BETA

Activities of Joanna Katarzyna SKRZYDLEWSKA

Plenary speeches (139)

Honey (A7-0440/2013 - Julie Girling)
2016/11/22
Enhancing worker mobility by improving the acquisition and preservation of supplementary pension rights (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2005/0214(COD)
Posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2012/0061(COD)
Hospitable environment for enterprises, businesses and start-ups to create jobs (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2013/2176(INI)
Equality between women and men in 2012 (A7-0073/2014 - Inês Cristina Zuber)
2016/11/22
Equality between women and men in 2012 (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2013/2156(INI)
Implementation of the Youth Guarantee (debate)
2016/11/22
European Semester for economic policy coordination: annual growth survey 2014 - European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social aspects - Single market governance (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2013/2194(INI)
Domestic passenger transport services by rail - Normalisation of the accounts of railway undertakings - European Union Agency for Railways - Single European railway area - Railway safety - Interoperability of the rail system (continuation of debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2013/0013(COD)
Promoting free movement by simplifying the acceptance of certain public documents (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2013/0119(COD)
Respect for the fundamental right of free movement in the EU (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2013/2960(RSP)
Review of the Lithuanian Presidency (debate)
2016/11/22
Access of goods and services to public procurement markets (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2012/0060(COD)
Effective labour inspections as a strategy to improve working conditions (short presentation)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2013/2112(INI)
Social protection for all, including self-employed workers (short presentation)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2013/2111(INI)
Women with disabilities (A7-0329/2013 - Angelika Werthmann)
2016/11/22
ILO Convention concerning safety in the use of chemicals at work (A7-0400/2013 - Jutta Steinruck)
2016/11/22
Gender aspects of the European framework of national Roma inclusion strategies (A7-0349/2013 - Lívia Járóka)
2016/11/22
CARS 2020: towards a strong, competitive and sustainable European car industry (A7-0391/2013 - Franck Proust)
2016/11/22
Programme for social change and innovation (A7-0241/2012 - Jutta Steinruck)
2016/11/22
Creative Europe programme (A7-0011/2013 - Silvia Costa)
2016/11/22
Common provisions on European funds - European Social Fund - European Regional Development Fund and the 'investment for growth and jobs' goal - European Regional Development Fund and the 'European territorial cooperation' goal - Cohesion Fund - European grouping of territorial cooperation (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2011/0268(COD)
Gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2012/0299(COD)
Erasmus for all programme (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2011/0370(COD)
Connecting Europe Facility - Trans-European transport network (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2011/0436(APP)
Electronic communications - Recent proposals to complete the digital single market (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2013/2080(INI)
EU citizens' mobility and Member States' welfare systems (debate)
2016/11/22
Private international law and employment (A7-0291/2013 - Evelyn Regner)
2016/11/22
Gendercide: the missing women? (short presentation)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2012/2273(INI)
Tackling youth unemployment: possible ways out (A7-0275/2013 - Joanna Katarzyna Skrzydlewska)
2016/11/22
Implementation of the EU youth strategy 2010-2012 - Tackling youth unemployment: possible ways out (debate)
2016/11/22
Implementation of the EU youth strategy 2010-2012 - Tackling youth unemployment: possible ways out (debate)
2016/11/22
Property consequences of registered partnerships - Matrimonial property regimes (debate)
2016/11/22
Impact of the crisis on access to care for vulnerable groups (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2013/2044(INI)
Conclusions of the European Council meeting (27-28 June 2013) (debate)
2016/11/22
Educational and occupational mobility of women (short presentation)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2013/2009(INI)
Women's rights in the Balkan accession countries (short presentation)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2011/2246(INI)
Implementation of the audiovisual media services directive (short presentation)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2012/2234(INI)
Adequate, safe and sustainable pensions (short presentation)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2012/2100(INI)
One year of European Citizens' Initiative in practice: evaluating experience and tackling obstacles (debate)
2016/11/22
Vietnam, in particular freedom of expression (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2013/2599(RSP)
Equal treatment between men and women in the access to and supply of goods and services (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2010/2043(INI)
Equal treatment between men and women in the access to and supply of goods and services (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2010/2043(INI)
Match-fixing and corruption in sport (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2013/2567(RSP)
Situation in Bangladesh
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2013/2561(RSP)
Impact of austerity on the living conditions of people with disabilities (debate)
2016/11/22
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)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2012/2116(INI)
Detention of human rights activists in Zimbabwe
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2013/2536(RSP)
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)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2012/2260(INL)
Sound level of motor vehicles (debate)
2016/11/22
Violence against women in India
2016/11/22
Human rights situation in Bahrain
2016/11/22
Youth guarantee (debate)
2016/11/22
One-minute speeches (Rule 150)
2016/11/22
Prevention of age-related diseases of women (short presentation)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2012/2129(INI)
Protecting children in the digital world (short presentation)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2012/2068(INI)
Social Investment Pact (short presentation)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2012/2003(INI)
Is ERASMUS in danger? (debate)
2016/11/22
Minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2011/0129(COD)
Women's working conditions in the service sector (short presentation)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2012/2046(INI)
Forced abortion scandal in China (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2012/2712(RSP)
Breaches of Schengen rules (debate)
2016/11/22
Development cooperation with Latin America (short presentation)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2011/2286(INI)
Cross-border voluntary activities in the EU (short presentation)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2011/2293(INI)
Equal pay for male and female workers for equal work or work of equal value (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2011/2285(INL)
A 2020 perspective for women in Turkey (short presentation)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2011/2066(INI)
Women and climate change (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2011/2197(INI)
Equality between women and men in the European Union - 2011 - Women in political decision-making (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2011/2295(INI)
Equality between women and men in the European Union - 2011 - Women in political decision-making (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2011/2295(INI)
One-minute speeches (Rule 150)
2016/11/22
Bologna process (short presentation)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2011/2180(INI)
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)
2016/11/22
Blind persons’ access to books (debate)
2016/11/22
European dimension in sport (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2011/2087(INI)
Danish Presidency Programme (continuation of debate)
2016/11/22
Review of the Polish Presidency (debate)
2016/11/22
European protection order (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2010/0802(COD)
European platform against poverty and social exclusion (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2011/2052(INI)
Implementation of Professional Qualifications Directive (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2011/2024(INI)
Sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child pornography - Children's rights in the European Union (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2010/0064(COD)
Agenda for new skills and jobs (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2011/2067(INI)
State of play of the Maternity Leave Directive (debate)
2016/11/22
Mobility and inclusion of people with disabilities (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2010/2272(INI)
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
2016/11/22
Accession of Bulgaria and Romania to Schengen (debate)
2016/11/22
Future of the European Globalisation Fund - Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1927/2006 establishing the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2011/0147(COD)
Tourism in Europe (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2010/2206(INI)
EU homelessness strategy (debate)
2016/11/22
Women entrepreneurship in small and medium-sized enterprises (short presentation)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2010/2275(INI)
Women and business leadership (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2010/2115(INI)
Explanations of vote
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2009/0156(NLE)
European Arrest Warrant (debate)
2016/11/22
Cooperation in vocational education and training to support the Europe 2020 strategy (short presentation)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2010/2234(INI)
Report: Zver - Youth on the Move: – a framework for improving Europe's education and training systems - Report: Honeyball - Early years learning - Report: Schaake - Cultural dimensions of EU external actions - Report: Sanchez-Schmid - Unlocking the potential of cultural and creative industries - Sarajevo as a European Capital of Culture in 2014 (debate)
2016/11/22
Free trade agreement with India (debate)
2016/11/22
EU policy framework to fight violence against women (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2010/2209(INI)
EU response to the migration flows in North Africa and the Southern Mediterranean, in particular, in Lampedusa - Migration flows arising from instability: scope and role of EU foreign policy (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2010/2269(INI)
Situation in Japan, including the nuclear power plant alerts (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2011/2644(RSP)
Pakistan - murder of Shahbaz Bhatti, Minister for Minorities
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2011/2612(RSP)
Explanations of vote
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2010/2095(INI)
Female poverty - Equality between women and men - 2010 (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2010/2138(INI)
Explanations of vote
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2009/0129(COD)
2010 progress report on Turkey (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2010/2996(RSP)
Adequate, sustainable and safe European pension systems (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2010/2239(INI)
One-minute speeches (Rule 150)
2016/11/22
Violation of freedom of expression and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in Lithuania (debate)
2016/11/22
International adoption in the European Union (debate)
2016/11/22
European Heritage Label (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2010/0044(COD)
Participation of Switzerland in the ‘Youth in Action’ programme and in the action programme in the field of lifelong learning (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2010/0231(NLE)
European Protection Order (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2010/0802(COD)
Tibet - plans to make Chinese the main language of instruction
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2010/2965(RSP)
Explanations of vote
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2009/0058(COD)
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)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2008/0193(COD)
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
2016/11/22
Failures in protection of human rights and justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2010/2857(RSP)
Security of gas supply (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2009/0108(COD)
Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2010/0115(NLE)
Social integration of women belonging to ethnic minority groups (short presentation)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2010/2041(INI)
Role of women in an ageing society (short presentation)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2009/2205(INI)
Zimbabwe, in particular the case of Farai Maguwu
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2010/2768(RSP)
North Korea
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2010/2769(RSP)
Novel foods (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2008/0002(COD)
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)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2009/2204(INI)
Outcome of the summit of 7 May 2010 and the ECOFIN meeting - What is the political relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the context of the current financial and economic crisis? - Consequences of the financial and economic crisis on the EU 2020 strategy and its governance - What is the relevance of the EU 2020 strategy in the framework of the current financial and economic crisis? (debate)
2016/11/22
University Business Dialogue (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2009/2099(INI)
Explanations of vote
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2009/2155(INI)
Volcanic ash crisis (debate)
2016/11/22
Equal treatment between men and women engaged in an activity in a self-employed capacity (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2008/0192(COD)
Question Hour with the President of the Commission
2016/11/22
South Korea – death penalty declared legal
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2010/2603(RSP)
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
2016/11/22
Explanations of vote
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2009/0105(COD)
Body scanners - Operation of intelligence services in the context of counter-terrorism strategies (debate)
2016/11/22
Equality between women and men in the European Union — 2009 (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2009/2101(INI)
Recent earthquake in Haiti (debate)
2016/11/22
Defence of the principle of subsidiarity - Display of religious and cultural symbols in public places (debate)
2016/11/22
Elimination of violence against women (debate)
2016/11/22
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)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2009/2135(BUD)
Passenger compensation in the event of airline bankruptcy (debate)
2016/11/22

Reports (1)

REPORT on tackling youth unemployment: possible ways out PDF (348 KB) DOC (236 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: EMPL
Dossiers: 2013/2045(INI)
Documents: PDF(348 KB) DOC(236 KB)

Shadow reports (3)

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)
2016/11/22
Committee: FEMM
Dossiers: 2010/2043(INI)
Documents: PDF(186 KB) DOC(89 KB)
REPORT on women’s working conditions in the service sector PDF (224 KB) DOC (141 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: FEMM
Dossiers: 2012/2046(INI)
Documents: PDF(224 KB) DOC(141 KB)
REPORT on a 2020 Perspective for Women in Turkey PDF (221 KB) DOC (132 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: FEMM
Dossiers: 2011/2066(INI)
Documents: PDF(221 KB) DOC(132 KB)

Opinions (1)

OPINION on the Agenda for New Skills and Jobs
2016/11/22
Committee: FEMM
Documents: PDF(120 KB) DOC(90 KB)

Shadow opinions (3)

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
2016/11/22
Committee: EMPL
Dossiers: 2011/2285(INI)
Documents: PDF(145 KB) DOC(95 KB)
OPINION on the future for social services of general interest
2016/11/22
Committee: FEMM
Dossiers: 2009/2222(INI)
Documents: PDF(119 KB) DOC(91 KB)
OPINION on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Year for Active Ageing (2012)
2016/11/22
Committee: CULT
Dossiers: 2010/0242(COD)
Documents: PDF(188 KB) DOC(496 KB)

Written declarations (2)

Written declaration on the investigation into the car crash which killed Oswaldo Payá

Written declaration on establishing 30 May as European Day of Foster Families

Amendments (508)

Amendment 25 #

2013/2182(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes that, in order to realise the benefits of OER, action leading to universal digital education should be supported, with the focus on good practices and their promotion in various environments;
2014/02/07
Committee: CULT
Amendment 69 #

2013/2182(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States to ensure coordinated and progressive education on internet safety in schools; recommends that complementary strategies be developed targeting parents and legal guardians, thereby strengthening the role of parental mediation; insists that the protection of the individual integrity and personal data of teachers and learners using OER must be assured;
2014/02/07
Committee: CULT
Amendment 83 #

2013/2182(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Urges the Member States to support teachers in their professional development by offering modern curricula in their initial education, and by providing in-service training geared to help them acquire a high level of digital competence; encourages the use of EU funds for this purpose;
2014/02/07
Committee: CULT
Amendment 130 #

2013/2182(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Welcomes the launch of the Open Education Europa portal, providing a single gateway to European OER, and calls for the portal to be strongly developed and promoted in the Member States;
2014/02/07
Committee: CULT
Amendment 2 #

2013/2173(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital A
A. whereas population ageing, incentives for early retirement, the financial crisis and, changes in production patterns and demand for increasing competitiveness require strong responses to enable older workers to remain active in the labour market;
2013/11/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 22 #

2013/2173(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to rely more on quantitative data when analysing the socioeconomic situation of older workers and to provide for a causal link between actions identified within operational programmes and the objectives pursued, since relying on these data will make it possible to accurately assess the situation going into the future;
2013/11/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 28 #

2013/2173(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for all barriers that hamper active aging and life-long learning opportunities to be monitored and removedto be monitored and removed, and for life-long learning to be supported, in particular, the acquisition of new qualifications and technical skills, such as computer skills and foreign language studies.
2013/11/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 171 #

2013/2158(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 a (new)
40 a. Calls on Member States to boost support for enterprises through tax incentives, subsidies for the fixed costs of employment, and through the possibility to access funding for on-site training, which will support enterprises to provide high quality employment and training offers, and will represent an investment in young people’s potential in an effective and targeted way;
2014/01/29
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 15 #

2013/2129(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas the history of Europe is inextricably linked with tragedy and the experience of various forms of totalitarianism, such as Communism, National Socialism, Fascism and other criminal systems which brought death and unimaginable suffering to millions of Europeansgreat achievements, as well as with countless tragedies and criminal systems which brought suffering and death to Europeans on a vast scale;
2013/10/29
Committee: CULT
Amendment 68 #

2013/2129(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas the trauma of 1939-45 must not be allowed to be repeated, andwe are currently in the longest period of peace and reconciliation in Europe's history and it must be ensured that the mistakes of the past are never repeated; whereas in that regard remembering and accurately portraying the past is of vital importance; whereas, also, the acceptance of historical lies or the denial of difficult episodes in history can lead to xenophobia and hatred; whereas the claim made for many years that the Katyń massacre was a German crime is a classic example of a historical lie;
2013/10/29
Committee: CULT
Amendment 92 #

2013/2129(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas education plays a key role in understanding history and promoting historical truth, especially among young people, whose knowledge of history often comes solely from electronic media;
2013/10/29
Committee: CULT
Amendment 128 #

2013/2129(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital H
H. whereas non-governmental organisations and the voluntary sector play a major role in documenting and uncovering the truth of totalitarian crimeshistorical truth;
2013/10/29
Committee: CULT
Amendment 209 #

2013/2129(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Acknowledges the sovereign role and position of the Member States in designing their own teaching programmes; calls, at the same time,Calls for selective memory to be avoided when theseeaching programmes are drawn up and condemns an instrumental approach to history and its political interpretation;
2013/10/29
Committee: CULT
Amendment 282 #

2013/2129(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on Member States to support ambitious history teaching programmes which do not gloss over the most difficult episodes; recognises that Member States have complete autonomy as regards the content of their teaching syllabus and seek to foster mutual understanding among peoples;
2013/10/29
Committee: CULT
Amendment 322 #

2013/2129(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Deplores the planned reduction in funds for the ‘Europe for Citizens’ programme, and calls on the Commission to guarantee funding for national and transnational educational and cultural projects which raise awareness of the darker episodes in Europe’s history;
2013/10/29
Committee: CULT
Amendment 21 #

2013/2112(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas illicitly employed workers suffer from secondary negative consequences such as the lack of access to training, the psychological constraints of having an accident or being caught, which in return affects the productivity of companies and the economy as a whole as well as from long- term consequences such as lack of right to old- age pension or very low pension benefits leading to a higher poverty risk;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 22 #

2013/2112(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas undeclared work is responsible for distortions of competition in the single market because it allows certain countries and companies to compete unfairly against others;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 83 #

2013/2112(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Highlights the problematic nature of labour inspection in respect of migrant workers from both EU and third countries, particularly in relation to the role and remit of national inspectorates; points out that national-level electronic systems, such as Belgium's LIMOSA system16 for the compulsory advance registration of foreign workers by employers, could substantially facilitate the task of labour inspection; __________________ 16 https://www.socialsecurity.be/foreign/de/e mployer_limosa/home.html.
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 87 #

2013/2112(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Points out that there is an important role to be played by the social partners, and particularly by workers' representatives, in ensuring that the existing rules are observed; calls on the Member States to institute the formal involvement of the social partners in labour inspection;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 106 #

2013/2112(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Draws attention to the specific situation of home workers and teleworkers who, in connection with their work at home or outside their employers’ place of work, can also be the subject of labour law abuses where employers fail to carry out their legal obligations towards them;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 126 #

2013/2112(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Recognises that there is a growing trend towards self-employment, outsourcing und subcontracting; considers that systems of general contractor liability for the entire subcontracting chaincould constitute a useful tool for improved monitoring of public procurement, and that they should be introduced in all Member States;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 143 #

2013/2112(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls on labour inspections to intensify well- targeted prevention and public education measures to increase the awareness of the importance of health and safety rules and procedures among citizens;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 156 #

2013/2112(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to introduce a European Agency fdevote adequate human resources to monitor cross-border matters concerning the abuse of employment protection rules and undeclared work, with a remit including inter alia the identification of letter-box companies, the control of transnational service providers, the introduction of further-training programmes, the identification ofto develop further- training programmes for inspectorates and to identify new ways of circumventing the rules, and the organisation of cross-border controlscome up with measures to support Member States in tackling undeclared work;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 163 #

2013/2112(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission to introduceconsider introducing, after a thorough impact assessment, a forgery-proof European social security card, onr another EU wide identity document which would be stored all the data needed to verify the bearer's employment relationship, including details of social security coverstatus and working hours, for example, and which would be subject to strict data-protection rules;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 166 #

2013/2112(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Commission to introduce a European early-warning system, for signalling breaches of employment protection rules and cases of undeclared work, which would promote the rapid exchange of information between Member States and would be accompanied by a blacklist so that abuses by employers could be nipped in the bud; points out that such an early-warning system could be modelled on the existing European consumer-protection early- warning system (RAPEX);deleted
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 172 #

2013/2112(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Considers that a European database on illegal employment can offer significant European added value in the effort to combat undeclared work;deleted
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 176 #

2013/2112(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Points out that the right of national inspection authorities to carry out inspections within non-national companies has hitherto been severely restricted; calls for A1 posting certificates to be entered in an EU-wide register in order to facilitate the control at national level of employment relationships among posted workers;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 192 #

2013/2112(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Criticises the Commission's suggestion, in relation to the directive on the enforcement of the Posting of Workers Directive, for closed lists of measures restricting national powers of inspection; considers it important that national labour inspectorates should be able to conduct inspections in every case where they deem it needful to do so;deleted
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 215 #

2013/2112(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. PointCalls outn that competition policy is implemented at European level; considers that, by the same token, measures to combat social dumping should be included in the EU treaties with provision for the Commission to implement them; considers that the Commission's powers in this regard should extend, as they do in the field of competition law, to the imposition of penalties on non-compliant companiee Commission to identify ways to better tackle social dumping cases in the EU and to come up with appropriate instruments;
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 220 #

2013/2112(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Considers it important that the Commission's rules against social dumping should be enshrined in a binding legal instrument; deems it necessary to introduce an EU-level labour inspection system for implementing the Commission's powers in this regard;deleted
2013/10/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 102 #

2013/2103(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Recognises that prostitutes are a high-risk group for HIV infections and other sexually transmitted diseases and that, owing to a disregard for medical checks, they are a source of infections for their customers;
2013/12/17
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 140 #

2013/2103(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls attention to the phenomenon of the prostitution of minors, which is not identical to sexual molestation and whose roots lie in difficult economic situations and an absence of parental care;
2013/12/17
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 150 #

2013/2103(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls attention to the phenomenon of ‘sponsoring’, which is the prostitution of underage girls or girls who have only just reached majority, in exchange for luxury goods or small sums of money which provide funds to cover day-to-day expenditure or expenses related to education;
2013/12/17
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 25 #

2013/2073(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that special attention should be paid to vulnerable groups at high risk of social exclusion, including people who are not in education, employment or training (NEETs), and disadvantaged youth; points out that the way in which young people’s careers begin has a major impact on their subsequent development;
2013/05/07
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 41 #

2013/2073(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the Commission’s proposals for a Quality Framework on Traineeships and an Alliance for Apprenticeships, aimed at promoting high-quality traineeships across the EU; calls, with this in mind, on the Member States to urgently implement the Youth Guarantee in order to combat youth unemployment, drawing effectively on the EUR 6 billion in EU funds available for the Youth Employment Initiative; calls on the Commission to give practical support to Member States implementing the Youth Guarantee; stresses that the Youth Guarantee must be integrated within the broader framework of active labour market policies while ensuring high standards;
2013/05/07
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 96 #

2013/2064(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Believes that voluntary work, as a method of informal learning, helps to develop skills and professional qualifications which make it easier for volunteers to enter or return to the labour market; asserts, therefore, that voluntary activities should be recognised by employers;
2013/09/05
Committee: CULT
Amendment 32 #

2013/2045(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Is strongly concerned at the budget cuts by Member States in the field of education, training and youth which might cause that young people will be locked out in both education and employment, and recalls that budget allocations to education and training should be perceived as a necessary and invaluable investment for the future;
2013/05/30
Committee: CULT
Amendment 40 #

2013/2045(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on Member States to undertake all necessary measures to prevent early school leaving and diminish level of drops-out and assure second-chance education of the highest possible standard which will reduce number of NEETs most vulnerable on long-term unemployment;
2013/05/30
Committee: CULT
Amendment 57 #

2013/2045(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on Member States to support recognition of non-formal education as it plays a vital role in preparing young people for the labour market by developing crucial interpersonal skills demanded by employers;
2013/05/30
Committee: CULT
Amendment 58 #

2013/2045(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses the need to promote technical studies and professions among girls, as choosing such a path would make women more competitive on the labour market;
2013/04/30
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 72 #

2013/2045(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that, in order to strengthen women’s overall position on the labour market and to promote entrepreneurship more effectively, regional and international cooperation between female entrepreneurs should be supported, and the creation of networks of platforms for the exchange of experience and best practices should be encouraged;
2013/04/30
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 77 #

2013/2045(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Urges the Member States to make the greatest possible financial commitment, including by drawing on funds from national budgets, to fighting youth unemployment while taking account of the issue of gender, maintaining the high level of effectiveness of expenditure and applying methods that are appropriate to the specific conditions of individual labour markets;
2013/04/30
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 88 #

2013/2045(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Urges young girls to become involved to a greater degree in the activities of youth and student organisations, and subsequently in NGO activities in order to strengthen their position and increase their influence on issues relating to women’s social situation, such as employment;
2013/04/30
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 124 #

2013/2045(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the involvement of all relevant stakeholders, including training and education providers, individual employerregional and local authorities, public and private employment services, social partners, individual employers, training and education providers, third-sector organisations, and health and other authorities, is essential for the successful implementation of a variety of measures fostering youth employment and employability in an integrated fashion; emphasises that measures must be flexible so as to meet the continuously evolving needs on the labour market;
2013/05/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 164 #

2013/2045(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the decision of the EPSCO Council on 28 February 2013 to agree on a Council recommendation on implementing a Youth Guarantee; recommends extending eligibility to graduates aged under 30; stresses that the success of this measure will be highly dependent on other factors, e.g. the infrastructure and capacity of public and strengthened private employment services, the availability of student places, the provision of training and, apprenticeships, and the transferability and implementation of successful experiences from other Member States; stresses that the Youth Guarantee must be integrated within the broader framework of active labour market policies and monitored while ensuring high quality standards;
2013/05/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 173 #

2013/2045(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Encourages the Member States to boost their support for enterprises, cooperatives, local and regional authorities and third- sector organisations wishing to participate in Youth Guarantee schemes in close cooperation with public and private employment services, including through tax incentives, subsidies for fixed employment costs, and the possibility of accessing funding for on-site training, which will support enterprises in providing high-quality employment and training offers, and will represent an investment in young people's potential in an effective and targeted way;
2013/05/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 196 #

2013/2045(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States to draw up in cooperation with local and regional authorities as well as with other potential stakeholders, further specific outreach strategies targeted on NEETs, which should combine effective forms of intervention aimed at tackling early school- leaving and the reintegration of early school-leavers with strategies facilitating a smooth transition from education to work, and an increase in the employability of young people, together with the removal of the practical and logistical barriers faced by young people with more complex needs;
2013/05/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 223 #

2013/2045(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States to support young entrepreneurs and self-employment among young people by simplify an access to financial resources available for starting up their own business and creating facilities and preferential conditions for starting up their own businesses, through, e.g., cutting red tape and introducing favourable tax policies;
2013/05/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 236 #

2013/2045(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Highlights that, while internet economy creates 2.6 jobs for every "off line" job lost, it is important that young people turn e-skills in programming, design or social marketing into job using available European and national funding;
2013/05/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 266 #

2013/2045(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on the Member States to develop their Vocational education and training (VET) systems in accordance with labour market needs and demands and to promote continuous dialogue between the VET providers and employers to ensure that school- leavers have skills and competences adapted to employers'' expectations;
2013/05/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 276 #

2013/2045(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Emphasises that the Alliance for Apprenticeship should also support European and national, regional and local campaigns for changing perceptions of vocational education, and should organise a regular forum for discussions on the monitoring of the European apprenticeship strategy with all relevant European and national stakeholders; stresses that incentives should also be provided to facilitate funding for crossborder training activities enabling companies and social partner organisations to become involved in establishing dual education systems;
2013/05/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 286 #

2013/2045(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Encourages the Member States to foster theregional and cross-border mobility of young workers by means of further progress towards the mutual recognition of qualifications and skills and enhanced coordination of national social security systems, especially as regards pension systems, as well as by continuing to invest substantially in language learning;
2013/05/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 296 #

2013/2045(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses the need to introduce reforms to EURES with the aim of proactively matching jobseekers and job-changers to existing vacancies, and where necessary, to reform public employment services so as to better target their activities and approaches on young people; stresses that raising of awareness of EURES is needed so as to increase its visibility and availability, as a career advice system that supports students in becoming more aware of their aspirations and capabilities, as well as of existing job opportunities; Additionally, highlights a necessity of stronger coordination between EURES and other portals and services for citizens and business (i.e. Europe Direct information points or the European Enterprise Network for SMEs), in order to achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness of the services provided;
2013/05/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 308 #

2013/2045(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Call on Member States to take all necessary actions, aside potential intensified mobility, to prevent the phenomena of brain drain through sustainable measures which assure that a good proportion of the highly-skilled labour forces will retain in individual countries;
2013/05/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 317 #

2013/2045(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Member States to develop personalised career counselling and guidance, starting already during secondary school, with the aim of enabling young people to make well-informed choices about their higfurther education, while introducing mechanisms that can monitor the opportunities offered and assess the success rate of those young people's subsequent transition to work;
2013/05/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 2 #

2013/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)
- having regard to the Declaration of the Right of the Child1 which states that the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth, __________________ 1 Adopted by UN General Assembly Resolution 1386 (XIV) of 10 December 1959
2013/07/02
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 8 #

2013/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 c (new)
- having regard to Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) motion for resolution of 11 May 2010 on 'Sex-selective abortion – 'Gendercide'', inviting its Member States to 'condemn sex-selective abortion, wherever and whenever it occurs',
2013/07/02
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 12 #

2013/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 22 a (new)
- having regard to ECJ ruling C-34/10 stating that as a matter of scientific fact a new human life begins at conception, and that the human embryo constitutes a precise stage in the development of the human body;
2013/07/02
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 67 #

2013/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
K a. whereas UN Treaty monitoring bodies have no competency to interpret these treaties in ways that create new State obligations or that alter the substance of the treaties; accordingly, any UN treaty monitoring body that interprets a treaty to include a right to abortion acts beyond its authority and contrary to its mandate ; whereas such ultra vires acts do not create any legal obligations for states parties to the treaty, nor should states accept them as contributing to the formation of new customary international law;
2013/07/02
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 71 #

2013/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that ‘health is a fundamental human right indispensable for the exercise of other human rights’ and that the EU cannot reach the highest attainable standard of health unless the SRHR of all are fully acknowledged and promoted;
2013/07/02
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 73 #

2013/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Recalls that the special committee set up by the United Nations General Assembly when preparing for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities regularly stressed that the term sexual and reproductive health did not create any new human right or any new international obligation for the States, and did not change the content of the right to healthcare as found in Article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: ''The Ad Hoc Committee notes that the use of the phrase 'sexual and reproductive health services' would not constitute recognition of any new international law obligations or human rights. The Ad Hoc Committee understands draft paragraph (a) [related to the health services, including sexual and reproductive services, to be rendered to the disabled persons] to be a non- discrimination provision that does not add to, or alter, the right to health as contained in Article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights or Article 24 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Rather, the effect of paragraph (a) would be to require States Parties to ensure that where health services are provided, they are provided without discrimination on the basis of disability.'' 1 __________________ 1 Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities, Report of the 7th session (New York, 16 January - 3 February 2006), Note 4, http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/right s/ahc7re¬port-e.htm:
2013/07/02
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 94 #

2013/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that even though it is a competence of Member States to formulate and implement policies on SRHR, the EU can exercise policy-making competence in the area of public health and of non- discrimination, and support better implementation of sexual and reproductive rights;
2013/07/02
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 117 #

2013/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. recalls that there exists no "human right to abortion" under international law, either by way of treaty obligation or under customary international law, and recalls that no international legally binding United Nations treaty can accurately be cited as establishing or recognizing a right to abortion;
2013/07/02
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 126 #

2013/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines that in no case must abortion be promoted as a family planning method; and recalls that following internationally legally binding obligations every child regardless of sex has the right to appropriate legal protection before as well after birth;
2013/07/02
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 131 #

2013/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Recommends that, as a human rights concern, abortion should be made legal, safe, and accessible to all;deleted
2013/07/02
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 215 #

2013/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 c (new)
23 c. Urges the Commission and the EEAS to fully respect the reservations on SHRH and abortion expressed by national governments in the concerned international treaties, conventions and programs;
2013/07/02
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 20 #

2013/2011(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that in particular self-employed women face obstacles in terms of individual access to and take-up of social security rights and that those obstacles have a long-term negative effect on the acquisition of social security rights; calls on Member States to reducmove administrative obstacles in accessing social security among self-employed;
2013/10/28
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 4 #

2013/2009(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
(Aa) whereas mobility is a multifaceted phenomenon having economic, social and family dimensions,
2013/01/29
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 8 #

2013/2009(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
(Ba) whereas the growth in education and vocational training for women is increasing their mobility,
2013/01/29
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 20 #

2013/2009(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Draws attention to the need to promote instruments such as EURES and Your Europe, which make it easier to find information about living and working in the various EU Member States, thereby facilitating the mobility of women;
2013/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 34 #

2013/2009(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Member States to include provisions relating to the protection of women’s rights in respect of occupational mobility when designing their national strategies and reform programmes:;
2013/01/29
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 36 #

2013/2009(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
(2a) Calls on the Member States to collect and analyse data on the difficulties, scale and structure of women’s mobility;
2013/01/29
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 59 #

2013/2009(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
(5a) Calls on the Member States to take action to eliminate the barriers to professional and social advancement which women face in the countries to which they have transferred their centre of interests but which are not their country of origin;
2013/01/29
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 55 #

2013/0124(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 11
(11) The application and monitoring of the Union rules on the free movement of workers should be improved to ensure workersthat they are better informed about their rights, to assist and to protect them in the exercise of those rights, and to combat circumvention of these rules by public authorities and public or private employers.
2013/09/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 87 #

2013/0124(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 22
(22) Member States should establish how employers, workers and other people can be provided with easily accessible, relevant information on the provisions of this Directive and the relevant provisions of Regulation (EU) No 492/2011, including information on the institutions charged with carrying out the tasks referred to in Article 5. This information should also be easily accessible through Your Europe and EURES.
2013/09/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 179 #

2013/0124(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall, through national contact points, provide clear, easily accessible, comprehensive and, up- to-date and multilingual information on the rights conferred by the Union law on free movement of workers and on available means of legal protection and redress. Member States are also encouraged to set up multilingual websites providing information on the free movement of workers. While selecting the languages to be made available, the Member States should focus above all on the largest nationality groups among mobile workers in a given country. This information should also be easily accessible through Your Europe and EURES.
2013/09/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 26 #

2013/0110(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 15
(15) Diversity of competences and views of the members of administrative, management and supervisory bodies of companies, including gender diversity, facilitates a good understanding of the business organisation and affairs. It has been acknowledged that gender diversity, especially in top positions, contributes to corporate governance, quality of decision- making and to the company's performance. Moreover, board diversity represents a benefit for the companies as board composition reflects demographic characteristics of key stakeholder groups such as employees, customers and investors. Furthermore, it enables members of these bodies to exercise a constructive challenge of the management decisions and to be more open to innovative ideas, addressing the similarity of views of members, the "group-think" phenomenon. It contributes thus to effective oversight of the management and a successful governance of the company. It would therefore be important to enhance transparency regardand to harmonise issues relating to the diversity policy, especially gender diversity, companies have in place. This would inform the market of corporate governance practices and thus put indirect pressure on companies to have more diversified boards.
2013/11/06
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 27 #

2013/0110(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 15 a (new)
(15a) Companies should ensure that gender considerations are taken into account in all of their operations to the same degree as other considerations, support the development of human resources, and guarantee a safe and healthy working environment.
2013/11/06
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 27 #

2013/0029(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 6
(6) Member States should also ensure that all functions necessary to the sustainable operations, maintenance, and development of the rail infrastructure will be managed in a consistent manner by the infrastructure manager itself, which does not prevent a Member State from having many managers operating on stand-alone rail lines or sections thereof.
2013/09/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 46 #

2013/0029(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 1 – point a
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 3 - point 2
‘infrastructure manager’ means any body or firm ensuring, in particular, the development, operation and maintenance of railway infrastructure on a network; development includes network planning, financial and investment planning as well as building and upgrades of the infrastructure; operation of the infrastructure includes all elements of the process of train path allocation, including both the definition and the assessment of availability and the allocation of individual paths, traffic management and infrastructure charging, including determination and collection of the charges; maintenance shall includes infrastructure renewals and the other asset management activities;
2013/09/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 47 #

2013/0029(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 1 – point b
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 3 - point 5
(b) Point 5 is deleted;
2013/09/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 48 #

2013/0029(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 2
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 6 - paragraph 2
(2) In Article 6, paragraph 2 is deleted;
2013/09/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 55 #

2013/0029(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 3 – point 5
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7 – paragraph 5
Where on the date of entry into force of this Directive, the infrastructure manager belongs to a vertically integrated undertaking, Member States may decide not to apply paragraphs 2 to 4 of this Article. In such case, the Member State concerned shall ensure that the infrastructure manager performs all the functions referred to in Article 3(2) and has effective organisational and decision- making independence from any railway undertaking in accordance with the requirements set in Articles 7a to 7c.
2013/09/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 62 #

2013/0028(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 1 – point a
Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007
Article 2 – point c
‘competent local authority’ means any competent authority whose geographical area of competence is not national and which covers the transport needs of, for example, a region, an urban agglomeration or a rural district;
2013/09/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 63 #

2013/0028(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 2
Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007
Article 2a – paragraph 1
Competent authorities shall establish and regularly update public passenger transport plans covering all relevant transport modes for the territory for which they are responsible. These public transport plans shall define the objectives of public transport policy and the means to implement them covering all relevant transport modes for the territory for which they are responsible. They shall at least include:
2013/09/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 69 #

2013/0028(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 2
Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007
Article 2a – paragraph 1 – point e
other operational requirements such as transport of bicycles, traffic management, contingency plan in case of disturbances.
2013/09/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 4 #

2012/2302(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas the cultural and creative sectors (CCS), by promoting the spread of innovation in other sectors, play a major role in the economic (with particular regard to SMEs) and social development of the Union and are an integral part of the Europe 2020 strategy for a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy;
2013/06/01
Committee: CULT
Amendment 6 #

2012/2302(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas the CCS make a significant contribution to promoting social cohesion, creativity and cultural and linguistic diversity in the Union;
2013/06/01
Committee: CULT
Amendment 20 #

2012/2302(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas the transition to the digital era represents an opportunity for the CCS in terms of unlocking their potential, the expansion of markets and, the development of new economic models, business opportunities and increasing their competitiveness;
2013/06/01
Committee: CULT
Amendment 24 #

2012/2302(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas the linkscooperation between training organisations and CCS companies should be strengthened in order to respond appropriately to their needs for specific skills, by promoting the creation of mixed skills;
2013/06/01
Committee: CULT
Amendment 33 #

2012/2302(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital H
H. whereas EU citizens need to be provided with a cultural and artistic education from an early age so as to make them aware of the arts, culture and the richness of Europe’s heritage, and thereby to promotbring out the creativity in them;
2013/06/01
Committee: CULT
Amendment 99 #

2012/2302(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Highlights the importance of supporting cultural access and education from an early age and on a lifelong basis in order to promote creativity and allow people to give free rein to their talentstalents to be developed;
2013/06/01
Committee: CULT
Amendment 103 #

2012/2302(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Highlights the urgent need to promote the creativity of young creators and to support public participation in the creation of culture;
2013/06/01
Committee: CULT
Amendment 114 #

2012/2302(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Considers that it is vital to provide appropriate support and funding and effective implementation instruments for the CCS;
2013/06/01
Committee: CULT
Amendment 181 #

2012/2302(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Notes that innovation-driven research should be supported with a view to expanding into new markets by offering innovative, creative products;
2013/06/01
Committee: CULT
Amendment 191 #

2012/2302(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Notes that the CCS are subject to dynamic transformation and enable the creation of clusters which drive progress and the development of cities and regions;
2013/06/01
Committee: CULT
Amendment 192 #

2012/2302(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22b. Recommends exploiting the hidden economic potential in the creative sectors so as to improve the quality of life in cities and regions;
2013/06/01
Committee: CULT
Amendment 193 #

2012/2302(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 c (new)
22c. Highlights the need to preserve the national heritage and promote the cultural content of a given region at home and abroad;
2013/06/01
Committee: CULT
Amendment 16 #

2012/2301(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas in a crisis situation, labour market policy focuses on influencing the general level of employment, and not on economically inactive women;
2013/01/09
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 37 #

2012/2301(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the crisis is adding to the difficulties in reconciling career and family roles; whereas the impact on employment of having children differs between women and men; whereas the labour-market participation rate for mothers is 12% lower than for women without children, while the employment rate for fathers is 8.7% higher than for men without children;
2013/01/09
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 2 #

2012/2263(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and, the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) to collect gender- disaggregand international and non-governmental organisations to make additional efforts in the gathering, monitoring and exchange of accurated data broken down by gender in order to have an exhaustive view of the number of female unaccompanied minors, in particular young girls, and examine their specific needs in order to set up concreteof this group with a view to providing them with support and implementing specific measures to address those issues and to exchange best practices to improve them;
2013/04/30
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 24 #

2012/2263(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the differences in conditions of detention within the Member States and invites the Commission and the Member States to reflect on harmonisation in this fieldbetween Member States in the conditions and rules pertaining to the detention of foreigners in centres and invites the Commission and the Member States to uphold fundamental human rights in this field; calls on the Member States to ensure that women in detention have the opportunity to stay in separate cells away from men in order to provide women with an appropriate level of privacy, unless the men are family members;
2013/04/30
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 29 #

2012/2263(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Member States to select mentors, advisors and assistants according to their gender based on the assumption that female minors will communicate better with female staff on some issues;
2013/04/30
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 2 #

2012/2134(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes that SMEs contribute to the activation of population in regions of lower job level and the increase in employment and meet the current needs of the population living there and have a positive effect on the development of local communities; therefore, development of SMEs seems to be one way of reducing disparities across the country;
2019/07/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 4 #

2012/2134(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Points out that SMEs can only create growth and jobs if favourable finance opportunities are also available at high risk;
2019/07/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 5 #

2012/2134(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Emphasizes that loan funds, which are targeted to micro-, small businesses and the unemployed who want to start a business, result in stimulation of local entrepreneurship, in particular investment accountability, which promotes the creation of new jobs;
2019/07/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 6 #

2012/2134(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Therefore welcomes the opportunity to make SMEs investments possible through structural funds; expects, however, that this access will be facilitated for SMEs and that they will be better informed about these possibilities;
2019/07/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 14 #

2012/2134(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Refers to the financial support for microfinance of micro-enterprises and to the financing of social enterprises which can create new jobs but expects that the Member States simplify their procedures so that also micro-enterprises can take this risk capital in an un-bureaucratic manner;
2019/07/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 15 #

2012/2134(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Welcomes support for SMEs, e.g. through the Cultural and Creative Sector Loan Guarantee Facility, whose aim is to foster the capacity of the private sector in order to deliver growth, job creation and innovation by supporting start-ups, SMEs, micro-finance, knowledge transfer and investment in intellectual property;
2019/07/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 37 #

2012/2134(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls for improved and easier access to information on funding opportunities for SMEs at regional and local level;
2019/07/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 11 #

2012/2098(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Draws attention to the need for CSR to be incorporated into the curricula of educational establishments at all levels, including business schools, and into training programmes for managers and employees of small and medium-sized enterprises;
2012/11/16
Committee: CULT
Amendment 24 #

2012/2098(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for the idea of sponsorship to be promoted among employers;
2012/11/16
Committee: CULT
Amendment 28 #

2012/2098(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Points to the important contribution CSR can make in creating opportunities for learning and growth, shaping and promoting social attitudes, civic commitment and social integration by way of high-level of interaction with society;
2012/11/16
Committee: CULT
Amendment 35 #

2012/2098(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls for research to be conducted into the reasons for the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of the various CSR strategies implemented;
2012/11/16
Committee: CULT
Amendment 11 #

2012/2097(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Draws attention to the need for corporate social responsibility to be incorporated into the curricula of educational establishments at all levels, including business schools, and into training programmes for managers and employees of small and medium-sized enterprises;
2012/11/16
Committee: CULT
Amendment 24 #

2012/2097(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for the idea of sponsorship to be promoted among employers;
2012/11/16
Committee: CULT
Amendment 28 #

2012/2097(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Points to the important contribution CSR can make in creating opportunities for learning and growth, shaping and promoting social attitudes, civic commitment and social integration by way of high-level of interaction with society;
2012/11/16
Committee: CULT
Amendment 35 #

2012/2097(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls for research to be conducted into the reasons for the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of the various CSR strategies implemented;
2012/11/16
Committee: CULT
Amendment 84 #

2012/2097(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Strongly supports the recognition, in the Commission communication, that ‘helping to mitigate the social effects of the current crisis’ is part of the social responsibility of enterprises; calls on businesses to undertake initiatives for youth job creation and employment not only of rank-and-file workers but also of senior management staff from the local labour market as a practical example of their commitment;
2012/11/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 92 #

2012/2097(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Notes that compliance with legislation on physical working conditions, establishing procedures and policy on recruitment and dismissal, the protection of workers’ data and privacy and the timely payment of remuneration and other benefits are also part of CSR, and calls for them to be respected;
2012/11/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 103 #

2012/2097(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Notes that the establishment of skills development and lifelong learning programmes for workers, regular individual assessments of workers and a talent management programme as well as the setting of individual business and development goals for workers increases their motivation and commitment and is an essential part of CSR;
2012/11/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 104 #

2012/2097(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Points out that, particularly in times of crisis, companies operating in accordance with CSR should help to develop the innovative capacities of their region by introducing innovative and environmentally friendly technological solutions in production facilities and through new investments and modernisation;
2012/11/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 127 #

2012/2097(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Notes, too, the need to develop and establish mechanisms for reporting human rights violations within individual businesses;
2012/11/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 182 #

2012/2097(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Notes that to enhance the credibility of a business's actions, the social report should be verified by an external body;
2012/11/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 59 #

2012/2047(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Welcomes the initiatives of young girls in form of protests and petitions, e.g. the petition with more than 84,000 signatures delivered to ´Teen Vogue`, in which teens express their disapproval of the skewed body image presented in mass media and who being a target audience and product purchasers can have a significant impact on manufacturers, internet providers, media and advertising;
2012/07/20
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 65 #

2012/2047(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls for introducing of the video clips control system in the form of age appropriate signs, which would help parents in verifying the content of video clips and adapting then to a child's age;
2012/07/20
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 83 #

2012/2047(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Recommends the introduction into school curricula, in cooperation with parents and under their control, of a subject entitled: ‘Preparation for family life with elements of sexual education’, where definition of family should be understand according to national laws of Member States, which will prepare young girls and boys to develop healthy, respectful and emotionally satisfying relationships;
2012/07/20
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 91 #

2012/2047(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Notices that social media portals, used by children and teenagers, are often a place in which girls self-objectify themselves by uploading or sending their own naked photos whereas mobiles phones are used to practise "sexting" which is distribution of smses of sexual content;
2012/07/20
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 104 #

2012/2047(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Highlights the fact that common perceiving of girls and women as sexual objects boosts the demand for prostitution and pornography, causes the increase of sexual trafficking in women and girls and results in growth of the violence against women;
2012/07/20
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 5 #

2012/2046(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. Whereas women tend to be disproportionately represented in flexible employment, probably because care of the family is still considered to be their prime responsibility and they are therefore deemed to be more suited than men to working on a temporary, casual or part- time basis or to working from homwhich helps them to reconcile work and family life;
2012/06/07
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 27 #

2012/2046(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Ia. Whereas the difference in pay between men and women for the same work or for work of equal value is at one of the highest levels in the services sector;
2012/06/07
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 31 #

2012/2046(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that there is also a concentration of women working in the public sector, with 25 % of women compared with 17 % of men; it must be highlighted that in this sector women are more vulnerable to loss of employment due to budget cuts;
2012/06/07
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 34 #

2012/2046(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Notes that in the public sector, which is characterised by transparent and clear recruitment criteria and promotion terms, women are more likely to advance through different career levels and hold positions corresponding to their qualifications, while in the private sector this trend is reversed; in this regard stresses the need to introduce transparent rules for the selection and recruitment of employees in the private sector;
2012/06/07
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 39 #

2012/2046(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Points out that among women employed in the services sector there are more women who find employment in the social, care and telecommunications sectors, which tend to require lower qualifications, enjoy little social prestige and correspond to women’s traditional roles in society, while men dominate the most prestigious and lucrative sectors: finance and banking;
2012/06/07
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 43 #

2012/2046(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Highlights that flexible working hours are one of the elements which enable women to reconcile work and family life, however such a form of employment must be the woman’s decision, and not be imposed and enforced by the employer;
2012/06/07
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 48 #

2012/2046(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that flexible working hours are becoming more commonplace: weekend work, irregular and unpredictable working hours and adding to them, and given that the demand for flexibility is greatest amongst part-time workers, who are mostly women, this means that more women than men suffer changes in their working hours from week to week, making it even harder for women to find a balan; highlights that flexible working hours should be the woman’s decision, and not be imposed and enforced between work and family lifey the employer;
2012/06/07
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 51 #

2012/2046(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Highlights that on the one hand increasing flexibility of working conditions increases women’s opportunities to actively participate in the services sector through the creation of opportunities to work from home (various forms of telework), however on the other hand it can result in negative consequences for women in employment, such as lack of formal contracts, social security and employment security; it can also result in employers providing insufficient occupational health and safety conditions;
2012/06/07
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 65 #

2012/2046(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Notes that in relation to the growing trend of employing women in part-time work and employers’ preferences to invest in employees with permanent employment, women have clearly limited access to a wide range of training and retraining courses, which decreases their opportunities for professional development;
2012/06/07
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 90 #

2012/2046(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Points out the limited opportunities women have to adapt to the requirements of labour markets in a modern, highly globalised world, in which a worker’s key attribute is mobility and ease of moving to take up positions outside of their place of residence, which in the case of women who are more involved in caring for children and the home is often impossible and does not allow them to take full advantage of the opportunities offered by the labour market;
2012/06/07
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 101 #

2012/0299(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 22
(22) Listed companies in the Union should be imposed obligations of means providing for appropriate procedures with a view of meeting specific objectives regarding the gender composition of their boards. Taim to reach the objective of having at least 40 per cent of non-executive directors of the under-represented sex at the latest by 1 January 2020. For the purpose of reaching this objective, those listed companies in whose boards members of the under-represented sex hold less than 40 per cent of non- executive director positions should make thecarry out the pre- selection or selection procedure for appointments to those positions on the basis of a comparative analysis of the qualifications of each candidate, by applying pre-established, clear, neutrally formulated and unambiguous criteria, in order to attain the said percentage at the latest by 1 January 2020. Therefore, the Directive establishes the objective of at least 40 per cent of non-executive directors of the under-represented sex by that date. This objective in principle only concerns the overall gender diversity among the non-executive directors and does not interfere with the concrete choice of individual directors from a wide pool of male and female candidates in each individual case. In particular, it does not exclude any particular candidates for director positions, nor does it impose any individual directors on companies or shareholders. The decision on the appropriate board members thus remains with the companies and shareholders.
2013/09/02
Committee: JURIFEMM
Amendment 103 #

2012/0299(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 22 a (new)
(22a) The objective of 40% in principle only concerns the overall gender diversity among the non-executive directors and does not interfere with the concrete choice of individual directors from a wide pool of male and female candidates in each individual case. In particular, it does not exclude any particular candidates for director positions, nor does it impose any individual directors on companies or shareholders. The decision on the appropriate board members thus remains with the companies and shareholders.
2013/09/02
Committee: JURIFEMM
Amendment 203 #

2012/0299(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that listed companies in whose boardsaim to reach the objective that members of the under-represented sex hold less thanat least 40 per cent of the non-executive director positions make the appointments to those positions on the basis of a comparative analysis of the qualifications of each candidate, by applying pre-established, clear, neutrally formulated and unambiguous criteria, in order to attain the said percentage at the latest by 1 January 2020 or at the latest by 1 January 2018 in case of listed companies which are public undertakings.
2013/09/02
Committee: JURIFEMM
Amendment 206 #

2012/0299(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Member States shall ensure that in listed companies in whose boards members of the underreprensented sex hold less than 40 per cent of the non- executive director positions the pre- selection or selection procedure for appointments to those positions is carried out on the basis of a comparative analysis of the qualifications of each candidate, by applying pre-established, clear, neutrally formulated and unambiguous criteria, until the objective set out in paragraph 1 is reached.
2013/09/02
Committee: JURIFEMM
Amendment 267 #

2012/0299(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall lay down rules on sanctions applicable to infringements of the national provisions adopted pursuant togiving effect to Articles 4(1a), 4(3), 4(4), 4(5), 5(1), 5(2) and 5(3) of this Directive and shall take all necessary measures to ensure that they are applied.
2013/09/02
Committee: JURIFEMM
Amendment 299 #

2012/0299(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Without prejudice to Article 4(6) and (7), Member States which before the entry into force of this Directive have already taken measures to ensure a more balanced representation of women and men among the non-executive directors of listed companies may suspend the application of the procedural requirements relating to appointments contained in Article 4(1a), (3), (4) and (5), provided that it can be shown that those measures enable members of the under-represented sex to hold at least 40 per cent of the non-executive director positions of listed companies by at the latest 1 January 2020, or at the latest 1 January 2018 for listed companies which are public undertakings.
2013/09/02
Committee: JURIFEMM
Amendment 308 #

2012/0299(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Member States having suspended pursuant to Article 8(3) the application of the procedural requirements relating to appointments contained in Article 4(1a), (3), (4) and (5) shall include information in the reports mentioned in paragraph 1 demonstrating the concrete results obtained by the national measures referred to in Article 8(3). The Commission shall then issue a specific report ascertaining whether those measures effectively enable members of the under-represented sex to hold at least 40 per cent of the non-executive director positions by 1 January 2018 for listed companies which are public undertakings, and by 1 January 2020 for listed companies which are not public undertakings. The first such report shall be issued by the Commission by 1 July 2017, and subsequent reports shall be issued within six months after notification of the respective national reports under paragraph 1.
2013/09/02
Committee: JURIFEMM
Amendment 311 #

2012/0299(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Member States in question shall ensure that listed companies, which by applying the national measures referred to in Article 8(3) have not appointed or elected members of the under-represented sex for at least 40 per cent of the non-executive director positions of their boards by 1 January 2018, where they are public undertakings, or by 1 January 2020, where they are not public undertakings, apply the procedural requirements relating to appointments contained in Article 4(1a), (3), (4) and (5) with effect respectively from those dates.
2013/09/02
Committee: JURIFEMM
Amendment 92 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
(3) In order to provide for the single supervisory mechanism, Council Regulation (EU) No …/… [127(6) Regulation] confers specific tasks on the ECB concerning policies relating to the prudential supervision of credit institutions in the Member States whose currency is the euro. Other Member States may enter in a close cooperation with the ECB. Under that Regulation, the ECB is to coordinate and express the position of those Member States on the decisions to be taken by the Board of Supervisors of the European Banking Authority (EBA) falling within the scope of the ECB tasks.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 96 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
(3) In order to provide for the single supervisory mechanism, Council Regulation (EU) No …/… [127(6) Regulation] confers specific tasks on the ECB concerning policies relating to the prudential supervision of credit institutions in the Member States whose currency is the euro. Other Member States may enter in a close cooperation with the ECB. Under that Regulation, the ECB is to coordinate and express the position of those Member States on the decisions to be taken by the Board of Supervisors of the European Banking Authority (EBA) falling within the scope of the ECB tasks.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 111 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4 a (new)
(4 a) Bearing in mind that the EBA, in works of which all Member States participate with equal rights, was established with an aim to develop the single rulebook and ensure the coherence of supervisory practices within the EU and given the establishment of the single supervisory mechanism with a leading role of the ECB, the EBA needs to be equipped with adequate instruments, which will enable it to efficiently perform its entrusted tasks concerning the integrity of the single market in the area of financial services.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 118 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
(5) In view of the supervisory tasks conferred on the ECB by Council Regulation (EU) No …/….../... [127(6) Regulation], EBA should be able to carry out its tasks also in relation to the ECB. In order to ensure that existing mechanisms for settlement of disagreements and actions in emergency situations remain effective, a specificcommon procedure, binding for all competent authorities, should be provided for. In particular, if the competent authority, including the ECB, does not comply with an action by EBA to settle a disagreement or to address an emergency situation, it should be required to explain its reasons. In that case, whenever based on requirements set out in directly applicable Union law EBA can adopt an individual decision addressed to the financial institution concerned, it should do so.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 119 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
(5) In view of the supervisory tasks conferred on the ECB by Council Regulation (EU) No …/… [127(6) Regulation], EBA should be able to carry out its tasks also in relation to the ECB. In order to ensure that existing mechanisms for settlement of disagreements and actions in emergency situations remain effective, a specific procedure should be provided for. In particular, if the ECB does not comply with an action by EBA to settle a disagreement or to address an emergency situation, it should be required to explain its reasons. Additionally, to ensure the level playing field between the ECB and Member States out of the single supervisory mechanism, the same right should be granted to the national competent authorities. In that case, whenever based on requirements set out in directly applicable Union law EBA can adopt an individual decision addressed to the financial institution concerned, it should do so.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 123 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 a (new)
(5 a) The mandate of the EBA to settle disagreements, involving the ECB with regard to cases concerning prudential supervision, can be inferred from the fact that both the establishment of the EBA and the conferment of specific supervisory tasks on the ECB have been introduced through secondary law.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 125 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
(6) In order to ensure that interests of all Member States are adequately taken into account and to allow for the proper functioning of the EBA with a view to maintain and deepen the internal market in the field of financial services, the voting modalities within the Board of Supervisors should be adapted, in particular with regard to decisions taken by the EBA at simple majority.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 127 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
(6) In order to ensure that interests of all Member States are adequately taken into account and to allow for the proper functioning of the EBA with a view to maintain and deepen the internal market in the field of financial services, the voting modalities within the Board of Supervisors should be adapted, in particularboth with regard to decisions taken by the EBA at simple majority and decisions taken at qualified majority.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 133 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
(7) Decisions concerning breaches of Union law and settlement of disagreements should be examined by an independent panel composed of voting members of the Board of Supervisors which do not have any conflicts of interest, appointed by the Board of Supervisors. The decisions proposed by the panel to the Board of Supervisors should be considered as adopted unless rejecadopted by a simple majority, which should include an adequate number of votes from membersimple majority of votes from Member States participating in the SSM and from Member States that do not participate in the SSM.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 136 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
(7) Decisions concerning breaches of Union law and settlement of disagreements should be examined by an independent panel composed of voting members of the Board of Supervisors which do not have any conflicts of interest, appointed by the Board of Supervisors. The decisions proposed by the panel to the Board of Supervisors should be considered as adopted uonless rejected by a simple majority, which should include an adequate number of votes from members from Member Sy if accepted by the Board of Supervisors at simple majority in two separate votings, one of which tatkes participating in the SSM and from Member States that do not participate in the SSMlace in the group of the Member States with common euro currency and the second in the group of remaining Member States.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 138 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
(8) The members of the independent panel set up according to Article 41(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 should not be considered to be in a situation of conflict of interest on the sole ground that they are representatives of competent authorities which are part of the SSM and a given case to be decided upon by the Panel concerns the SSM. The EBA should develop rules of procedure for the panel that ensure its independence and objectivity.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 141 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
(8) The members of the independent panel set up according to Article 41(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 should not be considered to be in a situation of conflict of interest on the sole ground that they are, in particular, in cases when they representatives of the competent authoritiesy, which are part of the SSM and a given case to be decided upon by the Panel concerns the SSMhas jurisdiction within the Member State, in which the concerned credit institution operates. The EBA should develop rules of procedure for the panel that ensure its independence and objectivity.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 144 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 a (new)
(8 a) Since the Member States which entered into close cooperation with the SSM are devoid of voting rights in the Governing Council of the ECB, which results in a lack of effective influence on the decision making process within the SSM, a special procedure for settlement of disagreements between the ECB and a competent authority of a Member State which has entered into close cooperation shall be established, which will compensate for the absence of forceful instruments to sway the decision making process taken within the SSM and at the same time, will safeguard the right to protect justified interests, in particular the stability of the local financial market. To that end, the EBA should be equipped with the ultimate authority to settle disagreements between the ECB and the competent authority of a Member State that has entered into close cooperation with the SSM.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 148 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
(9) The composition of the Management Board should be balanced and proper representation of Member States participating in the SSM, remaining in the close cooperation, and not participating in the SSM should be ensured.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 153 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10 a (new)
(10 a) The revision of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 in light of the proposal for the SSM can distort the relatively good balance between euro and non-euro area countries which exists at the moment within the EBA. It can thus lead to a dominant position of the euro area when decisions on technical standards are made, which in turn would impact important financial sector regulations which concern the Union as a whole.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 192 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010
Article 18 – paragraph 3a
"3a. Where the Authority requests the ECB as competent authority to take the necessary action in accordance with paragraph 3, the ECBcompetent authority shall comply with it or shall provide within 48 hours at the latest adequate justification to the Authority for its non-compliance."
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 196 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010
Article 18 – paragraph 3a
"3a. Where the Authority requests the ECB as competent authority to take the necessary action in accordance with paragraph 3, the ECBcompetent authority shall comply with it or shall provide within 48 hours at the latest adequate justification to the Authority for its non-compliance."
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 197 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010
Article 18 – paragraph 3a
"3a. Where the Authority requests the ECB as competent authority to take the necessaryspecific action or to refrain from action in accordance with paragraph 3, the ECBcompetent authority shall comply with it or shall provide within 48 hours at the latestwithin ten working days of the receipt of the request provide adequate justification to the Authority for its non-compliance."
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 201 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010
Article 19 – paragraph 3a
"3a. Where the Authority requests the ECB as competent authority to take specific action or to refrain from action in accordance with paragraph 3, the ECBcompetent authority shall comply with it or shall within ten working days of the receipt of the request provide adequate justification to the Authority for its non-compliance."
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 212 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010
Article 35 – paragraph 3
"3. Upon a duly justified request from a competent authority, the Authority may shall provide any information that is necessary to enable the competent authority to carry out its duties, in accordance with the professional secrecy obligations laid down in sectoral legislation and in Article 70."
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 213 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010
Article 35 – paragraph 3
"3. Upon a duly justified request from a competent authority, the Authority mayshall provide any information that is necessary to enable the competent authority to carry out its duties, in accordance with the professional secrecy obligations laid down in sectoral legislation and in Article 70."
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 219 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5
Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010
Article 41 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
"For the purposes of Article 17 and 19, the Board of Supervisors shall establish an independent panel consisting of the Chairperson and two members appointed by the Board of Supervisors among its voting members. At least one member of the independent panel shall be from a Member State which is noteither a participating Member State in accordance with Regulation (EU) No …/… [127(6) TFEU Council Regulation] nor has entered into close cooperation with the ECB in accordance with that Regulation."
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 222 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5
Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010
Article 41 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
"For the purposes of Article 17 and 19, the Board of Supervisors shall establish an independent panel consisting of the Chairperson and twofour members appointed by the Board of Supervisors among its voting members. At least onetwo members of the independent panel shall be from a Member State which is not a participating Member State in accordance with Regulation (EU) No …/… [127(6) TFEU Council Regulation]currency is not the euro, at least one of which shall be from a Member State not exercising close cooperation with the SSM either."
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 224 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5
Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010
Article 41 – paragraph 3
"3. The panel shall propose a decision for final adoption by the Board of Supervisors, in accordance with the procedure set out in the third subparagraph of Article 44(1)members of the panel shall act independently, objectively in accordance with Article 42 and shall not be in a situation of conflict of interest. It shall be recognized that the members of the panel remain in a situation of conflict of interests, in particular, in cases when they represent the competent authority, which has the jurisdiction within the Member State, in which the concerned credit institution operates."
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 226 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5
Regulation (EU) 1093/2010
Article 41 – paragraph 4
"4. The Board of Supervisors shall adopt rules of procedure for the panel referred to in paragraph 2, including rules implementing the requirement set out in the second subparagraph of that paragraphBy way of derogation from paragraph 2, from the date when the euro is not the currency of only two Member States, the independent panel shall consist of a Chairperson and two members appointed by the Board of Supervisors, among its voting members. At least one member of such an independent panel shall be from a Member State in which currency is not the euro."
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 229 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010
Article 42
6. In Article 42 the following paragraph is added: "The first and second paragraphs are without prejudice to the tasks conferred upon the ECB by Regulation (EU) No …/… [127(6) TFEU Council Regulation]."deleted
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 230 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010
Article 42
6. In Article 42 the following paragraph is added: "The first and second paragraphs are without prejudice to the tasks conferred upon the ECB by Regulation (EU) No …/… [127(6) TFEU Council Regulation]."deleted
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 236 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010
Article 44 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
"1. Decisions of the Board of Supervisors shall be taken by a simple majority of its memberin two separate votings, one of which takes place in the group of the Members States with common euro currency and the second in the group of remaining Member States. Each member shall have one vote."
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 238 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010
Article 44 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
"With regard to the acts specified in Articles 10 to 16 and measures and decisions adopted under the third subparagraph of Article 9(5) and Chapter VI and by way of derogation from the first subparagraph of this paragraph, the Board of Supervisors shall take decisions on the basis of a qualified majority of its members, as defined in Article 16(4) of the Treaty on European Union and in Article 3 of the Protocol (No 36) on transitional provisions, however the decisions to be passed shall be supported in parallel by at least simple majority of weighted votes in the group consisting of participating Member State in accordance with Regulation (EU) No .../...[127(6) TFEU Council Regulation] and those which have entered into close cooperation with the ECB in accordance with that Regulation, as well as in the group consisting of non-participating Members States."
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 241 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010
Article 44 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
"With regard to the acts specified in Articles 10 to 16 and measures and decisions adopted under the third subparagraph of Article 9(5) and Chapter VI and by way of derogation from the first subparagraph of this paragraph, the Board of Supervisors shall take decisions on the basis of a qualified majority of its members, as defined in Article 16(4) of the Treaty on European Union and in Article 3 of the Protocol (No 36) on transitional provisions, however the decisions to be passed shall be supported in parallel by at least simple majority of weighted votes in the group Member States with common euro currency, as well as in the group of remaining Member States."
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 243 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010
Article 44 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
"With regard to decisions in accordance with Articles 17 and 19, the decision proposed by the panel shall be considered as adopted unless it is rejected by a simple majority which shall include at least three votes from members of participating Member States and three votes from members of Member States which are neitheradopted by a simple majority however the decisions to be passed shall be supported in parallel by at least simple majority in the group consisting of participating Member States in accordance with Regulation (EU) No …/….../...[127(6) TFEU Council Regulation] norand those which haves entered into close cooperation with the ECB in accordance with that Regulation, as well as in the group consisting of non-participating Members States."
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 246 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010
Article 44 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
"With regard to decisions in accordance with Articles 17, 19, and 19a, the decision proposed by the panel shall be considered as adopted uonless it is rejected by a simple majority which shall include at least three votes from members of participating Member Sy if accepted by the Board of Supervisors at a simple majority in two separate votings, one of which tatkes and three votes from members ofplace in the group of the Members States which are neither participating Member States in accordance with Regulation (EU) No …/…[127(6) TFEU Council Regulation] nor have entered into close cooperation with the ECB in accordance with that Regulationith common euro currency and the second in the group of remaining Member States. Each member shall have one vote."
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 249 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010
Article 44 –paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4
"By way of derogation from the third subparagraph, from the date when four or less Member States are neither participating Member States in accordance with Regulation (EU) No …/… [127(6) TFEU Council Regulation] nor have entered into close cooperation with the ECB in accordance with that Regulationthe euro is not the currency in only four Member States, the decision proposed by the panel shall be considered as adopted uonless it is rejected byy if accepted by the Board of Supervisors at a simple majority which shall include at least one vote from members of those Member States. Each member shall have one vote."
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 252 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Regulation EU No 1093/2010
Article 44 –paragraph 1 – subparagraph 5
"By way of derogation from the third subparagraph, from the date when the euro is not the currency in three or less Member States, the decision proposed by the panel shall be considered as adopted, only if accepted by the Board of Supervisors at a qualified majority of five- sixths of its members. Each member shall have one vote."
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 253 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Regulation EU No 1093/2010
Article 44 –paragraph 1 – subparagraph 5 a (new)
"The independent panel, mentioned in Article 41, with regard to decisions in accordance with Articles 17, 19, and 19a takes the decision at a qualified majority of four-fifths of its members. From the date when the euro is not the currency in only two Member States, the independent panel takes decisions by simple majority."
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 261 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8
Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010
Article 45 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
"The term of office of the members elected by the Board of Supervisors shall be 2 1/2 years. That term may be extended once. The composition of the Management Board shall be balanced and proportionate and shall reflect the Union as a whole. The Management Board shall include at least twohree representatives from Member States which are not participating Member States in accordance with Regulation [127(6) TFEU Council Regulation] nor have entered into close cooperation with the ECB in accordance with that Regulation. Mandates shall be overlapping and an appropriate rotating arrangement shall apply."
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 264 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8
Regulation EU No 1093/2010
Article 45 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
"The term of office of the members elected by the Board of Supervisors shall be 2 1/2 years. That term may be extended once. The composition of the Management Board shall be balanced and proportionate and shall reflect the Union as a whole. The Management Board shall include at least twohree representatives from Member States in which are not participating Member States in accordance with Regulation [127(6) TFEU Council Regulation] nor havecurrency is not the euro, at least two of which come from the Member States, which did not entered into close cooperation with the ECB in accordance with that RegulationSSM either. Mandates shall be overlapping and an appropriate rotating arrangement shall apply."
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 266 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8 b (new)
Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010
Article 58 – paragraph 3
8 b. Article 58(3) is replaced by the following: "3. Two members of the Board of Appeal and two alternates shall be appointed by the Management Board of the Authority from a short-list proposed by the Commission, following a public call for expressions of interest published in the Official Journal of the European Union, and after consultation of the Board of Supervisors. At least one member and his alternate should come from a Member State which currency is not the euro, nor has entered into close cooperation with the ECB in accordance with that Regulation. The other members shall be appointed in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 1094/2010 and Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010."
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 267 #

2012/0244(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8 c (new)
Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010
Article 58 – paragraph 3
8 c. Article 58(3) is replaced by the following: "3. Two members of the Board of Appeal and two alternates shall be appointed by the Management Board of the Authority from a short-list proposed by the Commission, following a public call for expressions of interest published in the Official Journal of the European Union, and after consultation of the Board of Supervisors. At least one member and his alternate shall be a representative from a Member State which is not a participating Member State in accordance with Regulation (EU) No.../... [127(6) TFEU Council Regulation] nor has entered into close cooperation with the ECB in accordance with that Regulation. The other members shall be appointed in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 1094/2010 and Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010."
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 89 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
(4) Competence for supervision of individual banks in the Union remains mostly at national level. This limits the effectiveness of supervision and the ability of supervisors to reach a common understanding of the soundness of the banking sector throughout the UnionCoordination between supervisors is vital but the crisis has shown that mere coordination is not enough, in particular in the context of a single currency. In order to preserve and increase the positive effects of market integration on growth and welfare, integration of supervisory responsibilities should therefore be enhanced.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 90 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
(4) Competence for supervision of individual banks in the Union remains mostly at national level. This limits the effectiveness of supervision and the ability of supervisors to reach a common understanding of the soundness of the banking sector throughout the UnionCoordination between supervisors is vital but the crisis has shown that mere coordination is not enough, in particular in the context of a single currency. In order to preserve and increase the positive effects of market integration on growth and welfare, integration of supervisory responsibilities should therefore be enhanced.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 213 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18
(18) Additional capital buffers, including a capital conservation buffer and a countercyclical capital buffer to ensure that credit institutions accumulate during periods of economic growth a sufficient capital base to absorb losses in stressed periods, are key prudential tools to ensure the availability of adequate loss absorbency. The ECB should have the task to impose such buffers and ensure credit institutions comply with them.deleted
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 214 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18
(18) Additional capital buffers, including a capital conservation buffer and a countercyclical capital buffer to ensure that credit institutions accumulate during periods of economic growth a sufficient capital base to absorb losses in stressed periods, are key prudential tools to ensure the availability of adequate loss absorbency. The ECB should have the task to impose such buffers and ensure credit institutions comply with them.deleted
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 264 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
(25) In order to ensure consistency between supervisory responsibilities conferred on the ECB and decision making within the EBA, the ECB should coordinate a common position amongst representatives of the national authorities of the participating Member States in relation to matters falling within its competence.deleted
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 265 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
(25) In order to ensure consistency between supervisory responsibilities conferred on the ECB and decision making within the EBA, the ECB should coordinate a common position amongst representatives of the national authorities of the participating Member States in relation to matters falling within its competence.deleted
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 284 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29
(29) As regards the supervision of cross- border banks active both inside and outside the Euro area the ECB should cooperate closely with the competent authorities of non participating Member States. As a competent authority the ECB should be subject to the related obligations to cooperate and exchange information under Union law and should participate fully in the colleges of supervisors. In addition, since the exercise of supervisory tasks by a European institution brings about clear benefits in terms of financial stability and sustainable market integration, Member States not participating in the common currency should therefore also have the possibility to participate in the new mechanism. However, it is a necessary pre-condition for an effective exercise of supervisory tasks, that supervisory decisions are implemented fully and without delay. Member States wishing to participate in the new mechanism should therefore undertake to ensure that their national competent authorities will abide by and adopt any measure in relation to credit institutions requested by the ECB. The ECB should be able to establish a close cooperation with the competent authorities of a Member State not participating in the common currency. It should be obliged to establish the cooperation where the conditions set out in this regulation are met. The conditions under which representatives of the competent authorities of the Member States which established a close co-operation take part to the activities of the Supervisory Board should allow the greatest possible involvement of those represenensure equal treatment of all participating Member Statives taking into account the limits following from the Statute of ESCB and of the ECB, in particular as regards the integrity of its decision making process.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 291 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29
(29) As regards the supervision of cross- border banks active both inside and outside the Euro area the ECB should cooperate closely with the competent authorities of non participating Member States. As a competent authority the ECB should be subject to the related obligations to cooperate and exchange information under Union law and should participate fully in the colleges of supervisors. In addition, since the exercise of supervisory tasks by a European institution brings about clear benefits in terms of financial stability and sustainable market integration, Member States not participating in the common currency should therefore also have the possibility to participate in the new mechanism. However, it is a necessary pre- condition for an effective exercise of supervisory tasks, that supervisory decisions are implemented fully and without delay. Member States wishing to participate in the new mechanism should therefore undertake to ensure that their national competent authorities will abide by and adopt any measure in relation to credit institutions requested by the ECB. The ECB should be able to establish a close cooperation with the competent authorities of a Member State not participating in the common currency. It should be obliged to establish the cooperation where the conditions set out in this regulation are met. The conditions under which representatives of the competent authorities of the Member States which established a close co-operation take part to the activities of the Supervisory Board should allow the greatest possible involvement of those represenensure equal treatment of all participating Member Statives taking into account the limits following from the Statute of ESCB and of the ECB, in particular as regards the integrity of its decision making process.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 318 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 34
(34) The conferral of supervisory tasks implies a significant responsibility for the ECB to safeguard financial stability in the Union, and to use its supervisory powers in the most effective and proportionate way. The ECB should therefore be accountable for the exercise of these tasks towards the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers respectively the Eurogroup as democratically legitimised institutions representing the European people and the Member States. That should include regular reporting and responding to questions. Where national supervisors take action under this Regulation, accountability arrangements provided under national law should continue to apply.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 320 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 34
(34) The conferral of supervisory tasks implies a significant responsibility for the ECB to safeguard financial stability in the Union, and to use its supervisory powers in the most effective and proportionate way. The ECB should therefore be accountable for the exercise of these tasks towards the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers respectively the Eurogroup as democratically legitimised institutions representing the European people and the Member States. That should include regular reporting and responding to questions. Where national supervisors take action under this Regulation, accountability arrangements provided under national law should continue to apply.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 395 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 47 a (new)
(47a) Whereas the pending financial crisis contributed immensely to the fragmentation of European financial markets, it is indispensable to enhance the common integrated financial framework. However, it should be borne in mind that the deepening of integration in the EMU cannot give rise to new, not outlined in the Treaties, convergence criteria, which can create additional barriers to entry for countries under a temporary derogation.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 396 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 47 b (new)
(47b) Whereas, efforts to secure financial stability within the EU require a diversified approach to distinctive types of risks in different markets and considering that the economies of the Member States, including those in the EMU, remain heterogeneous and that economic cycles are not synchronized, it should be borne in mind that according to the ESRB Recommendation (ESRB/2011/3) and standard no. 138 of Basel III, effective response to the problems of macroeconomic imbalances necessitates the use of discretionary instruments at local level. Moreover, the scope to customize macroprudential instruments is of the utmost significance to the Member States remaining in the EMU, due to their inability to use macroeconomic automatic stabilizers, such as interest rate or exchange rate.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 406 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1
This Regulation confers on the ECB specific tasks concerning policies relating to the prudential supervision of credit institutions, with a view to promoting the safety and soundness of credit institutions and the stability of the financial system within the EU and each Member State, with due regard for the unity and integrity of the internal market.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 409 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1
This Regulation confers on the ECB specific tasks concerning policies relating to the prudential supervision of credit institutions, with a view to promoting the safety and soundness of credit institutions and the stability of the financial system within the EU and each Member State, with due regard for the unity and integrity of the internal market.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 413 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1
(1) 'participating Member State' means a Member State whose currency is the euro; or a Member State whose currency is not the euro, which has entered into a close cooperation in accordance with Article 6.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 473 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) To impose capital buffers to be held by credit institutions in addition to own funds requirements referred to in (c), including setting countercyclical buffer rates and any other measures aimed at addressing systemic or macro-prudential risks in the cases specifically set out in Union acts;deleted
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 474 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) To impose capital buffers to be held by credit institutions in addition to own funds requirements referred to in (c), including setting countercyclical buffer rates and any other measures aimed at addressing systemic or macro-prudential risks in the cases specifically set out in Union acts;deleted
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 495 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point k
(k) To carry out supervisory tasks in relation to early intervention where a credit institution does not meet or is likely to breach the applicable prudential requirements, including recovery plans and intra group financial support arrangements, in coordination with the relevant resolution authorities;.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 496 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point k
(k) To carry out supervisory tasks in relation to early intervention where a credit institution does not meet or is likely to breach the applicable prudential requirements, including recovery plans and intra group financial support arrangements, in coordination with the relevant resolution authorities;
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 503 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point l
(l) To coordinate and express a common position of representatives from competent authorities of the participating Member States when participating in the Board of Supervisors and the Management Board of the European Banking Authority, for issues relating to the tasks conferred on the ECB by this Regulation.deleted
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 504 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point l
(l) To coordinate and express a common position of representatives from competent authorities of the participating Member States when participating in the Board of Supervisors and the Management Board of the European Banking Authority, for issues relating to the tasks conferred on the ECB by this Regulation.deleted
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 524 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3
3. Subject to and in compliance with any relevant Union law rule and in particular any legislative and non-legislative act including technical standards developed by EBA and adopted by the Commission, the ECB may adopt regulations and recommendations and take decisions to implement or apply Union law, to the extent necessary to carry out the tasks conferred upon it by this Regulation, and only where those Union acts do not deal with certain aspects necessary for the proper exercise of the ECB's tasks or do not deal with them in sufficient detail. Before adopting a regulation, the ECB shall conduct open public consultations, including the EBA and the Commission, and analyse the potential related costs and benefits.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 525 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3
3. Subject to and in compliance with any relevant Union law rule and in particular any legislative and non-legislative act including technical standards developed by EBA and adopted by the Commission, the ECB may adopt regulations and recommendations and take decisions to implement or apply Union law, to the extent necessary to carry out the tasks conferred upon it by this Regulation, and only where those Union acts, do not deal with certain aspects necessary for the proper exercise of the ECB's tasks or do not deal with them in sufficient detail. Before adopting a regulation, the ECB shall conduct open public consultations, including EBA and the Commission, and analyse the potential related costs and benefits.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 587 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 4
4. National competent authorities shall follow the instructions given by the ECB for the purposes of the tasks mentioned in Article 4(1). Instructions given by the ECB shall not interfere with the exercise of voting rights by competent authorities of participating Member States within the Board of Supervisors and the Management Board of the European Banking Authority.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 588 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 4
4. National competent authorities shall follow the instructions given by the ECB for the purposes of the tasks mentioned in Article 4(1). Instructions given by the ECB shall not interfere with the exercise of voting rights by competent authorities of participating Member States within the Board of Supervisors and the Management Board of the European Banking Authority.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 615 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
1. Within the limits set out in this Article, the ECB shall carry out the tasks in the areas referred to in Article 4 (1) and (2) in relation to credit institutions established in a participating Member State whose currency is not the euro, where a close cooperation has been established between the ECB and the national competent authority of such Member State in accordance with this Article.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 627 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. The close cooperation between the ECB and the national competent authority of a non participating Member State, whose currency is not the euro, shall be established, by a decision adopted by the ECB, where the following conditions are met:
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 637 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 3
3. The decision referred to in paragraph 2 shall determine, in compliance with the Statute of ESCB and of the ECB, the conditions under which representatives of the competent authorities of the Member States which established a close cooperation in accordance with this Article shall take part to the activities of the Supervisory Board.deleted
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 639 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 3
3. The decision referred to in paragraph 2 shall determine, in compliance with the Statute of ESCB and of the ECB, the conditions under which representatives of the competent authorities of the Member States which established a close cooperation in accordance with this Article shall take part to the activities of the Supervisory Board.deleted
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 650 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. The Member State that has established a close cooperation with ECB may request the ECB to terminate the close cooperation at any time. In this case, the ECB shall immediately proceed to adopt a decision terminating the close cooperation. The decision shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union and shall specify the date from which it is legally valid.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 651 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. The Member State that has established a close cooperation with the ECB may request the ECB to terminate the close cooperation at any time. In this case, the ECB shall immediately proceed to adopt a decision terminating the close cooperation.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 812 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1
1. The planning and execution of the tasks conferred upon the ECBdrafting of decisions to be taken by the ECB with regards to supervisory tasks conferred upon it by this Regulation, shall be undertaken by an internal body composed of four representatives of the ECB appointed by the Executive Board of the ECB and one representative of the national authority competent for the supervision of credit institutions in each participating Member State (hereinafter ‘s'Supervisory bBoard').
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 829 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 2
2. In addition, the supervisory board shall include a Chair elected by the members of the Governing Couperson. Appointment shall be made on the basis of merit, skills, knowledge of financial institutions and markets, and of experience relevant to financial from the members, with the exception of the Presidsupervision and regulation, following an open selection procedure. The Chairperson shall be appointed by common accord of the government,s of the Executive Board, and a Vice-Chair elected by and from the members of the Governing Council of the ECBMember States at the level of Heads of State or Government, on a recommendation from the supervisory board, after it has consulted the Council and the European Parliament. The Supervisory Board elects from among its members two Vice-Chairmen.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 839 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 3
3. The Governing Council of the ECB may delegate clearly defined supervisory tasks and relatedFor the purpose of paragraph 1 the Governing Council of the ECB authorises the Supervisory Board to draft decisions regarding individual or a set of identifiable credit institutions, financial holding companies or mixed financial holding companies to the supervisory board, subject to. The Supervisory Board proposes a decision for final adoption by the Goversight and responsibility of the Governing Councilning Council. The decision proposed by the Supervisory Board shall be considered as adopted unless it is rejected by the Governing Council. The Governing Council can only accept or reject the proposed decision. If the Governing Council rejects the proposed decision, it shall be returned to the Supervisory Board for a review.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 841 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. There shall be a clear division of competences between the supervisory board and the governing council of the ECB.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 858 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 6
6. The Chair of the European Banking Authority and a member of the European Commission may participate as observers in the meetings of the supervisory board. The same right shall be ensured for non- participating Member States, when the supervisory board takes decisions relating to credit institutions operating within jurisdictions of the Member States concerned, or when the supervisory board takes decisions on broader matters of policy, such as structure or decision- making process of the Single Supervisory Mechanism.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 860 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 6
6. The Chair of the European Banking Authority and, a member of the European Commission may participate as observers in the meetings of the supervisory boardand chairmen of national competent authorities from Member States remaining outside the SSM may participate as observers in the meetings of the supervisory board on condition that their request has been accepted by the supervisory board by simple majority. The Supervisory board may, if appropriately justified, restrict observers' access to confidential data.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 863 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 7
7. The Governing Council shall adopt the rules of procedure of the supervisory board includingand shall make them public. They shall ensure equal treatment of all participating Member States, including voting rights. They shall also include rules on the term of office of the Chair and the Vice-Chair. The term of off, whiceh shall not exceed five years and shall not be renewable.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 864 #

2012/0242(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 7
7. The Governing Council shall adopt the rules of procedure of the supervisory board includingand shall make them public. They shall ensure equal treatment of all participating Member States, including voting rights. They shall also include rules on the term of office of the Chair and the Vice-Chair. The term of off, whiceh shall not exceed five years and shall not be renewable.
2012/10/30
Committee: ECON
Amendment 100 #

2012/0061(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 9
(9) For the purpose of ensuring that a posted worker receives the correct pay and provided allowances specific to posting can be considered part of minimum rates of pay, such allowances should only be deducted from wages if national law, collective agreements and/or practice of the host Member State provide for this. It is up to the national law of the Member State of establishment if the employer is obliged to provide or reimburse the costs of travel, board, lodging/accommodation. It is however up to the national law of the host Member State if it is included in the minimum wage.
2013/01/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 111 #

2012/0061(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 10 a (new)
(10a) Member States shall take appropriate measures in order to prevent the misuse and/or circumvention of the Directive 96/71/EC and this Directive by the undertakings for the purpose of depriving posted workers of their rights or the withholding of such rights.
2013/01/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 264 #

2012/0061(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
1. For the purpose of implementing, applying and enforcing Directive 96/71/EC the competent authorities shall take into account factual elements characterising the activities carried out by an undertaking in the State in which it is established in order to determine whether it genuinely performs substantial activities, other than purely internal management and/or administrative activities. Such elements mayshall include only:
2013/01/21
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 292 #

2012/0061(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point e
(e) the abnormally limited number of contracts performed and/or size of turnover realised in the Member State of establishment.deleted
2013/01/21
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 327 #

2012/0061(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – introductory part
Such elements may include only:
2013/01/21
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 434 #

2012/0061(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) make the information available to workers and service providers in, free of charge, in English and in other most relevant languages other than the national language(s) of the country in which the services are provided, if possible in summarised leaflet form indicating the main labour conditions applicable and upon requests in formats accessible to persons with disabilities;
2013/01/21
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 456 #

2012/0061(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. The undertaking shall inform in writing its workers about their rights during the period of their posting. Analogously, the contractor present in the host Member State shall inform in writing its foreign subcontractors about the terms and conditions of employment in force in the host Member State.
2013/01/21
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 522 #

2012/0061(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The Member States are encouraged to establish points of information and practical help for the posted workers in order to ensure that they dispose of a proper knowledge about their rights. The place of the information points and the language coverage shall be decided upon an estimation of the presence of posted workers in the territory of the Member State concerned. This applies to both the Member State of establishment and the host Member State, since it is equally important to provide the worker with the information before his/her departure and during his/her period of posting.
2013/01/21
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 536 #

2012/0061(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Member States may only impose the following administrative requirements and control measures:
2013/01/21
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 598 #

2012/0061(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
(da) Any additional national control measures or document referred to in point 1 b) may only by imposed subject to prior approval of the European Commission and being limited to the aim of verifying if the terms and conditions of employment referred to in Article 3 of the Directive 96/71/EC are met.
2013/01/21
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 59 #

2011/2295(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Acknowledges the role of political parties as key factors in the promotion of parity; calls in consequence for the Member States to require national parties, where appropriate,find an effective method for putting pressure on national parties to set quotas and apply a proportional rank- ordering rules to for including women on electoral candidate lists for national and EU elections, and to define and enforce appropriate sanctions for non-compliance with these rules;
2012/01/05
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 76 #

2011/2295(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to launch a campaign on gender parity sufficiently early before the forthcoming elections to the European Parliain election lists and to promote women in governmental and self-governmental decision-making bodies, highlighting their effectiveness and balanced approach to risk management;.
2012/01/05
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 108 #

2011/2295(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Council, Commission and Member States to enable women and men to take an active part in political decision making by promoting a balance between family life and working life by means of measures such as sharing the costs of parenthood equally between both parents’ employers and the creation of a suitable infrastructure of care for children and elderly people, and calls on the Commission to support equal access to services, minimum income, elimination of gender-based discrimination in the workplace and freedom from gender-based violence by appropriate legislative proposals in the form of directives;
2012/01/05
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 119 #

2011/2295(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19 a. Calls on the Commission to carry out analyses intended to define the main obstacles and problems encountered by women applying for decision-making positions, and to identify the sources and causes of the persistence of negative gender-based stereotypes;
2012/01/05
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 27 #

2011/2294(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
G a. whereas the fact that education, especially higher education and tertiary education is responsible for shaping the attitudes and values that underlie civil society,
2012/02/02
Committee: CULT
Amendment 28 #

2011/2294(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on higher education institutions to integrate lifelong learning into their curricula and adapt to a student base that includes adults, non-traditional learners and full-time students who have to work while studying, as well as people with disabilities, and therefore calls on the institutions of higher education to implement programs aimed at removing existing obstacles and barriers;
2012/02/02
Committee: CULT
Amendment 52 #

2011/2294(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that academic staff and students, as well as their organisations, need to be involved in the modernisation of higher education institutions; stresses that excellence in both research and teaching, in the broad sense of the term, and excellence in teaching and scientific achievements needs to be rewarded;
2012/02/02
Committee: CULT
Amendment 62 #

2011/2294(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Endorses the Commission’s initiative to launch a multi-dimensional tool for ranking of higher education institutions based on characteristics such as the quality of teaching, regional engagement and knowledge transfer, cooperation with institutions that are also involved in developing and implementing a system of higher education;
2012/02/02
Committee: CULT
Amendment 73 #

2011/2294(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6.Demands that the attractiveness of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) for students and researchers from all over the world be promoted and that collaboration with non-EU countries in educational matters be strengthened, particularly in matters of exchange and professional training programmes;
2012/02/02
Committee: CULT
Amendment 102 #

2011/2294(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Also emphasises the need to continue traditional education in an academic spirit, not to permit the total subordination of the education system to the labour market in view of the need to shape ethical and moral values among students at the same time as caring about academic progress;
2012/02/02
Committee: CULT
Amendment 103 #

2011/2294(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9 b. Calls on higher education institutions to cooperate with authorities, businesses and communities to shape the richest and most diverse educational system such as will facilitate the realisation of the needs of the labour market, and ensure the personal development that students expect;
2012/02/02
Committee: CULT
Amendment 150 #

2011/2294(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18 a. Emphasises the need to engage higher education institutions and provide support for student initiatives as well as assisting in the correlation of such activities among other higher education institutions, enterprises and local authorities from various Member States;
2012/02/02
Committee: CULT
Amendment 151 #

2011/2294(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18 b. Notes the need for cooperation, both from cross-border higher education institutions and enterprises in practical programmes and in shaping the future career of students by identifying the concrete courses of development, expectations and challenges that will be placed before them in the labour market;
2012/02/02
Committee: CULT
Amendment 171 #

2011/2294(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Points out that the persistent disparities between western and central-eastern European higher education systems must be addressed through real integration measures, in particular through the development of scholarship programs for the most active and talented students and the development of exchange programs for students and researchers;
2012/02/02
Committee: CULT
Amendment 7 #

2011/2293(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Emphasises that it is important to encourage the view that time spent undertaking voluntary work provides added value to a CV, even though no contributions are paid during that period;
2012/02/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 21 #

2011/2293(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Considers that volunteering is not only a way of becoming socially active, but also an opportunity to acquire valuable experience. In addition, it can help young people in their choice of future career;
2012/02/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 49 #

2011/2293(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Emphasises the need to provide access to as wide a range of cross-border volunteering opportunities as possible, not only in terms of the assistance provided, but also in terms of the important experiences gained;
2012/02/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 5 #

2011/2285(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Emphasises that the gender pay gap principally exists as a result of stereotypes and women being seen solely from the point of view of the traditional distribution of roles; therefore calls on the Member States to promote equal pay by setting up social initiatives at both national and local level;
2012/02/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 9 #

2011/2285(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Is very concerned that in the past decade progress has only been achieved very slowly, that the wage differential between men and women has remained persistently high in recent years and that, despite the legally binding principle of equal pay for work of equal value, women’s hourly earnings in the EU27 were on average 17.5% less than men’s for the same work in 2009; notes that the flexicurity strategy is not of a nature to reduce existing disparities in employment protection and pay between women and men;
2012/02/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 18 #

2011/2285(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Emphasises that the pay gap widens to women’s disadvantage in proportion to the level of the position and qualifications held;
2012/02/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 19 #

2011/2285(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Points out that in some countries the pay gap widens to women’s disadvantage during the most difficult times for them, i.e. when they are of child-bearing age and as they approach retirement age;
2012/02/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 29 #

2011/2285(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Emphasises that, as well as focusing on private companies and the public sector, attention should also be paid to the unequal treatment of women in family businesses and in farming, where women are not only paid less than men but often receive no payment at all; calls for steps to be taken to raise public awareness of the impact that this situation has on the unfavourable position that women are in where social security and pensions are concerned;
2012/02/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 37 #

2011/2285(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Takes the view that employers ought to monitor wages – cash and non-cash remuneration – in relation to duties, qualifications and experience, taking gender issues into account; points out that firms’ remuneration policies, as well as the rules on granting allowances and bonuses, should be transparent;
2012/02/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 45 #

2011/2285(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Points out that there is a need to promote standards on fair and ethical conduct towards staff, with a particular focus on an equal and transparent remuneration system;
2012/02/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 54 #

2011/2285(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Considers it a priority to promote a new culture of shared responsibility, both in private life and at work, toas replace the traditional distribution of roles between women and mengards bringing up children and household management tasks;
2012/02/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 82 #

2011/2285(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on Member States to adopt extensive legally binding rules in order to implement in practical terms the principle of equal pay for equal work and work of equal value where the same employer is concerned;
2012/02/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 128 #

2011/2285(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 13 – point (e)
(e) adoption of measures to implement the policy of equality and equal payment for women and men by businesses;
2012/02/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 62 #

2011/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Member States to ensure that their marriage and divorce laws do not directly or indirectly constitute a financial ‘trap’ for the spouses, in particular women, and to ensure that young couples are fully aware and informed of the legal and financial implications of marriage and divorce;
2012/01/09
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 76 #

2011/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to elaborate proposals for the mutual recognition of civil unions and of same sex families across Europe between those countries which already have legislation in place, so as to ensure equal treatment with regard to work, taxation and social security, protecting the incomes of families and children;
2012/01/09
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 80 #

2011/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Draws attention to the fact that, in order to find a good balance between work and family life and to become financially independent, women must have access to flexible forms of employment, including teleworking; takes the view that enterprises which create equal opportunities for women and men by, for example, providing workplace pre- school facilities should be promoted;
2012/01/09
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 87 #

2011/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on Member States to make appropriate adjustments to public provision, and support private provision, of facilities for the care of children, the sick, the disabled and the elderly, paying particular attention to the need for facilities for young school-aged children such as clubs and day-care centres where they can be supervised until their parents return from work;
2012/01/09
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 124 #

2011/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for support to be given to initiatives and campaigns which break down stereotypes about the low effectiveness of female employees and their lack of management skills; calls also for women to be supported in their career development and efforts to reach managerial positions;
2012/01/09
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 145 #

2011/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Encourages Member States to establish information programmes concerning harassment and mobbing at work, so that women who are subjected to such treatment can take effective counter measures;
2012/01/09
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 159 #

2011/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on Members States to introduce rehabilitation and psychological programmes for perpetrators of physical abuse, which would reduce the incidence of such abuse; draws attention, furthermore, to the increase in aggressive behaviour among girls;
2012/01/09
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 167 #

2011/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Points out that economic, social and sexuocial autonomy are important preconditions for reducing gender violence;
2012/01/09
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 203 #

2011/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Notes that this year the world population has reached 7 billion; expresses its conviction that family planning should be at the top of theincluded among the priorities for political agendaprogrammes;
2012/01/09
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 227 #

2011/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Reiterates its call to the Commission for a Road Map on Equality for LGBTI people, analogous to the Gender Equality Road Map;deleted
2012/01/09
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 64 #

2011/2191(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Invites the Government to further encourage the return of refugees and improvement of their living and working conditions by seeking effective and sustainable ways of implementing housing, employment and social measures and any other social and economic recovery projects in a manner coherent with other social and employment programmes;
2011/10/25
Committee: AFET
Amendment 84 #

2011/2191(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on the Croatian authorities to pursue further efforts to reform Croatia’s social system in order to improve its cost- effectiveness and secure sustainability of public finances;
2011/10/25
Committee: AFET
Amendment 88 #

2011/2191(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 e (new)
11e. Recognises the right of Member States to introduce transitional provisions concerning the access of Croatian workers to their labour markets but calls on Member States to base such decisions and any extension of transitional periods on facts and only in the situation of a real threat of serious disturbances of national labour markets; at the same time, encourages Member States to consider refraining from introducing transitional periods in order to secure greater freedom of movement of Croatian workers or even free labour market access;
2011/10/25
Committee: AFET
Amendment 5 #

2011/2088(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the percentage of early school leavers in the EU currently stands at 14.4% and that 17.4% of these have only completed primary school; points out that these children are most often from low- education backgrounds or socio- economically disadvantaged backgrounds and are more often boys than girls;
2011/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 21 #

2011/2088(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses the need to adapt education systems to meet the requirements of the labour market; points out that in a situation where it will be rare, in future, to spend one’s entire working life in a single sector, pupils need to acquire a broad range of abilities, such as creativity, creative thinking, general skills and the ability to adapt quickly and flexibly to changing conditions and requirements;
2011/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 29 #

2011/2088(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights that the foundations for a child’s future educational career are laid in the early years of childhood, and can help to develop the idea of life-long learning; reiterates the call contained in its resolution on Early Years Learning in the EU for the development of a European framework for early childhood education and care services;
2011/07/19
Committee: CULT
Amendment 33 #

2011/2088(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Proposes that linguistic support should be provided for students from a migrant background;
2011/07/19
Committee: CULT
Amendment 36 #

2011/2088(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines that ESL is more common among boys than girls, because boys have more trouble adjusting to the school environment than girls do;
2011/07/19
Committee: CULT
Amendment 39 #

2011/2088(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that ESL cannot only haves a detrimental effect on access to high-quality lifelong learningthe individual situation of young people, but also on the future prosperity of the European Union as a whole;
2011/07/19
Committee: CULT
Amendment 40 #

2011/2088(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Member States to organise programmes to tackle addictions and social pathologies and prevention programmes to deal with the correlation between family situation and early school leaving;
2011/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 60 #

2011/2088(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Encourages the Member States to provide extracurricular and out-of-school activities for pupils with learning difficulties to develop key skills in view of the clear need for these skills in the labour market;
2011/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 63 #

2011/2088(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Encourages a more hands-on learning approachn early response to emerging learning difficulties, and suggests that efficient early- warning mechanisms and follow-up procedures be put in place to prevent problems from escalating; points out that, in order to achieve this, two-way communication and closer cooperation between schools and parents are crucial, as are local support networks;
2011/07/19
Committee: CULT
Amendment 67 #

2011/2088(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses that a frequent reason for failure among children and young people is the fact that school curricula are ill- suited to the needs of children’s lives and their socially-conditioned interests; an excessively rigid and uniform education system makes it hard to individualise school work and difficult to link education with everyday needs;
2011/07/19
Committee: CULT
Amendment 72 #

2011/2088(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Encourages better career guidance and work experience schemes at school, in order to demystify the world of work for pupils and motivate them to set realistic goals, taking account of labour market needs;
2011/07/19
Committee: CULT
Amendment 91 #

2011/2088(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Suggests that other redistributive measures be introduced, such as the provision of free school meals and, school books and essential sports equipment for disadvantaged groups, to reduce the impact of social inequality and to minimise ESL;
2011/07/19
Committee: CULT
Amendment 107 #

2011/2088(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Considers that many of the reasons for children’s educational problems lie in the fact that they are required to memorise ready-made knowledge and piecemeal information, together with the use of stereotyped teaching methods, one- sided intellectualism in secondary schools or a narrow practical approach in vocational schools;
2011/07/19
Committee: CULT
Amendment 129 #

2011/2088(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Points to the need to use educational interaction therapy in order to address the causes and symptoms of children’s learning difficulties, with the help of educational and teaching resources, with the aim of eliminating educational failure and its consequences;
2011/07/19
Committee: CULT
Amendment 139 #

2011/2088(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Points out also that frequent changes in class teachers, use of a two-shift school system and poor timetabling also have an adverse effect on students’ ability to learn effectively and in encouraging a negative attitude to compulsory schooling;
2011/07/19
Committee: CULT
Amendment 153 #

2011/2088(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Points out that gradually stimulating and improving the development of children’s psychomotor functions, compensating for gaps in students’ knowledge and abilities, and overcoming educational failure and its emotional and social consequences, represent the right way of reducing the number of children leaving school early;
2011/07/19
Committee: CULT
Amendment 14 #

2011/2067(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that the measures proposed in the Commission communication will require strong policy coordination; therefore urges Member States, and particularly their relevant ministries, to become more closely involved in the process of early identification of skills needs; at the same time, draws attention to the need to ensure that the public have access to qualitative information about jobs, skills and training opportunities throughout the EU; strongly believes that when education and training programmes are being designed effective communication between employers and education institutions, using specific mechanisms, is essential;
2011/06/15
Committee: CULT
Amendment 17 #

2011/2067(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Recognises that the creation of an online tool such as ‘EU Skills Pancareer mobility tools that provide clear inforamation on job opportunities could help future workers to acquire the right mix of skills, such as ICTs and languages, thus boosting their job prospects and adaptability; strongly believes that this forecast should have a 10-year time frame;
2011/06/15
Committee: CULT
Amendment 41 #

2011/2067(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to raise the profile of Leonardo da Vinci, a programme which enables people to acquire new skills, knowledge and qualifications, and which makes vocational education more attractive to everyone; points out, furthermore, that on-the-job training is particularly important, and calls for support for national schemes that promote these kinds of career development opportunities;
2011/06/15
Committee: CULT
Amendment 40 #

2011/2066(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Turkish Government to take more effective action in combating honour killings and consistently to impose strict sentences for perpetrators as well as for other family members who passively condone such killings;
2011/10/20
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 41 #

2011/2066(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Calls for publicity campaigns to be mounted that condemn the practice of honour killings and provide information on the forms of assistance available to single mothers;
2011/10/20
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 63 #

2011/2066(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the government and social organisations to combat the phenomenon of honour suicide and to provide help and support to women who are under pressure from their families and those around them, with a view to preventing situations in which, instead of committing honour killings, families pressurise women into committing suicide;
2011/10/20
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 71 #

2011/2066(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Turkish Government to mount public awareness-raising campaigns – aimed at both women and men – on women’s rights and gender equality issues;
2011/10/20
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 76 #

2011/2066(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls for the promotion, within the education system, of vocational schools that would give women the opportunity to learn a trade or train for occupations in the services industry;
2011/10/20
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 93 #

2011/2066(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls for further action to be taken under the ‘Active labour market measures’ scheme, which is designed to curb unemployment among women and young people; calls on the Turkish Government to dedicate more funding from its own budget to getting unemployed women into work;
2011/10/20
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 94 #

2011/2066(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Calls on the Turkish Government to spend EU funding as effectively as possible on the projects being carried out in Turkey; calls on the Commission to undertake due diligence with respect to the effectiveness of the spending;
2011/10/20
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 99 #

2011/2066(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Encourages women to start their own businesses using funding made available under loan schemes such as the Small Businesses Loan Programme, and to take advantage of KOSGEB’s training programmes;
2011/10/20
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 121 #

2011/2066(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33a. Calls for the active involvement of management and labour in promoting women’s rights and roles in business, society and politics, and in including women in dialogue between the two sides of industry;
2011/10/20
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 24 #

2011/2052(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for an intercultural, and multilingual approacheducation to be endorsed, to facilitate the educatcombat social exclusional and formativster the integration of migrants;
2011/06/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 35 #

2011/2052(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
8. Encourages initiatives that are also intergenerational, to reduce the digital divide of disadvantaged people, by providing them with access to information and communication technologies, in keeping with the European Digital Agenda;
2011/06/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment 42 #

2011/2052(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
10. Calls for the knowledge, experience and skills of poor people in situations of poverty and social exclusion to be recognised and developed.
2011/06/14
Committee: CULT
Amendment C #

2011/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for regular, critical monitoring ofthe establishment of a regular, critical evaluation mechanism, involving the European Parliament, the Committee of the Regions and the European Economic and Social Committee, based on precise indicators at national and European level, by which the multiple dimensions of poverty can be evaluated and the Member States’ progress, by gender and age, towards achieving the poverty reduction target, and towards breaking this target down into sub-targets, can be measured, in view of the fact that the lack of a precise definition of poverty leaves too much leeway for the Member States, to break this target down into sub-targets; hus risking aberrant interpretations; calls on the Commission to improve national and European indicators relating to the comparability of national statistics on the poverty of vulnerable people and to promote, with Eurostat, the production of more precise statistics within a comprehensive scoreboard on poverty and social exclusion by means of which it will be possible to track the number of people below the 50% and 40% levels of median income and on this basis to conduct an annual evaluation of the situations of poverty in the EU, the statistical approach of which should be supplemented by a qualitative and participatory approach; calls on the Commission to ensure the policies implemented are beneficial to all and not just to those close to the poverty threshold;
2011/09/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment L #

2011/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Supports the creation of decent jobs through vocationalConsiders that a full and effective way out of poverty can only be found if the appropriate strengthening of social protection instruments is accompanied by significant reinforcement of education and training paths at every level; supports the development of more inclusive education systems to tackle the problem of students dropping out and enable young people from disadvantaged social groups to reach a higher level of education, with a view to countering the intergenerational transmission of poverty; supports access to validation of acquired experience and life-long training, and the provision of personalised job-seeking assistance, in particular for disadvantaged groups; s a means of reducing poverty by securing access to employment, in particular for disadvantaged groups, to help them to access decent jobs; regards it as essential, therefore, for life-long learning programmes to be implemented properly and developed, and for Member States to cooperate in the fields of education and vocational training and personalised job-seeking assistance, and stresses that more measures of this kind must be taken to assist the most vulnerable sectors of the population; recommends the development of an EU strategy to tackle in-work poverty and create quality jobs, agreeing principles for quality work;
2011/09/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment T #

2011/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. AdvocatesRecommends the Member States to adopt a proactive decent housing policy in order to ensure universal access to decent, affordable housingquality housing at affordable prices or on preferential terms of purchase, and to prevent the loss thereof, with guaranteed access to services essential to health and safety, the lack of such housing being a serious affront to dignity, along with a proactive energy policy that steps up the use of renewable energies and boosts energy efficiency in order to combat energy poverty; calls for more attention to be paid to housing for migrants, who are often exploited and forced to live in sub- standard housing; recalls Protocol 26 annexed to the Treaty of Lisbon on social housing and calls for the provisions contained therein to be respected, in particular on the Member States’ freedom to organise social housing, including the question of financing; encourages the Member States to implement special housing programmes and opportunities for homeless people, in view of guaranteeing the most basic standards of living for the most vulnerable in society;
2011/09/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 170 #

2011/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for regular, critical monitoring of the Member States’ progress towards achieving the poverty reduction target, and for the Member States to break this target down into sub-targets by gender and age;
2011/06/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 224 #

2011/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Supports the creation of decent jobs through vocational training and the provision of personalised job-seeking assistance, in particular for disadvantagedvulnerable groups;
2011/06/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 297 #

2011/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Member States to exchange best practices in combating poverty and social exclusion at national, regional and local levels;
2011/06/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 324 #

2011/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Advocates a proactive housing policy in order to ensure universal access to decent, affordable housing, along with a proactive energy policy that steps up the use of renewable energies and boosts energy efficiencyt affordable prices or on preferential terms of purchase;
2011/06/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 365 #

2011/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls for efforts to tackle the vicious circle of poverty in order to combat the perpetuation of poverty in subsequent generations;
2011/06/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 382 #

2011/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Maintains that elderly care facilities must be developedappropriate access to health care services and social care services must be provided for elderly and disabled people in all the Member States so as to prevent elderlythese people falling into exclusion or poverty;
2011/06/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 65 #

2011/2049(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Encourages the work of sociall organisations and informal networks working for single mothers, especially in countries where there is little or no specific support for single-parents famildesigned to help single mothers; these efforts should be aimed at enhancing the self-reliance and independence of single mothers, reducing their feelings of passivity and isolation, improving their social resourcefulness, improving their parenting skills and giving them easier access to information on employment rights and opportunities;
2011/06/07
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 95 #

2011/2049(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the need to facilitate access to training for single mothers, especially youngand vocational training for single mothers, who often stop their education when pregnant; this would enable them to obtain qualifications and maximise their chances of getting high- quality work and gaining financial independence;
2011/06/07
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 98 #

2011/2049(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for measures to be adopted to facilitate the return to education of single mothers who abandoned their studies because of early motherhood;
2011/06/07
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 106 #

2011/2049(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need to encourage the development of childcare facilities such as kindergartfor young childrens and to facilitate significantly access to training and the search for employmentgrant privileged access to them for single mothers;
2011/06/07
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 33 #

2011/0440(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point d – introductory part
(d) ‘usual residence’ shall means the same as in Article 2(d) first paragraph of Regulation (EC) No 763/2008place where a person normally spends the daily period of rest, regardless of temporary absences for purposes of recreation, holidays, visits to friends and relatives, business, medical treatment or religious pilgrimage. The following persons alone shall be considered to be usual residents of the geographical area in question:
2012/10/24
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 36 #

2011/0440(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point d – subparagraph 2
Where the circumstances described in point (i) or (ii) cannot be established, "usual residence" shall mean the place of legal or registered residence; In applying the definition of ‘usual residence’, Member States shall treat special cases as in the Annex to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1201/2009.
2012/10/24
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 49 #

2011/0440(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
For the purposes of qualified majority voting in the Council, Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with data on the total population at national level at the reference time, as referred to in Article 2, within 8 months from the end of the reference year. For the purposes of this Article, Member States shall not provide data on population at their place of legal or registered residence at the reference time.
2012/10/24
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 165 #

2011/0436(APP)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point 2 a (new)
2a. step up cooperation between national institutions concerned with culture and remembrance.
2012/10/29
Committee: CULT
Amendment 210 #

2011/0436(APP)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – indent 11 a (new)
– Cooperation between cultural institutions on exchanging historical exhibits
2012/10/29
Committee: CULT
Amendment 218 #

2011/0436(APP)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1
The programme shall be open to all stakeholders promoting European integration, in particular local authorities and organisations, European public policy research organisations (think-tanks), citizens’ groups and other civil society organisations (such as survivors’ associations), and educational and research institutions, cultural institutions and historical institutes.
2012/10/29
Committee: CULT
Amendment 31 #

2011/0397(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17 a (new)
(17a) The provisions of this regulation should ensure appropriate safety levels, so that high staff turnover and a large number of contracts with subcontractors do not pose a risk to safety standards;
2012/06/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 32 #

2011/0397(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17 b (new)
(17b) The legislator should ensure that it is possible for a Member State to recommend that staff be transferred if there is a change in the supplier of a limited groundhandling service.
2012/06/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 46 #

2011/0397(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 2
2. Where, following the selection procedure laid down in Articles 7 to 10, a supplier of groundhandling services mentioned in paragraph 1 loses its authorisation to provide these services, and when the supplier of groundhandling services ceases the performance of groundhandling services for an airport user or when a self-handling airport user decides to cease self-handling, Member States may requirecommend that supplier(s) of groundhandling services which subsequently provide these services to grant staff previously hired to provide these services the rights to which they would have been entitled if there had been a transfer within the meaning of Council Directive 2001/23/EC17.
2012/06/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 53 #

2011/0397(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall limit the requirementcommendation in paragraph (2) to the employees of the previous supplier who are involved in the provision of services for which the previous supplier lost authorisation, and who voluntarily accept to be taken on by the new supplier(s).
2012/06/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 55 #

2011/0397(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 5
5. Where a Member State imposes a requirement as referred to in paragraph (2), tender documents for the selection procedure laid down in Articles 7 to 10 shall list the staff concerned and give the relevant details of employees' contractual rights and the conditions under which employees are deemed to be linked to the services in question.deleted
2012/06/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 59 #

2011/0397(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 6
6. Where a supplier of groundhandling services stops providing to an airport user groundhandling services which constitute a significant part of the groundhandling activities of this supplier in cases not covered by paragraph (2), or where a self- handling airport user decides to stop self- handling, Member States may require the supplier(s) of groundhandling services or self-handling airport user which subsequently provide these groundhandling services to grant staff previously hired to provide these services the rights to which they would have been entitled if there had been a transfer within the meaning of Council Directive 2001/23/EC.deleted
2012/06/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 62 #

2011/0397(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 7
7. Member States shall limit the requirement in paragraph (6) to the employees of the previous supplier who are involved in the provision of groundhandling services that the previous supplier stops providing, and who voluntarily accept to be taken on by the new supplier(s) or self-handling airport user.deleted
2012/06/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 64 #

2011/0397(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 8
8. Member States shall limit the requirement in paragraph (6) to the employees of the self-handling airport user who are involved in the provision of groundhandling services for which the self-handling airport user decides to stop self-handling, and who voluntarily accept to be taken on by the new supplier(s) or self-handling airport user.deleted
2012/06/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 75 #

2011/0397(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 34 – paragraph 1
1. Suppliers of groundhandling services and self-handling airport users shall ensure that all their employees involved in the provision of groundhandling services, including managing staff and supervisors, regularly attend specific and recurrent training to enable them to perform the tasks assigned to them. By means of appropriate measures, supervisory authorities in the Member States shall check compliance with training standards. If the relevant authorities in a Member State find that training standards have not been complied with, the continued provision of services by suppliers of groundhandling services and self-handling airport users shall be blocked until the required standards are achieved.
2012/06/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 81 #

2011/0397(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 34 – paragraph 2
2. Every employee involved in the provision of groundhandling services shall attend at least two days oftheoretical and practical basic training, as well as training relevant for the tasks assigned to the employee. The scope and minimum duration of such training shall be determined by the relevant authorities in Member States, in cooperation with the given operators in the groundhandling services sector. Every employee shall attend the relevant training whenimmediately after taking up a new job or whenafter a new task is assigned to the employee, and before starting work in this field;
2012/06/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 85 #

2011/0397(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 34 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
3. Where relevant for the activitype of groundhandling services in question, training, the scope and manner of execution of which shall be determined by regulations in the individual Member States, shall cover at least:
2012/06/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 90 #

2011/0397(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 34 – paragraph 3 – point p a (new)
(pa) measures to protect against occupational health hazards for groundhandling employees,
2012/06/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 94 #

2011/0397(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 1 – point n
(n) transfer of staff, if applicable, and its impact on the protection of employees;
2012/06/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 333 #

2011/0370(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – point b
(b) to promote the transnational creation and circulation of cultural and creative works and operators and reach new audiences in Europe and beyond;
2012/10/26
Committee: CULT
Amendment 341 #

2011/0370(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – point c
(c) to strengthen the financial capacity of the cultural and creative sectors, and in particular small and medium-sized enterprises and organisations, throughout Europe and across all sub-sectors;
2012/10/26
Committee: CULT
Amendment 354 #

2011/0370(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – point a
(a) an Cross-sectoral Strand addressed to all cultural and creative sectors;
2012/10/26
Committee: CULT
Amendment 357 #

2011/0370(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – point b
(b) a Culture Strand addressed to the cultural and creative sectors;
2012/10/26
Committee: CULT
Amendment 359 #

2011/0370(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – point c
(c) a MEDIA Strand addressed to the audiovisual sector.
2012/10/26
Committee: CULT
Amendment 368 #

2011/0370(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – introductory wording
1. The Commission shall establish a Facility targeting the cultural and creative sectors and operated within the context of a Union debt instrument for small and medium-sized enterprises. This facility shall have the following priorities:e instrument shall be created and shall function in accordance with Chapter VIII of the Financial Regulation XX/2012.
2012/10/26
Committee: CULT
Amendment 372 #

2011/0370(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – introductory wording
1. The Commission shall establish a Facility targeting the cultural and creative sectors and operated within the context of a Union debt instrument for small and medium-sized enterprises. This facility shall have the following priorities:
2012/10/26
Committee: CULT
Amendment 376 #

2011/0370(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. That facility shall have the following priorities:
2012/10/26
Committee: CULT
Amendment 391 #

2011/0370(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) to this end, improveing the capacity of financial institutions to assess cultural and creative projects, including through awareness- raising, technical assistance and networking measures.
2012/10/26
Committee: CULT
Amendment 425 #

2011/0370(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – point f – indent 2
– assist the cultural and creative sectors regarding the Creative Europe Programme and provide basic information on the various types of aid available under Union policy;
2012/10/26
Committee: CULT
Amendment 431 #

2011/0370(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – point f – indent 4
– support the Commission by providing assistance regarding the cultural and creative sectors in the Member States, for example through the provision of available data on these sectors;
2012/10/26
Committee: CULT
Amendment 466 #

2011/0370(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) supporting actions providing operators with skills and know-how, including those encouraging the adaption to digital technologies, including and testing new approaches to audience -building and business models;
2012/10/26
Committee: CULT
Amendment 486 #

2011/0370(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) supporting international creation, touring, events and exhibitions;
2012/10/26
Committee: CULT
Amendment 499 #

2011/0370(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – point a
(a) transnational cooperation measures bringing together operators from different countries to undertake sectoral or cross- sectoral activities, in particular those of a small-scale, innovative and experimental nature;
2012/10/26
Committee: CULT
Amendment 523 #

2011/0370(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Those measures shall in particular support not-for-profit projects.
2012/10/26
Committee: CULT
Amendment 538 #

2011/0370(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
(ca) reducing imbalances in the European audiovisual market.
2012/10/26
Committee: CULT
Amendment 557 #

2011/0370(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – point c
(c) support activities aiming at facilitating European and international co-productions, including television, inter alia by facilitating meetings between interested parties and indirect support for audiovisual co-productions;
2012/10/26
Committee: CULT
Amendment 588 #

2011/0370(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) relevant EU policies, in particular those in the fields of education, youth, citizenship, employment, health, research and innovation, enterprise, tourism, justice and development;
2012/10/26
Committee: CULT
Amendment 625 #

2011/0370(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point b – subparagraph 3 – indent 1
– volume of loans granted in the framework of the financial facility, broken down by their national origin, size and sectors;
2012/10/26
Committee: CULT
Amendment 641 #

2011/0370(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. The Commission and the EIF shall ensure that information relevant to their tasks is disseminated to the Creative Europe Desks referred to in point (f) of Article 8.
2012/10/26
Committee: CULT
Amendment 651 #

2011/0370(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1
In order to implement the programme, the Commission shall adopt annual work programmes by way of implementing acts in accordance with the advisoryexamination procedure referred to in Article 18 (2(1a). The annual work programmes shall set out the objectives pursued, the expected results, the method of implementation and the total amount of the financing plan. They shall also contain a description of the actions to be financed, an indication of the amount allocated to each action and an indicative implementation timetable. For grants they shall include the priorities, the essential evaluation criteria and the maximum rate of co-financing. The Commission shall also adopt the general guidelines for implementation of the Programme in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 18(2).
2012/10/26
Committee: CULT
Amendment 658 #

2011/0370(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply.
2012/10/26
Committee: CULT
Amendment 41 #

2011/0302(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
(13) Experience with the current financial framework shows that many Member States, which are eligible to the Cohesion Fund, are facing significant obstacles in delivering on time complex cross-border transport infrastructure projects with a high Union added value. Therefore, in order to improve the delivery of transport projects, in particular cross-border ones, with a high Union added value, part of the Cohesion Fund allocation (EUR 10 billion) should be transferred to finance transport projects on the transport core network in the Member States eligible to the Cohesion Fund under the Connecting Europe Facilityrespecting national allocations for the projects listed in the Annex of this Regulation. The Commission should support Member States eligible to the Cohesion Fund to develop an adequate pipeline of projects in order to give greatest possible priority to the national allocations under the Cohesion Fund.
2012/09/20
Committee: REGI
Amendment 80 #

2011/0302(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) transport: EUR 31 694 000 000, out of which EUR 10 000 000 000 shall be transferred from the Cohesion Fund to be spent in line with this Regulation in Member States eligible for funding from the Cohesion Fundfor projects listed in the Annex to this Regulation, respecting the national allocations;
2012/09/20
Committee: REGI
Amendment 141 #

2011/0276(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 2 – paragraph 2 – point 10
(10) ‘State aid’ means aid falling under Article 107(1) of the Treaty which shall be deemed for the purposes of this Regulation also to include de minimis aid within the meaning of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1998/2006 of 15 December 2006 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the Treaty to de minimis aid, Commission Regulation (EC) No 1535/2007 of 20 December 2007 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to de minimis aid in the sector of agricultural production and Commission Regulation (EC) No 875/2007 of 24 July 2007 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to de minimis aid in the fisheries sector and amending Regulation (EC) No 1860/2004; , Commission Regulation (EC) No 360/2012 of 25 April 2012 on the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to de minimis aid granted to undertakings providing services of general economic interest1, as well as aid in the form of public services granted to certain undertakings entrusted with the operation of services of general economic interest within the meaning of the Commission Decision of 20 December 2011 on the application of Article 106(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to State aid in the form of public service compensation granted to certain undertakings entrusted with the operation of services of general economic interest2. 1 OJ L 114, 26.4.2012, p. 8. 2 OJ L 7, 11.1.2012, p. 3.
2012/05/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 185 #

2011/0276(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Part 2 – article 9 – paragraph 1 – point 9
(9) promoting active social inclusion and combating poverty;
2012/05/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 254 #

2011/0276(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Part 2 – article 21
[...]deleted
2012/05/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 347 #

2011/0276(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Part 2 – article 55 – paragraph 6
6. Net revenue directly generated by an operation during its implementation which has not been taken into account at the time of approval of the operation, shall be deducted from the eligible expenditure of the operation in the final payment claim submitted by the beneficiary. This rule shall not apply to financial instrumentsprojects whose value is less than 5000 EUR, to financial instruments, operations subject to the rules on State Aid, operations for which public support takes the form of lump sums or standard scale unit costs, operations implemented under a joint action plan and prizes.
2012/05/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 350 #

2011/0276(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Part 2 – article 59 – paragraph 3 – point c
(c) value added tax. However, VAT amounts shall be eligible where they are not recoverable under national VAT legislation and are paid by a beneficiary other than non-taxable person as defined in the first subparagraph of Article 13(1) of Directive 2006/112/EC, provided that such VAT amounts are not incurred in relation to the provision of infrastructure which is recoverable under national VAT legislation.
2012/05/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 373 #

2011/0276(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 84 – paragraph 3
3. At least 250 % of the Structural Funds resources for less developed regions and for regions whose GDP per capita for the 2007-2013 period was less than 75% of the average GDP of the EU-25 but which are now eligible under the transition or more developed regions category, 40% for transition regions and 52% for more developed regions in each Member State shall be allocated to the ESF. For the purposes of this provision, the support to a Member State through the [Food for deprived people instrument] shall be considered as part of the share of Structural Funds allocated to the ESF.
2012/05/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 374 #

2011/0276(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 84 – paragraph 4
4. The support from the Cohesion Fund for transport infrastructure under the Connecting Europe Facility shall be EUR 10 000 000 000. The Commission shall adopt a decision by implementing act setting out the amount to be transferred from each Member State's Cohesion Fund allocation for the whole period. The Cohesion Fund allocation of each Member State shall be reduced accordingly. The annual appropriations corresponding to the support from the Cohesion Fund mentioned in the first subparagraph shall be entered in the relevant budget lines of the Connecting Europe Facility as from the 2014 budgetary exercise. Support from the Cohesion Fund under the Connecting Europe Facility shall be implemented in accordance with Article [13] of Regulation (EU) […]/2012 on establishing the Connecting Europe Facility35 in respect of projects listed in Annex 1 to that Regulation, giving greatest possible priority to projects respecting the national allocations under the Cohesion Fund.deleted
2012/05/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 384 #

2011/0276(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 85 – paragraph 2
2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the Commission may accept, in duly justified circumstances which are linked to the implementation of one or more thematic objectives, a proposal by a Member State in its first submission of the Partnership Contract to transfer up to 25% of the total appropriation for a category of regions to other categories of regions.
2012/05/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 389 #

2011/0276(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 87 – paragraph 1
1. An operational programme shall consist of priority axes. A priority axis shall concern one Fund for a category of region and shall correspond, without prejudice to Article 52, to a thematic objective and comprise one or more investment priorities of that thematic objective, in accordance with the Fund- specific rules. For the ESF, a priority axis may combine investment priorities from different thematic objectives set out in Article 9(8), (9), (10) and (11) in order to facilitate their contribution to other priority axes, in duly justified circumstancesIn duly justified circumstances, a priority axis may concern more categories of regions or combine one or more complementary investment priorities from different thematic objectives and Funds, where necessary to increase effectiveness and to better meet targets of the Union strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth.
2012/05/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 423 #

2011/0276(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 88 – paragraph 2
2. The ERDF and the ESF may finance, in a complementary manner and subject to a limit of 510 % of Union funding for each priority axis of an operational programme, a part of an operation for which the costs are eligible for support from the other Fund on the basis of eligibility rules applied to that Fund, provided that they are necessary for the satisfactory implementation of the operation and are directly linked to it.
2012/05/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 464 #

2011/0276(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 110 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point d
(d) 785% for the less developed regions of Member States other than those referred to in points (b) and (c), and for all regions whose GDP per capita for the 2007-2013 period was less than 75% of the average of the EU-25 for the reference period but whose GDP per capita is above 75% of the GDP average of the EU-27;
2012/05/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 465 #

2011/0276(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 110 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
The co-financing rate at the level of each priority axis of operational programmes under the European territorial cooperation goal shall be no higher than 785%.
2012/05/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 479 #

2011/0276(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 127 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
The Commission shall decommit any part of the amount calculated in accordance with the second subparagraph in an operational programme that has not been used for payment of the initial and annual pre-financing, interim payments and annual balance by 31 December of the seconthird financial year following the year of budget commitment under the operational programme or for which a payment application drawn up in accordance with Article 121 has not been submitted in accordance with Article 126.
2012/05/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 487 #

2011/0276(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 137 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. In case of an agreement, the Member State may reuse the Union funds concerned in conformity with the Article 135 (3).
2012/05/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 488 #

2011/0276(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 137 – paragraph 5
5. In absence of an agreement and in order to apply financial corrections the Commission shall take a decision, by means of implementing acts, within six months of the date of the hearing, or of the date of receipt of additional information where the Member State agrees to submit such additional information following the hearing. The Commission shall take account of all information and observations submitted during the course of the procedure. If no hearing takes place, the six month period shall begin to run two months after the date of the letter of invitation to the hearing sent by the Commission.
2012/05/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 489 #

2011/0276(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Part 3 – article 137 – paragraph 6
6. Where irregularities affecting annual accounts sent to the Commission are detected by the Commission or by the European Court of Auditors, the resulting financial correction shall reduce support from the Funds to the operational programme.deleted
2012/05/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 51 #

2011/0268(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
(2) The ESF should improve employment opportunities, support the creation of sustainable and quality jobs, promote education and life- long learning and develop active inclusion policies in accordance with the tasks entrusted to the ESF by Article 162 of the Treaty, and thereby contribute to economic, social and territorial cohesion in accordance with Article 174 of the Treaty. In accordance with Article 9 of the Treaty, the ESF should take into account requirements linked to the promotion of a high level of employment, the guarantee of adequate social protection, the fight against social exclusion, and a high level of education, training and protection of human health.
2012/06/07
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 69 #

2011/0268(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
(4) The European Union is confronted with structural and demographic challenges arising from economic globalisation, technological change and an increasingly ageing workforce and growing skills and labour shortages in some sectors and regions. They have been compounded by the recent economic and financial crisis, which has resulted in increased levels of unemployment, hitting in particular young people and other vulnerable groups, such as migrants. The ESF should aim to promote and create employment and support labour mobility, invest in education, skills and life-long learning, promote social inclusion and combat poverty. In promoting the better functioning of labour markets by enhancing the transnational geographical mobility of workers, the ESF should, in particular,may support European Employment Services (EURES activities) in relation to recruitment and the related information, advice and guidance services at national and cross-border level. The European Commission should systematically monitor EURES activities and publish the results.
2012/06/07
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 79 #

2011/0268(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
(6) At the same time, it is crucial to support the development and, competitiveness and pan- European mobility of European small and medium-sized enterprises and to ensure that people can adapt, through acquiring appropriate skills and through lifelong learning opportunities, to changing economic and social conditions as well as new challenges such as the shift to a knowledge-based economy, the digital agenda, and the transition to a low-carbon and more energy-efficient economy. By pursuing its primary thematic objectives, the ESF should contribute to addressing these challenges. In this context, the ESF should support the labour force transition towards greener skills and jobs, in particular in the energy efficiency, renewable energy and sustainable transport sectors, taking into account the Union's intention to increase the proportion of the EU budget that is related to climate mainstreaming to at least 20%, with contributions from different policy fields.
2012/06/07
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 84 #

2011/0268(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
(7) The ESF should contribute to the Europe 2020 Strategy, ensuring greater concentration of support on the priorities of the European Union. The ESF should in particular increase its support for the active fight against social exclusion and poverty, through a minimum ring-fenced allocation. According to the level of development of the supported regions, the choice and number of investment priorities for ESF support should also be limited.
2012/06/07
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 99 #

2011/0268(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9 a (new)
(9a) Taking into consideration the fact that in order to assure employment and social cohesion an integrated and holistic approach is needed, the ESF should support cross-sectoral and transnational cooperation and territorial- based partnerships.
2012/06/07
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 121 #

2011/0268(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
(17) The Member States and regions should be encouraged to leverage the ESF through financial instruments in order to support for example studentemployability, especially among young persons, job creation, and mobility of workers, social inclusion and social entrepreneurship.
2012/06/07
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 124 #

2011/0268(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17 a (new)
(17a) Taking into account that social innovation is a subject of different programmes, measures should be put in place to avoid overlapping or double- financing of the same activities and initiatives. In addition, since some activities carried out under ESF under shared management partially overlap with those of the Programme for Social Change and Innovation, which is under direct management, measures should be put in place not to duplicate or double- finance activities falling under different management modes.
2012/06/07
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 153 #

2011/0268(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 3
3. The ESF shall benefit people, including disadvantaged groups such as the long- term unemployed, youth and low-skilled workers, people with disabilities, migrants, ethnic minorities, marginalised communities and people facing social exclusion. The ESF shall also provide support to enterprises, systems and structures with a view to facilitating their adaptation to new challenges and promoting good governance and the implementation of reforms, in particular in the fields of employment, education and social policies.
2012/06/07
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 169 #

2011/0268(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a – point i
(i) Access to employment and employment services for job-seekers and inactive people, including local employment initiatives and support for labour mobility;
2012/06/07
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 180 #

2011/0268(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a – point iv
(iv) Equality between men and women and rReconciliation between work and private life and equality between men and women;
2012/06/07
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 202 #

2011/0268(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a – point vii a (new)
(viia) Support the employment of persons in a disadvantaged situation on the labour market, in particular persons with disabilities.
2012/06/07
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 292 #

2011/0268(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that the strategy and actions set out in the Operational Programmes are consistent and focused on addressing the challenges identified in the National Reform Programmes and the relevant Council Recommendations made under Article 148(4) of the Treaty, in order to contribute to achieving the headline targets of the Europe 2020 strategy on employment, education and poverty reduction and fulfilling the mission of the fund as outlined in article 2.
2012/06/07
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 297 #

2011/0268(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2
2. At least 20 % of the total ESF resources in each Member State shall be allocated to the thematic objective "actively promoting social inclusion and combating poverty" set out in Article 9(9) of Regulation (EU) No […]. By way of derogation, in duly justified cases, the investment priorities referred to in Article 5(9)(a) to (c) of Regulation (EU) No [...] [ERDF] shall be included in that 20% of total ESF resources.
2012/06/07
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 312 #

2011/0268(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – point c
(c) For less developed regions and for the regions whose GDP per capita for the 2007- 2013 period was less than 75% of the average GDP of the EU- 25 but which are now eligible under the transition or more developed regions categories, Member States shall concentrate 60 % of the ESF allocation to each operational programme on up to fourive of the investment priorities set out in Article 3(1).
2012/06/07
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 380 #

2011/0268(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1
1. By way of derogation from Article 87(1) of Regulation (EU) No […], operational programmes may set out priority axes for the implementation of social innovation and transnational cooperation as referred to in Articles 9 and 10. By way of derogation from Article 4(2) and (3), priority axes wholly dedicated, under operational programmes, to social innovation or to transnational cooperation, or to a combination of both, shall not be included in the total ESF resources in each Member State, as referred to in Article 4(2), or in the allocation for each operational programme, as referred to in Article 4(3).
2012/06/07
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 388 #

2011/0268(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1
1. The ESF mayshall, in particular support community-led local development strategies, as referred to in Article 28 of Regulation (EU) No [...], territorial pacts and local initiatives for employment, education and social inclusion, as well as Integrated Territorial Investments (ITI) as referred to in Article 99 of Regulation (EU) No [...].
2012/06/07
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 406 #

2011/0268(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2
2. ESF may be used to enhance access to capital markets for public and private bodies at national and regional levels implementing actions and policies falling within the scope of the ESF and the operational programme through ‘ESF policy-based guarantees’ subject to Commission approval. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 16 to define the specific rules and conditions for the applications of Member States, including ceilings, for policy-based guarantees, ensuring in particular that their use does not lead to excessive levels of debt of public bodies. Each application shall be assessed by the Commission and the Commission shall approve each ‘ESF policy-based guarantee’ provided it falls within the remit of the Operational Programme referred to in Article 87 of Regulation (EU) No […] and provided it is in accordance with the established specific rules and conditions.deleted
2012/06/07
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 457 #

2011/0268(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – point 4 – point 3 – point i (new)
(i) participants who became independent from benefits
2012/06/07
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 8 #

2011/0000(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas women who are the victims of rape are stigmatised, meaning they are unable to hide the fact they have been raped, and whereas these women are considered to be dishonoured, are often excluded from their communities and can even fall victim to violence at the hands of their families;
2011/09/20
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 82 #

2011/0000(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8a (new)
8a. Is concerned that increasing numbers of women who are members of terrorist organisations are carrying out bloody attacks; calls for acts of violence as such to be roundly condemned, especially when they involve the participation of women;
2011/09/20
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 27 #

2010/2306(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas digital cinema technology makes possible flexible promotion planning and last-minute changes in material,
2011/09/12
Committee: CULT
Amendment 54 #

2010/2306(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that inadequate funding for European cinema translates into insufficient promotion of it in the international arena;
2011/09/12
Committee: CULT
Amendment 55 #

2010/2306(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Points out that multimedia technology is supplanting other forms of communication and that there is therefore a need to teach people how to receive it;
2011/09/12
Committee: CULT
Amendment 81 #

2010/2306(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Recognises that cinemas are places where people meet and exchange views and stresses that the disappearance of small and independent cinemas, in particular in small towns and less developed regions may limit access to European cinemaultural resources;
2011/09/12
Committee: CULT
Amendment 93 #

2010/2306(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Member States to provide support to national film studios and other relevant institutions in the transition to working with digital technology;
2011/09/12
Committee: CULT
Amendment 97 #

2010/2306(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Underlines the importance of 2K and 4the 2K resolution systems, that allows the screening of films in 3D, HDTV and Blu- Ray as well as for Video On Demand (VOD) services;
2011/09/12
Committee: CULT
Amendment 103 #

2010/2306(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Recommends Member States adopt legislative measures to ensure that audiovisual works, being a part ofwhich in future could form the beginnings of a European multimedia library and become an important instrument for protecting and promoting the national heritage, will be digitised, collected, catalogued, reconstructed and disseminated for cultural, educational and science purposes, whilst respecting copyright;
2011/09/12
Committee: CULT
Amendment 112 #

2010/2306(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses that in order to ease the digitisation process, flexible and diversified financing, both public and private, should be made available at local, regional, national and European level and that public-private partnerships should be promoted;
2011/09/12
Committee: CULT
Amendment 138 #

2010/2306(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Encourages Member States to increase funding for research connected with digital cinema technology, and particularly channels for disseminating film material and the methods for compressing it, so that the network established will be interactive and offer high quality projection and at the same time allow easier use of compressed and decompressed images;
2011/09/12
Committee: CULT
Amendment 161 #

2010/2306(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Encourages Member States to support educational programmes in film schools and other relevant institutions on the possibilities of making films using digital technology and on digital film production and distribution;
2011/09/12
Committee: CULT
Amendment 181 #

2010/2306(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Encourages Member States to devise a strategy for establishing a digital cinema network including film studios, single-screen and multiplex cinemas and live screening facilities, using all data transmission channels, including satellite;
2011/09/12
Committee: CULT
Amendment 10 #

2010/2275(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas it is important to recognise that in general working women require greater flexibility due to their continued primary care role and that therefore it is necessary to ensure a work-life balance in conformity with their multi-task lifestyle, which can lead some women to start up their own business to secure their financial independence and independence at work,
2011/03/30
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 34 #

2010/2275(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital H
H. whereas men and women do not have the same opportunities to run and develop companies and whereas consolidating women's entrepreneurship is a type of long-term endeavourprocess that requires time to change structures and attitudes in society; whereas women have always been entrepreneurial, but rules and the traditional division of roles have meant that entrepreneurship has not always been an option for women,
2011/03/30
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 41 #

2010/2275(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital J
J. whereas women entrepreneurs are a heterogeneous group, varying in terms of age, background and education, and they are active in a wide range of sectors and businesses; whereas women are often perceived to lack entrepreneurial characteristics and propensities such as self-confidence, management skills, assertiveness and risk- taking,
2011/03/30
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 53 #

2010/2275(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on Member States to inform women more effectively about the European Progress Microfinance Facility and about all the funding possibilities offered by this facility;
2011/03/30
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 63 #

2010/2275(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Urges Member States to ensure that women who have become insolvent or bankrupt have access to financial recovery assistance and support in order that they may continue with their business aspiraprojects already begun or change directions;
2011/03/30
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 70 #

2010/2275(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on Member States to introduce investment readiness programmes that can help women create viable business plans that provide investors with appropriately structured and relevant informationand find and define potential investors;
2011/03/30
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 80 #

2010/2275(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on Member States to pay particular attention to the situation of women over the age of 50 and to help them set up their own companies;
2011/03/30
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 95 #

2010/2275(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recommends introducing initial courses in the basics of entrepreneurship at primary school level;
2011/03/30
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 126 #

2010/2275(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission to run a campaign promoting women's involvement in work by means of setting up their own companies, and at the same time to provide information about the various instruments available to facilitate business start-ups;
2011/03/30
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 3 #

2010/2206(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that education-related travel is becoming increasingly popular, therefore calls on the Member States, local and regional authorities to be flexible and adapt to new types of consumers due to demographic change and in order to take into account new forms of tourism geared to the expectations voiced by consumers; takes the view that the EU should also take steps to improve access to tourist attractions for disabled persons;
2010/11/09
Committee: CULT
Amendment 44 #

2010/2206(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls that www.visiteurope.com is a platform to be further developed so as to enhance the visibility of Europe and its heritage by providing information in the largest possible number of EU official languages; emphasises that it should be the core platform linking together other programmes and applications.
2010/11/09
Committee: CULT
Amendment 48 #

2010/2115(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that even if women are already occupying a position on the board of directors which is very often a positions that can be described as precarious, the so-call "glass cliff ", thus, having a higher risk of failure - either because they are in organizational units that are in crisis or because they are not given the resources and support needed for success therefore, they are more scrutinized;
2011/03/28
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 6 #

2010/2043(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that the Test-Achats ruling has created ongoing uncertainty on the insurance market; expects that the development of calculations of premiums will result in a pricing reflecting fairly individuals' risks regardless the gender;
2013/01/29
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 11 #

2010/2043(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that the insurance industry ought to make a considerable effort to rethink its pricing system, to rebuild its risk assessment system and to find suitable replacement data for gender proxies;deleted
2013/01/29
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 13 #

2010/2043(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Notes that the insurance industry should keep making an effort to re- arrange premiums in line with unisex criteria by applying actuarial calculations on the basis of other factors;
2013/01/29
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 15 #

2010/2043(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission to create, for the purposes of personalised risk assessment, an indicative list of all necessary statistical data that are currently not available in the European Union;deleted
2013/01/29
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 25 #

2010/2043(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to monitor particularly closely any discrimination related to breastfeeding; including possible discrimination in accessing goods and services in public spaces and areas;
2013/01/29
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 29 #

2010/2043(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Draws attention to the lack of effectiveness of some of equality bodies due to the lack of actual ability to act, the shortage of staff and the lack of adequate financial resources;
2013/01/29
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 105 #

2010/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Member States to facilitate access to private houses rental market with regular contracts in order to avoid evictions as long as access to basic financial services;
2010/05/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 109 #

2010/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Encourages the active participation of women belonging to ethnic minority groups in all spheres of their lives, including politics to appeal to contemporary underrepresentation;
2010/05/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 122 #

2010/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to improve access to language courses, education targeted at children and adult women belonging to ethnic minority groups in order to avoid a gender gap in education levels that leads to labour market exclusion and poverty;
2010/05/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 22 #

2010/2018(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take legislative measures to bring an end to zero-hour contracts, which are common in jobs typically occupied by women in sectors such as domestic work, care work, and catering and the hotel industry;
2010/07/01
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 24 #

2010/2018(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Expresses disappointment that the EU employment law package and the aforementioned directives on fixed-term, part-time and temporary agency work do not adequately address the precarious nature of employment; calls, therefore, on the Commission and the Member States to take further specific legislative measures, such as introducing binding minimum social standards for employees and granting all employees equal access to social services and benefits, including maternity leave, health care and retirement pensions, regardless ofin accordance with their employment conditions;
2010/07/01
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 28 #

2010/2018(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the need for unionisation of women in precarious jobs, since protection of entitlements such as decent pay, maternity leave, fair and regular working hours and a non-discriminating working environment is crucial for these women; calls on the Member States to penalise the imposition of obstacles to trade union participation in general;deleted
2010/07/01
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 34 #

2010/2018(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses the need to break down labour market segregation through awareness- raising and education from an early age, for instance by promoting jobs associated with female skills to men;
2010/07/01
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 87 #

2010/2017(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Urges the European Commission to take the measures needed to investigate and expose the effects on the human organism of the new and unfamiliar psychotropic substances known as ‘afterburners’; urges that information campaigns be undertaken on the damage caused by these substances;
2010/10/08
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 106 #

2010/2017(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Urges the Commission to propose common methods for combating the taking of hard drugs, marijuana, the new and unfamiliar psychotropic substances known as ‘afterburners’ and other substances which can be smoked, drunk or injected;
2010/10/08
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 9 #

2010/0242(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 4
(4) Successive European Councils have recognised the need to tackle the effect of ageing populations on European social models. A key response to this rapid change in the age structure consists in promoting active ageing and thus ensuring that the baby boom cohorts, who are, on the whole, healthier and better educated than any such cohort before them, have good opportunities for employment and active participation in society. In particular, voluntary work by older people should be promoted as an activity that is beneficial both to society and to the individuals involved, drawing on the achievements of the European Year of Volunteering 2011.
2010/12/10
Committee: CULT
Amendment 12 #

2010/0242(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 5
(5) The growing proportion of older people in Europe makes it more important than ever to promote healthy ageing. Healthy ageing by ensuring universal and equal access to healthcare. Healthy ageing with maximum functional ability can help raise labour market participation of older people, enable them to be active in society for longer, improve their individual quality of life and curb the strains on health and social care systems. With a view to achieving this, fitness classes and sporting activities should be promoted among older people, who should accordingly be afforded easier access to public sports facilities.
2010/12/10
Committee: CULT
Amendment 15 #

2010/0242(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 7
(7) The Council adopted on 22 February 2007 a resolution on ‘Opportunities and challenges of demographic change in Europe: the contribution of older people to economic and social development’, which emphasised the need to increase the possibilities of active participation by older people, including in the form of voluntary work, the new economic opportunities ("silver economy") created by the growing demand of older people for certain goods and services as well as the importance of a positive public image of older people.
2010/12/10
Committee: CULT
Amendment 16 #

2010/0242(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 8
(8) The Council adopted on 8 June 2009 Conclusions on ‘Equal opportunities for women and men: active and dignified ageing’, which recognises that, throughout the EU, older women and men face serious challenges as they seek to live active lives and to age with dignity, and proposes a number of measures to Member States and the Commission. The measures planned for older people should include cultural activities and activities to promote general well-being, with a view to shielding older people against social exclusion and loneliness by including and involving them.
2010/12/10
Committee: CULT
Amendment 17 #

2010/0242(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 10
(10) The Commission emphasised itn its Communication on ‘Europe 2020 - A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth’ the importance to the European Union of promoting a healthy and active ageing population in the interests of social cohesion and higher productivity. It proposed a flagship initiative ‘An agenda for new skills and jobs’, under which Member States should notably promote active ageing policies, and a flagship initiative on a ‘European Platform against Poverty’. New technologies should be used to promote educational schemes to broaden the knowledge of older people and enable them to acquire technical skills. Achieving these policy goals requires action from all levels of government and various non- governmental stakeholders; they can in turn be supported, at the Union level, by European Year activities aimed at raising awareness and fostering the exchange of good practice. National coordinators should see to it that national action is coordinated and is consistent with the overall objectives of the European Year. The participation of other institutions and stakeholders is also planned.
2010/12/10
Committee: CULT
Amendment 20 #

2010/0242(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 15
(15) Active ageing is targeted by several Union programmes, such as the European Social Fund, the European Regional and Development Fund, the PROGRESS programme, the Life Long Learning Programme, and in particular the Grundtvig programme, the Public Health Programme, the specific programmes on information and communication technologies and on socio-economic sciences and humanities in the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development, the Action Plan on ‘Ageing well in the information society’, the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Joint Programme for research and innovation, the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme with pilot deployment projects on ICT for Ageing Well and the Action Plan on urban mobility. Union co- financing of European Year activities will be in accordance with the priorities and rules applying, on an annual or multi- annual basis, to existing programmes and autonomous budget lines in the field of employment, social affairs and equal opportunities. Where appropriate, programmes and policies in other fields, such as education and culture, health, research, the information society, regional policy and transport policy, may support the European Year.
2010/12/10
Committee: CULT
Amendment 27 #

2010/0242(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – introductory part
The overall purpose of the European Year shall be to encourage and support the efforts of Member States, their regional and local authorities, social partners and civil society to promote active ageing and to do more to mobilise the potential of the rapidly growing population in their late 50s and above, thereby preserving solidarity between generations. Active ageing means creating better opportunities and working conditions for both paid and unpaid work to enable older workers to play their part in the labour market, combating social exclusion by fostering active participation in society, and encouraging healthy ageing. On this basis, the objectives shall be:
2010/12/10
Committee: CULT
Amendment 32 #

2010/0242(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – point 1
(1) to raise general awareness of the value of active ageing and combat negative stereotypes about old age in order to highlight the useful contribution older persons make to society and the economy, to promote active ageing and to do more to mobilise the potential of older persons;
2010/12/10
Committee: CULT
Amendment 38 #

2010/0242(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 5
(5) The growing proportion of older people in Europe makes it more important than ever to promote healthy ageing by ensuring universal and equal access to healthcare. Healthy ageing can help raise labour market participation of older people, enable them to be active in society for longer, improve their individual quality of life and curb the strains on health and social care systems.
2011/02/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 38 #

2010/0242(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 1
conferences, events and initiatives to promote debate and a review of relevant experience, raise awareness and foster the making of specific commitments;
2010/12/10
Committee: CULT
Amendment 39 #

2010/0242(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 2
– information, promotion and educational campaigns to disseminate the message of the European Year, using new media and the internet in order to do so;
2010/12/10
Committee: CULT
Amendment 43 #

2010/0242(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 3
– exchange of information, experience and good practices through national coordinators and networks of contacts set up by stakeholders working to achieve the goals of the European Year;
2010/12/10
Committee: CULT
Amendment 51 #

2010/0210(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
(10) Activities dependent on the passing of the seasons are typically to be found in sectors such as agriculture and horticulture, during the planting or harvesting period, or tourism, during the holiday period. Member States are free to designate other sectors which are subject to seasonality.
2011/09/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 77 #

2010/0210(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 22
(22) Third-country national seasonal workers should be granted equal treatment in respectOn the basis of those branches of social security listedreferred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 883/04 on the coordination of social security systemf the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the coordination of social security systems, Member States shall define which of these benefits cover seasonal workers. This Directive should not confer more rights than those already provided in existing EU legislation in the field of social security for third-country nationals who have cross-border interests between Member States. Furthermore, this Directive should not grant rights in relation to situations which lie outside the scope of that EU legislation such as, for example, to family members residing in a third country. This is without prejudice to the non discriminatory application by Member States of national legislation providing for de minimis rules on contributions to pension systems.
2011/09/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 116 #

2010/0210(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 14
Member States shall require employers of seasonal workers to provide evidence that the seasonal worker will benefit from accommodation that ensures an adequate standard of living. If seasonal workers are required to pay rent for such accommodation, its cost shall not be excessive in relation to their remunerationhas accommodation for the duration of the seasonal work.
2011/09/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 140 #

2010/0210(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – point 1 a (new)
1a. social security benefits designated by Member States on the basis of the branches of social security as defined in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 883/2004;
2011/09/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 150 #

2010/0210(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – point 2 – point b
(b) provisions in national laws regarding the branches of social security as defined in Article 3 of Council Regulation (EC) No 883/04;deleted
2011/09/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 63 #

2010/0209(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 23
(23) Equal treatment should be granted under national law in respect of those branches of social security defined in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 883/04 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the coordination of social security systems. Since this Directive is without prejudice to provisions included in bilateral agreements, the social security rights enjoyed by third country national intra-corporate transferees on the basis of a bilateral agreement concluded between the Member State to which the person has been admitted and his or her country of origin could be strengthened compared to the social security rights which would be granted to the transferee under national law. This Directive should not confer more rights than those already provided for in existing Union legislation in the field of social security for third-country nationals who have cross-border interests between Member States. The provisions of this Directive should not apply to situations where a posted worker is covered by the social security legislation of a third country or pays contributions in a third country.
2011/06/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment Amendment148 #

2010/0209(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 1
1. The competent authorities of the Member State concerned shall adopt a decision on the application for admission to a Member State as an intra-corporate transferee or for revision of the additional document provided for in Article 11(4) and notify the applicant in writing, in accordance with the notification procedures laid down in the national law of the Member State concerned, within 30 days of the complete application being lodged. In exceptional cases involving complex applications including applications concerning host entities in several Member States, the deadline may be extended for a maximum of a further 630 days.
2011/06/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 85 #

2010/0209(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – point b
(b) ‘intra-corporate transfer’ means the temporary secondment of a third-country national from an undertaking established outside the territory of a Member State and to which the third-country national is bound by a work contract or other form of employment, to an entity belonging to the undertaking or to the same group of undertakings which is established inside this territory;
2011/06/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 93 #

2010/0209(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – point e
(e) ‘manager’ means any person working in a senior position, who principally directs the management of the host entity, as well as any person managing teams and/or projects essential to the host entity, receiving general supervision or direction principally from the board of directors or stockholders of the business or equivalent; this position includes: directing the host entity or a department or sub-division of the host entity, supervising and controlling the work of other supervisory, professional or managerial employees, having the authority personally to hire and dismiss or recommend hiring, dismissing or other personnel actions;
2011/06/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 99 #

2010/0209(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – point f
(f) ‘specialist’ means any person possessing uncommon knowledge essential and specific to the host entity, taking account not only of knowledge specific to the host entity, but also of whether the person has a high level of qualification referring to a type of work or trade requiring specific technical knowledge;
2011/06/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 119 #

2010/0209(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) provide evidence of employment within the same group of undertakings, for at least 12 monthssix months in the case of managers and specialists and three months in the case of trainees, immediately preceding the date of the intra-corporate transfer, if required by national legislation, and that he or she will be able to transfer back to an entity belonging to that group of undertakings and established in a third country at the end of the assignment;
2011/06/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 170 #

2010/0209(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – point 2 – point c
(c) without prejudice to existing bilateral agreements, provisions in national law regarding the branches of social security defined in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 883/04. In the event of mobility between Member States and without prejudice to existing bilateral agreements, Council Regulation (EC) No 859/2003 shall apply accordingly;. This provision shall not apply to situations where a posted worker is covered by the social security legislation of a third country or pays contributions in a third country.
2011/06/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 37 #

2010/0115(NLE)


Recital 5
(5) The Lisbon strategy for growth and jobs helped forge consensus around the broad direction of the EU’s economic and employment policies. Under the strategy, both broad economic policy guidelines and employment guidelines were adopted by the Council in 2005 and revised in 2008. The 24 guidelines laid the foundations for the national reform programmes, outlining the key macro-economic, micro-economic and labour market reform priorities for the EU as a whole. However, experience shows that the guidelines did not set clear enough priorities and that links between them could have been stronger. This limited their impact on national policy- making and, ultimately, the strategy's basic goals could not be achieved.
2010/06/16
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 44 #

2010/0115(NLE)


Recital 6
(6) The financial and economic crisis that started in 2008 resulted in a significant loss in jobs and potential output and has led to a dramatic deterioration in public finances. The European Economic Recovery Plan has nevertheless helped Member States to deal with the crisis, partly through a coordinated fiscal stimulus, with the euro providing an anchor for macroeconomic stability. The crisis therefore showed that coordination of Union's policies can deliver significant results if it is strengthened and rendered effective. The crisis also underscored the close interdependence of the Member States’ economies and labour markethighlighted the lack of effective means of reacting early to signs of crisis.
2010/06/16
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 85 #

2010/0115(NLE)


Recital 10
(10) Member States should also, through their reform programmes, aim at ‘sustainable growth’. Sustainable growth means building a resource-efficient, sustainable and competitive economy, a fair distribution of the cost and benefits and exploiting Europe’s leadership in the race to develop new processes and technologies, including green technologies. Member States should implement the necessary reforms to reduce greenhouse gases emissions and use resources efficiently. They should also improve the business environment, stimulate creation of green jobjobs which do not result in higher greenhouse gas emissions and modernise their industrial base.
2010/06/16
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 90 #

2010/0115(NLE)


Recital 11
(11) Member States’ reform programmes should also aim at ‘inclusive growth’. Inclusive growth means building a cohesive society in which people are empowered to anticipate and manage change, thus to actively participate in society and economy. Member States’ reforms should therefore ensure access and opportunities for all to acquire vocational skills and adjust to changes in the labour market throughout the lifecycle, thus reducing poverty and social exclusion, through removing barriers to labour market participation especially for women, older workers, young people, disabled and legal migrants. They should also make sure that the benefits of economic growth reach all citizens and all regions. Ensuring effective functioning of the labour markets through investing in successful transitions, appropriate skills development, with reference to demand on the labour market, rising job quality and fighting segmentation, structural unemployment and inactivity while ensuring adequate, sustainable social protection and active inclusion to reduce poverty should therefore be at the heart of Member States’ reform programmes.
2010/06/16
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 112 #

2010/0115(NLE)


Recital 13
(13) The Europe 2020 strategy has to be underpinned by an integrated set of policies, which Member States should implement fuleffectively and at the same pace, in order to achieve the positive spill-over effects of coordinated structural reforms.
2010/06/16
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 176 #

2010/0115(NLE)


Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph 2
Member States should step up social dialogue and tackle labour market segmentation with measures addressing temporary and precarious employment, and underemployment and. Efforts should also be made to combat undeclared workemployment. Professional mobility should be rewarded. The quality of jobs and employment conditions should be addressed by fighting low-wages and by ensuring adequate social security also for those on fixed contracts and the self-employed. Employment services should be strengthened and open to all, including particular young people and those threatened by unemployment, as well as low-skilled workers, with personalised services targeting those furthest away from the labour market.
2010/06/16
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 207 #

2010/0115(NLE)


Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph 4
The EU headline target, on the basis of which Member States will set their national targets, is of aiming to bring by 2020 to 75% the employment rate for women and men aged 20-64 including through the greaterincreasing the participation of youth (to 90%), older workers and low skilled workers and the better integration of legal migrants.
2010/06/16
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 240 #

2010/0115(NLE)


Annex – Guideline 8 – paragraph 2
In cooperation with social partners and business, Member States should improve access to training, strengthen education and career guidance combined with systematic information on new job openings and opportunities, promotion of entrepreneurship and enhanced anticipation of skill needs. Investment in human resource development, up-skilling and participation in lifelong learning schemes should be promoted through joint financial contributions from governments, individuals and employers. To support young people and in particular those not in employment, education or training, Member States in cooperation with the social partners, should enact schemes to help recent graduates find initial employment or further education and training opportunities, including apprenticeships that are geared to acquiring vocational skills and afford job opportunities, and intervene rapidly when young people become unemployed. Regular monitoring of the performance of up-skilling and anticipation policies should help identify areas for improvement and increase the responsiveness of education and training systems to labour market needs. EU funds should be fully mobilised by Member States to support these objectives.
2010/06/16
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 260 #

2010/0115(NLE)


Annex – Guideline 9 – paragraph 1
In order to ensure access to quality education and training for all and to improve educational outcomes, Member States should invest efficiently in education and training systems notably to raise the skill level of the EU's workforce, allowing it to meet the rapidly changing needs of modern labour markets. Action should cover all sectors (from early childhood education and schools through to higher education, vocational education and training, as well as adult training) taking also into account learning in informal and non-formal contexts. Special emphasis needs to be placed on the quality of education and, in the higher education sector, on gearing studies to labour market requirements, in order to curb graduate unemployment. Reforms should aim to ensure the acquisition of the key competencies that every individual needs for success in a knowledge-based economy, notably in terms of employability, further learning, or ICT skills. Steps should be taken to ensure learning mobility of young people and teachers becomes the norm. Member States should improve the openness and relevance of education and training systems, particularly by implementing national qualification frameworks enabling flexible learning pathways and by developing partnerships between the worlds of education/training and work. The teaching profession should be made more attractive. Higher education should become more open to non-traditional learners and participation in tertiary or equivalent education should be increased. With a view to reducing the number of young people not in employment, education, or training, Member States should take all necessary steps to prevent early school leaving.
2010/06/16
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 262 #

2010/0115(NLE)


Annex – Guideline 9 – paragraph 1
In order to ensure access to quality education and training for all and to improve educational outcomes, Member States should invest efficiently in education and training systems notably to raise the skill level of the EU's workforce, allowing it to meet the rapidly changing needs of modern labour markets. Action should cover all sectors (from early childhood education and schools through to higher education, vocational education and training, as well as adult training) taking also into account learning in informal and non-formal contexts. Reforms should aim to ensure the acquisition of the key competencies that every individual needs for success in a knowledge-based economy, notably in terms of employability, further learning, or ICT skills. Steps should be taken to ensure learning mobility of young people and teachers becomes the norm. Member States should improve the openness and relevance of education and training systems, particularly by implementing national qualification frameworks enabling flexible learning pathways and by developing partnerships between the worlds of education/training and work. The teaching profession should be made more attractive. Higher education should become more open to non-traditional learners and participation in tertiary or equivalent education, such as elderly persons, mothers returning to employment following a maternity break or disabled persons, and participation in education and training with a view to acquiring vocational skills in demand on the labour market should be increased. With a view to reducing the number of young people not in employment, education, or training, Member States should take all necessary steps to prevent early school leaving.
2010/06/16
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 284 #

2010/0115(NLE)


Annex – Guideline 10 – paragraph 1
Member States’ efforts to reduce poverty should be aimed at promoting full participation in society and economy and extending employment opportunities, making full use of the European Social Fund. Efforts should also concentrate on ensuring equal opportunities, including through access to affordable, sustainable and high quality services and public services (including online services, in line with guideline 4) and in particular health care. Member States should put in place effective anti-discrimination measures. Equally, to fight social exclusion, empower people and promote labour market participation, social protection systems, lifelong learning and active inclusion policies should be enhanced to create opportunities at different stages of people’s lives and shield them from the risk of exclusion. It is particularly important to ensure equal access to education and equal opportunities for children from disadvantaged families, so as to guard against their social exclusion as adults. Social security and pension systems must be modernised to ensure that they can be fully deployed to ensure adequate income support and access to healthcare — thus providing social cohesion — whilst at the same time remaining financially sustainable. Benefit systems should focus on ensuring income security during transitions and reducing poverty, in particular among groups most at risk from social exclusion, such as one- parent families, minorities, people with disabilities, children and young people, elderly women and men, legal migrants and the homeless. Member States should also actively promote the social economy and social innovation in support of the most vulnerable.
2010/06/16
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 136 #

2009/2242(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Article 17
17. Points to the importance of ensuring that all women have control over their sexual and reproductive rightshealth, not least by having access to contraception and abortion, free abortion advisory services, and information about their rights and the services available; stresses the importance of measures to make men more aware of their responsibility from the sexual and reproductive point of view
2010/04/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 12 #

2009/2222(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls, with a view to tailoring services as closely as possible to the individual needs of users and improving service quality, for greater attention to be paid to the need for training and preparatory courses for people working with particularly vulnerable groups, such as children, problem youths and elderly people;
2011/03/28
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 17 #

2009/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas Article 14 of the TFEU and Protocol 26 thereto explicitly address services of general interest (SGI) which include social services of general interest (SSGI), both economic and non- economic; and whereas it is confirmed that national, regional and local authorities have the essential role and wide discretion in providing, commissioning and organising services of general economic interest (SGEI), and that the Treaties do not affect the competence of Member States to provide, commission and organise non-economic services of general interest (SGNEI),
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 29 #

2009/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that SSGI and their users have a number of special characteristics in addition to the common characteristics of SGI. SSGI encompass, in addition to health services, both statutory and complementary universally available services, provided directly to the person, that play a preventative and social cohesion and inclupeople in need, that prevent from social exclusion, play social cohesion role and make tangible fundamental social rights;
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 38 #

2009/2222(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that, in order to avoid difficulties in attracting qualified employees, staff shortages and a decline in the quality of social services of general interest in future, Member States should pay more attention to the gender pay gap in health and social services –issue of decent pay for people working in health and social services. points out that it is precisely these sectors in which have recently made a major contribution to job creation and structural change in the European Unionthe largest number of jobs, particularly for women, have been created in recent times.
2011/03/28
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 39 #

2009/2222(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Points to the need for greater recognition to be given to the work performed by people employed in the social services sector, the majority of whom are women, because their jobs are difficult, call for a caring attitude and great personal commitment and are not very socially prestigious.
2011/03/28
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 40 #

2009/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that access to SSGI must be universal and independent of wealth or income, and are not only for vulnerable users;deleted
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 51 #

2009/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Endorses the recommendation in the Monti report that broadband internet and banking services be new universal services, which should be acknowledged in European legislation;deleted
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 58 #

2009/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Highlights the fact that SSGI make a major economic contribution in terms of jobs, economic activity and purchasing power – the Commission's second Biennial Report indicating that the health and social services sector accounts for 5% of economic output and employs 21.4 million people – and that SMEs in particular are reliant on high quality SSGI;
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 77 #

2009/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Considers that experience demonstrates that the profit maximisation objective of commercial providers of SSGI conflicts with the principles and objectives of SSGI;deleted
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 96 #

2009/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses that national and local authorities engaged in providing or mandating SSGI need a clear legal basis for their services and expenditures, and that while the information and clarification service developed by the Commission is essential, it is insufficient and does not protect SSGI providers from legal challenge however, there is still lack of legal certainty;
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 100 #

2009/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Considers that it is neither efficient nor democratically acceptable that the ECJ is expected to continue to adjudicate on matters which should be clarified in legislation;deleted
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 132 #

2009/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Considers that, in order to maintain the delivery of quality SSGI, the Member States need new income streams, such as a financial transaction tax adjusted to a specific character of these services;
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 138 #

2009/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Believes there is a broad European consensus that SSGI are essential to the well-being of our peoples and an efficient economy but that there is no agreement within or between the Commission and the Council on the implementation of practical measures to overcome identified obstacles to the delivery and development of SSGI;
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 148 #

2009/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Underlines the fact that Member States and local authorities must be freehave a free choice within market economy to decide how SSGI are funded and delivered, whether directly or otherwise, using all available instruments so as to ensure that the Union's social objectives are not weakened by single market rulesmet, while at the same time supporting an environment that promotes quality, accessibility and efficiency in the delivery of the services;
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 173 #

2009/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Calls for the 2005 Monti-Kroes response to the Altmark case to be broadenfurther developed so as to simplify the rules, improve flexibility in their application, and expand the derogations. The de minimis threshold should be raised to at least EUR 500 000 over a three-year cycle;
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 182 #

2009/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Calls for reformclarification of the criteria for classifying economic and non-economic SSGI in the framework of current EU legislation;
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 198 #

2009/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Commission formally to recognise other modalities for the selection of providers, such as ‘in-house’ and ‘service concession’ methods, and explicitly to accord equal value to all options for the contracting and financing of SSGI; calls for the expansion of the ‘in- house’ method to include service providers who meet specific general interest criteria;
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 233 #

2009/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Proposes the establishment of a high- level multi-stakeholder taskforce – initially with a two-year mandate – that is open, flexible and transparent, to pursue implementation of the policy initiatives identified in this report and in the 3rd Forum recommendations, the Commission's second Biennial Report and the SPC reports, as well as any other relevant proposals; to initiate a full review of all rules, particularly state-aid and procurement rules, which impact on SSGI and to evaluate how they need to be redesigned so as to respect and support Member States' responsibilities in the definition and delivery of SSGI, taking account of the current Commission review of rules;deleted
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 240 #

2009/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Considers that, as part of its mandate, the proposed taskforce would also consider innovations such as a European resource centre for SSGI, a Member State register of SSGI, a pilot scheme on elder care, and action programmes based on the European Voluntary Quality Framework (VQF);deleted
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 249 #

2009/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
31. Urges that the taskforce be chaired by the Commission's DG Social Affairs; that its membership include DG Competition, DG Single Market, DG Environment and DG Sanco, the European Social Affairs Council (EPSCO), the social partners and civil society organisations active in SSGI; that, in view of their democratic mandate, both Parliament and the Committee of the Regions must be centrally involved; and that social economy enterprises and stakeholders including voluntary associations, as well as local authorities, must be represented;deleted
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 264 #

2009/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
33. Urges that Member States use the VQF to draw up quality accreditationentrusting and monitoring systems, and that implementafunctioning of the VQF be evaluated with reference to the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Protocol 26 TFEU;
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 273 #

2009/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
34. Emphasises that decent, stable working conditions and quality training are essential for the delivery of quality social services; underlines also a need of hiring a high class specialists;
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 284 #

2009/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
36. Proposes that the absence of reference in the VQF to funding and service provider status be remediedfurther improvement of the VQF;
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 53 #

2009/2205(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
10a. Calls for the establishment at Member State level of assistance packages involving programmes of measures to enhance employability, mitigate the impact of unemployment and raise employment levels among people over 50 years of age;
2010/07/01
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 73 #

2009/2205(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls, with a view to preventing older women from becoming excluded from society, for targeted cultural and educational schemes to be set up and for older women to be involved in local community initiatives;
2010/07/01
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 10 #

2009/2204(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas mainstream economists have pointed out that the credit crunch, which started the recession, was quite literally a man-made disaster; whereas responses at state and international level – none of which are gender-sensitive – have also been decided upon mainly by men; whereas it is important that women be fully included in the decision making process in the political, economic and financial spheres,
2010/03/26
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 54 #

2009/2204(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises the Commission’s findings that the current crisis has raised concerns that the achievements in gender equality are at risk and that the effects of the recession will put greater pressure on women; underlines the fact that the economic and financial crisis is gendered in its causes and in its consequences;
2010/03/26
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 107 #

2009/2204(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Points out that violence against women increases in times of economic upheaval; therefore urges the Member States to improve national laws and policies against all forms of gender-based violence and welcomes the Spanish Presidency’s initiative to set up an Observatory on Violence against Women; likewise welcomes the initiative by the Council regarding the overarching instrument on the protection of victims (European Protection Order);
2010/03/26
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 91 #

2008/0193(COD)

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 8 a (new)
(8a) A worker who has adopted a child should have the same rights as a natural parent and be able to take maternity leave on the same conditions.
2009/12/15
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 100 #

2008/0193(COD)

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 13 a (new)
(13a) Member States should take the necessary measures to ensure that the workers referred to in Article 2 of Directive 92/85/EEC are not obliged to perform night work.
2009/12/15
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 102 #

2008/0193(COD)

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 14 a (new)
(14a) Care for children with disabilities represents a particular challenge for working mothers, which should be recognised by society. The increased vulnerability of working mothers of children with disabilities makes it necessary for them to be granted additional leave the duration of which should be laid down in this Directive.
2009/12/15
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 103 #

2008/0193(COD)

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 16 a (new)
(16a) A post termed ‘equivalent’ pursuant to Article 11(2)(c) should mean a post that is the same as the former post, as regards both the salary paid and the duties to be performed or where this is not possible, a similar post corresponding to the worker's qualifications and existing salary.
2009/12/15
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 113 #

2008/0193(COD)

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point -1 d (new)
Directive 92/85/EEC
Article 2 – point b
-1d Article 2 point b is replaced by the following: "(b) worker who has recently given birth shall mean a worker who has recently given birth within the meaning of national legislation and/or national practice and who informs her employer of her condition, in accordance with that legislation and/or practice; for the purpose of this Directive it also should mean a worker who recently adopted a child;"
2009/12/15
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 131 #

2008/0193(COD)

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 1
Directive 92/85/EEC
Article 8 – paragraph 2a (new)
2a. In relation to multiple births, the maternity leave shall comprise 31, 33, 35 and 37 weeks where respectively, two, three, four or five children are born at once.
2009/12/15
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 139 #

2008/0193(COD)

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 1
Directive 92/85/EEC
Article 8 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that additional leave is granted in the case of premature childbirth, children hospitalised at birth, children with disabilities and multiple births. The duration of the additional leave should be proportionate and allow the special needs of the mother and the child/children to be accommodated. In the case of children with disabilities an additional leave of at least eight weeks shall be granted.
2009/12/15
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 144 #

2008/0193(COD)

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 1
Directive 92/85/EEC
Article 8 – paragraph 5 a (new)
(5a) Member States shall be encouraged in the framework of national law, to cover self-employed workers under legal provisions similar to those contained in this Directive.
2009/12/15
Committee: FEMM