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11 Amendments of Nadja HIRSCH related to 2009/2222(INI)

Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Considers that experience demonstrates that the profit maximisation objective of commercial providers of SSGI does not conflicts with the principles and objectives of SSGI, but shows that this is an important, sustainable sector that, due to increasing life expectancy, has a high economic growth potential;
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Considers that the principle of solidarity and the strengthening of the European Union require that the crisis, with its growth in unemployment and poverty, must be addressed by a greatly enhanced EU budget, by strengthened structural funds, in particular the European Social Fund, and by a new European debt agency;
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Believes that for the delivery of quality SSGI requires Member State governments to ensure a financial framework for SSGI which guarantee, stable financing and thus econtinuity of services and stable financing, as well as decent incomes and working conditions and training for those delivering the servicomic viability should be ensured by Member States;
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 129 #
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;deleted
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Underlines the fact that Member States and local authorities must be free to decide in the cases involved how SSGI are funded and delivered, whether directly or otherwise, using all available instruments so as to ensure that t. The Union’s social objectives areshould not be weakened, by single market rules, while at the same time supput the internal market must not be suspended where SSGI can be carried out accortding an environment that promotes quality, accessibility and efficiency in the delivery of the servicesto free market principles and thus constitute a growing labour market;
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Calls for the 2005 Monti-Kroes response to the Altmark case to be broadened 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;deleted
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 200 #
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 includ, provided that account is taken of the principles of equal treatment, non- discrimination and transparency laid down in primary law; calls for recognition of tried and tested Member State procedures based on the principle that all providers which are able to comply with the conditions previously laid down by law should be spervice providers who meet specific general interest criteriamitted to provide services, irrespective of their legal form, provided that account is taken of the principles of equal treatment, non-discrimination and transparency laid down in primary law;
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Supports the normative anchoring of a practical ‘in-house’ tendering option for SSGI, based on the model of the revised Regulation 1370/2007 on public passenger transport services by rail and road, which would provide that any competent local authority may decide to provide services itself or to award public service contracts to a legally distinct entity over which the competent local authority exercises control similar to that exercised over its own department;deleted
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
30. Calls for a 4th European Forum on SSGI, organised by Parliament’s Employment and Social Affairs Committee and Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, to continue the initiative of the 2007 Ferreira report, and to review progress on reform; and for the taskforce to submit a progress report to the 4th Forum, providing the Forum with continuity, direction and substance;
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
32. Welcomes the VQF but insists that application of the principles must be monitorapplied using the proposed quality criteria and that stakeholders must be included in the process;
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
36. Proposes that the absence of reference in the VQF to funding and service provider status be remedied;deleted
2011/03/28
Committee: EMPL