[ParlTrack]

2018/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on all Member States to shift from joint taxation to individual taxation; believes that until tax systems are no longer based on the assumption that households pool and share their funds equally, tax fairness for women will not be achieveUnderlines the negative consequences on incentivising women’s employment, their economic independence and the high gender pension gap resulting from joint taxation; recognises the commitment to men and women being equal earners and equal carers; suggests as a consequence that individual taxation could aid women regain and retain economic independence; calls on Member States to implement an individual taxation system alongside a household taxation system, offering the possibility of switching to an individual taxation system to each household by simple request of one member of the household;

2018/10/03
Committee: ECON FEMM

2018/2095(INI)

Pervenche BERÈS, Mary HONEYBALL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Calls on the Member States to introduce tax credits for work-related childcare costs in order to reduce the obstacles of taking up paid employment for women and contribute to a more equal sharing of paid and unpaid work within households;

2018/10/03
Committee: ECON FEMM

2018/2095(INI)

Mary HONEYBALL, Biljana BORZAN, Evelyn REGNER, Pervenche BERÈS, Maria Gabriela ZOANĂ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Regrets that ~~fem~~menstruale hygien~~ic products~~e and care products a~~nd services for children or older people are still~~re not considered as basic products in all Member States; calls on all Member States to eliminate the so-called ‘care and tampon tax’ by making use of the flexibility introduced in the VAT Directive and applying exemptions or 0 % VAT rates to these essential basic goonsiders that period poverty is an ongoing issue in the EU where it is estimated by Plan International UK that 1/10 girls cannot afford sanitary products and that in2017 in the UK, 49% of girls missed at least one full day of school due to their periods;

2018/10/03
Committee: ECON FEMM

2018/2095(INI)

Mary HONEYBALL, Evelyn REGNER, Biljana BORZAN, Pervenche BERÈS, Maria Gabriela ZOANĂ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. ~~Notes th~~Calls on all Member States to eliminate tax evasion and tax avoidance are major contributors to gender inequality in the Union and globally as they limit the resources available to governments to increase equality at national and international he so-called ‘care and tampon tax’ by making use of the flexibility introduced in the VAT Directive and applying exemptions or 0 % VAT rates to these essential basic goods; recognises that a reduction in price due to exemption of VAT on these products would have immeasurable benefit for young women; recognises that this would be a further step towards making sanitary products free in schools, universities and homeless shelters, and for women from low-income backgrounds, with the aim of eradicating period poverty complevtel~~17 ;~~ y across the EU; __________________ 17 UN ‘Final study on illicit financial flows, human rights and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ of the Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of states on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights, 2016.

2018/10/03
Committee: ECON FEMM

2018/2095(INI)

Pervenche BERÈS, Mary HONEYBALL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to carry out gender impact assessments of fiscal policies before and after implementation, focusing on multiplier effect and implicit bias;

2018/10/03
Committee: ECON FEMM

2018/2095(INI)

Pervenche BERÈS, Mary HONEYBALL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Underlines that further research and better collection of gender-disaggregated data are required as regards gender- differentiated distributional and allocative effects of the taxation system; in particular, calls on the Member States to collect tax data on an individual basis and not only on a household basis, and to close the gender data gaps on consumption patterns and the use of reduced rates, on the distribution of entrepreneurial income and related tax payments and on the distribution of net wealth, capital incomes and related tax payments;

2018/10/03
Committee: ECON FEMM

2018/0190(COD)

Silvia COSTA, Mary HONEYBALL

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13 a (new)

(13a) Women are very present in the artistic and cultural field in Europe as authors, professionals, teachers, and as a growing and often predominant share of the cultural public. However, as evidenced by researches and studies such as the European Women´s Audiovisual Network for film directors and by the We Must project in the music field, they have less access to the possibility of realizing their works and having decision-making roles in cultural, artistic and creative institutions. Therefore, it is necessary to promote female talents, to circulate their works, to support women's artistic careers and to create a network of their experiences and best practices;

2018/11/30
Committee: CULT

2018/0112(COD)

Mary HONEYBALL

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12

(12) In order to effectively protect business users where needed, this Regulation should apply ~~where the terms and conditions of a contractual relationship,~~ regardless of whetheir ~~name or form, are not individually negotiated by the parties to them. Whether or not terms and con~~the provider of an online intermediation~~s wer~~ service iand~~ividually negotiated should be determined on the basis of an overall assessment, whereby the fact that certain provisions thereof may have been individually negotiated is, in itself, not decisive~~ a business user are parties to an agreement that they individually negotiated.

2018/10/26
Committee: JURI

2018/0112(COD)

Mary HONEYBALL

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19

(19) Where a provider of online intermediation services itself offers certain goods or services to consumers through its own online intermediation services, or does so through a business user which it controls, that provider may compete directly with other business users of its online intermediation services which are not controlled by the provider. Such a provider will have an economic incentive and the ability to use its control over the online intermediation service to provide technical or economic advantages to its own offerings, or those offered through a business user which it controls, that it denies to competing business users. When a provider of online intermediation services exercises this ability, its conduct deprives such competing business users of equality of opportunity and can lead to consumer harm by reducing their choices, increasing their costs, and withholding critical information from them. In such situations, in particular, it is important that the provider of online intermediation services acts in a transparent manner and provides a description of any differentiated treatment, whether through legal, commercial or technical means, that it might give in respect of goods or services it offers itself compared to those offered by business users. To ensure proportionality, this obligation should apply at the level of the overall online intermediation services, rather than at the level of individual goods or services offered through those services.

2018/10/26
Committee: JURI

2018/0112(COD)

Mary HONEYBALL

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19 a (new)

(19a) For purposes of this Regulation, a provider’s service competes with those of its other business users if it is regarded as interchangeable or substitutable by consumers of the online intermediation service, including by reason of the characteristics, prices, or intended uses of the services.

2018/10/26
Committee: JURI

2018/0112(COD)

Mary HONEYBALL

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19 b (new)

(19b) In certain cases, the asymmetry in bargaining power between online intermediation services and other business users results in a significant imbalance in the parties’ rights and obligations under the applicable contract, causing harm to the business user. In such cases, the provider of online intermediation service must apply fair treatment to the business user, in such a way that they do not materially impair other business users’ ability and freedom to do business. Given the high likelihood of harm to consumers inherent in situations where a provider of online intermediation services competes with other business users, including by reducing the consumers’ choices, increasing their costs, and withholding critical information from them, the obligation to provide fair treatment shall include ensuring that consumers who access services through the online intermediation service have the right and ability to select and use the services of their choice, without facing any undue burdens, such as where the provider ignores or overrides consumers’ choices of default settings. A provider of online intermediation services also fails to provide fair treatment where it does not afford competing business users with all information necessary for them to achieve the same level and quality of interoperability with the online intermediation service, and any ancillary services, as are available to the provider itself, and where it implements practices that directly or indirectly provide technical or economic advantages to its own offerings that it denies to competing business users. Fair treatment also requires the provider to refrain from interfering in the commercial relationship between competing business users and consumers of their services, including by blocking or otherwise restricting the flow of information and communication between them, including advertising and marketing.

2018/10/26
Committee: JURI

2018/0112(COD)

Mary HONEYBALL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point c

(c) any direct or indirect remuneration charged for the use of the online intermediation services concerned or any ancillary services, and any technical or economic benefit it does not extend to all business users;

2018/10/26
Committee: JURI

2018/0112(COD)

Mary HONEYBALL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. The providers in paragraph 1 shall apply fair treatment in such a way that they do not materially impair other business users’ ability and freedom to do business, thereby causing appreciable harm to the business user. In applying fair treatment, the provider of online intermediation services shall refrain from, for instance: (a) preventing or imposing undue burdens on consumers’ choices of services on the online intermediation service; (b) interfering in the commercial relationship between competing business users and consumers of their services, such as by blocking or otherwise restricting the flow of information and communication between them, including advertising and marketing. (c) directly or indirectly providing any technical or economic advantage to its own services, or to services that it controls, that it denies to competing business users.

2018/10/26
Committee: JURI

2018/0112(COD)

Mary HONEYBALL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 f (new)

2f. Providers of online intermediation services shall grant each business user access to anonymised consumer data, in a machine readable commonly used and standardised format, which are generated through the facilitation of a transaction between consumers and the business user concerned. This obligation is without prejudice to the obligations with which online intermediation services must comply under the applicable data protection and privacy rules.

2018/10/26
Committee: JURI

2018/0089(COD)

Mary HONEYBALL, Lucy ANDERSON

Proposal for a directive
Recital 2

(2) Directive 2009/22/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council29 enabled qualified entities to bring representative actions primarily aimed at stopping and prohibiting infringements of Union law harmful to the collective interests of consumers. However, that Directive did not sufficiently address the challenges for the enforcement of consumer law. To improve the deterrence of unlawful practices, to encourage good and responsible business practices, and to reduce consumer detriment, it is necessary to strengthen the mechanism for protection of collective interests of consumers. Given the numerous changes, for the sake of clarity it is appropriate to replace Directive 2009/22/EC. _________________ 29 OJ L 110/30, 1.5.2009.

2018/11/08
Committee: JURI

2018/0089(COD)

Mary HONEYBALL, Lucy ANDERSON

Proposal for a directive
Recital 6

(6) This Directive should cover a variety of ~~areas such as~~consumer law and related areas in line in particular with Article 169 TFEU and Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. These rights should include data protection, financial services, travel and tourism, energy, telecommunications ~~and environment~~, equality and non- discrimination, environment or any other relevant area. It should cover infringements of provisions of Union law which protect the interests of consumers, regardless of whether they are referred to as consumers or as travellers, users, customers, retail investors, retail clients or other in the relevant Union law. To ensure adequate response to infringement to Union law, the form and scale of which is quickly evolving, it should be considered, each time where a new Union act relevant for the protection of the collective interests of consumers is adopted, whether to amend the Annex to the present Directive in order to place it under its scope.

2018/11/08
Committee: JURI

2018/0089(COD)

Mary HONEYBALL, Lucy ANDERSON

Proposal for a directive
Recital 7

(7) The Commission has adopted legislative proposals for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 establishing common rules on compensation and assistance to passengers in the event of denied boarding and of cancellation or long delay of flights and Regulation (EC) No 2027/97 on air carrier liability in respect of the carriage of passengers and their baggage by air30 and for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on rail passengers' rights and obligations.31 It is therefore appropriate to provide that, one year after the entry into force of this Directive, the Commission assesses whether the Union rules in the area of air and rail passengers' rights offer an adequate level of protection for consumers, comparable to that provided for in this Directive, and draws any necessary conclusions as regards the scope of this Directive. _________________ 30 COM(2013) 130 final. 31 COM(2017) 548 final.deleted

2018/11/08
Committee: JURI

2018/0089(COD)

Mary HONEYBALL, Lucy ANDERSON

Proposal for a directive
Recital 10

(10) As only qualified entities can bring the representative actions, to ensure that the collective interests of consumers are adequately represented the qualified entities should comply with the criteria established by this Directive. In particular, they would need to be properly constituted according to the law of a Member State, which could include for example requirements regarding ~~the number of members,~~ the degree of permanence, or transparency requirements on relevant aspects of their structure such as their constitutive statutes, management structure, objectives and working methods. They should also be not for profit and have a legitimate interest in ensuring compliance with the relevant Union law. These criteria should apply to both qualified entities designated in advance and to ad hoc qualified entities that are constituted for the purpose of a specific action.

2018/11/08
Committee: JURI

2018/0089(COD)

Mary HONEYBALL, Lucy ANDERSON

Proposal for a directive
Recital 11

(11) Independent public bodies or those with specific relevant statutory responsibilities and consumer organisations in particular should play an active role in ensuring compliance with relevant provisions of Union law and are all well placed to act as qualified entities. Since these entities have access to different sources of information regarding traders' practices towards consumers and hold different priorities for their activities, Member States should be free to decide on the types of measures that may be sought by each of these qualified entities in representative actions.

2018/11/08
Committee: JURI

2018/0089(COD)

Mary HONEYBALL, Lucy ANDERSON

Proposal for a directive
Recital 19

(19) Member States should ~~be allowed to decide whether their court or national authority seized of a representative action for redress may exceptionally issue, instead of~~ensure that qualified entities are entitled to bring representative actions seeking, in addition to injunction orders, either a redress order, or a declaratory decision regarding the liability of the trader towards the consumers harmed by an infringement which could be directly relied upon in subsequent redress actions by individual consumers. This possibility should be reserved to duly justified cases where the quantification of the individual redress to be attributed to each of the consumer concerned by the representative action is complex and it would be inefficient to carry it out within the representative action. Declaratory decisions s, or both. A declaratory decision may, for example, be appropriate where individual consumers have suffered negligible or unquantifiable loss but it is nevertheless in the public interest to hould not be issued in situations which are not complex and in particular where consumers concerned are identifiable and where the consumers have suffered a comparable harm in relation to a period of time or a purchase. Similarly,the trader formally to account for the breach of Union law concerned. However, a declaratory decisions should not be issued where the amount of loss suffered by each of the individual consumers is so small that individual consumers are unlikely to claim for individual redress. The court or the national authority should duly motivate its recourse to a declaratory decision instead of a redress order in a particular casemade instead of a redress order that was sought unless the mandate of the individual consumers concerned is obtained.

2018/11/08
Committee: JURI

2018/0089(COD)

Mary HONEYBALL, Lucy ANDERSON

Proposal for a directive
Recital 21

(21) In low-value cases most consumers are unlikely to take action in order to enforce their rights because the efforts would outweigh the individual benefits. However, if the same practice concerns a number of consumers, the aggregated loss may be significant. In such cases, a court or authority may consider that it is disproportionate to distribute the funds back to the consumers concerned, for example because it is too onerous or impracticable. Therefore the funds received as redress through representative actions would better serve the purposes of the protection of collective interests of consumers and should be directed to a relevant public purpose, such as a consumer legal aid fund, awareness campaigns or consumer movements.

2018/11/08
Committee: JURI

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Mary HONEYBALL, Philippe JUVIN, António MARINHO E PINTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)

5d. Calls on the Commission to create a level playing field in view of claims for damages against platforms due to the circulation of disparaging facts, which create a persistent harm to the user;

2017/04/07
Committee: JURI

2016/2276(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17 a. Stresses that despite the fact that more creative content is being consumed today than ever before, on services such as user-uploaded content platforms and content aggregation services, the creative sectors have not seen a comparable increase in revenues from this increase in consumption; stress that one of the main reasons for that is being referred to as a transfer of value that has emerged due to the lack of clarity regarding the status of these online services under copyright and e-commerce law; stress that an unfair market has been created, threatening the development of the Digital Single Market and its main players: the cultural and creative industries;

2017/03/27
Committee: ITRE IMCO

2016/2276(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18 a. Highlights that liability exemptions can only apply to genuinely neutral and passive online providers, and not to services that play an active role in distributing, promoting and monetising content at the expense of creators;

2017/03/27
Committee: ITRE IMCO

2016/2276(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19 a. Considers that digital platforms are means of providing wider access to cultural and creative works and offer great opportunities for cultural and creative industries to develop new business models; highlights that consideration is to be made of how this process can function with more legal certainty and respect for right holders; underlines the importance of transparency and of ensuring a fair level playing field; considers in this regard that protection of right holders within the copyright and intellectual property framework is necessary in order to ensure recognition of values and stimulation of innovation, creativity, investment and production of content;

2017/03/27
Committee: ITRE IMCO

2016/2271(INI)

Mary HONEYBALL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Recalls that, with some 40 % of EU workers lacking adequate digital skills, and nothing that 6 out of the top 10 skills requirements are technical or digital skills, the Union faces a digital skills gap; takes note of the Commission’s recent Communications on ‘Digitising European industry’ and ‘A New Skills Agenda for Europe’ as a first step in the right direction with regard to improving digital skills;

2016/12/08
Committee: CULT

2016/2271(INI)

Mary HONEYBALL, Silvia COSTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Highlights the opportunity that education through digitisation presents to young Europeans not in education or employment and calls for measures that will, in turn, improve inclusion both socially and in the labour market;

2016/12/08
Committee: CULT

2016/2271(INI)

Mary HONEYBALL, Silvia COSTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Emphasises the need to address the steadily widening divide in access to the internet and digital skills, with targeted support for unemployed individuals, adults with a low literacy level and those groups who typically experience 'interrupted learning' and 'learning at a distance' educational barriers such as the 'Traveller' community;

2016/12/08
Committee: CULT

2016/2271(INI)

Silvia COSTA, Mary HONEYBALL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Stresses the importance to promote in particular the use of 3D technologies with the aim of data collection and reconstruction of destroyed cultural goods and heritage;

2016/12/08
Committee: CULT

2016/2271(INI)

Silvia COSTA, Mary HONEYBALL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Emphasises the importance of promoting and fostering the digital production of cultural, creative and educational high-quality contents, which contribute to strengthen the know-how and the competitiveness of European industry in these fields;

2016/12/08
Committee: CULT

2016/2271(INI)

Mary HONEYBALL, Silvia COSTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Believes that digitising industry offers particular opportunities for safeguarding cultural heritage, promoting it around the world easily and using those tools in educational systems;

2016/12/08
Committee: CULT

2016/2271(INI)

Mary HONEYBALL, Silvia COSTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Regrets that historical and cultural sites are often not easily accessible for those with a disability and highlights the opportunities that a stronger digital cultural platform presents in improving engagement and making cultural experiences, sites and artefacts throughout Europe more accessible regardless of geographical location;

2016/12/08
Committee: CULT

2016/2271(INI)

Silvia COSTA, Mary HONEYBALL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Encourages the research on and development of assistive technologies, which might be used and become new industrial products for the inclusion of disabled people;

2016/12/08
Committee: CULT

2016/2271(INI)

Silvia COSTA, Mary HONEYBALL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)

6c. Emphasises the need to develop the Digital Humanities as enabling technology, in their double function of content and network providers.

2016/12/08
Committee: CULT

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Citation 4 a (new)

- having regard to the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees,

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas women and girls in many parts of the world are continuing to be subjected to gender-based violence, including rape, enslavement, human trafficking, forced marriage, honour crimes, female genital mutilation (FGM), and cruel and inhuman punishments amounting to torture, a situation which violates their fundamental rights to life, liberty, justice, dignity, and security, as well as their rights of protection from physical and mental injury and of self- determination in sexual and reproductive matters;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas during armed conflicts female and child refugees, asylum seekers, and stateless persons are among the most vulnerable groups in society, and whereas the risks to teenage girls displaced in times of humanitarian crises are significantly heightened;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas some European countries have in recent years been taking a less tolerant attitude to migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers; whereas the EU has to lead by example and follow a consistent line in its internal and external policies; and whereas Member States must transpose European legislation to the national level;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Recital D b (new)

Db. whereas the EU gender equality strategy already provides for gender mainstreaming in EU commercial policy;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Recital D c (new)

Dc. whereas economic empowerment of women is a way to widen and enhance the actual exercise of their fundamental rights;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Maintains that violence against women and gender-based violence constitute a violation of fundamental rights and an extreme form of discrimination, which is at once the cause and the consequence of gender inequalities within and outside the EU;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Welcomes the proposal put forward by the Commission on 4 March 2016 for the EU to accede to the Istanbul Convention, the first legally binding international instrument seeking to prevent and combat violence against women; believes that this will lend greater effectiveness and coherence to EU internal and external policies and strengthen the EU’s responsibility and role in combating violence against women and gender-based violence at international level; urges the Commission to do its utmost to enable the EU to sign and conclude the Convention, while also encouraging the 14 Member States which have not yet done so to sign and ratify the Istanbul Convention and ensuring that the Convention is properly implemented;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls for a global commitment to ensure the safety of women and girls from the start of every emergency or crisis, by adequately addressing the risk of sexual and gender-based violence, raising awareness, ensuring the prosecution of the perpetrators of such violence and ensuring that women and girls have access to the full range of sexual and reproductive health services, including safe and legal abortion, particularly for victims of war rape;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Urges all the Member States to step up the implementation of the obligations and commitments related to women’s rights arising from the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, part of the Beijing Platform for Action, and to support civil society organisations working to promote gender equality;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Considers it intolerable that the bodies of women and girls, and in particular their sexual and reproductive health and rights, should be continuing to this day to be an ideological battleground, and urges the EU and its Member States to recognise the inalienable rights of women and girls to protection from physical injury and to take decisions freely, not least as regards the right of access to voluntary family planning and safe and legal abortion (under Article 16 of the CEDAW women have the right to choose the number and spacing of their children and to have access to the information, education, and means enabling them to exercise that right) and the right to be free from violence, including female genital mutilation, early and forced marriage, and marital rape;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Points to the need for continuity in the education of children, young people, and women in refugee camps and conflict zones;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Calls for support to be given with a view to implementing vocational education for women and enabling them to attend higher education courses in science and technology, for gender equality training programmes to be devised for education professionals, and for steps to be taken to prevent stereotypes from being conveyed through curricula and teaching materials;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3c. Points to the need to support the education of adults, especially women, and of children in hospital;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)

3d. Points to the vulnerability of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, especially those who are women, young people, or members of marginalised groups, and to the urgent need to develop proper safe legal channels for migration, while guaranteeing access to family reunification and psychological support and allowing humanitarian visits;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)

3e. Calls for access to justice to be improved for women in conflict and post- conflict situations and for efforts to be intensified with a view to combating impunity and increasing accountability, employing every means necessary to that end;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Maintains that the authorities must undertake to pursue education campaigns aimed at men and younger generations, with a view to involving men and boys as partners while preventing and gradually eliminating all types of gender- based violence and promoting women’s empowerment;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Points to the need to ensure that health professionals, police forces, prosecutors, judges, diplomats, and peacekeepers, both within the EU and in non-member countries, are properly trained to help and support victims of violence, especially women and children, in conflict situations and operations on the ground;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Points out that gender equality is not confined to men and women, but must encompass the whole LGBTI community;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)

4d. Points to the need to mainstream gender issues more strongly into EU humanitarian aid;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Stresses the importance of strengthening women’s role in conflict prevention and in promoting human rights and democratic reform, and of supporting the systematic participation of women as a vital element in peace processes and post-conflict reconstruction;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Believes that women should play a greater role in the processes and national and international institutions involved in the maintenance of peace and security;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5c. Calls for investment in women and young people, since this is an effective way to combat poverty and female poverty in particular;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)

5d. Points to the importance of continuing to combat the gender pay gap and of speeding up the process for reaching the Commission’s percentage targets for women in top-level positions;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 e (new)

5e. Points out that European companies which operate globally have a key role to play in promoting gender equality, since they can act as models;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 f (new)

5f. Rejects any laws, regulations, or government pressure imposing undue restrictions on freedom of expression, especially for women and other gender categories;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 g (new)

5g. Deplores the fact that women are underrepresented in economic, political, and social decision-making; considers women’s representation in political, economic, and social decision-making to be a fundamental rights and democracy issue; recommends that parity systems and gender quotas be introduced as lawful temporary means of promoting women’s participation in political bodies and the democratic process, especially as candidates, and that legislation be passed to enable the same goal to be achieved by large public and private companies;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 h (new)

5h. Urges the Member States, the Commission, and the EEAS to focus on the economic and political emancipation of women in developing countries by promoting their involvement in business and in the implementation of local and regional development projects;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 i (new)

5i. Urges that gender equality and human rights be included in national human rights strategies and political and trade dialogues with countries outside the EU;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 j (new)

5j. Encourages women to become actively involved in trade unions and other organisations, as this will do much to introduce gender aspects into working conditions;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 k (new)

5k. Calls for legally binding human rights clauses, with particular reference to the rights of women and other gender categories, to be included in all EU trade agreements with non-member countries; calls for conformity with EU core values to be made a criterion for budget support;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2219(INI)

Liliana RODRIGUES, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc TARABELLA, Julie WARD, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 l (new)

5l. Calls for the rights of older people, and older women in particular, to be strengthened by combating all forms of discrimination and helping them to live decent, secure lives as full members of society;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2016/2144(INI)

Mary HONEYBALL, Clare MOODY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 a (new)

34 a. Calls for a comprehensive set of EU-wide gender guidelines to be adopted to migration and asylum policy with adequate funding for comprehensive training programmes for professionals who may come into contact with refugees and asylum seekers; emphasises that these are sensitive to the gender specific needs of refugee women and concomitant gendered harms such as the trafficking of women and girls;

2016/12/12
Committee: FEMM

2016/2144(INI)

Mary HONEYBALL, Clare MOODY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 b (new)

34 b. Highlights the ongoing issues of overcrowding in refugee reception centres and the impact this has on women's safety; calls for greater use of AMIF to improve reception centres with separate sleeping and sanitation facilities for women and men, and access to gender- sensitive health services including prenatal and postnatal care;

2016/12/12
Committee: FEMM

2016/2144(INI)

Mary HONEYBALL, Clare MOODY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 c (new)

34 c. Member states should be encouraged to make greater use of cohesion funds and Structural Investment Funds alongside the AMIF in order to promote the integration of refugees in the labour market, with a specific focus on how accessible childcare enables women refugees;

2016/12/12
Committee: FEMM

2016/2144(INI)

Mary HONEYBALL, Clare MOODY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 d (new)

34 d. Calls for a review on the increased funding for and wider scope of the Daphne and Odysseus programmes with an assessment on expanding these programmes to address the severe vulnerabilities experienced by women refugees and provide greater support in addressing these gendered harms;

2016/12/12
Committee: FEMM

2016/2072(INI)

Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Theresa GRIFFIN, Julie WARD, Mary HONEYBALL

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas CCIs have ~~dual~~multiple values, as they preserve and promote cultural and linguistic diversity, ~~and~~ strengthen European and regional identity, ~~while sustaining~~build social cohesion, andct as a driver of sustainable economic growth, contribut~~ing~~e substantially to in~~vestment, growth, innovation~~ novation and create significandt employment opportunities in the EU economy;