5 Amendments of Vincenzo IOVINE related to 2010/0242(COD)
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) Successive European Councils have recognised the need to tackle the effect of ageing populations on European social models. A key response to this rapid change in the age structure consists in promoting active ageing and thus ensuring that the baby boom cohorts, who are, on the whole, healthier and better educated than any such cohort before them, have good opportunities for employment and active participation in societyfamily, social and community life, such as volunteering, lifelong learning, cultural expression and sports.
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The growing proportion of older people in Europe makes it more important than ever to promote healthy ageing and to sensitise the awareness of European citizens to problems connected with an ageing population. Healthy ageing can help raise labour market participation of older people, enable them to be active in society for longer and to participate in socially beneficial activities such as volunteering, improve their individual quality of life and curb the strains on health, pension and social care systems and to live a decent life in old age.
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
(5a) Active ageing has taken on strategic importance since the impact of the economic crisis, which has led to a mass increase in unemployment, the dismissal of the oldest workers and a growing precariousness of employment, presents a further challenge to meeting the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy involving older persons, such as social inclusion and reducing the numbers of people at risk of poverty.
Amendment 103 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1
(1) to raise general awareness of the value of active ageing in order to highlight the useful contribution older persons make to society, family life and the economy, to promote active ageing and to do more to mobilise the potential of older persons, in order to counteract the adverse effects of the wave of retirements of baby-boomer children and the shrinkage of the active population;
Amendment 147 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 3
Article 3 – paragraph 3
3. The Commission and the Member States shall take account of gender mainstreamingand disability mainstreaming, and of the combating of all forms of discrimination to which older persons are subject, in the running of the European Year.