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2005/2149(INI) Equality women and men: integrated approach in the parliamentary committees' work

Progress: Procedure completed

RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead FEMM ZÁBORSKÁ Anna (icon: PPE-DE PPE-DE)
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 54

Events

2007/02/27
   EC - Commission response to text adopted in plenary
Documents
2007/01/18
   EP - Results of vote in Parliament
2007/01/18
   EP - Debate in Parliament
2007/01/18
   EP - Decision by Parliament
Details

The European Parliament adopted a resolution based on the own-initiative report drafted by Anna ZÁBORSKÁ (EPP-ED, SK) on gender mainstreaming in the work of the EP's committees. (Please see the summary of 20/12/2006.)

Documents
2007/01/18
   EP - End of procedure in Parliament
2006/12/22
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
Documents
2006/12/22
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary
Documents
2006/12/20
   EP - Vote in committee
Details

The committee adopted the own-initiative report by Anna ZÁBORSKÁ (EPP-ED, SK) on gender mainstreaming in the work of the EP's committees. The report pointed out that, although the number of female MEPs had steadily increased over the years (from 17.5% in 1979 to 30.33% in 2004), within Parliament's administration women were under-represented in positions of responsibility in bodies responsible for taking political decisions. Although most committees had expressed support for gender mainstreaming, few of them had included any mainstreaming strategy when establishing their future political priorities. However, half the committees were "greatly interested" in gender mainstreaming in their secretariats.

The committee stressed that calls for gender equality must be translated into a practical approach which does not set women against men, and said that gender mainstreaming would lead to "positive developments" for both sexes. It added that mainstreaming cannot replace specific policies which aim to redress situations resulting from gender inequality.

The report committed Parliament to adopting and applying within its administration a gender mainstreaming strategy with specific targets in Community policies, to be developed by the end of the current legislative term at the latest. It also stressed the important role which the political groups could play in making it possible for women to participate fully in public life by including gender mainstreaming in their programmes and activities. Political parties across Europe were urged to introduce a compulsory quota system on their lists for any collective body.

Parliament's Secretary-General was encouraged to continue the training of officials in gender mainstreaming, and the report also called for each committee secretariat in the DGs for internal and external policies to include a specially trained official and to encourage networking among those officials in order to conduct regular exchanges on best practices. The committees should be provided with "appropriate tools" to gain a sound understanding of gender mainstreaming, such as indicators, data and statistics broken down by gender and the allocation of budgetary resources from a gender equality viewpoint. The implementation of gender mainstreaming should take account of the specific features of each parliamentary committee, and assessments should be carried out every two years on the basis of questionnaires submitted to the committees, including any shortcomings in the work of the committees and delegations as well as the progress made in implementing gender mainstreaming in each committee. Lastly, the report called for equality training to be arranged for all MEPs before the next parliamentary term.

2006/11/28
   EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2006/11/06
   EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2006/06/15
   EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2006/04/25
   EP - ZÁBORSKÁ Anna (PPE-DE) appointed as rapporteur in FEMM

Documents

Activities

Votes

Rapport Zaborska A6-0478/2006 - par. 8 #

2007/01/18 Outcome: -: 262, +: 200, 0: 9
FR ES DK PT AT SE EL BE MT LT EE LV NL CY LU DE BG FI SK HU SI IT CZ GB IE RO PL
Total
56
32
10
17
10
11
12
17
3
4
2
2
20
3
3
55
13
10
10
16
6
37
20
37
11
24
30
icon: PSE PSE
140

Sweden PSE

2

Malta PSE

2

Lithuania PSE

2

Estonia PSE

For (1)

1

Finland PSE

1

Slovakia PSE

1

Czechia PSE

2

Ireland PSE

1
icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE
28

Spain Verts/ALE

1

Austria Verts/ALE

1

Sweden Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Belgium Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Latvia Verts/ALE

1

Netherlands Verts/ALE

Abstain (1)

3

Finland Verts/ALE

Abstain (1)

1

Italy Verts/ALE

2

United Kingdom Verts/ALE

3
icon: GUE/NGL GUE/NGL
24

France GUE/NGL

For (1)

1

Spain GUE/NGL

For (1)

1

Portugal GUE/NGL

2

Sweden GUE/NGL

1

Greece GUE/NGL

Abstain (1)

2

Netherlands GUE/NGL

2

Cyprus GUE/NGL

1

Finland GUE/NGL

For (1)

1

United Kingdom GUE/NGL

1
icon: NI NI
6

Austria NI

1

Slovakia NI

Abstain (1)

1

Czechia NI

Against (1)

1
icon: IND/DEM IND/DEM
11

Denmark IND/DEM

1

Sweden IND/DEM

For (1)

1

Netherlands IND/DEM

2

Czechia IND/DEM

Against (1)

1

United Kingdom IND/DEM

3

Ireland IND/DEM

Against (1)

1

Poland IND/DEM

2
icon: ITS ITS
11

Belgium ITS

Against (1)

1

Bulgaria ITS

Against (1)

1

Italy ITS

Against (1)

1
icon: UEN UEN
16

Denmark UEN

For (1)

1
icon: ALDE ALDE
70
2

Denmark ALDE

Against (2)

2

Sweden ALDE

For (1)

1

Lithuania ALDE

2

Estonia ALDE

Against (1)

1

Latvia ALDE

Against (1)

1

Cyprus ALDE

Against (1)

1

Hungary ALDE

Against (1)

1

Slovenia ALDE

2

Ireland ALDE

Against (1)

1
icon: PPE-DE PPE-DE
165

Denmark PPE-DE

For (1)

1

Austria PPE-DE

3

Belgium PPE-DE

For (1)

4

Malta PPE-DE

Against (1)

1

Cyprus PPE-DE

Against (1)

1

Luxembourg PPE-DE

Against (1)

3

Finland PPE-DE

2

Slovenia PPE-DE

4

Ireland PPE-DE

4

History

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