9 Amendments of Javier MORENO SÁNCHEZ related to 2007/0228(CNS)
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) This Directive should provide for a flexible demand-driven entry system, based on objective criteria such as a minimum salary threshold comparable with the wage levels in the Member States and on professional qualifications. The definition of a common minimum denominator for the national wage threshold is necessary to ensure a minimum level of harmonisation in the admission conditions throughout the EUentry system taking account of demand, the state of the labour market in the Member States and the potential value added offered by these workers and based on objective criteria such as professional qualifications and experience. Member States should fix their national threshold accordingly to the situation of their respective labour markets and their general immigration policies.
Amendment 60 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) In implementing this Directive, Member States should refrain from pursuing active recruitment in developing countries in sectors suffering from lack of human resources, in line with the objectives of the Union's development cooperation policy. Ethical recruitment policies and principles applicable to public and private sector employers should be developed in particular in the health sector, as underlined in the Council and Member States' conclusions of 14 May 2007 on the European Programme for Action to tackle the critical shortage of health workers in developing countries (2007-2013), as also in other sectors especially likely to be affected, such as education and other professions closely linked to basic pillars of the constitutional state, e.g. the legal profession. These should be strengthened by the development of mechanisms, guidelines and other tools to facilitate circular and temporary migration, as well as other measures that would minimise negative and maximise positive impacts of highly skilled immigration on developing countries. In addition, the Member States, in cooperation with the countries of origin, should establish specific measures and programmes to offset the loss of human resources, offering concrete support for the training of professionals in key sectors weakened by this exodus of talent. Any such intervention must be taken along the lines of the Joint Africa-EU Declaration on Migration and Development agreed in Tripoli on 22 and 23 November 2006 and the conclusions of the First World Forum on Migration and Development of July 2007, and with a view of establishing a comprehensive migration policy as called for by the European Council of 14 and 15 December 2006.
Amendment 69 #
(g) "higher education qualification" stands for any degree, diploma or other certificate issued by a competent authority attesting the successful completion of a higher education programme, namely a set of courses provided by an educational establishment recognised as a higher education institution by the State in which it is situated. These qualifications, duly validated, are taken into account, for the purposes of this directive, on condition that the studies needed to acquire them lasted at least threefour years;
Amendment 73 #
(h) "higher professional qualifications" means qualifications attested by evidence of higher education qualifications corresponding to at least four years of study or of at least three years of equivalent professional experience;
Amendment 92 #
Amendment 108 #
Articles 5 and 6 shall be without prejudice to the competence of the Member States to determine volumes of admission of third- country nationals for highly qualified employment in line with the state of their labour markets.
Amendment 145 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 17 - paragraph 4
Article 17 - paragraph 4
4. By way of derogation from Article 9(1)(c) of Directive 2003/109/EC, Member States shallmay extend the period of absence allowed to an EU Blue Card holder and of his/her family members having been granted the EC long-term residence status from the territory of the Community to 24 consecutive months.
Amendment 146 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 17 - paragraph 5
Article 17 - paragraph 5
5. The derogations to Directive 2003/109/EC set out in paragraphs 3 and 4 shall apply only in cases where the third- country national concerned can present evidence that he/she has been absent from the territory of the Community to exercise, in his/her country of origin, an economic activity in an employed or self-employed capacity, or to perform a voluntary service, or to study in his/her own. This will encourage the circular mobility of these professionals, as well as the subsequent involvement of the same migrant workers in training, research and technical activities in their countryies of origin.
Amendment 158 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 23
Article 23
Every three years, and for the first time no later than [three years after the date of transposition of this Directive], the Commission shall report to the European Parliament and the Council on the application of this Directive in the Member States and shall propose any amendments that are necessary, also in relation to action to combat the exodus of talent.