Activities of Pervenche BERÈS related to 2010/2072(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION Funding and functioning of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
Amendments (6)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that social and employment policies are national powers coordinated using the open method of coordination and exploiting all possible synergies in order to ensure positive development in the European Union in the face of globalisation and to meet the challenge of social and labour market reintegration in the Member States; deplores the imbalance between social policies and other more integrated policies with competition objectives, and therefore calls for the instruments used for the former to be stepped up; notes also that the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) is an instrument that was set up in order to support this objective and to assist workers in cases of large-scale redundancies;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States to involve the social partners right from the outset in the task of preparing applications and to ensure that works councils are involved before any programme begins so as to guarantee that the social partners genuinely help to formulate conversion plans which meet the needs of employees and not of undertakings;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States to adopt a personalised approach to assistance for redundant workers, particularly in cases of large-scale redundancies, so as to improve workers' opportunities on a labour market that is undergoing profound restructuring; to this end, recommends that the Member States step up their exchanges of good practice, especially making use of Progress, and more particularly of the new microfinancing instrument;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Urges the Member States to use the EGF to implement European objectives, to promote new skills for new jobs in a given employment area and to promote lifelong learning, so as to allow workers to develop their individual careers and to contribute to improving the competitiveness of the EU in the context of globalisation;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Takes note of a wide disparity between cases, arising from the diverse situations in each Member State; calls therefore on the Commission to draw up a proposal seeking greater flexibility in the intervention criteria applying to each Member State, so as to adapt them more closely to specific national economic situations, assessing the possibility of extending the reference period and the parameters of the undertakings concerned, while avoiding any inequality of access to this instrument between Member States;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Calls on the Commission to ensure that its policies and instruments are coherent, in order to preclude the possibility that the growth and competitiveness objectives might conflict with objectives of employment, cohesion and social inclusion;