Activities of Gabriele ZIMMER related to 2016/2018(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on interpretation and implementation of the interinstitutional agreement on better law-making
Amendments (9)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the interinstitutional agreement (IIA) on Is concerned that the aim of the ‘better law-making’ and the inclusion of new, innovative elements such as the annual burden survey (ABS), SME and competitiveness tests, burden reduction targets and the Regulatory Scrutiny Board (RSB), which will help to provide clear added value in terms of competgenda is to reduce regulation without enough regard to the ways in which it benefits society; warns that bodies such as the Regulatory Scrutiny Board generate additional red tape, resulting in insufficient transparency around the selection of legislative initiatives; insists that the interinstitutional agreement may not be interpreted in any way that could limit Parliament’s ability to exercise its legislative tasks as the directly elected body representing EU citivzeness, growth and jobs;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Believes that the ‘Think Small First’ principle can play an important role in job creation and growth by reducing the cost of legislation to SMElegislation should serve to protect the employees of all companies, regardless of size; emphasises that cooperation with trade unions and works councils can help to ensure that measures are implemented without unnecessary red tape, including in small and medium-sized companies;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for the Iimpact Aassessment (IA) Handbook, and if necessary its Rules of Procedure, to provide that an IAs to be focused particularly on social, environmental and economic factors as well as consumer protection, sustainability and the cost at Union level of not regulating; emphasises that procedures in the event of any impact assessment on substantive amendments cannot be requested by a Committee where it is supported by political groups representing at least 40 % of the members of the Committeeallowed to impinge on the right of democratically elected representatives to propose amendments in accordance with their conscience and their political convictions;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the importance of the new provisions for public and stakeholder consultations which must be used both in the preparatory phase and throughout the entire legislative processPoints out that, under Articles 154 and 155 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), management and labour have a particular role in the Union’s legislative process; stresses that public consultations, important as they are in terms of transparency and the involvement of civil society, can be no substitute for consulting management and labour in accordance with Article 154; underlines the particular importance placed by Article 155 TFEU on contractual agreements between management and labour, and emphasises that the ‘better law-making’ agenda cannot have the effect of stopping the Commission from submitting such agreements to the Council for decision;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Urges the Commission to establish the ABS without delay, as it will play a key role in the iconduct regular and comprehensive reviews of the health, social, environmental and economic costs that result from the absence or inadequacy of empleoymenta protection and application of EU legislation, in particular the scrutiny of Member States’ transposition ofsocial protection regulation; emphasises that, under the subsidiarity principle, the employment and social protection standards laid down in directives, and of all national measures that go beyond the provisions of EU legislation (‘gold- plating’)re merely minimum standards and that Member States are specifically asked to go beyond those standards, in accordance with collective agreements and in the interest of protecting workers;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Believes that the RSB must show more ambition; calls for an evaluation and follow-up of the independence of the RSB in fulfilling its role of supervising and providing objective advice on impact assessmentcalls for the Commission to examine in depth how the framework of Title X TFEU – and specifically Article 153 – could be more fully utilised to develop minimum social standards in the Union in the field of employment law and social protection, to achieve better law-making in that field and to promote the upward convergence of social conditions;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10