Activities of Jean LAMBERT related to 2014/2150(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme (REFIT): State of Play and Outlook
Amendments (10)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
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1. Recognises that REFIT represents a first step towards reducing the burden of regulation on businesses and eliminating barriers to growth andExpresses strong concerns about REFIT serving as a tool to achieve deregulation without acknowledging the positive aspects of regulation and taking full account of the benefits of regulation in social or other terms, or the fact that in many instances, EU legislation harmonizes or replaces different rules in the 28 Member States, making national markets mutually and equally accessible and reducing administrative costs overall to realize a fully functional internal market. Recognises that REFIT should represent a step towards job creation;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
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1a. Recalls that four Members of the High Level Group on Administrative Burden, those representing the views of workers, public health, the environment and consumers, adopted a dissenting opinion with regard to the Final Report of the High Level Group of 24 July 20141; 1 http://www.eeb.org/EEB/?LinkServID=93589C92 -5056-B741-DBB964D531862603
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
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2. SupportNotes the Commission’'s commitmentintention onf cutting unnecessary red tape and better regulation; believes that cutting red tape should deliver proportionate, evidence- based, full protection for workers, while ensur should remaing that businesses can grow, create jobs and boost competitiveness; notes that deregulation and better regulation are not mutually exclusive;e highest priority,
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
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3. Welcomes efforts to identify genuine opportunities for simplification of legislation; stresses the need for simpler, clearly- worded rules that remove complexity and can be implemented in a simple manner in order to improve compliance, particularly in the area of health, safety and employment legislation. Points out that the widespread existing use of exemptions and exceptions under EU legislation is itself a major contributing factor to regulatory complexity;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
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4. WelcomeRegrets the Commission’'s indication that the maternity leave directive shouldmight be considered for withdrawal; reiterates its call on Member States to do their utmost to reach an agreement on this health and safety legislation without delay;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
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5. WelcomNotes the SME test; calls on the Commission to useWarns at the risk of using lighter regimes for micro-enterprises and SMEs andor to consider exemptions for micro-enterprises on a case-by-case basis, while notas these should never compromisinge on health, safety and employment standards; Reminds that according to UEAPME, the exemption of SMEs or micro enterprises of European legislation goes against SME interests;1 1 http://www.ueapme.com/IMG/pdf/141017_ne ws.pdf
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion
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6. Calls for further measures to check that legislation is doing what it was intended to do and to identify areas where there are inconsistencies and ineffective measumore should be done at the EU level. Calls on the Commission to come forward with legislative proposals in these areas;
Amendment 116 #
Draft opinion
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7. Urges the Commission to continue to improve the legislative cycle and to introduce sunset clausebe more ambitious to ensure that employment legislation is periodically reviewin the core of the EU agenda and responding to the citizens' needs;
Amendment 129 #
Draft opinion
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8. Calls on the Commission to prioritise action in the fields of what have been identified as the ‘Top Ten’ most burdensome laws for SMEsimplementation of legislation concerning casual work such as the temporary agency directive and health and safety legislation, including the working time and temporary agency directives;
Amendment 150 #
Draft opinion
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9. Calls on the committee responsible to systematically review Commission impact assessments and review IMPA’s analysis as early as possible in the legislative process, and to call for social impact assessments on its own reports.