8 Amendments of Jeroen LENAERS related to 2016/0176(COD)
Amendment 158 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) The aim should be to create a database of talented persons selected on account of recognition of their qualifications, their experience or the interest they have expressed in a particular sector. The database should be accessible to European businesses.
Amendment 308 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. This Directive shall apply to third- country nationals who apply to be admitted or who have been admitted to the territory of a Member State for the purpose of highly skilled employment. This Directive shall also apply to third-country nationals who already hold a residence permit in a Member State on the basis of Directive (EU) 2016/801, subject to the proviso that those third-country nationals must comply with the requirements laid down in this Directive.
Amendment 332 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 4
Article 3 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall not issue any other permit thangive preference for the issue of an EU Blue Card to third-country nationals for the purpose of highly skilled employment.
Amendment 334 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. When transposing this Directive the Member States shall, where appropriate in consultation with the social partners, list those sectors of employment which face shortages of highly skilled workers. The Member States may modify that list, where appropriate in consultation with the social partners. The Member States shall inform the Commission of such modifications.
Amendment 358 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 2
Article 5 – paragraph 2
2. In addition to the conditions laid down in paragraph 1, the gross annual salary resulting from the monthly or annual salary specified in the work contract or binding job offer shall not be inferior to the salary threshold set and published for that purpose by the Member States. The salary threshold set by the Member States shall be at least 1.0 times but not higher than 1.4 times the average gross annual salary in the Member State concerned.
Amendment 502 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
The simplified procedures shall include processing of applications as provided for in the second subparagraph of Article 10(1). Applicants shallmay be exempt from presenting the evidence referred to in points (c) and (e) of Article 5(1) and in Article 5(8).
Amendment 522 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 2
Article 14 – paragraph 2
2. During the period referred to in paragraph 1, the EU Blue Card holder shall be allowed to seek and take up employment in accordance with the conditions set out in Article 13. After this period has elapsed and in the event of continuing unemployment, the EU Blue Card shall be withdrawn.
Amendment 627 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 24 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 24 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Annually, and for the first time by …52 at the latest, Member States shall, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 862/200753, communicate to the Commission statistics on the numbers of third-country nationals who have been granted an EU Blue Card and on those whose application have been rejected, specifying those rejected in application of Article 6(2), as well as on the numbers of third-country nationals whose EU Blue Card has been renewed or withdrawn, during the previous calendar year. Those statistics shall be disaggregated by the citizenship, occupation, length of validity of the permits, sex and age of the applicants, area of activity and the economic sector. Those statistics for third- country nationals who have been granted an EU Blue Card shall be further disaggregated into beneficiaries of international protection, beneficiaries of the right to free movement and those who have acquired EU long-term resident status in accordance with Article 17. _________________ 52 Four years after the date of entry into force of this Directive. 53 Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 July 2007 on Community statistics on migration and international protection and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 311/76 on the compilation of statistics on foreign workers (OJ L 199, 31.7.2007, p. 23).