Activities of Jarosław DUDA
Plenary speeches (36)
Children rights in occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Convention of the Rights of the Child (B9-0178/2019, B9-0179/2019, B9-0180/2019)
Eastern neighbourhood developments (debate)
EU disability strategy post 2020 (debate)
Presentation of the programme of activities of the Croatian Presidency (debate)
Commission Work Programme 2020 (debate)
A social Europe in a Digital world (topical debate)
Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions 2019 (debate)
Old continent growing older - possibilities and challenges related to ageing policy post 2020 (debate)
Presentation of the programme of activities of the Slovenian Presidency (debate)
Fishers for the future (short presentation)
Reversing the negative social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic (debate)
The protection of persons with disabilities through petitions: lessons learnt (debate)
A European Action Plan Against Rare Diseases (debate)
One youth, one Europe (topical debate)
EU Citizenship Report 2020 (debate)
EU strategy to promote education for children in the world (short presentation)
2021 Report on Montenegro (debate)
Mental health in the digital world of work (debate)
AccessibleEU Centre in support of accessibility policies in the EU internal market (debate)
Mental health (debate)
European initiative to promote civic engagement to protect and better support European volunteers (debate)
Adequate minimum income ensuring active inclusion (debate)
Strengthening the application of the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women (debate)
Strengthening the application of the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women (debate)
Quality traineeships in the EU (debate)
Fostering and adapting vocational training as a tool for employees' success and a building block for the EU economy in the new industry 4.0 (short presentation)
Ukrainian grain exports after Russia’s exit from the Black Sea Grain Initiative (debate)
Protection of workers from asbestos (debate)
The new European strategy for a better internet for kids (BIK+) (debate)
Mental health at work (debate)
The European Elections 2024 (debate)
Addressing urgent skills shortages and finding the right talents to boost job creation (European Year of Skills) (debate)
Quality traineeships in the EU (debate)
Working conditions of teachers in the EU (debate)
Deepening EU integration in view of future enlargement (debate)
Healthy lifestyle and active ageing in the EU (debate)
Shadow reports (2)
REPORT on the EU Citizenship Report 2020: empowering citizens and protecting their rights
REPORT with recommendations to the Commission on quality traineeships in the Union
Opinions (1)
OPINION on Fishers for the future: Attracting a new generation of labour to the fishing industry and generating employment in coastal communities
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the implementation of Council Directive 2000/78/EC establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation in light of the UNCRPD
Institutional motions (1)
on the Russian aggression against Ukraine
Oral questions (4)
Dual quality of products in the single market
Rebuilding European production capacity for active pharmaceutical ingredients
Poor sanitary conditions, low levels of security and lack of parking places in rest areas for truck drivers
Medicine shortages and strategic healthcare autonomy in the EU
Written explanations (14)
Programme for the Union's action in the field of health for the period 2021-2027 (“EU4Health Programme”) (A9-0196/2020 - Cristian-Silviu Buşoi)
Głosowałem za przyjęciem sprawozdania w sprawie ustanowienia Programu działań Unii w dziedzinie zdrowia na lata 2021–2027 oraz uchylenia rozporządzenia (UE) nr 282/2014.Cieszę się, że budżet programu został zwiększony. Podobnie jak sprawozdawca uważam, że poza kwestiami związanymi z pandemią COVID-19 program powinien obejmować szereg działań dotyczących promocji zdrowego stylu życia oraz inwestowania we wczesną diagnostykę i badania przesiewowe w celu poprawienia profilaktyki i wykrywania chorób na jak najwcześniejszym etapie.Popieram uwzględnienie w sprawozdaniu zagadnienia zdrowia psychicznego. Szacuje się, że w Unii Europejskiej koszty obniżenia produktywności spowodowanego depresją wynoszą ponad 70 miliardów euro rocznie. Mimo to 3 na 4 osoby cierpiące na depresję nie uzyskują adekwatnego wsparcia. Jest to palący problem, któremu w programie powinna zostać poświęcona należna uwaga.
Tackling homelessness rates in the European Union (B9-0363/2020)
Głosowałem za przyjęciem rezolucji w sprawie zajęcia się poziomem bezdomności w UE, ponieważ jest to dobry i kompleksowy dokument.Popieram wniosek do Komisji Europejskiej o zaproponowanie unijnych ram dla krajowych strategii na rzecz przeciwdziałania bezdomności oraz potrzebę współpracy międzyresortowej i międzyrządowej przy opracowywaniu i wdrażaniu takich strategii. Uważam za niezbędne włączenie organizacji działających na rzecz walki z bezdomnością oraz innych zainteresowanych stron do wszelkich prac na wszystkich szczeblach.W obecnej sytuacji, kiedy bezdomni są jedną z grup społeczeństwa najbardziej narażonych na zdrowotne oraz gospodarcze skutki pandemii COVID-19, dobra i efektywna strategia jest niezbędna. Dlatego uważam, że wymiana najlepszych praktyk, zapobieganie, wczesna interwencja oraz wzrost roli lokalnych i regionalnych służb zabezpieczenia społecznego przyczyni się do wprowadzenia zdecydowanych planów działania oraz wdrożenia innowacyjnych podejść, a co za tym idzie konsekwentnego zmniejszania liczby bezdomnych osób.Dziękuję za uwagę
EU Association Agreement with Ukraine (A9-0219/2020 - Michael Gahler)
Głosowałem za przyjęciem sprawozdania dotyczącego układu o stowarzyszeniu z Ukrainą, ponieważ uważam, że to bardzo dobry i kompleksowy dokument.Cieszę się, że w sprawozdaniu podkreślono znaczenie bezprecedensowych pakietów pomocowych przyznanych Ukrainie przez Unię Europejską, a w szczególności długoterminowej pożyczki w wysokości 1,2 mld euro udzielonej na bardzo korzystnych warunkach. Liczę, że wypłata 600 mln euro z tytułu pierwszej transzy tej pomocy zostanie należycie wykorzystana na wdrożenie kompleksowych środków ochrony socjalnej, a tym samym przyczyni się do łagodzenia skutków kryzysu spowodowanego pandemią COVID-19Ponadto popieram zawarte w sprawozdaniu wezwanie do poprawy stanu systemu ochrony zdrowia publicznego, zwłaszcza w zakresie zwalczania korupcji i kumoterstwa. Uważam, że tylko przejrzyste procedury zakupu sprzętu medycznego, a także szczepionek przeciw COVID-19 pozwolą uniknąć nieproporcjonalnie wysokich cen podczas panującej pandemii.
Chemical residues in the Baltic Sea based on petitions 1328/2019 and 0406/2020 under Rule 227(2) (B9-0224/2021)
Głosowałem za przyjęciem rezolucji na temat pozostałości substancji chemicznych w Morzu Bałtyckim. Jako członek Komisji Petycji cieszę się, że niejednokrotnie efektem składanych przez obywateli petycji jest rezolucja całego Parlamentu Europejskiego, jak miało to miejsce w tym przypadku. Jak wynika z tekstu dokumentu, co najmniej 50 tys. ton tej broni konwencjonalnej i chemicznej zawierającej substancje niebezpieczne zostało zatopionych w Morzu Bałtyckim od zakończenia II wojny światowej. To wstrząsająca liczba. Zgadzam się całkowicie z autorami rezolucji, że konieczne jest natychmiastowe podjęcie działań mających na celu zbadanie dokładnych lokalizacji skażonych obszarów, zaproponowanie przyjaznych dla środowiska i opłacalnych rozwiązań mających na celu oczyszczanie zanieczyszczeń, a także prowadzenie szeroko zakrojonej kampanii informacyjnej na temat potencjalnych zagrożeń zdrowotnych i ekonomicznych.
Macro-financial assistance to Ukraine(C9-0028/2022)
Głosowałem za przyznaniem pomocy makrofinansowej dla Ukrainy, ponieważ uważam, że jest to działanie niezbędne dla wsparcia stabilizacji finansowej i politycznej w tym kraju. Polska od wielu lat jest nieodmiennie rzecznikiem Partnerstwa Wschodniego, w tym postępującego zbliżenia pomiędzy Unią Europejską a Ukrainą. Dotychczasowe osiągnięcia, a zwłaszcza układ stowarzyszeniowy, pokazują, że Ukraina jest poważnym, stabilnym partnerem, zdeterminowanym do przeprowadzenia reform, zgodnie ze standardami europejskimi.Działania Rosji spowodowały poważne napięcia geopolityczne, spadek zaufania międzynarodowych inwestorów, a w konsekwencji odpływ kapitału zagranicznego, spadek wartości hrywny w stosunku do dolara i bezprecedensową inflację. W tej sytuacji jesteśmy zobowiązani do zapewnienia wsparcia naszemu partnerowi, Ukrainie. Wsparcie takie jest zarówno wyrazem solidarności – jednej z podstawowych zasad, na których opiera się Unia Europejska – jak i koniecznym działaniem na rzecz stabilności w Europie.
Towards equal rights for persons with disabilities (A9-0284/2022 - Anne-Sophie Pelletier)
Głosowałem za przyjęciem sprawozdania o dążeniu do równouprawnienia osób z niepełnosprawnościami ponieważ uważam, że to dobry, rzeczowy i kompleksowy dokument. Szczególnie ważnym jest dla mnie zamieszczenie artykułów poświęconych powszechnemu wprowadzeniu Europejskiej Karty Osoby z Niepełnosprawnością.Jako przedstawiciel komisji PETI w europejskich ramach wdrażania Konwencji o prawach osób z niepełnosprawnościami, cieszę się, że komisarz Dalli wyszła naprzeciw oczekiwaniom obywateli i ogłosiła utworzenie karty do końca 2023 r.Powszechne wprowadzenie karty, umożliwiającej wzajemne uznawanie statusu osób z niepełnoprawnościami i tym samym umożliwienie im dostępu do już istniejących i funkcjonujących udogodnień w całej Europie, może zdecydowanie zmienić sytuację w zakresie mobilności, dostępu do nauki, zatrudnienia i dóbr kultury milionów osób z niepełnosprawnościami.
Standards of quality and safety for substances of human origin intended for human application (A9-0250/2023 - Nathalie Colin-Oesterlé)
Szanowni Państwo, we wtorek Parlament zatwierdził nowe środki mające na celu lepszą ochronę dawców, jak i osób leczonych substancjami pochodzenia ludzkiego. Przyjęte środki mają zastosowanie do substancji takich jak krew i jej składniki (czerwone/białe krwinki, osocze), tkanki i komórki – wykorzystywanych do transfuzji, terapii, przeszczepów lub rozrodów wspomaganych medycznie.Głosowałem za tym, by zapewnić UE własne, niezależne dostawy tych substancji i za przygotowaniem unijnego wykazu krytycznych substancji pochodzenia ludzkiego oraz ustanowienia „krajowych planów awaryjnych i ciągłości dostaw”.Dziękuję sprawozdawczyni za kompleksowe i bardzo dobre sprawozdanie. Uważam jedynie, nie ma nic złego w rekompensatach, które zachęcają do dawstwa. Szczególnie w czasach, gdy terapie oparte na osoczu stają się normą cyklu leczenia onkologicznego.
Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (A9-0241/2023 - Dragoş Pîslaru)
Głosowałem za przyjęciem dokumentu w sprawie wytycznych dotyczących polityki zatrudnienia państw członkowskich. Podzielam opinię, że wytyczne powinny nadal odnosić się do realiów po pandemii COVID-19, aby utrzymać elementy związane ze sprawiedliwością w kontekście zielonej transformacji, aby uwzględniać niedawne inicjatywy polityczne oraz elementy polityki mające szczególne znaczenie w kontekście rosyjskiej inwazji na Ukrainę. Cieszę się jednocześnie, że wniosek na 2023 r. dąży do odzwierciedlenia nowych głównych celów krajowych i Unii Europejskiej dotyczących miejsc pracy, umiejętności i ograniczania ubóstwa oraz najnowszych inicjatyw.Uważam, że instrument wytycznych dotyczących polityki zatrudnienia pełni niezwykle ważną rolę w semestrze europejskim, zwracając uwagę na kluczowe aspekty w dynamicznie zmieniającej się sytuacji na rynkach pracy w poszczególnych państwach członkowskich.
Harmonising the rights of autistic persons (B9-0390/2023)
Głosowałem za harmonizacją praw osób z autyzmem, ponieważ jestem zaniepokojony trudnościami, jakie osoby autystyczne napotykają w procesie udokumentowania swojego stanu w innych państwach członkowskich. Należy przy tym pamiętać, że krajowe karty osoby z niepełnosprawnością nie są uznawane we wszystkich krajach UE, co jeszcze bardziej komplikuje sytuację osób z autyzmem. W konsekwencji te osoby często nie mogą korzystać z preferencyjnego traktowania, np. w formie pomocy osobistej, bezpłatnego lub priorytetowego dostępu do obiektów kulturalnych, obniżonych opłat za wstęp, preferencyjnego parkowania itp. Niepokoi mnie także fakt, że prawie dwadzieścia lat po przyjęciu przez Parlament Europejski Karty Praw Osób z Autyzmem dzieci i dorośli w państwach członkowskich wciąż miesiącami czy wręcz latami czekają na prawidłową diagnostykę autyzmu, przez co nie mają w tym okresie dostępu do wysokiej jakości terapii. Liczę, że szybko uda nam się zmienić ten stan rzeczy.
Standardised dimensions for carry-on luggage (B9-0391/2023)
Głosowałem za przyjęciem rezolucji w sprawie znormalizowanych wymiarów bagażu podręcznego, ponieważ jestem zdania, że to słuszny krok w kierunku poprawy jakości usług lotniczych w Unii Europejskiej. Temat skomplikowanej polityki bagażowej linii lotniczych jest często poruszany w petycjach składanych do Parlamentu Europejskiego. Jako członek Komisji odpowiedzialnej za ich rozpatrywanie uważam, że jednym z głównych celów działalności administracji europejskiej jest reagowanie na potrzeby i postulaty europejskich obywateli. Dlatego popieram wezwanie Komisji Europejskiej do przygotowania konkretnej propozycji zmierzającej do ujednolicenia przepisów dotyczących bagażu podręcznego, zwłaszcza kiedy Trybunał Sprawiedliwości UE wydał już orzeczenie w tej kwestii. Naturalnym wydaje się więc uwzględnienie tego orzeczenia podczas przeglądu rozporządzenia w sprawie wspólnych zasad wykonywania przewozów lotniczych na terenie Wspólnoty.
Establishing the Ukraine Facility (A9-0286/2023 - Michael Gahler, Eider Gardiazabal Rubial)
Głosowałem za mandatem Parlamentu do dalszych negocjacji dot. instrumentu na rzecz Ukrainy.50 mld euro na lata 2024–2027 to solidne wsparcie. Te pieniądze wzmocnią demokrację, wesprą modernizację infrastruktury, przyczynią się do realizacji planowanych w Ukrainie reform, wzmocnią instytucje społeczeństwa obywatelskiego, ale przede wszystkim pomogą walczyć ze skutkami wojny.Od dłuższego czasu rozmawiamy o członkostwie Ukrainy w Unii Europejskiej. Dzisiejszą pomoc traktuję jako kolejny dowód na to, że Unia w swojej deklaracji o chęci przyjęcia Ukrainy do wspólnoty pozostaje integralna.
2022 Report on Montenegro (A9-0277/2023 - Tonino Picula)
Głosowałem za przyjęciem sprawozdania w sprawie postępów Czarnogóry w 2022 r., ponieważ uważam, że to dobry i kompleksowy dokument. Cieszę się, że w sprawozdaniu doceniony został fakt długoletniego zaangażowania Czarnogóry na rzecz członkostwa w Unii Europejskiej. Gratuluję rządowi Czarnogóry pełnego dostosowania się do polityki zagranicznej i bezpieczeństwa, w tym do wszystkich sankcji przyjętych w następstwie rosyjskiej wojny przeciwko Ukrainie.Chciałbym jednocześnie wyrazić zaniepokojenie utrzymującą się dyskryminacją osób z niepełnosprawnościami oraz niespójnością między przepisami krajowymi a Konwencją ONZ o prawach osób niepełnosprawnych. Mam nadzieję, że obecnie trwająca reforma systemu orzekania o niepełnosprawności przyczyni się do zwiększenia udziału osób z niepełnosprawnościami w życiu społecznym.
Reducing inequalities and promoting social inclusion in times of crisis for children and their families (A9-0360/2023 - Sandra Pereira)
Szanowni Państwo! Głosowałem za przyjęciem sprawozdania, ponieważ uważam, że dzieci są najważniejszym bogactwem Europy. Jeśli chcemy budować społeczeństwo włączające, zaangażowane, solidarne, musimy zainwestować w ich dobrostan.Zapewnienie dzieciom dobrych warunków rozwoju, zdrowego odżywiania, równego dostępu do opieki, edukacji, usług zdrowotnych jest absolutną koniecznością. W 2022 roku co czwarte dziecko było zagrożone ubóstwem i wykluczeniem społecznym! To szokujący wskaźnik, który powinien skłonić zarówno Unię Europejską jak i władze wszelkich szczebli do niezwłocznego podjęcia działań.Złe warunki życia, dyskryminacja, izolacja, przemoc mogą wyrządzić nieodwracalne szkody i zaważyć na całym życiu. Dzieci, które dorastają w ubóstwie, często mają trudności w szkole, a później w uzyskaniu satysfakcjonującej pracy i pozycji społecznej. Ich zdrowie psychiczne i fizyczne jest zagrożone, dodatkowo mają ograniczony dostęp do opieki zdrowotnej.Dzieci dotknięte niepełnosprawnością wciąż napotykają na bariery w dostępie do opieki, przedszkoli i szkól, różnego rodzaju aktywności, w których mogą uczestniczyć razem z innymi dziećmi i rozwijać swoje talenty i umiejętności.Ponadto obserwujemy pogarszający się stan zdrowia psychicznego dzieci. Uważam, że jeżeli dziś nie uznamy zapobiegania ubóstwu i wykluczeniu społecznemu dzieci za priorytet Unii Europejskiej, jeśli nie zainwestujemy w opiekę zdrowotną, edukację, właściwe żywienie i ogólny dobrostan dzieci, to nie mamy szans na rozwój społeczny i gospodarczy Europy. Dlatego apeluję o podjęcie strategicznych działań na rzecz dzieci.
Implementation of the Erasmus+ programme 2021-2027 (A9-0413/2023 - Milan Zver)
Szanowni Państwo! Głosowałem za przyjęciem sprawozdania w sprawie wdrażania programu Erasmus+ na lata 2021–2027, ponieważ uważam, że to dobry i kompleksowy dokument.Cieszę się, że w celu przygotowania sprawozdania sprawozdawca prowadził dialog z szeroką grupą zainteresowanych stron, tak aby końcowy dokument był bezstronny i rzetelny. Uważam, że dzięki zlokalizowaniu wyzwań, takich jak zmniejszenie biurokracji, uproszczenie zasad udziału czy zwiększenie elastyczności, Erasmus plus stanie się bardziej dostępny i włączający.Erasmus + to jeden z najbardziej popularnych programów europejskich, który stał się już swoistą marką. Jak podkreślono w sprawozdaniu, popyt na uczestnictwo w nim jest wciąż znacznie większy niż podaż. Jestem zadowolony, że tak się dzieje, i mam nadzieję, że sprawozdanie, które zostało przyjęte podczas tej sesji plenarnej, przyczyni się do ciągłego ulepszania programu oraz zwiększania jego zakresu.
Written questions (37)
Development of a unified EU brain health strategy
EU support for telemedicine
Deinstitutionalisation or reinstitutionalisation?
COVID-19, a Report on the Impact of Demographic Change and the Green Paper on Ageing
Directive (EU) 2018/957 concerning the posting of workers
Disability focal points
Disability focal points
Restrictions on the free movement of services in France
Definition of ‘habitual, permanent and continuous’ activity
Task Force on Equality
Inappropriate terms used by Eurostat
Creation of an EU access board
Supporting European primary care systems
The European Schools
Support for self-employed people
Resumption of logging activities on the Puszcza Białowiska site
Deinstitutionalisation of support services for persons with disabilities
Follow up to the question on the exclusion of students with disabilities from PISA tests
Implementation of hepatitis C screening programmes in the EU
EU web accessibility for persons with disabilities
Discontinuity in care and services for adults with autism spectrum disorder
Follow-up to the Commission Green Paper on Ageing
European care strategy
Unpaid traineeships in EU institutions
The exclusion of trainees in EU institutions from Erasmus grants
The EU and the international debate on the human rights of older people
Ukrainian refugees with disabilities
Gazprom cuts off the gas supply to Poland and Bulgaria
Reducing forced labour and child labour in EU supply chains by 2025
EU type-approval of the Smart Kid Belt
The funding gap faced by the EU Copernicus programme
The right of persons with disabilities to participate in the electoral process
Removal of rehabilitation and therapy voucher from the European Funds for Social Development national programme
The EU harm reduction approach and addictions
Commission communication ‘A comprehensive approach to mental health’ and phenylketonuria patients
Mental Health in the Pharmaceutical Package
Type approval of child restraint systems – access to data
Individual motions (1)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on a European Union Fire Safety day
Amendments (439)
Amendment 11 #
2023/2811(RSP)
Citation 12 a (new)
– having regard UN Convention on rights of persons with disabilities
Amendment 13 #
2023/2811(RSP)
Citation 12 b (new)
– having regards to the Article 3(3) of the Treaty on European Union;
Amendment 15 #
2023/2811(RSP)
Citation 12 c (new)
– having regard to the Article 9 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;
Amendment 17 #
2023/2811(RSP)
Citation 12 d (new)
– having regard to the Article 151 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;
Amendment 19 #
2023/2811(RSP)
Citation 12 e (new)
– having regard to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;
Amendment 20 #
2023/2811(RSP)
Citation 12 f (new)
– having regard to the Strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities 2021-2030 adopted by the European Commission in 2021;
Amendment 42 #
2023/2811(RSP)
Recital D
D. whereas many more children are bound to be vulnerable, not only those living in poverty and social exclusion, but also children living with disabilities, children with mental problems, children with a minority racial or ethnic background, children residing in institutions, migrant and refugee children, children facing homelessness and children experiencing severe housing deprivation, and so on; whereas improving their lives in the short term and establishing successful life paths for them in the long term requires structural changes and innovative solutions and an intersectoral approach at EU, national and local levels;
Amendment 74 #
2023/2811(RSP)
Recital L a (new)
Amendment 76 #
2023/2811(RSP)
Recital L b (new)
Lb. whereas obesity among children is a constantly growing problem; whereas obesity often leads to physical and mental health problems; whereas obesity increases the risk of bullying and discrimination;
Amendment 78 #
2023/2811(RSP)
Recital L c (new)
Lc. whereas mental health issues amongst children are increasingly becoming a significant public health concern, with anxiety and depression constituting some of the most common types of disorders;
Amendment 79 #
2023/2811(RSP)
Paragraph 1
1. UrgesCalls on the remaining Member States (Austria, Latvia and Romania) to urgently adopt their Child Guarantee NAPs;
Amendment 118 #
2023/2811(RSP)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. calls on Member States to ensure inclusive education and avoid segregated classes in early childhood education and schools;
Amendment 119 #
2023/2811(RSP)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. calls on Member States to adapt facilities and educational materials of early childhood education, care and schools to the needs of children with disabilities, using inclusive methods;
Amendment 138 #
2023/2811(RSP)
Paragraph 13
13. Highlights that poor housing is still one of the causes of child poverty, given that it is linked with energy poverty and precarious living conditions; invites the Member States, therefore, to assess and revise their social housing policies and housing benefit systems in order to better cater for the needs of vulnerable families, including those facing disabilities;
Amendment 42 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 16 a (new)
Citation 16 a (new)
– having regard to the Council Recommendation of 22 May 2019 on High-Quality Early Childhood Education and Care Systems,
Amendment 44 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 16 b (new)
Citation 16 b (new)
– having regard to the Proposal for a Council Recommendation 2022/0263 of 14 September 2022 on the Revision of the Barcelona targets on early childhood education and care,
Amendment 88 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan, adopted in 2021, aims to reduce the number of children at risk of poverty and social exclusion by at least 5 million by 2030; whereas even if this target were achieved around 15t least 20 million children in the EU would still be at risk of poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 124 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas, particularly in times of crisis, the creation of high-quality jobs, through the expansion and promotion of companies, flexible, dynamic labor markets, the elimination of unemployment, particularly youth unemployment, combating the shortage of skilled workers through a corresponding qualification offensive and a right to training, is an important preventive measure to reduce inequalities and promote the social inclusion of children and their families;
Amendment 162 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas playing gives children the opportunity to express themselves in a symbolic way and forms an essential basis of the way they think, strengthening children’s participation in society ;
Amendment 177 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas children belong in school and not in factories or fields;
Amendment 184 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G d (new)
Recital G d (new)
Amendment 186 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G f (new)
Recital G f (new)
Gf. whereas the best interests of the child should be the guiding principle, as stated in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the standards of the European Social Charter;
Amendment 204 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Member States to establish policies (and practices) that empower parents to support their children outside the childcare setting throughout their childhood, and particularly during early childhood, when children are aged 0–3;
Amendment 214 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. DeplorNotes the fact that the governments of the Member States are moving away from universal policies and increasingly promoting policies based on the liberalisation of services and instruments whose availability depends on the resources of the beneficiaries; stresses for this reason, that universal and long-term policies offergive better protection against the multiple causes of poverty and social exclusion, by providing structural responses that can, if necessary, also be supplemented by immediate, one-offreinforcing necessary support measures;
Amendment 223 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to refrain from recommending reforms that lead to cuts in and the weakcommend a strengthening of public administrations and services in the Member States, aimed at in order to reduce inequalities and promotinge the relaxation of employment relationships and the privatisation of public services, which have led to the weakening and, in some cases, the undermining of the social and labour rights of children and their families; deploressocial inclusion of children and their families in times of crisis and to counteract privatisation; expresses its incomprehension with regard to the recent statements by the President of the ECB, who criticised the investments by national governments in social responses aimed at addressing the increased cost of living;
Amendment 243 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Amendment 247 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Emphasizes that children in special life situations due to illness, care, disability and / or cognitive disorders need specific and targeted measures as well as special educational and care offers in order to preventively counteract inequalities in social security protection and a lack of social integration of their person and their families in times of crisis;
Amendment 255 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 g (new)
Paragraph 4 g (new)
4g. Moreover calls on Member States to pay specific attention to the problems of child labour in Europe, and to carefully evaluate the potential impact on child labour caused by budgetary cuts in the field of education and training as well in social policies and support to families;
Amendment 256 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 h (new)
Paragraph 4 h (new)
4h. Calls on Member States to more intensively fight and condemn child labour, to investigate and guarantee labour inspection agencies to be in a position to do their work adequately, to collect data and monitor child labor and to use the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the European Social Charter as guidance for preventive and remedial action;
Amendment 285 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recommends that the Member States ensure that all children halife-long learning involves access to formal and non-formal, public, free, inclusive and quality education at all ages, while children in particular require a needs-based design ;
Amendment 339 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Highlights the right to affordable comfortable housing that meets the needs of children and their families and ensures their well- being, privacy and quality of life; calls on the Member States to promote a public housing policy that tackles property speculation and guarantees this right;
Amendment 361 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Condemns all forms of violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect with regard to children; calls on the Member States to develop and implement integrated prevention and protection systems for children with a view to eradicating violencein order to eliminate all shortcomings and to strengthen, increase and promote the best interests of children;
Amendment 371 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses the need to invest in support and, follow-up, care and education for children and young asylum seekers, as well as their families, and host institutionin the accommodation/reception centres, in order to reduce inequalities and promote the social inclusion of children and their families in times of crisis;
Amendment 44 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 46 a (new)
Citation 46 a (new)
– having regard to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on Europe’s Media in the Digital Decade: an action plan to support recovery and transformation (COM(2020)0784),
Amendment 47 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 46 b (new)
Citation 46 b (new)
– having regard to the European Commission's European Media Industry Outlook SWD (2023) 150,
Amendment 48 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 46 c (new)
Citation 46 c (new)
– having regard to its resolution on Europe’s Media in the Digital Decade: an action plan to support recovery and transformation (2021/2017(INI)),
Amendment 50 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 46 d (new)
Citation 46 d (new)
– having regard to its resolution on an intellectual property action plan to support the EU’s recovery and resilience (2021/2007(INI)),
Amendment 67 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas, regardless of their role or their status as a worker or self-employed person, the living and working conditions of CCS professionals can be characterised by precariousness and instability, with unpredictable incomes, a weaker bargaining power in relations with counterparties, short-term contracts, weak or no social security, and a lack of access to unemployment support; whereas the extent of social security coverage of CCS professionals varies between countries, sectors and types of work within the sectors and may lead to differences in living and working conditions;
Amendment 132 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas practices involving copyright buyouts and work with transfer of copyright imposed on authors by video- on-demand (VOD) platforms based outside the EU are increasingly becoming standard practice;
Amendment 135 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital J b (new)
Recital J b (new)
Jb. whereas the European Parliament has in the past called on the Commission to take concrete steps to prevent potentially coercive practices such as copyright buyouts that may hinder creators' ability to benefit from adequate and proportionate remuneration, in three resolutions: on the situation of artists and the cultural recovery in the EU (2020/2261(INI)), on Europe’s Media in the Digital Decade: an action plan to support recovery and transformation (2021/2017(INI)), and on an intellectual property action plan to support the EU’s recovery and resilience (2021/2007(INI));
Amendment 158 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that the arts, the broader cultural and creative sectors, entertainment and sports play a fundamental role in human flourishing and in Europe’s social cohesion and economy; underlines that CCS professionals are key to the process of European integration;
Amendment 248 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recalls the importance of copyright and related rights in the cultural and creative sectors and of properly implementing them, ensuring that every type of rightholder is fairly remunerated, in particular for authors and composers, who are in a weaker bargaining position compared to the large and dominant media companies; stresses that authors and composers need the protection provided by EU law to ensure that they are fairly remunerated and benefit fully from harmonised EU rules, while at the same time ensuring fair and proportionate remuneration for any use of their work;
Amendment 253 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Considers that fair copyright- based remuneration is the main source of income for authors and composers and underpins their working conditions; considers that failure to address the practice of coercive copyright buyouts and work with transfer of copyright imposed by video-on-demand (VOD) platforms based outside the EU would leave European authors and composers without a guarantee of adequate and proportionate remuneration for the use of their works;
Amendment 266 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Is concerned by abusive and coercive practices that may result in unfair contractual relationships for CCS professionals; draws attention to issues relating more specifically to ‘buy-out’ contracts; requests the Commission to assess and closely monitor the situation in that regard and work with transfer of copyright imposed by video-on-demand platforms based outside the EU and the application of third-country legislation to circumvent EU rules protecting authors and their fair remuneration; requests the Commission to assess and closely monitor the situation in that regard in order to prevent the circumvention of EU rules and regulations and to ensure adequate remuneration and fair working conditions for authors and composers;
Amendment 277 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Notes with concern that, in the case of worldwide exploitation of authors' and composers' works, particularly in the field of audiovisual works, European law as it stands is not capable of preventing the circumvention of EU safeguards through the choice of foreign rules and jurisdictions; awaits with interest the results of the Commission's study on authors' contractual relations, applicable law and the issue of coercive copyright buy-outs;
Amendment 280 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Stresses that collective management organisations enable authors to obtain remuneration for the use of their works which they would not be able to control or impose themselves, including on foreign markets; recognises that collective management organisations play an important role in securing remuneration for authors and composers through collective bargaining and are an important source of income for professional authors and composers;
Amendment 327 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Recognises the role that collective management organisations play in ensuring access to collective bargaining for rights holders, equal market access for all rights holders, the widest possible public access to a culturally diverse repertoires and the sustainability of the cultural sector in Europe; promotes collective management as a fair and sustainable model for future EU policy considerations;
Amendment 427 #
Amendment 429 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
Amendment 29 #
2023/0393(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) Therefore, Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the rules governing the eligibility, issuance, renewal or withdrawal, mutual recognition and data protection of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities as proof respectively of a disability status or of a right to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities, as well as the rights for beneficiaries, including access on equal terms and conditions to any special conditions or preferential treatment with respect to services, activities or facilities, including when provided not for remuneration, or parking conditions and facilities offered to or reserved for persons with disabilities or person(s) accompanying or assisting them including their personal assistant(s), set out in Directive ../…., equally apply to third country nationals legally residing in the Union and who are entitled to move or travel to other Member States in accordance with Union law. The issuing of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities should be free of charge to the card holder. The European Disability Card should be issued and renewed by the Member State of residence directly, where already provided for in the national disability assessment and recognition procedure or upon the application of the person with disabilities or card holder. Where not issued directly, persons with disabilities should be duly informed about the possibility to apply for the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card.
Amendment 36 #
2023/0393(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3 a) The information campaign regarding the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card should be comprehensive and accessible on the public authorities' official website, distributed through social service agencies, ensuring that all third-country nationals legally residing in the territory of Member States are aware of their rights and the application process. The information about the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card should be available in all EU languages and multiple formats, such as Braille and audio.
Amendment 52 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) Furthermore, not knowing whether and, if so, to what extent their disability status and formal documents recognising this status may be recognised when travelling to or visiting another Member State, creates uncertainty for them. Ultimately, persons with disabilities may be deterred from exercising their rights of free movement and being fully part of the society .
Amendment 78 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 27
Recital 27
(27) The issuance of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities entails the processing of personal data, including in particular the data concerning the card holder’s disability status, which constitutes ‘data concerning health’ within the meaning of Article 4(15) of Regulation (EU) 2016/67953 and is a special category of personal data within the meaning of Article 9 of that Regulation. Any personal data processing in the context of this Directive should comply with applicable data protection legislation, in particular Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council1a. When transposing this Directive, the Member States should ensure that the national legislation include appropriate safeguards applicable to the processing of personal data, in particular special categories of personal data. The Member States should also ensure the security, integrity, authenticity and confidentiality of the data collected and stored for the purpose of this Directive _________________ 1a Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2002 concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector, (Directive on privacy and electronic communications), OJ L 201, 31.7.2002, p. 37-47. 53 Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (OJ L 119, 4.5.2016, p. 1).
Amendment 91 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 31
Recital 31
(31) In order to raise awareness and facilitate access to special conditions or preferential treatment, while travelling to or visiting another Member State, all relevant information with respect to the conditions, rules, practices, and procedures applicable to obtain the European Disability Card and/or the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and its subsequent use should be made publicly available in a clear, comprehensive, user-friendly manner and accessible formats including the EU webpage, for persons with disabilities respecting the relevant accessibility requirements for services established in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2019/882. Private operators or public authorities granting special conditions or preferential treatment to persons with disabilities should make such information publicly available in a clear, comprehensive, user- friendly manner and accessible formats, for persons with disabilities respecting the relevant accessibility requirements for services established in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2019/882.
Amendment 92 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 33
Recital 33
(33) In order to ensure the proper application of this Directive, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 TFEU should be delegated to the Commission to supplement the directive to set the digital format of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities, and to amend Annexes I and Annex II in order to modify the common features of the standardised format, adapt the format to technical developments, prevent forgery and fraud and ensure interoperability, security and testing of these digital formats, including verification features and the interface with national systems .
Amendment 94 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) the rules governing the issuance of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities , whose disability status is assessed and recognised by the competent authorities in a Member State of their residence, as proof respectively of a disability status or of a right to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities, in view of facilitating short stays of persons with disabilities in a Member State other than that of which they are a resident, by granting them access to any special conditions or preferential treatment when accessing services on an equal basis with persons with a disability in the visited Member State with respect to services, activities or facilities, including when provided not for remuneration, or parking conditions and facilities offered to or reserved for persons with disabilities or person(s) accompanying or assisting them including their personal assistant(s);
Amendment 132 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(b a) This Directive shall allow for the temporary recognition of disability status for participants of EU Mobility Programmes such as ERASMUS+.
Amendment 147 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 4
Article 6 – paragraph 4
4. The European Disability Card shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence directly if such is the procedure according to the national disability status recognition or upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued and renewed free of charge for the beneficiary and within the same period set in the applicable national legislation for issuing disability certificates, disability cards or any other formal document recognising the disability status of a person with disabilities. The card shall never be required as a proof of disability in the context of rights established in other European Union legislation.
Amendment 159 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 7
Article 6 – paragraph 7
7. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 11 to supplement this Directive in order to set the digital format of the European Disability Card and ensure interoperability, and to amend Annex I in order to modify the common features of the standardised format, adapt the format to technical developments, introduce digital features in order to prevent forgery and fraud, address abuse or misuse and ensure interoperability, security, including verification features and the interface with national systems.
Amendment 166 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 1
1. Each Member State shall introduce the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities following the common standardised format set out in Annex II. Member States shall introduce digital features in physical cards using electronic means addressing fraud-prevention as part of the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities, as soon as the requirements concerning the digital features referred to in Annex II, are laid down by the Commission in the technical specifications referred to in Article 8. The digital storage medium shall not contain more personal data than the data provided for the European DisabilityParking Card in Annex II.
Amendment 184 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 38 a (new)
Recital 38 a (new)
(38 a) An exemption shall be added to Art. 2.2 to allow for temporary recognition of disability status for participants of EU Mobility Programmes such as ERASMUS+.
Amendment 185 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall make the conditions and rules, practices, and procedures to issue, renew or withdraw a European Disability Card and a European Parking Card for persons with disabilities publicly available in accessible formats, including in digital formats, and upon request in assistive formats requested by persons with disabilities. This information shall be collected on an EU-level website and shall be available in all EU languages. .
Amendment 193 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 2
Article 9 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall take appropriate measures and the European Commission shall coordinate a campaign to raise awareness among the public and inform persons with disabilities, including in accessible ways, about the existence and conditions to obtain, use, or renew the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities.
Amendment 204 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 4
Article 11 – paragraph 4
4. Before adopting a delegated act, the Commission shall consult experts designated by each Member State in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 April 2016 on Better Law-Making, as well as persons with disabilities and their representative organisations. .
Amendment 210 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 1
Article 12 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall be assisted by a committee and shall involve representative organisations of persons with disabilities. That committee shall be a committee within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011.
Amendment 237 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 2 a (new)
Annex II – point 2 a (new)
2 a. The words European Parking Card shall be displayed in braille using the Marburg code dimensions.
Amendment 290 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 4
Article 6 – paragraph 4
4. The European Disability Card shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence directly if such is the procedure according to the national disability recognition, or upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued and renewed free of charge for the beneficiary and within the same period set in the applicable national legislation for issuing disability certificates, disability cards or any other formal document recognising the disability status of a person with disabilities. The card shall never be required as a proof of disability in the context of rights established in other Union legislation.
Amendment 355 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall make the conditions and rules, practices, and procedures to issue, renew or withdraw a European Disability Card and a European Parking Card for persons with disabilities publicly available in accessible formats, including in digital formats, as well as in national sign languages and easy to read format, and upon request in assistive formats requested by persons with disabilities.
Amendment 364 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 2
Article 9 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall take appropriate measures, and the European Commission shall coordinate a campaign, to raise awareness among the public and inform persons with disabilities, including in accessible ways, about the existence and conditions to obtain, use, or renew the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities.
Amendment 402 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 4
Article 11 – paragraph 4
4. Before adopting a delegated act, the Commission shall consult experts designated by each Member State in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 April 2016 on Better Law-Making, as well as persons with disabilities and their representative organisations.
Amendment 408 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 1
Article 12 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall be assisted by a committee and shall meaningfully involve representative organisations of persons with disabilities. That committee shall be a committee within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011.
Amendment 472 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3 – point a – indent 5 a (new)
Annex II – point 3 – point a – indent 5 a (new)
– the words “European Parking Card” shall be displayed in braille using the Marburg code dimensions.
Amendment 14 #
2022/2207(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 40 a (new)
Citation 40 a (new)
– having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities,
Amendment 15 #
2022/2207(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 40 b (new)
Citation 40 b (new)
– having regard to European Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,
Amendment 22 #
2022/2207(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas among the biggest challenges CVET is currently facing is its low attractiveness comparing to academic education and lack of interest among students and lack of skilled workers;
Amendment 24 #
2022/2207(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas implementing high quality CVET might impose a significant financial burden, especially on micro and SMEs;
Amendment 56 #
2022/2207(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which encompasses the full digitalisation of production processes, together with the rapid development of big data, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and increasing computing power, is shaping today’s labour and education markets and provides both challenges and opportunities for the companies and the workers;
Amendment 89 #
2022/2207(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q a (new)
Recital Q a (new)
Amendment 96 #
2022/2207(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital S
Recital S
S. whereas demographic changes are ongoing; whereas companies may experience problems related to the loss of knowledge of older workers once they retire, whereas it is important to foster intergenerational transfer of skills;
Amendment 112 #
2022/2207(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Emphasises that high-quality CVET promote the idea of lifelong learning and contribute to adaptation in the face of dynamic change on the labour market, and consequently extend working lives;
Amendment 134 #
2022/2207(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that CVET policy remains fragmented in many EU Member States; points out that the development of well- functioning CVET systems requires the development of systematic strategies and adequate resources to empower people and ensure sustainable economic competitiveness, underlines that European Union should ensure its supportive role in this process;
Amendment 145 #
2022/2207(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Points out the importance of vocational education for individuals and groups with special needs, including persons with different types of disabilities; stresses the need to develop a strategy and to provide vocational education and training opportunities for people in remote and rural areas in order to ensure the effectiveness of matching mechanisms in the EU labour market;
Amendment 156 #
2022/2207(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Points out that workplaces, and SMEs in particular, must be extensively involved, encouraged and supported by Member States and European Commission, to provide learning and training opportunities not only for those in employment, but also for the unemployed and those outside the labour market; notes the key role of the social partners in this area;
Amendment 172 #
2022/2207(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on Member States to develop and implement strategies which will incentivise companies to pay more attention to the role of education in the workplace; stresses that companies need to dedicate a substantial part of their resources to ensuring that their employees are able to work with the latest technologies and in new organisational environments, as well as to prevent digital exclusion; calls on Member States to pay special attention to the SMEs, for which it is particularly challenging to meet those needs;
Amendment 176 #
2022/2207(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Stresses that in order to adequately respond to the needs of the transforming industries and challenges posed by the twin transition, as well as to retain European industry competitive in the global markets, continuous investment in CVET infrastructure, teacher training, and quality assurance systems will be necessary;
Amendment 203 #
2022/2207(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Amendment 209 #
2022/2207(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses the need to promote vocational education, highlighting the attractiveness of and opportunities for development within the sector; calls on the Commission and the Member States to carry out educational campaigns and activities to promote vocational education, including through events such as EuroSkills and to promote the exchange of best practices in this area;
Amendment 220 #
2022/2207(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Highlights the benefits that international mobility provides both for learners and educators in CVET, stresses the potential of Erasmus+ programme in this regard;
Amendment 35 #
2022/2026(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines that independent living goes hand in hand with the freedom to choose one’s place of residence5, inclusive education6, a guarantee of democratic rights7 such as the right to vote8, and access to the open labour market with an adequate salary9; access to public infrastructure, services and goods, particularly healthcare, information and communication, as well as transport and banking services; _________________ 5 Petition No 0988/2020. 6 Petitions Nos 1340/2020 and 1529/2020. 7 Petition No 1132/2016. 8 Petition No 1135/2021; European Economic and Social Committee report of 20 March 2019 on the real rights of persons with disabilities to vote in European Parliament elections. 9 Petitions Nos 0608/2020 and 1280/2021.
Amendment 78 #
2022/2026(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines that children with disabilities, including those with intellectual disabilities, have the right to inclusive education on the same footing as other children, including the possibility to access mainstream schools, as stipulated in Article 24 CRPD, recalls, in this context, the need to make reasonable adjustments, to provide an adequate number of teachers and educators, and the importance of ensuring that teachers and educators have access to continuous training and professional development, and considers that accessible digital tools should be designed and used where possible12; _________________ 12 Petitions Nos 0956/2018 and 1340/2020.
Amendment 45 #
2022/0326(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) Across the Union, companies report difficulties to find workers with the necessary skills. In 2021, 28 occupations were classified as having shortages, including the healthcare, hospitality, construction and service sectors, in addition to shortages of IT and security specialists, in particular cybersecurity experts, and workers with science, technology, engineering and mathematics background.22 Increasingly, the biggest constraint to a successful digital and green transition is the lack of workers with the right skills. In many Member States, demographic ageing is expected to accelerate over the coming decade as “baby boom” cohorts retire, reinforcing the need to make use of the full potential of all working-age adults through continuous investments in their skills as well as activitating more people, in particular women and young people especially those not in education, employment or training (NEETs) and people with disabilities. _________________ 22 European Labour Authority, Report on labour shortages and surpluses 2021 and ENISA, Cybersecurity skills development in the EU, March 2020. The ENISA studies identify that there is a gap of 291,000 professionals in cybersecurity.
Amendment 177 #
2022/0326(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1
1. Promoting increased, more effective and inclusive investment into training, reskilling and upskilling to harness the full potential of the European current and future workforce and to support people in entering the labour market, managing job-to-job transitions, active ageing, and benefiting from the new opportunities brought by the ongoing economic transformation.
Amendment 242 #
2022/0326(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
The organisation of participation in the European Year at national and regional level shall be a responsibility of the Member States. To that end, each Member State shall appoint a national coordinator that can represent the different branches of government in a holistic manner. The national coordinators shall ensure the coordination of relevant activities at national and regional level, regional and local level. The national coordinators shall ensure the access to the initiatives of European Year is inclusive and covers also rural and remote areas and all groups of beneficiaries.
Amendment 251 #
2022/0326(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 5 – paragraph 3
Article 5 – paragraph 3
3. The Commission shall convene meetings of the national coordinators in the course of preparation and during the European Year, in order to coordinate the activities referred to in Article 3. These meetings shall also serve as opportunities to exchange information regarding the implementation of the European Year at national and Union level. Representatives of the European Parliament and relevant Union Agencies may participate in those meetings as observers.
Amendment 4 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5
Citation 5
— having regard to the revised European Social Charter, in particular its articles 15 on the right of persons with disabilities to independence, social integration and participation and 23 on the right of older persons to social protection,
Amendment 8 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6
Citation 6
— having regard to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, as referred to in Article 6 TEUin particular art. 25 on the right of older persons to lead a life of independence and dignity and art. 26 on the integration of persons with disabilities,
Amendment 10 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
— having regard to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, as referred to in Article6 TEU,
Amendment 12 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7
Citation 7
— having regard to the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR), in particular principle 17 on inclusion of persons with disabilities and principle 18 on the right to long-term care,
Amendment 15 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
Citation 7 a (new)
— having regard to the UN Decade on Healthy Ageing2021-2030 and the WHO Framework for countries to achieve an integrated continuum of long-term care1a, _________________ 1a https://www.who.int/news/item/14-03- 2022-who-launches-new-framework-to- support-countries-achieve-integrated- continuum-of-long-term-care
Amendment 20 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new)
Citation 9 a (new)
Amendment 27 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10
Citation 10
— having regard to the International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions and recommendations, and in particular R202 on Social Protection Floors and C189 Domestic Workers Convention of 2011,
Amendment 29 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11
Citation 11
— having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD), and the EU’s ratification of this Convention,
Amendment 79 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the EPSR Action Plan sets out concrete initiatives for the implementation of principles that are essential for building a stronger social Europe for just transitions and recovery; whereas principle 17 and 18 jointly promote an individual right to long-term care and define the aim of care and inclusion services to support full participation in society;
Amendment 95 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas persons in need for care and support are persons who are challenged in their activities of daily living by a disability or chronic health condition; whereas care encompasses all services to addresssupport autonomy and independence of persons in need for care, and by supporting their physical, psychological and social needs of dependents, as well as support, as well to guarantee the equal exercise of all their rights, dignity, autonomy, inclusion and well-being for all members of society;
Amendment 137 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the stigma surrounding dependenceisability, disease and frailty and the need for care and support intersects with other grounds of discrimination;
Amendment 176 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the existing challenges in terms of access to formal care services; whereas the sidelining of long-term care settings in the response to COVID, by denying access to protective equipment, testing and medical treatment, emphasises the undervaluation and underfinancing of long-term care in our societies; whereas across the EU, more than half of COVID- 19 related fatalities have been recorded in long-term care settings; whereas blanket social isolation measures have increased the risk of abuse and neglect, as well as deterioration of mental and physical health of persons in need for care and support;
Amendment 213 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the provision of quality care depends on the existence of a sufficiently large and well-trained workforce, the creation of attractive and decent working conditions and integrated services, and adequate funding for supporting services for persons in need for care and support;
Amendment 227 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the majority of older people would like to live in their own homes at an advanced age however the minority spends the last years of their life in their private accommodation and many of them live in institutional care facilities;
Amendment 236 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the structures of care need to be changed from centralised institutions to community-based care; whereas that shift has been too slow; whereas patient- centred community-based and home care can better support the autonomy of persons in need for care and support; whereas residential care often does not meet the standards of supporting independence of persons using the services and are often associated with the end of life, rather than regarded as places to live and strive in dignity, and places of participation in social and cultural life;
Amendment 245 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the structures of care need to be changed from centralised institutions to community-based care and support for independent living; whereas that shift has been too slow;
Amendment 253 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. Whereas social services focused on supporting independent living, especially personal assistantships, enable access to employment, education and social participation, thus bringing tangible economic and social benefits and increasing the level of life satisfaction of care recipients;
Amendment 312 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas 80 % of all long-term care in Europe is provided by informal carers, which makes care an extremely gendered issue; whereas informal care provision is associated with reduction of employment rates, increase of poverty and social exclusion rates, reduced mental health and increased feelings of social isolation and loneliness1a; _________________ 1a Eurofound Quality of Life Survey 2016
Amendment 382 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas access to quality care services, especially long-term care, is increasingly preconditioned on individual and family income; whereas two in three persons in need for care are estimated not to have access to it, mainly for reasons of cost and availability; whereas persons with lower incomes are also a group in which care needs are more prevalent;
Amendment 430 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that it is vital to ensure quality care across the life courseindependence, autonomy and dignity across the lifecourse and that quality care is a major tool to support this; underlines the importance of the accessibility, availability and affordability of care, and that all users and their carers should have a genuine choice when it comes to care services, meaning the form of care (home care, community-based care and other forms of patient-centred care), the place and intensity of care; highlights also that choice should extend to the family and community of a person in need for care on whether or not to provide informal care, and with which intensity;
Amendment 469 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights the need to increase funding for both formal and informal care across the EU to guarantee equal access for dependantspersons in need for care and support to affordable quality care services, as well as an activ fulfilling and sustainable professional life for carers, and therefore calls on the Member States to make the best use of the European structural and investment funds, including the ESF+, as well as the Recovery and Resilience Facility, for investing in care; calls on the Commission to develop guidelines and recommendations for Member States in this sense;
Amendment 502 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Emphasises that significant part of the live-in care services are cross-border and calls on the Commission and Member States to lift barriers in the free provision of care services;
Amendment 510 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to exchange information and best practices with a view to developing a common European quality framework for care, based on the rights to independence and autonomy and inspired by the WHO Framework to suport countries achieving an integrated continuum of long-term care encompassing all care settings, ensuring, encouraging upward social convergence and guaranteeing equal rights for all citizens;
Amendment 590 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Member States to provide continuous holistic support to parents, including parental entitlements and measures that encourage a more substantial role for men in the sharing of care responsibilities, including for very young children; reminds that gender imbalances in care and employment have life-time scarring consequences on many women’s career progressions, resulting in an important gender gap in pensions and high differences in poverty rates in older age;
Amendment 618 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to reform and integrate their social services and protection systems in such a way as to provide effective and equal access to care services throughout the life course, taking a patient-centred, personalised approach, in order to enhance the continuity of care, preventive healthcare, rehabilitation and, whenever possible, independent living;
Amendment 623 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote personal assistantships as an effective form of social services, conducive to maintain independence, dignity and activity of care recipients;
Amendment 630 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Notes that accessibility derives from a combination of availability of a diversified spectrum of care services, cost and flexibility; believes that in this respect different forms of care service provision should be available, such as inin particular that provision of in-home and community- based settingcare services should be upscaled alongside residential care; emphasises that the increase of care needs induced by demographic change require significant investments from the EU and member states to fill the gap of care services;
Amendment 664 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses that the free movement of persons and workers is one of the key pillars of the EU, but and that without cross- border provision of care services it would not be possible to meet the growing demand for carers and at the same time notes that challenges to cross-border care remain; calls for the protection of the social security rights of all mobile care workers and care receivers;
Amendment 686 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for the prioritisation of mental health within public health policy at EU level and to ensure particularly in the context of long-term care that mental health and access to mental health care are effectively available, affordable and of good quality to ensure they contribute to the improvement of quality of life;
Amendment 693 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to improve the provision and access to palliative care for all persons diagnosed with a long-term condition or disability; emphasises that palliative care comprises a spectrum of services improving quality of life with a health condition or disability beyond medication, such as emotional, psychological and spiritual care and support as well as mental health services;
Amendment 724 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls in particular for the reduction of inequality in access to long- term care to be taken into account when developing a set of access targets;
Amendment 728 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Calls for quality indicators that are based on the rights of the persons in need for care, the maintenance of their independence and autonomy as well as social inclusion, and focussing on the expected outcomes of long-term care, such as the improvement of well-being of persons in need for long-term care and support, the evolution of healthy life years and other indicators putting entire care experience of a person in need for care in the centre of attention;
Amendment 745 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Notes that between 40 and 50 million people in the EU provide informal care on a regular basis; notes that this work tends to be long term and can hinderreduces formal labour market participation, resulting in an increased risk of poverty and social exclusion, mental and physical health issues, or loss of income; andlso notes that informal care aggravatinges the gender pension gapand old-age poverty gap, as a higher share of informal carers are women and women tend to provide longer hours of informal care;
Amendment 768 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Highlights the need for a common European minimum definition for unpaid informal care, includingemphasising that providing informal care must be a choice and not born out of the necessity and lack of available care services and the respect for the right to self- determination of persons receiving care in their choice of the form of care they want to receive;
Amendment 818 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Urges the Member States to recognise care professions in their importance in supporting fundamental rights and well-being and to place adequate staffing levels and investment in care staff at the centre of their care policies, and to support the creation of quality jobs in the sector;
Amendment 899 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Recalls that mobile and migrant workers play a significant role in the provision of both residential care, community- based care and home care in the EU;
Amendment 901 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Expresses its concern about the phenomenon of elder abuse, including non-assistance, neglect and the undue use of physical or chemical restraints, particularly in the field of long-term care and support; calls for the development of trainings for informal and formal carers to avoid elder abuse and of independent and effective mechanisms to report and redress situations of elder abuse; calls on the Commission and Member States to explicitly include the fight against elder abuse in all its forms in the EU Care Strategy;
Amendment 961 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Stresses the utmost importance of mainstreaming care and measures for the empowerment of women, dependent personspersons in need for care and support and vulnerable individuals in all relevant national and EU policies; emphasises that a rights-based approach to care would enable such a mainstreaming across often disconnected policy fields, such as health, employment, pensions and social affairs, design of living environments, education and culture, mobility, digital policies and others;
Amendment 1011 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Calls on the Member States to formulate and revise their care policies in permanent dialogue with social partners, experts, civil society and representative organisations of care recipients andpersons in need for care, formal and informal carers;
Amendment 1017 #
2021/2253(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the EIGE, Eurofound and other relevant agencies have adequate resources to monitor and analyse if and how policies are making the intended improvements in the care sector, including in terms of access, quality, gender equality, infrastructure and work- life balance;
Amendment 16 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the RRF created an unprecedented structure adapted to addressing the complex effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on economy, society and institutions and is positively contributing to the EU’s recovery and resilience, including economic growth, cohesion, jobs, productivity, competitiveness, research, development and innovation, and a well-functioning internal market with robust small and medium enterprises SMEs;
Amendment 35 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas a large number of reforms and investments aim to improve territorial infrastructure and services provided at local level; whereas these measures can also boost the local economy, national competitiveness and institutional resilience;
Amendment 41 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
C b. whereas the importance of local and regional involvement in implementing the national recovery and resilience plans (NRRPs); whereas local and regional authorities are responsible for one third of all public expenditure and more than half of public investment in the EU1a, a large portion of which is in policy areas that are key for the RRF; _________________ 1a OECD, Key data on Local and Regional Governments in the European Union (brochure), 2018. Available at: https://www.oecd.org/regional/EU-Local- government-key-data.pdf
Amendment 49 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights that the COVID-19 crisis has already left many people jobless or in precarious employmentunemployed and young people are particularly affected by the COVID-19 crisis in terms of employment, education, training and mental well-being; calls on the Commission and Member States to fight against youth unemployment and to ensure that young people, especially those not in employment, education or training (NEETs), receive adequate, pairemunerated and quality first working experience;
Amendment 55 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Welcomes the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) as an ambitious and timely tool to enable the EU to emerge stronger from the COVID-19 crisis. Supports the European Commission's view that most Member States have satisfactory drawing up the (NRRPs) in a short space of time;
Amendment 59 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Emphasizes that in several Member States the NRRPs are only part of broader national recovery plans, and points to the need for more exchange of best practices between Member States and a comprehensive approach at European level, in order to overcome the crisis and make the EU economy more robust, resilient and competitive for the future;
Amendment 75 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Stresses Member States should focus on reforms and investments to support job creation, and the transition to new sectors and occupations, to boost competitiveness and improve the performance, functioning and resilience of the labour markets. Special attention should be given to horizontal upskilling programmes in digital skills, green skills and especially financial literacy;
Amendment 80 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Amendment 86 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2 c. Welcomes that over a third of measures and around two thirds of the expenditure linked to the effectiveness of public administration and to business and public service continuity relate to the digital transformation1d; Highlights that the measures to enhance civil service diminish regulatory and administrative burdens, improve public procurement procedures and contribute to the effectiveness of the public administration; _________________ 1d Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility.
Amendment 90 #
2021/2251(INI)
2 d. Emphasizes that 10 NRRPs contain measures to improve the training development and work conditions of civil servants by facilitating flexible working arrangements, implementing a better pay system in the public service and the modernisation of recruitment processes and notably the effectiveness of the judicial systems are found in 13 NRRPs;
Amendment 91 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 e (new)
Paragraph 2 e (new)
2 e. Calls for clear coordination between the NRRPs and the ESIF programmes, as this is mandatory in accordance with Article 17 of the RRF Regulation; therefore calls on the Commission to draw attention to this in the agreements concluded with the Member States on the NRRPs. The synergies between the NRRPs and the ESIF programmes should also be part of the Commission's annual reports on the implementation of the RRF and of the scrutiny by the European Parliament;
Amendment 93 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 f (new)
Paragraph 2 f (new)
2 f. Calls for coordination with the other programmes funded by NextGenEU (e.g. REACT-EU) and for the alignment between the seven existing and new programmes funded by NextGenEU concerning ambitions for a green and digital transition and effective implementation by local and regional authorities of the recovery programmes;
Amendment 95 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 g (new)
Paragraph 2 g (new)
2 g. Invites the European Commission to actively support local and regional authorities that have experienced problems while absorbing EU funds in the past, in addressing these problems, so that the NRRP scan be successfully implemented across the European Union;
Amendment 96 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 h (new)
Paragraph 2 h (new)
2 h. Calls on the Member States to focus on a more decentralized approach in order to tackle possible territorial differences, both in terms of challenges and opportunities. Believes that, in this way, NRRPs could be more efficient; Points out that regions that were already lagging behind in their development before the outbreak of the pandemic are at risk of an even greater development gap, in employment, educational attainment, business support, digitalisation, mobility or other key policy areas;
Amendment 98 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 i (new)
Paragraph 2 i (new)
2 i. Emphasizes that apprenticeships and remunerated traineeships, including strong training components, in particular for young people, contribute to labour market transitions, notably towards activities contributing to climate and environmental objectives, and sectors facing particular skills shortages. Increasing adult participation in lifelong learning should be promoted to meet upskilling and reskilling needs, inter alia by empowering individuals to seek training that is tailored to their needs and via short, quality-assured courses on skills for the green transition;
Amendment 126 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the creation and publication of the Recovery and Resilience Scoreboard., and should be further developed; asks the European Commission to ensure the "territorial dimension" and to ensure the role of local and regional authorities is properly reflected in the biannual scoreboard, without leading to excessive administrative burden for the relevant authorities;
Amendment 32 #
2021/2179(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the social economy plays a crucial role in social inclusion and building social capital;
Amendment 33 #
2021/2179(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas the principal of subsidiarity is one of the cornerstones for the functioning of the European Union; whereas the social economy is one of the best examples of its application;
Amendment 297 #
2021/2179(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Notes that the full potential of the social economy sector for addressing socio-economic challenges requires a clear identification of social priorities by public authorities; highlights that the success of social economy projects do generally require a close partnership with public entitiesrelies on building a stable partnership, and calls therefore on the Commission and Member States to develop, within the macro- economic governance framework provided at EU level, a social investment strategy where social priorities are clearly identified and which can provide a framework for cooperation between public authorities and social economy organisations;
Amendment 1 #
2021/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
— having regard to the European Commission Report of 17 June 2020 on the Impact of Demographic Change in Europe,
Amendment 2 #
2021/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 b (new)
Citation 1 b (new)
— having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,
Amendment 3 #
2021/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 c (new)
Citation 1 c (new)
— having regard Directive (EU) 2016/2102 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2016 on the accessibility of the websites and mobile applications of public sector bodies,
Amendment 4 #
2021/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 d (new)
Citation 1 d (new)
— having regard to the European Commission Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities2021-2030,
Amendment 5 #
2021/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 e (new)
Citation 1 e (new)
— having regard to Green Paper on Ageing Fostering solidarity and responsibility between generations (COM(2021) 50 final),
Amendment 6 #
2021/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 f (new)
Citation 1 f (new)
— having regard to EESC Report on The need to guarantee real rights for persons with disabilities to vote in European Parliament elections,
Amendment 23 #
2021/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas the pandemic has a particular negative impact on the situation of people with disabilities and the elderly, significantly reducing the enjoyment of their rights;
Amendment 33 #
2021/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas persons with disabilities still face legal, practical and physical barriers to effectively exercising their right to vote and to be elected, the right to access information on election regulations and procedures, election programs and debates in formats adapted to the needs of people with various types of disabilities, and thus continue to be under-represented in elections; whereas data on the electoral participation of under- represented groups remains limited;
Amendment 38 #
2021/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
H a. whereas access to goods and services, including public services, increasingly requires digital skills;
Amendment 40 #
2021/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
H b. whereas digital transformation brings opportunities and threats for all generations, especially the elderly. Bearing in mind that technological changes may entail threats for elderly people who do not have adequate knowledge, skills and access to digital technology. Bearing in mind that elderly people are often victims of discrimination, violence, isolation and loneliness, exclusion and limitation of autonomy i. a. by introducing digital solutions that do not take into account the needs of this group of citizens;
Amendment 41 #
2021/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H c (new)
Recital H c (new)
H c. whereas the elderly people are a committed group of citizens, making an important valuable contribution to society by participating in voluntary activities, social initiatives, and supporting and caring for dependents;
Amendment 43 #
2021/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Takes note of the Commission’s report entitled ‘EU Citizenship Report 2020 – Empowering citizens and protecting their rights’ and welcomes the Commission’s continued commitment to uphold the rights of EU citizens, including regular assessment of opportunities and barriers in exercising civil rights by people from disadvantaged groups, including people with disabilities and the elderly; regrets the fact that only 2 out of 18 actions proposed by the Commission are legislative in nature; stresses the need for a comprehensive assessment of the rights of EU citizens and for well-defined and concrete commitments, actions and legislative initiatives for the next three years;
Amendment 51 #
2021/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that, while being at the core of the European project, the freedom of movement has been severely affected by the unprecedented health crisis brought by the COVID-19 outbreak and the related national emergency measures, including travel restrictions and themporary reintroduction of internal border controls; reiterates that these measures have had a significant negative impact on private lives, work, families and economic and social conditions as evidenced by a large number of petitions; stresses that all national emergency measures should be proportionate to their initial aim of containing the COVID-19 outbreak; calls on the Commission, in this regard, to continue monitoring COVID-19 measures and their effect on EU citizenship rights; urges the Member States to phase out national emergency measures as soon as they are no longer necessary; underlines that the COVID -19 pandemic has a negative impact on the well-being and mental health of citizens, especially young people and the elderly;
Amendment 55 #
2021/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Notes that people with disabilities face difficulties in exercising their rights to free movement, access to education, employment and cultural goods due to the lack of a mutual recognition mechanism for the status of a person with a disability; calls on the European Commission and the Member States to introduce the EU Disability Card to the fullest extent;
Amendment 59 #
2021/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is concerned by the many obstacles that rainbow families still face when they exercise their right to move to another Member State resulting from differences in national legal rules on the recognition of same-sex couples and of the parent-child relationship; urges the Commission and the Member States to implement the recommendations laid down in its resolution on LGBTIQ rights in the EU, including its call for the Commission to examine whether all Member States comply with the judgment of 5 June 2018 in case C-673/16, Relu Adrian Coman and Others v Inspectoratul General pentru Imigrări and Ministerul Afacerilor Interne17 and to include this judgment in the upcoming revision of the guidelines; _________________ 17 Judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union of 5 June 2018, Relu Adrian Coman and Others v Inspectoratul General pentru Imigrări and Ministerul Afacerilor Interne, C-673/16, EU:C:2018:385.;
Amendment 63 #
2021/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that freedom of movement is not only challenged by major global events; notes with regret that, as revealed by the many petitions received in this field, EU citizens and long-term residents still encounter legal, administrative or practical obstacles when moving to another Member State, in particular as regards social benefits, health insurance and tax regimes, as well as the recognition of professional qualifications; highlights that these obstacles often include discriminatory administrative requirements which only can be fulfilled by citizens, such as possession of a national identity document that is only issued to citizens, or arbitrary requirements for documents which are not usually issued in other Member States; calls on the Commission to investigate discriminatory administrative practices in Member States, in particular at local level;
Amendment 70 #
2021/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 73 #
2021/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the announcement of the Commission to review the rules on consular protection; urginvites the European Commission to ensure assistance for EU citizens of unrepresented Member States; stresses that Member States also issue travel documents to persons who are not their citizens such as stateless persons; deplores the fact that consular protection is in sominclude in this review an assessment of the accessibility of consular protection for persons with various types of disabilities; urges the Commission to ensure cases only guaranteed to citizens and leaves stateless persons completely unprotecsistance for EU citizens of unrepresented Member Stateds; urges the Commission and the Member States to include the right to consular protection for persons who are issued a travel document by a Member State even if they are not a citizen of that state;
Amendment 76 #
2021/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Welcomes the declaration of the European Commission to work with Member States and the European Parliament to guarantee political rights of persons with disabilities on equal basis with others and in particular to ensure that this right is enjoyed in the next European Parliament elections;
Amendment 78 #
2021/2099(INI)
7. Welcomes the Commission’s intention, announced in its EU Citizenship Report 2020, to update the directives on the voting rights of mobile EU citizens in municipal and European elections (Council Directives 94/80/EC and 93/109/EC); stresses, in this regard, the urgency of removing all barriers and difficulties which hinder the exercise of voting rights, including by persons with disabilities, increasing and facilitating the provision of information on European elections and voting procedures (possibly through a fully accessible, single EU-wide information platform), and exploring and implementing remote voting options, including electronic voting, in order to increase and facilitate democratic participation. Recalls that in some Member States people with disabilities being under various protective measures (like guardianship) are automatically excluded from political participation and thus denied the right to vote. Stresses the need to move away from this drastic solution in favour of supporting people with disabilities in selected areas of life; calls on the European Commission to promote and disseminate good practices in this field;
Amendment 83 #
2021/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recalls, furthermore, that the electoral rights of EU citizens living abroad is frequently the subject matter of petitions; is concernednotes that several Member States deprive their citizens of their right to vote in national parliamentary elections once they move to another EU country; believes that the disenfranchisement of EU citizens on the grounds of their residence abroad, along with the non-recognition of their right to vote in national elections in the country of residence, might hinders the freedom of movement and might results in the denial of the fundamental right to political participation; highlights that several Member States have disenfranchised long-term residents from local and European elections, while others have made political party membership subject to nationality; calls on the Commission to explore legal avenues to make the Member States concerned abolish disenfranchisement rulewhich are citizens of another EU Member State from local and European elections;
Amendment 85 #
2021/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Emphasizes that over 60% of the respondents participating in the public consultation on the 2020 European Citizenship Report thought that not enough is being done to inform citizens about their EU citizens rights, calls on the EC and the Member States to promote the knowledge on this subject, in formats friendly and accessible to recipients of all age groups and all types of disabilities;
Amendment 90 #
2021/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls for the establishment of an online one-stop-shop centralising all EU participatory instruments, providing information, advice and support, in formats accessible to people with different types of disabilities, on engaging with the EU, thereby helping users to identify and use the most appropriate channel; trusts that such a one- stop-shop would streamline the use of the different participatory instruments while fully unlocking their potential;
Amendment 20 #
2021/2098(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 28 a (new)
Citation 28 a (new)
— having regard to the petitions submitted to the Committee on Petitions, for instance No 0956/2018 and No 1186/2018,
Amendment 50 #
2021/2098(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas nine million adolescents in Europe (aged 10 to 19) are living with mental health disorders, with anxiety and depression accounting for more than half of cases1a; __________________ 1a European Parliament Resolution on empowering European youth: post- pandemic employment and social recovery (2021/2952(RSP))
Amendment 77 #
2021/2098(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F d (new)
Recital F d (new)
Fd. whereas stable employment, health (including mental health), conditions for full development, and young people’s sense of influence and involvement are the basic preconditions for exiting the crisis, strengthening societies and rebuilding economies;
Amendment 132 #
2021/2098(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recognises that employment can provide individuals with purpose and a sense of identityhelps to build a sense of identity and give lives purpose; emphasises the positive relationship between good mental health and work productivity;14 __________________ 14 OSHWiki, Mental Health at Work
Amendment 135 #
2021/2098(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recognises the opportunities that the digital transformation creates for the employment of persons with disabilities on the open labour market; stresses, in this context, that the digital transformation should not lead to isolation and social exclusion;
Amendment 136 #
2021/2098(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Draws attention to the difficulties faced by older people due to changing working conditions and new digital tools; stresses the importance of access for all workers, but especially for older people, to lifelong learning and professional development adapted to the individual needs of workers;
Amendment 162 #
2021/2098(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes that the shift to teleworking during the pandemic and the flexibility it provided to employees could improve work-life balance; encourages companies to provide clear and transparent rules on teleworking arrangements; emphasises in this connection that a full or partial shift to teleworking should be the result of an agreement between employer and employee;
Amendment 163 #
2021/2098(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Points out that teleworking combined with childcare (especially for children with special needs) is a threat to family life and the well-being of both parents and children;
Amendment 173 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) This Directive respects fundamental rights and observes the principles recognised in particular by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (‘the Charter’). In particular, Article 315 of the Charter provides forto the right to work and to pursue a freely chosen or accepted occupation as well as to provide services. Article 31 of the Charter supplements the right to work with the right of every worker to working conditions which respect his or her health, safety and dignity. Article 27 of the Charter protects the workers’ right to information and consultation within the undertaking. Article 8 of the Charter provides that everyone has the right to the protection of personal data concerning him or her. Article 16 of the Charter recognises the freedom to conduct a business.
Amendment 178 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) Principle No 5 of the European Pillar of Social Rights, proclaimed at Gothenburg on 17 November 201753 , provides that, regardless of the type and duration of the employment relationship, workers have the right to fair and equal treatment regarding working conditions, access to social protection and training; that, in accordance with legislation and collective agreements, the necessary flexibility for employers to adapt swiftly to changes in the economic context is to be ensured; and that innovative forms of work that ensure quality working conditions are to be fostered, that entrepreneurship and self-employment are to be encouraged and that occupational mobility is to be facilitated, thus strongly reaffirming the right under Article 15 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the basic freedom of choice every person enjoys when engaging in work and the fundamental principle of free market initiative, including on the labour market. The Porto Social Summit of May 2021 welcomed the Action Plan accompanying the Social Pillar54 as guidance for its implementation. __________________ 53 Interinstitutional Proclamation on the European Pillar of Social Rights (OJ C 428, 13.12.2017, p. 10). 54 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, ‘The European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan’, COM(2021) 102 final, 4.3.2021.
Amendment 218 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) Platform work may facilitate flexibility and optimisation of resources, and provide opportunities for both people working in or through digital labour platforms and clients, and the matching of demand for and supply of services.
Amendment 220 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6 b (new)
Recital 6 b (new)
(6b) Innovation in digital tools is a precondition for platform work and can contribute to growth in times of crisis and recovery.
Amendment 221 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6 c (new)
Recital 6 c (new)
(6c) Platform work can offer advantages for students and those who wish to combine study and work at the same time, as well as creating access to employment for young people not in education, employment or training (NEETs), and people with lower skill levels;
Amendment 222 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6 d (new)
Recital 6 d (new)
(6d) The trend towards remote working in many sectors, and especially online- based trade and services is unavoidable and favourable for many companies and workers and the booming development of digital technologies predetermines many new and unpredictable opportunities for so-called non-standard forms of work and employment.
Amendment 223 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6 e (new)
Recital 6 e (new)
(6e) The labour and social security legislation of most Member States are generally unprepared to the challenges of the digital world and digitalized labour market in particular, which is causing grave risks to both people, engaged in digitally based work, and to existing solidarity-based healthcare and social security models. If not tackled accordingly, the above-mentioned risks might jeopardise the entire European model of the social market economy and the goals of the European Pillar of Social Rights, whereas adapting to technological progress might provide the solutions for adaptation of the European social model to the realities of the 21st century;
Amendment 227 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) Court cases in several Member States have shown the persistence of misclassification of the employment status in certain types of platform work, in particular in sectors where digital labour platforms exert a certain degree of control over the remuneration and performance of work. While digital labour platforms frequently classify persons working through them as self-employed or ‘independent contractors’, many courts have found that the platforms exercise de facto direction and control over those persons, often integrating them in their main business activities and unilaterally determining the level of remuneration. Those courts have therefore reclassifiedvarious aspects of the performance of the work. Those courts have therefore reclassified, based on different criteria and national legislative solutions, purportedly self-employed persons as workers employed by the platforms. However, various national legislations, social dialogue practices and case law has resulted in diverse outcomes and digital labour platforms have adapted their business model in various ways, thus increasing the lack of legal certainty over the employment status.
Amendment 244 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) When platforms operate in several Member States or across borders, it is often unclear where the platform work, especially online based, is performed and by whom. Also, national authorities do not have easy access to data on digital labour platforms, including the number of persons performing platform work, their employment status, and their working conditions. This complicates the enforcement of applicable national and European rules, including in respect of labour law, health and social protection. security, social protection and taxation.
Amendment 272 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) In addition, the Commission held extensive exchanges with relevant stakeholders, including digital labour platforms, associations of persons performing platform work, experts from academia, Member States and international organisations and representatives of civil society. It is of utmost importance for these consultations to continue after the adoption of this Directive, including social partners at all levels, in order to guarantee the smooth transposition and implementation of the Directive and provide for a timely revision, based on lessons learned.
Amendment 297 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 18 a (new)
Recital 18 a (new)
(18a) Social dialogue and collective bargaining are of utmost importance for achieving the goals of the present Directive. However, digitally based labour market practices require the use of new digital technologies in organizing social dialogue, too. Therefore, traditional trade union organizations might prove unsuitable for organizing platform workers or collective agreements among self-employed persons, engaged in platform work, especially when established trade unions are not ready to adapt to new digital realities, so new forms of organization of workers should be made available by the Member States.
Amendment 310 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) In its case law, the Court of Justice has established criteria for determining the status of a worker62 . The interpretation by the Court of Justice of those criteria should be taken into account in the implementation of this Directive. The abuse of the status of self-employed persons, as defined in national law, either at national level or in cross-border situations, is a form of falsely declared work that is frequently associated with undeclared work. False self-employment occurs when a person is declared to be self- employed while fulfilling the conditions characteristic of an employment relationship, in order to avoid certain legal or fiscal obligations. __________________ 62 Judgments of the Court of Justice of 3 July 1986, Deborah Lawrie-Blum v Land Baden-Württemberg, C-66/85, ECLI:EU:C:1986:284; 14 October 2010, Union Syndicale Solidaires Isère v Premier ministre and Others, C-428/09, ECLI:EU:C:2010:612; 4 December 2014, FNV Kunsten Informatie en Media v Staat der Nederlanden, C-413/13, ECLI:EU:C:2014:2411; 9 July 2015, Ender Balkaya v Kiesel Abbruch- und Recycling Technik GmbH, C-229/14, ECLI:EU:C:2015:455; 17 November 2016, Betriebsrat der Ruhrlandklinik gGmbH v Ruhrlandklinik gGmbH, C-216/15, ECLI:EU:C:2016:883; 16 July 2020, UX v Governo della Repubblica italiana, C- 658/18, ECLI:EU:C:2020:572; and order of the Court of Justice of 22 April 2020, B v Yodel Delivery Network Ltd, C-692/19, ECLI:EU:C:2020:288.
Amendment 393 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 33
Recital 33
(33) Digital labour platforms should not be required to disclose the detailed functioning of their automated monitoring and decision-making systems, including algorithms, or other detailed data that contains commercial secrets, price sensitive information or is protected by intellectual property rights. Digital labour platforms should also not be required to disclose information that, with reasonable certainty, would result in the enabling of deception of consumers or consumer harm through the manipulation of the system. However, the result of those considerations should not be a refusal to provide all the information required by this Directive.
Amendment 439 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 45
Recital 45
(45) Platform work is characterised by the lack of a common workplace where workers can get to know each other and communicate with each other and with their representatives, also in view of defending their interests towards the employer. It is therefore necessary to create digital communication channels, in line with the digital labour platforms’ work organisation, where persons performing platform work can exchange with each other and be contacted by their representatives. Digital labour platforms should create such communication channels within their digital infrastructure or through similarly effective means, while respecting the protection of personal data and refraining from accessing or monitoring those communicationsfacilitate the establishment of such communication channels while respecting the protection of personal data.
Amendment 443 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 46
Recital 46
(46) In administrative or judicial proceedings regarding the correct determination of the employment status of persons performing platform work, the elements regarding the organisation of work allowing to establish the employment status and in particular whether the digital labour platform controls certainlimits the engagement in work for other clients or through other platforms or digital and offline means, as well as whether it controls certain key and determining elements of the performance of work may be in the possession of the digital labour platform and not easily accessible to persons performing platform work and competent authorities. National courts or competent authorities should therefore be able to order the digital labour platform to disclose any relevant evidence which lies in their control, including confidential information, subject to effective measures to protect such information.
Amendment 504 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3
(3) ‘person performingengaged in platform work’' means any individual performing platform work, irrespective of the contractual designation of the relationship between that individual and the digital labour platform by the parties involved;
Amendment 517 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5
(5) ‘'representatives’ means the platform workers’ organisations or representatives provided for by national law or practices, or both;
Amendment 544 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall have appropriate procedures in place to verify and ensure the correct determination of the employment status of persons performing platform work, with a view to ascertaining the existence of an employment relationship as defined by the law, collective agreements or. Where such procedures already exist, they shall be harmonized with this Directive through new legislation and collective agreements taking into account the practice in force in the Member States with consideration to the case-law of the Court of Justice, and ensuring that they enjoy the rights deriving from Union law applicable to workers.
Amendment 565 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3a This Directive shall apply without prejudice to the Directive 2008/104/EC.
Amendment 640 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) supervising the performance of work or verifying the quality of the results of the work including by eleincluding by electronic means beyond what is required by law or reasonably necessary to safeguard health and safety or to ensure the essential functrionic means;ng of the service.
Amendment 649 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point d
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point d
(d) effectivelyDe facto restricting the freedom, including through sanctions, to organise one’s work, in particular the discretion to choose one’s working hours or periods of absence, to accept or to refuse tasks or to use subcontractors or substitutes;
Amendment 662 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point e b (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point e b (new)
(eb) effectively restricting the possibility to build a client base;
Amendment 714 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – point d a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – point d a (new)
(da) develop precise recommendations providing guidance for digital labour platforms, persons performing platform work and social partners to understand and implement the legal presumption including on the procedures for rebutting it in accordance with Article 5;
Amendment 725 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 4 b (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Ensuring correct determination of the employment status should not prevent the improvement of working conditions of genuine self-employed persons performing platform work. Where a digital labour platform decides – on a purely voluntary basis or in agreement with the persons concerned – to pay for social protection, accident insurance or other forms of insurance, training measures or similar benefits to self- employed persons working through that platform, those benefits as such should not be regarded as determining elements indicating the existence of an employment relationship.
Amendment 761 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Member States shall develop a process according to which digital labour platforms and platform workers are granted consultation rights under which national and local authorities pre- emptively assess, approve and justify the employment status of platform workers on the basis of the control of the performance of work within the meaning of Article 4 paragraph 2 of the present Directive.
Amendment 812 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 5 – introductory part
Article 6 – paragraph 5 – introductory part
5. Digital labour platforms shall not process any personal data concerning platform workers that are not intrinsically connected to and strictly necessary for the performance of the contract between the platform worker and theWithout prejudice to articles 6 and 9 of the GDPR digital labour platform. In particular theys shall not:
Amendment 819 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 5 – point b
Article 6 – paragraph 5 – point b
(b) process any personal data relating to the health of the platform worker, except in cases referred to in Article 9(2), points (ba) to (j) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679;
Amendment 842 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 a (new)
Article 6 a (new)
Article 6a Unless otherwise provided in this Directive or in the national law to which the platform operator is subject, in particular legislation concerning access to information, the platform operator shall not be obliged to disclose information which they have designated as confidential.
Amendment 875 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Member States shall ensure that platform workers have the right to obtain an explanation from the digital labour platform for any decision taken or supported by an automated decision- making system that significantly affects the platform worker’s working conditions, as referred to in Article 6(1), point (b). In particularto the extent that this is provided for in Union or Member State law , Member States shall ensure that digital labour platforms provide platform workers with access to a contact person designated by the digital labour platform to discuss and to clarify the facts, circumstances and reasons having led to the decision. Digital labour platforms shall ensure that such contact persons have the necessary competence, training and authority to exercise that function.
Amendment 882 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Where platform workers are not satisfied with the explanation or the written statement of reasons obtained or consider that the decision referred to in paragraph 1 infringes their rights, they shall have the right to request the digital labour platform to review that decision. The digital labour platform shall respond to such request by providing the platform worker with a substantiated reply without undue delay and in any event within one week of receiptin line with deadlines outlined in GDPR. That period may be extended by two further months where necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of the requests.
Amendment 930 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Without prejudice to Regulations (EC) No 883/200469 and 987/200970 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Member States shall require digital labour platforms which are employers to declare work performed by platform workers to the competent labour and social protection authorities of the Member State in which the work is performed and to share relevant data , including all health and social security contributions, with those authorities, in accordance with the rules and procedures laid down in the law of the Member States concerned. __________________ 69 Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the coordination of social security systems (OJ L 166, 30.4.2004, p. 1). 70 Regulation (EC) No 987/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 laying down the procedure for implementing Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 on the coordination of social security systems (OJ L 284, 30.10.2009, p. 1).
Amendment 934 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 1 c (new)
Article 11 – paragraph 1 c (new)
Member States shall ensure full portability of all health and social security contributions, made through platforms, irrespective of the employment classification, and non-discriminatory treatment of persons, engaged in platform work vis-a-vis any other self-employed person or worker.
Amendment 1017 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 20 – paragraph 2
Article 20 – paragraph 2
2. This Directive shall not affect the Member States’ prerogative to apply or to introduce laws, regulations or administrative provisions which are more favourable to platform workers, or to encourage or permit the application of collective agreements which are more favourable to platform workers, in line with the objectives of this Directive. As regards persons performing platform work who are not in an employment relationship, this paragraph shall only apply insofar as such national rules are compatible with the rules on the functioning of the internal market.
Amendment 30 #
2021/0200(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The European Green Deal31 combines a comprehensive set of mutually reinforcing measures and initiatives aimed at achieving climate neutrality in the Union by 2050, and sets out a new growth strategy that aims to transform the Union into a fair and prosperous society, with a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy, where economic growth is decoupled from resource use. It also aims to protect, conserve and enhance the Union's natural capital, and protect the health and well-being of citizens from environment-related risks and impacts. At the same time, this transition affects women and men differently and has a particular impact on some disadvantaged groups, such as older people, persons with disabilities, persons suffering from energy or transport poverty, vulnerable micro, small and medium entrepreneurs and persons with a minority racial or ethnic background. The transition affects differently also Member States. It must therefore be ensured that the transition is just and inclusive, leaving no one behind. __________________ 31 Commission Communication - The European Green Deal, COM(2019) 640 final of 11 December 2019.
Amendment 47 #
2021/0200(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) In order to achieve the target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 55%, Member States for the sectors covered by Regulation (EU) 2018/842 will need to reduce their emissions progressively until they reach- collectively the EU-wide reduction target -40% in 2030, compared to 2005 levels.
Amendment 51 #
2021/0200(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
Amendment 57 #
2021/0200(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
Amendment 78 #
2021/0200(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19 a (new)
Recital 19 a (new)
(19 a) As Covid-19 changed the economic environment in the EU, including high level of debts, changes in supply chains and soaring energy prices, those changes will have a long-term effect and the legacy of the crisis will weigh on the Member States; the transition towards climate-neutral Europe might provide significant challenges for Member States. All Member States shall contribute to the transition and shall seek to meet their respective targets inline with this Regulation, however not meeting those targets shall imply only a corrective procedure stated in Article 8 which shall not include financial sanctions.
Amendment 91 #
2021/0200(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2018/842
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) do not exceed, in the years 2023, 2024 and 2025 to 2030, the limit defined by a linear trajectory starting in 2022 at the annual emission allocation for that Member State, as set out pursuant to paragraph 3 of this Article for that year, and ending in 2030 at the limit set for that Member State in column 2 of Annex I to this Regulation;
Amendment 100 #
2021/0200(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2018/842
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 4
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 4
Amendment 103 #
2021/0200(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2018/842
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 4 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 4 a (new)
Amendment 116 #
2021/0200(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 b (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 b (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/842
Article 5 – paragraph 7a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 7a (new)
(3b) in Article 5, the following paragraph 7a is inserted: “7a. A Member State whose reviewed greenhouse gas emissions from the sectors of maritime transport, road transport and buildings covered by Directive 2003/87/EC for a given year in the period 2026 to 2030 are below its sectoral annual emission benchmark for that year, may grant free allocation of ETS allowances to regulated entities under Chapter IV a of Directive 2003/87/EC in the 24 months following that year. The amount of free allocation shall be limited to the difference between the sectoral annual emission benchmark and the reviewed greenhouse gas emissions from the sectors concerned. The Member State concerned shall notify the Commission of the amount of free allocation it intends to use. That amount shall be cancelled from the Member State’s annual emission allocation.”
Amendment 127 #
2021/0200(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/842
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point -a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point -a (new)
(5 a) In Article 8, the following point (-a) is inserted: “(-a) an in-depth analysis of the situation in the Member State including a socio- economic situation in order to assess the realistic possibility of the Member State to reduce its emissions.”
Amendment 128 #
2021/0200(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 b (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 b (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/842
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point a
Amendment 130 #
2021/0200(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 d (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 d (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/842
Article 8 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 3 a (new)
(5 d) In Article 8, the following paragraph is added: “3a. The corrective actions shall not imply any form of financial sanctions.”
Amendment 182 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council42 provides that for the same work or for work of equal value, direct and indirect discrimination on grounds of sex with regard to all aspects and conditions of remuneration is to be eliminated. In particular, where a job classification system is used for determining pay, it should be based on the same objective criteria for both men and women and should be drawn up so as to exclude any discrimination on grounds of sex. _________________ 42 Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2006 on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation (OJ L 204, 26.7.2006, p. 23).
Amendment 239 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) Article 10 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union provides that, in defining and implementing its policies and activities, the Union shall aim to combat discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation. Article 4 of Directive 2006/54/EC provides that there shall be no direct or indirect discrimination on grounds of sex, notably in relation to pay. Gender- based pay discrimination where a victim’s sex plays a crucial role can take many different forms in practice. It may involve an intersection of various axes of discrimination or inequality where the worker is a member of one or several groups protected against discrimination on the basis of sex, on the one hand, and racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation (as protected under Directive 2000/43/EC or Directive 2000/78/EC), on the other hand. Migrant and disabled women are among groups who face such multiple forms of discrimination. This directive should therefore clarify that, in the context of gender-based pay discrimination, such a combination should be taken into account, thus removing any doubt that may exist in this regard under the existing legal framework. This should ensure that the courts or other competent authorities take due account of any situation of disadvantage arising from intersectional discrimination, in particular for substantive and procedural purposes, including to recognise the existence of discrimination, to decide on the appropriate comparator, to assess the proportionality, and to determine, where relevant, the level of compensation awarded or penalties imposed. This directive should also ensure that the specific obstacles and needs of disabled women are taken into account, in compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Amendment 251 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) In order to respect the right to equal pay between men and women, employers must have pay setting mechanisms which could be established through social partners or pay structures in place ensuring that there are no pay differences between male and female workers doing the same work or work of equal value that are not justified by objective and gender-neutral factors. Such pay structures should allow for the comparison of the value of different jobs within the same organisational structure. In line with the case law of the Court, the value of work should be assessed and compared based on objective criteria, such as educational, professional and training requirements, skills, effort and responsibility, work undertaken and the nature of the tasks involved.49 _________________ 49 For example, Case C-400/93, Royal Copenhagen, ECLI:EU:C:1995:155; Case C-309/97, Angestelltenbetriebsrat der Wiener Gebietskrankenkasse, ECLI:EU:C:1999:241; Case C-381/99, Brunnhofer, ECLI:EU:C:2001:358; Case C-427/11, Margaret Kenny and Others v Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and Others [2013] ECLI:EU:C:2013:122, paragraph 28.
Amendment 261 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) The identification of a valid comparator is an important parameter in determining whether work may be considered of equal value. It enables the worker to show that they were treated less favourably than the comparator of a different sex performing equal work or work of equal value. In situations where no real-life comparator exists, the use of a hypothetical comparator should be allowed, allowing a worker to show that they have not been treated in the same way as a hypothetical comparator of another sex would have been treated. This would lift an important obstacle for potential victims of gender pay discrimination, especially in highly gender- segregated employment markets where a requirement of finding a comparator of the opposite sex makes it almost impossible to bring an equal pay claim. In addition, workers should not be prevented from using other facts from which an alleged discrimination can be presumed, such as statistics or other available information. This would allow gender-based pay inequalities to be more effectively addressed in gender-segregated sectors and professions.
Amendment 294 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) The lack of information on the envisaged pay range of a job position creates an information asymmetry which limits the bargaining power of applicants. Ensuring transparency should enable prospective workers to make an informed decision about the expected salary without limiting in any way the employer’s or worker’s bargaining power to negotiate a salary even outside the indicated range. It would also ensure an explicit and non- gender biased basis for pay setting and would disrupt the undervaluation of pay compared to skills and experience. This transparency measure would also address intersectional discrimination where non- transparent pay settings allow for discriminatory practices on several discrimination grounds. The information to be provided to applicants prior to employment, if not published in a job vacancy notice, could be provided to the applicant prior to the job interview by the employer or in a different manner, for instance by the social partners.
Amendment 350 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 28
Recital 28
(28) In order to make the information on the pay gap between female and male workers at organisational level widely available, Member States should entrust the monitoring body designated pursuant to this Directive to aggregate in cooperation with the social partners and competent national authorities the data on the pay gap received from employers without putting additional burden on the latter. The monitoring body should make these data public, allowing to compare the data of individual employers, sectors and regions of the Member State concerned.
Amendment 382 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 32
Recital 32
(32) Workers should have the necessary procedures at their disposal to facilitate the exercise of their right to access justice. National legislation making use of conciliation or the intervention of an equality body compulsory or subject to incentives or penalties should not prevent parties from exercising their right of access to court. Member States should ensure that disabled women, including those under substituted decision-making mechanisms, have access to justice and remedy on an equal basis with others.
Amendment 388 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 33
Recital 33
(33) Involving equality bodies, besides other stakeholders, is instrumental in effectively applying the principle of equal pay. The powers and mandates of the national equality bodies or other competent national authority should therefore be adequate to fully cover gender pay discrimination, including any pay transparency or any other rights and obligations laid down in this Directive. In order to overcome the procedural and cost- related obstacles that workers who believe to be discriminated against face when they seek to enforce their right to equal pay, equality bodies, as well as associations, organisations, bodies and workers’ representatives or other legal entities with an interest in ensuring equality between men and women, should be able to represent individuals. They should be able to decide to assist workers on their behalf or in their support, which would allow workers who have suffered discrimination to effectively claim their rights and the principle of equal pay to be enforced.
Amendment 439 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 48
Recital 48
(48) In order to ensure proper monitoring of the implementation of the right to equal pay between men and women for the same work or work of equal value, Member States should set up or designate a dedicated monitoring body. This body, which may be part of an existing body pursuing similar objectives, and which cooperates in particular with social partners and other bodies responsible for the enforcement of workers’ rights, should have specific tasks in relation to the implementation of the pay transparency measures foreseen in this Directive and gather certain data to monitor pay inequalities and the impact of the pay transparency measures.
Amendment 455 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 52
Recital 52
(52) In implementing this Directive Member States should avoid imposing administrative, financial and legal constraints in a way which would hold back the creation and development of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises. Member States are therefore invited to assess the impact of their transposition act, on small and medium-sized enterprises in order to ensure that they are not disproportionately affected, giving specific attention to micro-enterprises, to alleviate the administrative burden, and to publish the results of such assessments. Member States shall provide support, technical assistance and training, in particular for microenterprises and small and medium- sized enterprises, to comply with these obligations.
Amendment 524 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 (new)
(d) failure by the employer to provide reasonable accommodation to workers with disabilities within the meaning of Article 5 of Directive 2000/78/EC.
Amendment 536 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall take the necessary measures, after consulting the social partners and the equality bodies or other competent authority to ensure that employers have pay structures in place ensuring that women and men are paid equally for the same work or work of equal value.
Amendment 550 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall take the necessary measures ensuring, after consulting the social partners and equality bodies or other competent authority, to ensure that tools or methodologies are established to assess and compare the value of work in line with the criteria set out in this Article. These tools or methodologies may include gender- neutral job evaluation and classification systems.
Amendment 564 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 3
Article 4 – paragraph 3
3. The tools or methodologies shall allow assessing, in regard to the value of work, whether workers are in a comparable situation, on the basis of objective criteria which shall include. These criteria shall include, for example, educational, professional and training requirements, skills, effort and responsibility, work undertaken and, the nature of the tasks involved, ability and performance, sector specific work organization, productivity and length of service. They shall not contain or be based on criteria which are based, whether directly or indirectly, on workers’ sex.
Amendment 584 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 4
Article 4 – paragraph 4
4. Whenever differences in pay can be attributed to a single source establishing the pay conditions, the assessment whether workers are carrying out the same work or work of equal value shall not be limited to situations in which female and male workers work for the same employer but may be extended to that single source. The assessment shall also not be limited to workers employed at the same time as the worker concerned. Where no real comparator can be established, a comparison with a hypothetical comparator or the use of other evidence allowing to presume alleged discrimination shall be permitted.
Amendment 589 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 5
Article 4 – paragraph 5
5. Where a job evaluation and classification system is used for determining pay, it shall be based on the same objective criteria for both men and women and drawn up so as to exclude any discrimination on grounds of sex.
Amendment 625 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
The employer shall make easily accessible toprovide for its workers a description of the criteria used to determine pay levels and career progression for workers. These criteria shall be gender-neutral.
Amendment 633 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 1
1. Workers shall have the right to receive clear and complete information on their individual pay level and the average pay levels, broken down by sex, for categories of workers doing the same work as them or work of equal value to theirs, in accordance with paragraphs 3 and 4. In the case of companies that are bound by and/or apply collective agreements, it is sufficient to refer to the applicable collective agreement.
Amendment 647 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 2
Amendment 654 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
3. Employers shall provide the information referred to in paragraph 1 in writing within a reasonable period of time uponno longer than 2 months after receiving a worker’s request. The information shall be provided in accessible formats for workers with disabilities upon their request.
Amendment 657 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 4
Article 7 – paragraph 4
4. Workers shall have the possibilityright to request the information referred to in paragraph 1 through their representatives or and equality body or competent authority.
Amendment 699 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(ba) the pay gap between non-disabled female and male workers and disabled female and male workers when they have communicated their disability to the employers;
Amendment 745 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 3
Article 8 – paragraph 3
3. The employer shall publish the information referred to in paragraph 1, points (a) to (f) on an annual basis in a user-friendly way on its website or shall otherwise make it publicly available. The information shall be published in accessible formats for persons with disabilities in line with EU harmonised accessibility legislation. The information from the previous four years, if available, shall also be accessible upon request. In addition, the employer shall share this information with the monitoring body referred to in paragraph 6.
Amendment 757 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 4
Article 8 – paragraph 4
4. Member States may decide to compile the information set out in paragraph 1, points (a) to (f) themselves, on the basis of administrative data such as data provided by employers to the tax or social security authorities. This information shall be made public in accordance with paragraph 6. Member States shall provide support, technical assistance and training, in particular for microenterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises, to comply with the obligations pursuant to this Article.
Amendment 833 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point e
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point e
(e) measures to address such differences if they are not justified on the basis of objective and gender-neutral criteria;. A Gender Action Plan shall be proportional, based on a balanced approach and shall not add an excessive administrative burden on the employer, in particular SMEs and micro-enterprises
Amendment 878 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Member States shall, without prejudice to the autonomy of the social partners and the diversity of national practices and industrial relations systems, strengthen the capacity building of the social partners to promote gender equality and to tackle pay discrimination and the undervaluation of work that is predominantly carried out by women, with the aim of ensuring the application of the principle of equal pay for male and female workers for equal work or work of equal value in accordance with Article 157 TFEU.
Amendment 887 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 1
Article 13 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall, in accordance with national law and practice and industrial relations systems, ensure that associations, organisations, equality bodies and workers’ representatives or other legal entities which have, in accordance with the criteria laid down by national law, a legitimate interest in ensuring gender equality between men and women, may engage in any judicial or administrative procedure to enforce any of the rights or obligations related to the principle of equal pay between men and women for equal work or work of equal value. They may act on behalf or in support of a worker who is victim of an infringement of any right or obligation related to the principle of equal pay between men and women for equal work or work of equal value, with the latter’s approval.
Amendment 941 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 3
Article 18 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall ensure that the limitation periods for bringing claims are set at three years at leastor in line with national specificities.
Amendment 974 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 20 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 20 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Member States shall ensure that fines are applied to infringements of the rights and obligations relating to equal pay for the same work or work of equal value. They shall set a proportional minimum level for such fines ensuring real deterrent effect. The level of the fines shall take into account:
Amendment 1004 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 22 a (new)
Article 22 a (new)
Article 22 a Discrimination on multiple grounds Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that in legal proceedings relating to the enforcement of rights and obligations relating to equal pay between men and women for the same work or work of equal value, the court or other competent authority duly assesses the existence of discrimination based on a combination of sex and another ground of discrimination protected under Directive 2000/43/EC or Directive 2000/78/EC and takes due account of such circumstances for substantive and procedural purposes.
Amendment 1018 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 2
Article 26 – paragraph 2
2. Each Member State shall designate a body (‘monitoring body’) for the monitoring and support of the implementation of national legal provisions implementing this Directive and shall make the necessary arrangements for the proper functioning of such body. The monitoring body may be part of existing bodies or structures at national level. It shall work closely with the social partners involved in the application of the principle of equal pay.
Amendment 1036 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 3 – point c
Article 26 – paragraph 3 – point c
(c) to aggregate data received from employers pursuant to Article 8(6), and publish this data in a user-friendly manner and in an accessible manner for disabled persons in accordance with EU harmonised accessibility legislation;
Amendment 1065 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 28 – paragraph 1
Article 28 – paragraph 1
Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with up-to-date gender pay gap data annually and in a timely manner. These statistics shall be broken down by gender, economic sector, working time (full-time/part-time), economic control (public/private ownership), disability and age and be calculated on an annual basis.
Amendment 1067 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 28 – paragraph 1
Article 28 – paragraph 1
Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with up-to-date gender pay gap data annually and in a timely manner. These statistics shall be broken down by gender, economic sector, working time (full-time/part-time), economic control (public/private ownership) disability and age and be calculated on an annual basis.
Amendment 1082 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 31 – paragraph 2
Article 31 – paragraph 2
2. When informing the Commission, Member States shall also accompany it with a summary of the results of their assessment regarding the impact of their transposition act on small and medium- sized enterprises including micro- enterprises and a reference to where such assessment is published.
Amendment 19 #
2020/2209(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the Committee on Petitions receives a large number of petitions relating to Directive 2000/78/EC concerning the failure to implement the principle of equal treatment with regard to access to inclusive education, employment, vocational training, promotion and working conditions of people with disabilities, and whereas therefore a more complex approach is needed;
Amendment 23 #
2020/2209(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas there is insufficient information available on European and national regulations on labour rights, employment and non-discrimination for people with various types of disabilities;
Amendment 55 #
2020/2209(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic poses a serious threat to European economies and the preservation of jobs; whereas people from disadvantaged groups, in particular people with disabilities, have been particularly affected by the pandemic;
Amendment 75 #
2020/2209(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls for the full implementation by Member States of Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation;
Amendment 134 #
2020/2209(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Member States and the European institutions to ensure access to information on citizens' and workers' rights in formats accessible to people with various types of disabilities;
Amendment 148 #
2020/2209(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission to submit without delay a proposal for European regulations laying down accessibility standards for public transport and the built environment;
Amendment 151 #
2020/2209(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the Member States to take steps to increase the accessibility of public transport and the built environment and to disseminate good practices in this field;
Amendment 160 #
2020/2209(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Member States to create the conditions for increasing the employment of people with disabilities in the open labour market, including through the use of modern technologies, artificial intelligence, the development of a personal assistance system and the removal of barriers to accessibility to information, services, public transport and the built environment; calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote good practices in this regard;
Amendment 20 #
2020/2086(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Considers that a reasonable effort should be made to adapt all workplaces to accommodate the special needs of workers with disabilities with a view to potentially employing persons with all types of disabilities on the open labour market, stresses the importance of the more widespread use of modern technologies to this end, and insists on promoting dialogue between social partners with a view to fostering equal treatment, including through the monitoring of workplace practices, collective agreements, codes of conduct and research on or the exchange of experiences and good practices;
Amendment 35 #
2020/2086(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Amendment 107 #
2020/2020(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Member States to publish all information on the conditions of posting, particularly as regards local and regional collective agreements, as well as those that are generally applicable, on standardised websites; stresses that access to information is crucial, as it provides legal clarity for employers and allows for better protection of employees' rights;
Amendment 116 #
2020/2020(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls for unnecessary bureaucratic burdens to be reduced to a minimum, as they increase legal chaos; calls, at the same time, on the Member States to effectively enforce existing legislation and, above all, to combat undeclared work;
Amendment 125 #
2020/2020(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote the use of digital tools and; calls on the Commission to put forward a proposal for the establishment of a European Social Security Identification Number, and on the Member States to provide labour inspectorates with sufficient resources.;
Amendment 15 #
2020/2012(INL)
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. Wwhereas AI offers economic and societal benefits, while at the same time raising a number of challenges; Whereas AI offers economic and societal benefits, while at same time raising a number of challenges and that new AI applications should not have a negative impact on the current labour conditions;
Amendment 44 #
2020/2012(INL)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the need to thoroughly assess the effects or implications of AI applications in companies and in public administration in relation to workers, jobs and workflows; considers it indispensable as part of this assessment that workers and their representative social partners are consulted and receive sufficient information before AI applications are put to use; considers it necessary that training be provided to all concerned employees when new AI technologies are introduced at the workplace;
Amendment 65 #
2020/2012(INL)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that AI solutions have the potential to improve working conditions and the quality of life, yet they can also lead to disproportionate and illegal surveillance of workers, discriminatory treatment due to biased algorithms, including gender biased algorithms3 - and they can undermine the dignity and autonomy of people; AI algorithms at the workplace should be fair, transparent and respecting social implications for the workers concerned. __________________ 3 European Parliament “Education and employment of women in science, technology and the digital economy, including AI and its influence on gender equality”, April 2020
Amendment 110 #
2020/2012(INL)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for a legislative framework on the ethical aspects of AI applications in the workplace, especially with regard to workers’ rights and working conditions; points out the necessity for this legislative framework to be in line with the rules of protection of personal data and respect privacy of the workers;
Amendment 30 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 a (new)
Citation 14 a (new)
— having regard to the European Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030;
Amendment 31 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 b (new)
Citation 14 b (new)
— having regard to the European Parliament’s report ‘Towards equal rights for people with disabilities’;
Amendment 32 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 c (new)
Citation 14 c (new)
— having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities;
Amendment 57 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas 87 million Europeans had some form of disability in July 2022; whereas people with disabilities still face barriers when accessing high-quality traineeships and finding employment on the open labour market;
Amendment 83 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights that traineeships are primarily a learning experience; calls on the Commission and the Member States to facilitate and improve access for young people, including those from disadvantaged groups, to high-quality, paid and inclusive traineeships;
Amendment 85 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the need for high-quality traineeships to enhance the skills and employability of young people, including those with disabilities, thus easing their transition into the labour market; highlights that traineeships can be an opportunity for young people to learn and test different careers to find what jobs best suit their talents and aspirations;
Amendment 90 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights the need to tackle skills mismatches, while emphasising the potential added value in this regard for both employers and trainees; stresses, in this connection, the importance of on-the- job training and education; in this regard, highlights the need to offer traineeships in areas linked to skills needs of labour markets and future oriented sectors to overcome labour shortages in view of both the green and the digital transition;
Amendment 104 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Emphasises that high-quality traineeships promote the idea of lifelong learning and contribute to adaptation in the face of dynamic change on the labour market, and consequently extend working lives;
Amendment 121 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – indent 2 a (new)
Paragraph 6 – indent 2 a (new)
– support for employers wishing to adapt workstations for trainees with disabilities;
Amendment 132 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – indent 4 b (new)
Paragraph 6 – indent 4 b (new)
– access to intergenerational transfers of skills;
Amendment 145 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to propose a directive to ensure adequate remuneration for traineeships in order to avoid exploitative practiceand the Member States to take immediate steps to ensure the provision of high-quality paid traineeships, with due respect for the powers of the Member States given the considerable variety of national regulations concerning traineeships, employment law and the level of involvement of the social partners;
Amendment 156 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Reiterates the central role that the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) and the Youth Guarantee can play in contributing to an increase in the number of high- quality traineeships, including those that are accessible to disadvantaged groups; urges Member States, with the support of the Commission, to use all available resources in this area;
Amendment 161 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Member States to better utilise the ESF+ to help progression within education and training, reduction of barriers for people with disabilities and transition to work, by supporting lifelong learning and employability with a view to facilitating full participation in society for all, and contributing to competitiveness14; __________________ 14 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32021 R1057
Amendment 169 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to support the exchange of best practices between the Members States on high-quality traineeships; encourages Member States to provide guidance and assistance to employers, in particular microenterprises and small and medium sized-enterprises, to enable them to offer high-quality traineeships that are also accessible to people with disabilities, and to offer incentives to employers that provide trainees a high- quality job placement after the successful completion of a traineeship;
Amendment 170 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to support the exchange of best practices between the Members States on high-quality traineeships that are accessible to all; encourages Member States to provide guidance and assistance to employers, in particular microenterprises and small and medium sized-enterprises, to enable them to offer high-quality traineeships, and to offer incentives to employers that provide trainees a high- quality job placement after the successful completion of a traineeship;
Amendment 175 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Welcomes the Commission proposal to make 2023 the European Year of Skills; calls on the Commission to place particular attention on quality, accessible and paid traineeships during the European Year of Skills;
Amendment 177 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Member States to incentivise public and private educational establishments to expand their use of apprenticeships and traineeships in the educational process and to seek out partners offering high-quality traineeships;
Amendment 180 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for national labour market inspectorates to enforce compliance with existing regulations on high-quality traineeships; in this regard, calls for further awareness-raising, training and capacity building for national labour market inspectorates and also for institutions and individuals responsible for organising and overseeing traineeships;
Amendment 189 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Encourages the European institutions and the Member States to promote and exchange best practices in the area of high-quality traineeships through European competitions and awards;
Amendment 200 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls for the universal introduction of the EU disability card;
Amendment 202 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Underlines that high-quality traineeships must be inclusive and accessible to all; stresses, in particular, the need to support persons with disabilities to have access to high-quality traineeships while ensuring an inclusive recruitment process; calls for a Union-wide definition of disability and an expansion of the European disability card to facilitate the mobility of persons with disabilities and their ability to take up traineeship opportunities in other Member States; stresses the need for an accessible workplace for trainees with workplace adapted to the needs of trainees with different types of disabilities; calls for a revision of Council Directive 2000/78/EC15 to improve the article on reasonable accommodation in the workplace in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; calls for the unblocking of the adoption of a proposal for an anti-discrimination directive (COM(2008)0426); highlights the need for the unbundling of remuneration and disability support to allow for extra disability related costs for traineeships; highlights the importance of personal assistance to support persons with disabilities, with a view to supporting independent living; calls for more cooperation between employers and the organisations representing people who are at greater risk of discrimination; __________________ 15 Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation (OJ L 303, 2.12.2000, p. 16).
Amendment 210 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Highlights the need for lifelong learning; calls for traineeships to be accessible to people of all ages; recalls that traineeships can provide many benefits to the traineeship provider and the trainee; emphasises, in this connection, the huge and undervalued potential of older people;
Amendment 211 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Calls on the Member States to encourage more cross-border traineeships; in this regard, highlights the potential of EURES as a traineeship-matching and placement tool; calls on the Commission to further develop EURES by providing clearer information, in formats that are accessible to people with different types of disabilities, as well as better guidance and placement services to interested trainees wishing to take advantage of cross-border mobility; calls on the Members States to promote EURES among, inter alia, traineeship providers, young people, unemployed people and recent graduates;
Amendment 222 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Requests that the Commission submit on the basis of Article 153(2)(b) TFEU in conjunction with Article 153(1)(b) TFEU, a proposal for a framework directive settinga proposal for updated recommendations on high-quality paid traineeships, following the recommendations set out minimum requirements for adequate remuneration for traineeships, following the recommendations set out in Annex I hereto Annex II hereto; following implementation of the Council’s recommendations, an impact assessment and consultations with the social partners, consideration should be given to further action at European level;
Amendment 240 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – subheading 1
Annex I – subheading 1
Amendment 243 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1
Annex I – paragraph 1
Amendment 248 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 1
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 1
Amendment 251 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 2
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 2
Amendment 254 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 3
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 3
Amendment 269 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
(a) access to social protection and traineeship remuneration by trainees, in accordance with national schemes;
Amendment 279 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point d a (new)
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point d a (new)
d(a) support for employers wishing to adapt workstations for trainees with disabilities;
Amendment 280 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point d b (new)
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point d b (new)
d(b) access to intergenerational transfers of skills;
Amendment 135 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) Better working and living conditions, including through adequate minimum wages, benefit both workers and businesses in the Union and are a prerequisite for achieving inclusive and sustainable growth. Addressing large differences in the coverage and adequacy of minimum wage protection, while preserving competences of the Member States and respecting the principle of subsidiarity, contributes to improving the fairness of the EU labour market and promote economic, social progress and upward convergence. Competition in the Single Market should be based on high social standards, innovation and productivity improvements ensuring a level playing field.
Amendment 154 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) Women, young and low-skilled workers and persons with disabilities have a higher probability of being minimum wage or low wage earners than other groups. During economic downturns, such as the Covid-19 crisis, the role of minimum wages in protecting low-wage workers becomes increasingly important and is essential to support a sustainable and inclusive economic recovery. Addressing minimum wage reduces discrimination against people with disabilities and contributes to respecting the needs of all generations, contributes to gender equality, closing the gender pay and pension gap as well as elevating women out of poverty.
Amendment 205 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) While strong collective bargaining at sector or cross-industry level contributes to ensuring adequate minimum wage protection, traditional collective bargaining structures have been eroding during the last decades, in part due to structural shifts in the economy towards less unionised sectors and to the decline in trade union membership related to the increase of atypical and new forms of work.
Amendment 211 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) The Commission has consulted management and labour in a two-stage process with regard to possible action to address the challenges related to adequate minimum wages protection in the Union, in accordance with Article 154 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. There was no agreement among the social partners to enter into negotiations with regard to those matters. It is, however, important to take action at Union level, while preserving the competences of the Member States and respecting the principle of subsidiarity, to ensure that workers in the Union are protected by adequate minimum wages, taking into account the outcomes of the social partners’ consultation.
Amendment 217 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) This Directive establishes minimum requirements at Union level, while preserving the competences of the Member States and respecting the principle of subsidiarity, to ensure both that minimum wages are set at adequate level and that workers have access to minimum wage protection, in the form of a statutory minimum wage or in the form of wages set under collective agreements as defined for the purpose of this Directive.
Amendment 299 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) Minimum wages are considered adequate if they are fair in relation to the wage distribution in the country and if they provide a decent standard of living. The adequacy of statutory minimum wages is determined in view of the national socio- economic conditions, including employment growth, competitiveness as well as regional and sectoral developments. Their adequacy should be assessed at least in relation to their purchasing power, to the productivity developments and to their relation to the gross wage levels, distribution and growth. The use of indicators commonly used at international level, such as 60% of the gross median wage and 50% of the gross average wage, can help guide the assessment of minimum wage adequacy in relation to the gross level of wages.
Amendment 334 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 23
Recital 23
(23) An effective enforcement system, including controls and field inspections, is necessary to ensure the functioning of national statutory minimum wage frameworks. To strengthen the effectiveness of enforcement authorities, a close cooperation with the social partners is also needed, including to address critical challenges such as those related to sub- contracting, bogus self-employment or non-recorded overtime. Moreover, workers should have easily access to appropriate information on applicable statutory minimum wages, also in formats accessible to people with different types of disabilities, to ensure an adequate degree of transparency and predictability as regards their working conditions.
Amendment 343 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 24
Recital 24
(24) The effective implementation of minimum wage protection set out by legal provisions or provided by collective agreements is essential in the performance of public procurement and concession contracts. Non-respect of collective agreements providing for minimum wage protection in a given sector may indeed occur in the execution of such contracts or in the sub- contracting chain thereafter, resulting in workers being paid less than the wage level agreed in the sectoral collective agreements. To prevent such situations, economic operators have to apply to their workers the wages set by collective agreements for the relevant sector and geographical area in order to abide by applicable obligations in the field of labour law, in accordance with Articles 18(2) and 71(1) of Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and the Council on public procurement40 , Articles 36(2) and 88(1) of Directive 2014/25/EU of the European Parliament and the Council41 on procurement by entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors and Articles 30(3) and 42(1) of Directive 2014/23/EU of the European Parliament and the Council42 on the award of concession contracts. __________________ 40Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC (OJ L 94, 28.3.2014, p. 65). 41 Directive 2014/25/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on procurement by entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors and repealing Directive 2004/17/EC (OJ L 94, 28.3.2014, p. 243). 42Directive 2014/23/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the award of concession contract (OJ L 94, 28.3.2014, p. 1).
Amendment 380 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 30
Recital 30
(30) In implementing this Directive Member States should avoid imposing administrative, financial and legal constraints in a way which would hold back the creation and development of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises. Member States are therefore invitobliged to assess the impact of their transposition act on small and medium-sized enterprises in order to ensure that they are not disproportionately affected, giving specific attention to micro-enterprises and to the administrative burden, and to publish the results of such assessments. If found that micro, small and medium-sized enterprises are disproportionately affected, Member States should consider introducing measures to support these enterprises to adjust their remuneration structures to the new requirements.
Amendment 384 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 31
Recital 31
(31) The Technical Support Instrument43 and the European Social Fund plus44 are available to Member States and enterprises, especially to SMEs, to develop or improve the technical aspects of minimum wage frameworks, including on assessment of adequacy, monitoring and data collection, broadening access, as well as on enforcement and on general capacity building related to the implementation of said frameworks. __________________ 43Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 May 2020 on the establishment of the Technical Support Instrument, COM(2020) 409 final 44Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Social Fund Plus, COM/2018/382 final.
Amendment 387 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 31 a (new)
Recital 31 a (new)
(31 a) The European Commission and the Member States should make every effort to ensure that the implementation of this Directive does not have negative consequences in terms of increased bogus self-employment, atypical contracts or undeclared work. Information on the impact of this Directive on these aspects should be included in the review report on its implementation.
Amendment 410 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(b a) prohibiting any activity that violates the right of employees to join workers' organizations and ensuring that all employees have adequate access to information about their rights, including in formats accessible to people with various types of disabilities.
Amendment 531 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 2
2. Member States where collective bargaining coverage is less than 70% of the workers defined within the meaning of Article 2 shall in addition provide for a framework of enabling conditions for collective bargaining, either by law after consultation of the social partners or by agreement with them and respecting existing legislation and traditions and practices in this field , and shall establish an action plan to promote collective bargaining. The action plan shall be made public and shall be notified to the European Commission.
Amendment 556 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1
Article 5 – paragraph 1
1. Member States with statutory minimum wages shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the setting and updating of statutory minimum wages are guided by criteria set to promote adequacy, taking into account local specificities and in such a way that they do not disturb the economic balance and competitiveness, with the aim to achieve decent working and living conditions, social cohesion and upward convergence. Member States shall define those criteria in accordance with their national practices, either in relevant national legislation, in decisions of the competent bodies or in tripartite agreements. The criteria shall be defined in a stable and clear way.
Amendment 617 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 3
Article 5 – paragraph 3
Amendment 673 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. Member States may allow different rates of statutory minimum wage for specific groups of workers only in exceptional cases. Such a differentiation must be objectively and reasonably justified by a legitimate aim. Member States shall keep these variations to a minimum, and ensure that any variation is non- discriminatory, proportionate, limited in time if relevant, and objectively and reasonably justified by a legitimate aim.
Amendment 750 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point 3
(3) ensure that information on statutory minimum wages is made publicly available in a clear, comprehensive and easily accessible way also in formats accessible to people with different types of disabilities.
Amendment 764 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
In accordance with Directive 2014/24/EU, Directive 2014/25/EU and Directive 2014/23/EU, Member States shall take appropriate measures to ensure that in the performance of public procurement or concession contracts economic operators comply with the wages set out by relevant collective agreements for the relevant sector and geographical area and with the statutory minimum wages where they exist.
Amendment 771 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall task their competent authorities with developing effective data collection tools to monitor the coverage and adequacy of minimum wages. These tools should be designed in a way that will not impose excessive administrative burden on employers, especially in the SME sector and on micro-entrepreneurs.
Amendment 831 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 3
Article 10 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall ensure that information regarding minimum wage protection, including collective agreements and wage provisions therein, is transparent and publicly accessible, also in formats accessible to people with different types of disabilities.
Amendment 253 #
2020/0102(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) Non-communicable diseases are a result of a combination of genetic, physiological, environmental and behavioural factors. Such non- communicable diseases as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, neurological disorders, chronic respiratory diseases, and diabetes, represent major causes of disability, ill- health, health- related retirement, and premature death in the Union, resulting in considerable social and economic impacts. To decrease the impact of non- communicable diseases on individuals and society in the Union and reach goal 3 of the Sustainable Development Goals, Target 3.4, to reduce premature mortality from non- communicable diseases by one third by 2030, it is key to provide an integrated response focusing on prevention across sectors and policy fields, combined with efforts to strengthen health systems.
Amendment 302 #
2020/0102(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) Cancer is the second leading cause of mortality in the Member States after cardiovascular diseases. It is also one of non-communicable diseases that share common risk factors and the prevention and control of which would benefit the majority of citizens. In 2020 the Commission announced the ‘Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan’ which would cover the entire cycle of the disease starting from prevention and early diagnosis to treatment and quality of life of patients and survivors. The measures should benefit from the Programme and from Horizon Europe’s Mission on Cancer. The actions on cancer should also address its common, shared risk factors and synergies with other major non- communicable diseases, such as neurological disorders, and consider devising a template for other major disease areas.
Amendment 449 #
2020/0102(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1
(1) protect people in the Union from serious cross-border threats to health, including measures to support health promotion and disease prevention, reduce health inequalities, and improve physical and mental health;
Amendment 470 #
2020/0102(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 2
(2) improve the availability in the Union of medicines, medical devices and other crisis relevant products, contribute to their affordability, promote their safe use, and intensify and support innovation;
Amendment 564 #
2020/0102(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 6
(6) support action for the surveillance, prevention, diagnosis and treatment and care of non-communicable diseases, and notably of cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease, diabetes, neurological disorders and mental health conditions;
Amendment 834 #
2020/0102(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point g – point xiii a (new)
Annex I – point g – point xiii a (new)
(xiiia.)Support the Member States in ensuring continuity of care and treatment, in particular for chronic conditions.
Amendment 913 #
2020/0102(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point h – point x a (new)
Annex I – point h – point x a (new)
(xa.) Actions to support addressing common, shared risk factors and synergies that cancer has with other major non-communicable diseases, such as neurological disorders.
Amendment 956 #
2020/0102(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point i – point v a (new)
Annex I – point i – point v a (new)
(va.) Create favourable conditions for significant patient and social engagement with clinical research;
Amendment 39 #
2020/0030(NLE)
Proposal for a decision
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) Member States and the Union are to work towards developing a coordinated strategy for employment and particularly for promoting a skilled, trained and adaptable workforce, as well as labour markets that are responsive to economic change, with a view to achieving the objectives of full employment and social progress, balanced growth and a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the environment set out in Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union. Member States shall regard promoting employment as a matter of common concern and shall coordinate their action in this respect within the Council, taking into account national practices related to the responsibilities of management and labour. In this context, the current COVID-19 crisis, which will have a serious and long- lasting impact on EU labour markets, requires coordinated action to support employment and to stimulate the economy and labour demand.
Amendment 57 #
2020/0030(NLE)
Proposal for a decision
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) The Union is to combat social exclusion and discrimination and promote social justice and protection, as well as equality between women and men, solidarity between generations, inclusion of persons with disabilities and the protection of the rights of the child. In defining and implementing its policies and activities, the Union is to take into account requirements linked to the promotion of a high level of employment, the guarantee of adequate social protection, the fight against poverty and social exclusion and a high level of education and training as set out in Article 9 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
Amendment 63 #
2020/0030(NLE)
Proposal for a decision
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) In accordance with the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), the Union has developed and implemented policy coordination instruments for economic and employment policies. As part of these instruments, the present Guidelines for the Employment Policies of the Member States, together with the Broad Guidelines for the Economic Policies of the Member States and of the Union set out in Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 (5), form the Integrated Guidelines. They are to guide policy implementation in the Member States and in the Union, reflecting the interdependence between the Member States. The resulting set of coordinated European and national policies and reforms are to constitute an appropriate overall sustainable economic and employment policy mix, which should achieve positive spill-over effects, as well as an effective response to the impact of COVID-19 on the labour markets and economies of Member States. __________________ 5Council Recommendation (EU) 2015/1184 of 14 July 2015 on broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and of the European Union (OJ L 192, 18.7.2015, p. 27).
Amendment 79 #
2020/0030(NLE)
Proposal for a decision
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The European Semester combines the different instruments in an overarching framework for integrated multilateral coordination and surveillance of economic and employment policies. While pursuing environmental sustainability, productivity, fairness and stability, the European Semester integrates the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights, including strong engagement with social partners, civil society and other stakeholders. It supports the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals (13). The Union and Member States’ employment and economic policies should go hand in hand with Europe’s transition to a climate neutral, environmentally sustainable and digital economy, while improving competitiveness, fostering innovation, promoting social justice, social inclusion and equal opportunities as well as tackling inequalities and regional disparities. __________________ 13 UN Resolution A/RES/70/1.
Amendment 92 #
2020/0030(NLE)
Proposal for a decision
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) The European Parliament, the Council and the Commission signed an inter-institutional proclamation for a European Pillar of Social Rights (14). The Pillar sets out twenty principles and rights to support well-functioning and fair labour markets and welfare systems, structured around three categories: equal opportunities and access to the labour market, fair working conditions and social protection and inclusion. The principles and rights give direction to our strategy making sure that the transitions to climate- neutrality and environmental sustainability, digitalisation and demographic change are socially fair and just. The Pillar constitutes a reference framework (with particular reference to the impact of the crisis caused by COVID-19) to monitor the employment and social performance of Member States, to drive reforms at national, regional and local level and to reconcile the “social” and the “market” in today’s modern economy, including by promoting the social economy. __________________ 14 OJ C 428, 13.12.2017, p. 10.
Amendment 109 #
2020/0030(NLE)
Proposal for a decision
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Member States and the Union should ensure that the transformations are fair and socially just, strengthening the drive towards an inclusive and resilient society in which people are protected and empowered to anticipate and manage change, and in which they can actively participate in society and the economy. Discrimination in all its forms should be tackled. Access and opportunities for all should be ensured and poverty and social exclusion (including that of children, persons with disabilities and disadvantaged groups) should be reduced, in particular by ensuring an effective functioning of labour markets and of social protection systems and by removing barriers to education, training and labour- market participation, including through investments in early childhood education and care. Timely and equal access to affordable healthcare services, including prevention and health promotion are particularly relevant in a context of ageing societies. The potential of people with disabilities to contribute to economic growth and social development should be further realised. As new economic and business models take hold in Union workplaces, employment relationships are also changing. Member States should ensure that employment relationships stemming from new forms of work maintain and strengthen Europe’s social model.
Amendment 131 #
2020/0030(NLE)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – Guideline 5 – paragraph 1
Annex I – Guideline 5 – paragraph 1
In the context of the COVID-19 crisis, Member States should actively promote a sustainable social market economy and facilitate and support investment in the creation of quality jobs. To this end, they should reduce the barriers that businesses face in hiring people, foster responsible entrepreneurship and genuine self- employment and, in particular, support the creation and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to finance. Member States should actively promote the development of the social economy, foster social innovation, social enterprises, and encourage those innovative forms of work, creating quality job opportunities and generating social benefits at local level.
Amendment 157 #
2020/0030(NLE)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – Guideline 6 – paragraph 1
Annex I – Guideline 6 – paragraph 1
Amendment 172 #
2020/0030(NLE)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – Guideline 6 – paragraph 2
Annex I – Guideline 6 – paragraph 2
Member States should foster equal opportunities for all by addressing inequalities in education and training systems, including by providing access to good quality education, including early childhood education. They should raise overall education levels, reduce the number of young people leaving school early, increase access to and completion of tertiary education and increase adult participation in continuing learning, particularly among learners from disadvantaged backgrounds, the least qualified. Taking into account new requirements in digital, green and ageing societies, Member States should strengthen work-based learning in their vocational education and training systems (VET) (including through quality and effective apprenticeships) and increase the number of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) graduates both in medium-level VET and in tertiary education. Furthermore, Member States should enhance the labour-market relevance of tertiary education and research, improve skills monitoring and forecasting, make skills more visible and qualifications comparable, including those acquired abroad, and increase opportunities for recognising and validating skills and competences acquired outside formal education and training. They should upgrade and increase the supply and take- up of flexible continuing vocational education and training. Member States should also support low skilled adults to maintain or develop their long-term employability by boosting access to and take up of quality learning opportunities, through the implementation of Upskilling Pathways, including a skills assessment, an offer of education and training matching labour market opportunities, and the validation and recognition of the skills acquired.
Amendment 212 #
2020/0030(NLE)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – Guideline 7 – paragraph 6
Annex I – Guideline 7 – paragraph 6
Where relevant and building on existing national practices, Member States should take into account the experience on employment and social issues of relevant civil society organisations, including those representing groups facing barriers to quality work.
Amendment 219 #
2020/0030(NLE)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – Guideline 8 – paragraph 1
Annex I – Guideline 8 – paragraph 1
Amendment 226 #
2020/0030(NLE)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – Guideline 8 – paragraph 2
Annex I – Guideline 8 – paragraph 2
Member States should modernise social protection systems to provide adequate, effective, efficient, and sustainable social protection throughout all stages of an individual's life, fostering social inclusion and upward social mobility, incentivissupporting labour market participation and addressing inequalities, including through the design of their tax and benefit systems. Complementing universal approaches with selective ones will improve effectiveness of social protection systems. The modernisation of social protection systems should lead to better access, quality, adequacy and sustainability.
Amendment 228 #
2020/0030(NLE)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – Guideline 8 – paragraph 3
Annex I – Guideline 8 – paragraph 3
Member States should develop and integrate the three strands of active inclusion: adequate income support, inclusive labour markets and access to quality enabling services, meeting individual needs. Social protection systems should ensure adequate minimum income benefits for everyone lacking sufficient resources and promote social inclusion by encouragsupporting people to’s actively participateion in the labour market and society, including through targeted social services.
Amendment 233 #
2020/0030(NLE)
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – Guideline 8 – paragraph 4
Annex I – Guideline 8 – paragraph 4
The availability of affordable, accessible and quality services such as inclusive early childhood education and care, out-of- school care, education, training, housing, health and long-term care is a necessary condition for ensuring equal opportunities. Particular attention should be given to fighting poverty and social exclusion, includ affecting, inter alia, persons with disabilities and persons experiencing in- work and child poverty. Member States should ensure that everyone, including children, has access to essential services. For those in need or in a vulnerable situation, Member States should ensure access to adequate social housing or housing assistance. The specific needs of people with disabilities including accessibility should be taken into account in relation to these services. Homelessness should be tackled specifically.
Amendment 89 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) The transition to a climate-neutral and circular economy constitutes one of the most important policy objectives for the Union. On 12 December 2019, the European Council endorsed the objective of achieving a climate-neutral Union by 2050, in line with the objectives of the Paris Agreement. While fighting climate change and environmental degradation will benefit all in the long term and provides opportunities and challenges for all in the medium term, not all regions and Member States start their transition from the same point or have the same capacity to respond. Some are more advanced than others, whereas the transition entails a wider social and economic impact for those regions that rely heavily on solid fossil fuels - especially coal, lignite, peat and oil shale - or greenhouse gas intensive industries. Such a situation not only creates the risk of a variable speed transition in the Union as regards climate action, but also of growing disparities between regions, detrimental to the objectives of social, economic and territorial cohesion.
Amendment 102 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) In order to be successful, the transition has to be fair and socially acceptable for all. Therefore, both the Union and the Member States must take into account its economic and social implications from the outset, and deploy all possible instruments to mitigate adverse consequences. The Union budget has an important role in that regard to ensure that nobody is left behind.
Amendment 111 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) As set out in the European Green Deal and the Sustainable Europe Investment Plan, a Just Transition Mechanism should complement the other actions under the next multi-annual financial framework for the period from 2021 to 2027. It should contribute to addressing the social and economic consequences of transitioning towards Union climate neutrality by bringing together the Union budget’s spending on climate and social objectives at regional and subregional level.
Amendment 132 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) In view of the importance of tackling climate change in line with the Union’s commitments to implement the Paris Agreement, the commitment regarding the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the increased ambition of the Union as proposed in the European Green Deal, the JTF should provide a key contribution to mainstream climate actions. RThe new resources from the JTF own envelope are additional to the existing policies and come on top of the investments needed to achieve the overall target of 25% of the Union budget expenditure contributing to climate objectives. Resources transferred from the ERDF and ESF+ will contribute fully to the achievement of this targetcould be used, on voluntary basis, to complement the JTF interventions.
Amendment 147 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) The new resources from the JTF should complement the resources available under cohesion policy.
Amendment 155 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) Transitioning to a climate-neutral economy is a challenge for all Member States. It will be particularly demanding for those Member States that rely heavily on solid fossil fuels or greenhouse gas intensive industrial activities which need to be phased out or which need to adapt due to the transition towards climate neutrality and that lack the financial means to do so. The JTF should therefore cover all Member States, but the distribution of its financial means should reflect the capacity of Member States to finance the necessary investments to cope with the transition towards climate neutrality, as well as the extent to which its economy relies on solid fossil fuels.
Amendment 186 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) To protect citizens who are most vulnerable to the climate transition, the JTF shouldmust also cover the up-skilling and reskilling of the affected workers, with the aim of helping them to adapt to new employment opportunities, as well as providing counselling, support services and job-search assistance to jobseekers and their active inclusion into the labour market.
Amendment 211 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) In order to provide flexibility for the programming of the JTF resources under the Investment for jobs and growth goal, it should be possible to prepare a self- standing JTF programme or to programme JTF resources in one or more dedicated priorities within a programme supported by the European Regional Development Fund (‘ERDF’), the European Social Fund Plus (‘ESF+’) or the Cohesion Fund. In accordance with Article 21a of Regulation (EU) [new CPR], JTF resources shcould be reinforced with complementary funding from the ERDF and the ESF+. The respective amounts transferred from the ERDF and the ESF+Such voluntary interventions from the ERDF and the ESF+, notified to the Commission, should be consistent with the type of operations set out in the territorial just transition plans.
Amendment 219 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) The JTF support should be conditional on the effective preparation, launching and implementation of a transition process in a specific territory in order to achieve a climate-neutral economy. In that regard, Member States should prepare, in close cooperation with the relevant stakeholders, in particular local and regional authorities, in accordance with partnership principle and supported by the Commission, territorial just transition plans, detailing the transition process, consistently with their National Energy and Climate Plans. To this end, the Commission should set up a Just Transition Platform, which would build on the existing platform for coal regions in transition to enable bilateral and multilateral exchanges of experience on lessons learnt and best practices across all affected sectors.
Amendment 228 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) The territorial just transition plans should identify the territories most negatively affected, where JTF support should be concentrated and describe specific actions to be undertaken to reach a climate-neutral economy, notably as regards the conversion or closure of facilities involving solid fossil fuel production or other greenhouse gas intensive activities while developing new job opportunities to avoid social exclusion in the affected territories. Those territories should be precisely defined and correspond to NUTS level 2 or 3 regions or should be parts thereof. The plans should detail the challenges and needs of those territories and identify the type of operations needed in a manner that ensures the coherent development of climate-resilient economic activities that are also consistent with the transition to climate-neutrality and the objectives of the Green Deal while at the same time safeguarding the employment levels. Only investments in accordance with the transition plans should receive financial support from the JTF. The territorial just transition plans shcould be part of the programmes (supported by the ERDF, the ESF+, the Cohesion Fund or the JTF, as the case may be) which are approved by the Commission.
Amendment 258 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. The JTF shall support the Investment for jobs and growth goal in all Member States, with the particular attention to the Member States relying on fossil fuels.
Amendment 262 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
The resources for the JTF under the Investment for jobs and growth goal available for budgetary commitment for the period 2021-2027 shall be EUR 24.37.5 billion in 2018 prices, which may be increased, as the case may be, by additional resources allocated in the Union budget, and by other resources in accordance with the applicable basic act. These resources should not be cut nor transferred from the funds covered by Regulation (EU) .../... [new CPR].
Amendment 286 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) productive investments in SMEs, including start-ups, leading to economic diversification and reconversion as well as contributing to new jobs creation;
Amendment 293 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) investments in the creation of new firms and social enterprises, including through microfinance, business incubators and consulting services;
Amendment 302 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d a (new)
(da) investments to reduce energy poverty and air pollution, notably through investments in district heating and eliminating individual heating solutions based on coal;
Amendment 316 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point g a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point g a (new)
(ga) investments in social innovations;
Amendment 326 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point i
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point i
(i) counselling, support services and job-search assistance to jobseekers;
Amendment 331 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point k a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point k a (new)
(ka) any other specific activities, as agreed between the relevant local and regional authorities for the territory concerned, the Member State and the European Commission, that are in line with regional development strategies and contribute to the transition towards EU climate neutrality by 2050.
Amendment 354 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c
Amendment 362 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) investment related to the production, processing, distribution, storage or combustion of solid fossil fuels;
Amendment 377 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2
2. The JTF priority or priorities shall comprise the JTF resources consisting of all or part of the JTF allocation for the Member States and the resources transferred in accordance with Article [21a] of Regulation (EU) [new CPR]. The total of the ERDF and ESF+ resources transferred to the JTF priority shall be at least equal to one and a half times the amount of support from the JTF to that priority but shall not exceed three times that amount. Member States may choose to complement it with its ERDF and ESF+ resources. In such case, those resources should be included in the levels of thematic concentration of ERDF and ESF+.
Amendment 381 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Eligible projects financed under the Just Transition Fund contributing to the specific objective as set out in Article 2 can benefit from up to 80% of relevant costs.
Amendment 388 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall prepare, togetherin close cooperation with the relevant authorities of the territories concerned, one or more territorial just transition plans covering one or more affected territories corresponding to level 2 or 3 of the common classification of territorial units for statistics ("NUTS level 2 regions" or ‘NUTS level 3 regions’) as established by Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 868/201417 or parts thereof, in accordance with the template set out in Annex II. Those territories shall be those most negatively affected based on the economic and social impacts resulting from the transition, in particular with regard to expected job losses in fossil fuel production and use and the transformation needs of the production processes of industrial facilities with the highest greenhouse gas intensity. __________________ 17 Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 on the establishment of a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) (OJ L 154 21.6.2003, p. 1).
Amendment 418 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point g
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point g
(g) a description of the type of operations envisaged and their expected contribution to alleviate the social, economic, energy security and environmental impacts of the transition;
Amendment 434 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 a (new)
Article 7 a (new)
Article 7a Partnership 1. In accordance with [Article 6] of Regulation (EU) .../... [the new CPR] and with the Delegated Regulation (EU) No 240/2014, each Member State shall ensure a meaningful participation of social partners and civil society organisations, and other relevant or representative organisations in the programming and delivery of measures supported by the JTF. Such meaningful participation shall be inclusive and accessible to all.
Amendment 469 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point b
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point b
Amendment 475 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point c – paragraph 1
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point c – paragraph 1
Amendment 5 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Citation 2
— having regard to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, particularly to Articles 3, 15, 20, 21, 23, 25, 26 and 2647 thereof,
Amendment 21 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Citation 5
— having regard to the Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD Committee) of 2 October 2015 on the initial report of the European Union, including those on the European Union institutions’ compliance with the Convention as public administrations,
Amendment 25 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Citation 5
— having regard to the Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD Committee) of 2 October 2015 on the initial report of the European Union, including those on the European Union institutions’ compliance with the Convention as public administration,
Amendment 28 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Citation 5 a (new)
- having regard to the General Comments of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, as the authoritative guidance on the implementation of the UN CRPD,
Amendment 47 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Citation 21 a (new)
- having regard to the study of the European Parliament Policy Department C of 2016 on European Structural and Investent Funds and people with disabilities in the European Union,
Amendment 59 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Citation 28 a (new)
- having regard to the Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 laying down common provision on the European Structural and Investments Funds, particularly to articles 4, 6 and 7 12
Amendment 63 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Citation 28 a (new)
- having regard to the exploratory opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee requested by the European Parliament on the situation of women with disabilities,
Amendment 65 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Citation 28 b (new)
- having regard to the European Ombudsman’s strategic inquiries into how the European Commission ensures that persons with disabilities can access its websites (OI/6/2017/EA), how the European Commission treats persons with disabilities under the Joint Sickness Insurance Scheme for EU staff (OI/4/2016/EA) and the Decision in the joint inquiry in cases 1337/2017/EA and 1338/2017/EA on the accessibility for visually impaired candidates of selection procedures to recruit EU civil servants, organised by the European Personnel Selection Office,
Amendment 71 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Recital A
A. whereas, as full citizens, all persons with disabilities have equal rights in all fields of life (including access to open labour market and education) and are entitled to inalienable dignity, equal treatment, independent living, autonomy and full participation in society, respecting and valuating their input to social and economic progress of Europe;
Amendment 92 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Draft motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
F a. whereas due to population ageing more and more people will experience disabilities and will require more accessible and supportive environment as well as adjusted services;
Amendment 109 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Recital G a (new)
G a. whereas a considerable proportion of the four million people experiencing homelessness every year have disability, having been largely overlooked as a target group of the UNCRPD and the EU Disability Strategy;
Amendment 110 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Recital G a (new)
Amendment 144 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 1
1. Aacknowledges the advancement in the implementation of the UNCRPD brought about by the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020; and calls on the Commission to continue the work by building upon and integrating what has been achieved and by upscaling the presentits commitment to the rights of persons with disabilities through the Strategy;
Amendment 162 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 2 – indent 1
- with clearly designated priority areas covering all the provisions of the UNCRPD in all areas of EU policy and addressing the Concluding Observations of the UNCRPD Committee adopted in 2015,
Amendment 168 #
Amendment 174 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 2 – indent 4
- reflecting the diversity of persons with disabilities and their needs,
Amendment 177 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 2 – indent 4 a (new)
- reflecting the guidance and interpretation of the UNCRPD given by the General Comments of the UNCRPD Committee, including definitions of the key terms,
Amendment 187 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 2 – indent 5
- mainstreaming the rights of the childrenpersons with disabilities into all policies and areas,
Amendment 194 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 2 – indent 5 a (new)
- giving special attention to wellbeing and equal opportunities for children with disabilities inter alia via ensuring unreserved access to childcare and education and supporting families with children with disabilities,
Amendment 200 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 2 – indent 5 b (new)
- recognising and addressing the multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination they may face, and in particular the challenges faced by women, girls, children, older and LGBTI disabled people, as well as persons from racial and ethnic minorities.
Amendment 203 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 2 – indent 5 c (new)
- regarding the accessibility of buildings, transportation and media;
Amendment 210 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 2 – indent 8
- allocating an adequate budget for the implementation of the post-2020 Strategy; and ensuring continuity of financing in the New Multiannual Financial Framework,
Amendment 213 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 2 – indent 8 a (new)
- recognising and addressing the multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination they may face,
Amendment 217 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 2 – indent 8 b (new)
- accelerating work on mutual recognition of disability status between EU Member States in all areas,
Amendment 218 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 2 – indent 8 c (new)
- implementing the EU Disability Card to all EU Member States to ensure recognition of disability while moving across the EU and secure freedom of movement, access to culture, education and work for people with disabilities,
Amendment 219 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 2 – indent 8 d (new)
Amendment 220 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 2 – indent 8 e (new)
- acknowledging the evolution of new technologies and its potential for persons with disabilities including ICT applications,
Amendment 221 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 2 – indent 8 f (new)
- supporting independent living programmes especially for people with intellectual disabilities by promoting supported employment and supported housing;
Amendment 222 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 2 – indent 8 g (new)
- targeting adult people with disabilities with a special attention to the intellectually disabled and their future after the death of the attendant;
Amendment 238 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Calls the Commission to ensure the inclusion of a gender-based and intersectional approach to combat the multiple forms of discrimination faced by women and girls with disabilities, and urges the European Union and those Member States which have not done so already to accede to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention);
Amendment 245 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Calls for the post 2020 Strategy to set out an interinstitutional structure to oversee its implementation; urges that Disability Focal Points be present in all Commission Directorates General and agencies and in all EU institutions, with the central Focal Point located within the Commission’s General Secretariat; stresses that an interinstitutional mechanism exist to ensure collaboration between the Commission, the Parliament and the Council, with their respective Presidents meeting at the start of each mandate;
Amendment 252 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to prepare the post-2020 Strategy with the close and systematic involvement of persons with disabilities and of their representative organisations, and to ensure their accessible and meaningful participation in the preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the post-2020 Strategy also through funding their capacity-building;
Amendment 291 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to systematically mainstream the rights of persons with disabilities in all the relevant EU laws, policies and programmes; urges the full integration of the disability-rights perspective in the Gender Equality Strategy, the Youth Guarantee, the Green New Deal, the Child Guarantee and the forthcoming Green paper on Ageing, and stresses the need for a Disability Rights Guarantee to assist persons with disabilities into employment, traineeships, job placements and further education;
Amendment 309 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Stresses the fact that people with disabilites are more exposed to the risk of poverty and social exclusion than those without;
Amendment 316 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to safeguard the UNCRPD-compliant use of EU funds and to ensure that EU funds will not contribute to the construction or refurbishment of institutional care settings nor invest in structures that are inaccessible to persons with disabilities. Furthermore, funds should actively be invested in research to develop better and more affordable assistive technology for persons with disabilities and towards increasing the participation of persons with disabilities in all EU funded programmes;
Amendment 327 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Calls on the Commission to examine the possibility of legislative and non-legislative proposals regarding the Independent Living strategy that reflects the European Way of Life for the disabled people, by mainstreaming best practices - concerning Independent Living and Personal Assistance, - regarding the assistance for starting a family, - in the field of employment, - in removing all barriers (physical, intellectual, psychological, financial), that prevent disabled people from accessing quality and affordable healthcare services, and provide information in accessible formats, especially for people with lifelong disabilities, - in familiarising disabled and non- disabled people with the social model of disability and combating all stereotypes, like in the area of sexuality, through the development of campaigns and cooperation with the creative industries;
Amendment 337 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Amendment 362 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and Member States to develop a comprehensive campaign in accessible format with engagement of media to raise awareness of the UN CRPD, rights and needs of persons with disabilities as well as barriers they face among the persons with disabilities and the society in general;
Amendment 393 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Calls on the European Commission to ensure that the Strategy includes the end of violence against persons with disabilities as one of its main objectives, paying particular attention to gender-based violence, including forced sterilisation, forced institutionalisation, forced treatment and violence;
Amendment 402 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10 b. Urges the Commission and the Member States to make the EU a leader in promoting the rights of persons with disabilities, including marginalised groups with disabilities, such as women and girls with disabilities, through its external action;
Amendment 437 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Calls on the Commission to include a section on European Union institutions as public administrations to ensure that they comply with the UN CRPD in all respects, which includes making available the necessary resources, focal points, coordination mechanisms, internal policies, accessible infrastructure such as buildings, communications (including in sign language and Braille), websites and ICT applications, as well as permanent mechanisms to consult actively and effectively with representative organisations of persons with disabilities, positive actions and anti-discrimination safeguards that are necessary for the successful implementation of the Strategy and of the CRPD both in the EU at large as well as within the EU institutions and agencies;
Amendment 447 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Calls on all Member States to develop their own national disability strategies for promoting disability equality mainstreaming and address the implementation of the UN CRPD;
Amendment 95 #
2019/2186(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas Member States have developed different approaches, leading to fragmented rules and initiatives; whereas there is a need for European level actionguidance to help Member States to overcome the resulting legal uncertainty and improve platform workers’ rights;
Amendment 105 #
2019/2186(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of Europe's economy, they represent 99% of all businesses in the EU;
Amendment 118 #
2019/2186(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the current Europeanlegal framework is unsatisfactory, with EU legal instruments which do notneeds some development to support for innovative working models and at the same time effectively cover all platform workers in their personal scope and which do not address the new realities of the world of work; 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;
Amendment 131 #
2019/2186(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. StressAcknowledges that the meaning of the terms ‘worker’ and ‘self -employed’ are not uniformly defined in all Member States, therefore the definition of clear criteria in compliance with existing national legislation is necessary; 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, therefore urges Member States to use existing national legal regulations in a way that prevents the exclusion of platform workers;
Amendment 147 #
2019/2186(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
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 that any proposal must recognise the heterogeneity of platforms and of platform workers, must take into account the interests of small and medium-sized enterprises, must maintain the freedom of choice of employees and take into account the current digital labour platforms model, where some platform workersand respect the free choice of employees, who are genuinely self-employed and wish to remain so;
Amendment 158 #
2019/2186(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the Commission’s proposal for a legislative initiative to improve the working conditions of platform workers; calls on the Commission, if the social partners do not express the wish to initiate the process provided for in Article 155 of the TFEU, to put forward a new directive to put forward an employment guideline, respecting the right of the Member States to regulate the rights onf platform workers in orderand to guarantee them a minimum set of rights regardless ofin harmony with their employment status, and to address the specificities of platform work without impeding fair competition;
Amendment 182 #
2019/2186(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the need to better combat bogus self-employment by means of a directiveinnovative solutions while acknowledges the need to better combat bogus self-employment with the existing tools of Member States, so as to cover platform workers which are fulfilling 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;
Amendment 192 #
2019/2186(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – introductory part
Paragraph 6 – introductory part
6. Calls on the CommissionMember States, when exploring ways to improve working conditions to:
Amendment 226 #
2019/2186(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that some platform workers may be subject to increased health and safety risks; is of the opinion that the Commission proposalMember States 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;
Amendment 257 #
2019/2186(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
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 and enforced; notes the potential for imbalanced 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;
Amendment 338 #
2019/2186(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to establishMember States to agree on a European quality label which would be granted to platforms implementing good practices for platform workers in order for users, workers and consumers to make informed decisions, and which would highlight platforms with quality working conditions and transparent systems;
Amendment 49 #
2019/0246(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) Given the fragile ecosystem in the Baltic Sea, support for the permanent cessation of fishing activities should not be granted for the retrofitting of fishing vessels for other activities than commercial fishing, such as recreational fishing, which could have a detrimental impact on the ecosystem. Therefore, such support should only be granted for the scrapping of fishing vessels. At the same time, support should only be granted for the scrapping of fishing vessels, including vessels used for recreational fishing. In view of the above, compensation scheme coverage and the possibility of scrapping recreational fishing units should take place on a similar basis as for industrial fishing.
Amendment 51 #
2019/0246(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18 a (new)
Recital 18 a (new)
(18a) Given the cultural and multi- generational characteristics of the coastal fishing profession, alternatives to the scrapping of vessels that would allow fishermen to remain in the profession should be provided.
Amendment 53 #
2019/0246(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20 a (new)
Recital 20 a (new)
(20a) Compensation for the permanent cessation of vessels’ activities will not be attractive to operators if it is deducted from the temporary cessation compensation paid in the past pursuant to Article 25(5) of Regulation (EU) No 508/2014. Such a deduction would not make sense because services have been provided in the past for the temporary cessation of vessels’ activities, while compensation for permanent cessation of activities concerns future benefits.
Amendment 58 #
2019/0246(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Regulation (EU) No 508/2014
Article 34 – paragraph 4 c a (new)
Article 34 – paragraph 4 c a (new)
4ca. Support granted to ship-owners under Article 33 shall not be deducted from support received by ship-owners under this Article in respect of the same vessel.