Activities of Marije CORNELISSEN
Plenary speeches (86)
Posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services (debate)
Launching consultations to suspend Uganda and Nigeria from the Cotonou Agreement in view of recent legislation further criminalising homosexuality
Role and operations of the Troika with regard to the euro area programme countries - Employment and social aspects of the role and operations of the Troika (debate)
Freedom of movement for workers (debate)
Equality between women and men in 2012 (debate)
2013 progress report on Bosnia and Herzegovina - 2013 progress report on the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia - 2013 progress report on Montenegro (debate)
Non-discrimination in the framework of sexual and reproductive health and rights (debate)
Recent moves to criminalise LGBTI people
Respect for the fundamental right of free movement in the EU (debate)
2013 progress report on Serbia - European integration process of Kosovo (debate)
Common rules and procedures for the implementation of the Union's instruments for external action - Instrument for stability - Financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights worldwide - Partnership instrument for cooperation with third countries - Establishing a financing instrument for development cooperation - European neighbourhood instrument - Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (debate)
2013 progress report on Albania (debate)
European Globalisation Adjustment Fund 2014-2020 (debate)
Strengthening the social dimension of EMU (debate)
Gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges (debate)
Gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges (debate)
European Semester for economic policy coordination (debate)
EU citizens' mobility and Member States' welfare systems (debate)
Rule of law and human rights in Russia, especially with respect to xeno- and homophobia (debate)
Rule of law in Russia
Fund for European aid to the most deprived (debate)
Social housing in the European Union (short presentation)
Social pillar of the economic and monetary union (debate)
2012 progress report on Bosnia and Herzegovina (debate)
2012 progress report on Bosnia and Herzegovina (debate)
2012 progress report on Bosnia and Herzegovina (debate)
2012 progress report on the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (debate)
2012 progress report on the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (debate)
Women's rights in the Balkan accession countries (short presentation)
2012 comprehensive monitoring report on Croatia (debate)
2012 comprehensive monitoring report on Croatia (debate)
2012 progress report on Serbia (debate)
Amendment of the EC-Ukraine Agreement on the facilitation of the issuance of visas (debate)
Amendment of the EC-Ukraine Agreement on the facilitation of the issuance of visas (debate)
Equal treatment between men and women in the access to and supply of goods and services (debate)
Impact of the economic crisis on gender equality and women's rights - Eliminating gender stereotypes in the EU - Situation of women in North Africa (debate)
European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social aspects in the annual growth survey 2013 (A7-0024/2013 - Veronica Lope Fontagné) (vote)
European Semester for economic policy coordination: annual growth survey 2013 - European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social aspects in the annual growth survey 2013 - Governance of the single market (debate)
Information and consultation of workers, anticipation and management of restructuring (debate)
2012 progress report on Albania (debate)
European Semester for economic policy coordination: implementation of 2012 priorities (debate)
European Semester (debate)
Towards a job-rich recovery (debate)
Equal pay for male and female workers for equal work or work of equal value (debate)
Swiss quotas on the number of residence permits granted to nationals of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary (debate)
Fight against homophobia in Europe (debate)
Means to combat the economic crisis, particularly in the eurozone (debate)
Food distribution to the most deprived persons in the Union (debate)
Enlargement report for Serbia (debate)
Enlargement report for the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (debate)
Enlargement report for the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (debate)
Enlargement report for Bosnia and Herzegovina (debate)
European Globalisation Adjustment Fund crisis derogation (debate)
Discriminatory Internet sites and government reactions (debate)
Discriminatory Internet sites and government reactions (debate)
Employment and social aspects in the Annual Growth Survey 2012 - Contribution to the Annual Growth Survey 2012 - Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (debate)
Employment and social aspects in the Annual Growth Survey 2012 - Contribution to the Annual Growth Survey 2012 - Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (continuation of debate)
Food distribution to the most deprived persons in the Union (debate)
Recent Council decisions and Commission revision of the EGF regulation - Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (application EGF/2009/019 FR/Renault from France) (debate)
Freedom of movement for workers within the European Union (debate)
European semester for economic policy coordination (debate)
Explanations of vote
Scheme for food distribution to the most deprived persons in the Union (debate)
Women and business leadership (debate)
2010 progress report on the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
EU policy framework to fight violence against women (debate)
Respect of national wage and retirement-setting mechanisms (debate)
Female poverty - Equality between women and men - 2010 (debate)
2010 progress report on Croatia (debate)
Situation in Albania (debate)
EC-Serbia Stabilisation and Association Agreement - Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the EC and Serbia (continuation of debate)
Violation of freedom of expression and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in Lithuania (debate)
EU-Georgia agreement on facilitation of issuance of visas - EU-Georgia agreement on readmission of persons residing without authorisation - Visa liberalisation scheme in Serbia and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia - Implementation of the EU-Russia visa facilitation agreement (debate)
Improvements in the safety and health at work of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding - Precarious women workers (debate)
Improvements in the safety and health at work of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding - Precarious women workers (debate)
Third countries whose nationals must be in possession of visas when crossing the external borders of Member States (debate)
Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (debate)
Discrimination of same-sex married or in civil-partnership couples (debate)
Gender aspects of the economic downturn and financial crisis - Assessment of the results of the 2006-2010 Roadmap for Equality between women and men and forward looking recommendations - Charter for Women’s Rights - follow up (debate)
International Women’s Day
2009 progress report on Croatia - 2009 progress report on the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia - 2009 progress report on Turkey (debate)
Equality between women and men in the European Union — 2009 (debate)
Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: Sweden-Volvo; Austria-Steiermark; Netherlands-Heijmans (debate)
Explanations of vote
Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: Belgium - textile industry; Ireland - Dell - Relocation of undertakings in the EU and the role of EU financial instruments (debate)
New regulations on visas for Western Balkan countries (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia) (debate)
Reports (2)
REPORT on women’s rights in the Balkan accession countries PDF (238 KB) DOC (149 KB)
REPORT on employment and social aspects in the Annual Growth Survey 2012 PDF (205 KB) DOC (115 KB)
Shadow reports (23)
RECOMMENDATION on the draft Council decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the European Union and its Member States, of the Protocol to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Albania, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union PDF (127 KB) DOC (51 KB)
REPORT on Employment and social aspects of the role and operations of the Troika (ECB, Commission and IMF) with regard to euro area programme countries PDF (256 KB) DOC (147 KB)
REPORT on the European Semester for economic policy coordination: Employment and Social Aspects in the Annual Growth Survey 2014 PDF (268 KB) DOC (129 KB)
REPORT on equality between women and men in the European Union – 2012 PDF (273 KB) DOC (152 KB)
REPORT on the proposal for a Council decision on guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States PDF (130 KB) DOC (51 KB)
REPORT on social protection for all, including self-employed workers PDF (266 KB) DOC (132 KB)
REPORT on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on measures facilitating the exercise of rights conferred on workers in the context of freedom of movement for workers PDF (358 KB) DOC (515 KB)
REPORT on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on improving the gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges and related measures PDF (870 KB) DOC (907 KB)
REPORT on women with disabilities PDF (272 KB) DOC (148 KB)
REPORT on cross-border collective bargaining and transnational social dialogue PDF (198 KB) DOC (105 KB)
REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived PDF (1 MB) DOC (1 MB)
REPORT on educational and occupational mobility of women in the EU PDF (226 KB) DOC (141 KB)
REPORT on transposition and application of Council Directive 2004/113/EC implementing the principle of equal treatment between men and women in the access to and supply of goods and services PDF (186 KB) DOC (89 KB)
REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (2014 - 2020) PDF (846 KB) DOC (1 MB)
REPORT on eliminating gender stereotypes in the EU PDF (208 KB) DOC (126 KB)
REPORT with recommendations to the Commission on information and consultation of workers, anticipation and management of restructuring PDF (224 KB) DOC (158 KB)
REPORT on a 2020 Perspective for Women in Turkey PDF (221 KB) DOC (132 KB)
REPORT on equality between women and men in the European Union - 2011 PDF (208 KB) DOC (119 KB)
REPORT on promoting workers’ mobility within the European Union PDF (276 KB) DOC (192 KB)
REPORT on women and business leadership PDF (181 KB) DOC (107 KB)
REPORT on women entrepreneurship in small and medium-sized enterprises PDF (194 KB) DOC (115 KB)
REPORT Report on the role of women in an ageing society PDF (170 KB) DOC (105 KB)
REPORT Report on the proposal for a Council decision on guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States: Part II of the Europe 2020 Integrated Guidelines PDF (493 KB) DOC (603 KB)
Opinions (8)
OPINION on Social protection for all, including self-employed workers
OPINION on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on measures facilitating the exercise of rights conferred on workers in the context of freedom of movement for workers
OPINION on European Semester for economic policy coordination: implementation of 2013 priorities
OPINION on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on improving the gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges and related measures
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Fund for a European Aid to the Most Deprived
OPINION on the European Semester for economic policy coordination: implementation of 2012 priorities
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA II)
OPINION on the European Semester for economic policy coordination
Shadow opinions (49)
OPINION on negotiations on the MFF 2014-2020: lessons to be learned and the way forward
OPINION on the action plan for a competitive and sustainable steel industry in Europe
OPINION on return management: cooperation with third countries, effective implementation of agreements and the practical implementation of the Return Directive
OPINION on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council directives 78/660/EEC and 83/349/EEC as regards disclosure of non-financial and diversity information by certain large companies and groups
OPINION on constitutional problems of a multitier governance in the European Union
OPINION on CARS 2020: towards a strong, competitive and sustainable European car industry
OPINION on the Annual Report on EU Competition Policy
OPINION on women with disabilities
OPINION on European Semester for economic policy coordination: implementation of 2013 priorities
OPINION on the Cross-border collective bargaining and transnational social dialogue
OPINION on ‘Tackling youth unemployment: possible ways out’
OPINION on the situation of unaccompanied minors in the EU
OPINION on the impact of the crisis on access to care for vulnerable groups
OPINION on Educational and occupational mobility of women in the EU
OPINION on social housing in the European Union
OPINION on the Millennium Development Goals – defining the post-2015 framework
OPINION on the annual report on competition policy
OPINION on an agenda for adequate, safe and sustainable pensions
OPINION on the impact of the economic crisis on gender equality and women’s rights
OPINION on the integration of migrants, its effects on the labour market and the external dimension of social security coordination
OPINION on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the award of Concession Contracts
REVISED DRAFT OPINION on towards a genuine Economic and Monetary Union
OPINION on the European Semester for economic policy coordination: implementation of 2012 priorities
OPINION on women’s working conditions in the service sector
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Social Fund and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1081/2006
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (2014-2020)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a European Neighbourhood Instrument
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on a European Union Programme for Social Change and Innovation
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending the Staff Regulations of Officials and Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Union
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on common provisions for monitoring and assessing draft budgetary plans and ensuring the correction of excessive deficit of the Member States in the euro area
OPINION on the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the strengthening of economic and budgetary surveillance of Member States experiencing or threatened with serious difficulties with respect to their financial stability in the euro area
OPINION on the European Parliament's recommendations to the Commission on application of the principle of equal pay for male and female workers for equal work or work of equal value
OPINION on a corporate governance framework for European companies
OPINION Opinion on the Statute for a European cooperative society with regard to the involvement of employees
OPINION on the European Semester for economic policy coordination
OPINION on promoting workers mobility within the European Union
OPINION with recommendations to the Commission on insolvency proceedings in the context of EU company law
OPINION on the mandate for the trialogue on the 2012 draft budget
OPINION on the EC 5th Cohesion Report and the Strategy for the post-2013 Cohesion Policy
OPINION on the future for social services of general interest
OPINION EU strategy on Roma inclusion
OPINION on equality between women and men in the European Union
OPINION Final opinion on the Green Paper "Towards adequate, sustainable and safe European pension systems
OPINION Opinion on the proposal for a Council Regulation implementing enhanced cooperation in the area of the law applicable to divorce and legal separation
OPINION on the face of female poverty in the European Union
OPINION Opinion on the demographic challenge and solidarity between generations
OPINION Precarious women workers
OPINION Opinion on developing the job potential of a new sustainable economy
OPINION Funding and functioning of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
Written declarations (1)
Amendments (1444)
Amendment 1 #
2013/2277(INI)
Draft opinion
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
1a. having regard to its resolution of 11 June 2013 on “Social housing in the European Union” (2012/2293(INI)),
Amendment 2 #
2013/2277(INI)
Draft opinion
Citation 1 b (new)
Citation 1 b (new)
1b. having regard to its resolution of 4 July 2013 entitled “Impact of the crisis on access to care for vulnerable groups” (2013/2044(INI)),
Amendment 28 #
2013/2277(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas the policies conditional to financial assistance not only largely failed to achieve the Commission's primary aim of achieving fiscal sustainability, financial stability and restoring competitiveness, but also caused significant harm to pre-crisis progress made in policy areas such as environmental protection and health care.
Amendment 49 #
2013/2277(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Deplores that a fair distributional impact of the measures was not among the key objectives of the adjustment programmes;
Amendment 125 #
2013/2277(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Is concerned that, among the conditions for financial assistance, the programmes include recommendations for specific cuts in fundamental areas of the fight against poverty, such as pensions, basic services, health care and pharmaceutical products for the basic protection of the most vulnerable; highlights the fact that the main impact of these measures is on the fight against poverty and child poverty;
Amendment 132 #
2013/2277(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Commission to draw lessons from the fact that labour market reforms in the programme countries have not succeeded in combatting labour market duality but instead led to a larger gap between insiders and outsiders
Amendment 151 #
2013/2277(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Regrets the fact that, for Greece, Ireland and Portugal at least, the programmes included a number of detailed prescriptions on health system reform and expenditure cuts, despite the fact that Article 168(7) TFEU prohibits such intervenwhich has led to an alarming number of people without health insurance coverage or access to social protection;
Amendment 158 #
2013/2277(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Regrets that the Troika put a heavy pressure on national authorities in order to end the moratorium on evictions for inhabitants victims, while those people were severely hit by the crisis and by austerity measures, therefore unable to bear the costs of their mortgage credit; recommends to Member states and their local authorities to set up neutral housing policies favouring social and affordable housing, to tackle the issue of housing vacancy and to implement effective prevention policies to reduce the number of evictions.
Amendment 201 #
2013/2277(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission to ask the ILO and the Council of Europe to draft reports on possible corrective measures and incentives to ensure full compliance with the European Social Charter and the Protocol thereto and with the ILO Core Conventions, since the obligations deriving from them have been affected by the budgetary adjustment measures and the structural reforms requested by the Troika including with regard to ILO Conventions 87 on Freedom of association, Convention 94 on Inclusion of labour clauses in public contracts or Convention 98 on Right to organise;
Amendment 212 #
2013/2277(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the EU to provide support, after the assessment, including through sufficient financial resources where appropriate,above and beyond the multiannual financial framework for the recovery of social protection standards and of the fight against poverty reduction and the renewal of social dialogue through a social recovery plan; calls on the Commission, the ECB and the Eurogroup to phase out the exceptionalreview and where necessary revise measures that have been put in place;
Amendment 214 #
2013/2277(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls for compliance with the above- mentioned legal obligations laid down in the Treaties and in the Charter of Fundamental Rights, as failure to comply constitutes an infringement of EU primary law; calls on the fundamental rights agency to thoroughly assess the impact of the measures on human rights and issue recommendations in case of breaches of the Charter;
Amendment 224 #
2013/2277(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on the Commission and the Council to give the same attention to social imbalances, and to correcting them, as it does to macroeconomic imbalances, and to that end to put EPSCO and its priorities on an equal footing withand ensure full coherence with those of the ECOFIN and the Eurogroup;
Amendment 231 #
2013/2277(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Considers that only genuinely democratically accountable institutions should steer the political process of designing and implementing the adjustment programmes for countries in severe financial difficulties; Commission, should have the political steering role : calls for the ECB, IMF role to be limited to technical assistance furthermore calls for the ILO to be involved in an advisory capacity; calls for an increased transparency and political and societal ownership in the design and implementation of the adjustment programmes;
Amendment 234 #
2013/2277(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 24 b (new)
Paragraph 24 b (new)
24b. Calls on the Commission and the Council to give the same attention to social imbalances, and to correcting them, as it does to macroeconomic imbalances, and to that end to put EPSCO and its priorities on an equal footing and ensure full coherence with those of the ECOFIN and the Eurogroup;
Amendment 235 #
2013/2277(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 24 c (new)
Paragraph 24 c (new)
24c. Calls on the Commission to present a progress report on the EU2020 with specific attention to the lack of progress in programme countries and come forward with proposals to put these countries on a credible path towards all EU 2020 targets;
Amendment 238 #
2013/2277(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 24 d (new)
Paragraph 24 d (new)
24d. Calls on the Commission to carry out social impact assessments prior to imposing major reforms in the programme countries and to consider the spill-over effects of these measures such as the effect on poverty, social exclusion, crime rates and xenophobia;
Amendment 240 #
2013/2277(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 24 e (new)
Paragraph 24 e (new)
24e. Considers that the burden of adjustment should not only come from programme countries which are member states with current account deficits, but that member states with a current account surpluses should also contribute to a rebalancing of the eurozone economy; calls on the Commission to issue recommendations on macroeconomic policies to non-programme countries with this aim;
Amendment 244 #
2013/2277(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 24 f (new)
Paragraph 24 f (new)
24f. Notes that according to Article 19 of Regulation (EU) No 472/2013 the Commission shall issue a report to the Parliament before 1 January 2014 on the application of this regulation; calls on the Commission to present this report without delay and to include the implications of this regulation for the economic adjustment programmes in place;
Amendment 7 #
2013/2264(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Welcomes the fact that the redundancies and the preparation of the coordinated package of specialised services are addressed by a dedicated working group comprising the social partners (including Nokia representatives) and regional authorities;
Amendment 1 #
2013/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A (new)
Recital A (new)
A. whereas, following case law, discrimination against transgender persons is defined under gender equality legislation but as regards social movement and civil society organisations they fall within the scope of the LGBTI movement instead of the gender equality movement;
Amendment 2 #
2013/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital B (new)
Recital B (new)
B. whereas transgender persons face severe discrimination based on gender in and outside the labour market, while in many Member States organisations involved in gender equality or dedicated to combating gender discrimination or handling individual complaints of gender discrimination are not accessible or do not possess adequate information and skills to further their interests or handle their complaints and those involved in the judicial chain are not properly equipped and informed to handle cases of gender discrimination against transgender persons;
Amendment 3 #
2013/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Is concerned that the rights and interests of transgender persons are not properly addressed by civil society organisations nor equality bodies addressing gender equality; calls on Member States to specifically dedicate tasks regarding combating discrimination against transgender persons to publically funded civil society organisations and equality bodies and to ensure that those involved in the judicial chain are adequately equipped and informed to handle complaints of gender discrimination against transgender persons;
Amendment 4 #
2013/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Calls on the Commission and the committees in the European Parliament to mainstream issues concerning transgender persons in their work, such as in the fields of civil rights, health care, education and employment;
Amendment 6 #
2013/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Highlights the invisibility of intersex people in European and national legislation and the lack of knowledge and research in this area; calls, in this context and in particular with respect to gender identity, for efforts in making equality legislation work to be stepped up;
Amendment 8 #
2013/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Member States to ensure that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBTI) people are protected from homophobic hate speech and violence, and that same-sex partners enjoy the same respect, dignity and protection as the rest of society; stresses the need to organise awareness-raising campaigns at national and European level regarding the rights of LGBTI people;
Amendment 11 #
2013/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights the need to promote policies and practices aimed at combating discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, and to promote policies to foster diversity in the workplace, together with initiatives which encourage the full inclusion and respect of LGBTI staff in the work environment;
Amendment 15 #
2013/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the need to emphasise in the education and training of social and health care professionals the importance of respecting the dignity of LGBTI people, as well as their specific health care needs and choices;
Amendment 18 #
2013/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on EU Member States to take appropriate measures to ensure that transgender persons in particular have effective access to appropriate gender reassignment services, including psychological, endocrinological and surgical expertise in the field of transgender healthcare, without being subject to unreasonable requirements;
Amendment 21 #
2013/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to take action to promote respect for and inclusion of LGBTI people at school and to foster objective knowledge on issues concerning sexual orientation and gender identity in schools and other educational settings;
Amendment 25 #
2013/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Emphasises the need to recognise the parental rights of same-sex parents, individually or jointly, including their rights of guardianship and custody without discrimination on grounds of their sexual orientation or gender identity; urges the Member States, in accordance with EU rules, to recognise all forms of marriage, partnership and parenthood contracted elsewhere by those resident or working within their borders and calls on the Commission to take action against Member States that fail to comply; stresses that the parental rights of transgender persons should continue to be respected after legal recognition of their preferred gender;
Amendment 30 #
2013/2183(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Highlights the significant lack of data and research on the problems facing LGBTI people, the scale of problems and the way in which those problems are being addressed; points out that such information is crucial to develop appropriate policy and prioritising action, calls on the EU and the Member States to address this problems and to act accordingly;
Amendment 11 #
2013/2177(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A (e) (new)
Recital A (e) (new)
Ae. whereas the future competitiveness and employment potential of Europe's steel industry is dependent on its capacity to shift towards more efficiency and recycling;
Amendment 22 #
2013/2177(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Is concerned at the lack of ambition in the action plan for the steel industry in Europe; calls for a strategy that is fully coherent with the Union's shift towards a resource-efficient, circular and climate- friendly economy that draws on all the European Union policy tools, including for employment and training;
Amendment 33 #
2013/2177(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for State aid rules to be revised to promote productivsustainable investment, employment and training, to encourage the involvement of employees' representatives in management and decision-making and to introduce the option of public takeovers in crisis situationsreward investment decisions geared towards sustainable quality employment;
Amendment 41 #
2013/2177(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Endorses the principle that ongoing social dialogue with workers' representatives should be a requirement; calls for ambitiousstresses that the existing EU-level arrangements for keeping workers informed and consulting them, and for works councils to be given more rights and responsibilities must be better implemented;
Amendment 50 #
2013/2177(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 (f) (new)
Paragraph 3 (f) (new)
3f. Commends the metalworking sector for engaging in cross border coordination of collective bargaining and calls on Social Partners in the steel sector to make optimal use of transnational dialogue in order to counter downward pressures on wages and working conditions;
Amendment 57 #
2013/2177(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. SCalls on the Commission and Member States to assess future employment developments in the steel sector for the EU as a whole and for individual Member States and to encourage Member States and Social Partners to draw up adequate plans for training, retraining, mobility and outplacement of workers within the sector and workers who might face redundancy; stresses the importance of EU and Member States' support for training and employment in industrial transition processes; calls for such support to be kept in place and for its use to be monitored;
Amendment 12 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
Amendment 15 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas labour market rigidities have been identified in some countries as having a negative impact on job creationan inclusive labour market where there is a divide between insiders and outsiders in terms of security;
Amendment 34 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that global trends have created competitive pressures as well as opportunities for businesses; stresses the need for Member States to create the right regulatory framework to help businesses create jobsfoster the creation of sustainable decent work;
Amendment 41 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that in order to create a hospitable environment for job creation, Member States must, with support from the EU institutions, address the following factors: skills, entrepreneurship, demographicsustainable public investment, fair competition for social and environmentally responsible enterprises, skills, entrepreneurship, the impact of demographic change, rights at work, taxation shift from labour to environmental taxation, property and consumption, market access, long term finance and the labour market;
Amendment 44 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Highlights the job potential of the green economy which according to Commission estimates could create 5 million jobs by 2020 in the energy efficiency and renewable energy sectors alone, provided that ambitious climate and energy policies are put in place; calls on the Member States to ensure sufficient levels of investment in these sectors and to anticipate future skills of workers and to guarantee job quality of ‘Green jobs’;
Amendment 48 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Believesconsiders that the EU is faced with serious skills shortages and mismatches which are hindering economic growthin certain regions and sectors, which are hindering the achievement of the objectives of the EU 2020 strategy;
Amendment 52 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes the trend towards more skill- intensive jobs, with almost 90 % of jobs expected to be created or become vacant by 2020 requiring medium or high qualifications; underlines the importance of investment in education, lifelong learning and labour mobility to fill these jobs with qualified workers;
Amendment 55 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Is concernedstresses that Europe’s education and training systems are not adapted to businesses’ skills needshould converge with future businesses’ skills needs, but separately from that have the primary aim to equip the individual with competencies and skills; notes with concern that in 2015 the estimated shortage of qualified ICT personnel in the EU will rise to between 384 000 and 700 000 and that the supply of science, technology, engineering and mathematics skills will not match the increasing demands of businesses in the coming years; notes with concern skill shortages and lack of qualified labour needed for working with emerging low- carbon technologies, calls for support for workers with low and obsolete skills because of transforming economies so as to prevent the risk of structural unemployment and inactivity;
Amendment 68 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Is concerned that the number of EU citizens who want to be self-employed has dropped from 45 % to 37 % in the last 3 years almost one half being afraid of going bankrupt and more than 50 % saying it is difficult to obtain sufficient information on how to start a business; expresses concern about increases in self-employment as a result of deteriorating job prospects; calls for adequate social security arrangements for self-employed;
Amendment 82 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Believes that university programmeEU funding can play an essential role in targeted employment creation and stresses the success of EU- funded projects such as the Birmingham Skills for Enterprise and Employability Network (BSEEN) in the UK, financed by the ERDF, which nurture enterprise and entrepreneurial skills by providing mentoring, intensive start-up support and incubator space for new ventures, are key to future job creation;
Amendment 89 #
Amendment 93 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Believes Member States should be encouraged to promote the retention of older workers on the labour market by encouraging the extension of working lives, developing flexible labour markets and valuing experience; amongst others by developing individualised paths that enable flexible exit from work into retirement, by valuing experience and by adapting working conditions to the needs of older workers;
Amendment 126 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Welcomes initiatives to make it easier for citizens, organisations, and businesses to access EU support via a single portal offering information on the Structural Funds, including the ESF; believes that more must be done to disseminate information to existing and potential entrepreneurs through ‘one-stop- shops’;
Amendment 139 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Strongly bBelieves that businesses can only create decent jobs if the right conditions exist, including access to a qualified workforce, availability of flexiblefor a level playing field exist, including decent labour conditions and pay, access to training for workers, access to social security for workers regardless of their contractual arrangements, and keeping administrative burdens to a minimum; stresses the positive employment effects of shifting tax burden from labour to environmentally harmful activities;
Amendment 150 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Believes Member States must be more responsive to labour market needsinvest more in human capital to boost the economy, notably by fostering work-based learning and apprenticeships, guaranteeing access to lifelong learning and providing social security for all workers regardless of contractual arrangements and self- employed;
Amendment 169 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Notes that the main barriers facing start-ups and affecting the development of high-growth SMEs are access to and cost of finance, burdensome regulation, indirect labour costs, access to export markets, average payment times and skills shortages as well as in some Member States complicated administrative burdens; highlights the importance of completing the banking union in this respect;
Amendment 175 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Welcomes the introduction of the ‘SME test’; believes that mitigating measures must be introduced, e.g. longer implementation time, fewerefficient and effective inspections or lighter paperwork, but without creating a two-tier labour market;
Amendment 181 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Believes that Member States must be encouraged to share best practice on innovative ways to reduce bureaucracy and red tape, particularly for SMEs and micro- enterprises without however lowering health and safety standards at the workplace;
Amendment 194 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Stresses the need for efficient regulation that can be implemented in a simple manner and can help all actors including entrepreneurs operate within the rule of law and benefit from the opportunities and protection afforded by employment and health and safety legislation;
Amendment 195 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. WelcomesIs concerned about the Commission’s review of the ‘Top 10’ most burdensome laws for SMEs; believes there is a need to ensure that the EU takes account of the specific needs of businesses, in particular SMEs and micro-enterprises, in the policy processstresses that while the aim of reducing barriers for business start-ups is a valid one, core European environmental and social standards must never be compromised in the process of simplifying legislation for SMEs as this would destroy the European level playing field;
Amendment 202 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Welcomes the new health and safety strategy; hopes it will focus on simplification, preventionprevention, usability and better implementation of existingall legislation instead of additional regulation; stresses that the Health and Safety framework directive addresses all possible risks and that there are advantages such as legal certainty to specifying health and safety provisions for specific health and safety risks;
Amendment 207 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
Amendment 213 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
Amendment 221 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Calls on the Commission and the, Member States and the EIB to act with speed and ambition to increase access to finance for SMEs, and to reduce the regulatory burden on SMEs, while ensuring that any proposed solutions are evidence- based and without compromising core European environmental and social standards and fully respecting Article 9 TFEU;
Amendment 224 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to fully exploit the job potential of the green economy by developing a Renaissance of Industry for a Sustainable Europe (RISE) strategy that pursues technological, business and social innovation towards a third industrial revolution including a low-carbon modernisation offensive; argues that RISE will create new markets, business models and creative entrepreneurs, new jobs and decent work, bringing an industrial renewal with economic dynamism, confidence and competitiveness; believes that energy and resource efficiency are key pillars of such a strategy;
Amendment 237 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on MEPs to make full use of the Impact Assessment and European Added Value Directorate in order to scrutinise the cost and benefits of proposals on draft policy;
Amendment 239 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
Amendment 248 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Calls on the Commission, in the context of the REFIT programme, to ensurecheck that all legislation is doing what it was intended to do and to identify areas where there are excessive burdens, inconsistencies or ineffective measures, particularly in the area of employment and social affairs;
Amendment 261 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
Amendment 264 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
Amendment 272 #
2013/2176(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Calls on the EU to work with Member States and universities to coordinate and make full use of EU funding sources such as ESF, ERDF and Horizon 2020, in order to promote an entrepreneurial culture, particularly among young people as well as to foster access to social security for self- employed;
Amendment 15 #
2013/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the high – and, in some cases, growing – tax wedge, especially for low- wage- and second-income-earners, remains an issue in a considerable number of Member States and is increasing inequality; whereas the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently pointed out that there is scope to tax better and more progressively in order to enhance the legitimacy of the consolidation effort while doing more to promote growth and bring in additional revenue along the way; whereas there is a need to shift the tax burden away from labour towards other forms of sustainable tax such as environmental taxation;
Amendment 56 #
2013/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas, despite the urgency of the situation, the EU is failing to achieve almost all of the Europe 2020 targets, and whereas progress in the Member States in delivering on the Europe 2020 objectives has been disappointing; whereas the commitments made in the 2013 national reform programmes and the corresponding recommendations are insufficient to meet most of the EU-level targets;
Amendment 60 #
2013/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital R a (new)
Recital R a (new)
R a. whereas arrangements are lacking to ensure that the European Council respects the position of the European Parliament before it yearly adopts the priorities proposed by the Commission in the Annual Growth Survey;
Amendment 61 #
2013/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Paragraph -1 a (new)
-1 a. Expresses its deep concerns of the limited role of the European Parliament in the formulation of economic priorities in the European Semester; deplores that little progress has been made by the Commission and Council to strengthen democratic scrutiny of the economic policy guidance;
Amendment 62 #
2013/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 b (new)
Paragraph -1 b (new)
-1 b. Calls on the Commission and the Council to enter into an Interinstitutional Agreement with Parliament in order to give Parliament a full role in the drafting and approval of the Annual Growth Survey and the Economic Policy and Employment Guidelines.
Amendment 64 #
2013/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the fact that this year, for the first time, the draft Joint Employment Report annexed to the Annual Growth Survey (AGS) includes a scoreboard for employment and social policies, which will help to strengthen the monitoring of employment and social developments as part of macroeconomic surveillance within the European Semester; considers that this represents an acknowledgment of the needshould impact policy guidance in the European Semester in order to reinforce the social dimension of the Economic and Monetary Union, which is not only desirable, but also necessary in order to address the crisis and prevent serious socioeconomic divergences in the eurozone, thereby enhancing its sustainability;
Amendment 70 #
2013/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers it regrettable that the employment and social indicators proposed by the Commission are insufficient to cover the Member States’ employment and social situations comprehensively; calls for the scoreboard to include additional indicators, in particular child poverty levels, in-work poverty levels, a decent work index, and a European living wage index, in order to allow proper assessment of the social situation in the EU. The indicators should after consultation of the Parliament be reviewed on a regular basis and where identified, extended with other relevant social indicators;
Amendment 76 #
2013/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to use the social scoreboard not only as an analytical tool, but also as a basis for developing concrete indications for the Member States as to how they can fight or prevent unemployment, reduce social inequality, poverty and social exclusion, promote active inclusion and prevent social dumping, which would then feed into the design and implementation of the 2014 country-specific recommendations (CSRs) within the European Semester process; Calls on the Commission to develop a system that triggers preventative and corrective actions once the indicators in the social scoreboard reach thresholds to be defined in agreement with the European Parliament;
Amendment 82 #
2013/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Highlights the importance of the Eurogroup employment and social affairs ministers meeting prior to Euro Summits,a coherent position between EPSCO and ECOFIN Councils; calls on the Council to consider joint meetings so as to ensure that social and employment concerns are addressed more fully in the discussions and decisions of the eurozone authorities and with a view to contributing to the meetings of heads of state and government of the eurozone ;
Amendment 95 #
2013/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Is concerned that more than 20 Member States have reduced education expenditure in relative terms (as a percentage of GDP), thereby jeopardising their growth and jobs potential and their competitiveness; points out that reducing such investment will increase the EU’s structural weakness, given the mismatch between the growing need for high-skilled workers and the fact that in many Member States a high proportion of the workforce is currently low-skilled; Warns that according to Eurostat, almost half of all children whose parents had a low education level were at risk of poverty in the EU27 in 2011, compared with 22% of children residing with parents who had a medium education level and 7% of children with parents with a higher education level. with the largest differences found by Eurostat in Romania (78% of children in a low education level household compared with 2% in a high education level household), the Czech Republic (76% and 5%), Slovakia (77% and 7%), Bulgaria (71% and 2%) and Hungary (68% and 3%).
Amendment 108 #
2013/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Considers that cohesion policy is essential in helping to reduce internal competitive disparities and structural imbalances; calls on the Commission, as a matter of urgency, to reprogramme unspent structural funding in favour of youth employment programmes and SMEs to ensure in the setting up of the Operational programs that Member States target their structural funds towards job creation and combatting youth employment; calls on the Commission to find special solutions for those countries with very high unemployment rates which will be forced to return EU funds on account of co-financing problems; asks the Commission, to this end, to explore the possibility of excluding Member States’ participation in the co-financing of EU funds or programmes (under heading 1 (‘Sustainable growth’) of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF)) from the calculation of their structural deficit as defined in the two-pack;
Amendment 110 #
2013/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to apply the frontloading principle to those funds essential for crisis recovery such as the European Sociall fFunds for the 2014-2020 period while monitoring carefully for undesired effects of frontloading such as the risk of automatic de-committment and the impact on the payment profiles for those Member States which have the highest levels of unemployment and are going through processes of deep fiscal consolidation, especially as regards programmes to boost economic growth, employment and strategic investment;
Amendment 118 #
2013/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19 a. Calls on the Council to revise its conclusions of 8 November 2011 that unlike current account deficits, large and sustained current account surpluses should not trigger corrective action by the Excessive Imbalance Procedure; calls for a symmetric and socially just correction of imbalances in the eurozone;
Amendment 136 #
2013/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Warns that SMEs face the highest credit costs and an ever-growing contraction of credit availability; stresses that this is not only hampering growth and job creation in the EU, given SMEs’ considerable potential to create new jobs, but is also exacerbating imbalances in the eurozone, since there has been a worrying accentuation of differences in the cost of bank lending between core and periphery countries; stresses that the rapid completion of a full-fledged European banking union is a prerequisite to remedy this; welcomes the fact that the importance of access to finance for SMEs has been recognised, and urges the Member States to make access to finance for SMEs an absolute priority in their national growth plans; urges the Member States to provide easy access to the EU funds earmarked for that purpose;
Amendment 139 #
2013/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Commission to engage with the Member States in the promotion of crowd funding, peer-to-peer lending and the creation of recyclable -loan vehicles, funded by a combination of official and private resources and/or supported by guarantees issued by European institutions, such as the European Investment Bank, in order to help restore liquidity to households and SMEs as a matter of urgency;
Amendment 154 #
2013/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35 a. Calls on Member States to present job plans with specific job creation measures, including in particular for the sectors identified by the Commission as having high potential in particular in the health and social care sectors (white jobs), low-carbon, resource-efficient economy ("green jobs") and ICT sector;
Amendment 177 #
2013/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 a (new)
Paragraph 43 a (new)
43 a. Calls on the European Council to add as a new key priority area of the Annual Growth Survey the shift of the tax burden away from labour to pollution and the fight against tax evasion and tax fraud;
Amendment 192 #
2013/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51
Paragraph 51
51. Is concerned about the increase in poverty among all age groups since the 2013 European Semester cycle; notes that poverty and social exclusion among 18- to 64-year-olds has increased significantly in two thirds of the Member States in recent years, mainly because of rising levels of jobless or low-work-intensity households and in-work poverty; notes that the risk of poverty and social exclusion in 2012 was much higher (48.8 %) for third-country nationals (aged 18 to 64) than for EU nationals; calls on the Commission and Member States to take urgent action to deliver on the EU 2020 goal on poverty and social exclusion; Urges Commission and Member States to take immediate action to fight child poverty given that in 2011, 27% of children aged less than 18 were at risk of poverty or social exclusion. Calls on the Commission to issue recommendations, especially to the Member States where the highest shares of those aged less than 18 were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, Bulgaria (52%), Romania (49%), Latvia (44%), Hungary (40%) and Ireland (38% in 2010):
Amendment 194 #
2013/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 52
Paragraph 52
52. Welcomes the recognition in the AGS 2014 of the need to tackle the social consequences of the crisis and ensure the financial sustainability of social protection; regrets however that again no concrete and adequate proposals or recommendations were formulated to address this; calls on Member States to reinforce safety nets, ensure the effectiveness of welfare systems and invest in preventive measures; urges the Commission to take account of the impact of the economic adjustment programmes and of macro-economic policy reforms on progress towards the Europe 2020 headline targets in particular in those Member States experiencing financial difficulties and to agree on modifications aimed at bringing the adjustment programmes into line with the Europe 2020 objectives;
Amendment 224 #
2013/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 59 a (new)
Paragraph 59 a (new)
59 a. Calls on the Member States to commit to annex the results of consultations with civil society organisations and social partners to their National Reform Programmes and Stability and Convergence Programmes, including an explanation how their input has been taken up in these Programmes; Calls on the Commission to coordinate this yearly exercise;
Amendment 226 #
2013/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60
Paragraph 60
60. Stresses that all labour market reformsEU policy guidance in the field of social affairs and employment should be based on reinforced coordination of social dialogue at EU level; calls on the Commission and social partners to use outcomes of the macroeconomic dialogue and tripartite social summits as direct input for the AGS, JER and preparation of CSRs; Calls on the Commission to cease any pressure on Member States to decentralise collective bargaining;
Amendment 229 #
2013/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 61
Paragraph 61
61. SRecalls that good governance of the EMU and its impacts can only be effective if all stakeholders, including social partners and civil society, are involved; stresses that the Troika has confirmed that high-quality participation by the social partners and strong social dialogue, including at national level, are essential for the success of any reforms, and that in reforms of the EMU in particular, the role of the social partners in the new economic governance process, especially the European Semester, should be reinforced; welcomes the Commission’s proposal to involve the social partners more fully in the European Semester process, inter alia in the framework of the Social Dialogue Committee prior to the annual adoption of the AGS; invites the Commission and Member States to ensure the democratic principle of civil dialogue, enshrined in article 11 TEU, through the meaningfull and structured involvement of relevant civil society organisations in economic governance and in particular the European Semester process;
Amendment 231 #
2013/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation -1 a (new)
Recommendation -1 a (new)
Recommendation -1: on the key priority areas of the European Semester The European Parliament calls on the European Council to revise key five priority areas for the European Semester 2014, by adding as a new key priority area fairer tax systems where the tax burden is shifted away from labour to pollution and tax evasion and tax fraud are combatted;
Amendment 243 #
2013/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 3 – Paragraph 6
Recommendation 3 – Paragraph 6
The Commission should urgently reensure in the setting up of the Operational programmes the unspent Sat Member States target their structural Ffunds in favour of youth employment programs and SMEstowards job creation and combatting youth employment. Calls on the Commission to find special solutions to those countries with very high rates of unemployment, that, due to co-financing problems, will be forced to return the European funds. In this sense asks the Commission to explore the possibility of excluding Member States participation in cofinancing of EU funds or programs, within the heading 1 ‘sustainable growth’ of the Multiannual Financial Framework, from the calculation of the structural deficit as defined in the two-pack;
Amendment 245 #
2013/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 3 – Paragraph 7
Recommendation 3 – Paragraph 7
The Commission should apply frontloading principle to all those funds for the period 2014-2020essential for crisis recovery such as the European Social Fund for the 2014-2020 period while monitoring carefully for undesired effects of frontloading such as the risk of automatic de-committment and the impact on the payment profiles for those Member States with the highest levels of unemployment and which are going through deep processes of fiscal consolidation, especially for the programmes to boost economic growth, employment and strategic investments;
Amendment 1 #
2013/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
- having regard to Council Directive 2006/54/EC of 5 July 2006 on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation (recast)1, __________________ 1 OJ L 204, 26.7.2006, p.23.
Amendment 2 #
2013/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 16 a (new)
Citation 16 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 24 May 2012 with recommendations to the Commission on application of the principle of equal pay for male and female workers for equal work or work of equal value1; __________________ 1 Text adopted, P7_TA(2012)0225.
Amendment 3 #
2013/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 16 b (new)
Citation 16 b (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 12 September 2013 on the application of the principle of equal pay for male and female workers for equal work or work of equal value1; __________________ 1 Text adopted, P7_TA(2013)0375.
Amendment 4 #
2013/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 a (new)
Citation 17 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 17 June 2010 on Gender aspects of the economic downturn and financial crisis1; __________________ 1 JO C236 E, 12.8.2011, p.79.
Amendment 43 #
2013/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the EU is currently facing the most significant economic and financial crisis since the Great Depression in the 1930s; whereas this crisis has been exacerbated by so-called austerity measures imposed on the Member States by the EU institutions within the framework of economic governance policies (Stability and Growth Pact, European Semester, Euro-Plus Pact, Budgetary Treaty) and ‘financial aid’ programmes, whereas none of these policies takes gender aspects adequately into account;
Amendment 130 #
2013/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that flexible working hours should be the worker’'s decision, and should not be imposed or enforced by the employer; rejects situations of flexibility and contractual uncertainty that do not provide for family formation and stability;calls on Member States and employers to enable working to have flexible working hours and working places:
Amendment 157 #
2013/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Reiterates that Directive 2006/54/EC, in its current form, is not sufficiently effective to tackle the gender pay gap and achieve the objective of gender equality in employment and occupation; urges the Commission to revise Directive 2006/54/EC without delay and to propose amendments to it in accordance with Article 32 of the Directive and on the basis of Article 157 TFEU, following the detailed recommendations set out in the annex to the Parliament’s resolution of 24 May 2012;
Amendment 171 #
2013/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Member States to combat all aspects of precarious employment, in line with the principle that permanent posts should be accompanied by proper contracts, and to adopt active employment policies to increase the level and quality of jobs and promote net job creation; calls on Member States to ensure decent social security rights and right to training for workers with a-typical contracts;
Amendment 199 #
2013/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Strongly urges the Member States to increase their investment in public services, particularly health services relating to sexual and reproductive health; Calls on the Commission to address the lack of affordable child care facilities in the country specific recommendations of 2014;
Amendment 219 #
2013/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission to come forward with a legislative proposal for different types of leave (paternity, adoption, care leave and filial) in order to improve the reconciliation of professional, family and private life, which at the same time could unlock the blocking of the Maternity Leave in Council;
Amendment 241 #
2013/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Member States to support parity by proposing a woman and a man as their candidates for the office of European Commissioner; calls on the nominated President of the Commission to aim at parity when forming the Commission; calls on the present European Commission to publicly support this procedure;
Amendment 248 #
2013/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Recalls that the European Elections 2014, followed by the appointment of the next European Commission and the nominations for the EU ‘Top Jobs’, are a chance to move toward parity democracy at the EU level and for the EU to be a role model in this field;
Amendment 254 #
2013/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Welcomes the legislative proposal by the Commission on improving the gender balance in the boards of companies listed on stock exchanges, urgently calls on the Council to come to agreement in first reading on the file in order to reach an agreement by all EU Institutions before the end of the 7th legislature;
Amendment 269 #
2013/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Observes that increasing poverty and marginalisation, owing to so-calledpartly as a consequence of austerity policies, have led to an increase in female trafficking, sexual exploitation and prostitution and that there are signs that domestic violence is on the rise, as social tensions within families also increase, and that women now find themselves more economically dependent on their aggressors;
Amendment 276 #
2013/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Points out that the main responsibility for addressing trafficking in human beings lies with the Member States, criticises that in April 2013 only six Member States have notified full transposition of the EU Directive against trafficking in human beings, whose deadline for implementation expired on 6 April 2013;
Amendment 305 #
2013/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Insists on zero tolerance towards all forms of violence against women as one of the top priorities of all institutions throughout Europe, reiterates the need for the Commission to present a legislative criminal-law instrument to combat gender-based violence,
Amendment 1 #
2013/2134(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Calls on the Commission to adopt without delay the committed communication on the social dimension of the EMU and in that perspective to update the scoreboard of macroeconomic imbalances with a set of employment and social indicators together with the adoption of a standalone scoreboard related to the EMU social dimension;
Amendment 4 #
2013/2134(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the fact that some Member States have submitted reports on progress on the EU2020 targets, in some cases outlining the specific projects attributed to these goals; calls on all Member States to include these reports as part of their 2014 European Semester contributions; Regrets that the Commission has not presented a EU 2020 progress report; Calls on the Commission to present such a report annually;
Amendment 7 #
2013/2134(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Expresses its concerns about a general lack of ambition and progress on the EU2020 targets; calls for the EU2020 targets to be put at the heart of the European Semester with Member States setting ambitious national targets detailing strategies to reach them and with progress visibly monitored through the National Reform Programmes, the Country Specific Recommendations and in the Annual Growth Survey; calls on the Commission to systematically address recommendations to Member States on each of the EU2020 targets where there is a lack of progress;
Amendment 11 #
2013/2134(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Urges the Commission to monitor EU2020 national objectives in Member States under financial assistance and to address with that purpose adapted country specific recommendation taking proper account of the constraints created by macroeconomic adjustment programmes;
Amendment 13 #
2013/2134(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Calls on the Commission and Council to continue to improve indicators to monitor the social, environmental and innovation dimension of the EU 2020 Strategy in the framework of the European Semester; calls for the development of quantitative and qualitative methodologies to improve the accuracy in assessments of the overall social and environmental realities currently not fully captured by comparable EU-level statistics;
Amendment 17 #
2013/2134(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recognises that this year's Country Specific Recommendations (CSRs) are particularly important, because Member States define their investment priorities for cohesion policy in the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF); calls in this context for increased targeting of EU funding on growth and employment policies, especially on combating youth unemploymentall priorities of the EU 2020 strategy;
Amendment 22 #
2013/2134(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. WelcomesTakes note of the fact that several Member States have adopted major labour market reforms aimed at improving the resilience of the labour market, introducing more internal and external flexibility, reducing segmentation and facilitating transition between job, introducing more internal and external flexibility; calls on the Commission to ensure that in their policy guidance labour market reforms are aimed at, amongst others, reducing segmentation, promoting transition between jobs, advancing the inclusion of vulnerable groups in the labour market, reducing in-work poverty, promoting gender equality, strengthening the rights of workers with a-typical contracts and provide more social protection for self- employed workers;
Amendment 32 #
2013/2134(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that all Member States have received recommendations with regard to levels of labour market participation; calls on those Member States with highlow levels of unemploymentlabour market participation to step up, in consultation with the social partners, active labour market measures, such as training and employment services, and to introduce further reforms to facilitate access to quality employment, prevent early withdrawals from the labour market,facilitate the reconciliation of work and private life, prevent early withdrawals from the labour market, shift taxes from labour to environmental taxation thereby reduceing the cost of labour and combat labour market segmentation; underlines the need to ensure sustainability of quality of work and to actively combat growing in-work poverty;
Amendment 35 #
2013/2134(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Welcomes the Commission's Country Specific Recommendations in the field of environmental taxation; highlights the positive budgetary, employment, social, and environmental impacts of shifting taxation from labour to environmental taxation and of the phasing out of environmentally harmful subsidies, calls on the Commission to make environmental taxation a priority in the upcoming Annual Growth Survey;
Amendment 37 #
2013/2134(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Deplores the Country Specific Recommendations aimed at the decentralisation of wage setting and collective bargaining; calls on the Commission to refrain from these recommendations in the future;
Amendment 39 #
2013/2134(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that the situation of unemployed young people is particularly worrying and that urgent action is needed; asks for a European Pact for Youth Employment that puts into effect the already long-agreed measures and commits new resources and measures to fighting youth unemployment, reducing the number of young people not in employment education or training (NEET) and poverty among young people, taking into account the qualitative aspect of decent work fully respecting core labour standards;
Amendment 46 #
2013/2134(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the adoption of the Youth Guarantee by the Council and the earmarking of EUR 6 billion for Youth Employment Initiative as part of the next MFF; calls on Member States to implement Youth Guarantee Schemes; calls on the Commission and Council to ensure that also Member States in the excessive deficit procedure have the fiscal space to make use of these measures, in particular by temporarily exempting the Member States' co-financing of measures to combat youth unemployment from the calculation of the excessive deficit;
Amendment 52 #
2013/2134(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Encourages the Commission to continue the work of the Youth Employment Action Teams to help the Member States with the highest levels of youth unemployment to reprogramme EU structural funding of the 2007-2013 Multiannual Financial Framework in order to target it at young people; welcomes the Commission's intention to build on the European Job Mobility Portal (EURES) by intensifying and broadening its activities and, in particular, by promoting youth mobility;
Amendment 59 #
2013/2134(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses that the long-term unemployed should be supported by job creation and integrated active inclusion approaches including positive activation incentives, such as personalised guidance and welfare-to-work programmes, and adequate benefit systems in, and access to quality services in order to support them to reconnecting with the labour market and to access quality jobs;
Amendment 64 #
2013/2134(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recalls that the largefull economic and job potential of the services sector remains untapped; calls for full and appropriate implementation of the EU Services Directive whilst safeguarding public service obligations which can ensure universal access to affordable quality services for all; calls on Member States to invest particularly in quality social services; calls on Member States to remove barriers in the retail sector and excessive restrictions in professional services and regulated professions;
Amendment 65 #
2013/2134(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Highlights the job potential of the green economy which according to Commission estimates could create 5 million jobs by 2020 in the energy efficiency and renewable energy sectors alone, provided that ambitious climate and energy policies are put in place; calls on the Member States to ensure sufficient levels of investment in these sectors and to anticipate future skills of workers and to guarantee job quality of 'Green jobs'; calls on the Commission to include the exploitation of the job potential of the green economy as a key priority in the Annual Growth Survey of 2014;
Amendment 71 #
2013/2134(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Recalls the skills mismatches and bottlenecks in many regions and sectors and the inadequacy of certain education and training systems to cope with market demands and workers needs; welcomes the reforms of vocational education and training systems undertaken by several Member States in order to adapt skills and competences to labour market and (future) workers' needs, especially those of young people; recalls that almost all Member States need to undertake further action and investment in the field of education and training;
Amendment 78 #
2013/2134(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that the crisis exacerbated by pro-cyclical fiscal consolidation policies has had a severe and lasting impact on the Member States' levels of unemployment and their social situation, which has led to unsustainable increases in poverty and social exclusion, including child poverty, homelessness, social inequality, in- work poverty and over-indebtedness of households; calls in this context on the Commission and Council to reconsider the pace and timing of fiscal consolidation and further extend deadlines for the correction of excessive deficits to allow for job creation; calls on Member States to reinforce the safety nets and ensure the effectiveness of the welfare systems that deal with those affected;
Amendment 83 #
2013/2134(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Welcomes the fact that this year manyat some Member States made a greater effort to involve national parliaments, the social partners and civil society in drawing up their national reform programmes; stresses that the engagement of all stakeholders in the development of the necessary reforms is crucial to their delivery and success. , as well as to invite input from the same on CSRs but highlights that more needs to be done to ensure sufficient legitimacy and ownership; stresses that the engagement of all stakeholders in the development of the ambitious NRPs and CSRs which can ensure delivery on the EU2020 targets is crucial to their delivery and success; calls on the Commission to develop a code of guidance for stakeholder engagement monitored through the European Semester and to support funding for systematic national stakeholder engagement in the European Semester, requiring the annexing of stakeholder inputs to the NRP, and to hold an annual hearing together with the European Parliament involving stakeholders to assess progress on the targets and provide proposals for CSRs;
Amendment 85 #
2013/2134(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission and Council to enter into an interinstitutional agreement with Parliament in order to give Parliament a full role in the drafting and approval of the Annual Growth Survey and the Economic Policy and Employment Guidelines;
Amendment 88 #
2013/2134(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Calls on the Commission to come up with a proposal to significantly strengthen and improve the involvement of social partners at the European level in the design, implementation and monitoring of policy guidance in social and employment matters of the European Semester;
Amendment 31 #
2013/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas in 2012, self-employment represented more than 15% of total employment in the European Union;
Amendment 32 #
2013/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
Gb. whereas economically dependent self- employed workers are rarely organised or represented by trade unions even if they are more likely targets of working time and other abuse;
Amendment 33 #
2013/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G c (new)
Recital G c (new)
Gc. whereas in many member states it is difficult for self-employed to acquire sufficient pension rights; whereas this increases the future risk of poverty for self-employed;
Amendment 34 #
2013/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G d (new)
Recital G d (new)
Gd. whereas self-employment is in many cases not the preferred option of the person concerned, but rather a necessity because of lack of other job opportunities or sufficiently flexible working arrangements to combine working and care;
Amendment 51 #
2013/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States to ensure core national social protection which, at a minimum, will safeguard the main sources of revenue in each country and guarantee access to basic social benefits, particularly in the event of illness, unemployment, maternity or disability, and retirement thus making it possible to combat poverty and social exclusion in the Member States; calls also on the Member States to draw up strategies for the development of social security in line with the ILO's proposals;
Amendment 52 #
2013/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on Member States to ensure that all citizens have access to information regarding their rights to social protection;
Amendment 72 #
2013/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to take steps to combat discrimination against women on the labour market and to adopt social protection measures to ensure that women's wages and welfare entitlements, including pensions, are not lower than those for men doing the same job, and to safeguard their maternity entitlements; calls also on the Council to speed up the adoption of the Directive on prenatal and postnatal leave;
Amendment 96 #
2013/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Strongly supports the proposed establishment of a scoreboard of key employment and social indicators, which could be a first step to identify concrete benchmarks in the form of an EU social protection floor;
Amendment 102 #
2013/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses that voluntary self- employment needs to be recognised as a labour market flexibility measn option laboure that helps tocan create jobs and reduce unemployment, and that the expansion ofstresses that self- employment must go hand-in-hand with appropriate social protection for the self- employed;
Amendment 104 #
2013/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on Member States to facilitate the combination of work and care responsibilities by providing workers with flexibility with regard to working hours and working place in order to avoid that they have no other possibility for flexibility than to resort to dependent self- employment;
Amendment 105 #
2013/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that all workers and self-employed have access to lifelong learning by redistributing existing EU and national funding from workers with permanent contracts only, to workers with all contract types and self-employed;
Amendment 106 #
2013/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)
Paragraph 13 c (new)
13c. Calls on the Social Partners, Commission and Member States to analyse if and how self-employed workers should be included in collective bargaining, including specific strategies on how to include the concerns of self- employed workers in cases where national law does not allow for trade union representation of self-employed workers as well as how to foster interest representation of self-employed;
Amendment 109 #
2013/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Emphasises the need for up-to-date, more detailed statistics to be made available for the purpose of monitoring and assessing the economic significance of self-employed workers and the various categories of self-employment and dependent voluntary and involuntary self- employment, as well as their market share by sector, social group, age and sex; and asks for the inclusion of questions concerning dependent self-employment in the European Union Labour force survey.
Amendment 111 #
2013/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Draws attention to the fact that the absence of a clear national definitions of self- employment considerably hampers the coordination of sociincreases the risk of fal security for self- employed workers among the Member States and may consequently restrict the free movement of workersment among EU workers and hamper their access to adequate social security;
Amendment 116 #
2013/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to draw up a conceptual framework that will provide a legal definition of the nature and different forms of atypical employment in general and self-employment as its most widespread form, applying labour law and social protection measures in line with the various forms of employment and providing for the promote exchanges between Member States in order to create common understanding on what constitutes self-employment and false self-employment, stresses however that it should remain the legal resposnsibility of properly regulating social security for self- employed workers; also considers it appropriate to clearly identify false self- employment and to sanction employers if such cases are identifiedthe host member state where the work is done to determine the employment or self-employed status;
Amendment 127 #
2013/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Urges Member States to ensure that self-employment does not become a tool of unfair competition or a means of preventing workers from benefiting from social and job security, or a means for employers to circumvent labour and social security law and that the social and employment rights of self-employed workers depend as little as possible on their status: i.e. employed or self-employed; also asks that self-employed workers should not be assimilated with employed workers, so as to preserve the advantages of self- employment and economic activity of this kind and help to develop a spirit of entrepreneurship and service quality;
Amendment 128 #
2013/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Encourages social partners to exchange of good practices between trade unions and professional associations on services provided to self-employed, on fighting bogus self-employment, and on organising own-account self-employed workers.
Amendment 129 #
2013/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Calls on Social Partners, the Commission and Member States to analyse if and how self-employed workers should be included in collective bargaining, including specific strategies on how to include the concerns of self- employed workers in in cases where national law does not allow for trade union representation of self-employed workers,
Amendment 133 #
2013/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to link social security and social protection rights to the individual rather than the working contract, thereby enabling decent social protection for all including self-employed and workers regardless of their contract type or employment status;
Amendment 136 #
2013/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Calls on Member States to promote and support group insurance for occupational accidents and illness; calls on Member States to ensure access to collective and solidarity based insurance and pension schemes for self-employed;
Amendment 2 #
2013/2075(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas competition policy seeks to ensure the smooth running of the internal market, to ensure a level-playing field and to optimise pricing;
Amendment 17 #
2013/2075(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the European Union is faced with major challenges in the fields of reindustrialisation, energy transition and digital equipment, which call for considerable investments; considers that it is the responsibility of public authorities to promote these investments which have significant employment potential; takes the view that competition policy must not act as a brake on these ‘investments of the future’ ;
Amendment 35 #
2013/2075(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Takes the view that the social and solidarity economy must benefit from an own set of special rules on state aid in view of the specific nature of its operation and objectives;
Amendment 36 #
2013/2075(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Regrets that the Commission has maintained the restrictive scope for the exemptions to state aid rules in the field of social housing, limiting it to disadvantaged citizens or socially less advantaged groups in the recent SGEI package; calls on the Commission to take a flexible and constructive stance towards Member States that experience difficulties with their social housing sector because of this definition;
Amendment 4 #
2013/2065(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Reminds governments that discrimination on grounds of disability is forbidden and calls on Member States to make more ambitious efforts to remove the remaining obstacles;
Amendment 13 #
2013/2065(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Deplores the fact that Council has not finalised its work on the Council Directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation yet, despite Parliament's position from 2009; calls on the Council to ensure this legislation is adopted by the end of the current parliamentary term;
Amendment 14 #
2013/2065(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Union and the Member States to facilitate the participation of all citizens in the democratic process in terms of both the right to vote and the right to stand as a candidate, the right to participate in public meetings and the right to contribute to the democratic process;
Amendment 29 #
2013/2065(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Union to further support mothers with disabilities ordisabled parents and disabled children, with special regard to their difficult position in the labour market, by maintaining or setting up services better tailored to their needs, by removing obstacles and by awareness-raising for employers as well as employees.
Amendment 31 #
2013/2065(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas women with disabilities often suffer double discrimination, and whereas the Commission and Member States can counter this phenomenon by implementing gender mainstreaming in all relevant areas of disability policy;
Amendment 36 #
2013/2065(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Calls on the Member States and the European Union to acknowledge and address the issue of multiple discrimination which women with disabilities face;
Amendment 136 #
2013/2065(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Refers to estimates showing that women with disabilities are 1.5 to 10 times as likely to be abused as non-disabled women, depending on whether they live in the community or in institutions;
Amendment 138 #
2013/2065(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Urges the Commission to launch a comprehensive strategy to fight violence against women as requested by Parliament in several resolutions and the latest in the Svensson report in April 2011; reiterates the need for the Commission to present a legislative criminal-law instrument to combat gender-based violence including the protection of rights of disabled women in cases of sexual abuse and violence in public and within their home environments;
Amendment 139 #
2013/2065(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Calls on the Member States for appropriate measures to avoid all types of exploitation, violence and abuse against women and girls with disabilities through the provision of suitable community-based assistance and support, taking into consideration their specific needs, including assistive devices, to avoid isolation and confinement in the home, additionally, all such services and programmes should be closely monitored by independent authorities;
Amendment 161 #
2013/2065(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to boost barrier free accessibility for women and girls with reduced mobility and disabled women and girls to the transport infrastructure, the vehicles and the information and reservation formats;
Amendment 172 #
2013/2065(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Regrets that the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020: A Renewed commitment to a Barrier-Free Europe does not include an integrated gender perspective or a separate chapter on gender-specific disability policies, despite the fact that women with disabilities are often in a more disadvantaged position than men with disabilities and are more often victims of poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 180 #
2013/2065(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls on the Commission, the Council and the Member States for the adoption of a horizontal anti- discrimination Directive which remove barriers in all areas of EU competence and which prevent disabled people and especially disabled women and girls from achieving their full potential for social participation and independence;
Amendment 183 #
2013/2065(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Calls on the Commission to come up with a legislative proposal on carers' leave (or filial leave) before the end of the legislature that allows people to take a period of leave to take care of ill, disabled or impaired family members and/or to stay in employment when taking leave in order to care for dependant family members;
Amendment 1 #
2013/2062(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomesTakes note of the Action Plan for the automotive industry and notes the strategic importance of the automotive industry to the European economy, representing around 12 million direct and indirect jobs; stresses that in order to preserve employment and regain competitiveness, the European car industry needs a renewal strategy towards more sustainable cars, as part of a greener transport system; calls on the Commission to introduce a CO2 labelling scheme for cars to this end;
Amendment 37 #
2013/2062(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for the European Social Fund to be used for the retraining and reskilling of workers, andtaking into account the overcapacity in the European car industry and the need to shift towards a sustainable economy; calls for the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) to be used in the event of plant closures and significant downsizing; reiterates its view that the design of EGF measures should be compatible with the shift towards a resource-efficient and environmentally sustainable economy.
Amendment 1 #
2013/2049(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes with regret that the Italian authorities submitted the application for EGF financial contribution on 30 December 2011, supplemented by additional information up to 2 October and that its assessment was made available by the European Commission on 7 March 20123; notes that its assessment was made available by the Commisregrets the lengthy evaluation period of 15 months; calls on the Commission to conclude the evaluation phase and finally present proposals for decisions on 7 Marchthe remaining cases submitted in 20131;
Amendment 2 #
2013/2049(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that the Commission has already stated the impact of the economic and financialrecognised that ICT sectors had been hit by the crisis oin the enterprises operatingpast as the EGF has supported workers dismissed in the ICT sector1; --------- (1) of ICT in Holland (case EGF/2010/012 Noord Holland ICT, COM(2010)0685 final)1; --------- (1) Decision 2011/99/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 41, 15.2.2011, p. 8).
Amendment 3 #
2013/2049(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Italian authorities to use the EGF support to its full potential and encourage the maximum number of workers to participate in the measures, recalls that early EGF interventions in Italy suffered from relatively low rate of budget implementation mainly due to low participation rates;
Amendment 4 #
2013/2049(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Welcomes, in the coordinated package of personalised services, the module "Mentoring after reintegration into work", which is aimed at assuring that the return of the workers on the labour market is sustainable;
Amendment 5 #
2013/2049(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Welcomes the fact that the contribution to expenses of residence shall only be paid as a one-off contribution upon presentation of proof of the expenditure incurred;
Amendment 6 #
2013/2049(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Welcomes the contributions towards special expenses for carers foreseen to enable reconciliation of trainings and job search with family obligations;
Amendment 7 #
2013/2049(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Ask the Commission to further detail in future proposals the types of training to be provided, in which sectors the workers are likely to find employment and if the training on offer is aligned to the future economic prospects and labour market needs in the regions concerned by the dismissals but welcomes the strict link between the voucher and each worker's agreed pathway of reintegration;
Amendment 8 #
2013/2049(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Underlines the importance of good and swift cooperation between the Commission and Member States when preparing applications under the forthcoming new EGF regulation in order to provide EGF support speedily;
Amendment 2 #
2013/2048(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes with regret that the Austrian authorities submitted the application for EGF financial contribution on 20 December 2011, supplemented by additional information up to 9 October and that its assessment was made available by the European Commission on 7 March 20123; notes that its assessment was made available by the Commisregrets the lengthy evaluation period of 15 months; calls on the Commission to conclude the evaluation phase and finally present proposals for decisions on 7 Marchthe remaining cases submitted in 20131;
Amendment 3 #
2013/2048(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that at NUTS II level, the Landthe EGF has already supported workers dismissed in the region of Niederösterreich was also ahich suffectred by other mass redundancies for which EGF applications were submitted to the Commission: 704 redundancies in the metal sector in 20091 and 1 274 redundancies related to the road transport sector in 20102; ------------ (1) from mass lay-offs in 2009 and 2010 in the metal and road transport sectors (EGF/2010/007 AT/Steiermark- Niederösterreich, OJ L 263, 7.10.2011. (2)1 and EGF/2011/001 /AT/Niederösterreich- Oberösterreich, 2); -------- (1) Decision 2011/652/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 263, 7.10.2011, p. 9). (2) Decision 2011/770/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 317, 30.11.2011, p. 28).
Amendment 4 #
2013/2048(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Welcomes the fact that the EGF supported measures will be provided to workers by means of a labour foundation established as a part of the social plan which was agreed with the social partners; recalls that labour foundations are institutions set up by sectoral social partners in order to accompany workers in industrial change with training measures to enhance their employability; recalls, further, that this model of providing active labour market measures was very successful in the past regarding the reintegration of workers into the labour market and the use of the EGF funds for this purpose;
Amendment 5 #
2013/2048(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Calls on the Austrian authorities to use the EGF support to its full potential and encourage the maximum number of workers to participate in the measures;
Amendment 6 #
2013/2048(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Welcomes the proposed coordinated package of personalised services and the detailed descriptions of the measures presented in the Commission proposal; welcomes the fact that the training on offer is combined with the future economic prospects and the future skills and qualification needs in the region;
Amendment 8 #
2013/2048(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Draws the attention to the subsistence allowance for workers on training and on job search which is said to amount EUR 1 000 per worker per month (calculated for 13 months, unemployment benefit will be interrupted during that period) which will be combined with training allowance of EUR 200 per worker per month; recalls that the EGF should in the future be primarily allocated to training and job search as well as occupational orientation programs, and its financial contribution to allowances should always be of additional nature and in parallel to what is available to dismissed workers by virtue of national law or collective agreements;
Amendment 9 #
2013/2048(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Regrets that EUR 4 266 000 of the total cost of the package amounting to EUR 5 864 615 is devoted to various financial allowances, a similar proportion to previous cases; recommends that a proportionate amount should be dedicated to training-related measures in future mobilisations;
Amendment 1 #
2013/2044(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas all human beings are born free, with equal dignity and rights, and it is the responsibility of the Member States to promote and guarantee these rights through their constitution, public health systems; whereas gender inequalities in access to health care and in health outcomes exist throughout the EU;
Amendment 4 #
2013/2044(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas all people have the right to health protection, independently of their economic and social conditionthe European Charter of Fundamental Rights points out that in Article 35 that everyone has the right of access to preventive health care and the right to benefit from medical treatment under the conditions established by national laws and practices; whereas this right should be realised both through preventive and curative medical care and rehabilitation, and responsibility should lie first and foremost with the Member States through their public health systems;
Amendment 56 #
2013/2040(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
I a. Whereas women and girls who are persons in prostitution, use drugs and/or are transgender are most -at-risk of STIs, including HIV, and that their SRHR needs are often neglected,
Amendment 97 #
2013/2040(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Stresses that SRHR policies must take account of specific groups and the risks linked to their identities or situation, especially minority ethnic, pregnant or lesbian, bisexual or transgender women; children and young people; LGBTI persons; persons in prostitution; prisoners; migrants; and injectable drug users;
Amendment 106 #
2013/2040(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Expresses its dissatisfaction that the Commission deleted all findings linked to SRHR (including contraception, reproductive health and sexuality) from the final version of its 2012 report 'The state of men's health in Europe';
Amendment 163 #
2013/2040(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Reminds Member States that they must ensure children and young people can enjoy their right to seek, receive and impart information related to sexuality, including sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, in an age- appropriate and gender-sensitive manner;
Amendment 180 #
2013/2040(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to address the specific SRHR of people living with HIV/AIDS, with a focus on the needs of women and at-risk populations including men who have sex with men, persons in prostitution, prisoners, migrants and injectable drug users, notably by integrating access to testing and treatment and reversing the underlying socioeconomic factors contributing to the risk to women and at-risk populations of HIV/AIDS, such as gender inequality and discrimination;
Amendment 2 #
2013/2032(BUD)
Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes with regret that the Italian authorities submitted the application for EGF financial contribution on 29 December 2011, supplemented by additional information up to 4 September and that its assessment was made available by the European Commission on 20 February 20123; notes that its assessment was made available by the Commregrets the lengthy evaluation period of 14 months; calls on the Commission to conclude evaluation phase and finally present proposals for decissions on 20 Februarythe four remaining cases submitted in 20131;
Amendment 3 #
2013/2032(BUD)
Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that Antonio Merloni SpA was ruled insolvent already in October 2008 and the sale of its assets and the take over of 700 workers were concluded only in December 2011; notes that the Italian authorities launched their original request for EGF assistance previously in 2009; however, the application had to be re-launched in late 2011 given that the workers were formally dismissed only when the assets had been sold and administrative proceedings concluded;
Amendment 4 #
2013/2032(BUD)
Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Recalls that already in 2008 the Parliament sent a written question to the Commission bringing its attention to the gravity of dismissals in Antonio Merloni SpA and calling for a quick reaction at Union level by means of EGF and of cohesion funds to alleviate the situation of the regions concerned;
Amendment 5 #
2013/2032(BUD)
Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Recalls that the EGF has already supported workers dismissed in the sector of manufacturing of domestic appliances (case EGF/2009/010 LT/Snaige);
Amendment 6 #
2013/2032(BUD)
Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the fact that in order to provide workers with rapidspeedy assistance, the Italian authorities decided to startinitiate the implementation of the personalised measures on 29 March 2012, well ahead of the final decision on granting the EGF support for the proposed coordinated package; however, deplores that the EGF could only intervene almost 3 years and a half after the company had been ruled insolvent;
Amendment 7 #
2013/2032(BUD)
Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Welcomes the fact that the design of the measures was consulted with the social partners and that it made part of social plan "Accordo di Programma" signed by the Ministry of Economic Development and the concerned regions and that the implementation of the EGF support will be monitored by a coordination group;
Amendment 9 #
2013/2032(BUD)
Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Asks the Commission to further detail in future proposals the types of training to be provided through a voucher, in which sectors the workers are likely to find employment and whether the training on offer is aligned to the future economic prospects and labour market needs in the regions concerned by the dismissals;however, welcomes the strict link between the voucher and each worker's agreed pathway of reintegration;
Amendment 10 #
2013/2032(BUD)
Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Calls on the Italian authorities to use the EGF support to its full potential and to encourage the maximum number of workers to participate in the measures; recalls that early EGF interventions in Italy suffered from relatively low rate of budget implementation mainly due to low participation rates;
Amendment 11 #
2013/2032(BUD)
Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Welcomes in the coordinated package of personalised services the modul "Guidance for over-50s" intended for older employees, which make 12% of the targeted labour force;
Amendment 12 #
2013/2032(BUD)
Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 8 d (new)
Paragraph 8 d (new)
8d. Welcomes the fact that the contribution to expenses of residence shall only be paid as a one-off contribution upon presentation of proof of the expenditure incurred;
Amendment 13 #
2013/2032(BUD)
Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 8 e (new)
Paragraph 8 e (new)
8e. Takes note that 5 684 000 EUR of the total cost of the package of services amounting to 7 451 972 EUR is devoted to various financial incentives and allowances, including the facilitation of dismissed workers mobility; recommends that a proportionate amount should be dedicated to training-related measures in future mobilisations;
Amendment 14 #
2013/2032(BUD)
Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 8f (new)
Paragraph 8f (new)
8f. Points out that the biggest part of the costs of personalised services is to be committed to "Job search allowance" (2 000 EUR per worker for the days of participations to EGF measures), which is an equivalent of the Italian subsistence allowance "CIGS" for the sake of simplification; reiterates therefore that the EGF support should primarily be allocated to training programs instead of contributing directly to financial allowances which are the responsibility of Member States by virtue of national law; recommends that in future cases of a mobilisation of that Fund such measures should be discouraged;
Amendment 15 #
2013/2032(BUD)
8g. Notes the relatively high "Hiring benefit" (5 000 EUR per worker); welcomes the fact that such measures will only be disbursed to employers guaranteeing permanent contracts for targeted workers and expects the Commission to deliver the relevant detailed information regarding the contract conditions for these workers;
Amendment 16 #
2013/2032(BUD)
Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Underlines the importance of good and swift cooperation between the Commission and Member States when preparing applications under the coming new EGF regulation;
Amendment 1 #
2013/2011(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas women who chose to become entrepreneurs, more often than men cite a better work-life balance and/or economic necessity as the main motivation;
Amendment 2 #
2013/2011(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas self-employment is, in many cases, not the preferred option of the person concerned but rather a necessity because of a lack of other job opportunities or sufficiently flexible working arrangements to combine work and care; whereas these circumstances have worsened in times of crisis, increasing the number of people who are self-employed out of necessity, particularly among women;
Amendment 3 #
2013/2011(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas self-employed women are in the minority among the self-employed but have a higher probability of falling into poverty;
Amendment 4 #
2013/2011(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas a lack of access to adequate pension rights, sick pay, paid leave and other forms social security for the self- employed aggravates the gender pay gap for self-employed women, especially after retirement;
Amendment 5 #
2013/2011(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A e (new)
Recital A e (new)
Ae. whereas an increasing number of self- employed persons with too little work or work that is very low paid, women in particular, are falling below the poverty line while they are not officially registered as unemployed;
Amendment 6 #
2013/2011(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A f (new)
Recital A f (new)
Af. whereas there is a lack of reliable, accurate and comparable information and data on the situation, working conditions, social security arrangements to combine work and care of the self-employed;
Amendment 13 #
2013/2011(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that all workers and self- employed persons have access to lifelong learning by redistributing existing EU and national funding from workers with permanent contracts only to workers with all contract types and the self-employed;
Amendment 25 #
2013/2011(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the European social partners, Commission and Member States to study the issue of dependent self-employment and find practical solutions, particularly in those sectors where trans-border activities play an important role and among vulnerable groups such as domestic workers and low-paid workers;
Amendment 26 #
2013/2011(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on Member States to promote and facilitate self-organisation of self- employed persons, especially of women, to increase their possibilities of defending their collective interests;
Amendment 27 #
2013/2011(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Encourages social partners to exchange of good practices between trade unions and professional associations on services provided to self-employed workers, on fighting bogus self- employment and on organising own- account self-employed workers;
Amendment 37 #
2013/2011(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to propose an ambitious revision of Directive 2010/41/EU1 on the application of the principle of equal treatment between men and women engaged in an activity in a self- employed capacity in order to guarantee higher, minimum maternity and, paternity, adoption, filial and care leave rights; __________________ 1 OJ L 180, 15 July 2010, p.1
Amendment 45 #
2013/2011(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on Member States to facilitate the combination of work and care responsibilities by providing workers with flexibility with regard to working hours and working place in order to avoid that they have no other possibility for flexibility than to resort to dependent or involuntary self- employment;
Amendment 1 #
2013/2009(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)
Citation 4 a (new)
- having regard to the Directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications,
Amendment 10 #
2013/2009(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take action to address gender segregation by sectors by both motivating individuals from early on to go into relevant sectors and by addressing the conditions that make the sector less attractive for women or men, such as on the one hand working conditions incompatible with care responsibilities and on the other hand pay;
Amendment 13 #
2013/2009(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. stresses the importance of gender- sensitive educational systems as they give children a diversity of choice in discovering their talents; stresses that research indicates that strong gender stereotyping in education adds to gender segregation in the labour market, both in relation to sectors and occupations; calls on the Commission and Member States to combat these stereotypes;
Amendment 15 #
2013/2009(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Stresses the need to attract women to education and training in the MINT professions (mathematics, informatics, new technologies);
Amendment 16 #
2013/2009(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Stresses that the gender pay gap partially stems from the fact that sectors where women are overrepresented often have lower salaries;
Amendment 17 #
2013/2009(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 e (new)
Paragraph 2 e (new)
2e. Stresses the damage to the economy and the individual stemming from the gender pay gap; urges the Member States to make pay trends more transparent so as to avoid persisting or widening pay gaps; calls on the Commission to revise the existing gender pay gap legislation (Directive 2006/54) as demanded by Parliament in its resolution adopted on 13 March 2012;
Amendment 18 #
2013/2009(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 f (new)
Paragraph 2 f (new)
2f. Calls on the Social Partners, Member States and the Commission to support the improvement of gender equality elements in collective agreements amongst others by promoting right to flexible working hours, childcare facilities, mentoring of women workers, measures to increase women's representation in collective bargaining negotiations and by assessing the impact of collective agreement on women;
Amendment 19 #
2013/2009(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges Members States to increase securityprotection against human trafficking for women moving abroad for work purposes; including especially access to information, advice
Amendment 21 #
2013/2009(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to include provisions to protect women's rightsreport on gender data in relation to occupational mobility and to include provisions to advance gender equality in terms of occupational mobility when designing their national policies linked to mobility and/or migration and their National Reform Programmes (NRPs), with specific attention to the programming and implementation of national or regional level operational programmes funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) for the 2014-2020 programming period and beyond;
Amendment 24 #
2013/2009(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on Member States to encourage national, regional and local projects for the inclusimprove the labour participation rate of women; calls on Member States to encourage higher participation of women in unpaid work and to foster activities such as volunteering and charity activities for the community;
Amendment 27 #
2013/2009(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Commission to monitor and report regularly on how the EU funds focussing on education and training, occupational and educational mobility and on labour market participation are being taken up by women and men; calls on both Member States and the Commission to react rapidly in case of unbalanced take-up;
Amendment 28 #
2013/2009(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 – indent 1
Paragraph 8 – indent 1
– to design and to put into practice specific community-building programmes with women's and men's participation,
Amendment 31 #
2013/2009(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 – indent 2
Paragraph 8 – indent 2
– to pay increased attention to the special needs of women and men in expatriate communities,
Amendment 34 #
2013/2009(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 – indent 2 a (new)
Paragraph 8 – indent 2 a (new)
- to address highly mobile women at risk such as domestic workers, care workers, cleaners and women working in the horeca sector
Amendment 37 #
2013/2009(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Emphasises that a key element of social integration is the understanding of local habits and the social environmentCalls on Member states to set up infrastructural measures supporting mobile workers with families, addressing access to education and childcare, social security, community services; calls on both sending and receiving Member States to develop mechanisms for integration and re-integration of highly mobile workers with families;
Amendment 40 #
2013/2009(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Stresses the positive impact of attracting women from an early stage on into professions in key industries with a high job potential, in particular the green economy, health and social care sector and the digital economy;
Amendment 9 #
2013/0181(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) RDemocratic decisions based on reliable statistical data and analysis are the basis for effective surveillance of macroeconomic imbalances. To guarantee sound and independent statistics, Member States should ensure the professional independence of national statistical authorities, consistent with the European statistics code of practice laid down in Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on European statistics3 . __________________ 3 OJ L 87, 31.3.2009, p. 164
Amendment 10 #
2013/0181(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) The inclusion of a number of (auxiliary) employment and social indicators in the Alert Mechanism Report is foreseen. This Regulation should also apply to these indicators.
Amendment 13 #
2013/0181(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9 a (new)
Recital 9 a (new)
(9a) The strengthening of economic governance through an improved statistical monitoring system of MIP relevant data should include a closer and more timely involvement of the European Parliament and the national parliaments.
Amendment 15 #
2013/0181(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
In the event of doubt regarding the correct implementation of the rules governing the compilation and transmission of the MIP relevant data, the Member State concerned shall request clarification from the Commission (Eurostat). The Commission shall promptly examine the issue and communicate its clarification to the Member State concerned, to the relevant expert groups on macroeconomic and social statistics established by the Commission, to all other Member States and to the public.
Amendment 26 #
2013/0181(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1
Article 15 – paragraph 1
In line with Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009, the national statistical institutes of the Member States (the NSI) shall ensure the required coordination on the MIP relevant data at national level. All other national authorities including national central banks and bodies responsible for employment and social statistics, shall report to the NSI for this purpose. The Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure the application of this provision.
Amendment 24 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) The free movement of workers is a fundamental freedom and right of EU citizens and one of the pillars of the internal market in the Union enshrined in Article 45 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Rights related to free movement of workers should be available to all persons concerned regardless of their status. Its implementation is further developed by Union law aimed at guaranteeing the full exercise of rights conferred on Union citizens and the members of their families. It is essential to ensure that this fundamental freedom always takes into consideration the principle of equality between women and men and the promotion of equal opportunities across the Union.
Amendment 26 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) The free movement of workers is also a key element to the development of a genuine Union labour market, allowing workers to move from high unemployment areas to areas where there are labour shortages, helping more people find posts better suited to their skills and overcoming bottlenecks in the labour market.
Amendment 29 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The free movement of workers gives every citizen the right to move freely to another Member State to work and reside there for that purpose. It protects them against discrimination on the grounds of nationality as regards employment, remuneration and other working conditions by ensuring their equal treatment in comparison to nationals of that Member State. It needs to be distinguished from the freedom to provide services, which includesProcedural and enforcement rights, which are an essential instrument to allow citizens to claim their right of undertakings to provide services in another Membes, should be available to all citizens moving within the Union regardless of their Sstate, fus or whichether they may send (‘post’) their own workers to another Member State temporarily to carry out the work necessary to provide these services thereare moving to another Member State under Article 45 or other provisions.
Amendment 36 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) WThe right of free movement of workers, has an important impact on family life and the educational and professional choices of workers and their partners; with respect to workers and workers' families exercising their right to free movement, Article 45 of the Treaty confers substantial rights for the exercise of this fundamental freedom, specified in Regulation (EU) No 492/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2011 on freedom of movement for workers within the Union and Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004. When applying Regulation (EU) 492/2011, Directive 2004/38/EC and the present Directive, Member States shall not discriminate workers and the members of their families on any ground listed under Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, including sexual orientation.
Amendment 37 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) Member States should ensure a mutual recognition of the various legal partnerships and the rights derived thereof in order to avoid any discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation or philosophical choices of migrant workers. Member States should also ensure that rights deriving from the adoption of a child are respected as this is a precondition when considering moving to another Member State for work purpose.
Amendment 38 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) However, tThe effective exercise of the freedom of movement of workers is still a major challenge and many workers, employers and public administration are very often unaware of their rights to free movement. They of EU citizens. Citizens still suffer from discrimination on the grounds of nationality when moving across European Union borders of the Member States. There is, therefore, a gap between the legislation and its application in practice that needs to be addressed. Concerned workers also suffer from exacerbated effects of multiple discriminations on grounds of racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation and sex. There is, therefore, a gap between the legislation and its application in practice that needs to be addressed. This gap also remains for some vulnerable groups such as domestic workers, persons with disabilities or illiterate persons. Specific measures should therefore be implemented to allow these groups to enjoy their right to work in another Member State.
Amendment 45 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) In the 2010 EU Citizenship Report ‘Dismantling the obstacles to EU citizens rights’ of 27 October 2010 , the Commission identified the divergent and incorrect application of Union law on the right to free movement as one of the main obstacles that Union citizens are confronted with in the effective exercise of their rights under Union law. Accordingly, the Commission announced its intention to take action to ‘facilitate free movement of EU citizens and their third-country national family members by enforcing EU rules strictly, including on non-discrimination, by promoting good practices and increased knowledge or EU rules on the ground and by stepping up the dissemination of information to EU citizens about their free movement rights’ (action 15 of the 2010 EU Citizenship Report). Additionally the European Commission in the 2013 EU Citizenship report1 addressed the need to remove administrative hurdles and simplifying procedures for EU citizens living, working and travelling in the EU; the non-discriminatory availability of instruments facilitating citizens' access to their free movement rights should be an integral element of this. __________________ 1 COM(2013)0269
Amendment 46 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) It is up to each Member State to decide whetherMember States are encouraged to attribute the tasks referred to in Article 5 of this Directive are attributed to an already existing bodyequality body designated in accordance with Article 13 of Directive 2000/43/EC or covering a wider range of discrimination grounds. In the case the tasks under Article 5 will be covered by expanding the mandate of an already existing body or structure, the Member State should ensure allocation of sufficient additional resources to the existing body for the performance of additional tasks in order to ensure the effective and adequate provision of all functions of the body and in particular that the performance of already existing tasks of these bodies will not suffer.
Amendment 47 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) In its Employment package of 18 April 2012 (Communication from the Commission ‘"Towards a job-rich recovery’) "), the Commission announced its intention to ‘"present a legislative proposal (information and advice) in order to support mobile workers in the exercise of rights derived from the Treaty and Regulation 492/2011 on freedom of movement for workers within the Union’. " and urged Member States to raise awareness of and access to rights conferred by EU law on the anti- discrimination, gender equality and free movement of workers and to open and facilitate access by EU nationals to their public sector posts in accordance with EU law as interpreted by the Court of Justice. The Commission also urged Member States to ensure the full application of Directive 2006/54/EC on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matter of employment and occupation.
Amendment 49 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Adequate and effective application and enforcement as well as awareness of rights are key elements in protecting the rights of workers, whereas poor enforcement undermines the effectiveness of the Union rules applicable in this area. and endangers the rights and protection of Union citizens.
Amendment 51 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) A more effective and uniform application of rights conferred by Union rules on free movement of workers without fragmentation of the concerned groups is also necessary for the proper functioning of the internal market.
Amendment 52 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) The application and monitoring of the Union rules on free movement should be improved to ensure workers and employers and their representatives as well as administration are better informed about theirfree movement rights, to assist and to protect themworkers and their families in the exercise of those rights, and to combat circumvention of these rules by public authorities and public or private employers.
Amendment 58 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) In order to ensure the correct application of, and to monitor compliance with, the substantive rules concerning workers' rights to free movement for work purposes, Member States should take the appropriate measures to protect themall persons moving in the European Union against both discrimination on grounds of nationality and any unjustified obstacle to the exercise of that right.
Amendment 59 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) To that end it is appropriate to provide specific rules for effective enforcement of the substantive rules governing the freedom of movement of workers regardless of their status, and to facilitate better and more uniform application of Article 45 of the Treaty and of Regulation (EU) No 492/2011.
Amendment 62 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) In this context, workers who have been subject to discrimination on the grounds of nationality, or to any unjustified restriction in exercising their right to free movement, should regardless of their status - being for example covered by free movement under Art. 45, seconded, posted or performing agency work - have adequate and effective means of legal protection and redress. When Member States only provide for administrative procedures they shall ensure that any administrative decision may be challenged before a tribunal in the sense of Article 47 of the Charter.
Amendment 63 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 14 a (new)
Recital 14 a (new)
(14a) Workers are more likely to have their rights respected if they are organised through interest representation. Member States should facilitate and support the organisation and interest representation of workers from other Member States in particular vulnerable workers such as seasonal workers and domestic workers or sex workers.
Amendment 63 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1
Article 5 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall designate a structure, a body or bodies for the promotion, analysis, monitoring and support of equal treatment of all workers or members of their families without discrimination on grounds of nationality and make the necessary arrangements for functioning of such bodies, including guaranteeing their complete independence. Member States shall ensure that these bodies have a gender sensitive approach at all stages of the process. These bodies may form part of agencies at a national level with similar objectives butas those referred to in Article 13 of Directive 2000/43/EC or covering a wider range of discrimination grounds. In that case, the Member State shall ensure allocation of sufficient resources to the existing body for the performance of additional tasks in order to ensure the effective and adequate provision of all functions of the body and in particular that the performance of already existing tasks of these bodies will not suffer.
Amendment 80 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) Member States should make information about employment terms and conditions more widely available to workers from other Member States, to employers and to other interested partiesall relevant information regarding housing, healthcare security, social tax advantages and disincentives for the worker's partner, tax and benefits relating to childcare and pensions' rights widely available and easily accessible in the relevant languages to workers from other Member States, to employers and to other interested parties. Member States should ensure that affordable language courses for workers and their family members are available.
Amendment 92 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 23
Recital 23
(23) This Directive lays down minimum requirements, thus giving the Member States the option of introducing or maintaining more favourable provisions. Member States have the possibility and are encouraged to extend the personal scope of this directive to all persons working in another Member State in the European Union and their families regardless of their status. Member States also have the possibility to extend the competencies of the organisations entrusted with tasks related to the protection of Union migrant workers against discrimination on grounds of nationality so as to cover the right to equal treatment without discrimination on grounds of nationality of all Union citizens and their family members exercising their right to free movement, as enshrined in Article 21 TFEU and Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States . The implementation of the present Directive shouldall not serve to justify any regression in relation to the situation which already prevails in each Member State.
Amendment 97 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) After a sufficient time of implementation of the Directive has elapsed, the Commission should prepare a report on its implementation, evaluating in particular the opportunity to present any necessary proposal aiming to guarantee a better enforcement of the Union law on free movement. This evaluation should take a gender sensitive approach.
Amendment 99 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 27
Recital 27
(27) This Directive respects the fundamental rights and observes the principles recognised in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, notably the freedom to choose an occupation and the right to engage in work (Article 15), the right to non-discrimination (Article 21 and in particular Paragraph 1 concerning non-discrimination on the ground of sex and Paragraph 2 concerning non-discrimination on the grounds of nationality), the right to collective bargaining and action (Article 28), fair and just working conditions (Article 31), the right to freedom of movement and residence (Article 45) and the right to an effective remedy and a fair trial (Article 47). It has to be implemented in accordance with those rights and principles.
Amendment 102 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
This Directive lays down provisions facilitating uniform application and enforcement in practice of rights for workers and their families moving in the Union, including those conferred by Article 45 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and by provisions of Articles 1 to 10 of Regulation (EU) No 492/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2011 on freedom of movement for workers within the Union.
Amendment 103 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) conditions of employment and work, in particular as regards non-discrimination on any ground, remuneration and dismissal;
Amendment 106 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(ba) rights at work;
Amendment 107 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b b (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b b (new)
(bb) health and safety at work
Amendment 108 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) access to social and tax advantages including social security;
Amendment 110 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
(ca) access to social security including healthcare;
Amendment 111 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) membership of trade unions and other work-related bodies;
Amendment 115 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point g
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point g
(g) access to education including early childhood education and childcare for workers' children.
Amendment 119 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 a (new)
This Directive shall apply to all Union citizens who for the purpose of work move to or reside in another Member State and to their family members.
Amendment 122 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that judicial and/or administrative procedures, including where they deem it appropriate, conciliation procedures, for the enforcement of the obligations relating to free movement including under Article 45 and 49 of the Treaty and Articles 1 to 10 of Regulation (EU) No 492/2011, are available to all workers and members of their families regardless of their status who consider they have suffered or are suffering from discrimination or unjustified restrictions to their right to free movement or consider themselves wronged by failure to apply the principle of equal treatment to them, even after the relationship in which the discrimination is alleged to have occurred has ended.
Amendment 127 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Member States shall set up or adapt existing information systems to ensure that workers and their families regardless of their language skills are aware of their rights, the existence of support structures, their mechanisms and procedures.
Amendment 128 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 b (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Member States shall ensure that workers initiating judicial or administrative proceedings shall not receive any unfavourable treatment by their employer as a consequence of this action.
Amendment 129 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 c (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Member States shall ensure in line with national laws and practices that necessary mechanisms are in place to ensure that workers are able to claim and receive any due entitlements and/or that third parties can act on their behalf to this end.
Amendment 130 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 d (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Member States shall ensure that effective, proportionate and dissuasive sanctions are in place for unjustified restrictions to the right of free movement and to the principle of equal treatment.
Amendment 135 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
2. Paragraph 1rovisions of Article 3 shall apply without prejudice to national rules on time limits for enforcement of those rights. These time limits shall be such that they cannot be regarded as capable of rendering virtually impossible or excessively difficult the exercise of rights conferred by Union law.
Amendment 142 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that associations, organisations or other legal entities, which have, in accordance with the criteria laid down by their national law, a legitimate interest in ensuring that the provisions of this Directive are complied with, may engage, either on behalf of or in support of the worker and members of his/her family, with his/her approvalunless the persons concerned object, in any judicial and/or administrative procedure provided for the enforcement of rights under Article 45 of the Treaty and Articles 1 to 10 of Regulation (EU) No 492/2011.
Amendment 144 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 145 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 2
2. Paragraph 1rovisions of Article 4 shall apply without prejudice to national rules on time limits for enforcement of those rights. These time limits shall be such that they cannot be regarded as capable of rendering virtually impossible or excessively difficult the exercise of rights conferred by Union law.
Amendment 147 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1
Article 5 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall designate a structure, a body or bodies for the promotion, analysis, monitoring and support of equal treatment of all workers or members of their families without discrimination on grounds of nationality and make the necessary arrangements for functioning of such bodies. Member States shall ensure that these bodies have a gender sensitive approach at all stages of the process. Member states shall ensure that all workers regardless of their status before, during or after the mobility have non-discriminatory access to these bodies. These bodies may form part of agencies at a national level with similar objectives but covering a wider range of discrimination grounds. In that case, the Member State shall ensure allocation of sufficient resources to the new or existing body for the performance of additional tasks in order to ensure that the performance of already existing tasks of these bodies will not suffer.
Amendment 154 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) conducting independent surveys concerning discrimination on the basis of nationality and in combination with discrimination on the basis of on any other ground;
Amendment 161 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 3
Article 5 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall ensure that existing or newly created bodies are aware, make use of and co-operate with the existing information and assistance services at Union level, such as Your Europe, SOLVIT, EURES, Enterprise Europe Network and the Points of Single Contact. Member States shall ensure cooperation with existing information and assistance services provided by social partners, NGOs or other interested legal bodies. Member states shall ensure that labour inspections are involved in this cooperation and process and ensure that exchange of practices and information between labour inspections is an integral element of this.
Amendment 165 #
Amendment 167 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Member States shall encourage and support dialogue with appropriateconcerned non- governmental organisations, representative bodies and the social partners which have, in accordance with their national law and practice, a legitimate interest in contributing to the fight against discrimination on grounds of nationality with a view to promotingand for the principle of equal treatment.
Amendment 170 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Member States should ensure that the body for support of equal treatment actively promotes interest representation and ensures that workers and their families exercising their right to free movement are aware of and can make use of their rights.
Amendment 171 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1 b (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 1 b (new)
Member States shall facilitate and support the organisation of workers from other Member States in particular vulnerable groups working outside formal structures such as seasonal workers, care and domestic workers or sex workers. Member States shall also provide those workers with information on the possibilities of joining a trade union and facilitate the recognition of trade union membership in another Member State.
Amendment 174 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that not only the provisions adopted pursuant to this Directive together with the relevant provisions already in force in Articles 1 to 10 of Regulation (EU) No 492/2011, but also the wide range of other rules related to social security including family benefits, rights at work, conditions of work, tax, family recognition, language learning which are of importance to workers and their families are brought to the attention of the persons concerned by all appropriate means throughout their territory and regardless of the status of the individual.
Amendment 183 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Member States shall bring information related to further national provisions of relevance to workers and their families exercising their right to free movement to the attention of the concerned persons.
Amendment 188 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1
1. Member States may introduce or maintain provisions which are more favourable to the protection of the principle of equal treatment than those laid down in this Directive. Member States are invited to extend the scope of procedural rights to all concerned workers and their families regardless of whether it concerns free movement under Article 45 or other types of labour migration
Amendment 190 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2
2. Member States may provide that the competencies of the structures and bodies referred to in Article 5 for the promotion, analysis, monitoring and support of equal treatment of all workers or members of their families without discrimination on grounds of nationality, also cover crossborder workers and other workers as well as the right to equal treatment without discrimination on grounds of nationality of all EU citizens and their family members exercising their right to free movement, as enshrined in Article 21 TFEU and Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States.
Amendment 192 #
2013/0124(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1
No later than two years after the expiry of the deadline for transposition, the Commission shall report to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee on the implementation of this Directive, with a view to proposing where appropriate, the necessary amendments or legislative proposals.
Amendment 34 #
2013/0110(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a
Directive 78/660/EEC
Article 46 – paragraph 1 – point b – subparagraph 1 – introductory wording
Article 46 – paragraph 1 – point b – subparagraph 1 – introductory wording
(b) For companies whose average number of employees during the financial year exceeds 2500 and, on their balance sheet dates, exceed either a balance sheet total of EUR 2017,5 million or a net turnover of EUR 4035 million, the review shall also include a non-financial statement containing information relating to at least environmental, social and, employee and diversity matters, respect for human rights, anti- corruption and bribery matters, taking into account the company's complete supply chain, including:
Amendment 36 #
2013/0110(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a
Directive 78/660/EEC
Article 46 – Paragraph 1 – point b – subparagraph 1 – point iii a (new)
Article 46 – Paragraph 1 – point b – subparagraph 1 – point iii a (new)
(iiia) a description of the company's diversity policy for its administrative, management and supervisory bodies with regard to aspects such as age, gender, geographical diversity, educational and professional background, the objectives of this diversity policy, how it has been implemented and the results in the reporting period.
Amendment 38 #
2013/0110(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a
Directive 78/660/EEC
Article 46 – paragraph 1 – point b – subparagraph 1 – point iii b (new)
Article 46 – paragraph 1 – point b – subparagraph 1 – point iii b (new)
(iiib) gender segregated data on avarage pay of employees per hour over the reporting period;
Amendment 46 #
2013/0110(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 1 – point a
Article 2 – point 1 – point a
Directive 83/349/EEC
Article 36 – Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 – introductory wording
Article 36 – Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 – introductory wording
For parent undertakings of undertakings to be consolidated that together exceed an average number of 2500 employees during the financial year, and, on their balance sheet dates, exceed either a balance sheet total of EUR 2017,5 million or a net turnover of EUR 4035 million, the review shall also include a non-financial statement containing information relating to at least environmental, social and, employee and diversity matters, respect for human rights, anti- corruption and bribery matters, taking into account the company's complete supply chain including the following:
Amendment 48 #
2013/0110(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 1 – point a
Article 2 – point 1 – point a
Directive 83/349/EEC
Article 36 – Paragraph 1 –subparagraph 3 – point iii a (new)
Article 36 – Paragraph 1 –subparagraph 3 – point iii a (new)
(iiia) a description of the company's diversity policy for its administrative, management and supervisory bodies with regard to aspects such as age, gender, geographical diversity, educational and professional background, the objectives of this diversity policy, how it has been implemented and the results in the reporting period;
Amendment 50 #
2013/0110(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 1 – point a
Article 2 – point 1 – point a
Directive 83/349/EEC
Article 36 – Paragraph 1 – point a –subparagraph 1 – point iii b (new)
Article 36 – Paragraph 1 – point a –subparagraph 1 – point iii b (new)
(iiib) gender segregated data on avarage pay of employees per hour over the reporting period;
Amendment 37 #
2012/2301(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. InvitesCalls on Member States to support women's participation in the labour market by measures such as guaranteeing free access to publicaffordable childcare and care services for dependent persons, increasing resources for education, and professional qualification programmes, and by introducing generous paternity and maternity leave arrangements;
Amendment 43 #
2012/2301(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Regrets that increasing labour market participation of women is absent in the Annual Growth Survey 2013 despite the fact that it is one of the EU2020 headline targets. Calls on the Council to add promoting female labour market participation as a priority when adopting this year's economic policy guidance in the framework of the European Semester;
Amendment 23 #
2012/2293(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph E a (new)
Paragraph E a (new)
E a. Whereas homelessness is often perceived as affecting mostly men, however, research has shown that the typical form of homelessness among women appears to be "hidden homelessness", whereas women's strategies to avoid ending up in the street by staying at family or friends are in no way appropriate solutions,
Amendment 24 #
2012/2293(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph E b (new)
Paragraph E b (new)
E b. Whereas in some Member States mass evictions have forced families and single mothers to live on the street and this situation has lead to people, including elderly women, committing suicide.
Amendment 25 #
2012/2293(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph E c (new)
Paragraph E c (new)
E c. Whereas the economic crisis and the housing market prices, reduce the capability for women to divorce or end co- habitation, limiting their freedom and making them more vulnerable to gender- based domestic violence.
Amendment 26 #
2012/2293(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the Member States should increase the number of affordable housing options and support women in achieving financial independence, by providing them with conditions more conducive to reconciling work and family life; expresses its concern about Country Specific Recommendations aimed at limiting Member States' social housing sector as well as the Commission's restrictive approach in competition policy by limiting the qualification of SSGI to social housing for socially disadvantaged persons only;
Amendment 43 #
2012/2293(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Stresses that the different facets of homelessness among women must be addressed in a holistic way and should form an integral part of all EU policy frameworks, urges the Commission and the Member States to carry out systematic gender impact assessments and monitoring of homeless women's specific situation and needs,
Amendment 55 #
2012/2293(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Welcomes Directive 2011/0062 on credit agreements relating to residential property and notes that many families with mortgages have been victims of abusive closures; calls for an exceptional steps to be taken to guarantee housing rights all over Europe; calls on Member State to ensure that the dramatic social consequences of evictions are effectively dealt with;
Amendment 58 #
2012/2293(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Stresses the need for Member States to ensure sufficient availability of shelters for victims of violence;
Amendment 81 #
2012/2293(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that, under Protocol No 26 annexed to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, public authorities are free to determine how the social housing sector is organised and funded and what its target group is, with a view to meeting local needstypes of household are eligible, with a view to meeting the needs of local people; sees the intervention of public authorities here as a response to the shortcomings of the market, with the aim of ensuring universal access to decent, affordable housing in accordance with Articles 16, 30 and 31 of the European Social Charter;
Amendment 114 #
2012/2293(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the Commission to warn Member States, in its country-specific recommendations, when reforms are likely to threaten investment in social or affordable housing and not to issue recommendations regarding the size of the social housing sector in Member States; criticises the fact that, as part of fiscal consolidation programmes and in line with specific recommendations made by the Commission on housing market action, some Member States are squeezing capacity in the sector by taxing social housing providers;
Amendment 5 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
– having regard to the Council Conclusions (EPSCO) 17423/11 adopted on 1 December 2011,
Amendment 8 #
2012/2292(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas research shows that women are undeniably and persistently under- represented at all levels and in all arenas of social dialogue, whereas in contrast to governments/public authorities and trade unions, employers' organizations are consistently the least likely to have women's representation in social dialogue arenas and to take initiatives around gender equality;
Amendment 9 #
2012/2292(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. SPoints out that tripartite social dialogue and collective bargaining have undoubtedly great potential as vehicles for promoting gender equality; stresses the importance of collective bargaining between management and labour in order to improve the work-life balance;
Amendment 12 #
2012/2292(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Points out that patterns of representation at different levels (local, sectoral, cross-industry, national, cross national and international) are not well documented, stresses that data on women's representation in relation to age, sexuality, ability, class, ethnicity, citizenship status, and race are virtually non-existent; underlines the importance of disaggregating data,
Amendment 15 #
2012/2292(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Regrets that women's specific needs are overlooked in the various stages of collective bargaining; underlines that without a shift in the culture of bargaining itself (who is negotiating and how - which highlights leadership style), there may be little change in what is negotiated, stresses that struggles around diversity, equality, inclusive representation, and democratizing leadership inside institutions need to be linked to the collective bargaining and social dialogue agenda.
Amendment 18 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the number of European transnational company agreements has increased significantly and whereas this indicates that labour relations in large transnational companies in Europe are becoming increasingly integrated;
Amendment 25 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the legal status of these agreements at European level and in relation to national legal orders is unclear and this leads to legal uncertainty for both sides of industry;
Amendment 30 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas each EU Member State has its own system of relations between social partners, based on different historical developments and traditions, which has to be respected and does not require harmonisation but does need stronger coordination in the interest of workers across the EU;
Amendment 31 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
E a. whereas cross-border partnerships between social partners have proven to be good practices to promote free movement of workers and promote their respective rights across borders; whereas EU support for such cross-border partnerships is vital;
Amendment 32 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
E b. whereas all actors - the EU, the Member States and the Social Partners - need to adapt their practices to ensure adequate representation of Social Partners at the European level especially in relation to economic governance, to ensure the autonomy of the Social Partners and to avoid counter effects that might appear where Social Partners and Labour Markets are organized at sectoral, regional or national level while measures impacting on these are taken at European level;
Amendment 34 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas it is a particular feature of the European Social Dialogue that it promotes the preservation and growth of employment, improvements in working conditions and thus greater prosperity for employees of transnational undertakings by innovative means while preserving national autonomy in collective bargaining;
Amendment 35 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
G a. whereas there are borders in the EU where wages differ highly between one Member State and the other, even though the two bordering regions form a common economic region;
Amendment 36 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
G b. whereas a stable economic and monetary union requires addressing large macro-economic imbalances among Member States as a result of differences in business cycles, price and wage dynamics; whereas wages are not merely macro-economic adjustment variables but also the main source of income that people need for a decent living;
Amendment 37 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G c (new)
Recital G c (new)
G c. whereas despite efforts social partners have taken to coordinate their actions across borders, these initiatives have not been sufficient to prevent the emergence of serious imbalances and have now led to the undesirable situation where economic adjustment including on wages is enforced by public authorities in the context of the European Semester and Troika-programmes without proper social partner involvement, in a asymmetric non-transparent manner and at high social costs;
Amendment 38 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G d (new)
Recital G d (new)
G d. whereas a stronger European social dialogue and transnational collective bargaining could contribute to pro- actively avoiding the emergence of large macro-economic and social imbalances, including wage competition, in particular among EMU Member States;
Amendment 39 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G e (new)
Recital G e (new)
G e. whereas the Macroeconomic Dialogue currently consists of a confidential exchange of policy information which lacks ownership, transparency and is not effectively taken into account in collective bargaining processes at national or other relevant levels thereby failing to bring about timely adjustment in case of large wage divergences, in a socially responsible manner;
Amendment 40 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G f (new)
Recital G f (new)
G f. whereas businesses increasingly operate on a European level while the representation of workers is predominantly organised along national lines; whereas this asymmetry is negatively impacting the representation of workers interests and puts workers at risk of being played out against each other and being forced to agree to lower wages, worse working conditions or other downward adjustments;
Amendment 45 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that this resolution is concerned withHighlights the need to strengthen European and transnational company agreements concluded by European trade union federations and European employers or employers' federations, generallysocial dialogue and cross border collective bargaining where it is currently underdeveloped, establishing new channels for its development and develop balanced cross-border industrial relations; further stresses that transnational social dialogue can provide at sectoral level, andtting for more efficient cross border collective bargaining; notes that theis resolution does not concern international transnational company agreements (ITCA) signed by international trade union federations with undertakings;
Amendment 50 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Proposes that in the medium term an optional European legal framework should be adopted for these European transnational company agreementsCalls on the Commission to present a proposal for an optional European legal framework for European transnational collective bargaining before 2014;
Amendment 57 #
Amendment 58 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Calls on Social Partners, Commission, Council, and ECB as a matter of urgency to reform the Macroeconomic Dialogue with the aim of effectively preventing wage competition and excessive wage divergence in particular among EMU Member States and enabling social partners to play their full role in a reinforced economic governance structure;
Amendment 59 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Is of the opinion that a reformed macro-economic dialogue needs to be transparent and public, and that a broad general debate about appropriate wage policies should be launched that sets clear signals to the public and feeds into the European Semester process; suggests that the Macro-Economic Dialogue takes place in the European Parliament in the presence of relevant committees;
Amendment 60 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2 c. Calls on the Commission and Council to ensure that agreement on coordination achieved in the reformed Macro- Economic Dialogue is properly taken into account before the presentation of the Annual Growth Survey as well as before country specific recommendations are addressed to the Member States;
Amendment 61 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2 d. Stresses that the current over-focus on unit labour cost as a key indicator of the scoreboard for macro-economic imbalances has proven to be too one-sided and that governance based on it risks negatively impacting domestic demand, income security, and increasing poverty and inequality; highlights that when addressing diverging competitiveness in a reformed macro-economic dialogue and in the European Semester, account needs to be taken of capital and resource efficiency developments besides productivity and unit labour costs developments;
Amendment 62 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 e (new)
Paragraph 2 e (new)
2 e. Calls on the Commission, in close cooperation with the social partners, to develop a comprehensive vision on the strengthening of the coordination of transnational sectorial dialogue, including between sectors and addressing the crucial differences between the tradable and non-tradable sectors;
Amendment 63 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 f (new)
Paragraph 2 f (new)
2 f. Calls on the Commission to support Social Partners to take up a more important role at the European level amongst others through coordination, technical and financial support including translation, implementation guides, awareness-raising, continuous learning processes, monitoring and reporting;
Amendment 64 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 g (new)
Paragraph 2 g (new)
2 g. Calls on the European social partners to work with their national affiliates to achieve better gender balance in both participation rates and representation on the boards of committees;
Amendment 68 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1
Subheading 1
Optional legal framework for European transnational companyllective agreements
Amendment 75 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Proposes that the social partners take as their basis an optional European legal framework in order, even before negotiations at European level, to eliminate certain potential problems at source and in order to have their attention drawn toto take advantage of regulatory solutions which have proved useful and effective;
Amendment 76 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 120 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recommends, in the medium term, in view of the increasing transnationalisation of industrial relations, to task the Social Partners with assessing the long-term need of establishing over the next few years an independent three-tier system of European labour courts;
Amendment 124 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Calls on the Commission to create the framework conditions that allow for the establishment of transnational industrial relations in border regions;
Amendment 131 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Recommends the establishment of fundamental criteria for European transnational company agreements which the negotiating parties should discuss and whose outcome they should record in writing in order to prevent problems of subsequent interpretation and application; notes that the following points, in particular, should be covered: the mandating procedure, i.e. clarification of the legitimacy and representativeness of the negotiating parties between which agreements are concluded, the place and date of conclusion of an agreement, substantive and geographical scope, the most favourable clause and the non- regression clause, the period of validity, the preconditions for denouncing the agreement and the dispute settlement procedures; stresses that workers representatives entering into such negotiations should at least be given comparable rights given to European Works Councils under the European Works Councils Directive;
Amendment 135 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Draws attention to Complaint No 85/2012, which is pending before the European Committee of Social Rights, in the Laval case, and calls for the right to implementation of cross-border collective measures to be granted; stresses that the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR) has found the legislation that Sweden adopted as a result of the EU Court of Justice's ruling in the Laval case to be in violation of fundamental trade union rights;
Amendment 138 #
2012/2292(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Recalls in this context the good experiences made with cross-border partnerships between social partners and calls upon the European Commission and Member States to secure EU support for such cross-border partnerships in the future;
Amendment 2 #
2012/2280(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the Spanish authorities submitted the application for EGF financial contribution on 28 December 2011, supplemented by additional information up to 5 September 2012, and that its assessment was made available by the Commission on 19 October 2012; regrets the lengthy evaluation period of 10 months;
Amendment 3 #
2012/2280(BUD)
3. Welcomes the fact that, in order to provide workers with immediatespeedy assistance, the Spanish authorities decided to start the implementation of the measures on 19 March 2012 - well ahead of the final decision on granting the EGF support for the proposed coordinated package;
Amendment 4 #
2012/2280(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that the Spanish authorities inform that, in their assessment based on the experience with previous EGF applications, only 500 of the dismissed workers will choose to participate in the EGF supported measures; calls on the Spanish authorities to use the EGF support to its full potential;
Amendment 6 #
2012/2280(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Welcomes the fact that the design of the measures was consulted with the social partners and that the regional authorities, business representatives and the trade unions formed a special committee responsible for the coordination, management and implementation of the EGF project;
Amendment 8 #
2012/2280(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Regrets that the information on the training measures in the Commission proposal does not describe in which sectors the workers are likely to find employment and if the package is adapted to the future economic prospects in the region;
Amendment 9 #
2012/2280(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Regrets that the measures supporting entrepreneurship do not contain any financial support to set up own business while several financial incentives are offered for workers following training measures;
Amendment 10 #
2012/2280(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Welcomes the fact that a comprehensive package of information and publicity activities accompanies the EGF supported project;
Amendment 2 #
2012/2279(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Welcomes the Swedish application; deplores, however, the fact that, despite applying for EGF support, Sweden is among the countries undermining the future of the Fund after 2013 and blocking the extension of the crisis derogation;
Amendment 3 #
2012/2279(BUD)
2. Notes that the Swedish authorities submitted the application for EGF financial contribution on 25 May 2012, supplemented by additional information up to 20 August 2012, and that its assessment was made available by the Commission on 19 October 2012; welcomes the relatively speedy evaluation period;
Amendment 4 #
2012/2279(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the fact that, in order to provide workers with speedy assistance, the Swedish authorities decided to start the implementation of the measures on 20 December 2011, the same date as the start of the redundancy reference period, and the Swedish authorities aimed to help to the dismissed workers immediately and that the implementation of the coordinated package of personalised services started already on 20 December 2011 - well ahead of the final decision ton granting the EGF support for the proposed coordinated package;
Amendment 6 #
2012/2279(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that this is yet another EGF application addressing dismissals in the automotive sector and that with 16 applications this sector has been the subject of the most numerous EGF applications submitted both in relation to crisis and to globalisation criteria;
Amendment 7 #
2012/2279(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Regrets that Saab bankruptcy led to 20% increase in unemployment in the region of Trollhattan where the production plant was based; in this context, notes that the Swedish authorities targeted only 1 350 of 3 239 dismissed workers for EGF support; calls on the Swedish authorities to use the EGF potential to the full in favour of dismissed workers;
Amendment 9 #
2012/2279(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Welcomes the fact that the Swedish authorities underline the additionality of the measures contained in the package in comparison to regular services available to unemployed;
Amendment 10 #
2012/2279(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Welcomes the fact that the training offered is matched with the future skills and qualifications needs in the region and that it will be focused on growth areas such as greens jobs;
Amendment 11 #
2012/2279(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Notes the fact that the municipality developed positive relations with the social partners while assisting Saab workers; however, regrets that the Commission proposal does not include more detailed information concerning the consultation process of the social partners in the design and the implementation measures and in particular concerning the involvement, possibly financial, of Saab;
Amendment 12 #
2012/2279(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Notes that the payment appropriations in the EGF budget line 04 05 01 have been exhausted; however, is strongly critical of the fact that the Commission has decided to use the European Progress Microfinance Facility budget line in order to make the transfer for this application;
Amendment 2 #
2012/2278(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the Danish authorities submitted the application for EGF financial contribution on 21 December 2011, supplemented by additional information up to 23 August 2012, and that its assessment was made available by the Commission on 19 October 2012 and that its assessment was made available by the Commission only on 19 October 2012; regrets the lengthy evaluation periods and inquires why this particular Danish application required 10 months of assessment; urges the Commission to speed up the evaluation process;
Amendment 3 #
2012/2278(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Welcomes the Danish application; deplores, however, the fact that, despite several successful Danish mobilisations of the EGF under both the trade-related and the crisis related criteria, Denmark is among the countries undermining the future of the Fund after 2013 and blocking the extension of the crisis derogation; furthermore, it is of concern that Denmark is applying for the mobilisation of the EGF fund on behalf of the Flextronics International Denmark, established by the Singapore-registered Flextronics International Ltd, which is moving its facilities to Asia;
Amendment 5 #
2012/2278(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls for reciprocity in trade between the EU and third countries as an essential condition for EU companies to gain access to new non-European markets;
Amendment 6 #
2012/2278(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Notes that the Danish authorities inform that in their assessment only 153 of 303 workers dismissed would choose to participate in the measures; calls on the Danish authorities to use the EGF support to its full potential;
Amendment 8 #
2012/2278(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes that the region of Midtjylland, where the municipality of Skive is located, has already benefited from the EGF support by means of two applications, viz.: EGF/2010/017 Midtjylland Machinery and EGF/2012/003 Vestas;
Amendment 9 #
2012/2278(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Notes that the Danish authorities propose an expensive coordinated package of personalised services (EUR 12 891 per worker); welcomes, however, the fact that the package consists of measures that are additional and innovative compared to those offered regularly by the employment agencies and are adapted to assist different groups of workers in terms of skills and experience so that they can cope with the difficult local labour market;
Amendment 10 #
2012/2278(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Welcomes the fact that the vocational training courses target new areas of possible growth and that the design of the coordinated package is based on an in- depth research of the local labour market and of the features of the dismissed workers;
Amendment 11 #
2012/2278(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a Welcomes the fact that the coordinated package of personalised services also offers courses to start a new business which are foreseen for 20 workers; notes that no financial incentive is proposed for business start-ups;
Amendment 12 #
2012/2278(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Notes, however, the subsistence allowance of EUR 4 439 per worker for the participation in the measures and considers them as too high; recalls that the EGF should in future be primarily allocated to training and job search as well as occupational orientation programs and its financial contribution to allowances should always be of additional nature and in parallel to what is available to dismissed workers by virtue of national law or collective agreements;
Amendment 2 #
2012/2276(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Agrees with the Commission that the conditions set out in Article 2 (a) of the EGF Regulation are met and that, therefore, Finland is entitled to a financial contribution under that Regulation;
Amendment 3 #
2012/2276(BUD)
2. UnderlinNotes that the Finnish authorities submitted the application for EGF financial contribution on 4 July 2012, supplemented by additional information up to 21 August 2012, and that its assessment was made available by the European Commission only on 19 October 2012; welcomes the improvement of the evaluation processfact that the application was submitted immediately after the reference period allowing for instant response to the dismissals; welcomes also the speedy evaluation period by the Commission;
Amendment 4 #
2012/2276(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Regrets that the redundancies Salo in Finland and in Cluj in Romania (application EGF/2011/014/ RO/Nokia from Romania) stem from a corporate decision of Nokia to move its production plants to Asia and are part of its plan to reduce global employment in Nokia Corporation by 17 000 workers by the end of 2013;
Amendment 6 #
2012/2276(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that the Commission proposal indicates that another EGF application is expected to cover the second wave of dismissals in Nokia centre in Salo;
Amendment 8 #
2012/2276(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for reciprocity in trade between the EU and third countries as an essential condition for EU companies to gain access to new non-European markets;
Amendment 9 #
2012/2276(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes that the Salo area was heavily dependant on Nokia as an employer and grew into a highly specialised region in the information and communication technologies; notes that the dismissals in Nokia will seriously affect the local employment market as it is expected that the unemployment rate may rise to 17% as a result of the current Nokia redundancies;
Amendment 10 #
2012/2276(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Welcomes the fact that a widely representative working group has been set up to deal with the reorganisation of Nokia and advise on a range of issues such as well-being, studies, new jobs outside Nokia and business opportunities;
Amendment 11 #
2012/2276(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Considers the cost of the coordinated package of personalised services (approximately EUR 10 000 per worker) as high; notes, however, the fact that the package contains innovative measures like protomo - matching service for new business start-ups and that financial allowances to be covered by the EGF are limited; welcomes the fact that the measures are well described in the Commission proposal;
Amendment 12 #
2012/2276(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Regrets that there are no details concerning the types of training measures to be provided within the coordinated package and how these are matched with the local skills and qualification needs and possible areas of future growth in the region, given the structural changes it is currently undergoing;
Amendment 14 #
2012/2276(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Welcomes the fact that, in view of the structural changes in the region, the use of the EGF and the ESF and the division of responsibilities between the two Funds has been coordinated by a dedicated project group, involving regional authorities and the social partners, which established strategic guidelines and goals for the region;
Amendment 16 #
2012/2276(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Considers that the payment of subsistence allowances of EUR 7 500 per worker for 360 workers is excessive; recalls that the EGF should in the future be primarily allocated to training and job search as well as occupational orientation programs and its financial contribution to allowances should always be of additional nature and in parallel to what is available to dismissed workers by virtue of national law or collective agreements;
Amendment 17 #
2012/2276(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Regrets that the Commission proposal does not explain whether and how Nokia was involved in the creation of the package of services and possibly co- financing of the measures;
Amendment 2 #
2012/2275(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the Romanian authorities submitted the application for EGF financial contribution on 22 December 2011, supplemented by additional information up to 22 August 2012, and that its assessment was made available by the Commission on 19 October 2012 and that its assessment was made available by the Commission only on 19 October 2012; regrets the lengthy evaluation periods and inquires why this particular application required 8 months of assessment; urges the Commission to speed up the evaluation process;
Amendment 3 #
2012/2275(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Welcomes the first application of Romania for the EGF support;
Amendment 6 #
2012/2275(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Regrets that the redundancies in Cluj in Romania and Salo in Finland (application EGF/2012/006/ FI/Nokia from Finland) stem from a corporate decision of Nokia to move its production plants to Asia and are part of its plan to reduce global employment in Nokia Corporation by 17 000 workers by the end of 2013;
Amendment 7 #
2012/2275(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for reciprocity in trade between the EU and third countries as an essential condition for EU companies to gain access to new non-European markets;
Amendment 9 #
2012/2275(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes that the EGF already acted in favour of 1 337 workers dismissed in result of re-location of Nokia from Germany to Romania in 2008; now three years after the EGF has to act again as the production plant opened in Cluj following the closure in Germany was closed down in 2011 as a consequence of re-location to Asia; inquires whether, at the time of relocation from Germany, Nokia had benefited from any financial incentives on regional, national or European level (in particular from the cohesion funds) to locate its plant in Romania;
Amendment 10 #
2012/2275(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Notes that the Commission proposal indicates that another EGF application is expected to cover the second wave of dismissals in Nokia centre in Salo and therefore calls on the Commission to clarify to what extent Nokia itself supports the redundancy financially;
Amendment 11 #
2012/2275(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Regrets that the Commission proposal do not present any statistics concerning unemployment rates in the region concerned; notes, however, that in 2011 almost 40% of the total working population of the Cluj-Napoca region in the area of IT and communications worked in Nokia; judges that the impact of Nokia dismissals on the employment situation in the region is considerable;
Amendment 12 #
2012/2275(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Expects the Commission to explain whether and how Nokia was involved in the creation of the coordinated package of personalised service and possibly in co- financing;
Amendment 14 #
2012/2275(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Regrets that there are no details concerning the types of training measures and internships to be provided within the coordinated package and how these are matched with the local skills and qualification needs and possible areas of future growth in the region;
Amendment 2 #
2012/2265(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1 Agrees with the Commission that the conditions set out in Article 2(b) of the EGF Regulation are met and that, therefore, Italy is entitled to a financial contribution under that Regulation; therefore notes that the number of dismissed employees lies just above the intervention criteria;
Amendment 3 #
2012/2265(BUD)
2. Notes that the Italian authorities submitted the application for EGF financial contribution on 30 December 2011, supplemented by additional information up to 10 September 2012 and that its assessment was made available by the Commission on 19 October 2012; regrets the lengthy evaluation period of 10 months;
Amendment 5 #
2012/2265(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Welcomes the fact that the design of the measures was consulted with the social partners during several meetings;
Amendment 6 #
2012/2265(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Regrets that the information on the training measures in the Commission proposal does not describe in which sectors the workers are likely to find employment and if the training on offer is adapted to the future economic prospects and labour market needs in the region;
Amendment 8 #
2012/2265(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Notes that the payment appropriations in the EGF budget line 04 05 01 have been exhausted for 2012; however, is highly critical of the fact that the Commission decided to use the European Progress Microfinance Facility budget line in order to make the transfer for this application;
Amendment 48 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Calls on the Commission and Council to enter into an Interinstitutional Agreement with the Parliament in order to give the Parliament a full role in the drafting and approval of the Annual Growth Survey and the Economic Policy and Employment Guidelines;
Amendment 49 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Deplores the fact that priorities identified during last year's European Semester cycle, in particular those relating to job creation, job quality and the fight against poverty and social exclusion have not given the expected results and were not put at the centre of the AGS 2013;
Amendment 51 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that the economic situation and the social consequences of the crisis have further deteriorated during the last year and therefore stresses the importance of critically evaluating the short term impact of fiscal consolidation on employment and social inclusion, and stepping up the Member States' commitment to following the 2013 policy guidance, in particular in the employment and social policy area.
Amendment 54 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the European Council to ensure that the yearly policy guidance set out on the basis of the AGS is fully focused on fulfilling all the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth; Regrets that no EU2020 progress report was included in the AGS 2013, calls on the Commission to deliver this report in time before the Spring European Council meeting;
Amendment 58 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States to adoptincrease the necessary commitments in the 2013 National Reform Programmes 2013 towards the fulfilment of the Europe 2020 objectives; calls on the Commission to accommodate for public investments in EU2020 related expenditure in its assessment of Stability and Convergence Programmes and excessive deficit procedures;
Amendment 64 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Member States to adopt measures favourable to job creation such as labour tax reforms that provideincentives employment incentives, promote and support genuine and voluntary self-employment and business start-ups, improve the framework for doing -business, and facilitate the access to financing for SMEs, transform informal and undeclared work into regular employment, reform labour markets to make them more adaptive, dynamic and inclusive, modernise wage-setting systems to align wages with productivity developmentdevelop with social partners the coordination of collective bargaining across borders to ensure that wages develop in line with productivity developments within the boundaries of decent living wages, exploit the high employment potential of sectors such as the green economy, health and social care, and the ICT sector to create jobs.;
Amendment 76 #
Amendment 79 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Member States to take decisive measures to fight youth unemployment, including targeted active labour-market policy measures, measures tackling skills mismatches in the labour market, in particular by preventing early drop-out from school or apprenticeship schemes and ensuring that education and training systems provide young people with the relevant skills in an efficient way, and promote entrepreneurship and effective business development support for young people and frameworks securing the transition from education to work; by implementing the Youth Guarantee as proposed by the Commission without delay, and ensuring sufficient funding for it;
Amendment 80 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Urges Member States to develop comprehensive strategies for young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEET). Urges Member States to show financial solidarity in the development of these strategies towards Member States with limited fiscal space;
Amendment 96 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Member States, while pursuing sustainable, growth friendly and differentiated fiscal consolidation, to secensure efficient and sufficient investments in education and training.
Amendment 105 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Acknowledges the need to continue fiscal consolidation programmes in order to guarantee the sustainability of public finances, but warns about the negative short-termStresses that the impact of fiscal consolidation programmes should be evaluated critically with regard to their impacts on growth and employment effects thereofin the short term, especially in countries in recession or with marginal growth rates; Calls on the Commission and European Council to allow for investments to achieve the EU2020 strategy and to make full use of the flexibility in times of economic downturn that Regulation (EU) No 1175/2011 and Council Regulation (EU) No 1177/2011 provide for;
Amendment 111 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Considers that fiscal consolidation must continhas to be pursued in a proportionalte and growth-friendly manner and thatway and the rhythm of consolidation musthas to be differentiated across countries according to their fiscal space, in order to achieve the proper balance between potential to avoid negative growth and negative employment effects and the risks towhile ensuring medium and long term debt sustainability;
Amendment 116 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls on the European Council to ensure coherence between the different priorities in its policy guidance, so that fiscal consolidation does not compromise sustainable growth and job creation potential, increase poverty and social exclusion, or prevent the provision of public services of quality; believes that the main priority must be to put into place integrated reform measures and investments that promote growth and job creation while guaranteeing the sustainability of public finances;
Amendment 120 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26 a. Calls on European Council, should it endorse the first priority of the AGS "differentiated growth friendly fiscal consolidation", to specifically explain how this can be implemented in full compliance with the aim to increase social cohesion and combat poverty as outlined in its fourth priority "tackling unemployment and the social consequences of the crisis";
Amendment 121 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26 b. Calls on the Commission to include social indicators into the scoreboard for the correction of macro-economic imbalances such as income inequality and labour market participation;
Amendment 122 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Stresses the need to attain a correct balafull coherence between budgetary consolidation and economic measures on the one hand and social policy, growth and employment measures on the other.
Amendment 139 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Stresses the need to undertake the necessary reforms in order to guarantee the sustainability of pension systems; believes that retirement age shcould be linked toevaluated against the evolution of healthy life expectancy, but recalls that there is still scope to raise the actual retirement age without raising the mandatory retirement age by reducing early exit from the labour market in particular by improving working conditions; believes that, if actual retirement ages are to be raised successfully, reforms in pension systems need to be accompanied by policies thatprimarily need to develop employment opportunities for older workers' access to life-long learning, and introduce tax benefit policies giving incentives to stay longer at work, and support active healthy ageing;
Amendment 143 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Calls on the Commission to work with the Member States to ensure that austerity programmes do not hinder employment creation measures and growth-promoting policies, and do not compromise social protection; urges Member States to prioritise growth-friendly expenditure such as education, lifelong learning, research and innovation energy efficiency, and at the same time to ensure the efficiency of this spending;
Amendment 158 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
43. Welcomes the Commission's announcement that it is to present a youth employment package; calls on the Member States to promote and develop, in close cooperation with the social partners, a Youth Guarantee, with the aim of offering every young person in the EU a job, an apprenticeship, additional training or combined work and training after a maximum period of four months' unemployment; recalls that this can be co- financed by the European Social Fund; calls on the Commission to provide Member States and regions with technical assistance to make good use of the ESF in order to develop Youth Guarantee schemes; Calls on Member States to implement the Youth Guarantee with concrete measures;
Amendment 173 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53
Paragraph 53
53. Believes that structural labour market reforms should introduce internal flexibility to maintain employment in times of economic disruption, and ensure job quality, security in employment transitions, unemployment benefit schemes based on strict activation requirementlinked with reintegration policies that maintain work incentives while ensuring sufficient income, contractual arrangements to combat labour market segmentation, anticipate economic restructuring, and ensure access to lifelong learning;
Amendment 176 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55
Paragraph 55
55. Calls on the Member States to simplifyrove employment legislation where necessary, and support and develop conditions for offering more flexible working arrangements together with adequate level of social security, especially for older and younger workers, and to promote workers' mobility through mobility support schemes;
Amendment 180 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56
Paragraph 56
56. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to address the low level of labour market participation of disadvantaged groups, including people belonging to minorities (e.g. Roma) and people with disabilities, and to respect decent living wages at all times;
Amendment 184 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60
Paragraph 60
60. Calls on the Commission and the Member States in order to deepen the European labour market integration to take steps to improve mobility within and across labour markets and toby removeing legal and administrative barriers to free movement of workers within the EU in order to deepen European labour market integrationsuch as the transitional labour market restrictions for workers from Romania and Bulgaria and by improving the social security rights and working conditions of workers making use of their right to free movement; cCalls on the Member States to increase their use of EURES in order to enhance the matching of jobs and job-seekers across borders.;
Amendment 186 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 61 a (new)
Paragraph 61 a (new)
61 a. Calls on the Member States to ensure that negative effects of fiscal consolidation on gender equality, female employment and poverty are reversed by adopting a gender mainstreaming approach in national budgets, addressing stronger gender-specific recommendations to Member States, and disaggregating the EU 2020 headline targets and the corresponding national targets by gender;
Amendment 195 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 2.2 - 2nd paragraph
Recommendation 2.2 - 2nd paragraph
Member States should consider to reduce taxation on labour when fiscal conditions allow, especially well targeted temporary reductions in social security contributions or job subsidy schemes for new recruits,shift the tax burden away from labour towards environmentally harmful activities when fiscal conditions allow, stimulating new recruits and benefiting especially on low paid and low skilled workers, long-term unemployed and other vulnerable groups.
Amendment 199 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 2.3 - 1st paragraph
Recommendation 2.3 - 1st paragraph
Transform informal and undeclared work into regular employment amongst others by increasing the capacity of labour inspections.
Amendment 200 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 2.4 - 1st paragraph
Recommendation 2.4 - 1st paragraph
Amendment 203 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 2.5 - 1st indent
Recommendation 2.5 - 1st indent
- REffective retirement age should be linked to the evolution ofput on a sustainable footing, taking into account healthy life expectancy and inequalities in life expectancy.
Amendment 205 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 2.5 - 2st indent
Recommendation 2.5 - 2st indent
- Raise the effective retirement age by improving working conditions, reducing early exit from the labour market (for example by introducing tax benefit policies giving incentives to stay longer at work) and enable workers to make flexible transitions from work into retirement
Amendment 206 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 2.5 - 3rd indent
Recommendation 2.5 - 3rd indent
- Reforms in pension systems need to be accompanied by policies that developPolicies to increase employment opportunities for older workers, access to life-long learning, and support active healthy ageing need to be at the core of reforms in pension systems to prevent longer periods of unemployment for older workers;
Amendment 207 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 2.6 - 1st paragraph
Recommendation 2.6 - 1st paragraph
- ASusterity programmainable growth friendly fiscal consolidation measures should not hinder employment creation measures and growth-promoting policies, neither compromise social protection.
Amendment 208 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 2.6 - 2st paragraph
Recommendation 2.6 - 2st paragraph
- Member States should prioritise growth- friendly investments in education, lifelong learning, research and innovation and energy efficiency.
Amendment 213 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 2.8 - 1st paragraph
Recommendation 2.8 - 1st paragraph
Amendment 221 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 3.2 - 2nd paragraph
Recommendation 3.2 - 2nd paragraph
Member States and regions should promote and developimplement, in close cooperation with the social partners, a Youth Guarantee with the aim that every person under 25 years in the EU is offered a job, an apprenticeship, additional training or receives a good-quality offer of employment, continued education, an apprenticeship or a traineeship within four months of becombing unemployed work and training after a maximum period of four months’ unemployment leaving formal education.
Amendment 223 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 3.2 - 2nd paragraph a (new)
Recommendation 3.2 - 2nd paragraph a (new)
Urges the European Council to integrate progress on the implementation of the Youth Guarantees in the European Semester process
Amendment 228 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 5.1 - 1st indent
Recommendation 5.1 - 1st indent
- Introduction of internal flexibility together with adequate level of social security, with the objective to maintain employment in times of economic distress,
Amendment 229 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 5.1 - 1st indent a (new)
Recommendation 5.1 - 1st indent a (new)
- Putting in place the conditions for combining labour and care responsibilities
Amendment 230 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 5.1 - 3rd indent
Recommendation 5.1 - 3rd indent
Amendment 233 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 5.1 - 4th indent
Recommendation 5.1 - 4th indent
Amendment 235 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 5.1 - 6th indent
Recommendation 5.1 - 6th indent
Amendment 236 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 5.1 - 9th indent
Recommendation 5.1 - 9th indent
Amendment 237 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 5.1 - 10th indent
Recommendation 5.1 - 10th indent
- SimplifyImprove employment legislation and support and develop conditions for more flexible working arrangements, especially for older and younger workers.
Amendment 240 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 5.2 - 2nd paragraph
Recommendation 5.2 - 2nd paragraph
Remove legal and administrative obstacles and improve working conditions and social security to supporto free movement of workers within the EU in order to deepen the European labour market integration.
Amendment 242 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 5.3 - 1st paragraph
Recommendation 5.3 - 1st paragraph
The European Council should pay attention toinclude job quality in its 2013 policy guidance, in particular in relation toguarantee that workers’ have access to a core set of labour rights as enshrined by the Treaties and without prejudice to the Member States legislation, and that these are not compromised by other elements of the policy guidance.
Amendment 243 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 6.2 - 1st paragraph
Recommendation 6.2 - 1st paragraph
Tackle the increase ofhe European Council should make combating poverty and unemployment amongst all age groups, especially in-work poverty, poverty among people with limited or no links to the labour market and poverty among elderly people a priority in its policy guidance;
Amendment 244 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 6.2 - 4th paragraph a (new)
Recommendation 6.2 - 4th paragraph a (new)
Ensure that negative effects of fiscal consolidation on gender equality, female employment and poverty are reversed by adopting a gender mainstreaming approach in national budgets, addressing stronger gender-specific recommendations to Member States, and disaggregating the EU 2020 headline targets and the corresponding national targets by gender.
Amendment 245 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 6.2 - 5th paragraph
Recommendation 6.2 - 5th paragraph
Develop policies and measures to reduce in-work poverty, fostering a sufficient labour market participation in the household and facilitating upward transitions for those trapped in low-paid or precarious jobs.
Amendment 247 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 7 - 1st paragraph
Recommendation 7 - 1st paragraph
Pursue with fiscal consolidation programmes in order to guarantee the sustainability of public finances, but it has to continue in a proportional and growth- friendly way allowing for investments to achieve the EU2020 strategy and making full use of the flexibility that the Stability and Growth pact provides for.
Amendment 249 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 7 - 2nd paragraph
Recommendation 7 - 2nd paragraph
The rhythm of consolidation has to be differentiated across countries according to their fiscal space to reach the right balance between potentialavoid negative growth and negative employment effects and the risks to, while debt sustainability should be guaranteed;
Amendment 251 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 7 - 3rd paragraph
Recommendation 7 - 3rd paragraph
Ensure coherence between the different priorities in its policy guidance, so fiscal consolidation does not compromise sustainable growth and job creation potential, increase poverty and social exclusion, or prevents the provision of public services of quality.
Amendment 254 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 7 - 4th paragraph
Recommendation 7 - 4th paragraph
Attain a correct balafull coherence between budgetary consolidation and proposed economic reform measures on the one hand and social policy, growth andpoverty reduction and increasing employment measurrates on the other;
Amendment 255 #
2012/2257(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 8 - 3rd paragraph a (new)
Recommendation 8 - 3rd paragraph a (new)
Enter into an Interinstitutional Agreement with the Parliament in order to give the Parliament a full role in the drafting and approval of the Annual Growth Survey and the Economic Policy and Employment Guidelines;
Amendment 1 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)
Citation 3 a (new)
- having regard to United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325);
Amendment 5 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
(Ba) whereas women play an essential role in peace, stabilisation and reconciliation efforts, and that their contributions should be recognised and encouraged, in line with UNSCR 1325 and subsequent resolutions;
Amendment 16 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes with concern the lack of financial and human resources allocated to the functioning of governmental and independent institutions tasked with the initiation and implementation of gender equality measures in most countries; calls on authorities at all levels to accompany measures and action plans with adequate resources for their implementation; stresses that the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) may and should be used for projects related to the promotion of women's rights and gender equality, but that authorities in the countries themselves bear full responsibility for well-functioning implementation mechanisms for women's rights and gender equality;
Amendment 17 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes with concern the lack of statistical information on gender equality and on violence against women, necessary for monitoring implementation, that is standardised and may be compared over time, between accession countries and between EU Member States and accession countries; calls on the governments of Balkan accession countries to establish a common methodology for gathering statistical information together with Eurostat, EIGE and other relevant institutes; stresses that specific strategies need to be developed and existing strategies implemented to improve the position of women faced with multiple discrimination, such as Roma women, lesbian, bisexual or transgender women, women with disabilities, women of ethnic minorities, older women;
Amendment 24 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
(5a) Considers that genuine gender equality also rests on equality and non- discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity; encourages the governments of Balkan accession countries to address lingering homophobia and transphobia in law, in policy and in practice, including legislating on hate crimes, police training and anti-discrimination legislation;
Amendment 29 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
(6a) Calls on the governments of Balkan accession countries to recognise and support the role that civil society and women's organisations play in specific areas, such as promoting LGBT-rights, combating violence against women, increasing women's political participation and representation and promoting peace building efforts;
Amendment 31 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
(6b) Notes with concern that LGBT-rights activists and human rights activists who stress the importance of dealing with the past are regular targets of hate speech, threats and physical attacks and calls on the governments of Balkan accession countries to take specific measures to prevent and combat violence against women human rights defenders;
Amendment 42 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Albanian Government to implement the legislation laying down a 30% quota for women in political decision-makingbinding target of 30% for women in all legislative, executive and judicial organs, as well as in other public institutions, ensuring that the law is applied as strictly as possible and that dissuasive penalties are imposed for non- compliance, especially with a view to the parliamentary elections in 2013;
Amendment 43 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Albanian Government to implement the National Strategy for Integration and Development and the Law on Protection from discrimination by strengthening the Office of the Commissioner for Protection from Discrimination by establishing an appeals institution in the form of a Commissioner specifically for cases of gender discrimination;
Amendment 46 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
(9b) Calls on the Albanian government to propose gender sensitive reforms to the legislation on property rights, the penal code, the electoral law and labour laws;
Amendment 47 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
(9c) Commends Albania for the training given to judges on the implementation of gender equality legislation and measures against violence against women and for the possibility for victims of discrimination or violence to receive state- sponsored legal aid;
Amendment 48 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 d (new)
Paragraph 9 d (new)
(9d) Commends Albania for the decision on gender mainstreaming in the medium- term budget programme for all line Ministries and looks forward to seeing the results of its implementation;
Amendment 49 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
(10a) Calls on the Albanian parliament to establish a parliamentary committee dealing specifically with women's rights and gender equality;
Amendment 50 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
(10b) Calls on the Albanian government to implement the Gender Equality Law by appointing Gender Equality Employees, responsible for guiding gender mainstreaming and promoting and monitoring gender equality, in every Ministry and governing body and to promote inter-ministerial collaboration in this field;
Amendment 51 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)
Paragraph 10 c (new)
(10c) Calls on the Albanian Government to step up implementation, particularly at local level, of policy tools fostering women's rights, such as the National Strategy on gender equality, domestic violence and violence against women (2011-2015);
Amendment 52 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 d (new)
Paragraph 10 d (new)
(10d) Commends the Albanian authorities on the establishment of performance indicators to monitor the implementation of women's rights and gender equality measures, and the publication of the National Report on the Status of Women and Gender Equality in Albania 2012;
Amendment 54 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on all authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina to align legislation on gender equality as well as legal practice at different levels, in order to create a uniform legal situation in the country, and to strengthen the department responsible for gender equality at central level; calls on the BiH Government to put stronger emphasis on the implementation and harmonisation of the Law on Gender Equality of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Law on Prohibition of Discrimination with other laws at the state level;
Amendment 55 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
(11a) Notes with particular concern the discrimination of pregnant women and women who have just given birth on the labour market, and the differences in social security rights pertaining to maternity between different entities and cantons; calls on the BiH authorities to align social security rights for those who take maternity, paternity or parental leave across the country to a high standard, creating a uniform situation for all citizens;
Amendment 57 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
(12a) Commends the women in the BiH parliament for their cross-party debate on gender-based violence with the relevant ministers; calls on the BiH authorities to follow up on this debate with concrete measures to promote combating gender- based violence;
Amendment 59 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
(12b) Calls on the BiH government to harmonise the Law on Gender Equality of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the Election Law, concerning the composition of bodies of executive governance at all levels of decision making - municipal, cantonal, entity, and state level;
Amendment 60 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)
Paragraph 12 c (new)
(12c) Commends BiH on its legislation stipulating at least 40% of each gender in administrative functions in state and local government bodies, but notes that this has not led to 40% women in administration in practice; calls on the Bosnian authorities to draw up an action plan with clear timeframes and a clear division of responsibilities to implement this legislation;
Amendment 63 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)
Paragraph 13 c (new)
(13c) Calls on the Bosnian government to improve monitoring of existing legislation in the area of women's rights and gender equality, by including clear objectives in policies and action plans and clearly identifying the state institutions accountable for implementation; furthermore calls on Bosnian authorities at all levels to cooperate in gathering comprehensive statistical data on gender equality for the country as a whole;
Amendment 65 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
(14a) Calls on the Croatian authorities to fully implement the legislation stipulating 40% women on election lists for local and regional self-government bodies, Parliament and the European Parliament, considering that during the parliamentary elections in 2011, two thirds of political parties did not meet the prescribed target;
Amendment 67 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
(15a) Welcomes the local gender mainstreaming action plans especially in the Istria region, calls on the Croatian government to promote the adoption and implementation of such action plans throughout the country;
Amendment 69 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
(16a) Welcomes the progress made in Croatia in terms of the proper handling of cases of violence against women and gender discrimination by the police following targeted training of police officers in this field and encourages authorities to continue these actions; points out that cases are however still not always properly handled by the judiciary and calls on authorities to initiate actions to sensitise and train the judiciary too; furthermore calls on the Croatian government to make free legal aid available to victims of gender-based violence and discrimination;
Amendment 70 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
(16b) Asks the Croatian authorities to clarify in the National Strategy on Protection from Family Violence (2011- 2016) which authority is responsible for what action and to award proper funding to authorities and civil society organisations to implement the strategy
Amendment 71 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
(17a) Calls on the Kosovar government to promote a country-wide SOS hotline for victims of domestic violence and gender related violence, to create awareness of the possibilities for reporting and handling of cases;
Amendment 72 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
(17b) Commends the Kosovar government for placing the Gender Equality Agency under the Office of Prime Minister, and calls upon the government to ensure more efficient functioning of the Agency in implementing and monitoring the Law on Gender Equality without political interference;
Amendment 73 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
(19a) Urges the Kosovar government to recognise and work towards the implementation of the Pristina principles as established by the Kosovo women's summit in October 2012;
Amendment 75 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
(19b) Calls on the Kosovar government to recognise the victims of sexual violence during the conflict in 1998-1999 and to include this group as a special category in the law through an amendment to the Law on the status and the rights of the martyrs, invalids, veterans, members of Kosova Liberation Army, civilian victims of war and their families;
Amendment 76 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 c (new)
Paragraph 19 c (new)
(19c) Calls on the Kosovar government to clearly identify indicators for compliance and non-compliance in administrative instructions for the laws on gender equality and discrimination, to facilitate implementation and monitoring; furthermore calls on the government to establish a national registry and practice to collect data on gender-based discrimination and violence cases;
Amendment 80 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls onommends the Macedonian Government to make gender-based harassment and sexual harassment criminal offences, to ensure that both parents are allowed toon the new law proposal against sexual harassment or mobbing in the workplace, including fines for perpetrators, and calls for harmonisation thereof with the criminal code; welcomes the intention of the Marcedonian Government to change legislation to make sure both parents may take up parental leave or family leave in order to take care of sick relatives, and the recent adoption of changes to the labour law to afford better legal protection on the labour market for women who are pregnant or have just given birth;
Amendment 82 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
(20a) Commends Macedonian authorities on the addition of dissuasive penalties for non-compliance to the law stipulating a representation of at least 30% of each gender in political decision-making; calls on the Macedonian government to monitor closely whether this results in at least 30% women in decision-making, especially at local level;
Amendment 83 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)
Paragraph 20 b (new)
(20b) Commends the Macedonian parliament on the active 'women's club' where female members of parliament of different parties cooperate to promote women's rights and gender equality, among others through public debates, conferences and international events, while cooperating with civil society and addressing delicate or marginalised issues such as sexual education in primary schools, domestic violence, HIV, cervical cancer, hate speech and the position of women in rural areas;
Amendment 86 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Notes that the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy mechanism for dealing with complaints of gender discriminations of the Legal Representative within the Department for Equal Opportunities, responsible for providing legal advice in cases of unequal treatment between women and men, does not function properly, calls upon on the Macedonian Government to take measures to improve the handling of complaintsits functioning;
Amendment 89 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Notes with concern the fragmented implementation of the action plans and strategies for gender equality and the lack of overall coordination of efforts; calls on the Macedonian Government to increase the financial and human resources available to the Department for Gender Equality; as well as to ensure appointment and effective functioning of Coordinators for Equal Opportunities at national and local level;
Amendment 90 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
(22a) Welcomes the progress made in combating gender-based violence, among others the increase in reports through awareness campaigns, training of specialised police officers and agreement on protocols between institutions in the handling of reports; however notes with concern that the number of shelters for victims of domestic and other forms of gender-based violence is not sufficient;
Amendment 92 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
(24a) Commends the Montenegrin government on the drafting of the new National Action Plan for Accomplishing Gender Equality in cooperation with civil society, and the inclusion of strategic and operational goals in this plan; calls on the government to afford sufficient human and financial resources to its implementation and to establish a framework for continuing cooperation with civil society in the implementation phase;
Amendment 93 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Welcomes the inclusion of gender equality measures in the Montenegrin reform programme for accession; calls on the Montenegrin Government to prioritise actions to implement gender equality provisions in the accession negotiations on Chapter 23, ‘Judiciary and Fundamental Rights’' as well as with other relevant chapters (chapter 19, social policy and employment, chapter 24, justice, freedom and security and chapter 18, statistics);
Amendment 94 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
(25a) Commends the Montenegrin government on the progress made in addressing domestic violence by the adoption of a Code of Conduct on procedures for coordinated institutional response; however notes with concern that domestic violence remains a great concern in Montenegro and calls on the Government to award sufficient funds and efforts to the implementation of legislation and the Code of Conduct, to introduce a national SOS helpline and to collect data;
Amendment 95 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)
Paragraph 25 b (new)
(25b) Notes with concern the low number of complaints of gender-based discrimination and violence; calls on the Montenegrin government to invest in raising awareness of women's rights and legislation against violence and of the possibilities to report and address violations;
Amendment 96 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 c (new)
Paragraph 25 c (new)
(25c) Welcomes the efforts made by the Montenegrin Parliament to methodically research the implementation of equality legislation;
Amendment 97 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls on the Serbian Government to further implement the National EU Integration Programme by establishrengthening mechanisms within the Ministry for Human and Minority Rights to monitor the application of the law prohibiting discrimination, and to improve the administrative capacities of bodies dealing with gender equality; including the Equality Protection Commissioner and the Deputy Ombudsperson for Gender Equality;
Amendment 98 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
(26a) Commends the Serbian government on the electoral code stipulating that election lists for Parliament must include a member of the underrepresented sex every third candidate, and for the full implementation thereof, which has resulted in 34% of women in Parliament;
Amendment 99 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Serbian Government to trainreinforce the training of law enforcement officers in the police and judiciary in awareness and proper handling of cases of gender-based discrimination and violence, to make free legal aid available to victims and to address the general problem of the backlog of cases before the courts;
Amendment 100 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
(27a) Commends the progress made in combating domestic violence by adoption of a general protocol on procedures for cooperation in situations of domestic and partner-relationship violence, the introduction of a telephone helpline and the opening of a new shelter; however notes that domestic violence is still a great concern in Serbia; calls on the government to award sufficient funds and efforts to implement legislation and the protocol, to promote reporting of cases and to collect and share information and data between institutions, agencies and women's civil society organisations;
Amendment 101 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Commends the Serbian Government and Parliament on their close cooperation with civil society organisations in drafting and monitoring an extensive action plan to implement UN Security Council resolution 1325; calls on the government to make sufficient human and financial resources available for its implementation;
Amendment 102 #
2012/2255(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
(28a) Calls on the Serbian authorities to improve cooperation with civil society organisations for gender equality, especially at local level between local governments and local civil society organisations, in drafting, implementing and monitoring laws and policies on gender equality and gender-based violence and to provide structural funding for the work of organisations dealing with gender-based violence;
Amendment 3 #
2012/2234(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph A
Paragraph A
A. whereas the ageing of the population threatens to place a effects of an ageing population on the sustrainability onf public spending on social protection, sincfinances must be evaluated; whereas future pgenserations account for the largest proportion of such expenditureshould be able to benefit from adequate pension systems;
Amendment 5 #
2012/2234(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph A a (new)
Paragraph A a (new)
Aa. whereas in the current European debate, pension schemes are too often considered as a mere burden on public finance instead of essential instrument to combat old-age poverty and allow for redistribution over a lifetime of the individual and across society;
Amendment 27 #
2012/2234(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that in several Member States there is an urgent need to reform pension systems to take account of economic and demographic trends and improve Europe's growthin order to cope with population developments and changing labour markets, underlines that reforms need to be socially just and strengthen solidarity mechanisms and gender equality; underlines that reforms should involve social partners and relevant stakeholders and be prospectrly communicated to the citizens;
Amendment 29 #
2012/2234(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that pension policy is a key element of social policy, equally stresses that pensions are a mechanism of direct financial solidarity between generations as well as an investment in the future;
Amendment 31 #
2012/2234(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that the principle of equal treatment between women and men is applied consistently in pension insurance schemes and especially occupational pension schemes are not discriminatory against women so that they do not reinforce existing patterns that already put women at a disadvantage in terms of benefits and contributions;
Amendment 32 #
2012/2234(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Calls on the Commission and the EU Member States to carry out comprehensive impact assessments on all social security reforms, especially pension systems which may have a negative impact on women's employment and pensions rights, such as cuts in daycare and eldercare facilities, pension policies etc;
Amendment 37 #
2012/2234(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reiterates the need for Member States to take measures to eliminate the pay differential between women and men; urges the Commission to come forward with the revision of the existing legislation as demanded by Parliament in its resolution adopted 13 March 2012; notes that, despite countless campaigns, targets and measures in recent years, the gender pay gap remains stubbornly wide;
Amendment 48 #
2012/2234(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to embrace a life-course approach to pension taking the whole span of a person's working life into account, including career interruption and changes;
Amendment 55 #
2012/2234(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that women's long average periods of part-time unemployment, lower wages, fewer average hours of work have profound consequences for women's earnings, social security allowances and not least, in the longer run, their pensions;
Amendment 58 #
2012/2234(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. WelcomesTakes note of the Commission's intention of encouraging the development of complementary private retirement savings with a view to increasing the income of retired people; stresses that this option is available only to persons who have an adequate income which would enable them to contribute to such systems and therefore can only play a limited role in providing a decent income; stresses that encouraging private retirement savings should not lead to tax advantages that come at the expense of solidarity based pension systems;
Amendment 61 #
2012/2234(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Regrets the lowering of pension benefits in many Member States as a consequence of the severe escalation of the financial and economic crisis; deplores the severe cuts in the Member States hardest hit by the crisis that have pushed many pensioners into poverty or put them at risk of poverty; calls on Member States to ensure that the most vulnerable are spared and to pay due attention to the interests of future generations when distributing the negative impacts of the crisis on pension benefits;
Amendment 72 #
2012/2234(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises the likelihood of a long- term, low-growth economic scenario, which will require Member States to consolidate their budgets and reform their economies under austere conditions; subscribes, therefore, to the view expressed in the Commission's White Paper that people will need to build up complementary occupational and if possible private pension savingregrets that the Commission has not fully recognized the importance of 1st pillar pensions as protection for the most vulnerable and the direct relation between poverty-proof first-pillar pensions and the EU's poverty targets;
Amendment 88 #
2012/2234(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that first-pillar pensions remain the most important source of income for pensioners; calls on Member States towhen implementing reforms to their first-pillar systems aligning contributory years toto address the changing ratio between pensioners and people in working age by increasing the employment rate via a range of measures, also to prevent public pension costs crowding out other important government spending; calls on the Member States to ensure first-pillar pensions −- if necessary complemented by minimum income provisions −- to provide a universal decent minimum income above the poverty line ;
Amendment 103 #
2012/2234(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – introductory part
Paragraph 4 – introductory part
4. Observes that the crisis has revealed the vulnerability of both funded and pay-as- you-go pension schemes; recommends multi-pillar pension systems, consisting of at least: [...] calls on the Commission to ensure any existing or future regulation in the field of pensions to be conducive to multi-pillar pension schemes;
Amendment 110 #
2012/2234(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point i
Paragraph 4 – point i
Amendment 117 #
2012/2234(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point ii
Paragraph 4 – point ii
Amendment 130 #
2012/2234(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point iii
Paragraph 4 – point iii
Amendment 137 #
2012/2234(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Amendment 147 #
2012/2234(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recognises the importance ofpotential of well- regulated pension funds as substantial and reliable long-term investors in the EU economy; emphasises their significance for achieving the Europe 2020 strategy's headline targets concerning sustainable economic growth, more and better jobs and attaining socially inclusive societies; urgescalls on the Commission not to jeopardise the investment potential of pension funds when introducing or changing EU regulatioto propose initiatives to ensure that pension funds contribute to sustainable, social and innovative investment in line with the EU2020 strategy; urges the Commission to put a priority on ensuring that pension funds are not exposed to undue risk and that there are safety mechanisms in place for the insolvency of pension funds; calls on the Commission to focus on protecting consumers by lowering the investment risks of pension funds and increasing stable returns, especially when reviewing the directive on the activities and supervision of institutions for occupational retirement provision;
Amendment 151 #
2012/2234(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on Commission, Member States and social partners to ensure that young people are duly represented in the management of pension funds, and to ensure that any regulation of pension funds pays particular attention to the aim of providing adequate pensions to future generations resilient to financial market fluctuations/developments/shocks and demographic change;
Amendment 155 #
2012/2234(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Is of the opinion that to arrive at a comprehensive solution to the pension challenge, taking into account the need to work longer, to adapt working conditions and lifelong learning so as to enable people to have the option of working longer, consensus between governments and social partners is paramount;
Amendment 161 #
2012/2234(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Is of the opinion that urgent action is needed in most Member States to make their pension systems more inclusive and to include into their schemes persons not in work, thereby broadening the base of both contributors and beneficiaries, including especially self-employed, persons living on non-work income and migrants; stresses the high risk of old age poverty for migrants from third countries and calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve portability provisions for migrants from third countries;
Amendment 166 #
2012/2234(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the main thrust of the White Paper that suggestsregrets that in the White paper the Commission does not properly address the importance of universal poverty-proof first-pillar schemes in combating old age poverty; stresses that reducing poverty is an EU 2020 target and that pensioners are at a high risk of poverty across the EU; stresses that second and third pillar pensions are not available to the most vulnerable or persons with very low income and that shifting pensions systems there threatens the EU’s poverty targets; welcomes the fact that the White Paper focusinges on: balancing time spent in work and retirement; developing and safeguarding where they exist, solidarity- based complementary occupational and private pension savingpensions, and enhancing the EU's pension monitoring tools;
Amendment 177 #
2012/2234(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses that implementing structural reforms aimed at having people work more and longer is the only feasible way to generate the tax revenues and social and pension premiums needed to consolidate Member State budgets and toPoints to the risk of part-time work leading to only partial pension entitlements; calls on the Member States to put funds adequate, safe and sustainable pension schemes; points to the risk of part-time work leading to only partial pension entitlements; calls on the Member States to put funds asiside to combat the rising public costs of the retiring population; stresses the need to shift tax income from labour to environmental and capital taxation so as to support employment and re-stabilize public budgets, broaden to combat the rising public costs of the retiring populationhe tax base and creating a more just and equal sharing of burdens also in the social security system;
Amendment 197 #
2012/2234(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Emphasises the acceleration of the pressure posed by demographic developments on national budgets and pension systems now that the first cohorts of the ‘'baby boom generation’' retire; notes the uneven progress and levels of ambition across Member States in formulating and implementing structural reforms aimed at raising employment, phasing out early retirement schemes and putting both the statutory and effective retirement age on a sustainable footing with increases in healthy life expectancy; stresses that Member States that fail to implement gradual reforms now may at a later stage find themselves in a scenario where they have to implement reforms shock-wise and with significant social consequences;
Amendment 204 #
2012/2234(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Reiterates the call for closely linking pension benefits to years worked and premiums paid (‘'actuarial fairness’), to ensure that working more and longer pays off for workers by having a bet') in the third pillar privater pensions; recommends that the Member States, in consultation with social partners,iterates that actuarial fairness allow individual workers, on a voluntary basis, to continue working after the statutory retirement age, as extending the period of premiums paid while at the same time shortening the period of benefit eligibility can help workers reduce any pension gaps at a fast pacene does not recognize that people who work less years or pay less premiums contribute fundamentally to society by for example caring responsibilities or volunteering;
Amendment 223 #
2012/2234(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the social partners to adopt a life-cycle approach to human resources management and to adapt workplaces; calls on employers to come up with programmes to ensure that employees can work longer; calls on workers to engage actively in available training opportunities and to keep themselves fit for the labour market at all stages of their working life; calls on the Commission and the Member States to embrace a life-course approach to pensions taking the whole span of a person's working life into account, including career interruptions and changes, as it is flexible enough to adapt to individuals and if it is well-managed it can provide for financial sustainability of public pension systems; stresses the need to improve the integration of older workers into the labour market, to adapt workplaces and to remove discrimination at both ends of the age span in the labour market, both for young and old workers;
Amendment 249 #
2012/2234(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. WelcomNotes the call in the White Paper for developing fundsolidarity-based, complementary occupational pensions and private savings; stresses, however, that providing that there are countries effectively willing to reform their pension systems as such, the Commission should rather recommend collective mandatory occupational pension savings, as collective (second pillar) pension systems −- usually governed by (sectoral) social partners −- allow for solidarity within and between generations, whereas individual schemes do not; stresses the need to start building up complementary occupational pension systems now, despite the crisis;
Amendment 269 #
2012/2234(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Regrets the wide dispersion in characteristics and outcomes across Member States' occupational pension schemes as regards access, solidarity, cost- effectiveness, risk and return; welcomes the Commission's intention, in close consultation with the Member States, social partners, the pension industry and other stakeholders, to develop a code of good practice for occupational pension schemes; calls on the Commission and the Member States to reduce barriers to access such as long vesting periods and age restrictions; stresses the need to remove discriminatory elements from the existing occupational pension schemes; points to the fact that some Member States have increased barriers to social security including pensions during the crisis and this runs directly counter a number of EU2020 targets;
Amendment 290 #
2012/2234(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Recognises the significant heterogeneity of pension schemes across the EU yet emphasises the importance for workers changing jobs within or outside their Member State not to have their mobility hampered by concerns about acquiring and preserving occupational pension entitlements; endorses the approach advocated by the Commission to focus on safeguarding the acquisition and preservation of pensions entitlements, aiming at ensuring that dormant pension rights of mobile workers are treated in line with those of active scheme members or those of retirees; is of the opinion that mobility on the labour market is hampered by long vesting periods and calls on Member States to lower those; stresses that the EU should take a role in supporting mobile workers so that they can take their occupational pension rights to the next employer;
Amendment 292 #
2012/2234(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Notes the Commission's proposal to assess possible linkages between Regulation 883/2004/EC on the coordination of social security systems and ‘'certain’' occupational pension schemes; highlights the practical difficulties experienced in applying the said regulation to the 27 Member States' markedly differing social security systems; points to the complexity of applying a coordination approach to the tens of thousands of very divergent pension schemes operating in the Member States, and therefore questions the practicability of applying such an approach in the field of but stresses the need to increase the portability of second pillar occupational pensions;
Amendment 299 #
2012/2234(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work ambitiously to set up and maintain tracking services that enable citizens to track their employment- and non-employment-related pension entitlements and thereby make timely and well-informed decisions on additional, individual (third-pillar) pension savings; calls for coordination at EU level to ensure adequate compatibility of the national tracking services; welcomes the Commission's pilot project in this field; underlines however, that this initiative is no substitute for the portability of pensions rights;
Amendment 2 #
2012/2230(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Welcomes the fact that social partners adopted a social plan for the redundancies in Manroland and that two transfer companies will design and manage the coordinated package of personalised services;
Amendment 3 #
2012/2230(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that more than half of the EGF support will be spent on allowances - 2001 workers are said to receive during their active participation in the measures a short-time allowance (estimated cost EUR 2 727,67 per worker over 6-8 months) to complement a subsistence allowance paid by the public employment services on the basis of the net salary earned; further notes that the application includes a lump sum of EUR between 4 000 and EUR 1 000 as activation premium for 430 workers who accept a work contract with a lower salary than the one in their previous job;
Amendment 4 #
2012/2230(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the fact that, in order to provide workers with speedy assistance, the German authorities decided to start the implementation of the measures ahead of the final decision on granat the implementation of the coordinated package of personalised services started on 1 August 2012 - well ahead of the decision to grant EGF support by the budgetary authority; notes that redundant workers have also benefitted to from the ESF support before participating in the EGF support for the proposed coordinated packagemeasures; notes that the German authorities confirmed that necessary precautions have been taken to avoid double financing from Union funds;
Amendment 5 #
2012/2230(BUD)
5a. Recalls that that the EGF support should primarily be allocated to job search and training programs instead of contributing directly to financial allowances; believes that, if included in the package, EGF support should be of complementary nature and never replace allowances under the responsibility of Member States or companies by virtue of national law or collective agreements;
Amendment 7 #
2012/2230(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Welcomes the fact that the coordinated package of personalised measures seeks to enhance transborder mobility by supporting international job- search;
Amendment 8 #
2012/2230(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Notes that according to the German authorities the EGF coordinated package of personalised services constitutes a significant added value to the measures available under national and ESF funds;
Amendment 10 #
2012/2230(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Deplores the fact that, despite several successful German mobilisations of the EGF under both the trade-related and the crisis related criteria, Germany is among the countries undermining the future of the EGF after 2013 and blocking the extension of the crisis derogation;
Amendment 2 #
2012/2228(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Welcomes this call for the EGF financial contribution by the Danish Government even though this Member State has opposed the extension of the crisis derogation for the current EGF and jeopardises the future of the EGF after 2013;
Amendment 3 #
2012/2228(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Expresses concern about the relocation operation in this particular sector and calls on the Commission and Member States to continue stimulating demand for Europe's wind turbine manufacturers and associated industries, e.g. through the setting of mandatory national targets for the use of renewable energy post-2020;
Amendment 4 #
2012/2228(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the fact that, in order to provide workers with speedy assistance, the Danish authorities decided to start the implementation of the measures the implementation of the coordinated package of personalised services started on 12 August 2012 - well ahead of the final decision ton granting the EGF support forby the proposed coordinated packagebudgetary authority;
Amendment 7 #
2012/2228(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Notes that this is the third EGF application addressing the layoffs in the wind turbine industry, all of them from Denmark (EGF/2010/017 DK/Midtjylland Machinery and EGF/2010/022 DK/LM Glasfiber);
Amendment 8 #
2012/2228(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the fact that the relevant social partners and municipalities have been involved have been consulted during the preparation of the EGF application and retraining measuresdesign phase of the package and that they will be briefed on the implementation of the project;
Amendment 9 #
2012/2228(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes that the dismissals in the municipality of Ringkøbing-Skjern are the direct result of the strategic decision taken by Vestas group in November 2011 to reorganise its structure and increase proximity to its customers in the regional markets, especially in China; notes that this reorganisation will result in 2 335 layoffs world-wide and is estimated to bring EUR 150 million reduction in fixed costs to the group;
Amendment 10 #
2012/2228(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Notes that the EGF has already supported 325 of 825 Vestas group workers made redundant in the first round of dismissals taking place in 2009; inquires about the results of the coordinated package in terms of the reintegration rate of the dismissed workers on the labour market and if any lessons were learnt for the new deployment of the EGF in the region;
Amendment 13 #
2012/2228(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Welcomes the fact that the package contains considerable financial incentives for setting-up own businesses which will strictly be linked to participation in entrepreneurship courses and monitoring exercise at the end of the EGF project;
Amendment 15 #
2012/2228(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Notes, however, that more than half of the EGF support will possibly be spent on financial allowances - 720 workers are said to receive subsistence allowance (including student grants) which is estimated at EUR 10 400 per worker;
Amendment 17 #
2012/2228(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Recalls that that the EGF support should primarily be allocated to job search and training programs instead of contributing directly to financial allowances; considers that, if included in the package, the EGF support should be of complementary nature and never replace allowances under the responsibility of Member States or companies by virtue of national law or collective agreements;
Amendment 18 #
2012/2228(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Deplores the fact that despite eight successful Danish mobilisations of the EGF under both the trade-related and the crisis related criteria, Denmark is among the Member States undermining the future of the EGF after 2013 and blocking the extension of the crisis derogation;
Amendment 2 #
2012/2165(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Regrets the period of 27 months of assessment between the submission of the application on 5 May 2010 and the adoption of the proposal for a decision of the Budgetary Authority on 21 August 2012; notes that this is so far the longest period of assessment of an application for EGF mobilisation since its creation in 2007;
Amendment 3 #
2012/2165(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that the coordinated package of personalised services supported by the EGF is part of the voluntary redundancy plan launched to help 5 100 workers to leave PSA and which comprises also measures required by French national law in case of mass redundancies, like early retirement schemes;
Amendment 4 #
2012/2165(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that the EGF will only support measures additional to those required by virtue of national law falling within three strands of the redundancy plan: "professional or personal project", "redeployment leave" and "setting up or taking over a business"; requests more information on the features of the measures included in the coordinated package of personalised service making them additional compared to the measures obligatory under national legislation or collective agreements;
Amendment 5 #
2012/2165(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a Notes that the coordinated package includes allowances provided under the category "redeployment leave" amounting to an average of 5 105,18 EUR per worker offered to 1 080 workers; recalls that the EGF support should be primarily allocated to training and job search as well as training programs instead of contributing directly to unemployment benefits which are the responsibility of national institutions;
Amendment 6 #
2012/2165(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a Requests more information on the types of training provided, especially for employees older than 55 years, who represent more than 41,55% of targeted workers and highlights the importance of (re)training for active labour market measures in line with the future needs of the labour market so as to promote sustainable employment;
Amendment 7 #
2012/2165(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a Notes that the measures will not replace measures within the responsibility of the company under national law or collective agreements and that the measures target individual workers and will not be used for restructuring of PSA;
Amendment 9 #
2012/2165(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Recalls that the Commission in its Communication "Responding to the crisis in the European automotive industry" (COM(2009)0104) has presented an integrated approach to address structural problems by making the sector more competitive and more in tune with the needs of the future, to which EGF measures can positively contribute, albeit on a small scale;
Amendment 2 #
2012/2164(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Welcomes this call for the EGF financial contribution by the Dutch Government even though this Member State has opposed the extension of the crisis derogation for the current EGF and jeopardises the future of the EGF after 2013;
Amendment 3 #
2012/2164(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the Dutch authorities submitted the application for EGF financial contribution on 28 December 2011, supplemented by additional information up to 18 June 2012, and that its assessment was made available by the European Commission on 9 August 2012; welcomes the fact that regrets the lengthey evaluation process and submission of additional information by the Netherlands were speedy and accurateeriod;
Amendment 4 #
2012/2164(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that the application clearly states that 'cuts in public expenditure had a direct negative impact on investments in infrastructure and housing programmes', thus nurturing the vicious circle between austerity and the accelerated destruction of industrial jobs in the Union;
Amendment 5 #
2012/2164(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the fact that in order to provide workers with speedy assistance, the Dutch authorities decided to start the implementation of the measures on 2 January 2013 well ahead of the final decision on granting the EGF support for the proposed coordinated package;
Amendment 6 #
2012/2164(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Notes that the redundancies will have a noticeable impact on local communities and the number of open positions compared to the number of unemployed; regrets that the application does not provide any statistical data about the labour market concerned;
Amendment 7 #
2012/2164(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Welcomes the involvement of the social partners in the design of the coordinated package via the Mobility Center Zalco, a collective initiative of the parties involved in the Zeeland labour market;
Amendment 8 #
2012/2164(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Regrets that the information on the training measures does not describe in which sectors the workers are likely to find employment and if the package has been adapted to the future economic prospects in the region;
Amendment 10 #
2012/2164(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Welcomes the fact that the EGF contribution is planned to support solely active labour measures (training and counselling) and will not be used for allowances;
Amendment 3 #
2012/2160(BUD)
2. Notes that the Spanish authorities submitted the application for EGF financial contribution on 28 December 2011, supplemented by additional information up to 28 May 2012, and that its assessment was made available by the European Commission on 9 August 2012; observes that regrets the lengthey evaluation process of the application could have been more expeditiouseriod;
Amendment 4 #
2012/2160(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that the employment situation in the region is difficult as the unemployment rates reached 18,% for women and 16,32% for men in the end of 2011; welcomes the fact that EGF is seen as an efficient tool to support local labour markets and that the region has already applied for the EGF support (EGF/2010/003 ES Galicia / Textile sector);
Amendment 5 #
2012/2160(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that the Spanish authorities inform that in their assessment based on the experience with previous EGF applications, only 450 of the workers targeted for the EGF support will choose to participate in the measures; calls on the Spanish authorities to use the EGF support to its full potential;
Amendment 6 #
2012/2160(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the fact that, in order to provide workers with speedy assistance, despite the long approval process, the Spanish authorities decided to start the implementation of the measures on 23 March 2012, well ahead of the final decision on granting the EGF support for the proposed coordinated package;
Amendment 7 #
2012/2160(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Welcomes the fact that the regional authorities engaged in dialogue with the social partners in order to plan and implement the coordinated package of personalised services;
Amendment 8 #
2012/2160(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Notes that the coordinated package foresees several participation incentives to encourage participation in the measures: job search allowance (EUR 400) (lump sum) outplacement incentive (EUR 200), mobility allowance (EUR 180), on-the-job training allowance (EUR 300); recalls that the EGF support should be primarily allocated to training and job search as well as training programs instead of contributing directly to unemployment benefits which are the responsibility of national institutions;
Amendment 9 #
2012/2160(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Regrets that the information on the training measures does not describe in which sectors the workers are likely to find employment and if the package has been adapted to the future economic prospects in the region;
Amendment 11 #
2012/2160(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Regrets that the measures supporting entrepreneurship do not contain any financial support to set up own business while several financial incentives are offered for workers following trainings.
Amendment 2 #
2012/2157(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Regrets the decision of a Talk Talk to form alliances with three key non-EU providers where a significant bulk of work is being transferred, reflecting a strategy that is detrimental to EU industrial jobs and to the Europe 2020 strategy;
Amendment 3 #
2012/2157(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls for reciprocity in trade between the EU and third countries as a an essential condition for EU companies to gain access to new non European markets;
Amendment 4 #
2012/2157(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Notes that the dismissals took place in the South East region which has seen it employment rates decreased from 62,7 to 58,1% over the period 2007-2011 and suffers from the unemployment rate higher then the state average;
Amendment 5 #
2012/2157(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Regrets that TalkTalk decided to close the Waterford site was abruptly and left the workers only 30 day notice not allowing for proper discussion on the redundancy plan and nor the involvement of the social partners; regrets that no social partners were involved in the planning and design of the EGF application as no trade unions existed at Talk Talk level; notes however that the concerned workers were consulted directly;
Amendment 6 #