Activities of Evelyn REGNER related to 2016/2065(INI)
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Amendments (11)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 12 March 2009 on employees' participation in companies with a European statute and other accompanying measures1a , _________________ 1a Texts adopted, P7_TA(2009)0131
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
Citation 8 a (new)
- having regard to the report on workers representation on board level in Europe (2015/2222(INI)),
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. having regard towhereas the European Parliament’s declarations in favour of has strongly and continuously called for the introduction of a European law on cross-border transfers of the registered office or head office of undertakings; whereas the majority of stakeholders are broadly supportive of Parliament's requests;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas any new initiative in European company law without high standards for workers' participation might lead to further circumvention of national laws on workers' participation;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
F a. whereas all new initiatives in European company law should be based on an in-depth evaluation and assessment of existing company law forms, the relevant judgements of the Court of Justice of the European Union on cross- board mobility of companies, and on impact assessments reflecting the interests of all stakeholders, including shareholders, creditors, investors and workers, ensuring the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Calls on the Commission to start a consultation on the basis of Article 154 TFEU with the social partners in order to evaluate the provisions on workers' information, consultation and participation in the European single market and to further promote, enhance and strengthen the existing provisions to ensure a European-wide protection of workers' rights, especially their right to information, consultation and participation in supervisory boards;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. calls on the Commission to submit a proposal for o directive on European standards for workers' participation in European company law forms and in company boards created under European law;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls, with respect to the number of workers' representatives sitting on the supervisory boards of companies, including direct or indirect subsidiaries, for a new directive introducing a "workers board-level representation- escalator" increasing parity depending on the size of the company in the following manner: a low proportion of workers' board-level representation (2 or 3 representatives) would be applied to small companies with 50 to 250 employees; a higher proportion (one third) of participation for companies with 250 to 1,000 employees; a robust parity (half of the seats) for big companies with more than 1,000 employees;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Considers it to be a priority for a more advanced set of rules to be laid down for a series of actors and categories of corporate governance, and for those rules also to be reproduced for future common models of cross-border division and transfer of registered office or head office; considers it essential to simplify cross- border merger procedures (for instance in the pre-merger notification stage) by means of a clearer definition of standard forms and new digitisation practices, starting with the issues of shareholders' information and the collection of mergers' documents;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Acknowledges the importance of the inclusion in the Directive on cross- border mergers of the rules which apply to the European company (SE) regarding workers’ rights' rights; recalls that in Directive 2005/56/EC the standards of workers' rights to information and consultation are set at a high level and should therefore constitute a model; hopes that the new provisions concerning workers’' rights will be so framed as to prevent certain undertakings from using the Directive on cross-border mergers with the sole aim of transferring their registered office or head office for fiscal, social and legal reasons; stresses the importance of eliminating ambiguities in the application of penalties for failure to respect the criteria of information, consultation and co- determination of workers;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 – indent 3
Paragraph 18 – indent 3
- participation by, and safeguarding of, workers, requiring the same forms of information and consultation, with the aim of enhancing workers' protection, in particular against social dumping;