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4 Amendments of Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ related to 2015/2155(DEC)

Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 65
65. Notes that the average number of hours per week that staff interpreters spent in their booths in 2014 - an election year with lower demand - delivering interpretation services was 10,7 hours/week, but stresses that the work of interpreters is not confined to the average number of hours per week spent in the booth but includes other aspects such as preparation for meetings and training;
2016/03/14
Committee: CONT
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 68
68. Calls upon the secretary general to modernise the framework for the management of interpretation, with a view to increasing individual productivity and to bringing the working practices of interpreters into line with the changed needs of the house, provided that these changes do not jeopardise the quality of the service provided, which is the ultimate goal of interpretation;
2016/03/14
Committee: CONT
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 68 a (new)
68a. Takes the view that improving the provision of interpreting services, in particular together with the Commission within the framework of institutional cooperation, would help ensure that these services are used more efficiently;
2016/03/14
Committee: CONT
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69
69. Encourages the travel agency, bearing in mind the volume of business generated, to an intensify the comparison of prices. Calls on the travel agency to actively seek less expensive tickets when booking and, and seek to reach agreements with the main airlines with the aim of obtaining general, to offer more competitive prices; notes with concern that the staff in the travel agency have partly gained a reputation for their lack of cooperation and professionalism; calls for an improved servreater flexibility and more economical prices; calls on the travel agency to actively seek less expensive tickets when booking and, in general, to offer more competitive prices;
2016/03/14
Committee: CONT