27 Amendments of Marisa MATIAS related to 2010/2088(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1 (new)
Citation 1 (new)
- having regard to EU 2020 integrated guidelines for the European economic and employment policies,
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the need to improve data and indicators to complement in an effective and coherent manner GDP as a proxy indicator for overall societal development is increasingly recognised,
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. having regard to the urgent need to launch a debate on the limitations of GDP as a yardstick for measuring and evaluating the success of economic policyerformance and, by association, the wellbeing of societiesocial progress,
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the EU 2020 strategy should pave the way to a resource-efficient economy, lead to the fulfilment of the 20- 20-20 targets, serve economic growth and create jobs, in particular since the EU has recently suffered a drop in GDP and falling industrial production and shrinkage of social protection, and since millions of unemployed women and men represents a human, societal and economic disaster,
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas there is a need for a concise and actionable set of comparable, robust and valid indicators addressing the key economic, social and environmental dimensions of human well-being, for informing policy-making,
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas a distinction between current and future well-being should be made; whereas it should be underlined that sustainability also needs to be assessed both in its economic and environmental dimensions,
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas to adequately gauge the level of social inclusion, social inequality and income distribution for policy-making should be considered,
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the need to develop indicators which can complement GDP and have as their objective the provision of more exhaustive information to support political decisions, notably where they incorporate such factors as the social and environmental dimensions, development, quality of life, public health, research, social equality and the level of employmentin assessing societal progress along the three pillars of economic, social and environmental dimensions and have as their objective the provision of more exhaustive information to support political decisions;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Welcomes the Commission proposals in the Communication GDP and beyond - measuring progress in a changing world;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Considers that achieving and sustaining quality of life comprehends important and consensual factors such as health, education, culture, employment, housing and environmental conditions. Therefore, indicators that measure such factors are also important and should be given more relevance;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Points to the need for such data to be available in near real-time, allowing timely political responses;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Points out that according to several surveys (for example Special Eurobarometer "Europeans Knowledge on Economic Indicators", Spring 2007), an important percentage of European citizens have limited trust of official data and statistics.
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Calls on the need to develop indicators that focus more closely on the household level perspective, reflecting income, consumption and wealth as a means to better reflect the citizens’ concerns on material well-being;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that well-informed, sound, solid and coherent policies and strategies are fundamental to ensuring a fair and competitivedevelopment, a fair market, citizens‘ welfare, social policies and effective protection of public health and education and a better environment;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the need to develop selected indicators that complement average statistical measurements by reflecting distribution and inequality across social groups;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the Commission to reinforce efforts for developing a Sustainable Development Scoreboard that assesses from an environmental and economic point of view the preservation and investment in resources required to ensure future well-being (comprising natural resources, physical and human capital);
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Points out that policy debates and analysis could be improved if there existed an agreement at a political level on clear, accessible and comprehensive objectives and indicators; stresses that such indicators must be of a kind that is readily understandable and with a high degree of transparency concerning the quality and the data sources of these indicators;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the growing international recognition of limits to GDP as an indicator for human well-being and sustainable development; acknowledges progress made in different fora, such as the UNDP, UNECE, World Bank, OECD and Commission, on the development of indicators to measure and analyse progress in policy-making; takes note of indicators developed already for various policy areas; notes, however, that there seem to be many indicators already in use, sometimes even overlapping or competing where they should instead be coordinated or combined; emphasises that there are currently too many indicators and the challenge is to develop a clear and comprehensible policy that is at the same time theoretically consistent, politically relevant and empirically measurable; argues that a new design of statistical systems more geared towards society as a whole rather than mainly for public decision -makers is needed; stresses the need for this work to be done in close cooperation with other relevant institutions and organisations;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Supports the European Commission efforts to develop methodologies to assess and communicate progress on the major strands of environmental protection policy;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Recalls on the global impact of environmental changes and stresses the importance for such indicators to be accepted and comparable outside the EU territory;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Supports the Council’s recommendation to extend the National Accounts to environmental and social issues by setting internationally accepted methods;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Calls for a more extensive use of such selected indicators in relevant policy documents as a means to better reflect citizens' concerns and match it with coherent policy-making;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3e. Notes that continuing research, and investment in the capabilities of Statistical offices is needed in order to improve upon what has been achieved; identify the gaps in available information, and where necessary to construct new indexes;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 f (new)
Paragraph 3 f (new)
3f. Notes that no additional statistical offices or bodies are needed; calls for an extended cooperation between the national offices and Eurostat.
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Criticises, however, the lack, in the Commission Communication, of a clear overall strategy on the application of the Beyond GDP approach in practice; stresses a certain lack of coordination and coherence with existing measures and tools which also aim to contribute to policy analysis, assessments and debates; criticises, furthermore, the proposed measures as partially vague or unclear so that the added value of the proposed action compared to the current situation is difficult to assess; points out that there is in particular no path set out to integrate the proposed measures into the current system of measures and tools for better policy- and law-making; regrets the absence of parallel proposals for existing EU policies that have been assessed and planned based solely or mainly on a GDP approach.
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Underlines the need to comprehensively assess in policy- and law- making important environmental factors, including but not limited to deforestation, land degradation, biodiversity and freshwater use and supply, as well as to mainstream environmental and climate change policies to other core decision making processes at a European and national level.
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13 b. Calls on the Commission to create measures that convey the state of the environmental capital that determines sustainable production for the future. Such measures should encompass changes at the ecosystem capital and the depletion of non renewable sources.