7 Amendments of Marie-Thérèse SANCHEZ-SCHMID related to 2011/2293(INI)
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Member States to assess the need for a clear legal framework for volunteers and to draw up national strategies to promote the growth of volunteering activities, particularly in terms of adequate access to health and social protection;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Encourages the Member States to adopt the volunteering measurement method developed by the John Hopkins University and approved by the International Labour Organisation with a view to making available comparable statistics to gather information on cross-border volunteering in the EU and providing a clear picture of the significant contribution made by voluntary work;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Urges the Member States to develop mechanisms for validating non-formal and formal learning outcomes, which will improve the value and transferability of the skills acquired outside formal education, facilitating in particular the acquisition of additional ECTS credits at university thanks to volunteering and by including a standardised mechanism of recognition for the skills acquired through volunteering in the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS);
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15b. Calls on these authorities in particular to communicate existing European programmes to the actors and partners involved in volunteering, especially those with the ‘European territorial cooperation’ objectives of the cohesion policy and to facilitate access to them so that they can take advantage of them more effectively for their projects and cross-border activities;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission, in particular, to ensure that volunteering projects are included in all new funding programmes and suggests setting up a unit dedicated to volunteering in the Commission to maintain, develop and encourage efficient inter-service and inter-institutional coordination in order to promote the role of voluntary activities in all EU sectoral policies;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17b. calls on the European Commission to propose a European Statute for Associations to reduce the administrative costs related to cross-border activities and to simplify taxation for contributors, thereby promoting the establishment of voluntary structures on a European level which encourage mobility by making volunteering a truly European activity;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
Recommends that the Commission maintain the useful contact points set up both with ‘EYV 2011 Alliance’, which includes many civil society volunteering and networking organisations, and with the national coordinating bodies, strategic partners and spokesmen of the national governments in this sector, given the large variety of bodies responsible for volunteering in the EU; stresses the importance of contact networks and the exchange of good practices to distribute information about existing EU procedures which can help and support cross-border volunteering;