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9 Amendments of André ROUGÉ related to 2019/0183(COD)

Amendment 2 #
Proposal for a regulation
Title 1
Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002 and Regulation (EU) No 1309/2013 in order to provide financial assistance to Member States to cover serious financial burden inflicted on them following a withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union without an agreement
2019/10/09
Committee: REGI
Amendment 4 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
(1) The European Union Solidarity Fund (‘the Fund’) was established by Council Regulation (EC) No 2012/20028 . The Fund was created to provide financial assistance to Member States following emergency situations as a concrete sign of European solidarity in situations of distress, to respond to major natural disasters, and to express European solidarity with disaster-stricken regions within Europe. _________________ 8Council Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002 of 11 November 2002 establishing the European Union Solidarity Fund (OJ L 311, 14.11.2002, p. 3).
2019/10/09
Committee: REGI
Amendment 5 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
(1 a) The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) was established1a to show solidarity towards workers made redundant as a result of major structural changes in world trade patterns due to globalisation and global financial and economic crises, and can also support beneficiaries in small labour markets or in exceptional circumstances, in particular with regard to collective applications involving small and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs), even if the number of redundancies is below the normal threshold for mobilisation of the EGF. _________________ 1aRegulation (EC) No 1927/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 on establishing the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (OJ L 406, 30.12.20016, p.1).
2019/10/09
Committee: REGI
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
(8) To maintain the availability of the Fund for natural disasters, itsEuropean Union Solidarity Fund and of the EGF for their original purposes, a budgetary ceiling for support related to the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union without an agreement should be established.
2019/10/09
Committee: REGI
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
(12) Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002 and Regulation (EU) No 1309/2013 should therefore be amended accordingly,
2019/10/09
Committee: REGI
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002
Article 3 a – paragraph 1
(1) At the request of a Member State, assistance from the European Union Solidarity Fund may also be mobilised when serious financial burden is inflicted on this Member State as a direct consequence of the United Kingdom leaving the Union without an agreement in accordance with Article 50(2) TEU (“withdrawal without an agreement”). The assistance shall take the form of a financial contribution from the Fund. (This amendment applies throughout the text.)
2019/10/09
Committee: REGI
Amendment 48 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002
Article 3 a – paragraph 2
(2) The available appropriations solely for this goal shall be limited to half5 % of the maximum available amount for the Fund intervention for the years 2019 and 2020.
2019/10/09
Committee: REGI
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 a (new) Regulation (EU) No 1309/2013
Article 1 a Regulation (EU) No 1309/2013 is amended as follows: (1) In Article 2, the following point is added after point b: "(c) workers made redundant and self- employed persons whose activity has ceased as a result of a withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union pursuant to Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) without an agreement." (2) In Article 3, the following point is added after point b: "(c) a worker or a self-employed person whose activity ceased as a consequence of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union without an agreement." (3) Article 4, paragraph 2, is replaced by the following: "2. In small labour markets or in exceptional circumstances, such as a withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union pursuant to Article 50 TEU without an agreement, in particular with regard to cases involving SMEs, where duly substantiated by the applicant Member State, an application for a financial contribution under this Article may be considered admissible even if the criteria laid down in points (a) or (b) of paragraph 1 are not entirely met, when the redundancies have a serious impact on employment and the local, regional or national economy. The applicant Member State shall specify which of the intervention criteria set out in points (a) and (b) of paragraph 1 are not entirely met. The aggregated amount of contributions in exceptional circumstances may not exceed 10 % of the annual maximum amount of the EGF." (4) In Article 7, the following paragraph is added after paragraph 4: "5. The available appropriations for the actions referred to in point (c) of Article 2 shall be limited to 75 % of the maximum available amount of the EGF for the years 2019 and 2020, after which the exceptional intervention measure set out therein shall end. For those actions, the mobilisation of the EGF shall cover the costs of the measures under points (a), (b) and (c) of Article 7(1) for those workers or self-employed persons directly affected from the date of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union pursuant to Article 50 TEU without an agreement until 31 December 2020."
2019/10/09
Committee: REGI
Amendment 85 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – title
2 Article 2Entry into force
2019/10/09
Committee: REGI