6 Amendments of Gabriele STAUNER related to 2007/2238(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that, from the macroeconomic point of view, hedge funds and private equity (HFs & PE) represent welcome additional investors at a time when economic structures are experiencing ever more substantial change at an ever- increasing pace, but that this type of alternative investment is unregulated; stresses, in addition, that lack of scrutiny and excessive profit-seeking are solely at the expense of employees and/or other third partiesinsufficiently regulated;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to present a proposal as to how Council Directive 2001/23/EC of 12 March 2001 on the safeguarding of employees' rights in the event of the transfer of undertakings should be supplemented so as to safeguard the rights of the employees concerned in the case of HF & PE takeovers and prevent jobs being jeopardised by loss of liquidity in firms taken over;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the two sides of industry and the Commission to undertake a reshaping of European rules to reflect the situation created by HFs & PE, and primarily of Council Directive 94/45/EC of 22 September 1994 on the establishment of a European Works Council and Directive 2002/14/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2002 establishing a general framework for informing and consulting employees in the European Community;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to use best practice to ensure that employees are informed about the way in which their pensions are invested and the associated risks, and that they can have a say thereincompany pensions acquired by employees are shielded from bankruptcies;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Expects the fund industry to move further towards binding measures and regulations on corporate governance which willmust also be made public; considers that funds which act as entrepreneurs cannot distance themselves from cultivatingthe obligation to develop human resources, ensuring worker participation and the pursuit of environmental and social objectives;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to monitor and analyse the effects of the operations of HF & PE companies, and to propose a directive on minimum transparency rules on the way in which investments are financed, the objective of investment projects, the disclosure of ownership structures and the registration of hedge fundsanalyse the way in which investments are financed;