1478 Amendments of Sandra PEREIRA
Amendment 32 #
2023/2811(RSP)
Recital B
B. whereas investing in the youngest generation brings the greatest return and contributes to the growth and prosperity of society as a whole; whereas several Member States have allocated more than the requested 5 % of European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) resources to tackling child poverty and 23 Member States have programmed a total of EUR 8.9 billion in ESF+ support to address the issue; whereas the implementation of the ESF+ plans has been delayed, in turn delaying the reforms to be undertaken under Child Guarantee national action plans (NAPs) and financed through ESF+; whereas, in several Member States, the amount allocated for the Child Guarantee is insufficient to compensate the loss of family income caused by the surge in inflation;
Amendment 157 #
2023/2811(RSP)
Paragraph 16
16. Highlights the pivotal importance of universal policies within the context of integrating services (childcare, healthcare, education and housing), as part of a coordinated approach to reducing child poverty, and of taking a case-by-case management approach for tailored interventions;
Amendment 174 #
2023/2811(RSP)
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to assess the quality of spending on children, in particular to evaluate the effective and consistent use of the EUR 8.9 billion dedicated to the European Child Guarantee, and asks the Commission to propose options for synergies and blending with other sources of funding; urges the Commission and the Member States to take in consideration the impacts of the increasing cost of living in the implementation of the Child Guarantee, so that inflation does not diminish the programme’s ability to meet its objective of eradicating child poverty;
Amendment 182 #
2023/2811(RSP)
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Member States to ensure that best use is made of available EU funds and invites them to explore innovative funding schemes, including public-private partnerships; encourages the Member States to work with the European Investment Bank and invest in social infrastructure dedicated to children;
Amendment 218 #
2023/2811(RSP)
Paragraph 27 – introductory part
27. Asks the Commission to set-up a European children’s authority with a mandate to establish a permanent system of monitoring, support and cooperation between the Commission, the Member States and relevant stakeholders and NGOs in order to:
Amendment 27 #
2023/2586(RSP)
Recital D a (new)
Da. considering the brutal, albeit uneven, impact that successive decisions by the ECB to raise its reference interest rate are having on the population at large, workers, families, businesses and the economy of numerous Member States;
Amendment 28 #
2023/2586(RSP)
Recital D a (new)
Da. considering the brutal, albeit unequal, impact of successive decisions to increase the reference interest rate by the ECB are having on the population, workers, families, companies, economy, of several Member States;
Amendment 29 #
2023/2586(RSP)
Recital D b (new)
Db. considering the serious consequences of this increase especially for families in Member States where variable rate mortgages are the norm and who have been forced into debt to be able to buy a property, and who now run a greater risk of default and consequently of losing their home;
Amendment 30 #
2023/2586(RSP)
Recital D b (new)
Db. considering the serious consequences of this increase, especially for families in Member States where the variable rate prevails on mortgage loans and who were forced to go into debt to buy a house, running a greater risk of default and, consequently, of losing their dwelling;
Amendment 54 #
2023/2586(RSP)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Considers that an effective fight against inflation, the increase in the cost of living and the growing deterioration of the social and economic situation of workers and their families will have to involve the necessary and urgent increase in wages and pensions, the control and setting of prices;
Amendment 63 #
2023/2586(RSP)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Considers that, to be able to fight effectively against inflation and the rising cost of living and the growing deterioration in the social and economic situation of workers and their families, wages and pensions need to be increased urgently and prices need to be both controlled and fixed;
Amendment 124 #
2023/2586(RSP)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Considers, therefore, that to avoid a worsening of the housing situation and the difficulties associated with obtaining decent, comfortable and affordable housing, immediate measures must be taken to ensure that the successive increases in reference interest rates decided by the ECB are not borne by workers and families;
Amendment 125 #
2023/2586(RSP)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Considers, therefore, that in order to avoid a worsening of the housing situation and the difficulty of access to decent, comfortable and affordable housing, immediate measures must be taken with a view to ensuring that the successive increases in the reference interest rates decided by the ECB are not supported by workers and families;
Amendment 126 #
2023/2586(RSP)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Points out that while mortgage loan instalments are rising, banks are watching their profit margins grow handsomely; considers, therefore, that the burden on households stemming from the increases in reference interest rates decided by the ECB should be borne by the profits generated in the banking sector;
Amendment 127 #
2023/2586(RSP)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Highlights that, at the same time that housing loan instalments increase, banks show substantial increases in their profit margins; considers, therefore, that the costs for families resulting from increases in the reference interest rates decided by the ECB should be borne by the profits of the banking sector;
Amendment 168 #
2023/2586(RSP)
Paragraph 16
Amendment 10 #
2023/2536(RSP)
Recital -A (new)
Amendment 11 #
2023/2536(RSP)
Recital -A a (new)
-Aa. whereas the rights of workers to collective bargaining, collective agreements, freedom of association and collective action are fundamental rights in a democracy;
Amendment 12 #
2023/2536(RSP)
Recital -A b (new)
-Ab. whereas collective bargaining, collective agreements and the essential role of trade unions in improving the living and working conditions of workers have been severely undermined by EU policies and legislation; whereas this is a deliberate strategy that has been weakening workplace democracy throughout the EU;
Amendment 14 #
2023/2536(RSP)
Recital A
A. whereas social partnershipdialogue and collective bargaining between trade unions and representatives of employers at national level and social dialogue at EU level are key aspects of the European social model, whose shared legacy of social dialogue, workers’ participamust guarantee the free representation of workers in order to uphold their rights and improve their working and living conditions, collective bargaining, employee representation on boards, health and safety representation and tripartite system are the building blocks of a diverse andespecially with regard to pay increases, career advancement, health and safety at work and better and more inclusive EU growth in economically, socially and environmentally sustainable future that will contribute to better and more inclusive EU growth terms;
Amendment 36 #
2023/2536(RSP)
Recital B
B. whereas collective bargaining at the sectoral and cross-industry levels came under growing pressure in some Member States in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis; whereas the share of workers covered by collective agreements has declined significantly over the past 30 years, with an estimated drop in EU average coverage from about 66 % in 2000 to about 56 % in 201811, owing to labour market reforms in many Member States that decentralised collective bargaining systems, the rise of precarious forms of employment and bogus self-employment; whereas in most Member States, collective bargaining covering rates tend to be higher for employees on permanent contracts and for those working in larger companies; _________________ 11 Visser, Jelle, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies, ‘Database on Institutional Characteristics of Trade Unions, Wage Setting, State Intervention and Social Pacts’, Version 6.1, November 2019.
Amendment 37 #
2023/2536(RSP)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas EU policies have, through the most varied mechanisms, greatly contributed to curbing the scope of collective labour agreements, as well as undermining social dialogue and the rights to collective organisation and action, collective bargaining and collective agreements; whereas the Green Paper on modernising labour law to meet the challenges of the 21st century, the country-specific recommendations addressed to the Member States as part of the European Semester and the so-called financial assistance programmes have been instrumental in the assault on workers’ rights, including the rights to collective organisation and action, collective bargaining and collective agreements;
Amendment 42 #
2023/2536(RSP)
Recital C
C. whereas European workers and employertheir families are currently facing major challenges stemming from the consequences of the pandemic and, since 24 February 2022 the resulting profiteering, the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, sanctions and speculation, all of which have been leading to social and economic decline as a result of notable increases in the cost of essential goods and services, further undermining fundamental rights and living standards and aggravating poverty and inequality; whereas these events have shown a pressing need for broader and stronger participation by social partners, especially if the green and digital transitions to a sustainable, fair and social future for the EU are to be achieved; whereas workers or their representatives have the right to be informed and consulted in good time on matters relevant to them, in particular on the transfer, restructuring and merger of undertakings and on collective redundancies;
Amendment 47 #
2023/2536(RSP)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas measures to uphold and promote collective bargaining and collective agreements may provide an effective response to the spiralling cost of living and facilitate urgently needed real pay increases across the board;
Amendment 53 #
2023/2536(RSP)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas workplace democracy goes beyond the formal participation of trade union organisations in so-called social dialogue meetings, or mere consultation of these bodies; whereas the promotion of workplace democracy calls for the safeguarding and upholding of various rights and principles, including the right to organisation, collective action and collective bargaining, trade union rights, the right to strike, the principle of prohibiting unfair dismissal and of equal pay for equal work, the principle of adapting work to human needs and reconciling family and personal life with work by setting appropriate working hours and the reduction of working time in order to enable workers to participate in political, trade union and social life;
Amendment 54 #
2023/2536(RSP)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas little progress can be made regarding workplace democracy if it continues to be thwarted by insecure and unregulated employment contracts, job instability, low remuneration, inadequate standards of health and safety and harassment at the workplace;
Amendment 66 #
2023/2536(RSP)
Recital F
F. whereas some Member States are ensuring an enabling framework for social dialogue and collective bargaining, while in some other Member States, social dialogue isand collective bargaining are under pressure for reasons including ineffective consultation procedures, a lack of capacity and strict representational criteria; whereas the EU regulatory landscape rules shortening the duration and expiry periods of collective agreements and governing conditions for the suspension thereof, abandonment of the principle of upholding the field of employment law and company law remains excessively fragmented, which could result in a lack of legal certainty on applicable rules and rights for both employers and employeesbest interests of workers, lack of willingness and commitment on the part of employers regarding collective bargaining or refusal to participate therein, and more widespread job insecurity;
Amendment 67 #
2023/2536(RSP)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas questions relating to collective bargaining and collective agreement rights fall within the remit of the Member States, in certain cases being enshrined in their constitutions and basic laws, and should continue to do so;
Amendment 106 #
2023/2536(RSP)
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that social dialogue and collective bargaining contribute to the social market economy, one of the aims of the Treaty of Lisbon; reiterates that, in line with the Treaties, which explicitly protect the autonomy of social partners and the self-regulatory systems in place in some Member States, social dialogue must be protected in order for social partners to regulate themselves autonomously, ensuring total legitimacy and strong progress on collective agreemen t coverage; welcomes the Commission proposal for a Council recommendation on strengthening social dialogue in the EU; stresses that social dialogue at national and Union level needs to be further improved and that more efforts are needed to support collective bargaining coverage and prevent social partners’ membership and organisational density from decreasing; regrets, however, that the proposal does not lay out any sustainable solutions for organising and financing sectoral social dialogue committees; calls on the Commission to maintain its logistical support for sectoral social dialogue committees and to increase its financial, legal and political support; calls on the Commission to continue supporting and closely monitoring sectoral social dialogue in order to ensure alignment between committees and that social dialogue can make a significant contribution to EU policies; strongly urges the Commission to come up with new proposals that fully respect social partners’ autonomy and avoid severely devaluing European sectoral social dialogue;
Amendment 123 #
2023/2536(RSP)
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that freedom of assembly and association and workers’ rights to organise, to collective union representation and to collectively call for reforms within their workplaces are fundamental aspects of the European project and core principles of the European social model, which have been affirmed and legally upheld byrights that must be affirmed, upheld and respected by the Member States and the EU institutions;
Amendment 124 #
2023/2536(RSP)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Amendment 132 #
2023/2536(RSP)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Deplores the fact that EU policies have, through the most varied mechanisms, greatly contributed to curbing the scope of collective agreements, as well as undermining the rights to collective organisation, and action, collective bargaining and collective agreements; calls for the immediate reversal of these policies;
Amendment 147 #
2023/2536(RSP)
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, along with social partners, to commit to reaching collective bargaining coverage of 90 % by 2030, with a view to improving the living and working conditions in the Unionof workers and their families, contributing to upward social convergence, fighting in-work poverty and social exclusion and reducing wage inequality and ending job insecurity;
Amendment 158 #
2023/2536(RSP)
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States to repeal any national legislation that hampers collective bargaining, including any legislation that inhibits trade unions’ access to workplaces for the purpose of organising; calls on the Commission and and rules shortening the duration and expiry periods of collective labour agreements; calls on the Member States to promote sectoral- level collective bargaining as an important instrument to increase collective agreement coverage, making sure that derogations from collective agreements concluded at a higher level are restricted to situations in which those derogations are needed to maintain quality employment;
Amendment 168 #
2023/2536(RSP)
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines that reforms in the Member States should not negatively affect workers' rights, especially collective bargaining, and that collective bargaining needs to be promoted at sectoral level, including by supporting the capacity- building of social partners; stresses that labour market reforms at national level must contribute to implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights, including Principle 8 thereof on social dialogue and the involvement of workers, as well as collective bargaining, respect for the autonomy of social partners and the rights to collective action and to be informed and consulted in good time on the transfer, restructuring and merging of undertakings and on collective redundancies; calls on the Commission to analyse any labour reforms relating to these issues in the Member States’ national recovery and resilience plans;
Amendment 180 #
2023/2536(RSP)
Paragraph 10
10. Is concerned about the fact that some workers taking part in new forms of work do not enjoy effective representation or participation rights in the workplace; deplores the fact that this is the case, in particular, for sectors where the majority of workers are women; reiterates its call on the Commission and the Member States to ensure the right of workers to freedom of association and participation in the workplace for all forms of employment; is concerned about the growing phenomenon of company trade unions or workers’ representatives that are established or controlled by and work in the interests of the employer rather than the workers; stresses that this is particularly serious in certain sectors where the misclassification of workers and precariousness are common; warns that such company trade unions or workers’ representatives are contrary to Article 2 of ILO Convention No 98 concerning the Application of the Principles of the Right to Organise and to Bargain Collectively and to Directive 2002/14/EC15; calls on the Commission andthe Member States to, along with social partners, ensure that elections for workers’ representatives comply with the Workers’ Representatives Convention and that workers’ representatives enjoy effective protection from any prejudicial act towards them, including dismissal, based on their status or activities as a workers’ representative or on their union membership or participation in union activities; _________________ 15 Directive 2002/14/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2002 establishing a general framework for informing and consulting employees in the European Community (OJ L 80, 23.3.2002, p. 29).
Amendment 201 #
2023/2536(RSP)
Paragraph 13
Amendment 232 #
2023/2536(RSP)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Takes the view that measures to revitalise European collective bargaining and the conclusion of agreements at European level are effectively depriving national trade unions of the power to organise and take action, undermining their autonomy and independence;
Amendment 233 #
2023/2536(RSP)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Takes the view accordingly that centralisation of this power in supranational trade union structures is effectively undermining the involvement and participation of workers in the decision-making process and weakening their links with their own specific sectors and countries, thereby sidelining them or effectively turning them into vehicles for the implementation of agreements that run counter to their rights and interests and the national sovereignty of the Member States;
Amendment 9 #
2023/2184(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas job insecurity restricts freedom of scientific research; whereas thousands of researchers work with limited-duration project funding, by way of individual or project research grants, fixed-term employment contracts or by performing specific tasks as self-employed persons, and have poor job security and labour protection;
Amendment 11 #
2023/2184(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas working conditions for those in the science sector, whether researchers or technical research support staff, have declined with the deterioration of job security that particularly affects research fellows;
Amendment 14 #
2023/2184(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas the labour rights in the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers must be enforced;
Amendment 17 #
2023/2184(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas defending the freedom of scientific research ensures that scientific research serves the public interest and contributes to development and improved living conditions for people;
Amendment 30 #
2023/2184(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Acknowledges that there can be no real freedom of scientific and intellectual production and creation while precariousness in the sector persists; defends the labour rights of researchers and scientific workers, enhancement of their careers, stable job contracts and access to social security with guaranteed sickness, maternity, unemployment and retirement protection;
Amendment 34 #
2023/2184(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Advocates putting an end to statutes and systems based on research grants, such as the Research Grant Statute in Portugal, which allow workers to be made indiscriminately dependent on research grants, a situation that is not compatible with promoting scientific work; calls for scientific workers to be guaranteed the right to a stable employment contract and access to social security;
Amendment 37 #
2023/2184(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Notes that it is also higher education institutions' management bodies that set those institutions' scientific research priorities; acknowledges that the increasing degradation of democracy in academia is also a factor in the attack on academic and research freedom;
Amendment 48 #
2023/2184(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Urges the Commission to take all necessary stepssteps within their power to protect and promote the freedom of scientific research in the Union, including using its legal authority to and prevent any further backsliding with regard to this fundamental right;
Amendment 52 #
2023/2184(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States to fully respect and uphold the freedom of scientific research, and to ensure that any measures taken in the name of publicrivate interest do not unduly restrict the freedom of scientific research;
Amendment 54 #
2023/2184(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 5 #
2023/2152(DEC)
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the European Union's neoliberal policies are contributing to inequality between men and women, with women disproportionately affected by increasing unemployment, deregulation of the labour market and working hours, increasing precariousness and low salaries, as well as the many forms of inequality and discrimination arising from funding cuts to public services, including health, education and social benefits;
Amendment 10 #
2023/2152(DEC)
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
Amendment 19 #
2023/2152(DEC)
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the rising cost of living have impacted both men and women; whereas a permanent victim mentality is counter-productive to gender equality; whereas equality of opportunity should be the EU’s goal;
Amendment 21 #
2023/2152(DEC)
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas prices have risen, in general, 11.5 % in the European Union since October 2021 and food has been particularly affected, with inflation climbing to 17.8 % in October 2022; whereas, in line with the ECB's September 2023 macroeconomic projections for the euro area, average inflation for 2023 is estimated at 5.6 %, which is an upward revision of previous projections;
Amendment 24 #
2023/2152(DEC)
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas women in the EU are more severely affected by poverty or social exclusion than men, being systematically placed at a disadvantage by structural and cultural factors; whereas their role as primary carers in the family puts a disproportionate amount of unpaid care and domestic work on women, who play an essential role in this regard;
Amendment 25 #
2023/2152(DEC)
Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas the EU gender pay gap is 16 %, with variations between the Member States; whereas the gender pay gap has a number of implications, including a 37 % gap in pension entitlements, which places elderly women at greater risk of poverty and social exclusion; whereas the right to equal pay for equal work is not always upheld and remains one of the biggest challenges in efforts to overcome pay discrimination;
Amendment 26 #
2023/2152(DEC)
Draft opinion
Recital C d (new)
Recital C d (new)
Cd. whereas the importance of combating discrimination between men and women in access to employment and work, and promoting equality in careers and professional categories, in vocational training and in salaries is essential, at the same time as strengthening work with rights and protecting collective bargaining and union rights;
Amendment 27 #
2023/2152(DEC)
Draft opinion
Recital C e (new)
Recital C e (new)
Ce. whereas the Member States should increase public investment in policies that, directly or indirectly, aim to counteract the negative effects of the cost of living crisis on women in all their diversity, to guarantee access to high- quality, free public services for care, education, health, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, and housing, and to protect victims of gender- based violence;
Amendment 31 #
2023/2152(DEC)
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. Points out that cuts in public budgets ensuing from the European Union’s macro-structural economic policies, in particular the implementation of ‘economic governance’ measures, are increasing and will continue to increase gender inequalities and female unemployment, women being in the majority in the public sector and the principal beneficiaries of social policies, and furthering yet more the feminisation of poverty, and therefore a change in policy is required;
Amendment 33 #
2023/2152(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 38 #
2023/2152(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls that the European Institute for Gender Equality was set up to help the European institutions and the Member States to mainstream gender equality in all their policies and combat gender-based discrimination by supplying up-to-date studies, and thus makes an important contribution to efforts to achieve genuine gender equality; calls, therefore, in light of the rising inequalities seen in recent years, for greater amounts to be allocated in the budget so that the Institute can fully achieve the goal for which it was set up;
Amendment 41 #
2023/2152(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Emphasises the need for stronger and more efficient integration of gender equality policies and gender mainstreaming tools;
Amendment 43 #
2023/2152(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Stresses the need for increased funding for gender equality actions in terms of employment and growth in order to tackle horizontal and vertical gender segregation, to combat the pay gap between men and women, the pension pay gap between men and women and the increasing poverty rate among women, as well as in terms of rights and democracy;
Amendment 45 #
2023/2152(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Stresses the importance of combating inequalities and injustices against women; calls on the Commission and Member States to take urgent action to address poverty and increasing inequalities among women, especially among vulnerable groups, including single mothers, women with disabilities, Roma women, LGBTQI+ women, migrant women and refugees, elderly women, women in rural or depopulated areas;
Amendment 64 #
2023/2152(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Is of the opinion that discharge shall not be granted to the Director of the EIGE in respect of the implementation of its budget for the financial year 2022.
Amendment 2 #
2023/2129(DEC)
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas, gender equality and the elimination of inequalities are core values upon which the Union is founded, and the commitment to promote equality between men and women in all of its actions as enshrined in Article 8 TFEU; whereas the policies of attacking social and labour rights it promotes contradict that rhetoric and have, in fact, played a part in the deepening of socio-economic inequalities, particularly affecting women;
Amendment 6 #
2023/2129(DEC)
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas in a number of Member States with low birth rates, women and couples would like to have children but are in practice prevented from doing so, not by choice but as a consequence of the constant deterioration in their living and working conditions, a direct result of so- called austerity policies that have created unemployment, precarious employment relationships, disregard for and violation of maternity and paternity rights in the workplace, destroying public services and impeding access to childcare facilities;
Amendment 9 #
2023/2129(DEC)
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas it is vital to ensure that women have the right to work with rights and the right to motherhood without being penalised for it, as women continue to be the worst affected and suffer the most discrimination; whereas examples of this discrimination include pressure from employers on women attending job interviews at which they are asked whether they have children and how old they are, with the aim of influencing women’s decisions and opting for childless workers who are ‘more available’, along with growing economic and work-related pressures on female employees not to take maternity leave;
Amendment 12 #
2023/2129(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 18 #
2023/2129(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Rejects the increase in the budget allocations for militarisation, specifically for arms, infrastructure, capacity and military mobility and for border surveillance and externalisation; takes the view that those funds should be used to promote economic and social cohesion and tackle the root causes of migration, such as poverty and violent conflicts;
Amendment 27 #
2023/2129(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Member States to safeguard sexual and reproductive health and rights, in particular by ensuring the availability of reproductive health programmes and services providing the types of care and medicines required for voluntary family planning and maternal and newborn health;
Amendment 28 #
2023/2129(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 44 #
2023/2129(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that in the last decade, with the onset of the economic and financial crisis, economic, social, labour and gender inequalities within and between Member States have become more acute; recalls the important role of the European Institute for Gender Equality in raising awareness of the extent and causes of gender inequality in the EU; calls, therefore, for its budget, staff and independence to be increased;
Amendment 47 #
2023/2129(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls strongly for the establishment of precarity-based offers to be rejected; calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote collective agreements, wage appreciation, the promotion of open-ended contracts and the regulation of working hours; calls on the European Parliament and other EU institutions to combat precarity by promoting collective agreements and employment with rights and rejecting subcontracting, ensuring that a permanent position means a permanent employment contract and that there is equal pay for equal work;
Amendment 14 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas before the COVID-19 pandemic began most women already had a precarious or part-time job; whereas the pandemic and the war in Ukraine have intensified a pre-existing systemic crisis, and inflation and the increasing cost of living cannot be attributed to the conflict alone;
Amendment 18 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas the COVID-19 situation has significantly increased the unemployment rate in Member States; whereas the consequences of that state of affairs are particularly serious for women, who are affected directly through loss of their jobs or job security and indirectly through budget cuts for public services and welfare assistance; whereas, therefore, if it is to be tackled, it is essential to address the dimension of female poverty in the handling of this situation and the search for solutions;
Amendment 21 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas the increasing risk of poverty is closely and directly linked to the destruction of significant social functions performed by the state, as seen, for example, with the dismantling of public social security systems, along with, in a number of Member States, cuts to key social benefits (family allowance, unemployment benefit, sickness benefit, social integration minimum income);
Amendment 23 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas the right to work is an essential precondition if women are to enjoy economic independence, professional fulfilment and effective equal rights; whereas precarious employment should thus be eradicated through the mandatory application of the principle that for every actual job there should be a permanent post, and by recognising and enhancing the right to work with rights;
Amendment 26 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas prices have risen, in general, 11.5 % in the European Union since October 2021 and food has been particularly affected, with inflation climbing to 17.8 % in October 2022; whereas, in line with the ECB's September 2023 macroeconomic projections for the euro area, average inflation for 2023 is estimated at 5.6 %, which is an upward revision of previous projections;
Amendment 28 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas the energy crisis in Europe has highlighted the ineffectiveness of the European electricity market; whereas, by indexing electricity prices to gas prices, that market has created the possibility for considerable speculation, which poses significant difficulties to companies and households and especially people in vulnerable situations, including women, who are particularly at risk;
Amendment 29 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas the concept of public service is based on the fact that certain social activities deemed essential and strategic should be managed in line with specific criteria to ensure everyone has access and to contribute to solidarity and the social, cultural and economic cohesion of society; whereas, in order to achieve that, those activities should therefore avoid the market logic and the pursuit of profit, which is the case particularly when the following are needed: access for all, long-term investment, long-term management, safeguarding of a rare and precious asset, management of public spaces; whereas this is absolutely the case when it comes to essential goods like electricity and energy;
Amendment 30 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
Bd. whereas public control over the energy sector is essential to guarantee people's economic, social and environmental rights, combating global warming and ensuring everyone has access to electricity and heating;
Amendment 31 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B e (new)
Recital B e (new)
Be. whereas the rising price of essential goods (housing, food, energy, telecommunications) requires measures that protect families; whereas the difficulties faced by families contrast with the profits of the major economic groups;
Amendment 37 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas women in the EU are more severely affected by poverty or social exclusion than men, being systematically placed at a disadvantage by structural and cultural factors; whereas their role as primary carers in the family puts a disproportionate amount of unpaid care and domestic work on women, who play an essential role in this regard;
Amendment 38 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas energy poverty remains a serious social problem in all EU Member States and throughout the world; whereas the state of affairs has deteriorated in recent years and, according to the latest reports, more than 700 million people all over the world – around 10 % of the population – live in extreme poverty and do not have access to electricity; whereas in Europe that figure is between 50 and 125 million people; whereas, in line with the most conservative estimates, more than 35 million people in Europe cannot afford to heat their homes in winter, according to 2022 EU statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC), and that number is equivalent to the populations of Greece, Portugal, Hungary and Ireland put together, which means that those people have to choose between heating their homes and buying food; whereas it is estimated that the figure could be much higher, with the EU Energy Poverty Observatory (EPOV) placing the number at more than 50 million households affected;
Amendment 39 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas the EU gender pay gap is 16 %, with variations between the Member States; whereas the gender pay gap has a number of implications, including a 37 % gap in pension entitlements, which places elderly women at greater risk of poverty and social exclusion; whereas the right to equal pay for equal work is not always upheld and remains one of the biggest challenges in efforts to overcome pay discrimination;
Amendment 40 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C d (new)
Recital C d (new)
Cd. whereas the disinvestment in and dismantling of public health, education and transport services has a direct impact on women's lives and steps need to be taken to counter that trend;
Amendment 41 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C e (new)
Recital C e (new)
Ce. whereas the ECB's monetary policy and successive interest rate hikes are smothering families with the price of mortgage payments and those hikes need to be reversed; whereas the EU has responsibilities in the liberalisation of the rental market;
Amendment 53 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the importance of combating discrimination between men and women in access to employment and work, and promoting equality in careers and professional categories, in vocational training and in salaries is essential, at the same time as strengthening work with rights and protecting collective bargaining and union rights;
Amendment 75 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas the European Union's neoliberal policies are contributing to inequality between men and women, with women disproportionately affected by increasing unemployment, deregulation of the labour market and working hours, increasing precariousness and low salaries, as well as the many forms of inequality and discrimination arising from funding cuts to public services, including health, education and social benefits;
Amendment 100 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Emphasises that energy independence, security and social responsibility in supply, as well as the fight against exclusion and global warming, should go hand in hand and be priorities for Member States and the EU as a whole; considers that this can only be achieved by moving energy away from the current competition-based market approach and making energy an essential public service;
Amendment 121 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses the importance of combating inequalities and injustices against women; calls on the Commission and Member States to take urgent action to address poverty and increasing inequalities among women, especially among vulnerable groups, including single mothers, women with disabilities, Roma women, LGBTQI+ women, migrant women and refugees, elderly women, women in rural or depopulated areas;
Amendment 132 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States to increase public investment in policies that, directly or indirectly, aim to counteract the negative effects of the cost of living crisis on women in all their diversity, to guarantee access to high-quality, free public services for care, education, health, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, and housing, and to protect victims of gender-based violence;
Amendment 136 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Urges the Member States to adopt specific measures to combat the risk of poverty in old age and retirement by increasing pensions and boosting social benefits and services;
Amendment 137 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Stresses that the participation of women in all sectors must be increased; stresses that investment in public services and welfare provision is a means of ensuring access, on an equal basis, to healthcare, education, culture, social security and justice; urges the Member States to take specific measures to tackle the risk of social exclusion and poverty, focusing especially on access to affordable housing, transport and energy;
Amendment 139 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Calls for a public transport policy that takes account of gender equality, in particular by expanding and improving the public transport service and offering effective mobility so that women can find work and participate more actively in the labour market (and achieve a better work- life balance);
Amendment 140 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Stresses the fact that decisions taken by some Member States to cut their budgets for childcare, education and preschool activities, and carers, largely as a result of the so-called austerity measures that have been imposed on Member States by the European Union, have direct implications for women who take on the majority of the additional tasks entailed; points out that this means that the public network of day nurseries, crèches and public recreational activity services for children needs to be expanded, along with the public support network for the elderly and people with special needs, and a public network of hospitals;
Amendment 145 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to refrain from promoting any policy recommendation that would lead to an increase in precarious working relations, the deregulation of working hours, a reduction in salaries, an attack on collective bargaining or the privatisation of public services and social security;
Amendment 149 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Points out that cuts in public budgets ensuing from the European Union’s macro-structural economic policies, in particular the implementation of ‘economic governance’ measures, are increasing and will continue to increase gender inequalities and female unemployment, women being in the majority in the public sector and the principal beneficiaries of social policies, and furthering yet more the feminisation of poverty, and therefore a change in policy is required;
Amendment 150 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Stresses that the current state of affairs requires solutions that guarantee access to housing at prices compatible with families' incomes and the protection of family homes, whether families are renting or have taken out a home loan, and to ensure that nobody's home is taken away from them; calls on Member States to take steps to protect the right to housing, regulate prices, increase the supply of public housing and fight speculation and the impact of interest rate hikes;
Amendment 151 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights that access to electricity plays a fundamental role in poverty reduction and in ensuring full and equal participation in society; calls for the EU and the Member States to recognise the right to energy; highlights that only a public service can assert common interests over private interests; emphasises that the quality and impartiality of a public energy and electricity service are conditions for equality and democracy;
Amendment 172 #
2023/2115(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Urges the Member States to take specific measures to tackle the risk of social exclusion and poverty, focusing on access to affordable housing, transport, justice and energy;
Amendment 11 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Takes the view that so-called austerity measures (significant curtailment of social support for children and families, a rise in unemployment and mass use of precarious employment, an increase in taxes) and budget cuts in response to the 2008-2013 financial crisis widened inequalities and played a role in declining living conditions for children, and that those factors have been exacerbated as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ensuing inflation and the escalation of war in eastern Europe.
Amendment 18 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Takes the view that the state of affairs caused by COVID-19 led to a surge in unemployment rates in Member States; considers that the consequences of that state of affairs are particularly serious for women, who are affected directly through loss of their jobs or job security and indirectly through budget cuts for public services and welfare assistance; takes the view, therefore, that, if it is to be tackled, it is essential to address the dimension of female poverty in the handling of this situation and the search for solutions;
Amendment 22 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Notes that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a drastic impact on the lives of all women, especially working women; notes that a disproportionate share of the burden was borne by teleworking women, whose lives were made harder by the need to combine work, childcare and domestic chores; points out that many women were faced with higher outgoings and lower pay;
Amendment 24 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Notes that the deteriorating social and economic picture caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has increased all forms of abuse and violence towards women, together with prostitution, in violation of their human rights; stresses the need to step up public, financial and human resources in order to support groups at risk of poverty and tackle situations posing a risk to children and young people, the elderly, people with a disability and the homeless;
Amendment 39 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Notes that, in 2021, 24.4% of children (under the age of 18) in the EU (19.8 million) were at risk of poverty or social exclusion; notes that this figure exceeds 30% in some countries;
Amendment 40 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Takes the view that children who grow up in poverty or as victims of social exclusion find it harder to succeed at school, to remain healthy and reach their full potential later in life; notes that social investment in individual capacities during children's early years is particularly beneficial for children from disadvantaged backgrounds and may generate significant social returns, as it is crucial to breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty;
Amendment 43 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Takes the view that, under the UN's Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which all the Member States are signatories, all children must be given the right to education, health care services, housing and protection, to take part in decisions that affect them, to leisure and free time, to a balanced diet and to receive care in a family environment;
Amendment 53 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Amendment 54 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas child poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon stemming from household poverty, meaning that low- income families, single-parent families – mostly made up of women and their children – and large families are at greater risk of poverty; whereas the redistribution of wealth has a decisive impact on cycles of social inequality, and the deteriorating national wage policies and social protection systems are contributing to the growing risk of poverty and social exclusion and, consequently, to the growing risk of child poverty; whereas this phenomenon requires a multidimensional response, which necessarily includes improving employment and job security, guaranteeing and enforcing rights, as well as increasing income and ensuring universal access to quality public services, as the most effective tools for combating poverty;
Amendment 57 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Takes the view that single-parent families, especially families headed by single mothers, are at greater risk of poverty or social exclusion (42.1 % compared to 29.6 % in family units with two adults and three or more children), which is related to the feminisation of poverty, women’s over-representation in precarious work and as part-time workers, the disproportionate time spent by women in poorly paid work, interruptions in women’s careers to care for children or other family members, and the pay gap between men and women1-B; _________________ 1-B https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/prod ucts-eurostat-news/-/ddn-20211028-1
Amendment 59 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Takes the view that early childhood education and care have a decisive impact on the cognitive development of children, given that they develop essential capacities in their first five years of life and that access to high- quality education lays the foundations for later success in life in terms of education, well-being, employability, and social integration, and has a significant impact on self-esteem; takes the view that the educational differences among children from different socioeconomic backgrounds has grown; take the view that working parents who do not have access to a nursery school are often forced to leave children in the care of another child, or to resort to paid and uncertified informal care networks, which jeopardises their children’s safety and well-being; takes the view that childcare and pre-school education may play a significant role in compensating for the socio-economic status of children at risk of poverty and foster the integration of parents, especially mothers, into the labour market; takes the view, lastly, that inclusive education addresses the broad range among all pupils by bolstering participation in terms of learning, cultural and community values;
Amendment 60 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Highlights the right to comfortable housing that meets the needs of children and their families and protects their well- being, privacy and quality of life; deplores the housing policies that are driving families out of cities in a number of Member States, and that distort sociability mechanisms and make it difficult to build support networks, increasing the likelihood that children end up abandoned and excluded; urges the Member States to support a public housing policy that tackles property speculation and guarantees this right;
Amendment 65 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas, in 2021, 24.4 % of children (under the age of 18) in the EU (19.8 million) were at risk of poverty or social exclusion; whereas this figure exceeds 30 % in some countries;
Amendment 67 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Amendment 68 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas, in 2021, the percentage of children (under the age of 18) in the EU who were at risk of poverty or social exclusion was greater than that of adults, at 21.1 %; whereas children were at greater risk of poverty or social exclusion than adults in 18 of the 27 EU Member States;
Amendment 73 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas over a fifth (22.5 %) of the EU population living in households with dependent children was at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2021;
Amendment 74 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Stresses that all children have the right to be protected from abuse, violence and neglect and that research has concluded that financial pressures within families and cuts in public services put children at greater risk ;
Amendment 75 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas children who grow up in poverty or as victims of social exclusion find it harder to succeed at school, to remain healthy and reach their full potential later in life; whereas social investment in individual capacities during children's early years is particularly beneficial for children from disadvantaged backgrounds and may generate significant social returns, as it is crucial to breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty;
Amendment 76 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A e (new)
Recital A e (new)
Ae. whereas so-called austerity measures (significant curtailment of social support for children and families, a rise in unemployment and mass use of precarious employment, an increase in taxes) and budget cuts in response to the 2008-2013 financial crisis widened inequalities and played a role in declining living conditions for children, and whereas those factors have been exacerbated as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ensuing inflation and the escalation of war in eastern Europe.
Amendment 77 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Condemns all forms of violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect with regard to children; urges the Member States to develop and apply integrated prevention and child protection systems with a view to doing away with violence, abuse, exploitation and negligence, involving public services (including schools and health systems), to create rapid response conditions for those situations, providing a protective environment and helping to empower children;
Amendment 78 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A f (new)
Recital A f (new)
Af. whereas women are at greater risk of poverty than men, and whereas tackling women’s poverty is not only important in its own right but also of vital importance in efforts to reduce child poverty; whereas the decision to have children has an impact on the perpetuation of inequality in access to the labour market, with consequences on income inequality between men and women; whereas the percentage difference in the employment rate of men and women without children stands at 1 %, for those who have a child younger than six, the rate stands at 21 % and climbs to 37 % for those with three children1-A; _________________ 1-A Eurofound, 'Living and Working Conditions in Europe 2021', p. 73
Amendment 79 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Stresses that the right to work is an essential precondition if women are to enjoy economic independence, professional fulfilment and effective equal rights and therefore precarious employment should be eradicated through the mandatory application of the principle that for every actual job there should be a permanent post, and by recognising and enhancing the right to work with rights;
Amendment 80 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A g (new)
Recital A g (new)
Ag. whereas single-parent families, especially families headed by single mothers, are at greater risk of poverty or social exclusion (42.1 % compared to 29.6 % in family units with two adults and three or more children)1-B, which is related to the feminisation of poverty, women’s over-representation in precarious work and as part-time workers, the disproportionate time spent by women in poorly paid work, interruptions in women’s careers to care for children or other family members, and the pay gap between men and women; _________________ 1-B https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/prod ucts-eurostat-news/-/ddn-20211028-1
Amendment 81 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 e (new)
Paragraph 4 e (new)
4e. Stresses that measures to achieve proper work-life balance are important in ensuring that care-giving responsibilities are equally divided between women and men and addressing income and employment disparities; notes that the achievement of a work-life balance depends on the availability and accessibility of high-quality public care services, which should be provided free of charge; notes that maternity benefits should be fully upheld and maintained, extending leave and increasing fully paid leave entitlements; stresses that public policies for the protection and promotion of nursing and breastfeeding are needed;
Amendment 82 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 f (new)
Paragraph 4 f (new)
4f. Points out that cuts in public budgets ensuing from the European Union’s macro-structural economic policies, in particular the implementation of ‘economic governance’ measures, are increasing and will continue to increase gender inequalities and female unemployment, women being in the majority in the public sector and the principal beneficiaries of social policies, and furthering yet more the feminisation of poverty, and therefore a change in policy is required;
Amendment 82 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A h (new)
Recital A h (new)
Ah. whereas, in 2021, 50.5 % of children whose parents’ level of education was low were at risk of poverty, compared with 7.7 % of children whose parents’ level of education was high1-C; _________________ 1-C https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/prod ucts-eurostat-news/-/ddn-20211028-1
Amendment 83 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan, adopted in 2021, aims to reduce the number of children at risk of poverty and social exclusion by, at least, 5 million by 2030; whereas even ifachieving this target were achievedould mean around 15 million children in the EU would still be at risk of poverty and social exclusion by that time; whereas combating child poverty should be given greater visibility at the highest political level in the EU;
Amendment 88 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Recommends that the Member States guarantee all children access to free, inclusive and high-quality formal and informal public education at all ages, fostering their emotional, social, cognitive and physical development, establish appropriate teacher-student ratios, safeguarding the safety and well-being of children, and ensure that all children can benefit from inclusive high-quality education and thus maximise the education systems’ impact when it comes to pushing for equal opportunities and breaking exclusion cycles;
Amendment 89 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas, on 14 June 2021, the Council of the European Union adopted the Recommendation on a Child Guarantee, in order to help combat and prevent poverty and social exclusion, ensuring children have access to essential services, for example, free care services and education for early childhood, free education (including additional activities in schools and, at least, one healthy meal per school day), free healthcare, healthy nutrition and adequate housing, as set out in the Council Recommendation; whereas all Member States are required to allocate, for the implementation of the Child Guarantee national plans, an appropriate amount of their ESF+ resources; whereas, on 22 February 2023, eight Member States had still not submitted their national plans; whereas, in several Member States, the monthly amount allocated for the Child Guarantee is insufficient to compensate for the loss of family income caused by the surge in inflation; whereas in the Member States where the rate of children at risk of poverty or social exclusion was greater than the EU average for the period between 2017 and 2019, at least 5 % of ESF+ resources should be directed towards addressing the issue of child poverty;
Amendment 93 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Highlights the importance of investments in public and free education that ensure specific teaching methods and an individualised approach for children belonging to more vulnerable social groups, such as families and communities subject to the most diverse forms of exclusion, immigrants and persons with disabilities; stresses that that approach should include collaboration between teachers, social and educational specialists, the families and the communities;
Amendment 96 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas EU financing enables investment at national level to combat child poverty and promote social inclusion; whereas, in addition to the ESF+, other sources can be directly or indirectly used to finance programmes that have an impact on the lives of children and their families in all sorts of ways, such as the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD); whereas most of these funds have seen real terms cuts during the last few multiannual financial frameworks;
Amendment 98 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Highlights the major contribution of women in the fields of employment, culture, education, science, and research; recognises the profound deterioration in the living conditions of women employed in arts and culture, and in micro and small agricultural and rural businesses resulting from the lack of investment and support in economic and cultural activities;
Amendment 100 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas the Recommendation 'Investing in children: breaking the cycle of disadvantage', tabled by the Commission in February 2013, provides guidance to the EU Member States on how to combat child poverty and social exclusion through measures such as: family support and benefits; access to quality services; access to early childhood education; whereas that recommendation included the definition of strategies developed in accordance with three key pillars: access to adequate resources; access to affordable quality services; children’s right to participate;
Amendment 104 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Amendment 104 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
Bd. whereas, under the UN's Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which all the Member States are signatories, all children should be given the right to education, healthcare services, housing and protection, to take part in decisions that affect them, to leisure and free time, to a balanced diet and to receive care in a family environment;
Amendment 107 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B e (new)
Recital B e (new)
Be. whereas, according to UNICEF, accessible and quality early childhood care for all children, and at reasonable prices for their families, remains inaccessible to many, even in the richest countries in the world;
Amendment 108 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B f (new)
Recital B f (new)
Bf. whereas, in the EU in 2021, only 36.2 % of children under the age of three had access to a formal early childhood education and care (ECEC) system, while this value goes up to 83.4 % for children between 3 and the minimum compulsory age to start primary school2-A; _________________ 2-A https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/ view/ILC_CAINDFORMAL__custom_60 15294/default/table?lang=en (data corresponds to the sum of the formal options that operate between 1 and 29 hours and those that operate over 30 hours)
Amendment 109 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B g (new)
Recital B g (new)
Amendment 110 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B h (new)
Recital B h (new)
Bh. whereas in Europe the majority of families have to pay tuition fees to access ECEC services, for the group of children under three; whereas the lack of access to these services – often from the relationship between scarce availability and elevated costs – affects families from lower socioeconomic backgrounds and single-parent families, creating a process of early exclusion for children in this situation; whereas, even in countries where the average level of availability of ECEC services is high, access to nurseries falls sharply among children at risk of poverty and social exclusion; whereas this is, chiefly, due to the lack of networks of free and universal public nurseries of high quality;
Amendment 111 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas childcare and pre-early childhood education and care have a decisive impact on the cognitive development of children, given that they develop essential capacities in their first 5 years of life and that access to high-quality education lays the foundations for later success in life in terms of education, well-being, employability, and social integration, and has a significant impact on self-esteem; whereas the educational differences among children from different socioeconomic backgrounds has grown; whereas working parents who do not have access to a nursery school are often forced to leave children in the care of another child, or to resort to paid and uncertified informal care networks, which jeopardises their children’s safety and well-being; whereas childcare and pre- school education may play a significant role in compensating for the socio- economic status of children at risk of poverty and foster the integration of parents, especially mothers, into the labour market; and whereas an inclusive education addresses the broad range of needs among all pupils by bolstering participation in terms of learning, cultural and community values;
Amendment 112 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to refrain from recommending reforms that lead to cuts in and the weakening of public administration in the Member States, aimed at promoting the relaxation of employment relationships and the privatisation of public services, which have led to the weakening and, in some cases, the undermining of the social and labour rights of children and their families; deplores the recent statements by the President of the ECB, who criticised the investments by national governments in social responses aimed at addressing the increased cost of living; takes the view that this restriction of investment and the destruction of public services violate children's rights and constitute a violation of international obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child;
Amendment 115 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls on the Member States to strengthen social rights and access to services and social protection that the state must guarantee, increasing the number of employees and specialists in social security services working with and for children and their families, and increasing medical, psychological and social care, in line with an early intervention approach;
Amendment 116 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Asks the Commission and the Member States to establish a system to monitor breastfeeding at European Union level, in order to understand the reality and help to formulate policies promoting breastfeeding, in line with WHO recommendations;
Amendment 117 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 d (new)
Paragraph 7 d (new)
7d. Considers it imperative that the Member States develop policies that address the prevalence of child labour in the EU; stresses, in this sense, the recommendations of the ILO, which highlights the need to enlarge social protection for children and their families in order to mitigate the poverty and uncertainty that perpetuate child labour, including: ensuring free, good-quality education, until at least the minimum legal age to enter the employment market; ensuring the birth of every child is registered so that children have a legal identity and can enjoy their rights from birth; promoting decent work, which provides a fair wage, with a special focus on workers in the informal economy; promoting adequate rural ways of life, including by supporting economic diversification, investing in infrastructure and services, and extending the protection and planning of crops, particularly in family farming, which partly continues to depend on the whole household to take care of the agricultural processes; ensuring there is legislation that protects children, supported by the state instruments required for its application; addressing issues of gender and discrimination that increase the risk of child labour, particularly for girls, related to unpaid domestic work;
Amendment 118 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 e (new)
Paragraph 7 e (new)
7e. Stresses the need to enhance the responsibility of states and employers for maternity and paternity rights, which include the right of women to be both mothers and workers without forfeiting labour rights;
Amendment 119 #
2023/2066(INI)
7f. Calls on the Member States to establish a comprehensive set of rules rejecting the persistent practice of asking women, in job interviews, about the possibility of them falling pregnant or if they are pregnant at the time of applying for the job; underlines that it is a form of workplace harassment and rejects the pressure it puts on working mothers;
Amendment 120 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas spending on education, especially as regards school materials and transportation, is essentially borne by households in most countries; whereas this expenditure is, among other factors, one of the main reasons for school dropouts; whereas the EU average rate of early school dropouts stood at 10 %, but1-A this value goes up for specific groups, such as children from the Roma community and children with disabilities; _________________ 1-A https://eur- lex.europa.eu/resource.html?uri=cellar:e 769a102-8d88-11eb-b85c- 01aa75ed71a1.0002.02/DOC_1&format= PDF
Amendment 124 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Stresses that EU financing enables investment at national level to combat child poverty and promote social inclusion; reiterates that, in addition to the ESF+, other sources can be directly or indirectly used to finance programmes that have an impact on the lives of children and their families in all sorts of ways, such as the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD); underlines that most of these funds have seen real terms cuts during the last few multiannual financial frameworks;
Amendment 125 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas, according to the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), one in five young Europeans still lack adequate reading, mathematics or science competences;
Amendment 126 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Amendment 128 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop and strengthen social responses that aim to address child poverty and social exclusion, increasing the quantity, the amounts and the scope of the social support specifically aimed at children, but also at parents who are unemployed or in work that does not provide a comfortable life, such as unemployment benefit and the guaranteed minimum income in particular; calls on the Member States to implement policies that value wages, work with rights and collective bargaining and recruitment, eradicating precarity and poverty for those who work;
Amendment 129 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas even in countries where the right to health is enshrined in law, many children do not have access to adequate healthcare and some have extremely limited access to services other than emergency services, putting at risk the health of women during pregnancy and childbirth, as well as the health of babies and childrenarticularly consultations with family doctors and nurses, as well as other medical specialities, especially because of a lack of public services, putting at risk the health of women during pregnancy and childbirth, as well as the health of babies and children; whereas children born into a situation of poverty and social exclusion are at greater risk of suffering chronic illnesses and having more health problems, which leads to the perpetuation of inequality;
Amendment 132 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Calls on the Member States to implement legislation that protects or enhances maternity, paternity and parental rights, allowing for a more effective work-family life balance, that makes it possible for women to return to work after pregnancy and maternity leave, and makes it possible to breastfeed; highlights that implementing legislation related to maternity, paternity and parental rights has the potential to give a great boost to the fight against gender- based discrimination and pay discrimination;
Amendment 135 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas vaccination is the main tool to prevent serious, contagious and, sometimes, deadly diseases; whereas vaccination rates against measles have fallen in 14 out of 35 OECD countries, according to data from the available time series3-A; _________________ 3-A UNICEF (2020), 'Innocenti Report Card 16. Worlds of Influence - Understanding What Shapes Child Well- being in Rich Countries', p. 4
Amendment 136 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 d (new)
Paragraph 8 d (new)
8d. Stresses that EU funds are complex to manage, which makes them inaccessible to organisations with fewer technical resources; highlights that more flexible, simplified management procedures and investing in technical assistance close to where it is needed can contribute to empowering people and infrastructure at more organisations supporting children and young people; underlines that national co-financing rates, for the Member States and the beneficiaries, should be reduced based on the socio-economic situation, so that for regions with socio-economic indicators below the EU average the co-financing rates should never be less than 90%;
Amendment 136 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Amendment 142 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 e (new)
Paragraph 8 e (new)
8e. Calls on the Member States to devote greater attention to the availability of basic healthcare for children in deprived areas and in remote and inaccessible regions;
Amendment 143 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 f (new)
Paragraph 8 f (new)
8f. Recognises the vital role of schools as providers of a daily nutritious meal (in many cases, the only meal) and promoters of nutritional education that goes beyond their walls; urges the Member States to ensure, at least, one good-quality, free meal at all levels of compulsory education;
Amendment 143 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas in Europe, one in five children is a victim of some form of sexual violence, and most abuse occurs within a hypothetical framework of trust, such as within families or related institutions; whereas children represent around a quarter of victims of trafficking in the EU, the majority of whom are girls abducted for purposes of sexual exploitation4-A. _________________ 4-A European Commission: EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child, 24 March 2021
Amendment 144 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 g (new)
Paragraph 8 g (new)
8g. Urges the Member States to guarantee universal, public, free and quality health care with regard to prevention, immunisation programmes and primary care, access to diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation, and to access to the most diverse range of medical and therapeutic specialist treatment, guaranteeing women the right to sexual and reproductive health by ensuring health care for babies, maternity care and home visits in the pre- and post- natal care period, access to family doctors, nurses, dentists, ophthalmologists, family counselling services and mental health specialists for all children and their families; highlights the value of vaccinating children and the need to fight the hotbeds of misinformation with regard to the benefits of vaccination;
Amendment 145 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 h (new)
Paragraph 8 h (new)
8h. Recommends that Member States develop proactive social policies that the departure of children from their family environment, ensuring that it is not through poverty and exclusion that children are institutionalised; calls on the Member States to ensure that recourse to institutionalising children and young people happens only as a last resort and to invest in safe foster care systems for children and young people to help the transition from institutional care to family and community-based care;
Amendment 145 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb whereas all children have the right to be protected from abuse, violence and neglect and that research has concluded that financial pressures within families and cuts in public services put children at greater risk;
Amendment 146 #
2023/2066(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 i (new)
Paragraph 8 i (new)
8i. Recommends that the Member States provide the necessary support to ensure the right to culture, sport and leisure, access to open space and a healthy environment for all children, with a focus on ensuring equal access and quality for children in poverty, children in remote areas, children with disabilities, children belonging to national or ethnic, religious, linguistic and migrant minorities, children moving within the EU regardless of their nationality and children left behind; recalls the right to free time and to take part in games and recreational activities, as laid down in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child;
Amendment 147 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)
Recital E c (new)
Ec. whereas bullying by peers is a serious problem, especially in schools, and harms relationships and the mental health of children and young people; whereas, according to a 2018 PISA study, 23% of students reported suffering harassment (physical, verbal or in relationships) at school at least once a month;
Amendment 148 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E d (new)
Recital E d (new)
Ed. whereas the internet has a huge potential for learning, fun and peer-to- peer interaction, although it poses undeniable risks for children and young people, which are lacking in safety measures and regulation; whereas a third of girls and 20% of boys have encountered disturbing content once a month in the past year; whereas 15% of LGBTQI+ respondents aged 15-17 have suffered online harassment because of their sexual orientation or gender4-B; _________________ 4-B European Commission (2021): EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child, p.18.
Amendment 149 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E e (new)
Recital E e (new)
Ee. whereas the environment in which a child lives, including the pre-birth period, has a decisive influence on the development of the cognitive system, on communication and language, and on social and emotional skills, which will have an impact on health, well-being, participation in communities and learning capacities;
Amendment 150 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E f (new)
Recital E f (new)
Ef whereas families with parents with disabilities are more likely to face the risk of poverty, family breakdown and difficulty establishing themselves in the job market;
Amendment 151 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E g (new)
Recital E g (new)
Eg. whereas migrant children are over-represented in the group at risk of poverty and there is more discrimination against them because of language barriers, and whereas the situation is worse for irregular immigrant children;
Amendment 152 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E h (new)
Recital E h (new)
Amendment 153 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E i (new)
Recital E i (new)
Ei. whereas, according to a report by Save the Children4-D, more children are living in areas affected by armed conflicts than at any other time in the last two decades (especially in Afghanistan, Yemen, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria, Iraq, Mali, Nigeria and Somalia), with 100 000 babies dying every year as a result of conflicts; whereas 420 million children were living in areas affected by conflicts in 2017 (18% of all the children in the world) – 30 million more than in the previous year; whereas the war in Ukraine has aggravated this situation; _________________ 4-D Save the Children (2019), 'Stop the War on Children: Protecting children in 21st century conflict'
Amendment 154 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E j (new)
Recital E j (new)
Ej. whereas environmental issues such as pollution, traffic, contaminated land and unsafe drinking water pose a threat to physical and mental health, especially for children living in poverty;
Amendment 155 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E k (new)
Recital E k (new)
Ek. whereas children have difficulties in gaining access to justice and in obtaining effective redress for violations of their rights; whereas the structure of judicial proceedings is not adapted to their needs, namely in relation to communication with officers of the judiciary and the fact that there are not always mechanisms to avoid multiple hearings or the gathering of evidence;
Amendment 156 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E l (new)
Recital E l (new)
El. whereas only one in four children consider that their rights are respected by society in general4-E; _________________ 4-E European Commission (2021): EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child, p.4.
Amendment 157 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E m (new)
Recital E m (new)
Em. whereas UNICEF's First 1000 Days campaign maintains that a child's brain develops at an unprecedented rate in the first years of life, providing a unique opportunity for the child's full development, in terms of maximising their potential to learn, grow, establish healthy relationships and contribute to society; whereas loving, positive and calm relationships between an adult and a child in the early years of life are vital for promoting a child's brain development, mental health and well-being throughout life, and whereas early childhood presents a unique window of opportunity to make a difference in a child's life, helping to eliminate potential social inequalities and boost their development;
Amendment 159 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas playing gives children the opportunity to express themselves in a symbolic way and forms an essential basis of the way they think, enabling them to share their emotions, such as sadness, anger, fears and distress; whereas playing affords children access to tools for learning, autonomy, interaction, conflict management, freedom and satisfaction, which ensure a more empathetic and supportive life in society;
Amendment 171 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas, according to information from ILO-UNICEF the latest global estimates indicate that 160 million children worldwide – 63 million girls and 97 million boys – were in child labour at the beginning of 2020, which accounts for almost 1 in 10 children worldwide; whereas 3.6 million children on the European continent are engaged in child labour5-A _________________ 5-A https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public /---ed_norm/--- ipec/documents/publication/wcms_797515 .pdf
Amendment 218 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to refrain from recommending reforms that lead to cuts in and the weakening of public administration in the Member States, aimed at promoting the relaxation of employment relationships and the privatisation of public services, which have led to the weakening and, in some cases, the undermining of the social and labour rights of children and their families; deplores the recent statements by the President of the ECB, who criticised the investments by national governments in social responses aimed at addressing the increased cost of living; takes the view that this restriction of investment and the destruction of public services violate children's rights and constitute a violation of international obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child;
Amendment 225 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop and strengthen social responses that aim to address child poverty and social exclusion, increasing the quantity, the amounts and the scope of the social support specifically aimed at children, but also at parents who are unemployed or in work that does not provide a comfortable life, such as unemployment benefit and the guaranteed minimum income in particular; calls on the Member States to implement policies that value wages, work with rights and collective bargaining and recruitment, eradicating precarity and poverty for those who work;
Amendment 234 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 239 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses the low level of ambition of the targets for cutting child poverty under the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan; calls on the Commission and the Member States to set consistent targets for the eradication of poverty, specifically child poverty, over the next decade;
Amendment 258 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to implement legislation that protects or enhances maternity, paternity and parental rights, allowing for a more effective work- life balance that makes it possible for women to return to work after pregnancy and maternity leave, and for breastfeeding; highlights that implementing legislation related to maternity, paternity and parental rights has the potential to give a great boost to the fight against gender- based discrimination and pay discrimination;
Amendment 265 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that child poverty and social exclusion require the adoption of a life-cycle approach which contributes towards breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty risks, that reflects the different needs of early childhood, primary childhood and adolescence, applying a whole-child oriented approach by measuring the number of deprivations each child experiences simultaneously, thereby identifying those most deprived, and measuring not only monetary poverty but also multidimensional deprivations;
Amendment 270 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the Member States to strengthen social rights and access to services and social protection that the state must guarantee, increasing the number of employees and specialists in social security services working with and for children and their families, and increasing medical, psychological and social care, in line with an early intervention approach;
Amendment 277 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that EU funds are complex to manage, which makes them inaccessible to organisations with fewer technical resources; highlights that more flexible, simplified management procedures and investing in technical assistance close to where it is needed can contribute to empowering people and infrastructure at more organisations supporting children and young people; underlines that national co-financing rates, for the Member States and the beneficiaries, should be reduced based on the socio-economic situation, so that for regions with socio-economic indicators below the EU average the co-financing rates should never be less than 90%;
Amendment 279 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Stresses the need to create a framework for assessing policies for children and children's rights at EU level which is easy to access and includes multidimensional indicators disaggregated by age, gender and particular disadvantaged groups that make it possible to measure changes in poverty, access to health services, vaccination rate, school attendance, housing conditions, access to urgent social services, protection from violence, access to justice, environmental conditions, level of satisfaction with life and the right to civic participation;
Amendment 283 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recommends that the Member States ensure that all children have access to formal and non-formal, public, free, inclusive and quality education at all ages, fostering their emotional, social, cognitive and physical development, establishing appropriate teacher-student ratios, safeguarding the safety and well- being of children, and ensure that all children can benefit from inclusive high- quality education and thus maximise the education systems’ impact when it comes to pushing for equal opportunities and breaking exclusion cycles;
Amendment 291 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Highlights the importance of investments in public and free education that ensure specific teaching methods and an individualised approach for children belonging to more vulnerable social groups, such as families and communities subject to the most diverse forms of exclusion, immigrants and persons with disabilities; stresses that that approach should include collaboration between teachers, social and educational specialists, the families and the communities;
Amendment 293 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses, in view of the difficulties in accessing early childhood care in most Member States, the need for investment in early childhood education and care services, thereby creating or bolstering a public, universal and free response from the very beginning of the education process and guaranteeing equal access to education for every person; stresses the need to ensure that their workers are given the recognition they deserve by providing them with proper salaries and decent career paths;
Amendment 316 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Member States to promote appropriate extracurricular activities that enable children to spend their time after school and during holidays doing something physically and mentally stimulating;
Amendment 318 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Calls on the Member States to devote greater attention to the availability of basic healthcare for children in deprived areas and in remote and inaccessible regions;
Amendment 319 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Recognises the vital role of schools as providers of a daily nutritious meal (in many cases, the only meal) and promoters of nutritional education that goes beyond their walls; urges the Member States to ensure, at least, one good-quality, free meal at all levels of compulsory education;
Amendment 320 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 d (new)
Paragraph 9 d (new)
9d. Urges the Member States to include food in their public health strategies by encouraging diet diversification and food fortification and through supplementation in order to protect children from the negative effects of malnutrition or undernutrition;
Amendment 322 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Member States to guarantee universal, public, free and quality healthcare for all children and their families with regard to prevention, immunisation programmes and primary care, access to diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation, and to access to the most diverse range of medical and therapeutic specialist treatment, guaranteeing women the right to sexual and reproductive health by ensuring healthcare for babies, maternity care and home visits in the pre- and post-natal care period, access to family doctors, nurses, dentists, ophthalmologists, family counselling services and mental health specialists; highlights the value of vaccinating children and the need to fight the hotbeds of misinformation with regard to the benefits of vaccination;
Amendment 332 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Asks the Commission and the Member States to establish a system to monitor breastfeeding at European Union level, in order to understand the reality and help to formulate policies promoting breastfeeding, in line with WHO recommendations;
Amendment 337 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Highlights the right to comfortable housing that meets the needs of children and their families and ensures their well- being, privacy and quality of life; deplores the housing policies that are driving families out of cities in a number of Member States, and that distort sociability mechanisms and make it difficult to build support networks, increasing the likelihood that children end up abandoned and excluded; calls on the Member States to promote a public housing policy that tackles property speculation and guarantees this right;
Amendment 342 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Stresses the need to draw up strategies that promote decent housing, including energy efficiency and affordable energy; recalls that deteriorating housing stock, which affects energy efficiency, and rising energy prices, in particular, leave children and their families vulnerable to discomfort and risks to their physical safety;
Amendment 352 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Highlights the specific impact on children of problems caused by ecosystem degradation and climate change; calls on the Member States to take that into account when drawing up their climate change adaptation and mitigation plans by including specific solutions for children and young people;
Amendment 357 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Condemns all forms of violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect with regard to children; calls on the Member States to develop and implement integrated prevention and protection systems for children with a view to eradicating violence, abuse, exploitation and negligence, involving public services (including schools and health systems), to create rapid response conditions for those situations, providing a protective environment and helping to empower children;
Amendment 365 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Amendment 367 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Recommends that Member States develop proactive social policies that avoid the departure of children from their family environment, ensuring that it is not through poverty and exclusion that children are institutionalised; calls on the Member States to ensure that recourse to institutionalising children and young people happens only as a last resort and to invest in safe foster care systems for children and young people to help the transition from institutional care to family and community-based care;
Amendment 370 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. SRecommends that the inclusion process for children and young asylum seekers minimises the use of institutionalisation as much as possible by smoothing the fostering process; stresses the need to invest in support and follow-up for children and young asylum seekers, their families and host institutions;
Amendment 376 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to participate actively in combating the trafficking of children for any form of exploitation, including work, forced marriage, illegal adoption, illegal activities and sexual exploitation;
Amendment 377 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Considers that the Commission and the Member States should, through their cooperation and development policy and in partnership with the competent international institutions, provide a specific response to the problems of children who live in conflict-affected areas, including by improving access to health and education services and by combating the use of children as soldiers, human shields or bargaining chips;
Amendment 378 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Calls on the Member States to create or enhance regulatory instruments that adapt the justice system to children's needs and their right to full access to justice, including by developing alternatives to legal proceedings;
Amendment 379 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 d (new)
Paragraph 14 d (new)
14d. Recommends that the Commission and the Member States develop guidelines to support the participation of children in the policy-making process, putting in place mechanisms which promote and ensure children’s participation in decision making that affects their lives, and to enable and encourage children to express informed views, ensuring that those views are given due weight and are reflected in the main decisions affecting them;
Amendment 380 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 e (new)
Paragraph 14 e (new)
14e. Recommends that the Member States provide the necessary support to ensure the right to culture, sport and leisure, access to open space and a healthy environment for all children, with a focus on ensuring equal access and quality for children in poverty, children in remote areas, children with disabilities, children belonging to national or ethnic, religious, linguistic and migrant minorities, children moving within the EU regardless of their nationality and children left behind; recalls the right to free time and to play as laid down in the UNCRC;
Amendment 381 #
2023/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 e (new)
Paragraph 14 e (new)
14e. Recommends that the Commission and the Member States, in their policies for children or policies that have an impact on children, emphasise the right to play as a structural element of children's full development by putting in place infrastructure and programmes that reflect the importance of that right;
Amendment 60 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas everyone has the right to enjoy and create culture, as well as the duty to preserve, defend and value cultural heritage; whereas the Member States are responsible, in partnership with all cultural operators, for: promoting and ensuring access for all citizens to the resources and tools of cultural action; supporting initiatives that foster the many forms and expressions of individual and collective creation and wider circulation of high-quality cultural assets and works; pushing for cultural heritage to be safeguarded and valued; developing cultural relations with all peoples; linking cultural policy with the other sectoral policies;
Amendment 72 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas, regardless of their role or their status as a worker or self-employed person, the living and working conditions of CCS professionals can beare mostly characterised by precariousness and instability, with unpredictable incomes, short-term contracts, weak or no social security, and a lack of access to unemployment support; whereas the extent of social security coverage of CCS professionals varies between countries, sectors and types of work within the sectors and may lead to differences in living and working conditions;
Amendment 96 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas CCS professionals tend to have low retirement savings as a result of the atypical and sometimeoften precarious nature of their work;
Amendment 154 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 159 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Acknowledges the role of the cultural and creative sector and that everyone has the right to enjoy and create culture, as well as the duty to preserve, defend and value cultural heritage; acknowledges that the Member States are responsible, in partnership with all cultural operators, for: promoting and ensuring access for all citizens to the resources and tools of cultural action; supporting initiatives that foster the many forms and expressions of individual and collective creation and wider circulation of high-quality cultural assets and works; pushing for cultural heritage to be safeguarded and valued; developing cultural relations with all peoples; linking cultural policy with the other sectoral policies;
Amendment 196 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers that, in view of atypical work patterns in cultural and creative careers and the ensuing challenges, common throughout the Union, in accessing social protection for CCS professionals and in view of the high cross-border mobility of CCS professionals, a targeted legal act at Union level is needed to promote access to comprehensive and adequate social protection systems for all CCS professionalsre common throughout the Union;
Amendment 203 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Takes the view that the Member States should ensure adequate social protection for CCS professionals, in particular during periods when their work is interrupted or suspended;
Amendment 206 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on the Member States, given the cross-border movement of CCS professionals, to enhance cooperation between social security systems so as to provide those professionals with adequate, comprehensive social protection systems;
Amendment 234 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. IAcknowledges that there are no cultural and creative sectors without workers and without respect for those workers' rights; is concerned by the fact that the cultural and creative sectors are considered low-wage sectors, with 38 % of CCS professionals in the lowest three wage deciles18; recalls the right of all workers to fair wages that provide for a decent standard of living and welcomes the recent adoption of Directive (EU) 2022/2041 of the European Parliament and of the Council19; calls on the Member States to transpose that Directive swiftly, with particular consideration for the cultural and creative sectors; _________________ 18 Eurofound Labour Force Survey 19 Directive (EU) 2022/2041 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on adequate minimum wages in the European Union (OJ L 275, 25.10.2022, p. 33).
Amendment 286 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States and social partners to commit to the prevention and combating of undeclared work and the eradication of bogus self-employment practices in the cultural and creative sectors, including by strengthening the action of national authorities responsible for inspecting labour enforcement authorities;
Amendment 293 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Member States to give the national inspection authorities the technical and human resources necessary to carry out their tasks;
Amendment 312 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Member States to establish a stable, predictable funding framework for the various cultural sector bodies and structures, while providing appropriate support to all creative activity of recognised quality and not neglecting more remote areas and peripheral regions;
Amendment 314 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Amendment 341 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Acknowledges that access to artistic education and sport, as well as a right that must be urgently upheld in many Member States, also drives social inclusion and the fight against inequalities;
Amendment 386 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Member States to redouble their efforts to eradicate sexual harassment, including in the cultural and creative sectors andin order to ensure a safe and healthy work place; welcomes, in that regard, the Commission proposal for a directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence, and looks forward to its swift adoption; reiterates that combating sexual harassment, violence against women and domestic violence requires funding and adequate technical and human resources for the competent national authorities, as well as appropriate education on sexuality;
Amendment 410 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Is concerned by the effects of increasing automation and use of generative AI technologies, which pose a particular challenge to artists and other CCS professionals at risk of losing their jobs or their remuneration rights or of suffering from deteriorating working conditions; calls on the Commission to develop a proactive strategic approach at Union level to anticipate the effects on jobs;
Amendment 414 #
2023/2051(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Is concerned by the impact of AI use, particularly in view of the capacities demonstrated by generative models trained using large data sets to replicate the style of certain painters to produce images or musicians' voices to create pieces of music, for example;
Amendment 4 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) The purpose of the UNCRPD is to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promote respect of their inherent dignity, thus ensuring their full and effective participation and inclusion in society on an equal basis with others. In its article 6, the UNCRPD specifically recognises that women and girls with disabilities are subject to multiple discrimination, due in many cases to the intersection of gender and disability, which impacts all spheres of their life including their mobility experiences requiring State parties to “take measures to ensure the full and equal enjoyment by them of all human rights and fundamental freedoms” and ensure the full development, advancement and empowerment of women. Women with disabilities often face intersectional forms of discrimination, and thus EU legislation need to integrate an intersectional approach in order to properly address exclusion and discrimination from a comprehensive, systemic and structural perspective; EU Member States are bound by the UNCRPD, however there are significant differences between the countries’ implementation1a. There is a need to progress on equality for persons with disabilities in all countries, for example through investments in infrastructure, capacity building and awareness raising campaigns. The UNCRPD also recognises the importance of the need to take appropriate measures to ensure universal accessibility to persons with disabilities., as for instance to the ones with functional illiteracy mostly affecting women, especially in regards to the current directive, and to ensure that persons with disabilities enjoy personal mobility with the greatest possible independence. (6 a) It is necessary to acknowledge that women and girls with disabilities face increased risk of violence and abuse, including sexual abuse, and have heightened vulnerability on account of their sex, age and disability, (6 b) Figures clearly show that caregivers of disabled people are in their vast majority women and that therefore a gender sensitive approach has to be applied also when considering the caregivers side. __________________ 1a Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, https://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra _uploads/fra-2023-uncrpd-human-rights- indicators_en.pdf
Amendment 6 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 15 a (new)
Recital 15 a (new)
(15 a) Whereas the personal assistant can include informal caregivers such as family members or take into account that women bear a disproportionate responsibility for the unpaid and paid care for disabled people, including female family members;
Amendment 7 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)
(3a) Information and counselling services for women and girls with disabilities. (3b) specialised information service, assistance and support to women and girls with disabilities who are victims of violence.
Amendment 8 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Member States shall take all necessary measures to recognise all persons with disabilities who are holders of a European Disability Card to ensure mutual recognition of the card as means of protection against discrimination on the grounds of disability, with the consequent right of access throughout the EU to the remedies and mechanisms provided against breaches of rights and lack of effective equal treatment; in particular Member States shall ensure that the European Disability Card is equally accessible to people with disabilities regardless of their sex, gender, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation.
Amendment 53 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
(6 a) Article 6 recognises that women and girls with disabilities are subject to multiple discrimination, and State Parties are bound to ensure the full development, advancement and empowerment of women, as well as their full and equal enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms.
Amendment 58 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) The European Pillar of Social Rights, proclaimed by the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission at Gothenburg on 17 November 201740 provides that everyone, inter alia regardless of disability, has the right to equal treatment and opportunities regarding, among others employment, social protection, education, access to goods and services available to the public (principle 3).; and that equality of treatment and opportunities between women and men must be ensured and fostered in all areas (principle 2) In addition, the European Pillar of Social Rights recognises that persons with disabilities have the right to services that enable them to participate in society (principle 17). the labour market and in society, and a work environment adapted to their needs (principle 17). (1) The European Pillar of Social Rights also recognises that everyone has the right to timely access to affordable, preventive and curative healthcare of good quality (principle 16). _________________ 40 Interinstitutional Proclamation on the European Pillar of Social Rights, OJ C 428, 13.12.2017, p. 10.
Amendment 61 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) Due to the lack of recognition of disability status between Member States, persons with disabilities may face specific difficulties when exercising their fundamental rights of free movement, as well as of access to work, education and healthcare.
Amendment 65 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 11 a (new)
Recital 11 a (new)
(11 a) An exemption shall be added to Art. 2.2 to allow for temporary recognition of ones’ disability status for the transition phase when moving abroad for work or studies, and while one is undergoing the reassessment procedure to have ones’ disability recognized by the new Member State. This exemption shall also apply to participants in EU Mobility Programmes, such as ERASMUS+ for example.
Amendment 69 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) Alongside physical and other barriers in accessing both public and private spaces, and services, high expenses are a key factor discouraging many persons with disabilities from travel48 , because they have specific needs and may also require person(s) accompanying or assisting them including those recognised as personal assistant(s) in accordance with national legislation or practices, making their travel costs higher than for persons without disabilities49 . The lack of recognition of disability status in other Member States might limit their access to special conditions, such as free access or reduced tariffs, or preferential treatment and has an impact on their travel costs, lives and choices. _________________ 48 Findings from Final Report based on Survey targeted at EU-level CSOs; Shaw and Coles, ‘Disability, holiday making and the tourism industry in the UK: a preliminary survey’, 25(3) Tourism Management (2004) 397-403; Eugénia Lima Devile and Andreia Antunes Moura (2021), Travel by People With Physical Disabilities: Constraints and Influences in the Decision-Making Process. 49 McKercher and Darcy (2018), Re- conceptualizing barriers to travel by people with disabilities, Tourism Management Perspectives, 59-66. [More for Explanatory Memorandum?]
Amendment 76 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 24
Recital 24
(24) Examples of special conditions or preferential treatment include, among others, free access, reduced tariffs, reduced fees or user charges for toll roads/bridges/tunnels, priority access, designated seats in parks and other public areas, accessible seating in cultural or public events, personal assistance, assistance animals, assistance on the beach to enter the water, support (such as access to braille, audio guides, sign language interpretation), provisions of aids or assistance, loan of a wheelchair, loan of a floating wheelchair, obtaining tourist information in accessible formats, using a mobility scooter on roads or a wheelchair in bike lanes without a fine, etc. Parking conditions and facilities include extended parking or reserved parking spaces. With respect to passenger transport services, in addition to the special conditions or preferential treatment offered to persons with disabilities, in accordance with national legislation or practices, assistance animals, personal assistants or other persons accompanying or assisting persons with disabilities (or reduced mobility) may travel free of charge or be seated, where practicable next to the person with disabilities.
Amendment 77 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 24 a (new)
Recital 24 a (new)
(24 a) Women and girls with disabilities are at an increased risk of violence and abuse. The special conditions and preferential treatment covered by this directive shall include all measures and services aimed at supporting, protecting and assisting women and girls with disabilities, including access to specialised support, legal assistance and healthcare.
Amendment 78 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 24 b (new)
Recital 24 b (new)
(24 b) With respect to passenger transport services, in addition to the special conditions or preferential treatment offered to persons with disabilities, in accordance with national legislation or practices, assistance animals, personal assistants or other persons accompanying, assisting or travelling to care for persons with disabilities (or reduced mobility) may travel free of charge or be seated, where practicable next to the person with disabilities. It is imperative to take into account that women bear a disproportionate responsibility for the unpaid and paid care for disabled people, including female family members.
Amendment 81 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 29 a (new)
Recital 29 a (new)
(29 a) In order to strengthen the proposal on the Parking Card and to make some concrete improvements for persons with disabilities, a new database shall be set up to inform persons with disabilities of the different parking rights and rules concerning disabled parking spaces in the different Member States and its regions, cities, and municipalities.
Amendment 88 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. This Directive shall apply to parking conditions and facilities and to all situations where special conditions or preferential treatment are offered by private operators or public authorities to persons with disabilities and where provided, for person(s) accompanying or assisting them including their personal assistant(s), as regards access to the following services, activities and facilities:
Amendment 90 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – indent 1 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – indent 1 a (new)
– - public services, including education and healthcare;
Amendment 91 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – indent 1 b (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – indent 1 b (new)
– - specialised assistance and support to women and girls with disabilities victims of violence;
Amendment 97 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
(c a) 3. Exceptions to paragraph 2 shall be made by Member States to ensure equal treatment and opportunities between national and other Europeans with disabilities: a) when a European Disability Card holder moves to the Member State with to a work contract or enrolment in an education institution until their disability is re-assessed in the national system, or b) when a European Disability Card holder participates in an EU Mobility Programme.
Amendment 104 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) “personal assistant” is a person accompanying or assisting persons with disabilities who is recognised in accordance with the national legislation or practices as such, including informal caregivers such as family members;
Amendment 108 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) Union cCitizens and family members of Union citizensof the Member-States of the European Union, their family members as well as third country nationals that have permanent residence status in a Member State of the European Union whose disability status is recognised by the competent authorities in the Member State of their residence by means of a certificate, a card or any other formal document issued in accordance with national competences, practices, and procedures, as well as, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s),
Amendment 111 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) Union cCitizens and family members of Union citizensof the Member-States of the European Union, their family members as well as third country nationals that have permanent residence status in a Member State of the European Union whose rights to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities are recognised in their Member State of residence by way of a parking card or another document issued in accordance with national competences, practices, and procedures as well as, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s).
Amendment 124 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Member States shall ensure that the European Disability Card is equally accessibly to people with disabilities regardless of their sex, socioeconomic background and migration status, among others.
Amendment 125 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 3 b (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. The European Disability Card and its renewals shall be issued free of charge;
Amendment 126 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 4
Article 6 – paragraph 4
4. The European Disability Card shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence directly if such is the procedure according to the national disability recognition, or upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued and renewed free of charge for the beneficiary and within the same period set in the applicable national legislation for issuing disability certificates, disability cards or any other formal document recognising the disability status of a person with disabilities. The card shall never be required as a proof of disability in the context of rights established in other Union legislation.
Amendment 131 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 5
Article 6 – paragraph 5
5. The European Disability Card shall be issued as a physical card and shall be complemented by a digital format upon adoption of the delegated acts referred to in paragraph 7. Persons with disabilities shall be given the option to use either the digital or physical card, or both. When applicable, the physical and digital cards shall be accompanied by different formats that adapt to the specific needs of their holders, such as braille.
Amendment 137 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Member States shall ensure that the European Disability Card is equally accessibly to people with disabilities regardless of their sex, socioeconomic background and migration status, among others.
Amendment 138 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 2 b (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. The European Parking Card and its renewals shall be issued free of charge;
Amendment 142 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 6
Article 7 – paragraph 6
6. The European Parking Card for persons with disabilities shall be issued or renewed as a physical card and shall be complemented by a digital format upon adoption of the delegated acts referred to in paragraph 7. Persons with disabilities shall be given the option to use either the digital or physical card, or both. When applicable, the physical and / or digital cards shall be accompanied by different formats that adapt to the specific needs of their holders, such as braille.
Amendment 145 #
2023/0311(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 7 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. The Commission shall set up a publicly available database that contains relevant information related to the applicable parking rules, conditions, and spaces as defined on local, regional, or national level. The database shall be available in all EU languages; Member States shall encourage public authorities to upload relevant information in the database.
Amendment 1 #
2023/0264(BUD)
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
Amendment 7 #
2023/0264(BUD)
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas in several Member States, with low birth rates, women and couples would wish to have children but are prevented in practice from having them, not by their own choice, but by the increasing deterioration of their living and working conditions resulting directly from so-called austerity policies that have created unemployment, precarious employment and disrespect and violation of maternity and paternity rights in the workplace, destroyed public services and hindered access to childcare facilities;
Amendment 12 #
2023/0264(BUD)
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas it is crucial to guarantee women the right to work with rights and the right to be a mother, without any penalties, as women continue to be the most disadvantaged and discriminated against; whereas examples of such discrimination consist of employers’ pressure on women in job interviews, questioning the existence of children and their age, so as to condition women’s decision-making and to opt for childless and ‘more available’ workers, and the increasing economic and labour pressures on women not to take maternity leave;
Amendment 15 #
2023/0264(BUD)
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Amendment 18 #
2023/0264(BUD)
Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas, even taking into account the balance of personal, family and professional life, the Union budget should include an increase in investment in high- quality public care services, including public networks of nurseries and crèches and public services of free time activities for children and a public health care network, as well as the defence of public, accessible and quality health systems and a public social security system, ensuring their universality;
Amendment 25 #
2023/0264(BUD)
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
Amendment 33 #
2023/0264(BUD)
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas that the economic situation favours harassment and violence in all its forms, as well as prostitution, to which women are subjected, in violation of human rights; whereas there is a need to increase public, financial and human resources to intervene among groups at risk of poverty and to address situations posing particular risks for children and young people, the elderly, or persons with disabilities, as well as those designated homeless;
Amendment 35 #
2023/0264(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Considers it immoral to use the pretext of the war in Ukraine to satisfy the greed of big agribusiness; points out that fertilisers, the raw materials for which are primarily produced by Russia, went up in price, in some cases, by more than 300 % long before the war began;
Amendment 39 #
2023/0264(BUD)
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
Amendment 43 #
2023/0264(BUD)
Ca. whereas abortion must be a voluntary decision at the request of women, freely taken, in line with medical standards based on World Health Organisation guidelines; whereas access to free safe and legal abortion services must be guaranteed;
Amendment 48 #
2023/0264(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 51 #
2023/0264(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recommends that funds, in particular, be increased to enable the protection of motherhood, parenthood and early childhood through appropriate programmes; calls, therefore, for maternal and child health to be given particular importance in the 2024 Union budget; further recommends that funds be secured for the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding and breastfeeding, thus contributing to the achievement of the World Health Organisation’s objective of ensuring that, by 2025, the global rate of exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months of the baby’s life is at least 50 %, which requires, among other measures, the adequacy of the duration and remuneration of maternity and paternity leave;
Amendment 57 #
2023/0264(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls on the Member States to safeguard sexual and reproductive health and rights, inter alia by ensuring the existence of reproductive health programmes and services, including essential care and medicines for voluntary family planning and maternal and neonatal health;
Amendment 58 #
2023/0264(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Reiterates the need for the Union budget to play a more active role in order to guarantee free access to contraceptive methods, thereby safeguarding the fundamental right to health and ensuring that family planning consultations are in place, specifically covering, inter alia, the issues of reproduction, preparation for childbirth, maternity and paternity, and infertility;
Amendment 62 #
2023/0264(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls for specific agricultural programmes to promote, on the one hand, short marketing channels, fair prices for producers and stable and acceptable earnings for farmers and, on the other, the fair redistribution of payments between countries, types of production and producers, eliminating the current disparities and benefiting the Member States with the largest production shortfalls, as well as small and medium- sized producers, and add to the initial amount of the agricultural reserve; stresses the need to increase funding intended to mitigate the impact of crises and of volatility on agricultural markets, which have caused, and continue to cause, many small- and family-business bankruptcies, and therefore play a part in rural depopulation and the concentration of production; calls for increases to the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD);
Amendment 68 #
2023/0264(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 73 #
2023/0264(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Amendment 75 #
2023/0264(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 82 #
2023/0264(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that in the last decade, with the outbreak of the economic and financial crisis, economic, social, labour and gender inequalities have intensified within and between Member States; recalls the important role played by the European Institute for Gender Equality in understanding the scale and causes of gender inequality in the Union; calls, therefore, for the budget, staff and independence of the budget to be strengthened;
Amendment 83 #
2023/0264(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 90 #
2023/0264(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Reiterates the need for the Union budget to play a more active role in pursuing the UN Sustainable Development Goals; calls, therefore, for it to support measures and projects aimed at eradicating female and child poverty, promoting greater and better integration into the labour market, eliminating labour and wage inequalities between men and women, improving access to and delivery of healthcare, and combating violence against women, children and young people;
Amendment 94 #
2023/0264(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 102 #
2023/0264(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Underlines that any equality strategy should address all forms of violence against women, including setbacks and violations of women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights; reiterates that access to health care and public services, including access to abortion and psychological support for women victims of violence, should be considered a priority;
Amendment 2 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
–
–
The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development calls on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, as the committee responsible, to propose rejection of the Commission proposal.
Amendment 6 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital -1 (new)
Recital -1 (new)
(-1) Biotechnology is one of the most important technologies for the future and should be supported by a suitable policy framework, with ethical, environmental and health aspects also being taken into account. However, life should under no circumstances be patented, either in the form of reproductive techniques or by privatising genome sequences, because knowledge is of benefit to all.
Amendment 7 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital -1 a (new)
Recital -1 a (new)
(-1a) Ethical questions relating to the use and practice of science in the field of genetic engineering are a fundamental issue. First and foremost, the short-, medium- and long-term consequences of using such technologies must be examined. It will be undeniably important to gain further knowledge about the impact on the environment, climate, farming, biodiversity and food security. It will also be important to build bridges between science and the advances it produces and the development of agriculture and production in general avoiding sacrificing the future and ensuring that such choices follow the precautionary principle.
Amendment 8 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) Since 2001, when Directive 2001/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (32), on the deliberate release of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) into the environment was adopted, significant progress in biotechnology has led to the development of new genomic techniques (NGTs), most prominently genome editing techniques that enable changes to be made to the genome at precise locations, however, the results cannot be fully foreseen and may be equivalent to or different from plants obtained using conventional selection. _________________ 32 Directive 2001/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 March 2001 on the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms and repealing Council Directive 90/220/EEC (OJ L 106, 17.4.2001, p. 1).
Amendment 10 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) Trade in genetically modified organism varieties cannot directly or indirectly rely solely on monopolistic private multinational companies, which benefit the most from the mass use of those patented varieties, a situation that leaves farmers more dependent on seed producers and, therefore, reduces the Member States' food and production sovereignty.
Amendment 11 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 b (new)
Recital 1 b (new)
(1b) Since knowledge about the properties of each gene is incomplete and the number of variables is considerable, the impact of using such genetic techniques and their subsequent large- scale roll-out is not yet fully understood. Natural or organic crops, i.e. crops that have not been genetically modified by humans, existing alongside genetically modified crops poses the issue of gene flow, since pollination is often anemophilous, by way of the wind.
Amendment 12 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 d (new)
Recital 1 d (new)
(1d) The use of genetically modified organisms has led to an excessive use of pesticides and persistent fertilisers, which can lead to reduced soil fertility, aridity and low water holding capacity. Defending the genetic integrity of natural crops is therefore fundamental, given that the impact of large-scale agriculture on soil properties affects the hydrosphere, biosphere, atmosphere and climate and, over time, contributes to desertification, which poses a threat to long-term food security. The precautionary principle should therefore be followed with the introduction of new NGT varieties.
Amendment 13 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 e (new)
Recital 1 e (new)
(1e) The impact that consumption of GMOs and NGTs may have on animal feed and human food has not been sufficiently weighed up, particularly in the long term. There are no studies in the European Union that assess with any certainty the true impact on farming and food of introducing such plant varieties.
Amendment 15 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) NGTs constitute a diverse group of genomic techniques, and each of them can be used in various ways to achieve different results and products. They can result in organisms with modifications equivalent to what can be obtained by conventional breeding methods or in organisms with more complex modifications. Among NGTs, targeted mutagenesis and cisgenesis (including intragenesis) introduce genetic modifications without inserting genetic material from non-crossable species (transgenesis). They theoretically rely only on the breeders’ gene pool, i.e. the total genetic information that is available for conventional breeding including from distantly related plant species that can be crossed by advanced breeding techniques. However, the processes used in cisgenesis (and in intragenesis) are the same as those used to carry out transgenesis (insertion of additional gene sequences). Moreover, the gene pool used by conventional breeders in practical conditions may include variations not present in a gene pool that can be harnessed through the direct (and potentially reproducible) transfer of genes through all types of genetic backgrounds and can therefore produce plants that are difficult to obtain through conventional breeding methods. Targeted mutagenesis techniques result in modification(s) of the DNA sequence at precise locations in the genome of an organism. Cisgenesis techniques result in the insertion, in the genome of an organism, of genetic material already present in the breeders’ gene pool. However, the results in terms of intentional and unintentional genetic alterations and biological effects cannot be predicted. Intragenesis is a subset of cisgenesis resulting in the insertion in the genome of a rearranged copy of genetic material composed of two or more DNA sequences already present in the breeders’ gene pool. However, the processes used in cisgenesis (and in intragenesis) are the same as those used to achieve transgenesis (insertion of additional gene sequences). Moreover, the gene pool used by conventional breeders, when taking practical decisions, may include restrictions absent from a gene pool that can be harnessed through the direct (and potentially repeated) transfer of genes through all genetic backgrounds and can therefore produce plants that will be difficult to obtain through conventional breeding methods.
Amendment 17 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 a (new)
Recital 2 a (new)
(2a) The introduction of plant varieties into the environment and/or into foodstuffs or feed for animals that may be different in their intended or unintended genotypes and phenotypes from those obtained by conventional breeding processes poses challenges to the regulatory authority, which must ensure safety for health and the environment. Such differences may not always be obvious or predictable and suitable data therefore is needed before conclusions about their safety can be drawn.
Amendment 18 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 b (new)
Recital 2 b (new)
(2b) A risk assessment must be carried out on all NGT plants in order to produce adequate data on their intended and unintended genetic alterations and the effects that may arise from those alterations. This first stage of the risk assessment, which simply requires experiments under contained use conditions, should be used to take decisions about their status and the amount of data that will be needed for an overall risk assessment.
Amendment 19 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) There is ongoing public and private research using NGTs on a wider variety of crops and traits compared to those obtained through transgenic techniques authorised in the Union or globally(33). This includes plants with improved tolerance or resistance to plant diseases and pests, plants with improved tolerance or resistance to climate change effects and environmental stresses, improved nutrient and water-use efficiency, plants with higher yields and resilience and improved quality characteristics. These types of new plants, coupled with the fairly easy and speedy applicability of those new techniques, could deliver benefits to farmers, consumers and to the environment. Thus, NGTs have the potential to contribute to the innovation and sustainability goals of the European Green Deal (34) and of the ‘Farm to Fork’ (35), Biodiversity (36) and Adaptation to Climate Change(37) Strategies, to global food security (38), the Bioeconomy Strategy (39) and to the Union’s strategic autonomy (40). _________________ 33 Insights and solutions stemming from EU-funded research and innovation projects on plant breeding strategies may contribute to address detection challenges, ensure traceability and authenticity, and promote innovation in the area of new genomic techniques. More than 1,000 projects were funded under the Seventh Framework Programme and successor Horizon 2020 programme with an investment of over 3 billion Euros. Horizon Europe support to new collaborative research projects on plant breeding strategies is also ongoing, SWD(2021) 92. 34 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, The European Green Deal, COM/2019/640 final. 35 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, A Farm to Fork Strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally friendly food system, COM/2020/381 final. 36 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030: Bringing nature back into our lives, COM/2020/380 final. 37 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions forging a Climate-Resilient Europe - The New EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change, COM(2021) 82 final 38 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, Safeguarding food security and reinforcing the resilience of food systems, COM (2022) 133 final; Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), 2022, Gene editing and agrifood systems, Rome, ISBN 978-92-5- 137417-7. 39 European Commission, Directorate- General for Research and Innovation, A sustainable bioeconomy for Europe – Strengthening the connection between economy, society and the environment: updated bioeconomy strategy, Publications Office, 2018, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2777/792130. 40 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, Trade Policy Review - An Open, Sustainable and Assertive Trade Policy, COM(2021)66 final.
Amendment 20 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) Given that sustainability comprises many degrees of complexity, clear and transparent criteria are needed for a suitable technological assessment before conclusions can be drawn on the potential benefits of NGTs' specific characteristics.
Amendment 25 #
2023/0226(COD)
Amendment 28 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
Amendment 34 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Based on the current scientific and technical knowledge in particular on safety aspects, this Regulation should be limited to GMOs that are plants, i.e. organisms in the taxonomic groups Archaeplastida or Phaeophyceaeannual agricultural crops with no potential to persist, reproduce and spread in the environment, excluding microother organisms, fungi and animals for which the available knowledge is more limited. For the same reason, this Regulation should only cover plants obtained by certain NGTs: targeted mutagenesis and cisgenesis (including intragenesis) (hereinafter ‘NGT plants’), but not by other new genomic techniques. Such NGT plants do not carry genetic material from non- crossable species or insertions of additional genetic material prepared outside cells. GMOs produced by other new genomic techniques that introduce into an organism genetic material from non- crossable species (transgenesis) or that contain additional genetic material prepared outside cells should remain subject only to the Union GMO legislation, given that the resulting plants might bear specific risks associated to the transgene or the inserted additional genetic material. Moreover, there is no indication that current requirements in the Union GMO legislation for GMOs obtained by transgenesis need adaptation at the present time.
Amendment 36 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) The legal framework for NGT plants should share the objectives of the Union GMO legislation to ensure a high level of protection of human and animal health and of the environment and the good functioning of the internal market for the concerned plants and products, while addressing the specificity of NGT plants. This legal framework should enable the development and placing on the market of plants, food and feed containing, consisting of or produced from NGT plants and o but without undermining ther products containing or consisting of NGT plants (‘NGT products’) so as to contribute to the innovation and sustainability objectives of the European Green Deal and the Farm to Fork, Biodiversity and Climate Adaptation strategies and to enhance the competitiveness of the Union agri-food sector at Union and world levelecautionary principle.
Amendment 41 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) This Regulation constitutes lex specialis with regard to the Union GMO legislation, based on the precautionary principle. It introduces specific provisions for NGT plants and NGT products. However, where there are no specific rules in this Regulation, NGT plants and products (including food and feed) obtained from them should remain subject to the requirements of the Union GMO legislation and the rules on GMOs in sectoral legislation, such as Regulation (EU) 2017/625 on official controls or the legislation on certain products like plant and forest reproductive material.
Amendment 46 #
2023/0226(COD)
(13a) To evaluate the status of NGT plants, it is necessary to know the 'indoor risk assessment' data (which requires experiments under contained conditions involving molecular characterisation and greenhouse experiments) to check the two categories of NGT plants. Given that field trials or food consumption trials are not required for the 'indoor risk assessment' (which requires experiments in contained conditions), such data can be supplied and evaluated without excessive costs in a shorter period of time.
Amendment 47 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13 b (new)
Recital 13 b (new)
(13b) Given that many NGT plants with different characteristics and from a variety of species may be released into the same environment, clear criteria and methods should be established to assess potential interactions and avoid overloading ecosystems with organisms that have not adapted through evolutionary processes. NGT plants that have the potential to persist, reproduce or spread in the environment (within or outside fields) must have their impact on nature and the environment assessed with greater scrutiny. In the event of any doubts, their release into the environment should be banned.
Amendment 48 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13 c (new)
Recital 13 c (new)
(13c) The status of each NGT plant should be checked by clearly establishing what makes it considerably different from plants derived from conventional reproductive methods.
Amendment 53 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) NGT plants that could also occur naturally or be produced by conventional breeding techniques and their progeny obtained by conventional breeding techniques (‘category 1 NGT plants’) should be treated as plants that have occurred naturally or have been produced by conventional breeding techniques, given that they are equivalent and that their risks are comparable, thereby derogating in full from the Union GMO legislation and GMO related requirements in sectoral legislation. In order to ensure legal certainty, this Regulation should set out the criteria to ascertain if a NGT plant is equivalent toIn order to ensure legal certainty and safety for health and the environment, this Regulation should set out the criteria and establish suitable methods to ascertain the impact that a NGT plant has on the reproduction of naturally occurring or conventionally bred plants and lay down a procedure for competent authorities to verify and take a decision on the fulfillment of those criteria, prior to the release or placing on the market of NGT plants or NGT products. Those criteria should be objective and based on science. TheyDecision-making should cover the type and extent of genetic modifications that can be observed in nature or in organisms obtained with conventional breeding techniques and should include thresholds for both size and number of genetic modifications to the genome of NGT plants. Since scientific and technical knowledge evolves rapidly in this area, the Commission should be empowered in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to update these criteria in light of scientific and technical progress as regardsthe site of the intended or unintended genetic alterations and associated biological effects. The methods needed for the 'indoor risk assessment' (for example for whole genome sequencing and to carry out omics, greenhouse and environmental chamber experiments) must be proposed by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and established by an implementing regulation. They should cover the type and extent of genetic modifications that can occurbe observed in nature or througin organisms obtained with conventional breeding techniques.
Amendment 59 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) All NGT plants that are not category 1 (‘category 2 NGT plants’) should remain subject to the requirements of the Union GMO legislation and the overall risk assessment because they feature more complex sets of modifications to the genome or have a genotype and/or phenotype that is unlikely to be obtained through conventional or natural reproductive processes. The amount of additional data needed to draw a conclusion about the safety of those plants can be decided based on data in their 'indoor risk assessment' as the first step in the approval process.
Amendment 62 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
Amendment 72 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
Amendment 73 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18
Recital 18
Amendment 82 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
Amendment 86 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20
Recital 20
Amendment 91 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
Recital 21
Amendment 100 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
Recital 22
Amendment 107 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
Recital 23
(23) Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and the Council on organic production and labelling of organic products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) 834/2007(47) prohibits the use of GMOs and products from and by GMOs in organic production. It defines GMOs for the purposes of that Regulation by reference to Directive 2001/18/EC, excluding from the prohibition GMOs which have been obtained through the techniques of genetic modification listed in Annex 1.B of Directive 2001/18/EC. As a result, category 2 NGT plants will be banned in organic production. However, it is necessary to clarify the status of category 1 NGT plants for the purposes of organic production. The use of new genomic techniques is currently incompatible with the concept of organic production in the Regulation (EC) 2018/848 and with consumers’ perception of organic products. The use of category 1 NGT plants should therefore be also prohibited in organic production. _________________ 47 Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on organic production and labelling of organic products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 (OJ L 150, 14.6.2018, p. 1).
Amendment 119 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 24
Recital 24
(24) Provision should be made to ensure transparency as regards the use of category 1 NGT plant varieties, to ensure that production chains that wish to remain free from NGTs can do so and thereby safeguard consumer trust. NGT plants that have obtained a category 1 NGT plant status declaration should be listed in a publicly available database. To ensure traceability, transparency and choice for operators, during research and plant breeding, when selling seed to farmers or making plant reproductive material available to third parties in any other way, plant reproductive material of category 1 NGT plants should be labelled as category 1 NGT.
Amendment 123 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 24 a (new)
Recital 24 a (new)
(24a) Labelling must be used on NGT plants, their progeny and derived products in order to guarantee transparency and traceability throughout the food production chain right up to the consumer.
Amendment 126 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
Recital 25
(25) Category 2 NGT plants should remain subject to the requirements of the Union GMO legislation given that on the basis of current scientific and technical knowledge, their risks need to be assessed. Special rules should be provided in order to adapt the procedures and certain other rules laid down in Directive 2001/18/EC and Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 to the specific nature of category 2 NGT plants and the differing levels of risk that they may pose.
Amendment 128 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25 a (new)
Recital 25 a (new)
(25a) The Member States cannot be restricted or prevented from establishing themselves as countries free from GMO and NGT varieties.
Amendment 129 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25 b (new)
Recital 25 b (new)
(25b) The release of GMOs or organisms obtained by way of NGTs into the environment is irreversible/uncontrollable, has incalculable effects on ecosystems and biodiversity and poses a serious risk of polluting organic/conventional crops, thus making it impossible for those farmers to have freedom of choice.
Amendment 131 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) Category 2 NGT plants and products, in order to be released into the environment or placed on the market, should remain subject to a consent or authorisation in accordance with Directive 2001/18/EC or Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003. However, given the wide variety of those NGT plants, the amount of information necessary for the risk assessment will vary on a case-by-case basis. The Authority, in its scientific opinions on plants developed through cisgenesis and intragenesis48and on plants developed through targeted mutagenesis49recommended flexibility in data requirements for the risk assessment of these plants. Based on the Authority’s ‘Criteria for risk assessment of plants produced by targeted mutagenesis, cisgenesis and intragenesis’ (50), considerations on the history of safe use, familiarity for the environment and the function and structure of the modified/inserted sequence(s) should assist in determining the type and amount of data required to perform the risk assessment of those NGT plants. It is therefore necessary to establish general principles and criteria for the risk assessment of these plants, while providing for flexibility and possibility to adapt risk assessment methodologies to scientific and technical progress. _________________ 48 EFSA GMO Panel (EFSA Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms), Mullins E, Bresson J-L, Dalmay T, Dewhurst IC, Epstein MM, Firbank LG, Guerche P, Hejatko J, Moreno FJ, Naegeli H, Nogué F, Sánchez Serrano JJ, Savoini G, Veromann E, Veronesi F, Casacuberta, J, Fernandez Dumont A, Gennaro A, Lenzi, P, Lewandowska A, Munoz Guajardo IP, Papadopoulou N and Rostoks N, 2022. Updated scientific opinion on plants developed through cisgenesis and intragenesis. EFSA Journal 2022;20(10):7621, 33 pp. https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2022.7621. 49 EFSA GMO Panel (EFSA Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms), Naegeli H, Bresson J-L, Dalmay T, Dewhurst IC, Epstein MM, Firbank LG, Guerche P, Hejatko J, Moreno FJ, Mullins E, Nogué F, Sánchez Serrano JJ, Savoini G, Veromann E, Veronesi F, Casacuberta J, Gennaro A, Paraskevopoulos K, Raffaello T and Rostoks N, 2020. Applicability of the EFSA Opinion on site-directed nucleases type 3 for the safety assessment of plants developed using site-directed nucleases type 1 and 2 and oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis. EFSA Journal 2020;18(11):6299, 14 pp. https://doi. org/10.2903/j.efsa.2020.6299. 50 EFSA GMO Panel (EFSA Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms), Mullins E, Bresson J-L, Dalmay T, Dewhurst IC, Epstein MM, Firbank LG, Guerche P, Hejatko J, Moreno FJ, Naegeli H, Nogué F, Rostoks N, Sánchez Serrano JJ, Savoini G, Veromann E, Veronesi F, Fernandez A, Gennaro A, Papadopoulou N, Raffaello T and Schoonjans R, 2022. Statement on criteria for risk assessment of plants produced by targeted mutagenesis, cisgenesis and intragenesis. EFSA Journal 2022;20(10):7618, 12 pp. https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2022.7618It is therefore necessary to establish general principles and criteria for the risk assessment of these plants, while providing for flexibility and possibility to adapt risk assessment methodologies to scientific and technical progress.
Amendment 134 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 27
Recital 27
(27) Requirements on the content of notifications for consent for the placing on the market of products containing or consisting of GMOs other than food or feed and on the content of applications for authorisation for the placing on the market of genetically modified food and feed are laid down in different pieces of legislation. To ensure consistency between the notifications for consent and applications for authorisation for category 2 NGT products, the content of such notifications and applications should be the same, except those concerning the assessment of food and feed safety assessment as these are only relevant to category 2 NGT food and feed.
Amendment 138 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29
Recital 29
Amendment 143 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 30
Recital 30
Amendment 152 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 32
Recital 32
(32) To increase transparency and consumers’ information, operators should be allowed to complement the labelling of category 2 NGT products as GMO with information on the trait conferred by the genetic modification. In order to avoid misleading or confusing indications, a proposal for such a labelling should be provided in the notification for consent or in the application for authorisation and should be specified in the consent or in the authorisation decision.
Amendment 153 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 33
Recital 33
(33) Regulatory incentives should be offered to potential notifiers or applicants for category 2 NGT plants and products containing traits with the potential to contribute to a sustainable agri-food system, in order to steer the development of category 2 NGT plants towards such traits. The criteria to trigger these incentives should focus on broad trait categories with the potential to contribute to sustainability (such as those linked to tolerance or resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses, improved nutritional characteristics or increased yield) and should be based on the contribution to the value for sustainable cultivation and use as defined in [Article 52(1) of the Commission’s Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the production and marketing of plant reproductive material in the Union52]. The applicability of the criteria across the EU does not allow a narrower definition of traits to focus on specific issues or address local and regional specificities. _________________ 52 COM(2023) 414 final
Amendment 155 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 34
Recital 34
(34) Incentives should consist in an accelerated procedure for risk assessment as regards applications handled by a fully centralised procedure (food and feed products) and enhanced pre-submission advice to help developers prepare the dossier for the purpose of the environmental and food and feed safety assessments, without affecting the general provisions on pre-submission advice, notification of studies and consultation of third parties pursuant to Articles 32a, 32b and 32c of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002(53). _________________ 53 Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2002 laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety (OJ L 031 1.2.2002, p. 1).
Amendment 160 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 37
Recital 37
Amendment 180 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 42
Recital 42
Amendment 182 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 43
Recital 43
Amendment 185 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 45
Recital 45
Amendment 193 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2.º – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 2.º – paragraph 1 – point 1
(1) NGT agricultural plants;
Amendment 194 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2.º – paragraph 1 – point 4 a (new)
Article 2.º – paragraph 1 – point 4 a (new)
(4a) Wild plants, trees and algae fall outside the scope of this Regulation.
Amendment 197 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 2
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 2
(2) ‘NGT plant’ means a genetically modified plant obtained by targeted mutagenesis or cisgenesis, or a combination thereof, on the condition that it does not contain any genetic material originating from outside the breeders’ gene pool or prepared outside cells that temporarily may have been inserted during the development of the NGT plant; , and there is no type of intellectual property associated with the plant, its properties or the technique used to create it;
Amendment 223 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 7
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 7
Amendment 233 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 8
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 8
Amendment 240 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 13
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 13
Amendment 243 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 14
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 14
Amendment 256 #
2023/0226(COD)
Amendment 291 #
Amendment 365 #
Amendment 383 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8.º
Article 8.º
Amendment 387 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9.º
Article 9.º
Amendment 400 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10.º – title
Article 10.º – title
Labelling of category 1 NGT plant reproductive material, including breeding material
Amendment 407 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10.º – paragraph 1
Article 10.º – paragraph 1
Plant reproductive material, its descendants and derived products, including for breeding and scientific purposes, that containsing or consists of category 1ing of NGT plant(s) and is made available to third parties, whether in return for payment or free of charge, shall bear a label indicating the words ‘cat 1 abbreviation ‘NGT’, followed by the identification number of the NGT plant(s) it has been derived from.
Amendment 410 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11.º
Article 11.º
Amendment 413 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Chapter III – title
Chapter III – title
III Category 2 NGT pPlants and category 2 NGT products
Amendment 415 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12.º – title
Article 12.º – title
Status of Category 2 NGT plants and category 2 NGT products
Amendment 419 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Chapter III – Section 1 – title
Chapter III – Section 1 – title
1 Deliberate release of category 2 NGT plants for any other purpose than for placing on the market
Amendment 422 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13.º – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 13.º – paragraph 1 – introductory part
As regards the deliberate release of a category 2n NGT plant for any other purpose than placing on the market, the notification referred to in Article 6(1) of Directive 2001/18/EC shall include:
Amendment 423 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13.º – paragraph 1 – point c – point ii
Article 13.º – paragraph 1 – point c – point ii
(ii) information relating to the category 2 NGT plant(s);
Amendment 424 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13.º – paragraph 1 – point c – point iv
Article 13.º – paragraph 1 – point c – point iv
(iv) information on the interactions between the category 2 NGT plant(s) and the environment;
Amendment 425 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13.º – paragraph 1 – point c – point v
Article 13.º – paragraph 1 – point c – point v
(v) a plan for monitoring in order to identify effects of the category 2 NGT plant(s) on human health or the environment;
Amendment 429 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Chapter III – Section 2 – title
Chapter III – Section 2 – title
2 Placing on the market of category 2 NGT products other than food or feed
Amendment 430 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14.º – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 14.º – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. As regards the placing on the market of category 2 NGT products other than food and feed, the notification referred to in Article 13(2) of Directive 2001/18/EC, without prejudice to any additional information that may be required in accordance with Article 32b of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002, shall contain:
Amendment 431 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14.º – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 14.º – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) designation and specification of the category 2 NGT plant;
Amendment 432 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14.º – paragraph 1 – point e
Article 14.º – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) the environmental risk assessment carried out in accordance with the principles and criteria set out in Parts 1 and 2 of Annex II and with the implementing act adopted in accordance with Article 27, point (c);.
Amendment 433 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14.º – paragraph 1 – point h
Article 14.º – paragraph 1 – point h
(h) where appropriate, a monitoring plan for environmental effects in accordance with Annex VII to Directive 2001/18/EC, including a proposal for the time-period of the monitoring plan; this time-period may be different from the proposed period for the consent. If, based on the results of any release notified in accordance with Section 1, the findings of the environmental risk assessment, the characteristics of the NGT plant, the characteristics and scale of its expected use and the characteristics of the receiving environment, in accordance with the implementing act adopted in accordance with Article 27, point (d), the notifier considers that the NGT plant does not need a monitoring plan, the notifier may propose not to submit a monitoring plan;.
Amendment 434 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14.º – paragraph 1 – point j
Article 14.º – paragraph 1 – point j
(j) proposed commercial names of the products and names of category 2 NGT plants contained therein, and a proposal for a unique identifier for the category 2 NGT plant, developed in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No 65/2004 (60). After the consent any new commercial names should be provided to the competent authority; _________________ 60 Commission Regulation (EC) No 65/2004 of 14 January 2004 establishing a system for the development and assignment of unique identifiers for genetically modified organisms (OJ L 10, 16.1.2004, p. 5).
Amendment 435 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14.º – paragraph 1 – point l
Article 14.º – paragraph 1 – point l
(l) methods for sampling (including references to existing official or standardised sampling methods), detection, identification and quantification of the NGT plant. In cases where it is not feasible to provide an analytical method that detects, identifies and quantifies, if duly justified by the notifier, the modalities to comply with analytical method requirements shall be adapted as specified in the implementing act adopted in accordance with Article 27, point (e) and the guidance referred to in Article 29(2);
Amendment 439 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14.º – paragraph 1 – point m
Article 14.º – paragraph 1 – point m
(m) samples of the category 2 NGT plant and their control samples, and information as to the place where the reference material can be accessed;
Amendment 440 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14.º – paragraph 2
Article 14.º – paragraph 2
2. The notifier shall include in this notification information on data or results from releases of the same category 2 NGT plant or the same combination of category 2 NGT plants previously or currently notified and/or carried out by the notifier either inside or outside the Union.
Amendment 444 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17.º
Article 17.º
Amendment 446 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Chapter III – Section 3 – title
Chapter III – Section 3 – title
3 Placing on the market of category 2 NGT plants for food or feed use and of category 2 NGT food and feed
Amendment 447 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18.º – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 18.º – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) category 2 NGT plants for food use or for feed use;
Amendment 448 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18.º – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 18.º – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) food containing, consisting of or produced from category 2 NGT plants, or containing ingredients produced from category 2 NGT plants (‘category 2 NGT food’)NGT plants;
Amendment 449 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18.º – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 18.º – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) feed containing, consisting of or produced from category 2 NGT plants (‘category 2 NGT feed’).NGT plants;
Amendment 450 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19.º – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 19.º – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. By way of derogation from Articles 5(3), point (e), and 17(3), point (e), of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003, and without prejudice to any additional information that may be required in accordance with Article 32b of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002, an application for authorisation of a category 2 NGT plant for food or feed use, or category 2 NGT food or feed shall be accompanied by a copy of the studies, including, where available, independent, peer-reviewed studies, which have been carried out and any other available material to demonstrate that:
Amendment 451 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19.º – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 19.º – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) the food or the feed complies with the criteria referred to in Article 4(1) or Article 16(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003, respectively, based on a safety assessmentn assessment of the risk to biodiversity and of the safety of the food or feed carried out in accordance with the principles and criteria laid down in Parts 1 and 3 of Annex II to this Regulation and with the implementing act adopted in accordance with Article 27, point (c).
Amendment 452 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19.º – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 19.º – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 455 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19.º – paragraph 3 – introductory part
Article 19.º – paragraph 3 – introductory part
3. By way of derogation from Articles 5(5) and 17(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003, in the case of category 2 NGT plants or food or feed containing or consisting of category 2 NGT plants, the application shall also be accompanied by:
Amendment 456 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19.º – paragraph 3 – point b
Article 19.º – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) where appropriate, a monitoring plan for environmental effects in accordance with Annex VII to Directive 2001/18/EC, including a proposal for the duration of the monitoring plan.; This duration may be different from the duration of the authorisation. If, based on the results of any release notified in accordance with Section 1, the findings of the environmental risk assessment, the characteristics of the NGT plant, the characteristics and scale of its expected use and the characteristics of the receiving environment, in accordance with the implementing act adopted in accordance with Article 27, point (d), the applicant considers that the NGT plant does need a monitoring plan, the applicant may propose not to submit a monitoring plan.
Amendment 457 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21.º
Article 21.º
Amendment 460 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Chapter III – Section 4 – title
Chapter III – Section 4 – title
4 Common provisions for category 2 NGT plants and category 2 NGT products
Amendment 467 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22.º – paragraph 1
Article 22.º – paragraph 1
1. The incentives in this Article shall apply to category 2 NGT plants and category 2 NGT products, where at least one of the intended trait(s) of the NGT plant conveyed by the genetic modification is contained in Part 1 of Annex III and it does not have any traits referred to in Part 2 of that Annex.
Amendment 468 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22.º – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 22.º – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) by way of derogation from Article 20(1), subsection (1) of this Regulation, the Authority shall deliver its opinion on the application within 46 months from the receipt of a valid application, unless the complexity of the product requires application of the time limit referred to in Article 20(1). The time limit shall be extendable under the conditions set out in Article 20(1), subsection (2);
Amendment 469 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22.º – paragraph 8 – point b
Article 22.º – paragraph 8 – point b
(b) the Commission shall conduct an up-to-date scientific literature review of the impact on environmental, social and economic sustainability, as well as the impact on health, of the trait(s) it intends to add to or delete from the list in Annex III;
Amendment 471 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23.º – title
Article 23.º – title
Labelling of authorised category 2 NGT products
Amendment 476 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24.º – title
Article 24.º – title
Measures to avoid the unintended presence of category 2 NGT plants
Amendment 482 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25.º
Article 25.º
Amendment 492 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31.º
Article 31.º
Amendment 495 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I
Annex I
Amendment 557 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – subheading 1
Annex II – subheading 1
Risk assessment of category 2 NGT plants and category 2 NGT food and feed
Amendment 558 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – paragraph 1
Annex II – paragraph 1
Amendment 559 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – paragraph 1 a (new)
Annex II – paragraph 1 a (new)
The type and amount of information necessary for the environmental risk assessment of NGT plants laid down in Annex III of Directive 2001/18/EC and for the food and feed safety assessment of NGT food and feed shall apply.
Amendment 560 #
Amendment 561 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex III
Annex III
Amendment 582 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex III a (new)
Annex III a (new)
ANNEX III a Technological assessment: A technological assessment will be introduced to evaluate the potential benefits of NGT plants in terms of reducing pesticides, adapting to climate change or other aspects of sustainability, in order to verify the potential advantages, also in comparison with conventional reproduction.In addition, the technological assessment will also be implemented to address potential adverse effects that cannot be examined at the level of individual events, such as combinatorial, cumulative and long-term effects. The technological assessment should address the characteristics of specific traits, as well as aspects that could, at an early stage, have an impact on future technological development in the field of NGT plants in general. The criteria to be taken into account in the technological assessment are: use of pesticides, greenhouse gas emissions, effects on biodiversity, effects on agroecology, interactions between genetically modified plants sharing the same environment, spatial and temporal control, less risky alternatives and reversibility of releases.
Amendment 583 #
2023/0226(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex III b (new)
Annex III b (new)
Annex III b Detection and traceability methods In cases where it is not feasible to provide an analytical method that detects, identifies and quantifies, if duly justified by the applicant or decided on by the European Union Reference Laboratory referred to in Article 32 of Regulation (EC) 1829/2003 under the procedure referred to in Article 20(4), the modalities for the fulfilment of the requirements of the analytical method shall be adapted. Methods of documentation that do not rely on analysis but rather on documentation should also be defined for relevant cases.
Amendment 23 #
2023/0207(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) The Union’s financial contribution to the PRIMA Partnership should be subject to a formal commitment by the Participating States to make a financial contribution at least at the level of the Union contributioncontribute to the financing of PRIMA with an adequate contribution from national resources relevant to the objectives of PRIMA. For that reason, compliance with the formal financial commitments should be closely monitored by the PRIMA implementation structure (PRIMA-IS) on a regular basis.
Amendment 24 #
2023/0207(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) The overall Union contribution should be set as a maximum amount. It should be possible, in accordance with Article 16(5) of Regulation (EU) 2021/695, that the Union contribution from Horizon Europe to PRIMA be increased by such contributions from third countries associated to Horizon Europe. This should be subject to the total amount by which the Union contribution is increased being at least matched by the contribution from the Participating States.
Amendment 29 #
2023/0207(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 1.º – paragraph 1 – point 2
Article 1.º – paragraph 1 – point 2
Decision (EU) 2017/1324
Article 2 – paragraph 1
Article 2 – paragraph 1
1. PRIMA shall contribute to the general and specific objectives of Regulation (EU) 2021/695 and in particular Article 3 thereof and shall deliver on the general objectivobjectives guided by public interest and national policies of building research and innovation capacities and developing technical knowledge and common innovativadequate solutions for agro-food systems, making them economically, socially and environmentally sustainable, and for integrated water provision and management in the Mediterranean area, making those systems, their management and the, provision and access public, more climate resilient, efficient, cost-effective and environmentally and socially sustainable, and contribute to solving water scarcity, food security, nutrition, health, well-being and migration problems upstream.;
Amendment 31 #
2023/0207(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 1.º – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point a
Article 1.º – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point a
Decision (EU) 2017/1324
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
The Union financial contribution, including EEA appropriations, shall equal the Participating States’ contributions to PRIMA. The Union contribution shall be up to EUR 325650 000 000 and shall be distributed as follows:
Amendment 32 #
2023/0207(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 1.º – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point a
Article 1.º – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point a
Decision (EU) 2017/1324
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) up to EUR 105430 000 000 from Horizon Europe.
Amendment 33 #
2023/0207(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 1.º – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point a
Article 1.º – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point a
Decision (EU) 2017/1324
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The amount of the Union financial contribution from Horizon Europe may be increased by contributions from third countries associated to Horizon Europe in accordance with Article 16(5) of Regulation (EU) 2021/695 and provided that the total increase in the Union contribution is at least matched by the contribution from the Participating States referred to in Article 1(1).
Amendment 34 #
2023/0207(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 1.º – paragraph 1 – point 4 – point a
Article 1.º – paragraph 1 – point 4 – point a
Decision (EU) 2017/1324
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) the commitment by each Participating State to contribute to the financing of PRIMA with an adequate contribution from national resources relevant to the objectives of PRIMA that is at least equal to the Union contribution;
Amendment 36 #
2023/0207(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 1.º – paragraph 1 – point 4 – point c
Article 1.º – paragraph 1 – point 4 – point c
Decision (EU) 2017/1324
Article 4 – paragraph 3
Article 4 – paragraph 3
The Commission shall assess on an ongoing basis the fulfilment of commitments undertaken by the Participating States and may take appropriate measures, including those in Article 9.shall publish that assessment;
Amendment 40 #
2023/0207(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 1.º – paragraph 1 – point 12
Article 1.º – paragraph 1 – point 12
Decision (EU) 2017/1324
Article 11a – paragraph 2
Article 11a – paragraph 2
2. For the purposes of developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating Member State and Union policies or programmes, the PRIMA-IS shall provide Member States and the Commission with the information included in submitted proposals. This shall apply mutatis mutandis to Participating States regarding proposals which include applicants established in their respective territories.;
Amendment 74 #
2023/0138(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
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The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, as associated Committee under Rule 57, proposes the rejection of the Commission proposal; Urges the European Commission to present a new proposal in which it repeals the Stability and Growth Pact and the related instruments of economic governance and replace it with a Pact for Social Progress and Employment which: (i) Respects the sovereignty of each state, ensuring the conditions for its economic and social development, for overcoming structural deficits, for restoring productive capacity; (ii) Promotes economic growth and the realisation of the principles of economic, social and territorial cohesion; (iii) Fights unemployment and aims for full employment, promotes the defence and strengthening of workers' rights and other social rights, the defence and promotion of collective bargaining as well as the eradication of precariousness; (iv) Promotes the defence and strengthening of public services and the social functions of states, namely access to the right to health, education, housing and social security.
Amendment 192 #
2023/0077(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
Amendment 193 #
2023/0077(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 b (new)
Recital 1 b (new)
(1b) There is an urgent need to protect consumers in the face of rising energy prices and to combat volatility and lack of transparency in the price formation process.
Amendment 194 #
2023/0077(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 c (new)
Recital 1 c (new)
(1c) The scale of the energy and socio- economic crisis, of which there were already clear signs in the post-pandemic period, demonstrates the urgent need for intervention and measures such as price containment through regulation based inter alia on public and common interest criteria.
Amendment 195 #
2023/0077(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 d (new)
Recital 1 d (new)
(1d) Energy price increases have escalated on the wholesale electricity market since 2021, with extremely adverse social and economic consequences.
Amendment 196 #
2023/0077(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 e (new)
Recital 1 e (new)
(1e) Much of the problem of rising energy prices stems from the liberalised market and its speculative nature.
Amendment 197 #
2023/0077(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 f (new)
Recital 1 f (new)
Amendment 376 #
2023/0077(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 a (new)
(1a) re-establish public ownership and strategic state control over the main energy undertakings that have been privatised and restore high-quality public energy services and national, democratic planning of the development of the energy system on the basis of solidarity and international cooperation;
Amendment 379 #
2023/0077(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 b (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 b (new)
(1b) protect consumers in the face of rising energy prices;
Amendment 380 #
2023/0077(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 c (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 c (new)
(1c) combat energy price volatility and lack of transparency in the price formation process;
Amendment 1037 #
2023/0077(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2019/943
Article 3
Article 3
‘Article 3 Principles regarding the operation of electricity markets Member States, regulatory authorities, transmission system operators, distribution system operators, market operators and delegated operators shall ensure that electricity markets are operated in accordance with the following principles: (a) pricefuel prices and margins shall be formed on the basis of demand and supply; (b) price formation and shall avoid actions which prevent price formation on the basis of demand and supply; (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32019R0943#d1e3213-the actual cost of production, with application of the requisite market intervention and regulation measures, in particular the setting of energy and fuel price caps;’ market rules shall encourage free Or. pt 54-1)
Amendment 100 #
2023/0076(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) Whereas it is necessary to put an end to energy policies based on liberalisation of the sector, re-establishing public ownership and strategic state control over the key energy undertakings that have been privatised and restoring high-quality public energy services and national, democratic planning of the development of the energy system on the basis of solidarity and international cooperation;
Amendment 103 #
2023/0076(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 b (new)
Recital 1 b (new)
(1b) Whereas there is an urgent need to protect consumers in the face of rising energy prices and to combat volatility and lack of transparency in the price formation process;
Amendment 104 #
2023/0076(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 c (new)
Recital 1 c (new)
(1c) Whereas the scale of the energy and socio-economic crisis, of which there were already clear signs in the post- pandemic period, demonstrates the urgent need for interventions and measures such as price containment through regulation based inter alia on public and common interest criteria;
Amendment 106 #
2023/0076(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 d (new)
Recital 1 d (new)
(1d) Whereas energy price increases have escalated on the wholesale electricity market since 2021, with extremely adverse social and economic consequences;
Amendment 107 #
2023/0076(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 e (new)
Recital 1 e (new)
(1e) Whereas much of the problem of rising energy prices stems from the liberalised market and its speculative nature;
Amendment 108 #
2023/0076(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 f (new)
Recital 1 f (new)
(1f) Whereas there is a need to fundamentally change the marginal pricing system in the day-ahead market, which determines that the most expensive technology – usually gas – sets the price for other forms of energy production; Whereas that pricing system not only fails to guarantee that the impact of fossil fuel prices on electricity bills is reduced, but also aims to safeguard the interests of the large economic groups operating in the sector, in particular by extending the duration of established contracts;
Amendment 152 #
2023/0076(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a
REGULATION (EU) No 1227/2011 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 25 October
Article 1
Article 1
2. This Regulation applies to trading in wholesale energy producte in wholesale energy products and should serve to combat the volatility of energy prices and the lack of transparency in the price formation process and to protect consumers in the face of rising energy prices, in particular by setting maximum energy and fuel prices, putting an end to the marginal pricing rule and establishing the value of the real cost of production as the starting point for calculating prices and margins for liquid fuels. This Regulation is without prejudice to the application of Directive (EU) 2014/65, Regulation (EU) 600/2014 and Regulation (EU) 648/2012 as regards activities involving financial instruments as defined under Article 4(1)(15) of Directive (EU) 2014/65 as well as to the application of European competition law to the practices covered by this Regulation.;
Amendment 3 #
2023/0000(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for a strong and concrete budgetary response by the Union in 2024 to the social and economic difficulties faced by Europeans as a consequence of inflation and the cost of living crisis, in the context of the war in Ukraine and post- pandemic challenges; is concerned in particular that high energy and food, food and housing prices, and continued pressure on essential services and supplied chains are exacerbating social and economic inequalities, eroding the middle class, and worsening the living and working conditions and mental health of many workers and their families;
Amendment 12 #
2023/0000(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the budget should support policies and measures to facilitate the labour market transition, create quality, stable employment with rights, further develop resilient social systems, reduce poverty and increase upward social convergence across the Union so that no one is left behind; notes in particular that investment in lifelong learning, reskilling and upskilling is essential to address the green and digital transition; welcomes in this context the 2023 Porto Social Forum conclusions highlighting – in the framework of the European Year of Skills – how robust policies on skills, education and training can create better employment, swifter integration in the labour market and foster social inclusion, and consequently boost the resilience and competitiveness of the EU´s economy and society; calls for financial support to the creation of local strategies for skills and skills development hubs in cooperation with employment agencies of cities; insists on the importance of investing in social inclusion and measures for children and young people; recalls that the integration into the labour market of the most vulnerable groups, such as people in poverty, people with disabilities, young and elderly people, the unemployed, and people displaced as a result of the war in Ukraine, is paramount;
Amendment 16 #
2023/0000(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the Commission proposal to allocate EUR 16,814 3 billion in commitments in 2024 to ESF+Considers that the steep increase in the cost of living and its brutal impacts on workers and their families, the increase of inequalities and social injustices, the significant increase of poverty and social deprivation, require a strong reinforcement of the value of ESF+ that doubles the commitments and payments proposed by the Commission in order to contribute to address these problems; recalls that ESF+ is the main instrument for investing in people and building social protection and that it must play a key role in supporting Member States to achieve high employment levels, adequate social protection and a skilled and resilient workforce ready for the transition to a green and digital economy;
Amendment 34 #
2023/0000(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recalls that the JTF should provides support for territories and people facing socio-economic and employment challenges deriving from the transition process towards a climate neutral economy of the Union by 2050; highlights the existence of cases where workers have waited two years, and counting, for support after losing their job in the context of the “just transition”, without compensation or professional requalification, while having been promised that no one would be left behind; takes note of the Commission appropriations in 2024 of EUR 1,486 billion; highlights its importance for addressing the social aspects of the transition, in particular support to jobseekers;
Amendment 40 #
2023/0000(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Recalls the target in the Porto Declaration of 7 May 2021 to reduce the number of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion by at least 15 million by 2030; considers the need to make this objective more ambitious toward the actual eradication of poverty and social deprivation; takes note that, in 2024, EUR 4.8 billion of the ESF+ budget under shared management would need to be spent on food aid and basic material assistance for the most deprived persons, exceeding the actual objective of 4% and highlighting the worrying increase in the number of deprived persons;
Amendment 57 #
2022/2182(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights that young farmers and new entrants are more likely to introduce innovative business ideas and implement sustainable farming practicesaware of the issues of climate change and sustainability of farming practices, and respect biodiversity and the environment, which therefore guarantees healthy, high-quality food that is accessible to all;
Amendment 170 #
2022/2182(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls for the CAP to allow Member States to intervene in various ways in the supply chain, such as by setting maximum intermediation margins for each actor in the supply chain, in order to promote the fair and appropriate distribution of added value across the food supply chain whenever a serious imbalance is found, and with a view to improving prices for producers;
Amendment 173 #
2022/2182(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Stresses the need for Member States to be able to adopt the principle of national preference, by establishing and using a system of compulsory quotas for marketing national production, with imports supplementing national production, in those cases where a Member State is faced with a persistently high deficit in the agri-food balance;
Amendment 320 #
2022/2182(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Stresses the need to ensure a minimum income for farmers affected by extreme weather events, other natural or man-made disasters, including forest fires, diseases and pests, and calls for the introduction of a public form of agricultural insurance, funded from the EU budget, which provides a minimum level of protection for all farmers in all Member States, as a key way of attracting young farmers;
Amendment 336 #
2022/2182(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31a. Stresses that small and medium- sized farms and family-based agriculture are the only way of achieving a sustainable and high-quality production model capable of ensuring social and territorial cohesion, and that the Member States should establish non- discriminatory criteria for the distribution of redistributive support and should set a cap on economic size above which farms will not be entitled to redistributive payments;
Amendment 15 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas social inequalities are at the heart of the challenges facing the outermost regions (ORs) of the EU; whereas the ORs collectively face structural factors, such as remoteness, insularity, small size, low population density and seasonal fluctuation in population, dependence on a small number of production units and a lack of economic diversification, and are disproportionately affected by high poverty, unemployment andor school dropout rates and these issues are exacerbated by the particularities that are common to these regionose structural factors;
Amendment 16 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that the programme of options specifically relating to remoteness and insularity (POSEI) should be strengthened; calls, in this regard, for an increase in the budget of POSEI from 2027;
Amendment 17 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the structural inequalities facing the ORs are tackled by policies that positively discriminate these regions, ensuring investment that increases the quantity and quality of public services and ensuring universal access, that galvanises production and local and regional markets, technology infrastructure, innovation and sustainability, and that improves connectivity between islands and with the mainland;
Amendment 21 #
2022/2147(INI)
1a. Calls for Community measures to support the outermost regions (ORs) to be permanent, given the permanent constraints they face;
Amendment 23 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Amendment 26 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Considers that, in line with Article 299(2) of the EC Treaty, as regards access to the Structural Funds for the outermost regions, the Community co- financing rates for these regions should be increased and that the funds earmarked for these regions should not be conditional on their GDP relative to the Community average;
Amendment 27 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Calls for the POSEI programmes to be used to recognise and promote regional crops and products as part of the historical and cultural heritage and identity of these regions;
Amendment 28 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Considers that family farming plays an irreplaceable role in maintaining and protecting the countryside and in crop diversification and is of particular importance in increasing traditional agri- food production, supplying fresh food to the local and regional market, diversifying agriculture, protecting biodiversity and the environment, reducing the use of plant protection products, increasing self-consumption and reducing external food dependency; recognises that the outermost regions face social and economic development constraints due to their remoteness, insularity, small markets, geographical dispersion and small size;
Amendment 29 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1f. Considers that the outermost regions should continue to design, implement and manage their own rural development measures;
Amendment 35 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Urges the Commission to increase the financial allocations for POSEI in particular in exceptional circumstances, such as those faced by the agricultural sector in the Azores, Madeira and La Palma;
Amendment 42 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls for urgent measures to be adopted to help tackle the persistent nature of unemployment, poverty and inequalities in these regions;
Amendment 42 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Criticises the reduced budget dedicated to the ORs for the 2021-2027 period, which will have a negative impact on the necessary deployment of public funds to counter the structural inequality endured by these regions; calls on the Commission to reinforce the Structural and Investment Funds and other sources of EU funding aimed at the ORs, as well as to create new instruments – such as a POSEI Transport and a POSEI Fisheries – and encourage public policies that promote employment and inclusive social responses, focusing on the development of these regions and the reduction of inequalities;
Amendment 43 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Considers it extremely important for the economic and social cohesion of the outermost regions to guarantee public services, including in the areas of air and maritime transport, energy and communications;
Amendment 44 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Considers it of utmost importance for the development of these regions to ensure that people have access to the means of information and communication offered by new technologies, in particular broadband;
Amendment 48 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the EU biodiversity strategy’s targets should not hinderhelp the sustainable development of the agricultural sectors in the outermost regions (ORs), safeguarding their biodiversity, which is the guarantor of the high-quality products produced only in these regions and which have unique properties that distinguish them from similar products from other regions of the world;
Amendment 56 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 72 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to establish a separate chapter dedicated to the ORs in its impact assessments of the farm to fork and biodiversity strategiesproposals for the farm to fork and biodiversity strategies, taking into account their specific characteristics, the necessary strategy based on policies and measures that are not subject to transitional criteria or cyclical changes in wealth, which are adapted to the different needs of each of these regions and which contribute to addressing the permanent constraints they face;
Amendment 75 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to support youth employment in the ORs, including 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 people who are seeking their first job or looking to establish or take over businesses;
Amendment 88 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need to ensure the empowerment of women in the ORs by promoting access to stable, high-quality jobthe creation of decent jobs, the fight against precariousness, increased salaries, the availability of free nurseries and other support for motherhood and parenthood, and care for elderly people and people with special needs;
Amendment 90 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls for the restoration of POSEI Fisheries and the creation of POSEI Transport, providing the Community funding necessary to strengthen the production, processing and marketing structures of these regions so as to offset the disadvantages of remoteness;
Amendment 94 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Considers of great importance the creation of a POSEI transport scheme for regions such as the Azores archipelago, which, owing to its physical make-up, suffers from a so-called double insularity – its remoteness from the mainland and the distance between the islands – both of which significantly increase the transport costs for people and goods in transit between the islands and between the islands and the mainland, with the obvious effect of increasing the cost of production inputs;
Amendment 99 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
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; stresses the need to boost local markets – such as an inter-island market in the Macaronesia region – the production of local products, the sustainability of economic activities (including tourism) and the capacity to attract economic innovation (in renewable energies, for example), including through public universities;
Amendment 103 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that the development of specific economic sectors, such as the fisheries sector, will be made easier by the ORs having control over the entirety of their Exclusive Economic Zones, enabling the creation of decent employment;
Amendment 104 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for the Commission to exercise the utmost vigilance inreverse the liberalisation of the EU market and the proliferation of trade agreements between the EU and partner countries;
Amendment 104 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to improve access toensure that the European Social Fund Plus in the ORs byhas real impact in the ORs, particularly by increasing its co-financing to at least 90 % (going up to 100 % in certain circumstances), as well as by improving access, setting up mass information campaigns aimed at institutional and associative partners, provid and creating a support service for project leaders and financing training for managing authorities. and by simplifying project management procedures;
Amendment 107 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls for the mechanisms for supporting agricultural production in these regions to be reviewed so that support for agriculture has a positive impact on farmers’ incomes and on the lowering of consumer prices;
Amendment 109 #
2022/2147(INI)
7b. Notes that milk and related upstream and downstream products constitute one of the fundamental pillars of the economy of the Autonomous Region of the Azores; recognises that their socio-economic importance and the number of direct and indirect jobs and services they provide are indispensable for ensuring economic and social cohesion;
Amendment 110 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Considers that producers in the ORs in recent years, like tens of thousands of milk producers across the EU, have been forced to abandon production because of the ruinous prices paid to producers, which do not compensate for production costs; takes the view that the situation affecting milk production is inseparable from its liberalisation and the end of production quotas, and that it can only be resolved by means of mechanisms to regulate the markets;
Amendment 110 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that the ORs are particularly susceptible to economic crises, such as the crisis resulting from the current surge in inflation; calls on the Commission to promote instruments that offset the effects of crises on the ORs’ populations, including by controlling the prices of food and energy products, thereby combating the emergence of new pockets of poverty and exclusion;
Amendment 113 #
2022/2147(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Stresses that the ORs are particularly susceptible to the effects of extreme weather events resulting from climate change, and this particularly affects the local population and production; calls on the Commission to ensure faster response mechanisms, including through the Solidarity Fund;
Amendment 9 #
2022/2140(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 a (new)
Citation 13 a (new)
— having regard to the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030,
Amendment 10 #
2022/2140(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 a (new)
Citation 14 a (new)
— having regard to the ILO's 2013 study and Working Paper No 298 'Promoting the employment of women in the transport sector - Obstacles and policy options',
Amendment 12 #
2022/2140(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)
Citation 15 a (new)
— having regard to the Council of Europe's Gender Equality Strategy 2018- 2023,
Amendment 125 #
2022/2140(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)
Recital N a (new)
Na. whereas, in many sectors and countries in the world, transport continues to be seen as a sector in which women's work is limited to lower-paid jobs and as a sector that offers few or no opportunities for career progression;
Amendment 126 #
2022/2140(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital N b (new)
Recital N b (new)
Nb. whereas the ILO believes that violence, discrimination, psychological, sexual and workplace harassment, bullying and a lack of basic facilities affecting transport workers are leading factors that make jobs in the sector less attractive for women and make it difficult to retain people working in the sector;
Amendment 127 #
2022/2140(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital N c (new)
Recital N c (new)
Nc. whereas the various transport sectors find it difficult to recruit and, for some sectors, the situation has become critical due to challenging working conditions and, in many cases, a lack of fair remuneration;
Amendment 130 #
2022/2140(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital O a (new)
Recital O a (new)
Oa. whereas women are in the minority among train drivers, particularly for freight trains; whereas that situation is due to particularly challenging working conditions, especially for women; whereas the lack of toilets or poor condition thereof on freight and passenger trains is a major obstacle to increasing the number of women working in the sector; whereas, to address this problem, some companies (like the SNCF in France) recommend 'solutions' that undermine human dignity, such as distributing period underwear rather than installing toilets or having breaks in journeys;
Amendment 133 #
2022/2140(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital O b (new)
Recital O b (new)
Ob. whereas, according to the International Road Transport Union (IRU), only 2 % of drivers in Europe in 2019 were women, while the shortage of drivers is getting worse and is stopping up to 40 % of requests from being fulfilled; whereas poor working conditions are the main reason for that situation; whereas, according to an IRU study, 87 % of drivers aged over 55 and 73 % of drivers aged under 24 believe that being required to spend long periods away from home is critical to explaining the low number of job applications; whereas the mobility package, by aiming to enable drivers to go home only every four weeks, does not come close to rising to the challenge of improving working conditions so as to have more women in the sector;
Amendment 135 #
2022/2140(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital O c (new)
Recital O c (new)
Oc. whereas, although progress has been made in recent years, women are still under-represented in the aeronautics professions, particularly in positions of responsibility; whereas, according to a 2021 study, less than 6 % of pilots in the world's major airlines are women; whereas, in a 2018 survey carried out by Women in Aviation International, 71 % of the women surveyed said they had been victims of harassment at work;
Amendment 137 #
2022/2140(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital O d (new)
Recital O d (new)
Od. whereas women currently make up only 1.2 % of the worldwide seafarer workforce, according to the BIMCO/ICS Seafarer Workforce Report 2021; whereas women's standing in the maritime community has improved in recent years, but has done so too slowly, and men are still predominant in traditional sectors such as transport, the construction industry or fisheries;
Amendment 186 #
2022/2140(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Underlines the differing expectations, travel patterns, needs and experiences of women as transport users; calls for relevant legislation in transport to fully integrate women’s needs, including women with disabilities;
Amendment 192 #
2022/2140(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Recognises that a high-quality public transport network that tends to be free contributes to empowering women;
Amendment 273 #
2022/2140(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Condemns the sexist, discriminatory or degrading practices followed by certain transport companies; points out that working conditions, fair remuneration, a safe environment, training and work-life balance play a fundamental role in involving more women in the transport sector;
Amendment 276 #
2022/2140(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Recognises that only by improving working conditions in the different branches of the transport sector will it be possible to hire and retain more women in the labour market; takes the view that having more women in the sector is at once a societal challenge to achieve true labour equality and the only way to remedy the lack of professionals in the sector;
Amendment 280 #
2022/2140(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)
Paragraph 15 c (new)
15c. Points out that workplace violence in the different branches of the transport sector is an essential aspect of understanding the lack of women in the sector; emphasises that such violence could be the result of a company's sexist or even misogynistic practices or connected to external factors: attacks by passengers (in the case of public transport) and/or organised gangs in freight transport; calls for the issue of combating workplace violence to be made a priority for the EU and its Member States and for an in-depth study to be carried out in this regard in partnership with the ILO and the Council of Europe;
Amendment 42 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas prostitution is a form of slavery incompatible with human dignity and with fundamental human rights, as it is inextricably tied to inequalities between women and men and has an impact on their status in society and the perception of their mutual relations and their sexuality; whereas prostitution is undoubtedly a heart-rending expression of violence against women;
Amendment 55 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas prostitution reduces all intimate acts to their monetary value and diminishes the human being to the level of a form of goods or an object to be used by the client,
Amendment 71 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas women in prostitution face more violence and exploitation than women on average; whereas the majority of women would like to give up prostitution and whereas effort should be made to promote the adoption of exit programmes;
Amendment 86 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas sexual and reproductive health is fostered through healthy approaches to sexuality conducted with mutual respect;
Amendment 93 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas organised crime and corruption, human trafficking, very violent crimes and corruption grow around prostitution and whereas, where prostitution has been legalised/regulated, those who benefit most are the pimps who become 'businessmen' or 'entrepreneurs';
Amendment 105 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas numerous factors cause people to enter prostitution, including poverty, social exclusion and a migration background; whereas prostitution is inextricably linked to the denial of basic rights, to economic domination that condemns many countries to underdevelopment and widens the gap between rich and poor countries and, in both, compounds social injustices and inequalities, poverty and social exclusion, which each play a part in aggravating women's situation and status; whereas it is the poorest women and children who fall prey to sexual slavery and also to the grooming and entrapment webs in pimping networks;
Amendment 111 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Amendment 116 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
Gb. whereas the right to work is an essential precondition if women are to enjoy effective equal rights, economic independence and professional fulfilment, and therefore insists that precarious employment should be eradicated through mandatory application of the principle that for every actual job there should be a permanent post, and by recognising and enhancing the right to work with rights;
Amendment 118 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G c (new)
Recital G c (new)
Amendment 119 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G d (new)
Recital G d (new)
Gd. whereas in times of economic, social or health crises, many women in vulnerable situations are driven into poverty, social exclusion and prostitution as a result of the paucity of social responses;
Amendment 170 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Regrets the lack of reliable, accurate and comparable data across countries; urges the Member States and the EIGE to collect comparable data, disaggregated by sex, age, socio-economic class and nationality;
Amendment 182 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the findings of this study with regard to the experiences of women in prostitution with abuse in childhood and adolescence; notes that it can lead to women and girls normalising abuse in prostitution;
Amendment 214 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Amendment 221 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Notes that prostitution is not an individual act of a person renting his or her body for money, rather it is a system organised for profit, a system that is intrinsically violent, discriminatory and deeply inhuman and that operates as a business and creates a market, where pimps plan and act to secure and increase their markets and where buyers of sex play a key role in boosting them;
Amendment 230 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Demands practical policies that eliminate poverty and improve social protection, tackle school failure, promote education, including sex education, and equal opportunities and treatment, the establishment of inclusive policies that help to change the lives of women, young people and men, along with measures that condemn those who exploit this sordid, shameful and inhumane business.
Amendment 268 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Amendment 278 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Stresses that tackling human trafficking and tackling poverty and social exclusion are inextricably linked, the key aspects of which are: economic development, enhanced status of work and workers, higher wages and pensions, fairer distribution of wealth, and the development of a robust public social security system, a public, universal and free-of-charge national health system, and public schools that ensure all enjoy equal rights and opportunities;
Amendment 284 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Rejects the attempt to glamorise prostitution using terms such as 'sex workers' or 'sex work' that disguise the inherent violence and exploitation involved; emphasises the fact that prostitution is neither a job nor a career opportunity;
Amendment 310 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Stresses the different effects of different regulatory measures on men, young people and society as a whole; points out that the human rights of women and girls are systematically breached in the sex industry, including prostitution, particularly their right to dignity; points out that those rights are inalienable;
Amendment 315 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Emphasises that exploitation in prostitution must be fully acknowledged as a breach of fundamental rights, because it is an extreme form of violence and oppression against prostituted women that represents an attack on the dignity and rights of all women;
Amendment 321 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Stresses that neoliberal policies make women more vulnerable, both collectively and individually, leading to greater exploitation and to poverty and marginalisation, a situation which is also fuelling the trafficking of women and prostitution;
Amendment 323 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Notes that the current economic situation contributes to harassment, violence of all kinds, and prostitution, with women as the victims, in breach of human rights; stresses the need to increase public, financial and human resources in order to support groups at risk of poverty and tackle situations posing a risk to children and young people, the elderly, people with disabilities and the homeless;
Amendment 326 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 c (new)
Paragraph 19 c (new)
19c. Recognises the role and work of social organisations that support prostituted women and defend women's rights; calls on the Member States to support and cooperate with those organisations;
Amendment 331 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Member States to take action in the areas of prevention, decriminalisation of people in prostitution, exit programmes, demand reduction, punishment of clients, destigmatisation and the elimination of stereotypes; calls on the Member States to reduce demand while protecting women and their rights, to end the criminalisation and stigmatisation of people in prostitution and to ensure exit strategies and unconditional access to social security systems and reintegration; notes that prostituted women should not be criminalised, persecuted or stigmatised; emphasises that the way forward is to adopt support measures that help women leave prostitution and build a life with decent conditions;
Amendment 349 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Member States to ensure that it is punishable as a criminal offence to solicit, accept or obtain a sexual act from a person in exchange for remuneration, the promise of remuneration, the provision of a benefit in kind or the promise of such a benefit;
Amendment 352 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Amendment 356 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls on the Member States to tackle all kinds of insecure working conditions, in accordance with the principle that permanent employment contracts should be provided for permanent jobs, in order to improve social protection during unemployment and tackle growing poverty, particularly among women;
Amendment 357 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Amendment 358 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls for specific measures to assist women in prostitution with their social and professional reintegration; calls for such exit programmes to work gradually, for women to be supported on their personal paths and for people’s potential to be recognised, with and professional training and further education programmes being adapted to take account of this; notes that the majority of women would like to give up prostitution and that, therefore, effort should be made to promote the adoption of exit programmes so that women who wish to do so have the confidence and state support to build a life free from violence;
Amendment 363 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Urges the Member States to provide public social services for victims of trafficking or sexual exploitation, offering psychological and social support and staffed by specialised professionals, and to implement social policies aimed at helping vulnerable women and girls to leave prostitution, specifically by guaranteeing them jobs which will effectively result in their social inclusion;
Amendment 367 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Calls on the Member States to design and implement policies to deal with trafficking, sexual exploitation and prostitution, and to ensure that all relevant parties, such as NGOs, the police and other law enforcement agencies, and social and medical services, are supported, involved in decision-making processes and work in cooperation;
Amendment 372 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls for comprehensive psychological, medical and socio- economic support for victims and survivors; insists on prostituted persons having prompt access to a range of support for their social and professional reintegration, specifically by providing them with easy access to social protection mechanisms (minimum basic income, support for housing and healthcare, further schooling and access to vocational training) and guaranteeing their children access to social provisions;
Amendment 68 #
2022/2008(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. considers that an industrial policy should aim to overcome structural weaknesses in the industrial sector and modernise it in an integrated manner in each country, with the implementation of mutually beneficial development policies, which enhance and promote national production capacities, create favourable labour market conditions, safeguard the rights of workers, the right to work and to fair remuneration, and ensure better living and working conditions for all citizens;
Amendment 28 #
2022/0344(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) Water is a public good of all and for all which, as a natural resource that is essential, irreplaceable and indispensable to life, must be considered and integrated in its three dimensions: social, economic and environmental.
Amendment 31 #
2022/0344(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1 b (new)
Recital 1 b (new)
(1b) The commodification of water, for example its negotiation as a resource in contracts on the New York Stock Exchange that set a weekly reference number governing the price of the right to water, is yet another threat in a long series of attempts to commodify nature, thus making public and essential goods the object of speculation; this constitutes the denial of the exercise of the universal right to its enjoyment.
Amendment 33 #
2022/0344(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1 c (new)
Recital 1 c (new)
(1c) The transfer of responsibility to private companies facilitated by EU legislation leads to an increase in direct supply costs, the imposition of higher tariffs and limitations on local supply solutions tailored to the community;
Amendment 36 #
2022/0344(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1 d (new)
Recital 1 d (new)
(1d) The European Parliament resolutions of 5 October 2022 on access to water as a human right – the external dimension and of 8 September 2015 on the follow-up to the European Citizens’ Initiative ‘Right2Water’ state that water should be treated as a common good and that it should therefore be managed by public bodies to ensure that the preservation of ecosystems and universal access to clean water take precedence over economic considerations.
Amendment 40 #
2022/0344(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) The growing scarcity of water resources is a reality being experienced by ever more people in the Member States as a result of climate change caused by political and economic choices; there is an urgent need for a policy that prioritises water use in drought conditions that itself affords priority to the use of water for human consumption, public health, small and medium-sized agriculture adapted to the specific conditions of the Member States, small and medium-sized industry, and also the needs of ecosystems. People must have fair, universal access to clean water, such access is, therefore, not compatible with certain unsustainable industrial and agricultural practices, in particular intensive cultivation practices, among others.
Amendment 43 #
2022/0344(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3 b (new)
Recital 3 b (new)
(3b) Stresses that the objectives of achieving ‘good status for water bodies’ and ensuring the availability of water cut across many sectors and that these objectives are often not pursued with sufficient coherence in other EU policies; stresses that sound water management must be mainstreamed into all EU policies on sectors that consume water, such as agriculture and energy. Underscores that common policies, sector-specific EU legislation and investments that have received financing should be assessed on a case-by-case basis to ascertain their potential impact on water resources and then amended accordingly.
Amendment 45 #
2022/0344(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) Since groundwater ecosystems are more vulnerable to stress than many other freshwater ecosystems and given the difficulty associated with decontaminating polluted groundwater and the importance of groundwater as a source of drinking water, a safety-first approach should be applied when establishing groundwater threshold values in order to protect groundwater ecosystems, human health and ecosystems dependent on groundwater. As a minimum, under such a safety-first policy, no groundwater threshold values should therefore exceed the corresponding surface water EQS.
Amendment 47 #
2022/0344(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7 a (new)
Recital 7 a (new)
(7a) The proper transposition of this Directive is greatly dependent upon the preventive measures taken by the Member States. Member States are duty-bound not only to measure, to the best of their ability, the chemical status of ground and surface waters, but also to take all reasonable measures to prevent water pollution.
Amendment 49 #
2022/0344(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Directive 2000/60/EC requires Member States to identify water bodies used for the abstraction of water intended for human consumption, to monitor them, and to take the necessary measures to avoid deterioration in their quality and to reduce the level of purification treatment required in the production of water that is fit for human consumption. In this context, micro-plastics have been identified as a potential risk to human health, but more monitoring data are required to confirm the need for setting an environmental quality standard for micro-plastics in surface and groundwaters. Micro-plastics should therefore be included in the surface and groundwater watch lists and should be monitored as soon as the Commission has identified suitable monitoring methods. In this context , account should be taken of the methodologies for monitoring and assessing the risks from micro-plastics in drinking water, developed under Directive (EU) 2020/2184 of the European Parliament and of the Council57. Once pollution has occurred, the cost of removing the hazardous substances should fall chiefly on the polluter. __________________ 57 Directive (EU) 2020/2184 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2020 on the quality of water intended for human consumption (recast) (OJ L 435, 23.12.2020, p. 1).
Amendment 55 #
2022/0344(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10 a (new)
Recital 10 a (new)
(10a) The pollution of groundwater and surface water is not only detrimental to biodiversity and costly for water treatment systems, it also places a major burden on public health systems. Addressing this issue by setting lower maximum concentration values for substances and tackling pollution at its source would, at the same time, be an effective way of contributing towards the sound management of public finances.
Amendment 61 #
2022/0344(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13 a (new)
Recital 13 a (new)
(13a) More than half of the EU’s water bodies in the European Union do not comply with threshold values for water quality, and data is scarce, which is a symptom of difficulties on the part of the Member States’ inspection and monitoring services in achieving the objectives set by the Directive. It is therefore necessary to provide the Member States’ inspection and monitoring services with sufficient financial and human resources to achieve the objectives laid down in the Directive.
Amendment 65 #
2022/0344(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 17 a (new)
Recital 17 a (new)
(17a) Compliance with the EU’s carbon- neutrality targets should not come at the expense of unquantified ecological impacts on our ecosystems and biodiversity. The lists of priority environmental substances and the watch list should be regularly updated in line with scientific and technological findings on economic sectors that are expected to grow, thus posing a high risk of water pollution, with a view to effecting an energy transition.
Amendment 77 #
2022/0344(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point c
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point c
Directive 2000/60/EC
Article 2 – point 30 a
Article 2 – point 30 a
(30a) ‘Priority hazardous substances’ means priority substances which are marked as ‘hazardous’ on the basis that they are recognised in scientific reports, in relevant Union legislation, or in relevant international agreements, as being toxic, persistent and liable to bio-accumulate, endocrine disruptors, or substances identified as persistent, mobile and toxic (PMT)/very persistent and very mobile (vPvM) or as giving rise to an equivalent level of concern, where this concern is relevant to the aquatic environment. and which requires action in accordance with [ref. measures to phase out PHS within 20 years of listing].
Amendment 92 #
2022/0344(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2
2006/118/EC
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(ba) criteria for the assessment of the good ecological status of groundwater;
Amendment 100 #
2022/0344(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Directive 2006/118/EC
Article 6 a (new) – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4
Article 6 a (new) – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4
ECHA shall prepare scientific reports to assist the Commission in selecting the substances and indicators for the watch list, taking into account the following information:
Amendment 101 #
2022/0344(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
(e) information on production volumes, use patterns, intrinsic properties (including mobility in soils and, where relevant, particle size), concentrations in the environment and adverse effects to human health and the aquatic environment of a particular substance or group of substances, including information gathered in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council***, Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council****, Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council*****, Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of the European Parliament and of the Council******, Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council******* and Directive 2009/128/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council********;, including guidance collected at the time the request was made, such as the European Medicines Agency’s Guideline on assessing the environmental and human health risks of veterinary medicinal products in groundwater (EMA/CVMP/ERA/103555/2015, 30 April 2018).
Amendment 116 #
2022/0344(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 11 a
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 11 a
Directive 2006/118/EC
Annex I – paragraph 1 a (new)
Annex I – paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 118 #
2022/0344(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point a
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point a
Directive 2008/105/EC
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 119 #
2022/0344(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point c
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point c
Directive 2008/105/EC
Article 5 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 3
Article 5 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 3
Amendment 2 #
2022/0212(BUD)
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas gender equality is a core value of the Union enshrined in Article 2 TEU; whereas Article 8 TFEU states that in all its activities the Union shall aim to eliminate inequalities, establishing the principle of gender mainstreaming; whereas the EU-promoted policies of attacking social and labour rights contradict that rhetoric and have, in fact, played a part in the deepening of socio- economic inequalities, particularly affecting women;
Amendment 4 #
2022/0212(BUD)
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas in a number of Member States with low birth rates, women and couples would like to have children but are in practice prevented from doing so, not by choice but as a consequence of the constant deterioration in their living and working conditions, a direct result of austerity policies that have created unemployment, precarious employment relationships, disregard for and violation of maternity and paternity rights in the workplace, destroying public services and making access to childcare facilities more difficult;
Amendment 7 #
2022/0212(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the social consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic, and more generally the uncertain economic outlook require a strong response for people, families, workers and businesses; highlights in that regard the crucial role of Union funds and financial instruments, including the Next Generation EU with the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), which complement the action by the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) as the key driver for strengthening the social dimension of the Union and ensuring a socially sustainable, just, inclusive and non-discriminatory recovery in line with the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights, as well as the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers (EGF) and the Just Transition Fund (JTF); welcomes the triggering of the Temporary Protection Directive with regard to persons fleeing the war in Ukraine and seeking refuge oin the territory of the UnionMember States, and calls for continuing funding for its implementation; calls for protection and support of that kind to be guaranteed to all migrants and refugees arriving in the Member States, regardless of their origin and/or nationality;
Amendment 7 #
2022/0212(BUD)
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas it is vital to ensure that women have the right to jobs with rights and the right to motherhood without being penalised for it, as women continue to be the worst affected and suffer the most discrimination; whereas examples of this discrimination include pressure from employers on women at job interviews at which they are asked whether they have children and how old they are, with the aim of influencing women’s decisions over whether to get pregnant and opting for childless workers who are ‘more available’, along with growing economic and work-related pressures on female employees not to take maternity leave;
Amendment 12 #
2022/0212(BUD)
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas expenditure arising from actions with military or defence implications should not be charged to the Union budget; whereas any EU involvement or financing from the EU budget for military, civil-military or military security research should be rejected; whereas, with a view to tackling the root causes of migration, such as poverty and violent conflicts, funds should be reallocated for strictly civilian use;
Amendment 17 #
2022/0212(BUD)
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. Stresses that, even taking into account the balance of personal, family and professional life, the Union budget should include an increase in investment in public services for the provision of high-quality care, namely public networks of nurseries, crèches and public services for free-time activities for children, a public health care network, as well as the defence of public, accessible and high- quality health systems and a public social security system, ensuring its universality;
Amendment 21 #
2022/0212(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls for the EU budget to be ramped up in an effort to tackle the socio- economic plight that the Member States are facing, which has recently been compounded, among other matters, by the war and sanctions and by speculative increases in commodity and energy prices; calls, further, for its redistributive function to be stepped up, providing support for efforts to achieve real convergence in economic and social progress between Member States; takes the view that this budget hike should be achieved by drastically scaling up national contributions from gross national income (GNI), and that those increased contributions should not add to Member States’ indebtedness;
Amendment 23 #
2022/0212(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls strongly for projects and investment supported by EU funds, along with social projects, investment and expenditure, to be excluded from the deficit and debt criteria;
Amendment 26 #
2022/0212(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the importance of policies and measures to support labour market transition, as well as to further develop resilient social systems around the Union; insists on the need for up- and reskilling policies to address the demographic challenge and the green and digital transition; insists on the importance of investing in social inclusion and support measures for children and young people; recalls that the integration into the labour market of the most vulnerable groups, such as people in poverty, people with disabilities, young and elderly people, the unemployed, migrants, refugees and people displaced as a result of the war in Ukraineconflicts taking place around the world, is paramount;
Amendment 34 #
2022/0212(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. WelcomDeplores the Commission proposal to allocate EUR 16,7129 billion in 2023 to ESF+; insists that ESF+ must play a key role in support +, an amount which is clearly not enough to compensate for the continuing social impact of the pandemic, to which the impact of the war and sanctions have now been added; insists that ESF+ must be stepped up considerably so that it can help Member States to cope with the current situation and also solve structural problems; calls for special emphasis to be placed on the ESF +, with a view to helping Member States to achieve highfull employment levels, adequate social protection and a skilled and resilient workforce ready for the transition to a green and digital economy; decent working conditions and fair wages, to eradicate poverty and social exclusion, to provide adequate and robust social protection, quality and universal public services (including crèches and old-age and long- term care and education for people with disabilities) and decent housing for all, and to support the right to lifelong learning;
Amendment 36 #
2022/0212(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that the current economic situation contributes to harassment, violence of all kinds, and prostitution, with women as the victims, in breach of human rights; stresses the need to increase public, financial and human resources in order to support groups at risk of poverty and to tackle situations posing a risk to children and young people, the elderly, people with disabilities and the homeless;
Amendment 40 #
2022/0212(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Recommends, in particular, increasing funding to promote the protection of maternity, paternity and early childhood through the appropriate programmes; calls, to that end, for maternal and child health to be given special importance in the EU's 2023 budget; further recommends that funds be guaranteed for the defence, promotion and support of breastfeeding, thereby contributing to efforts to achieve the World Health Organization's target of having 50% of babies worldwide exclusively breastfed for the first six months of their lives by 2025, which would require, among other measures, ensuring maternity and paternity leave is long enough and sufficiently well remunerated;
Amendment 41 #
2022/0212(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls the obligation by Member States with rate of young people who are not in employment, education or training that is higher than the Union average to allocate at least 12,5 % of their ESF+ resources to implement the Youth Guarantee; calls on Member States to make the best use of the Employment and Social Innovation strand (EaSI) of ESF+ for investment in social innovation and for stimulating labour mobility; takes note ofdeplores the late start of EaSI in 2021 and the reduced budget for 2023 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and other issues, and expects that it will reach its full working regime in 2024; stresses the importance of following upmaking the European Year of Youth 2022 a year with concrete actions and policies for social inclusion and employment measures for young peopleto tackle precariousness, low wages, unregulated hours, youth unemployment and the violation of the right to decent housing; recalls that the Commission should report on a regular basis on the implementation of the Council recommendations establishing a European Child Guarantee and reinforcing a Youth Guarantee;
Amendment 42 #
2022/0212(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls strongly for the establishment of precarity-based job offers to be rejected; calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote collective agreements, wage appreciation, the promotion of open- ended contracts and the regulation of working hours; urges the European Parliament and the other EU institutions to tackle precarity by promoting collective agreements and work with rights and rejecting subcontracting, ensuring equal pay for equal work.
Amendment 47 #
2022/0212(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses the need for the EU budget to play a more active role in efforts to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals; calls, therefore, for the budget to be used to support measures and projects intended to eradicate female and child poverty, increase and improve integration into the labour market, eliminate wage and labour inequalities between men and women, improve access to and the provision of health care, and combat violence against women, children and young people;
Amendment 53 #
2022/0212(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls the importance of EGF for its one-off assistance to dismissed workers so that they can find another job as rapidly as possible in major restructuring events,EGF’s one-off assistance to workers who have been dismissed as a result of the relocation of parts of a business or the impact of globalisation and the single market; points out, however, that the measures supported by the EGF are merely palliative in nature; ins particular those caused by important changes in trade relations of the Union or the composition of the internal market, the transition to a low- carbon economy or as a consequence of digitisation or automly concerned that the EGF has already funded measures to support workers dismissed from groups belonging to one of the largest private equity funds in the world, a fund which specialises in leveraged buyouts – a predatory and hostile strategy that decapitalises and destroys the companies acquired by the fund; criticises the fact that some of the dismissals are part of a disingenuous strategy, in some cases, to outsource the services of the company concerned and, in other cases, of company relocation; takes note that the level of EGF commitment appropriations in reserve for 2023 is set at EUR 205,3 million (approximately +1 % compared to 2022 and corresponding to the maximum MFF amount);
Amendment 56 #
2022/0212(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls for the establishment of a programme to promote awareness-raising campaigns on the importance of trade unions, unionising and collective bargaining and agreements with a view to achieving a fairer society by improving working conditions, wages and living conditions, among other means;
Amendment 56 #
2022/0212(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that in the last decade, with the onset of the economic and financial crisis, economic, social, labour and gender inequalities within and between Member States have become more acute; recalls the important role of the European Institute for Gender Equality in raising awareness of the extent and causes of gender inequality in the EU; calls, therefore, for its budget, staff and independence to be increased.
Amendment 66 #
2022/0212(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Considers it essential to protect and promote the principle of multilingualism, which helps to foster democratic participation and transparency; calls, in this regard, for an adequate increase in funding for the EU institutions’ interpreting and translation services, including those of the European Parliament and the European Commission, and for that increase to serve to ensure that as many workers as possible who provide services of that kind are employed in-house and that their health and safety is protected;
Amendment 67 #
2022/0212(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Calls for decent working conditions and fair pay for crèche, cleaning and catering workers to be guaranteed at the EU institutions, including the European Parliament; calls strongly, in this regard, for those services and their workers to be brought in-house;
Amendment 68 #
2022/0212(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 c (new)
Paragraph 11 c (new)
11c. Takes the view that companies that fail to meet the highest social and labour standards and to uphold human rights – particularly those whose organisational model is based on precarious employment relationships or which close down and dismiss workers for no apparent reason – should be barred from accessing EU funds; takes the view, further, that groups of companies established in tax havens that actively take part in tax avoidance and evasion schemes and actively launder money should be denied access;
Amendment 68 #
2022/0212(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Member States to safeguard SRHR, not least by providing for reproductive health programmes and services, including the types of care and medicines that are essential to voluntary family planning and maternal and newborn health;
Amendment 111 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) The Treaty requires a high level of protection of human health and of the environment to be ensured in the definition and the implementation of all Union policies and activities and provides that Union policy on the environment is to aim at a high level of protection, which should be based on the precautionary principle and on the principles of preventive action and rectifying environmental damage at source as a priority .
Amendment 119 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The European Parliament resolution of 12 February 2019 on the implementation of Directive 2009/128/EC on the sustainable use of pesticides41 noted that the Union must act without delay to transition to a more sustainable use of pesticides and called on the Commission to propose an ambitious Union-wide binding target for the reduction of pesticide use. The European Parliament re-affirmed its call for binding reduction targets in its resolution of 20 October 2021 on a Farm to Fork Strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system42 . The European Parliament stressed the importance of achieving these goals through holistic, preventive and circular approaches, including organic and agroecological practices, focusing on the key role of integrated pest management (IPM) in reducing pesticide dependency. _________________ 41 P8_TA(2019)0082, 12 February 2019. 42 P9_TA(2021)0425, 20 October 2021.
Amendment 131 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) In order to ensure full attainment of the objectives of the Union legal framework on sustainable use of plant protection products, it needs to be adapted by laying down additional, clearer and directly applicable rules for operators, wholesalers and retailers. In addition, a number of rules should be reinforced and clarified, including the rules on the application ofprotection of rural residents and workers, the application of agroecological strategies and integrated pest management, restrictions of use of plant protection products and the inspections of equipment used to apply plant protection products. It is therefore appropriate to repeal Directive 2009/128/EC and replace it with a regulation.
Amendment 138 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) The Commission Communication entitled ‘the European Green Deal’ 47set out a roadmap of key measures, including legislative, to significantly reduce the use and risk of chemical pesticides. In the Farm to Fork Strategy48, EU Biodiversity Strategy for 203049 and the Zero Pollution Action Plan50, the Commission committed to take action to reduce by 50% the overall use anduse and overall risk from chemical pesticides by 2030 and reduce by 50% the use of more hazardous pesticides (plant protection products containing one or more active substances approved as candidates for substitution in accordance with Article 24 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council51 and listed in Part E of the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/201152, or containing one or more active substances listed in the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/40853) by 2030. The sustainablwift reduction and phase-out of the use of plant protection products is also complementary to the promotion of organic farming and achieving the Farm to Fork Strategy target of at least 25% of the Union’s agricultural land under organic farming by 2030. It supports the objectives of the EU strategic framework on health and safety at work54and thereby contributes to the implementation of principle 10 of the European Pillar of Social Rights on a healthy, safe and well-adapt regarding a healthy, safe and well-adapted work environment. The Commission Communication on a Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability included the commitment to ensure that hazardous chemicals banned in the European Union are not produced wfork environmenxport. _________________ 47 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 The European Green Deal COM/2019/640 final. 48 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions A Farm to Fork Strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system, COM/2020/381 final. 49 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, ‘EU Bbiodiversity Strategy for 2030 Bbringing nature back into our lives’, COM/2020/380 final. 50 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, ‘Pathway to a Healthy Planet for All – EU Aaction Pplan: 'Towards Zero Pollution for Air, Water and Soil'’, COM(2021) 400 final. 51 Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 cConcerning the placing of plant protection products on the market and repealing Council Directives 79/117/EEC and 91/414/EEC (OJ L 309, 24.11.2009, p. 1). 52 Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 of 25 May 2011 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the list of approved active substances (OJ L 153, 11.6.2011, p. 1). 53 Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/408 of 11 March 2015 on implementing Article 80(7) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market and establishing a list of candidates for substitution (OJ L 67, 12.3.2015, p. 18). 54 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, EU strategic framework on health and safety at work 2021-2027 Occupational safety and health in a changing world of work, COM/2021/323 final.
Amendment 145 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) Two European citizens’ initiatives address the use of pesticides and call for ambitious reduction targets. The initiative ‘Ban glyphosate and protect people and the environment from toxic pesticides’ submitted to the Commission on 6 October 2017 called on the Commission, under its third aim, ‘to set EU-wide mandatory reduction targets for pesticide use, with a view to achieving a pesticide-free future’. In its reply adopted on 12 December 2017, the Commission stated that it would re- evaluate the need for EU-wide mandatory targets for pesticides. More recently, the initiative ‘Save bees and farmers! Towards a bee-friendly agriculture for a healthy environment’ calls on the Commission ‘to propose legal acts to phase out synthetic pesticides in EU agriculture by 80% by 2030, starting with the most hazardous, and to become free of synthetic by 2035.’ The initiative has collected over 1 million statements of support by 30 September 2021 which are currently being verified by Member States authoritiesIt further calls for measures 'to restore natural ecosystems in agricultural areas so that farming becomes a vector of biodiversity recovery', 'to reform agriculture by prioritising small-scale, diverse and sustainable farming, supporting a rapid increase in agro- ecological and organic practice', and 'enabling independent farmer-based training and research into pesticide- and GMO-free farming'.
Amendment 147 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 a (new)
Recital 8 a (new)
(8a) Public opinion and academia concur regarding the need to move away from pesticide-dependent food systems. As a result, it is anticipated that more alternative solutions to chemical pesticides will become available and the transition should be based on the diverse pool of know-how regarding complementary crop protection strategies, including the principles of integrated pest management. It is therefore appropriate for this regulation to seek the long-term phasing out of chemical pesticides and provide technical and financial support for small and medium farmers for the implementation of sustainable agroecological strategies and organic control methods to facilitate this transition.
Amendment 148 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 b (new)
Recital 8 b (new)
(8b) Transition to farming methods aligned to the principles of agroecology and focusing on more sustainable and effectively resilient production systems is urgently necessary to address the growing problems arising from the damage caused by intensive agricultural practices and climate change. It will also affect the incomes of farmers, especially the smaller ones. It is therefore essential to guarantee that aid is fairly distributed to all farmers, encouraging more people to enter and remain in this sector, and adopt market regulation policies guaranteed to facilitate production flows, encourage the consumption of food produced as locally as possible and promote adherence to agroecological principles. It is also necessary to ensure that agricultural products entering the EU meet the same high standards as those originating in the EU.
Amendment 150 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) In the final report of the Conference on the Future of Europe, published on 9 May 2022, when it comes to the proposals on agriculture, food production, biodiversity and ecosystems, pollution, citizens ask the Union in particular to significantly reduce the use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers, in line with the existing targets, while still ensuring food security, and support for research to develop more sustainable and natural- based alternatives. Citizens ask for more research and innovations, including in technological solutions for sustainable production, plant resistance, and precision farming, and more communication, advisory systems, and training for and from farmers as well as asking the Union to protect insects, in particular indigenous and pollinating insects.55. _________________ 55 Conference on the Future of Europe – Report on the Final Outcome, May 2022, Proposals 1 and 2, pp. 43-44.
Amendment 172 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) Given the different levels of historical progress and differences in intensity of pesticide use between Member States, it is necessary to allow Member States some flexibility when setting their own binding national targets (“national 2030 reduction targets”), to be reflected in technical or financial support for farmers to ensure that small producers are not overburdened by the need to meet the aforesaid targets and that peoples depending on their products are not faced with rising food prices. Intensity of use is best measured by dividing the total quantity of active substances placed on the market, and therefore used, in the form of plant protection productesticides in a particular Member State by the surface area over which the active substances were applied. Intensity in the use of chemical pesticides, and in particular of the more hazardous pesticides, correlates with greater dependency on chemical pesticides, greater risks to human health and the environment and less sustainable farming practices. It is therefore appropriate to allow Member States to take their lower intensity of use of chemical pesticides than the Union average into account in setting their national 2030 reduction targets. It is also appropriate to require them to take their higher intensity of use of chemical pesticides than the Union average into account in setting their national 2030 reduction targets. In addition, in order to n order to give recognition to past efforts by Member States, they should also be allowed to take into account historical progress prior to the adoption of the Farm to Fork Strategy when setting national 2030 reduction targets. Conversely, where Member States have increased, or made only limited reductions in, their use and risk of chemical plant protection products, they should now make a greater contribution to the achievement of the Union 2030 reduction targets, while also taking account of their intensity of pesticide use. In order to ensure a fair and collective effort towards the achievement of Union- wide targets and an adequate level of ambition, minimum limits should be laid down for national 2030 reduction targets. The EU’s outermost regions, as listed in Article 349 of the Treaty, are located in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Indian Ocean. Due to permanent constraints such as their remoteness to the European continent, insularity and high exposure to climate change, it is appropriate to allow Member States to take into account the specific needs of these regions as regards the use of plant protection productesticides and measures tailored to specific climatic conditions and crops. In order to ensure a fair and collective effort towards the achievement of Union-wide targets, where a Member State reaches the level of its 2030 national reduction target before 2030, it should not be required to undertake additional reduction efforts, but its should closely monitor annual fluctuations in the use and risk of chemical plant protection productesticides and in the use of more hazardous plant protection productesticides to ensure progress towards meeting the respective 2030 national reduction target. In the interests of transparency, Member State responses to any Commission recommendations in relation to the level of ambition of national targets and the annual progress made towards them should be publicly accessible.
Amendment 195 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) In order to achieve the Union-wide reduction targets (‘Union 2030 reduction targets’) as well as national 2030 reduction targets, it is necessary to increase the availability and use of biological control and other non-chemical alternatives. Availability of these alternatives will incentivise the adoption of low pesticide- input pest management practices such as organic farming. In order to meet Union- wide reduction targets and national reduction targets for 2030, it is necessary to increase the availability and use of organic control and other non-chemical alternatives, thereby providing incentives for the adoption of low pesticide pest management practices such as organic farming. In its report on the farm to fork strategy, the European Parliament also stressed the need to establish fast-track procedures for the evaluation, authorisation and registration of non- chemical low-risk pesticides, while ensuring that they are assessed as rigorously as other substances.
Amendment 208 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16 a (new)
Recital 16 a (new)
(16a) Biophysical and environmental factors such as climate have a significant impact on soil, the principal resource for food production in the European Union, influencing land use and changes thereto and hence food production systems. The current intensive agricultural production model, which relies on chemical plant protection products, may thus pose a medium-term threat to food security due to loss of biodiversity, a possible increase in pests, soil deterioration and the depletion of pollinators essential for agricultural production. Reducing dependence on plant protection products in the European Union is key to ensuring food security and self-sufficiency.
Amendment 222 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) An approach to pest control that follows integrated pest management in ensuring careful consideration of all available means that discourage the development of populations of harmful organisms, while simultaneously keeping the use of chemical plant protection products to levels that are economically and ecologically justified and minimising risks to human health and the environment is necessary for the protection of human healthand animal health, organisms that are not being targeted and the environment. ‘Integrated pest management’ emphasises the growth of a healthy crop with the least possible disruption to agro-ecosystems, encourages natural pest prevention strategies and control mechanisms and uses chemical control only when all other control means are exhausted. To ensure that agroecological practices and integrated pest management isare implemented consistently on the ground, it is necessary to lay down clear rules in this Regulation. In order to comply with the obligation to follow integrated pest management, a professional user should consider and implement all methods and practices that avoid the use of plant protection productesticides. Chemical plant protection products should only be used as a last resort when all other control means have been exhausted. In order to ensure and monitor compliance with this requirement, it is important that professional users keep a record of the reasons why they apply plant protection products or the reasons for any other action taken in line with integrated pest management and of advice received in support of their implementation of integrated pest management from independent advisors. These records are also required for aerial applications.
Amendment 229 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21 a (new)
Recital 21 a (new)
(21a) Given that traders and retailers wield a great deal of power in the value chain, they should also assume responsibility for achieving pesticide reduction and phase-out targets to ensure a rapid transition to green and organic farming practices and adequate rewards for farmers. It is crucial that they work closely with their suppliers, sharing best practices with regard to integrated protection and providing the necessary support. In addition, retailers and traders also have a responsibility to ensure the safety of the food products they are placing on the market. Measures should be taken as soon as possible to ensure that they are free of measurable pesticide residues and this should also apply to imported products, ensuring food safety and a level playing field for European producers.
Amendment 230 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21 b (new)
Recital 21 b (new)
(21b) At a time when many people are facing obvious difficulties in accessing food, with healthy food becoming increasingly expensive and producers and small farmers being squeezed by the prices they are able to command on the one hand and their increasing costs on the other, the large distribution chains are making millions in profits by charging prices that many families are simply unable to afford, thus compromising the right to a varied and healthy diet.
Amendment 231 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21 c (new)
Recital 21 c (new)
(21c) Food production should be regarded as a noble occupation and not simply a business, with transition to agroecological practices pointing the way forward, creating jobs in certain areas of pest control for which remuneration should be regarded as an investment in public health rather than an expense.
Amendment 233 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) In order to facilitate compliance with integrated pest management, it is necessary to lay down crop-specific rules that a professional user must follow in relation to the specific crop and region in which the professional user operates. Such rules should convert the requirements of integrated pest management into verifiable criteria that apply to the specific crop. To ensure that the crop-specific rules are in accordance with the requirements of integrated pest management, detailed rules should be laid down as to what they should contain and the CommissionMember States should verify their development, implementation and enforcement on the ground.
Amendment 250 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26 a (new)
Recital 26 a (new)
(26a) There is no scientific rationale for expecting a significant and positive contribution from genetic engineering, including the use of New Genomic Techniques (NGTs), in reducing the use of chemical pesticides. Around 80% of pesticides used in the European Union are herbicides and fungicides and no genetically modified solutions are in existence (or being developed) that could substantially diminish the use thereof. Use of NGTs involves uncertainties and risks for human and animal health and for the environment, as well as social and economic risks for stockbreeders, farmers, food producers, retailers and consumers related to freedom of choice, transparency, co-existence, the viability of the organic sector, the question of patents and threats of further monopolisation of the food chain. For this reason, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), including NGTs, are not covered by integrated pest management.
Amendment 251 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26 b (new)
Recital 26 b (new)
(26b) Member States and the EU should commit themselves to careful application of the precautionary principle, especially in the agricultural sector where there is increasing pressure to introduce genetically modified organisms. In the formation of genetically modified (GM) seeds and plants, antibiotic resistance genes are commonly used as marker genes for the selection of transformed plant cells. In view of the potential benefits of scientific and technological development in the field of biotechnology, the presence of genes encoding antibiotics used in human and veterinary medicine should not be allowed in genetically modified seeds and plants. Uncertainty and growing antimicrobial resistance are sufficient grounds to reverse all decisions to open up the cultivation of genetically modified varieties and reject all attempts to commercialise and patent seeds or biological processes, to the clear detriment of biodiversity, plant genetic heritage and the right to health.
Amendment 253 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 27
Recital 27
(27) Precision farming refers to agricultural management systems carefully tailoring crop management to fit localised conditions such as those found within land parcels. The application of existing technology, including the use of Union space data and services (Galileo and Copernicus), has the potential to significantly reduce pesticide usage. It is therefore necessary to provide for a legislative framework that incentivises the development of precision farming. Application of plant protection products from an aircraft, including application by planes, helicopters and drones, is usually less precise than other means of application and may therefore potentially cause adverse impacts on human health and the environment. Aerial application should therefore be prohibited, with limited derogations on a case-by-case basis where it has a less negative impact on human health and the environment than any alternative application method or there is no viable alternative application method. It is also necessary to record the numbers of aerial applications carried out on the basis of permits granted for aerial application in order to have clear data on how many aerial applications for which permits were granted actually took place.
Amendment 256 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 27 a (new)
Recital 27 a (new)
Amendment 257 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 28
Recital 28
Amendment 263 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 30
Recital 30
(30) Given the importance of advice on the use of plant protection products as a means to support their use in a manner that protects human health and the environment in accordance with integrated pest management, it is important that advisors are adequately trained. Advisors should not have any ties, especially of a commercial nature, to manufacturers or distributors of chemical plant protection products, nor should they have had such ties in the past five years.
Amendment 269 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 34
Recital 34
(34) Considering the possible risks to human health and the environment from the use of plant protection products, the public should not be allowed to purchase, sell or make use of them and should have access to better information on the overall impacts of the use of such products through awareness- raising programmes, information passed on through distributors and other appropriate measures.
Amendment 290 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 41
Recital 41
(41) The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 recognises the need for urgent action to protect biodiversity. There is evidence of a widespread reduction of species, in particular insects and pollinators, in the Union. Biodiversity loss is, amongst other factors, driven by the use of plant protection products, while Member States actions under current Union policy instruments have not yet been able to stop this trend of biodiversity loss. It is therefore essential to ensure that plant protection products are used in such a way as to mitigate the risk of harmful effects of such products on wildlife, through a number of measures including training, inspection of application equipment in professional use and protection of the aquatic environment and sensitive areas, as well as a quicker phasing-out of the plant protection products that have the biggest impact on pollinators and on other beneficial and non-target organisms.
Amendment 312 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1.º – paragraph 1
Article 1.º – paragraph 1
This Regulation lays down rules for the sustainable use of plant protection products by providing for the setting, and achievement by 2030, of reduction targets for the use and risk of chemical plant protection products, and for the phasing-out of such products, establishing requirements for use, storage, advertisement and sponsorships, sale and disposal of plant protection products and for application equipment, providing for protection of the public, workers and rural residents from the hazards of pesticides, and providing for independent advice, training and awareness raising, ands well as providing for implementation of integrated pest managementagro-ecological and organic practices and integrated pest management and monitoring of the progress in achieving those goals.
Amendment 325 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2.º – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 2.º – paragraph 1 – introductory part
This Regulation shall apply to products, in the form in which they are supplied to the user, consisting of active substances, safeners, synergists, co-formulants and/or adjuvants or containing active substances, safeners or synergisand/or adjuvants, and intended for one of the following uses:
Amendment 328 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2.º – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 2.º – paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 330 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2.º – paragraph 2
Article 2.º – paragraph 2
These products are referred to as ‘plant protection products’'biological controls' if derived from natural substances or ‘pesticides’ if derived from chemicals.
Amendment 341 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 1
(1) ‘chemical plant protection product’ means a plant protection productesticide’ means a pesticide containing a chemical active substance excluding plant products using natural means of biological origin or substances identical to them, such as micro-organisms, semiochemicals, extracts from plant products as defined in Article 3(6) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, or invertebrate macro-organisms;
Amendment 343 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 2
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 2
(2) ‘low-risk plant protection productesticide’ means a plant protection product authorised in accordance with Article 47(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009;
Amendment 347 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 5
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 5
(5) ‘more hazardous plant protection product’ means a plant protection productesticide’ means a pesticide containing one or more active substances approved as candidates for substitution in accordance with Article 24 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 and listed in Part E of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 or meeting one or more of the criteria established in point 4 of Annex II to Regulation No 1107/2009, or containing one or more active substances listed in the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/408; (This amendment applies throughout the text.)
Amendment 351 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 9
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 9
(9) ‘advisor’ means any person who advises on integrated pest management and the safe use of plant protection products, in the context of a professional capacity or commercial service, including private and public advisory services, provided they have no connections to chemical pesticide producers or other conflicts of interest;
Amendment 363 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 13
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 13
Amendment 365 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 15
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 15
(15) ‘integrated pest management’ means careful consideration and application of all available means that prevent and discourage the development of populations of harmful organisms, while keeping the use of chemical plant protection products to levels that are economically and ecologically justified andithin an ecosystems-based or organic strategy, through a combination of agro-ecological techniques such as habitat manipulation, modification of cultural practices, and use of resistant GMO-free varieties, prioritising non-chemical methods such as biological control in cases where harmful organisms have been found, using chemical plant protection products only as a last resort and with the goal of removing only the target organism, in a way that minimises risks to human health and the environmentand animal health, beneficial and non-target organisms and the environment. Treatment of propagating material and soils with plant protection products is therefore incompatible with integrated pest management, as is any other prophylactic use of plant protection products;
Amendment 428 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 21
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 21
(21) ‘risk indicator’ means a measurement indicating the relative change in risks for human healthand animal health, beneficial and non-target organisms or the environment associated with the use of plant protection products, and calculated in accordance with the methodology set out in Annex VI;
Amendment 431 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 22
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 22
(22) ‘non-chemical methods’ means alternatives to chemical plant protection products, excluding the use of genomic techniques either in the plant or in the intervention method;
Amendment 444 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 23 a (new)
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point 23 a (new)
(23a) ‘advertising’ means any form of commercial communications with the aim or direct or indirect effect of promoting a chemical pesticide;
Amendment 538 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5.º – paragraph 3
Article 5.º – paragraph 3
3. Each Member State shall reach the targets referred to in paragraph 1 by 2030. A Member State that reaches the level of one of its 2030 national reduction targets before 2030 shall not be required to undertake additional reduction efforts. It shall monitor annual fluctuations in order to maintain the progress achieved in relation to that 2030 national reduction target.
Amendment 820 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8.º – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point g
Article 8.º – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point g
(g) national measures for encouraging the use of agro-ecological and biological prevention methods and non-chemical methods by professional users through financial incentives, in accordance with Union legislation on State aid;
Amendment 822 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8.º – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point h
Article 8.º – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point h
(h) planned and adopted measures to support, or and ensure, through binding requirements laid down in national law, innovation and the development and use of preventive, agro-ecological and biological methods as well as non-chemical pest control methods;
Amendment 836 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8.º – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point i
Article 8.º – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point i
(i) other planned and adopted measures to support, or ensure through binding requirements laid down in national law, the sustainable use of plant protection products in line with integrated pest management principles, including those contained in crop-specific rules as set out in Article 15(1).
Amendment 842 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8.º – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point i a (new)
Article 8.º – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point i a (new)
(ia) planned and adopted measures to effectively protect rural residents and bystanders against exposure to chemical pesticides and measures to monitor their health, including epidemiological studies and effective follow-up with appropriate health care in rural communities;
Amendment 899 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9.º – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 9.º – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) for each of the pests referred to in point (c), a list of preventive and non- chemical strategies and methods used or likely to be available by 2030.
Amendment 910 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9.º – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 9.º – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. For each non-chemical preventive strategy and method listed in accordance with paragraph 1, point (d), national action plans shall indicate all of the following:
Amendment 915 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9.º – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 9.º – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) the estimated scale of its use, based on data on the sale of plant protectionbiological control products, surveys and expert judgement, during the 3 calendar years preceding the adoption of the national action plan, together with a national indicative target for increasing its use by 2030 and a list of potential obstacles to achieving this increase;
Amendment 935 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9.º – paragraph 4
Article 9.º – paragraph 4
4. National action plans shall also include binding national indicative targets for increasing the percentage of overall sales of plant protection products which are notbiological control products replacing chemical plant protection products from a baseline period of the 3 calendar years preceding the adoption of the national action plan.
Amendment 943 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10.º – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 10.º – paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 978 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10.º – paragraph 6
Article 10.º – paragraph 6
Amendment 1013 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11.º – paragraph 6
Article 11.º – paragraph 6
Amendment 1039 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12.º – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 12.º – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Non-professional users shall not use chemical pesticides.
Amendment 1053 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13.º – paragraph 1
Article 13.º – paragraph 1
1. Professional users shall first apply measures that do not require the use of chemical plant protection products for the prevention or suppression of harmful organisms before resorting to application of chemical plant protection productsapply strategies and measures that aim to prevent the occurrence of hazardous pests, and they shall monitor the occurrence of harmful organisms. When monitoring results indicate a need for plant protection measures, sustainable biological, physical and other non- chemical methods may be used. The use of chemical plant protection products is only allowed as a last resort, based on demonstrable evidence, and shall be used to minimise the effects on human and animal health, beneficial and non-target organisms and the environment.
Amendment 1073 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13.º – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – indent 1 a (new)
Article 13.º – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – indent 1 a (new)
– measures to establish, maintain and restore biodiversity which protects and enhances the variety of living organisms and important beneficial organisms,
Amendment 1074 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13.º – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – indent 1 b (new)
Article 13.º – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – indent 1 b (new)
– enhanced crop diversity, including the mixing of different varieties, intercropping or polyculture,
Amendment 1078 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13.º – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – indent 3
Article 13.º – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – indent 3
Amendment 1104 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13.º – paragraph 4 – introductory part
Article 13.º – paragraph 4 – introductory part
4. Professional users shall use biological controls, physical and other non- chemical methods. Professional users may only use chemical methods if they are proven to be absolutely necessary to achieve acceptable levels of harmful organism control after all other non- chemical methods as set out in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 have been exhausted and where any of the following conditions hasve been satisfied:
Amendment 1114 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13.º – paragraph 4 – point b
Article 13.º – paragraph 4 – point b
Amendment 1124 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13.º – paragraph 5
Article 13.º – paragraph 5
5. Professional users shall apply plant protection products thatesticides that have the lowest risk profile and are as specific as possible to control the harmful organisms and have the least side effects on human health,and animal health, beneficial and non-target organisms and the environment.
Amendment 1134 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13.º – paragraph 6 a (new)
Article 13.º – paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Professional users shall avoid using the following practices, as they are not in compliance with integrated pest management: (a) prophylactic use of pesticides, inter alia as seed coating, pesticide granules and soil treatments; (b) use of genetically modified organisms, including organisms developed using new genomic techniques; (c) pesticides that use the mechanisms of ribonucleic acid interference (RNAi); (d) pesticides which have been banned or explicitly not approved for use in the EU;
Amendment 1237 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15.º – paragraph 6 – point b
Article 15.º – paragraph 6 – point b
(b) the non-chemical interventions involving cultural, physical and biological controlprevention and control strategies and measures which are effective against the harmful organisms referred to in point (a) and qualitative criteria or conditions under which these interventions are to be made;
Amendment 1322 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15.º a (new)
Article 15.º a (new)
Amendment 1350 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16.º – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 16.º – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a The register(s) referred to in paragraph 1 shall not impose additional burdens on farmers, particularly on small and medium-sized family farms, and adequate technical backup shall be provided sufficiently well in advance.
Amendment 1396 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18.º – paragraph 1
Article 18.º – paragraph 1
1. The use of all plant protection products is prohibited in all sensitive areas and within 3100 metres of such areas. This 3 100-metre buffer zone shall not be reduced by using alternative risk-mitigation techniques.
Amendment 1481 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19.º – paragraph 1
Article 19.º – paragraph 1
1. The use of all plant protection products is prohibited on all surface waters and within 325 metres of such waters. This 3 25-metre buffer zone shall not be reduced by using alternative risk-mitigation techniques.
Amendment 1488 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19.º – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 19.º – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Member States shall adopt and enforce measures to ensure that the volume and width of watercourses and channels are not reduced as a result of this Regulation.
Amendment 1491 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20.º – paragraph 2
Article 20.º – paragraph 2
Amendment 1507 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20.º – paragraph 3
Article 20.º – paragraph 3
Amendment 1511 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20.º – paragraph 4
Article 20.º – paragraph 4
Amendment 1521 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20.º – paragraph 5
Article 20.º – paragraph 5
Amendment 1527 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21.º
Article 21.º
Amendment 1567 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22.º – paragraph 3
Article 22.º – paragraph 3
Amendment 1570 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23.º – paragraph 1
Article 23.º – paragraph 1
Advice on the use of a plant protection product to a professional user may only be given by an advisor for whom a training certificatwho has no commercial or other links to a manufacturer, retailer or distributor of plant protection products, has had no such links for the hlas been issued for followingt five years, is a member of a public body designated by the Member State and for who holds a certificate of completion of a courses for advisors issued in accordance with Article 25, or who has a proof of entryproof of registration in a central electronic register for followingcompletion of such courses in accordance with Article 25(5).
Amendment 1576 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24.º – title
Article 24.º – title
24. Requirements for the sale and prohibition of marketing and advertising of plant protection products
Amendment 1589 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24.º – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 24.º – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. All forms of advertising for chemical pesticides shall be prohibited.
Amendment 1590 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24.º – paragraph 1 b (new)
Article 24.º – paragraph 1 b (new)
1B. Sponsorship of events, activities or programmes by undertakings whose principal activity is the manufacture or sale of chemical pesticides shall be prohibited.
Amendment 1606 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24.º – paragraph 4
Article 24.º – paragraph 4
4. A distributor shall not sell chemical plant protection products to non- professional users and shall provide general information to non-professional users on the risks to human health and the environment of the use of non-chemical plant protection products, including the information on hazards, exposure, proper storage, handling, application and safe disposal in accordance with Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council86, and shall recommend alternative low-risk plant protection products and ways in which risks can be mitigated when using non-chemical plant protection products. _________________ 86 Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives (OJ L 312 22.11.2008, p. 3).
Amendment 1673 #
Amendment 1674 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26.º – paragraph 1
Article 26.º – paragraph 1
1. Each Member State shall designate a competent authority to establish, oversee and monitor the operation of a system of independent advisors for professional users. That system may make use of the impartial farm advisors referred to in Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 2021/2115, who must be regularly trained and can be funded under Article 78 of the same regulation.
Amendment 1681 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26.º – paragraph 2
Article 26.º – paragraph 2
2. The competent authority referred to in paragraph 1 shall ensure that any advisor registered in the system referred to in that paragraph (‘independent advisor’) is free from any conflict of interest and, in particular, is not in a situation which, directly or indirectly, could affect their ability to carry out their professional duties in an impartial manner, including the requirement for the advisor to have no connection to a company involved in manufacturing, distribution or sale.
Amendment 1691 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26.º – paragraph 3
Article 26.º – paragraph 3
3. Each professional user shall consult an independentan advisor at least once a year for the purposes of receiving the strategic advice referred to in paragraph 4.
Amendment 1696 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26.º – paragraph 4 – point a a (new)
Article 26.º – paragraph 4 – point a a (new)
(aa) agro-ecological and organic strategies and principles for agriculture, including preventive measures and techniques for harmful organisms;
Amendment 1698 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26.º – paragraph 4 – point c
Article 26.º – paragraph 4 – point c
Amendment 1705 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26.º – paragraph 4 – point e
Article 26.º – paragraph 4 – point e
(e) where chemical plant protection products are deemed necessary, measures to effectively minimise risks to human as a last resort, measures to apply it to only the target organism and to effectively minimise risks from such use to human and animal health and the environment, in particular to bystanders and rural residents, biodiversity, including pollinators, from such use and other beneficial and non- target organisms, including risk and emission mitigation measures and techniques.
Amendment 1727 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27.º – paragraph 3 – point c
Article 27.º – paragraph 3 – point c
(c) agro-ecological and biological prevention strategies and principles and alternatives to chemical plant protection products;
Amendment 1734 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28.º – title
Article 28.º – title
Information on acute and chronic poisoningpoisoning and repeated exposure
Amendment 1735 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28.º – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 28.º – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Each Member State shall designate a competent authority to maintain or put in place systems for gathering and keeping the following information on acute and chronic poisoning incidents and repeated exposure which lead to illness or other negative health effects arising from exposure of persons to plant protection products:
Amendment 1739 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28.º – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 28.º – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) the number of individuals poisoned or repeatedly exposed;
Amendment 1740 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28.º – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 28.º – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) the symptoms of poisoning or of the repeated exposure;
Amendment 1742 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28.º – paragraph 1 – point e – introductory part
Article 28.º – paragraph 1 – point e – introductory part
(e) whether a confirmed acute or chronic poisoning incident or repeated exposure resulted from:
Amendment 1744 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28.º – paragraph 1 – point e – point iv a (new)
Article 28.º – paragraph 1 – point e – point iv a (new)
(iva) violation of the buffer zones and prior notification obligations as laid down in Article 18a;
Amendment 1748 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28.º – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 28.º – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) the number of acute and chronic poisoning incidents or communicated health effects arising from exposure of persons to plant protection products during the preceding calendar year;
Amendment 1782 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30.º – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 30.º – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Where the designated competent authority does not carry out the inspection of application equipment in professional use, it shall designate one or more public bodies to carry out such inspections.
Amendment 1838 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 34.º – paragraph 1
Article 34.º – paragraph 1
1. The methodology for calculating progress towards achieving the two Union 2030 reduction targets and the two national 2030 reduction targets until and including 2030 is laid down in Annex I. This methodology shall be based on statistical data collected in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 and shall take into account the relative toxicity of the pesticide, the area on which it is used and the maximum application rate given in the legal requirements of the approval of the pesticide.
Amendment 1865 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 39.º – paragraph 1
Article 39.º – paragraph 1
Member States mayshall recover the costs related to carrying out their obligations under this Regulation by means of fees or charges. Such costs shall not be reflected in access to food, higher food prices or increased production costs and overloading of small and medium-sized farms.
Amendment 1867 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 40.º
Article 40.º
Amendment 62 #
2022/0155(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) In order to effectively prevent child sexual abuse, Member States should: plan intervention by public and community bodies in the prevention of child exploitation and sexual abuse; implement effective intervention measures aimed at preventing risks of acts of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse against children; organise specific education campaigns on the protection and rights of children; implement actions to disseminate administrative measures, policies and social programmes with the aim of preventing the occurrence of acts of child sexual exploitation and sexual abuse; develop public awareness programmes through the media, on the phenomenon of sexual exploitation and on child sexual abuse, having regard to age and gender; ensure the promotion of policies to prevent child sexual exploitation and sexual abuse, particularly in the areas of Justice, Education, Health and Social Action; establish and disseminate effective social programmes to support victims, their families and any person to whom they are entrusted; enhance active social responses and multidisciplinary structures aimed at providing support to victims, with the necessary protection and assistance measures.
Amendment 63 #
2022/0155(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) Therefore, this Regulation should directly contribute to the proper functioning of the internal market by setting outestablishing clear, uniform and balanced rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse in a manner that is effective and that respects the fundamental rights of all parties concerned. In view of the fast-changing nature of the services concerned and the technologies used to provide them, those rules should be laid down in technology-neutral and future- proof manner, so as not to hamper innovation. It should also contribute to raising awareness of the broad scope of the phenomenon of minor sexual abuse, which can not only include children of different ages, genders and social, cultural and economic backgrounds, but also has a particular impact on the close and extended family circle.
Amendment 67 #
2022/0155(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) In order to effectively prevent child sexual abuse, Member States should enhance all preventive measures, in particular, providing existing mechanisms, such as means for monitoring risk situations and identifying problems; Member States should also speed up the justice system assessment and response, carry out a rapid psychological assessment, protect children from contact with the abuser and support the family; it is also necessary to ensure priority mechanisms for continuous, universal and free therapeutic support to child victims, who can benefit from it throughout their lives, and to provide capacity to public health systems.
Amendment 111 #
2022/0155(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 35
Recital 35
(35) The dissemination of child sexual abuse material is a criminal offence that affects the rights of the victims depicted. Victims should therefore have the right to obtain, upon request, from the EU Centre yet via the Coordinating Authorities, relevant information if known child sexual abuse material depicting them is reported by providers of hosting services or providers of publicly available interpersonal communications services in accordance with this Regulation. Online service providers, including social network platforms, should adopt mandatory procedures in order to effectively prevent, detect and report child sexual abuse that occurs on their services and remove child sexual abuse material
Amendment 117 #
2022/0155(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 36
Recital 36
(36) Given the impact on the rights of victims depicted in such known child sexual abuse material and the typical ability of providers of hosting services to limit that impact by helping ensure that the material is no longer available on their services, those providers should assist victims who request the removal or disabling of access of the material in question. That assistance should remain limited to what can reasonably be asked from the provider concerned under the given circumstances, having regard to factors such as the content and scope of the request, the steps needed to locate the items of known child sexual abuse material concerned and the means available to the provider. The assistance could consist, for example, of helping to locate the items, carrying out checks and removing or disabling access to the items. Considering that carrying out the activities needed to obtain such removal or disabling of access can be painful or even traumatic as well as complex, victims should also have the right to be assisted by the EU Centre in this regard, via the Coordinating Authorities, taking into account vulnerabilities and psychological effects on victims.
Amendment 119 #
2022/0155(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 37 a (new)
Recital 37 a (new)
(37a) Member States should ensure and safeguard the existence of effective mechanisms for reporting child sexual abuse and that such investigative tools are effectively used to identify victims and rescue them as quickly as possible from ongoing abuse;
Amendment 130 #
2022/0155(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 66
Recital 66
(66) With a view to contributing to the effective application of this Regulation and the protection of victims’ rights, the EU Centre should be able, upon request, to support victims and to assist Competent Authorities by conducting searches of hosting services for the dissemination of known child sexual abuse material that is publicly accessible, using the corresponding indicators. Where it identifies such material after having conducted such a search, the EU Centre should also be able to request the provider of the hosting service concerned to remove or disable access to the item or items in question, given that the provider may not be aware of their presence and may be willing to do so on a voluntary basis. The EU Centre should support Member States in conducting studies, with nationally representative samples, on child sexual abuse in their socialisation spaces, in order to structure preventive and multidisciplinary response measures.
Amendment 139 #
2022/0155(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 75
Recital 75
(75) In the interest of transparency and accountability and to enable evaluation and, where necessary, adjustments, providers of hosting services, providers of publicly available interpersonal communications services and providers of internet access services, Coordinating Authorities and the EU Centre should be required to collect, record and analyse data disaggregated by gender, age and social, cultural and economic background as well as information, based on anonymised gathering of non-personal data and to publish annual reports on their activities under this Regulation. The Coordinating Authorities should cooperate with Europol and with law enforcement authorities and other relevant national authorities of the Member State that designated the Coordinating Authority in question in gathering that information.
Amendment 141 #
2022/0155(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 77
Recital 77
(77) The evaluation should be based on the criteria of efficiency, necessity, effectiveness, proportionality, relevance, coherence and Union added value. It should assess the functioning of the different operational and technical measures provided for by this Regulation, including the effectiveness of measures to enhance the detection, reporting and removal of online child sexual abuse, the effectiveness of safeguard mechanisms as well as the impacts on potentially affected fundamental rights, children’s rights the freedom to conduct a business, the right to private life and the protection of personal data. The Commission should also assess the impact on potentially affected interests of third parties.
Amendment 401 #
2022/0155(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20.º – paragraph 3 – point d a (new)
Article 20.º – paragraph 3 – point d a (new)
da information regarding age- appropriate and gender-sensitive victim support services to provide the child, family and survivors with adequate health, emotional and psychosocial support as well as practical and legal assistance.
Amendment 433 #
2022/0155(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 8 a (new)
Article 25 – paragraph 8 a (new)
8a The EU Centre should support Member States in the introduction and implementation in formal education of sex education programmes, that promote the empowerment of children to be agents of their own protection: concepts of the body and its boundaries, concepts of intimacy and privacy, and the ability to verbalise and state what happened to those to whom they are closest emotionally or to whom they feel more connected.
Amendment 9 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the right to work is an essential precondition if women are to enjoy effective equal rights, economic independence and professional fulfilment; whereas precarious employment should therefore be eradicated through the mandatory application of the principle that for every existing job another permanent post should be created, and by recognising and enhancing the right to jobs with rights;
Amendment 14 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas migrant women are at major risk of labour exploitation, discrimination, lacking access to social services and legal protection and being subject to physical, psychological, economic and sexual abuse;
Amendment 16 #
2021/2254(INI)
Ac. whereas the right to housing should be safeguarded in practice by guaranteeing that citizens and families have adequate housing which meets their needs and secures their well-being, privacy and quality of life, thereby helping to achieve social justice and cohesion and tackle social exclusion and poverty;
Amendment 17 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas there is a need for multidimensional political solutions, integrating measures to prevent precarious work and promote jobs with rights, working hours and work-life balance; whereas a public network of crèches, care homes, health care, care for people with disabilities and other needs, a public social security system and differentiated work organisation practices, at the request of women, are essential to achieve this;
Amendment 18 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A e (new)
Recital A e (new)
Ae. whereas undocumented workers or those staying illegally are often employed under less favourable working conditions than other workers and whereas some employers are therefore induced to recruit labour in the above categories in order to gain an unfair competitive advantage: whereas EU migration policies are adding to the vulnerability of, and failing to protect, undocumented migrant women victims of violence, who, for the most part, do not seek help;
Amendment 19 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A f (new)
Recital A f (new)
Af. whereas women farmers have a significant presence in family farming, and are therefore particularly affected by the low prices paid to producers, specifically the prices imposed by large distribution chains;
Amendment 25 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas young people are one of the social groups most affected by the current deterioration in the labour market, being more exposed to unemployment, precarious employment and low wages, even though they have higher levels of education than previous generations;
Amendment 36 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Amendment 42 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas it is essential that the CAP guarantee more sustainable and democratic models of production and consumption, enhancing the role of small and medium-sized holdings and family farming;
Amendment 46 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas cuts in public budgets resulting from the European Union’s macro-structural economic policies, in particular the implementation of the measures contained in ‘economic governance’ and financial adjustment programmes, are causing and will continue to cause increasing gender inequalities and female unemployment, women being in the majority in the public sector and the principal beneficiaries of social policies and, consequently, increasing the feminisation of poverty, and a change in policy is therefore required;
Amendment 50 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C d (new)
Recital C d (new)
Cd. whereas there is a need to adopt forms of intervention in the supply chain in the event of serious imbalances, such as the setting of maximum intermediation margins, in order to promote a fair and appropriate distribution of added value along the food supply chain; whereas there is a need to adopt a quota system for domestic production, with imports becoming a substitute for domestically produced items;
Amendment 55 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C e (new)
Recital C e (new)
Ce. whereas small and medium-sized farms and family farms suffer discrimination in the distribution of CAP aid, which particularly affects women farmers;
Amendment 58 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C f (new)
Recital C f (new)
Cf. whereas in recent months women farmers have also been the target of speculation in the prices of factors of production (seeds, pesticides, fertilisers, fuel, energy, machinery);
Amendment 69 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses the importance of making it genuinely possible to combine work, private and family life, which will have the positive effect of increasing the participation of women from all sections of society in social and political life;
Amendment 73 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Emphasises the need for a policy to regulate markets, particularly in the dairy and wine sectors, and to ensure preferential support for small and medium-sized farmers, with modulation and capping of aid; to promote the flow of production and consumption of food produced as locally as possible; to promote the most sustainable systems of production;
Amendment 76 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Amendment 79 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Recommends the creation of a public agricultural insurance scheme, financed from the EU budget, to be mobilised in the event of (increasingly frequent) extreme weather events or disaster situations, providing an adequate level of protection for all farmers; to counteract the human desertification of the rural world, urges the Commission to protect small and medium-sized farming and family farming, as they are normally associated with high-quality, sustainable production models that are capable of ensuring social and territorial cohesion;
Amendment 81 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Calls on the Commission to undertake to regulate the prices paid to producers and, in particular, to prohibit contracts being concluded at prices below production cost and to combat speculation in the costs of factors of production;
Amendment 82 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1f. Calls for a position that enables fairer distribution of EU aid under the CAP among countries, producers and products.
Amendment 91 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Urges the introduction of public transport policies, and, in particular, the development and improvement of public transport services, on a basis that takes account of equality between men and women, thus enabling women to be more active in the labour market and in searching for work by making them truly mobile;
Amendment 96 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Maintains that states and employers have to assume greater responsibility for generational replacement and maternity and paternity rights, implying that women must have the right to be both mothers and workers without forfeiting labour rights;
Amendment 98 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Calls for the expansion of the public network of day nurseries, crèches and public recreational activities for children, and the development of the public support network for the elderly and a public network of community hospitals;
Amendment 100 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Stresses the right of the elderly to economic security, through a decent pension, and to housing conditions and family and community life which respect their personal autonomy and avoid and overcome isolation or social marginalisation; calls for the creation of a quality network of facilities providing support for the elderly, accessible to all citizens regardless of their socioeconomic status, particularly day centres, residential homes and home help; stresses their right to have access to quality public health services allowing universal access to a healthy ageing process;
Amendment 101 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 e (new)
Paragraph 2 e (new)
2e. Calls on the Member States, in their national action plans, to eliminate domestic violence, to lay down the obligation of supporting undocumented migrant women in exactly the same way as women staying legally, without any requirement for institutions to report such cases to the authorities;
Amendment 102 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 f (new)
Paragraph 2 f (new)
2f. Calls on the Member States to implement policies aimed at regularising the situation of immigrant workers, enabling them to enjoy their labour, social, cultural, civil, and political rights, as is necessary in order to stamp out unacceptable instances of overexploitation;
Amendment 103 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 g (new)
Paragraph 2 g (new)
2g. Calls on the Member States to take on responsibility for guaranteeing the right to housing for everyone, in particular by launching housing programmes for less well-off citizens, providing incentives for promoting controlled-cost housing, constructing social rented housing, promoting and financing self-building programmes, supporting the cooperative sector, launching effective and non-speculative credit policies and regulating a non- speculative rental market;
Amendment 109 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Points out that the situation of women in rural areas is heavily influenced by the agricultural situation and that unfair measures under the Common Agricultural Policy have resulted in the increasing abandonment of small and medium-sized holdings and family agriculture; stresses the need to increase support in order to maintain family agriculture and ensure rural development, with particular emphasis on the work of women, including women migrants who work in agriculture;
Amendment 118 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Urges the Member States to close the gender pay gap and the pensions gap; points out that pensions should be upgraded to provide a fair income that allows people to live in dignity and can never be below the poverty line; stresses the need to defend public, solidarity-based and universal social security systems that guarantee decent pensions for all;
Amendment 128 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Urges the Member States to implement specific measures to tackle the risk of social exclusion and poverty, focusing on access to affordable housing, transport and energy;
Amendment 134 #
2021/2254(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Urges the Member States to guarantee that women can exercise their rights in all areas of society, prohibiting and penalising all forms of discrimination;
Amendment 7 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic is placing a heavy burden on people in the EUworkers and people, particularly those from more vulnerable groups, such as precarious workers, women, people with disabilities, children, young people and the elderly, in their everyday lives, working lives andevery dimension of their lives and with regard to their livelihoods23; _________________ 2 Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung, Belastungen von Kindern, Jugendlichen und Eltern in der Corona-Pandemie, 2021. 3 European Commission, Joint Employment Report 2021.
Amendment 15 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the RRF created an unprecedented structure adaptestablishment of the RRF set limits to its use, whether owing to an insufficient figure or to the frontloading of funds or because it is being mobilised in the form of loans, causing further indebtedness, or because of the associated conditionalities, which prevent it from being an effective support for the response needed to addressing the complex effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on economy, society and institutions;
Amendment 47 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights that the COVID-19 crisispandemic has already left many peoplethousands of workers jobless or in precarious employment; calls on the Commission and Member States to fight against youth unemployment and to ensure that young people, especially thos and that many have seen their wages cut, their hours deregulated and their rights undermined; points out that COVID-19 is often used as an excuse to further exploit workers; calls on the Commission and Member States to fight for the promotion of full employment and work with rights, and against unemployment, including for young people, and against the risk of poverty and social exclusion and to ensure that young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs), receive adequate, properly paid and quality first working experience;
Amendment 73 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Urges the Commission and the Member States to push for equality at all life stages, including the beginning and the end of life; calls, therefore, for the establishment of a programme to support Member States that plan to establish or bolster a public, universal and free network of high-quality care and education for children (including under threes) and persons with a disability, a public, universal and free care for the elderly, and for people with long-term care needs;
Amendment 79 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses that the amount earmarked for the RRF is nowhere near enough to compensate for the impact of the pandemic, and is even further from enough to relaunch and modernise the Member States' economies;
Amendment 82 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Deplores the fact that the RRF ties the economic recovery and investment policies to constraints arising from macroeconomic governance, the European Semester and its instruments (country-specific recommendations, national reform plans and sanctions by means of suspension of payments in the event of non-compliance with deficit and debt criteria);
Amendment 87 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2b. Rejects the Commission's intervention in the setting of the content of the Member States' Recovery and Resilience Plans, which has led to pressure being exerted to change the draft versions of some RRPs, either by abandoning planned investments or by including some 'reforms';
Amendment 89 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Stresses that, as it offers the EU budget as a guarantee for debt issuance on the markets, the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) is actually, by its very nature, an advance payment to Member States, made towards future payments; rejects the fact that the RRF funds now transferred to the Member States will, from 2028 onwards, be deducted from future transfers under cohesion policy and its instruments;
Amendment 92 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 f (new)
Paragraph 2 f (new)
2f. Stresses the importance of access to sport, leisure and culture to the physical and mental health of every generation of society; calls strongly, in this regard, for the RRF to support the creation, bolstering and renewal of public infrastructure and initiatives that promote sport, leisure and culture for all generations, along with the right to play;
Amendment 94 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 g (new)
Paragraph 2 g (new)
Amendment 97 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 h (new)
Paragraph 2 h (new)
2h. Takes the view that the RRF must be used to combat physical accessibility barriers, but not only those for persons with a disability;
Amendment 104 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support legislative and policy initiatives aimed at reducing inequalities and promoting decent working conditions for all, with a particular focus onincluding with regard to telework, the right to disconnect, mental well-being at work, occupational health and safety, ensuring quality jobs for essential workers, and strengthening the role of the social partners and collective bargaining; calls in this regard for the swift adoption of the directives on improving working conditions in platform work and on adequate minimum wages in the European Unionstable employment relationships and regulated working hours, to promote decent wages and pensions and their progressive increase, and strengthening the role of unions and collective bargaining;
Amendment 113 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Takes the view that companies that fail to meet the highest social and labour standards – particularly those whose organisational model is based on precarious employment relationships or which close down and dismiss workers for no apparent reason – should be barred from accessing public funds, including EU funds;
Amendment 118 #
2021/2251(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls for the public debt taken on by the Member States under the RRP not to be counted for the purposes of macroeconomic governance and for the part of the public debt issued by the Member States, for the entire period in which they are tackling the consequences of the pandemic, held by the ECB and appearing on their balance sheets and on the balance sheets of the National Central Banks (Eurosystem), to be cancelled in order to give the Member States room for manoeuvre to address public investment needs properly;
Amendment 36 #
2021/2170(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the employment rate of women has even fallen more sharply than it did during the 2008 recession and has also resulted in a lower labour intensity, leading to significant increases in women’s poverty; whereas according to estimates for 2019 in the EU-27, women are particularly affected by the risk of poverty (AROP), with the poverty rate standing at 25.1 % before social transfers and 17.1 % after such transfers; whereas, even before the COVID-19 pandemic, women were in the majority in temporary or part-time posts and the pandemic has reinforced this trend;
Amendment 39 #
2021/2170(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the COVID-19 situation has significantly increased the unemployment rate in Member States; whereas the effects of this situation are particularly serious for women who are affected directly through loss of their jobs or job security and indirectly through budget cuts in public services and welfare assistance; whereas it is therefore essential that the dimension of female poverty in the handling of this situation and the development of solutions be examined;
Amendment 47 #
2021/2170(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the increasing risk of poverty is closely and directly linked to the destruction of significant social functions performed by the state, as seen, for example, with the dismantling of public social security systems, along with, in a number of Member States, cuts to key social benefits (family allowance, unemployment benefit, sickness benefit, social integration minimum income);
Amendment 61 #
2021/2170(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the right to work is an essential precondition if women are to enjoy economic independence, professional fulfilment and effective equal rights; whereas precarious employment should thus be eradicated through the mandatory application of the principle that for every actual job there should be a permanent post, and by recognising and enhancing the right to work with rights;
Amendment 63 #
2021/2170(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas the importance of combating discrimination between men and women in access to employment and work, and promoting equality in careers and professional categories, in vocational training and in salaries is essential, at the same time as strengthening work with rights and protecting collective bargaining and union rights;
Amendment 166 #
2021/2170(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that the vast majority of retail workers and cleaners are women and are often only paid the minimum wage, and the COVID-19 pandemic has put them at even greater risk of poverty; stresses the urgent need to improve wages and combat precarious employment; urges the Member States to raise the status of health professionals by means of decent wages and working conditions and, in particular, by concluding proper employment contracts;
Amendment 177 #
2021/2170(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Insists on mandatory respect for collective bargaining in the private sector, state-owned enterprises and public administration, this being the form of worker protection that best guarantees equal rights for men and women in the workplace; rejects, therefore, measures aimed at making labour relations more flexible and weakening the role played by trade unions in guaranteeing labour rights;
Amendment 183 #
2021/2170(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Takes the view that the participation of women in all sectors must be increased; takes the view that investment in public services and welfare provision is a means of ensuring access, on an equal basis, to healthcare, education, culture, social security and justice; urges the Member States to take specific measures to tackle the risk of social exclusion and poverty, focusing especially on access to affordable housing, transport and energy;
Amendment 194 #
2021/2170(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls for a public transport policy that takes account of gender equality, in particular by expanding and improving the public transport service and offering effective mobility so that women can find work and participate more actively in the labour market (and achieve a better work- life balance);
Amendment 201 #
2021/2170(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Stresses the importance of making it genuinely possible to combine work, private and family life, which will have the positive effect of increasing the participation of women from all sections of society in social and political life;
Amendment 202 #
2021/2170(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Amendment 203 #
2021/2170(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6d. Stresses the need for Member States to adopt a public health policy that places special emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention by guaranteeing free, universal and high- quality healthcare and ensuring the availability of the necessary resources to combat the main public health problems;
Amendment 211 #
2021/2170(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Urges the Member States to take specific measures to tackle the risk of social exclusion and poverty, focusing on access to affordable housing, transport, justice and energy;
Amendment 220 #
2021/2170(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses the need to enhance the responsibility of states and employers for maternity and paternity rights, which include the right of women to be both mothers and workers without forfeiting labour rights;
Amendment 222 #
2021/2170(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Points out that measures to achieve a work-life balance are important in ensuring an equal division of care- giving responsibilities between women and men and addressing income and employment disparities; notes that the achievement of a work-life balance depends on the availability and accessibility of high-quality public care services, which should be provided free of charge; notes that all maternity benefits should be ensured and upheld, with an increase in fully paid leave entitlements; stresses that public policies for the protection and promotion of nursing and breastfeeding are needed;
Amendment 223 #
2021/2170(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Notes that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a drastic impact on the lives of all women, especially working women; notes that a disproportionate share of the burden was borne by teleworking women whose lives were made harder by the need to combine work, childcare and domestic chores; points out that many women were faced with increased expenses on lower pay;
Amendment 230 #
2021/2170(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Notes that the worsening social and economic situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has increased all forms of abuse and violence towards women, as well as prostitution, in violation of their human rights; underlines the need to increase public, financial and human resources in order to support groups at risk of poverty and tackle situations posing a risk to children and young people, the elderly, people with disabilities and the homeless;
Amendment 232 #
2021/2170(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Considers prostitution to be a serious form of violence and exploitation affecting mostly women and children; calls on the Member States to take specific action to combat the economic, social and cultural causes of prostitution so that women in a situation of poverty and social exclusion do not fall victim to such exploitation; calls on the Member States to take specific action to help prostitutes with their social and professional reintegration;
Amendment 235 #
2021/2170(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls for positive discrimination measures to be introduced for women farmers, encouraging them to remain in rural areas; calls, in addition to support for women, for measures promoting associative structures that can provide technical advice and assistance to keep farms operating as tools to help the sector survive, and encourage young people to invest in agriculture and livestock for the future;
Amendment 236 #
2021/2170(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Stresses the importance of combating inequalities and injustices against women; calls on the Commission and Member States to take urgent action to address poverty and increasing inequalities among women, especially among vulnerable groups, including single mothers, women with disabilities, Roma women, LGBTIQ+ women, migrant and refugee women, older women and women in rural or depopulated areas;
Amendment 237 #
2021/2170(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)
Paragraph 11 c (new)
11c. Points out that the situation of women in rural areas is heavily influenced by the agricultural situation and that unfair measures under the common agricultural policy have resulted in the increasing abandonment of small and medium-sized holdings and family agriculture; stresses the need to increase support in order to maintain family agriculture and ensure rural development, with particular emphasis on the work of women, including women migrants who work in agriculture;
Amendment 238 #
2021/2170(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 d (new)
Paragraph 11 d (new)
11d. Highlights the major contribution of women in the fields of employment, culture, education, science, and research; recognises the profound deterioration in the living conditions of women employed in arts and culture, and in micro and small agricultural and rural businesses resulting from the suspension of economic and cultural activities during the pandemic period;
Amendment 264 #
2021/2170(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Commission to refrain from promoting any policy recommendation that would lead to an increase in precarious working relations, the deregulation of working hours, a reduction in salaries, an attack on collective bargaining or the privatisation of public services and social security;
Amendment 268 #
2021/2170(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Amendment 287 #
2021/2170(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Recalls that cuts in public budgets resulting from the European Union’s macro-structural economic policies, in particular the implementation of ‘economic governance’ measures, are causing and will continue to cause increasing gender inequalities and female unemployment, women being in the majority in the public sector and the principal beneficiaries of social policies, and greater feminisation of poverty; stresses that a change in policy is therefore required;
Amendment 52 #
2021/2062(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
F a. whereas it is imperative to break with the neoliberal principles that have governed the policies imposed by the European Union on the peoples and workers of the Member States; whereas such principles run counter to social progress and sustainable economic growth;
Amendment 55 #
2021/2062(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
F b. whereas the provisions of the Fiscal Compact, which require significant and persistent primary budget surpluses, have devastating economic and social consequences;
Amendment 150 #
2021/2062(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Amendment 151 #
2021/2062(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10 b. Reiterates the urgency of starting a real fight against inequalities, precariousness, low wages, which have been hampering economic growth and social progress; remembers, however, that this is not possible within the European economic governance and the Lisbon Treaty; calls, therefore, for the repeal of the European Semester and the convening of an intergovernmental summit with the aim of institutionalizing the reversibility of the treaties, the repeal of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU, the Stability and Growth Pact and the intergovernmental Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance;
Amendment 182 #
2021/2062(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Reminds that both employment and social policies of the euro area promoted by the EU institutions have been mainly leading to the deregulation and flexibilization of labor markets, to the liberalization and privatization of the public services, as well as threatening State’s social functions and pushing down workers’ wages and social benefits;
Amendment 232 #
2021/2062(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18 a. Stresses that the country-specific recommendations are a blatant affront to sovereign, democratic decision-making by the Member States’ peoples concerning the future of their countries; recalls that these recommendations have focused on liberalising and privatising strategic sectors of the economy (energy, transport, telecommunications and banking), imposing labour market flexibility, eliminating labour rights, containing rises in, or even reducing, wages and pensions, cutting public spending on social support, health and education and, thereby, cutting social entitlements;
Amendment 14 #
2021/2046(INI)
1a Points out, however, that, more so than changes to the energy sources used to power vehicles, sustainable and smart mobility is linked to the availability of accessible, interoperable and efficient public passenger and goods transport networks that help to change the models that favour road and individual transport, both of which are generally more harmful on the environment and the fluidity of urban systems, and at the same time to further territorial cohesion;
Amendment 23 #
2021/2046(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Believes that the challenges ahead are also an opportunity for the Union industrial leadership into promote public investment to boost the industrial base for the production of clean technologies such as batteries or hydrogen, as well as in the related industrial ecosystems; welcomes the new European partnerships under Horizon Europe related to mobility; highlights the opportunity that exists in the relationship between mobility and technology, focusing on the vital role played by public investment, including EU funding, leveraged by combining and employing flexibility with financing from instruments from different thematic areas;
Amendment 35 #
2021/2046(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that a mobility system based on EU-wide digitalisation, data sharing and interoperableility standards hasve the potential to make transportmobility smarter and cleaner but should also uphold the right to privacy and to data protection;
Amendment 56 #
2021/2046(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for a holistic approach to increase the share of renewable energy in the transport sector, where the further development and deployment of electric vehiclvehicles powered by non-polluting energy sources should play a key role;
Amendment 62 #
2021/2046(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on Member States to implement the Clean Energy Package in order to facilitate the production and management of the increased renewable electricity needed to decarbonise the transport sector;
Amendment 73 #
2021/2046(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for measures to unlock the potential of the energy efficiency first principle by boosting opportunities from digitalisation and electrification;
Amendment 87 #
2021/2046(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the possibilities for advanced biofuelnon-polluting propulsion activities and associated infrastructure development in the EU, such as options for the greater uptake of sustainable alternative fuels, in particular in the aviation and maritime sectors, as part of the review of RED II;
Amendment 99 #
2021/2046(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for increased efforts to achieve a EU-wide roll-out of charging infrastructure and the adoption of harmonised standards to ensure interoperability.
Amendment 39 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the objective of the European Union in this area is to ensure equal treatment and equal opportunities for women and men in all their diversity and to combat all forms of gender discrimination;
Amendment 46 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas, although female employment rates have risen, gender inequality on the labour market remains a fact of life; whereas the employment gap is particularly high in the case of single mothers, female caregivers, women with disabilities, women from ethnic minorities, migrant and refugee women, LBTIQI+ women and young and elderly women;
Amendment 48 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas Member States on average scored 67.9 out of 100 in the 2020 EU Gender Equality Index published by the European Institute for Gender Equality, just 1.7 points up on 2017, showing that the EU is still far from achieving gender equality;
Amendment 51 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing gender inequalities in almost every walk of life and increased the risk of nullifying the improvements achieved, with significant consequences for individuals, families, economies, societies, such as the erosion of opportunities, freedoms, rights, and wellbeing;
Amendment 56 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas hourly pay for women is, on average, 14% less than for men in the European Union, the gender pay gap varying between 3.3% and 21.7% in the Member States; whereas – despite the significant body of legislation in force for almost 46 years and the actions taken and resources spent on efforts to reduce the gap – progress is extremely slow, with the disparity actually widening in certain Member States;
Amendment 59 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas, although female employment rates have risen, gender inequality on the labour market remains a fact of life; whereas the gender gap regarding access to employment and professional activity was 11.7% in 2019, with 67.3% of women in the EU employed, compared to 79% of men; whereas the employment gap is particularly high in the case of single mothers, female caregivers, women with disabilities, women from ethnic minorities, migrant and refugee women, LBTIQI+ women and young and elderly women;
Amendment 60 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas, during the pandemic, social confinement policies and their impact in social, economic, psychological and democratic terms affected the most vulnerable people, including women, who suffered particularly from violence, economic dependency, inequalities in the workplace and the problems facing caregivers;
Amendment 61 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C d (new)
Recital C d (new)
Cd. whereas the outbreak of COVID- 19 has had a particular impact on the living and working conditions of women; whereas some 70% of front-line social and health workers combating the epidemic, whether nurses, doctors or cleaners, were women; whereas women who were teleworking, unemployed or working part-time were subject to even greater pressure, continuing to carry out the majority of domestic and family tasks; whereas, on the basis of complaints submitted, the number of women who were victims of violence and harassment rose during the COVID-19 pandemic;
Amendment 62 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C e (new)
Recital C e (new)
Ce. whereas there has been an unprecedented focus on gender equality in sport over the last decade, but not always for the best reasons and purposes - especially regarding women's rights in practice;
Amendment 75 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas women in the EU are more severely affected by poverty or social exclusion than men, being systematically placed at a disadvantage by structural and cultural factors; whereas women are at greater risk of poverty and employment precarity, frequently working in jobs that are too poorly paid to enable them to escape penury and unstable working conditions;
Amendment 92 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas in the European Union, 20.6 % of women with disabilities are in full-time employment compared with 28.5 % their male counterparts; whereas figures show that, on average, 29.5 % of women with disabilities in the EU are at risk of falling victim to poverty and social exclusion, compared with 27.5 % of men with disabilities;
Amendment 94 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas their role as primary caregivers within the family imposes a disproportionate burden of unpaid care and domestic work on women, who play a vital role in this respect; whereas 80 % of care across the EU is provided by informal caregivers, most of whom are women (75%); whereas the unequal sharing of caregiving responsibilities is exacerbated by the shortage or total lack of public care facilities for children and the elderly in the Member States, causing periods of absence from the labour market that result in gender disparities regarding pay and pensions; whereas privatisation and lack of investment in public services is undermining women's rights and gender equality;
Amendment 101 #
2021/2020(INI)
Ga. whereas measures to achieve work-life balance are important in ensuring an equal division of caregiving responsibilities between women and men and addressing income and employment disparities; whereas achievement of work- life balance depends on the availability and accessibility of high-quality of public care services, which should be provided free of charge; whereas all maternity benefits should be ensured and upheld, with an increase in fully paid leave entitlements; whereas public policies for the protection and promotion of nursing and breastfeeding are needed;
Amendment 110 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas the right to equal pay for equal work of equal value is not guaranteed in many circumstances, even where enshrined in law; whereas the root causes of such discrimination need to be tackled, whether by protecting and enhancing labour rights or by stepping up business monitoring, especially by national labour inspectorates; whereas collective bargaining is key to reversing and overcoming gender inequalities;
Amendment 125 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Believes that combating gender inequalities must be a core consideration at the workplace; urges Member States to promote policies that enhance the status of work, increase real wages and safeguard rights, outlawing job insecurity, tackling the deregulation of labour relations and working hours and imposing severe restrictions on recourse to solutions such as part-time and temporary work; supports collective bargaining as a means not only to enhance working conditions but also to tackle inequalities between men and women;
Amendment 128 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Points to the need to pay close attention to the situation and rights of professional and non-professional top- level athletes representing their countries in international and European competitions both during and after their sporting careers; urges Member States to ensure that children and young people are fully entitled to participate in sport and to combat the widening social divide regarding access to sport;
Amendment 137 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission and Council to ensure that all budgetary allocations under the MFF 2021-2027 respect and promote the principle of gender equality in all Union policies;
Amendment 139 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges Member States to impose firm measures, including sanctions, where businesses fail to comply with labour legislation and where they actually encourage gender discrimination; considers that EU funding should be made conditional in the case of companies that do not take care to protect employment and respect workers' rights, especially where this involves discrimination against women;
Amendment 153 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a drastic impact on the lives of women, in particular working women; notes that a disproportionate share of the burden was borne by teleworking women whose lives were made harder by the need to combine work, childcare and domestic chores; points out that many women were faced with increased expenses on lower pay;
Amendment 154 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Points out that the promotion of teleworking in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has become a pretext for exploitation, turning all workers' homes into an extension of the companies employing them, thereby eroding their privacy and undermining their health through the resulting deregulation of working hours;
Amendment 157 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for measures to achieve work, employee and pay enhancement, effectively combat joblessness and promote full employment; calls for the creation and promotion of employment with rights, the defence of collective bargaining, the revitalisation of public sector employment and an end to job insecurity; calls in addition for a reduction in working hours without loss of pay; calls for measures to achieve the objective of 35 hours per week and the organisation of working time so as to respect daily and weekly rest periods, breaks, holidays and other important needs such as the protection of workers' health and safety and measures to guarantee suitable working conditions;
Amendment 165 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Notes that equal pay for women and men must necessarily form part of a fairer distribution of income between labour and capital, as a means of preventing inequality and poverty and improving the living conditions of all workers and their families;
Amendment 171 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Advocates convergence in measures to improve conditions at the workplace and living standards, establishing the principle of non- regression and reversing the current levelling down of living and working conditions;
Amendment 172 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Calls on the Member States to provide specific support for the cultural sector in order to remedy the serious problems facing it, namely the lack of rights for thousands of cultural workers, underfunding, insecurity, low pay, lack of fixed hours, low pensions and high unemployment rates; stresses the need to increase funding for cultural initiatives, including programmes to promote arts and culture and improve working conditions for those employed in this sector;
Amendment 174 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Reiterates its call for more investment to uphold the rights of women and girls; calls for budget appropriations to be earmarked for EU programmes and funds to promote women's economic independence; calls for a more strategic deployment of ESF resources for the purpose of promoting gender equality, facilitating labour market access and re- entry and combating unemployment, poverty, social exclusion and all forms of discrimination; calls on the Commission to propose proactive measures to encourage the employment of women in rural areas through the deployment of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development;
Amendment 176 #
2021/2020(INI)
5e. Calls on the Commission and Council to include gender equality among the objectives of the Structural Fund framework provisions and of key EU funding programmes (health and environment, education, youth, economy, etc) and to ensure that the necessary appropriations are earmarked for this purpose;
Amendment 177 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 f (new)
Paragraph 5 f (new)
5f. Stresses the urgency of eliminating inequalities regarding the rights and working conditions of healthworkers, especially women; calls on the Commission and Council to ensure that career opportunities are provided, in particular through research projects and ongoing vocational training, encouraging the acquisition of knowledge and promoting innovation and technology in the health sector;
Amendment 178 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 g (new)
Paragraph 5 g (new)
5g. Points out that workers in precarious employment, most of whom are women, suffer discrimination, whether they are workers on fixed-term contracts, trainees, seasonal workers, migrants, young and long-term unemployed people recruited for extended trial period, bogus self-employed workers, workers on digital platforms refused employee status or other categories, and that this has implications for their working lives, conditioning their choices, particularly the timing of maternity, as well as their welfare entitlements, especially pensions;
Amendment 179 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 h (new)
Paragraph 5 h (new)
5h. Recognises the importance of negotiation and collective bargaining to combat discrimination against women, particularly regarding access to employment, pay, health and safety at work, career advancement and vocational training;
Amendment 180 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 i (new)
Paragraph 5 i (new)
5i. Points out that COVID-19 has revealed the precarious situation of female intellectuals (researchers, architects, and others) who, in the absence of a stable employment relationship, have been particularly affected; stresses the need for extraordinary measures to mitigate the consequences of the Member States' containment measures and underlines the importance of structural measures that take into account equality at work and in everyday life and enforce women's rights;
Amendment 181 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 j (new)
Paragraph 5 j (new)
5j. Stresses the role of women working in the social sector; recognises that their workload has been exacerbated by the pandemic and that low wages, increased exploitation (especially of migrant women) and the hiring of people without training or qualifications for the tasks to be performed are aggravating their working and living conditions; stresses the importance of enhancing working conditions and pay, respecting working hours and using collective bargaining as a guarantee of respect for working conditions;
Amendment 199 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Notes that violence between men and women rises during emergencies of any kind – whether economic crises, conflicts or epidemics; notes that inequalities, the economic and social stress caused by confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic, the restrictions on movement and the social isolation have led to an increase in violence against women; points out that many women have been confined at home with their aggressors; notes that in certain Member States, such as Portugal and France, domestic violence rose by 30% during that period;
Amendment 204 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Stresses the need for specific prevention, treatment and rehabilitation programmes to protect and monitor victims of violence and ensure that measures are taken to step up social support and improve access to justice, shelter and mental healthcare;
Amendment 206 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Stresses the need for Member States to adopt programmes specifically designed to prevent aggressors perpetrating further acts of domestic violence; calls for them to be identified or monitored by the competent authorities to prevent them from attacking their victims again with possibly fatal consequences;
Amendment 211 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses that prostitution constitutes a serious form of violence and exploitation affecting mostly women and children; notes that the root causes of prostitution are inextricably intertwined with social and economic realities, particularly unemployment, financial need and poverty; stresses the need for Member States to increase funding for social support and access to public services for victims of trafficking or sexual exploitation; calls for psychological and social support to be provided by specialised professionals and for the adoption of social and economic policies aimed at helping vulnerable women and girls to leave prostitution, in particular by guaranteeing jobs that effectively lead to their social integration;
Amendment 219 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Points out that trafficking in persons, particularly women and children, for sexual exploitation is a form of slavery and incompatible with human dignity; notes that, as a result of the increase in organised crime and its profitability, human trafficking is on the rise around the world; points out that prostitution is fuelling the trafficking of women and children and exacerbating violence against them, particularly in countries where the sex industry has been legalised;
Amendment 223 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Amendment 229 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses the importance of combating inequalities and injustices against women; calls on the Commission and Member States to take urgent action to address poverty and increasing inequalities among women, especially among vulnerable groups, including single mothers, women with disabilities, Roma women, LGBTQI+ women, migrant and refugee women, older women and women in rural or depopulated areas;
Amendment 232 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that any strategy designed to achieve equality must get to grips with all forms of violence against women, including the erosion of healthcare entitlements and sexual and reproductive rights acquired by women and infringements thereof; reiterates that access to healthcare and public services, particularly access to induced abortion services and psychological support for female victims of violence must be considered a priority;
Amendment 237 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Notes that violations of the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women, including denying them induced abortion services, are a form of violence against them;
Amendment 238 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Considers gestational surrogacy, or 'wombs for hire' to be a form of violence against women, treating their bodies as a convenience and turning children into a tradable commodity in order to generate business for companies engaged in such practices;
Amendment 244 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on the Member States to take measures to ensure access for migrant and refugee women to healthcare, employment, alimentation and information services, focusing in particular on violence between men and women and the trafficking of women;
Amendment 250 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Stresses that access to healthcare in certain Member States has been restricted by the COVID-19 containment measures and that, in certain cases, consultations, treatments and diagnoses were not provided; urges Member States to strengthen their public health systems in order to speed up such consultations, treatments and diagnoses, mitigating the impacts of COVID-19 on other areas of healthcare;
Amendment 251 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Amendment 252 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses the need to create a public crèche and pre-school education network; points out that the provision of a universal public service that is genuinely accessible to all children and families wishing to avail themselves of it is an overarching social responsibility; recognises the need for the creation/extension of a network of support facilities for the elderly and people with disabilities, as well as the development of continuous care networks; urges the Commission and the Member States to meet those targets, which are key to boosting equality in the family;
Amendment 260 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Stresses the need for a substantial increase in investment for healthcare, education and transport services, with a view to addressing public need and contributing to the independence, equality and emancipation of women;
Amendment 261 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Urges the Member States to take specific measures to combat the risk of poverty in old age and retirement, increasing pensions and boosting social benefits; stresses the need to overcome gender inequalities regarding pensions, requiring the latter to be increased, and for public, universal and solidarity-based social security systems to be maintained and enhanced, ensuring that they are redistributive and provide a fair and decent income after a lifetime of work, while safeguarding the sustainability of public social security systems by creating jobs with rights and better pay;
Amendment 268 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Takes the view that the participation of women in all sectors must be increased; takes the view that investment in public services and welfare provision is a means of ensuring access, on an equal basis, to healthcare, education, culture, social security and justice; urges the Member States to take specific measures to tackle the risk of social exclusion and poverty, focusing especially on access to affordable housing, transport and energy;
Amendment 275 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Highlights the major contribution of women in the fields of employment culture, education, science, and research; recognises the profound deterioration in the living conditions of women employed in arts and culture, women running micro and small businesses and those working on farms and living in rural communities resulting from the suspension of economic and cultural activities during the pandemic period;
Amendment 279 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Considers it essential to promote the participation of women in sports activities and sports structures and their further development; recognises the need to address the inequalities regarding women's access to sport and the presentation of awards;
Amendment 281 #
2021/2020(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)
Paragraph 15 c (new)
15c. Stresses the need for specific measures to combat gender inequality in order to ensure equal participation in every walk of life ;
Amendment 57 #
2021/2013(INI)
B d. whereas the Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, adopted in Doha on14November 2001, states that the TRIPS agreement should be implemented and interpreted in a way that is good for public health – encouraging both access to existing medicines and the development of new ones; whereas the WTO TRIPS Council decided on 6 November 2015 to extend the drug patent exemption for the least developed countries (LDCs) until January 2033;
Amendment 82 #
2021/2013(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Amendment 87 #
2021/2013(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1 c. Considers that uncompetitive and monopolistic markets, as well as a lack of standardization, have contributed to supply chain shortages, notably for single use bioprocessing equipment, limiting the rapid scale-up of Covid-19 vaccine production; calls on the Commission to support intellectual property waivers and compulsory licensing of monopoly patents throughout the supply chain to address these bottlenecks;
Amendment 89 #
2021/2013(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1 d. Is concerned about the continuous decline in efficiency of the current innovation system due in part to data silos and the fragmentation of knowledge; calls on the Commission to promote and support open science partnerships as a mechanism to reverse declining efficiency and promote innovation, avoiding restrictive forms of intellectual property to facilitate use and sharing;
Amendment 91 #
2021/2013(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1 e. Recognizes the shortcomings and limited returns of the usual economic models used by the industry to develop new antibiotics; calls on the Commission to urgently present its analysis and thorough review of the current R&I incentive models in this area and address antimicrobial resistance;
Amendment 98 #
2021/2013(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 i (new)
Paragraph 1 i (new)
1 i. Highlights the importance of public R&D efforts in discovering new treatments; stresses that research priorities must address public health needs, and stresses that the regulatory framework must facilitate the best possible outcome for patients and public health; calls on the Commission and the Member States to foster R&D driven by public health and unmet medical needs, including by researching new antimicrobials;
Amendment 115 #
2021/2013(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Amendment 145 #
2021/2013(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Is concerned, particularly in regard to the Innovative Health Initiative, that the Industry exercises exclusive control on the priorities of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI2) Joint Undertaking, that the Industry alone draws up the strategic agendas and annual work plans and privatises the results and data of projects financed by public money;
Amendment 169 #
2021/2013(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Recalls that IP rights allow an extensive period of exclusivity that needs carefully and effectively to be regulated, monitored and implemented by the competent authorities so that IP rights do not limit accessibility and availability of medicines nor conflict with the fundamental human right to health;
Amendment 171 #
2021/2013(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4 c. Calls on the Commission to build on, extend and generalize the additional exploitation obligations, including an obligation to license on a non-exclusive basis and at fair and reasonable conditions included in the special Coronavirus calls under the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme;
Amendment 193 #
2021/2013(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Stresses that the high level of public funds used for R&D is not reflected in the pricing due to a lack of traceability of the public funds in the patenting and licensing conditions, impeding a fair return on public investment;
Amendment 198 #
2021/2013(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6 c. Notes that repurposing off-patent drugs has long been presented as a cost- effective and efficient way to develop new treatments; regrets however that a lack of publicly available data has limited its potential; insists that the repurposing of off-patent medicines not lead in any case to a decline in accessibility and that price increases would defeat the low cost of off- patent medications, a main point of interest of repurposing; highlights therefore the importance of public investment, coordination and initiative;
Amendment 211 #
2021/2013(INI)
7 a. Calls for EU joint procurement to be used more systematically to avoid Member States competing against each other and to ensure equal and affordable access to important medicines and medical devices, in particular for new innovative antibiotics, new vaccines and curative medicines, and medicines for rare diseases;
Amendment 230 #
2021/2013(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Stresses the importance of safe- guarding and creating quality jobs along the entire pharmaceutical value chain; calls on the Commission to promote equality employment in the pharmaceutical sector; considers that public funding, notably under Next Generation EU, requires employment safeguards; calls for a ban on collective redundancies in companies distributing shareholder dividends;
Amendment 248 #
2021/2013(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8 c. Highlights that increasing manufacturing and ‘fill and finish’ capacities requires sharing the technological know-how and intellectual property and corresponding technology; invites the Commission to encourage the transfer of crucial health technologies to developing countries by granting open licenses for such technologies in line with obligations under Article 66.2 of the TRIPS Agreement;
Amendment 269 #
2021/2013(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 g (new)
Paragraph 8 g (new)
Amendment 17 #
2021/2005(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas work is a crucial and structuring activity in society, and whereas work should undeniably be a way of and a reason for meeting human material needs;
Amendment 18 #
2021/2005(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A a (new)
Recital -A a (new)
-Aa. whereas the employment relationship is an unequal relationship in that the stronger party, the employer, holds almost all the power from the start, while the other party, the worker, is weaker and merely sells their labour; whereas democracy at work cannot be achieved without addressing this issue;
Amendment 19 #
2021/2005(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A b (new)
Recital -A b (new)
Ab. whereas democracy at work goes beyond the formal participation of trade union organisations in so-called social concertation meetings or the simple consultation of these organisations; whereas the promotion of democracy at work calls for the safeguarding and upholding of various rights and principles, including the right to collective organisation, collective action and collective recruitment; trade union rights; the right to strike, the principle of prohibiting unfair dismissal; the principle of equal pay for equal work; and the principle of adapting work to human needs and reconciling family and personal life with work by means of arrangements including appropriate working hours; the reduction of working time in order to enable workers to participate in political, trade union and social life;
Amendment 20 #
2021/2005(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A c (new)
Recital -A c (new)
-Ac. whereas democracy at work can likewise not be achieved if precarious and unregulated employment relationships, instability, low wages, lack of safety at work and harassment in the workplace persist;
Amendment 21 #
2021/2005(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas, although democracy in general and democracy at work in particular are core values of the European Union and provide a very solid foundation on which to strengincorporated in the Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of then Europe’s resilience and social contract; whereas these core values are also incorporatan Union, the EU institutions have introduced mechanisms which have done much to weaken them; whereas the Green Paper on modernising labour law to meet the challenges of the 21st century, the country-specific recommendations addressed into the Community ChMember States as parter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European UnionEuropean Semester and the so-called financial assistance programmes have been instrumental in the attack on workers’ rights and, consequently, on the erosion of democracy at the workplace;
Amendment 30 #
2021/2005(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the voice and action of workers is a key element of the European Social Model, whose shared legacy ofan advanced democracy based on four inseparable strands – political, economic, social and cultural – including social dialogue, workers’ participation, collective bargaining, employee representation on boards, health and safety representation, and tripartism are the building blocks of a diverse and socially sustainable future;
Amendment 40 #
2021/2005(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas workers’ participation, collective bargaining coverage and unioncollective bargaining and collective recruitment and the essential role of trade unions in improving the living and working conditions of workers have been severely undermined by the EU institutions and EU legislation are declining across; whereas this is part of a deliberate campaign to weaken democracy at work throughout the EU;
Amendment 88 #
2021/2005(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes the rich and interlocking network of workers’ participation at workplaces across the entire Unionin all Member States, from workers and trade union representatives elected by and from the workforce at the local level, to cross-site works councils in more complex companies, to dedicated health and safety representation, and employee representation on companies’ supervisory or administrative boards; deplores, however, the instrumentalisation by employers of certain worker representative bodies, which are used to conclude letterbox agreements that serve only the interests of employers;
Amendment 98 #
2021/2005(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is convinced that the workers’ voice must be a key component of EU initiatives to ensure sustainable and democratic corporate governance and, guaranteeing due diligence on human rights, especially in the work environment;
Amendment 118 #
2021/2005(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Regrets the fact that the 2019 Company Law Package failed to adequately define a high EU standard for information, consultation and workers’ board-level participation and representation in cases where companies restructure across borders;
Amendment 126 #
2021/2005(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to make the necessary improvements to the frameworks regulating SEs and European Cooperative Societies and to the Company Law Package, and to amend Council Directive 2001/86/EC to introduce minimum EU rules governing employee participation and representation on supervisory boards;
Amendment 136 #
2021/2005(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission to deliver on its commitment to put forward without further delay a directive on binding human rights due diligence and responsible business conduct, including workers’ rights such as the right to organise and collectively bargain, trade unions, the right to strike, health and safety, social protection and working conditions, including full compliance with the principle of prohibiting unfair dismissal; the principle of equal pay for equal work; and the principle of adapting work to human needs and reconciling family and personal life with work; stresses that this directive should establish mandatory due diligence covering companies’ activities and their business relationships, including supply and subcontracting chains, and should ensure the full involvement of trade unions and workers’ representatives throughout the whole due diligence process;
Amendment 149 #
2021/2005(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Is convinced that introducing and monitoring new digital technologies in the workplace successfully and in a trustworthy manner will require timely and meaningful information for and consultation with trade unions and workers’ representatives, as well as the establishment of consultation and bargaining processes which make for the effective participation of workers and their representatives in decision-making processes that concern them, to ensure full respect for their health, safety, data protection, equal treatment and well‑being at work and prevent undue exploitation and surveillance of workers, in particular via management by algorithms; underlines the fact that trade unions and workers’ representatives should have the necessary access and means to assess and evaluate digital technology;
Amendment 162 #
2021/2005(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses the need to strengthen, enforce and consolidate all the relevant EU laws to ensure that information for and consultation of employees is an integral part of company decision-making at all levels within companies;
Amendment 167 #
2021/2005(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses the importance of ensuring timely and meaningful information and consultation across the EU, as appropriate, before any management decisions are made which have an impact on jobs and working conditions and about policies or measures with cross‑border implications; emphasises that workers’ representatives must have access to the requisite expertise and documentation to assess the implications of these cross- border policies and processes for their workforceing relationship;
Amendment 185 #
2021/2005(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. States that much remains to be done to ensure gender equality and equal opportunities in all aspects of worker participation across the EU;
Amendment 192 #
2021/2005(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Points out that the current European legal framework on worker information, consultation and participation (such as the European Works Council Directive, the European Company Directive and the Directive on cross-border conversions, mergers and divisions) has loopholes and shortcomings that need to be addressed urgently in order to enforce workers’ rights, to combat shell companies and the ‘shopping’ regime, to ensure that effective and dissuasive penalties are imposed for violations and to guarantee access to justice;
Amendment 198 #
2021/2005(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Recalls that the European Works Council Directive is part of the EU acquis on employees’ right to participation, information for and consultation of employees; expresses concern over shortcomings in the directive’s design, notably the enforcement and effectiveness of information and consultation rights, and deplores the opportunity missed in 2008 to develop further and significantly improve this directive;
Amendment 200 #
2021/2005(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls for a thorough and complete revision of the Directive on the establishment of a European Works Council with a view to strengthening employee representatives’ right to information and consultation, including through the introduction of the principle of the right of veto for employees’ representatives, particularly during restructuring and attempts to relocate companies, and cross-border companies in particular, and where workers’ rights are not respected;
Amendment 205 #
2021/2005(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to guarantee the strengthening of information and consultation rights to ensure that the European Works Council can deliver its opinion before consultation is completed at the respective level and before the governing bodies come to a decision; calls on the Commission, moreover, to ensure access to justice, to put an end to exemptions for old, so-called ‘voluntary’ pre-directive agreements after more than 20 years, to introduce sanctions, to consolidate the concept of the ‘transnational character of a matter’ and incorporate it into the European Works Council Directive, to prevent the abuse of confidentiality rules, and to ensure the efficient coordination of information, consultation and participation at local, national and EU levels;
Amendment 74 #
2021/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas it is necessary to uphold women’s rights, in law and in life, and to take steps to combat all forms of exploitation, violence, oppression and inequality between women and men;
Amendment 76 #
2021/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Amendment 80 #
2021/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas with regard to healthcare services and services relating to sexual and reproductive rights, access must be free of charge and universal;
Amendment 85 #
2021/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas health rights, in particular sexual and reproductive health rights, are fundamental women’s rights that should be strengthened and cannot be in any way watered down or withdrawn;
Amendment 96 #
2021/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Amendment 104 #
2021/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas poverty and social exclusion have structural causes that need to be eliminated and reversed through policies on, inter alia, employment, housing, mobility and access to public services;
Amendment 110 #
2021/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas the right to equal pay for equal work of equal value is not a given in many circumstances, even when enshrined in law, and whereas the root cause of that discrimination needs to be addressed, whether by protecting and enhancing labour rights or through national labour inspectorates stepping up their monitoring of companies; whereas collective bargaining is key to reversing and overcoming inequality between men and women;
Amendment 253 #
2021/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Points out that the victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation are mainly women and girls; calls for increased international cooperation to end the practices resulting in such forms of enslavement; stresses that there are a number of links between prostitution and trafficking, and acknowledges that prostitution – both across the EU and worldwide – fuels the trafficking of vulnerable women and minors;
Amendment 258 #
2021/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Acknowledges that prostitution and sexual exploitation are unacceptable forms of exploitation and violation of human dignity which are at odds with human rights principles, including equality between men and women; stresses that the normalisation of prostitution influences the way young people perceive sexuality and male-female relationships; urges the Member States to provide financial support for the adoption of specific programmes for prostituted women seeking to free themselves from that form of exploitation and violence; takes the view that practical measures should be taken to protect women’s rights, preventing social exclusion, which in many cases leads to prostitution networks;
Amendment 269 #
2021/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Expresses concern at the rise of conservative rhetoric and organised religious and other groupings, which is threatening to undermine sexual and reproductive rights inside and outside the Union; stresses that legislative rollbacks on induced abortion undermine the protection of women’s health, rights and dignity, and put the most socially and economically vulnerable women at a greater risk;
Amendment 302 #
2021/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses the importance of sexual and reproductive rights with regard to women’s bodies and their autonomy and urges that they be treated as public health issues; calls for universal and free access to sexual education, contraception and safe and legal abortion;
Amendment 305 #
2021/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Stresses that the GAP III must get to grips with all forms of violence against women, including the erosion and infringements of healthcare entitlements and sexual and reproductive rights acquired by women; reiterates that access to healthcare and public services, particularly access to induced abortion services and psychological support for female victims of violence, must be considered a priority;
Amendment 319 #
2021/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Stresses the need for a substantial increase in investment in public services, particularly in health, education, transport and affordable housing, with a view to meeting public needs and contributing to the independence, equality and emancipation of women;
Amendment 328 #
2021/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Stresses the need for Member States to adopt a public health policy that places special emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention by guaranteeing free, universal and high- quality healthcare and ensuring the availability of the necessary resources to combat the main public health problems;
Amendment 334 #
2021/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Calls on the EU and its Member States to further protect mothers and fathers, including by increasing periods of leave, taking into account the World Health Organization’s recommendation that children be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of their lives, and ensuring that these parents are paid at 100%, without loss of pay; calls for the right to a reduction in working hours once maternity leave is over, so that mothers can breastfeed their children until they are at least two years old, and for practical measures to be taken to ensure that protection, alongside investment in the establishment of a free public network of childcare and education services;
Amendment 348 #
2021/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Takes the view that work is central to tackling inequality; urges Member States to promote policies that enhance the status of work, increase real wages and safeguard rights, by outlawing job insecurity, tackling the deregulation of labour relations and working hours, and imposing severe restrictions on recourse to solutions such as part-time and temporary work; supports collective bargaining as a means not only to enhance working conditions but also to tackle inequality between men and women;
Amendment 371 #
2021/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls for a comprehensive effort to provide girls with access to education and quality training tailored to the needs of the labour market; strongly recommends that Member States boost investment in public education, in order to strengthen its democratic outlook and pedagogical structure, enrich school curricula, improve working conditions in schools, and guarantee universal free access to high-quality and inclusive educational and social services;
Amendment 118 #
2021/0424(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 a (new)
Recital 2 a (new)
(2a) An energy supply diversification strategy must be introduced through mutually advantageous forms of cross- border cooperation and solidarity, care being taken not to replace current dependencies with new dependencies on third parties and to safeguard economic, social, and environmental standards that are important to states and their peoples, such as control of energy prices and service quality, workers' rights and ecological sustainability.
Amendment 120 #
2021/0424(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 b (new)
Recital 2 b (new)
(2b) Security of energy supply, a sensitive issue of central importance, must not be dependent on market contingencies, which in practice constitute a threat to it, rapidly driving up in energy prices.
Amendment 121 #
2021/0424(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 c (new)
Recital 2 c (new)
(2c) Reversal of the trend towards privatisation and deregulation, which is all the more important against the current backdrop, should once more give the state public control of the energy sector, encompassing production, distribution, infrastructure, networks and storage.
Amendment 122 #
2021/0424(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 d (new)
Recital 2 d (new)
Amendment 123 #
2021/0424(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 e (new)
Recital 2 e (new)
(2e) Condemns the conclusion of energy supply agreements involving energy resources plundered by a third country from the territory of another.
Amendment 124 #
2021/0424(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 f (new)
Recital 2 f (new)
(2f) The energy transition process must safeguard, workers' rights, ensuring that they are fully factored into the new energy supply structures and guaranteeing their employment contracts and remuneration.
Amendment 151 #
2021/0424(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) Equal access to information on the physical status and efficiency of the system is necessary to enable all market participants to assess the overall demand and supply situation and to identify the reasons for movements in the wholesale price. This includes more precise information on supply and demand, network capacity, flows and maintenance, balancing and availability and usage of storage. The importance of that information for the functioning of the market, ensuring proper public monitoring and consumer protection, requires alleviating existing limitations to publication for confidentiality reasons.
Amendment 152 #
2021/0424(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
Recital 23
(23) CAlthough confidentiality requirements for commercially sensitive information are, however,may be particularly relevant where data of a commercially strategic nature for the company are concerned, where there is only one single user for a storage facility, or where data are concerned regarding exit points within a system or subsystem that is not connected to another transmission or distribution system but to a single industrial final customer, where the publication of such data would reveal confidential information as to the production process of that customer, they may only apply in certain restricted cases and transparency must be a priority.
Amendment 200 #
2021/0424(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) gas prices for gases shall be formregulated onby the basis of demand and supplystates, ensuring affordable prices for end consumers;
Amendment 203 #
2021/0424(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
(aa) reversal of privatisation and deregulation in the energy sector shall ensure that the State regains public control of the energy sector, encompassing production, distribution, infrastructure, networks and storage;
Amendment 205 #
2021/0424(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) tariffs charged at the entry and exit points shall be structured in such a way as toagreed with the Member States and shall contribute to market integration, enhancing security of supply and promoting cooperation in the interconnection between gas networks;
Amendment 211 #
2021/0424(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point i
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point i
(i) market rules shall enable the decarbonisation of the natural gas and hydrogen systems, including by enabling the integration into the market of gases of gas from renewable energy sources and by providing incentives for energy saving and efficiency;
Amendment 215 #
2021/0424(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point j
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point j
(j) market rules shall deliver appropriate public investment incentives, in particular for long-term investments in a decarbonised and sustainable gas system, for energy storage, energy efficiency and demand response to meet market needs, and shall facilitate fair competitionensure quality services and security of supply;
Amendment 217 #
2021/0424(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point k a (new)
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point k a (new)
(ka ) the diversification of energy supply shall not be based on replacing current energy dependencies with new dependencies on other third countries;
Amendment 218 #
2021/0424(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point k b (new)
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point k b (new)
(kb) energy supply agreements involving energy resources plundered by a third country from the territory of another shall be rejected;
Amendment 202 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
(5a) Most platform workers are, by the nature of the contractual relationship and the tasks performed, employees and therefore entitled to the statutory rights, safeguards and guarantees provided in the Member States.
Amendment 203 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5 b (new)
Recital 5 b (new)
(5b) Persistent breaches of the rules and insecure employment relationships are also attributable to the lack of political will on the part of governments on the one hand to demand compliance and on the other to provide Member State inspectorates with the technical resources, staff and funding needed to monitor and sanction non-compliance.
Amendment 204 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5 c (new)
Recital 5 c (new)
(5c) Member States should provide labour inspectorates with the necessary technical resources, staff and funding to ensure compliance with the ILO- recommended ratio of one labour inspector per 10 000 workers.
Amendment 231 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7 a (new)
Recital 7 a (new)
(7a) In many Member States, the existence of an employment relationship between platform workers and their digital labour platforms has been rightly recognised by the courts. In order to avoid breach of the principle of equality and non-discrimination between workers, the effects of recognising the existence of an employment relationship under the relevant national law and the provisions of this Directive must be considered to apply from the beginning the contractual relationship.
Amendment 298 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 18 a (new)
Recital 18 a (new)
(18a) Digital platforms have been failing to comply with national laws on the rights, safeguards and guarantees to be granted to platform workers as employees and those who deliberately breach their legal obligations should not be rewarded. The effects of recognition of the employment relationship should accordingly be considered to apply from beginning of the contractual relationship.
Amendment 300 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 18 b (new)
Recital 18 b (new)
(18b) Persistent breaches of the rules and insecure employment relationships are also attributable to the lack of political will on the part of governments on the one hand to demand compliance and, on the other hand, to provide Member State inspectorates with the technical resources, staff and funding needed to monitor and sanction non-compliance.
Amendment 301 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 18 c (new)
Recital 18 c (new)
(18c) Member States should provide labour inspectorates with the necessary technical resources, staff and funding to ensure compliance with the ILO- recommended ratio of one labour inspector per 10 000 workers.
Amendment 302 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 18 d (new)
Recital 18 d (new)
(18d) As employees, platform workers are entitled, inter alia, to an employment contract, a fixed salary, working hours established under national law that must not exceed 40 hours a week, compensation for overtime and night work, decent working conditions, access to catering facilities, washrooms and rest areas, insurance against occupational accidents and illnesses, parental benefits and paid leave. They also have a right to be informed of their working conditions and the algorithms used by platform, which must not incorporate mechanisms for imposing illegal sanctions, penalties and fines.
Amendment 575 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. The contractual relationship between a digital labour platform that controls, within the meaning of paragraph 2, the performance of work, and a person performing platform work through that platform shall be legally presumed to be an salaried employment relationship. To that effect, Member States shall establish a framework of measures, in accordance with their national legal and judicial systems. classifying workers performing work via a digital platform as employees with stable contracts1a, in accordance with their national legal and judicial systems. __________________ 1a https://www.ilo.org/public/french/bureau/ stat/class/icse.htm
Amendment 596 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 2
Amendment 613 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point a
Amendment 622 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point b
Amendment 637 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point c
Amendment 642 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point d
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point d
Amendment 651 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
(da) Effective restriction on recourse to subcontractors or substitutes;
Amendment 652 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point e
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point e
Amendment 666 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
3. Member States shall take supporting measures to ensure the effective implementation of the legal presumption referred to in paragraph 1 while taking into account the impact on start-ups, avoiding capturing the genuine self-employed and supporting the sustainable growth of digital labour platforms. In particular they shall:
Amendment 682 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – point b
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) develop guidance for digital labour platforms, persons performing platform work and social partnersworkers, union associations, and employers, organisations, to understand and implement the legal presumption including on the procedures for rebutting it in accordance with Article 5;
Amendment 715 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 4
Article 4 – paragraph 4
Amendment 775 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Without prejudice to the obligations and rights of digital labourwork platforms and platform workers under Directive (EU) 2019/1152, Member States shall require digital labour platforms to inform platform workers and relevant national law, Member States shall ensure that any decision taken by automated and semi- automated systems does not affect the employment relationship and shall require digital labour platforms to inform platform workers, union representatives, the labour inspectorate and the competent authorities in a clear and timely manner of:
Amendment 851 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Member States shall ensure that digital labour platforms do not use automated decision-making systems affecting the employment relationship.
Amendment 900 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – title
Article 9 – title
Information and, consultation and participation
Amendment 902 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
1. Without prejudice to the rights and obligations under Directive 2002/14/EC, Member States shall ensure information and consultation of platform workers’of union representatives or, where there are no such representatives, of the platform workers concerned by digital labour platforms and the authorities responsible for working conditions, on decisions likely to lead to the introduction of or substantial changes in the use of automated monitoring and decision-making systems referred to in Article 6(1), in accordance with this Article. In addition, trade union representatives or, in the absence thereof, the platform workers concerned should be assured of the right to consultation and participation in the above decision- making processes.
Amendment 912 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. For the purposes of this Article, the rules laid down in Directive 2009/38/EC on the establishment of a European Works Council or a procedure in Community-scale undertakings and Community-scale groups of undertakings for the purposes of informing and consulting employees shall be applicable.
Amendment 916 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 3
Article 9 – paragraph 3
3. The union organisations, the platform workers’ representatives or the platform workers concerned mayshall be assisted by an expert of their choice, in so far as this is necessary for them to examine the matter that is the subject of information and, consultation and formulate an opinion. Where a digital labour platform has more than 500 platform workers in a Member State, tparticipation and formulate an opinion. The expenses for the expert shall be borne by the digital labour platform, provided that they are proportionate.
Amendment 920 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Member States shall guarantee platform workers respect for the rights, safeguards and assurances inherent in the employment relationship provided for in existing constitutional and labour law, including the right to association and collective bargaining, trade union rights, the right to strike and the right to information, consultation and participation.
Amendment 963 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 1
Article 13 – paragraph 1
Without prejudice to Articles 79 and 82 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Article 13(1) of Directive 2009/52/EC, Member States shall ensure that persons performing platform work, including those whose employment or other contractual relationship has ended, have access to and their union organisations, have access free of charge to appropriate, speedy, fair and efficient procedures and mechanisms for settling disputes regarding the existence and terms of an employment relationship and effective and impartial dispute resolution and a right to redress, including fair and adequate compensation, in the case of infringements of their rights arising from this Directive or the national legislation applicable.
Amendment 1014 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 20 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 20 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. The transposition of this Directive by each Member State shall not conflict with existing provisions of laws or agreements more favourable to workers.
Amendment 1015 #
2021/0414(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 20 – paragraph 1 b (new)
Article 20 – paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. The transposition of this Directive shall in no way condition the provisions of laws and agreements that have been adopted in a Member State and are more favourable to workers.
Amendment 12 #
2021/0227(BUD)
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Amendment 13 #
2021/0227(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the social and employment related consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic demand a strong response for people, families, workers and businesses; highlights in this regard the crucial role of the Cohesion Policy, including the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), which will be the main driver for strengthening the social dimens and the Just Transition Fund, in mitigating the adverse effects of an integration project such the European Union ofor the Union and ensuring a socially sustainable recovery, as well as of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers (EGF) and the Just Transition Fund (JTF)most vulnerable, for workers and at grass-roots level, especially in the Member States that have been the most weakened in economic and social terms; urges, therefore, that resources for these funds to be stepped up;
Amendment 20 #
2021/0227(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights that the budget should help create quality employment, reduce poverty and increase upward social convergencewith fully respect of labour rights and the highest standards of working conditions, poverty eradication, fight against social exclusion and discrimination, and increase upward social, economic and territorial convergence and cohesion; recalls that this is even more crucial in a time of unprecedented crisis following the containment measures of the COVID-19 pandemic; stresses that the crisis has exacerbated existing social and economic inequalities and has worsened the living and working conditions of many workers and their families; insists on the need to tackle territorial and regional disparities; Stresses, in this regard, the urgent need for EU programmes, funds and instruments with sufficient budgetary means and with objectives fully aligned with this;
Amendment 22 #
2021/0227(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Warns, however, that this is insufficient without a new strategy focusing on social progress and social justice and geared to economic, social and territorial cohesion, breaking away from right-wing policies and the restrictions imposed by the EU on Member States’ economic, social and labour policies;
Amendment 23 #
2021/0227(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Stresses, however, that many of the activities and measures supported by the funds and programmes aiming at addressing social and labour problems are being compromised by the restrictions resulting from the European economic governance framework;
Amendment 24 #
2021/0227(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 26 #
2021/0227(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Calls for more funding from the European Union for Member States to strengthen the protection of maternity, paternity and paternity in labor legislation, in particular by increasing corresponding leave and guaranteeing 100% pay, as well as reducing working hours during the period of breastfeeding and taking steps to ensure this protection, but also investing in providing a free public network of early childhood care and education services, long-term care services; Notes that unavailability, prohibitive costs and lack of sufficient infrastructure to provide quality childcare services remain a significant barrier to women's equal participation in all aspects of society, including employment;
Amendment 28 #
2021/0227(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1 c. Calls on the Commission to guarantee that EU funds do not support any projects, investments and programmes that contribute to segregation, discrimination or social exclusion; urges the Commission to prevent potential or current private beneficiaries, practising inequality policies or social and labour dumping, with ongoing collective dismissal processes and/or relocation processes, to access EU fundings;
Amendment 29 #
2021/0227(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1 d. Expresses its concern at the low take-up of EU funds and programmes; considers that it can be significantly leveraged if support is stepped up for public structures providing technical assistance, and if co-funding rates were increased and if public investment financed by EU funds and programmes was excluded from budget deficit criteria;
Amendment 30 #
2021/0227(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the importance of policies and measures to support labour market transition, especially in the context of the COVID-19 crisis; insists on the need for up- and reskilling policies to address the challenges posed by demographic change as well as the green and digital transition; recalls that the integration, with rights and on equal footing, into the labour market of the most vulnerable groups, such as people in poverty, people with disabilities, young and elderly people, and the unemployed, is paramount;
Amendment 30 #
2021/0227(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1 e. Stresses, however, that many of the activities and measures supported by the funds and programmes aiming at addressing inequalities problems are being compromised by the restrictions resulting from the European economic governance framework;
Amendment 31 #
2021/0227(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to guarantee that EU funds do not support any projects, investments and programmes that contribute to segregation, discrimination or social exclusion; urges the Commission to prevent potential or current private beneficiaries, practising social and labour dumping, with ongoing collective dismissal processes and/or relocation processes, to access EU funding;
Amendment 32 #
2021/0227(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Amendment 36 #
2021/0227(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Reiterates the need for the EU budget to increase its funding to close the gender pay gap, strongly applying the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value, not just through legislation and measures to combat pay discrimination , but in order to promote collective bargaining; calls, furthermore, for measures to combat discriminatory practices in hiring and promotion decisions; calls for measures to increase social protection in maternity, unemployment, illness, work accidents and occupational diseases;
Amendment 37 #
2021/0227(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. WelcomesTakes note of the Commission proposal to allocate EUR 13 ,173 5 billion in 2022 to the ESF+; highlights that the ESF+ must play a key role in supporting the Member States to achieve high , and regrets the lack of ambition; states that the growing precarisation, the alarming poverty figures, including in-work and child poverty, the worrying unemployment levels, adequateincluding the young one, and social protectexclusion, and a skilled and resilient workforce ready for the transition to a green and digital economythe persistent discrimination problems need a more ambitious budgetary answer; highlights that the ESF+ can play a key role in supporting the Member States to tackle the mentioned problems; welcomes the transfer from REACT-EU of an additional EUR 10,8 billion to cohesion in 2022, of which 30 % will be allocated to the ESF +;
Amendment 38 #
2021/0227(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Calls on the Commission and the Council to ensure that all budget appropriations under the 2021-2027 MFF respect the principle of equality between men and women and promote it in all European Union policies;
Amendment 39 #
2021/0227(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Expresses its concern at the low take-up of EU funds and programmes; considers that it can be significantly leveraged if support is stepped up for public structures providing technical assistance, and if co-funding rates were increased and if public investment financed by EU funds and programmes was excluded from budget deficit criteria;
Amendment 46 #
2021/0227(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Recalls that, before the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, most women already had precarious or part-time jobs, and that this trend was exposed and reinforced by the worsening economic situation;
Amendment 47 #
2021/0227(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4 c. Reiterates its call for more investment to defend the rights of women and girls; calls for budget allocations to support women's economic independence through EU programs and funds; advocates a more strategic application of the ESF, capable of promoting equality between men and women, improving access to and reintegration into the labor market, combating unemployment, poverty, social exclusion and all forms of discrimination; asks the Commission to propose proactive measures through the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development in order to support women's employment in rural areas;
Amendment 48 #
2021/0227(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4 d. Stresses that in the last decade, with the onset of the economic and financial crisis, economic, social, labor and gender inequalities within and between Member States have become more acute; recalls the important role played by the European Institute for Gender Equality in understanding the extent and causes of inequality between men and women in the EU; calls, therefore, for the budget, staff and independence to be strengthened, as well as for an increase in the budget under the heading "Promotion of non- discrimination and equality";
Amendment 55 #
2021/0227(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Reiterates the need for the EU budget to play a more active role in the pursuit of the UN Sustainable Development Goals; calls, therefore, for it to support measures and projects aimed at eradicating female and child poverty, promoting greater and better integration in the labor market, eliminating labor and wage inequalities between men and women, and improving accessing and providing health care or combating violence against women, children and young people;
Amendment 58 #
2021/0227(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Regrets the fact the annual budgetary answer is financial constrained by a Multiannual Financial Framework that is far from being the adequate financial answer to the population and workers’ needs;
Amendment 58 #
2021/0227(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Stresses the need to increase European Union funding so that Member States can provide public social services for victims of trafficking or sexual exploitation, with psychological and social support, staffed by specialized professionals, and implement policies social and economic policies aimed at helping vulnerable women and girls to leave prostitution, namely through the guarantee of jobs that effectively lead to their social inclusion;
Amendment 65 #
2021/0227(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Stresses that, even taking into account the balance of personal, family and professional life, the Union budget should include an increase in investment in public services for the provision of high quality care, namely public networks of nurseries, day care centers and public services free time activities for children, a public health care network, as well as the defense of public, accessible and quality health systems and a public Social Security system, ensuring its universality;
Amendment 67 #
2021/0227(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Notes that the economic situation aggravated by the COVID 19outbreak favours harassment and violence in all its forms, as well as prostitution, which women are victims of, and violation of human rights; insists on the need to increase public, financial and human resources, to intervene with groups at risk of poverty and at risk situations for children and young people, the elderly, or people with disabilities, as well as those designated homeless;
Amendment 68 #
2021/0227(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6 c. Higlights that subcontracting services often put workers, mainly women, in an extremely vulnerable position; urgently calls for the revision of the working conditions and status of workers providing services at the European institutions and to explore alternative solutions like the internalisation to improve their working conditions;
Amendment 74 #
2021/0227(BUD)
7 a. Demands that the creation of job offers based on precarious employment must be rejected; Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote collective bargaining, wage appreciation, the promotion of open- ended contracts and the regulation of working hours;
Amendment 177 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) Deregulation, liberalisation and concentration in the energy and transport sector, combined with disinvestment in local, regional and national networks, are adversely affecting services and infrastructures and having a major impact on socio-economic cohesion and the environment;
Amendment 178 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 b (new)
Recital 1 b (new)
(1b) The energy and transport sectors are essential for the development and sovereignty of the Member States, and public control over them must be ensured, from the deployment of infrastructure to the setting of prices; the development of infrastructure for alternative fuels must be incorporated accordingly;
Amendment 179 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 c (new)
Recital 1 c (new)
(1c) The EU’s increased focus on trans-European networks to underpin the single market, as a result of pressure from the main economies benefiting from those networks, is diminishing resources for much that needs to be done to improve local, regional and national mobility, particularly in areas such as rail and metropolitan networks;
Amendment 180 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 d (new)
Recital 1 d (new)
(1d) Millions of workers are employed in the EU energy and transport sector, some under very insecure working conditions; the social dimension of sustainability must therefore receive the same priority as the environmental dimension and the creation of an alternative fuels infrastructure must ensure respect for workers' rights and combat job insecurity;
Amendment 181 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 e (new)
Recital 1 e (new)
(1e) Job insecurity is a threat to the social, economic and environmental sustainability of the energy and transport sector;
Amendment 182 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 f (new)
Recital 1 f (new)
(1f) Mobility is principally a regional and local issue and it is therefore necessary to promote the deployment of alternative fuel infrastructures in the networks at different levels, rather than favouring trans-European energy and transport networks alone;
Amendment 183 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 g (new)
Recital 1 g (new)
(1g) Public funding, in particular the various European funds that could contribute to the development this infrastructure, must keep pace with the development needs of not only the TEN-T but also the secondary and tertiary transport networks and be sufficiently comprehensive to encourage the socio- economic cohesion of the Member States;
Amendment 287 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1.º – paragraph 1
Article 1.º – paragraph 1
1. This Regulation sets out mandatory national targets for the deployment of sufficient alternative fuels infrastructure in the Union Member States, for road vehicles, vessels and stationary aircraft. It lays down common technical specifications and requirements on user information, data provision and payment requirements for alternative fuels infrastructure.
Amendment 339 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 2 – point a – introductory part
Article 3.º – paragraph 2 – point a – introductory part
(a) along the TEN-T core network, publicly accessible and the national, regional and local transport infrastructures, public recharging pools dedicated to light-duty vehicles and meeting the following requirements are systematically deployed in each direction of travel with a maximum distance of 60 km in-between them:
Amendment 353 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 2 – point b – introductory part
Article 3.º – paragraph 2 – point b – introductory part
(b) along the TEN-T comprehensive network, publicly accessible and the national, regional and local transport infrastructures, public recharging pools dedicated to light-duty vehicles and meeting the following requirements are systematically deployed in each direction of travel with a maximum distance of 60 km in-between them:
Amendment 376 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4.º – paragraph 1 – point a – introductory part
Article 4.º – paragraph 1 – point a – introductory part
(a) along the TEN-T core network, publicly accessible and within national, regional and local transport infrastructures, public recharging pools dedicated to heavy-duty vehicles and meeting the following requirements are systematically deployed in each direction of travel with a maximum distance of 60 km in-between them:
Amendment 392 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4.º – paragraph 1 – point b – introductory part
Article 4.º – paragraph 1 – point b – introductory part
(b) along the TEN-T comprehensive network, publicly accessible and the national, regional and local transport infrastructures, public recharging pools dedicated to heavy-duty vehicles and meeting the following requirements are systematically deployed in each direction of travel with a maximum distance of 100 km in-between them:
Amendment 425 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5.º – paragraph 1
Article 5.º – paragraph 1
Amendment 197 #
2021/0218(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 23
Recital 23
(23) Increasing ambition in the heating and cooling sector is key to delivering the overall renewable energy target given that heating and cooling constitutes around half of the Union's energy consumption, covering a wide range of end uses and technologies in buildings, industry and district heating and cooling. To accelerate the increase of renewables in heating and cooling, an annual 1.1 percentage point increase at Member State level should be made binding as a minimumincrease should be promoted for all Member States. For those Member States, which already have renewable shares above 50% in the heating and cooling sector, it should remain possible to only apply half of the binding annual increase rate and Member States with 60% or above may count any such share as fulfilling the average annual increase rate in accordance with points b) and c) of paragraph 2 of Article 23. In addition, Member State- specific top-ups should be set, redistributing the additional efforts to the desired level of renewables in 2030 among Member States based on GDP and cost- effectiveness. A longer list of different measures should also be included in Directive (EU) 2018/2001 to facilitate increasing the share of renewables in heating and cooling. Member States may implement one or more measures from the list of measures.
Amendment 491 #
2021/0218(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1.º – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b a (new)
Article 1.º – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b a (new)
(ba) Article 6 is amended as follows: (a) the following paragraph 4a is inserted: Investment by Member States in the context of this Directive shall be excluded from the calculation of their public debt and budget deficits;
Amendment 609 #
2021/0218(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Directive (EU) 2018/2001
Article 15 a
Article 15 a
1. In order to promote the production and use of renewable energy in the building sector, Member States shall set an indicative target for the share of renewables in final energy consumption in their buildings sector in 2030 that is consistent with an indicative target of at least a 49 % share of energy from renewable sources in the buildings sector in the Union’s final consumption of energy in 2030. The national target shall be expressed in terms of share of national final energy consumption and calculated in accordance with the methodology set out in Article 7. Member States shall include their target in the updated integrated national energy and climate plans submitted pursuant to Article 14 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 as well as information on how they plan to achieve it.
Amendment 774 #
2021/0218(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Directive (EU) 2018/2001
Article 22 a
Article 22 a
1. Member States shall endeavour to increase the share of renewable sources in the amount of energy sources used for final energy and non-energy purposes in the industry sector by an indicative average minimumgradual annual increase of 1.1 percentage points by 2030.
Amendment 820 #
2021/0218(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12 – point a
Directive (EU) 2018/2001
Article 23
Article 23
1. In order to promote the use of renewable energy in the heating and cooling sector, each Member State shall, increase the share of renewable energy in that sector by at least 1.1 percentage points as an annual average calculated for the periods 2021 to 2025 and 2026 to 2030 seek to increase, starting from the share of renewable energy in the heating and cooling sector in 2020, expressed in terms of national share of gross final energy consumption and calculated in accordance with the methodology set out in Article 7.
Amendment 845 #
2021/0218(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1.º – paragraph 1 – point 12 – point a
Article 1.º – paragraph 1 – point 12 – point a
Directive (EU) 2018/2001
Article 23
Article 23
Amendment 1082 #
2021/0218(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1.º – paragraph 1 – point 16 – point b
Article 1.º – paragraph 1 – point 16 – point b
Directive (EU) 2018/2001
Article 27
Article 27
(iv) the share of biofuels and biogas produced from the feedstock listed in Part B of Annex IX in the energy content of fuels and electricity supplied to the transport sector shall, except in Cyprus and Malta, be limited to 1,7 %have a reference value of 1,7 %, which may be exceeded following an assessment, on a case-by-case basis, by the Member States;
Amendment 92 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) Buildings in the EU are responsible for 36% of greenhouse gas emissions. Transports are responsible for 27% of greenhouse gas emissions, from which 72% amount to road transport. In parallel, mobility and heating/cooling represent the biggest lines in European household budgets, being close to one third of their annual expenditure. Decarbonising buildings and transports is particularly challenging because households are locked into existing infrastructures, which are costly to change and, therefore, have little options to choose a sustainable alternative. Given this scope, the Commission’s proposal to extend the EU’s carbon trading scheme to buildings and transports would hit households hard, in particular the vulnerable ones. Indeed, energy bills will increase, making low and middle-income households poorer, pushing households at risk of poverty or social exclusion into energy poverty and fatally hitting vulnerable households. Changing transport systems and heating/cooling systems for homes is not only crucial from a climate and environmental perspective but also very important in terms of social justice. Therefore, the ecological transition cannot be achieved by market mechanisms and the price signals that follow from them.
Amendment 564 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 3 – point b
Article 3.º – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) finance measures and investments to increase the uptake of zero- and low- emission mobility and transport, including strengthening of public collective passenger transport services.
Amendment 603 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4.º – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 4.º – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) where the Plan provides for measures referred to in Article 3(2), the criteria for the identification of eligible final recipients, the indication of the envisaged time limit for the measures in question and their justification on the basis of a quantitative estimate and a qualitative explanation of how the measures in the Plan are expected to reduce energy and transport poverty and the vulnerability of households, micro- enterprises and transport users to an increase of road transport and heating fuel prices;
Amendment 659 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5.º – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
Article 5.º – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
(ba) promotion of public housing, including social housing;
Amendment 664 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) zero- and low-emission mobility and transport and strengthening of public collective passenger transport services;
Amendment 692 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. The activities financed by the Fund shall be subject to a social conditionality. Any activity financed by the Fund and necessitating the hiring of workers should be conditional to decent wages, decent working conditions - including for health and safety aspects- and direct employment contracts, adequate trade union representation, social dialogue and collective bargaining rights. Any activity financed by the fund shall therefore respect applicable collective agreements as well as social and labour law at national and EU and ILO conventions.
Amendment 704 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6.º – paragraph 1
Article 6.º – paragraph 1
1. Member States may include the costs of measures providing temporary direct income support to vulnerable households and vulnerable households that are transport users to absorb the increase in road transport and heating fuel prices. Such support shall decrease over time and be limited to the direct impact of the emission trading for buildings and road transport. Eligibility for such direct income support shall cease within the time limits identified under Article 4(1) point (d).
Amendment 724 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6.º – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 6.º – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) support building renovations, especially for those occupying worst- performing buildings, including in the form of financial support or fiscal incentives such as deductibility of renovation costs from the rentassociated costs, independently of the ownership of the buildings concerned, while ensuring measures to regulate the property and rental market, as a means of preventing speculative increases and evictions;
Amendment 757 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6.º – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
Article 6.º – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
(ca) promote the development of public housing and public social housing;
Amendment 768 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6.º – paragraph 2 – point d
Article 6.º – paragraph 2 – point d
(d) provide access to zero- and low- emission vehicles and bikes, including financial support or fiscal incentives for their purchase as well as for appropriate public and private infrastructure, including dedicated traffic lanes (such as cycling routes) and infrastructure for recharging and refuelling; for support concerning low- emission vehicles, a timetable for gradually reducing the support shall be provided;
Amendment 770 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6.º – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
Article 6.º – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
(da) promote and finance the strengthening of public collective passenger transport services;
Amendment 799 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7
Article 7
Amendment 829 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
1. The financial envelope for the implementation of the Fund for the period 20253-2027 shall be EUR 23 7at least EUR 48 500 000 000 in current prices.
Amendment 842 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2
Article 9 – paragraph 2
2. The financial envelope for the implementation of the Fund for the period 2028-2032 shall be EUR 48 500at least EUR 270 625 000 000 in current prices, subject to the availability of the amounts under the annual ceilings of the applicable multiannual financial framework referred to in Article 312 TFEU.
Amendment 881 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11.º – paragraph 1
Article 11.º – paragraph 1
The Fund shall be implemented by the Commission in directand the Member States in shared management in accordance with the relevant rules adopted pursuant to Article 322 TFEU, in particular Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 and Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2092 of the European Parliament and of the Council59. _________________ 59 Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2092 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2020 on a general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget (OJ L 433I, 22.12.2020, p. 1).
Amendment 888 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12.º – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 12.º – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. National budgetary expenditure additional to the support under the Fund is not included for the purposes of the criteria laid down in Protocol No 12 TFEU.
Amendment 903 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14.º – paragraph 1
Article 14.º – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall contribute at least to 50 percent ofto the total estimated costs of their Plans.
Amendment 918 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14.º – paragraph 2
Article 14.º – paragraph 2
Amendment 922 #
Amendment 977 #
Amendment 984 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17.º
Article 17.º
Amendment 1001 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18.º – paragraph 1
Article 18.º – paragraph 1
Amendment 1011 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18.º – paragraph 2
Article 18.º – paragraph 2
Amendment 1015 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19.º – paragraph 1
Article 19.º – paragraph 1
1. Payments of financial allocations to the Member State concerned under this Article shall be made upon completion of the relevant agreed milestones and targets indicated in the Plan as approved in accordance with Article 16 and subject to available funding. Upon such completion, the Member State concerned shall submit to the Commission a duly justified request for payment of the financial allocation. Such requests for payment shall be submitted by the Member States to the Commission once or twice a year by 31 Julin anticipation of the funding needs determined thereby.
Amendment 1016 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19.º – paragraph 2
Article 19.º – paragraph 2
Amendment 1018 #
2021/0206(COD)
Amendment 1019 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19.º – paragraph 4
Article 19.º – paragraph 4
Amendment 1022 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19.º – paragraph 5
Article 19.º – paragraph 5
Amendment 1023 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19.º – paragraph 6
Article 19.º – paragraph 6
Amendment 1024 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19.º – paragraph 7
Article 19.º – paragraph 7
Amendment 1070 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point g a (new)
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point g a (new)
(ga) information on the involvement of trade union organisations and employers' organisations, local and regional authorities, civil society organisations, youth organisations and other relevant stakeholders in the implementation of the Plan.
Amendment 1076 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23.º – paragraph 4
Article 23.º – paragraph 4
Amendment 1102 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25.º
Article 25.º
Amendment 1110 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – subheading 1
Annex I – subheading 1
Amendment 1114 #
2021/0206(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II
Annex II
Amendment 151 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10 a (new)
Recital 10 a (new)
(10a) Improving the energy performance of various sectors, including transport and housing, has the potential to foster urban regeneration, employment, improvement of buildings and changes in mobility and accessibility patterns, which is why it is essential to promote more efficient, sustainable and affordable options.
Amendment 180 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) Low and medium income households, vulnerable customers, including final users, people facing or risking energy poverty and people living in social housing should benefit from the application of the energy efficiency first principle. Energy efficiency measures should be implemented as a priority to improve the situations of those individuals and households or to alleviate energy poverty. A holistic approach in policy making and in implementing policies and measures requires Member States to ensure that other policies and measures have no adverse effect on these individuals and households, and should not encourage speculative development or increase housing, mobility or energy costs. Public policy making to promote energy efficiency must not contribute to greater social exclusion.
Amendment 193 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 27
Recital 27
(27) To lead by example, the public sector should set its own decarbonisation and energy efficiency goals. Energy efficiency improvements in the public sector should reflect the efforts required at Union level. To comply with the final energy consumption target, the Union should decrease its final energy consumption by 19% by 2030 as compared to the average energy consumption in years 2017, 2018 and 2019. An obligation to achieve an annual reduction of the energy consumption in the public sector by at least 1,7% should ensure that the public sector fulfils its exemplary role. Member States retain full flexibility regarding the choice of energy efficiency improvement measures to achieve a reduction of the final energy consumption. Requiring an annual reduction of final energy consumption has a lower administrative burden than establishing measurement methods for energy savings. Changes in social ownership or public investments that increase overall energy efficiency should be considered when assessing public sector behaviour, in particular reversal of the energy sector privatisation processes that have occurred over the years in Member States.
Amendment 199 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 30
Recital 30
Amendment 247 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 51
Recital 51
(51) Member States’ energy efficiency improvement measures in transport are eligible to be taken into account for achieving their end-use energy savings obligation. Such measures include policies that are, inter alia, dedicated to promoting more efficient vehicles, a modal shift to cycling, walking andand increasing the availability of collective public transport, orsupporting mobility and urban planning that reduces demand for transport and the modal shift to soft modes. In addition, schemes which accelerate the uptake of new,in collective public transport of more efficient vehicles or policiesand fostering a shift to fuels with reduced levels of emissions, except policy measures regarding the use of direct fossil fuel combustion, that reduce energy use per kilometre are also capable of being eligible, subject to compliance with the rules on materiality and additionality set out in Annex V to this Directive. Policy measures promoting the uptake of new fossil fuel vehicles should not qualify as eligible measures under the energy savings obligation are also capable of being eligible.
Amendment 294 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 68
Recital 68
(68) Lower consumer spending on energy should be achieved by assisting consumers in reducing theiConsumers should be assisted to achieve lower energy use by reducing the energy needs of buildings and improvements in the efficiency of appliances, which should be combined with access to public transport and the availability of low-energysoft transport modes integrated with public transport and, such as cycling. Member States should also consider improving connectivity in rural and remote areas.
Amendment 346 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
This Directive lays down rules designed to implement energy efficiency as a priority across all sectors, remove barriers in the energy market and overcome market failures that impede efficiency in the supply and use of energy. It also provides for the establishment of indicative national energy efficiency contributions for 2030. , the extent of which requires EU support, particularly financial support, in order to help Member States achieve those contributions in line with the specific needs of each country.
Amendment 353 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
This Directive contributes to the implementation of the energy efficiency first principle, thus contributing to the Union as an inclusive, fair and prosperous society with a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economyand must therefore assist with the implementation of public policies aimed at socioeconomic development that is resource-efficient and helps to improve the living conditions and well-being of all citizens.
Amendment 354 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 2
Article 1 – paragraph 2
2. The requirements laid down in this Directive are minimum requirements and shall not prevent any Member State from maintaining or introducing more stringent measures. Such measures shall be compatible with Union law. Where national legislation provides for more stringent measures, the Member State shall notify such legislation to the Commission.
Amendment 472 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
Amendment 481 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – point d
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – point d
d. making a voluntary financial contribution to the National Energy Efficiency Fund referred to in Article 25 or another financing instrument dedicated to energy efficiency, where the annual financial contributions shall be equal to the investments required to reach the indicative trajectory.
Amendment 487 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 493 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1
Article 5 – paragraph 1
Amendment 517 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Member States shall promote the use of public transport and other less polluting and more energy efficient means of mobility, such as rail, and soft modes such as cycling or walking, by renewing and decarbonising fleets, encouraging modal shift and including these modes in urban mobility planning.
Amendment 518 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 4 b (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. The financing used by Member States to deliver the public sector contribution to energy efficiency shall be excluded from the calculation of their public debt and budget deficits.
Amendment 813 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 22.º – paragraph 3 – point a a (new)
Article 22.º – paragraph 3 – point a a (new)
aa) ensure that measures to promote or facilitate energy efficiency, in particular those affecting buildings and mobility systems, do not contribute to an increase in the pricing of these services or to social exclusion;
Amendment 814 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 22.º – paragraph 3 – point b
Article 22.º – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) make the best possible use of public funding available at national and Union level, including, where applicable, the financial contribution Member State received from the Social Climate Fund pursuant to [Article 9 and Article 14 of the Social Climate Fund Regulation, COM 2021 568 final], and revenues from allowance auctions from emission trading pursuant to the EU ETS [COM(2021) 551 final, 2021/0211 (COD)],], and for investments into energy efficiency improvement measures as priority actions;
Amendment 1013 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 28.º – paragraph 3
Article 28.º – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall adopt measures that ensure that energy efficiency lending products, such as green mortgages and green loans, secured and unsecured, are offered widely and in a non- discriminatory manner by financial institutions and, are visible and accessible to consumers. Member States shall adopt measures to facilitate the implementation of on-bill and on-tax financing schemes. Member States shall ensure that t banks and other financial institutions receive information on opportunities to participate in the financing of energy efficiency improvement measures , including through the creation of public/private partnerships.
Amendment 1020 #
2021/0203(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 28.º – paragraph 9
Article 28.º – paragraph 9
9. Member States may set up an Energy Efficiency National Fund. The purpose of this fund shall be to implement energy efficiency measures, including measures pursuant to Article 8(3) and Article 22, as a priority among vulnerable customers, people affected by energy poverty and, where applicable, people living in social housing, and to implement national energy efficiency measures to support Member States in meeting their national energy efficiency contributions and their indicative trajectories referred to in Article 4(2). The Energy Efficiency National Fund may be financed with revenues from the allowance auctions pursuant to the EU Emission Trading System on buildings and transport sectors.
Amendment 212 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9 a (new)
Recital 9 a (new)
(9a) The Member States should use every possible means, in line with national practices, to improve the wages of all workers, particularly national minimum wages, and to enhance careers and professions.
Amendment 225 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) This Directive should apply to all workers, including part-time workers, fixed-term contract workers or persons with a contract of employment or employment relationship with a temporary agency, who have an employment contract or employment relationship, and in particular to self-employed persons who are economically dependent on the contracting entity, as defined by the law, collective agreements and/or practice in force in each Member State, taking into account the case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘the Court’). In its case law, the Court established criteria for determining the status of a worker47. Provided that they fulfil those criteria, domestic workers, on- demand workers, intermittent workers, voucher based- workers, platform workers, trainees and apprentices should fall within the scope of this Directive. The determination of the existence of an employment relationship should be guided by the facts relating to the actual performance of the work and not by the parties’ description of the relationship. _________________ 47 Case C-66/85, Deborah Lawrie-Blum v Land Baden-Württemberg, ECLI:EU:C:1986:284; Case C-428/09, Union Syndicale Solidaires Isère v Premier ministre and Others, ECLI:EU:C:2010:612; Case C-229/14, Ender Balkaya v Kiesel Abbruch- und Recycling Technik GmbH, ECLI:EU:C:2015:455; Case C-413/13, FNV Kunsten Informatie en Media v Staat der Nederlanden, ECLI:EU:C:2014:2411; Case C-216/15, Betriebsrat der Ruhrlandklinik gGmbH v Ruhrlandklinik gGmbH, ECLI:EU:C:2016:883; Case C- 658/18, UX v Governo della Repubblica italiana, ECLI:EU:C:2020:572.
Amendment 235 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value for women and men should be respected with regard to wage or salary and any other consideration, whether in cash or in kind, which the workers receive directly or indirectly, in respect of their employment from their employer. In line with the case-law of the Court48, the concept of ‘pay’ should comprise not only salary, but also additional benefits such as bonuses, overtime compensation, travel facilities (including cars provided by the employer and travel cards), housing and food allowances, compensation for attending training, payments in case of dismissal, statutory sick pay, statutory required compensation and occupational pensions. It should include all elements of remuneration due by law or collective agreement. _________________ 48 For example, Case C-58/81, Commission of the European Communities v Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ECLI:EU:C:1982:215; Case C-171/88 Rinner-Kulhn v FWW Spezial- Gebaudereinigung GmbH, ECLI:EU:C:1989:328; Case C-147/02 Alabaster v Woolwhich plc and Secretary of State for Social Security, ECLI:EU:C:2004:192; Case C-342/93 - Gillespie and Others ECLI:EU:C:1996:46; Case C-278/93 Freers and Speckmann v Deutsche Bundepost, ECLI:EU:C:1996:83; Case C-12/81, Eileen Garland v British Rail Engineering Limited, ECLI:EU:C:1982:44; Case C-360/90, Arbeiterwohlfahrt der Stadt Berlin e.V. v Monika Bötel, ECLI:EU:C:1992:246; Case C-33/89, Maria Kowalska v Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, ECLI:EU:C:1990:265.
Amendment 309 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) Pay transparency measures should protect workers’ right to equal pay while limiting as much as possible costs and burden for employers, paying specific attention to the particular needs of micro and small enterprises. Where appropriate, measures should be tailored to the size of employers taking into account employers’ headcount.
Amendment 310 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 22 a (new)
Recital 22 a (new)
(22a) Equal pay for women and men must necessarily form part of a fairer distribution of income between labour and capital, as a means of preventing inequality and poverty and improving the living conditions of all workers and their families.
Amendment 311 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 22 b (new)
Recital 22 b (new)
(22b) Pay transparency measures should be accompanied by serious efforts to combat job insecurity, promote work with rights, improve work and wages, and regulate working hours in order to improve the living conditions of workers.
Amendment 313 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 23
Recital 23
(23) Employers should make accessible to workers a description of the criteria used to determine pay levels and career progression. The employer should have flexibility in the way it complies with this obligation taking into account the size of the organisation.
Amendment 319 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 24
Recital 24
(24) All workers should have the right to obtain information, upon their request, on their pay and on the pay level, broken down by sex, for the category of workers doing the same work or work of equal value. Employers must inform workers of this right on an annual basis. Employers may also, on their own initiand their representative, opt for providing such information without workers needing to request itrganisations of this right on an annual basis.
Amendment 335 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 25
Recital 25
(25) Employers with at least 250 workers should regularly report on pay, in a suitable and transparent manner, such as including the information in their management report. Companies subject to the requirements of Directive 2013/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council52 may also choose to report on pay alongside other worker- related matters in their management report. _________________ 52 Directive 2013/34/EU, as amended by Directive 2014/95/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2014 as regards disclosure of non- financial and diversity information by certain large undertakings and groups (OJ L 330, 15.11.2014, p. 1).
Amendment 355 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 29
Recital 29
(29) Joint pay assessments should trigger the review and revision of pay structures in organisations with at least 250 workersany undertaking that shows pay inequalities. The joint pay assessment should be carried out by employers in cooperation with workers’ representatives; if workers’ representatives are absent, they should be designated for this purposeor freely elected for this purpose either by trade unions or members of such unions, or by the workers of the undertaking in accordance with provisions of national laws or regulations of collective agreements. Joint pay assessments should lead to the elimination of gender discrimination in pay.
Amendment 374 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 30 a (new)
Recital 30 a (new)
(30a) Collective negotiation and bargaining are key to eliminating pay discrimination, particularly based on sex, and should be encouraged and promoted by removing all restrictions on their use and on their time-limits.
Amendment 394 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 35
Recital 35
(35) Member States should ensure the allocation of sufficientat the human, technical and financial resources tof equality bodies for theand national bodies and authorities with responsibility for inspection and supervision are used to effectively and adequately performance of their tasks and responsibilities, in particular those related to pay discrimination based on sex. Where the tasks are allocated to more than one body, Member States should ensure that they are adequately coordinated.
Amendment 423 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 41
Recital 41
(41) Litigation costs create a serious disincentive for victims of gender pay discrimination to claim their right to equal pay, leading to insufficient protection and enforcement of the right to equal pay. In order to remove this strong procedural obstacle to justice, workers or their representatives, particularly trade unions, should be guaranteed exemption from procedural costs, and successful claimants should be allowed to recover their procedural costscosts of bringing the action, particularly legal fees, from the defendant. On the other hand, claimants should not be liable for successful defendant’s proceedings costs unless the claim was brought in bad faith, was clearly frivolous or if the non-recovery by the defendant would be considered unreasonable by the courts or other competent authorities under the specific circumstances of the case, for instance having regard to the financial situation of micro-enterprises.
Amendment 445 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 49
Recital 49
(49) Compiling wage statistics broken down by gender and, disability, age and race, as well as providing the Commission (Eurostat) with accurate and complete statistics is essential for analysing and monitoring changes in the gender pay gap at Union level. Council Regulation (EC) No 530/199959 requires Member States to compile four-yearly structural earnings statistics at micro level that provide harmonized data for the calculation of the gender pay gap. Annual high-quality statistics could increase transparency and enhance monitoring and awareness of gender pay inequality. The availability and comparability of such data is instrumental for assessing developments both at national level and throughout the Union. _________________ 59 Council Regulation (EC) No 530/1999 of 9 March 1999 concerning structural statistics on earnings and on labour costs (OJ L 63, 12.3.1999, p. 6).
Amendment 477 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2.º – paragraph 2
Article 2.º – paragraph 2
2. This Directive applies to all workers who have an employment contract or employment relationship, as well as to self-employed workers economically dependent on the contracting entity, as defined by law, collective agreements and/or practice in force in each Member State with consideration to the case-law of the Court of Justice.
Amendment 513 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point i
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point i
(i) ‘indirect discrimination’ means the situation where an apparently neutral provision, criterion or practice would put persons of one sex at a particular disadvantage compared with persons of the other sex, unless that provision, criterion or practice is objectively justified by a legitimate aim in accordance with the criteria laid down in article 4, and the means of achieving that aim are appropriate and necessary;
Amendment 517 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point k a (new)
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point k a (new)
(ka) ‘collective agreement’ means all agreements in writing regarding pay and working conditions and terms of employment concluded between trade union organisations and other workers’ representative organisations and employers’ organisations following a collective negotiation;
Amendment 519 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point k b (new)
Article 3.º – paragraph 1 – point k b (new)
(kb) ‘workers’ representative organisations’ means trade union organisations or workers’ representatives in accordance with national law and practice;
Amendment 520 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. For the purposes of the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value: a) the comparison is between a job carried out by a man and a woman; b) in circumstances when a person identifies as neither a man or a woman, the comparison is with the person that, carrying out equal work or work of equal value, has the highest pay.
Amendment 522 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3.º – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 3.º – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) instruction to discriminate againstfferentiate, exclude, restrict or give preference to persons, on grounds of sex, that has the purpose or effect of nullifying or restricting the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on equal terms, of rights, freedoms and guarantees or of economic, social and cultural rights;
Amendment 523 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3.º – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 3.º – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) any less favourable treatment of a woman related to pregnancy or maternity leave within the meaning of Council Directive 92/85/EEC61, or of a woman or man related to parental leave or family support leave, or of a man related to parental leave or paternity leave. _________________ 61 Council Directive 92/85/EEC of 19 October 1992 on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health at work of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding (tenth individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16(1) of Directive 89/391/EEC) (OJ L 348, 28.11.1992, p. 1).
Amendment 537 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4.º – paragraph 1
Article 4.º – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that pay, careers and jobs are valued, and that employers have pay structures in place ensuring that women and men are paid equally for the same work or work of equal value.
Amendment 569 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4.º – paragraph 3
Article 4.º – paragraph 3
3. The tools or methodologies shall allow assessing, in regard to the value of work, whether workers are in a comparable situation, on the basis of objective criteria which shall include, among others considered relevant, educational, professional and training requirements, skills, effort and responsibility, work undertaken and the nature of the tasks involved. They shall not contain or be based on criteria which are based, whether directly or indirectly, on workers’ sex.
Amendment 595 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1
Article 5 – paragraph 1
1. Applicants for employment shall have the right to receive from the prospective employer information about the initial pay level or its range, based on objective, gender-neutral criteria, to be attributed for the position concerned. Such information shall be indicated in a published job vacancy notice or otherwise provided to the applicant prior to the job interview without the applicant having to request it. In addition, and also prior to the job interview, the applicant for employment shall receive upon request information on the average pay level for categories of workers performing the same work as the advertised position or work of equal value to that position and the objective, gender-neutral criteria on which the average pay level is based.
Amendment 616 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 6.º – paragraph 1
Article 6.º – paragraph 1
The employer shall make easily accessible to its workers a description of the criteria used to determine pay levels and career progression for workers. These criteria shall be gender-neutral and associated with the identification of direct and indirect discrimination underlying pay discrimination between men and women.
Amendment 629 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 1
1. Workers shall have the right to receive clear and complete information on their individual pay level and the average pay levels, broken down by sex, for categories of workers doing the same work as them or work of equal value to theirs, in accordance with paragraphs 3 and 4. This information shall include also how pay levels were determined, including through an existing job evaluation or job classification scheme. Workers’ representatives shall also have the right to receive information on how pay for each category of worker is laid down.
Amendment 651 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
3. Employers shall provide the information referred to in paragraph 1 within a reasonable period of time upon a worker’s requestone month upon a worker’s request. The information shall be provided in writing and the employer shall retain proof of transmission or receipt, in electronic form. The information shall be provided in accessible formats for workers with disabilities upon their request.
Amendment 658 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7.º – paragraph 4
Article 7.º – paragraph 4
4. Workers shall have the possibility to request the information referred to in paragraph 1 through their representative organisations or an equality body.
Amendment 666 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 5
Article 7 – paragraph 5
5. Workers shall not be prevented, under any circumstances, from disclosing their pay for the purpose of enforcing the principle of equal pay between men and women for equal work or work of equal valuto other workers and communicating it to their trade union. Member States shall thus put in place measures to prohibit contractual terms aiming to restrict workers from disclosing that information for the purposes of this Directive.
Amendment 668 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 6
Article 7 – paragraph 6
Amendment 673 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7.º – paragraph 6 a (new)
Article 7.º – paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Workers’ representative organisations also enjoy the right to information described in paragraph 1 in relation to all workers.
Amendment 685 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Employers with at least 250 workers shall provide the following information concerning their organisation, in accordance with paragraphs 2, 3, and 5:
Amendment 737 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2
2. The accuracy of the information shall be confirmed by the employer’s management and workers’ representatives. Employers shall consult with workers’ representatives on the methods used to calculate the pay gap, median pay gap and average pay levels.
Amendment 744 #
2021/0050(COD)
3. The employer shall make publishc the information referred to in paragraph 1, points (a) to (f) on an annual basis in a user-friendly way on its websiteon its website, if it has one, or shall otherwise make it publicly available. The information in question shall be posted inside the workplace in such a way as to be easily accessible to all workers and their representatives. The information from the previous four years, if available, shall also be accessible upon request. In addition, the employer shall share this information with the monitoring body referred to in paragraph 6.
Amendment 754 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8.º – paragraph 4
Article 8.º – paragraph 4
4. Member States may decide to compile the information set out in paragraph 1, points (a) to (f)shall provide support, technical assistance and training, in particular for micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises and their organisations, and for workers’ representative organisations, in relation to the obligations arising from this Article. Member States shall compile the information set out in paragraph 1 themselves, on the basis of administrative data such as data provided by employers to the tax or social security authorities. This information shall be made public in accordance with paragraph 6.
Amendment 782 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8.º – paragraph 7
Article 8.º – paragraph 7
7. Workers and their representatives, labour inspectorates and equality bodies shall have the right to ask the employer for additional clarifications and details regarding any of the data provided, including explanations concerning any gender pay differences. The employer shall respond to such request within a reasonable timemaximum period of 10 working days by providing a substantiated reply. Where gender pay differences are not justified by objective and gender-neutral factors, the employer shall remedy the situation, in the 30 days following notification and in close cooperation with the workers’ representatives, the labour inspectorate and/or the equality body.
Amendment 791 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 7 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. The implementation of the Directive shall not be used to reduce existing reporting obligations on employers.
Amendment 795 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9.º – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 9.º – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Member States shall take appropriate measures to ensure that employers with at least 2more than 50 workers conduct, in cooperation with their workers’ representative organisations, a joint pay assessment where both of the following conditions are met: . A joint pay assessment must be conducted in undertakings with fewer than 50 workers where there are workers belonging to trade unions or workers’ representative organisations.
Amendment 808 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9.º – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 9.º – paragraph 1 – point a
Amendment 814 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9.º – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 9.º – paragraph 1 – point b
Amendment 834 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9.º – paragraph 2 – point e
Article 9.º – paragraph 2 – point e
(e) measures to address and eliminate such differences, levelling up to the highest pay value, if they are not justified on the basis of objective and gender- neutral criteria;
Amendment 843 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9.º – paragraph 3
Article 9.º – paragraph 3
3. Employers shall make the joint pay assessments available, in an accessible format, to workers, workers’ representative organisations, the monitoring body designated pursuant to Article 26, the equality body and the labour inspectorate. (This amendment applies throughout the text. Adopting it will necessitate corresponding changes throughout.)
Amendment 849 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9.º – paragraph 4
Article 9.º – paragraph 4
4. If the joint pay assessment reveals differences in average pay for equal work or work of equal value between female and male workers which cannot be justified by objective and gender-neutral criteria, the employer shall remedy the situation, eliminating the differences by levelling up to the highest pay value, in close cooperation with the workers’ representatives, labour inspectorate, and/or equality body. Such action shall include the establishment of gender-neutral job evaluation and classification to ensure that any direct or indirect pay discrimination on grounds of sex is excluded.
Amendment 858 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9.º – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 9.º – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Situations of pay discrimination shall not be addressed in a manner that in any way constitutes an element of downward pressure on pay increases.
Amendment 871 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – title
Article 11 – title
Amendment 875 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 11.º – paragraph 1
Article 11.º – paragraph 1
Without prejudice to the autonomy of social partnertrade union and employer organisations and in accordance with national law and practice, Member States shall ensure that the rights and obligations under this Directive are discussed with social partners.trade union and employer organisations. (This amendment applies throughout the text. Adopting it will necessitate corresponding changes throughout.)
Amendment 881 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 12.º – paragraph 1
Article 12.º – paragraph 1
Member States shall ensure compliance with the law, guaranteeing that the authorities responsible for labour inspection and supervision have the human, technical and financial resources necessary for the pursuit of their responsibilities and powers, including those under this Directive. They shall also guarantee that, after possible recourse to conciliation, judicial procedures for the enforcement of rights and obligations related to the principle of equal pay between men and women for equal work or work of equal value are available to all workers who consider themselves wronged by a failure to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value. Such procedures shall be easily accessible to workers and to those who act on their behalf, for instance by exemption from legal costs, even after the labour relationship in which the discrimination is alleged to have occurred has ended.
Amendment 884 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 12.º – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 12.º – paragraph 1 a (new)
Member States shall ensure that the authorities responsible for protecting working conditions are able to initiate an inspection in the event of an anonymous or non-anonymous report of an infringement of the principle of equal pay between men and women for equal work or work of equal value;
Amendment 890 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 13.º – paragraph 1
Article 13.º – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that associations, organisations, equality bodies and workers’ representative organisations or other legal entities which have, in accordance with the criteria laid down by national law, a legitimate interest in ensuring equality between men and women, may engage in any judicial or administrative procedure to enforce any of the rights or obligations related to the principle of equal pay between men and women for equal work or work of equal value. They may act on behalf or in supportirrespective of whether they have received a formal request from a worker or group of a workers who is victim of an infringement of any right or obligation related to the principle of equal pay between men and women for equal work or work of equal value, with the latter’s approval.
Amendment 892 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 13.º – paragraph 2
Article 13.º – paragraph 2
2. Equality bodies and workers’ representative organisations shall also have the right to act on behalf or in support of several workers, with the latter’s approvalirrespective of whether they have received a formal request from the worker or from a group of workers.
Amendment 897 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 13 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Trade unions shall also have the right to act on behalf of a class of workers in a particular sector or category.
Amendment 899 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 2 b (new)
Article 13 – paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Member states shall reduce procedural obstacles to the bringing of equal pay cases to the court.
Amendment 901 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 14.º – paragraph 1
Article 14.º – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that any worker who has suffered harm as a result of an infringement of any right or obligation related to the principle of equal pay between men and women for equal work or work of equal value shall have the right to claim and to obtain full compensation or reparation, as determined by the Member State, for that harm.
Amendment 903 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 2
Article 14 – paragraph 2
2. The compensation or reparation referred to in paragraph 1 shall ensure real and effective compensation for the loss and damage sustained, in a way which is dissuasive and proportionate to the damage suffered. Where gender-based pay discrimination intersects with additional grounds of discrimination, the compensation or reparation shall be adjusted accordingly.
Amendment 988 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 21.º – title
Article 21.º – title
21. Equal pay matters in public contracts and concessions and access to public funding
Amendment 989 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 21.º – paragraph 1
Article 21.º – paragraph 1
1. The appropriate measures that the Member States take in accordance with Article 30(3) of Directive 2014/23/EU, Article 18 (2) of Directive 2014/24/EU and Article 36(2) of Directive 2014/25/EU, shall include measures to ensure that, in the performance of public contracts or concessions, economic operators comply with the obligations relating to equal pay between men and women for equal work or work of equal value, and observe any collective agreements that may apply to the sector or geographical area concerned.
Amendment 991 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 21.º – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 21.º – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Member States shall not award contracts to undertakings that do not comply with the principle of equal pay between men and women for equal work or work of equal value or that do not comply with any collective agreements that may apply to the sector or geographical area concerned.
Amendment 992 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 21.º – paragraph 1 b (new)
Article 21.º – paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Member States shall bar access to public funding, including funding using EU money, for undertakings that do not comply with the principle of equal pay between men and women for equal work or work of equal value or that do not comply with any collective agreements that may apply to the sector or geographical area concerned.
Amendment 994 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 21 – paragraph 2
Article 21 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall consider for contracting authorities to introduce, as appropriate, penalties and termination conditions ensuring compliance with the principle of equal pay in the performance of public contracts and concessions. Where Member States’ authorities act in accordance with Article 38(7)(a) of Directive 2014/23/EU, Article 57(4)(a) of Directive 2014/24/EU, or Article 80(1) of Directive 2014/25/EU in conjunction with Article 57(4)(a) of Directive 2014/24/EU, they may exclude or may be required by Member States toshould exclude any economic operator from participation in a public procurement procedure where they can demonstrate by any appropriate means the infringement of the obligations referred to in paragraph 1, related either to a failure to comply with pay transparency obligations or a pay gap of more than 5 per cent in any category of workers which is not justified by the employer on the basis of objective, gender-neutral criteria. This is without prejudice to any other rights or obligations set out in Directive 2014/23/EU, Directive 2014/24/EU or Directive 2014/25/EU.
Amendment 1006 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 25.º – paragraph 1
Article 25.º – paragraph 1
1. Without prejudice to the competence of labour inspectorates or other bodies that enforce the rights of workers, including the social partnerworkers’ representative organisations, national equality bodies established in accordance with Directive 2006/54/EC shall be competent with regard toprovide support for the matters falling within the scope of this Directive.
Amendment 1034 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 3 – point c
Article 26 – paragraph 3 – point c
(c) to aggregate data received from employers pursuant to Article 8(6), and publish this data in an accessible and a user-friendly manner, including with regard to persons with disabilities, in accordance with Directive (EU) 2019/882 and, where possible, analyse that data for the purpose of identifying multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination;
Amendment 1044 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 3 – point e a (new)
Article 26 – paragraph 3 – point e a (new)
(ea) to provide relevant data and information to the European Institute for Gender Equality in order to allow for the comparability and assessment of that data at Union level;
Amendment 1062 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 28 – paragraph 1
Article 28 – paragraph 1
Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with up-to-date gender pay gap data annually and in a timely manner. These statistics shall be broken down by gender, economic sector, working time (full-time/part-time), economic control (public/private ownership), disability and age and be calculated on an annual basis and, where possible, combine them with anonymised data regarding intersectional forms of discrimination.
Amendment 1074 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 31 – paragraph 1
Article 31 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by [twoone years after the entry into force]. They shall immediately inform the Commission thereof.
Amendment 1077 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 31 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 31 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. The transposition of this Directive by each Member State shall not conflict with existing provisions of laws or agreements more favourable to workers.
Amendment 1078 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 31.º – paragraph 1 b (new)
Article 31.º – paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. The transposition of this Directive must not in any way impose conditions on the provisions of laws and agreements that have been adopted in a Member State and are more favourable to workers.
Amendment 1079 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 31 – paragraph 2
Article 31 – paragraph 2
Amendment 45 #
2021/0045(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) As Party to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD), provisions of the Convention are integral part of the Union legal order and binding upon the Union and its Member States. The UN CRPD requires its Parties to take appropriate measures to ensure that persons with disabilities have access, on an equal basis with others, to information and communications technologies and systems. To that end, Directive (EU) 2018/1972 aims to “ensure the provision throughout the Union of good quality, affordable, publicly available services through effective competition and choice, to deal with circumstances in which the needs of end-users, including those with disabilities in order to access the services on an equal basis with others, are not satisfactorily met by the market and to lay down the necessary end-user rights.”(Article 1.2 (b)). In accordance with Article 109 of Directive (EU) 2018/1972, all end-users should have access to emergency services, free of charge, through emergency communications to the most appropriate public safety answering point (PSAP). Member States are also required to ensure that access for end-users with disabilities to emergency services is available through emergency communications and is equivalent to that enjoyed by other end- users. Importantly, the Code notes that “emergency communications are a means of communication that includes not only voice communications services, but also SMS, messaging, video or other types of communications, for example real time text, total conversation and relay services.” (recital 285, Directive (EU) 2018/1972). It is for the Member States to determine the type of emergency communications that are technically feasible to ensure roaming customers access to emergency services. In order to ensure that roaming customers have access to emergency communications under the conditions laid down in Article 109 of Directive (EU) 2018/1972, visited network operators should inform the roaming provider through the wholesale roaming agreement about what type of emergency communications are mandated under national measures in the visited Member State. In addition, wholesale roaming agreements should include information on the technical parameters for ensuring access to emergency services, including for roaming customers with disabilities, as well as for ensuring the transmission of caller location information to the most appropriate PSAP without delay after the emergency communication is set up in the visited Member State. Such information should allow the roaming provider to identify and provide the emergency communication and the transmission of caller location free of charge and without having to use any means of payment.
Amendment 49 #
2021/0045(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) Certain conditions may be included in the reference offers in order to allow mobile network operators to prevent permanent roaming or anomalous or abusive use of wholesale roaming access . In particular, where the visited network operator has reasonable grounds for considering that permanent roaming by a significant share of the roaming provider’s customers or anomalous or abusive use of wholesale roaming access is taking place, it should be able to require the roaming provider to provide, in an aggregated manner and in full compliance with Union and national data protection requirements, information allowing the determination of whether a significant share of the roaming provider’s customers is in a situation of permanent roaming or whether there is anomalous or abusive use of wholesale roaming access, such as information on the share of customers with insignificant domestic consumption compared to the roaming consumption. In the event of any doubt over the interpretation of the provisions of this Regulation or any contradiction or conflict relating to personal data protection, the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation shall take precedence. Moreover, termination of wholesale roaming agreements with a view to preventing permanent roaming or anomalous or abusive use of wholesale roaming access should be effected only where less stringent measures have failed to address the situation. Such termination should be subject to prior authorisation by the national regulatory authority of the visited network operator, taking the utmost account of the opinion of BEREC where it has been consulted. Less stringent measures could consist of setting higher wholesale charges not exceeding the maximum wholesale charges provided for in this Regulation for volumes exceeding an aggregated volume specified in the agreement. Such higher wholesale charges should be set in advance, or from the moment when the visited network operator has established and informed the home network operator that, based on objective criteria, permanent roaming by a significant share of the roaming provider’s customers or anomalous or abusive use of wholesale roaming access is taking place. Less stringent measures could also consist of a commitment by the home network operator to adopt or revise the fair use policies applicable to its customers in accordance with the detailed rules adopted pursuant to Article 8 of this Regulation , or the possibility for the visited network operator to request that the wholesale roaming agreement be revised. In the interests of transparency, the national regulatory authority should make information concerning requests for authorisation to terminate wholesale roaming agreements available to the public, subject to business confidentiality.
Amendment 64 #
2021/0045(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital new(29
Recital new(29
new(29) Roaming providers should be able to apply a ‘fair use policy’ to the consumption of regulated retail roaming services provided at the applicable domestic retail price. The ‘fair use policy’ is intended to prevent abusive or anomalous in very limited circumstances. The ‘fair use policy’ should prevent fraudulent usage of regulated retail roaming services by roaming customers, such as the use of such services by roaming customers in a Member State other than that of their domestic provider for purposes other than periodic travel. Roaming providers should, in cases of force majeure caused by circumstances such as pandemics or natural catastrophes which involuntarily extend the period of temporary stay of the roaming customer in another Member State, consider extending the applicable fair use allowance for an appropriate period, upon a justified request by the roaming customer so consumers can enjoy a genuine roam-like-at-home experience. The COVID 19 crisis led to an extensive use of teleworking and streaming of universities courses and notes that many places in the European Union are not well served by local loop broadband, and the speed is insufficient. This shall be significantly strengthened, so citizens can enjoy a genuine Roam- Like-At-Home experience. Any fair use policy should enable the roaming provider’s customers to consume volumes of regulated retail roaming services at the applicable domestic retail price that are consistent with their respective tariff plans.
Amendment 68 #
2021/0045(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 34
Recital 34
(34) Where providers of Union-wide regulated roaming services make changes to their retail roaming tariffs and to accompanying roaming usage policies in order to comply with the requirements of this Regulation, such changes should not trigger for mobile customers anywill not affect or limit any consumer rights under national laws transposing Directive (EU) 2018/1972, namely, the right to withdraw from their contracts.
Amendment 70 #
2021/0045(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 36
Recital 36
(36) Roaming customers and home operators sometimes unwittingly incur large bills as a result of the lack of transparency on the numbers used for value added services across the Union and on the wholesale prices charged for value added services. Communications to certain numbers which are used for providing value added services, for example, premium-rate numbers, freephone numbers or shared cost numbers, are subject to particular pricing conditions at the national level. This Regulation should not apply to the part of the tariff that is charged for the provision of value added services but only to the tariffs for the connection to such services. Neverthelss, the RLAH principle might create an expectation for end-users that communications to such numbers while roaming should not incur any increased cost in comparison to the domestic situation. However, this is not always the case when roaming. End-users are confronted with increased costs, even when they call numbers that are free when called domestically. This could erode customers’ confidence in using their phones when roaming and could result in bill shocks, thus having a negative impact on a genuine RLAH experience. This is mainly caused, at retail level by the insufficient level of regulation and the lack of transparency on the higher charges which can be incurred because of communications to value added services numbers. Therefore measures should be introduced to protect customers and increase the transparency on the conditions for communications to value added services numbers and to ensure that customers that are roaming within the Union pay the same amount as domestic customers for value added services and ensure that costumers keep paying the same price as at home when resorting to value added services from their home country when travelling within the Union as long as they are accessible in the visiting country. To that end, roaming customers should be informed in their contract and notified and warned, upfront, in a timely, transparent, trustely and user- friendly manner and free of charge, thatif and when communications to value added services numbers in roaming can entail additional charges and the applicable cut- off limit which consumers can opt-out from. Additional charges should always be communicated to the client. Additionally the value added services and any charge should be immediately interrupted, followed by an alert, if suspicious of fraudulent calls.
Amendment 75 #
2021/0045(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 43
Recital 43
(43) In order to improve the transparency of retail prices for roaming services and to help roaming customers make decisions on the use of their mobile devices while abroad, providers of mobile communication services should supply their roaming customers with information free of charge on the roaming charges applicable to them when using roaming services in a visited Member State. Since certain customer groups might be well informed about roaming charges, rThe home operator should also inform roaming customers of any additional charges that may apply for resorting to some value-added services and the applicable cut-off limit to prevent bill- shocks. Such information should be provided as soon as the consumer enters another Member State and also when the roaming customer tries to use a value- added service. Providers of mobile communication services should also inform consumers of the use of non terrestrial networks on aircrafts and vessels and the cut-off limit that applies to protect them from bill-shocks. Such information should be provided as soon as the mobile device accesses such non- terrestrial networks. Roaming providers should provide a possibility to easily opt- out from this automatic message service without unduly subverting or impairing consumer's autonomy, decision-making, or choice. In addition, roaming customers should be provided free of charge with a text message including a link to a web page giving detailed information about the types of services (calls and SMS) that may be subject to increased costs. Moreover, providers should actively give their customers, provided that the latter are located in the Union, on request and free of charge, additional information on the per- minute, per-SMS or per-megabyte data charges (including VAT) for the making or receiving of voice calls and also for the sending and receiving of SMS, MMS and other data communication services in the visited Member State.
Amendment 194 #
2021/0045(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 1
Article 16 – paragraph 1
Roaming providers shall ensure that their roaming customers are kept adequately informed on the means of access to emergency services in the visited Member State and shall ensure that the access including for persons with disabilities to emergency services is equivalent to that enjoyed by other users.
Amendment 205 #
2021/0045(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 7 a (new)
Article 18 – paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Roaming providers shall ensure that all information referred to in Articles 9, 14, 15,16,17 and 18 which is provided to customers, is accessible for persons with disabilities in accordance with requirements of Directive (EU) 2019/882 (European Accessibility Act), the information does not exceed a level of complexity superior to level B1 (intermediate) of the Council of Europe's Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, as well as is provided in easy-to-read format.
Amendment 215 #
2021/0045(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph new1 – subparagraph 1 – point a a (new)
Article 21 – paragraph new1 – subparagraph 1 – point a a (new)
(a a) Effectiveness of this regulation on ensuring equal access to electronic communications by persons with disabilities when travelling within the EU/EEA.
Amendment 99 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas health rights, in particular sexual and reproductive health rights, are fundamental women's rights that should be enhanced and cannot be in any way watered down or withdrawn;
Amendment 256 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 282 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Points out that the EU and its Member States continue to face an economic and financial crisis, exacerbated by COVID-19, and that the measures that the EU institutions have imposed on the Member States over the years through the EU's economic governance policies and 'financial assistance' programmes have had adverse effects, felt particularly keenly by women, on public health services, including those related to sexual and reproductive health, in terms of both quality and accessibility, and to family planning; that these adverse effects have had serious repercussions on labour and social rights, curtailing women's economic independence in a civilisational backsliding on women's rights;
Amendment 307 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that the Member States should adopt a public health policy that places special emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention by ensuring free, universal and high-quality healthcare and the resources required to combat the main public health problems;
Amendment 335 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Urges the Member States to ensure access to scientifically accurate and comprehensive sexuality education for all primary and secondary school children in line with WHO standards, as well as teacher training, the means for the proper functioning of support offices, and health education centres;
Amendment 347 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls upon the Member States to combat the spread of discriminatory and unsafe misinformation on SRHR, and to enhance safeguards of the right to reproductive health through public health services;
Amendment 357 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls upon the Member States to ensure free access to contraceptive methods, thereby safeguarding the fundamental right to health; calls on the Member States to ensure the availability of family planning consultations covering, inter alia, procreation, antenatal matters, parenting techniques and infertility;
Amendment 368 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls upon the Member States to ensure that contraception is covered under national reimbursement schemes and healthcare policies and to recognise that this coverage should be extended to all people offree to all people of reproductive age; calls on the Member States to ensure that public health services provide proper regular medical and psychological care that promotes and defends women's lifelong sexual and reproductive agehealth;
Amendment 371 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on the Member States to see to it that the vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV) is administered free of charge to all women;
Amendment 380 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Reaffirms that abortion must be a voluntary decision based on a woman’s request, given of her own free will, in accordance with medical standards based on WHO guidelines and calls upon the Member States to ensure free access to safe and legal abortion;
Amendment 395 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Urges the Member States to regulate obstacles to legal abortion, and recalls that they have a responsibility to ensure that women have access to the rights afforded to them by law; urges the Member States to enhance the range of reproductive health services they offer to include more flexible options to support population groups such as young people, female migrants and the most deprived;
Amendment 413 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls upon the Member States to adopt measures to ensure that all women have access to affordablefree, high-quality, evidence-based maternity care; to ensure that all pregnant women have access to maternity services, and receive proper, high-quality clinical check-ups and all the health care they require;
Amendment 417 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls on the Member States to better protect new mothers and fathers, including by increasing periods of leave, taking into account the World Health Organization recommendation that children be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of their lives, and ensuring that these periods of leave are remunerated at 100%, with no loss of earnings; calls for women to have the right, once their maternity leave ends, to reduce their working hours so that they can breastfeed their child until it is at least two years old, and for practical measures to be taken to ensure this protection, alongside investment in the establishment of a free public network of early childcare and education services;
Amendment 452 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7 a (new)
Subheading 7 a (new)
Stresses that there are a number of links between prostitution and trafficking, and acknowledges that prostitution – both in the EU and across the globe – fuels the trafficking of vulnerable women and minors;
Amendment 462 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Urges the Member States to raise awareness among women of the importance of regular screenings, and to ensure that public health services provide screenings such as mammograms and mammary ultrasonographies, cytology tests and bone density scans;
Amendment 467 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Calls for proper protection of female victims of domestic violence, with an increase in State resources and effective action to that end;
Amendment 474 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls upon the Commissioner for Health and Food Safety to promote and protect SRHR and to include them in the next EU public health strategy; stresses the need to boost investment in public services considerably, particularly in healthcare, education and transport services, in order to meet people's needs and contribute towards the independence, equality and emancipation of women;
Amendment 480 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls upon the Commissioner for Equality to promote and protect SRHR and to include them in the next EU gender equality strategy; stresses that any equality strategy should address all forms of violence against women, including backsliding on and violations of women's sexual and reproductive health and rights; reiterates the need to prioritise access to healthcare and public services, particularly access to abortion services and psychological support for female victims of violence;
Amendment 12 #
2020/2173(DEC)
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas, taking into account that workers, particularly women workers, are going through a difficult time in which their working hours are being completely deregulated, largely as a result of teleworking, the European Institute for Gender Equality should push for specific measures and initiatives to support, develop and foster a balance between personal, family and professional life as a decisive factor in the effective promotion of gender equality.
Amendment 10 #
2020/2140(DEC)
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas cohesion funds needed to be increased with a view to protecting women's economic and social rights by: combating the feminisation of poverty; investing in high-quality public care- giving services; improving sexual education policies and sexual and reproductive health services; tackling all forms of violence against women and girls; tackling human trafficking, which, by means of sordid sexually exploitative deals, mainly affects women and girls;
Amendment 2 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas Europe needs a socially effective and environmentally sustainable industrial strategy prioritizing equal development; whereas today EU industry employs around 35 million people and accounts for over 80 % of exports; whereas women still remain under-represented across industrial sectors, occupations and management levels;
Amendment 14 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the EU industrial strategy must serve as a vector for creating more and betterguarantee quality jobs and achieve an inclusive and balanced job market that benefits the people, accompanying the transition towards a digital and carbon- neutral industry; whereas the EU industrial strategy must serve as a booster for social cohesion and in that way contribute to the fight against social dumping;
Amendment 18 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas a long-standing focus on competitiveness and market-based approaches has proven unable to solve divergence between Member States and regions, causing the loss of numerous jobs and reinforcing the de- industrialization of entire regions; whereas only strong public industrial strategy can guarantee a truly equal, sustainable and just industrial development, including high quality jobs, and ambitious social and environmental objectives;
Amendment 23 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas digitalisation and artificial intelligence are crucial for all industry sectors, increasing competitiveness, creating job opportunities and economic prosperity;
Amendment 31 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Union requires a new industrial strategy that makes its industries more globally competitive, resilient, resilient, socially effective and environmentally sustainable; whereas such a strategy should cover the transition of European industries to digitalisation and climate-neutrality, prioritising the safeguarding of quality jobs, equal development, the ‘energy efficiency first’ principles, energy savings and renewable energy technologies; whereas such a strategy is crucial to ensure the respect of our climate objectives, notably the Paris agreement;
Amendment 35 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas in several factories where workers and trade unions were able to determine production decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic, a quick reconversion of manufacturing towards medical products was observed;
Amendment 41 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
E a. whereas any fair and sustainable production model should place workers, their representatives and trade unions, as well as workers’ interests and long standing expertise at its very core to ensure it is oriented on the basic needs of society.
Amendment 48 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the Union’s industrial strategy should ensure the correct functioning of the single market, create a level playing field inside and outside EU and ensure easier access to finance, raw materials and markets, in addition to ensuring appropriate levels of investmentappropriate levels of especially public investment, quality jobs, research and innovation, education and skills to boost competitivenessdevelopment and sustainability;
Amendment 60 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas any fair and sustainable production model should place workers, their representatives and trade unions, as well as workers interests and long standing expertise at the very core of its development to ensure a democratic functioning;
Amendment 61 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Highlights any industrial strategy should place the workers, their representatives and trade unions, as well as the workers’ interests and long- standing expertise at its core to ensure a democratic functioning; calls on the Commission to fully include workers, their representatives and trade unions at every stage of the procedure;
Amendment 82 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Highlights that an austerity policy weakens both domestic demand and public investment and is hence incompatible with any ambitious industrial strategy;
Amendment 85 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the COVID-19 outbreak has illustrated the failure of the market economy in many aspects, notably the failure to produce sufficient first necessity products such as masks, respirators or other sanitary equipment necessary to respond to the crisis;
Amendment 92 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that EU industrial policy must embrace relocationpublic investment strategies that promote the recovery of quality employment and manufacturing opportunities back to the EU, in order to increase competitiveness and avoid excessive dependency on foreign providers, particularly in strategic sectors such as health, digitalisation and energy, thus strengthening the EU’s strategic autonomythroughout the Union, in order to support the equal and sustainable development of all EU regions, particularly in strategic sectors such as health, digitalisation and energy; calls on the Commission to promote the use of public investment to create high-quality jobs and achieve ambitious social and environmental goals;
Amendment 94 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas a long-standing focus on competitiveness and market-based approaches has proven unable to solve divergence between Member States and regions, causing the loss of numerous jobs and reinforcing the de- industrialization of entire regions; whereas only strong public industrial strategy can guarantee a truly equal, sustainable and just industrial development, including high quality jobs, and ambitious social and environmental objectives;
Amendment 99 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Amendment 112 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Is of the opinion that digital and environmental transitions should be at the very core of all Unions strategies until 2050; in this context, calls on the Commission to define a comprehensive industrial strategy which manages these transitions, fosters transformation and, guaranteies the Union’s strategic autonomyquality jobs and equal development of EU territories within the union;
Amendment 122 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the ability to recruit and retain a qualified workforce is essential to a competitivstable and sustainable EU industry; considers higher salaries and better working conditions as paramount in this respect; considers education in future- oriented sectors, skills and competences, particularly as regards Vocational Education Training and digital skills, to be essentiaimportant as well to address current skills shortages; believes that lifelong learning is a prerequisitecould help to ensure efficient and timely upskilling and reskilling of workers and should be an integral part of the EU Industrial Strategy; calls, in this regard, on the Commission to ensure complementarity between the aims of the new Industrial Strategy and the anticipated updated Skills Agenda for Europe;
Amendment 135 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is aware that market dynamics alone do not bridge the fractures created during the transformation process if there is no proper management of the transitions and no strong industrial policies; is, furthermore, aware that while markets, competition and innovation push fast towards transformation, it is society and the environment that face the impact of these transformations; considers that balancing out the number of jobs lost in traditional industries with new jobs created in the digital and environmental sectors is not enough in itself as these new jobs are neither created in the same regions nor taken up by the same workers; calls on the Commission, therefore, to ensure that these transitions are fair and socially just, and that every action aimed at accelerating a transformation process (digital, environmental, etc.) is accompanied by a corresponding initiative to up-skill and reskill workers, with the aim of managing the effects produced by that accelerated process on both regions and people;
Amendment 145 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that the recent pandemic has shown the importance of digital solutions, particularly telework, and the need to establish guidelines and regulations at European level; believes that telework offers opportunities such as betterboth risks and opportunities for the work- life balance, reduced CO2 emissions related to the daily commute, and enhanced employment opportunities for people with disabilities; calls on the Commission to propose a legislative framework with a view to regulating telework conditions across the EU defending the highest employment standards and avoiding any weakening of collective bargaining and social partners’ involvement;
Amendment 145 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Highlights that EU industrial policy must address all social consequences of structural change in order to support good, fair and equal working conditions, quality employment, and equal opportunities, as well as access to well-functioning labour markets and welfare systems;
Amendment 146 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Considers that EU industrial policy must embrace public investment strategies that promote the recovery of quality employment and manufacturing opportunities throughout the Union, in order to support the equal and sustainable development of all EU regions, particularly in strategic sectors such as health, digitalisation and energy; calls on the Commission to Promote the use of public investment to create high-quality jobs and achieve ambitious social and environmental goals;
Amendment 148 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Highlights that any industrial strategy should place workers, their representatives and trade unions, as well as workers’ interests and long-standing expertise at its core to ensure a democratic functioning; calls on the Commission to fully include workers, their representatives and trade unions at every stage of the procedure;
Amendment 161 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that gender balance and achieving equality between men and women must be core principles of the EU’s industrial strategy; calls on the Commission to include a gender perspective in its industrial policy strategy, particularly in its measures to address the digital and green transformations, and to encourage women’s participation in the digital entrepreneurshipconomy, STEM and ICT education and employment in order to avoideliminate any industrial and digital gender gap;
Amendment 182 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the Temporary State Aid framework as a way to promptly transfer liquidity where urgently needed; calls on the Commission nonetheless to ensure that the aid provided in the emergency phase does not lead toreinforce permanent distortions and inequalities in the single market;
Amendment 187 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Highlights that emergency public support measures are incompatible with the use of tax havens and the payment of dividends to shareholders, and shall comply with strict environmental and social conditionalities. amongst which safeguarding jobs;
Amendment 190 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that the economic schemes put in place by individual Member States to help SMEs and companies cope with the short-term cash crunch are useful, but will increase the debt levels of these firms; in this context, therefore, calls on the Commission to facilitate recovery through fiscal schemes that favour equity over debt and grants over loans and/or guarantees;
Amendment 214 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to include in the recovery plan a strategy to redeploy industries in Europe and to relocatguarantee industrial production in strategic sectors; calls, moreover, on the Commission to adopt a stronger stance on unfair global competition and predatory acquisitions by SOEs and sovereign funds; is of the opinion that, in this context, the Union should implement a provisional TDI schem such as medicines or medical devices, including through public sector initiative;
Amendment 242 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Highlights that, during this critical phase, the Union should protect its market in strategic sectors and block takeovers and FDI that could further increase its dependency on foreign powersand extend the role of public initiative and investment especially in strategic sectors considered too important to be left to the market;
Amendment 301 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point c
Paragraph 9 – point c
c. distributes the financial aid among the different industrial sectors according to the damage suffered, the social impact, the challenges faced and the amount of national financial support already received through national aid schemes;
Amendment 306 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point d
Paragraph 9 – point d
d. supports national fiscal schemes that incentivise private sector equity investment and allow companies to convert part of the loans given by the Fund into equityin concrete industrial projects;
Amendment 307 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point d a (new)
Paragraph 9 – point d a (new)
da. gives preference to direct public investments in essential sectors and public owned companies;
Amendment 319 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point f
Paragraph 9 – point f
f. strengthens the EIB guarantees programme and makes it complementary to national programmes in order to strengthen the impact and to progressively replacbe a valuable addition where national schemes remain necessary;
Amendment 337 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 394 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Highlights the potential of the circular economy for modernising the Union’s economy, reducing its energy and resource consumption and transforming whole industrial sectors and their value chains; including recycling and reuse to reduce the dependence to raw resources;
Amendment 420 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Considers that there is significant potential in domestic and global markets for low-emission technologies and sustainable products, processes and services throughout the whole value chain from raw materials to energy-intensive industries, manufacturing and the industrial services sector; considers, moreover, that the Climate Law is a first step towards enshrining climate targets into Union legislation; believes that a more holistic and systematic target framework is also required in order to ensure policy coherence across all Union policies and a homogenous governance approach in all policy areas, paving the way towards a clear and stable strategy for European industries; calls for the strict respect of the Paris agreement;
Amendment 528 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to tailor its industrial strategy to the scaling-up and commercialisation of breakthrough technologies in the Union, by providing risk financing for early-stage technology and developing early value chains to support first commercial-scale,high quality public research and development policies to support both medical and climate- neutral technologies and products;
Amendment 604 #
2020/2076(INI)
20. Considers that industrial transformation requires the integration of new knowledge and innovation into existing markets and their use in the creation of new ones; regrets, in this respect, that the Union invests less in R&D as a percentage of GDP than its global competiother actors and that it suffers from a serious lack of innovative capacity in small and medium-sized enterprises due to a shortfall in the necessary risk capital; calls on the Commission to increase the budget for those programmes that underpin the transformation of the Union’s industry, including Horizon Europe, and to foster synergies between regional, national, and European and private financial sources by taking advantage of synergies among all Union programmes;
Amendment 638 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Is of the opinion that ecosystems will be key components of the next industrial revolution, providing affordable and cleaner energy, transformative manufacturing and service-provision methods; believes, moreover, that supporting collaboration among industry, academia, SMEs, start-ups, trade unions, civil society, end-user organisations and all other stakeholders will be key to solving market failures and supporting efforts to cross the ‘valley of death’, while ensuring that workers do not pay, in any case, the bill of this efforts including in areas not yet covered by industrial interests;
Amendment 649 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls on the Commission to provide endogenous growth in Europe, in orienting value through consumption and investment; believes that financialization is a threat for wage and investment in attracting profit from the industries to the shareholders; considers that fiscal policies and international cooperation in this matter should constraint the firms’ Financial strategies to promote surplus repartition for workers and investment instead of for shareholders;
Amendment 653 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Considers that essential sectors for ensuring the autonomy of the EU policy for health, safety, transport and infrastructure need leapfrogging to guarantee their long-term development; calls on the Commission for planning policy in key essential sectors in order to balance the development of such industries across Europe, discussed in stakeholders working groups including the above-mentioned stakeholders; calls for creation in each identified key sector the creation of public platforms for R&D and R&T, in which the above-mentioned stakeholders can identify and support product and process innovations that match the relevant citizens’ needs;
Amendment 683 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Calls on the Commission to produce guidelines for national statistics agencies in order to gather relevant data about the industries, especially manufacturing, in Europe, to measure the integration of the value chains, the evolution of employment and territorial development;
Amendment 686 #
2020/2076(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
Amendment 6 #
2020/2071(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated the growing problem of medicine shortages across the EU; whereas the ensuing disruption of the global supply chain has highlighted the EU’s dependency on third countdeficiencies of market mechanisms with research and development, production and trade controlled by multinational enterprises, and the EU’s dependency on these for medicines and active pharmaceutical ingredients;
Amendment 17 #
2020/2071(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. Recognizes that drug shortages are sometimes artificially created by pharmaceutical companies that choose to produce more profitable drugs while neglecting less profitable ones;
Amendment 50 #
2020/2071(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Insists that the Commission urgently launches a multi-stakeholder consultation to identify key supply chain issues that directly cause or increase the risk of medicine shortages; calls on the Commission to propose ambitious and concrete actions to address these issues in its planned pharmaceutical strategy with, among others, a mechanism to oblige the companies owning the patents to produce the needed medicines even if they are less profitable, and the possibility to impose compulsory licences in order to facilitate, without constraint, the increase of the production of the most needed drugs or vaccines;
Amendment 85 #
2020/2071(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the urgent need for the EU to reduce its over-reliance on a small number of third countries for medicine manufacturing and as sources of active pharmaceutical ingredients; calls therefore the EU to enable the creation of a European public pharmaceutical hub which will have the responsibility to ensure the production of essential drugs and vaccines and make them available at cost price to the health departments of Member States;
Amendment 88 #
2020/2071(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Stresses the urgent need to ensure that patents are not a barrier to securing supplies during any epidemic outbreak; stresses the need to override patents for drugs, vaccines, and medical equipment as needed to secure critical supplies during any epidemic outbreak, present and future, by licensing public laboratories and industries to make generic copies of brand-name products without having to negotiate with patent holders;
Amendment 95 #
2020/2071(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Stresses that the urgent need for medicines and medical equipment cannot mean, nor be at the expense of the quality, safety, efficacy and cost-effectiveness of medicines for human use and health products, including medical devices and products cosmetics and body hygiene;
Amendment 96 #
2020/2071(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3 c. Recalls that compliance with the rules applicable to the authorization of clinical trials with medicines, as well as the control of observance of good clinical practices in their performance, must continue to be regulated and supervised according to the highest standards of public health protection, to guarantee the access of health professionals and citizens to quality, effective and safe medicines and health products;
Amendment 99 #
2020/2071(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3 d. Recalls the words of the United Nations Secretary-General who recently declared that the future treatment for Covid-19 is "a public good" that should be made available to all; warns that the defense of public health does not match the presumption of profit, which will always be obtained at the expense of the suffering of the peoples;
Amendment 124 #
2020/2071(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights the fact that Horizon 2020 has already financed a significant number of health-related research and innovation activities; calls for more funding to be provided through Horizon Europe to create and support medicine- focused research ecosystems.public-owned research;
Amendment 11 #
2020/2070(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the quality of life of all citizens should be improved and whereas taking measures to improve the energy efficiency of the EU’s building stock cannot result in socio-economic discrimination of any kind;
Amendment 19 #
2020/2070(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas the energy consumption patterns in buildings, particularly residential buildings, vary significantly from one country and one region to another, for reasons based, for example, on the weather and socio-economic aspects, and, therefore, each Member State should take suitable measures and provide the requisite support;
Amendment 53 #
2020/2070(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Demands that building and renovation policies be holistic and inclusive, include IRPs that integrate social services, mobility, industrial and energy functions of buildings, and enable on-site renewables production and demand-side flexibility;
Amendment 61 #
2020/2070(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is concerned by the gentrification and ‘renoviction’ of neighbourhoods driven by investment capital interests, and by the rising numbers of citizens in energyexperiencing poverty, gender disparity, and marginalisation; considers that a community approach in addition to safeguards at a regulatory level could reduce the level of destruction of existing communities;
Amendment 70 #
2020/2070(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Highlights the success of one-stop- shops,Stresses the need for capacity building for municipalities, and the active involvement of local actors such as energy communities, consumer organisations and housing cooperativecommunities throughout the process;
Amendment 79 #
2020/2070(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. WelcomesTakes note of the European Green Deal proposal on platforms; stresses that they must be inclusive and gain consensus on the basis of community needs;
Amendment 94 #
2020/2070(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States to prioritise marginalisefamilies and communities when designing IRPsliving in poverty;
Amendment 101 #
2020/2070(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to immediately launch inclusive IRP platforms, accompanied by EU initiativesmake information available to the Member States which circulatinges best practices on the replicability of programmes, the dissemination of capacities, sector integration, and safeguards for communities in energy poverty;
Amendment 109 #
2020/2070(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Highlights that initial investment costs, complex finance schemes, split incentives, medium/long-term payback times, difficulties with accessing credit for co-properties, regulatory barriers for buildings with multiple owners, split incentives or owner/tenant subsidies for fossil fuels, and a lack of a stable and ambitious policy framework act as significant barriers to investments;
Amendment 134 #
2020/2070(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes the available financing possibilities, Member States’ good practices using the EU emissions trading system (ETS) revenues blending, conditionality, and using EU regional funds as guarantees and revolving and the good practices of Member States using EU regional funds; stresses that there is the possibility to finance training under the Just Transition Fund;
Amendment 139 #
2020/2070(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Stresses the importance of mobilising the financial resources needed for the Member States to be able to meet the objectives proposed in the context of maximising the energy efficiency potential of the EU’s building stock;
Amendment 155 #
2020/2070(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Considers that all IRPs should set aside funds for marginalised citizensfamilies and communities living in poverty;
Amendment 169 #
2020/2070(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the CommissionMember States to regularly carry out inspections and to revise energy efficiency targets upwards, propose binding minimum annual renovation rates for public and private buildings and policy measures ensuring deep renovations creating financial triggers and investment stability;
Amendment 173 #
2020/2070(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Recognises the role that local and regional authorities can play in leveraging financing, through public banks, energy utility companies, public credit guarantees triggered by co-owners and innovative financing methods linked to urban development; these tools would be particularly useful for buildings belonging to vulnerable groups;
Amendment 178 #
2020/2070(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for stepping up the capability of the European Local Energy Assistance (ELENA) facility and the European Investment Bank to give technical assistance to local authorities, according to their social and economic situations; calls for direct financing from the EIB for the local authorities with the best conditions;
Amendment 184 #
2020/2070(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to revise EU State aid rules and exclude these investments from public debt in order to foster IRPs;
Amendment 187 #
2020/2070(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Deplores the fact that there is no harmonised definition of near-zero- emission construction, which makes it difficult to press forward with renovation; urges the Commission to revise the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) to introduce GHG emissions criteria and express energy performance in final energy consumption, with a view to linking energy and carbon savings more effectively;
Amendment 250 #
2020/2070(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls on the Member States to maximise the reuse, the recycling, and, the recuperation of materials and the use of local raw materials in their procurement strategies;
Amendment 258 #
Amendment 265 #
2020/2070(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Calls for an increase in the use of renewable and indigenous materials and traditional building skills and practices, with the materials, skills and practices used being those best suited to each region's climate conditions;
Amendment 286 #
2020/2070(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls on the Commission to release in-depth impact assessments of building, occupier and tenure typologies by 2022 for the introduction of MEPS for buildings; urges the Commission to establish harmonised, comparable and up-to-date data on energy performance and typologies for all the Member States;
Amendment 290 #
2020/2070(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Calls on the Commission and the Member State to foster skills and raise awareness among all stakeholders in the renovation process: architects and designers, builders, promoters, administrators, suppliers, owners and tenants;
Amendment 318 #
2020/2070(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Underlines that housing and consumer rights require social safeguards, data protection and consent; points out that consumers and producers/consumers should be duly informed and prepared;
Amendment 344 #
2020/2070(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Requires an ambitious implementation of the Clean Energy Package; underlines the role of national energy and climate plans (NECPs) in maximising energy efficiency in the EU’s building stock and in creating opportunities in the building sector;
Amendment 351 #
2020/2070(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Welcomes the Member States’ long-term renovation strategies (LTRSs) in setting out milestones – 2030 and 2040 – towards the climate neutrality objective;
Amendment 2 #
2020/2006(INL)
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas deforestation can be in part tackled by securing the economic value of forests and by creating incentives for forest ownership; whereas, at the same time, it is crucial to maintain a balance between primary forests and regeneration of secondary forests;
Amendment 10 #
2020/2006(INL)
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas forests should not be viewed from a predominantly economic perspective, which limits their value to only the wood that they produce and thus overlooks the environmental and social benefits that they provide;
Amendment 14 #
2020/2006(INL)
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas criteria for determining social and environmental value and the right to access land should come before considerations relating simply to financial profit in the assessment of different forestry development strategies;
Amendment 39 #
2020/2006(INL)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. SupportsCalls on the Commission into step up its efforts, jointly with the Member States, to strengthen standards and certification schemes that help to identify and promote deforestation-free commodities;
Amendment 52 #
2020/2006(INL)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Asks the Commission to explore strengthened use of the Copernicus satellite system for forest monitoring and for forest fire and forest damage prevention, facilitating access for the relevant authorities in each Member State;
Amendment 150 #
2020/2005(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2 a (new)
Subheading 2 a (new)
Condemns the use of traineeship status for contracting highly skilled and specialised workers, when in reality they are employees and their employment relationship should be recognised as such; this abusive practice often results in job insecurity, lower pay and a lack of social protection, in particular no paid holidays, sickness protection or parental leave, and also no holiday or Christmas bonuses; stresses the importance of not allowing such practices to be formalised and legitimised;
Amendment 13 #
2020/1998(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that, before the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 100 million Europeans were struggling with poverty and material deprivation on a daily basis and that the situation is likely to deteriorate as a result of the pandemic; recognises the crucial role of the European Social Fund (ESF), the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI), the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF), the Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) and the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) in the current 2014-2020 MFF; calls for the Union to increase its efforts to boost cohesion and social convergence in Europe; proposes that the ESF budget, and notably the FEAD be doubled to overcome poverty in Europe;
Amendment 28 #
2020/1998(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the recovery efforts should boost jobs andand the Union budget should benefit the people and be focused primarily on boosting quality jobs and sustainable growth, the resilience of our societies and should be complemented by a strong social dimension, addressing social and economic inequalities and the needs of those hardest hit by the crisis, particularly potentially vulnerable and disadvantaged groups, whose inclusion in the labour market must be supported and fostered;
Amendment 56 #
2020/1998(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls for EU programmes to focus on projects that promote and enhance the safeguarding of existing jobs and the creation of quality jobs with rights and stable and regulated pay and working conditions, as well as effectively and incisively combating poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 61 #
2020/1998(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes, in light of the expected increase in demand in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the Commission proposal to increase the annual funding available for EGF to EUR 386 million from 2021 onwards and is concerned that the Council proposal to limit this funding to EUR 197 million in 2021 could undermine its paramount role in offering assistance to workers who lost their job in restructuring events; insists that particular emphasis shall lie on Member States and regions having been hit hardest and where the national and regional authorities lack adequate resources for taking the necessary measures; recalls that the EGF is without prejudice to the social responsibilities of the companies concerned, in particular where it concerns their contribution to the social plans for displaced workers;
Amendment 118 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) The development of trans- European energy infrastructure should be aligned with the Member States' National Energy Plans and contribute to the creation of a high-quality, fairly priced public energy supply accessible to all and which promotes economic development, social cohesion and ecological balance; in this regard, public and democratic control is a fundamental prerequisite for ensuring its sustainability in different dimensions;
Amendment 119 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 b (new)
Recital 6 b (new)
(6b) The development of trans- European energy infrastructure should favour the repurposing of existing infrastructure and equipment, avoiding a waste of resources, in order to comply with strict ecological sustainability criteria;
Amendment 120 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 c (new)
Recital 6 c (new)
(6c) In the context of the energy transition, the development of trans- European energy infrastructure should safeguard jobs, guaranteeing the professional training needed, and respect labour rights;
Amendment 225 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1.º – paragraph 1
Article 1.º – paragraph 1
1. This Regulation lays down guidelines for the timely development and interoperability of the priority corridors and areas of trans-European energy infrastructure set out in Annex I (‘energy infrastructure priority corridors and areas’) that contribute to the Union’s 2030 climate and energy targets and the climate neutrality objective by 2050, in conjunction with the National Energy Plans, and should contribute to the creation of a high- quality, fairly priced public energy supply accessible to all and which promotes economic development, social cohesion and ecological balance.
Amendment 231 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1.º – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 1.º – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) addresses the identification of projects of common public interest necessary to implement priority corridors and areas falling under the energy infrastructure categories in electricity, smart gas grids, hydrogen, electrolysers, and carbon dioxide set out in Annex II (‘energy infrastructure categories’);
Amendment 290 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 3.º – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Amendment 297 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 5 – point b
Article 3.º – paragraph 5 – point b
(b) ensure cross-regional consistency, taking into account the opinions of national authorities and the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulator (‘the Agency’) as referred to in point (12) of Section 2 of Annex III;
Amendment 299 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 5 – point c
Article 3.º – paragraph 5 – point c
(c) take into account the National Energy Plans and the opinions of Member States as referred to in point (9) of Section 2of Annex III;
Amendment 321 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4.º – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 4.º – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) the project contributes significantly to the decarbonisation objectivesustainable climate-change mitigation and adaptation goals of the Union and those of the third country and to sustainability, including through the increased integration of renewable energy into the grid and the transmission ofpreferably from renewable generation to major consumption centres and storage sites, and;
Amendment 336 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4.º – paragraph 2 – point e – introductory part
Article 4.º – paragraph 2 – point e – introductory part
(e) the third country or countries involved have a high level of regulatory alignment or convergence to support the overall policy objectives of the Union, in particular to ensure:
Amendment 337 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4.º – paragraph 2 – point e – point i
Article 4.º – paragraph 2 – point e – point i
(i) a well-functioning internal energy marketsecure and effective grid operation;
Amendment 339 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4.º – paragraph 2 – point e – point iii
Article 4.º – paragraph 2 – point e – point iii
(iii) an energy system, including production, transmission and distribution, on a trajectory towards decarbonisation in line with the Paris Agreement and the Union’s climate objectives; and, in particular, avoiding carbon leakagesustainable climate-change mitigation and adaptation goals, avoiding carbon leakage and ecological sustainability;
Amendment 352 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4.º – paragraph 3 – point a – point i
Article 4.º – paragraph 3 – point a – point i
(i) market integration, including through lifting the isolation of at least one Member State and reducing energy infrastructure bottlenecks; competition and system flexibility;
Amendment 390 #
2020/0360(COD)
(iii) comopetiration, including by allowing access to multiple supply sources and network users on a transparent and non- discriminatory basis.
Amendment 425 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4.º – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 4.º – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) the urgency of each proposed project in order to meet the Union energy policy targets of decarbonisation, market integrobjectives relating to sustainable climate-change mitigation and adaptation, comopetiration, sustainability and, security of supply and the provision of high-quality, fairly priced public energy;
Amendment 447 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5.º – paragraph 8
Article 5.º – paragraph 8
8. A project of common interest may be removed from the Union list in accordance withing to the procedure set out in Article 3(4) if its inclusion in that list was based on incorrect information which was a determining factor for that inclusion, or the project does not comply with Union law and the laws of the Member States.
Amendment 451 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7.º – paragraph 1
Article 7.º – paragraph 1
1. The adoption of the Union list shall establish, for the purposes of any decisions issued in the permit granting process, the necessity of those projects from an energy policy perspective, without prejudice to the exact location, routing or technology of the project. a view to achieving sustainable climate-change mitigation and adaptation goals and the provision of high-quality, fairly priced public energy;
Amendment 496 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11.º – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 11.º – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Prior to submitting their respective methodologies, the ENTSO for Electricity and the ENTSO for Gas shall conduct an extensive consultation process involving at least the organisations representing all relevant stakeholders, including the entity of distribution system operators in the Union (‘EU DSO entity’), all relevant hydrogen stakeholders and, where it is deemed appropriate the, national regulatory authorities and other national authorities.
Amendment 553 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12.º – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 12.º – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. By [31 July 2022], the Agency, after having conducted an extensive consultation process involving the Commission and at least the organisations representing all relevant stakeholders, including the ENTSO for Electricity, the ENTSO for Gas, Union DSO entity, and relevant hydrogen sector stakeholders, national regulatory authorities and other national authorities, shall publish the framework guidelines for the joint scenarios to be developed by ENTSO for Electricity and ENTSO for Gas. Those guidelines shall be regularly updated as found necessupdated regularly.
Amendment 100 #
2020/0359(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 11 a (new)
Recital 11 a (new)
(11a) The Covid-19 pandemic has changed many pre-existing work situations, forcing many workers to work from home, and it seems that this change is here to stay for many of these situations. Therefore, it is necessary to ensure that homeworkers are also adequately protected against cybercrime threats and/or attacks. This requires such workers to be adequately trained to detect, prevent and/or react to cyber threats. These workers must as well be protected against employers' cyber surveillance systems that would not just violate their labour rights as their personal ones as the right to privacy. Trade unions and other relevant stakeholders must play a meaningful role in this protection.
Amendment 101 #
2020/0359(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 11 b (new)
Recital 11 b (new)
(11b) The daily lives of a large part of the population are increasingly digitalised, both personally and professionally, and in this pandemic phase we are seeing much greater and growing use of various digital platforms for various purposes. Consumers' rights must therefore be properly protected, particularly the right to be informed of any cyberattacks on websites that they have used and/or on which they may have provided their personal data.
Amendment 221 #
2020/0359(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point d
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point d
(d) a potential disruption of the service provided by the entity could have an impact on public safety, publicrepercussions on the provision of public services, particularly health, education, transport security or public healthorder;
Amendment 282 #
2020/0359(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point e
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) a list of the various authorities and actors involved in the implementation of the national cybersecurity strategy, including trade unions and other focused on workers' protection;
Amendment 295 #
2020/0359(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point h a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point h a (new)
(ha) a policy for cyber hygiene, and protection and training of workers against these new labour risks and threats.
Amendment 297 #
2020/0359(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point h b (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point h b (new)
(hb) a policy for addressing awareness and security of consumers of digital services.
Amendment 83 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Title 1 a (new)
Title 1 a (new)
The European Parliament rejects the Commission proposal.
Amendment 124 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) Guideline 5 of Council Decision 2020/1512/EU on guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States37 calls on Member States to ensure an effective involvement of social partners in wage-setting, providing for fair wages that enable a decent standard of living and allowing for an adequate responsiveness of wages to productivity developments, with a view to upward convergence. The Guideline also calls on Member States to promote social dialogue and collective bargaining on wage setting. It also calls on Member States and the social partners to ensure that all workers have adequate and fair wages by benefitting fromA general rise in wages, and especially in minimum wages, is both a necessity and a way of collrrective agreements or adequate statutory minimum wages, and taking into account their impact on competitiveness, job creation and in-work poverty. The Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy 202138 states that Member States should adopt measures to ensure fair working conditions. In addition, the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy 202039 recalled that in the context of growing social divides, it is important to ensure that each worker earns an adequate wage. Several Country Specific Recommendations have also been issued to some Member States in the field of minimum wages. However, individual countries may be little inclined to improve their minimum wage settings because of the perception that this could negatively affect their external cost competitivenesng growing injustices and inequalities in the distribution of wealth between employers and workers, and is also fundamental for the economic and social development of the Member States. __________________ Council Decision 2020/1512/EU of 13 October 2020 on guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (OJ L 344, 19.10.2020, p. 22–28). Commission Communication COM(2020) 575 final. Commission Communication COM(2019) 650 final.
Amendment 148 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7 a (new)
Recital 7 a (new)
(7 a) During economic turndowns, such as the COVID-19 crisis, the role of minimum wages in protecting low-wage workers is particularly important and is essential for the purpose of supporting a sustainable and inclusive economic recovery which should lead to more quality employment after the crisis.
Amendment 158 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) Women, young andpeople, low-skilled workers and, persons with disabilities have a higher probability of beingand migrant workers are minimum wage or low wage earners compared withan other groups. During economic downturns, such as the Covid-19 crisis, the role ofraising minimum wages into protecting low-wage workers becomes increasingly important and is essentialis important to support a sustainable and inclusive economic recovery. Addressing and raising minimum wage contributes to gender equality, closing the gender pay and pension gap as well as elevating women out of poverty.
Amendment 163 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) The Covid-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on the services sector and small firms, which bothand the measures taken to contain it have a high share of minimum wage earners. In addition, minimum wages are also important in view of the structural trends that are reshaping labour markets and which are increasingly characterised by high shares of non-standard and precarious work. Theslighted the vulnerability of those in precarious jobs, many of whom have been made redundant. This trend must be trends have led to an increased job polarisation resulting in an increasversed by creating secure jobs with rights and ensuring sthare of low-paid and low- skilled occupations in most Member States, as well as to higher wage inequality in some of themt every permanent position involves a genuine employment relationship, with the aim of achieving full employment.
Amendment 189 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) Not all workers in the Union are protected by minimum wages. In some Member States some workers, even though they are covered, receive in practice a remuneration below the statutory minimum wage due to deductions, variations and the non-respect of existing rules. In particular, such non-compliance has been found to affect notably women, young and older workers, low-skilled workers, migrant workers, single-parent workers, people with disabilities and agricultural workers. In Member States where minimum wage protection is provided only through collective agreements, the share of workers not covered is estimated to vary from 2% to 55% of all workers.
Amendment 200 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) While strong cCollective bargaining at sector or cross-industry level contributes to ensuring adequate minimum wage protection, traditional collective bargis a fundamental right, recognised by international labour standards, and has a pivotal role in cementing and improving workers’ rights, rainsing structures have been eroding during the last decades, in part due to structural shifts in the economy towards less unionised sectors and to the decline in trade union membership related to the increase of atypical and new forms of workwages and incomes, reducing and regulating working time and patterns, promoting stable employment with rights and reducing precarious work, ensuring adequate pay for overtime, and improving measures to prevent accidents at work, occupational diseases and psychosocial risks.
Amendment 246 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) This Directive should apply to all workers who have an employment contract or employment relationship as defined by the law, collective agreements or practice in force in each Member State, with consideration to the criteria established by the Court of Justice of the European Union for determining the status of a worker. Provided that they fulfil those criteria, dand to self- employed persons who are economically dependent on the contracting entity. Domestic workers, on-demand workers, intermittent workers, voucher- based workers, bogus self-employed, platform workers, trainees and apprentices could fall within the scope of this Directive. Genuinely self-employed persons do not fall within the scope of this Directive since they do not fulfil those criteria. The abuse of the status of self- employed persons, as defined in national law, either at national level or in cross- border situations, is a form of falsely declared work that is frequently associated with undeclared work. Bogus self- employment occurs when a person is declared to be self-employed while fulfilling the conditions characteristic of an employment relationship, in order to avoid certain legal or fiscal obligations. Such persons should fall within the scope of this Directive. The determination of the existence of an employment relationship should be guided by the facts relating to the actual performance of the work, in particular economic dependence, and not by the parties’ description of the relationship.
Amendment 256 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) Well-functioning collective bargaining on wage setting is an important means to ensure that workers are protected by adequate minimum wageneeds to be regularly updated to ensure that there is a general improvement in wages and other workers’ rights. In the Member States with statutory minimum wages, collective bargaining supports general wage developmenhould encourage a general improvement in wages and other rights, and should therefore contributes tohelp to raise minimum wages and improvinge the adequacy of minimum wageworking and living conditions of workers. In the Member States where minimum wage protection is provided exclusively by collective bargaining, their level as well as the share of protected workers are directly determined by the functioning of the collective bargaining system and collective bargaining coverage. Strong and well- functioning collective bargaining together with a high coverage of sectorial or cross- industry collective agreements strengthen the adequacy and the coverage of minimum wages.
Amendment 284 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) Sound rules, procedures and practice for setting and updating statutory minimum wages are necessary to deliver adequate minimum wages, while safeguarding jobs and the competitiveness of firms including small and medium- sized enterprisewage rises and enhance the value of work and workers. They include a number of elements to preserve the adequacy of statutory minimum wages, including criteria and indicators to assess adequacy, regular and timely updates, the existence of consultative bodies and the involvement of social partners. A timely and effective involvement of the latter is another element of good governance that allows for an informed and inclusive decision-making process.
Amendment 290 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 21
Recital 21
Amendment 317 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 22
Recital 22
Amendment 332 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 23
Recital 23
(23) An effective enforcement system, including controls and field inspections, is necessary to ensure the functioning of national statutory minimum wage frameworks. In order to ensure that labour inspections can be carried out effectively, each labour inspector should be assigned to inspect no more than 10 000 workers. To strengthen the effectiveness of enforcement authorities, a close cooperation with the social partners is also needed, including to address critical challenges such as those related to sub- contracting, bogus self-employment or non-recorded overtime. Moreover, workers should have easily access to appropriate information on applicable statutory minimum wages to ensure an adequate degree of transparency and predictability as regards their working conditions. (https://ilostat.ilo.org/resources/concepts-and-definitions/description-labour-inspection/)Or. en
Amendment 346 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 25
Recital 25
(25) Reliable monitoring and data collection are key to ensure the effective protection of minimum wages. The Commission should report every year to the European Parliament and to the Council its assessment of developments in the adequacy and coverage of minimum wages on the basis of annual data and information to be provided by Member States. In addition, progress should be monitored in the framework of the process of economic and employment policy coordination at Union level. In that context, the Employment Committee should examine every year the situation in the Member States on the basis of the reports produced by the Commission and other multilateral surveillance tools such as benchmarking.
Amendment 356 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) Workers should be in a position to exercise their right of defence when their rights relating to established minimum wage protection are violateddefend their rights. In order to prevent that workers are deprived from their rights, and without prejudice to specific forms of redress and dispute resolution provided for in collective agreements, including systems of collective dispute resolution, Member States should take the necessary measures to ensure that they have access to effective and impartial dispute resolution and a right to redress, including to adequate compensation, in particular by exempting them from costs of proceedings, as well as effective protection from any form of detriment in case they decide to exercise their right of defence.
Amendment 382 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 31
Recital 31
Amendment 403 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) setting adequate levels ofraising minimum wages;
Amendment 441 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1
Article 2 – paragraph 1
This Directive applies to workers in the Union who have an employment contract or employment relationship as defined by law, collective agreements or practice in force in each Member State, with consideration to the case-law of the Court of Justiceand to self- employed persons who are economically dependent ofn the European Unioncontracting entity.
Amendment 450 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1
(1) ‘minimum wage’ means the minimum remuneration that an employer is required to pay to workers for the work performed during a given period, calculated on the basis of time or output;
Amendment 462 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 3
(3) ‘collective bargaining’ means all negotiations which take place between an employer, a group of employers or one or more employers’ organisations, on the one hand, and one or more workers’ organisattrade unions, on the other, for determining working conditions and terms of employment; and/or regulating relations between employers and workers; and/or regulating relations between employers or their organisations and a worker organisation or worker organisattrade union or trade unions;
Amendment 470 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 4
(4) ‘collective agreement’ means all agreements in writing regarding wages, working conditions and terms of employment concluded by the social partneramong trade unions and employers’ organisations as an outcome of collective bargaining;
Amendment 493 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. With the aim to promote the right to collective bargaining and increase the collective bargaining coverage Member States shall take, in consultation with the social partners, at least the following measures:
Amendment 497 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) promote the building and strengthening of the capacity of the social partnerrade unions and employers’ organisations to engage in collective bargaining on wage setting and other workers’ rights at sector or cross-industry level so that workers are treated more favourably;
Amendment 504 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) encourage constructive, meaningful and informed negotiations on wages among social partnernd other workers’ rights among trade unions and employers’ organisations with a view to updating collective agreements by improving wages and other rights;
Amendment 530 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 2
2. Member States where collective bargaining coverage is less than 70% of the workers defined within the meaning of Article 2 shall in additionshall provide for a framework of enabling conditions for collective bargaining and updating collective agreements, either by law after consultation of the social partners or by agreement with them, and shall establish an action plan to promote collective bargaining. The action plan shall be made public and shall be notified to the European Commission and regular updating of collective agreements.
Amendment 553 #
Amendment 586 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point b
Amendment 590 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point c
Amendment 602 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point d
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point d
(d) labour productivity developmentthe development of workers’ needs.
Amendment 604 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
(da) the unequal distribution of wealth between employers and workers by setting targets for a rebalancing towards workers;
Amendment 610 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point d b (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point d b (new)
(db) the principle of equal pay for equal work.
Amendment 614 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 3
Article 5 – paragraph 3
Amendment 635 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 4
Article 5 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure the regular and timely updates of statutory minimum wages in order to preservcontinue their adequacyupward convergence throughout the European Union.
Amendment 645 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. No measures in this Directive shall be construed or interpreted as imposing or promoting directly or with the indirect effect of a decrease the level of statutory minimum wages, or as preventing Member States from increasing the level of minimum wages.
Amendment 659 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 5
Article 5 – paragraph 5
5. Member States shallmay establish consultative bodies to advise the competent authorities on issues related to statutory minimum wages.
Amendment 670 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. Member States may allow different rates of statutory minimum wage for specific groups of workers. Member States shall keep these variations to a minimum, and ensure that any variation is non- discriminatory, proportionate, limited in time if relevant, and objectively and reasonably justifiedA framework of minimum conditions applicable to minimum wages shall be established. Additional measures allowing the application of variations and deductions, aside from social contributions, shall not bye a legitimate aimdopted.
Amendment 682 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2
Amendment 706 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) the selection and application of criteria and indicative reference values referred to in Article 5(1), (2) and (32) for the determinationraising of statutory minimum wage levels;
Amendment 715 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point c
Amendment 738 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point 1
(1) strengthen the controls and field inspections conducted regularly by labour inspectorates or the bodies responsible for the enforcement of statutory minimum wages. The controls and inspections shall be effective, dissuasive, proportionate and non-discriminatory. Member States ensure adequate resources for labour inspectorates;
Amendment 744 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point 2
(2) develop guidance for national enforcement authorities to proactively target and pursue non-compliant businesses;
Amendment 762 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
In accordance with Directive 2014/24/EU, Directive 2014/25/EU and Directive 2014/23/EU, Member States shall not award contracts to companies that do not respect labour rights and shall take appropriate measures to ensure that in the performance of public procurement or concession contracts economic operators comply with the wagecollective agreements and the wages and other rights set out by collective agreements for the relevant sector and geographical area and with the statutory minimum wages where they exist.
Amendment 778 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall task their competent authorities with developing effective data collection tools to monitor the coverage and adequacyraising of minimum wages.
Amendment 781 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Member States shall reportupdate and publish the following data to the Commission on an annual basis, before 1 October of each year:
Amendment 787 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point a – point ii
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point a – point ii
Amendment 793 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point a – point iii
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point a – point iii
Amendment 799 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point a – point iv a (new)
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point a – point iv a (new)
(iva) the rate of coverage of amended, updated or republished, and expired collective agreements.
Amendment 825 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Amendment 837 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 4
Article 10 – paragraph 4
Amendment 843 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 5
Article 10 – paragraph 5
Amendment 865 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that, without prejudice to specific forms of redress and dispute resolution provided for, where applicable, in collective agreements, workers, including those whose employment relationship has ended, have access to effective and impartial dispute resolution and a right to redress, including adequate compensation, in particular by exempting them from costs of proceedings, in the case of infringements of their rights relating to statutory minimum wages or minimum wage protection provided by collective agreements.
Amendment 877 #
2020/0310(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 2
Article 11 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall take the measures necessary to protect workers, including those who are workers’ representatives, from any adverse treatment by the employer and from any adverse consequences resulting from a complaint lodged with the employer or resulting from any proceedings initiated with the aim of enforcing compliance with the rights relating to statutory minimum wages or minimum wage protection provided by collectiveestablished by law or agreements.
Amendment 68 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) At Union level, the European Semester of economic policy coordination (‘European Semester’), including the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights, is the framework to identify national reform prioritGiven its specific recommendations and structural reforms, the European Semester is a tool for EU interference, designed to oversee and circumscribe the Member States’ fiscal and economic policies, and monitor their implementation. Member States develop their own national multiannual investment strategies in support of those reforms. Those strategies should be presented alongside the yearly National Reform Programmes as a way to outline and coordinate priority investment projects to be supported by national and/or Union fundingvery often it resorts to blackmail and sanctions as a means to apply measures intended to liberalise public services, deregulate labour and enforce austerity policies. Its implementation leads to sluggish economic development, unemployment, poverty and socio-economic and territorial disparities.
Amendment 70 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 changexposed the economic outlook for the years to come in the Union and in the world, calling for an urgent and coordinated response from the Union in order to cope with the enormous economic and social consequences for all Member. The challenges linked to the demographic context have been amplified by COVID-19. The current COVID-19 pandemic as well as the previous economic and financial crisis have shown that developshortcomings of the policies promoted by the EU, which have centralised powers in its institutions and diminished the Member States’ sovereign capacity; have deregulated industrial relations, relaxed rules on working shoundrs and resilient econduced workers’ incomies; and financial systems built on strong economic and social structures helps Member States to respond more efficiently to shocks and recover more swiftly from them. The medium and long- term consequences of the COVID-19 crisis will critically depend on how quickly Member States’ economies will recover from the crisis, which in turn depends on the fiscal space Member States have available to take measures to mitigate the social and economic impact of the crisis, and on the resilience of their economies. Reforms and investments to address structural weaknesses of the economies and strengthen their resilience will therefore be essential to set the economies back on a sustainable recovery path and avoid further widening of the divergences in the Unionhave contributed to the destruction and privatisation of public services. The COVID-19 pandemic is proving that the Member States with more regulated labour conditions and public services that provide universal social responses and help to tackle structural exclusion have a better capacity for resilience and better recovery potential.
Amendment 86 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) Against this background, it is necessary to strengthen the current framework for the provision of support to Member States and provide direct financial support to Member States through an innovative tool. To that end, a Recovery and Resilience Facility (the ‘Facility’) should be established under this Regulation to provide effective financial and significant support to step up the implementation of reforms and relaease the way for public investment that may help to bring about policies that respect the needs of the Member States and their development strategies, promoting decent work that is fairly paid and underpinned by collective bargaining; that promoted public investments in the Member Stat in infrastructure and productive sectors, supporting green and innovative development that safeguards social and territorial cohesion; that boost and invest in public services, providing universal, high-quality and accessible social responses. The Facility should be comprehensive and should also benefit from the experience gained by the Commission and the Member States from the use of the other instruments and programmes.
Amendment 104 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) The specific objective of the Facility should be to provide Member States with financial support with a view to achieving the milestones and targets of refboosting projects fostering their development, investment in productive and strategic sectorms and investmentsplaying as set out in recovery and resilience plans. That specific objective should be pursued in close cooperation with the Member States concernedtructuring role in providing universal, free and high-quality public services. That specific objective should be pursued with due respect for the specific development strategies of the Member States concerned, making a meaningful contribution by providing immediate responses to the impact of COVID-19 and public investments playing a structuring role in ensuring the social and territorial cohesion of the Member States and the European Union.
Amendment 152 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4.º – paragraph 2
Article 4.º – paragraph 2
2. To achieve that general objective, the specific objective of the Recovery and Resilience Facility shall be to provide Member States with financial support with a view to achieving the milestones and targets of refboosting projects fostering their development, investment in productive and strategic sectorms and investmentsplaying as set out in their recovery and resilience plans. That specific objective shall be pursued in close cooperation with the Member States concernedtructuring role in providing universal, free, high-quality public services. That specific objective shall be pursued with due respect for the specific development strategies of the Member States concerned, making a meaningful contribution by providing immediate responses to the impact of COVID-19 and public investments playing a structuring role in ensuring the social and territorial cohesion of the Member States and the European Union.
Amendment 44 #
2020/0103(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 changexposed the economic outlook for the years to come in the EU and in the world. In the Union, new priorities have emerged, linked with the crisis, specifically focussing on recovery and resilience. They require an urgent and coordinated response from the Union in order to cope with the economic consequences for Member States as well to mitigate the social and economic fallouts. The current COVID-19 pandemic as well as the previous economic and financial crisis have shownshortcomings of the policies promoted by the EU, which have centralised powers in its institutions and diminished the Member States’ sovereign capacity; which have deregulated industrial relations, relaxed rules on hours and reduced workers’ incomes; and have contributed to thate developing sound and resilient economies and financial systems built on strong economic and social structures helps Member States to respond more efficiently to shocks and recover more swiftly from them. Growth enhancing reforms and investments to address structural weaknesses of the economies and strengthen their resilience will therefore be essential to set the economies and societies back on a sustainable recovery path and overcome the economic, social and territorial divergences in the Unionstruction and privatisation of public services. The COVID-19 pandemic is proving that the Member States with more regulated labour conditions and public services that provide universal social responses and help to tackle structural exclusion have a better capacity for resilience and better recovery potential.
Amendment 48 #
2020/0103(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) Given its specific recommendations and structural reforms, the European Semester is a tool for EU interference, designed to enforce and circumscribe the Member States’ fiscal and economic policies, and very often it resorts to blackmail and sanctions as a means to apply measures intended to liberalise public services, deregulate labour and enforce austerity policies. Its implementation leads to sluggish economic development, unemployment, poverty and socio-economic and territorial disparities.
Amendment 56 #
2020/0103(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)
Recital 7 a (new)
(7a) The Technical Support Instrument may help to build the capacity of national authorities, public and private organisations and the populations that benefit from the projects it supports, paving the way for more efficient and effective use of recovery and resilience funds, with better implementation and a real impact on the delivery of policies that are in line with Member States’ needs and their development strategies, promoting decent work that is fairly paid and based on collective bargaining; that promote public investment in infrastructure and productive sectors, supporting green and innovative development that safeguards social and territorial cohesion; that boost and invest in public services, providing high-quality and universal social responses.
Amendment 85 #
2020/0103(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
The general objective of the instrument shall be to promote the Union’s economic, social and territorial cohesion in the European Union by supporting Member States’ efforts to implement reforms necessaryprojects that promote their development, investment in productive and strategic sectors, and the structuring of universal, free and high-quality public services, with a view to achieveing economic and social recovery, resilience and upward economic and social convergence, and to support Member States’ efforts to strengthen their administrative capacity to implement Union law in relation to challenges faced by institutions, governance, public administration, and economic and social sectors.
Amendment 94 #
2020/0103(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
To achieve the general objective set out in Article 3, the instrument shall have the specific objectives of assisting national authorities in improving their capacity to design, develop and implement reformprojects, including through exchange of good practices, appropriate processes and methodologies and a more effective and efficient human resources management. Those specific objectives shall be pursued in close cooperation with the Member States concerned.
Amendment 59 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
(5a) Climate legislation must do more than simply set a net goal of zero CO2 emissions by 2050 in the law; it should provide concrete, sufficient and realistic means to attain that goal;
Amendment 68 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) Energy is a strategic economic sector, fundamental to the sovereign development of States, which must remain in the sphere of public control and property, and must develop in accordance with the public interest, supported by scientific knowledge, technological progress and the preservation of natural resources, safeguarding their capacity for renewal and in ecological balance.
Amendment 89 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10 a (new)
Recital 10 a (new)
(10a) The Union should be accountable for the deregulation and liberalization of international trade, which promotes increasing flows of matter and energy that cross the world, with enormous environmental, economic and social impacts. The Union should instead promote the development of mutually beneficial international economic relations, based on complementarity and not on competition, refusing all forms of neo-colonialism, and stop all the free- trade agreements.
Amendment 106 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12 a (new)
Recital 12 a (new)
(12a) The EU should ensure that Member States have means to invest in the ecological transition, in that sense, it should discard the EU’s cap on national borrowing of 3% of GDP as prescribed in the Stability and Growth Pact - and also the zero structural deficit embodied in the fiscal compact - that severely inhibits the ecological transition by prohibiting Member States from launching massive public investment drives to achieve a zero carbon economy. Environmental and social public investment should be excluded from this 3% rule.
Amendment 278 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point b
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point b
Amendment 305 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point d a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point d a (new)
(da) public control and property of the energy sector;
Amendment 317 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point e
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point e
(e) fairness and solidaritysolidarity and cooperation between and within Member States;
Amendment 324 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point f a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point f a (new)
(fa) capacity for renewal and ecological balance;
Amendment 325 #
2020/0036(COD)
(g) investment needs and opportunitiesupport Member States' on public investments;
Amendment 347 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point j a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point j a (new)
(ja) the EU’s cap on national borrowing of 3% of GDP as prescribed in the Stability and Growth Pact, and also the zero structural deficit embodied in the fiscal compact; environmental and social public investment should be excluded from this 3% rule;
Amendment 360 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 (new)
The carbon market has had negative and perverse consequences, the notion of monetising nature and trading the right to pollute should be rejected, and it should be replaced by a normative approach, based on a specific UN-defined and monitored solution.
Amendment 68 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
3. In order to be successful, the transition has to be fair and socially acceptable for all. It must ensure that the right of affected workers to decent employment is respected, and seek to realign their skills to changing job requirements. Therefore, both the Union and the Member States must take into account its economic and social implications from the outset, and deploy all possible instruments to mitigate adverse consequences. The Union budget has an important role in that regard.
Amendment 72 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
3a. If the JTF is to achieve its goal, it is essential to increase the EU budget, stepping up its role in the reallocation of structural, investment and cohesion funding earmarked for genuine economic and social convergence between Member States and funding for the productive sectors and for employment with rights.
Amendment 73 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 b (new)
Recital 3 b (new)
3b. Enhanced cohesion policy instruments and EU budgetary easing are essential in view of the current economic and social fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Member States; Member States should be free to redirect appropriations between funds, items of expenditure and priorities in accordance with their economic and social needs, irrespective of thematic concentration objectives and any EU macroeconomic and/or political conditionalities.
Amendment 82 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
2. The transition to a climate-neutral and circular economy constitutes one of the most important policy objectives for the Union. On 12 December 2019, the European Council endorsed the objective of achieving a climate-neutral Union by 2050, in line with the objectives of the Paris Agreement. While fighting climate change and environmental degradation will benefit all in the long term and provides opportunities and challenges for all in the medium term, not all regions and Member States start their transition from the same point or have the same capacity to respond in view of their specific historical and cultural circumstances or the impact of austerity policies on their economic growth. Some are more advanced than others, whereas the transition entails a wider social and economic impact for those regions that rely heavily on fossil fuels - especially coal, lignite, peat and oil shale - or greenhouse gas intensive industries. Such a situation not only creates the risk of a variable speed transition in the Union as regards climate action, but also of growing disparities between regions, detrimental to the objectives of social, economic and territorial cohesion.
Amendment 87 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
5. This Regulation establishes the Just Transition Fund (‘JTF’) which is one of the pillars of the Just Transition Mechanism implemented under cohesion policy. The aim of the JTF is to mitigate the adverse effects of the climate transition by supporting the most affected territories and workers concerned. In line with the JTF specific objective, actions supported by the JTF should directly contribute to alleviate and offset the impact of the transition by financing the diversification and modernisation of the local economy and by mitigating the negative repercussions on employment. This is reflected in the JTF specific objective, which is established at the same level and listed together with the policy objectives set out in Article [4] of Regulation EU [new CPR].
Amendment 92 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
3. In order to be successful, the transition has to be fair and socially acceptable for all, the transition must ensure the right to decent working conditions for those affected, seeking to bring their skills into line with emerging new workplace requirements. 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 adverseoffset the harmful consequences. The Union budget has an important role in that regard.
Amendment 95 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
6. In view of the importance of tackling climate change in line with the Union’s commitments to implement the Paris Agreement, the commitment regarding the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the increased ambition of the Union as proposed in the European Green Deal, the JTF should provide a key contribution to mainstream climate actions. 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 fromused by the ERDF and ESF+ will contribute fully to the achievement of this target.
Amendment 102 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
7. The resources from the JTF shouldmay complement the resources available under a cohesion policy with increased funding that can be flexibly deployed by Member States and beneficiaries.
Amendment 103 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
3a. To ensure that JTF objectives are met, it is essential to step up the EU budget and its role in redistributing resources towards effective economic and social convergence between Member States (through the deployment of structural, investment and cohesion funding) and providing grants (not loans) to Member States in order to underpin their productive sectors and promote employment with rights.
Amendment 104 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 b (new)
Recital 3 b (new)
3b. Given that the Member States are currently suffering the economic and social fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is essential to strengthen cohesion policy instruments, introduce EU budgetary easing and move from the centralised fund management by the Commission to joint management involving the Member States. Member States should be free to reallocate appropriations between funds, headings and priorities in line with their economic and social needs, and independently of thematic concentration objectives and any EU macroeconomic and/or political conditionalities.
Amendment 122 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9 a (new)
Recital 9 a (new)
9a. The JTF should facilitate the geographical spread of investments (from agricultural and industrial areas to energy generation hubs), ensuring territorial cohesion and balanced land use, avoiding divergence between Member States and, on the contrary, promoting convergence.
Amendment 123 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
5. This Regulation establishes the Just Transition Fund (‘JTF’) which is one of the pillars of the Just Transition Mechanism implemented under cohesion policy. The aim of the JTF is to mitigate the adverse effects of the climate transition by supporting the most affected territories and workers concerned. In line with the JTF specific objective, actions supported by the JTF should directly contribute to alleviate the impact of the transition by financing the diversification and modernisation of the local economy and by mitigatingoffset the negative repercussions on employment. This is reflected in the JTF specific objective, which is established at the same level and listed together with the policy objectives set out in Article [4] of Regulation EU [new CPR].
Amendment 125 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
10. This Regulation identifies types of investments for which expenditure may be supported by the JTF. All supported activities should be pursued in full respect of the climate and environmental priorities of the Union. The list of investments should include those that support local economies, promote decent employment and are sustainable in the long- term, taking into account all the objectives of the Green Deal. The projects financed should contribute to a transition to a climate- neutral and circular economy focused on promoting employment and decent workplace conditions. For declining sectors, such as energy production based on coal, lignite, peat and oil shale or extraction activities for these solid fossil fuels, support should be linked to the phasing out of the activity and the corresponding industrial reconfiguration of the affected regions, avoiding any structural reduction in the employment level. As regards transforming sectors with high greenhouse gas emission levels, support should promote new activities through the deployment of new technologies, new processes or products, leading to significant emission reduction, in line with the EU 2030 climate objectives and EU climate neutrality by 205013 while maintaining and enhancing employment with rights and avoiding environmental degradation. The FTJ should also facilitate substantive changes with regard to mobility, seeking to reduce its impact in terms of climate change and, more specifically, channelling investments into rail network modernisation and expansion and more efficient public transport services in metropolitan areas and urban centres. Particular attention should also be given to activities enhancing innovation and research in advanced and sustainable technologies, as well as in the fields of digitalisation and connectivity, provided that such measures help mitigate the negative side effects of a transition towards, and contribute to, a climate- neutral and circular economy. __________________ 13As set out in “A Clean Planet for all European strategic long-term vision for a prosperous, modern, competitive and climate neutral economy”, Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions and the European Investment Bank - COM(2018) 773 final.
Amendment 143 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
11. To protect citizens who are most vulnerable to the climate transition, the JTF should also cover the up-skilling and reskilling of the affected workers, with the aim of helping them to adapt to new employment opportunconditieons, as well as providing job-search assistance to jobseekers and their active inclusion into the labour market, ensuring that they do not lose out when changing jobs.
Amendment 145 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) The resources from the JTF shcould complement the resources available under cohesion policya better funded cohesion policy for flexible implementation by Member States and beneficiaries.
Amendment 147 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
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 decent employment. 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 Council and if they result in the protection of a significant number of 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, sSupport 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. __________________ 14 Directive 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).
Amendment 160 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9 a (new)
Recital 9 a (new)
9a. The FTJ should promote the territorial spread of investments (from agricultural and industrial production to energy production hubs), ensuring cohesion and balanced occupation of territory, avoiding divergence between Member States and, on the contrary, promoting convergence between them.
Amendment 164 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
13. In order to provide flexibility for the programming of the JTF resources under the Investment for jobs and growth goal, it should be possible to preparopose 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 shouldmay be reinforced with complementary funding from the ERDF and the ESF+. 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.
Amendment 168 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
10. This Regulation identifies types of investments for which expenditure may be supported by the JTF. All supported activities should be pursued in full respect of the climate and environmental priorities of the Union. The list of investments should include those that support local economies, promote decent employment and are sustainable in the long- term, taking into account all the objectives of the Green Deal. The projects financed should contribute to a transition to a climate- neutral and circular economy based on measures to promote decent workplace conditions. For declining sectors, such as energy production based on coal, lignite, peat and oil shale or extraction activities for these solid fossil fuels, support should be linked to the phasing out of the activity and the correspondingindustrial reconfiguration of the regions affected, preventing a structural reduction in the employment level. As regards transforming sectors with high greenhouse gas emission levels, support should promote new activities through the deployment of new technologies, new processes or products, leading to significant emission reduction, in line with the EU 2030 climate objectives and EU climate neutrality by 205013 while maintaining and enhancing employment with rights and avoiding environmental degradation. Particular attention should also be given to activities enhancing innovation and research in advanced and sustainable technologies, as well as in the fields of digitalisation and connectivity, provided that such measures help mitigate the negative side effects of a transition towards, and contribute to, a climate- neutral and circular economy. __________________ 13 As set out in “A Clean Planet for all European strategic long-term vision for a prosperous, modern, competitive and climate neutral economy”, Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions and the European Investment Bank - COM(2018) 773 final.
Amendment 188 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) To protect citizens who are most vulnerable to the climate transition, the JTF should also cover the up-skilling and reskilling of the affected workers, with the aim of helping them to adapt to the new employment opportunities, as well as providing job-search assistance to jobseekers and their active inclusion into the labour marketsituation, and facilitate their active inclusion into the labour market, ensuring that they do not lose out when changing jobs. .
Amendment 193 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
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 decent employment. For enterprises other than SMEs, productive investments should only be supported if they are necessary for mitigapreventing 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 thejob protection of a significant number of 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).
Amendment 208 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
13. In order to provide flexibility for the programming of the JTF resources under the Investment for jobs and growth goal, it should be possible to preparopose 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+. 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.
Amendment 231 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 3.º – 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 7.5XX 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.
Amendment 237 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
Amendment 253 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a a (new)
(aa) investments by agencies, bodies and public entities to stimulate economic activity and job creation;
Amendment 259 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) investments in the creation of new firms, including through business incubators and consulting services;
Amendment 266 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
The resources for the JTF under the Investment for jobs and growth goal available for budgetary commitment for the period 2021-2027 shall be EUR 7.5XX 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.
Amendment 283 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d a (new)
(da) investments to counter planned obsolescence and reverse the trend towards reducing the useful lifespan of goods and equipment;
Amendment 289 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a a (new)
(aa) Investments by agencies, bodies and public entities, to stimulate economic activity and job creation;
Amendment 289 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d b (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d b (new)
(ba) investments in the modernisation, expansion and rationalisation of public transport networks and fleets, promoting rail services, lighter modes of transport and interoperability, focusing on metropolitan areas and urban centres, while also helping to improve connections with island and rural areas;
Amendment 294 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) investments in the creation of new firms, including through business incubators and consulting services;
Amendment 296 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d c (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d c (new)
(dc) investment in projects with the potential to attract users away from private vehicles towards public transport services, for example by seeking to provide such services free of charge;
Amendment 314 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point f
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point f
(f) investments in regeneration and decontamination of sites, land restoration and repurposing projects only public entities and SMEs being eligible;
Amendment 343 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The activities referred to in paragraph 2 shall ensure that, in regions whose industrial and productive sectors require a comprehensive overhaul, employment is not structurally affected, with measures being taken to promote business start-ups, the refurbishment of existing structures and proper workforce reskilling.
Amendment 343 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
The activities referred to in paragraph 2 shall promote the establishment of new businesses, the upgrading of old structures and the reskilling of workers to ensure that employment is not structurally affected in regions requiring a complete overhaul of their industrial and production profile;
Amendment 355 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
(ca) Investments failing to ensure decent employment based on agreements and collective bargaining with better pay and more satisfactory work-life balance;
Amendment 365 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
The JTF resources shall be programmed, giving priority to less developed regions under cohesion policy for the categories of regions where the territories concerned are located, on the basis of the territorial just transition plans established in accordance with Article 7 and approved by the Commission as part of a programme or a programme amendment. The resources programmed shall take the form of one or more specific programmes or of one or more priorities within a programme.
Amendment 365 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
(ca) investment failing to ensure decent agreement- and collective bargaining- based employment, which values proper pay and work-life balance;
Amendment 375 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2
2. The JTF priority or priorities shall comprise the JTF resources consisting of all or part of the JTF allocation for the Member States and the resources transferred in accordance with Article [21a] of Regulation (EU) [new CPR]. The total of the ERDF and ESF+ resources transferred to the JTF priority shall be at least equal to one and a half times the amount of support from the JTF to that priority but shall not exceed three times that amount.
Amendment 384 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
The JTF resources shall be programmed for the categories of regions where the territories concerned are located, giving priority to the less developed regions under the cohesion policy, on the basis of the territorial just transition plans established in accordance with Article 7 and approved by the Commission as part of a programme or a programme amendment. The resources programmed shall take the form of one or more specific programmes or of one or more priorities within a programme.
Amendment 387 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall prepare, together with the relevant authorities of the territories concerned, one or more territorial just transition plans covering one or more affected territories corresponding to level 3 of the common classification of territorial units for statistics (‘NUTS level 3 regions’) as established by Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 868/201417 or parts thereof, in accordance with the template set out in Annex II. Those territories shallneed to be those that are most negatively affected based on the economic and social impacts resulting from the transition, in particular with regard to expected job losses in fossil fuel production and use and the transformation needs of the production processes of industrial facilities with the highest greenhouse gas intensityreclassification requirements and the transformation of their industrial and production processes. __________________ 17Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 on the establishment of a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) (OJ L 154 21.6.2003, p. 1).
Amendment 399 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) an assessment of the transition challenges faced by the most negatively affected territories, including the social, economic, and environmental impact of the transition to a climate-neutral economy, identifying the potential number of affected jobs and job lossesjobs to be reclassified, the development needs and objectives, to be reached by 2030 linked to the transformation or closure of greenhouse gas-intensive activities in those territories and necessary business start-up and job retention incentives;
Amendment 402 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall prepare, together with the relevant authorities of the territories concerned, one or more territorial just transition plans covering one or more affected territories corresponding to level 3 of the common classification of territorial units for statistics (‘NUTS level 3 regions’) as established by Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 868/201417 or parts thereof, in accordance with the template set out in Annex II. Those territories shall be those most negatively affected based on the economic and social impacts resulting from the transition, in particular with regard to expected job losses in fossil fuel production and use and the transformation needs of the production processes of industrial facilities with the highest greenand employment profile-refocusing needs following the changes to the industrial and production profile of thouse gas intensityterritories. __________________ 17Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 on the establishment of a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) (OJ L 154 21.6.2003, p. 1).
Amendment 409 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point e
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point e
(e) an assessment of its consistency with other national, regional or territorial strategies and plans, including economic and industrial renewal strategies for continued productive activity and sustained or increased employment levels;
Amendment 423 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) an assessment of the transition challenges faced by the most negatively affected territories, including the social, economic, and environmental impact of the transition to a climate-neutral economy, identifying the potential number of affected jobs and job lossesthose to be retrained, the development needs and objectives, to be reached by 2030 linked to the transformation or closure of greenhouse gas-intensive activities in those territories, along with the requisite business- establishment and job-retention incentives;
Amendment 429 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Territorial just transition plans shall be consistent with the territorial strategies referred to in Article [23] of Regulation (EU) [new CPR], with relevant smart specialisation strategies, the NECPs and the European Pillar of Social Rightall international, EU, national or regional strategic planning objectives in terms of ecological conservation and climate change mitigation and measures to promote decent employment, better pay, investment in universal and free public services, and more comprehensive social benefits and responses.
Amendment 429 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point e
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point e
(e) an assessment of its consistency with other national, regional or territorial strategies and plans, including economic and industrial renewal strategies to sustain production and maintain or improve employment levels;
Amendment 452 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point a – point i
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point a – point i
(i) greenhouse-gas emissions ofrom industrial facilities, transport, buildings, modified land use and other non- negligible sources in NUTS level 2 and NUTS 3regions where the carbon intensity, as defined by the ratio of greenhouse gas emissions of industrial facilitifrom the above sources as reported by Member States in accordance with Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 166/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council28 compared to the gross value added of the industryGDP of the region in question, exceeds by a factor of two the EU-27 average. Where that level is not exceeded in any NUTS level 2 and level 3 regions in a given Member State, greenhouse-gas emissions of industrial facilities in the NUTS level 2 and level 3 region with the highest carbon intensity is taken into account (weighting 439%), __________________ 28Regulation (EC) No 166/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 January 2006 concerning the establishment of a European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register and amending Council Directives 91/689/EEC and 96/61/EC (OJ L 33, 4.2.2006, p. 1).
Amendment 455 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Territorial just transition plans shall be consistent with the territorial strategies referred to in Article [23] of Regulation (EU) [new CPR], with relevant smart specialisation strategies, the NECPs and the objectives of the European Pillar of Social Rights.
Amendment 457 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point a – point ii
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point a – point ii
(ii) employment in mining of coal and lignite and other sectors undergoing reconversion (weighting 25 %),
Amendment 465 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point a – point iii
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point a – point iii
(iii) unemployment in industry in the NUTS level 2 regions taken into account for the purposes of point (i) (weighting 25 %),
Amendment 466 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point a – point iii a (new)
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point a – point iii a (new)
(iiia) proportion of NUTS level 2 regions considered to be less developed for cohesion policy purposes (weighting of 10%),
Amendment 477 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point a – point i
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point a – point i
(i) greenhouse-gas emissions ofrom industrial facilities, transport, buildings, changes in land use and other sources considered relevant in NUTS level 2 and level 3 regions where the carbon intensity, as defined by the ratio of greenhouse gas emissions of industrial facilitifrom the above sources as reported by Member States in accordance with Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 166/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council28 compared to the gross value added of the industryGDP of the region in question, exceeds by a factor of two the EU-27 average. Where that level is not exceeded in any NUTS level 2 and level 3 regions in a given Member State, greenhouse-gas emissions of industrial facilities in the NUTS level 2 and level 3 region with the highest carbon intensity is taken into account (weighting 439 %), __________________ 28Regulation (EC) No 166/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 January 2006 concerning the establishment of a European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register and amending Council Directives 91/689/EEC and 96/61/EC (OJ L 33, 4.2.2006, p. 1).
Amendment 481 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point a – point ii
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point a – point ii
(ii) employment in mining of coal and lignite or other sectors undergoing conversion (weighting 25 %),
Amendment 488 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point a – point iii
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point a – point iii
(iii) unemployment in industry in the NUTS level 2 and level 3 regions taken into account for the purposes of point (i) (weighting 25 %),
Amendment 492 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point a – point iii a (new)
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point a – point iii a (new)
(iiia) proportion of NUTS level 2 regions considered less developed for the purposes of cohesion policy (weighting 10 %),
Amendment 237 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Urges the European Commission to improve its support to the public investment that aims to answer effectively to the shortcomings that people with disabilities face while accessing public buildings, infrastructures and virtual governmental services (either national, regional or local); urges, in this sense, the European Commission to provide non-repayable financing and to exclude all the referred public investment from the budgetary deficit criteria;
Amendment 388 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Urges the European Commission to improve the accessibilities' level and quality in all buildings of the European institutions, as well as to remove the existing barriers to the European Institutions' websites, debates and documentation, i.e. the accessibility barriers to the communication of the information produced, by e.g. providing translation into the Sign Language of the various countries, documents in Braille, documents in easy language, among others;
Amendment 5 #
2019/2213(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses the need to reverse industrial and commercial strategies based on planned obsolescence, where products are designed to have a short shelf life and have to be replaced at very short notice, which runs counter to the need to adapt production and consumption to the limits of the planet’s resources; considers, furthermore, that the right to redress and to continuous technical support is imperative in order to achieve sustainable production and consumption;
Amendment 8 #
2019/2213(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls for increased funding under budget headings seeking to provide support for micro, small and medium- sized enterprises (MSMEs), in particular in terms of access to finance and innovation; calls, in this regard, for the next budget to include increased support for MSMEs and their representative associations in these areas and for measures to promote better working conditions; calls, in addition, for increased technical support and the introduction of simpler and more streamlined application procedures for MSMEs seeking access to EU funding and programmes;
Amendment 11 #
2019/2213(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Underlines that public money shall not be spent for military investments or defence implications;
Amendment 13 #
2019/2213(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Calls for a balanced distribution of funds among Member States, with a view to reducing inequalities in R&D capacities and activities in their various areas.
Amendment 15 #
2019/2213(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Amendment 17 #
2019/2213(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Stresses that the funds, support and programmes under the next EU budget should be restricted to civilian purposes only;
Amendment 23 #
2019/2213(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines that the new Heading 1 (‘Single Market, Innovation and Digital’) will be instrumental for boosting innovation-led economic growthshould focus on boosting social development based on people’s needs and contributinge to the transition towards a climate-neutral society in line with the Paris Agreement; highlights furthermore the importance of the new Heading 5 (‘Security and Defence’), which includes the new European Defence Fund and essential funds for nuclear safety and decommissioningdeployment of renewable energy sources and energy efficiency measures in order to meet the commitments under the Paris Agreement and to accelerate the transition to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions economy;
Amendment 28 #
2019/2213(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses the need to increase funding for actions in the field of gender equality, including employment issues, in order to tackle the pay discrimination between men and women and to effectively fight the lack of job security, which particularly affects women; argues that any use of EU funds for job creation shall be based on creating jobs with open- ended contracts and decent wages; recommends, in particular, increasing funding to promote maternity, parental and early childhood protection through the appropriate programmes; requires, among other measures, the appropriateness of the duration and remuneration of maternity and paternity leave;
Amendment 37 #
2019/2213(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission and Council to include gender equality objectives within the regulations governing the Structural Funds, as well as within key EU funding programmes (health and environment, education, youth, economy, etc.), and to ensure they are accompanied by earmarked funding;
Amendment 39 #
2019/2213(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls Parliament’s position on the overall financial envelope for Horizon Europe of EUR 120 billion (in 2018 prices); calls on the Commission in this regard to present the 2021 draft budget accordingly to ensure that research and innovation activities will continue in aaddreass that are essential for the EU’s strategic autonomy and benefit its citizens and society, such as digital transformation, healthcare and spacesocietal challenges, contribute to sustainable development based on people’s needs; recalls in this context the importance of fundamental research;
Amendment 39 #
2019/2213(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Advocates a more strategic application of the ESF for promoting equality between women and men, labour market access and re-integration, combating unemployment, poverty, social exclusion and all forms of discrimination; calls on the Commission to come up with proactive measures through the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, in order to support women’s employment in rural areas;
Amendment 41 #
2019/2213(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Reiterates the need for the EU budget to increase funding to close the gender pay gap, applying the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value;
Amendment 44 #
2019/2213(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Reiterates that investments in research and innovation needs to be stepped up with a view to improving access to knowledge, promoting social development, tackling climate change, raising quality of living standards and achieving the Sustainable Developments Goals;
Amendment 46 #
2019/2213(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Stresses that according to the Article 41 (2)TEU any expenditure arising from actions having military or defence implications should not be charged to the Union budget;
Amendment 46 #
2019/2213(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses the need for the EU budget to play a more active role in efforts to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals; calls, therefore, for the budget to be used to support measures and projects aimed at eradicating female and child poverty, better integration into the labour market, eliminating wage and labour inequalities between men and women, improving access to and provision of health care, and combating violence against women, children and young people;
Amendment 57 #
2019/2213(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses the need to increase EU funding so that Member States can provide public social services for victims of trafficking or sexual exploitation, with psychological and social support from specialised professionals, and to implement social and economic policies aimed at helping vulnerable women and girls to leave prostitution, including through securing jobs that effectively lead to their social inclusion;
Amendment 65 #
2019/2213(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls for the creation of budget headings that tackle production-capacity weaknesses and the obsolescence of production means in industry, thus fostering industrial development, with a particular focus on Member States with development deficits in this economic sector;
Amendment 67 #
2019/2213(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for funds to be mobilised for Member States to strengthen maternity and paternity protection, including through investing in the provision of a free public network of early childhood education and care services, and long- term care services; notes that the unavailability, prohibitive costs and lack of sufficient infrastructure providing quality childcare remains a significant barrier to the equal participation of women in all aspects of society, including work;
Amendment 81 #
2019/2213(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that, in the last decade, with the worsening and enforcement of neoliberal policies, economic, social, employment and gender inequalities within and between Member States have become more acute;
Amendment 82 #
2019/2213(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Recalls the important role of the European Institute for Gender Equality in raising awareness of the extent and causes of gender inequality in the EU; calls, therefore, for the Institute to be endowed with a greater budget, increased staffing levels and enhanced independence and for greater resources for the budget line 'promoting non- discrimination and equality';
Amendment 83 #
2019/2213(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls for the budget to provide the necessary funding to support Member States in strengthening the capacity of public employment authorities, at the level of human resources and technical and structural capacity, in order to ensure the necessary action for the application of employment rights determined by legislation or collective agreement, in particular by imposing penalties on companies in the event of non- compliance; calls also for the assessment of the implementation of conditionality in the allocation of EU funds to companies with high working standards and the lack of discriminatory practices towards women;
Amendment 36 #
2019/2212(INI)
C a. whereas, according to the European Commission, in the EU-28, only 3 out of 10 children under the age of 3 participate in childcare; whereas this overall average hides important differences between Member States, having cases in which only 1 out of 10 have access to it;
Amendment 57 #
2019/2212(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas income inequalities remain at a high level; whereas wage austerity as well as tax and labour cost competition are harmful for the single market andcohesion within and across Member States, since they increase inequalities and the vulnerability of low wage earners; whereas intergenerational social mobility is limited in most Member States;
Amendment 73 #
2019/2212(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
G a. whereas, according to the latest Eurostat data, in 2018, 9.5% of all EU Member States' workers lived in households that are at risk of poverty; whereas in 2012 that value was about 8.8%;
Amendment 76 #
2019/2212(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
G b. whereas in 2017, 13.3% of the population of the EU’s 28 Member States lived in substandard housing and 10.4% spent 40% or more of their household income on housing; whereas these figures were considerably higher for tenants than for landlords; whereas access to decent and affordable housing is difficult for people of all ages, a problem that has become particularly apparent in urban areas, where tourism and gentrification have pushed residents out of cities;
Amendment 86 #
2019/2212(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas adequatefair wages, including minimum wages, are essential to reduce in- work poverty, decrease inequalities and generate demandboost economy;
Amendment 107 #
2019/2212(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy (ASGS) 2020 and the refocusing of the European Semester by including the SDGs and the European Green DealReiterates the need to put sustainability and social inclusion at the heart of the Member States’ economic policy-making, e.g. by including the SDGs as the basis of the new Europeaneconomic growth model; reiterates the need to put sustainability and social inclusion at the heart of the Union’s economic policy-making, ensuring that social and ecological objectives are treated at the same level as fiscal disciplineconsiders, however, that this is not compatible with the Fiscal Treaty, the Growth Stability Pact and the European Semester;
Amendment 109 #
2019/2212(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Urges the start of a real fight against inequalities, precariousness, low wages, which have been hampering economic growth and social progress; remembers, however, that this is not possible within the European economic governance and the Lisbon Treaty; calls, therefore, for the repeal of the European Semester and the convening of an intergovernmental summit with the aim of institutionalizing the reversibility of the treaties, the repeal of The Treaty on the Functioning of the EU, the Stability and Growth Pact and the intergovernmental Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance;
Amendment 150 #
2019/2212(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. States that in several Member States the general increase in the wages level, and not only minimum wages, is a national emergency; urges, therefore, the Commission to abstain from interfering on that, e.g. abstain from blackmailing those Member States that wish to answer immediately and effectively to that emergency;
Amendment 200 #
2019/2212(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Urges the European Commission to support Member States to establish or to extend their childcare infrastructures, e.g. by exempting all the public expenditure related to public childcare from the calculation of the budgetary deficit (including the investments co- financed by the European funds);
Amendment 209 #
2019/2212(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to present a framework directive on decent minimum income schemes, in order to provide a social protection floor and by ensuring that neither the direct beneficiary nor their families live above the poverty line; states that the minimum income must be a temporary and transitory measure, to dignify the condition of those who are in a situation of greater deprivation and vulnerability and, therefore, it shall require complementary measures of inclusion, through public employment policies, support and promotion of national productive capacity in order to boost decent job creation;
Amendment 220 #
2019/2212(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. CallUrges for an integrated response to tackle the lack of affordable housing, poor housing conditions, housing exclusion and homelessness; calls the Commission and all EU Member States to support the eligibility for investment in public housing under the Cohesion Fund (improving existing public housing and possibly building new housing), removing this type of investment from deficit criteria and revising State aid rules in this regard;
Amendment 258 #
2019/2212(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve work-life balance and gender equality and to ensure equal pay for equal work at the same place; calls for more efforts to close the gender pay and pensions gaps, and to tackle disincentives for women to work; calls for the extension of the maternity and parental leaves, as well as for the payment of those leaves at 100%; calls for accessible and affordable quality public childcare and early education services, as well as public care services for those reliant on care, including the elderly and people with disabilities;
Amendment 270 #
2019/2212(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to strengthen theupport the implementation of a strong regulation of newall forms of work, including the new ones, and the improve thement of working conditions of all workers, including both shift and platform workers;
Amendment 295 #
2019/2212(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Rejects any reduction in the level of cohesion policy funding and asks for its strengthening in the upcoming Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) vis-à-vis the current MFF; opposes, in this context, the proposal to reduce funding for all Cohesion Funds, including the European Social Fund Plus despite its enlarged scope; stresses the need for greaterdeplores any macroeconomic conditionality, i.e. any alignment of the European Semester with social and cohesion funding and the policy objectives of the Union;
Amendment 43 #
2019/2189(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Member States to fullyand the Commission to explore their energy storage potential through a comprehensive strategy;
Amendment 46 #
2019/2189(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 57 #
2019/2189(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to establish a task force involving all relevant Directorates-General to develop this strategy, including a comprehensive analysis of the carbon footprint and life cycle of storage technologies, taking into account at least the extrawhich, in coordination with the Member States, develops a comprehensive strategy, including all relevant energy, environmental, climatic, technological, productionve and/or production of raw materials, the manufacturing process, transport and the recycling process, where applicable socio-economic aspects;
Amendment 70 #
2019/2189(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that the energy transition towards a renewable-based system requires a well-developed electricity grid and advanced storage technologies, backup generation and demand management in order to secure a constant power supplya just, efficient and effective energy transition to a system that is productive, in the sense that it optimises the use of renewable primary energy sources for the production of electricity, requires an electricity grid that is balanced, interconnected in European terms and economically optimised, and that it be developed on the basis of advanced storage technologies with increased storage capacity, which necessitates direct public regulation of the sector by democratic public authorities in order to secure a reliable and secure power supply, at prices that are socioeconomically affordable for domestic consumers and competitive for corporative consumption;
Amendment 94 #
2019/2189(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines that the transition to a climate-neutral economyThe climate objectives of the energy transition must not eundanger security of supply; stresses that reliable powerermine the security and reliability of electricity supply and, or the energy transition must go hand in handsocio-economic sustainability of final prices;
Amendment 109 #
2019/2189(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Deeply regrets that infrastructure projects whichThe implementation of energy infrastructures that are crucial toin the energy transition often face strong resistance at local level;must respect socio-economic, cultural and environmental interests at local and regional level, and encourages the Member States to actively encourage public support at the local level, for instance through early public participationprovision of information to the communities concerned and their participation in the process;
Amendment 121 #
2019/2189(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. When planning and implementing energy infrastructures, account should be taken of the need to minimise their territorial dispersion in order to reduce investment and operating costs, as well as to reduce environmental impacts;
Amendment 133 #
2019/2189(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 145 #
2019/2189(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Urgently calls for a revision of the TEN-E Regulation17before the adoption of the next list of projects of common interest (PCI); calls for the criteria for granting PCI status to be aligned with the EU’s climate and sustainability goal so that it can adapt to and articulate with Member States' objectives, according to their national energy plans; _________________ 17Regulation (EU) No 347/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2013 on guidelines for trans- European energy infrastructure and repealing Decision No 1364/2006/EC and amending Regulations (EC) No 713/2009, (EC) No 714/2009 and (EC) No 715/2009 (OJ L 115, 25.4.2013, p. 39).
Amendment 154 #
2019/2189(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes with concern that approval procedures at national level take considerably longer than the maximum periods for PCI projects provided for by the TEN-E Regulation; calls on the Commission to address this issue in its upcoming review through an effective enforcement mechanismjust the deadlines for PCI projects in line with the time needed at national level and Member States' economic and financial capacities;
Amendment 159 #
2019/2189(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 178 #
2019/2189(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission and the Member States properly to take into account the important role of storage in the energy transition when reviewing the State aid guideline, so as not to overburden the system, increasing the prices for final consumers; calls on the CommissionMember States to make sure that the new guidelines take into account the efficiency and the contribution to grid stability of different storage technologies, so that inefficient funding is avoidedstability of the grid relating to different storage technologies which have already become established as mature;
Amendment 11 #
2019/2188(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 13 #
2019/2188(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls for a joint effort to ensure equal access to jobs with rights for women; reaffirms that collective bargaining is a decisive factor in reversing and overcoming inequalities and that equal pay for equal work of equal value should be guaranteed;
Amendment 14 #
2019/2188(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Emphasises that the long term effects of the neoliberal policies imposed by the EU have a negative impact on the empowerment of women in all spheres of life, from an economic and social point of view, and in the achievement of equality between men and women, with rising unemployment, labour deregulation, increased precariousness and low pay affecting women in particular, while cuts in public services, especially in health and education, are further exacerbated, with social entitlements and benefits being targeted, thus further increasing the multiple forms of discrimination and inequality that women face;
Amendment 20 #
2019/2188(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that, following the global economic and financial crisis in 2008, in- work poverty in the EU increased from 8 % to 10 %, and that the current unprecedented global COVID-19 pandemic will have even greater economic and financial consequences, which will have a direct impact in terms of increasing poverty, especially among women and the other most vulnerable groups in society, as its effects will be felt most keenly by workers in the service sector, the self- employed, workers with a precarious employment relationship, temporary and seasonal workers, etc., among whom a higher proportion are women;
Amendment 24 #
2019/2188(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Urges the Commission to refrain from promoting any political recommendation which promotes precarious employment relationships, the deregulation of working hours, wage reductions, an attack on collective bargaining or the privatisation of public and social security services;
Amendment 26 #
2019/2188(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the EU and its Member States to promote proactive policies for gender equality and major investment in public services; calls on the EU and its Member States to strengthen the provision of sexual and reproductive health care and the protection of motherhood and paternity, notably by increasing periods of leave, taking into account the six-month period recommended by the World Health Organisation for breastfeeding as an exclusive form of nutrition for the child, and ensuring that they are paid at 100 % without loss of pay; ensuring, after the end of maternity leave, the right to a reduction in working hours to allow for breastfeeding the child until it is at least two years of age and taking concrete steps to ensure such protection, alongside investment in the establishment of a free public network of childcare and education services; rejects the promotion of so- called 'flexible' employment relationships which promote the deregulation of labour, pushing women to stay at home, thus feeding the logic of discrimination against women;
Amendment 41 #
2019/2188(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Considers prostitution a serious form of violence and exploitation affecting mostly women and children; calls on the Member States to adopt specific measures to combat the economic, social and cultural causes of prostitution and support measures for people who are prostituted to allow their social and professional reintegration;
Amendment 43 #
2019/2188(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes with concern that poverty among women increases with age, with the gender pension gap remaining at around 39 %; urges the Member States to implement specific measures to combat the risk of poverty for older women, by increasing pensions and boosting social benefits; considers it imperative to overcome pension inequalities and, at the same time, to improve the level of pensions and, in order for this to be achieved, to maintain public, universal and solidarity- based social security systems, ensuring a redistributive character and a fair and decent income after a lifetime of work, safeguarding the sustainability of public social security systems through the creation of jobs with rights and the improvement of wages;
Amendment 59 #
2019/2188(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that female poverty is a multifaceted problem directly influenced by unequal access to property, jobs with rights, career breaks due to the raising and care of children, caring for sick and dependent persons, and segregation in education and, subsequently, in the labour market, which means that women account for the largest share of low-paid workers;
Amendment 62 #
2019/2188(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Amendment 85 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that the three-year timing provision of situations governing the entry into force of subsidiary requirements in the event of a failure to conclude an agreement is excessive and to the disadvantage of workers; underlines that the right of EWCs to have an annual meeting with the central management is insufficient and should be increased provide for biannual meetings in order to improve the practical functioning and running of EWCsrequests to set up an EWC are often ignored, that the three-year negotiation period is very often not used effectively, and that certain milestones are therefore needed to ensure the conduct of genuine and regular negotiations during that time period;
Amendment 87 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Underlines that the right laid down in the subsidiary requirements of EWCs to have an annual meeting with the central management is insufficient and should be increased provide for at least biannual meetings in presence in order to improve the practical functioning and running of EWCs;
Amendment 99 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that EWCs have access on the basis of prima facie evidence to a competent national labour court, to enforce their right to information and consultation about measures which may have transnational effects for the workers;
Amendment 146 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a
“4. Matters shall be considered to be transnational where they concern, directly or indirectly, the Community-scale undertaking or Community-scale group of undertakings as a whole, or directly or indirectly, at least two undertakings or establishments of the undertaking or group situated in two different Member States.”;
Amendment 149 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b
“7a. In order to determine the transnational character of a matter, the scope of its possible effects must be taken into accounit must be taken into account not only the level of management and representation that it involves, but also the scope of its possible effects, whether they are direct or indirect. This includes matters which, irrespective of the number of Member States involved, are of concern to European workers in terms of the scope of their potential impact, as well as matters which involve the transfer of activities between Member States.”;
Amendment 156 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point g
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point g
“(g) ‘consultation’ means the establishment of dialogue and exchange of views between employees’ representatives and central management or any more appropriate level of management, at such time, in such fashion and with such content as enables employees’ representatives to express a priorn opinion on the basis of the information provided about the proposed measures to which the consultation is related, w. Without prejudice to the responsibilities of the management, and within a reasonable timeemployees' representatives shall have the right to obtain, in due time, a reasoned response to that opinion, which is toshall be taken into account within the Community- scale undertaking or Community-scale group of undertakings prior to the adoption of the decision;”;
Amendment 163 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
(2a) in Article 3, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: "1. For the purposes of this Directive, ‘controlling undertaking’ means an undertaking which can exercise a dominant influence over another undertaking (the controlled undertaking) by virtue, for example, of ownership, influence, financial participation, decision control or the rules which govern it."
Amendment 165 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 2 b (new)
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 2 b (new)
(2b) in Article 3(1), the following subparagraph is inserted: "Notwithstanding the first subparagraph, an undertaking shall be considered a "controlling undertaking” when it is established in the territory of the Union or operate in the internal market selling goods or providing services directly or indirectly through subsidiaries, or branches or agreements, including franchise and license agreements, contract management or joint ventures."
Amendment 166 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 2 b (new)
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 2 b (new)
(2b) in Article 5, paragraph 1 is amended as follows: "In order to achieve the objective set out in Article 1(1), the central management shall initiate negotiations for the establishment of a European Works Council or an information and consultation procedure on its own initiative or at the either joint or separate written request of at least 100 employees or their representatives representing together at least two undertakings or establishments in at least two different Member States."
Amendment 170 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 2 e (new)
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 2 e (new)
(2e) in Article 5(4), the third subparagraph is amended as follows: "For the purpose of the negotiations, the special negotiating body may request assistance from representatives of competent recognised Community-level trade union organisations and if needed further experts of its choice. Such experts and such trade union representatives may be present at negotiation meetings in an advisory capacity at the request of the special negotiating body."
Amendment 174 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point -3 (new)
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point -3 (new)
(-3) in Article 7(1), the second indent is replaced by the following: "— where the first meeting of the Special negotiating body is not convened within six months of the request referred to in Article 5(1),"
Amendment 179 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 3 – paragraph 1
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 3 – paragraph 1
“— where, after one year from the date of this request, they are unable to conclude an agreement as laid down in Article 6 and the special negotiating body has not taken the decision provided for in Article 5(5) the Special negotiating body is not convened on a regular basis, and at least every three months.”;
Amendment 183 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 3 a (new)
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 3 a (new)
(3a) in Article 7(2) the following subparagraph is added: "Central Management shall be responsible for implementing the application of the subsidiary requirements.";
Amendment 186 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 4 – paragraph 1
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 4 – paragraph 1
“1. Member States shall ensure that members of special negotiating bodies or of European Works Councils and any experts who assist them are obliged not to reveal any trade secrets, as defined in Articles 1(1) and 2 of Directive (EU) 2016/943 of the European Parliament and of the Council1a which have expressly been provided to them in confidence.
Amendment 191 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 4 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 4 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
This paragraph shall not apply to members ofthe communication between the European Works Council who pass on information to national or local work councils that may affect the situation of workers where such information has been provided to them in confidence and is subject to national rules on confidentialityand the employees’ representatives and the competent recognized trade union organisations at national level.
Amendment 200 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 5 – introductory part
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 5 – introductory part
(5) in Article 9, the following paragraph iss are added:
Amendment 203 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 5 – paragraph 1
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 5 – paragraph 1
“If there is a dispute between the central management and the European Works Council or the employees' representatives as to whether an information and consultation procedure is to be carried out, the central management shall provide reasons why the information The central management shall initiate the information and consultation procedure in such a manner that ensures that the European Works Council cand consultation requirements under this Directive or under agreements concluded pursuant thereto do not apply, in particular because of the absence of transnational issuesordinate its opinion with employees’ representatives at local and national level with the aim to deliver its opinion before the consultation procedure is finished at the respective level.”;
Amendment 206 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 5 a (new)
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 5 a (new)
(5a) in Article 10, paragraph 1 is amended as follows: "1. Without prejudice to the competence of other bodies or organisations in this respect, the members of the Special Negotiating Body and the members of the European Works Council shall have the means required to apply the rights arising from this Directive, to represent collectively the interests of the employees of the Community-scale undertaking or Community-scale group of undertakings, and the legal capacity to lodge complaint and seek redress before competent legal authorities and courts".
Amendment 209 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 5 b (new)
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 5 b (new)
(5b) in Article 10, paragraph 2 is amended as follows: "2. Without prejudice to Article 8, the members of the European Works Council shall have the right and necessary resources to inform the representatives of the employees of the establishments or of the undertakings of a Community-scale group of undertakings or, in the absence of representatives, the workforce as a whole, of the content and outcome of the information and consultation procedure carried out and whenever it deems it necessary to perform its tasks deriving from this Directive, in particular before and after its meetings".
Amendment 210 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 5 c (new)
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 5 c (new)
Amendment 221 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 6 – point a – paragraph 2
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 6 – point a – paragraph 2
Member States shall establish procedureseffective judicial procedures, including the possibility to issue an interim injunction, to enable the temporary suspension of decisions of the central management where such decisions are challenged on the basis that there has been an infringement of the information and consultation requirements under this Directive or under agreements concluded pursuant thereto.”;
Amendment 224 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 6 – point a a (new)
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 6 – point a a (new)
(aa) the following subparagraph is added to paragraph 2: Within the meaning of paragraph 2, breaches include, but are not limited to: a) Not convening a constitutive meeting of the European Works Council established in application of the subsidiary requirements within 6 months after the subsidiary requirements have become applicable; b) the absence as well as the incomplete or late provision of information and/or consultation of the employees' representatives prior to a decision being taken or the public announcement of that decision; c) the withholding of important information or provision of false information rendering ineffective the exercise of the right to information and consultation. Member States shall apply retrospective sanctions in the event that a Community-scale undertaking and a Community-scale group of undertakings is found in breach of the obligations arising from this directive, but has already implemented decisions of a transnational nature.
Amendment 225 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 6 – point - b (new)
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 6 – point - b (new)
(-b) paragraph 3 is amended as follows: "3. Where Member States apply Article 8, they shall make provision for administrative or judicial appeal procedures which the European Works Council and/or employees’ representatives may initiate when the central management requires confidentiality or does not give information in accordance with that Article. The procedure must ensure a timely decision so that the European Works Council can effectively exercise its information and consultation rights."
Amendment 231 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 6 – point b – paragraph 1
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 6 – point b – paragraph 1
“The central management shall bear the direct costs incurred in carrying All judicial costs including legal expenses, legal proceeding, court thefees and procedures, including the costs of legal representation and the subsistence and travel expenses for at least one workers' representatival costs shall be covered by the central management. Subsidiary costs, such as paid-time off, travel or gathering of evidence, shall also be borne by the central management, from the start of the procedure and payable in advance.”;
Amendment 234 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 6 a (new)
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 6 a (new)
(6a) the following Article is inserted: "Article 11a Access to justice Member States shall ensure that there are effective administrative or judicial mechanisms through which employees’ representatives who are members of a European Works Council or a Special Negotiation Body may lodge complaints against the central management. Member States shall ensure that Trade Unions with representation in the Community scale Undertaking or Community Scale Group of undertakings may engage either on behalf of or in support of the employee representatives within the European Works Councils and/or the Special negotiating bodies in any proceedings provided for with the objective of implementing this Directive. The administrative or judicial mechanisms shall meet the following requirements: a) Secure timely access of European Works Councils and Special Negotiation Bodies as legal persons; b) Provide the possibility of suspending decisions of the central management by interim order; c) Provide the possibility of suspending decisions of the central management by interim order as foreseen in Article 11 (2A); d) Special Negotiating Body or European Works Council have the possibility to petition the competent administrative or judicial authority to rule in a timely manner that the central management must comply with the requirements stipulated in or pursuant to this Directive."
Amendment 237 #
Amendment 247 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 7 – paragraph 2 – point 2 – point b
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 7 – paragraph 2 – point 2 – point b
(b) orders excluding the undertaking from an entitlement to some or all public benefits, aids or subsidies, including EU funds managed by the relevant Member States, for a period of up to threfive years;
Amendment 252 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 7 – paragraph 2 – point 2 – point c
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 7 – paragraph 2 – point 2 – point c
(c) orders excluding the undertaking from procurement within the meaning of Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council1a, for a period of up to threfive years.
Amendment 271 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point a
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point a
Amendment 274 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point a a (new)
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point a a (new)
Amendment 275 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point a b (new)
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point a b (new)
(ab) the following subparagraph in Article 14(1) is added: "Member States shall ensure that appropriate administrative or judicial procedures are in place to verify that the obligations arising from this Directive are fully taken into account in accordance with paragraph 1 of this Article. In all other respects, Article 11(3) shall apply mutatis mutandis."
Amendment 277 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point b
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point b
Amendment 284 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 8 a (new)
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 8 a (new)
(8a) In Article 14, the following paragraph is added: "3. On... [three years after the date of entry into force of this Directive], all rights and obligations laid down in this Directive shall apply without renegotiation of agreements concluded pursuant to Article 13(1) of Directive 94/45/EC or Article 3(1) of Directive 97/74/EC concluded pursuant to Article 6 of Directive 94/45/EC signed or revised between 5 June2009 and 5 June 2011.
Amendment 292 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 9 – paragraph 1
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 9 – paragraph 1
“The European Works Council shall have the right to meet with the central management at least twice a year, to be informed and consulted, on the basis of a report drawn up by the central management, on the progress of the business of the Community-scale undertaking or Community-scale group of undertakings and its prospects. The local managements shall be informed accordingly.”
Amendment 294 #
2019/2183(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 9 a (new)
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 9 a (new)
(9a) in Annex 1, point 3 is amended as follows: "3. Where there are exceptional circumstances or intended decisions which may affect the employees’ interests and urgency does not allow for information and/or consultation to take place at the next scheduled European Works Council meeting, particularly in the event of relocations, transfer of productions, the closure of establishments or undertakings or collective redundancies, the select committee or, where no such committee exists, the European Works Council shall have the right to be timely informed. It shall have the right to meet, at its request, the central management, or any other more appropriate level of management within the Community-scale undertaking or group of undertakings having its own powers of decision, so as to be informed and consulted. The members of the European Works Council designated in the countries directly or potentially concerned by the exceptional circumstances shall have the right to participate in the extraordinary meetings. Employee representatives of the establishments and/or undertakings which are directly or potentially concerned by the circumstances or decisions in question shall also have the right to participate where a meeting is organised with the select committee. In addition, where there are no members of the European Works Council who have been elected or appointed by the establishments and/or undertakings which are potentially directly concerned by the circumstances or decisions in question, employee representatives appointed or elected by those establishments and/or undertakings shall also have the right to participate where a meeting is organised with the select committee. This information and consultation meeting shall take place as soon as possible on the basis of a report drawn up by the central management or any other appropriate level of management of the Community-scale undertaking or group of undertakings, on which an opinion may be delivered at the end of the meeting or within a reasonable time. This meeting shall not affect the prerogatives of the central management. The information and consultation procedures provided for in the above circumstances shall be carried out without prejudice to Article 1(2) and Article 8."
Amendment 33 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. taking into account that the pay gap is a reflection of the greater exploitation of and discrimination against women in the labour market and that this discrimination between women and men is deliberately promoted in an effort to facilitate and intensify policies designed to impose low wages and deregulate labour; in the light of the fact that the root causes of wage discrimination between men and women lie in the deregulation and devaluation of labour, but also the absence of measures enabling a proper balance between women’s professional, family and personal lives, as a result of increasingly precarious working conditions that lead to shorter working periods within a lifetime and impose on women more precarious labour situations, such as part-time or temporary work and lower wages;
Amendment 46 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas, in the long term, the EU's neoliberal policies contribute to inequality between men and women, with rising unemployment, deregulation of the labour market, increased precariousness and low pay affecting women in particular, while cuts in public services, particularly in health and education, further exacerbate the multiple forms of discrimination and inequality that women face;
Amendment 50 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the EU has adopted important legislation and provided key impulses to achieving gender equality; whereas, however, these efforts have slowed down in recent years, while movements opposing gender equality policies and women’s rights have flourished; whereas these movements are attempting to influence national and European policies's policies have exacerbated inequalities between men and women while, at the same time, movements opposing gender equality policies and women’s rights have flourished;
Amendment 57 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas violence against womeprostitution ins all its forms is a violation of human rights and one of the biggest obstacles to achieving gender equality; whereas a life free from violence is a prerequisite for equality; whereas disinformation campaigns on gender equality also focus on the issue of violence against serious form of violence and exploitation that mostly affects women and children; whereas the root causes of prostitution cannot be detached from socio-economic reality, particularly unemployment, financial need and poverty; whereas the Member States need to increase funding for social support and access to public services for victims of trafficking or sexual exploitation, with psychological and social support from specialised professionals, and to introduce social and economic policies designed to help vulnerable women, as has been seen in relation to the Istanbul Conventnd girls to leave prostitution, including by securing jobs that actually lead to their social inclusion;
Amendment 65 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas poverty and social exclusion have structural causes that need to be eradicated and reversed, in particular, through policies on employment, housing, mobility and access to public services;
Amendment 69 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas violations of women's sexual and reproductive health and rights, including denying them access to safe and legal induced abortions, are a form of violence against women;
Amendment 70 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D c (new)
Recital D c (new)
Dc. whereas trafficking in persons, particularly women and children, for sexual exploitation is a form of slavery and incompatible with human dignity; whereas, as a result of an increase in organised crime and profitability, human trafficking is on the rise around the world; whereas the prostitution market fuels the trafficking of women and children and exacerbates violence against them;
Amendment 71 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D d (new)
Recital D d (new)
Dd. whereas violations of women's sexual and reproductive health and rights, including denying them induced abortion services, are a form of violence against women;
Amendment 86 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas maternity protection is a right that must be upheld in full and whereas an increase in maternity leave periods with full rights and pay at 100% should be a reality;
Amendment 93 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the participation of women in the labour market does not secure their equal participation in decision-making or wages and therefore limits women’s potential to change economic, political, social and cultural structures; whereas inequality between men and women also exists in access to employment opportunities, positions and career progression;
Amendment 96 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas almost 30% of women in the EU work part-time and are much more likely to have to give up work to take care of children and/or relatives; whereas, on average, women in the EU earn 15% less per hour than men; taking into account that the unavailability, prohibitive costs and lack of high-quality childcare infrastructure and services, particularly in the public sphere, continue to be a significant barrier to the equal participation of women in all aspects of life, including work;
Amendment 100 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
Fb. whereas the right to equal pay for equal work of equal value is not guaranteed, in many circumstances even when it is enshrined in law, and whereas the root cause of that discrimination needs to be tackled, whether by protecting and enhancing labour rights or by stepping up action, including by national labour inspection authorities, to ensure that businesses enforce these rights; taking into account that collective bargaining is key to reversing and overcoming inequalities between men and women;
Amendment 108 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas poverty and social exclusion have structural causes that need to be eradicated and reversed, in particular, through policies on employment, housing, mobility and access to public services; whereas prostitution, trafficking in persons, particularly women and children, for sexual exploitation is a form of slavery and incompatible with human dignity, particularly in countries where the sex industry has been legalised; whereas, as a result of the increase in organised crime and its profitability, human trafficking is on the rise around the world; whereas the prostitution market fuels the trafficking of women and children and exacerbates violence against them, particularly in countries where the sex industry has been legalised;
Amendment 129 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas health rights, particularly sexual and reproductive health rights, are women's fundamental rights, and should be enhanced and cannot be watered down in any way or removed;
Amendment 135 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas the COVID-19 outbreak has disproportionately affected women; whereas, on the front line against the epidemic, some 70% of workers in the social and health sector were women, whether nurses, doctors or cleaners; whereas women who were teleworking, unemployed or working part-time were subject to even greater pressure, continuing to carry out the majority of domestic and family tasks; whereas, on the basis of complaints submitted, during the COVID-19 period, the number of women who were victims of violence and harassment went up;
Amendment 138 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital J b (new)
Recital J b (new)
Jb. whereas violence between men and women rises during emergencies of any kind – whether economic crises, conflicts or disease outbreaks; whereas inequalities, the economic and social stress caused by confinement during the epidemic and the social isolation and movement-restricting measures led to an increase in violence against women; whereas many women were confined at home with their aggressors; whereas in some Member States, such as Portugal and France, domestic violence rose by 30% during that period;
Amendment 139 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital J c (new)
Recital J c (new)
Jc. whereas the adoption over the decades of 'structural adjustment' plans and neoliberal reforms at European and international level severely weakened public services and national industrial capacity, leading to shortages of masks, medication and hospital capacity, thus increasing reliance on third country states to supply this equipment; whereas there is a real need to put an end to these policies with a view to investing in and bolstering public infrastructure, particularly health infrastructure and to promote the re- industrialisation of states, countering foreign dependency and boosting their sovereignty; whereas, in this context, the provision of high-quality, free and universal public healthcare services;
Amendment 170 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. WelcomesTakes note of the announcement of several complementary strategies and calls for a strategic framework to connect them, and for an intersectional approach to be adopted in all of them;
Amendment 206 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that any equality strategy should tackle all forms of violence against women, including backsliding over and violations of women's sexual and reproductive health and rights; reiterates that access to healthcare and public services, particularly access to induced abortion services and psychological support for women victims of violence should be considered a priority;
Amendment 218 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for proper protection of women victims of domestic violence to be ensured, increasing states' means and effective responses;
Amendment 232 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the proposed specific measures to tackle cyber violence; calls forurges the Member States to adopt binding legislative measures to combat these forms of violence and to support Member States in the development of training tools for the police force, the justice system and the information and communication technology sector;
Amendment 241 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Urges the Commission to present the long-awaited EU strategy on the eradication of trafficking in human beings and underlines the need for a clear gender focus, as women and girls are the most affected and are trafficked for purposes of sexual exploitation; insists on the importance of including measures and strategies to reduce demand; stresses that there are a number of links between prostitution and trafficking and acknowledges that prostitution – both in the EU and elsewhere around the world – fuels the trafficking of vulnerable women and minors;
Amendment 248 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Takes the view that prostitution is a serious form of violence and exploitation;
Amendment 249 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Acknowledges that prostitution and sexual exploitation are unacceptable forms of exploitation and violation of human dignity and run counter to human rights principles, including equality between men and women; stresses that the normalisation of prostitution has an impact on young people’s perception of sexuality and of the relationship between women and men; urges the Member States to provide financial support for the adoption of specific programmes for prostituted women seeking to gain their freedom from that form of exploitation and violence; takes the view that practical measures should be taken to protect women's rights, preventing social exclusion, which in many cases lead to prostitution networks;
Amendment 269 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Stresses the need to create a public crèche and pre-school education network: this is a broad social responsibility and should be a universal public service that is actually accessible to all children and families who wish to use this network;
Amendment 276 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Stresses the need to boost investment in public services significantly, particularly healthcare, education and transport services, with a view to addressing populations' needs and contributing to the independence, equality and emancipation of women;
Amendment 279 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10c. Maintains that public, universal and compassionate social security, free and high-quality public and healthcare services should be provided, access to justice should be ensured and the right to housing should be enshrined;
Amendment 291 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Takes the view that there is a central element to tackling inequalities; encourages the Member States to promote policies that enhance the status of work, increase real wages and safeguard rights, outlawing job insecurity, tackling the deregulation of labour relations and working hours, and imposing severe restrictions on the use of solutions such as part-time and temporary work; supports collective bargaining as a means not only to place value on working conditions but also to tackle inequalities between men and women;
Amendment 299 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Calls on the EU and its Member States to further protect mothers and fathers, including by increasing periods of leave, taking into account the World Health Organisation recommendation that children be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of their lives, and ensuring that these parents are paid at 100%, without loss of pay; calls for the right, after the end of maternity leave, to a reduction in working hours to be ensured so that mothers can breastfeed their children until they are at least two years old, and for practical measures to be taken to ensure that protection, alongside investment in the establishment of a free public network of childcare and education services;
Amendment 301 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)
Paragraph 11 c (new)
11c. Takes the view that the participation of women in all activity sectors must be increased; takes the view that investment in states' public services and social functions is a means to ensure access, on an equal basis, to healthcare, education, culture, social security and justice; urges the Member States to take specific social measures to tackle the risk of social exclusion and poverty, particularly with regard to access to housing, transport and energy at accessible prices;
Amendment 303 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 d (new)
Paragraph 11 d (new)
11d. Calls on the Member States to take measures to ensure access for migrant and refugee women to healthcare, employment, food and information services and to mitigate protection risks, particularly violence between men and women and trafficking of women;
Amendment 304 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 e (new)
Paragraph 11 e (new)
11e. Encourages the Member States to take firm measures to sanction businesses that fail to comply with labour legislation and discriminate between men and women; takes the view, furthermore, that conditionality should be applied in the allocation of EU funds to companies that have high working standards and do not discriminate against women;
Amendment 305 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 f (new)
Paragraph 11 f (new)
11f. Urges the Member States to take specific measures to combat the risk of poverty in old age and retirement, increasing pensions and boosting social benefits; takes the view that income inequalities between men and women in retirement must be overcome and this calls for pensions to be increased, and for public, universal and solidarity-based social security systems to be maintained and enhanced, ensuring that they are redistributive and provide a fair and decent income after a lifetime of work, safeguarding the sustainability of public social security systems by creating jobs with rights and improving wages;
Amendment 306 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 g (new)
Paragraph 11 g (new)
11g. Calls on the Member States to take practical measures to ensure women's equal access to work with rights and decent wages; takes the view that collective bargaining is a determining factor in reversing and overcoming inequality and tackling discrimination against women, and that the principle of equal pay for equal work of equal value must be enshrined in law and life;
Amendment 349 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Takes the view that, for the EU's budgetary resources to be reflected in the Member States' implementation of equality strategies, the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027 must be stepped up significantly, particularly its wealth redistribution role through support intended to further real economic and social convergence between Member States – structural and investment and cohesion funds – and support for productive sectors and employment with rights, by giving Member States grants (rather than loans);
Amendment 355 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Reiterates the need to apply conditionality in the allocation of EU funds to companies that fail to meet high labour standards and discriminate against women;
Amendment 356 #
2019/2169(INI)
15c. Stresses that the response to the COVID-19 epidemic could be used to establish additional budget resources that the Member States could mobilise to support victims of violence; urges the Member States to provide greater labour and social protection for women, including through a firm commitment to tackling precariousness, low salaries and unregulated working hours, and through support for unemployed or economically and socially vulnerable women; takes the view that all EU-funded investments in measures intended to address the COVID- 19 outbreak and its consequences, which have exacerbated existing economic and social problems, may be financed at a rate of 100%;
Amendment 357 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 d (new)
Paragraph 15 d (new)
15d. Acknowledges that new and improved educational and social infrastructure for children, the young and the elderly are necessary, including more (and better) opportunities to access education and eliminate discrimination, through specific measures; urges the Member States to create the conditions to eradicate and reverse the structural causes of poverty and social exclusion; to promote access to a variety of types of social provisions for children, young people, adults, the elderly, and persons with disabilities, among other social groups, seeking to provide public responses where they are lacking; to provide better housing conditions and mobility options and to take action in the areas that determine social inclusion, such as family settings, urban spaces, education and health promotion, leisure time and spaces and access to culture, sport and information and knowledge;
Amendment 376 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Notes that tax policies have varying impacts on different types of households; stresses that individual taxation is instrumental in terms of achieving tax fairness for women;
Amendment 395 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Reiterates the need for a regular exchange between Member States and the Commission on gender aspects in health, including guidelines for comprehensive sex and relationship education, gender- sensitive responses to epidemics and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR); calls on the Commission to include SRHR in its next EU Health Strategy, and to support Member States in providingurges the Member States to promote SRHR and strengthen public, universal and high- quality and low-threshold access to healthcare services;
Amendment 422 #
2019/2169(INI)
20a. Acknowledges the unambiguous defence, anywhere in the world, of all freedoms, condemning measures that undermine rights, freedoms and guarantees and all forms of discrimination, including on the grounds of sexual orientation;
Amendment 3 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines that there is no specific legal basis for a common EU forest policy; points out, however, that many EU policies have anhad a negative impact on forests and the forest- based sector and require stronger cross- sectoral coordination, including by compounding the depopulation problem in many regions; takes the view that forests must be protected by means of other policies, such as agricultural, industrial, trade and rural development policies and by bringing an end to restrictions on national public investment;
Amendment 23 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that European forest-based industriesy should help to decarbonise Europe bby gradually replacing CO2-intensive raw materials and fossil energy with forest-basedrenewable alternatives such as biogas and biofuel, and therefore help in achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement and the European Green Deal, and therefore play a key role in the pursuit of ecological balance;
Amendment 43 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that forest-based industry is a key driving force behind the circular bioeconomy; encourages the Member States to support recyclable and bio-based products through public procurement and investment supportsuggests that programmes be set up that will help the Member States to introduce policies to promote recyclable and bio-based products;
Amendment 57 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 81 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for adequate funding for Horizon Europe and for the strengthening of links between research, industry and society through specific instruments such as European Partnershipsto be stepped up and for programmes to be introduced that promote cooperation between research, industry and society;
Amendment 97 #
2019/2157(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses the need for sustainable forest management, and the regional and economic importance of forests that is not held hostage by private interests and the importance of forests to people's financial, social and environmental quality of life.
Amendment 5 #
2019/2156(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomNotes the Commission’s communication of 23 July 2019 entitled ‘Stepping up EU Action to Protect and Restore the World’s Forests’ (COM(2019)0352);
Amendment 11 #
2019/2156(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 20 #
2019/2156(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Deeply regrets that, despite the efforts of the EU and its Member States, the EU’sNotes that the objective of reducing gross tropical deforestation by 50 % by 2020 is unlikely to be met, and therefore strongly supports the Commission in its proposal to step up action in protecting and restoring the world’s foproving to be a failure owing to EU insistence on promoting policies that tend to benefit private interests at the expense of public interests;
Amendment 28 #
2019/2156(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Highlights the fact that Horizon 2020 has already financed significant research and innovation in the transition towards more sustainable land-use practices and supply chains in order to halt deforestation and forest degradation; calls for increased funding to enable Horizon Europe to continue providing support in these areas;
Amendment 35 #
2019/2156(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the importance of partnership with third countriesestablishing and stepping up cross-border cooperation in order to strengthen sustainable forest management, the wood- based circular economy and the strong relationship between them in combating deforestation;
Amendment 5 #
2019/2071(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Appreciates EU-OSHA’s activities to develop, gather and provide reliable and relevant information, analysis and tools on occupational safety and health which contribute to the EU policy aiming to promote healthy and safe workplaces across the Union; stresses the necessity of providing the agencies with enough material and human resources to fulfil their tasks in a proper manner, while ensuring their pre-eminence over private contractors;
Amendment 10 #
2019/2071(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the fact that in 2018, EU-OSHA, together with the other EU Agencies under the remit of DG EMPLOYMENT, initiated an analysis on how synergies could be further exploited within the existing framework, especially in relation to the performance monitoring frameworkwithin and beyond the framework of the EU Agencies' Performance Development Network, allowing to build synergies and to exchange ideas and best practices and aiming to achieve more balanced governance, improved efficiency, reduced costs and greater coherence between them; stresses the necessity of improving cooperation between the agencies and EU institutions, avoiding the externalisation of services that can be provided by them;
Amendment 8 #
2019/2067(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Appreciates Eurofound’s work to provide knowledge and expertise to support policies on improving living and working conditions across the Union; stresses the necessity of providing the agencies with enough material and human resources to fulfil their tasks in a proper manner, while ensuring their pre- eminence over private contractors;
Amendment 13 #
2019/2067(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Appreciates the Foundation’s cooperation with other EU Agencies under the remit of DG EMPLOYMENT within and beyond the framework of the EU Agencies' Performance Development Network, allowing to build synergies and to exchange ideas and best practices and aiming to achieve more balanced governance, improved efficiency, reduced costs and greater coherence between them; stresses the necessity of improving cooperation between the agencies and EU institutions, avoiding the externalisation of services that can be provided by them;
Amendment 2 #
2019/2028(BUD)
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereasnotwithstanding the insistence that the European Union (EU) is founded on, inter alia, the value of equality between men and women, and Article 8 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union provides that the promotion of such equality is a fundamental principle of the Union; , its policies of undermining social and labour rights run counter to this rhetoric and have contributed, de facto, to the aggravation of socio-economic inequalities, with women bearing the brunt;
Amendment 8 #
2019/2028(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights that the 2020 budget should contribute towards achieving the Europe 2020 targets in the social and employment area, which seem to be within reach as regards the employment rate target but remain far from being achieved as regards the target of reducing the number of people at risk of the creation of jobs with rights and decent working conditions, better earnings and stable and regulated employment relationships and the fight against poverty or, social exclusion and inequalities; stresses, in this regard, the urgent need for comprehensive policy reforms and integrated approaches that combat youth and long-term unemployment and the often neglected issue of elderly employabilityEU programmes and funds to prioritise projects that go in this direction; warns, however, that this is insufficient without a new strategy focusing on social progress and social justice and geared to economic, social and territorial cohesion, breaking away from right-wing policies and the restrictions imposed by the EU on the peoples of its Member States;
Amendment 9 #
2019/2028(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls for the creation of budget headings that tackle production-capacity weaknesses and the obsolescence of production means in industry, thus fostering industrial development, with a particular focus on Member States with development deficits in this economic sector;
Amendment 15 #
2019/2028(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recognises the crucial role of the European Social Fund (ESF), the Youth Guarantee (YG), the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF), the Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) and the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD); highlights, in this regard, that the activities implemented in these areas should always result in strategic measures with clearly defined objectives and targets and that efficient and effective spending is equally as important as the total budget ceilings in mitigating the adverse effects of an integration project such the European Union for the most vulnerable, for workers and at grass-roots level, especially in the Member States that have been the most weakened in economic and social terms; urges, therefore, that resources for these funds and programmes be stepped up; highlights, in this regard, that the activities implemented in these areas should always result in strategic measures with clearly defined objectives and targets; stresses, however, that many of the activities and measures supported by these funds and programmes are being compromised by the restrictions resulting from European economic governance;
Amendment 16 #
2019/2028(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes the overhigh level of subscription tof various programmes such as Horizon 2020 and COSME, a more effective response to which could be addressed bygiven through a more ambitious budget for 2020;
Amendment 19 #
2019/2028(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for stronger support in the 2020 budget for SMEs and their representative associations, thus helping to increase competitiveness, improve access to technology and promote better labour conditions;
Amendment 26 #
2019/2028(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 28 #
2019/2028(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. AcknowledgeRejects the forthcoming rationalisation of the current ESF, the YEI, the FEAD, the EaSI and the European Health Programme under the ESF+ as ofscheduled to run from 2021; calls on the Commission to present financial information in a manner that makes it comparable with performance information; expresses concerns ondisagrees with the substantial decrease (byof EUR 5 million) proposed by the Council onfor the PROGRESS axis of EaSIthe EaSI and recommends that its budget be at least equal to that proposed by the the European Commission; stresses, in this regardcontext, that all legislative and budgetary revisions should bemust be justified and based on evidence,an understanding of their impacts and in line with the better regulation agenda, as well as related recommendations of the European Court of Auditorrepercussions;
Amendment 34 #
2019/2028(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Expresses its concern at the low take-up of EU funds and programmes; considers that it would be significantly leveraged if support was stepped up for public structures providing technical assistance, if co-funding was increased and if public investment financed by EU funds and programmes was excluded from budget deficit criteria;
Amendment 40 #
2019/2028(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the continuation of funding for the Youth Employment Initiative; calls for equal participation of girls and young women in the measures covered by that initiative to be ensured and that special attention is paid to quality offers of training and employment for them, including in the digitalised economy, ICT and STEM sectors, while rejecting offers based on job insecurity; takes the view that measures such as the YEI should contribute not only to helping young people join the labour force, but also to promoting wage rises and permanent contracts and regulating working hours;
Amendment 51 #
2019/2028(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls for additional appropriations for the Connecting Europe Facility, in particular its energy and ICT strands, to ensure that isolated markets areregions are better connected and remaining bottlenecks are removed.
Amendment 52 #
2019/2028(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls the important role of the European Institute for Gender Equality and calls for the Institute’s budget, staff establishment plan and independence to be maintained.Stresses that in the past decade, with the outbreak of the economic and financial crisis, economic, social, labour and gender inequalities within and between Member States have been aggravated; recalls the important role of the European Institute for Gender Equality in raising awareness of the extent and causes of gender inequality in the EU; calls, therefore, for the Institute to be endowed with a greater budget, increased staffing levels and enhanced independence and for greater resources for the budget line 'promoting non- discrimination and equality';
Amendment 57 #
2019/2028(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses the need for the EU budget to play a more active role in efforts to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals; calls, therefore, for the budget to be used to support measures and projects aimed at eradicating female and child poverty, better integration into the labour market, eliminating wage and labour inequalities between men and women, improving access to and provision of health care, and combating violence against women, children and young people;
Amendment 59 #
2019/2028(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Recommends in particular increasing funding to promote the protection of maternity, parenthood and early childhood through the appropriate programmes; calls, to that end, for maternal and child health to be given special importance in the EU's 2020 budget; further recommends that funds be guaranteed for the defence, promotion and support of breastfeeding, thereby contributing to efforts to achieve the World Health Organisation's target of having 50% of babies worldwide exclusively breastfed for the first six months of their lives by 2025, which would require, among other measures, ensuring maternity and paternity leave is long enough and sufficiently well remunerated;
Amendment 96 #
2019/0000(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Takes note of the Commission’s 2019 country-specific recommendations (CSRs) and welcomes the stronger focus on investment; notes that almost one third of the CSRs issued until 2018 have not been implemented; welcomes the fact that considerable progres; reminds that both employment and social policies of the euro area promoted by the EU and formalised in the CSRs to Member States hasve been achieved in legislation governing labour remainly leading to the deregulations and employment protection; is concerned that progress on the 2018 CSRs is worse than performance in previous years and urges the Commission to put the necessary pressure on Member States to implement the recommendations; believes that strong reform implementation is crucial to strengthen the growth potential of EU economieflexibilization of labor markets, to the liberalization and privatization of the public services, as well as threatening States’ social functions and pushing down workers’ wages and social benefits;
Amendment 185 #
2019/0000(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 e (new)
Paragraph 10 e (new)
10 e. Believes that defending an economic policy that goes in hand with social rights - by advocating for the reinforcement of social rights, the implementation of social aspects or the integration of the Sustainable Development Goals into economic policies, both at EU and Member States level -, without defending the repeal of the Budget Treaty and the Growth Stability Pact, is neither fair nor honest to workers and to the population fringes who, every year, have been experiencing a downward in their social and labour rights and income and who have been having their dignity threatened by the EU policies, impositions and constraints;
Amendment 186 #
2019/0000(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 f (new)
Paragraph 10 f (new)
10 f. Reiterates the urgency of starting a real fight against inequalities, precariousness, low wages, which have been hampering economic growth and social progress; remembers, however, that this is not possible within the European economic governance and the Lisbon Treaty; calls, therefore, for the repeal of the European Semester and the convening of an intergovernmental summit with the aim of institutionalizing the reversibility of the treaties, the repeal of The Treaty on the Functioning of the EU, the Stability and Growth Pact and the intergovernmental Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance;
Amendment 26 #
2018/0213(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
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The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs calls on the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Committee on Budgets, as the committees responsible, to propose the rejection of the Commission’s proposal.