8 Amendments of Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ related to 2017/2052(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas under Article 8 of the TFEU, the promotion of equality between men and women is a fundamental principle of the European Union; whereas, and consequently gender mainstreaming is a legal obligation stemming directly from the Treaties; whereas, moreover, an interinstitutional joint declaration on gender mainstreaming is attached to the MFF;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas access to public services is an essential condition for guaranteeing women’s economic independence and empowerment; whereas public services remain an important employment sector for women;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that gender equality is enshrined in the EU Treaty and should be included in all EU polici; stresses the need for gender mainstreaming in all EU policies, programmes and initiatives so as to deliver equality in practice; stresses that gender budgeting must become an integral part of the budgetary procedure at all its stages and in all budget lines, and not only in programmes where the gender impact is most obvious, so that budgetary expenditure becomes an effective tool for promoting equality between women and men;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the need to sufficiently finance, under the European structural and investment funds, measures promoting and supporting good-quality education, employability, entrepreneurship and job creation for women and girls, particularly those belonging to the most disadvantaged groups, so that budgetary expenditure is effectively used to achieve policy targets; stresses the importance of investing in high-quality public services, in particular to guarantee sufficient provision of high- quality public services at affordable prices providing care for children, the elderly and other dependents;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Points out that one of the main objectives of the general budget for the European Union is strategic investment and sustainable growth in order to boost economic cohesion and create jobs, in particular to increase female participation in the labour market, and it is therefore crucially important to focus on enhancing women’s potential in all sectors of the economy: digital economy, information and communication technologies (ICT), science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM); stresses that only a specific focus on gender in those areas will make it possible to address the gender gap and the Union-wide skills shortfall in the ICT and STEM sectors;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Repeats its call for the Daphne programme to have a separate budget line in order to increase transparency regarding use of the funds concerned and to ensure an appropriate level of funding for fighting violence against women.; in this context, stresses the need to increase resources for the Daphne specific objective in line with allocations in the previous programming period;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that, to enable the European Institute for Gender Equality properly to meet its objectives, it is necessary to increase its budget and staff in order to boost its capacity to provide adequate assistance to the Commission by supplying relevant information and technical assistance in priority areas such as equality between women and men and the fight against gender-based violence; points out that the European Institute for Gender Equality should remain a specific separate institution within the institutional framework of the Union;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Emphasises the need for gender mainstreaming in the European Fund for Strategic Investments, since the European Union will never fully and satisfactorily recover from the recent economic crises unless it properly addresses the effects of those crises on women, who in most cases have been hardest hit;