9 Amendments of Eva MAYDELL related to 2018/2046(BUD)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises that the 2019 budget should contribute towards achieving the Europe 2020 targets in the social and employment area and the successful implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, particularly when it comes to combating youth and long-term unemployment, rising inequalities, social exclusion and poverty, in particular child poverty; stresses, in this regard, that the 2019 budget cannot be understood outside the context of the 2014- 2020 multiannual financial framework (MFF);
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Stresses the importance of internal market governance tools in ensuring not only proper application of EU rules but also better information and assistance for consumers and businesses; Calls, therefore, to increase the relevant budget line 02 03 04 in order to ensure better functioning of the Single Market and specifically information and assistance services;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Notes that 91,6 % of citizens and businesses are unaware of any European- level information or assistance service1a and is of the opinion that consumer and businesses awareness of the information and assistance tools, in particular Your Europe portal and European Consumer Centres Network, is of paramount importance and that a significant effort is needed to increase it and therefore expects an important increase of funding allocations; _________________ 1a2017 data taken from Study on information and assistance needs of businesses operating cross-border within the EU, including gap and cost analysis p.30.
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6 c. Notes that EU institutions already reached informal agreement on the Commission's proposal for a Regulation on establishing a single digital gateway to provide information, procedures, assistance and problem solving services and expects adequate funding allocations already in 2019 for the preparation of the gateway;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Highlights that youth unemployment in certain Member States remains unacceptably high in the European Union and that the situation of young people in NEET situations (not in education, employment, or training) and the long-term unemployed, is particularly worrying; highlights that young people are the group most at risk of poverty and social and economic exclusion; emphasises that, in order to address these issues, it is of the utmost importance to ensure continued, increased and timely funding of the Youth Guarantee through the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI), as well as adequate support to measures tackling inequalities, also beyond employment, through the ESF;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6 d. Reminds the Commission, in the context of the entry into application on 3 December 2018 of the Regulation(EU) 2018/302 on addressing unjustified geo- blocking and other forms of discrimination based on customers' nationality, place of residence or place of establishment within the internal market, of its commitment to perform by March2020 a substantive analysis of the feasibility of extending the scope of the regulation to fully cover copyright- protected electronically supplied services, including audio-visual services, in the full scope of this regulation and therefore calls for adequate funding allocation for this purpose already in 2019;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. CNotes the European Commission’s proposal of an increase for the YEI of EUR 233,3 million for 2019; but considers that the overall YEI budget is still not sufficient to ensure that the Youth Guarantee reaches its targets, and therefore calls for the commitment appropriations of the YEI to be maintained for 2019 at the same level as for 2018, i.e EUR 350 million;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Asks for the financing of all the pilot projects endorsed by IMCO and in particular the ones on “Monitoring of possible unfair consumer profiling and price adjustment by airlines” (that investigates whether airlines practise the so-called “consumer profiling” in order to adjust the flight fares), on “Application of web accessibility requirements in web- authoring tools and platforms by default” (that encourages and supports the adoption of the relevant accessibility requirements of the European Standard EN 301 549 v1.1.2 by awarding grants to firms), and on “Assessing alleged differences in the quality of products sold on the Single Market” (that develops further relevant consumer and market-related research on alleged dual quality of food products on the Single Market).
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. In regard to the pilot project on "Assessing alleged differences in the quality of products sold on the Single Market", calls on the Commission to ascertain that Members of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee are closely involved in the planning and oversight of all activities related to this pilot project and reiterates that the role of MEPs should be prominent in informing the general public about results of the final report;