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4 Amendments of Carl HAGLUND related to 2011/2199(BUD)

Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas the European Union has set up the appropriate legislative and budgetary instruments to provide additional support to workers who are suffering from the consequences of major structural changes in world trade patterns and to assist their reintegration into the labour market,
2011/10/21
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Requests the institutions involved to make the necessary efforts to improve procedural and budgetary arrangements in order to accelerate the mobilisation of the EGF; appreciates in this sense the improved procedure put in place by the Commission, following the Parliament's request for accelerating the release of grants, aimed at presenting to the budgetary authority the Commission's assessment on the eligibility of an EGF application together with the proposal to mobilise the Fund; hopes that further improvements in the procedure will be reached in the framework of the upcoming reviews of the EGF and that greater efficiency, and transparency and visibility of the Fund will be achievedif the EGF is to have any future;
2011/10/21
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that, in accordance with Article 6 of the EGF Regulation, it should be ensured that the EGF supports the reintegration of individual redundant workers into employment; further stresses that the EGF assistance can co-finance only active labour market measures which lead to long-term employment; reiterates that assistance from the EGF must not replace actions which are the responsibility of companies by virtue of national law or collective agreements, nor measures restructuring companies or sectors; deplores that the EGF might provide an incentive for companies to replace their contractual workforce with a more flexible and short-term one;
2011/10/21
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. WelcomNotes the fact that following repeated requests from the Parliament, for the first time the 2011 budget shows payment appropriations of EUR 47 608 950 on the EGF budget line 04 05 01; reminds that the EGF was created as a separate specific instrument with its own objectives and deadlines and that therefore deserves a dedicated allocation, which will avoid transfers from other budget lines, as happened in the past, which could be detrimental to the achievement of the various policies objectives;
2011/10/21
Committee: BUDG