26 Amendments of Abir AL-SAHLANI related to 2020/2255(INL)
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 47 a (new)
Citation 47 a (new)
— Whereas 23 million non-EU nationals were legally resident in EU Member States in 2020, some 5, 1% of the EU total population,
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 47 b (new)
Citation 47 b (new)
— Whereas there are currently around 3.1 million EU long-term resident permits; Whereas 7.1 million long-term residence permits were issued under Member States’ national legislation,
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 47 c (new)
Citation 47 c (new)
— whereas the low issuance rate of long-term resident permits indicates a need to improve its attractiveness, which could be achieved by a revision of the directive clarifying the advantages of holding an EU long-term residence permit and approximating national legislative schemes,
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 47 d (new)
Citation 47 d (new)
— Whereas Article 79(1)of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union states that “The Union shall develop a common immigration policy aimed at ensuring, at all stages, the efficient management of migration flows, fair treatment of third-country nationals residing legally in Member States, and the prevention of, and enhanced measures to combat, illegal immigration and trafficking in human beings”,
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 47 e (new)
Citation 47 e (new)
— Whereas the main findings of the Commission’s fitness check on legal migration highlighted effective legal migration policies being key in the management of migratory flows,
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 47 f (new)
Citation 47 f (new)
— Whereas the same fitness check clearly stated that the current EU rules on legal migration has had limited impact in relation to attracting the skills and talents needed for the EU labour market and economy, as well as pointing out that the current legal framework is “fragmented and presents a number of gaps, as well as implementation problems”,
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 47 g (new)
Citation 47 g (new)
— Whereas according to the European Commission Report on the Impact of Demographic Change from 2020, the median age of the EU27 is at 44 years today, has been increasing for several years and will continue to do so for at least the coming two decades,
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 47 h (new)
Citation 47 h (new)
— Whereas this implies that long- term, the EU will face a growing share of the population consisting of citizens being 65+ years old in the coming decades, while the share representing the working age population is projected to decrease during the same time period,
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 47 i (new)
Citation 47 i (new)
— Whereas the mismatch of skills on the EU Member States’ labour markets’ has proven very costly for the European Union, causing its economy to lose over 2% of productivity per year according to a study from the European Economic and Social Committee from 2018; whereas the same report states that the mismatch occurs on all skill levels -ranging from cooks and truck drivers to medical doctors and teachers; Whereas this report asserts that the current legislative schemes are insufficient in ensuring that the European Union remains economically competitive in both short-, medium and long-term, as well as meeting the demands of the Member States’ labour markets,
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 47 j (new)
Citation 47 j (new)
— Whereas the creation of additional legal pathways on an EU level could help to provide EU Member States with a tool to properly face these demographic challenges, as well as meeting demands of the labour markets that cannot be met by the domestic workforce and enhance the matching of skills on the labour markets,
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 47 k (new)
Citation 47 k (new)
— Whereas according to a publication from the Commission on 24 April 2020, an average of 13 % of keyworkers for societies are immigrants in the EU; whereas this shows that they played a crucial role in the EU's ability to handle the COVID-19 pandemic,
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 47 l (new)
Citation 47 l (new)
— Whereas Commissioner Ylva Johansson stated on the occasion of the launch event of the talent partnerships on June 11th 2021 that the Commission’s strategic objective is to replace irregular migration with legal pathways,
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 47 m (new)
Citation 47 m (new)
— Whereas the EU is one of the main investors in developing human capital in neighbouring countries,
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 47 n (new)
Citation 47 n (new)
— Whereas the renewed European Partnership for Integration with social and economic partners looks into expanding the future cooperation to the area of labour migration,
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 47 o (new)
Citation 47 o (new)
— Whereas an adequate implementation of the existing legislation on labour migration is equally important to proposing new legislation,
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 47 p (new)
Citation 47 p (new)
— Whereas several EU Member States have already entered into successful partnerships with third countries to create a legal pathway for labour migration, as well as matching labour market demands on a smaller scale through pilot projects; Whereas talent partnerships should build upon positive lessons learned from these projects,
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 47 q (new)
Citation 47 q (new)
— Whereas the partnership frameworks between EU Member States and third countries can serve as a crucial tool in the acceleration of the mutual recognition of skills and qualifications of legal labour migrants,
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 47 r (new)
Citation 47 r (new)
— Whereas the Single Permit Directive, adopted in 2011, has the facilitation of application procedures for a combined work and residence permit and equal treatment as its two main objectives; whereas the evaluation of the Directive under the Fitness Check on legal migration and its implementation report identified a number of shortcomings with regard to the achievement of those objectives; whereas to address those shortcomings, the 2020 Commission Pact on Migration and Asylum announced a number of new initiatives, including a revision of the Single permit Directive,
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 47 s (new)
Citation 47 s (new)
— Whereas Directive 2009/52/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council provides sanctions and measures that can be used against employers exploiting illegally staying third country nationals who are working; whereas third country nationals who have entered the EU legally can also be exploited and should benefit from the same level of protection,
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 47 t (new)
Citation 47 t (new)
— Whereas the direct link between a legally staying third country national’s right of residence and his or her employer exposes them to potential labour exploitation; whereas there has been calls to phase out these permits and instead to allow legally staying third country nationals to change employers without losing their work permits,
Amendment 46 #
— Whereas the European Labour Authority has strengthened its cross- border operational capacity to support and strengthen national labour inspectorates and authorities, as well as social partners, in order to promote fair labour mobility and tackle cross-border fraud and abuse,
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 47 v (new)
Citation 47 v (new)
— Whereas visa measures can act as a positive incentive in the engagement with third countries; whereas the EU has recently revised the Visa Code and made additional efforts on visa facilitation with third countries as part of a comprehensive approach to migration policy outlined in the New Pact on Migration and Asylum,
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 47 w (new)
Citation 47 w (new)
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes that the objective of Directive 2011/98/EU to simplify and harmonise the rules concerning permits currently applicable in the Member States and promote equal treatment has not been fully achieved with some of the provisions being implemented in different ways across the Union; requests the Commission to take the necessary steps to ensure that the Member States implement that Directive fully; further considers that thate Directive should be amended to allowrequire that applications for a single permit tomay be lodged both from within both a Member State and from a third country, and, in order to further simplify and harmonise the rules, to clearly regulate the procedure for obtaining an entry visa so as to avoid applicants having to submit the documents needed to obtain a single permit twice, and to reduce dependency of workers and risk of exploitation; calls on the Commission to include such amendments in its proposal;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Recommendation 5 – title
Annex I – Recommendation 5 – title
Recommendation 5 (on the simplification and improvement of Directive 2011/98/EU)
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Recommendation 5 – indent 1
Annex I – Recommendation 5 – indent 1
- The European Parliament is of the view that procedures with respect to Directive 2011/98/EU should be further harmonised for that Directive to be fully efficient, therefore considers that the legislative act to be adopted should amend that Directive in order to allowrequire that applications for a single permit tomay be lodged both from within the territory of a Member State and from a third country, while engaging both the Member States and the third countries in a system that sharesthe exchange of information on, and coordinates with respect to,ion of the applications lodged, in full compliance with EU data protection standards. The European Parliament moreover calls for, inter alia, the clear regulation and streamlining of the procedure for applying for an entry visa in order to avoid applicants having to submit the documents needed to obtaining a single permit twice, and also requestsks the Commission to propose changes that would alleviate the difficulties facing third-country national holding work permits when changing employment, thus making the permit holder too dependent on the employeranalyse and reduce the administrative requirements and inefficiencies in permit procedures which prevent pathways from responding to real labour market needs.