18 Amendments of Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ related to 2018/2162(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas progress in achieving gender equality in the EU is not only stagnating across the whole of the Union, but is also suffering significant setbacks in some Member States;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas greater interinstitutional cooperation on gender mainstreaming between Parliament, the Council and the Commission is needed in order to ensure that gender perspectives can be introduced in all phases of the European Union’s budget, policies, programmes and initiatives;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas insufficient funds and human resources are being allocated to ensure real progress in gender mainstreaming of the EU’s policies, programmes, initiatives and actions;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas the gender mainstreaming amendments adopted by the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and tabled for adoption in other committees are an effective tool for ensuring that gender equality is given due consideration in Parliament's reports and resolutions;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)
Recital E c (new)
Ec. whereas a gender budgeting in the form of planning, programming and budgeting contributes to the advancement of gender equality and the fulfilment of women’s rights and is one of the key tools used by policy-makers to tackle the gender gaps; whereas gender budgeting has not been consistently applied by any of the EU institutions;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas institutions will be responsible for avoiding vertical and horizontal gender segregation;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L b (new)
Recital L b (new)
Lb. whereas the European Parliament must continue to combat sexual harassment and implement the agreed measures;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Reaffirms its strong commitment to gender equality both in the content of EU policies, initiatives and programmes and across the Union's political and administra, budgetary, administrative and executive levels;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls for the new multiannual financial framework (MFF), like the last MFF, to be accompanied by a joint declaration by the three institutions, committing them to ensure that the annual budgetary procedures applied for the MFF integrate, as appropriate, gender-responsive elements, taking into account the ways in which the overall financial framework of the Union contributes to the objective of achieving equality and ensures gender mainstreaming;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Reiterates its call on the Commission to present a genuine European Equality Strategy in the form of a communication that contains clear and, as far as possible, quantifiable objectives and to have this translated into all official EU languages to ensure greater distribution and understanding for citizens and social and economic actors;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Deplores the lack of follow-up in gender budgeting due to its cross-cutting nature; deplores equally the lack of gender indicators;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Stresses the importance of the parliamentary committees respecting the competences of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and both accepting the gender mainstreaming amendments tabled by the Committee as well as working together on issues affecting various committees, avoiding cumbersome processes of conflicts of competences;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Emphasises that the systematic and periodic collection of gender- disaggregated data and statistics in policy and programme impact assessments as well as in the policy-making process is indispensable for analysing the advancement of gender equality;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Points out the importance of taking positive measures to increase the presence of people of the under- represented gender, which is often women, on electoral lists; recommends parity lists (the representation of each gender should not exceed 60%) and in particular “zipper” lists to ensure a greater presence of women in secure positions in the future elections to the European Parliament in 2019;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Invites Parliament's political groups for the 2019-2024 parliamentary term to consider nominating Members of the European Parliament from the under- represented gender to each committee in order to achieve equal gender representation in all committees and delegations, and especially to nominate a gender-equal number of parliamentarians as members and substitutes of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, in order to encourage the involvement of men in gender equality policy;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Strongly disapproves of the misogynistic language used on several occasions in the plenary chamber; welcomes the sanctions imposed by the President of the European Parliament and confirmed by the Bureau against a Member of the European Parliament for remarks made during the plenary session of 1 March 2017 undermining the dignity of women; is concerned by the decision of the General Court of the European Union of 31 May 2018 to annul the decision of the President and of the Bureau, based both on interpretation of the relevant provisions of the Rules of Procedure and on the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights concerning Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (freedom of speech); urges its committee competent for issues concerning the Rules of Procedure to revise the applicable rules with a view to ensuring respect and dignity in the plenary chamber at all times; in particular, to add a clause requiring MEPs in parliamentary debates to refrain from adopting language that incites hatred or discriminates on grounds of gender, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or social origin, genetic characteristics, language, religion or belief, political or other opinions, membership of a national minority, disability, age or sexual orientation, and to impose exemplary sanctions in the event of non-compliance with this clause;