7 Amendments of Corina CREȚU related to 2007/0228(CNS)
Amendment 4 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4a (new)
Recital 4a (new)
(4a) In order to better assist Member States in developing their immigration strategies and policies, as well as aiding migrants to better comprehend and follow the migration process, a common immigration policy should be devised and implemented at European level.
Amendment 5 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) To achieve the objectives of the Lisbon Process it is also important to foster the mobility within the Union of highly qualified workers who are EU citizens, and in particular from the Member States which acceded in 2004 and 2007. In implementing this Directive, Member States are bound to respect the principle of Community preference as expressed in particular in the relevant provisions of the Acts of Accession of 16 April 2003 and 25 April 2005.
Amendment 6 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) This Directive is intended to sustain the Community's competitiveness and economic growth. In reaching these goals it should however not make a distinction between the various levels of qualifications among workers.
Amendment 9 #
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, especially the health and education sectors. 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). 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. Any such intervention must be taken along the lines of the Council conclusions of 15 May 2007 on a European Programme for Action to tackle the critical shortage of health workers in developing countries (2007-2013), the Commission Communication entitled "Policy Coherence for Development - Accelerating progress towards attaining the Millennium Development Goals", the new EU-Africa Strategic Partnership initiated at the EU-Africa Summit of December 2007 in Lisbon and the Joint Africa-EU Declaration on Migration and Development agreed in Tripoli on 22 and 23 November 2006 and with a view of establishing a comprehensive migration policy as called for by the European Council of 14 and 15 December 2006.
Amendment 11 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 20 a (new)
Recital 20 a (new)
(20a) Commission should evaluate the impact of this Directive on the partnership on migration, mobility and employment included in the new Africa-EU Strategic Partnership signed at the EU-Africa Summit held in Lisbon in December 2007.
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 21 a (new)
Recital 21 a (new)
(21a) The Commission should take into account the potential impact of this Directive on the development of the health and education sectors in developing countries and, since those sectors are essential to the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) number 2,4,5 and 6, a coherence between the Directive and the MDGs is therefore needed.
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 26 a (new)
Recital 26 a (new)
(26a) Since it is important to involve immigrants in the development of their countries of origin, the Union should propose to governments of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries and governments of other countries of origin to consider together with the Union the implementation and application of policies aimed at maximising the positive impact of remittances by ensuring that they pass through official transfer systems, thereby making them more substantial, swifter, less expensive to carry out and better channelled.