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7 Amendments of Marian HARKIN related to 2012/2058(BUD)

Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Agrees with the measures proposed by the Commission to be financed as technical assistance in accordance with Article 8(1) and (4) as well as with Article 9 (2) of the EGF Regulation;
2012/05/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Notes that the Commission will start to prepare the final evaluation of the EGF; regrets, however, that the results will arrive too late to feed into the discussion on the new regulation for the EGF in 2014-2020, especially regarding the effectiveness of the use of the crisis derogation criterion, since the concerned EGF cases were not analysed in the EGF mid-term evaluation report;
2012/05/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Regrets that the Commission does not envisage any particular awareness raising activities for 2012 in the situation where the utility of the EGF and its existence in the next financing period are questioned by Member States, including the frequent users of the Fund; recalls that the current proposal for the technical assistance will leave around EUR 630 000 unused for 2012;
2012/05/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Interrogates the Commission on the impact and efficiency of the information tools funded by technical assistance in previous years; asks for reliable data on the use of those tools;
2012/05/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Notes that the Commission will continue to work on the standardised procedures for simplified applications, faster processing of the applications and better reporting; asks the Commission to present the progress made following the use of technical assistance in 2011; recalls the need to shorten the application procedures;
2012/05/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Recalls the importance of networking and exchange of information on the EGF; supports, therefore, the funding of the Expert Group of Contact Persons of the EGF; underlines further the importance to liaise all those involved in EGF applications, including the social partners, to create as much synergies as possible;
2012/05/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3e. Encourages the Member States to profit from the exchange of best practices and to learn particularly from those Member States that have already put in place national information networks on the EGF involving the social partners and stakeholders at local level with a view to having a good structure for assistance in place once mass redundancies might occur;
2012/05/16
Committee: BUDG