Activities of Evelyn REGNER related to 2012/2234(INI)
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Amendments (12)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A – indent 1
Recital A – indent 1
- the sheer gravitycale of the pension challenge presented by an ageing population, a challenge severely aggravatedmade even harder by the financial and economic crisis;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A – indent 4
Recital A – indent 4
- the moral obligation of the Member States to guarantee public (first-pillar) pensions - if needed, complemented by minimum income provisions - to provide a decent income above the poverty line for all citizens;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A – indent 6
Recital A – indent 6
- the need to consider linking the statutory retirement age to life expectancy while at the same time enablinge workers to lead longer, healthier working lives with a view to extending working careers until the statutory retirement age;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas a comprehensive, active labour market policy which focuses more closely on integrating non-active and disadvantaged persons is a key factor in funding pay-as-you-go pension systems;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that first-pillar pensions remain the most important source of income for pensioners; calls on Member States to implement reforms to their first-pillar systems aligning contributory years to the changing ratio between pensioners and people in working age, also to prevent public pension costs crowding oin such a way that the retirement age is not linked to a person’s actual age, but orather important government spendingto the number of contributory years; calls on the Member States to ensure first-pillar pensions - if necessary complemented by minimum income provisions - to provide a decent minimum income;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Emphasises that a balanced ratio between the number of years worked and the number of years of retirement is contingent not only on the statutory retirement age, but primarily by the number of years a person works before reaching the relevant retirement age;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – introductory part
Paragraph 4 – introductory part
4. Observes that the banking and financial crisis has revealed the vulnerability of both funded andpension schemes in particular, but also of pay-as- you-go pension schemes; recommends multi-pillar pension systems, consisting of at least:
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses that implementing structural reforms aimed at having people work more and longer is the only feasible way to generate the tax revenues and social and pension premiums needed to consolidate Member State budgets andcombating unemployment, creating good, secure employment and exploiting labour market potential is the only feasible way of helping to fund adequate, safe and sustainable pension schemes; points to the risk of atypical, precarious and part-time work leading to only partial pension entitlements; calls on the Member States to put funds aside to combat the rising public costs of the retiring population;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Stresses that it is not the age structure of a society (demographic dependency ratio) that is decisive for the sustainability of pension systems but the ratio of unemployed people and pensioners to the employed (economic dependency ratio - as defined in the White Paper); observes that, despite the accelerated ageing of the population in the decades ahead, the economic dependency ratio can be greatly limited if the currently very small proportion of people of working age who have high-quality employment is improved; stresses that linkage of retirement age to life expectancy fails to take account of the importance of labour market trends and is therefore not an appropriate instrument by means of which to tackle the challenge of ageing; calls on Member States to adopt comprehensive active labour-market policy measures;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the social partners to adopt a life-cycle approach to human resources management and to adapt workplaces; calls on employers to come up with programmes to ensure that employees can wpromote active and healthy ageing and lifelong learning and make it possible for employees to remain in employment fork longer; calls on workers to engage actively in available training opportunities and to keep themselves fit for the labour market at all stages of on a voluntary basis; calls on employees to actively take up opportunities which are on offer to protect their health and undergo furtheir working lifetraining;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Welcomes the call in the White Paper for developing funded, complementary occupational pensions and private savings; stresses, however, that the Commission should rather recommend collective mandatory occupational pension savings, as collective (second pillar) pension systems - usually governed by (sectoral) social partners - allow for solidarity within and between generations, whereas individual schemes do not; stresses the need to start building up complementary occupational pension systems now, despite the crisis;
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses the low operating costs of (sector wide) collective not-for-profit occupational pension schemes, as compared to individual pension savings schemes; emphasises the importance of low operating costs as even limited cost reductions can yield substantially higher pensions; stresses, however, that – to date – these schemes only exist in a few Member States;