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358 Amendments of Pierre LARROUTUROU

Amendment 4 #

2023/2123(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital B
B. whereas the EU hydrogen strategy and REPowerEU include an objective of producing 10 million tonnes of renewable hydrogen in the EU by 2030 and importing the same amount; whereas the total investment required is estimated at almost EUR 1 trillion;
2023/10/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 12 #

2023/2123(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Points out that the European hydrogen market faces challenges at all stages of the supply and demand chain and to overcome these challenges additional skilled workers are needed, requiring significant financial investment in re-skilling and upskilling the workforce1b; asks the Commission to promuglate dedicated plans and financing possibilities in this regard; _________________ 1b https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52023 DC0156
2023/10/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 13 #

2023/2123(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. RHighlights that the European Commission estimated the total investment needs to produce, transport and consume 10 million tonnes of renewable hydrogen are expected to be in the range of EUR 335-471 billion, with EUR 200-300 billion needed for additional renewable electricity production while it estimated that an additional EUR 500 billion of investments will be needed in international value chains to enable the import of 10 million tonnes of renewable hydrogen, including in the form of derivatives1a; expresses concerns about the overall budget of the EHB compared to the subsidies given by economic partners and competitors, in particular China, India and the USA; recalls that a budget of EUR 3 billion was announced for the EHB in the 2022 State of the European Union address; takes note that a budget of EUR 800 million is expected for the first EU pilot auction for renewable hydrogen production; calls on the Commission to detail what further funding will be made available; _________________ 1a https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52023 DC0156
2023/10/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 19 #

2023/2123(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission to elaborate on the yearly budget available under each pillar of the EHB and deliver a roadmap detailing the size and the general features of auctions foreseen in the coming years;
2023/10/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 24 #

2023/2123(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights that pillars 1 and 4 of the EHB will partly rely on the coordination of the same EU programmes as the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform in order to support the development of renewable hydrogen production; invites the Commission to clarify the interaction between the two initiatives;
2023/10/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 28 #

2023/2123(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the ambition of EHB pillar 1 to spur the development of a domestic market for renewable hydrogen; calls on the Commission to ensure a level playing field when conducting auctions, including by considering support for hydrogen based on renewable sources from other bidding zones than the production zone; agrees that a well-functioning domestic market requires cross-border hydrogen infrastructure; regrets the fact that the Commission’s proposal for the revision of the multiannual financial framework (MFF) did not include an increase in funding for the Connecting Europe Facility; warns that investments in hydrogen infrastructure should not lead to locked-in emissions;
2023/10/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 36 #

2023/2123(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses the need to increase massively public funding for renewable hydrogen development in the EU and stresses the need to make sure that there are synergies between all available investment funds, programmes and financial instruments, in order to ensure cooperation between the public and the private sector for investments in a wide range of projects;
2023/10/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 35 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
(6) The net-zero transformation is already causing huge industrial, economic, and geopolitical shifts across the globe, which will become ever more pronounced as the world advances in its decarbonisation efforts. The road to net zero translates into strong opportunities for the expansion of Union’s net-zero industry, making use of the strength of the Single Market, by promoting investment in technologies in the field of renewable energy technologies , electricity and heat storage technologies, heat pumps, grid technologies, renewable fuels of non- biological origin technologies, electrolysers and fuel cells, fusion, small modular reactors and related best-in-class fuels, carbon capture, utilisation, and storage technologies, and energy-system related energy efficiency technologies and their supply chains, allowing for the decarbonisation of our economic sectors, from energy supply to transport, buildings, and industry. A strong net zero industry within the European Union can help significantly in reaching the Union’s climate and energy targets effectively, as well as in supporting other Green Deal objectives, while creating jobs andquality jobs and sustainable growth.
2023/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 36 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
(16) The Union has helped buildshould promote a global economic system based on open and rules- based trade, pushed for providing quality jobs, including a living wage, job security and access to social protection, lifelong learning opportunities, good working conditions in safe and healthy workplaces, reasonable working time with a good work-life balance, as well as trade union representation and bargaining rights, respecting and advancing social and environmental sustainability standards, and is fully committed to those values.
2023/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 37 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
(21) In order to maintain competitiveness and reduce current strategic import dependencies in key net- zero technology products and their supply chains, while avoiding the formation of new ones, the Union needs to continue strengthening its net zero industrial base and become more competitive and innovation friendly. The Union needs to enable the development of manufacturing capacity faster, simpler and in a more predictable way. Union policies should ensure regional and social cohesion in view of overcoming structural differences between regions as well as social inequalities, including inequalities between women and men.
2023/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 41 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
(23) In addition, the Communication on the Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net- Zero Age42 sets out a comprehensive approach to support a clean energy technology scale up based on four pillars. The first pillar aims at creating a regulatory environment that simplifies and fast-tracks permitting for new net-zero technology manufacturing and assembly sites and facilitates the scaling up of the net-zero industry of the Union. The second pillar of the plan is to boost investment in and financing of net-zero technology production, through the revised Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework adopted in March 2023 and the creation of a European Sovereignty fund to preserve the European edge on critical and emerging technologies relevant to the green and digital transitions. The third pillar relates to developing the skills and quality jobs needed to make the transition happen and increase the number of skilled workers in the clean energy technology sector. The fourth pillar focuses on trade and the diversification of the supply chain of critical raw materials. That includes creating a critical raw materials club, working with like-minded partners, in full compliance with social and labour standards, to collectively strengthen supply chains and diversifying away from single suppliers for critical input. _________________ 42 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: A Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age, COM/2023/62 final, 01.02.2023.
2023/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 44 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26 a (new)
(26a) Member States should use their purchasing power to promote Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP), including gender equality, in order to ensure a good balance between the three pillars of sustainable development - economic, social and environmental - when procuring goods, services or works.
2023/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 56 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 64
(64) The scaling up of European net- zero technology industries requires significant additional skilled workers which implies important investment needs in re-skilling and upskilling, including in the field of vocational education and training. ThisA regular mapping exercise focussing on the development of quality jobs at regional level as well as the collective bargaining coverage rate should contribute to the creationincrease the number of quality jobs in line with the targets for employment and training of the European Pillar of Social Rights. Labour shortages are particularly prevalent in sectors with challenging working conditions, and skills alone will not solve this problem1a. The poor quality of jobs, bad working conditions and a lock of investment in vocational education and training (VET) at company level are some of the reasons for the lack of skilled workers 1b. Tackling those issues by means of decent working conditions and retention policies is therefore important for a well-functioning labour market fit for the digital and green transitons. Improving job quality in sectors and companies with poor working conditions is also an important element for addressing the issue of brain drain which results in growing inequalities between regions, unequal development as well as unequal capacity to drive innovation and create jobs. The energy transition will require a significant increase in the number of skilled workers in a range of sectors, including renewable energy and energy storage, and has a great potential for quality job creation. The skill needs for the fuel cell hydrogen sub-sector in manufacturing alone are estimated at 180.000 trained workers, technicians and engineers by the year 2030, according to the Commission’s European Strategic Energy Technology Plan65 . In the photo- voltaic solar energy sector, up to 66.000 jobs would be needed in manufacturing alone. The European network of employment services (EURES) is providing information, advice and recruitment or placement for the benefit of workers and employers, including across internal market borders. _________________ The same information regarding decent working conditions, social protection and access to the labour market should be provided for migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, whereby advise and support for the validation of skills and competences and the recognition of qualifications is essential in this context. _________________ 1a https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/news/ne ws-articles/skills-alone-will-not-solve- labour-shortages-in-europe 1b https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/files/3092_ en.pdf; https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/files/3075_ en.pdf 65 European Commission, Directorate- General for Research and Innovation, Joint Research Centre, The strategic energy technology (SET) plan, Publications Office, 2019, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2777/04888.
2023/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 66 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 65
(65) Since strengthening the manufacturing capacity of key net-zero technologies in the Union will not be possible without a sizeable skilled workforce, it is necessary to introduce measures to boost the activation of more people to the labour market, notably women and young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs), including via skills first approaches as a complement to qualifications-based recruitment. In addition, in line with the objectives of the Council Recommendation on ensuring a fair transition towards climate-neutrality, specific support for job-to-job transition for workers in redundant and declining sectors are important. This means investing in skills and in quality job creation, including a living wage, job security and access to social protection, lifelong learning opportunities, good working conditions in safe and healthy workplaces, reasonable working time with a good work-life balance, as well as trade union representation and bargaining rights, required for net-zero technologies in the Union. Building on and fully taking into account existing initiatives such as the EU Pact for Skills, EU level activities on skills intelligence and forecasting, such as by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) and the European Labour Authority, and the Blueprints for sectoral cooperation on skills, the objective is to mobilise all actors: Member States authorities, including at regional and local levels, education and training providers, social partners and industry, in particular SMEs, to identify skills needs, develop education and training programmes and deploy these at large scale in a fast and operational manner. Net-zero strategic projects have a key role to play in this regard. Member States and the Commission may ensure financial support including by leveraging the possibilities of the Union budget through instruments such as the European Social Fund Plus, Just Transition Fund, European Regional Development Funds, the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the Modernisation Fund, REPowerEU and the Single Market Programme.
2023/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 74 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 66
(66) Building on previous experiences, such as the EU Pact for Skills and the European Battery Alliance or the Offshore Renewable Energies, European Net- Zero Industry Academies should develop and deploy education and training content to upskill and reskill workers required for key net-zero technology value chains, such as solar photovoltaic and solar thermal technologies, renewable hydrogen technologies and raw materials, preceded by a mapping exercise focussing on existing quality job and collective bargaining coverage at regional level. The academies would aim to enable the training and education of 100.000 learners each, within three years of their establishment, to contribute to the availability of skills required for the net-zero technologies, including in small and medium-sized enterprises. That content should be developed and deployed with education and training providers in Member States, relevant Member States authorities and social partners. Education and training providers, industry and other actors involved in up- and reskilling in the Member States, such as Public Employment Services, should deliver the content produced by the academies. To ensure skills transparency and portability and the mobility of workers, the European Net-Zero Industry Academies will develop and deploy credentials, including micro- credentials, covering learning achievements. They should be issued in the format of European credentials for learning and could be integrated in EUROPASS and, where relevant, included in National Qualifications Frameworks. Member States are encouraged to support the continuous reskilling and upskilling offered via the academies and the relevant education and training providers in their territories through national programmes and Union funding, including from the European Social Fund Plus, the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the European Regional Development Fund, the Just Transition Mechanism, the Modernisation Fund and the Technical Support Instrument. The Net-Zero Europe Platform should assist in guiding the work of the Academies and providing oversight. The European Net- Zero Industry Academies should apply the European Strategy for Gender Equality in view of changing educational and occupational gender sterotypes.
2023/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 83 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
ba) the creation of quality jobs, including a living wage, job security and access to social protection, lifelong learning opportunities, good working conditions in safe and healthy workplaces, reasonable working time with a good work-life balance, as well as trade union representation and bargaining rights.
2023/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 95 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point b – introductory part
(b) the net-zero technology manufacturing project has positive impact on the Union’s net-zero industry supply chain or downstream sectors, beyond the project promoter and the Member States concerned, contributing to the competitiveness and quality job creation of the Union’s net-zero industry supply chain, according to at least three of the following criteria:
2023/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 102 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point b – point iv a (new)
(iva) it respects collective agreements and workers' right to organise, take collective action and to bargain collectively as well as the right to be informed and consulted, also on mergers and investment decisions;
2023/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 103 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point b – point iv b (new)
(ivb) it provides quality jobs including a living wage, job security and access to social protection, lifelong learning opportunities, good working conditions in safe and healthy workplaces, reasonable working time with a good work-life balance as well as trade union representation and bargaining rights;
2023/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 104 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point b – point iv c (new)
(ivc) it reinvests a large share of its profits, shares profits equitably with workers and does not pay extraordinary dividends and bonuses to managers while receiving public funding;
2023/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 105 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point b – point iv d (new)
(ivd) it applies pay transparency in line with Union legislation and ensures diversity at work;
2023/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 109 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Companies responsible for net- zero manufacturing projects shall fulfil the following conditions: (a) make substantial investments in employees’ reskilling and upskilling; (b) allocate a minimum percentage of capital expenditure to Research and Development; (c) demonstrate compliance with ILO conventions, including on forced labour, and have efficient due diligence procedures in line with Union legislation in place; (d) offer decent wages and engage in collective bargaining; (e) limit stock buybacks, dividend payments and executive pay.
2023/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 119 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1
1. Contracting authorities or contracting entities shall base the award of contracts for net-zero technology listed in the Annex in a public procurement procedure on the most economically advantageous tender, which shall include the best price- quality ratio, comprising at least the social and environmental sustainability and resilience contribution of the tender, in compliance with Directives 2014/23/EU, 2014/24/EU, or 2014/25/EU and applicable sectoral legislation, as well as with the Union’s international commitments, including the GPA and other international agreements by which the Union is bound.
2023/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 122 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) environmental and social sustainability going beyond the minimum requirements in applicable legislation, including job quality, measures to improve diversity at work, as well as respect of collective agreements and trade union rights to negotiate;
2023/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 138 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. The Commission shall regularly map the development of quality jobs at regional level as well as the collective bargaining coverage rate. It shall support, including through the provision of seed- funding, the establishment of European Net Zero Industry Academies in areas lagging behind, which have as their objectives to:
2023/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 145 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) develop and deploy credentials, including micro-credentials, to facilitate the transparency of skills acquired and enhance the transferability between jobs andquality jobs, to facilitate the cross-border mobility of the workforce, and to promote matching with relevant quality jobs through tools such as the European Employment Services (EURES) network and EURAXESS.
2023/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 172 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – point 4
(4) assist the uptake and recognition of learning credentials of the European Net- Zero Industry Academies in the Member States to promote the recognition of skills and the matching of skills and quality jobs, inter alia by promoting the validity and acceptance of the credentials throughout the labour market of the European Union;
2023/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 174 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – point 5
(5) facilitate the development of European occupation profiles consisting of a common set of knowledge, skills and competences for key professions in the net- zero technologies, drawing inter alia upon the learning programmes developed by the European Net-Zero Industry Academies, and, where appropriate, using the terminology provided by the European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations (ESCO) classification to facilitate transparency and mobility between quality jobs and across internal market borders;
2023/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 179 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – point 6
(6) promote adequate working conditions in quality jobs in net-zero technology industries, the activation of youth, women and seniors to the labour market for net- zero technology industries, and the attraction of skilled workers from third countries, and thereby achieve a more diverse workforce;
2023/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 182 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – point 7
(7) facilitate closer coordination and the exchange of best practices between Member States to enhance the availability of skills in the net-zero technologies, including by contributing to Union and Member States policies to attract new talents from third countries by providing information regarding decent working conditions, social protection and access to the labour market as well as support for the validation of skills and competences and the recognition of qualifications.
2023/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 188 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 4 – point c – point i a (new)
ia) decent working conditions and social conditionalities.
2023/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 189 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 2
2. Each Member State shall appoint a high-level representative to the Platform. Where relevant as regards the function and expertise, a Member State may have more than one representative in relation to different tasks related to the work of the Platform. Each member of the Platform shall have an alternate. Cross-industry social partners may designate four representatives as observers to the Platform with an equal representation of trade unions and employer organisations.
2023/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 192 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 11
11. The Platform shall coordinate and cooperate with existing industrial alliances, as well as national sectorial social partners.
2023/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 31 #

2022/2172(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Recalls that, when the EU's 2030 objective of lowering greenhouse gas emissions was only a reduction of 40%, the Commission had estimated the investment gap at EUR 662 billion per year and that it is obvious that the investment needs are much higher if we really want to achieve FitFor55; recalls also that at the end of the climate COP27, the EU pushed for the creation of a Loss and Damage Fund; is of the opinion that it would be dramatic if this new Fund does not receive sufficient funding commensurate with the stakes; recalls that the French President Emmanuel Macron and the Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced the organisation of a Global Summit in Paris in June 2023 to finance the Loss and Damage Fund; estimates that it is crucial that the EU knows how it will finance its fair share of the Loss and Damage Fund before the start of the Summit in order for the Summit discussions to be much more constructive and dedicated to how this fresh money will be most useful to facing losses and damages, rather than to discuss vague and insufficient funding promises that Global South countries no longer tolerate; is convinced that the best way to have a European answer to finance the Loss and Damage Fund, but also adaptation and mitigation policies, is to unlock the negotiations on new EU own resources as soon as possible;
2023/02/09
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 78 #

2022/2172(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Acknowledges with regret that any prospectsCalls on the participating Member States to reach an agreement for the introduction of a financial transaction tax under enhanced cooperation have faded away in the course of recent years; insists, nevertheless, that the financial sector be encompasbased on the existing Commission proposal; recalls its report of 13 November 2020 which asked for the introduction of new own resources, among which the one with the highest potential revenue was “a financial transaction tax (FTT), which, based byon the corporate or single market-based own resource initiative, ideally within the BEFIT contextiginal Commission proposal from 2012 and taking into account Brexit and economic growth, could raise up to EUR 57 billion per year”;
2023/02/09
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 83 #

2022/2172(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Recalls that this report “reiterate[d], in this regard, its call to all Member States to join the enhanced cooperation framework on the FTT”; recalls the Commission Declaration on establishing a Financial Transaction Tax based Own Resource from December 2020, which stated that “Discussions on the Financial Transaction Tax under enhanced cooperation are ongoing with a view of their finalisation by the end of 2022. Should there be an agreement on this Financial Transaction Tax, the Commission will make a proposal in order to transfer revenues from this Financial Transaction Tax to the EU budget as an own resource”; insists that, even if the 2022 deadline has not been met, which can be understood as the EU has been faced with unprecedented challenges such as COVID and the war in Ukraine, an agreement in enhanced cooperation to create the FTT must be reached in early 2023;
2023/02/09
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 88 #

2022/2172(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13 b. Urges that, faced with the urgency created by the IRA in the USA, the FTT shall be adopted in enhanced cooperation without delay, with a view that its revenues can gradually evolve towards EUR 57 billion per year and ultimately solve 3 problems: (1) repay NextGenerationEU (which is expected to weight EUR 15 billion per year for 30 years) (2) repay a European Sovereignty Fund (perhaps another EUR 15 billion per year for 30 years) (3) and provide new funding to the EU budgetary priorities including the twin transition and especially the European Green Deal;
2023/02/09
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 92 #

2022/2172(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)
13 c. Underlines that an agreement in enhanced cooperation would be the best way towards an EU-wide FTT and reiterates its call on all Member States to join this enhanced cooperation; believes that a new FTT proposal from the European Commission should be at least as ambitious as the European Commission 2012 Proposal and as the agreement that will have been found in enhanced cooperation, with its main purpose to transform an enhanced cooperation FTT into an EU-wide FTT;
2023/02/09
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 14 #

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital -A c (new)
-Ac. whereas the outermost regions (ORs) offer major assets to the EU; whereas many of the ORs have a young population, extensive maritime economic zones, unique biodiversity, rich renewable energy sources, location and climate suitable for space sciences and astrophysics activities, important space infrastructure and proximity to other countries while at the same time, they are facing challenges to their development such as remoteness, insularity, small size, vulnerability to climate change, and economic dependence on a few sectors;
2023/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 16 #

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital A
A. whereas social inequalities are at the heart of theone of the greatest social challenges facing the outermost regions (ORs) of the EU; whereas the ORs collectively are disproportionately affected by high poverty, unemployment and school dropout rates and these issues are exacerbated by the particularities that are common to these regions; a gross domestic product (GDP), which is significantly below EU and national averages (60% in the ORs if the EU-27 average is put at 100%)1a; whereas these issues are exacerbated by the particularities that are common to these regions; _________________ 1a The Commission’s report: “Outermost regions at a glance – assets, challenges and opportunities” from May 2022 illustrates a GDP PPS per inhabitant percentage in 2020 of 60% in the ORs. https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sourc es/policy/themes/outermost-regions/rup- 2022/comm-rup-2022-glance_en.pdf
2023/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 27 #

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital C
C. whereas the number of young people who are not in employment, education or training is at an alarming level in the ORs; (22% compared to 11% in the EU-27)2a; _________________ 2a The Commission’s report: “Outermost regions at a glance – assets, challenges and opportunities” from May 2022 illustrates average young people rates of early leavers, NEETs (not in employment, education and training double the rate on EU Level. https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sourc es/policy/themes/outermost-regions/rup- 2022/comm-rup-2022-glance_en.pdf
2023/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 29 #

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas young people from the outermost regions frequently need to travel and move to other regions to obtain specific training and education; whereas many who have moved away are not coming back later on;
2023/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 38 #

2022/2147(INI)

D. whereas women in the ORs too often face unstable and short-term employment; the employment rate of women in the ORs is significantly below the EU and national averages (47% compared to 62% in the EU-27)3a; _________________ 3a The Commission’s report: “Outermost regions at a glance – assets, challenges and opportunities” from May 2022 illustrates the female employment rates in the ORs compared to the average European levels. https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sourc es/policy/themes/outermost-regions/rup- 2022/comm-rup-2022-glance_en.pdf
2023/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 67 #

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the social situation of young people is a central concern forin the ORs; calls, in this regard, for the reinforced Youth Guarantee to be fully deployed in the ORs; believes that an evaluation of the guarantee’s implementation is necessary in these territories is necessary, including an assessment of the existing barriers for young people;
2023/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 68 #

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Member States as well as the regional and local authorities concerned to put in place or strengthen measures to fight unemployment, poverty and social exclusion in the ORs, including through the strengthening of public employment services, the promotion of lifelong learning and other measures focused on professional development;
2023/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 70 #

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Highlights that education and training as well as the integration into the labour market is an important instrument to combat poverty and inequalities; urges the Commission and the Member States, therefore, to support measures aimed at disadvantaged and low-skilled groups in the ORs, with emphasis on education and training that allow for the development of social, scientific and professional skills, in particular basic digital skills; calls on the Member States as well as the regional and local authorities concerned to ensure the diversification of the education and training offers, according to the needs of the regions and to ensure equal opportunities;
2023/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 71 #

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Stresses the importance of enhancing public services in the ORs, through strengthened regional cooperation, economic diversification, investments in R&D and digitalisation, reinforced vocational education and training, upskilling and reskilling opportunities and active labour market policies, to tackle long-term unemployment and youth unemployment in particular (45,82% compared to 16,8% in the EU-27);4a _________________ 4a The Commission’s report: “Outermost regions at a glance – assets, challenges and opportunities” from May 2022 illustrates a comparison between the youth employment rates in the ORs in relation to the average EU-27 level. https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sourc es/policy/themes/outermost-regions/rup- 2022/comm-rup-2022-glance_en.pdf
2023/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 74 #

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support youth employment in the ORs by working with local stakeholders, including within the private sector, universities and local authorities, to establish a digital one-stop shop in order to help young peoplejobseekers who are seelooking for their first job or lookingwant to establish or take over a businesses;
2023/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 90 #

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need to ensure the empowerment of women in the ORs by promoting access to stable, high-quality jobs, including equal pay and fair remuneration;
2023/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 98 #

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to facilitate the establishment of special economic zones in order to promote economic and social recovery, job creation and skills development in the ORs, and to support the Member States in the evaluation, renewal and adaptation of existing special economic zones;deleted
2023/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 107 #

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to improve access toand the Member States to improve access to information regarding the European Social Fund Plus in the ORs by setting up masslaunching information campaigns aimed at institutional and associative partners, providing a support services for project leaders and financing training for managing authorities.;
2023/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 108 #

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Highlights that the outermost regions' economies are heavily dependent on the tourism and transport sectors, which were severely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic; calls therefore on Member-States as well as regional and local authorities concerned to work together to best ensure the socio-economic recovery of the ORs, taking into account challenges such as rising prices due to inflation and disruption of supply chains;
2023/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 115 #

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve access to Union funding for the ORs and to advance with the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights, including in the areas of quality employment, education, skills, social inclusion, and equal access to healthcare;
2023/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 117 #

2022/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to provide tailored support to the ORs to ensure they can make the most out of EU opportunities, as well as to organise specific workshops on EU programmes and strengthen the dialogue with relevant stakeholders in the ORs;
2023/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 47 #

2022/2046(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Underscores that there is a clear consensus among the institutions that, in the wake of the unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine, the EU should provide the strongest possible social, economic and financial assistance to Ukraine, while addressing the economic and social consequences of the crisis within the Union and delivering the necessary support to its citizens; underlines, in this context, the shared Union goals of delivering on the European Green Deal and the digital transition, scaling up defence cooperation and coordination, improving its strategic autonomy and energy independence and security, ensuring food security, and addressing the challenges caused by high inflation; recalls that, with its repeated heatwaves, catastrophic forest fires and deadly floods, the summer of 2022 was for many citizens an opportunity to become aware of the seriousness of climate change and the urgency of doing everything possible to do whatever it takes to limit its gravity and consequences; considers that, in order to get out of our dependence on fossil gas (and therefore to lower its price) and to ensure the success of the European Green Deal, it is urgent to give a new impetus to building insulation (both public and private), which can create massive employment opportunities and improve the purchasing power of households, but which requires massive financial assistance, and in order for the European Green Deal to succeed and to be welcomed all over Europe, it is crucial that the EU participates massively in this financial assistance;
2022/10/14
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 195 #

2022/2046(INI)

23. Deplores the fact that, even prior to the war against Ukraine, funds available under Heading 6 were woefully inadequate and that pressure has since increased substantially; underlines that the continued funding for the needs of refugees from Syria, Iraq and other countries was not factored into the MFF or NDICI-Global Europe negotiations and should therefore have been financed by fresh appropriations with a corresponding increase in the ceiling of Heading 6; highlights that, owing to the risk of default on MFA loans provided to Ukraine, a far higher rate of provisioning than the standard 9 % is likely to be required as further loans are rolled out; underlines that additional needs in Ukraine must not lead to money being diverted away from other geographic regions in need; insists, therefore, on an increase in the ceiling for Heading 6 to fully cover the current and projected future needs of the Union’s external action, which have dramatically increased both in neighbouring countries and worldwide as a result of the food, energy and economic crises; stresses that, in order to combat deforestation in the Global South and to encourage allied states to implement the recommendations of the International Energy Agency which, in May 2021, called for the renunciation of all new oil drilling "in order to avoid an apocalyptic future", the EU must urgently strengthen our financial support mechanisms for countries that are effectively committed to halting deforestation or agree to renounce the revenues that would be generated by the exploitation of their oil resources; wishes to respond to the expectations of African leaders at the Africa Adaptation Summit in Rotterdam on 5th September 2022 who felt humiliated by the lack of financial support from Western states for the climate adaptation policies they want to implement in their countries; wishes also to respond to the funding-related expectations expressed at Climate Summits and in particular to the expectations of the most vulnerable countries which, in order to compensate for the damage and losses linked to global warming, are asking for funds that could be financed by "a global carbon tax, a tax on airline travel, a levy on the heavily polluting and carbon-intensive bunker fuels used by ships, adding taxes to fossil fuel extraction, or a tax on financial transactions";
2022/10/14
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 274 #

2022/2046(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35 a. Considers that, in order to create this common crisis instrument, to start reimbursing Next Generation EU from 2027 without reducing existing programmes, and to give more resources to the digital transition and to the European Green Deal (both on European territory and in its international dimension) while not increasing national contributions of the Member States, it is urgent to break the deadlock in the negotiations on the introduction of new own resources; considers that, in order to limit the economic and social consequences of the war unleashed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the EU is expected to adopt a massive financial assistance plan for households, local authorities and businesses as soon as possible, but that certain Member States refuse to negotiate a new common debt until it is clear how the Next Generation debt will be repaid; considers that it is therefore urgent to find a pragmatic solution to this issue as this is now seriously limiting Europe's capacity to act and risks leading Europe to a serious economic, social and political crisis; considers that in order to ensure a level playing field all across the EU and ensure the cohesion of the Single Market, an ambitious European response to the energy crisis must be found which will give all Member States the means to fight this crisis;
2022/10/14
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 275 #

2022/2046(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 b (new)
35 b. Recalls that in its Report on Sustainable Europe Investment Plan, Parliament listed the candidates for new own resources "(i) the auction revenues of the Emissions Trading System, which could raise between 3 and 10 billion EUR/year, (ii) a contribution on non- recycled plastic packaging waste, which could raise between 3 and 10 billion EUR/year, (iii) the future Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, which could raise between 5 and 14 billion EUR/year, (iv) a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base, which could raise more than 12 billion EUR/year, (v) a tax on large digital companies, which could raise between 750 million EUR and 1.3 billion EUR/year, and (vi) a financial transaction tax (FTT), which, based on the original Commission proposal from 2012 and taking into account Brexit and economic growth, could raise up to 57 billion EUR/year, depending on the scope of the tax”;
2022/10/14
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 276 #

2022/2046(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 c (new)
35 c. Recalls that in its Report on Sustainable Europe Investment Plan, Parliament reiterated “its call to all Member States to join the enhanced cooperation framework on the FTT"; considers that if the EU budget was enriched by an additional EUR 57 billion, it would be easy to repay the Next Generation EU debt (EUR 15 billion per year) and to give increased means to the Union's priorities (including, possibly, the repayment of a new Recovery Plan related to the consequences of the war in Ukraine); recalls that it is committed to the implementation of a basket of new own resources which will be the subject of a forthcoming resolution, and that it is open to other mechanisms for mobilising new European and national public resources, such as the windfall tax on energy producers, but stresses that, on its own, the FTT could bring in more than all the other new own resources being negotiated, that it is a very popular social justice solution in all Member States and that, since it was proposed by the European Commission in 2011, it has already been the subject of all the impact assessments necessary for its proper implementation; recalls that, in the December 2020 MFF package, the European Commission noted that "discussions on the Financial Transaction Tax under enhanced cooperation are ongoing with a view of their finalisation by the end of 2022";
2022/10/14
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 277 #

2022/2046(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 d (new)
35 d. Considers that an agreement on the FTT with the scope and rates proposed in 2011 by the European Commission would achieve a double objective: (i) to allow the Member States of this enhanced cooperation not to have to pay their share in the reimbursement of Next Generation EU (unlike the Member States that have not yet joined the enhanced cooperation) but also (ii) to release new resources for the EU budget; considers that the impact assessments carried out by the European Commission state that only one year is needed between a political agreement on the FTT and the actual inflow of new resources for the EU budget; understands that the Council and the Member States participating in the enhanced cooperation on the FTT, which had to deal with multiple crises over the last two years, will not reach an agreement on this issue before the end of 2022 as the Commission and Parliament wished, but that this issue is now becoming absolutely urgent in order to unblock the negotiation on a new Recovery Plan and to avoid serious difficulties in the implementation of the last years of the MFF; urges the Commission and the Member States involved in the negotiations on the enhanced cooperation to do their utmost to reach an agreement on the FTT before the end of June 2023 and therefore before the expected end of the negotiations on the upscaled MFF, which would give considerable room for manoeuvre to effectively upscale the budgets for the years 2025 and after;
2022/10/14
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 25 #

2022/0398(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 6
(6) Persons, entities and bodies, which are designated individually in Union restrictive measures and subject to those Union restrictive measures, as well as dependants of those natural persons, may often be involved as instigators and accomplices. For instance, the practice by designated persons, notably family members, and entities of transferring funds, property or economic resources to a third party with a view to circumvent Union restrictive measures is increasingly widespread and undermines the effectiveness of Union restrictive measures. Therefore, this conduct is covered by the circumvention offence approximated by this Directive.
2023/05/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 28 #

2022/0398(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) (6 a) Violation of the Union restrictive measures is most notably motivated by considerations of financial gain. While generating profits, the circumvention of restrictive measures enables the continued use of frozen assets in ways which undermine the objectives and effectiveness of those restrictive measures. Proceeds resulting from the violation of Union restrictive measures or instruments used to pursue the violation of restrictive measures should become the object of confiscation. The net revenue from such confiscated assets, and in particular those resulting from the violation of restrictive measures in Council Regulation (EU) No 269/20141aand Council Regulation (EU) No 833/20141b should serve the goal of the reconstruction of Ukraine and compensation to the local victim population, in line with the Directive (EU) [.../...] of the European Parliament and of the Council [on asset recovery and confiscation]1c. _________________ 1a Council Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 of 17 March 2014 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine (OJ L 78, 17.3.2014, p. 6) 1b Council Regulation (EU) No 833/2014 of 31 July 2014 concerning restrictive measures in view of Russia's actions destabilising the situation in Ukraine (OJ L 229, 31.7.2014, p. 1). 1c COM(2022) 245.
2023/05/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 30 #

2022/0398(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 19
(19) To ensure the effective investigation and prosecution of violations of Union restrictive measures, Member States’ competent authorities should cooperate through and with Europol, Eurojust and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO). TheseGiven the EPPO's current mandate is restricted to offences that affect the financial interests of the Union, the EPPO can only prosecute violations of Union restrictive meansures in certain cases. Members States' competent authorities should also share information among each other and with the Commission on practical issues.
2023/05/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 32 #

2022/0398(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 19 a (new)
(19a) Offences consisting in violation of the Union restrictive measures which involve designated persons, their dependants, entity or body, listed in the legal acts of the Union on restrictive measures, such as Council Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 and Council Regulation (EU) No 833/2014, need to be considered in the light of the crimes against the financial interests of the Union.
2023/05/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 34 #

2022/0398(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 23
(23) The objectives of this Directive, namely to ensure common definitions of offences related to the violation of Union restrictive measures and the availability of effective, dissuasive and proportionate criminal penalties for serious offences related to the violation of Union restrictive measures cannot be sufficiently achieved by Member States but can rather, by reason of the scale and effects of this Directive, be better achieved at Union level, taking into account the inherent cross-border nature of the violation of Union restrictive measures and their potential to undermine the achievement of the Union objectives to safeguard international peace and security as well as to uphold Union common values and defend the Union financial interests. Therefore the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in accordance with Article 5 TEU. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary to achieve that objective.
2023/05/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 43 #

2022/0398(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 5
(5) Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that natural persons who have committed the offences referred to in Articles 3 and 4 may be subject to additional penalties. Those additional penalties which shall include fines.
2023/05/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 48 #

2022/0398(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that funds or economic resources subject to Union restrictive measures in respect of which the designated person or their dependants, entity or body commits or participates in an offence referred to in Article 3(2), points (h)(i) or (ii), are considered as ‘proceeds’ of crime for the purposes of Directive (EU) […/…] [Directive on asset recovery and confiscation].
2023/05/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 49 #

2022/0398(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Member States shall take measures allowing net revenues resulting from the liquidation of confiscated assets referred to in Article 10, paragraph 1 to be used for public interest or social purposes, with a particular focus on the victims wherever possible. Where the fines referred to in Article 5(5) and Article 7(2) and (3) are related to the offences referred to in Articles 3 and 4 and are linked to the violation of Union restrictive measures in the context of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, they should serve the goal of rebuilding the infrastructure and compensating the victim population.
2023/05/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 50 #

2022/0398(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 1 b (new)
Member States shall decide for which areas of public interest and social purposes the net revenue resulting from the liquidation of confiscated funds or economic resources may be used, except for those established as an own resource in accordance with Article 311(3) TFEU; proceeds resulting from the criminal offences listed in Article 3(2)(h)(i) and (ii) and related to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine shall constitute external assigned revenue in accordance with Article 21(5) of the Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council1a (‘the Financial Regulation’) until the establishment of the relevant own resource in accordance with Article 311(3) TFEU and without prejudice to restitution, compensation, to the victims and public concerned and Member States’ capacity to implement the Directive. _________________ 1a 1a Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 July 2018 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union, amending Regulations (EU) No 1296/2013, (EU) No 1301/2013, (EU) No 1303/2013, (EU) No 1304/2013, (EU) No 1309/2013, (EU) No 1316/2013, (EU) No 223/2014, (EU) No 283/2014, and Decision No 541/2014/EU and repealing Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 (OJ L 193, 30.7.2018, p. 1).
2023/05/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 51 #

2022/0398(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 1 c (new)
The net revenues resulting from the liquidation of confiscated assets or economic resources related to the criminal offences listed in Article 3(2)(h)(i) and (ii) and related to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine shall be mainly assigned to the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument – Global Europe on the Eastern Neighbourhood line (14 02 01 11) and, where appropriate, to the NDICI - Global Europe - provisioning of the common provisioning fund line (14 02 01 70) under Heading 6 and the successor budget lines in the next multiannual financial framework.
2023/05/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 52 #

2022/0398(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 2 a (new)
For the purposes of this Directive, when the notion of competent authorities refers to investigating and prosecuting authorities, it shall be interpreted as including the central and decentralised levels of the EPPO with regard to the Member States that participate in the enhanced cooperation on the establishment of the EPPO.
2023/05/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 53 #

2022/0398(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 1
Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that effective investigative tools and mechanisms, such as those which are used in investigating organised crime or other serious crime cases, are also available for investigating or prosecuting offences referred to in Articles 3 and 4.
2023/05/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 55 #

2022/0398(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 1
(1) Without prejudice to the rules on cross-border cooperation and mutual legal assistance in criminal matters, Member States’ authorities, Europol, Eurojust, the European Public Prosecutor's Office, when Member States participating in the enhanced cooperation on the establishment of the EPPO are involved, and the Commission shall, within their respective competences, cooperate with each other in the fight against the criminal offences referred to in Articles 3 and 4. To that end, the Commission, and where appropriate, Europol and Eurojust, shall provide technical and operational assistance in order to facilitate the coordination of investigations and prosecutions by the competent authorities.
2023/05/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 56 #

2022/0398(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 2
(2) Member States’ competent authorities shall also regularly share information on practical issues, in particular, patterns of circumvention, e.g. structures to conceal the beneficial ownership and control of assets, with the Commission, EPPO and other competent authorities, within the exercise of their respective competences.
2023/05/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 58 #

2022/0398(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
(aa) the number of criminal proceedings referred to the EPPO
2023/05/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 149 #

2022/0164(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
REPowerEU
Article 18 – paragraph 4 – point q
(q) for the preparation and, where available, for the implementation of the recovery and resilience plan, a summary of the consultation process, conducted in accordance with the national legal frameworkEU standards on public participation and in particular the Code of Conduct on Partnership, of local and regional authorities, social partners, civil society organisations, youth organisations and other relevant stakeholders, and how the input of the stakeholders is reflected in the recovery and resilience plan; in particular, the summary of the consultation process shall explain the outcome of the consultations with local and regional authorities and other relevant stakeholders on reforms and investments included in the REPowerEU chapter and outline how the input received was reflected in the REPowerEU chapter;
2022/09/29
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 219 #

2022/0164(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Regulation (EU) 2021/241
Article 21c – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) improving energy infrastructure and facilities to meet immediate security of supply needs for oil and gas, notably to enable diversification of supply in the interest of the Union as a whole on the condition of an adequate justification as to why an alternative based on renewable energy cannot immediately respond to the concern,
2022/09/29
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 225 #

2022/0164(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Regulation (EU) 2021/241
Article 21c – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) boosting energy efficiency in buildings as well as on-site and nearby renewable energy generation, decarbonising industry, increasing production and uptake of sustainable biomethane and renewable or fossil-free hydrogen and increasing the share of renewable energy including improving related electrification infrastructure and facilities,
2022/09/29
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 249 #

2022/0164(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Regulation (EU) 2021/241
Article 21c – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) an explanation on how the combination of the measures referred to in paragraph 1 and points (a) and (b) of this paragraph is coherent, effective and expected to contribute to the REPowerEU objectives, including a quantification of the energy savings, and an impact assessment explaining how the proposed measures will address energy poverty.
2022/09/29
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 256 #

2022/0164(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Regulation (EU) 2021/241
Article 21c – paragraph 2 a (new)
(2 a) A significant share of the Chapter shall be into clean projects, included but not limited to investments to improve energy efficiency, electrification of uses, as well as regulatory reforms to improve deployment and grid integration of renewable electricity generation. Where fossil options are chosen, an adequate justification as to why clean alternatives cannot respond to concerns as specified in paragraph 1 (a).
2022/09/29
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 68 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 32
(32) In line with international standards, prevention and mitig, tracking, mitigation, remediation as well as bringing to an end and minimisation of actual and potential adverse impacts should take into accountfocus on the interests of those adversely impacted. In order to enable continuous engagement with the value chain business partner instead of termination of business relations (disengagement) and possibly exacerbating adverse impacts, this Directive should ensure that disengagement is a last-resort action, in line with the Unall persons, groups of persons and entities adversely impacted. In line with the Union’s policy of zero-tolerance on child labour, Union’s Strategy on the rights of the child1a and the target date of 2025 proclaimed by the United Nation`s policy of zero- tolerancefor the full elimination onf child labour. Terminat worldwide, when ending a business relationship in which child labour was found could expose the child to even more severe adverse human rights impacts. This should therefore be taken into account when deciding on the appropriate action to take. s, the company should act in the best interest of the child. _________________ 1a https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/en/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52021 DC0142
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 81 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 42
(42) Companies should provide thestablish the effective possibility for persons and organisations to submit complaints directly to them in case of legitimate concerns regarding actual or potential human rights and environmental adverse impacts. Organisations who could submit such complaints should include trade unions and other workers’ representatives representing individuals working in the value chain concerned and civil society organisations active in the areas related to the value chain concerned where they have knowledge about a potential or actual adverse impact. Companies should establish a procedure for dealing with those complaints and comprehensively inform workers, trade unions and other workers’ representatives, where relevant, in due time about such processes and related measures. Recourse to the complaints and remediation mechanism should not prevent the complainant from having recourse to judicial remedies and enforcement. In accordance with international standards, complaints should be entitled to request from the company appropriate follow-up on the complaint and to meet with the company’s representatives at an appropriate level to discuss potential or actual severe adverse impacts that are the subject matter of the complaint. This access should not lead to unreasonable solicitations of companies.
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 116 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. This Directive shall apply to all companies which are formed in accordance with thin the Union, as referred to in principles 11 and 14 of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP) and standards of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), regardless of: (i) their size, both in terms of number of workers and turnover; (ii) whether they are lregislation of a Member State and which fulfil one of the following conditions:tered in the Union or in a third country; (iii) whether they operate in the public or private sector; (iv) whether the activity which they carry out is high risk or not; (v) the context in which they operate; (vi) their legal form;or (vii) their ownership or structure.
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 122 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) the company had more than 500 employees on average and had a net worldwide turnover of more than EUR 150 million in the last financial year for which annual financial statements have been prepardeleted;
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 128 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) the company did not reach the thresholds under point (a), but had more than 250 employees on average and had a net worldwide turnover of more than EUR 40 million in the last financial year for which annual financial statements have been prepared, provided that at least 50% of this net turnover was generated in one or more of the following sectors: (i) the manufacture of textiles, leather and related products (including footwear), and the wholesale trade of textiles, clothing and footwear; (ii) agriculture, forestry, fisheries (including aquaculture), the manufacture of food products, and the wholesale trade of agricultural raw materials, live animals, wood, food, and beverages; (iii) the extraction of mineral resources regardless from where they are extracted (including crude petroleum, natural gas, coal, lignite, metals and metal ores, as well as all other, non-metallic minerals and quarry products), the manufacture of basic metal products, other non-metallic mineral products and fabricated metal products (except machinery and equipment), and the wholesale trade of mineral resources, basic and intermediate mineral products (including metals and metal ores, construction materials, fuels, chemicals and other intermediate products).deleted
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 148 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. The following activities are considered high-risk: (a) the manufacture of textiles, wearing apparel, leather and related products (including footwear), and the wholesale trade of textiles, clothing, retail and footwear; (b) agriculture, forestry, fisheries (including aquaculture), the manufacture of food products, marketing and advertising of food and beverages, and the wholesale trade of agricultural raw materials, live animals, animal products, wood, food, and beverages; (c) energy, the extraction, quarrying, transport and handling of mineral resources regardless from where they are extracted (including crude petroleum, natural gas, coal, lignite, metals and metal ores, as well as all other, non- metallic minerals and quarry products),the manufacture of basic metal products, other non-metallic mineral products and fabricated metal products (except machinery and equipment), and the wholesale trade of mineral resources, basic and intermediate mineral products (including metals and metal ores, construction materials, fuels, chemicals and other intermediate products); (d) construction and related activities; (e) the provision of financial services, such as loans, credits, financing, pensions, market funding, risk management, payment services, securitisation, insurance or reinsurance, investment services and activities and other financial services; (f) the production, provision and distribution of information and communication technologies or related services, including hardware, device or component manufacturers, software solutions, including artificial intelligence, surveillance, facial recognition, data storage or processing, telecommunication services, including internet service providers or exchange points, web-based and cloud-based services, including social media and networking, messaging, e- commerce, delivery, mobility, and other platform services; (g) employment activities as well as cleaning and household services, tourism and hospitality; (h) supply of water, gas, steam, air conditioning as well as sewage and waste management; (i) the delivery of audit and certification services regarding compliance with requirements resulting from the provisions of this Directive as well as the delivery of audit and certification services regarding compliance with industry initiatives.
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 151 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. This Directive shall also apply to all companies which are formed in accordance with the legislation of a third country, and fulfil one of the following conditions: in line with UNGP principles 11 and 14.
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 153 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) generated a net turnover of more than EUR 150 million in the Union in the financial year preceding the last financial year;deleted
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 157 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) generated a net turnover of more than EUR 40 million but not more than EUR 150 million in the Union in the financial year preceding the last financial year, provided that at least 50% of its net worldwide turnover was generated in one or more of the sectors listed in paragraph 1, point (b).deleted
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 170 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) ‘adverse human rights impact’ means any adverse impact on protectedersons or groups of persons resulting from the violation, unjustified restriction or removal of the enjoyment of one of the rights or prohibitions listed in the Annex, Part I Section 1, as enshrinend in the international conventionand European Human Rights instruments listed in the Annex, Part I Section 2 which should be reviewed biennially including the subsequent case law;
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 181 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point n
(n) ‘stakeholders’ means the company’s employees, the employees of its subsidiaries, and other individuals, groups, communities or individuals or groups of individuals as well as their representiatives whose rights or interests are or could be affected by the the products, services and operations of that company, its subsidiaries and its business relationshipa company and its branches, its subsidies and all entities with whom the company or any of its subsidiaries or branches have business relationships. These stakeholders can be organisations whose statutory purpose is the defence of human rights, social and labour rights, the environment or good governance, including workers and their representatives, trade unions, whistleblowers, civil society organisations, non profit organisations, citizens’ associations, local communities and public entities, indigenous peoples, human rights defenders and the undertakings’ shareholders;
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 196 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Member States shall ensure that companies integrate due diligence into all their corporate policies and have in place a functioning due diligence policy for the company, its subsidiaries, its branches and all entities with whom the company or any of its subsidiaries or branches have business relationships established with the comprehensive and effective involvement, consultation and information of workers, their representatives and trade unions. The due diligence policy shall contain in particular all of the following:
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 200 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) a code of conduct describing rules and principles to be followed by the company’s employees and subsidiarieacross all functions and operations by the company’s management, its workers as well as its subsidiaries, its branches and all entities with whom the company or any of its subsidiaries or branches have business relationships;
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 221 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall ensure that, for the purposes of identifying and assessing the adverse impacts referred to in paragraph 1 based on, where appropriate, quantitative and qualitative information, companies are entitled toshall make use of appropriate resources, including independent reports and information gathered through the complaints procedure provided for in Article 9. Companies shall, where relevant, also carry out consultations with potentially affected grouptrade unions and workers’ representatives, potentially affected persons and groups of persons including workers and other relevant stakeholders, to gather information on as well as identify and assess actual or potential adverse impacts. Trade unions and workers’ representatives shall be kept informed throughout the process.
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 227 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Companies shall be required to take the following actions, where relevant:
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 232 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) where necessary due to the nature or complexity of the measures required for prevention, develop and implement a prevention action plan, with reasonable and clearly defined timelines for action and qualitative and quantitative indicators for measuring improvement. The prevention action plan shall be developed in consultation with trade unions, workers’ representatives and other affected stakeholders;
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 253 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
3. Companies shall be required to take the following actions, where relevant:
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 256 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) fully neutralise and reverse the adverse impact or minimise its extentwithout undue delay or, if reversal or neutralisation is not possible, minimise its extent and mitigate its impact as quickly as possible by appropriate remedies, including inter alia by the full payment of damages to the affected persons, groups of persons or entities and ofull financial compensation to the affected communities. The action shall be proportionate to the significance and scale of the adverse impact and to the contribution of the company’s conduct to the adverse impactpersons, groups of persons or entities;
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 259 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) where necessary due to the fact that the adverse impact cannot be immediately brought to an end, develop and implement a corrective action plan with reasonable and clearly defined timelines for action and qualitative and quantitative indicators for measuring improvement. Where relevant, tThe corrective action plan shall be developed in consultation with affected stakeholders, including trade unions and workers’ representatives, and shall be publicly available;
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 295 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) trade unions and other workers’ representatives, including those representing individuals working in the value chain concerned, or those otherwise affected,
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 313 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – point a
(a) to requestceive appropriate follow-up without undue delay on the complaint from the company with which they have filed a complaint pursuant to paragraph 1, and
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 316 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – point b
(b) to meet with the company’s representatives at an appropriate level to discuss potential or actual severe adverse impacts as well as adequate remedy that are the subject matter of the complaint., and
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 321 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – point b a (new)
(b a) to request timely full and effective remedy of the situation.
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 327 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Recourse to the complaints and remediation mechanism at company level shall not prevent the complainant from having recourse to judicial remedies.
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 333 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 1
In order to provide support to companies or to Member State authorities on how companies should fulfil their due diligence obligations, the Commission, in consultation with Member States and, the European cross-industry and sectoral social partners, other relevant stakeholders, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, the European Environment Agency, the European Labour Authority and where appropriate with international bodies like the UN, the ILO and the Council of Europe having expertise in due diligence, mayshall issue guidelines, including for specific sectors or specific adverse impacts and guidance on identifying high-risk activities.
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 361 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Annex I – Part I – subheading 1
Violations and restrictions of enjoyment of rights and prohibitions included in international and European human rights agreeinstruments
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 362 #
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 372 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Annex I – Part I – point 21 a (new)
21 a. Violation of the right to work (for example article 6 ICECR)
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 373 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Annex I – Part I – point 21 b (new)
21 b. Violation of the prohibition of violating or harassing women (for example ILO Convention 190, CoE ‘Istanbul Convention’)
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 374 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Annex I – Part I – point 21 c (new)
21 c. Violation of rights without discrimination between men and women as expressed (for example in articles 1 and 2 of the CEDAW and article 3 of the ICCPR)
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 375 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Annex I – Part I – subheading 2
Human rights and fundamental freedoms conventionInternational and European Human rights instruments
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 386 #
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 387 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Annex I – Part I – indent 15 b (new)
- Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (155) and its 2002 Protocol
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 388 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Annex I – Part I – indent 15 c (new)
- Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 2006 (187)
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 389 #
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 390 #
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 391 #
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 392 #
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 393 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Annex I – Part I – indent 15 h (new)
- Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (‘Istanbul Convention’)
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 394 #
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 395 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Annex I – Part I – indent 15 j (new)
- Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 404 #
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 405 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Annex I – Part I – indent 23 b (new)
- International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 407 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Annex I – Part I – indent 23 c (new)
- International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
2022/11/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 30 #

2021/2010(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Maintains that the EU digital levy will be part of a basket of new own resources whose proceeds will be at least sufficient to cover, through the long-term EU budget, the future repayment costs of(principal and interests) arising from the EU Recovery Instrument’s grants component, expected to be around EUR 15 billion per year on average and EUR 29.25 billion maximum per year from 2028 until 2058, while avoiding a reduction in expenditure for EU programmes; notes that the revenue is estimated to be in the range of several billion euros to several tens of billions of euros depending on, among other factors, the taxable revenues, the taxable entity, the place of taxation, the calculation and the rate of tax; , in compliance with the principle of universality of the EU budget, and whose proceeds should complement investment needs for the green and digital transformations; the European Commission estimated the EU’s investment needs to pursue digital transformation at EUR 125 billion per year (‘Identifying Europe's recovery needs’)1a, and the Commission has estimated the investment needed at EU level to achieve the current 2030 climate objectives at EUR 240 billion per year1b plus additional amounts of EUR 130 billion per year for environmental objectives, EUR 192 billion per year for social infrastructure and EUR 100 billion per year for Europe’s wider transport infrastructure (‘Sustainable Europe Investment Plan’)1c; this adds up to a total of at least EUR 787 billion of investment needs per year; notes that the revenue is estimated to be in the range of several billion euros to several tens of billions of euros depending on, among other factors, the taxable revenues, the taxable entity, the place of taxation, the calculation and the rate of tax; is surprised to see that the European Commission’s preliminary estimates fluctuated considerably, in ‘Fair Taxation of the Digital Economy’1d, the European Commission estimated that “EUR 5 billion in revenues a year could be generated for Member States if the tax is applied at a rate of 3%”, while in its 2020 ‘Financing the Recovery Plan for Europe’1e, the European Commission estimated that it would generate EUR 1.3 billion per year; calls on the European Commission to propose a tax scheme for multinational digital companies capable of raising at least EUR 5 billion per year to help pay for the repayment and financing costs. _________________ 1ahttps://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:5202 0SC0098&from=EN 1b https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/ec onomy- finance/assessment_of_economic_and_in vestment_needs.pdf 1c https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/doc ument/A-9-2020-0198_EN.html 1d https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/bus iness/company-tax/fair-taxation-digital- economy_en 1e https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/fa ctsheet_3_04.06.pdf
2021/03/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 4 #

2021/2003(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the gender action plan III (GAP III), and in particular, the commitment of 85 % of the EU’s official development aid (ODA) being allocated to programmes having gender equality as a significant or as a principal objective; calls for 20 % of ODA in each country to be allocated to programmes having gender equality as one of its principal objectives; expects that no ODA spending to counterwill be spent on projects that could reverse or harm gender-equality achievements; emphasises the need for coordinated and coherent EU action and calls for close cooperation with other actoall relevant actors and stakeholders;
2021/05/19
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 6 #

2021/2003(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Highlights that all crisis have a strongly gendered impact and none more than the current COVID-19 pandemic; underlines that due to the asymmetric impact of the pandemic on sectors and occupations as well as the different position of men and women in the labour market, more women than men have lost their jobs and are more likely to be among furloughed workers;
2021/05/19
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 9 #

2021/2003(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. HighlightUnderlines that funding needs to be accessible for local and small civil society organisations that work most closely with girls and women in all their diversity and different life situations; emphasises the key role of the neighbourhood, development and international cooperation instrument and stresses that administrative and implementation barriers should be avoided, since theyat might haimperde the involvementwork of the most relevant actors; recalls the urgent need for significant funding for sexual and reproductive health and rights;
2021/05/19
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 16 #

2021/2003(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the increased level of support for gender-responsive budgeting, the creation of specific gender indicators and the collection of gender- disaggregated data; expects the Commission to consult Parliament on the monitoring systemincluding via programmes to support public finance management; expects concrete steps towards supporting universal social protection systems, and recognising, reducing and redistributing unpaid care and domestic work;
2021/05/19
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 18 #

2021/2003(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Welcomes the intention to increase overall funding for education with 10% of the humanitarian aid budget devoted to funding for education in emergencies; underlines that gender-responsible budgeting should also support programmes aimed at enhancing women’s capacity as political leaders and promoting young leaders programmes;
2021/05/19
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 20 #

2021/2003(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Emphasises the importance of investing in women-entrepreneurship and women-led businesses, as well as funding projects offering business development services and support for employment, including for women in recovery contexts and in forced displacement;
2021/05/19
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 21 #

2021/2003(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Welcomes the creation of specific gender indicators, which must be clear, measurable and time-bound, and the collection of gender-disaggregated data; expects the Commission to consult the Parliament on the monitoring system which should be in line with, but not limited to, the SDGs and should include EU specific indicators based on international human rights standards, such as the CEDAW, the Istanbul Convention, the IPCD program of action and its review conferences, the EU Strategic Approach to WPS and the relevant ILO conventions;
2021/05/19
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 22 #

2021/2003(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Recalls that the Interinstitutional Agreement adopted on 16 December 2020 accompanying the 2021-2027 MFF Regulation, sets gender equality as an horizontal principle for the 2021-2027 period and forms an integral part of budgetary transparency; calls on the Commission to develop and present to the European Parliament the methodology to measure gender relevant expenditure at programme level in the MFF 2021-2027, including as far as NDICI implementation is concerned;
2021/05/19
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 1 #

2021/0326(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
— having regard to the statement by the Conciliation Committee on a common understanding on the content of the general budget for the financial year 2022, which includes also the adoption of Draft amending budget No 6/2021,
2021/11/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 4 #

2021/0226(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. [Approves/Decides to amend] the Council position on Draft amending budget No 5/2021 [as shown below];
2021/11/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 6 #

2021/0226(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Instructs its President to declare that Amending budget No 5/2021 has been definitively adopted and arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union;
2021/11/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 2 #

2021/0078(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Asks the Commission to provide the two arms of the budgetary authority with comprehensive information about the planned autonomous transfers, carried in accordance with Article 30 of the Financial Regulation, aimed at adjusting the budget 2021 in relation with the political agreements on MFF sectoral legal bases on top of the Draft Amending Budget No 2/2021, including their amounts when available;
2021/04/19
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 14 #

2021/0000(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that the agreements on the mMultiannual fFinancial fFramework, Next Generation EU, the own resources (OR) decision, the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) and the Rule of Law (RoL) regulation constitute a viable baseline for innovative policies indispensable to tackle existing and unexpected or unpredictable challenges; and is convinced that the common issuance of bonds at EU level is a sea change in EU public finances, which adds value by mutualising the outstanding credit rating of the EU budget based on its OR system crucial to implement European priorities, support public investments and reforms and represents an economic stimulus for a sustainable and fair recovery in the EU replacing outdated recovery policies;
2021/02/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 35 #

2021/0000(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Highlights that women, as well as vulnerable and marginalised groups, have been over-proportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic and social consequences, constituting a majority of workers in the care sector and sectors particularly affected by unemployment and lockdowns while also being victims of the sharp increase of domestic and gender-based violence; recalls that the employment, the gender pay and the gender pension gaps remain extremely high; underlines that the European Semester process and the RRF should contribute to tackle those inequalities; calls for strengthening gender equality through the integration of gender mainstreaming and for the Commission to accelerate the introduction of an effective, transparent, comprehensive, result-oriented and performance-based methodology for all EU programmes;
2021/02/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 48 #

2021/0000(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the need for the recovery and resilience plans to deliver public goods like pandemic prevention and to contribute to implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights, the EU’s climate and biodiversity objectives, The Paris agreement, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the European Green Deal and the digital and green transformation andof Europe as well as the Gender Equality Strategy;
2021/02/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 52 #

2021/0000(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Emphasises that the European Parliament should be better included in the European Semester process, including the Country Specific Recommendations; stresses the importance of a more inclusive social dialogue with social partners, civil society, youth organisations, local and regional authorities in shaping the European Semester; recalls the role for the European Parliament in the governance of the RRF through the regular “recovery and resilience dialogue” which will enable the Parliament to invite the Commission to discuss different items related to the Facility;
2021/02/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 53 #

2021/0000(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses how the social tracking methodology to be developed for the Recovery and Resilience Funds can play a key role to improve the European Semester in order to better incorporate social and environmental issues on an equal footing to fiscal coordination, by for example paying more attention to aggressive tax planning, poverty reduction, gender equality, social justice, social cohesion and upward convergence;
2021/02/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 62 #

2021/0000(INI)

6a. Emphasises that the EU budget and national budgets are negatively impacted by tax evasion and a comprehensive approach is needed to fight tax fraud, tax avoidance and aggressive tax planning as well as aggressive tax competition; thus calls for an annual survey on the European tax gap including a listing of harmful tax practices, revenue impacts of tax evasion etc.;
2021/02/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 15 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 a (new)
- having regards the statutes of the ECB,
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 16 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 a (new)
- having regard to the 5 June report of the European Copernicus service which states that May 2020 was the hottest May ever measured (with temperatures of 35°C in Siberia!),
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 21 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas the 5 June report of the NOAA, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, indicates that the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere exceeded 417 ppm on average in May 2020 for the first time in more than 3 million years and that, despite the very strong economic slowdown linked to COVID-19, the concentration increased by 2.4 ppm in one year, that being an increase three times faster than in the 1970s or 1980s,
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 23 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas the most recent report from the IPCC make clear that policies adopted so far are insufficient to prevent global warming from exceeding 1.5°C,to prevent biodiversity loss, and the disturbance of biogeochemical flows,
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 28 #

2020/2058(INI)

-A. whereas Article 2.1 of the Paris Agreement provides for “making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development”,
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 30 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas the Commission has estimated the investment needs at EU level in order to achieve the current 2030 climate objectives at 240 bn EUR/year1a plus additional amounts of 130 bn EUR/year for environmental objectives, 192 bn EUR/year for social infrastructure and 100 bn EUR/year for Europe’s wider transport infrastructure, for a total of at least 662 bn EUR of investment needs per year; whereas these figures are based on 2030 climate objectives of only -40% GHG emissions, and therefore, now that the Parliament agreed on more ambitious objectives of -55%, the investment gap is even higher; whereas it is essential to mobilize all available funds to close the investment gap; __________________ 1a https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/ec onomy- finance/assessment_of_economic_and_in vestment_needs.pdf
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 31 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas public and private finance should adhere to the EU Taxonomy and to the Do Not Significantly Harm principle so that EU financial instruments, including the EU budget, including facilities financed through Next Generation EU, the EU Semester, the EU Investment Plan, the EIB, ECB and EU funding sources such as cohesion funds and structural and investment funds, should not go to objects, projects and activities that do significantly harm to social or environmental objectives,
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 33 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas the spending required to support European economies raise the question of how incurred debt will be repaid; whereas it is important to prevent the increase in inequalities suffered following the previous crisis, where the burden on citizens was increased to bail out banks,
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 34 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas creating a sustainable economic system is central to developing long-term strategic autonomy of the European Union and to increase the EU’s resilience,
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 39 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A a (new)
-Aa. whereas the Statutes of the ECB provides in Article 2 that, if the objective of price stability is achieved and is not called into question, the ECB's monetary policy shall be conducted with a view to furthering the objectives of the EU as laid down in Article 3 of the EU Treaty, which explicitly mentions as objectives of the Union "the improvement of the quality of the environment", and that the ECB's stated intention to contribute actively to the success of the Green Deal is therefore by no means contrary to the Treaties,
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 50 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Sustainable Europe Investment Plan (SEIP) as central in ensuring the success of the Green Deal and the transition towards a more sustainable and resilient economy; stresses that the plan should be at the heart of a coordinated and inclusive Union response to building a more resilient economy and society after the Covid-19 crisis;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 77 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the Commission’s European Recovery Plan with the European Green Deal at its heart; endorses the underlying principle that public investments will respect the oath to ‘do no harm’; emphasises that national recovery and resilience plans should put the EU on the path to a 50 % to 55 %be based on the objectives of a reduction to 55% in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 compared to 1990 and climate neutrality by 2050;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 82 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the success of the EU’s aim to achieve climate neutrality will depend on the adequacy of the financing; calls on the Commission and Member States to make sure the Green Deal Investment Plan, the Climate Budget and the Climate Bank, are massive enough to make future programs like the Renovation Wave, have sufficient impact on every building of Europe, and are made acceptable and welcome to all the citizens of Europe, because only with sufficient funding will our citizens accept the necessary regulations that will make it compulsory that by 2030 enough houses are renovated, enough farmers have transitioned, enough communities have changed their energy and transport systems;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 118 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Questions whether the SEIP, as currently constitutproposed, will enable the mobilisation of EUR 1 trillion by 2030, given the negative economic outlook following the COVID-19 crisis and the technical inconsistency with the 7 years length of the upcoming MFF; requests the Commission to ensure full transparency on financing issues, such as the optimistic leverage effect or the lack of clarity over the extrapolations of certain amounts; furthermore questions how the new MFF as proposed by the Commission in its revised proposals of 27 and 28 May 2020 would enable the achievement of the SEIP targets;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 122 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that the Commission in the SEIP Communication of 14 January, has estimated the investment needs at EU level in order to achieve the current 2030 climate objectives at 260 bn EUR/year, plus additional amounts ranging from 100 to 150 bn EUR/year for environmental protection and resource management and 142 bn EUR/year for social investments; considers that additional efforts will have to be made by the EU and the Member States, in line with their current ambition with regard to the fight against climate change; requests the Commission to put into place all necessary measures to ensure the effective mobilization of the required financial means to accomplish the successful implementation of the SEIP, in line with the climate change objectives declared at EU level; underlines that the Commission had already estimated that the investment gap would be as high as 529 billion Euros per year starting in 2021 (public and private), based on a scenario implying -47% of Greenhouse Gas for 20302a; underlines that, now that the Parliament agreed on a more ambitious target of -55%, the investment gap is even higher; stresses that, on 10 June 2020, the European Economic and Social Committee has called on the EU institutions to swiftly increase its budget to fight climate change by 300 bn EUR/year10a; __________________ 2a2016, Commission Staff Working Document, Impact Assessment, accompanying the document “Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2012/27/EU on Energy Efficiency”. 10ahttps://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/news- media/news/investment-plan-must-live- green-deals-ambitions#related-content
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 125 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Stresses that according to the Joint Research Centre’s PESETA II Project of 2014, “if the 2080s climate would happen today without public adaptation, the EU household welfare losses would amount to 190 bn EUR, equivalent to almost 2% of EU GDP11a; underlines therefore that the cost of adaptation are much lower than the cost of non-adaption over the long run; stresses that the European Union faced a significant trade deficit on energy of about 250 bn EUR in 201912a; and sharp decrease in our energy consumption and the development of full renewable energy produced in the European Union would reduce this deficit; __________________ 11a https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur -scientific-and-technical-research- reports/climate-impacts-europe-jrc- peseta-ii-project 12a https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2 995521/10159364/6-15012020-AP- FR.pdf/e2e77fb3-0bdd-6895-9982- b7cbb73f4aeb
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 128 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Wishes to see it ensured that funding from the SEIP, at EU and national level, goes towards the policies and programmes with the highest potential to contribute to the fight against climate change, and looks forward to the Commission’s upcoming climate tracking methodology using appropriately the criteria established by the EU taxonomy; calls on the Commission to propose a Framework Regulation laying down a new stringent and comprehensive climate and biodiversity tracking methodology using appropriately the criteria established by the EU taxonomy, defining and tracking relevant expenditure together with a comprehensive proofing mechanism to identify potential harmful impacts of EU actions to biodiversity and climate in line with the EU’s commitments under the Paris Agreement and a roadmap for the rapid phasing-out of direct and indirect fossil fuel subsidies and all other harmful subsidies from the EU budget; recalls in this context that 112 bn EUR/year have been spent by 11 countries and the European Union to subsidise fossil fuels between 2014 and 201613a; __________________ 13a http://www.caneurope.org/publications/bl ogs/1471-report-phase-out-2020- monitoring-europe-s-fossil-fuel-subsidies
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 145 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission to disclose the exposure of all MFF and Next Generation EU funds to the different EU taxonomy objectives and categories;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 148 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Highlights that the success of the Sustainable Europe Investment Plan depends on the coherence of EU policies, therefore underlines the need for harmonised sustainability indicators and a methodology for measuring impact, including LCA and natural capital accounting;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 155 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Believes that public and private finance should adhere to the EU taxonomy and to the Do Not Significantly Harm (DNSH) principle, in order to ensure that EU policies and financing, including the EU budget, the programmes financed through Next Generation EU, the European Semester and EIB financing do not contribute to objectives, projects and activities that significantly harm social or environmental objectives, by stopping all fossil fuel subsidies and investments; demands that all private and public banks, as well as insurance companies adhere to the same objective by implementing a transparent and progressive termination of fossil investments;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 161 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that public budgets and public banks will not be able to bridge the investment gaps alone; recalls that 10 major European banks still invest every year more than 400 bn EUR/year in fossil fuels14a; insists that the private sector must play its role in the shift towards the Green Deal; recalls that in 2010, to fight tax evasion, Barack Obama passed the FATCA law that closed the US market to banks that did not provide the US tax authorities with full transparency; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that, similarly, to fight climate change, a European "FATCA- Climate law" is adopted, which closes the European market to banks and insurance companies that refuse to redirect their investments towards investments compatible with the objectives of climate neutrality by 2050 and -55% greenhouse gas emissions by 2030; stresses that this “FATCA-Climate Law” must prohibit all Member States from continuing to subsidise fossil fuels and must also oblige all banks (private and public) and insurance companies operating in Europe to be transparent about all their activities and to stop new investments in fossil fuels as of day 1 of implementation, and must clean up their balance sheet in any fossil related investment within 5 years; underlines that, if these volumes go to Green Deal investments rather than fossil fuels, this law could bridge a substantial part of the 660 billion annual investment gap in the Green Deal; __________________ 14ahttps://www.ran.org/wp- content/uploads/2020/03/Banking_on_Cli mate_Change__2020_vF.pdf
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 165 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for the phasing-out of public and private investments in fossil fuel based and highly polluting and harmful industries for which economically feasible alternatives are available, while fully respecting the rights of Member States to choose their energy mixunderlining the urgency to find such alternatives through massive investments in technological innovation and energy efficiency, while fully respecting the rights of Member States to choose their energy mix and with the objective of implementing a fully renewable energy system and a Paris Agreement Compatible energy grid by 2040;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 207 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines the fact that, in order to meet its obligations under the Paris Agreement, the EU’s contribution to the climate objectives should be underpinned by an ambitious share of climate-related expenditure in the EU budget, going beyond the levels of targeted spending shares of at least 25 % over the MFF 2021- 2027 period and of at least 30% as soon as possible and at the latest by 20272021, which will be more easily reached and even topped if a climate budget of at least 100 billion EUR per year is fed by new own resources;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 222 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Welcomes the proposal to top up the Just Transition Fund (JTF), including with additional funds from Next Generation EU, and the two additional pillars of the Just Transition Mechanism, namely a dedicated scheme under InvestEU and a public sector loan facility, which will contribute to alleviating the economic effects of the transition to climate neutrality on the most vulnerable regions in the EUbut underlines that additional funds will be needed in order to make sure it reaches all the workers who will be affected, directly and indirectly, by the transition, which accounts to around 11 million workers; insists that the amount must reach at least 10 billion € per year in the short term (Next Generation EU) but also in the longer term (MFF); welcomes also the two additional pillars of the Just Transition Mechanism, namely a dedicated scheme under InvestEU and a public sector loan facility, which will contribute to alleviating the economic effects of the transition to climate neutrality on the most vulnerable regions and citizens in the EU; notes that more clarity as to the eligibility criteria for funding should be made by ensuring delivery of the climate-neutrality target by the beneficiary of the funds by a set timeline aligned with Paris Agreement goals, as well as compliance with other environmental protection acquis objectives;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 246 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls for ensuring that third countries are eligible for cross- border projects that contribute to the objectives of the Paris Agreement;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 256 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes the role of InvestEU in the implementation and functioning of the SEIP and considers that it should be at the heart of the Union’s green, fair and resilient recovery; welcomes, therefore, the Commission’s proposal to increase the programme’s size and scope; welcomes the proposal to create a Strategic Investment Facility within InvestEU to promote sustainable investments in key technologies and value chains; calls for the InvestEU programme legal basis to include the highest standards regarding climate and sustainability proofing of the projects financed, at least at the level applicable to direct EU budget financing;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 275 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Underlines that the success of the European Green Deal and the just transition requires to refocus all relevant EU policies to contribute to achieve those objectives;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 278 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Stresses that cohesion policy, as the main EU investment policy, will play a crucial role in supporting the transition to climate neutrality; notes, however, cohesion policy will be one of the decisive instruments in the economic recovery and should not divert from its main objectives namely to contribute to social, economic and territorial cohesion, as stipulated by the EU Treaties; insists that this cohesion policy should be reinforced to cope with its main objectives and contributing to the success of the European Green Deal;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 280 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12c. Stresses the key role that the Common Agricultural Policy and the common fisheries policy will have to play in achieving the objectives of the SEIP; notes that the EU agricultural and fisheries sectors will have to become sustainable and ensure a sustainable management of natural resources and preservation of biodiversity together with its objectives on supporting the provision of high-quality food supply, guaranteeing food sovereignty for Europeans, contributing to stable and acceptable earnings for farmers and fisherwomen/men and contributing to the sustainable development of rural areas;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 281 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Supports the Commission’s innovative approach in stating that the EU budget will contribute to achieving climate objectives also through its revenue sideUnderlines that in order to support each and every family, school and business to insulate their buildings, in order to support every farmer to transition to a climate neutral agriculture, loans will not suffice and grants will have to play an important role, in which the EU budget must take a significant part, which will be possible if significant new own resources are adopted; supports the Commission’s innovative approach in stating that the EU budget will contribute to achieving climate objectives also through its revenue side; recalls that the adoption of a basket of new genuine own resources will allow for an ambitious funding of the transition without any increase in the Member States’ GNI contributions;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 289 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Reaffirms its previous position regarding candidates for new own resources, and calls on the Commission to propose new own resources which correspond to essential EU objectives including the fight against climate change and the protection of the environment and the preservation of a fair Single Market, including by limiting tax dumping; asks, therefore, for the introduction of new own resources based on the auction revenues of the Emissions Trading System - which will raise between 3 and 10 billion € per year according to the Commission15a, a Single Market Levy – which could raise 10 billion € per year according to the Commission16a, a contribution on non- recycled plastic packaging waste, the future Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base or a precursor based on operations of large enterprises, a tax on digital companies, and a financial transaction tax; - which will raise 7 billion € per year according to the Commission17a, the future Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (5 to 14 billion per year)18a, a robust Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base - which will raise up to 75 billion € per year with a 5% rate, based on figures provided by the European Commission, which could be modulated based on the carbon footprint evolution of companies19a, a tax on digital companies20a, and a financial transaction tax - which will raise 57 billion € per year according to the Commission (despite Brexit and the economic crisis)21a; invites the Commission and the Member States to also consider a small European contribution on billionaires and multi- millionaires, that are the top 1% of the wealthiest individuals, as proposed by Zucman et al., which could raise up to 150 billion € per year22a; __________________ 15a https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/ab out_the_european_commission/eu_budget /factsheet_3_v22.pdf 16aMargit Schratzenstaller, 2018, “Tax- based Own Resources as a Core Element of a Future-Oriented Design of the EU System of Own Resources” 17a https://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/beta -political/files/budget-proposals- modernising-budget-revenue-side- may2018_en.pdf 18a https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/ab out_the_european_commission/eu_budget /factsheet_3_v22.pdf 19a https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/bus iness/economic-analysis-taxation/data- taxation_en 20a https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/ab out_the_european_commission/eu_budget /factsheet_3_v22.pdf 21aEuropean Commission, 2012, “The financial transaction tax will reduce Member States' GNI contributions to the EU budget by 50%” 22aMargit Schratzenstaller, 2018, “Tax- based Own Resources as a Core Element of a Future-Oriented Design of the EU System of Own Resources”
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 298 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Reaffirms its previous position regarding candidates for new own resources, and calls on the Commission to propose new own resources which correspond to essential EU objectives including the fight against climate change and the protection of the environment; asks, therefore, for the introduction of new own resources based on the auction revenues of the Emissions Trading System, a contribution on non-recycled plastic packaging waste, the future Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base or a precursor based on operations of large enterprises, a tax on digital companies, and a financial transaction tax; Considers that the fight against tax avoidance is key in order to provide resources to the EU for the ecologic and social transition;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 313 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Underlines that both types of revenues, environmental and non- specifically environmental, will be indispensable for the establishment of a reliable basket of new genuine own resources, since the amount of income produced by environmental revenues will proportionally decrease over the time with the adoption of green practices by contributors and will therefore need to be compensated by resources generated by single market revenues; stresses the emergency to agree on the own resources with the highest potential revenues;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 321 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Warns that the European Parliament will stand firm on its position to demand all the new own resources mentioned in this report, in order to at least cover the interests and capital of the Next Generation EU package as well as bridging the funding gap of the Green Deal in the short and long term;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 323 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Insists that with only 2 own resources, the FTT and the CCCTB, the EU budget would benefit from substantial new revenues and this would almost double the EU Budget, without asking 1€ more to the budget of Member States and underlines that they complement each other well, since the CCCTB revenue tends to decrease in a time of crisis, while the FTT increases ; Regrets that despite commitments by the European Council in 2013 on the adoption of new own resources, there are still no genuine new own resources in 2020; believes that the adoption of genuine new own resources constitutes a “moment of truth” for the future of the European Union and its credibility on the Green Deal agenda; recalls that the Parliament will not give its approval to the MFF if there is no agreement on the reform of the Union's own resources system and underlines that without serious funding based on own resources, the Green Deal risks becoming a mere greenwashing exercise, which the Parliament also disapproves;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 324 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 d (new)
14d. Notes that the conditions that applied to the UK for supporting the introduction of rebates, as set in the European Council conclusions of Fontainebleau in 1984, are no longer in place; asks therefore for the elimination of all the remaining correction mechanisms granted to Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands, making therefore the structure of the EU budget more transparent and generating additional funding for the investment plan;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 325 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 e (new)
14e. Calls on the Commission to propose improvements to the existing legal bases or the creation of new legal bases so that the Green Deal can be deployed in all our territories as from 2021;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 329 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Welcomes the efforts ofadoption by the European Investment Bank (EIB) to revise itsof its new energy lending policy and to devote 50 % of its operations to climate action and environmental sustainability; calls on the EIB to commit to the sustainable transition towards climate neutrality while taking into account the different energy mixes of Member States and devoting particular attention to the sectors and regions most affected by the transition; asks for a review of the Implementation Strategy in 2020 for Paris Alignment, including a concrete roadmap for reaching the 50% granular target by 2025; as well as guarantees for climate neutrality of the remaining lending following an open and transparent public consultation process;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 343 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Stresses that considering the bank’s level of financing for projects supporting and protecting the natural environment and human well-being of €16.52 billion in 201923a, under a commitment by that time for a 25% share of its financing dedicated to it, considered together with its commitment to rise this share up to 50%, that capacity will increase by 16 billion € maximum, while the financing needs to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 amounts to 660 bn EUR/year; recalls that the Bank’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic should result in a 240 bn EUR investments and was made possible in a matter of weeks; __________________ 23a https://www.eib.org/en/about/priorities/cli mate-and- environment/environment/index.htm
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 347 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Considers that for the EIB to play a successful role in financing the Green Deal, a bottom-up and participatory approach is crucial, and to better coordinate with various stakeholders, such as local and regional authorities and representatives from civil society;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 350 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Recalls that since 2015 more than 2 600 billion EUR have been created by the ECB with no condition that this money feeds the real economy, creates jobs or finances climate action or contributes to achieve the sustainable development goals, resulting in only 11% of these sums arriving in the real economy; recalls that in 2008, technical solutions were found in less than a week in several countries to make sure that the 1000 bn EUR created by the ECB would be channelled to save the banks; recalls, that in 2020, even before the launch of the PEPP in the context of the covid-19 outbreak (1350 bn EUR announced between 18 March and 19 June), the ECB decided to increase its balance sheet by additional 240 bn EUR24a; recalls that on the 18th of June, the ECB lended additional 1 308 bn EUR at negative interest rate (-1%) in the context of its TLTRO program; insists that the monetary creation by the ECB could be halved and have a better impact on the stability of the economy, and limit the leaks towards speculation, if these volumes were channelled towards investments for climate and jobs through the Climate Bank; __________________ 24a https://www.lalibre.be/economie/placemen ts/la-bce-va-racheter-20-milliards-d- euros-de-dettes-chaque-mois- 5d7a30ecd8ad5847dc99577d
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 353 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)
15c. Recalls that, in order for the EIB - Climate Bank to be able to increase its lending substantially, it must have new equities, but that a large number of Member States do not wish to increase their holdings in the EIB's capital; recalls that, while the ECB is not entitled to become a shareholder of the EIB, there is nothing to prevent it from providing the EIB with quasi-equity through subordinated loans; points out that if it were to provide 100 billion of quasi- equity, the ECB would increase the EIB's equities by 50 billion, enabling the EIB - Climate Bank to develop a much more ambitious lending policy, gradually increasing to an interest-free lending capacity of 300 billion per year, which would make a much more significant contribution to meeting the investment need estimated at at least 660 billion per year; invites the European Commission, the ECB and the EIB to study the possibility for the ECB to strengthen the quasi-equity capital of the EIB - Climate Bank (or of an EIB subsidiary specifically dedicated to the climate); and any other technical solution that would allow to achieve such lending volumes;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 355 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 d (new)
15d. Calls as a matter of urgency for Parliament’s powers to be strengthened as regards the strategic direction and policies of the EIB to ensure democratic scrutiny of investments;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 362 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Recognises the important role of the national promotional banks and institutions (NPBIs) and of international financial institutions (IFIs) in the financing of sustainable projects, thereby contributing to the achievement of the goals of the Paris Agreement;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 364 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Underlines as well the NPBIs’ advantages in the conception, management and financing of relatively smaller projects, from their experience in this field; welcomes therefore their involvement in different aspects of the Sustainable Europe Investment Plan, as the most adequate bodies to channel European level investments towards to the ground at local scale;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 371 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Recalls the statement of the ECB President that the ECB is supporting the development of a taxonomy as a way of facilitating the incorporation of environmental considerations in central bank portfolios; calls on the ECB to evaluate the feasibility of including sustainability criteria in its collateral framework and its annual stress testing exercise, while assessing ways to guide lending towards energy transition investments and to rebuild a sustainable economy in the aftermath of the COVID- 19 crisis; encourages the ECB to move forward with its monetary policy review in order to evaluate the financing of economic activities causing significant harm to environmental and social objectives; calls on the ECB to disclose annually its degree of alignment with the Paris Agreement and its exposure to the EU taxonomy;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 385 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Supports the calls from the European Central Bank and the Central Banks and Regulators’ Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) to extend the EU taxonomy to unsustainable activities as soon as possible, enabling financial regulators to better assess sustainability-related financial risks;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 388 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Calls on the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs), together with national competent authorities (NCAs), to rapidly develop annual climate scenario testing on financial institutions they supervise, as currently discussed notably in the NGFS, in order to understand where and how far climate-related financial risks sit in portfolios of relevant EU financial institutions;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 398 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Commends the progress made on the basis of the initiatives included in the 2018 Sustainable Finance Action Plan; calls for the swift adoption of secondary legislation, taking into account the full range of sustainability criteria and indicators; calls specifically for a swift implementation of the “do not significantly harm” principle as outlined in the disclosure and taxonomy regulations; highlights the importance of having equally ambitious disclosure requirements for all financial products;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 407 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Insists on the integration of social objectives in the sustainability framework, including through an evaluation of extending the scope of taxonomy and the development of an EU Social Bond Standard; Calls for the “Do Not Significantly Harm” principle to look at concrete social objectives including employee absenteeism, percentage of full- time employees and employees on long- term contracts, the percentage of salaries above living-wage, gender and ethnic pay gap, ratio in salary and variable remuneration between CEOs and average employees, tax compliance and corruption practices; calls for the activities pursued by companies who fail to achieve a sufficient score on any one of the above parameters to not qualify as sustainable economic activities as defined by the Disclosure Regulation and the Taxonomy Regulation;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 422 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Favours the extension of the sustainability framework to the corporate sector; calls for mandatory sustainability reporting and due diligence for both financial institutions and large corporates, for stricter corporate liability regarding sustainability risks and for better quality data reporting, including by introducing verification mechanism and independent auditing;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 423 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)
20b. Calls for an ambitious revision of the Non-Financial Reporting Directive, ensuring there is an equal obligation on all corporates operating in the EU market to disclose the impact of their activities on environmental, social and governance sustainability;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 425 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Recalls that investments in unsustainable economic activities may lead to stranded assets with lock-in effects; considers this risk to be insufficiently integrated in credit ratings and prudential frameworks including the Basel framework; calls for a review of the Credit Ratings Regulation to promote transparency in sustainability rating and an assessment of the possibility of inclusion of sustainability factors in prudential legislation; calls for the development of a brown taxonomy indicating investments facing increased exposure to climate risks and for the use of this brown taxonomy in the prudential framework;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 449 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. CHighlights the risk of reduced public spending on the sustainable transition in the context of the covid-19 crisis; calls for the introduction of an enabling framework for public sustainable investments to achieve the goals set out in the European Green Deal, but stresses that whatever financing model is chosen must not undermine the sustainability of public finance in the EU; supports the commitment by EVP Dombrovskis to explore how taxonomy can be used in the public sector; calls for public support for airlines to be used in a sustainable and efficient manneradvocates for the creation of a Sustainable Green Golden Rule to exclude sustainable investments from the EU’s economic governance framework; calls for a sustainable development pact to survey the implementation of the sustainability objectives and the green investment gap in each Member State; welcomes that EU Taxonomy will guide investment in Europe’s recovery to ensure it is in line with the EU-long term ambitions ; calls for a greater transparency of the degree of sustainability of public investment at EU and Member State level; supports the commitment by EVP Dombrovskis to explore how taxonomy can be used in the public sector; calls for public support for airlines to be used in a sustainable and efficient manner; supports the pledge by the Commission to explore how the EU Green Bond Standard, as well as other enabling frameworks, can increase public and private finance for sustainable investments;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 466 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls for the general escape clause of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) to last throughout the current economic and sanitary crisis; highlights that high debt levels following the reactivation of the budgetary rules may result in excessive deficit procedures for many EU Member States; calls for the reform of the SGP with an expenditure rule that facilitates net public investments, allows for counter-cyclical action and takes into consideration the EU fiscal stance as a whole, so as to reduce the risk of severe austerity imposed following the reactivation of the SGP, and enable the investment needed for the recovery and the sustainable and just transition;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 483 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Recalls that the European Semester is a framework for EU Member States to coordinate their budgetary and economic policies; believes that it could facilitate the implementation of the European Green Deal, the European Pillar of Social Rightsrecalls that this process should be improved to incentive sustainable and inclusive public investments of the Member States and their local authorities, promote the necessary economic and social measures to accompany the transition, contribute to the implementation of the European Green Deal, the European Pillar of Social Rights, the commitments made by the EU and of its Members States undertaken under the Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); believes that the SDGs should be at the heart of EU’s policy making process;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 497 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Notes that recovery and resilience plans will be based on shared EU priorities; highlights in this context the European Green Deal and the European Pillar of Social Rights; seeks the inclusion of priorities in areas such as employment, skills, education, research and innovation and health, but also in areas related to the business environment, including public administration and the financial sector; considers that the sustainability provisions in the current Recovery and Resilience Facility Regulation are insufficient; deems essential the incorporation of the EU Taxonomy in recovery and resilience plans through an ambitious minimum spending target on environmentally sustainable economic activities and the application of the Do Not Significantly Harm principle to all spending through these plans; deems the Commission responsible for monitoring adherence to these plans and for re- appropriating funds not spent in accordance with the plans;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 510 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls for companies benefitting from public support to commit to public country-by-country reporting, to respect their non-financial reporting obligations and to guarantee jobs, and disclose any beneficial treatment received; urges that such companies should fairly contribute to the recovery efforts by paying their fair share of taxes; seeks in this context a new social contract for corporates, harmonizing aims for profit with considerations for people and planet;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 511 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)
24b. Highlights that Member States granting state aid should ensure that financial assistance is in line with the EU’s climate, environmental and social objectives, in particular for aid granted to energy-intensive sectors and large carbon dioxide emitters;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 517 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Supports the Solvency Support Instrument to level the playing field in the single market, and the introduction of ‘transition plans’ for certain companies to increase the sustainability of their activities; considers that society can ask for a quid pro quosomething in return when providing support to companies; sees transition plans including science-based and time- bound sustainability targets as a way of ensuring that public funding is spent in line with public interests; believes that transition plans should be obligatory for companies seeking state aid or EU-level support unless it is clear that they do not engage in environmentally or socially harmful activities; urges the Commission to only approve transition plans that set businesses on the path to the climate- neutral and circular economy without significantly harming any other environmental or social objectives;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 524 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Underlines the role of National Promotional Banks in creating a sustainable economy; calls for state aid reforms to enable NPBs to provide preferential loans below market rates to promote sustainability; underlines the importance of ensuring local technical support for project promoters and innovation and the role of project nurseries helping projects to mature to receive financing;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 545 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Recalls that tax evasion and tax avoidance cause potential lost resources for national and EU budgets quantified as ranging from €50-70 billion to€160-190 billion;1a therefore seeks an intensified fight against tax fraud, tax evasion and tax avoidance and aggressive tax planning ; calls on the Commission to establish criteria on which it assesses EU Member State that would result in a black-list of EU Member States facilitating tax avoidance and to draft binding tax compliance plans for these Member States; __________________ 1aEuropean Parliament, EPRS, Bringing transparency, coordination and convergence to corporate tax policies in the European Union: I - Assessment of the magnitude of aggressive corporate tax planning, Study, 2015
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 566 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Reiterates its call for phasing out of fossil fuel subsidies including in the form of a tax advantage, while fully respecting of the rights of Member State to choose their energy mix; supports, however, tax measures that would incentivise investment in cleaner energy and mode of transportation;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 570 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Believes that all these funding proposals combined (climate bank, climate budget and FATCA-Climate law) can raise at least 660 bn EUR/year to win the battle for climate and jobs;
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 572 #

2020/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 b (new)
27b. Welcomes the support of these three solutions by 1 million citizens25a; __________________ 25a http://www.climateandjobs.eu/
2020/07/03
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 1 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)
— having regard to the Parliament resolution of 8 October 2020 on reinforcing the Youth Guarantee,
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 5 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 b (new)
— having regard to the Parliament resolution of 17 December 2020 on A Strong Social Europe for Just Transitions,
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 9 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 c (new)
— having regard to the Parliament resolution of 17 February 2022 on Empowering European Youth: post- pandemic employment and social recovery,
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 12 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 d (new)
— having regard to the Parliament resolution of 24 November 2022 on the European Year of Youth 2022 Legacy,
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 15 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 11
— having regard to the European Pillar of Social Rights, proclaimed by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on 17 November 2017 at the Gothenburg Summit, in particular to its Principles No 4,1 and 4, the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan and the 2021 Porto Social Summit Declaration committing to work towards a Social Europe and reinforcing social cohesion;
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 17 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)
— having regard to the Conference on the Future of Europe outcome document of 30 November 2022, adopted within the framework of the European Year of Youth, notably proposal 47, measure 5 calling to “ensure that young people’s internships and jobs adhere to quality standards, including remuneration, putting an end to youth minimum wages and any other discriminatory labour law provisions specific to young people, as well as banning through a legal instrument unpaid internships on the labour market and outside formal education”;
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 22 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 b (new)
— having regard to the European Commission’s evaluation report of 10 January 2023 on the Council Recommendation on a Quality Framework on Traineeships;
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 28 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 c (new)
— having regard to the International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, to which all EU Member States are a State Party to, notable Article 7(a)(i) on fair wages and equal remuneration, Article 7(c) on equal opportunities for all, and Article 9 on the right to social security for all;
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 34 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas traineeships are a common way for young people to gain experience before finding stable employment; whereas traineeships can ease the transition from education or vocational training into the labour market; whereas it is crucial that optimal conditions and incentives are established to enable young people to have access to high-quality traineeships that will provide them with a useful learning experience, as well as work experience and the development of a relevant set of skills; whereas the skills acquired and the workload of traineeships must be proportionate to the remuneration for the traineeship; whereas the remuneration should be a right for trainees in the open labour market, whilst trainees in the education should have access to decent allowances;
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 38 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the European Parliament has repeatedly condemned the practice of unpaid traineeships as a form of exploitation of young workers and a violation of their rights and called for a common legal framework to ensure fair remuneration for traineeships in order to avoid exploitative practices;
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 46 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas different types of traineeship exist across the Union and not all types can be found in all Member States; whereas most traineeships across the Union can be divided into the categories comprising: open-market traineeships, traineeships associated with active labour market policies and, traineeships that are part of professional training orand traineeships that part of an academic or vocational curricula;
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 47 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas studies have established links between the quality of traineeships and employment outcomes8 , with remuneration being the key quality criteria to what establishes a high quality traineeship 8a; __________________ 8 https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/et udes/STUD/2022/699459/EPRS_STU(202 2)699459_EN.pdf, p. 1 8a https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public /---dgreports/---dcomm/--- publ/documents/publication/wcms_79977 3.pdf
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 54 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Recital H
H. whereas a person may experience discrimination differently based on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, that person’s gender, race, colour or ethnic origin, nationality, genetic features, language, religion or belief, class or socialo-economic origin, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, or age; whereas young people living in the weaker financial circumstances, including people living in single-parent households, people with disabilities, migrants, people with lower education levels, young people not living with their parents and those from low work-intensity households, are less likely to have access to the resources required to undertake unpaid or low-paying internships8b; whereas it is crucial tofocus on addressing and overcoming all discrimination in traineeships and ensuring the accessibility of traineeships to persons and groups of persons who are furthest away from the labour market; __________________ 8b https://www.youthforum.org/files/230111- DP-CostUnpaidInternships.pdf
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 58 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Recital I
I. whereas high-quality traineeships can contribute to combatting skills mismatches and consequent labour market shortages in the Union, by reducing the search burden and matching the costs borne by traineeship providers and trainees; whereas too many young people are unable to find stable employment because they do not have the necessary skills or because they are working in jobs that do not match their skill set; whereas, at the same time, 40 % of employers cannot find people with the necessary skills to fill their vacancies9 ; __________________ 9 https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId =1146&langId=endeleted
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 64 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Recital J
J. whereas about half of all 15 to 34- year olds in the Union have gained work experience in at least one traineeship; whereas the majority of young people report having worked two unpaid internships before getting stable employment8c; whereas this means that approximately four million persons take part in at least one traineeship per year in the Union10 ; 8d; __________________ 10 8c https://www.youthforum.org/files/230111- DP-CostUnpaidInternships.pdf 8d https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/ etudes/STUD/2022/699459/EPRS_STU(2 022)699459_EN.pdf, p. 2
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 67 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Recital L
L. whereas, according to the same Eurobarometer survey, only 40 % of trainees received financial compensation and whereas more than half of those trainees (53 %) considered say that compensation to be insufficient to cover their basic living costs12 ; whereas adequatefair remuneration for traineeships must cover at least basic living costs; __________________ 12 Ibid
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 71 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Ma. whereas the EU’s youth unemployment rate is 15.1%, and in the context of the current cost of living crisis, according to Eurostat8e, young people are the group facing the highest risk of living in poverty, with 1 in 4 young people living at-risk-of-poverty or social exclusion, and with young women living at higher risk; __________________ 8e https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php?title=Young_people_ - _social_inclusion&oldid=553969#Young_ people_at_risk_of_poverty_or_social_excl usion
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 81 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights that traineeships are primarily a learning experience and should not replace entry-level jobs; calls on the Commission and the Member States to facilitate and improve access for young people to high-quality, paid, accessible and inclusive traineeships, particularly to those coming from vulnerable backgrounds to achieve Union’ objective of social cohesion and inclusion;
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 88 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights the need to tackle skills mismatches, while emphasising the potential added value in this regard for both employers and trainees; 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;deleted
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 97 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that EU cannot promote precarity and that poor-quality and unpaid traineeships cannot be supported by public finances; insists that employers should receive and use financial public support only if they comply with the quality criteria, legislation and collective agreements;
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 100 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that high-quality traineeships can play a valuable contribution in achieving the Union social targets by 2030, as having at least 60 % of all adults participating in training every year and having at least 78 % of people aged 20 to 64 who should be in employmentto have at least 78 % of people aged 20 to 64 who should be in employment, reducing the NEETs rate to 9% through quality opportunities; and the Agenda 2030 and in particular SDGs 1, 4, 8, and 10;
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 102 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Highlights the need to protect young people from undertaking several consecutive traineeships by strict monitoring of the use of contracts aiming at making the transition between the education and labour market; calls on Member states to ensure that employers implement a break period between hiring interns for the same position, as otherwise it should be a permanent position; calls on Member states to ensure that there is an appropriate ratio between staff members and trainees in the workplace;
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 107 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Insists that traineeships should be recognised as real work experience and taken as a primary condition for recruitment processes;
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 108 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to update the 2014 Council Recommendation on Quality Framework for Traineeships and turn it into a stronger legislative instrument;
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 113 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – introductory part
6. Recognises that existing Quality Framework for Traineeships principles remains relevant in supporting young people who undertakeguiding employers to offer high-quality traineeships; however, stresses that new principles must be added to match the vulnerable position of young people in the labour market; calls on the Commission, therefore, to include the following additional principles in an updated Quality Framework for Traineeships:
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 115 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – indent 1 a (new)
- (1) eliminate hidden costs of traineeships undertaken to obtain formal qualifications by establishing adequate traineeship allowance in line with the cost of living (living wage) and inflation,
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 122 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – indent 3
- access to high-quality conditions for remote and hybrid traineeships, where applicable,deleted
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 126 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – indent 4
- established clear learning objectives and access to adequate mentorship and to the guidance of trained mentors;
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 130 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – indent 4 a (new)
- establish, in cooperation with the labour inspectorate, channels to report malpractice and poor conditions during the traineeships period,
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 134 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to propose extending the scope of the Quality Framework for Traineeships to include all traineeships;deleted
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 144 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to propose a directive to ensure adequate remuneration for traineeships in order to avoid exploitativebinding quality standards for open labour market traineeships and fair remuneration based on minimum wage, in order to avoid exploitative practices, an access to social protection by trainees in accordance with national schemes (health insurance, unemployment benefits, pension contributions) and to limit the duration of the traineeships as well as the number of traineeships undertaken by the individual in the same field of practices;
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 153 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Reiterates the central role that the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) and the Youth Guarantee, the Recovery and Resilience Facility and its associated Scoreboard linking funding to policies for the Next Generation, and the Youth Guarantee, which is not used to its maximum potential in the majority of Member States, can play in contributing to an increase in the number of high- quality traineeships; urges Member States, with the support of the Commission, to use all available resources in this area;
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 157 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Member States to better utilise the ESF+ to help progression within education and training and transition to work, by supporting lifelong learning and employability with a view to facilitating full participation in society for all, and contributing to competitivenesparticularly those coming from vulnerable backgrounds in order to ensure their access to equal oportunities14 ; __________________ 14 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32021 R1057&from=EN
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 165 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to raise awareness at national, regional and local level of available Union funds to ensure the accessibility by all to high-quality traineeships, particularly those coming from vulnerable backgrounds in order to ensure their access to equal opportunities;
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 173 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Welcomes the Commission proposal to make 2023 the European Year of Skills; calls on the Commission however to place particular attention on guaranteeing quality and paid traineeships during, particularly in the open labour market, as a legacy both of the European year of Youth and in-line with the Conference on the Future of Europe outcome document, and the European Year of Skills;
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 183 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for more cooperation between all stakeholders involved, in particular education and vocational training providers, businesspublic employment services, national, regional and local governments and involvement of social partn, social partners and youth organisations and workers; suggests the creation of a European Alliance for Traineeships, similar to the European Alliance for Apprenticeships, uniting governments and key stakeholders with the aim of strengthening the quality and offer of traineeships across the Union, while promoting the mobility of trainees, notably by guaranteeing access to sufficient financial resources, and languages courses;
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 185 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Calls for the support of local pact for skills in cooperation with public employment agencies of local authoritiservices to ensure that traineeship help in closing the skills mismatch in the labour markets;
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 194 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Highlights that further data is needed in particular on: statistics of unpaid traineeships and in which sectors the issue is more predominant; barriers that trainees face in obtaining a high-quality traineeship and ways of overcoming them; the effects of the COVID-19 pandemicrecent socio-economic crises on trainees; the challenges frequently faced when undertaking a traineeship and ways in which to overcome them; possible obstacles faced by employers when offering high-quality traineeships and ways in which to overcome them; the advantages and disadvantages of digital traineeships; the experiences of trainees with disabilities as well as those coming from vulnerable backgrounds; obstacles to cross-border traineeships and ways in which to overcome them;
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 198 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Recalls that any discrimination based on grounds such as sex, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or social and economic origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation must be prohibited; calls on the Member States to put in place specific measures to ensure this;
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 204 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
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 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; calls for more cooperation between employsocial partners 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).
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 209 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
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;deleted
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 212 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Calls on the European Commission and the Member States to adopt a framework or certificate which facilitates the recognition of skills acquired during the traineeship, in particular when it comes to cross-border recognition of skills;
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 221 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
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 dDirective on Quality Traineeships setting out minimum requirements for adequatequality standards and fair remuneration for traineeships based on minimum wage, following the recommendations set out in Annex I hereto;
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 227 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Requests that the Commission submit a proposal to update the 2014 Council Recommendationfor a Decision of the European Parliament and onf the basis of Article 292 TFEU, in conjunction with Articles 153 and 166Council on a Quality Framework for Traineeships on the basis of Article 166 (4) TFEU, following the recommendations set out in Annex II hereto;
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 232 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Annex I
RECOMMENDATIONS AS TO THE CONTENT OF THE PROPOSAL REQUESTED A European framework directive for adequate remuneration for traineeships The European Parliament considers that the future legislative proposal for a framework directive setting out minimum requirements for adequate remuneration for traineeships should follow these principles and aims: 1. minimum requirements for adequate remuneration for traineeships. 2. trainees who are considered to be workers, namely, people who have an employment relationship as defined by the national law or practice of collective agreements, taking into account the criteria established by the Court of Justice of the European Union (Court of Justice) for determining the status of a worker (including cases 66/85, Lawrie-Blum, C- 3/90, Bernini, C-109/04, Kranemann, C- 229/14, Balkaya, in which the Court of Justice gave indications as to when trainees may be considered to be workers under Union law). Provided that trainees fulfil those criteria, the directive should apply to such trainees in both the private and the public sectors. 3. penalties provision.deleted The directive should set out The directive should apply to The directive should include a
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 258 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Annex I a (new)
Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Quality Traineeships XXXX/X XX/XX THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article Articles 153(2), point (b), in conjunction with Article 153(1), point (b), thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission, Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee, Having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions, Acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure, (1) The first principle of the European Pillar of Social Rights states that everyone has the right to quality and inclusive education, training and lifelong learning in order to maintain and acquire skills that enable them to participate fully in society and successfully manage transitions in the labour market. Principle 3 of the European Pillar of Social Rights underlines that regardless of gender, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, everyone has the right to equal treatment and opportunities, and this includes employment and education. (2) Article 14(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (the ‘Charter’) states that everyone has the right to education and access to vocational and continuing training. (3) The European Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030 aims to ensure their full participation in society, on an equal basis with others in the Union and beyond. Within the Strategy, the European Commission commits to make sure that persons with disabilities can take part in trainings and learn new skills, as a fundamental requisite for employment and independence. (4) Traineeships have become an important entry point into the labour market. (5) This Directive covers trainees carrying out traineeships in the open labour market which include open-market traineeships, traineeships as part of active labour market policies (ALMP), including those offered by the Youth Guarantee, and traineeships as a mandatory part of professional training. (6) Socio-economic costs arise if traineeships, particularly repeated ones, replace regular employment, notably entry-level positions usually offered to trainees. Low-quality traineeships, especially those with little learning content, do not lead to employability of the trainee and do not benefit any party. Social costs also arise in connection with low or unpaid traineeships that limit the career opportunities of those from disadvantaged backgrounds. (7) The financial circumstances of an individual will greatly affect their choice to take an unpaid or poorly remunerated traineeship. Young people from vulnerable backgrounds, namely young people with disabilities, or young migrants are unfairly excluded from accessing employment opportunities within the organisations and industries that offer unpaid internships and indirectly discriminate towards some groups of young people. (8) There is evidence on the link between the quality of the traineeship and the employment outcome. The value of traineeships in easing the transition to employment depends on their quality in terms of learning content and working conditions. Quality traineeships motivate young people to enter the labour market, improve future prospects and mental stability, improve labour market skills matching and promote mobility for trainees and bring direct productivity benefits for the employers. (9) Evidence shows that a significant number of traineeships lack the connection between tasks and learning objectives. A quality traineeship must offer a solid and meaningful learning content. This means, the identification of the specific skills to be acquired, supervision and mentoring of the trainee, and monitoring of their progress throughout the traineeship. (10) Problems have also been identified as regards working conditions, e.g. long working hours, lack of social security coverage, lack of health and accident insurance coverage as well as sick leave, the protection against health and safety or occupational risks, little or no allowance, a lack of clarity in the terms and conditions in the traineeship agreements, among others. (11) Member States should ensure that trainees are covered by the social security system, especially regarding health, unemployment, and pension rights. The employers should ensure that trainees have insurance against accidents including the accidents at the workplace. (12) Traineeships in the open labour market remain unregulated in some Member States. In the absence of a regulatory framework or instrument, or because there is a lack of transparency regarding working conditions for traineeships and their learning content, many traineeship providers are able to use trainees as cheap or even unpaid labour. (13) Lack of information and binding quality criteria is one of the causes of low quality traineeships. Increased transparency requirements and gender- neutral and inclusive notices or announcements advertising traineeship positions improves its accessibility. (14) The social partners and other relevant stakeholders such as student unions and youth organisations play a key role in the design, implementation and monitoring of training policies and programmes. Cooperation between them could provide trainees with targeted information on available career opportunities and skills needs on labour markets, as well as on trainees' rights and responsibilities. (15) The European Parliament has repeatedly condemned the practice of unpaid traineeships as a form of exploitation of young workers and a violation of their rights and called for a common legal framework to ensure fair remuneration for traineeships in order to avoid exploitative practices. (16) This Directive sets the minimum standards for determining what constitutes a good quality offer of traineeships under the Council Recommendation on Establishing a Youth Guarantee. (17) Considering the nature and objective of this Directive, it should not be interpreted as hindering Member States from maintaining or establishing more favourable provisions for trainees than the ones recommended. Article 1 Subject matter and scope 1. This Directive establishes a framework for the purpose of improving the quality and accessibility of traineeships, as well as the working conditions of trainees carrying out traineeships. This Directive applies, inter alia, to the following traineeships: (a) open-market traineeships; (b) traineeships in the context of active labour market policies (ALMPs); (c) traineeships that are a mandatory part of professional training. Article 2 Definitions: 1. For the purpose of this Directive, the following definitions apply: (a) “open market traineeship” means a non-mandatory, bilateral, private agreement agreed between a trainee and a public, private or not-for-profit traineeship provider without the involvement of a third party and without a formal connection to an educational or a training establishment; (b) “traineeship in the context of active labour market policies (ALMP)” means a traineeship organised by a Public Employment Service (PES) in cooperation with an employer, based on an agreement between the three parties with the aim of helping unemployed or inactive young people into employment; (c) “traineeship that are a mandatory part of professional training” means a traineeship that serves as a mandatory introduction into the professional practice of a specific field of work; (d) “traineeship agreement” means an agreement of short-term duration that meets the conditions of an employment contract or employment relationship as defined in the national law, collective agreement or practice in force in each Member States with consideration to the case law of the Court of Justice; (e) “trainee” means a person that has an employment contract or employment relationship as defined by the national law, collective agreements, or practice in force in each Member States taking into account the criteria established by the CJEU’s case law and has recently entered the labour market or has requalified and is gaining their first professional experience in a given sector. Article 3 Quality criteria 1. Member States shall ensure that trainees have the right to: a) a written traineeship agreement setting out at least: (i) the duration and provisions for any renewal of the traineeship; (ii) wage provided to the trainee in accordance with Directive (EU) 2022/2041; (iii) the tasks to be carried out by the trainee; (iv) arrangements for mentorship and evaluation that is to be carried out by the supervisor guiding the trainee through the assigned tasks; (v) the learning objectives that have been set jointly by the trainee and traineeship provider or employer in order to help the trainee acquire practical experience and relevant skills. The tasks referred to in point (iii) shall be established with reference to the learning objectives referred to in point (v) and shall facilitate the achievement of those learning objectives. b) the compliance with [WKD3] Directive (EU) 2019/1152 and Directive 2003/88/EC 2. Member states shall ensure support for employers offering traineeships to people with disabilities. Article 4 Equal treatment 1. Member States shall ensure that employers or traineeship providers ensure equal treatment between trainees and workers as defined by the law, collective agreements or practice in force in each Member State, taking into account the case-law of the Court of Justice. Article 5 Traineeship duration, renewal and prolongation 1. Member States shall ensure that the duration of traineeship is limited and is no shorter than two months. 2. Member States shall ensure that the arrangements relating to the duration, renewal or prolongation of traineeships do not result in the replacement of entry level jobs, or vacancies for full-time jobs and indefinite-term employment contracts. 3. Member States shall clarify the circumstances and conditions under which a traineeship may be extended or renewed after the initial traineeship agreement expired. 4. Member States shall ensure that under the traineeship agreement either the trainee or the traineeship provider may terminate it by written communication, providing advance notice of an appropriate duration in view of the length of the traineeship and relevant national practice. Article 6 Recognition of traineeships 1. Traineeships shall be recognised, validated and certified jointly by the employer or traineeship provider and the trainee with regard to the knowledge, skills and competences acquired during traineeships. 2. Traineeships shall be recognised and validated as work experience in recruitment processes. Article 7 Transparency requirements 1. Member States shall ensure that employers and traineeship providers include in their gender neutral and inclusive vacancy notices and advertisements information on the terms and conditions of the traineeship, including its wage, working conditions, expected tasks, and health and accident insurance. 2. Employers and Traineeship providers shall provide information on recruitment policies, including the share of trainees recruited in recent years. 3. Traineeship providers shall not require previous working experience when issuing or advertising vacancy notices for traineeships. 4. Member States shall ensure that labour inspectors prohibit the substitution of entry-level or permanent posts by means of a traineeship. Article 8 Social dialogue and stakeholders involvement 1. Without prejudice to the autonomy of the social partners and in accordance with national law and practice, Member States shall ensure the effective involvement of the social partners and other relevant stakeholders, in the design, implementation and monitoring of the rights and obligations laid down in this Directive. 2. Trainees shall have access to workers’ representation, such as trade unions. Article 9 Penalties 1. Member States shall lay down the rules on penalties applicable to infringements of national provisions adopted pursuant to this Directive or the relevant provisions already in force concerning the rights, which are within the scope of this Directive and shall take all measures necessary to ensure that they are implemented. The penalties provided for shall be effective, proportionate and dissuasive. Member States shall, [by XXX], notify the Commission of those rules and of those measures and shall notify it [, without delay,] of any subsequent amendment affecting them. Article 10 Non regression and more favourable provisions 1. This Directive shall not constitute valid grounds for reducing the general level of protection already provided to trainees carrying out a traineeship that falls within its scope. 2. This Directive shall not affect Member States’ prerogative to apply or to introduce laws, regulations or administrative provisions which are more favourable to trainees or to encourage or permit the application of collective agreements which are more favourable to trainees. Article 11 Collection of data, monitoring and evaluation 1. The Commission shall publish guidelines to ensure the uniformity of data collection. The Commission shall monitor the application of those guidelines. 2. Member States shall ensure that the data collection of traineeships at national level is carried out in line with the Commission’s guidelines referred to in paragraph 1. They shall submit the data collected to the Commission on a yearly basis. Article 12 Reporting and review 1. By ... [three years after the date of entry into force of this Directive], the Commission shall assess the implementation of this Directive and its impact in practice and submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council, accompanied by a legislative proposal if appropriate. Article 13 Transposition 1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by ... [two years after the date of entry into force of this Directive]. They shall immediately inform the Commission thereof. 2. When Member States adopt those measures, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or shall be accompanied by such reference on the occasion of their official publication. The methods of making such reference shall be laid down by Member States. Article 14 Entry into force 1. This Directive shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 289 #

2020/2005(INL)

Motion for a resolution
Annex II a (new)
Proposal for a DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on a Quality Framework for Traineeships XXXX/X XX/XX THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union166 (4), thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission, Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee, Having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions Acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure, (1) The first principle of the European Pillar of Social Rights states that everyone has the right to quality and inclusive education, training and lifelong learning in order to maintain and acquire skills that enable them to participate fully in society and successfully manage transitions in the labour market. Principle 3 of the European Pillar of Social Rights underlines that regardless of gender, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, everyone has the right to equal treatment and opportunities, and this includes employment and education. (2) Article 14(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (the ‘Charter’) states that everyone has the right to education and access to vocational and continuing training. (3) The European Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030 aims to ensure their full participation in society, on an equal basis with others in the Union and beyond. Within the Strategy, the European Commission commits to make sure that persons with disabilities can take part in trainings and learn new skills, as a fundamental requisite for employment and independence. (4) traineeships undertaken with the aim of obtaining educational qualifications intend to offer a concrete work-based learning experience to students by integrating academic knowledge with practical experience, giving them the opportunity of finding their professional field(s) of interest(s) and enhancing their employability . (5) Low-quality traineeships, especially those with little learning content, do not lead to employability of the trainee and do not benefit any party. . Social costs also arise in connection with unpaid traineeships that limit the career opportunities of those from disadvantaged backgrounds. (6) There is evidence on the link between the quality of the traineeship and the employment outcome. The value of traineeships in easing the transition to employment depends on their quality in terms of learning content and working conditions. Quality traineeships motivate young people to enter the labour market, improve future prospects and mental stability, improve labour market skills matching and promote mobility for trainees and bring direct productivity benefits for the traineeship providers. (7) Evidence shows that a significant number of traineeships lack the connection between tasks and learning objectives. A quality traineeship must offer a solid and meaningful learning content. This means, the identification of the specific skills to be acquired, supervision and mentoring of the trainee, and monitoring of their progress throughout the traineeship. (8) Problems have also been identified as regards working conditions, e.g. long working hours, lack of health and accident insurance coverage as well as sick leave, the protection against health and safety or occupational risks, little or no allowance , a lack of clarity in the terms and conditions in the traineeship agreements. (9) Traineeships undertaken with the aim of obtaining educational qualifications remain unregulated in some Member States In the absence of a regulatory framework or instrument, or because there is a lack of transparency regarding working conditions for traineeships and their learning content, many traineeship providers are able to use trainees as cheap or even unpaid labour. (10) A binding Quality Framework for Traineeships will support the improvement of working conditions and the learning content of traineeships. The main element of the Quality Framework for Traineeships is the written traineeship agreement that indicates the educational objectives, decent working conditions including the amount of the allowance, rights and obligations, and a reasonable duration for traineeships. (11) Lack of such information is one of the causes of low quality traineeships. Increased transparency requirements for gender-neutral and inclusive notices or announcements advertising traineeship positions improves accessibility. (12) Key stakeholders such social partners, student unions, student representatives, and youth organisations, play a key role in the design, implementation and monitoring of training policies and programmes. Cooperation between them could provide trainees with targeted information on available career opportunities and skills needs on labour markets, as well as on trainees' rights and responsibilities. (13) One of the opportunities is to increase the cross-border mobility of trainees in the Union. The lack of a decent allowance constitutes an obstacle to the development of cross-border trainee mobility, especially for students coming from disadvantaged groups. Moreover, in some cases, administrative and legal obstacles to cross-border mobility of trainees have been found to affect several of the receiving Member States. In this context, information on the right to cross- border mobility of trainees, in particular the rights included in Directive 2004/38/EC, is important. By providing principles and guidelines to serve as a reference, the Quality Framework for Traineeships will also facilitate access to transnational traineeships. (14) Traineeship providers respecting the QFT can be financially supported by the national and European public Funds. This involves a possible contribution to the cost of the traineeships for the providers. (15) whereas the European Parliament has repeatedly condemned the practice of unpaid traineeships as a form of exploitation of young workers and a violation of their rights and called for a common legal framework to ensure fair remuneration for traineeships in order to avoid exploitative practices; (16) The Quality Framework sets the minimum standards for determining what constitutes a good quality offer of traineeships. (17) This Decision does not cover traineeships in the open labour market, traineeships as a mandatory part of professional training, and traineeships that are part of the active labour market policies (ALMP). (18) Considering the nature and objective of this Decision, it should not be interpreted as hindering Member States from maintaining or establishing more favourable provisions for trainees than the ones recommended. HAVE ADOPTED THIS DECISION: Article 1 Subject matter 1. This Decision establishes a “European Quality Framework for Traineeships” (Quality Framework). The purpose of the Quality Framework is to support and supplement the action of Member States regarding the transparency and comprehensibility of quality criteria for traineeships that are carried out in the context of the obtention of educational qualifications. Article 2 Objectives 1. The objectives of the Quality Framework shall be to improve: (a) the quality of traineeships undertaken with the aim of obtaining educational qualifications, in particular as regards to learning and training content and working conditions, with the aim of easing the transition from education to work; (b) the accessibility of traineeships, in particular for the purpose of increasing the participation of young people from disadvantaged groups and persons with disabilities. Article 3 Conclusion of a written traineeship agreement 1. Member States shall reinforce the practice of establishing a written agreement at the beginning of the traineeship between the trainee and the traineeship provider. 2. Member States shall promote traineeship agreements as referred to in paragraph 1 that indicate the educational objectives of the traineeship, the working conditions and allowance provided to the trainee by the traineeship provider, and the rights and obligations of the parties under applicable Union and national law, as well as the duration of the traineeship, in accordance with Articles 4 to 8. Article 4 Learning and training objectives 1. Member States shall promote best practices whereby: (a) Learning and training objectives are established jointly by the trainee, traineeship provider and the educational institution in order to help trainees acquire practical experience and relevant skills. The tasks assigned to the trainee during the traineeship shall enable these objectives to be attained; (b) Traineeship providers designate a supervisor to guide trainees in carrying out the assigned tasks and to monitor and assess their progress. Article 5 Training conditions applicable to trainees 1. Member States shall encourage traineeship providers in: (a) setting training hours that are compatible with the studying plan concerned, in the event that the training and education are to be carried out simultaneously, including limits to maximum weekly working time; (b) providing coverage in terms of health and accident insurance as well as sick leave; (c) clarifying the amount of the allowance provided to the trainee; (d) applying working conditions of their workers to the trainees with regards to health and safety standards, minimum daily and weekly rest periods minimum holiday entitlements, sick leave, teleworking rights and access to workers’ representatives, among others. Article 6 Traineeship duration 1. Member States shall encourage traineeship providers to: (a) limit to a minimum duration of two months and a maximum duration of six months, except in cases where a longer duration is justified, taking into account national practices; (b) specify that either the trainee or the traineeship provider may terminate it by written communication to all parties, providing advance notice of an appropriate duration in view of the length of the traineeship and relevant national practice. Article 7 Recognition of traineeships 1. Member States shall facilitate the recognition, validation and certification of the knowledge, skills and competencies acquired during traineeships by both the traineeship provider and the educational institution. Article 8 Transparency requirements 1. Member States shall encourage traineeship providers to include gender- neutral vacancy notices and advertisements where the information on the terms and conditions of the traineeship, including the training conditions, the amount of the allowance, the expected tasks and the applicable health and accident insurance is provided as well as to give information on recruitment policies, including the number of trainees recruited in previous years. Article 9 Cross-border traineeships 1. In case of cross-border mobility of trainees within the European Union, Member States shall encourage that the educational institution provides information about the national legal framework for traineeships and rules on hosting trainees and sending of trainees. 2. In case of third country nationals carrying out traineeships within the EU, Member States shall facilitate the application of the QFT to them. 3. In case of mobility outside the EU, Member States shall promote that agreements between educational institutions and traineeship providers respect the QFT. Article 10 Financial support 1. Promote the use of national and/or European public funds such as ESF+, ERDF, RRF to traineeship providers who respect the QFT. Article 11 Involvement of stakeholders 1. Promote the active involvement of stakeholders, in particular, the social partners, student unions, student representatives, and youth organisations, in applying the Quality Framework. Article 12 Collection of data, monitoring and evaluation 1. The Commission shall publish guidelines for adequate monitoring schemes to ensure the uniformity of data collection to ensure better and comparative data collection of traineeships at national level. 2. The Commission shall monitor, in cooperation with the Member States and in particular through EMCO, the progress in applying the Quality Framework for Traineeships pursuant to this decision and analyse the impact of the policies in place. Article 13 Entry into force This Decision shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
2023/02/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 36 #

2020/1998(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. In order to finance this budget, reminds that, as expressed in its legislative resolution of 16 September 2020, the new categories of own resources should be introduced as of 2021 and that any amounts generated by new own resources beyond the level necessary to cover the repayment obligations of the NGEU in a given year should remain in the Union budget as general revenue notably to top-up the 15 EU flagship programmes as of 2021 accompanied by the corresponding rise of the MFF ceilings; asks, in order to fulfil these objectives, for the introduction of a basket of new own resources and especially for the urgent adoption of those of the new own resources which are the most advanced in terms of technical preparation (directive proposal and impact assessment ready), and which can generate the highest volume of revenues ; Underlines that, as expressed in its report on SEIP adopted on 16 October 2020 in BUDG-ECON, the new own resource which meets these 2 criteria is a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) which, based on the original Commission proposal from 2012 and taking into account Brexit and economic growth, could raise up to 57bn EUR/year ; reiterates, in that connection, its call to all Member States to join the enhanced cooperation framework on the FTT ; Reminds that, since 2018, Parliament has reiterated several times that It will not give its consent for the MFF without an agreement on the reform of the EU’s own resources system ; Stresses that in 2020, in order to answer the climate, health and social crises, there is a need to fill an investment gap of 600bn € per year, as assessed by the European Commission and as recalled by the EP’s SEIP report ; adds therefore that Parliament will not give its consent to the 2021 Budget without a decision by the Council on the FTT allowing for revenues and increased spending of at least 50bn EUR/year, or, at least, first a decision in enhanced cooperation on the FTT allowing for revenues and increased spending of at least 30bn EUR/year to be implemented at the latest on 1st January 2024.
2020/10/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 42 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
(2) Following the end of the transition period, barriers to trade and to cross-border exchanges between the Union and the United Kingdom will be present. Broad and far-reaching social and economic consequences for businesses, especially SMEs and micro-entities and their employees, citizens and public administrations, local communities and regions, are expected. Those consequences are unavoidable and stakeholders need to make sure that they are ready for them.
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 43 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
(3) The Union is committed to mitigating the economic impact of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union and to show solidarity with all Member States, especially the most affected ones in such exceptional circumstances. However, many uncertainties associated with the impact of the UK’s withdrawal remain, which make it difficult to determine the specific exposure of a Member State’s economy. For example, possible positive gains can be expected from the movement of economic sectors of activity from the UK to certain Member States in the Union.
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 47 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
(4) A Brexit Adjustment Reserve (the ‘Reserve’) should be established to provide support to counter adverse consequences in Member States, regions, local communities and sectors, in particular those that are worst affected by the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union, and thus to mitigate the related impact on the economic, social and territorial cohesion. It should cover in whole or in part the additional public expenditure incurred by Member States for measures specifically taken to mitigate those consequences.
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 49 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
(5) For the purposes of contributing to economic, social and territorial cohesion, it is appropriate that Member States, when designing support measures, focus in particular on the regions, areas and local communities, including those dependent on fishing activities in the United Kingdom waters, that are likely to be most negatively impacted by the withdrawal of the United Kingdom. Member States may have to take specific measures notably to support businesses and economic sectors adversely affected by the withdrawal, giving special attention to SMEs, micro-entities and their employees with the aim of securing quality employment and social security and protection . Member States should ensure that new high-quality jobs are created in those regions and local communities particularly affected, as jobs are key for regions and local communities to thrive. It is therefore appropriate to provide a non-exhaustive list of the type of measures that are most likely to achieve this objective.
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 59 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
(6) At the same time, it is important to clearly specify any exclusions from support provided by the Reserve. The Reserve should exclude from support the value added tax as it constitutes a Member State revenue, which offsets the related cost for the Member State budget. In order to concentrate the use of limited resources in the most efficient way, technical assistance used by the bodies responsible for the implementation of the Reserve should not be eligible for support from the Reserve. In line with the general approach for cohesion policy, expenditure linked to relocations or contrary to any applicable Union or national law should not be supported. Furthermore, the support given should not lead to distortion of competition within the internal market.
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 61 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 a (new)
(6 a) It should be noted that there is potentially big variation in the financial allocation per Member State. In order to allow the use of the resources in the most efficient way, technical assistance used by the bodies responsible for the management, monitoring, information and communication and control and auditing of the Reserve should be set at 3% of the contribution from the Reserve for each Member State.
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 63 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
(7) In order to take into account the immediate impact of the adverse consequences of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union on the Member States and their economies and the need to adopt mitigating and adapting measures, as appropriate, prior to the expiry of the transition period, the eligibility period for implementing such measures should start as from 1 JulFebruary 2020 and be concentrated over a limited period of 30 monthsuntil 31 December 2022.
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 70 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 a (new)
(8 a) Stresses the need for each EU budgetary programme and its beneficiaries to ensure respect for fundamental rights and deliver and contribute to implementing gender equality and its mainstreaming, the European Pillar of Social Rights, the European Green Deal based on a just transition, the biodiversity objectives and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, where relevant.
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 71 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 b (new)
(8 b) The implementation of the Reserve should be carried out in line with the principle of sound financial management, including the effective prevention and prosecution of tax fraud, tax evasion, tax avoidance and aggressive tax planning.
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 72 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
(9) Horizontal financial rules adopted by the European Parliament and the Council on the basis of Article 322 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) apply to this Regulation. These rules are laid down in the Financial Regulation and determine in particular the procedure for establishing and implementing the budget, and provide for checks on the responsibility of financial actors. Rules adopted on the basis of Article 322 TFEU also concern the general regime of Rule of Law conditionality for the protection of the Union budget.
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 77 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
(11) In order to enable Member States to deploy the additional resources and to ensure sufficient financial means to swiftly implement measures under the Reserve, a substantial amount thereof should be disbursed in 2021 as pre-financing. The distribution method should take into account the importance of trade with the United Kingdom and the importance of fisheries in the United Kingdom exclusive economic zone, based on reliable and official statistics and needs to ensure equal treatment of all Member States. Given the unique nature of the event that the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union constitutes and the uncertainty that has surrounded key aspects of the relationship between the United Kingdom and the Union after the expiry of the transition period, it is difficult to anticipate the appropriate measures Member States will have to take rapidly to counter the effects of the withdrawal. It is therefore necessary to grant Member States flexibility and in particular to allow the Commission to adopt the financing decision providing the pre-financing without the obligation pursuant to Article 110(2) of the Financial Regulation to provide a description of the concrete actions to be financed.
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 85 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
(15) To ensure equal treatment of all Member States and consistency in the evaluation of the applications, the Commission should assess the applications in a package. It should look in particular into the eligibility and the accuracy of the expenditure declared, the direct link of the expenditure with measures taken to address the consequences of the withdrawal and the measures put in place by the Member State concerned to avoid double funding. Upon assessment of the applications for a financial contribution from the Reserve, the Commission should clear the pre- financing paid, and recover the unused amount. In order to concentrate the support on Member States most affected by the withdrawal, where the expenditure in the Member State concerned, accepted as eligible by the Commission, exceeds the amount paid as pre-financing and 0.06% of the nominal Gross National Income (GNI) for 2021 of the Member State concerned, it should be possible to allow for a further allocation from the Reserve to thatall Member States within the limits of the financial resources available. Given the extent of the expected economic shock, the possibility to use the amounts recovered from the pre-financing for the reimbursement of additional expenditure by Member States should be provided for. For the additional amounts, the allocation criteria as set out in Annex I should apply.
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 87 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
(16) In order to ensure the proper functioning of shared management, Member States should establish a management and control system, designate and notify the Commission of the bodies responsible for the management of the Reserve as well as a separate independent audit body. For simplification reasons, Member States may make use of existing bodies designated and systems set up for the purpose of the management and control of cohesion policy funding or the European Union Solidarity Fund. It is necessary to specify the responsibilities of the Member States and lay down the specific requirements for the bodies designated. Where new bodies are created by the Member States, the Commission should, in the early stages of the eligibility period, assess their adequacy in contributing to the protection of the financial interests of the EU. The Commission should furthermore ensure a consistent and comparable audit approach in all Member States.
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 91 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
(17) In accordance with the Financial Regulation, Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2988/9514 , Council Regulation (Euratom, EC) No 2185/9615 and Council Regulation (EU) 2017/193916 and Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 2020/2092on a general regime of Rule of Law conditionality for the protection of the Union budget, the financial interests of the Union are to be protected through proportionate measures, including the prevention, detection, correction and investigation of irregularities and fraud, the recovery of funds lost, wrongly paid or incorrectly used and, where appropriate, the imposition of administrative sanctions. In particular, in accordance with Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 883/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council17 and Regulation (Euratom, EC) No 2185/96, the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) may carry out administrative investigations, including on- the-spot checks and inspections, with a view to establishing whether there has been fraud, corruption or any other illegal activity affecting the financial interests of the Union. In accordance with Regulation (EU) 2017/1939, the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) may investigate and prosecute fraud and other criminal offences affecting the financial interests of the Union as provided for in Directive (EU) 2017/1371 of the European Parliament and of the Council18 . In accordance with the Financial Regulation, any person or entity receiving Union funds is to fully cooperate in the protection of the Union’s financial interests, to grant the necessary rights and access to the Commission, OLAF, the EPPO and the European Court of Auditors and to ensure that any third parties involved in the implementation of Union funds grant equivalent rights. _________________ 14 Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2988/95 of 18 December 1995 on the protection of the European Communities financial interests (OJ L 312, 23.12.1995, p. 1). 15 Council Regulation (Euratom, EC) No 2185/96 of 11 November 1996 concerning on-the-spot checks and inspections carried out by the Commission in order to protect the European Communities' financial interests against fraud and other irregularities (OJ L 292, 15.11.1996, p. 2). 16Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 of 12 October 2017 implementing enhanced cooperation on the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (‘the EPPO’) (OJ L 283, 31.10.2017, p. 1). 17Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 883/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 September 2013 concerning investigations conducted by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1073/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Regulation (Euratom) No 1074/1999 (OJ L 248, 18.9.2013, p. 1). 18 Directive (EU) 2017/1371 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2017 on the fight against fraud to the Union's financial interests by means of criminal law (OJ L 198, 28.7.2017, p. 29).
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 92 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17 a (new)
(17 a) In order to ensure efficient and coherent allocation of funds from the Union budget and to respect the principle of sound financial management, financial actions under the Reserve should be consistent with and complementary to ongoing Union programmes and priorities, such as the digital transition and a just climate transition, while avoiding double funding for the same expenditure. Therefore, financial support under the Reserve should be additional to the support provided under other Union programmes and instruments, provided that such support does not cover the same cost.
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 96 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
(19) In order to enhance transparency on the use of the Union contribution, the Commission should provide a final report to the European Parliament and the Council on the implementation of the Reserve. The Commission should evaluate in particular whether resources were used in an effective, efficient and EU value- added way, with Member States providing assistance to those regions, local communities and sectors particularly affected. The evaluation should also assess whether there was real and measurable impact in mitigating the negative effects of the UK's withdrawal from the EU, taking into consideration the very broad eligibility criteria for expenditure, the lack of clear priorities and indicators, as well as, the lack of an impact assessment and stakeholder consultation prior to adopting the proposal.
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 99 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1
(1) ‘reference period’ means the reference period referred to in Article 63(5), point (a), of the Financial Regulation, which shall be from 1 JulFebruary 2020 to 31 December 2022;
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 106 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
The Reserve shall provide support to counter the adverse consequences of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union in Member States, regionbusinesses, especially SMEs and micro-entities including their employees, regions, local communities and sectors, in particular those that are worst affected by that withdrawal, and to mitigate the related impact on the economic, social and territorial cohesion.
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 114 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2
2. The maximum resources for the Reserve shall be EUR 5 370 994000 000 000 in current2018 prices.
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 117 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) a pre-financing amount of EUR 4 244 832 000000 000 000 in 2018 prices shall be made available in 2021 in accordance with Article 8;
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 123 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) additional amounts of EUR 1 126 162 000000 000 000 in 2018 prices shall be made available in 2024 in accordance with Article 11.
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 128 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) measures to assist businesses, especially SMEs and micro-entities, and local communities and regions adversely affected by the withdrawal;
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 133 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) measures to support businesses, especially SMEs and micro entities and local communities and regions dependent on fishing activities in the United Kingdom waters;
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 136 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) measures to support employment, and job creation, especially in those regions and local communities most affected, with the aim of securing quality employment, social security and protection including through short-time work schemes, re-skilling and upskilling and training in affected sectors;
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 142 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point f
(f) measures to facilitate regimes for certification and authorisation of products, to assist in meeting establishment requirements, to facilitate labelling and marking, for example for safety, health and environmental and social standards, as well as to assist in mutual recognition, including additional personnel and infrastructure, especially digital infrastructure;
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 152 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 4
4. The measures referred to in paragraph 1 shall comply with applicable law, the implementation of gender equality, the European Pillar of Social Rights, the European Green Deal based on a just transition, the biodiversity objectives and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, where relevant.
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 154 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 5
5. Measures eligible under paragraph 1 may receivshall be additional to the support fpromvided under other Union programmes and instruments provided that such support does not cover the same cost.
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 157 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) technical assistance for the management, monitoring, information and communication, complaint resolution, and control and auditing of the Reserve;deleted
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 161 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall use the contribution from the Reserve to implement the measures referred to in Article 5 to provide non-repayable forms of support. The Union contribution shall take the form of reimbursement of eligible costs actually incurred and paid by Member States in implementing the measures and of flat-rate financing for technical assistance.
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 166 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3
3. The Commission shall pay the pre- financing within 6045 days of the date of the adoption of the implementing act referred to in paragraph 2. It shall be cleared in accordance with Article 11.
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 175 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) a description of the impact of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union in economic and social terms, especially on jobs and employment, including an identification of the regions, areas and sectors most affected;
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 178 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) a description of the measures taken to counter the adverse consequences of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union, of the extent to which those measures alleviated the regional, local and sectoral impact referred to in point (a), and how they were implemented; a description of whether the measures created new high quality jobs in those regions and local communities particularly affected;
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 180 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point e
(e) a description of the contribution of the measures to climate change mitigation and adaptation, the sustainable use and protection of water and marine resources, the protection and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystems, and the transition to a circular economy, where relevant.
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 184 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) the total amount of eligible public expenditure (the ’accepted amount’);deleted
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 186 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
3. Where the accepted amount exceeds both the amount of pre-financing and 0.06% of the nominal GNI of 2021 of the Member State concerned, an aAdditional amounts shall be due to that Member States from the allocation referred to in Article 4(3), point (b), and any amounts carried over pursuant to Article 8(4).
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 190 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
In such a case, the Commission shall pay the amount exceeding the pre-financing paid to the Member State concerned or 0.06% of the nominal GNI of 2021, whichever is higherFor the additional amounts, the allocation criteria for the pre-financing to be paid by the Commission to Member States shall apply, pursuant to Article 8(1) and as set out in Annex I.
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 191 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Where the sum of the additional amounts for all Member States calculated pursuant to the first subparagraph of this paragraph exceeds the resources available according to Article 4(3), point (b), the contributions from the Reserve shall be reduced proportionately.deleted
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 205 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 4 – introductory part
4. The independent audit body shall audit the system and carry out independent audits of financed measures in order to provide independent assurance to the Commission regarding the effective functioning of the management and control system and the legality and regularity of the expenditure included in the accounts submitted to the Commission.
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 207 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
The independent audits of the financed measures shall cover expenditure on the basis of a sample. That sample shall be representative and based on statistical sampling methods.
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 213 #

2020/0380(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 1
1. By 30 June 2026, the Commission shall carry out an evaluation to examine the effectiveness, efficiency, relevance, coherence and EU added value of the Reserve. The Commission shall evaluate to what extent Member States' measures alleviated the impact in particularly affected local communities, regions and sectors. The Commission may make use of all relevant information already available in accordance with Article 128 of the Financial Regulation.
2021/03/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 1 #

2020/0371(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Article 4
4. Welcomes that the increase of EUR 185 million on top of the levels of the first DB as modified by Amending letter No 1/2020 obtained in the conciliation negotiations correspond to Parliament’s main political priorities; notes that the increases include EUR 60,3 million for the Connecting Europe Facility - Transport, EUR 42 million for LIFE, EUR 25,7 million for the Digital Europe Programme, EUR 6,6 million for the Rights and Values Programme, of which EUR 4,8 million is for Daphne), EUR 2,7 million for the Justice programme, EUR 25 million for Humanitarian Aid, as part of the EUR 500 million reinforcement for the period from 2021 to2027 as agreed in the context of the MFF, EUR 10,2 million for UNRWA under the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI) and EUR 7,3 million for the European Public Prosecutor’s Office mainly for staff reinforcements; further notes that Amending letter No 1/2020 had already incorporated increases for the Horizon Europe, Erasmus+ and EU4Health programmes to reflect the outcome of the MFF negotiations;
2020/12/14
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 81 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
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, labour, economic and cultural impact for those regions that rely heavily on fossil fuels - especially coal, lignite, peat and oil shale - or greenhouse gas intensive industries and other energy intensive sectors such as steel, cement, chemicals, glass and transport, that will require significant support in order to adapt and modernize. 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.
2020/05/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 95 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
(3) In order to be successful, the transition has to be fair and socially acceptable for allsocially sustainable and acceptable for all and to improve welfare and living conditions. 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 and enhance the positive ones, such as the creation of new, decent and sustainable jobs. The Union budget has an important role in that regard.
2020/05/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 113 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) This JTF is part of the wider Sustainable Europe Investment Plan (SEIP), which aims at meeting the considerable financing needs and additional investment required for the implementation of the objectives of the European Green Deal, which well exceed the conservative figure of EUR 260 billion stated by the Commission in December, which, as already expressed by the Commission, does not consider for instance the investment needs for climate adaptation and for other environmental challenges such as biodiversity, or the public investment needed to address social costs. There would be a need to add to this figure additional amounts ranging from 100 to 150 billion EUR/year for environmental protection and resource management and 142 bn EUR/year for social investments. The costs of deep decarbonisation are now far lower than the costs incurred from the effects of climate change. The European Commission had also already estimated that the investment gap would be as high as 529 billion Euros per year starting in 2021 (public and private), based on a scenario implying -47%of Greenhouse Gas for 2030, hence below the new targets announced in the new Climate Law Proposal. The EU Budget and the JTF are certainly not the only instruments fit to bridge that gap of hundreds of billions per year, but they must play a substantial role in bridging it.
2020/05/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 124 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 a (new)
(5a) To cope with social imbalances and tensions between tradition and innovation caused by profound structural changes such as the current transition, and because environmental and ecological change requires social and behavioural change and thus must be balanced by an understanding of peoples’ needs and aspirations, the JTF should reflect social sustainability as a precondition to the sustainable development that underpins the European Green Deal. Given that society and nature are deeply interconnected, a successful paradigm shift to a climate-neutral economy that truly leaves no one behind and is socially just in the long term should rest in a dynamic correlation between social, economic and environmental sustainability. In order to contribute to sustainable social development as a way for long-term environmental and economic sustainability, while simultaneously advancing the European social model as a future-oriented asset, the JTF should be a promoter of equity and wellbeing, social cohesion and security, inter- and intra-generational solidarity and redistribution of wealth, equitable access to basic needs, social services and resources, decent livelihoods, quality jobs, socially sustainable businesses, civic engagement and participation in decision-making, as well as a sense of place and community belonging for the present and future generations. To this end, the JTF should rely on valid social sustainability indicators and multidimensional benchmarking for effective guidance and monitoring of its implementation.
2020/05/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 128 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
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 and should be conditional on the acceptance of the EU objective of climate neutrality by 2050 as well as the intermediate targets. Resources from the JTF own envelope are additional 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 target.
2020/05/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 143 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
(7) The resources from the JTF should complement and be additional in relation to the resources available under cohesion policy, without in any way reducing the resources available under the latter and therefore undermining its current objectives.
2020/05/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 191 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11 a (new)
(11a) The Member States and the Commission should ensure that the implementation of the priorities financed by the JTF contributes to the respect and the promotion of equality between women and men in accordance with Article 8 TFEU. Evaluations have shown the importance of taking the gender equality objectives into account in all dimensions and in all stages of the preparation, monitoring, implementation and evaluation of operational programmes, in a timely and consistent manner while ensuring that specific actions are taken to promote gender equality and the principle of equal pay for equal work of equal value, the economic independence of women, education and skills upgrading and the reintegration of female victims of violence into the labour market and into society.
2020/05/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 198 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
(12) In order to enhance the economic diversification of territories impacted by the transition, the JTF should provide support to productive investment in SMEs. Productive investment should be understood as investment in fixed capital or immaterial assets of enterprises in view of producing goods and services thereby contributing to gross-capital formation and employmentto social sustainability. For enterprises other than SMEs, productive investments should only be supported if they are necessary for mitigating job losses resulting from the transition, by creating or protecting a significant number of jobs and they do not lead to or result from relocation. Investments in existing industrial facilities, including those covered by the Union Emissions Trading System, should be allowed if they contribute to the transition to a climate- neutral economy by 2050 and go substantially below the relevant benchmarks established for free allocation under Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council14 and if they result in the protection of a significant number of decent and sustainable jobs. Any such investment should be justified accordingly in the relevant territorial just transition plan. In order to protect the integrity of the internal market and cohesion policy, support to undertakings should comply with Union State aid rules as set out in Articles 107 and 108 TFEU and, in particular, support to productive investments by enterprises other than SMEs should be limited to enterprises located in areas designated as assisted areas for the purposes of points (a) and (c) of Article 107(3) TFEU. __________________ 14Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003 establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community and amending Council Directive 96/61/EC (OJ L 275, 25.10.2003, p. 32).
2020/05/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 207 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
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 possiblerequired 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 should be reinforced with complementary funding from the ERDF and the ESF+, which should be given additional resources for this purpose. The respective amounts transferred from the ERDF and the ESF+ should be consistent with the type of operations set out in the territorial just transition plans.
2020/05/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 217 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
(14) The JTF support should be conditional on the effective and measurable implementation of a transition process in a specific territory in order to achieve a climate-neutral economy by 2050. In that regard, Member States should prepare, in cooperationtogether with the relevant stakeholders, including social partners, civil society and local actors, and supported by the Commission, territorial just transition plans, detailing the transition process, consistently with their National Energy and Climate Planincluding job creation measures, upskilling and reskilling and investments in local social and public infrastructures, consistently with their National Energy and Climate Plans, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the European Pillar of Social Rights. 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.
2020/05/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 259 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
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 7.5 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. In case the financial envelope of the JTF is significantly increased, the formula for regional allocation may be adapted to cover all the regions appropriate, including those where workers will be affected by the transition in a less direct manner.
2020/05/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 412 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point e a (new)
(ea) a detailed list of the different partners and stakeholders consulted, including social partners, representing people living in the territory concerned, in particular workers;
2020/05/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 447 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 4
4. Before adopting a delegated act, the Commission shall consult experts designated by each Member State and conduct stakeholder’s consultation in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 April 2016 on Better Law-Making.
2020/05/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 239 #

2019/2213(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5 a (new)
Other issues
2020/03/04
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 245 #

2019/2213(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Reiterates its longstanding view that new political priorities and upcoming challenges for the EU should be financed by fresh appropriations and not by reducing the appropriations of existing programmes; considers that this principle should also apply to amending budgets;
2020/03/04
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 246 #

2019/2213(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16 b. Notes that, as the first year of the potentially agreed next MFF, the budget 2021 will be the first reflecting a new budgetary nomenclature; calls on the Commission to involve appropriately the budgetary authority in its preparation; believes that the new nomenclature, while being better aligned with the policy priorities, must be sufficiently detailed to allow the budgetary authority to fulfil effectively its decision-making role and Parliament in particular its democratic oversight and scrutiny roles;
2020/03/04
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 247 #

2019/2213(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)
16 c. Notes that, as the arm of the budgetary authority directly elected by citizens, Parliament will fulfil its political role and put forward proposals for pilot projects and preparatory actions expressing its political vision for the future; commits itself, in this context, to proposing a package of pilot projects and preparatory actions developed in close cooperation with each of its committees so as to find the right balance between political will and technical feasibility, as assessed by the Commission;
2020/03/04
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 30 #

2019/2211(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Recalls, for instance, the importante role of the Cohesion Funds in the implementation of the SDGs, as well as the European Pilar of Social Rights, in the Member States;
2020/01/29
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 52 #

2019/2211(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Considers that the Member States and regions have different starting points when it comes to the transition and the efforts already made shall not be neglected; considers that the Just Transition Mechanism should ensure an adequate, inclusive and fair transition for all affected by environmental and climate transformation towards a neutral carbon economy;
2020/01/29
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 56 #

2019/2211(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Welcomes the initiative of the Commission to present a Sustainable Europe Investment Plan as a real catalyser to the necessary investments to deliver on the European Green Deal;
2020/01/29
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 59 #

2019/2211(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6 d. Considers that flexibility of the Stability and Growth Pact should be further revised to take into account Member States' efforts supporting, through public investment, a fair and inclusive transition towards a competitive green and digital economy; reiterates that, as a contribution to an investment and counter-cyclical budget, aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals, Member States’ contributions to EU budget and/or national co-financing of EU programmes should be excluded from the national deficits calculations;
2020/01/29
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 63 #

2019/2211(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Invites the Commission to continue to enhance the democratic accountability of the European Semester. and invites Member States to involve national parliaments, social partners and relevant stakeholders to collaborate more closely with the European Parliament in the context of the European Semester on the macroeconomic policy coordination;
2020/01/29
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 12 #

2019/2126(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 a (new)
- having regard to the Statute of the ECB, Article 2 of which lays down that, if the objective of price stability is achieved and is not called into question, its monetary policy must be placed at the service of the EU's objectives as defined in Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union, which mentions explicitly 'improvement of the quality of the environment' as a Union objective, and that the ECB's stated desire to contribute actively to the success of the Green Deal in no way runs counter to the Treaties,
2020/01/29
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 20 #

2019/2126(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas, in its Communication of 14 January 2020, the Commission states that, if the Green Deal is to succeed, there is an annual shortfall of between EUR 260 and 500 billion in investment to be made up;
2020/01/29
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 22 #

2019/2126(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas, in order to contribute to financing the Green Deal, the European Investment Bank has announced its intention to halt investment in fossil fuels and to double green lending in order to bring the latter up to 50% of its balance sheet, but whereas this highly praiseworthy initiative will result in only EUR 16 billion in additional loans;
2020/01/29
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 24 #

2019/2126(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)
Ec. whereas, in order for the EIB- Climate Bank significantly to increase its loans, it needs to have fresh capital, but whereas many Member States do not want to increase their contributions to its capital;
2020/01/29
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 25 #

2019/2126(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E d (new)
Ed. whereas the ECB has stated its intention to green its balance sheet and take an active part in the success of the Green Deal;
2020/01/29
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 26 #

2019/2126(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E e (new)
Ee. whereas the ECB does not have the right to become a shareholder of the EIB, but whereas there is nothing to stop it making quasi-equity investments in the EIB by means of subrogated loans; whereas over the past four years, the ECB has increased its balance sheet by 2 600 billion and will increase it by a further 240 billion in 2020; whereas, if it provided 100 billion in quasi-equity investments, the ECB would boost the EIB's capital to 50 billion, which would enable the EIB- Climate Bank to pursue a much more ambitious lending policy;
2020/01/29
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 70 #

2019/2126(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 – point 1 (new)
1. Plans to work with the Commission to foster joint reflection by investigating the possibility of the ECB boosting the EIB's quasi-equity investments (or a subsidiary of the EIB dedicated specifically to the climate) to enable the EIB-Climate Bank to make a much bigger contribution to meeting the need for investment, which is estimated at between 260 and 500 billion;
2020/01/29
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 1 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)
- having regard to Article 2.1c of the Paris Agreement, ratified by the European Union on 5 October 2016,
2019/10/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 2 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 b (new)
- having regard to the Landscape review of the European Court of Auditors, entitled 'EU action on energy and climate change' (2017)
2019/10/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 3 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 c (new)
- having regard to the Commission communication 'A Clean Planet for all - A European strategic long-term vision for a prosperous, modern, competitive and climate neutral economy' (COM (2018) 773),
2019/10/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 18 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Strongly believes that it is imperative to rise to thtackle climate challenge in a way thatll its dimensions, as boostsing employment and, strengthensing competitiveness, protecting biodiversity and promoting sustainable development inside and outside the Union; welcomes the powerful calls for action made by EU leaders at the recent UN climate change summit and the commitments made recently by several Member States to ramp up spending in areas such as energy efficiency and transport and energy infrastructure;
2019/10/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 27 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Proposes, therefore, a 2020 Union budget that makes an important contribution to tackling environmental challenges and climate change and offsets as much as possible the existing backlog towards reaching the target of 20 % of climate-related Union expenditure for the period 2014-2020; proposes a significant reinforcement by more than EUR 2 billion above DB levels for budget lines across different Headings, and predominantly in Subheading 1a, which make a high contribution towards the climate- expenditure target; carefully targets those reinforcements towards lines that have an excellent implementation rate and the operational capacity to absorb the additional appropriations in 2020; highlights however that these amounts fall far short of meeting the needs for investment in this area as recalled by the European Commission, which estimates it between EUR 175 and 290 billion per year;
2019/10/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 29 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Stresses that budget 2020 has to be considered in the wider context of the current climate challenges that need to be addressed in the swiftest way; regrets that, under the current MFF, this budget has scarce resources; underlines that the EU needs to make all necessary efforts to fulfil its commitments pledged under the Paris Agreement;
2019/10/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 38 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Proposes further targeted reinforcements to other budget lines related to Parliament’s priorities, in areas such as SMEs, digitalisation, cancer research, security and justice cooperation, migration and, external policy and development;
2019/10/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 44 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Concludes that, for the purpose of adequately financing the pressing priorities expressed above, and considering the very tight or inexistent margins under certain Headings in 2020, the Flexibility Instrument and the Global Margin for Commitments need to be fully mobilised, the Contingency Margin needs to be partially mobilised, and the possibility to re-use de- commitments for research laid down in Article 15(3) of the Financial Regulation needs to be used in full; also recalls that flexibilities set out in the MFF Regulation will lapse at the end of this period;
2019/10/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 70 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Underlines the importance of reinforcing the employability of young people and that the fight against youth unemployment requires substantial financial efforts; is determined to ensure the properadditional funding for the YEI programme in the last year of the current MFF; underlines the need to accelerate the implementation of this programme and to further improve its efficiency, so as to ensure that it brings more European added value to national employment policies in order to ensure a smooth transition towards the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) programme in the next MFF ; proposes therefore an increase of EUR 363,3 million above DB levels in commitment appropriations for the YEI;
2019/10/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 88 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20 a. Intends to provide the European Environment Agency with additional resources, given the pivotal role of this agency to support sustainable development and measurable improvement in Europe's environment;
2019/10/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 93 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Reinforces, against the background of an unrealistically low ceiling since the beginning of the current MFF, funding for Parliament’s priorities in the fields of internal security, migration and fundamental rights; strongly objects to Council’s cuts to the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) and Internal Security Fund (ISF) and rejects the Council’s proposal to move EUR 400 million in commitment appropriations into a reserve awaiting a break-through on the reform of the Dublin III Regulation; underlines that it is of paramount importance to invest in adequate funding and staffing levels for all agencies operating in the fields of migration, security and, border control and the respect of fundamental rights, in particular Europol, Eurojust, EPPO and Frontex, Frontex and the Fundamental Rights Agency;
2019/10/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 95 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Reinforces, against the background of an unrealistically low ceiling since the beginning of the current MFF, funding for Parliament’s priorities in the fields of internal security, migration and fundamental rights; strongly objects to Council’s cuts to the Internal Security Fund (ISF) and the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) and Internal Security Fund (ISF) and rejects the Council’s proposal to move EUR 400 million inof this programme commitment appropriations into a reserve awaiting a break-through on the reform of the Dublin III Regulation as it would forbid its use for the purpose of serving a human management of the migrant flows; underlines that it is of paramount importance to invest in adequate funding and staffing levels for all agencies operating in the fields of migration, security and border control, in particular Europol, Eurojust, EPPO and Frontex;
2019/10/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 109 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Recalls that, given the persisting security threats and the deterioration of the security environment at the EU’s Eastern borders as well as the challenging reforms Eastern European partners are confronted with, it is important to provide sufficient funding in support of stability, democracy and confidence-building and to step up efforts to support poverty reduction and economic development in the region; further recalls that the countries of the Southern neighbourhood need additional financial support, since they are facing enormous pressure, including the conflicts in Syria and Libya, the rise of extremism and the related refugee and migrant movements;
2019/10/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 122 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
32. Recalls the importance of pilot projects and preparatory actions (PP-PAs) as tools for the formulation of political priorities and the introduction of new initiatives that have the potential to turn into standing Union activities and programmes; stresses, in this regard, for those paving the way for new programmes supported by the current Commission President and the European Parliament such as the Just Transition Fund, that the European Commission should pay particular attention to implement them in the form that would gather the widest support from the European Parliament; having carried out a careful analysis of all the proposals submitted and taking fully into account the Commission's assessment of their respect of legal requirements and implementability, adopts a balanced package of PP-PAs that reflects Parliament’s political priorities; calls on the Commission to swiftly implement PP- PAs and provide feedback on their performance and results delivered on the ground;
2019/10/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 37 #

2018/0135(CNS)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) Article 311 TFUE states that, without prejudice to other revenue, the budget shall be wholly financed by own resources.
2020/07/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 38 #

2018/0135(CNS)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 1 b (new)
(1b) The scale of the amounts needed to avoid a catastrophic economic, social and environmental crisis are considerable. Already before this crisis, on 14 January 2020, the European Commission had stated that the Green Deal would require to bridge an investment gap assessed to at least €260 to 500 billion per year over the next 10 years. In May 2020, the Commission has estimated the investment needs for delivering the green transition and digital transformation at EU level to amount at least 595 bn EUR per year. Such resources needed to pursue EU key policies would boost productivity and innovation and create more than 5 million jobs, in all our countries, which will be much needed to overcome this crisis. Moreover, additionally to this amount, the Commission estimates the need of additional investments in the area of social infrastructure at least 192 bn EUR/per year, to recover to COVID-19 crisis and its dramatic social consequences. To reach these types of volumes of investment, and to avoid a deep economic, social and environmental crisis, substantial revenues from new own resources will have to be part of the solution.
2020/07/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 49 #

2018/0135(CNS)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) With the aim of establishing a long-term vision for the future of EU financing, using the momentum of the Conference on the Future of Europe for a discussion on the increase of EU integration of its fiscal policies, the Treaties, with specific regard to Art. 311 TFEU, shall be reviewed with the intention of adopting the upcoming Own Resources Decisions by Ordinary Legislative Procedure.
2020/07/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 55 #

2018/0135(CNS)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 6
(6) In order to finance the costs of principal and interest of the repayments of the European Recovery Instrument, to better align the Union's financing instruments with its policy priorities, to better reflect the Union's budget role for the functioning of thea fairer Single Market, to better support the objectives of Union policies, such as the Green Deal and digital transformation, and to reduce Member States' Gross National Income- based contributions to the Union's annual budget, it is necessary to introduce new categories of Own Resources based on the Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base, the national revenue stemming from the European Union Emissions Trading System and, a national contribution calculated on the basis of non-recycled plastic packaging waste. Moreover, new Own Resources based on a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, a digital service tax, a Financial Transaction Tax, implemented according to a scheme agreed by all Member States, a European Net Wealth Tax, a Single Market Levy and the revenues from the European Central Bank profits should be introduced to this end as soon as the underlying legal conditions are in place. Or. en (NOTE: the text comes from COM(2018)0325)
2020/07/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 60 #

2018/0135(CNS)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) The introduction of a basket of new genuine own resources will reduce Member States' Gross National Income- based contributions to the Union's annual budget, ending the "zero sum game" and "juste retour" routines and will make the EU budget more efficient, effective and transparent, because it addresses areas that are a priority for the EU and where the money collected and spent at EU level create more and better public goods, compared to the public funds spending at national level.
2020/07/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 78 #

2018/0135(CNS)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 9 a (new)
(9a) The conditions that applied to the UK for supporting the introduction of rebates, as established in the European Council conclusions of Fontainebleau in 1984, are not valid anymore and therefore all the related correction mechanism granted to Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands shall be abolished for the sake of fairness and transparency.
2020/07/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 84 #

2018/0135(CNS)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 9 b (new)
(9b) The European Single Market greatly benefits companies that operate in more than one Member State; an EU recovery package as part of the MFF would be vital in maintaining the integrity of this Single Market; therefore, it could be considered to let multinational companies contribute to our economic recovery and the protection of our single market through a Single Market Levy; such a levy, in the form of a subscription for companies to participate in the Single Market would be implemented according to lump sum contributions, the amount of which would vary according to companies’ turnover and shall exempt small and medium enterprises.
2020/07/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 85 #

2018/0135(CNS)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 9 c (new)
(9c) The establishment of an European Net Wealth tax for the 1% richest segment of the population could address excessive wealth inequality and would be a concrete embodiment of European solidarity in the fight against the COVID epidemic. It is evident that the most vulnerable have been hit disproportionately by the crisis, as most high-income earners can still work from home and the wealthy can use their wealth to weather the shock better. Moreover, an EU-wide implementation of a wealth tax based on harmonised tax provisions would limit the risk of tax avoidance by wealthy individuals across the EU.
2020/07/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 89 #

2018/0135(CNS)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 10
(10) It is necessary to avoid that Member States which benefit from corrections are confronted with a significant and sudden increase in their national contributions. It is therefore necessary to provide for temporary corrections in favour of Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden by means of lump sum reductions to their Gross National Income-based contributions during a transitional period. Those corrections should be phased out by the end of 2025. deleted Or. en (NOTE: the text comes from COM(2018)0325)
2020/07/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 103 #

2018/0135(CNS)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 16 a (new)
(16a) In September 2011, the European Commission issued the directive proposal COM(2011) 594 to create a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT): a tax of 0.1% on shares and bonds, and 0.01% on derivatives, which would have been effective on January 1, 2014 and which shall flow in the EU Budget. Despite Brexit and the economic crisis, this tax could bring in more than €50 billion each year, which would be very useful to repay the interest and capital of the 500 billion common debt and to free up another 30 billion for investment in EU policies, such as the green deal, digitalisation transformation and research, without increasing national contributions.
2020/07/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 114 #

2018/0135(CNS)

Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point e a (new)
(ea) the application of a uniform call rate to the revenue collected in each Member State pursuant to Union rules on the European Net Wealth Tax;
2020/07/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 117 #

2018/0135(CNS)

Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point e b (new)
(eb) the application of a uniform call rate to the revenue generated in each Member State pursuant to Union rules on the Single Market Levy, in the form of an annual lump sum payment for using the Single Market, and in proportion to companies turnover;
2020/07/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 120 #

2018/0135(CNS)

Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point e b (new)
(eb) the financial transaction tax to be levied pursuant to Council Directive (EU) No […/…], based on the scope and rates of the proposal for a Council Directive COM(2011) 594, with the applicable call rates in the amount of a share not exceeding the minimum rates set out in that Directive, with minimum tax rates of 0.1% for the trading in shares and bonds, and 0.01% for derivative agreements such as options, futures, contracts for difference or interest rate swaps, compliant to the « core engine » agreed by the WPTQ meeting of 25 October 2016, cumulating the residence and issuance principles in order to minimize tax avoidance ; if temporarily implemented under enhanced cooperation, this Own Resource shall not affect the Member States that are not participating in the enhanced cooperation;
2020/07/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 121 #

2018/0135(CNS)

Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point e c (new)
(ec) The 90% of the revenue generated by the European Central Bank by the issuing of currency and the presence of deposits, which shall be used to finance initiatives limited in scope to the Member States participating in the Euro Area.
2020/07/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 129 #

2018/0135(CNS)

Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4
Austria shall benefit from a gross reduction in its annual Gross National Income-based contribution of EUR 110 million in 2021, EUR 88 million in 2022, EUR 66 million in 2023, EUR 44 million in 2024, and EUR 22 million in 2025. Denmark shall benefit from a gross reduction in its annual Gross National Income-based contribution of EUR 118 million in 2021, EUR 94 million in 2022, EUR 71 million in 2023, EUR 47 million in 2024, and EUR 24 million in 2025. Germany shall benefit from a gross reduction in its annual Gross National Income-based contribution of EUR 2 799 million in 2021, EUR 2 239 million in 2022, EUR 1 679 million in 2023, EUR 1 119 million in 2024, and EUR 560 million in 2025. The Netherlands shall benefit from a gross reduction in its annual Gross National Income-based contribution of EUR 1 259 million in 2021, EUR 1 007 million in 2022, EUR 755 million in 2023, EUR 503 million in 2024, and EUR 252 million in 2025. Sweden shall benefit from a gross reduction in its annual Gross National Income-based contribution of EUR 578 million in 2021, EUR 462 million in 2022, EUR 347 million in 2023, EUR 231 million in 2024, and EUR 116 million in 2025. Those amounts shall be measured in 2018 prices and adjusted to current prices by applying the most recent Gross Domestic Product deflator for the Union expressed in euros, as provided by the Commission, which is available when the draft budget is drawn up. Those gross reductions shall be financed by all Member States. deleted Or. en (NOTE: the text comes from COM(2018)0325)
2020/07/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 135 #

2018/0135(CNS)

Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4 a (new)
All rebates and correction mechanisms currently granted to Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden shall be terminated by 1 January 2021.
2020/07/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 138 #

2018/0135(CNS)

Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. The Council, in strict cooperation with the European Parliament and the European Commission, shall approve a legally binding calendar specifying the introduction of a basket of Own Resources, at the latest by 1 January 2021.
2020/07/20
Committee: BUDG