23 Amendments of Jean Louis COTTIGNY related to 2011/0269(COD)
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on 'A budget for Europe 2020' recognises the role of the EGF as a flexible fund to support workers who lose their jobs and help them to find another job as rapidly as possible. The Union should continue to provide, for the duration of the Multiannual Financial Framework from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2020, specific, one-off support to facilitate the re- integration into employment of redundant workers in areas, sectors, territories or labour markets suffering the shock of serious economic disruption. Given its purpose, which is to provide support in situations of urgency and unexpected circumstances, the EGF should remain outside theIn view of the experience gained over 2007-2013, the scope of the EGF and certain arrangements for its mobilisation should, however, be partially modified. Given its purpose, which is to provide support in situations of urgency and unexpected circumstances, the financial envelope allocated to the EGF should remain outside and be supplementary to the ceilings for commitments established by the 2014-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework.
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) In its resolution of 8 June 2011 entitled ‘Investing in the future: a new Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for a competitive, sustainable and inclusive Europe’1, the European Parliament considered it crucial to maintain special instruments (Flexibility Instrument, European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, European Union Solidarity Fund and Emergency Aid Reserve), which could be mobilised on an ad-hoc basis, by further simplifying their use and providing them with sufficient envelopes, as well as by possibly creating new instruments in the future, and stressed that the mobilisation of such additional sources of funding must abide by the Community method; _______________ 1 Texts adopted, P7_TA(2011)0266.
Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) In order to maintain the European nature of the EGF, an application for support should be triggered when the number of redundancies reaches a minimum threshold. In small labour markets, such as small Member States or remote regions, and in exceptional circumstances, applications may be submitted for a lower number of redundancies. As regards farmers, the necessary criteria should be determined by the Commission in relation to the consequences of each trade agreement.
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) Redundant workers should have equal access to the EGF independently of their type of employment contract or employment relationship. Therefore, workers with fixed term contracts and temporary agency workers made redundant as well as owner-managers of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and self- employed workers who cease their activities and, including farmers who changease or adjust their activities to a new market situation following trade agreementprofoundly change their activities, should be regarded as redundant workers for the purposes of this Regulation.
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
Amendment 53 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) In order to support redundant workers effectively and rapidly, Member States should do their utmost to submit complete applications. The provision of supplementary information should be exceptional and limited in time. The Member States and the Commission are invited to work closely together to keep to the deadlines for examining applications for mobilisation as defined in Article 8.
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) In order to cover the needs arising during the final months of each year, it is necessary to ensure that at least one quarter of the annual maximum amount of the EGF remains available on 1 September. Financial contributions made during the remainder of the year should be allocated taking into account the overall ceiling laid down for support to farmers in the Multiannual Financial Framework.
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2
Article 1 – paragraph 2
The aim of the EGF shall be to contribute to economic growth and employment in the Union by enabling the Union to show solidarity towards workers made redundant, or people considered to have been made redundant for the purposes of this Regulation, as a result of major structural changes in world trade patterns due to globalisation, trade agreements affecting agriculture, or an unexpected crisis, and to provide financial support for their rapid reintegration into employment, or for changing or adjusting their agricultural activities.
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point c
Article 2 – point c
Amendment 80 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – point d
Article 3 – point d
(d) 'a worker' means owner-managers of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and self-employed workers (including farmers) and all members of the household active in the business, provided that, if farmers, they were already producengaged ing the output affected by the relevant trade agreement before the measures concerning the specific sector were implemenactivity directly affected by the deterioration of the local, regional or national economic climated.
Amendment 81 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3
Article 4 – paragraph 3
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 4
Article 4 – paragraph 4
4. Where owner-managers of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and self- employed workers change or, in the case of farmers,(including farmers) change or adjust their previous activities, such situations shall be considered as redundancies for the purposes of this Regulation.
Amendment 90 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – point c
Article 5 – point c
(c) For owner-managers of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and self- employed workers (including farmers), the redundancy shall be counted either from the date of cessation of the activities caused by any of the conditions set out in Article 2, and determined in accordance with national law or administrative provisions, or from the date specified by the Commission in the delegated act adopted in accordance with the Article 4(3).
Amendment 91 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – point a
Article 6 – point a
(a) all workers being made redundant in accordance with Article 5, within the period provided for in Article 4(1), (2) or (32),
Amendment 92 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – point c
Article 6 – point c
Amendment 97 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
A financial contribution may be made for active labour market measures that form part of a coordinated package of personalised services, designed to facilitate the re-integration of the targeted redundant workers into employment or self- employment or, in the case of farmers, to change or adjust their previous activities. The coordinated package of personalised services may include in particular:
Amendment 108 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1
1. The Member State shall submit a complete application to the Commission within a period of 12eight weeks from the date on which the criteria set in Article 4(1) or (2) are met or, where applicable, before the deadline set by the Commission in accordance with Article 4(3). In exceptional and duly justified circumstances the application may be supplemented with additional information by the applicant Member State within six montheight weeks from the date of application, following which the Commission shall assess the application on the basis of the available information. The Commission shall complete its assessment of the application within twelvesix weeks of the date of receipt of a complete application or (in the case of an incomplete application) sixfour months after the date of the initial application, whichever is the earlier. The Commission and the Member State shall do their utmost to keep to these deadlines.
Amendment 111 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) a reasoned analysis of the link between the redundancies and the major structural changes in world trade patterns, or the serious disruption of the local, regional or national economy caused by an unexpected crisis, or the new market situation in the agricultural sector in the Member State and resulting from the effects of a trade agreement initialled by the European Union in accordance with Article XXIV of the GATT or a multilateral agreement initialled within the World Trade Organisation as per Article 2(c). This analysis shall be based on statistical and other information at the most appropriate level to demonstrate the fulfilment of the intervention criteria set out in Article 4;
Amendment 120 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 4
Article 11 – paragraph 4
4. The Commission's technical assistance shall include the provision of information and guidance to the Member States for using, monitoring and evaluating the EGF. The Commission mayust also provide information on using the EGF to the European and national social partners.
Amendment 128 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14
Article 14
Expenditure shall be eligible for a financial contribution from the dates set out in Article 8(2)(h) on which the Member State starts the personalised services to the targeted workers or the administrative expenditure to implement the EGF in accordance with Article 7(1) and (3) respectively. In the case of farmers, expenditure shall be eligible for a contribution from the date set in the delegated act taken in accordance with Article 4(3).
Amendment 131 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 15 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Where the Commission has concluded that the conditions for mobilising the EGF are met, it shall submit a proposal to deploy it. The Decision to deploy the EGF shall be taken jointly by the two arms of the budgetary authority within a deadline not exceeding one month of the referral to the budgetary authority. The Council shall act by a qualified majority and the European Parliament shall act by a majority of its component members and three fifths of the votes cast.
Amendment 144 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23
Article 23