7 Amendments of Thijs BERMAN related to 2010/2239(INI)
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Insists that Member States better include the EU dimensEU secondary legislation in their policies with a view to improving the functioning of the internal market and facilitating workers‘ mobility;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Observes that pension reforms are necessaryoften required in the context of demographic ageing and the financial and economic crisis, but notes at the same time that the first objective of a reform should be to ensure adequate retirement income for all;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for facilitating the social dialogue in order to set up collective work-related pension systems in Member States;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Observes that even if more pension products exist on the market, not every European citizen has access to thesethough there is a great variety of pension provisions in the different Member States, not every European citizen has access to these; therefore calls on the Commission to facilitate, through the exchange of best practices, the setting up of supplementary pension institutions managed or supervised by the social partners;
Amendment 143 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Considers that Solvency II is a valuable starting point for developing a solvency regime for IORPs; underlines that such a regime needs to be adapted to the specificities of pensions, in particular as regards the conditionality of pension rights, the duration of pension portfolios and the dedicated purpose vehicle operating a homogenous product portfolioStresses that it is important to clearly differentiate between the solvency regime for insurers and a possible pension security regime; underlines that such a regime needs to be adapted to the specificities of pensions;
Amendment 168 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls for due consideration to be given to the fact that IORPs are based on labour agreements and fulfil a social task and thus cannot be considered as financial institutions;