6 Amendments of Sergio Gaetano COFFERATI related to 2011/2035(INI)
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the fact that the ESF provides crucial support for employment market policies and plays an important part in boosting social inclusion; considers that, in order to be used profitably, the ESF must focus on investing in skills, lifelong training – also taking into account the new key competences related to sustainable development – and occupational redeployment, the smooth operation of the labour market, creating job opportunities, social conditions, research and innovation to facilitate the transition to a sustainable economy, with a view to promoting employability, productivity, growth, fair pay, quality of life, and employment in Europe, and, lastly, on measures to combat poverty and achieve social inclusion;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that the economic crisis has further increased the urgent need for measures in the sectors covered by the ESF, in particular to promote employment, occupational redeployment, social inclusion, and poverty reduction;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Asks the Commission to improve the visibility of ESF action and to make the ESF more accessible and capable of providing more support for integration into the job market, particularly by setting up lifelong training to help workers adapt their skills to the needchanges ofn the job market so as to promote effective, inclusive growth and a Europe where competitiveness is built on knowledge;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers that better harmonisation between the various Structural Funds should be achieved and that in particular the synergies between the ESF and the ERDF should be improved; maintains, in the light of the experience acquired, that the existing rule on overlapping of the ERDF and the ESF is an eminently suitable way to simplify fund deployment, in particular for local integrated projects, and enhance synergies, and believes that this arrangement should continue to apply; calls on the Commission to strengthen the role of the ESF within the future Structural Fund architecture in order to make for better implementation of integrated measures; believes, as regards the future organisation of the Structural Funds, that the ESF should continue to be governed, within a framework common to all the Funds, by its own rules, modus operandi, and financing arrangements;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Believes that any future strategy for the use of funds will be more effective if it involves regional and local levels of governance, which are capable of gearing strategic objectives to specific territorial characteristics on the basis of structured dialogue with stakeholders as a whole, organisations that promote gender rights, social partners, non-governmental organisations, and, moreover, financial and banking institutions; maintains that when policy objectives are defined, sufficient space must be allowed for regional and local needs; considers that, to enable funds to be used more effectively, it is vitally important to secure the active involvement of the social partners through ongoing social and territorial dialogue;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to simplify procedures and reduce excessive administrative costs and the number of other obstacles to achieving the EU’s objectives for growth and job creation; calls for the development of a one-stop shop scheme to provide practical guidance, information, and advice for those concerned, so as to ensure that the public is kept properly up to date; urges that the move towards simplification along these lines be made clearly apparent to the public, the aim being to ensure that information requests do not go beyond the minimum required.