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2015/2285(INI) European Semester for economic policy coordination: Annual Growth Survey 2016
Next event: Indicative plenary sitting date, 1st reading/single reading 2016/03/07
Lead committee dossier: ECON/8/04565
Legal Basis RoP 052
Next event: Indicative plenary sitting date, 1st reading/single reading 2016/03/07
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Lead | ECON | RODRIGUES Maria João (S&D) | FERBER Markus (EPP), VON STORCH Beatrix (ECR), TREMOSA I BALCELLS Ramon (ALDE), VIEGAS Miguel (GUE/NGL), VALLI Marco (EFD) |
Opinion | ENVI | KOVATCHEV Andrey (EPP) | |
Opinion | REGI | MIHAYLOVA Iskra (ALDE) |
Legal Basis RoP 052
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- 2015/11/17 Council Meeting
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2015/10/29
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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2015/2285(INI)
2015/12/09
ENVI
54 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Reiterates that the European Semester process was introduced to help achieve Europe 2020 targets for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth; in this context, calls on the Commission to integrate the revised Europe 2020 strategy more firmly into the European Semester and to
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 d (new) 1 d. Takes note of the moderate economic recovery in the European Union. Highlights the importance of the "Investment Plan for Europe", an initiative aimed at kick-starting jobs and growth. Calls on the need to prioritize investment to areas such as education, clean energy, resource efficiency and research and innovation infrastructures for green technologies, enabling the transition towards a sustainable growth model;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 e (new) 1 e. Stresses that European Semester is one of the means to mainstream and integrate environmental concerns in other relevant policies, in line with the approach defined by Article 11 TFEU; reiterates therefore that the environmental dimension should play a full role, together with the economic and social dimensions, in the European Semester process to ensure that Member States return to higher growth levels while continuing their path towards the development of sustainable societies;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 f (new) 1 f. Stresses the fact that moving towards a truly sustainable economy and that the greening of EU economies and putting at equal stand the Europe 2020 targets will contribute to achieving the Union's environmental goals, to restoring the European economy's competitive edge and to creating quality jobs; deplores the fact that the lack of a European strategy for sustainable development during the crisis has kept growth in the EU well below its potential;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 g (new) 1 g. Underlines the need for increased involvement of EU Environment and Health ministers in the European Semester process at Council level;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 h (new) 1 h. Underlines that moving towards a truly sustainable economy will contribute to achieving the EU's environmental goals, to giving back the European economy its competitive edge and to creating quality green jobs;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 i (new) 1 i. Calls for increased and structured involvement of civil society such as environmental organisations, consumers organisations and independent patients organisations so as to safeguard the legitimacy and improve the effectiveness of the European semester process;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 j (new) 1 j. Emphasises that in order that the Member States boost their employment by exploiting the employment potential of the green economy, action in required on three main fronts: boosting labour demand in eco-industries through adequate levels of investments, anticipating and managing skills needs in both green and greening sectors, and ensuring job quality for high-, medium-, and low-skill occupations; from the point of view of labour market policy, enhanced attention should be dedicated to devising adequate training programmes to tackle specific skill shortages, and to considering the dynamic interaction between skills supply and age structure of the workforce in green and traditional industries;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that if the
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that if the upcoming strategy on a circular economy and the reform of waste legislation are to become a reality and the European economy is to be turned into a circular model, it is essential to integrate recommendations to this effect in
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Considers it important that the change towards a new economic model based on a circular economy and inspired by the universally applicable Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) needs to be properly reflected in the priorities of the Annual Growth Survey and the Country Specific Recommendations;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Reiterates the need for a fiscal framework that is in accordance with the 'polluter pays' principle, providing the right signals for investment in resource efficiency, the modernisation of production processes and the manufacturing of more reparable and durable products;1 a __________________ 1a See European Parliament resolution of 9 July 2015 on resource efficiency: moving towards a circular economy
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses that
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses that reducing external resource and energy dependence is key to achieving
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses that
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses that reducing external resource and energy dependence
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses that strongly reducing external resource and energy dependence is key to achieving long-term growth and will enhance the competitiveness of the EU, as well as social cohesion and justice;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses that reducing external resource and energy dependence is key to achieving long-term growth and will enhance the competitiveness of the EU; reiterates therefore the need to eliminate any obstacles that would prevent the creation of a true Single Energy Market, by diversifying external energy supplies, upgrading EU's energy infrastructure, investing in greater energy interconnections and renewable sources of energy and completing the EU internal energy market as key priorities of EU's Energy Union strategy; Calls therefore on the Commission to continue to assess Europe's performance regarding the 2030 Climate and Energy goals as well as Member States' national energy plans, thus supporting measures against energy fragmentation and the creation of "energy islands";
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses that reducing external resource and energy dependence is key to achieving long-term growth and will enhance the competitiveness of the EU; underlines the economic advantages of a bigger commitment in this sense;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Calls on the Commission to use the European Semester to support green jobs creation and to include recommendations that can contribute to efforts to foster green employment and reduce ecological footprints;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Reiterates that the European Semester process was introduced to help achieve Europe 2020 targets for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, namely in the fields of climate change, energy, social exclusion and fight against poverty; in this context, calls on the Commission to integrate the revised Europe 2020 strategy more firmly in
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3 b. Stresses that greening the economy and investing in more efficient healthcare systems will enhance Europe's competitiveness, increase security of supply and improve the health and well- being of European citizens; notes in this regard that short-term fiscal implications of structural reforms should be taken into account along with their long-term environmental, economic and social effects;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new) 3 c. Considers that European Semester should also incorporate reporting on renewable energy and energy efficiency on the basis of legally binding targets set in Union legislation;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Commission to use the European Semester as a vehicle to fulfil EU commitments emanating from the Europe 2020 Strategy and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and in particular to i
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Commission to use the European Semester as a
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Commission to use the European Semester as a vehicle to fulfil EU commitments emanating from the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and in particular to include in the process policies addressing climate change, sustainable production and consumption, food security, nutrition, and biodiversity;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Commission to use the European Semester as a vehicle to fulfil EU commitments emanating from the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and in particular to include in the process policies addressing climate change, sustainable production and consumption, food safety and labelling, and biodiversity;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Reiterates the need to phase out subsidies that are harmful to air quality, water quality and soils quality by 2020 and to shift taxes away from labour to environmental taxation;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4 b. Stresses that the mid-term review of the Europe 2020 strategy and the European Semester must tie in closely with the new sustainable development agenda; reiterates the necessity to extend the EU's planning horizon beyond 2020 in order to implement the SDGs by introducing an integrated strategy for a sustainable Europe in a globalised world, with a time horizon of at least 2030;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 c (new) 4 c. Urges the Commission to better take account, in the process of the European Semester, of social and environmental indicators, assessing convergence across the EU and progress towards a more sustainable society, proposing measures to reach such goals in a more effective and timely manner;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Reiterates that the European Semester process was introduced to help achieve Europe 2020 targets for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth; in this context, calls on the Commission to integrate the revised Europe 2020 strategy more firmly into the European Semester and to strengthen the role of the environment, climate change, sustainable energy, biodiversity, food safety and health in the process, acknowledging the substantial
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Considers it important to assess the
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Considers it important to assess the performance of healthcare systems in the framework of the European Semester and supports a shift to an outcome-based approach as well as the focus on disease prevention and health promotion; calls on the Commission to develop tools, together with all stakeholders, to monitor health outcomes and measure access to high
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Considers it important to assess the equality and performance of healthcare systems in the framework of the European Semester and supports a shift to an
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Considers it important to assess the performance and sustainability of healthcare systems in the framework of the European Semester and supports a shift to an outcome-based approach; calls on the Commission to develop tools to assess health promotion and disease prevention and enabling the long-term health and fiscal impacts of measures targeting prevention to be taken into account in country-specific recommendations and to monitor health outcomes and measure access to high-quality healthcare with the aim of reducing divergences and health inequalities between and within Member States
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Considering that well-functioning ecosystems are prerequisite for maintaining and improving public health, therefore calls for significant investment in research and innovation in environmental health.
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. Welcomes the renewed focus of the European Commission on promoting upward economic and social convergence through the progressive introduction of benchmarks and cross-examination exercises across policy or thematic areas and considers that it could strengthen the resilience of the Europe's economy to future crises;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5 c. Stresses that a more comprehensive assessment of health systems within the European semester, not solely limited to the fiscal dimension (cost-effectiveness and sustainability of health systems), but also addressing access, effectiveness and quality of health systems, would provide a more accurate picture of the performance of health systems and strengthen the usefulness of the European Semester in the field of health;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 d (new) 5 d. stresses that prevention policies for both communicable and non- communicable disease are crucial in order to reduce the costs of national healthcare and that cuts to preventive care measures in times of crisis can have long-term negative effects; highlights that the economic crisis should not affect the investments in preventive care measures; calls on the Commission to use the European Semester to promote the role of prevention in reducing the costs of national healthcare.
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 e (new) 5 e. Points out that that Country Specific Recommendations' (CSR) are binding conditions for bailout funding for those countries subject to economic adjustment programmes; recalls that in 2015 eleven countries have received recommendations relating to health (i.e. level of pharmaceutical spending, guidance on hospitals, recommendations on long-term care of ageing) despite the fact that the European Commissions' legal mandate does not permit direct involvement in the quality or accessibility of national healthcare systems; calls on the European Commission to assess the potential impact these recommendations are having with regards patients' rights to an universal, quality and sustainable health systems.
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Reiterates that the European Semester process was introduced to help achieve Europe 2020 targets for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth; in this context, calls on the Commission to integrate the revised Europe 2020 strategy more firmly into the European Semester and to strengthen the role of the environment, climate and health in the process, acknowledging the substantial prospects for growth, job creation and investment in these areas as well as their contribution to the wider objectives of the strategy;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 f (new) 5 f. Highlights that European leadership in sectors of the green and blue economies can only be based on labour markets offering human capital with adequate skill-training; calls on the Commission to include in the country- specific recommendations investment needs in human capital in the areas of Science and Technology, making training and education systems more responsive to future labour markets' needs;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 g (new) 5 g. Calls on the Commission to recommend Member States to revise policies that subsidize or incentivise the continued use of fossil fuels; calls on the Commission to ask Member States for fiscal strategies that reward development of sustainable policies and the circular economy while shifting away the tax burden from labour, ensuring growth- friendly tax systems and enhancing support to the green economy.
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 h (new) 5 h. Underlines the fact that ensuring equal access to health care contributes to social cohesion, to social justice, to tackle social exclusion and it contributes to a sustainable development as it adds to intergenerational solidarity and can correct negative population health externalities;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 i (new) 5 i. Stresses the importance of the sustainability of the healthcare sector which plays an important role in the overall economy as it accounts for 8% of the total European workforce and for 10% of GDP in the European Union; for being able to provide equal access to healthcare services for the citizens, as health is an essential factor of stability, sustainability and further development of Member States and their economy;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 j (new) 5 j. Calls both Member States and the European Commission, in this period of economic crisis, to avoid most damaging measures like short-term savings which will lead to high costs in the mid to long- term and instead to concentrate on further development of high-quality and high-efficiency health care systems.
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Reiterates that the European Semester process was introduced to help achieve Europe 2020 targets for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth; in this context, calls on the Commission to integrate the revised
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Stresses the need for an assessment of climate, environmental, health and social impacts of austerity measures and of country specific recommendations as well as economic and structural reform plans, also to achieve more efficient coordination across policies;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1 b. Notes with satisfaction that many of the projects approved for financing by the European Fund for Strategic Investment are oriented towards infrastructure and innovation in the environment and the health sectors; underlines the importance of mobilizing the full potential of the Investment Plan to help implement the structural reforms needed to transform our economy into a green, sustainable and resource efficient one;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1 c. Asks the Commission to carefully monitor the application of funds from the European Fund for Strategic Investments in order to reach the political objectives of re-launching investment and modernising the economy and fostering economic and social convergence across the European Union;
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