3 Amendments of Inés AYALA SENDER related to 2015/2284(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the total EGF-approved aid from the date of first application until September 2015 amounted to some EUR 545 million from the Union budget and to some EUR 390 million from the Member States’ budgets for a total of 139 approved Member State applications; considers it necessary to step up the use of the EGF in preventing and dealing with relocation, as well as in response to sectoral crises caused by price and global demand fluctuations;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the EGF meets the specific needs of self-employed workers; points out that relocations and other consequences of globalisation such as the ‘sharing economy’ and robotics are affecting major sectors of the European economy in which the number of self-employed persons is constantly increasing;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to lower the threshold for EGF eligibility, which currently stands at 500 redundancies, 100 redundancies in the case of medium-sized enterprises and 50 redundancies in the case of small enterprises, so as to ensure that the aid reaches workers employed by SMEs, who are generally most affected by the effects of globalisation;