23 Amendments of Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ related to 2011/2293(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas ‘volunteering’ means activities, including formal, non-formal, informal and vocational training and learning, which are undertaken of a person's own free will, choice and motivation, and without concern for financial gain for a non-profit cause, which benefit the individual volunteer, communities and society as a whole;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas volunteering is an informal learning experience suitable for persons of all ages; whereas it offers benefits in terms of personal development, strengthening of democracy, civic values and European identity, intercultural learning and professional opportunities, as well as contributing to the aims of the European Union's (EU) policies on social inclusion, employment, education, development of skills and citizenship;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas volunteering is an important factor in creating social capital and development and in promoting socio- economic cohesion, and in view of the potential of voluntary labour as a valuable resource withinnon-formal learning opportunities to help volunteers gain skills that will make them more employable and thus contribute to the Europe 2020 growth strategy;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. in view of the growing number of young and older EU citizenEU citizens of all ages participating in volunteering, spread out over the areas of education, culture, youth policies, sport, the environment, sustainable development, health, immigration, corporate social responsibility and the EU's relations with third countries;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas there is a huge variety between the different cultures, traditions, legal systems and organisational methods for volunteering in the EU Member States; in view of the persistence of various obstacles, since volunteering is not recognised in national law or in international lawor adequately recognised in many national Member State legal systems;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the economic crisis and the fiscal consolidation is endangering the financial sustainability of many NGOs and volunteering providers that are working everyday on increasing active citizenship, solidarity, and social inclusion all over Europe;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on those Member States to assess the need for a clearwho do not have a clear or adequate legal framework for volunteers to put one in place and to draw up national strategies to promote the growth of volunteering activities, including the recognition of the rights of volunteers, and to ensure quality, protection and equal access for everyone, without discrimination;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on Member States to ensure that the rights and responsibilities of volunteers are recognised and respected and that volunteers themselves are aware of them; suggests Member States in this regard to use the European Charter on the Rights and Responsibilities of Volunteers developed by the stakeholders conference at the II Youth Convention on Volunteering in 2011 as a reference for policy making and national legislation in this field;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Reiterates the need to make volunteering accessible to immigrants and the Roma people too,minorities as an essential element in encouraging their integration and social inclusion;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Encourages the Member States to support cooperation between organisers of voluntary activities in EU countries to promote the mobility of young volunteers of all ages across Europe, with the aim of fostering mutual intercultural enrichment;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Asks the Council and the Commission to continue and progress in the negotiations towards easier visa regimes for non EU citizens wishing to enter the EU for purpose of volunteering;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights the need to ensure that high- quality volunteering is developed, both nationally and at cross-border level, through comprehensive information and appropriate training for volunteer, appropriate training, and the development of hosting capacities for providers and organisations at local and national level, and a recognition of the rights of volunteers to reconcile their voluntary work with their personal lives;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Asks the Commission and the national, regional and local authorities and the various civil society organisations to improvesupport volunteering infrastructure including access to information networksand funding in order to make everyone aware of volunteering opportunities;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Encourages the Member States to adopt the volunteering measurement method developed by the John Hopkins University and approved by the International Labour Ouse of the International Labour Organisation's (ILO) Manual on the Measurement of Volunteer Work and the United Nations Handbook on Non-Profit organisations with a view to making available comparable statistics and providing a clear picture of the significant contribution made by voluntary workeering;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Asks the European Commission to initiate the gathering of comparable data on volunteering at EU level and its impact in the European society; highlights the importance to continue the collection of best practices carried at local and national levels, together with researches on the needs of volunteers and providers throughout the European Union;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses the importance of providing information to and also permitting, adequate funding and support for senior citizens wishing to volunteer in another EU country, as already supported by the Grundtvig programme, encouraging active ageing as a rich source of wisdom and experience for society;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Urges the Member States to develop mechanisms for validating non-formal and formal learning outcomes, for example through the non-formal education quality assurance programme, which will improve the value and transferability of the skills acquired outside formal education;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on Member States to support employee volunteering and employer supported volunteering also in the framework of the corporate social responsibility;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Asks the national, regional and local authorities and the EU to giveensure proper financial and other support to the organisations involved in volunteering work, including all the associations and networks, with a view to enhancing their roles, activities and achievements for the benefit of society;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the European Commission to allow volunteer time contribution to be included as a contribution in-kind with a financial value as co-funding in all European funded programmes and calls on the Member States to do the same;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Recommends that the Commission and the Member States maintain a synergy between 2011 and future years, by strongly integrating the volunteering dimension, which is an expression of active citizenship that promotes social integration, including that of older citizens, within both the European Year for Active Ageing (2012) and the proposed European Year of Citizens (2013);
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Recommends that the Commission maintain the useful contact points set up both with ‘EYV 2011 Alliance’ and the successor Volunteer Platform, which includes many civil society volunteering and networking organisations, and with the national coordinating bodies, strategic partners and spokesmen of the national governments in this sector, given the large variety of bodies responsible for volunteering in the EU;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Asks the European Commission to act, where they feel appropriate, on the Policy Agenda on Volunteering in Europe (PAVE) which was drawn up by the volunteering organisations involved in the EYV 2011 Alliance;