union market share in a given sector or a delocalisation of activities to non-member countriestechnological change and innovation, single market integration, where these redundancies have a significant adverse impact on the local, regional or national economy;