10 Amendments of Lorenzo FONTANA related to 2016/0176(COD)
Amendment 132 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) The Commission’s Communication of 3 March 2010 entitled ‘Europe 2020: A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth’30 sets the objective of the Union becominghould encourage the Member States to promote an economy based on knowledge and innovation, reducing the administrative burden on companies and better matching labour supply with demand. Measures to facilitregulate the admission of third-country national highly skilled workers have to be seen in that broader context. _________________ 30 COM(2010) 2020 final
Amendment 167 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) The transfer of responsibility for and obligations concerning protection of beneficiaries of international protection is outside the scope of this Directive: the protection status and the rights associated with it should not be transferred to another Member State on the basis of the issuance of an EU Blue Card.
Amendment 179 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) It is necessary and right to provide for a flexible demand-driven admission system based on objective criteria, such as a work contract or a binding job offer of at least 6 months, a salary threshold adaptable by the Member States to the situation in with a minimum salary that can guarantee the individual concerned its labour market and higher professional qualificationscompletely self-sufficient.
Amendment 191 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) In order to ensure a sufficient level of harmonisation in the admission conditions throughout the Union, both minimum and maxminimum factors for calculating the salary threshold should be determined. Member States should fix their threshold in accordance with the situation and organisation of their respective labour markets and their general immigration policies.
Amendment 201 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) A lower salary threshold should be laid down for specific professions where it is considered by the Member State concerned that there is a particular lack of available workforce and where such professions belong to major group 1 or 2 of the ISCO (“International Standard Classification of Occupation”) classification.
Amendment 202 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 17
Recital 17
Amendment 224 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 24
Recital 24
Amendment 227 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 27
Recital 27
(27) Since EU Blue Card holders arhave to be highly skilled workers contributing to addressing labour and skills shortages in key sectors, the principle of access to the labour market should be the general rule. However, in circumstances where the domestic labour market undergoes serious disturbances such as a high level of unemployment in a given occupation or sector, which may be limited to particular regions or other parts of the territory, a Member State should be able to take into account the situation of its labour market before issuing an EU Blue Card.
Amendment 256 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 38
Recital 38
(38) In order to foster the mobility of highly skilled workers between the Union and their countries of origin, derogations from Directive 2003/109/EC should be provided for in order to and allow longer periods of absence than those provided for in that Directive 2003/109/EC after highly skilled third- country workers have acquired the EU long-term resident status, there should be an agreement guaranteeing that, where applicable, repatriation agreements are drawn up for citizens of these countries who entered a Member State illegally.
Amendment 257 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 39
Recital 39