10 Amendments of Marian HARKIN related to 2014/2150(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recognises that REFIT represents a first important step towards reducing the administrative burdens of regulation on businesses and eliminating barriers to growth, competitiveness and job creation;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Supports the Commission’s commitment on cutting red tape and for providing better regulation; welcomes the effort of the Juncker Commission to a strengthened Better Regulation Agenda and calls for the need for it to deliver an efficient system and actual progress; believes that cutting red tape should aim to deliver proportionate, evidence-based protection for workers, while ensuring that businesses can grow, create jobs and boost competitiveness; notes that debetter regulation and better regulationhigh protection of employees are not mutually exclusive;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes efforts to identify genuine opportunities for simplification of legislationand adaptability of legislation whilst maintaining high standards; stresses the need for simpler, clearly-worded rules that remove complexity and can be implemented in a simple manner in order to improve compliance, particularly in the area of health, safety and employment legislation; recalls the importance of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Calls on the Commission to urgently consider measures to address the impact that recently implemented EU VAT rules for digital services are having on micro enterprises, particularly the significant administrative burden, in order to allow the digital economy to thrive;
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for further measures such as carrying out independent impact assessments throughout the legislative process, further strengthening the independence, objectivity and neutrality of impact assessments and the SME-test, further facilitating citizens participation in the EUs legislative process, ensuring the adaptability of legislators and increasing transparency of inter- institutional negotiations as well as monitoring the transposition of the EU- legislation into national laws by including national gold-plating in the EU Regulatory Scoreboard to check that legislation is doing what it was intended to do and to identify areas where there are inconsistencies and ineffective measures;
Amendment 119 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Urges the Commission and co- legislators to continue to improve the legislative cycle and to introduce sunset clauses when justified and useful in concrete cases to ensure that employment legislation is periodically reviewed;
Amendment 132 #
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;
Amendment 149 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the committee responsible to systematically review Commission impact assessments and review IMPA’s analysis as early as possible in the legislative process, and to call for independent impact assessments on its own reports.
Amendment 151 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 9 – subparagraph 1 (new)
In the area of public procurement, strongly supports further measures such as the promotion of smaller procurement parcels to assist SMEs and micro enterprises to compete for public procurement tenders.