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Activities of Evelyn REGNER related to 2015/2038(INI)

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Amendments (5)

Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for the ILO’s eight core labour standards and the four ILO Priority Conventions for the industrialised countries, and also provide incentives for enterprises to enter into CSR commitments and an obligation of diligence for enterprises and groups of enterprises, i.e. an obligation to take proactive measures to identify and prevent any violation of human or environmental rights, corruption or tax evasion, including in their subsidiaries and supply chains, to be systematically included in all bilateral EU trade agreements; point out the importance towards the observance of the mandatory labour minimum standards therein included in order to enable their inclusion into third states’ national law, and, therefore, call on the Commission to forecast monitoring mechanisms;
2016/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Believes that a business’s tax policy should be considered part and parcel of CSR and that socially responsible behaviour consequently leaves no room for strategies aimed at evading tax or exploiting tax havens;
2016/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Calls forUrges the Commission on a closer cooperation at multilateral level with a view to achieving genuine coordination between the international organisations WTO and ILO, enabling ILO to carry out, in the trade disputes, independent experts’ reports, in order to integrate in the WTO’s activities the labour and decent labour provisions, preventing from jeopardizing the social development;
2016/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Points out the need to include in the CSR new areas such as the organisation of work, equal opportunities and social inclusion, anti-discrimination measures, the development of lifelong education and training; emphasises that CSR should cover, for example, quality of work, equal pay and career prospects and the promotion of innovative projects so as to assist the shift towards a sustainable economy;
2016/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Agrees with the view expressed in a recent Commission communication that compliance with applicable law and collective labour agreements is a sine qua non of corporate social responsibility; also believes that socially responsible behaviour must of necessity translate into proper relations with trade unions, in particular respect for trade union rights, a continuous flow of information to workers and their representative organisations, and their involvement in company decision-taking;
2016/02/22
Committee: EMPL