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2010/2072(INI) Funding and functioning of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
Lead committee dossier: BUDG/7/02515
Legal Basis RoP 052
| Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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| Lead | BUDG | PORTAS Miguel (GUE/NGL) | ALVARO Alexander (ALDE) |
| Opinion | ECON | HÄNDEL Thomas (GUE/NGL) | |
| Opinion | EMPL | MORIN-CHARTIER Elisabeth (PPE) |
Legal Basis RoP 052
Subjects
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2010/09/07
Results of vote in Parliament
- Results of vote in Parliament
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T7-0303/2010
summary
The European Parliament adopted a resolution on the funding and functioning of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund. It recalls that the EGF's added value as an EU social policy instrument lies in the fact that it provides visible, specific, targeted and temporary financial support for personalised programmes for the reskilling and reintegration into employment of workers affected by collective redundancies in sectors or regions undergoing severe economic and social disruption. However, it considers that the increase in the number of applications for EGF funding and the difficulties experienced in implementing the EGF call for improvements to be made to the fund's procedural and budgetary arrangements at the earliest opportunity. Members call on the Commission to bring the submission of its mid-term evaluation forward to 30 June 2011 in order to remedy the fund's clearest shortcomings. This evaluation should focus on the following:the contributions granted with reference to the following qualitative aspects: (i) the rate of success in reintegration and assessment of the upgrading of the skills of the beneficiaries; (ii) the measures financed in response to each EGF application and results on the basis of reintegration; (iii) the impact of the EGF on its beneficiaries' network and on the small and medium-sized enterprises potentially affected by the redundancy plan and whose employees could profit from the fund; (iv) the impact of contributions from the EGF by age group in benefiting Member States and sectors;the contributions granted from the budgetary point of view, with particular reference to: (i) the reasons for the large disparity between the resources requested from the EGF and the amounts reimbursed by the beneficiary Member States when the assistance is already concluded; (ii) in the cases where Member States have made reimbursements, which were the financed programmes and measures not executed; (iii) the reasons for the large disparities between Member States in terms of the funding provided per worker in the different EGF applications; (iv) the proportion of overall funding in relation to other national and company-specific support measures;- the EGF's functioning and of the experience gained, and measures that will substantially reduce the length of the EGF mobilisation procedure should be introduced. Members state that the time required to mobilise the EGF could be halved if the following measures are formulated and adopted: (i) applications for mobilisation of the EGF should be drawn up by Member States as soon as a collective redundancy has been announced, and not after it has taken place; (ii) the Commission should inform Member States that an application could be presented from the first day when the intervention criteria have been fulfilled; (iii) enhanced communication with the Member State concerned in this process; (iv) the Commission should have the necessary human and technical capacities; (v) the Commission should take decisions on the mobilisation of the EGF within 3-4 months after having received the application. The Commission is also asked to provide the Member States with a set of guidelines for the design and implementation of applications for EGF funding geared to a fast application procedure and a broad consensus among stakeholders on the strategy to be applied. For their part, Member States are asked to: accelerate the procedure by prefinancing the measures that should start from the day of the application;involve the social partners right from the outset in the task of preparing applications and provide information on and publicise the funded actions ; put in place a communication and administration structure for the EGF at national level, in consultation with all stakeholders, and to exchange good practice at European level. Speed up and simplify procedures: Parliament states that more effective coordination between the Commission and the European Parliament must be ensured, so that the time limit for decision-making could be reduced. The Commission must take due account of Parliament’s calendar, and must inform Parliament in due time on difficulties and/or blockages encountered while assessing the Member States' applications. Members state that any of these steps should not in any way limit or decrease the power of Parliament as one arm of the budgetary authority while deciding on the mobilisation of the fund. Financial crisis: the period of validity of the derogation inserted in 2009 with a view to assisting workers who lose their jobs as a result of the economic and financial crisis should be extended until the end of the current MFF and that the cofinancing rate should, therefore, be maintained at 65%, given that the underlying causes on which their approval was based are far from having been removed.EGF budget: Parliament notes the inclusion, for the first time, in the Commission's Draft Budget 2011 of payment appropriations for the EGF, which is an important element in the overall reflection on the visibility of this fund. Members consider, however, that these payment appropriations might not be sufficient to cover the amounts necessary for EGF applications in 2011. They reiterate, therefore, their demand not to finance EGF applications exclusively through transfers from ESF lines. With regard to the future of the EGF, this will be determined in the framework of negotiations on the next MFF. Several options could be examined, particularly that of establishing an independent fund with its own commitment and payment appropriations. Parliament calls on the Commission to come forward with proposals for resourcing such a fund; believes that any future reform of the EGF should maintain its flexibility, which currently represents a comparative advantage in relation to the EU Structural Funds. Members stress that the conversion of the current EGF measures into a permanent means of support for active job-seeking measures would show a political will to develop a European social pillar that would be complementary to Member States' social policies and capable of revitalising the European approach to professional training. They point out that the EGF should remain distinct in its objectives from the ESF and the European lifelong learning programmes, given that the EGF focuses on enhancing the abilities of each of the workers assisted, rather than on providing a response to the concerns of businesses or on the delivery of across-the-board services to training establishments. Parliament calls on Member States using the EGF to create synergies between the EGF, ESF and micro-finance so as to identify the measure best suited to the individual case.Lastly, Parliament calls on the Commission to improve its reporting on the use of the EGF by substantially fleshing out its annual reports and regularly forwarding to Parliament information on Member States' implementation of financial contributions.
- 2010/09/06 Debate in Parliament
- 2010/07/26 Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
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2010/07/14
Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
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2010/05/20
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
Documents
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A7-0236/2010
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T7-0303/2010
| Amendments | Dossier |
| 158 |
2010/2072(INI)
2010/06/09
ECON
87 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 – point 1 1.
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Recital A (new) (A) Whereas the EGF should not keep Member States from implementing structural policies to facilitate the transformation of their economy and labour market and it should neither keep companies from adjusting their products, production processes and personnel policies to the demands of a sustainable economy; whereas the EGF should on the contrary be an incentive and contribution to do so;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 - point 2 2. Calls on the Commission to put forward a proposal forthwith stipulating that firms
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Calls on the European Commission to change the maximum period of implementation from 24 months from the date of application to 36 months from the date of approval, in order to facilitate the full implementation of the granted funds and to allow redundant workers to complete their reintegration process;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 - point 2 a (new) 2a. Stresses the important role that EU structural funds together with EIB loans and initiatives play in providing investment capital to European firms, including SMEs, thus contributing in first instance, and alongside the EGF, to the regeneration of the industrial base in the Union;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 – point 3 Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Member States to involve the social partners right from the outset in the task of preparing applications and to ensure that works councils are involved before any programme begins so as to guarantee that the social partners genuinely help to formulate conversion plans which meet the needs of employees and not of undertakings;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 – point 3 Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Member States to involve the social partners and to promote the social dialog with social partners and entrepreneurs right from the outset in the task of preparing applications;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 - point 3 Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Welcomes the Council conclusions for New Skills for New Jobs and underlines that the EGF provides the Member States with additional funding for the training of redundant workers for future oriented jobs and increased mobility;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 – point 3 3. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Urges the Commission to enforce correctly Directive 2002/14/EC on informing and consulting employees and Directive 94/45/EC on the European works council in order to give the social partners all the tools to analyse the proposed redundancy or restructuring plan before it is announced and thus to enable them to play their full role in preparing the application;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 – point 4 4. Calls on the Commission to consider the introduc
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new) 3c. Calls on the European Commission to add an obligation for Member States to support the participation of a workers’ association during the implementation phase to the EGF regulation; calls on the European Commission to organise the exchange of experiences and good practices concerning workers’ involvement in the implementation of the EGF, so workers in existing and new cases may benefit from the expertise gained in previous cases;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 – point 4 4. Calls on the Commission to introduce criteria by means of which the granting of EGF assistance can be linked as a matter of priority to restructuring measures designed to secure and create employment
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 d (new) 3d. Calls on the Commission to put forward a proposal forthwith stipulating that firms that are making workers redundant and which recorded profits in past reporting periods must contribute in an appropriate manner to meeting the social costs arising out of plant relocations and job cuts and securing the refinancing of the EGF;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 – point 4 4. Calls on the Commission to introduce criteria by means of which the granting of EGF assistance can be linked as a matter of priority to restructuring measures designed to secure and create employment and ecologically sustainable and socially balanced development in the regions concerned; also calls on the Commission to revise the criteria in order to take into account the size of the working age population in the region concerned, instead of only an absolute number of redundancies.
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 e (new) 3e. Calls on the Commission to replace the EGF in the medium term with a restructuring fund, financed by means of an EU-wide plant relocation levy and offering support to enterprises in proportion to the level of lasting replacement jobs created by them;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 – point 5 Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 f (new) 3f. Calls on the Commission to introduce criteria by means of which the granting of EGF assistance can be linked as a matter of priority to restructuring measures designed to secure and create employment and ecologically sustainable and socially balanced development in the regions concerned;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 – point 1 1. Calls on the Commission to submit forthwith a report on the use made to date of the Globalisation Adjustment Fund, setting out in particular a detailed account of
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Recital B (new) (A) whereas the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) does not impose any active labour market measures on a Member State that have to be implemented in the framework of an application for the fund but to put in place a coordinated package of personalised services designed to reintegrate workers into the labour market in accordance with Article 3 of the EGF regulation[1] which preserves fully the flexibility of the Member States to adapt the measures targeting the redundant workers to the local and individual needs of each application, ([1] Regulation (EC) No 1927/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2009 on establishing the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund as amended by regulation (EC) No 546/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009.)
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 - point 5 Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 g (new) 3g. Calls on the Commission to broaden the criteria for the mobilisation of the EGF, in keeping with the above- mentioned conditions, to cover delocalisation within the European Union and to simplify the application procedure significantly;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 – point 5 5. Calls on the Commission
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Requests the Member States to put in place a communication and administration structure for the EGF at national level, in consultation with all stakeholders, particularly the social partners, and to exchange good practice at European level, which will allow the EGF to take rapid and
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 – point 6 6. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Requests the Member States to put in place a communication and administration structure for the EGF at national level, in consultation with all stakeholders, and to exchange good practice at European level, which will allow the EGF to take rapid and effective action in cases of a threat of large-scale redundancies;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 – point 6 6. Calls on the Commission to broaden the criteria for the mobilisation of the EGF, in keeping with the above-mentioned conditions, to cover delocalisation within the European Union and to simplify the application procedure significantly; calls on the Commission to extend EGF eligibility criteria to cover cases where redundancies occur in two neighbouring regions situated in different countries;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Asks the Commission to present a proposal on how the EGF regulation should be amended in order to allow the inclusion of all workers made redundant because of the same event, across sectors and regions;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 - point 6 6. Calls on the Commission to broaden the criteria for the mobilisation of the EGF, in keeping with the above-mentioned conditions,
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Calls on the European Commission to look into possible solutions to overcome the segregation between redundant workers who are eligible for measures under an EGF application and other redundant workers in the same area;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 – point 6 6. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Member States to adopt a personalised approach to assistance for redundant workers, particularly in cases of large-scale redundancies, so as to improve workers' opportunities on a labour market that is undergoing profound restructuring; calls on the Member States and local authorities to do everything possible to revitalise places which have suffered from the impact of relocation in order to maintain economic activity in the area, bearing in mind that the EGF is geared solely to employees; to this end, recommends that the Member States step up their exchanges of good practice, especially making use of Progress;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 – point 6 a (new) 6a. Calls on the Commission to take account of the major disparities between Member States and regions and to adjust the eligibility criteria so as to allow for greater flexibility in response to special circumstances and requirements;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Member States to adopt a personalised approach to assistance for redundant workers, particularly in cases of large-scale redundancies, so as to improve workers' opportunities on a labour market that is undergoing profound restructuring; to take care that the regulations for national implementation do not make the application of the fund more restrictive; to this end, recommends that the Member States step up their exchanges of good practice, especially making use of Progress;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 – point 7 7. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Member States to adopt a personalised approach to assistance for redundant workers, particularly in cases of large-scale redundancies, so as to improve workers' opportunities on a labour market that is undergoing profound restructuring; to this end, recommends that the Member States step up their exchanges of good practice, especially making use of Progress, and more particularly of the new microfinancing instrument;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 - point 7 7. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Member States benefitting from the EGF to be very effective and to adopt a personalised approach to assistance for redundant workers, particularly in cases of large-scale redundancies, so as to improve workers' opportunities on a labour market that is undergoing profound restructuring; to this end, recommends that the Member States step up their exchanges of good practice, especially making use of Progress;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 – point 7 7. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Member States to adopt a personalised approach to assistance for redundant workers and to promote further training and retraining, particularly in cases of large-scale redundancies, so as to improve workers' opportunities on a labour market that is undergoing profound restructuring; to this end, recommends that the Member States step up their exchanges of good practice, especially making use of Progress;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 - point 1 1. Calls on the Commission to submit forthwith
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Notes that social and employment policies are national powers coordinated using the open method of coordination and exploiting all possible synergies in order to ensure positive development in the European Union in the face of globalisation and to meet the challenge of social and labour market reintegration in the Member States; deplores the imbalance between social policies and other more integrated policies with competition objectives, and therefore calls for the instruments used for the former to be stepped up; notes also that the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) is an instrument that was set up in order to support this objective and to assist workers in cases of large-scale redundancies;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Member States to adopt a personalised and social approach to assistance for redundant workers, particularly in cases of large-scale redundancies, so as to improve workers' opportunities on a labour market that is undergoing profound restructuring; to this end, recommends that the Member States step up their exchanges of good practice, especially making use of Progress;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Urges the Member States to use the EGF to implement European objectives, to promote new skills for
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Urges the Member States to use the EGF to implement European objectives, to promote new skills for new jobs in a given employment area and to promote lifelong learning, so as to allow workers to develop their individual careers and to contribute to improving the competitiveness of the EU in the context of globalisation;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Urges the Member States to use the EGF to implement European objectives, to promote new skills
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Urges the Member States to use the EGF to implement European objectives, to promote new skills for new, lasting, high- quality jobs and to promote lifelong learning, so as to allow workers to develop their individual careers and to contribute to improving the competitiveness of the EU in the context of globalisation;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Urges the Member States to use the EGF to implement European objectives, to promote new skills for new 'good' jobs and to promote lifelong learning, so as to allow workers to develop their individual careers and to contribute to improving the competitiveness of the EU in the context of globalisation;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Urges the Member States to use the EGF to implement European objectives, to promote new skills for new jobs, to promote entrepreneurship and to promote lifelong learning, so as to allow workers to develop their individual careers
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Calls on Member States using the EGF to create synergies between the EGF, ESF and micro-finance so as to identify the measure best suited to the individual case;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 b (new) 7b. Member States are encouraged to take measures in line with the EGF regulation that promote mobility of workers if prospects of employment in the region are not favourable;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 c (new) 7c. Points out that, in the context of globalisation, the EU's future competitiveness can be guaranteed only if targeted efforts are made to create the greatest possible mass of skills among workers in the EU area; considers that the EGF must accordingly also help to bridge periods of unemployment in a constructive way through intensive further training and retraining measures;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 – point 1 1. Calls on the Commission to submit forthwith a report on the use made to date of the Globalisation Adjustment Fund, setting out in particular a detailed account of how the appropriations were used by each Member State, the fundamental reasons for the limited use to date of fund resources and what proportion of overall funding they
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Notes that social and employment policies are national powers coordinated using the open method of coordination and exploiting all possible synergies in order to ensure positive development in the European Union in the face of globalisation and to meet the challenge of social and labour market reintegration in and between the Member States; notes also that the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) is an instrument that was set up in order to support this objective and to assist workers in cases of large-scale redundancies;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 d (new) 7d. Points out, further, that in many cases wide disparities (wage levels, social benefits, etc.) also exist on labour markets in individual Member States within the EU, particularly between western and eastern Europe; notes that these disparities lead to mass redundancies in those Member States where labour market conditions are less favourable for business; considers that these cases of redundancies due to globalisation should also be covered by the EGF as events eligible for support;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Reminds undertakings of their responsibility to do all they can to ensure that workers can, right from the start of their period of unemployment, authenticate their experience acquired, so as to ensure that their retraining is as specific and as rapid as possible and that they obtain new, stable jobs with a promising future; Member States are encouraged to develop policies that oblige undertakings that relocate or stop their activities in a certain region to support workers in upskilling and finding new employment as well as providing them with support in the transitionary period;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Reminds undertakings of their responsibility to do all they can to ensure that workers can, right from the start of their period of unemployment, authenticate their experience and training acquired, so as to ensure that their retraining is as specific and as rapid as possible and that they obtain new, stable jobs with a promising future;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Reminds undertakings of their responsibility to do all they can to ensure that workers can, right from the start of their period of unemployment, authenticate their experience acquired, so as to ensure that their retraining is as specific and as rapid as possible and that they obtain new, 'good' stable jobs with a promising future;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Reminds undertakings of their responsibility to do all they can to ensure that workers can,
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Reminds undertakings of their social responsibility to do all they can to ensure that workers can, right from the start of
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Takes note of a wide disparity between cases, arising from the diverse situations in each Member State; calls therefore on the Commission to draw up a proposal seeking greater flexibility in the intervention criteria applying to each Member State, so as to adapt them more closely to specific national economic situations, assessing the possibility of extending the reference period and the parameters of the undertakings concerned, while avoiding any inequality of access to this instrument between Member States;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Asks the Commission to provide the Member States with a set of guidelines for the design and the implementation of the applications for EGF funding seeking a fast application procedure and a broad consensus of the stakeholders for the strategy to apply and the measures to be put in place for an effective reintegration of the workers into the labour market;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 b (new) 9b. In the implementation of the EGF, Member States should be required to take measures to ensure that non-nationals among those eligible for funding have the chance to avail themselves of these funds, also if they reside in another country, especially if it concerns another EU Member State;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 c (new) 9c. Asks the Commission to provide assistance also to the Member States, the social partners and the workers associations during the process of implementation of the measures;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 – point 1 a (new) 1a. Calls on the Commission, in the context of the projected review of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund Regulation, to simplify the procedure for the submission and evaluation of applications from Member States in a bid to reduce delays in the processing thereof and ensure that EGF mechanisms are more promptly and effectively deployed for the benefit of workers; calls on the Commission and Member States, with a view to simplifying and expediting completion of the necessary formalities, to consider the creation of permanent structures for the processing of EGF formalities at national level and the exchange of best practices at European level;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Especially, the European Commission and Member States have to collaborate closely to monitor effectively the support given to multinational companies and to establish a firm investment in the creation of jobs with rights in order to discourage the social dumping;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 b (new) 10b. Calls on the Commission to ensure that its policies and instruments are coherent, in order to preclude the possibility that the growth and competitiveness objectives might conflict with objectives of employment, cohesion and social inclusion;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 c (new) 10c. Calls on the European Commission to explore the reasons why some countries confronted with mass redundancies that would be eligible for funding under the EGF regulation do not make use of it, and to propose solutions accordingly;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 12 12. Requests the Commission to
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 11. Invites the Commission to present, in its annual report, statistics showing the effectiveness of the EGF and of training strategies aimed at getting people back to work, analysing the impact of the structure of the labour market on that effectiveness;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Calls on the Commission to increase significantly the financial framework for the EGF, in the light of the current economic and financial crisis and the Fund’s broader remit, and to create a separate title in the budget for the EGF.
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 b (new) 11b. Stresses the need for the Commission, in times of scarce financial resources, to assess the effectiveness and sustainability of measures funded through the EGF, in cooperation with the Member States; notes that standardised criteria are to be developed for this purpose, such as completion of skills development measures, success in terms of finding a new job and duration of the new employment contract;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 12 12. Requests the Commission to publish its data on the efficiency of use of the EGF in the interest of sound EU budgetary management,
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 12 12. Requests the Commission to publish its data on the efficiency of use of the EGF and the success of measures after a longer period (≥ 1 year) in the interest of sound EU budgetary management, so as to allow Parliament to conduct an ex post control.
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 – point 2 Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls for funds to be allocated to the EGF budget line at least from the next financial framework so as to simplify their use, to reduce application processing time in order to provide more effective assistance for workers made redundant, and to standardise procedures; stresses the need to reduce the national share of co- financing in view of the difficulties faced by various Member States, increasing the Community financing for the EGF to 90% of the cost of measures to be supported;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 - point 2 Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Calls for funds to be allocated to the EGF budget line
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 – point 2 2. Calls on the
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 – point 2 2. Calls on the Commission to
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Reminds Member States of the importance of taking immediate labour market intervention measures in parallel with their application to the EGF;
source: PE-442.842
2010/06/25
BUDG
71 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Recital 1 A. whereas, with a view to countering the adverse impact of globalisation on workers affected by collective redundancies and to showing its solidarity towards such workers, as well as helping them to find work again, the European Union set up a European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (hereinafter 'EGF') to provide financial support for personalised programmes to re- integrate redundant workers into the labour market; whereas the EGF has a maximum annual amount of EUR 500 million, drawn either from any margin existing under the global expenditure ceiling of the previous year or from cancelled commitment appropriations for the two previous years, excluding those relating to heading 1b of the financial framework,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the limited use made of the EGF for the EU's poorest regions stems from varying national strategies
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the limited use made of the EGF
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas, according to the Commission's interim report on the functioning of the IAA
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas, according to the Commission's interim report on the functioning of the IAA
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K a (new) Ka. whereas reliable and consistent data on the implementation of the EGF since its modification after 2009 is not yet available and taking the strong view that transparency and regular reporting duties need to be established,
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas the 27 decisions taken between 2007 and April 2010 were all favourable and the amounts authorised were the same as those proposed by the Commission,
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas, in addition to having a cyclical dimension resulting from the economic and financial crisis, the difficulties arising on the labour market in most Member States are also due to structural factors which European and national recovery plans can only partly address; whereas, therefore, the increase in the number of applications for EGF funding may be said to be a long-term trend, whereas, however, the intention of the fund is not to be a substitute for lack of innovation,
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas,
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas, in addition to having a cyclical dimension resulting from the economic and financial crisis, the difficulties arising on the labour market in most Member States are also due to structural factors which European and national recovery plans can only partly address; whereas, therefore, the increase in the number of applications for EGF funding may be said to be a long-term trend; underlining however, that as expressed in the EGF regulation, the negative effects of the globalisation should be tackled primarily with proactive long-term strategies supporting the overall competitiveness of Europe,
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution Recital M (new) M. whereas in order to be effective and efficient the EGF must be implemented in the interest of those affected and of the competitiveness of the European Union,
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Takes the view that the EGF's added value as an EU social policy instrument lies in the fact that it provides a visible specific and targeted financial support for personalised programmes for the reskilling and re-
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Takes the view that the EGF's added value as an EU social policy instrument lies in the fact that it provides specific
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Takes the view that the EGF's added value as an EU social policy instrument lies in the fact that it provides specific and targeted financial support for personalised programmes for the reskilling and re- integration into employment of workers affected by collective redundancies in sectors or regions undergoing severe economic and social disruption; stresses that EGF was established as a flexible, one-off support instrument that was meant to respond more quickly and effectively to extraordinary and urgent circumstances when mass-redundancies occur in a Member State;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Takes the view that the
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Takes the view that the long-term increase in the number of applications for EGF funding and the difficulties experienced in implementing the EGF mobilisation and deployment procedure call for improvements to be made to the fund's procedural and budgetary arrangements at the earliest opportunity; notes the lack of awareness of the existence of this fund among the employers in Member States (only 17 countries have applied so far) and calls on the Commission to introduce the tools that could improve the visibility of the fund; calls, accordingly, on the Commission to bring the submission of its mid-term evaluation forward to 30 June 2011 and to submit at the same time a proposal for the revision of the EGF Regulation, in order to remedy the fund's most obvious shortcomings before the end of the current multiannual financial framework;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Takes the view that the
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls for coherence in policy; demands, therefore, that workers eligible for funding under the EGF who make use of their right to free movement as stipulated in Article 45 of the TFEU are not discriminated against in access to funding;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas in response to the increase in unemployment resulting from the economic and financial crisis and to the lessons learned from the experience gained in 2007 and 2008, the European Union amended the rules governing the use of the EGF in June 2009; whereas that amendment con
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Commission to e
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Commission to evaluate the contributions granted with reference to, among other things: the assessment of skills upgrading of workers; the beneficiaries' re-
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Commission to evaluate the contributions granted with reference to, among other things: the beneficiaries' re- integration into employment; the difference between the number of potential beneficiaries and the number of workers that have received support; the disparities between Member States in terms of the funding provided per worker and the reasons for those disparities; compliance with the non-discrimination criterion with reference to the contractual position of the workers made redundant; the systems established by the Member States to assess needs for assistance from the fund and to prepare applications; the procedures for consulting the social partners that were or were not used when preparing applications and the checks carried out on their implementation; and the procedures for verifying the implementation of contributions and any repayments Member States are requested to make; calls on the Commission to reflect the findings of that evaluation in its proposal for the revision of the regulation;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Commission to evaluate the contributions granted with reference to, among other things: the beneficiaries' re- integration into employment; the difference between the number of potential beneficiaries and the number of workers that have received support; the disparities between Member States in terms of the funding provided per worker and the reasons for those disparities; compliance with the non-discrimination criterion with reference to the contractual position of the workers made redundant; the procedures for consulting the social partners that were or were not used when preparing applications
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Commission to evaluate the contributions granted with reference to, among other things: the beneficiaries' re- integration into employment; the outreach to small and medium sized enterprises (SME); the difference between the number of potential
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Takes the view that the time required to mobilise the EGF could be halved and that,
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Takes the view that the time required to mobilise the EGF could be halved and that, to this end, applications for mobilisation of the EGF should be drawn up by Member States as soon as a collective redundancy has been announced, and not after it has taken place, so as to reduce the 10-week period Member States have in which to forward their applications once the intervention criteria have been fulfilled; considers that Member States should forward their applications in their own language and one of the European
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas globalisation is a timeless phenomenon and whereas the impact of the economic crisis will continue to be felt after 2013,
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Takes the view that the time required to mobilise the EGF could be halved and that, to this end, applications for mobilisation of the EGF should be drawn up by Member States as soon as a collective redundancy has been announced, and not after it has taken place, so as to reduce the 10-week period Member States have in which to forward their applications once the intervention criteria have been fulfilled; considers that Member States should forward their applications in their own language and one of the European institutions' working languages so that the Commission department responsible for scrutinising applications may do so without delay, and that the Commission should assign additional staff to processing
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Takes the view that the time required to mobilise the EGF could be halved and that, to this end, applications for mobilisation of the EGF should be drawn up by Member States as soon as a collective redundancy has been announced, and not after it has taken place, so as to reduce the 10-week period Member States have in which to forward their applications once the intervention criteria have been fulfilled; considers that Member States should forward their applications in their own language and one of the European institutions' working languages so that the Commission department responsible for scrutinising applications may do so without delay, and that the Commission should - respecting the principles of budgetary neutrality - assign additional staff to processing applications submitted by Member States and should scrupulously observe the time limit of 15 days between the adoption of a mobilisation decision and the payment of
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Requests that the Commission indicate clearly the financing from other community sources (e.g. from the ERDF or the ESF) in the same geographical area where EGF assistance is also provided, in order to ensure more transparency on the complementarity between the different funds;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Undertakes, for its part, to simplify its decision-making process by stipulating that
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Undertakes, for its part, to simplify its decision-making process by stipulating that, in the absence of objections by the Committee on Budgets or the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs,
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Considers that these immediate steps to simplify and give added flexibility to the EGF mobilisation procedure could, if warranted in the light of the experience gained by then, be incorporated into the regulation when it is revised; any of these steps should not in any way limit or decrease the power of the Parliament as the one of the arm of the budgetary authority while deciding on the mobilisation of the fund;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Considers that these immediate steps to simplify and give added flexibility to the EGF mobilisation procedure could, if warranted in the light of the experience gained by then, be incorporated into the
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Notes the significant disparities in the EGF funding per worker between different Member States; urges the Commission to examine this phenomenon and to recommend possible solutions on how a more equivalent support to all beneficiaries could be achieved; calls, at the same time, on the Commission to improve the knowledge on this Fund among all Member States, so that they can make use of this possibility should the need arise;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Notes the inclusion, for the first time, in the Commission's Draft Budget 2011 of payment appropriations for the EGF and considers this an important element in the overall reflection on the management and visibility of this fund; considers, however, that these payment appropriations might not be sufficient to cover the amounts necessary for EGF applications in 2011; reiterates, therefore, its demand not to finance EGF applications exclusively through transfers from ESF lines and calls on the Commission to identify and use without further delay different budget lines for this purpose;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas an analysis of the funds mobilised under the EGF between 2007 and the end of the first half of 2009 highlights
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Takes the view that, over and above
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Takes the view that, over and above these improvements to the procedure, the period of validity of the derogation inserted in 2009 with a view to assisting workers who lose their jobs as a result of the economic and financial crisis should be extended until the end of the current multiannual financial framework and that the co-financing rate should be raised from 50% to 65%
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Takes the view that, over and above these improvements to the procedure, the period of validity of the derogation inserted in 2009 with a view to assisting workers who lose their jobs as a result of the economic and financial crisis should be extended until the end of the current multiannual financial framework and that the co-financing rate should
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Takes the view that, over and above these improvements to the procedure, the period of validity of the derogation inserted in 2009 with a view to assisting workers who lose their jobs as a result of the economic and financial crisis should be extended until the end of the current multiannual financial framework and that the co-financing rate should be raised from
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Takes the view that, over and above these improvements to the procedure, the period of validity of the derogation inserted in 2009 with a view to assisting workers who lose their jobs as a result of the economic and financial crisis should be extended until the end of the current multiannual financial framework and that the co-financing rate should be raised from 50% to 65%
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9.
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Wishes th
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9.
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas an analysis of the funds mobilised under the EGF between 2007 and the end of the first half of 2009 highlights the shortcomings of the original regulation, with only EUR 80 million having being mobilised, out of a total of EUR 1.5 billion that was theoretically available, for 18 applications submitted on behalf of 24 431 workers by eight Member States for a very limited number of sectors (notably textile and car industry); whereas those shortcomings are also reflected in the huge disparity between the amounts initially allocated and those finally implemented, with EUR 24.8 million (39.4% of the appropriations mobilised) having subsequently been paid back in the case of the first 11 applications,
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Wishes the
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9.
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Wishes the EGF to be made a permanent fund in the next multiannual financial framework, with its own
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Stresses the importance of the ESF as an instrument for supporting employment and increasing social cohesion; considers it vital, therefore, to improve the present discipline of the ESF and identify ways of rendering more effective the implementation of the measures for which it provides, focusing inter alia on personalised retraining of redundant workers;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 10. Stresses that
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Stresses that
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Stresses that the conversion of the
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Considers that, despite a recent increase in the applications for EGF assistance, the EGF remains largely unknown in many Member States; urges the Commission, therefore, to launch an information campaign and promote success stories and best practices from the operation of EGF assistance on the ground; believes that further action needs to be taken to increase the visibility of the EGF across the Union;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Calls on the Commission to improve its reporting on the use of the EGF by
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas, however, 10 Member States have yet to make use of the EGF, the amounts mobilised remain well below the
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Calls on the Commission to improve its reporting on the use of the EGF by substantially fleshing out its annual reports and regularly forwarding to Parliament information on Member States' implementation of financial contributions;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Stresses, finally, that the EFG is a social support instrument for the workers affected and should not be misconstrued by undertakings as a backup for them;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas the raising of the co-financing rate from 50% to 65% during the 2009 revision would appear to be one of the factors behind the increase in the number of applications
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) Ga. whereas it should be possible for Member States to play a greater role in identifying final beneficiaries' status, according to national labour law and practice, in line with the subsidiarity principle,
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