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12 Amendments of Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER related to 2010/2072(INI)

Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital B (new)
(A) whereas the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) does not impose any active labour market measures on a Member State that have to be implemented in the framework of an application for the fund but to put in place a coordinated package of personalised services designed to reintegrate workers into the labour market in accordance with Article 3 of the EGF regulation[1] which preserves fully the flexibility of the Member States to adapt the measures targeting the redundant workers to the local and individual needs of each application, ([1] Regulation (EC) No 1927/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2009 on establishing the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund as amended by regulation (EC) No 546/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009.)
2010/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Reminds Member States of the importance of taking immediate labour market intervention measures in parallel with their application to the EGF;
2010/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Calls onReminds the Member States that they are obliged, on the one hand, to involve the social partners right from the outset in the task of preparing applications in accordance with Article 5 of the EGF regulation and, on the other hand, to comply with Article 9 of this regulation which requests Member States to provide information on and publicise the funded actions and that this information has also to be addressed to the workers concerned, the local and regional authorities and the social partners and to standardise procedures;
2010/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Welcomes the Council conclusions for New Skills for New Jobs and underlines that the EGF provides the Member States with additional funding for the training of redundant workers for future oriented jobs and increased mobility;
2010/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Asks the Commission to present a proposal on how the EGF regulation should be amended in order to allow the inclusion of all workers made redundant because of the same event, across sectors and regions;
2010/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States to adopt a personalised approach to assistance for redundant workers, particularly in cases of large-scale redundancies, so as to improve workers' opportunities on a labour market that is undergoing profound restructuring; calls on the Member States and local authorities to do everything possible to revitalise places which have suffered from the impact of relocation in order to maintain economic activity in the area, bearing in mind that the EGF is geared solely to employees; to this end, recommends that the Member States step up their exchanges of good practice, especially making use of Progress;
2010/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States benefitting from the EGF to be very effective and to adopt a personalised approach to assistance for redundant workers, particularly in cases of large-scale redundancies, so as to improve workers' opportunities on a labour market that is undergoing profound restructuring; to this end, recommends that the Member States step up their exchanges of good practice, especially making use of Progress;
2010/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Urges the Member States to use the EGF to implement European objectives, to promote new skills for new jobs, to promote entrepreneurship and to promote lifelong learning, so as to allow workers to develop their individual careers and to contribute to improving the competitiveness of the EU in the context of globalisation;
2010/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
8. Reminds undertakings of their social responsibility to do all they can to ensure that workers can, right from the start of their period of unemployment, authenticate their experience acquired, so as to ensure that their retraining is as specific and as rapid as possible and that they obtain new, stable jobs with a promising future;
2010/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Asks the Commission to provide the Member States with a set of guidelines for the design and the implementation of the applications for EGF funding seeking a fast application procedure and a broad consensus of the stakeholders for the strategy to apply and the measures to be put in place for an effective reintegration of the workers into the labour market;
2010/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Asks the Commission to provide assistance also to the Member States, the social partners and the workers associations during the process of implementation of the measures;
2010/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
12. Requests the Commission to publish its data on the efficiency of use of the EGF and the success of measures after a longer period (≥ 1 year) in the interest of sound EU budgetary management, so as to allow Parliament to conduct an ex post control.
2010/06/09
Committee: EMPL