365 Amendments of Chrysoula PALIADELI
Amendment 8 #
2013/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)
Citation 11 a (new)
– having regard to the decision of the European Parliament to create the House of the European History,
Amendment 22 #
2013/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the history of 20th century Europe is inextricably linked with tragedy and the experience of various forms of totalitarianism, such as Communism, National Socialism, Fascism and other criminal systems which brought death and unimaginable suffering to millions of Europeans;
Amendment 43 #
2013/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the European Union was constructed against the backdrop of the trauma brought about by two all-powerful totalitarianism systems: National Socialism and Communism, which, although they differed in ideology and form,otalitarian regimes were both characterised by brutality and claimed the lives of millions; whereas it is inappropriate to argue that one was better or worse than the other; and whereas united Europe is founded on the basis of Judaeo-Christian ethics, Greek aesthetics and Roman law;
Amendment 56 #
2013/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
Amendment 75 #
2013/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the trauma of 1939-45the 20th century ferocities in Europe must not be allowed to be repeated, and in that regard remembering and accurately portraying the past is of vital importance; whereas, also, the acceptance of historical lies or the denial of difficult episodes in history can lead to xenophobia and hatred; whereas the claim made for many years that the Katyń massacre was a German crime is a classic exampledenial of crimes against humanity is a distortion of a historical lievidence;
Amendment 85 #
2013/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas racism in many Member States among younger generations is mainly based on the ignorance of the recent past;
Amendment 91 #
2013/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas according to Article 167 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union it is its duty to contribute to the improvement of the knowledge and dissemination of the culture and history of the European peoples;
Amendment 119 #
2013/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
Amendment 135 #
2013/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas non-governmental organisations and the voluntary sector play a major role in documenting and uncovering the truth of totalitarian crimesuniversities and research institutes play a major role in documenting and objectively uncovering historical truth concerning history;
Amendment 152 #
2013/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
Amendment 160 #
2013/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas an extremely important role is played by European programmes and funds intended for the teaching of history, historical cultural projects and exchanges of experience among European citizens, for example by funding historical research and developing cross-border and transnational educational and cultural programmes;
Amendment 165 #
2013/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas the European Union supports the House of the European History, as a cultural institution with the scope of conveying a transnational overview of European history that is inclusive of its diversity, its varied interpretations and differing perceptions;
Amendment 181 #
2013/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Strongly condemns all crimes against humanity and the totalitarian regimes which left a bloody stain on our modern history;
Amendment 225 #
2013/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 245 #
2013/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that all countriesmember states may implement their own history policy, which helps to build a sense of national identity, but which, in combination with ignorance and selective memory, can sometimes lead to falsifications of history that are dangerous and hurtful to victims and their families, as is the case when referring to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi German concentration camp in occupied Poland, as a ‘Polish death camp’;
Amendment 270 #
2013/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 290 #
2013/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on Member States to support ambitious history teaching programmes which do not gloss over the most difficult episodes; recognises that Member States havereinforce the European idea, while preserving complete autonomy as regards the content of their teaching syllabuses;
Amendment 316 #
2013/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the importance of EU funds in promoting historical memory; notes that such funds should be used for projects linked to history education, promotion, research, archiving and digitisationrun by universities and research centres linked to the teaching, research, archiving and digitisation of historical written and oral documents;
Amendment 318 #
2013/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Welcomes the EU funding to the House of the European History;
Amendment 347 #
2013/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. SupportWelcomes citizens' initiatives and non- governmental organisations, including those outside the EU, which are actively engaged in researching the history of nations and gathering documents on the crimes committed under totalitarianism, and make them available to historians; supports transnational partnerships and networks with the aim of promoting mutual relations between EU citizens; supports, in that context, cooperation between Member States and countries covered by the European Neighbourhood Policy;
Amendment 7 #
2013/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital Α a (new)
Recital Α a (new)
Αa. whereas Roma women suffer discrimination on two fronts: as Roma, they are victims of racism and prejudice, being marginalised and constricted by boundaries designed to exclude any perceived threat to society and, as women, they are consigned to the margins of what is a fundamentally patriarchal community;
Amendment 10 #
2013/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital Α b (new)
Recital Α b (new)
Αb. whereas discrimination against Roma women can no longer be regarded as a 'social convention' in the context of Roma customs and mores and must, with all due regard for tradition and diversity, be considered a direct infringement of fundamental human rights and freedoms;
Amendment 19 #
2013/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital Ι
Recital Ι
Ι. whereas due to their low socio-economic status and the discrimination they perceive in health care, Roma women are unaware of most of their rights and resort to medical services much less than the majority of the population;
Amendment 67 #
2013/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on Member States to include in their national Roma inclusion strategies tailored programmes for the active inclusion of Roma women in the labour market, with all due regard for their traditions and particularities, and to make life-long learning available in order to acquire marketable skills;
Amendment 73 #
2013/2066(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Member States to ensure that all children within their territories have full and equal access to compulsory education.
Amendment 21 #
2013/2045(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph D a (new)
Paragraph D a (new)
Da. whereas access to the official labour market is harder for women from ethnic minority groups than for those belonging to the social mainstream;
Amendment 34 #
2013/2045(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Member States to adopt the Youth Guarantee Scheme as a matter of urgency, in particular for young people belonging to either ethnic minorities or other vulnerable social groups, focusing also on gender aspects;
Amendment 19 #
2013/2044(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas an ageing population is one of the most fundamental challenges facing Europe;
Amendment 21 #
2013/2044(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Strongly recommends that budgetary cuts in public health systems need to be counteracted and that there should, on the contrary, be increased public investment in these services in order to meet the needs of the whole population, and in particular to tackle gender inequalities in health and to ensure equal access to health care for the most disadvantaged groups;
Amendment 28 #
2013/2044(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recommends strongly that drastic measures be taken to combat unemployment in the context of the financial and economic crisis and provide adequate funding for the provision of suitable and adequate health and welfare services to help meet the needs of an ageing population;
Amendment 33 #
2013/2044(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Strongly recommends that Member States reinforce their health services regarding prevention and primary care, focusing on improving women’s health and access to care, particularly for women living in areas remote from urban centres, as well as on measures for the most disadvantaged groups – children and young people, the elderly, persons with disabilities, the unemployed and the homeless – that guarantee the right to regular medical monitoring for all.
Amendment 41 #
2013/2044(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to publish a report on the impact of the economic and financial crisis on the most vulnerable, particularly in terms of access to preventive health care and medical treatment.
Amendment 16 #
2013/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas endangered languages should be conceived as part of the European cultural heritage, and not as a vehicle for political, ethnic or territorial aspirations;
Amendment 32 #
2013/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the great majority of the endangered languages are transmitted orally from generation to generation;
Amendment 67 #
2013/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the European Union and the Member States to pay more attention to the extreme danger that many European languages are in, and to commit wholeheartedly to a policy of protection and promotion that is up to the job ofsupporting the recording, documentation and study, the protection and promotion of endangered languages, within their general aim to preservinge the diversity of the Union's linguistic and cultural heritage by supporting ambitious protection policieswith respect to the rules of subsidiarity and in accordance within the language communities concernedEuropean ideas for unity and diversity;
Amendment 88 #
2013/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission and the Council to adapt EU policies and schedule programmes so as to support the documentation and preservation of the endangered languages and linguistic diversity using EU financial support tools for the period between 2014 and 2020, including: programmes on education and training, youth and sport, the culture and media programme, the structural funds (cohesion fund, ERDF, ESF, European territorial cooperation, EARDF) and all, Life Long Learning and Active Ageing programmes, as well as any other instruments designed to promote new technologies and multimedia platforms;
Amendment 106 #
2013/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Takes the view that the European Union should support a language policy that enables children to acquire two mother tongues from the very earliest age,; points out that such a programme would, as all linguists maintain, help children learn additional languages later on, while encouraging intergenerational transmission of languages and that it would offer speakers of traditional languages practical support in revitalising intergenerational language transmission in areas in which it is dwindling;
Amendment 107 #
2013/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Supports the reinforcement of teaching endangered languages with appropriate methodologies for students of all ages, including distance learning for the development of true European citizenship based on multiculturalism and linguistic pluralism;
Amendment 117 #
2013/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes the Commission's multilingualism programmes; takes the view that promoters of projects connected with minority languages must be able to take advantage of the opportunities they offer, and, given that language communities fighting for the survival of endangered languages often consist of small groups of people, urges the Commission not to deem programmes involving these communities ineligible for funding on the grounds of low levels of financial commitment. In the mean time it urges Member States to act as intermediaries and supporters of these communities to be funded from European funds;
Amendment 125 #
2013/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Member States to pay increased attention to and support higher education studies and research with a special focus on endangered languages;
Amendment 149 #
2013/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to support both pilot projects that help promoterecord, document and encourage the promotion of endangered languages and action plans drawn up by the language communities themselves;
Amendment 154 #
2013/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Takes the view that programmes related to the promotion of multilingualism are essential for EU neighbourhood/candidate and potential candidate countries policy strategies;
Amendment 165 #
2013/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission to open up the literary translation strand of the Creative Europe programme to all languages, including those that are not recognised in the Member StatCreative Europe programme for the documentation of the orally transmitted endangered languages and its strand for translation for the preservation and publication of their written documents to all European endangered languages;
Amendment 34 #
2013/0162(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) The internal market comprises an area without internal frontiers in which the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital is ensured in accordance with the provisions of the Treaty. These provisions, as provided for in Article 36 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, do not preclude prohibitions or restrictions justified on grounds of the protection of national treasures possessing artistic, historic or archaeological value.
Amendment 36 #
2013/0162(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) Directive 93/7/EEC introduced arrangements enabling Member States to secure the return to their territory of cultural objects which are classified as national treasures within the meaning of Article 36 of the Treaty, fall under the common categories of cultural object referred to in the Treaty’s Annex and have been removed from their territory in breach of the above-mentioned national measures or of Council Regulation (EC) No 116/2009 of 18 December 2008 on the export of cultural goods23; and cultural objects classified as national treasures and forming an integral part of public collections or inventories of ecclesiastical institutions but which do not fall within these common categories ; and cultural goods originating from illegal excavations. __________________ 23 OJ L 395, 31.12.92, p. 1. OJ L 39, 10.02.09, p. 1.
Amendment 39 #
2013/0162(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) The Member States should have common European arrangements at their disposal to ensure that the unlawful removal of a cultural object classified as a national treasure of a Member State to another Member State does not present the same risk asis treated as the illegal export of a European treasure in the event of its illegal export outside the Union.
Amendment 40 #
2013/0162(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) The scope of this Directive must extend to any cultural object classified as a national treasure possessing artistic, historic or archaeological value under national legislation or administrative procedures within the meaning of Article 36 of the Treaty. The criterion of falling under one of the categories referred to in the Annex to Directive 93/7/EEC should therefore be removed and thus the Annex itself should be deleted and the criterion of forming an integral part of publicMember States should be coallections listed d upon to define the inventories of museums, archives and libraries' conservation collections or the inventories of ecclesiastical institutions should also bscope of the term ‘national treasure’ within the framework of Article 36 of the Tremovedaty. The diversity of national arrangements for protecting cultural objects is recognised in Article 36 of the Treaty. In this context, mutual trust, a willingness to cooperate and mutual understanding between Member States are therefore essentialreciprocal acceptance of definitions of ‘national treasure’, a willingness to cooperate and mutual understanding between Member States are essential to prevent the illegal export of cultural goods within and outside the European Union.
Amendment 45 #
2013/0162(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 11 a (new)
Recital 11 a (new)
(11a) Member States should submit a definition of ‘national treasure’.
Amendment 46 #
2013/0162(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 11 b (new)
Recital 11 b (new)
(11b) It is desirable for the success of this Directive that the national legislation of each Member State should be posted online not only for information purposes but also to promote exchanges of good practices.
Amendment 47 #
2013/0162(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 11 c (new)
Recital 11 c (new)
(11c) To improve the application of this Directive and cooperation between Member States, the central authorities of the Member States should communicate information about cultural objects that have been stolen or illegally removed from their country, including finds from illegal excavations.
Amendment 48 #
2013/0162(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 12 a (new)
Recital 12 a (new)
(12a) For the purposes of the integration of this Directive in the IMI system, a special framework must be established adapted to the specificity of cultural goods, as an object completely differentiated from other goods falling under Article 36 of the Treaty.
Amendment 52 #
2013/0162(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 19 a (new)
Recital 19 a (new)
(19a) For the smooth implementation of this Directive, an advisory committee of national experts must be set up as a body which will be involved in adapting the IMI system to the specific features of cultural objects, contribute to the exchange of good practices between Member States and identify any problems that may arise from the implementation of this Directive.
Amendment 55 #
2013/0162(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 1
Article 1 – point 1
1) ‘Cultural object’ shall mean an object which: is classified, before or after its unlawful removal from the territory of a Member State, among the ‘national treasures possessing artistic, historic or archaeological value’ under national legislation or administrative procedures within the meaning of Article 36 of the Treaty, even if it has not yet been registered or originates from illegal excavations.
Amendment 60 #
2013/0162(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 8 a (new)
Article 1 – point 8 a (new)
8a) ‘public collections’ shall also mean private collections in so far as they are supervised in any way by the central authorities of the Member State.
Amendment 61 #
2013/0162(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 8 b (new)
Article 1 – point 8 b (new)
8b) ‘IMI’ shall mean a section of the Internal Market Information System specially adapted to the requirements of cultural objects.
Amendment 65 #
2013/0162(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 3
Article 6 – paragraph 3
The exchange of information shall be conducted using the IMIrelating to a trafficked product shall be conducted using the IMI system, specially adapted to the requirements arising from the nature of the product, as a cultural good and national treasure.
Amendment 69 #
2013/0162(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 3
Article 9 – paragraph 3
The possessor may not claim to have acted in good faith and thus claim compensation if he failed to exercise the level of due care and attention required by the circumstances.
Amendment 74 #
2013/0162(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 2
Article 14 – paragraph 2
2. Each Member State may apply the arrangements provided for by this Directive toIn order to serve the objectives of this Directive, each Member State shall use the appropriately adjusted IMI system in addressing requests for the return of cultural objects unlawfully removed from the territory of other Member States prior to 1 January 1993.
Amendment 75 #
2013/0162(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 2
Article 16 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission shall send the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee, every five years, a report reviewing the application of this Directive. The report shall be accompanied by any appropriate proposals aimed at improving this Directive.
Amendment 10 #
2012/2322(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that protecting minors from exposure to online gambling should remain a major policy objective; underlines the need to implement EU-wide standards for age and identity verifications to prevent underage gamblers from accessing remote gambling products; supports the need for campaigns to inform children and young people about the dangers of online activities such as games, online gambling, etc., and campaigns to raise parents’ awareness so that minors are protected;
Amendment 26 #
2012/2322(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that almost 2 % of the European population suffers from gambling addiction; is concerned that easy access to online gambling websites is likely to increase this percentage, especially among young people; considers, therefore, that efficient preventive measures should be enforced, such as the implementation of strict deposit limits and controls on advertising to determine whether promotional material is false, misleading or ‘deceptive’ regarding earnings or encourages the false impression that gambling is a reasonable strategy to improve a person’s finances;
Amendment 34 #
2012/2292(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Member States to focus in particular on small and medium-sized undertakings, which invariably encounter greater difficulties in promoting equal opportunities and absorbing the cost of absences for maternity or parental leave;
Amendment 36 #
2012/2292(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Calls on the Member States to bestow an annual Gender Equality Prize on enterprises promoting gender equality at the workplace through their methods of staff organisation and administration;
Amendment 5 #
2012/2263(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls for the Member States to follow age verification procedures in respect of unaccompanied minors and for their details to be entered following interviews with the welfare services and kept on file for as long as they remain in the country concerned pending reunification with their families if possible and desirable or until they attain adulthood;
Amendment 6 #
2012/2263(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Points out that the problems and difficulties facing unaccompanied minors, particularly girls, within the EU are twice as great; observes that they are all the more vulnerable in that their needs are the same as those of other minors and, at the same time, the same as those of other refugees, with whom they share similar experiences;
Amendment 12 #
2012/2263(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Member States to follow established supervisory procedures, designating counsellors, preferably women in the case of girls, to provide all minors with assistance and guidance in the exercise of their rights;
Amendment 26 #
2012/2263(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Points out that unaccompanied minors in the EU are frequently treated by the authorities as delinquents who have infringed immigration laws rather than as individuals with rights by virtue of their age and particular circumstances;
Amendment 27 #
2012/2263(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Invites the Member States to ensure adequate human supervision by providing a sufficient number of female employees including interpreters in shelters in order to ensure adequate gender-sensitive surroundings and psychological support to young girls; stresses the need for staff to receive ongoing training and regular updates regarding all legislation relating to minors;
Amendment 29 #
2012/2131(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
(3a) Calls on the Member States to mobilise local institutions to support active participation by migrant women in the social fabric, ensuring that their interests are represented and defended, thereby promoting their socialisation and integration within the local community;
Amendment 12 #
2012/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital Β a (new)
Recital Β a (new)
Βa. whereas, despite a substantial increase in life expectancy accompanied by steadily rising living standards in the industrialised countries, enabling the elderly of today to be far more active than in previous decades, negative stereotyping and prejudices with regard to the elderly are continuing to form major obstacles to their social integration, resulting in social exclusion directly impacting on their quality of life and mental health;
Amendment 35 #
2012/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas, to meet the needs of elderly women properly, a better understanding of the illnesses affecting them is necessary;
Amendment 37 #
2012/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)
Recital I b (new)
Amendment 95 #
2012/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Notes that comprehensive and in- depth strategies in the health sector require the cooperation of governments, healthcare professionals, non- governmental organisations, public health organisations, organisations representing patients, the mass media and other parties concerned with healthy ageing;
Amendment 98 #
2012/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Takes the view that priority must be given to the protection of elderly from abuse, mis-treatment, neglect and exploitation, whether intentional and deliberate or resulting from carelessness;
Amendment 125 #
2012/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on Member States to ensure that public and private sector staff providing care for the elderly take part in ongoing training programmes and undergo regular assessment;
Amendment 127 #
2012/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Calls on Member States to encourage specialist medical studies in gerontology at public universities;
Amendment 131 #
2012/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Member States to support the initiatives needed to help older women to gain access to medical and health services, regardless of their personal economic, social, linguistic, cultural and legal circumstances, laying emphasis on individualised assistance, including home care;·
Amendment 139 #
2012/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Urges that public and private institutions providing healthcare for the elderly and run along hospital lines to be reorganised in a manner more congenial to inmates, not only providing them with medical care but also giving priority to any form of independent or creative activity in order to prevent them becoming institutionalised;
Amendment 141 #
2012/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Firmly believes that elderly inmates in public or private residential care must be consulted the running of these institutions;·
Amendment 144 #
2012/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Encourages associations and telephone help-lines providing ,care, protection and psychological support for the elderly;
Amendment 171 #
2012/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Calls for account to be taken of factors relating to gender and age in giving nutritional advice;
Amendment 176 #
2012/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Member States, as far as the training of medical and paramedical personnel is concerned, to highlight the differences in the clinical signs and symptoms of cardiovascular diseases occurring in women, stressing the benefits of prompt intervention;
Amendment 182 #
2012/2129(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on the Commission to launch specific awareness campaigns focusing on correct nutrition and the importance of physical exercise, given that these can help reduce the incidence of heart and circulatory disorders, osteoporosis, and some types of cancer and to support public awareness campaigns on the importance of seeking prompt specialist medical assistance for mental disorders accompanying old age and detailed information and guidance for relatives or carers in the case of elderly patients suffering from such disorders, as well as information campaigns in response to poly-pharmacy in the elderly, given the danger of side-effects, interaction and mental disorders resulting from the excessive consumption of pharmaceuticals over a long period;
Amendment 125 #
2012/0199(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 5 – paragraph 5 – point a
Article 5 – paragraph 5 – point a
(a) the involvement of the local population, especially young people and civil society in the preparation of the application and the implementation of the European Capital of Culture;
Amendment 134 #
2012/0199(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
The European panel shall consist of 10 members. They shall be citizens of the Union. They selected following the organization of an open call for expressions of interest. They shall have European citizenship and shall be independent experts with substantial experience and expertise in the cultural sector, in the cultural development of cities or in the organisation of a European Capital of Culture. They shall also be able to devote an appropriate number of working days per year to the European panel.
Amendment 137 #
2012/0199(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 138 #
2012/0199(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Each institution and body shall seek to ensure that the competences of the experts it appoints are as complementary as possible, and that those experts are drawn from a balanced geographical spectrum. and safeguard the continuity of the action.
Amendment 143 #
2012/0199(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2
2. The European panel shall assess the applications according to the criteria set out in Article 5. IJustifying its selection, it shall agree on a short- list of candidate cities, which are to be considered further and issue a report on the applications of all the candidate cities and recommendations to the short-listed candidate cities.
Amendment 147 #
2012/0199(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 148 #
2012/0199(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Amendment 154 #
2012/0199(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – point d
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – point d
(d) the communication strategy and the communication material used by the city clearly reflect that the European Capitals of Culture are an initiative of the Unofficial Union’s action;
Amendment 156 #
2012/0199(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 15 – point f a (new)
Article 15 – point f a (new)
(fa) utilize and update the archives of the existing Documentation Centre, created in 2007 by the City of Athens in collaboration with the Commission with the aim of saving and storing the achievements of the past but also of making them available for future cultural projects and collaborations;
Amendment 157 #
2012/0199(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 15 – point f b (new)
Article 15 – point f b (new)
(fb) update the touring exhibition created in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the European Capitals of Culture action; it shall also assume its custody and support its participation in each new European Capital of Europe in order to convey to European citizens the history and importance of this action.
Amendment 5 #
2011/2294(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph B
Paragraph B
B. whereas there is a disturbconcerningly low proportionnumber of women on decision-making boards relating to research, with the lowest numbers being found in Estonia, Poland, Cyprus, Slovakia and the Czech Republic;research decision- making boards,
Amendment 14 #
2011/2294(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Calls on universities and higher education colleges to support and encourage gender studies in both undergraduate and postgraduate level;
Amendment 16 #
2011/2294(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on universities and higher education colleges to recognise that women learners may have specific responsibilities outside of learning, for example, caring fore of young children or of elderly relatives; stresses the need for the universities to supply female students with infrastructures that will facilitate their equal participation in studies and research;
Amendment 24 #
2011/2294(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers it necessary to review the criteria for promotion to senior research- oriented positions (e.g. professorships) in order to include a strong gender perspective andinclude a strong gender perspective in senior research and teaching positions; addresses the lack of women in these posts, and to recognisereminds that women are far more likely than their male counterparts to take career breaks in order to have a family;
Amendment 38 #
2011/2294(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Urges all the Bologna Process countries to implement national qualification frameworks and to develop and financially support mutual recognition;
Amendment 41 #
2011/2294(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Calls on further government support to put in place measures to widen access to students from underrepresented groups and lower socio-economic backgrounds, as well as to immigrants and minorities;
Amendment 59 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Endorses the Commission's initiative to launch a multi-dimensional tool for ranking of higher education institutions based onstrongly on the long European tradition in the humanities and evaluating characteristics such as the quality of teaching, regional engagement and knowledge transfer;
Amendment 70 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Demands that the attractiveness of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and the European Research Area (ERA) for students and researchers from all over the world be promoted and that collaboration with non-EU countries in educational matters be strengthened;
Amendment 75 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Points out the need for collaboration between the EHEA and the ERA, as a means to support university research programmes both in science and the humanities;
Amendment 76 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that higher education is a public good that fosters culture, diversity and democratic values and prepares students to become active citizens that will support European cohesion;
Amendment 129 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Welcomes the Commission's support for ‘'Knowledge Alliances’' and ‘'Sector Skills Alliances’' in which higher education institutions andshould take into consideration advice from businesses jointlywhile developing curricula to address skills shortages; calls upon businesses and entrepreneurs, including small and medium-sized enterprises, actively to develop partnershipscooperation with higher education institutions;
Amendment 135 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Emphasises the need to develop mechanisms and management strategies that facilitate the transfer of innovative ideas and research results into society and business and allow society and businesses to provide input to higher education regarding needs for skills and innovations, taking into account best practices from all over the world;
Amendment 141 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Points out that the formulation of higher education curricula and research programmes should remain a task of the universities, taking into account the necessities of the labour market, in as far as employability is concerned;
Amendment 146 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Stresses that continuous investment in the link between education, culture, research and innovation is necessary; stresses the importance of further supporting and developing the European Institute for Innovation and Technology with its knowledge and innovation communities;
Amendment 148 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Emphasizes the importance of culture in higher education and calls for the inclusion of special criteria for the humanities in both innovation and research;
Amendment 175 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Reiterates that higher education is a common European public good and that Member States and the EU share a common responsibility in developing and strengthening the EHEA, the ERA and the Bologna Process;
Amendment 234 #
2011/2244(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to give attention to the adoption of measures for migrant women that aim to ensure prompt and clear procedures for recognition of diplomas, access to further education and diverse vocational course and free language courses to avoid de-skilling and to ensure equal job opportunities, encourages the consultation of NGOs and migrant women’s organizations on policies and measures geared towards their social integration;
Amendment 3 #
2011/2182(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Takes the view that lack ofinsufficient spread of the available information is one of the main reasons EU citizens are unable to make full use of their rights; urges the Commission, therefore, to propose aguarantee the comprehensiveness of its communication strategy which pays particular attention toin order to promote to engage and inform European citizens about their rights, while raising people's awareness of the rights they enjoy as EUEU and its citizenship;
Amendment 33 #
2011/2182(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to step up its effortsMember States and public Universities to support the efforts of the Council and the Commission to develop tools for improving academic recognition of diplomas and periods of study, thereby removing obstacles to the mobility of students and job-seekers;
Amendment 4 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 23 a (new)
Citation 23 a (new)
– having regard to the Final report of the International conference on Funding of Higher Education held in Yerevan, Armenia, 8-9 September 20112,
Amendment 14 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the three-degree structure is applied – in somemany cases successfully – in most of the Bologna countries, despite the difficulties encountered;
Amendment 38 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas education falls within the principle of subsidiarity, yet employability is a European Union responsibility and harmonization of education and degrees is a precondition for its achievement;
Amendment 43 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for a strengthening at EU level of support for the Bologna Process, in particular as regards the recognition of academic qualifications, and the promotion of mobility and employability and the analysis of the state of implementation of the Bologna principles;
Amendment 53 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Highlights that the Bologna Process EHEA and ERA play a key role within Europe 2020 strategy;
Amendment 60 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights the fact that the priorities set up withinof the Bologna pProcess represent, mobility, recognition, employability, are the conditions necessary to guarantee that every student enrolled in a European university has the right to graduate and to see hisis able to obtain a qualification recognisedegree, valid in any EU country, within furtherance of the goal of creating a genuintrue European University Citizenship;
Amendment 67 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the development of an effective, bottom-up approach, fully involving all key actors such as public universities, trade unions, the business sector and, first and foremost, teachers and students;
Amendment 74 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for a commitment on the part off public universities to new teaching and training strategies aimed ato a learning-centred universityand research-oriented system;
Amendment 87 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for the development of the universities' ‘third mission’ to society, to be also considered when rewarding excellence and developing multidimensional ranking criteria;
Amendment 93 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for the identification of new, targeted and flexible funding mechanisms with a view to supporting growth, excellence and the particular and diverse vocations of public universities;
Amendment 104 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the EU, the Member States and public universities to improve information for students, academics and staff in order to foster structured mobility flows; calls for a strengthening of the services of Erasmus through better funding, improved credit recognition and greater flexibility of the time frame allowed;
Amendment 116 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Asks the EU, in order to guarantee mutual trust, to consolidate a system of quality assurance both at bothe European and Member States' level; asks the Member States to implement their national qualification assurance systems according to the European Standards and Guidelines on Quality Assurance; calls on Member States to sign upapply to the European Quality Assurance Register and to strengthen the role of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA);
Amendment 126 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for a strong financial support for agreements on common core curricula, which guarantee well -defined learning outcomes, inter aliaalso by exploring the methodology approach developed by Tuning; calls for particular attention to be paid to the specific problems of humanities curricula and Tuning Academy experience; stresses that all curricula in all disciplines should deliver key transversal skills such as critical thinking, communication and entrepreneurial skills along-side the subject-based knowledge;
Amendment 131 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls for the support at national and European level of the humanities in public university curricula, as a stronghold for democracy and a vehicle for the achievement of the European cohesion;
Amendment 141 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Asks for the equivalent inclusion of the humanities in the European Research Area (ERA);
Amendment 147 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Draws attention to the particular needs of the Bachelor's degree, its curricula and its employability, stresses in this respect the need for specific actions and for more effective cooperation between public universities and the labour market with a view to developing more relevant curricula and enhancing employability;
Amendment 165 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Regards academic PhD degrees, including those carried out in collaboration with enterprises, as a key link between higher education and research, and recalls their potential as a key component in the creation of knowledge- based innovation and economic growth;
Amendment 175 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls for a European Ranking System for Universities which will be based on criteria relating to the European humanistic tradition in education and research;
Amendment 177 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Welcomes the Commission's proposal to increase significantly the funds devoted to European education and training programmes; calls on the Commission to devote a significant proportion of these funds to supporting the modernisation of higher education and its infrastructures in accordance with the objectives of the Bologna Process and the EU modernisation agenda;
Amendment 182 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Proposes that the recognition of study credits should be a compulsory element in all student exchanges supported by EU funding in order to strengthen the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System;
Amendment 187 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Requests that cooperation between universities should be strengthened and structured, reinforcing the impact on institutions and higher education systems and for the benefit of students and staff;
Amendment 194 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Draws the attention to the existence of numerous institutions dealing with European Higher Education and Research; calls on the European Union to promote ways for their co-ordination under the same umbrella;
Amendment 208 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Underlines the need to improve information on the Bologna Process EHEA and ERA by an effective and EU wide communication policy to enhance attractiveness of public universities in and outside Europe;
Amendment 2 #
2011/2106(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas Article 24 of the TFEU lays down that ‘every citizen of the Union may apply to the Ombudsman established in accordance with Article 228’,
Amendment 8 #
2011/2106(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Amendment 24 #
2011/2106(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Recalls that the recast of this Regulation 1049/2001 is still ongoing; regrets the lack of progress in the recast procedure; urges the Council and the Commission to be more open to giving access to documents and information to citizens and the to the European Parliament;
Amendment 18 #
2011/2067(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recognises that the creation of an online tool such as ‘EU Skills Panorama’ couldin collaboration with the CEDEFOP will help future workers to acquire the right mix of skills, such as ICTs and languages, thus boosting their job prospects and adaptability; strongly believes that this forecast should have a 10-year time frame;
Amendment 24 #
2011/2067(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that universities and other higher educational institutions can play a key role in the regional economies of Member States and that universitiesthey are unique places where innovation, education and research come together and can lead to job creation; points out that cooperation between faculties within universities, universities, regions, governments and businesses is fundamental;
Amendment 35 #
2011/2067(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Emphasises the need to maintain the craft tradition and its associated skills and to establish strategies for craft retail entrepreneurs, in order to maintain the cultural identity of the craft sector; stresses the importance of the humanities as a field for investigating the past and preserving the cultural identities.
Amendment 3 #
2011/2020(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that the European education programmes bring clear and demonstrated European added value and are vital for the Europe 2020 strategy to succeed; regrets that the Commission draft budget does not propose any additional funding for education and training, beyond the financial programming; laments the bias in favour of the natural sciences as opposed to the humanities in the implementation of European education programmes; calls for greater visibility to be afforded to the humanities in the Education programmes to be proposed under the next multiannual financial framework; calls for a significant increase in appropriations for the Lifelong Learning Programme in the 2012 budget and for a doubling of the funds for education in the next MFF;
Amendment 6 #
2011/2020(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Bemoans the fact that the Council is seeking to reduce the commitment appropriations for 2012 in respect of the Culture programme; considers it imperative that, in these difficult economic times, we do not neglect the role of culture in further enhancing European identity and enriching our societies; accordingly calls for funding and investment in culture to be maintained, if not increased;
Amendment 105 #
2011/0436(APP)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) While there is objectively a clear added value of being an Union citizen with established rights, the Union does not always highlight the link between the solution of a broad range of economic and social problems and the Union's policies in an effective way. Hence, the impressive achievements in terms of peace and stability in Europe, long-term sustainable growth, stable prices, an efficient protection of consumers and the environment and the promotion of fundamental rights, have not always led to a strong feeling of belonging of citizens to the Union, particularly when, in periods of crisis, the European ideal starts to be undermined by a swelling tide of Euro- scepticism, compromising the future of a united Europe.
Amendment 112 #
2011/0436(APP)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) Decision No 1904/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 establishing for the period 2007 to 2013 the programme "Europe for Citizens" to promote active European citizenship set out an action programme which has confirmed the need to promote sustained dialogue with civil society organisations and municipalities and to support the active involvement of citizens, especially young people.
Amendment 114 #
2011/0436(APP)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) With regard to the themes of projects, their embedding in the local and regional context, and to the composition of stakeholders there should be important synergies with other Union programmes, namely in the areas of employment, social affairs, education, youth, the voluntary sector and culture, justice, equality between women and men and non- discrimination, and regional policy.
Amendment 123 #
2011/0436(APP)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) The new programme should cover a wide spectrum of different actions and include, among others, citizens' meetings, contacts and debates on citizenship issues, Union level events, initiatives to reflect on defining moments in European history, initiatives to raise awareness about the Union institutions and their functioning, such as the House of European History tracing the progress of Europe and European unification over the twentieth century and European institutions responsible for resolving problems arising from failure of the authorities to implement EU legislation properly, and debates on European policy issues, with a view to invigorate all aspects of public life.
Amendment 144 #
2011/0436(APP)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19 a (new)
Recital 19 a (new)
(19a) In order to ensure maximum participation in the ‘Europe for Citizens’ programme, the Commission should issue explicit invitations with transparently clear procedures facilitating direct applications by citizens.
Amendment 177 #
2011/0436(APP)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – indent 2 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – indent 2 a (new)
– At state level, measures to improve cooperation between local, regional and national authorities, civil society and the media in heightening awareness of the impact of European policies on national and local policies
Amendment 193 #
2011/0436(APP)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – indent 6
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – indent 6
– Debates/studies and interventions on defining moments in European history, in particular to keep the memory alive of the crimes committed under Nazism and Stalinism. with the ultimate aim of preserving peaceful coexistence in Europe
Amendment 195 #
2011/0436(APP)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – indent 6 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – indent 6 a (new)
– Initiatives for involvement of the elderly in keeping alive the memory of key events marking European history
Amendment 198 #
2011/0436(APP)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – indent 7 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – indent 7 a (new)
– Reflections concerning growing doubts about European ideas, particularly among young people, and on how to stem the tide of Euro-scepticism
Amendment 201 #
2011/0436(APP)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – indent 8 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – indent 8 a (new)
– Awareness-raising initiatives to combat discrimination and xenophobia
Amendment 204 #
2011/0436(APP)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – indent 9
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – indent 9
Actions that exploit and further valorise the results of the supported initiatives and highlight good practices by various organisations and bodies
Amendment 206 #
2011/0436(APP)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – indent 10 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – indent 10 a (new)
– Raising the profile of measures and bodies for resolving problems, such as Solvit, the EP Committee on Petitions and the European Ombudsman
Amendment 29 #
2011/0401(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) Horizon 2020 - the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation in the European Union (hereinafter ‘Horizon 2020’), focuses on three priorities, namely generating excellent science in order to strengthen the Union's world-class excellence in science, fostering industrial leadership to support business, including small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) and innovation and tackling societal challenges, in order to respond directly to the challenges identified in the Europe 2020 strategy by supporting activities covering the entire spectrum from basic and applied research to market and society. Horizon 2020 should support all stages in the research and innovation chain, especially activities closer to society and the market including innovative financial instruments, as well as non- technological and social innovation, and aims to satisfy the research needs of a broad spectrum of Union policies by placing emphasis on the widest possible use and dissemination of knowledge generated by the supported activities up to its social and/or commercial exploitation. The priorities of Horizon 2020 should also be supported through a programme under the Euratom Treaty on nuclear research and training.
Amendment 33 #
2011/0401(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) In the context of the knowledge triangle of research, education and innovation, the Knowledge and Innovation Communities under the European Institute of Innovation and Technology should strongly contribute to addressing the objectives of Horizon 2020, including the societal challenges, notably by integratingencouraging the cooperation between research, education and innovation. In order to ensure complementarities across Horizon 2020 and the adequate absorption of funds, the financial contribution to the European Institute of Innovation and Technology should be made in two allocations, with the second subject to a review.
Amendment 49 #
2011/0401(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22 a (new)
Recital 22 a (new)
(22a) Horizon 2020 should support research in the field of Humanities, - especially those which produce knowledge-, via basic and applied research, and contribute with new material evidence, or new methods of approach, to the development of new fields of interdisciplinary research, the creation of new jobs, the preservation of cultural heritage and the sustainability of Europe as the cradle of humanistic tradition and leader in world tourism.
Amendment 60 #
2011/0401(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1
Article 1
This Regulation establishes Horizon 2020 - the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020) (‘Horizon 2020’) and determines the framework governing Union support to research and innovation activities and fostering better exploitation of the social and industrial potential of policies of innovation, research and technological development.
Amendment 63 #
2011/0401(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) excellent science including basic and applied research in the Humanities;
Amendment 64 #
2011/0401(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point c
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) societal challenges including basic and applied research in Social Sciences.
Amendment 70 #
2011/0401(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14
Article 14
Horizon 2020 shall be implemented in a manner ensuring that the priorities and actions supported are relevant to changing needs and take account of the evolving nature of science, technology, innovation, markets and society, where science includes any field of academic research and innovation includes business, organisational and social aspects.
Amendment 78 #
2011/0401(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 20 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) an ERA-NET instrument using grants to support public-public partnerships in their preparation, establishment of networking structures, design, implementation and coordination of joint activities as well as topping up of individual joint calls and of actions of a local, regional, national or a transnational nature;
Amendment 86 #
2011/0401(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – paragraph 7 – point a
Annex 1 – paragraph 7 – point a
(a) The European Research Council (ERC) shall provide attractive and flexible funding to enable talented and creative individual researchers and their teams working in any field of knowledge to pursue the most promising avenues at the frontier of science, on the basis of Union- wide competition.
Amendment 87 #
2011/0401(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – paragraph 7 – point b
Annex 1 – paragraph 7 – point b
(b) Future and emerging technologies shall support collaborative or cross-disciplinary research in order to extend Europe's capacity for advanced and paradigm- changing innovation. It shall foster scientific collaboration across disciplines on radically new, high-risk ideas and accelerate development of the most promising emerging areas of science and technology as well as the Union wide structuring of the corresponding scientific communities.
Amendment 88 #
2011/0401(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – paragraph 7 – point d
Annex 1 – paragraph 7 – point d
(d) Research infrastructure shall develop European research infrastructure for 2020 and beyond, foster their innovation potential and human capital, and complement this with the related Union policy and international cooperation in order to retain and attract talented people to live and work in the Union.
Amendment 89 #
2011/0401(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – paragraph 14 – point f
Annex 1 – paragraph 14 – point f
(f) Inclusive, educated, innovative and secure societies.
Amendment 92 #
2011/0401(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – paragraph 16
Annex 1 – paragraph 16
Social sciences and humanities shall be an integral part of the activities to address all the challenges. In addition, the underpinning development of these disciplines shall be supported under the specific objective ‘Inclusive, educated, innovative and secure societies’. Support will also focus on providing a strong evidence base for policy making at international, Union, national and regional levels. Given the global nature of many of the challenges, strategic cooperation with third countries shall be an integral part of each challenge. In addition, cross-cutting support for international cooperation shall be provided under the specific objective ‘Inclusive, educated, innovative and secure societies’.
Amendment 95 #
2011/0401(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – paragraph 17
Annex 1 – paragraph 17
The specific objective ‘Inclusive, educated, innovative and secure societies’ also includes an activity to close the research and innovation divide with specific measures to unlock excellence in less developed regions of the Union.
Amendment 96 #
2011/0401(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – part I – point 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 6
Annex 1 – part I – point 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 6
Furthermore, these factors compound Europe's relative unattractiveness in the global competition for scientific talent. The ability of the US system to offer more resources per researcher, better research infrastructures and better career prospects explains how it continues to attract the best researchers from across the world, including tens of thousands from the Union.
Amendment 97 #
2011/0401(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – part I – point 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 6 a (new)
Annex 1 – part I – point 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 6 a (new)
If innovation is to be conceived as a term for economic growth, the long cultural European tradition should not be excluded from its parameters. Since Europe and its cultural heritage still predominate world-wide tourism, further expanded to new markets from the East, excellence in science should also include research in certain fields of the Humanities, which do not only promote knowledge of European cultural past, but create new scientific fields and thus expand the employability of young researchers. From this point of view the Union should invest in innovative research projects, mainly undertaken by university research teams and rarely attracting the interest of private investors, which focus to the discovery, preservation and multi-faceted exploitation of ancient sites and monuments, and support excavations, conservation, physical and digital reconstructions, as a precondition for SMEs and local societies to invest to and profit from the results of research in the Humanities.
Amendment 99 #
2011/0401(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – part I – point 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 1
Annex 1 – part I – point 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 1
The fundamental activity of the ERC shall be to provide attractive long-term funding to support excellent investigators and their research teams to pursue ground-breaking, high-gain/high-risk research. From this point of view research as a scientific procedure should be recognized without exceptions in all fields of human knowledge.
Amendment 101 #
2011/0401(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – part I – point 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 2
Annex 1 – part I – point 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 2
ERC funding shall be awarded in accordance with the following well- established principles. Scientific excellence in any field of knowledge shall be the sole criterion on which ERC grants are awarded. The ERC shall operate on a ‘bottom-up’ basis without predetermined priorities. The ERC grants shall be open to individual teams of researchers of any age and from any country in the world, working in Europe. And the ERC shall aim to foster healthy competition across Europe.
Amendment 102 #
2011/0401(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – part I – point 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 5
Annex 1 – part I – point 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 5
By 2020, the ERC therefore shall aim to demonstrate: that the best researchers are participating in the ERC's competitions, that ERC funding has led directly to scientific publications of the highest quality and to the commercialisation and application of innovative technologies and ideas and that the ERC has contributed significantly to making Europe a more attractive environment for the world's best scientists. In particular, the ERC shall target a measurable improvement in the Union's share of the world's top 1 % most highly cited publications. It shall also try to introduce new criteria, reflecting the European idea of excellence, whose scientific credibility will not be questioned. In addition it shall aim at a substantial increase in the number of excellent researchers from outside Europe whom it funds and specific improvements in institutional practices and national policies to support top researchers.
Amendment 111 #
2011/0401(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – part I – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 2
Annex 1 – part I – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 2
Research infrastructures are key determinants of Europe's competitiveness across the full breadth of scientific domains and essential to science-based innovation. In many fields research is impossible without access to supercomputers, radiation sources for new materials, clean rooms for nanotechnologies, databases for genomics and, social sciences and humanities, observatories for Earth sciences, broadband networks for transferring data, etc. Research infrastructures are necessary to carry out the research needed in the field of human sciences such as archaeology, archaeometry, palaeography, anthropology, palaeobotany. They are also a necessary prerequisite for the conduct of research for the preservation of cultural heritage (e.g conservation laboratories). Moreover, research infrastructures are necessary to carry out the research needed to address grand societal challenges —– energy, climate change, bio-economy and lifelong health and wellbeing for all. They propel collaboration across borders and disciplines and create a seamless and open European space for online research. They promote mobility of people and ideas, bring together the best scientists from across Europe and the world and enhance scientific education. They drive excellence within the European research and innovation communities and can be outstanding showcases of science for society at large.
Amendment 113 #
2011/0401(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – part I – point 4 – point 4.3 – point b
Annex 1 – part I – point 4 – point 4.3 – point b
The aims shall be to encourage research infrastructures to act as early adopters of technology, to promote R&D partnerships with industry, to facilitate industrial use of research infrastructures, to support the creation of datasets in any field of knowledge, especially in the area of the humanities, as a precondition for the commercialization of European cultural heritage, and to stimulate the creation of innovation clusters. This activity shall also support employability, training and/or exchanges of staff managing and operating research infrastructures.
Amendment 126 #
2011/0401(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 1 – part III – point 6.3 – point 6.3.1 – paragraph 1
Annex 1 – part III – point 6.3 – point 6.3.1 – paragraph 1
The aim is to enhance solidarity as well as social, economic and political inclusion and positive inter-cultural dynamics in Europe and with international partners, through cutting-edge science and interdisciplinarity, technological advances and organisational innovations. Humanities research can play an important role here. ResearchResearch in the field of human and social sciences can play an important role here. Research in the field of humanites shall reveal, develop, preserve and designate the multidimentional European cultural heritage by creating new scientific disciplines, thus new innovation fields and jobs. Research in social sciences shall support policymakers in designing policies that combat poverty and prevent the development of various forms of divisions, discriminations and inequalities in European societies, such as gender inequalities or digital or innovation divides, and with other world regions. It shall in particular feed into the implementation and the adaptation of the Europe 2020 strategy and the broad external action of the Union. Specific measures shall be taken to unlock excellence in less developed regions, thereby widening participation in Horizon 2020.
Amendment 330 #
2011/0371(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point 6
Article 2 – point 6
6. "virtual mobility" stands for a set of information and communications technology supported activities, including e-learning, organized at institutional level, that realize or facilitate international, collaborative experiences in a context of teaching and/or learning;
Amendment 332 #
2011/0371(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point 7
Article 2 – point 7
7. "staff" means persons who, either on a professional or voluntary basis, are involved in education, training or youth non-formal learning. It may include professors, teachers, trainers, school leaders, youth workers and non-educational staff;
Amendment 446 #
2011/0371(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 a (new) – title (new)
Article 5 a (new) – title (new)
Article 5a Specific objectives in the field of education and training
Amendment 447 #
2011/0371(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 a (new) - introductory wording (new)
Article 5 a (new) - introductory wording (new)
In addition to the objectives of the programme set out in Articles 4 and 5, the programme shall pursue the following specific objectives in the field of education and training:
Amendment 448 #
2011/0371(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 a (new) - point 1 (new) - introductory wording (new)
Article 5 a (new) - point 1 (new) - introductory wording (new)
1. in the field of Erasmus (higher education), the programme shall aim to:
Amendment 449 #
2011/0371(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 a (new) - point 1 (new) - point a (new)
Article 5 a (new) - point 1 (new) - point a (new)
(a) improve and increase cooperation between higher education and research institutions;
Amendment 450 #
2011/0371(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 a (new) - point 1 a (new) - introductory wording (new)
Article 5 a (new) - point 1 a (new) - introductory wording (new)
1a. in the field of Grundtvig (adult learning), the programme shall aim to:
Amendment 451 #
2011/0371(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 a (new) - point 1 a (new) - point a (new)
Article 5 a (new) - point 1 a (new) - point a (new)
(a) encourage higher education institutions to include in their programmes curricula addressed to older adults;
Amendment 686 #
2011/0371(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) support to non-commercial European sport events involving several European countries and aimed at promoting European integration, social inclusion and equal opportunities, such as special events involving disadvantaged groups;
Amendment 790 #
2011/0371(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 a (new) - title (new)
Article 14 a (new) - title (new)
Article 14a The European Student Loan Guarantee Facility
Amendment 791 #
2011/0371(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 a (new) - paragraph 1 (new)
Article 14 a (new) - paragraph 1 (new)
1. A European Student Loan Guarantee Facility ('the Facility') shall be established with the aim of providing students with an additional tool enabling them to enhance their mobility in the context of studies at the level of a master's degree. This experimental tool shall be complementary to, and shall not replace, the grant systems supporting student mobility which are already in place at local, national and Union level.
Amendment 792 #
2011/0371(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 a (new) - paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 14 a (new) - paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 793 #
2011/0371(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 a (new) - paragraph 1 b (new)
Article 14 a (new) - paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Before the Facility can be launched, a detailed study shall be undertaken by the Commission to identify the challenges which students may potentially face when taking out a loan for a course of study abroad. In addition, the Commission shall undertake a study and a risk analysis within the framework of the Facility to study the impact that taking out a loan may have on a student's choice of study subject, country of destination and career perspectives, on levels of debt amongst students, on the possibility of a brain drain between the countries where student mobility could take place and on the possible consequences which the Facility may have on the financing of higher education.
Amendment 794 #
2011/0371(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 a (new) - paragraph 1 c (new)
Article 14 a (new) - paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. The Commission shall administer the funding of the Facility which shall be delivered through a trustee with a mandate to implement it pursuant to fiduciary agreements setting out the detailed rules and requirements governing the implementation of the financial instrument relating thereto and the respective obligations of the parties in line with the provisions laid down in this Regulation. The financial instrument shall comply with the provisions regarding financial instruments laid down in the Financial Regulation and in the delegated act replacing the Implementing Rules. In accordance with Article 18(2) of the Financial Regulation, revenues and repayments generated by the guarantees shall be assigned to the financial instrument. That financial instrument, which shall take into account students´ and market needs as well as take-up, the excessive debt risk, the Facility's social and economic impacts on beneficiaries and their social background, education and training, shall be subject to the monitoring and evaluation provided for in Article 15(2) of this Regulation. Member States and stakeholders shall be consulted at all stages throughout the establishment, implementation and evaluation of the financial instrument.
Amendment 795 #
2011/0371(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 a (new) - paragraph 1 d (new)
Article 14 a (new) - paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. The provisions of the Financial Regulation governing the implementation of the Facility shall lay down special rules regarding full income contingent repayment condition, permitting the students concerned to defer repayment of the loan until such time as they reach a level of income that exceeds the average salary in their country of residence.
Amendment 796 #
2011/0371(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 a (new) - paragraph 1 e (new)
Article 14 a (new) - paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. A maximum rate of interest for student loans granted pursuant to the Facility, not exceeding the average rate of inflation in the Member States during the previous calendar year, shall be set. If the financial intermediaries concerned exceed the rate of interest thus set, the Commission shall back up any interest payable in excess of that rate.
Amendment 819 #
2011/0371(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – point b
Article 19 – point b
(b) the other Union relevant funding sources in the field of education, training and youth policies, in particular the European Socialtructural Funds, Social Fund and Cohesion Fund and the other financial instruments relating to employment and social inclusion, the European Regional Development Fund, the Research and Innovation Programmes, as well as the financial instruments relating to justice and citizenship, health, external cooperation Programmes and the pre- accession instruments.
Amendment 205 #
2011/0370(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) Union support for the cultural and creative sectors is based on the experience acquired with the following programmes and actions: Decision No 1855/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 establishing the Culture Programme (2007 to 2013), Decision No 1718/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 November 2006 concerning the implementation of a programme of support for the European audiovisual sector (MEDIA 2007), Decision No 1041/2009/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 establishing an audiovisual cooperation programme with professionals from third countries (MEDIA Mundus 2011-2013), Decision No 1622/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 2006 establishing a Community action for the European Capital of Culture event for the years 2007 to 2019 and Decision No xy1194/20111 ( of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 November 2011 establishing a European action for the European Heritage Label)1. __________________ 1 OJ L OJ L 303, 22.11.2011, p. 1.
Amendment 206 #
2011/0370(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The ‘European agenda for culture in a globalizsing world’, endorsed by the Council in a Resolution of 16 November 2007, defines "culture" at the outset and sets the objectives for future activities of the European Union for the cultural and creative sectors. It aims to promoteTherefore, "culture" is recognised as the complex of works of art and heritage, cultural goods and services, as well as the basis for a symbolic world of meanings, beliefs, values and traditions which are expressed in language, art, religion and myths. Taking into consideration also the anthropological meaning of culture, the current European Agenda for Culture aims to support cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue, to promote culture as a catalyst for creativity in the framework for growth and jobs and to promotehighlight culture as a vital element in the Union's international relations.
Amendment 207 #
2011/0370(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) In its resolution of 12 May 2011 on unlocking the potential of cultural and creative industries1, the European Parliament emphasised that the creative and cultural industries contribute to the transformation of local economies by encouraging the emergence of new types of economic activity, creating new and sustainable jobs and making European regions, cities and rural communities more attractive, thus serving the interests of social and territorial cohesion. Moreover, culture has an important role to play in terms of the sustainable development of cross-border territories. Stimulating culture and creativity is therefore an integral part of territorial cooperation and should be reinforced. __________________ 1 Texts adopted, P7_TA(2011)0240.
Amendment 209 #
2011/0370(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) With regard to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and in particular Articles 11 and 21, the cultural and creative sectors make an important contribution to the fight against all forms of discrimination including racism and xenophobia and are an important platform for freedom of speechexpression. Article 22 imposes an obligation to respect cultural and linguistic diversity.
Amendment 212 #
2011/0370(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The UNESCO Convention on the Protection and the Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions which entered into force on 18 March 2007, and to which the Union is a partyis part of the acquis communautaire, aims at strengthening international cooperation, including international co-production and co- distribution agreements, and solidarity so as to favour the cultural expression of all countries.
Amendment 227 #
2011/0370(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10 a (new)
Recital 10 a (new)
(10a) The European cultural and creative sectors, as a means of promoting economic growth, social inclusion, political awareness and job creation, are of major importance for the preservation of worldwide interest in the European cultural heritage and its attractions from the point of view of tourism. Therefore, Member States should support, and the European Union should encourage, studies of, and research into, the European cultural heritage, as a major tool for fostering the competitiveness of the European economy in a globalised world.
Amendment 244 #
2011/0370(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) The European Capital of Culture and the European Heritage Label, as well as special actions such as the European cultural prizes, help to strengthen the feeling of belonging to a common cultural area, stimulate intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding and contribute to enhancing the value of cultural heritage. Funding should be provided for these two Union actions.
Amendment 253 #
2011/0370(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) Participation in the pProgramme within the scope of European integration will be open to acceding countries, candidate countries and potential candidates benefiting from a pre-accession strategy, in accordance with the general principles and general terms and conditions for the participation of those countries in Union programmes established in the respective Framework Agreements, Association Council Decisions or similar agreements; to EFTA countries which are parties to the EEA Agreement and to countries of the European neighbourhood area in accordance with the procedures defined with those countries following the framework agreements providing for their participation in European Union programmes. The participation of the Swiss Confederation is subject to specific arrangements with that country.
Amendment 255 #
2011/0370(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) Cooperation between the Programme and international organisations in the field of cultureal and audiovisual fields such as UNESCO, the Council of Europe and in particular Eurimages and European Cultural Routes, OECD and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) needs to be fostered.
Amendment 257 #
2011/0370(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) It is necessary to ensure the European added value of all actions carried out within in the framework of the Programme, complementarity to Member State activities and compliance with Article 167 (4) of the Treaty and other Union activities, in particular in the field of education, research and innovation, industrial and cohey, cohesion and social inclusion policy, tourism and external relations.
Amendment 280 #
2011/0370(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point 1
Article 2 – point 1
1. ‘cultural and creative sectors’ means all sectors whose activities are based on cultural values and/or artistic and creative expressions, whether these activities are market or non-market oriented and whatever the type of structure that carries them out. These activities include the creation, the production, the dissemination and the preservation of goods and services which embody cultural, artistic or creative expressions, as well as related functions such as education, management or regulation. The cultural and creative sectors include in particular architecture, archives and libraries, artistic crafts, audiovisual (including film, television, video games and multimedia), tangible and intangible cultural heritage, design, festivals, music, performing arts, publishing, advertising, radio and visual arts;
Amendment 287 #
2011/0370(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point 3 a (new)
Article 2 – point 3 a (new)
3a. 'SMEs' means micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as self- employed persons, as defined in Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC of 6 May 2003 concerning the definition of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises1, that are active in the cultural and creative sectors. _________________ 1 OJ L 124, 20.5.2003, p. 36.
Amendment 289 #
2011/0370(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. TIn view of the educational, artistic, social, intrinsic and economic value of culture, the Programme shall only support those actions and activities presenting a potential European added value and contributing to the achievement of the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy and its flagship initiatives.
Amendment 310 #
2011/0370(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
(da) the transnational and transregional mobility of cultural and creative operators, as well as the circulation of cultural, artistic and audiovisual works in order to develop a common cultural area and enhance intercultural exchanges and dialogue.
Amendment 315 #
2011/0370(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – point a
Article 4 – point a
(a) to foster the safeguarding and promotion ofe European cultural and linguistic diversity and to safeguard and enhance Europe's cultural heritage, enriching knowledge of Europe's past and developing a sense of European identity among European citizens;
Amendment 346 #
2011/0370(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – point c a (new)
Article 5 – point c a (new)
(ca) to support in particular the non- market-oriented cultural sector, by promoting actions and activities that reflect its specific nature, needs and interests;
Amendment 400 #
2011/0370(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – point a
Article 8 – point a
(a) transnational exchange of experiences and knowhow on new business models, peer-learning activities and networking among cultural operators – in particular among the smaller ones – and policy makers related to the development of the cultural and creative sectors;
Amendment 404 #
2011/0370(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – point b
Article 8 – point b
(b) market data, studies, anticipationthe collection of market data, drafting of studies, analysis of labour market and skills and jobs' toolneeds, evaluations, policy analysis and support for statistical surveys; based on instruments and criteria specific to each sector. For this purpose the general orientations of Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3) may be an appropriate means of developing this collaborative knowledge base involving cultural operators, industry, universities and other research institutions, in particular at local and regional level;
Amendment 436 #
2011/0370(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – point f – indent 5 a (new)
Article 8 – point f – indent 5 a (new)
– disseminating information about the new Financial Facility;
Amendment 470 #
2011/0370(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
(aa) supporting cooperation between the cultural sector and other economic sectors, such as tourism, in order to achieve the development of a long-term audience, as well as the creation of new business models (for, inter alia, the cultural tourism industry);
Amendment 476 #
2011/0370(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) supporting actions enabling operators, in particular artists and cultural professionals, to internationalise their careers in Europe and beyond;
Amendment 484 #
2011/0370(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) supporting international touring, events and exhibithe mobility of exhibitions and museum collections;
Amendment 491 #
2011/0370(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) supporting audience buildingdevelopment as a means of stimulating interest in, facilitating knowledge of, and improving access to European cultural works. and tangible and intangible cultural heritage;
Amendment 493 #
2011/0370(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
(ca) providing support to digital platforms with a view to expanding knowledge of the cultural heritage, strengthening cultural exchanges and enhancing the circulation of cultural and creative works.
Amendment 517 #
2011/0370(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – point e
Article 10 – point e
(e) special actions aiming to achieve greater visibility for the richness and diversity of European ancient civilisations and contemporary cultures, and stimulate intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding, including European cultural prizes, the European Heritage Label, and the European Capitals of Culture.
Amendment 11 #
2011/0299(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) Telecommunications networks and services are increasingly becoming internet-based infrastructures, with broadband networks and digital services closely interrelated. The internet is becoming the dominant platform for communication, services, and doing business. Therefore, the trans-European availability of fast Internet access and digital services in the public interest is essential for social and cultural development, economic growth and the Single Market.
Amendment 14 #
2011/0299(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) On 26 March 2010, the European Council welcomed the Commission's proposal to launch the strategy Europe 2020. One of the three priorities of Europe 2020 is smart growth through the development of an economy based on knowledge and innovation. Investments in telecommunications, notably broadband networks and digital service infrastructures, are a necessary condition for smart but also sustainable and inclusive social, cultural and economic growth of the Union.
Amendment 15 #
2011/0299(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) On 17 June 2010, the European Council endorsed the Digital Agenda for Europe8 and called upon all institutions to engage in its full implementation. The Digital Agenda aims to chart a course to maximise the social, cultural and economic potential of information and communication technologies, in particular through the deployment of high-speed broadband networks by seeking to ensure that by 2020 all Europeans have access to internet speeds of above 30 Mbps and 50% or more of European households subscribe to internet connections above 100 Mbps. The Digital Agenda aims to establish a stable legal framework to stimulate investments in an open and competitive high speed internet infrastructure and in related services; a true single market for online content and services; active support for the digitisation of Europe's rich cultural heritage, and the promotion of internet access and take-up by all, especially through support of digital literacy and accessibility. In addition, Member States should implement operational national plans for high speed internet, targeting public funding on areas not fully served by private investments in internet infrastructures and promote deployment and usage of modern accessible online services.
Amendment 35 #
2011/0299(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) Increasing and preserving access to Europe's rich and diverse cultural content and data held by public sector bodies, and opening them up for reuse in full respect of copyright and related rights, will underpin European cohesion, will disseminate European ideals, will nurture creativity and spur innovation and entrepreneurship. Unhampered access to re-usable multilingual resources will help overcome language barriers, which undermine the internal market for online services and limit access to knowledge.
Amendment 51 #
2011/0299(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point 2 a (new)
Article 2 – point 2 a (new)
(2a) encourage adaptation by the public administration of the Member States to the fresh opportunities offered by e-government, making use of European programmes and thereby increasing the number of jobs in archive digitisation and public service networking at national level.
Amendment 59 #
2011/0299(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – point b
Article 4 – point b
(b) the deployment of broadband networks with suitable funding to link island, mountain, landlocked and peripheral regions with the central regions of the Union ensuring in those regions that speeds of data transmission are sufficient to permit broadband connectivity of 30 Mbps and above;
Amendment 68 #
2011/0299(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 5
Article 5 – paragraph 5
5. Actions contributing to projects of common interest and necessary to ensure the provision of broadband services shall be eligible for EU financial support under the conditions and instruments available under the Regulation establishing the Connecting Europe Facility [REF]. Financial support shall be provided in accordance with the relevant rules and procedures adopted by the Union, funding priorities and the availability of resources.
Amendment 71 #
2011/0299(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. The Union may establish contacts, discuss, exchange information and cooperate with public authorities or any other organisations in third countries, where this is in the public interest, to achieve any objective pursued by these guidelines where such cooperation gives rise to a European added value. Among other objectives, this cooperation shall seek to promote the interoperability between the trans-European telecommunication networks and telecommunication networks of third countries.
Amendment 73 #
2011/0299(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2
2. The Union may further establish contacts, discuss, exchange information and cooperate with international organisations and legal entities established in third countries to achieve any objective pursued by these guidelines which is in the public interest.
Amendment 76 #
2011/0299(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex – paragraph 2
Annex – paragraph 2
The deployment and enhancement of trans- European telecommunication networks (broadband networks and digital service infrastructures) shall contribute to fostering economic growth, creating jobs and achieving a vibrant digital single market and shall support social cohesion and cultural convergence. In particular, their deployment will grant faster access to the internet, bring about information technology-enabled improvements in daily life for citizens, including children and young persons, businesses and governments, increase interoperability and facilitate the alignment or convergence to commonly agreed standards.
Amendment 78 #
2011/0299(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex – section 1 – point a – paragraph 2
Annex – section 1 – point a – paragraph 2
These actions may also include climate proofing to assess the climate related risks, environmental impact and health implications and ensure disaster resilience of infrastructure, in compliance with relevant requirements set out in EU or national legislation.
Amendment 79 #
2011/0299(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex – section 2 – paragraph 3
Annex – section 2 – paragraph 3
Sub-urban/medium density areas are typically served with medium speed connections but tend to lack higher speeds. Where it is demonstrated that the business case for investments in advanced technologies is insufficient for private investors in the short run, financial support from the State or from Europe could generate profitable investment over the longer term by closing the viability gap and stimulate competition.
Amendment 80 #
2011/0299(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex – section 2 – paragraph 4
Annex – section 2 – paragraph 4
Rural and low density areas are typically served with low speed connections and in some cases even not served at all. The business case for investment is unlikely to be viable and the European targets are unlikely to be reached by 2020. IGiven the importance of agricultural production for European economic growth and the obligation of the Union to support it, investment in these areas needs higher financial support from the State or from Europe, provided by grants, possibly in combination with financial instruments. Such areas will include remote and sparsely populated regions where investment costs are either very high or where income is low. The support from the Connecting Europe Facility in these areas is likely to complement available cohesion funds or rural development and other direct public support.
Amendment 82 #
2011/0299(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex – section 2 – paragraph 10
Annex – section 2 – paragraph 10
The deployment of broadband networks to connect island, mountain, landlocked and peripheral regions with central regions of the Union, including where necessary submarine cables, will be supported where it is essential to ensure access by isolated communities to broadband at 30 Mbps and above. This support should complement other funds, whether EU or national, available for this purpose.
Amendment 84 #
2011/0299(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex – section 3 – heading in bold 2 – subheading 2 – point a
Annex – section 3 – heading in bold 2 – subheading 2 – point a
(a) Electronic procedures for setting up and running a business in another European country: This service will allow dealing with all necessary administrative procedures electronically across borders through Points of Single Contact, so a to facilitate cross-border job seeking and the transfer, establishment and development of business initiatives. This service is also a requirement the Directive 2006/123/EC on services in the internal market.
Amendment 85 #
2011/0299(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex – section 3 – heading in bold 2 – subheading 2 – point e a (new)
Annex – section 3 – heading in bold 2 – subheading 2 – point e a (new)
(ea) Interoperable cross-border voluntary services: these services shall include a best practice volunteer resources bank and a section on cross-border volunteering, with information on the programmes available, their costs and the conditions for participation, allowing for an exchange of information on administrative burdens, the legal and fiscal aspects of volunteering, barriers encountered in accessing programmes and the best ways to tackle them.
Amendment 30 #
2010/2307(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Recital M a (new)
M a. whereas a central objective of the 'Youth on the Move' initiative is to broaden European cohesion and create citizens with an awareness of their European identity,
Amendment 168 #
2010/2307(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21. Recommends to the Commission that, leaving aside market requirements, it should encourage European universities to support the Humanities, ensuring that they are integrated in the curricula at all levels;
Amendment 219 #
2010/2307(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Points to the need to use European history and European culture as prime tools for deepening European integration;
Amendment 220 #
2010/2307(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 b (new)
Paragraph 29 b (new)
29b. Stresses the obligation of a united Europe to ensure to support efforts by European universities to cooperate in the Humanities;
Amendment 221 #
2010/2307(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 c (new)
Paragraph 29 c (new)
29c. Considers that highlighting Europe's contribution to the world's heritage through university curricula will help attract young people from other continents, resulting in the growth of tourism and intercultural communication;
Amendment 222 #
2010/2307(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 d (new)
Paragraph 29 d (new)
29d. Points to the possibility of using Europe's cultural heritage to create new innovative vocational skills;
Amendment 52 #
2010/2239(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States - particularly the new Member States - to review their pension systems, taking into account the higher life expectancy of women and the major pay differentials between men and women, which are reflected in the amount of the pensions granted, often pushing them below the poverty line; calls on the Member States to establish a minimum pension so as to avoid penalising workers who have contributed for only a brief period;
Amendment 62 #
2010/2239(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Member States to clamp down on undeclared employment and formulate migration policies designed to prevent female migrants in particular from being trapped in undeclared employment;
Amendment 63 #
2010/2239(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on the Member States to promote policies designed to reconcile family and professional life through provision of the necessary social services such as childcare facilities and the introduction of integrated care systems designed to reduce the burden on those individuals, chiefly women, caring for elderly or disabled people;
Amendment 6 #
2010/2206(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Considers that particular attention should be devoted to disabled people by means of adapting premises and training staff;
Amendment 13 #
2010/2206(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines the importance of enhancing the quality of education through the use of programmes such as Leonardo da Vinci mobility actions and Erasmus for entrepreneurs; also considers it essential to improve the knowledge, skills, capabilities and professional prospects of the staff of tourism businesses through lifelong learning programmes;
Amendment 28 #
2010/2206(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers such initiatives as the ‘European Capital of Culture’, the ‘European Heritage Label’ and the ‘Iron Curtain Trail’ to be necessary in promoting European heritage, contemporary creativity and sustainability in cultural tourism, in approaching a new consumer public and in supporting remote and lesser known regions; welcomes programmes such as EDEN and NECSTouR due to their potential for boosting sustainable economic development;
Amendment 42 #
2010/2206(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 α (new)
Paragraph 6 α (new)
6 α. Considers that the organisation of artistic and cultural activities and of sports events encourages mobility and acts as a tourist attraction;
Amendment 31 #
2010/2156(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Considers it essential to improve the knowledge, capabilities and professional prospects of those employed in the cultural and creative sector and encourages Member States to promote lifelong learning programmes for this purpose;
Amendment 38 #
2010/2156(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Favours initiatives on mobility, particularly for students and young creators whether qualified or not, with the purpose of exchanging ideas and best practices and improving their language skills, as well as the development of residencies and workshops for artists, and calls on the Member States to remove barriers to free movement, particularly with reference to exchanges between EU artists and between EU and non-EU countries; calls on the Commission to ensure that the right to free movement can be exercised;
Amendment 44 #
2010/2156(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Amendment 12 #
2010/2089(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph B a (new)
Paragraph B a (new)
Ba. whereas violence against women is a widespread phenomenon in all countries and among all social classes and has a dramatic effect on the physical and emotional health of women and children;
Amendment 60 #
2010/2089(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Suggests that the EU and the Member States introduce coherent policies and supportive measures aimed at women who do not work or who hold jobs in sectors where they are not covered by personal health insurance and seek ways to having them insured;
Amendment 75 #
2010/2089(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Considers that access to healthcare should be open to women regardless of their financial, social, linguistic, geographical or cultural status (for example women migrants or refugees, Roma);
Amendment 84 #
2010/2089(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Considers that the EU and the Member States must take account of women's reproductive health and maternal mortality in their policies a way of reversing the phenomenon of an ageing Europe.
Amendment 31 #
2010/2054(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital L d (new)
Recital L d (new)
Ld. whereas rural tourism, providing goods and services in the countryside through family and cooperative tourist enterprises, is a low-risk business, creates jobs, makes it possible to combine family obligations with work and encourages the rural population to remain in the countryside; whereas traditional and conservative societies more readily accept women as members of cooperative enterprises rather than as self-employed entrepreneurs,
Amendment 105 #
2010/2054(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls for support for rural tourism cooperatives in which women of various ages and levels of education voluntarily take part, sharing the financial cost of setting up the business, promoting the products and services and maintaining the enterprise;
Amendment 9 #
2010/2041(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights the existence of certain advertisements which promote either various types of violence or stereotypes of women as objects, humiliate women and debase their dignity; femininity is being transformed into a consumer item; the devaluation of its fundamental roles in society is being compounded by the commercialisation of human relations, resulting on a one-sidedly materialistic outlook; urges the Commission and the Member States to develop European awareness campaigns, particularly among adolescents and young people, against exploitation of the female body and dissemination of sexist messages;
Amendment 16 #
2010/2041(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that advertising and marketing often propagate the idea of perfection, which can haveimposes uniformity, sows the seeds of rivalry within the female population, promotes role models bearing no relation to reality and has a negative influence on the self-esteem and self-respect of women, men and young people; draws attention to the vulnerability of consumers to mimetism, which can lead to inappropriate behavioural attitudes, anxiety, harmful addictions (smoking, drugs), eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia, and a disturbance of mental equilibrium; calls on all advertisers to reconsider the promotion of extremely thin models (men or women) in order to avoid harmful messages about appearance, body imperfections, age and weight;
Amendment 19 #
2010/2041(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that reliable advertising, since the advertising of consumer goods is associated directly with to the press, radio and television media, of which it is an inseparable component, and indirectly with the film industry and television series in the form of product placement, reliable advertising and the promotion of healthy role models may have a positive influence on society’s perceptions of issues such as gender roles, body image and normality; encourages advertisers to be more constructive in their advertisements, in order to promote the positive role of women in society, at work, in the family and in public life;
Amendment 21 #
2010/2041(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas there is no definition for historically settled and newly established minorities, but differences are reported between them as well as differences among different groups of minorities; whereas the principles of equal opportunities and equal treatment based on mutual respect, understanding and acceptance should be a cornerstone of the EU’s integration policies for all its inhabitants regardless of their background,
Amendment 33 #
2010/2041(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas a targeted approach to integrating women belonging to ethnic minorities is needed to avoid multiple discrimination, stereotyping, stigmatisation and ethnic segregation,
Amendment 41 #
2010/2041(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas there is a wide range of instruments and policies available which are suitable for the integration of women belonging to ethnic minority groups, but there is an implementation gap at the national level and a lack of coordination at the European level,
Amendment 43 #
2010/2041(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas in the majority of cases women belonging to ethnic minority groups and migrant groups face multiple discrimination and are more vulnerable to social exclusion and poverty than the women of the native population and minority group men,
Amendment 51 #
2010/2041(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas the lower socio-economic status of ethnic minority women has translatesd into their right to integrity being denied, lack of control over their own bodies and sexuality and access to health resources and rights, including reproductive and sexual health resources and rights,
Amendment 59 #
2010/2041(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital P a (new)
Recital P a (new)
Pa. whereas social integration would benefit from increased and regular consultations of women belonging to ethnic minority groups at local, regional, national and European level,
Amendment 76 #
2010/2041(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt measures that aim to avoid the de-skilling of women belonging to ethnic minorities by ensuring equal job opportunities according to their skills and qualifications; encourages in this regard to implement policies for migrant women ensuring prompt and clear procedures for recognition of diplomas, access to further education and diverse vocational course and free language courses;
Amendment 81 #
2010/2041(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes the importance of role models in integration and supports the exchange of good practice; uencourages policy-makers at local, regional, national and European level to consult ethnic minority and migrant women’s organizations on policies and measures geared towards the social integration of ethnic minority and migrant women. Urges the Commission and the Member States to propose measures to promote the existence of intersocio-cultural mediators within the EU;
Amendment 91 #
2010/2041(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to consider widening EU funding opportunities from the European Social Fund and the European Integration Fund and giving them a more strategic focus in order to play a role in the integration and reintegration of women from ethnic minority groups in the labour market, in particular in times of economic crises urges the Commission to develop measures to make EU funding more available to migrant and ethnic minority women’s organizations;
Amendment 99 #
2010/2041(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the EU and its Member States in collaboration with NGOs to carry out awareness-raising campaigns to combat discriminatory cultural norms and tackle the prevalent sexist stereotypes and social stigmatisation which legitimise and perpetuate violence against women, and to ensure that there is no justification of violence on the grounds of customs, traditions or religious considerations;
Amendment 100 #
2010/2041(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that more intersectional research and indicators on the impact of discrimination and social exclusion on women belonging to ethnic minority communities on the territory of the EU is needed in order to inform targeted integration policies; encourages in this regard the Commission, especially DG Research, to fund such research projects;
Amendment 126 #
2010/2041(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses that women from ethnic minority groups and immigrants, need access to health care information, access to legal information, access to justice, in different languages; stresses the importance of intercultural training for health care providers and legal aid services in partnership with ethnic minority women’s groups;
Amendment 135 #
2010/2041(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Member States to take measures to ensure access to support services related to preventing or protecting women from gender based violencemale violence against women, including women’s shelters, of all women, regardless of their legal status, disability, sexual orientation, race, or ethnic origin, age or religion;
Amendment 138 #
2010/2041(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Amendment 140 #
2010/2041(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Insists on the active involvement of the European Institute for Gender Equality in implementing suitable new measures and policicollecting data and carrying out research on integration issues concerning ethnic minority women, consistently applying the principle of gender mainstreaming and promoting priorities in the area of social integration;
Amendment 141 #
2010/2041(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Insists on the active involvement of the European Institute for Gender Equality in implementing suitableto ensure the implementation of the principle of gender mainstreaming in measures and policies concerning ethnic minority women, consistently applying the principle of gender social integration; to take into account the multiple identities and situations of women, including ethnic mainstreaming and promoting priorities in the area of social integrationority and migrant women, in its activities and to systematically consult and involve ethnic minority women’s organisations in this work;
Amendment 148 #
2010/2041(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Points out to the crucial role of national equality bodies in providing support and assistance to victims of discrimination and, in informing them about their rights and obligations; calls on the Member States to ensure the efficiency and guarantee the independence of national equality bodies as well as to provide them with sufficient financial and human resources for each ground of discrimination as well as multiple discrimination; calls on the National Equality Bodies to develop tools and trainings on multiple discrimination, including on the specific situation of ethnic minority women;
Amendment 88 #
2010/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Invites the Member States to consider including the EU as a living experience in primary education and as a subject in all secondary education curriculain order to familiarise pupils with the European institutions, and encourages them to exchange best practice in this area at EU level;
Amendment 99 #
2010/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Calls on the Commission to extend the range of Euronews languages to cover all the Member States of the EU (and more), to turn it into a model of independent television journalism which will promote objectivity in information, quality in politics and transparency in advertising;
Amendment 122 #
2010/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Suggests setting up a taskforce of independent journalists who are free of editorial control, hired from outsihorizontal coordination between all the audiovisual departments of the European institutions, in the form and under the EU institutions andconditions of a news agency, based in Brussels, with the task of producing daily EU news coverage to be published on different platforms and channels in accordance with journalistic news criteria; suggests appointing an independent chief editor for this taskforce, which will operate on the basis of transparency, merit and credibility and will aim, among other things, to strengthen the link between the EU and its citizens;
Amendment 55 #
2010/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses the importance of using History and Language as vehicles for the achievement of European social and cultural integration;
Amendment 56 #
2010/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Underlines the contribution of education in developing not only vocational or technical abilities, but also environmental awareness, social consciousness and cultural sensitivity;
Amendment 82 #
2010/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for enhanced mobility between higher education institutions, the business world and vocational education and training (e.g. students, teachers, employees, trainers) to promote the acquisition of competences such as entrepreneurship and creativity, which are increasingly needed on the labour market; supports the higher education quality assurance as a means to reinforce mobility for academic and research purposes and as a precondition for equal job opportunities for the EU citizens;
Amendment 125 #
2010/0064(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 21 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 21 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The determination of harmful websites under this Directive as well as of the appropriate procedures for deleting or blocking the website must take full account of fundamental rights of internet users and must be based on transparent procedures and judicial control and oversight.
Amendment 14 #
2009/2242(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas gender equality policies constitute an instrument of economic development and social cohesion,
Amendment 124 #
2009/2242(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Article 15
Article 15
15. Advocates policies and measures aimed at eradicating violence against women in every walk of life by promoting the human rights of women, combating gender stereotypes and all forms of discrimination in society and the family, not least in education, training, the media, and politics; maintains that policies should serve to educate and torain, further lifelong learning strategies, incorporate measures on behalf of women and promote equality;
Amendment 141 #
2009/2242(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Article 18
Article 18
18. Considers that particular attention should be focused on development, peace, and solidarity with women in all parts of the world, especially those who are victims of injustice, discrimination, hunger, poverty, trafficking, and violence of every kind; considers that ongoing consultation with women’s organisations and, more broadly, with civil society, and collaboration with non-governmental organisations on matters relating to policies which have a direct or indirect impact on gender equality are guarantees of a broader social consensus;
Amendment 3 #
2009/2221(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers education and training crucial for the integration of young people into the labour market and emphasizses the importance of making lifelong learning schemes accessible to all and tailored to the specific physical, social and cultural characteristics of individuals, and of equipping people with the skills and competences outlined in "New Skills for New Jobs";
Amendment 30 #
2009/2221(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Supports the provision of traineeships to complement the schooleducation curriculum, giving pupilstudents the opportunity to gain work experience, thus facilitating their future labour market insertion;
Amendment 43 #
2009/2221(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers that apprentices should be properly trained and that this on-the-job training should serve as a means to acquire not only competences and skills but also professional awareness; supports strengthening the link between education and work, and suggests that in addition to technology and science, also foreign languages should be taught;
Amendment 45 #
2009/2221(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that the current economic recession can be put to good use as a unique opportunity for reviewing policies and strengthening programmes that facilitate access by young people to the labour market;
Amendment 35 #
2009/2205(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Emphasizes the important role of grandparents in general and grandmothers in specific, for the well- being of families, and calls on Member States to substitute their physical absence by establishing the status of a foster grandmother, as a term to define elderly women taking care of children, during the absence of their parents for employment reasons, who are entitled to payment, security and health insurance;
Amendment 50 #
2009/2205(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Considers that a comprehensive informal carers’ support policy is needed for informal carers’, the majority of whom are women, within their families or as workers, usually migrants women, encompassing their status and social security rights, the provision of social services and support services, etc.;
Amendment 58 #
2009/2205(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Points out that the quality of care shall be ensured in order to improve the quality of old age and also in order to avoid the physical, sexual, psychological and economic abuse that elderly often suffer from; considers that Members States should ensure that those employed as carers of older people in the public and private sectors receive training and that a greater economic value is given to their work, including pay, insurance, and working conditions;
Amendment 62 #
2009/2205(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Encourage the transformation of nursing homes usually operating as hospitals, to friendly establishments, where the model of family will be applied, as a way to avoid institutionalization;
Amendment 71 #
2009/2205(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Points out that both technology and technical improvements can be important in adapting society to the needs of an ageing population; calls for innovations developed in close cooperation with older people to become more widely used, some examples of which are simplified mobile phones and Internet connections, smart sensors in specific products in order to reduce the number of accidents, the training of dogs to assist people such as those suffering from diseases affecting the memory, etc.; that programs especially designed on the basis of long-life learning for elderly people should be supported by the state;
Amendment 75 #
2009/2205(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Asks the Commission to propose by the end of 2011 an action plan containing: • an examination of the need for more resources for scientific research on ageing, • measures to ensure the quality of care and the quality of the working conditions of carers, • changes to increase coherence in the area of social security, including pension schemes, care leaves and, part-time working arrangements, • yearly reporting on the violation of older people’s rights and on measures to be taken at EU and national level to abolish direct and hidden discrimination, • non-legislative measures to tackle age- discrimination, such as awareness-raising campaigns, • measures to support intergenerational solidarity, such as plans to support women that care for grandchildren while the parents are absent due to employment reasons;
Amendment 80 #
2009/2205(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Asks the Commission to update and strengthen monitoring mechanisms regarding the implementation of fundamental rights issues by the end of 2012; calls also for increased awareness of these, often under-used, mechanisms as older women are especiallypeople in general, and women in specific, are unaware of their rights;
Amendment 84 #
2009/2205(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Affirms that every EU citizenman and woman in the EU must have a right to adequate, affordable and quality social and health services at a reasonable price; calls on the Commission to put forward a directive on basic services, which would take national conditions into consideration; emphasises that older women are especially vulnerable and invites the Commission to consider a system where all European citizensmen and women in the EU are granted the right to a basic income that is dependent on the Member State’s standard of living;
Amendment 2 #
2009/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas mainstream economists have pointed out that the credit crunch, which started the recession, was quite literally a man-made disaster; whereas responses at state and international level – none of which awere not sufficiently gender-sensitinclusive – have also been decided upon mainly by men; whereas it is important that women, who are generally better qualified than men, be fully included in the decision-making process in the political, economic and financial spheres as well as social partners agreements,
Amendment 6 #
2009/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas domestic violence, which mainly affects women, is a widespread problem in every country and every social class; whereas studies have shown that violence against women intensifies when men experience displacement and dispossession as a result of the economic crisis; whereas economic stress often leads to more frequent, more violent and more dangerous abuse; whereas the cost of domestic violence to the EU is in the region of EUR 16 million per annum,
Amendment 16 #
2009/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas mainstream economists have pointed out that the credit crunch, which started the recession, was quite literally a man-made disaster; whereas responses at state and international level – none of which are gender-sensitive – have also been decided upon mainly by men; whereas it is important that women be fully included in the decision-making process in the political, economic and financial spheres; whereas the lack of women in trade union bodies is having an impact, giving trade unions a one-sided picture of the labour market which fails to take due account of the numbers of men and women who work and the numbers who concentrate on family duties,
Amendment 20 #
2009/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas in periods of high unemployment entrepreneurship is a key source of job creation; whereas women have distinguished themselves in this area, and their success must be consolidated and supported in order to promote economic growth and social progress,
Amendment 29 #
2009/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the economic downturn should not be used to slow down progress on reconciliation policies and to cut budgets allocated to care services and leave arrangements, affecting in particular women’s access to the labour market; whereas particular consideration must be given to the need for single-parent families and large families to be able to reconcile family and professional obligations,
Amendment 43 #
2009/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas, as well as ensuring respect for differences and for cultural diversity, developing policies that facilitate access to the labour market for women belonging to specific cultural or minority groups reduces social exclusion and enhances social cohesion, which in turn stimulates economic growth,
Amendment 47 #
2009/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas domestic violence, which mainly affects women, is a widespread problem in every country and every social class; whereas studies have shown that violence against women intensifies when men experience displacement and dispossession as a result of the economic crisis; whereas economic stress often leads to more frequent, more violent and more dangerous abuse,
Amendment 60 #
2009/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that women’s integration into the workplace in recent decades means not only a greater direct impact of the crisis on women themselves but also on households, where incomes will be significantly affected by female job losses; calls on the European Union institutions and the Member States to take into account the hidden cost of the crisis, including the different and often unacknowledged gendered consequences; adds that higher female unemployment will have other negative repercussions, affecting saving and investment as well as demand for and consumption of goods and services; points out that female employment helps to raise household living standards by providing additional sources of income, and boosts production by increasing the level of sustained demand for goods and services; calls on the European Union institutions and the Member States to take into account the hidden cost of the crisis, including the different and often unacknowledged gendered consequences, bearing in mind that expanding the female labour force is a crucial prerequisite for both household economic viability and economic growth at the level of regions, states and the EU itself;
Amendment 55 #
2009/2159(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9α (new)
Paragraph 9α (new)
9α. Stresses the need for the institutionalisation of intergenerational justice at European level and the adoption of this principle by Member States for the just regulation of relations between the generations;
Amendment 65 #
2009/2159(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Underlines the importance of minimiseliminating all kinds of discrimination among young people due to their national origins, gender, religion or sexual orientation;
Amendment 70 #
2009/2159(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Strongly underlines the need to provide effective, tailor-made support to young people with special needdisabilities;
Amendment 72 #
2009/2159(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls for measures to ensure respect for diversity and the successful integration of new immigrant youngsters and children;
Amendment 79 #
2009/2159(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Encourages the Member States to intensify the mutual interaction between the sides of the knowledge triangle (education, research, innovation) as a key element for growth and job creation; strongly recommends fostering common criteria for stronger recognition of non- formal education and vocational training;
Amendment 83 #
2009/2159(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Strongly encourages Member States to promote learning and training mobility for students and youth workers, which is a key factor for gaining learning and working experience; stresses the importance of youth mobility also in regions bordering on the EU;
Amendment 88 #
2009/2159(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Member States to take measures to prevent pupils dropping out of school and to offer sufficient opportunities and incentives for ‘second chances’;
Amendment 96 #
2009/2159(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Underlines the importance of 18. Underlines the importance of supporting young people with a supporting young people with a migrant migrant background in achieving the background in maintaining their necessary command of the language linguistic and cultural identity, and familiarising themselves with the achieving the necessary command of the culture of the host Member State; language and familiarising themselves with the culture of the host Member State;
Amendment 119 #
2009/2159(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on Member States to improve the quality of young people’s job opportunities and working conditions, ensuring equal opportunities for young people in the periphery and in urban centres and giving special support to young mothers;
Amendment 129 #
2009/2159(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Suggests promoting an entrepreneurial culture; underlines the importance of young people entering into entrepreneurship on an informed basis; stresses the importance of life-long learning;
Amendment 137 #
2009/2159(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Underlines the importance of further combating drugs, drug addiction, alcoholthe use of drugs, alcohol and tobacco-related harm and other forms of addiction;
Amendment 140 #
2009/2159(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23α (new)
Paragraph 23α (new)
23α. Stresses the role of informing young people about sex education issues in protecting their health ;
Amendment 141 #
2009/2159(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Emphasises the role of sport as an whole set of activityies promoting healthy lifestyles for young people and supporting teamwork, fair play and responsibility and the role of information for young people in combating phenomena of violence at sports grounds;
Amendment 150 #
2009/2159(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Strongly encourages enhancing the participation of young people and youth organisations at all levels (local, national and international) in the formulation of youth policy and not only that, through the structured dialogue and with the help of new technologies;
Amendment 175 #
2009/2159(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Takes the view that youth volunteering should be supported without discriminating against disadvantaged young people who cannot afford the luxury of committing themselves to volunteering;
Amendment 189 #
2009/2159(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Stresses also the need to develop more intercultural outreach programmes for marginalised groups, such as legal immigrants, people with special needminorities, people with disabilities, homeless people and others;
Amendment 34 #
2009/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that Europeana should become one of the main reference points for education and research purposes; considers that, if integrated coherently into education systems, it could bring young Europeans closer to their cultural and literary heritage, would become an area of convergence and contribute towards transcultural cohesion in the EU;
Amendment 45 #
2009/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Encourages content providers to increase the diversity of the types of content for Europeana, especially audio and video content, giving priority and paying special attention to those works which deteriorate easily, while respecting intellectual property rights especially performers' rights;
Amendment 63 #
2009/2158(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Emphasises that creating a sustainable financing and governance model is crucial to Europeana's long-term existence; and that the role of the immediate stakeholders in the process of establishing such a governance model is crucial;
Amendment 5 #
2009/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
Amendment 10 #
2009/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas it is important for the national states to support public universities financially (for example through public-private partnerships), while at the same time guaranteeing their autonomy and quality assurance,
Amendment 15 #
2009/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas university-business cooperation is supported by many EU programmes, but such action is not always coordinated among institutionuniversities,
Amendment 22 #
2009/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Endorses the view that cooperation between business and higher education institutions, as a means to support research and safeguard the job creation, should remain a priority for the near future;
Amendment 28 #
2009/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for improvements in the performance of European universities through the implementation of the principle of the ‘research-education-innovation’ knowledge triangle, bearing in mind the need for better business-university links;
Amendment 39 #
2009/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that since life long learning is a continuous contact not only with education and training but also with culture, it is of crucial importance for the EU to encourage, for the national states to support and for the public universities to preserve and promote the inclusion of the humanities in their educational curricula;
Amendment 40 #
2009/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Stresses that long life learning is an active and continuous possibility, but not a compulsory procedure and thus it should be conceived as an open and continual chance for the social and vocational improvement;
Amendment 48 #
2009/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Points out the need to match lifelong learning opportunities as closely as possible to the needs of individuals, and vulnerable social groups and emphasises that the constantly changing nature of those needs makes continuing education an inevitable necessity; recalls that there is no longer any such thing as a ‘job for life’ and that retraining is essential; reiterates that a learning culture needs to be encouraged from childhood;
Amendment 52 #
2009/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Bearing in mind the demographic transformation of Europe (into an ageing society), calls on universities to widen access to learning, to diversify and to broaden the student population, in particular by adapting study programmes to adults returning to study and ensuring that such programmes are designed to attract adult learners;
Amendment 55 #
2009/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Suggests the further use of new educational methods, focused on experimental learning, distance learning, e-learning, and blended forms of learning;
Amendment 57 #
2009/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Emphasises that a stronger learning culture must be established, promoted and reinforced, and that continuing training at all stages of life is critical to Europe’s businesseseconomy;
Amendment 60 #
2009/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 64 #
2009/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Emphasises that mobility between countries and between universities and business is a key to achieving closer cooperation between the two worlds;
Amendment 65 #
2009/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Asks the Commission to propose a legal frameworkprogrammes designed to support and facilitate mobility between universities and business and to emphasise the need to recognise and certify this form of informal learning;
Amendment 70 #
2009/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses the need to place adequate importance on language learning, bearing in mind that the acquisition of new languages is vital in order to promote and encourage mobility and exchanges of students, researchers, and teachers and business employees;
Amendment 77 #
2009/2099(INI)
Amendment 84 #
2009/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Encourages the business world to participate actively in the design of educationalinformative material on entrepreneurship to be madhat might be available at allthe secondary and higher levels of education;
Amendment 92 #
2009/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Recalls that young graduates will enhance their career opportunities if higher education institutions foster innovation and an entrepreneurial mindset among students, encouraging them, for instance, to establish their own spin-off firms;
Amendment 102 #
2009/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Welcomes the Commission’s initiative of establishing an inventory of existing best practices, according to certain criteria, and calls on it to make this inventory available to all interested parties;
Amendment 109 #
2009/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls on the Commission to treat this resolution in accordance with the national legislations for higher education;
Amendment 1 #
2009/2088(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3
Citation 3
– having regard to Articles 41 and 43 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union,
Amendment 2 #
2009/2088(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the findings of the 355 completed inquiries, of which 352 were linked to complaints and 3 were own- initiative investigations, show that in 110 cases (corresponding to 31 % of the complaints investigated) no maladministration could bewas ascertained,
Amendment 6 #
2009/2088(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Ombudsman to pursue his efforts and to promote his activities effectively, transparently and flexibly so that, in the eyes of citizens, he represents the custoguardian of soungood administration and a genuine culture of service in EU institutions;
Amendment 8 #
2009/2088(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers that the term 'maladministration' should continue to be broadly interpreted so as to include not only unlawful administrative acts or infringements of binding legal rules or principles but also, for example, cases where the administrative authorities have been sloppy, negligent in their duty to their citizens or lacking in transparency or have infringed other principles of good administration;
Amendment 12 #
2009/2088(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Considers that the figure in respect of inadmissible complaints remains unsatisfactory although understandable, and recommends in view of this that a continued information campaign be conducted amongst European citizens designed to raise their awareness of the functions and competence of the Europeanmembers of the European Network of Ombudsmaen;
Amendment 14 #
2009/2088(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Recognises the useful contribution made by the European Network of Ombudsmen, of which the Committee on Petitions is a member, in line with the principle of subsidiarity, in securing extra- judicial remedies; welcomes the collaboration between the European Ombudsman and Ombudsmen and similar bodies at national, regional and local levels in the Member States, and urges further strengthening of the exchange of best practice, thereby allowing for the harmonisationrapid spread of best practices betweenamong Member States;
Amendment 15 #
2009/2088(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Encourages the Ombudsman to continue to place great emphasis on events involving information ofor citizens and, hence, potential complainants, since it is clear that the demarcation of responsibilities and decision-making processes between the European, national and regional levels is still too confusing and hard to grasp for many citizens and businesses;
Amendment 17 #
2009/2088(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23.Welcomes the measures promoted by the communications strategy adopted by the Ombudsman, which leads to greater awareness of citizens' rights and Community competences, as well as a greater understanding of the Ombudsman's sphere of competence; urges him, however, in the light of the still substantial number of complaints falling outside his terms of reference, to intensify his efforts to provide more comprehensive information about those terms of reference on a more regular basis;
Amendment 3 #
2009/2002(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Regrets in particular the Council's cuts of funds under heading 3b, as such funds contain many of the EU's support activities that directly affect citizens, thereby making the EU more visible and bringing it closer to citizens;
Amendment 5 #
2009/2002(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Eexpresses its concern about the lack of indecrease in overall voter turnout at the most recent European Parliament elections, considers that part of the responsibility lies with the national governments and emphasises the need for joint, coordinated and sustained efforts, in particular in the area of communication policy, to counter this trend; calls on the Commission to provide further information on how it intends to use the additional requested funds in the area of communication policy in order to achieve European cohesion;
Amendment 8 #
2009/2002(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Supports the Commission in its efforts to improve cooperation between the EU and the United States and Canada in the area of education and vocational training and considers budget cuts in this area to be the wrong political signal to send to its transatlantic partners;
Amendment 13 #
2009/2002(BUD)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Supports the Commission's efforts towards the European Year of Volunteering 2011, taking into account the thousands of organisations and volunteers who called on the European institutions to support voluntary work, stressing its important social and economic role;
Amendment 53 #
2009/0072(CNS)
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point 2
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point 2
2. Empower volunteer organisations with respect to their aims, priorities and autonomy and improve the quality of volunteering - To facilitate volunteering and to encourage networking, mobility, cooperation and synergies between volunteer organisations and other sectors in an EU context.
Amendment 68 #
2009/0072(CNS)
Proposal for a decision
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Each Member State shall appoint a body responsible for organising its participation in the European Year (hereinafter referred to as national coordinating body), which shall coordinate the different volunteer organisations at national level. It shall inform the Commission of that appointment within one month of the adoption of this Decision.
Amendment 71 #
2009/0072(CNS)
Proposal for a decision
Article 4 – paragraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 2
Each Member State shall ensure that the aforementioned body properly involves a wide range of stakeholders at national, regional and local level. The selection of the members of the body shall be carried out on the basis of the following criteria: representativeness, transparency, accountability and merit.
Amendment 65 #
2008/0193(COD)
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point -1 a (new)
Article 1 – point -1 a (new)
Directive 92/85/EEC
Article 2 – point b
Article 2 – point b
-1 α. In Article 2, point b is replaced by the following: ‘(b) worker who has recently given birth shall mean a worker who has recently given birth, as well as the intended mother in the case of surrogate motherhood
Amendment 87 #
2008/0193(COD)
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 1
Article 1 – point 1
Directive 92/85/EEC
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2
2. The maternity leave stipulated in paragraph 1 shall include compulsory leave of at least six weeks after childbirthbefore and at least six weeks after childbirth. Such leave must also be granted in the case of stillbirth also and not interrupted in the case of a neonatal death during leave, provided that the worker produces an attestation of birth drawn up by an obstetrician. The Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that workers within the meaning of Article 2 are entitled to choose freely the time at which the non- compulsory portion of the maternity leave is taken, before or after childbirth.
Amendment 95 #
2008/0193(COD)
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 1
Article 1 – point 1
Directive 92/85/EEC
Article 8 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2α. In the case of interrupted pregnancy caused by complications prior to the 28th week, the worker shall be given at least six weeks leave.
Amendment 133 #
2008/0193(COD)
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 92/85/EEC
Article 12 a – paragraph 4
Article 12 a – paragraph 4
4. Member States need not apply paragraph 1 to proceedings in which the court or competent body investigates the facts of the case.