6 Amendments of Olle LUDVIGSSON related to 2010/2088(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
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1. The European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs notWelcomes the Commission's important initiative to launch a fruitful and seriousserious, comprehensive and forward-looking dialogue on improving and complementing gross domestic product (GDP) as an indicator for assessing economic activity andperformance and social progress.;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
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2. The committee believes that GDP suffers from many shortcomingsBelieves that although GDP is a solid measure of macro-economic activity, it suffers from many shortcomings as an indicator for overall societal development - for example, it does not record important social factors like unemployment, underemployment, or inequalities or environmental disaste, nor a wide range of vital environmental sustainability indicators - particularly bearing in mind that the development model followed as a dogma by our economies, aimed first and foremost at maximum profit tends to be too much focused on maximum profit as a sole objective. The use and management of the statistical indicators for an economy reflect the type of economic development followed by each society. In the dominant development model applied until now, the quality of life, well-being of citizens and environmental changes far too often play a secondary role.;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Underlines that the use of social and environmental indicators as a supplement to the GDP measure is fully in line with the aim of generating inclusive and sustainable growth, embedded in the Europe 2020 strategy and other major initiatives;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
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3. In principle it is a positiveConsiders it a positive and important step that the Commission is putting forward five actions to better measure progress in a changing world, i.e. 1. Complementing GDP with environmental and social indicators, 2. Near real-time information for decision- making, 3. More accurate reporting on distribution and inequalities, 4. Developing a European sustainable development scoreboard, and 5. Extending national accounts to environmental and social issues.;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
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4. The committee nevertheless believes that challenging GDP's monopolyBelieves that improving and complementing GDP as a key statistical indicator guiding economic policiethe policy-making process requires radical changes to the system for planning and, implementing and evaluating economic and social policies, in addition to the above actions, so as to take account of both environmental and social parameters.;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Supports fully the establishment of a solid legal framework for the European Environmental Economic Accounts as a positive step in the ‘GDP and beyond’ process. It is of great importance that the European environmental economic accounts, as soon as the system is fully operational, are actively and accurately used in all relevant EU policy making as key input to impact assessments, action plans, legislative proposals and other significant products of the policy process. It is also very important that the system is closely coordinated and evaluated in order for it to pave the way for further developments in this field;