7 Amendments of Jürgen KLUTE related to 2011/2146(INI)
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas access to SGI should also be guaranteed from the point of view of human rights; whereas for this reason too the supply of SGI should be geared primarily to individual and social needs and only secondarily to profitability,
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Supports the concept of thresholds for exemption from the requirement to give notification of state compensatory payments for SGEI, with the associated lessening of the administrative burden; suggests, on the basis of the consultations carried out, that the thresholds which determine the application of the SGEI Decision should be raised and that the existing exemption without thresholds for hospital and social housing should be reconducted;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Asserts emphatically that public services must be of a high quality and accessible to all sections of the population; views with concern, in this regard, the restrictive stance taken by the Commission and certain Member States which, in relation to state aid for social housing associations, classify the services provided by such associations as social services of general interest (SSGI) only if they are reserved for socially disadvantaged persons or groups, this restrictive interpretation being at odds with the higher goal of fostering an appropriate social mix; asks the Commission to take on board the diversity of the missions entrusted to social housing providers by Member States' authorities in order to ensure the individual right of access to decent housing and to guarantee social cohesion in mixed urban structures;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to include long term investment costs for infrastructure necessary to the functioning of SGEI within the costs that compensatory payments may cover and to take on board in the methodology of the calculation of compensations, compensations as public support to long term investments needed to operate the SGEIs, including energy renovation investments programmes of buildings necessary to operate the SGEI such as hospitals, social housing, schools or elderly homes;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission, when negotiating bilateral trade agreements, to accept the public sector provision of SGEIs and SSGIs in partner countries; rejects the ‘negative list’ approach currently being taken in the CETA negotiations with Canada;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission, as part of the promised simplification of state aid rules, to introduce greater flexibility in the monitoring of over-compensation, as this would result in significant time and cost savings for both service providers and the public authorities; suggests, to this end, that, in the case of multiannual contracts, checks for over-compensation should be carried out only at the end of the contractual period; and to take on board any initiatives of prevention of overcompensations by the Member States such as the regulation of undertakings entrusted with the operation of SGEI in terms of obligation to reinvest any benefit in the financing of new SGEIs in deduction of new compensations;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Welcomes the Commission’s assertion that it wishes to exempt in principle further categories of SSGI from the requirement that aid to them be the subject of notification; calls for an assessment as to whethertakes the view that such an exemption should extend to care facilities for elderly people or people with disabilities, or to healthcare facilities and to child and youth welfare; calls on the Commission to assess whether the exemption should also extend to other areas;