10 Amendments of Anne SANDER related to 2014/2150(INI)
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Supports the Commission’s commitment on cutting red tape and better regulation; believes that cutting red tape should deliver proportionate, evidence-based protection for workers, while ensuring thatbetter regulation that is clearer, more effective and with less red tape would enable businesses canto grow, to create jobs and to boost competitiveness; notes that deregulation and better regulation are not mutually exclusive, without calling into question a good level of protection for workers;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes efforts to identify genuine opportunities for simplification of legislation; stresses the need for simpler, clearly-wordedsimplify the legislative procedure as a whole; stresses the need for rules that aremove complexity and can be implemented in a simple manner in order to clear and comprehensible to all, so that they can be quickly and easily implemented, thereby improveing compliance, particularly in the area of health, safety and employment legislation. That is how we will support our businesses more effectively and better protect our workers;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Stresses the need, moreover, to apply the ‘Think Small First’ principle, which should underpin all rules, given that around 99% of European businesses are SMEs. By adhering to this principle, European legislation should no longer cause additional administrative and regulatory burdens that all too often impede the proper functioning of our SMEs, hinder their competitiveness and restrict their capacity for innovation and job creation; European legislation should, on the contrary, be a pillar for their development, ensuring they have regulatory stability and legal certainty;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that the Commission is considering withdrawing the maternity leave directive; calls on the Commission to draw up a new proposal, which should take account of social developments and result in an ambitious directive which would encourage the rate of employment among women and the birth rate in Europe;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the SME testPoints out that some 99% of European businesses are SMEs and should therefore become the benchmark for all regulation; European legislation should be based on the ‘Think Small First’ principle; warmly welcomes the SME test, therefore, which should be mandatory and systematic at all stages of the legislative process; calls on the Commission to use, but only when necessary, lighter regimes for micro- enterprises and SMEs and to consider exemptions for micro-enterprises on a case-by-case basis, while not compromising on health, safety and employment standards;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the SME test; calls on the Commission to use lightermore effective regimes for micro-enterprises and SMEs and to consider exemptions for micro-enterprises on a case-by-case basis, while not compromising on health, safety and employment standards;
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for further measures to check that legislation is doing what it was intended to do and to identify areas where there are inconsistencies and ineffective measuresthe new rules adopted do not conflict with existing rules, as this would require substantial and costly efforts on the part of our businesses to comply with the new rules; calls, moreover for verification on whether legislative texts have been transposed and applied in a uniform manner by the Member States and whether they are having the desired effect;
Amendment 135 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to prioritise action in the fields of what have been identified as the ‘Top Ten’ most burdensome laws for SMEs, including the working time and temporary agency directives; is also concerned about the threats posed by the implementation of the REACH directive on employment in European SMEs in the chemical industry; calls for balanced solutions to be found between the protection of workers and unnecessary administrative burdens for SMEs;
Amendment 158 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Reiterates the request of the European Parliament1 to establish a new High Level Group on Better Regulation, consisting of stakeholders’ representatives and national experts; this group should be visible and independent; proposes that the High Level Group should assess the administrative burden caused by legislative proposals throughout the negotiations, the cost of compliance and respect for the subsidiarity and proportionality principles; this group should also propose measures to improve regulation and supervise the implementation of EU legislation at national level. __________________ 1 European Parliament resolution of 27 November 2014 on the revision of the Commission’s impact assessment guidelines and the role of the SME test (2014/2967(RSP))