2017/2260(INI)

Kostadinka KUNEVA, Rina Ronja KARI

E. whereas ~~societies in the European Union are ageing, which presents additional challenges for Member States’~~the growing number of older people (nearly 20 % of the European population is over 65 and the estimation is that this rate will reach 25 % by 2050), the declining number of working age people and public budget constraints, especially austerity measures implemented in the EU, are having a significant impact on social security and healthcare systems;

2018/01/22
Committee: EMPL

2017/2260(INI)

Kostadinka KUNEVA, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas, although a certain amount of progress in reducing poverty and social exclusion can be observed, there are still disadvantaged groups in society with an unacceptable 119 million poor in the EU of which more than 25 million children across of Europe (more than 1 in 4 children) and regional disparities persist;

2018/01/22
Committee: EMPL

2017/2260(INI)

Kostadinka KUNEVA, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)

Gb. whereas the overall policy outlook of the European Semester remains concerned with fiscal consolidation and deregulation of labour markets;

2018/01/22
Committee: EMPL

2017/2260(INI)

Kostadinka KUNEVA, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Calls for improving work quality both in terms of working conditions, health and safety as well as in terms of wages allowing for a decent leaving and family planning; stresses the importance of tackling undeclared work in an effective manner, involving social partners and imposing appropriate fines;

2018/01/22
Committee: EMPL

2017/2260(INI)

Kostadinka KUNEVA, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 d (new)

4d. Stresses that fiscal consolidation programmes should by no means impose austerity measures undermining social policies that suffer substantial cuts; any proposed fiscal measure should be assessed and monitored against its social impact;

2018/01/22
Committee: EMPL

2017/2260(INI)

Kostadinka KUNEVA, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to maximise their efforts in investing in high-quality education and training in order to guarantee that the skills acquired will match labour market demand; underlines, in this respect, the growing demand for digital and other transferable skills and insists that the development of these skills is urgent and particularly necessary; the creation of jobs though requires also an individualised approach according to the local necessities and particularities of the labour markets; cognitive and soft skills must equally be developed valuing personal abilities and offering on the job satisfaction;

2018/01/22
Committee: EMPL

2017/2260(INI)

Kostadinka KUNEVA, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Recalls that increasing life expectancy requires the adaptation of pensions systems in order to ensure a good quality of life for elderly people; stresses that this can be achieved by linking retirement age not only to life expectancy but also to insurance contribution years, and by preventing early exit from the labour market; stresses that the absurd phenomenon of maintaining people longer to work while experiencing youth unemployment should be remedied while refugees and migrants should have their skills recognised or be offered skills development opportunities in order to be given the chance to enter the labour market while at the same time supporting to sustainability of pension systems;

2018/01/22
Committee: EMPL

2017/2260(INI)

Kostadinka KUNEVA, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)

13c. Suggests to exempt from the EU Stability and Growth Pact the financial resources allocated to programmes in support of the unemployed, mainly through active labour market policies including job creation in countries with unemployment above the Eurozone average as an investment to human capital sustaining potential growth since, according to the EESC the spending policy can not be measured by just an accounting result as deficit but on the impact it has on the real economy;

2018/01/22
Committee: EMPL

2017/2260(INI)

Kostadinka KUNEVA, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Underlines the role of the social partners as essential stakeholders in the reform process and the added value of their involvement in the drafting, sequencing and implementation of reforms; supports the opinion that new forms of employment in the globalised market call for new forms of social dialogue; stresses though the necessity of restoring instead of deregulating labour relations supporting collective agreements for all; workers must be informed on their rights and be protected in case of whistleblowing to report abusive practices; affirms that the Member States need to help people build the skills required in the labour market;

2018/01/22
Committee: EMPL

2017/2224(INI)

Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Points out ~~that~~ the advanced character of the EU economy, ~~as well as digitalisation, automation and robotisation of the EU labour market, has increased demand for high-level qualifica~~underlines the need for modern educational systems, which equally combine all eight key competences aimed by the Commissions' Key Competences Recommendation, and which also include knowledge and attitudes (dispositions and ~~skills, while demand for low-level qualifications and skills has decreased~~mind sets to react to ideas, persons or situations including values, thoughts and beliefs) other than only skills;

2018/03/02
Committee: EMPL

2017/2224(INI)

Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Considers that education and training should not be adapted to the demands of the markets, but should deepen critical, analytical and independent thinking, helping people reach their full potential personally and professionally;

2018/03/02
Committee: EMPL

2017/2224(INI)

Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Highlights that according to Cedefop1a, the distribution of skills in the labour force largely matched the qualification requirements of the labour market in 2016; further notes that Cedefop forecasts a parallel rise in skills from both the demand and the supply side until 2025 and that skills levels are expected to change faster for the labour force than those required by the job market; calls therefore on the Commission and the Member States to carefully reassess the difficulties concerning access to the world of work; __________________ 1ahttp://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php/Europe_2020_indica tors_- _employment#Skills_mismatches_in_the_ labour_market

2018/03/02
Committee: EMPL

2017/2224(INI)

Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses that skills mismatch and shortages are ~~responsible for both~~not the reasons of unemployment and unfilled job vacancies~~3 ; considers that these worrying phenomena should be tackled by modernising education systems, making education systems cooperate more closely~~, and that in order to create new decent jobs with full labour ~~market actors~~ and fsoc~~using more on training in soft and transversal skills to accommodate future skills~~ial rights, public investments in sectors of the economy are needsed; __________________ 3 http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/events- and-projects/projects/assisting-eu- countries-skills-matching

2018/03/02
Committee: EMPL

2017/2224(INI)

Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Insists that the solution to skills mismatches or shortages is not further labour market segmentation in the form of non-standard and atypical forms of employment, including temporary jobs, involuntary part-time work, zero-hour contracts and unpaid traineeships; considers these atypical forms of employment as one of the reasons leading to the impoverishment of parts of the European citizens; reiterates its demand to ban zero-hour contracts and abusive atypical forms of employment;

2018/03/02
Committee: EMPL

2017/2224(INI)

Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to continue their efforts to enable the recognition and validation of non-formal and informal learning ~~– gained from free online courses such as MOOCs –~~ which often broaden access to education for underprivileged groups and therefore increase their opportunities for a better job and life, as well as investing in quality jobs with full social and labour rights for these groups;

2018/03/02
Committee: EMPL

2017/2224(INI)

Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Member States to internationalise education systems and expand student mobility programmes to better prepare students for the EU ~~labour market~~world of work, in which a lack of skills in foreign languages and cultures is the first barrier to mobility;

2018/03/02
Committee: EMPL

2017/2224(INI)

Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Highlights that, in the context of labour market evolution, thinking in terms of ‘jobs/positions’ is obsolete and is of the opinion that ‘task/skills’ categories should be used instead, in both the education process and the recognition of education and qualifications;deleted

2018/03/02
Committee: EMPL

2017/2224(INI)

Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. In this regard, ~~welcom~~notes the Commission communication on ‘A New Skills Agenda for Europe’ (COM(2016)0381)~~, which proposes solutions for skills mismatch and shortages and for finding the right system of skills recognition~~;

2018/03/02
Committee: EMPL

2017/2224(INI)

Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to make vocational and educational training more visible and enhance its quality and attractiveness, and to promote dual education, work-based learning ~~and reality-based learning~~in all its forms at every level and form of education, including universities, in order to ensure stronger ties between the education and labour markets; ~~calls for the policy of apprenticeships and entrepreneurship for young people to be developed, to make their entry into the labour market smoother~~acknowledges that education and training are Members State competences and that the EU can only support, coordinate or supplement actions of the Member States;

2018/03/02
Committee: EMPL

2017/2224(INI)

Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 12

12. Recalls the importance of life-long learning in developing adult skills and qualifications to ensure people’s active participation in the ~~labour market~~world of work through upskilling and reskilling.

2018/03/02
Committee: EMPL

2017/2066(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Miguel VIEGAS

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the EU market in retail financial services remains ~~underdeveloped and~~ highly fragmented; whereas efficient action is therefore needed to ~~facilit~~regulate innovation ~~beneficial to end users, while unlocking the full potential of the single market;~~, ensuring that it is beneficial to end users.

2017/06/29
Committee: ECON

2017/2066(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Miguel VIEGAS

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas a European retail financial services market would only be videsirable if it represented real added value for consumers ~~by ensuring effective competition and consumer protec~~and financial stability by ensuring consumer protection and stopping financial concentration, notably in relation to products necessary for participation in economic life and for vulnerable consumers;

2017/06/29
Committee: ECON

2017/2066(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Miguel VIEGAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the Commission Action Plan on consumer financial services as a means of addressing some of the challenges raised by Parliament in its report on the Green Paper on retail financial services, with the aim of ~~striving towards a genuine technology-enabled single~~ensuring consumer protection in the context of a technology based market for retail financial services, ~~while protecting consumers,~~ lowering prices and fighting against tax fraud, tax evasion and tax avoidance;

2017/06/29
Committee: ECON

2017/2066(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Miguel VIEGAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Considers that out of the three main strands of work identified by the Commission for the remaining years of the current mandate ~~are worth pursuing; believes, nevertheles~~, increasing consumer trust the main public responsibility; Considers, that empowering consumers can be highly misled policy in a market with such a dramatic asymmetry of information; Deplores the Commission's proposal to remove regulatory obstacles in the retail financial services; believes, that several concerns raised by Parliament in its report on the Green Paper on retail financial services have not been credibly addressed by the Commission in its Action Plan;

2017/06/29
Committee: ECON

2017/2066(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Miguel VIEGAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

~~8. Urges the Commission to set up promptly a well-organised and easy-to-use EU comparison portal covering the European retail financial markets in its entirety;~~deleted

2017/06/29
Committee: ECON

2017/2066(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Miguel VIEGAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. ~~Asks the Commission to assess carefully whether national rules and practices are motivated by consumer protection concerns; u~~Underlines that the dismantling of national barriers should not be to the detriment of consumer protection;, as is usually is the case.

2017/06/29
Committee: ECON

2017/2066(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Miguel VIEGAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on ~~the Commission to amend the Mortgage Credit Directive and the Consumer Credit Directive to introduce compulsory, harmonised, cross-border~~Member States to introduce compulsory, creditworthiness assessment standards and principles to better mitigate the risk of increasing over- indebtedness ~~when facilitating pan-European online credit;~~.

2017/06/29
Committee: ECON

2017/2066(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Miguel VIEGAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Commission to present an all-inclusive FinTech Action Plan in the framework of its capital markets union (CMU) and digital single market (DSM) strategies, contributing to an effective ~~and well-fun~~regulation and consumer protection in~~g integrated~~ the technology- driven ~~single~~ market of financial services ~~benefiting all European end-users;~~.

2017/06/29
Committee: ECON

2017/2066(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Miguel VIEGAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Reiterates the need for the Commission to identify and remove regulatory barriers to the use of pan- European electronic signature systems for subscribing to financial services, thereby facilitating EU-wide cross-border digital onboarding, without affecting the level of security of existing systems or their ability to comply with the requirements of the Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive;deleted

2017/06/29
Committee: ECON

2017/2066(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Miguel VIEGAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Stresses the need to adapt the existing EU legal framework for the digital world to counteract consumer protection risks connected with distance online selling, ~~thereby creating new business opportunities for European start-ups and FinTechs;~~including by limiting or banning the online retail sale of complex financial products.

2017/06/29
Committee: ECON

2017/0355(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Patrick LE HYARIC, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Kostas CHRYSOGONOS, Rina Ronja KARI, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a directive
Recital 8

(8) In view of the increasing number of workers excluded from the scope of Directive 91/533/EEC on the basis of derogations made by Member States under Article 1 of that Directive, it is necessary to replace these derogations with a possibility for Member States not to apply the provisions of the Directive to a work relationship equal to or less than 8 hours in total in a reference period of one month. That derogation does not affect the definition of a worker as provided for in Article 2(1).deleted

2018/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2017/0355(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Patrick LE HYARIC, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Kostas CHRYSOGONOS, Rina Ronja KARI, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a directive
Recital 9

(9) Due to the unpredictability of on- demand work including zero-hour contracts, the derogation of 8 hours per month should not be used for employment relationships in which no guaranteed amount of paid work is determined before the start of the employment.deleted

2018/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2017/0355(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Patrick LE HYARIC, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Kostas CHRYSOGONOS, Rina Ronja KARI, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a directive
Recital 10

(10) Several different natural or legal persons may in practice assume the functions and responsibilities of an employer. Member States should remain free to determine more precisely the person(s) who are considered totally or, partially or jointly responsible for the execution of the obligations that this Directive lays down for employers, as long as all those obligations are fulfilled. Member States should also be able to decide that some or all of these obligations are to be assigned to a natural or legal person who is not party to the employment relationship. Member States should be able to establish specific rules to exclude individuals acting as employers for domestic workers in the household from the obligations to consider and respond to a request for a different type of employment, to provide cost-free mandatory training, and from coverage of the redress mechanism based on favourable presumptions in the case of missing information in the written statement.

2018/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2017/0355(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Patrick LE HYARIC, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Rina Ronja KARI, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a directive
Recital 13

(13) Information on remuneration to be provided should include all elements of the remuneration, including contributions in cash or kind, directly or indirectly received by the worker in respect of his or her work~~. The provision of such information should be without prejudice to the freedom for employers to provide for~~, additional elements of remuneration such as one-off payments. The fact that elements of remuneration due by law or collective agreement have not been included in that information should not constitute a reason for not providing them to the worker.

2018/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2017/0355(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Patrick LE HYARIC, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Rina Ronja KARI, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a directive
Recital 16

(16) Workers should have the right to be informed about their rights and obligations resulting from the employment relationship in writing at the start of employment. The relevant information should therefore reach them at the latest ~~on the first day of~~before starting the employment relationship.

2018/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2017/0355(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Patrick LE HYARIC, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Rina Ronja KARI, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a directive
Recital 17

(17) In order to help employers to provide timely information, Member States should ensure the availability of templates at national level in all EU languages, including relevant and sufficiently comprehensive information on the legal framework ~~applicable~~. These templates may be further developed at sectoral or local level, by national authorities and social partners.

2018/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2017/0355(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Patrick LE HYARIC, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Rina Ronja KARI, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a directive
Recital 18

(18) Workers posted or sent abroad should receive additional information specific to their situation. For successive work assignments in several Member States or third countries, such as in international road transport, that information may be grouped for several assignments before the first departure and subsequently modified in case of change. Where they qualify as posted workers under Directive 96/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council,38 they should also be notified of the single national website developed by the host Member State where they will find the relevant information on the working conditions applying to their situation. ~~Unless Member States provide otherwise, these obligations apply i~~These obligations apply to any kind of posting, without prejudice of the duration of the ~~work~~ period abroad ~~is more than four consecutive weeks~~. __________________ 38 Directive 96/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1996 concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services (OJ L 18, 21.1.1997, p. 1).

2018/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2017/0355(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Patrick LE HYARIC, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Kostas CHRYSOGONOS, Rina Ronja KARI, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a directive
Recital 23

(23) A reasonable minimum advance notice of fifteen days, understood as the period of time between the moment a worker is informed about a new work assignment and the moment the assignment starts, constitutes another necessary element of predictability of work for employment relationships with work schedule which are variable or mostly determined by the employer. The length of the advance notice period may ~~vary~~be longer according to the needs of sectors, while ensuring adequate protection of workers. It applies without prejudice to Directive 2002/15/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council.40 __________________ 40 Directive 2002/15/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2002 on the organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (OJ L 80, 23.3.2002, p. 35).

2018/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2017/0355(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Patrick LE HYARIC, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Kostas CHRYSOGONOS, Rina Ronja KARI, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 3

3. Member States may decide not to apply the obligations in this Directive to workers who have an employment relationship equal to or less than 8 hours in total in a reference period of one month. Time worked with all employers forming or belonging to the same enterprise, group or entity shall count towards that 8 hour period.deleted

2018/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2017/0355(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Patrick LE HYARIC, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Kostas CHRYSOGONOS, Rina Ronja KARI, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 4

~~4. Paragraph 3 shall not apply to an employment relationship where no guaranteed amount of paid work is predetermined before the employment starts.~~deleted

2018/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2017/0355(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Patrick LE HYARIC, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Kostas CHRYSOGONOS, Rina Ronja KARI, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 6

~~6. Member States may decide not to apply the obligations set out in Articles 10 and 11 and Article 14(a) to natural persons belonging to a household where work is performed for that household.~~deleted

2018/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2017/0355(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Patrick LE HYARIC, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Kostas CHRYSOGONOS, Rina Ronja KARI, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point l – point ii

(ii) the minimum advance notice the worker shall receive before the start of a work assignment, that shall be at least fifteen days;

2018/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2017/0355(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Patrick LE HYARIC, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Rina Ronja KARI, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1

1. The employment relationship shall be established in a written contract of employment. The information referred to in Article 3(2) shall be ~~provi~~handed individually to the worker in the form of a ~~document at the latest on the first day of the employment relationship. T~~written document, in the language of the worker, attached at the latest before the signature of the written contract. On request of the worker, that document may be provided and transmitted also electronically as long as it is easily accessible by the worker, the receipt is acknowledged and can be stored and printed.

2018/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2017/0355(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Patrick LE HYARIC, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Rina Ronja KARI, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2

2. Member States, in cooperation with social partners, shall develop templates and models for the document referred to in paragraph 1 and 1 a. and put them at the disposal of workers and employers including by making them available on a single official national website, social partners websites and by other suitable means. Those templates and models shall be provided in all EU languages.

2018/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2017/0355(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Patrick LE HYARIC, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Rina Ronja KARI, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1

Member States shall ensure that any change in the aspects of the employment relationship referred to in Article 3(2) and to the additional information for workers posted or sent abroad in Article 6 shall be provided in the form of a document by the employer to the worker at the earliest opportunity and at the latest ~~on the day~~fifteen days before it takes effect.

2018/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2017/0355(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Patrick LE HYARIC, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Rina Ronja KARI, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

1. Member States shall ensure that, where a worker is required to work in a Member State or third country other than the Member State in which he or she habitually works, the document referred to in Article 4(1) shall be provided fifteen days before his or her departure and shall include at least the following additional information:

2018/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2017/0355(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Patrick LE HYARIC, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Rina Ronja KARI, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Where notice is given of a work assignment, the worker is entitled to be paid for the hours of which they were notified. If work assignment is cancelled without notice, the worker is entitled to be paid in full for the hours of which they were notified.

2018/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2017/0355(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Patrick LE HYARIC, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Rina Ronja KARI, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 1

~~Member States may allow s~~Social partners tocan conclude collective agreements, including collective agreements concluded by the most representative social partners at the national level, in conformity with the national law or practice, which, while respecting the overall protection of workers and providing more favourable working conditions, establish arrangements concerning the working conditions of workers which differ from th~~ose referred to in Articles 7 to 11~~is directive. Any such collective agreement can only be challenged in accordance with national law and/or practice.

2018/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2017/0125(COD)

Sabine LÖSING, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Rina Ronja KARI, Sofia SAKORAFA, Patrick LE HYARIC, Malin BJÖRK, Marisa MATIAS, Merja KYLLÖNEN, Miguel URBÁN CRESPO, João PIMENTA LOPES, Martina ANDERSON, Matt CARTHY, Lynn BOYLAN, Liadh NÍ RIADA, Nikolaos CHOUNTIS, João FERREIRA, Miguel VIEGAS

Proposal for a regulation
Title 1

rejects the Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL establishing the European Defence Industrial Development Programme aiming at supporting the competitiveness and innovative capacity of the EU defence industry

2017/11/24
Committee: AFET

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point d a (new)

(da) the following point (f) is added: (f) conduct a substantial part of transport operations in the Member State of establishment, using the vehicles referred to in point (b)

2018/02/01
Committee: EMPL

2017/0123(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4 – point a – point iii (new)

Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009
Article 6 paragraph 1

(xiia) cabotage

2018/02/01
Committee: EMPL

2017/0123(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8 a (new)

Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009
Article 12 paragraph 2

~~2. Until 31 December 2014,~~(8a) In Article 12(2) the first subparagraph is amended as follows: "2. Member States shall carry out checks at least every 52 years to verify that undertakings fulfil the requirements laid down in Article 3. " Or. en (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32009R1071&from=EN)

2018/02/01
Committee: EMPL

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Patrick LE HYARIC, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2

(2) Having evaluated the effectiveness and efficiency of the implementation of the existing set of Union social rules in road transport, and in particular Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council9 , certain deficiencies were identified in the implementation of the existing legal framework. Unclear and unsuitable rules on ~~weekly rest,~~ resting facilities, breaks in multi-manning and the absence of rules on the return of drivers to their home, lead to diverging interpretations and enforcement practices in the Member States. Several Member States recently adopted unilateral measures further increasing legal uncertainty and unequal treatment of drivers and operators. __________________ 9 Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the harmonisation of certain social legislation relating to road transport and amending Council Regulations (EEC) No 3821/85 and (EC) No 2135/98 and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3820/85 (OJ L 102, 11.4.2006, p. 1).

2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2017/0122(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Patrick LE HYARIC, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6

(6) Drivers engaged in long-distance international transport operations spend long periods away from their home. ~~The current requirements on the regular weekly rest unnecessarily prolong those periods. It is thus desirable to adapt the~~It is thus desirable to enforce the application of the existing provision on the regular weekly rest in such a way that it is easier for drivers to carry out transport operations in compliance with the existing rules and to reach their home for a regular weekly rest, and be fully compensated for all reduced weekly rest periods. It is also necessary ~~to provide~~ that operators organise the work of drivers in such a way that these periods away from home are not excessively long.

2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2017/0122(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Patrick LE HYARIC, João PIMENTA LOPES, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11

(11) To enhance cost-effectiveness of enforcement of the social rules the potential of the current and future tachograph systems should be fully exploited, starting with the installation of the digital tachograph in registered vehicles before 2020. Therefore the functionalities of the tachograph should be improved to allow for more precise positioning, in particular during international transport operations.

2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2017/0122(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Patrick LE HYARIC, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11 a (new)

(11a) As new models of transport of good are expanding, the use of vehicles for this tasks with a permissible mass of less than 3,5 tonnes, may be included within the scope of Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 in order to improve working conditions of drivers and road safety.

2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL

Patrick LE HYARIC, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1

Member States shall not apply points (b) and (c) of the first subparagraph of Article 3 (1) of Directive 96/71/EC to drivers in the road transport sector employed by undertakings referred to in Article 1(3)(a) of that Directive, when performing international carriage operations as defined by Regulations 1072/2009 and 1073/2009 where the period of postThe provisions of Directive 96/71/EC and subsequently of the legal act amending this directive as well as the enforcement Directive 2017/67/EU shall apply to transport undertakings performing cabotage operations, as well as to the incoming or outgoing carriage of goods by roads as one leg of a combined transport journey, as laid down in Council Directive 92/106/EEC on the establishment of common rules for certaing t~~o their territory to perform these operations is shorter than or equal to 3 days during a period of one calend~~ypes of combined transport of goods between Member States. The provisions of those directives shall also apply to the international transport as long as the posting conditions specified in Article 1(3) of Directive 96/71/EC and in the legal act amending this directive are m~~onth~~et.

2018/02/05
Committee: EMPL

2017/0121(COD)

Patrick LE HYARIC, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – introductory part

4. Member States may ~~only~~at least impose the following administrative requirements and control measures:

2018/02/05
Committee: EMPL

2017/0121(COD)

Patrick LE HYARIC, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point a

(a) for each posted driver and each posting, an obligation for the road transport operator established in another Member State to send a posting declaration to the national competent authorities at the latest at the commencement of the posting, in ~~electronic form,~~a standardized electronic form developed and made available by the Commission in anll official languages of the ~~host Member State or in English~~Union, containing ~~only~~at least the following information:

2018/02/05
Committee: EMPL

2017/0121(COD)

Patrick LE HYARIC, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, João PIMENTA LOPES, Merja KYLLÖNEN

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point a – point vi a (new)

(via) Information about the posted drivers would be at least the following: the identity, the country of residence, the country where the employment contract is based, the country of payment of social contributions and the social security number;

2018/02/05
Committee: EMPL

2017/0121(COD)

Patrick LE HYARIC, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Merja KYLLÖNEN

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point b

(b) an obligation for the ~~driver to keep and make available, where requested at the roadside control, in paper or electronic form, a copy of the posting declaration and~~road transport operator to provide the posted driver with the following documents for the purpose of roadside control: (i) a copy of the posting declaration in paper or electronic form; (ii) the evidence of the transport operation taking place in the host Member State~~, such as an~~ as referred in the legal act amending Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council; (iii) the electronic consignment note (e- CMR) ~~or evidence referr~~(iv) a copy of the employment contract translated into ~~in Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council.~~one of the official languages of the host Member State, or into another language accepted by the host Member State; (v) a copy of the payslips for the last two months, in paper or electronic form;

2018/02/05
Committee: EMPL

2017/0121(COD)

Patrick LE HYARIC, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Merja KYLLÖNEN

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point d

(d) an obligation for the driver to keep and make available, where requested at the roadside control, in paper or electronic form, a copy of the employment contract or an equivalent document within the meaning of Article 3 of Council Directive 91/533/EEC20 , translated into one of the official languages of the host Member State or into English; __________________ 20 Council Directive 91/533/EEC of 14 October 1991 on an employer's obligation to inform employees of the conditions applicable to the contract or employment relationship (OJ L 288, 18.10.1991, p. 32)deleted

2018/02/05
Committee: EMPL

2017/0121(COD)

Patrick LE HYARIC, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Merja KYLLÖNEN

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point e

(e) an obligation for the driver to make available, where requested at the roadside control, in paper or electronic form, a copy of payslips for last two months; during the roadside check, the driver shall be allowed to contact the head office, the transport manager or any other person or entity which may provide this copy;deleted

2018/02/05
Committee: EMPL

2017/0121(COD)

Patrick LE HYARIC, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, João PIMENTA LOPES, Merja KYLLÖNEN

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point f

(f) an obligation for the road transport operator to deliver, after the period of posting, in paper or electronic form, copies of documents referred to in points (b), (c) and (e), at the request of the authorities of the host Member State within ~~a reasonable period of time~~five days from the request;

2018/02/05
Committee: EMPL

2017/0121(COD)

Patrick LE HYARIC, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, João PIMENTA LOPES, Merja KYLLÖNEN

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Evidence referred to in Article 2, paragraph 4 (a), (b) and (c) shall be kept on board the vehicle and presented to the authorised inspecting officers of the Member State hosting the posted driver within the duration of the roadside check.

2018/02/05
Committee: EMPL

2017/0121(COD)

Patrick LE HYARIC, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, João PIMENTA LOPES, Merja KYLLÖNEN

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. To prove that the provisions of Directive 96/71/EC and subsequently of the legal act amending this directive, as well as the provisions of Directive 2014/67/EU are met, during roadside checks the competent authorities of the Member State of the posting shall verify the following: (a) the tachograph data of the current day and that of the previous 56 days; (b) the electronic consignment notes of the current day and of the past 5-6 days; (c) the documents referred to in Article 2(1)(a), (b) and (c). The roadside check authorities shall transmit all information referred to in the above paragraph to the competent authorities of the Member State of posting, for an assessment of compliance with the legal acts referred to in the above paragraph. In order to facilitate the implementation, the application of this directive, the competent authorities of the Member States shall cooperate with mutual assistance and all relevant information, within the conditions laid down in Directive 2014/67/EU and in Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009. For the purpose to increase the effectiveness of cross-border enforcement and of targeted checks, the Member States shall provide access in real time to all relevant authorised inspecting authorities to the Internal Market Information System (IMI), established by Regulation (EU) No 1024/2012, to the national electronic registers established by Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009, to posting declaration referred to in Article 2.4 of this Directive and to any other relevant databases.

2018/02/05
Committee: EMPL

2016/2271(INI)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Patrick LE HYARIC, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas the information and communications technology (ICT) sector currently employs six million people in Europe and whereas 40 % of European workers have insufficient digital skills; whereas a large gender gap exists in employment and training in the (ICT) sector, with strong negative implications for equality in the labour market;

2017/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2016/2271(INI)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Patrick LE HYARIC, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Stresses that the digitisation of industry ~~represents a major challenge in terms of the organisation of work and therefore requires targeted responses regarding~~is profoundly transforming work relations by accelerating many of the tendencies (out-sourcing and sub- contracting of industrial production and services, irregular and on-demand working patterns...) that were already becoming prevalent in the past decades; highlights that these transformations require Members States and the Commission, together with the social partners, to review legislation in the fields of employment, social and education policies, a~~s well as the provision of up-to-date infrastructure~~nd to strengthen collective bargaining mechanisms; notes with concern that the lack of appropriate action has already resulted in an increase in precarious and atypical work in the industrial field, including such worrying developments as the use of zero-hour contracts or the spike in "bogus" self- employment and non-paid over-time in many Member States; highlights that the digitalisation of industry must be shaped so that it contributes to improved working conditions, including higher-skilled quality employment and reduced working- times;

2017/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2016/2271(INI)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Patrick LE HYARIC, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Recognises the opportunities related to the digitisation of industry; stresses, however, that new forms of work must ~~comply with~~not be used to circumvent current labour and social legislation a~~nd guarantee~~s regards the protection of worker's~~’ and consumer~~ rights;

2017/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2016/2271(INI)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Patrick LE HYARIC, Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6 a. Notes that the digitalisation of industry has ambiguous effects on the quality of work, since it may also lead to de-skilling of workers, which become mere appendixes of robotised production systems or digitalised platforms, with negative effects also on workplace democracy; highlights the need to strengthen the role of workers' representatives in shaping digital transformations, by strengthening their rights of consultation and participation in everyday management, as key to ensure a fair digital transition;

2017/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2016/2271(INI)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Patrick LE HYARIC, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Stresses the need to identify together with the social partners potential occupational health and safety risks stemming from the digitisation of industry ~~and to take appropriate measures~~, including new psychological risks and the effects of robot-human interaction, and to take appropriate measures including the recognition of such rights as the right to disconnect.

2017/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Miguel VIEGAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Underlines that modern societies are facing crucial social challenges that involve inequality issues; stresses that dealing with these challenges is ~~both~~ a responsibility ~~for~~ public ~~policy-making and an opportunity for private investors~~services and policy - making.

2017/07/03
Committee: ECON

2016/2269(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Miguel VIEGAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Notes the crucial role of tax policies and their redistributive function in correcting inequalities of income and wealth;Highlights in this regard that tax evasion and elision and tax dumping are not just detrimental to public finances and policies but also have a highly assymetrical impact between higher and lower levels of income;Tax evasion and dumping favour a race to bottom on corporate taxes which harms public services and shifts the tax burden toward labour income.

2017/07/03
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)

-A. whereas the Banking Union has further weakened Member States’ control over their banking systems, and this situation is particularly serious in the Member States which are more peripheral and worst hit by the economic and financial crisis;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A a (new)

-Aa. whereas the Banking Union, with its unique bank supervision and resolution methods, is a political way of enforcing the centralisation and capital concentration process in the European Union, and whereas it has been used to promote and carry out merger and acquisition operations in the banking sectors of a number of Member States and to concentrate deposits and investments in the hands of Europe’s financial behemoths, exacerbating the ‘too big to fail’ problem;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A b (new)

-Ab. whereas the Banking Union has given rise to a pan-European banking oligopoly, a development which runs counter to one of its supposed main objectives – combating the ‘too big to fail’ problem;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A c (new)

-Ac. whereas the Banking Union guarantees stability for big capital, ensuring that public funds continue to be channelled for purposes which serve big capital’s own interests;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the establishment of the Banking Union hwas ~~been a fundamental~~one of the most important steps taken ~~towards~~following the c~~omple~~reation of ~~a genuin~~the Economic and Monetary Union;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the new resolution regime that entered into force in January 2016 represented a change of paradigm;, and whereas ~~market participants need to fully understand and adapt to the new system~~in practice it prevents Member States from nationalising banks regarded as systemically important (i.e. those covered by the single dispute settlement mechanism), whilst doing nothing to obviate the need for a Member State to inject money into a systemically important bank which runs into difficulties;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)

-1. Rejects the theory that the Banking Union will necessarily resolve the ‘too big to fail’ problem and strengthen the banking and financial sector; considers that the class-motivated nature of this project and the political- ideological approach it involves will not prevent the continued use of public money to bail out the banks’ major shareholders, nor will it stop banks engaging in financial manipulation or speculation;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 a (new)

-1a. Stresses that, given the importance of the financial system, and in view of current and recent experiences, capital concentration policies in the banking sector must be ended, and control of the banks and the financial system must be placed in public hands; takes the view that these two measures are prerequisites for guaranteeing that financial resources used to stimulate the economy foster the development of countries and improve the living standards of their people and workers;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Notes that the ~~‘too-big-to-fail’ issue still needs to be addressed~~Banking Union will not help to resolve the ‘too-big-to-fail’ issue, as it furthers concentration in the banking sector and, consequently, increases the number of institutions that are ‘too big to fail’;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24a. Calls for the Banking Union and its mechanisms to be dissolved;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2114(REG)

Rina Ronja KARI

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 15 – paragraph 1

The President, Vice-Presidents and Quaestors shall be elected by secret ballot, in accordance with Rule 182. Nominations shall be with consent. They may only be made by a political group or by at least 40 Members. However, if the number of nominations does not exceed the number of seats to be filled, the candidates may be elected by acclamation. Members may serve a maximum of two terms in the office of President pursuant to Rule 19(1).

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

2016/2114(REG)

Rina Ronja KARI

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 22 – paragraph 2

2. The duties of the President shall be to open, suspend and close sittings; to rule on the admissibility of amendments, and on questions to the Council and Commission~~, and on the conformity of reports with these Rules~~; to ensure observance of these Rules, maintain order, call upon speakers, close debates, put matters to the vote and announce the results of votes; and to refer to committees any communications that concern them.

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

2016/2114(REG)

Rina Ronja KARI

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 37 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 a (new)

After the adoption of the Commission Work Programme, the Parliament, the Council and the Commission shall, pursuant to paragraph 7 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 April 2016 on Better Law-Making, exchange views and agree on a joint declaration on annual interinstitutional programming setting out broad objectives and priorities. Before negotiating with the Council and the Commission on the joint declaration, the President shall hold an exchange of views with the Conference of Presidents and the Conference of Committee Chairs regarding Parliament's broad objectives and priorities. Before signing the joint declaration, the President shall seek the approval of the Conference of Presidents. If one of more political groups representing at least one- tenth of the component members of Parliament object to the draft joint declaration, it shall be put to the vote at the next part-session.

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

2016/2114(REG)

Rina Ronja KARI

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 52 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1

Motions for resolutions ~~contained in own- initiative reports~~submitted to Parliament shall be examined by Parliament under the short presentation procedure set out in Rule 151. Amendments to such motions for resolutions shall only be admissible for consideration in plenary if tabled by the rapporteur to take account of new information or by at least one-tenth of the Members of Parliament. Political groups may table alternative motions for resolutions in accordance with Rule 170(4). Rule 176 and Rule 180 shall apply to the committee's motion for a resolution and amendments thereto. Rule 180 shall also apply to the single vote on alternative motions for resolutions.

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

2016/2114(REG)

Rina Ronja KARI

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 62 – paragraph 1

1. In the period following the adoption by Parliament of its position on a proposal by the Commission, the Chair and the rapporteur of the committee responsible shall monitor the progress of the proposal over the course of the procedure leading to its adoption by the Council, in particular to ensure that the undertakings given by the Council or the Commission to Parliament concerning its position are properly observed. They shall report back to the committee regularly.

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

2016/2114(REG)

Rina Ronja KARI

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 79 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1

If the European Council decides to convene a Convention, the representatives of Parliament shall be appointed by Parliament upon a proposal by the Conference of Presidents. Where possible, it shall comprise at least one member from each of the political groups that wishes to participate.

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

2016/2114(REG)

Rina Ronja KARI

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 94 – paragraph 1 – indent 4

– the bodies responsible for the budgetary management of legally independent entities which carry out Union tasks, insofar as their activities are subject to legal provisions requiring discharge by the European Parliament. The discharge to such bodies shall be dealt with in separate reports.

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

2016/2114(REG)

Rina Ronja KARI

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 118 a (new)

Rule 118a Multiannual programming Upon the appointment of a new Commission, the Parliament, the Council and the Commission shall, pursuant to paragraph 5 of the Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making, exchange views and agree on joint conclusions on multiannual programming. To that effect, and before negotiating with the Council and the Commission on the joint conclusions on multiannual programming, the President shall hold an exchange of views with the Conference of Presidents regarding the principal policy objectives and priorities for the new legislative term. That exchange of views shall take into consideration, inter alia, the priorities presented by the President- elect of the Commission, as well as the replies given by Commissioners-designate during the hearings provided for in Rule 118. Before signing the joint conclusions, the President shall seek the approval of the Conference of Presidents. If one of more political groups representing at least one- tenth of the component members of Parliament object to the draft joint declaration, it shall be put to the vote at the next part-session.

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

2016/2114(REG)

Rina Ronja KARI

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 130 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 a (new)

Where a question has not been answered adequately, the author may submit a follow-up question. The scope of the follow-up question shall not deviate in substance from the original question. This subparagraph shall apply mutatis mutandis to questions submitted under Rule 131.

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

2016/2114(REG)

Rina Ronja KARI

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 178 – paragraph 1

1. As a general rule, Parliament shall vote by ~~show of hands~~roll call vote. This paragraph shall not apply to the reports provided for in Rule 8(2) and Rule 9(3), (6) and (8) in the context of procedures relating to the immunity of a Member. The roll call vote shall be taken using the electronic voting system. Where the latter cannot be used for technical reasons, the roll shall be called in alphabetical order, beginning with the name of a Member drawn by lot. The President shall be the last to be called to vote.

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

2016/2114(REG)

Rina Ronja KARI

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 208 – paragraph 1

1. Any Member, regardless of which committee he or she belongs to, may table amendments for consideration in committee.

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

2016/2062(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Kostadinka KUNEVA

Aa. whereas the aviation sector in the EU faces fierce competition from third- country operators, including operators, which use low-cost labour and circumvention of international labour conventions as well as state aid to dump prices; whereas this encourages EU operators to reduce labour costs and thus gradually undermines social standards in the Member States and the EU;

2016/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2016/2062(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas the increasing use of precarious employment models in aviation inside the Union further creates downwards pressure on social and labour rights and has adverse effects on health and safety; whereas high-quality employment and training is directly linked to the safety and security of passengers and staff;

2016/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2016/2062(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Kostadinka KUNEVA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the Commission’s communication on ‘An Aviation Strategy for Europe’; regrets, however, the lack of concrete initiatives to curb social dumping in the sector; stresses that action is needed to reinforce the social agenda and maintain high-quality jobs in aviation; believes that ensuring a level playing field in the sector in the EU and globally is crucial;

2016/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2016/2062(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Highlights the importance of strong, independent social partners in the aviation sector, an institutionalised social dialogue and the participation of employees in company matters; underlines that the rights to form and to join a trade union and to undertake collective action are fundamental rights in the Union;

2016/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2016/2062(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Insists that direct employment must ~~remain the usual~~be the standard form of employment in aviation in order to ensure safety and high- quality jobs; stresses that in particular airline pilots cannot be considered to be independent of the companies for which they work; further calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that workers' rights are safeguarded in the sense of Directive 2001/23/EC in the event of acquisition or transfer of company;

2016/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2016/2062(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Commission to come forward with legislative initiatives to prevent flags of convenience, rule shopping and unfair competition in aviation, including a ban on zero-hours contracts and pay-to-fly schemes; stresses that bogus self-employment has significant consequences with regard to the social protection of workers and safety and has an adverse effect on the level playing field; insist therefore that the Commission and Member States clarify the provisions, drawing on ILO Convention 198, so that a distinction can be drawn between employees and self- employed workers in order to put an effective stop to bogus self-employment;

2016/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2016/2062(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Stresses the need to prevent social dumping and possible illegal use of ~~foreign workers on board EU-registered planes~~third- country workers on board EU-registered planes; believes that third-country workers on board EU-registered planes must have the same social and labour rights as those applying to the operators' employees residing inside the EU;

2016/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2016/2062(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Insists that any agreements in the field of EU External Aviation Policy must include respect for human rights and ~~fundamental ILO convention~~include all relevant ILO conventions; in this regard, insists that Member States have the right to deny airlines landing rights on their territory if non-EU operators do not respect human rights or exercise unfair competition, including respect for workers' rights;

2016/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2016/2062(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Member States to invest in mandatory education and training in all parts of the aviation value chain; recognizes the importance of establishing minimum requirements for education and training in the EU in order to ensure a high level of quality and safety in the aviation sector;

2016/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2016/2062(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Member States to guarantee all workers in the aviation sector decent working conditions, including health and safety at work; stresses that this includes protection against exposure to particle pollution in airports.

2016/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2016/2038(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)

-A. whereas capitalistic globalisation and the free movement of capital, the latter triggered in EU by the establishment of the single market, created the perfect conditions for the design of base erosion and profit shifting schemes and, at the same time, enshrined a structural bias in policy making to the benefit of capital owners and MNEs; whereas this has been promoting divergences and asymmetries between countries and social classes;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A a (new)

-Aa. whereas the introduction of the single market in the EU has proved, on one hand, highly beneficial to MNEs, and, on the other, highly prejudicial to the desirable economic and social convergence between Member States;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A b (new)

-Ab. whereas while governments issued tax rulings favouring MNEs they were at the same time increasing labour taxes, asking for wage reductions and cutting public services (namely social security, health and education);

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the ‘Panama Papers’ and ‘LuxLeaks’ scandals, as revealed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), have shown the urgent need for ~~the EU and its Member States to~~ fighting tax evasion and avoidance and act for increased cooperation and transparency in order to re-establish tax justice, not only among Member States, but also globally;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the scale of tax evasion and avoidance is estimated by the Commission to be EUR 1 trillion19 a year, while the OECD estimates20 the revenue loss at global level to be between 4 % and 10 % of all corporate income tax revenue, representing between EUR 75 and EUR 180 billion annually, at 2014 levels; whereas these are only estimates and the actual figures might be even higher; whereas the costs to society of such practices are evident; whereas tax fraud, tax evasion and aggressive tax planning erode the tax base of Member States and thereby lead to loss of tax revenues and, therefore, negatively impact governments' capacity to provide adequate levels of public services, investments and social security; __________________ 19 http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/taxati on/tax_fraud_evasion/a_huge_problem/ind ex_en.htm, European Commission, 10 May 2016. 20 Measuring and Monitoring BEPS, Action 11 - 2015 Final Report, OECD/G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Project.

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas these scandals highlight the failure of the current economic system, but also its usury and greed, and show the urgency of putting in practice fair tax regimes and ending tax havens, but above all the need to revolutionize the economic system;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas some specific tax jurisdictions actively contribute to designing aggressive tax policies on behalf of MNEs who thereby avoid taxation; whereas the statutory and/or effective corporate tax rate in some jurisdictions is close or equal to zero per cent; whereas the complexity of different tax systems create a lack of transparency which is globally harmful;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas some financial institutions have played a role as intermediaries in setting up complex legal structures leading to aggressive tax planning schemes used by MNEs, as evidenced in ‘LuxLeaks’ and the ‘Panama Papers’; whereas legal loopholes and lack of coordination, cooperation and transparency between countries create an environment that facilitates tax evasion; whereas banks could have played a positive role in combating the erosion of national tax bases by, for instance, using the means of exchange of information at their disposal in a more cooperative spirit; whereas this shows the need for a firmly regulated and public financial sector in order to guarantee that it works effectively for tackling BEPS;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Recital T a (new)

Ta. whereas patent boxes and similar preferential tools are just one element fuelling downward pressure on corporate tax rates; whereas the Treaties and EU legislation, such as the Parent-Subsidiary and Interest and Royalties Directives, create a problematic asymmetry by prioritising the free movement of capital and business establishment without the necessary policy instruments to ensure coordination, cooperation and transparency in corporate taxation; whereas this is exemplified by ECJ judgements which have prevented Member States from applying robust defence measures (e.g. CFC rules or exit taxation) against aggressive tax planning on the grounds of the fundamental freedoms of the internal market1a; whereas this type of integration enshrines a structural bias to the benefit of investors and corporations operating across borders; __________________ 1aFor instance, judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 12 September 2006. Cadbury Schweppes plc and Cadbury Schweppes Overseas Ltd v Commissioners of Inland Revenue. and case C-9/02 Hughes de Lasteyrie du Saillant v. Ministère de l'Économie, des Finances et de l'Industrie, OJ C 94, 17.04.2004

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Recital T b (new)

Tb. whereas a particularly pressing problem arises through the outright lack of any harmonised approach among Member States on the issue of outbound payments; whereas in this current, uncoordinated framework, the combination of a removal of source taxation under the Interest and Royalties and Parent-Subsidiary Directives with a lack of withholding taxes on dividend, licence and royalty fee and interest outbound payments in some Member States creates loopholes whereby profits can effectively flow from any Member State out of the Union without being subject to tax at least once;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Recital V

V. whereas it was only five months after the beginning of the term of its Special Committee that some Room documents and minutes of the Code of Conduct Group were made available to MEPs in camera on EP premises; whereas, while additional documents have been made available, some documents and minutes still remain undisclosed or missing; whereas the Commission stated at an informal meeting that it has made all the documents originating from the Commission and at its disposal available to the Special Committee and any further relevant meeting documents originating from the Commission , should they ever have been in the Commission’s possession, must therefore have been lost;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Recital V a (new)

Va. whereas, in addition to untraceable Commission documents, a large number of CoCG room documents, originating from the CoCG Chair, Member States or other stakeholders and in the Commission's possession, have not been made available to MEPs yet;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Recital X

X. whereas the OECD, the UN and other international organisations are interested parties in the fight against corporate tax base erosion; whereas there is a need to ensure global harmonisation of practices and implementation of common standards such as those proposed by the OECD vis-à-vis the BEPS package; whereas such global standards should be negotiated and monitored by an intergovernmental forum at UN level with less selective membership than the OECD or G20 so as to allow all countries, including developing countries, to take part on an equal footing; whereas the meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors held in Washington on 14 and 15 April 2016 concluded in favour of initiating implementation of the BEPS measures, and has called for full financial transparency, especially as regards beneficial ownership;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Recital AB

AB. whereas a number of measures proposed by the Commission are a direct follow-up of Parliament’s resolutions of 16 December 2015 and 25 November 2015; whereas important initiatives included therein have thus now been put forward by the Commission, at least partially; whereas other critical measures called for in said resolutions are still lacking, such as, amongst others, a reform of the fiscal state aid framework, effective legal provisions for the protection of whistleblowers and measures to curb assistance to and promotion of aggressive tax planning by advisors and the financial sector;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Recital AE

AE. whereas the work of the Special Committee was hindered to some extent by the fact that out of 7 MNCs invited, only 4 agreed on first invitation to appear before its members (see Annex 2); whereas insufficient exchanges were held with political representatives of Member States with a view to discussing and assessing Member States' tax policies as well as political positions in Council fora dealing with tax matters, both of which having the potential to impede necessary coordination, corporation and transparency in corporate tax matters in the EU;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Recital AE a (new)

AEa. whereas, due to the continued refusal of the Commission and the Council to consent to the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament on the detailed provisions governing the exercise of the European Parliament's right of inquiry, the European Parliament's special and inquiry committees still enjoy insufficient competencies, such as the right to summon witnesses and enforce document access, when compared to Member State parliaments and the US Congress;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Welcomes the Anti-tax Avoidance Package (ATAP) published by the Commission on 28 January 2016, as well as all legislative proposals and communications already undertaken afterwards; calls on the Council to reach a unanimous position on the ATAP and keep the Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive as one single directive; welcomes the initiative to create a common Union list of uncooperative jurisdictions in the External Strategy for Effective Taxation; reiterates its position that more and binding action is needed to effectively and systematically combat BEPS; invites the Commission to consider extending the interest limitation rule to licence fee and royalty costs and making these costs' tax deductibility contingent on the level of effective taxation of the corresponding revenue in the country of destination; calls on Member States to particularly agree on strong, comprehensive and enforceable CFC rules and to discard rules which are limited to somehow defined non-genuine arrangements the burden of proof for which is put on tax authorities;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Notes with concern the lack of measures that are on the table to fight against tax havens, in this sense draws attention to the fact that increasing transparency will not be enough to deal with this problem;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Urges the Commission to come forward with a proposal for a common corporate consolidated tax base (CCCTB) which would provide a comprehensive solution to harmful tax practices within the Union; believes that the consolidation of the CCCTB is essential and is becoming increasingly urgent; calls on the Member States to promptly reach an agreement on this and to swiftly implement it; recalls that without effective minimum corporate tax rate floors, a CCCTB is likely to amplify downward pressure on rates as the only remaining legal tool for Member States to offer more generous conditions to taxpayers and that this could also lead to more business relocation with ensuing negative labour market effects; further underlines that additional efforts may be needed to curb BEPS risks between EU Member States and third countries arising from the transfer pricing framework, particularly the pricing of intangibles, and that global alternatives to the current arm's length principle should be actively investigated and tested for the potential to ensure a fairer and more effective global tax system;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Welcomes the agreement in Council on 8 December 2015 on automatic exchange of information on tax rulings; stresses that the ~~Commission should have full access to the new Union database of tax ruling~~new Union database of tax rulings should retroactively contain all valid rulings in line with Parliament's earlier position, and that those rulings should be made public after affected corporations had the chance to request redactions of parts that constitute well- defined and actual commercial secrets; insists on the need for a comprehensive and efficient database of all rulings having potential cross-border effect;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Is concerned by media reports that Member States have concluded rulings orally in order to escape their obligations under the automatic information exchange framework; emphasises that any such binding or de facto binding commitment on tax matters by a public authority shall be subject to automatic information exchange and documented in writing;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Strongly emphasises that the work of whistleblowers is crucial for revealing scandals of tax evasion and avoidance, and that, therefore, protection for whistleblowers needs to be legally guaranteed and strengthened EU-wide; notes that the European Court of Human Rights and the Council of Europe have undertaken work on this issue; considers that courts and Member States should ensure the protection of legitimate business secrets while in no way hindering, hampering or stifling the capacity of whistleblowers and journalists to document and reveal illegal, wrongful and harmful practices ~~where this is clearly and overwhelmingly~~ in the public interest; regrets that the Commission has no plans for prompt action on the matter and this despite explicit support for the Parliament's calls on this matter by Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in the 17 September TAXE hearing;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Asks Member States to implement measures against MNEs that have either holdings or subsidiaries in tax havens, in this sense calls on governments to set a good example by forbidding public companies to have affiliates in tax havens;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Commission to come up as soon as possible with a common Union list of uncooperative jurisdictions (i.e. a ‘'blacklist of tax havens’'), based on sound and objective criteria, including full implementation of OECD recommendations, tax transparency measures, BEPS actions and multilateral Automatic Exchange of Information standards as well as the elements used to define 'low tax or secrecy jurisdictions' in Parliament's report on Commission proposal 2016/0011 (CNS), and welcomes the Commission’'s intention to reach an agreement on such a list within the next six months; calls on the Member States to endorse that agreement by the end of 2016 and on the government of the United States of America to fully implement the results of multilateral processes instead of currently used non-reciprocal standards; urges the Commission and Member States to support a global process for listing problematic jurisdiction at UN level; underlines, however, that developing countries which have not actively taken part in the BEPS process and which constitute no significant global BEPS risks by means of their tax systems should not be blacklisted on the basis of not implementing certain BEPS actions, but should equally commit to tax transparency and multilateral cooperation in tax matters;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls for a concrete Union regulatory framework for sanctions against the blacklisted non-cooperative jurisdictions, including, but not limited to, the possibility of reviewing and, in the last resort, suspending free trade agreements, imposing trade or other tariffs, in conformity with WTO-rules, at a level equal to the damage done by foregone tax revenue and prohibiting access to Union funds; calls for the sanctions also to apply to companies, banks, and accountancy and law firms, and to tax advisers proven to be involved with those jurisdictions;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the Member States to renegotiate their bilateral tax treaties with third countries in order to introduce anti- abuse clauses a~~nd thus prevent ‘treaty shopping’~~gainst 'treaty shopping' as well as the possibility of withholding taxes in cases of insufficient minimum effective taxation, a distribution of taxation rights between source and resident countries reflective of economic substance and a corresponding definition of permanent establishment; stresses furthermore that this process would be expedited considerably if the Commission were mandated by Member States to negotiate such tax treaties on behalf of the Union;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Recommends introducing an EU- wide withholding tax by Member States, in order to ensure that profits generated within the Union are taxed at least once before leaving it; notes that such a proposal should include a refund system to prevent double taxation; underlines that such a general withholding tax system based on the credit method has the advantage of preventing double non-taxation and BEPS without creating instances of double taxation and without relying on a selective blacklisting approach which entails significant diplomatic challenges when thoroughly applied as confirmed by several official interlocutors during committee delegations and hearings;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Calls on the Commission to put forward proposals for binding Union legislation on patent boxes that goes beyond the OECD Modified Nexus Approach, so as to prohibit the misuse of patent boxes and to ensure that if and when used they are linked to genuine economic activity; calls on Member States, given the overwhelming economic and collective action rationale against patent boxes and similar preferential regimes, to phase such regimes progressively out and replace them with less distortive measures of R&D promotion;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Calls on the Member States to integrate a Minimum Effective Taxation (MET) clause in the Interests and Royalties Directive and to ensure that no exemptions are granted; objects to proposals made in the Council of tying the MET clause to existing patent and knowledge boxes as those may not ensure what could be reasonably deemed MET;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20a. Calls in this context for a wider review of EU legislation and the application and interpretation of the fundamental freedoms of the internal market with a view to systematically preventing instances of double non- taxation and harmful tax competition which arise as unintended consequences of the facilitation of intra-Union capital movement;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33

33. Notes the continuing lack of transparency and effectiveness of the working methods of the Code of Conduct Group, which is preventing any concrete potential improvement in terms of tackling harmful tax practices;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 k (new)

35k. Stresses that political office holders which bear responsibility for breaches of community law as detailed in the TAXE 1 report or for the obstruction of progress against harmful tax practices as evidenced by the Code of Conduct Group documents should take full responsibility for their conduct including considering resignation from their office where appropriate in order to restore trust of citizens in representatives of the European Union and its Member States;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36

36. Calls on the Commission to include in the framework of the European Semester reporting of what measures the Member States take towards effective taxation and to enhance efforts against harmful cross-border tax practices and tax evasion, including recommendations for strengthening national tax administrations;deleted

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40

40. Calls on the Union, the G20, the OECD and the UN to cooperate further to promote global guidelines that will also be beneficial to developing countries; reiterates its conclusions from report 2015/2058(INI) that the UN Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters shall be transformed into a genuine intergovernmental body equipped with additional resources, and centralising efforts aimed at reforming the global tax system, ensuring that developing countries can participate equally in the global reform of existing international tax rules;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44

44. Calls for the establishment of a public Union register of beneficial ownership, accessible in an open data format, which would form the basis of a global initiative in this regard; stresses the vital role of institutions such as the OECD and the UN in this connection;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2038(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46

46. Stresses the need for a comprehensive ~~EU/US~~international approach on the implementation of OECD standards and on beneficial ownership; stresses furthermore that good governance clauses and the full BEPS action plan should be included ~~in the Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership (TTIP)~~all relevant economic international agreements in order to ensure a level playing field, create more value for society as a whole and combat tax fraud and avoidance;

2016/06/02
Committee: TAX2

2016/2010(INI)

Patrick LE HYARIC, Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Notes that in recent years technological advances and digitalisation have transformed the postal services sector and that the modernisation and diversification of postal services has had a major ~~impa~~adverse effect on employment in the sector; notes that 300 000 jobs in the sector have been lost in the last 20 years, all operators taken together;

2016/05/09
Committee: EMPL

2016/2010(INI)

Patrick LE HYARIC, Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Notes~~Deplores the fact that the number of part-time workers, agency workers and bogus self- employed persons in the sector has increased and that the general trend is towards more ~~flexible~~precarious employment contracts; notes that opening the market up to competition has not improved workers’ conditions;

2016/05/09
Committee: EMPL

2016/2010(INI)

Patrick LE HYARIC, Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Points out that ~~jobs have been created~~, as a result of restructuring and the introduction of new activities in the postal services sector and ~~that,~~ in keeping with these new circumstances, workers need to learn new skills; draws attention to the importance of training, and further training ~~and retraining~~;

2016/05/09
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Recital 7

(7) The activities covered by this Directive should concern the regulated professions falling within the scope of Directive 2005/36/EC. This Directive should apply in addition to Directive 2005/36/EC and without prejudice to other provisions laid down in a separate Union act concerning access to, and the exercise of a given regulated profession. Following Article 168 TFEU, professions in the health and social service sector should be excluded from the scope of this directive.

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Recital 9

(9) ~~The burden of proof of justification and proportionality lies on the Member States.~~ The reasons for regulation invoked by a Member State by way of justification should ~~thus~~ be accompanied by an analysis of the ~~appropriateness and~~ proportionality of the measure adopted by that State ~~and by specific evidence substantiating its arguments~~, substantiating its arguments.In accordance with the Court of Justice, Member States must be allowed discretion in the election of the measure and level of protection of the public interest, which may vary from one Member State to another.

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Recital 10

(10) It is appropriate to monitor the proportionality of ~~the~~ provisions restricting access to or pursuit of regulated professions ~~on a regular basis and with a frequency appropriate to the regulation concern~~after they are adopted. A review of the proportionality of restrictive national legislation in the area of regulated professions should ~~be based not only on the objective of that legislation at the time of its adoption, but also on the effects of the legislation, assessed after its adoption. The assess~~not exceed the requirements of ~~the proportionality of the national legislation should be based on developments found to have occurred in the area since the legislation was adopted~~Article 59(3) of Directive 2005/36/EC.

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Recital 11

(11) Member States should carry out proportionality assessments in an objective and independent manner, including where a profession is regulated indirectly, by giving a particular professional body the power to do so. In particular, while the assessment of the local authorities, regulatory bodies or professional organisations, whose greater proximity to local conditions and specialised knowledge could in certain cases make them better placed to identify the best way of meeting the public interest objectives, there is particular reason for concern in cases where the policy choice made by those authorities or bodies provides benefits to established operators at the expense of new market entrants.

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Recital 12

(12) Where the taking-up and pursuit of certain employed or self-employed activities are conditional on complying with certain provisions relating to specific professional qualifications, laid down directly or indirectly by the Member States, it is necessary to ensure that such provisions are justified by public interest objectives, such as those within the meaning of the Treaty, namely public policy, public security and public health or by overriding reasons of general interest~~, recognised as such in the case-law of the Court of Justice~~. It is important to ensure that public interest objectives are adequately identified in order to determine the intensity of the regulation. For example, in order to ensure a high level of protection of public health, Member States should enjoy a margin of discretion to decide on the degree of protection which they wish to afford to public health and on the way in which that protection is to be achieved. It is also necessary to clarify that among the overriding reasons of general interest, recognised by the Court of Justice, are preserving the financial equilibrium of the social security system; the protection of consumers, recipients of services and workers; the safeguarding of the proper administration of justice; fairness of trade transactions; combating fraud and prevention of tax evasion and avoidance; ~~road~~transport safety; the protection of the environment and the urban environment; the health of animals; intellectual property; the safeguarding and conservation of the national historic and artistic heritage, social policy objectives, the protection of individual and collective workers' rights, vocational training systems, workers' self- management, and cultural policy objectives. According to settled case-law, purely economic reasons, having essentially protectionist aims, as well as purely administrative reasons, such as carrying out controls or gathering statistics cannot constitute an overriding reason of general interest.

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Recital 14

(14) To meet the requirement of proportionality, the measure should be suitable for securing the attainment of the objective pursued. A measure should only be considered suitable for securing the attainment of the objective pursued, if it genuinely reflects a concern to attain that objective in a consistent and systematic manner, for instance where similar risks related to certain activities are addressed in a comparable way and where any exceptions to the restrictions involved are applied in line with the stated objective. Furthermore, the national measure should contribute to achieving the objective pursued and therefore, where it has no effect on the ground for justification, it should not be considered as suitable.

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Recital 15

(15) RAccording to European case-law1a, requirements linked to professional qualifications ~~should~~may be considered a~~s necessary only where existing measures, such as consumer protection law, cannot be regarded as being suitable or genuinely effective to achieve the aim pursued.~~ppropriate and necessary without Member States having to prove, positively, that no other conceivable measure could enable that objective to be attained under the same conditions. _________________ 1a Case C-110/05; Case-518/06

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Recital 16

(16) Among the elements tohat may be taken into account by national authorities, the ~~following are of most relevanc~~re are: the link between the scope of professional activities covered by a profession and the professional qualification required; the complexity of the tasks in particular as regards the level, the nature and the duration of the training or experience required; the existence of different routes to obtain the professional qualification; the scope of the professional activities, reserved to holders of a particular professional qualification, and in particular whether the activities reserved to certain professionals can be shared with other professionals; the degree of autonomy in exercising a regulated profession in particular where the activities relating to a regulated profession are pursued under the control and responsibility of a duly qualified professional.

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Recital 17

(17) Where a Member State regulates a profession, account should be taken of the fact that technological developments may reduce the asymmetry of information between consumers and professionals. In view of the speed of technological change and scientific progress, up-dates in access requirements may be of particular importance for a number of professions.deleted

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Recital 18

(18) The ~~economic~~ impact of the measure~~, including a cost-benefit analysis with particular regard to the degree of competition in the market and~~ on the quality of the service provided, as well as the impact on the right to work and on the free movement of persons ~~and services~~ within the Union should be duly taken into account by the competent authorities. Based on this analysis, Member States should ascertain, in particular, whether the extent of the restriction of access to or pursuit of regulated professions within the Union is proportionate to the importance of the objectives pursued and the expected gains.

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Recital 19

(19) Member States should carry out a comparison between the national measure at issue and ~~the~~ alternative ~~and less restrictive~~ solutions that would allow the same objective to be attained but would impose fewer restrictions. Where the measures are justified by consumer protection and where the risks identified are limited to the relationship between the professional and the consumer without negatively affecting third parties, the objective could be attained by less restrictive means than reserving activities to professionals, such as protection of the professional title or enrolment on a professional register. ~~Regulation by way of reserved activities should be used only in cases where the measures aim at preventing a risk of serious harm to public interest objectives.~~

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Recital 20

(20) The national authorities should carry out a global assessment of the circumstances in which the restrictive measure is adopted and implemented and examine in particular the cumulative effect of imposing several requirements in addition to the specific professional qualification. The taking-up and pursuit of certain activities may be conditional on complying with certain provisions such as rules relating to the organisation of the profession, compulsory membership of a professional body, professional ethics, supervision and liability. Therefore, when assessing the cumulative effect of the measures, the competent authorities should also take into account other existing requirements, such as continuous professional development, compulsory chamber membership, registration or authorisation schemes, quantitative restrictions, specific legal form requirements and shareholding requirements, territorial restrictions, multidisciplinary restrictions and incompatibility rules, requirements concerning insurance cover as well as language knowledge requirements, to the extent necessary to practise the profession. When doing so, existing procedures that are not amended should not be subject to a new proportionality assessment. A measure introduced by a Member State cannot be regarded as necessary to achieve the objective pursued if it essentially duplicates requirements which have already been introduced in the context of other rules or procedures.

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Recital 21

(21) It is essential for the proper functioning of the internal market to ensure that Member States provide information to the social partners, as well as citizens, representative associations, or other relevant stakeholders with a legitimate interest, before introducing new measures restricting access to or pursuit of regulated professions and give them the opportunity to make known their views.

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1

This Directive lays down rules on a common framework for conducting proportionality assessments before introducing new legislative, regulatory or administrative provisions restricting access to or pursuit of regulated professions, or amending existing ones, with a view to ensuring the proper functioning of the internal market. It does not affect the Member States' prerogative and margin of discretion to decide whether and how to regulate a profession within the limits of the principles of non-discrimination and proportionality.

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Without prejudice to the application of Directive 2005/36/EC, this directive shall not apply to professions providing health care services and social services, whether or not those services are provided within the framework of healthcare or social service establishments and independently of the manner in which they are organised and financed at national, regional and local level and independently from its provision by the public or private (non-profit or commercial) sector.

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – title

~~Ex ante a~~Assessment of new measures

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1

1. Member States shall ~~ensure that before introducing~~undertake an assessment of proportionality when introducing significant new legislative, regulatory or administrative provisions restricting access to or pursuit of regulated professions, or amending existing ones, ~~the relevant competent authorities undertake an assessment of their proportionality~~ in accordance with the rules laid down in this Directive.

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2

2. Any provision referred to in paragraph 1 shall be accompanied by a ~~detailed statement~~n explanation making it possible to appraise compliance with the principle of proportionality.

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 3

3. ~~The reasons for considering that a provision is justified, necessary and proportionate~~Any provision referred to in paragraph 1 shall be substantiated by qualitative and, where~~ver possible~~ relevant, quantitative evidence.

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 4

4. Member States shall monitor the proportionality of legislative, regulatory or administrative provisions restricting access to or pursuit of regulated professions ~~on a regular basis and with a frequency appropriate to the regulation concerned, having due regard to any developments that have occurred since the measure concerned was adopted~~after adoption.

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 5

5. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the assessment of proportionality referred to in paragraph 1 is carried out in an objective and independent manner ~~including through involvement of independent scrutiny bodies~~.

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 2

2. ~~The relevant competent authoriti~~Member States shall consider in particular whether those provisions are objectively justified on the basis of public policy, public security or public health, or by overriding reasons in the public interest~~, such as~~. These include, inter alia, preserving the financial equilibrium of the social security system, the protection of consumers, recipients of services and workers, the safeguarding of the proper administration of justice, fairness of trade transactions, combating fraud and prevention of tax evasion and avoidance, ~~road~~transport safety, the protection of the environment and the urban environment, the health of animals, intellectual property, the safeguarding and conservation of the national historic and artistic heritage, social policy objectives; the protection of individual and collective worker’s rights, vocational training systems, workers‘ self-management and cultural policy objectives.

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – introductory part

2. ~~When assessing the necessity and the proportionality of the provisions, the relevant competent authoriti~~For the purposes of the assessment in paragraph 1, Member States shall consider in particular:

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point b

(b) the suitability of the provision namely as regards its appropriateness to attain the objective pursued ~~and whether it genuinely reflects that objective in a consistent and systematic manner and thus, addresses the risks identified in a similar way as in comparable activities~~;

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point c

(c) the necessity of the provision and in particular whether existing rules of a specific or more general nature, such as product safety legislation or consumer protection law, are insufficient to protect the objective pursued;deleted

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point i

(i) the economic impact of the measure, with particular regard to the ~~degree of competition in the market and the~~ quality of the service provided, as well as the impact on the free movement of persons and services within the Union;

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point j

(j) the possibility to use ~~less restric~~alternative means to achieve the public interest objective;

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point k

(k) the cumulative effect of restrictions to both access to and pursuit of the profession, and in particular how each of those requirements contributes to and whether it is necessary to achieve the same public interest objective.deleted

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point k a (new)

(k a) the necessity to uphold the precautionary principle, so that the maximum protection of public health, consumer safety and the environment is ensured in the face of risks that are uncertain or not fully apparent;

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 3

3. For the purposes of paragraph 2(j), where the measures are justified by consumer protection and where the risks identified are limited to the relationship between the professional and the consumer without negatively affecting third parties, the relevant competent authorities shall assess in particular whether the objective can be attained by protected professional title without reserving activities.deleted

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 4 – introductory part

4. ~~For the purposes of paragraph 2(k), the relevant competent authorities shall assess in particular the cumulative effect of imposing any of the following requirements:~~deleted

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 4 – point a

(a) ~~reserved activities, existing alongside protected professional title;~~deleted

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 4 – point b

(b) ~~continuous professional development requirements;~~deleted

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 4 – point c

(c) ~~rules relating to the organisation of the profession, professional ethics and supervision;~~deleted

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 4 – point d

(d) ~~compulsory chamber membership, registration or authorisation schemes, in particular where those requirements imply the possession of a particular professional qualification;~~deleted

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 4 – point e

(e) quantitative restrictions, in particular requirements limiting the number of authorisations to practise, or fixing a minimum or a maximum number of employees, managers or representatives holding particular professional qualifications;deleted

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 4 – point f

(f) specific legal form requirements or requirements which relate to the shareholding or management of a company, to the extent those requirements are directly linked to the exercise of the regulated profession;deleted

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 4 – point g

(g) ~~territorial restrictions, in particular where the profession is regulated in parts of a Member State’s territory in a different manner;~~deleted

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 4 – point h

(h) ~~requirements restricting the exercise of a regulated profession jointly or in partnership, as well as incompatibility rules;~~deleted

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 4 – point i

(i) ~~requirements concerning insurance cover or other means of personal or collective with regard to professional liability;~~deleted

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 4 – point j

(j) ~~language knowledge requirements, to the extent necessary to practise the profession.~~deleted

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0404(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1

Member States shall, by appropriate means, inform the social partners, as well as citizens, service recipients, representative associations and relevant stakeholders ~~other than the members of the profession~~with a legitimate interest, before introducing new legislative, regulatory or administrative provisions restricting access to or pursuit of regulated professions, or amending existing ones, and give them the opportunity to make known their views.

2017/09/11
Committee: EMPL

2016/0403(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Gabriele ZIMMER

Proposal for a regulation
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The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs calls on the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection, as the committee responsible, to propose rejection of the Commission proposal.

2017/11/06
Committee: EMPL

2016/0403(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3

(3) Directive 2006/123/EC requires Member States to put in place and keep constantly updated Points of Single Contacts where a service provider wishing to establish or to provide services can find all relevant information about requirements to be complied with and e-procedures in respect of all formalities, authorisations and notifications to go through. However, costly information challenges and difficulties complying with national procedures at a distance remain to date for service providers, namely for sector- related requirements. Cooperation between the administrations of different Member States should in principle take place via the Internal Market Information System (IMI), an IT-platform offered for cross-border exchange of information and mutual assistance between authorities in different Member States under that Directive. Despite the fact that authorities sometimes have doubts with regard to the legal establishment of a provider in another Member State, the possibilities for cooperation currently provided in IMI are not exploited to their full potential.

2017/11/06
Committee: EMPL

2016/0403(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10

(10) In so doing, this Regulation specifically targets business ~~and construction~~ service sectors included in scope of Directive …[ESC Directive]… which face some of the most stringent regulatory and administrative barriers to cross-border expansion and consequently have an unexploited potential for internal market integration.

2017/11/06
Committee: EMPL

2016/0403(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 31

(31) In order to ensure uniform implementation of this Regulation in relation to the presentation of the description of liabilities, implementing powers to adopt rules on the standardised presentation format of that statement should be conferred on the Commission. Those powers should be exercised in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council.deleted

2017/11/06
Committee: EMPL

2016/0403(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 a (new)

This Regulation shall be without prejudice to the different labour market models of the Member States, including labour markets regulated by collective agreements.

2017/11/06
Committee: EMPL

2016/0403(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1

The Commission shall specify how the information referred to in points (a) to (h) above is to be presented in the standard form and lay down the technical details of the standard form throughout the European Union, by way of implementing acts. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 16(2).deleted

2017/11/06
Committee: EMPL

2016/0403(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3

~~3. The Commission is empowered to adopt~~ delegated ~~acts in accordance with Article 15 in order to further specify: a) of the standard form listed to i~~details of the information ele~~tters paragraph 1, points (a) to (h), which shall be contained in the standard form; b) documents that are exceptionally required to be included as supporting evidence.;~~ments further documents or categories of

2017/11/06
Committee: EMPL

2016/0403(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2

2. The Commission may adopt a harmonised format for the insurance certificate as referred to in the second subparagraph of paragraph 1 by means of an implementing act. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 16(2).deleted

2017/11/06
Committee: EMPL

2016/0403(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1

Providers who hold a European services e-card may submit a declaration in advance as referred to in Article 7 of Directive 2005/36/EC in relation to the professional qualifications of the staff they intend to second to the host Member State, in connection with the service activity for which the e-card applies, to the competent authority in the host Member State as defined in point (ii) of Article 3(18) of this Regulation, through an electronic platform connected to IMI.deleted

2017/11/06
Committee: EMPL

2016/0403(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 3

3. Providers who hold a European services e-card may also submit a declaration pursuant to Article 9 of Directive 2014/67/EU, relating to the workers that they intend to post to the host Member State in connection with the service activity for which the card applies, to the competent authority in the host Member State as defined in Article 2(a) of Directive 2014/67/EU through the electronic platform connected to IMI referred to in paragraph 1 where a host Member State has communicated to the Commission that this possibility should apply for the posting of workers in its territory. To make use of the possibility provided for in the first subparagraph, a host Member State shall provide all the elements required in accordance with point a) of paragraph 1 and paragraph 2 of Article 9 of Directive 2014/67/EU as the basis for a multi-lingual form to be submitted for the declaration of posted workers on its territory. The Commission shall publish this form in the Official Journal and make it available in the electronic platform connected to the IMI. The relevant information with regard to the elements required shall be available for the host Member State concerned in full compliance with the language requirements set out in Article 9(1)(a) of Directive 2014/67/EU. A declaration communicated in accordance with the first and second subparagraph shall constitute a valid declaration for the purpose of point a) of paragraph 1 and of paragraph 2 of Article 9 of Directive 2014/67/EU, without prejudice to other administrative requirements or control measures imposed by the host Member State in accordance with Article 9 of that Directive. A host Member State may notify the Commission that it does no longer wish to apply the possibility provided for in the first subparagraph.deleted

2017/11/06
Committee: EMPL

2016/0403(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 4

4. The Commission is empowered to adopt technical rules by means of implementing acts concerning the design of the multilingual form referred to in paragraph 1. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 16(2).deleted

2017/11/06
Committee: EMPL

2016/0403(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1

1. In the context of procedures to issue, update, suspend or revoke a European services e-card competent authorities of Member States ~~shall accept documents in a simple copy form and shall not~~may request that documents submitted to them are subject to legalisation, apostille formalities, certification or authentication.

2017/11/06
Committee: EMPL

2016/0403(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 4

4. The Commission shall adopt technical rules for automatic translation of information and documents in the context of procedures to issue, update, suspend or revoke a European services e- card or in the context of formalities for secondment of staff and movement of self- employed in accordance with Articles 6(1) and 7 by means of implementing acts. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination referred to in Article 16(2).deleted

2017/11/06
Committee: EMPL

2016/0403(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 2

2. The Commission may adopt rules on the standardised presentation format of the statement referred to in paragraph 1 by means of implementing acts. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 16(2).deleted

2017/11/06
Committee: EMPL

2016/0403(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1

By 60 months after entry into force of this Regulation and at the latest every five years thereafter, the Commission shall carry out an evaluation of this Regulation and submit to the European Parliament and the Council a report on its performance, including an analysis of the impact on administrative burden incurred upon by service providers active across borders. This report shall also include an assessment of any practical experience relevant to cooperation between coordinating authorities. This report shall contain an assessment of the appropriateness of introducing a European services e-card for other service activities. It shall contain an evaluation of Directive …….[ESC Directive]…in line with its Article 21e E-card shall not in any way replace or integrate with the control measures and national procedures that Member States have established in accordance with Directive 2014/67/EU.

2017/11/06
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Gabriele ZIMMER

Proposal for a directive
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The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs calls on the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection, as the committee responsible, to propose rejection of the Commission proposal.

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Recital 12

(12) The main purpose of the European services e-card is to introduce a uniform and simplified procedure for service providers wishing to expand provision of services across internal market borders. The e-card represents an electronic certificate stating that a service provider is legally established in a Member State (the home Member State). Host Member States where a service provider is interested in expanding to ~~should furthermore not~~may apply, to holders of an e- card, their prior authorisation or notifications schemes put in place under national law to control access to or exercicse of service activities~~, which is already the object of control before issue of a European services e- card~~.

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Recital 20

(20) In order to concentrate actions and decisions within a Member State and facilitate cooperation between different competent authorities in home and host Member States, a coordinating authority in the ~~home Member State and in the~~ host Member State should ultimately be responsible for handling issues related to the European services e-card, thus coordinating the input from the different competent national authorities and acting as a contact point with its counterparts in other Member States. The application for a European services e-card should thus be submitted to the coordinating authority of the home Member State.

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Recital 25

(25) In order to ensure uniform implementation of this Directive in relation to the technical aspects of handling and processing applications for European services e-cards, implementing powers should be conferred on the Commission. Those powers should be exercised in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council25. These implementing rules should determine the automatic cancellation of an application for a European services e-card if the respective procedure is suspended for a considerable lapse of time due to inaction on the part of the applicant. __________________ 25Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by the Member States of the Commission's exercise of implementing powers (OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13).deleted

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Recital 33

(33) Host Member States ~~should b~~are allowed to request clarifications or additional information from the home Member State before the issue of a European services e- card, essentially relevant for the assessment of whether there is a justified and proportionate need to object to temporary provision of services by the applicant in its territory or, for establishment, to assess just how many of its regulatory concerns are already suitably addressed by compliance of the applicant with home Member State's requirements. Over time, it is expected that Member States will gain a better knowledge of their respective regulatory frameworks in the sectors covered by the e-card that should lead to enhanced mutual trust and thus allow for a more expedient assessment to the benefit of applicants.

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Recital 39

(39) A service provider should be allowed to apply for a European services e- card in the home Member State and have that application assessed and ultimately approved by the host Member State regarding the applicable conditions to provide services through a branch in the territory of that host Member State before that applicant is required to apply for registration of the future branch in that same host Member State. Thus, the applicant will be certain of the applicable sector-specific conditions and ultimately that it complies with them in a manner satisfactory to the host Member State before spending time and resources on requesting the registration of a branch in that host Member State for company law purposes. At the same time, the applicant will need to comply with national rules on registration of branches under company law to provide services through such a branch in compliance with EU law.

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Recital 42

(42) A European services e-card should be valid for a~~n indefinite period in time~~ period of 18 months and must be subject to checks and inspections every 3 months by the host Member State's authorities, without prejudice to, in relation to temporary cross-border services, the effects of case-by-case derogations in accordance with Directive 2006/123/EC.

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Recital 43

(43) A European services e-card should however be suspended by the issuing coordinating authority if, temporarily, the service provider is banned from providing the services in question. The suspension should last as long as the ban is in place. A European services e-card should be revoked by the issuing coordinating authority if the conditions for issuing it or for it to remain valid, as a testament of legality of service provision in the host Member State, are no longer met. A final decision establishing that an e-card holder misrepresented him or herself as a service provider and that, under national law of either home or host Member State he or she is considered to be a worker, should lead to the revocation of the European services e-cards in question. Similarly, cases of fraudulent, inaccurate or falsified information or documents used in the context of issuing a European services e- card should impact the validity of the e- card. In cases of fraud and falsified information, Member States shall put in place effective, proportionate and dissuasive sanctions.

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2

This Directive shall be without prejudice to the rights of workers, the obligations of service providers and related controls in Member States laid down in Directives 96/71/EC and 2014/67/EU. This Directive shall be without prejudice to the different labour market models of the Member States, including labour markets regulated by collective agreements.

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1

1. A host Member State ~~shall not~~may impose any prior authorisation scheme, prior notification scheme or an establishment requirement on the holder of a previously issued European services e- card for temporary cross-border provision of services as a condition for such provision of services in its territory.

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 2

2. A host Member State ~~shall not~~may impose any prior authorisation scheme or prior notification scheme on the holder of a previously issued European services e-card for establishment as a condition for establishment in its territory through a branch, agency or office located in its territory.

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 3

3. A host Member State shall refrain from imposing on holders of a previously issued European services e-card requirements other than those referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 the compliance of which has been or is deemed to have been verified under Articles 11 to 13.deleted

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. This article shall not affect the control measures related to posted workers laid down in Directive 2016/67/EU or prevent host Member States from applying its national law and practice - including those laid down in collective agreements - on employment and working conditions.

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1

A European services e-card shall be valid for a~~n indefinite duration~~ period of 18 moths, unless suspended, revoked or cancelled, ~~in accordance with Articles 15 to 17~~and must be subject to checks and inspections every 3 months by the host Member State's authorities.

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 1

In assessing applications for the European services e-card, host Member States shall retain the right to invoke those overriding reasons of public interests recognised under Directive 2006/123/EC, in particular Article 16 thereof, or other acts of EU law.

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part

The coordinating authority of the home Member State shall within ~~one~~four weeks of having received an application for a European services e-card:

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 4

4. The Commission shall adopt technical rules for the handling and processing of the application by means of implementing acts. These rules shall include time-limits on the expiration of the application due to inaction of the applicant. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 19(2).deleted

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1

Within ~~two~~four weeks from receiving the application the coordinating authority of the host Member State shall examine it and inform the applicant and the home Member State of any requirements applicable to temporary cross-border provisions under the legislation of the host Member State with the exception of those referred to in Article 5(4). In line with the rights of Member States as referred to in Article 10, the coordinating authority of the host Member State may ~~within the same time- limit~~, decide to object to the issue of the European services e-card by the coordinating authority of the home Member State where it demonstrates that the application of a prior authorisation scheme, prior notification scheme or requirements to the applicant is justified for one of those overriding reasons of public interest set out in Article 16 of Directive 2006/123/EC or is admissible in accordance with other acts of EU law.

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2

The host Member State shall take due account in that assessment of the requirements that the applicant already meets in its home Member States. For the purpose of that assessment and within the above-mentioned time-limit, the coordinating authority of the host Member State shall be allowed to request necessary clarifications or necessary additional information from the home Member State or the applicant ~~which is not yet contained in the application~~. In that case, the time limit referred to in this paragraph is suspended until the requested necessary clarification or necessary additional information is supplied. ~~The procedure for~~A failure to provide the coordinating authority of the host Member State with the request~~ing~~ed clarifications or additional information ~~will be laid down by way of the delegated acts referenced in paragraph 4~~in due time shall lead to an expiration of the application.

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3

An objection to grant a European services e-card may not be based on non- compliance with one of the requirements listed in Article 5(5). The Commission shall have access, via IMI, to the decision of objection by the coordinating authority of the host Member State.deleted

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 2

2. Taking into account the rights of Member States as referred to in Article 10, if the coordinating authority of the host Member State does not react within the time-limit referred to in paragraph 1, that time limit shall automatically be extended by two additional weeks and the electronic platform where the application for a European services e-card has been submitted shall issue an alert to the coordinating authority of the host Member State ~~to the effect that failure to react shall imply that there is no objection to the issue of the European services e-card to the applicant~~. A European Services E-card can only be issued to a provider with the active consent of the host Member State.

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1

If the host Member State does not object in accordance with paragraph 1, the coordinating authority of the home Member State shall issue the European services e-card without delay upon expiration of the extended time-limit resulting from the application of paragraph 2. In the absence of any objection under the second subparagraph of paragraph 1 and failing a decision by the coordinating authority of the home Member State upon expiration of the extended time-limit resulting from the application of paragraph 2, the European services e-card shall be deemed to have been issued by the home Member State in the terms communicated to the host Member State in accordance with Article 11(2).deleted

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 4

~~4. The Commission is empowered to adopt~~ delegated acts in accordance with Article 18 in order to specify the procedure for the coordinating authority of the host Member State to request clarifications or additional information from the home Member State or the applicant, and to modify, if necessary, the time-limits laid down in paragraph 1.

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 6

6. The Commission shall adopt technical rules for the handling and processing of the application under paragraphs 1 and 2 by means of implementing acts. These rules shall include time-limits on the expiration of the application due to inaction of the applicant. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 19(2).deleted

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1

In the context of a procedure for issuing a European services e-card for establishment in the form of a branch, agency or office, the coordinating authority of the host Member State shall, within four weeks from receiving the application, identify which, if any, prior authorisation scheme or prior notification scheme as referred to in Article 5(2) is applicable, in compliance with EU law, to such establishment. If such a prior authorisation scheme or prior notification scheme has been identified, the host Member State shall also identify the conditions which the applicant is required to comply with, with the exception of those referred to in Article 5(5). The host Member State shall indicate why the application of such a prior authorisation scheme or prior notification scheme is necessary and proportionate for the pursuance of overriding reasons of public interest.

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 2

2. Taking into account the rights of Member States as referred to in Article 10, if the coordinating authority of the host Member State does not react within the time-limit referred to in paragraph 1, that time limit shall automatically be extended by two additional weeks and the electronic platform where the application for a European services e-card has been submitted shall issue an alert to the coordinating authority of the host Member State ~~to the effect that failure to react shall imply that the European services e- card shall be issued to the applicant~~.

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1

The coordinating authority of the host Member State shall assess, within ~~one~~four weeks upon receipt of proof of compliance with the conditions identified in accordance with paragraph 1, whether to issue the European services e-card or reject the application for the European services e- card.

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 4

Upon receipt of the observations of the applicant or, where no observations have been made, upon expiration of the time- limit to present those observations, the coordinating authority of the host Member State shall decide~~, within one week, whether to issue the European services e- card or~~ to reject the application for the European services e-card.

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1

The coordinating authority of the host Member State shall be allowed to request necessary clarifications or necessary additional information from the home Member State or the applicant ~~which is not yet contained in the application~~. In that case, the time limits referred to in paragraphs 1 and 4 are suspended until the requested necessary clarification or necessary additional information is supplied. A failure to provide the coordinating authority of the host Member State with the requested clarification or additional information in due time shall lead to an expiration of the application.

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2

~~Clarifications and additional information shall be requested in accordance with the procedure laid down in accordance with paragraph 7.~~deleted

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 7

~~7. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt~~ delegated acts in accordance with Article 18 in order to specify the procedure for the coordinating authority of the host Member State to request clarifications or additional information from the home Member State as referred to in paragraph 5, and to modify if necessary the time-limits mentioned in paragraphs 1 and 4.

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 9 – subparagraph 1

~~Member States shall not require application for a registration of a branch under company law as a precondition to assess the application for a European services e-card for establishment.~~deleted

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

2016/0402(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 10

10. The Commission shall adopt technical rules for the handling and processing of the application under paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 4 by means of implementing acts. These rules shall include time-limits on the expiration of the application due to inaction of the applicant. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 19(2).deleted

2017/10/27
Committee: EMPL

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Miguel URBÁN CRESPO, Marisa MATIAS

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 a (new)

Directive 2009/101/EC
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)

(1a) in Article 7, the following point is inserted: (aa) failure to disclose accurately and completely beneficial ownership information as required by Article 7b; Or. en (http://eur- lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:258:0011:0019:EN:PDF)

2016/12/19
Committee: ECON LIBE

Miguel VIEGAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS, Matt CARTHY, Miguel URBÁN CRESPO

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2

(ga) interest and expenses and/or similar income, with a breakdown of the amounts to be paid and/or received from related parties;

2017/03/21
Committee: ECON JURI

2016/0107(COD)

Miguel VIEGAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS, Matt CARTHY, Miguel URBÁN CRESPO

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2

Directive 2013/34/EU
Chapter 10 a – Article 48 c – paragraph 2 – point g b (new)

(gb) the amount paid and/or received in royalties, including a distinction between that made with related parties and that made with unrelated parties;

2017/03/21
Committee: ECON JURI

2016/0070(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Patrick LE HYARIC, Thomas HÄNDEL, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Kostadinka KUNEVA

Proposal for a directive
Citation 2

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Articles 53(1), 62, 151 and 62153 thereof,

2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL

2016/0070(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Thomas HÄNDEL, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Patrick LE HYARIC, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Lynn BOYLAN

Proposal for a directive
Recital 1

(1) The free movement of workers, freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services are fundamental principles of the internal market in the Union enshrined in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). The implementation of those principles is further developed by the Union aimed at guaranteeing a ~~level playing field for businesses and respect for the rights of worker~~fair business climate as well as respect for the rights of workers and the improvement of working conditions.

2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL

2016/0070(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Thomas HÄNDEL, João PIMENTA LOPES, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Patrick LE HYARIC, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Lynn BOYLAN

Proposal for a directive
Recital 4

(4) Almost twenty years after its adoption, it is necessary to ~~assess whether~~revise the Posting of Workers Directive ~~still~~in order to ensure it strikes the right balance between the need to ~~promote the freedom to provide services and~~ensure a fair business climate as well as the need to protect the rights of posted workers.

2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL

2016/0070(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Thomas HÄNDEL, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Patrick LE HYARIC, João PIMENTA LOPES, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Lynn BOYLAN

Proposal for a directive
Recital 5 a (new)

(5a) The objective of this Directive is to guarantee the protection of workers and ensure a fair business climate across the EU by safeguarding the principle of equal pay for equal work at the same place of work.

2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL

Rina Ronja KARI, João PIMENTA LOPES, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Patrick LE HYARIC, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

(14) Laws, regulations, administrative provisions or collective agreements applicable in Member States may ensure that subcontracting does not confer on undertakings the possibility to avoid rules guaranteeing ~~certain~~ terms and conditions of employment covering remuneration. Where such rules on remuneration exist at national level, the Member State may apply them ~~in a non-discriminatory manner~~ to undertakings posting workers to its territory ~~provided that they do not disproportionately restrict the cross- border provision of services~~.

2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL

2016/0070(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Thomas HÄNDEL, João PIMENTA LOPES, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Patrick LE HYARIC, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Lynn BOYLAN

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point -1 (new)

Directive 96/71/EC
Article 1 – paragraph 3 – point b

(–1) In Article 1, paragraph 3, point (b) is amended as follows: "(b) post workers to an establishment or to an undertaking owned by the group in the territory of a Member State, provided it concerns a genuine provision of service and there is an employment relationship between the undertaking making the posting and the worker during the period of posting; or"

2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL

Helmut SCHOLZ, Rina Ronja KARI, Barbara SPINELLI, Kostas CHRYSOGONOS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Notes that the procedure of giving discharge separately to the individual Union institutions and bodies is a longstanding practice; stresses therefore that the Commission, in its reply of 25 November 2011 to the letter from the Chair of the Committee of Budgetary Control, said that it was desirable for the Parliament to continue to give, postpone or refuse discharge to the other institutions, including Council;

2016/01/27
Committee: AFCO

2015/2156(DEC)

Helmut SCHOLZ, Rina Ronja KARI, Barbara SPINELLI, Kostas CHRYSOGONOS

1b. Notes further that the Commission in its letter of 23 January 2014 expressed the view that all institutions are fully part of the follow-up process to the observations made by the Parliament in the discharge exercise and that all institutions should cooperate to ensure the smooth functioning of the discharge procedure in full respect of the relevant provisions in the TFEU and in the relevant secondary law; emphasises that the Commission also states in its letter that it will not oversee the implementation of the budgets of other institutions and that giving a response to questions addressed to another institution would infringe the autonomy of that institution to implement its own section of the budget;

2016/01/27
Committee: AFCO

2015/2156(DEC)

Helmut SCHOLZ, Rina Ronja KARI, Barbara SPINELLI, Kostas CHRYSOGONOS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Takes the view that this constitutes a serious failure to comply with the obligations laid down by the Treaty, in particular the principle of sincere cooperation between the institutions, and that a solution must be found quickly so that the whole of the Union budget can be scrutinised; in this respect refers also to Article 15 TEU which stipulates that each institution, body, office or agency shall ensure that its proceedings are transparent;

2016/01/27
Committee: AFCO

2015/2156(DEC)

Helmut SCHOLZ, Rina Ronja KARI, Barbara SPINELLI, Kostas CHRYSOGONOS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Takes the view that, if these negotiations fail or if the Council refuses to open negotiations, Parliament should consider giving discharge only to the Commission and including in that global discharge separate resolutions for each Union institution and body, thereby ensuring that no section of the EUnion budget goes unscrutinised; highlights that this change in practise should not reduce the accountability of the individual institutions and bodies in respect to the implementation of their respective sections of the budget;

2016/01/27
Committee: AFCO

2015/2155(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI, Benedek JÁVOR, Ana GOMES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. ~~Takes note of~~Emphasises the Court of Auditors’ recommendation that Parliament reinforce its checks on the costs reimbursed by European political parties to their affiliated organisations and develop appropriate rules for European political parties on public procurement and monitor their application through appropriate checks and better guidance and insists that there will be full transparency on the expenditure by European political parties and that in future the competent committee will examine and discuss this information in detail in the context of the ordinary discharge procedure;

2016/03/14
Committee: CONT

2015/2155(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Considers that the numerous constituency and plenary weeks represent periods during which the canteens and cafeteria facilities are not fully employed; suggests that the ~~staff of these facilities be employed gainfully elsewhere; calls for a proposal by the administration that aligns procurement and subsidy procedu~~agreements with the caterers take into account the option of employing the staff of these facilities elsewheres, w~~ith the subsidy practices of other international organisations and national parliaments~~hen during the above- mentioned weeks not all canteens and cafeteria facilities are open;

2016/03/14
Committee: CONT

2015/2155(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI, Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)

21b. Points out that the administrative burden for the offices of Members have also increased more generally and requests a rationalisation of the forms that have to be used for internal parliamentary procedures, such as recruitment of new assistants;

2016/03/14
Committee: CONT

2015/2155(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI, Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Recalls that the GEA is intended to cover expenditure in the Member State of election, such as a Members’ office rent, equipment, supplies, documentation or logistical organisation of events; takes note that a comprehensive system of control of the Member's parliamentary mandate allowance would represent 40 to 75 new administrative posts in the area of financial management; regrets that despite various requests the Secretary General did not elaborate a proposal for a more selective control system, for example by concentrating on larger expenditure, or a system of random checks, and requests such a proposal to be elaborated without further delay;

2016/03/14
Committee: CONT

2015/2155(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI, Benedek JÁVOR, Ana GOMES, Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34

34. Welcomes the ~~revised Transparency register approved by Parliament on April 2014~~fact that the Commission has started a public consultation procedure in respect of the revision of the current Transparency register of the Commission and Parliament, and its extension to the Council; requests that immediately after the public consultation an Inter- Institutional Working Group be set up for preparing proposals concerning the revision of the Register, the accompanying Code of Conduct for interest representatives, and the functioning thereto;

2016/03/14
Committee: CONT

2015/2155(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI, Benedek JÁVOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36

36. Calls for a report by the administration on the ~~extent to which -~~various permanent forums between the beusidnes ~~economic panels - environmental and social associations, NGOs and interest groups organise events in~~s and financial sectors and Parliament; wonders if there are guidelines that exclude the disproportionate presence of such organisations in Parliament;

2016/03/14
Committee: CONT

2015/2155(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Ana GOMES, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42 a (new)

42a. Is concerned with the lack of actual results of the Parliament's communication activities, considering the ever decreasing turn-out during European elections, as well as the general lack of knowledge in society about the role of Parliament and its activities;

2016/03/14
Committee: CONT

2015/2155(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI, Benedek JÁVOR, Ana GOMES, Ruža TOMAŠIĆ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55 a (new)

55a. Regrets the fact that Parliament has not yet published information on an annual basis about senior officials who left the Parliament's administration, as well as a list of the cases of potential conflict of interest that have been addressed, as required by Article 16, paragraph 4 of the Staff Regulations;

2016/03/14
Committee: CONT

2015/2155(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI, Ruža TOMAŠIĆ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 65

65. Notes that according to the Secretary General the average number of hours per week that staff interpreters spent in their booths in 2014 delivering interpretation services was 10,7 hours/week, but that this figure has been contested by the interpretation services themselves;

2016/03/14
Committee: CONT

2015/2155(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI, Ruža TOMAŠIĆ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 67

67. Insists that large efficiency gains are still possible in the supply of interpretation, notably by enhancing the efficiency of a service currently hampered by rules dating from 2005 that are no longer compatible with the current meeting patternin seeking additional efficiency gains, solutions be sought that take also into account the social rights of the in~~stitution~~terpreters;

2016/03/14
Committee: CONT

2015/2155(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI, Ruža TOMAŠIĆ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 68

68. Calls upon the secretary general to modernise the framework for the management of interpretation, with a view to increasing individual productivity and to bringing the working practices of interpreters into line with the changed needs of the house, whilst fully respecting their social rights;

2016/03/14
Committee: CONT

2015/2154(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48

48. Underlines that the level of error rate does not necessarily mean a case of fraud, inefficiency, or waste, but an estimate of financial flows that should not have been paid out as they were not used in line with rules and regulations; emphasizes, however, that the sharp increase of serious errors in the context of public procurement procedures is a matter of grave concern, as Member States have had years of experience with the existing procurement rules, and if they already face difficulties with these rules, this does not bode well for when they have to adapt national legislation and procedures to the new directives on procurement and concessions;

2016/03/07
Committee: CONT

2015/2154(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 66 a (new)

66a. Urges the Commission to strengthen the negotiations with the Member States regarding the necessity of publishing national declarations and annual summaries;

2016/03/07
Committee: CONT

2015/2154(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI, Benedek JÁVOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 68 a (new)

68a. Urges the Commission to join the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption (ETS No. 173) of the Council of Europe and speeding up the negotiations on the participation of the Union in the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), in order to contribute to more co-ordinated anti-corruption policies in Europe;

2016/03/07
Committee: CONT

2015/2154(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI, Benedek JÁVOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 70

70. Stresses that Member States are not following up alleged cases of fraud affecting the financial interests of the Union as submitted to them by OLAF; calls on the Commission to take appropriate measures and on OLAF to continue and accelerate its analysis of the reasons why Member States do not follow up alleged cases, to provide the Parliament with its findings in this respect and to continue to support the Member States in improving their performance in the prevention and detection of fraud against European funds;

2016/03/07
Committee: CONT

2015/2154(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 71

71. Invites the Commission to develop a system of strict indicators and easily applicable uniform criteria based on the requirements set out in the Stockholm Programme to measure the level of corruption in the Member States and evaluate the Member States’ anti- corruption policies; is concerned about the reliability and quality of data coming from the Member States; calls on the Commission, therefore, to work closely with Member States to guarantee comprehensive, exact and reliable data keeping in mind the goal of full implementation of the Single Audit Scheme; invites the Commission to work out a corruption index to categorise Member States based on the effectiveness of their anti-corruption policies;

2016/03/07
Committee: CONT

2015/2154(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 96

96. Asks the Commission to provide analysis regarding the future of Union funding evaluating the adequacy of the own resource base~~, instruments that would strengthen the own resource base, a possible restructuring of the revenue side and the relevance of the Union budget/EU GDP ratio~~;

2016/03/07
Committee: CONT

2015/2154(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 144

144. Shares the Commission's opinion that unemployment rates (especially long-term unemployment) and the percentage of young persons not in employment, education or training (NEETs), are indications of mismatch in the labour market., as well as a lack of consumer demand and public investment due to excessive austerity policies;

2016/03/07
Committee: CONT

2015/2154(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 187

187. Welcomes the trend for simplification, ~~elimina~~reduction of gold-plating and improvement of shared management hand in hand with the new elements of cohesion policy for the 2014 – 2020 programming period, which seems to be a methodological best practice and which is reflected in many concrete steps like finding complementarity with the Investment Plan for Europe through a practical coexistence of ESIFs and the EFSI (European Fund for Strategic Investments), doubling the scope for FEI, providing targeted initiatives, for example for SMEs, creating task forces for better implementation, introducing thematic focus on smart growth and implementation of research and innovative strategies respecting the smart specialisation strategies, or cohesion policy contribution to relevant Union policies in the areas of digital economy, energy, social affairs among others;

2016/03/07
Committee: CONT

2015/2154(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 270 a (new)

270a. Believes that the Commission should pro-actively disclose documents regarding the recommendations of the Ad Hoc Ethical Committee on post-term-of- office jobs of former Commissioners, editing the commercial or personal information in accordance with Regulation 1049/2001;

2016/03/07
Committee: CONT

2015/2154(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 271

271. Calls on the Commission to ~~report on~~ask from Member States that they c~~urrent status of Member State's legislation concerning~~learly indicate any potential conflicts of interests of their candidate member of the Commission and to explain how conflicts of interests a~~nd to present recommend~~re defined in their national legislation; in the case of diverging interpretations, of con~~sidering that the same princi~~flicts of interests between national legislation and the rules the Commission applies ~~should apply to candidate members and members of the Commission~~itself in this regard, the latter interpretation should be followed by Member States;

2016/03/07
Committee: CONT

2015/2154(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 272

272. Points out that an important step with regard to conflicts of interest is to increase the transparency of the ad hoc ethical committee of the Commission which reviews situations of potential conflict; ~~notes that only if the opinions of the ethical committee are published proactively, can~~calls upon the Commission to proactively publish the opinions of the ethical committee in accordance with Regulation 1049/2001in order to let the public hold the Commission accountable for the decision made;

2016/03/07
Committee: CONT

2015/2154(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 272 a (new)

272a. Estimates that the Code of Conduct for Commissioners should include a clearer task description of the Ad Hoc Ethical Committee, and include the requirement that the members of the Committee are independent experts;

2016/03/07
Committee: CONT

2015/2154(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
New subheading after paragraph 272 and paragraph 272 a (new)

272a. Transparency Believes that all data on the implementation of the budget within the EU should be transparent and accountable through publication, including the spending of Member States related to shared management;

2016/03/07
Committee: CONT

2015/2154(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 272 b (new)

272b. Emphasises the principle that the Commission on all levels should end contacts with unregistered lobbyists;

2016/03/07
Committee: CONT

2015/2154(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 272 c (new)

272c. Calls on the Commission to expand the recording of meeting data with lobbyists to everyone involved in the Union's policy-making process by requesting from their DG's regular reports on the meetings taking place within their respective services and by putting this information in an easily accessible manner on the Commission's website;

2016/03/07
Committee: CONT

2015/2154(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 272 d (new)

272d. Believes that the Commission should be obliged to record and disclose all input received from lobbyists/interest representatives on draft policies and laws as a 'legislative footprint'; suggests that this legislative footprint should contain detailed information about lobbyists who had a substantial effect on the Commission's proposals;

2016/03/07
Committee: CONT

2015/2154(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 272 e (new)

272e. Welcomes the publication of a list of senior officials leaving the Commission and calls on the Commission to include all members of the Cabinet in the definition of senior officials;

2016/03/07
Committee: CONT

2015/2154(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
New subheading after paragraph 272 and paragraph 272 a (new)

272a Expert Groups Urges the Commission to follow up on the Ombudsman's recommendations against conflicts of interest in expert groups and to postpone the adoption of new horizontal rules, until the Parliament has been able to express its opinion on the basis of the ongoing work on a joint CONT-JURI own initiative report;

2016/03/07
Committee: CONT

2015/2154(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI, Benedek JÁVOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 280 – subparagraph 2 a (new)

Urges OLAF to draw up Internal Rules on Whistleblowing in accordance with the new Staff Regulations 2014;

2016/03/07
Committee: CONT

2015/2154(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 280 a (new)

280a. States that in OLAF's annual report 2014 the investigative activities and results per sector are specified; requests OLAF to provide in the next annual report detailed information on the type of investigation and results in all sectors;

2016/03/07
Committee: CONT

2015/2154(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 281

281. Regrets the delay in the Commission's assessment of tobacco agreements; calls on the Commission to provide this as soon as possible, outlining the results of the investments made using the money paid by tobacco companies under these agreements;deleted

2016/03/07
Committee: CONT

2015/2154(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 283

283. Urges all the relevant Union institutions to implement Article 5.3 of the WHO FCTC and Article 8.12 of the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products in accordance with the recommendations contained in the guidelines thereto; urges the Commission to publish immediately ~~the assessment agreements with tobacco companies and~~ an impact assessment on the implementation of the WHO FCTC and the Protocol;

2016/03/07
Committee: CONT

2015/2154(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 283 a (new)

283a. Urges the Commission not to have any negotiations with the Tobacco Industry on the renewal of the Agreements, until Parliament has had the opportunity to adopt its final position;

2016/03/07
Committee: CONT

2015/2154(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 283 b (new)

283b. Asks the Commission to full betting on the combinations of the Tobacco Directive 2014 and the WHO FCTC and the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products which foresee track and trace provisions and introduce security features facilitating law enforcement, and are the best instruments to fight illicit trade in the EU;

2016/03/07
Committee: CONT

2015/2132(BUD)

Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Reiterates its demand that the Commission draft proposals to sanction false or incorrect reporting by the Member States’ authorities in the management of European Union funds; also calls on the Commission to submit proposals for ways in which Member States can strengthen ex-ante checks so as to reduce the number of sums unduly paid, and secure a system whereby proper investigations are carried out into suspicions of false or incorrect reporting and such reporting is sanctioned;

2015/09/04
Committee: CONT

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas in recent years a~~n ambitious~~ reform agenda for the EU financial sector has been launched ~~to strengthen financial regulation and supervision, restore financial stability and make the financial system more resilient to shocks~~; whereas these fell short of addressing the fundamental problems of the financial sector, i.e. too-big-to fail and too-interconnected-to fail;

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the financial crisis of 2007/2008 has largely been the result of past policy failures, namely the deregulation of the financial sector, which has fuelled speculative bubbles and has been the main cause for the too-big-to fail and too-interconnected-to fail problems;

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas these policy failures have led to the deepest political and socio- economic crisis in the recent history of the European Union;

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas ~~profound~~some changes have occurred in all financial sectors, including banking, insurance, securities markets, investment funds and financial market infrastructure, which unfortunately leave the problems of too-big-to fail and too-interconnected-to fail untouched;

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the transposition and implementation of the financial regulatory reform is still ongoing and not yet completed, with many delegated and implementing acts in particular still to be finalised; whereas especially the strict separation of investment from retail banking is still outstanding;

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas the current investment gap is largely the result of deflationary austerity policies and subdued demand rather than an over-regulated financial sector; whereas the crisis has shown that relationship with retail banks is more robust and more focused on lending to the real economy than large universal and investment banks; whereas in the US after the financial crisis, bank lending to corporates has developed stronger than capital markets based financing;

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)

Cb. whereas according to the European Banking Federation, credit supplied by banks appears to have broadly matched credit demand1 a ; whereas according to the ESBG, there is no fundamental supply-side shortage of lending in general2 a ; whereas specific shortages of credit to MSMEs derive largely from economic instability and growing disinvolvement of financial activity from the productive economy; whereas these problems will not be alleviated by the plans for a CMU; __________________ 1a cf. http://www.ebf- fbe.eu/uploads/FF2012.pdf 2a cf. http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/consu ltations/2013/long-term- financing/docs/contributions/registered- organisations/european-savings-banks- group_en.pdf

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Welcomes~~Takes note of the Commission’s Investment Package, including the Capital Markets Union (CMU); stresses that an efficient and effective financial services ~~framework~~regulation ensuring financial stability is a prerequisite in order to increase (long- term) investment and to foster growth in ~~a competitiv~~the European economy; underlines the linkage between economic and financial stability;

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Considers that the Commission’s ambition to build a Capital Markets Union should be matched by an equivalent focus on raising the bar for retail investor protection to restore their trust; recommends that the Commission should make concrete proposals on how to (a) improve and harmonise retail investor protection rules for all saving and investment products, including pension products and individual shares and bonds;(b)impose effective supervision and enforcement by national and EU supervisory authorities in retail financial markets; (c) promote the development and distribution of simple and standardised investment products; (d) tackle conflicts of interest when giving advice by banning inducements;

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Is concerned about the increased complexity~~, reflected in the~~ of financial products and markets, requiring a greater amount, detail and number of layers of regulation and supervision with requirements at international, European and national level;

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Believes that an effective and efficient EU financial services regulation should be coherent, and consistent (also on a cross- sectoral basis)~~, proportionate, and free of superfluous complexity~~; believes that it should enable intermediaries to fulfil their role in funding the real economy and serve savers and investors; considers that it should contribute to the single market and focus on goals better achievable at European level;

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Underlines the need to take stock of the financial services framework, in line with the review clauses adopted in each specific legislative act, in order to pave the way for more fundamental and ambitious reforms of this sector; notes that similar exercises are being undertaken in other jurisdictions, notably in the US;

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Believes that a single market for financial services ~~serves businesses, but ultimately~~ has to benefit businesses, customers and investors; insists that barriers to cross- border access, marketing and investment have to be analysed and addressed;

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Believes that consumer protection does not necessarily entail large volumes of information; i~~s concerned that the multiplicity of customer information might not ultimately serve real customer needs; points to the necessity of a Europe~~nformation must always be relevant, comparable, user-friendly, reliable and timely; information alone is not sufficient to protect consumers and enhance their decision-making process; it must go hand in hand with developing unbiased comparison tools, independent and affordable financial advice and in~~itiative for more and better financial education~~termediation, and strong supervisory authorities in charge of consumer protection, equipped with the powers to test new products before they are sold to consumers;

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Is concerned about the ~~lack of available and attractive risk-appropriate (long-term) investment~~push to shift retail savings to capital markets for alleged higher returns aund ~~savings products for consumers; reiterates the need for diversity in investor and consumer choices~~er the disputable assumptions that consumers can have higher returns without increasing the risk they are taking;

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. ~~Welcomes the diversity of business models; c~~Calls for a differentiation in regulation and supervision regarding the nature, size, riskiness and complexity of entities; believes however that the key priority of policy makers and supervisors must be to end the too-big-to fail and too- interconnected-to fail problems;

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. ~~Recognises~~Takes note of the efforts made to establish a more transparent securitisation market; emphasises that stringent requirements for underlying high-quality assets and calibrations according to the actual risk profile are necessary, ~~bear~~taking in ~~mind~~to account the riskiness of securitisation as shown during the crisis; emphasises that simple, standardised and transparent securitisation rules out practices like tranching or synthetic securitisation; calls on the Commission to conduct a thorough assessment of the risks and benefits of securitisation for SMEs, investors and financial stability and the marketability of securitisation instruments as a matter of priority, and to report to Parliament;

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Is highly concerned about the revival of synthetic securitization as expressed in the forthcoming STS Regulation; warns that in particular synthetic securitization worsened the impact of the financial crisis; calls on the Commission to definitively close the door to synthetic securitization in the simple and transparent securitization (STS) framework;

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Stresses that efforts for a cultural change in the financial sector have to be pursued further; is therefore convinced that strict regulation and supervision of the industry remains a key priority for policy makers; acknowledges the benefits of relationship banking for consumers and SMEs;

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

~~22. Demands a stronger focus on the global competitiveness of the EU financial sectors when making policy;~~deleted

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Demands that the EU and Member States push for efficient and effective regulation of financial sectors at a global level; stresses the need for strong global regulation to prevent foreign financial institutions from gaining an unfair competitive advantage vis-à-vis EU financial institutions;

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Underlines the importance of the international framework with respect to its scope, methodologies and implications on the EU framework; calls on the Commission and ESAs to coordinate more closely with international bodies promoting ~~EU interest~~long-term global stability and sustainability goals;

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Believes that better financial regulation starts with Member States applying the current acquis; ~~considers that gold-plating does not facilitate the functioning of the internal market;~~

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. ~~Calls on~~Urges the Commission to ensure balanced participation in consultations by reflecting the diversity of stakeholders and providing better conditions for small stakeholders to participate, including in the way consultations are organised and questions asked; further urges the Commission to make the lobbying outside of the consultations more transparent and make use of the lobby register mandatory;

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. ~~Welcom~~Notes the objectives of the better regulation agenda; ~~underline~~questions the role of REFIT in achieving an efficient and effective financial services regulation; reminds that the focus of EU decision- making must be on improving regulation, not deregulating;

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34

34. Calls on the Commission to make any amendment made to the draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) and implementing technical standards (ITS) submitted by the ESAs transparent to the co-legislators and stakeholders;

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42

42. ~~Stresses that the impact of individual legislative measures differs from their cumulative impact; c~~Calls on the Commission services, in corporation with the ESAs, SSM and ESRB, to conduct a comprehensive quantitative and qualitative assessment every five years of the cumulative impact of the EU financial services regulation at EU and Member State level;

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 – introductory part

43. Calls on the Commission services to complete the first assessment ~~by the end of 2016~~in five years’ time from now and to report on the overall impact and, in separate chapters, on the following:

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 – indent 9

– the interdependencies with international standards and the effects on ~~the~~ global ~~competitiveness of European businesses~~financial stability;

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/2106(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 – indent 9 a (new)

– the systemic consequences of past financial services legislation especially with regard to ending the too-big-to fail and too-interconnected-to fail problems;

2015/09/25
Committee: ECON

2015/0226(COD)

Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY

Proposal for a regulation
-

~~The European Parliament rejects the Commission’s proposal.~~

2016/07/27
Committee: ECON

2015/0226(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6

(6) It is appropriate to provide, in line with the existing definitions in Union sectoral legislation, definitions of all the key concepts of securitisation. In particular, a clear and encompassing definition of securitisation is needed to capture any transaction or scheme whereby the ~~credit risk associated with an~~payments in the transaction or scheme are dependent on the performance of the exposures or pool of exposures ~~is tranched~~. The economic transfer of the exposures being securitised should be achieved by the transfer of ownership of the securitised exposures from the originator institution to an SSPE or through sub-participation by an SSPE. An exposure that creates a direct payment obligation for a transaction or scheme used to finance or operate physical assets should not be considered an exposure to a securitisation, even if the transaction or scheme has payment obligations of different seniority.

2016/07/27
Committee: ECON

2015/0226(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14

(14) Originators, sponsors and SSPE's should make all materially relevant data on the credit quality and performance of underlying exposures available in the investor report, including data allowing investors to clearly identify delinquency and default of underlying debtors, debt restructuring, debt forgiveness, forbearance, repurchases, payment holidays, losses, charge offs, recoveries and other asset performance remedies in the pool of underlying exposures. Data on the cash flows generated by underlying exposures and by the liabilities of the securitisation issuance, including separate disclosure of the securitisation position’s income and disbursements, that is scheduled principal, scheduled interest, prepaid principal, past due interest and fees and charges and any data relating to the breach of any triggers implying changes in the priority of payments or replacement of any counterparties as well as data on the amount and form of credit enhancement ~~available to each tranche~~ should also be made available in the investor report. Although securitisations that are simple, transparent and standardised have in the past performed well, the satisfaction of any STS requirements does not mean that the securitisation position is free of risks, nor does it indicate anything about the credit quality underlying the securitisation. Instead, it should be understood to indicate that a prudent and diligent investor will be able to analyse the risks involved in the securitisation. There should be two types of STS requirements: one for long-term securitisations and one for short-term securitisations (ABCP), which should be subject to a large extent to similar requirements with specific adjustments to reflect the structural features of these two market segments. The functioning of these markets are different with ABCP programmes relying on a number of ABCP transactions consisting of short term exposures which need to be replaced once matured. In addition, STS criteria need also to reflect the specific role of the sponsor providing liquidity support to the ABCP conduits.

2016/07/27
Committee: ECON

2015/0226(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16

(16) In securitisations which are not 'true sale', the underlying exposures are not transferred to such an issuer entity, but rather the credit risk related to the underlying exposures is transferred by means of a derivative contract or guarantees. This introduces an additional counterparty credit risk and potential complexity related in particular to the content of the derivative contract. To date, no analysis on an international level or Union level has been sufficient to identify STS criteria for those types of securitisation instruments. An assessment in the future of whether some synthetic securitisations that have performed well during the financial crisis and are simple, transparent and standardised are therefore eligible to qualify as STS would be essential. On this basis, the Commission will assess whether securitisations which are not 'true sale' shouldUnder no circumstances should synthetic securitisations be covnsidered ~~by the STS designation in a future proposal~~as STS.

2016/07/27
Committee: ECON

2015/0226(COD)

Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Matt CARTHY

Draft legislative resolution
Recital 38 a (new)

(38a) Account should be taken of the viewpoints expressed by the Member States’ academic communities on the risks associated with reviving securitisation;

2016/07/27
Committee: ECON

2015/0226(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 9

(9) 'traditional securitisation' means a securitisation involving the economic transfer of the exposures being securitised. This shall be accomplished by the transfer of ownership of the securitised exposures from the originator institution to an SSPE or through sub- participation by an SSPE. The securities issued do not represent payment obligations of the originator institution;deleted

2016/07/27
Committee: ECON

2015/0226(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10

(10) 'synthetic securitisation' means a securitisation where the transfer of risk is achieved by the use of credit derivatives or guarantees, and the exposures being securitised remain exposures of the originator; it shall under no circumstances be recognised as an STS;

2016/07/27
Committee: ECON

2015/0226(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1

The originator, sponsor or the original lender of a securitisation shall retain on an ongoing basis a material net economic interest in the securitisation of not less than 25 %. Where the originator, sponsor or the original lender have not agreed between them who will retain the material net economic interest, the originator shall retain the material net economic interest. There shall be no multiple applications of the retention requirements for any given securitisation. The material net economic interest shall be measured at the origination and shall be determined by the notional value for off-balance sheet items. The material net economic interest shall not be split amongst different types of retainers and not be subject to any credit risk mitigation or hedging.

2016/07/27
Committee: ECON

2015/0226(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – introductory part

2. Only the following shall qualify as a retention of a material net economic interest of not less than 525 % within the meaning of paragraph 1:

2016/07/27
Committee: ECON

2015/0226(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point a

(a) the retention of no less than 525 % of the nominal value of each of the tranches sold or transferred to investors;

2016/07/27
Committee: ECON

2015/0226(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point c

(c) the retention of randomly selected exposures, equivalent to no less than 525 % of the nominal value of the securitised exposures, where such non-securitised exposures would otherwise have been securitised in the securitisation, provided that the number of potentially securitised exposures is no less than 100 at origination;

2016/07/27
Committee: ECON

2015/0226(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point d

(d) the retention of the first loss tranche and, where such retention does not amount to 525 % of the nominal value of the securitised exposures, if necessary, other tranches having the same or a more severe risk profile than those transferred or sold to investors and not maturing any earlier than those transferred or sold to investors, so that the retention equals in total no less than 25% of the nominal value of the securitised exposures;

2016/07/27
Committee: ECON

2015/0226(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point e

(e) the retention of a first loss exposure of not less than 525 % of every securitised exposure in the securitisation.

2016/07/27
Committee: ECON

2015/0226(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 4 – point c

~~(c) institutions to which a 50% risk weight or less is assigned under Part Three, Title II, Chapter 2 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013;~~deleted

2016/07/27
Committee: ECON

2015/0226(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 5

5. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to transactions based on a clear, transparent and accessible index, where the underlying reference entities are identical to those that make up an index of entities that is widely traded, or are other tradable securities other than securitisation positions.deleted

2016/07/27
Committee: ECON

2015/0225(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Fabio DE MASI, Matt CARTHY

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1

(1) Securitisations awere an important constituent part of well-functioning financial markets insofar as they contribute to diversifying institutions' funding sources and releasing regulatory capital which can then be reallocated to support further lending. Furthermore, securitisations provide institutions and other market participants with additional investment opportunities, thus allowing portfolio diversification and facilitating the flow of funding to businesses and individuals both within Member States and on a cross-border basis throughout the Union. These benefits, however, should be weighed against their potential costs. As seen during the first phase of financial crisis starting in the summer of 2007the central cause of the financial crisis, namely because of systemic flaws in the financial system and investors' lack of due diligence as well as institutions lack of responsibility. As seen during the financial crisis, unsound practices in securitisation markets resulted in significant threats to the integrity of the financial system, namely due to excessive leverage, opaque and complex structures that made pricing problematic, mechanistic reliance on external ratings or misalignment between the interests of investors and originators ("agency risks").

2016/09/06
Committee: ECON

2015/0225(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2

(2) In recent years, securitisation issuance volumes in the Union have remained below their pre-crisis peak for a number of reasons, ~~among them the stigma generally associated with these transactions. The reco~~including the low demand for non-bank lending. According to the ECB SAFE survery ~~of securitisation markets should be based on sound and prudent market practi~~2015, European SMEs’ biggest concern today is "finding customers" whereas "access to prevent a recurrence of the set of circumstances that triggered the financial crisis. To that end, Regulation [Securitisation Regulation] lays down the substantive elements of an overarching securitisation framework, with ad-hoc criteria to identify simple, transparent finance" is their lowest. It is therefore not clear that there is an overall European need to promote non-bandk s~~tandardised ("STS") securitisations and a system of supervision to monitor the correct application of these criteria by originators, sponsors, issue~~ources of finance for SMEs. A revival of securitisation is likely to first and ~~institutional investors. Furthermore, Regulation [Securitisation Regulation] provides for a s~~foremost benefit the balance sheets of ~~common requirements on risk retention, due diligence and disclosure for all financial services sectors~~banks at the expense of financial stability.

2016/09/06
Committee: ECON

2015/0225(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 a (new)

(2a) Without banking structural reform that addresses the problem of 'too-big-to- fail' banks, a revival of securitisation is likely to once again fail and harm the real economy and ultimately the welfare and lives of ordinary people.

2016/09/06
Committee: ECON

2015/0225(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4

(4) Capital requirements for positions in a securitisation under Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 should be subject to the same calculation methods for all institutions. In the first instance and to remove any form of mechanistic reliance on external ratings~~, an institution should use its own calculation of regulatory capital requirements where the institution has permission to use the In~~. Relying on external Rratings Based approach (the "IRB") in relation to exposures of the same type as those underlying the securitisation and is able to calculate regulatory capital requirements in relation to the underlying exposu agencies is not desirable. However, the flaws of internal models ares as if these had not been securitised ("Kirb"), in each case subject to certain pre-defined inputs (the "SEC- IRBA"). A Securitisation External Ratings-Based Approach (the "SEC- ERBA") should then be available to institutions that may not use the SEC- IRBA in relation to their positions in a given securitisation. Under the SEC- ERBA, capital requirements should be assigned to securitisation tranches on the basis of their external rating. When the first two approaches are not available or the use of the SEC-ERBA would result in incommensurate regulatory capital requirements relative to the credit risk embedded in the underlying exposures, ilso well known and have yet to be addressed. Banks can manipulate risk weights and different banks can give very different risk weights to similar assets. Institutions should ~~be able to~~ apply the Securitisation Standardised Approach (the "SEC-SA") which should rely on a supervisory-provided formula using as an input the capital requirements that would be calculated under the Standardised Approach to credit risk (the "SA") in relation to the underlying exposures if these had not been securitised ("Ksa").

2016/09/06
Committee: ECON

2015/0225(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5

(5) Agency and model risks are more prevalent for securitisations than for other financial assets and give rise to ~~some~~a high degree of uncertainty in the calculation of capital requirements for securitisations even after all appropriate risk drivers have been taken into account. Securitisations are too complex and have a fundamental flaw, which is a lack of transparency and accountability. In order to capture those risks adequately, Regulation (EU) No. 575/2013 should be amended to provide for a minimum 15% risk weight floor for all securitisation positions. Re- securitisations, however, exhibit greater complexity and riskiness and, accordingly, positions in them, should be subject to a more conservative regulatory capital calculation and a 100% risk weight floor.

2016/09/06
Committee: ECON

2015/0225(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7

Regulation 575/2013
Article 254 – Paragraph 2 – point a

(a) an institution shall use the ~~Internal Ratings-Based Approach (SEC-IRBA) where the conditions set out in~~Securitisation Standardised Approach (SEC-SA) in accordance with Articles 2~~58 are met~~63 and 264;

2016/09/06
Committee: ECON

2015/0225(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7

(b) where the SEC-~~IRB~~SA may not be used, institutions shall use the Securitisation External Ratings-Based Approach (SEC-ERBA) for rated positions or positions in respect of which an inferred rating may be used in accordance with Articles 261 and 262;

2016/09/06
Committee: ECON

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Miguel VIEGAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Proposal for a directive
Recital 1

(1) The challenge posed by cross-border tax avoidance, aggressive tax planning and harmful tax competition has increased considerably and has become a major focus of concern within the Union and at global level. Tax base erosion is considerably reducing national tax revenues, ~~which~~hence hindersing Member States in applying growth-friendly tax policies and in fulfilling the constitutional obligations in terms of fundamental rights, aggravating social and economic inequality, increasing political power of cross-border business, shifting taxation towards less mobile factors such as labour and consumption, thus making the tax system less progressive, and widening the democratic deficit. In particular, rulings concerning tax-driven structures lead to a low level of taxation of artificially ~~high~~low amounts of income in the country giving the advance ruling and may leave artificially low amounts of income to be taxed in any other countries involved. An increase in transparency is therefore urgently required. The tools and mechanisms established by Council Directive 2011/16/EU13 need to be enhanced in order to achieve this. __________________ 13 Council Directive 2011/16/EU of 15 February 2011 on administrative cooperation in the field of taxation and repealing Directive 77/799/EEC (OJ L 64 of 11.3.2011, p. 1).

2015/09/24
Committee: ECON

2015/0068(CNS)

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Miguel VIEGAS

Proposal for a directive
Recital 3 a (new)

(3a) Transparency only deploys its benefits fully when it is combined with the possibility of wider public scrutiny. The proposed reforms should hence aim at making publicly available all information on tax rulings exchanged along the provisions of this Directive.

2015/09/24
Committee: ECON

2015/0068(CNS)

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Miguel VIEGAS

Proposal for a directive
Recital 8

(8) Member States should exchange the basic information to be communicated also with the Commission. This would enable the Commission at any point in time to monitor and evaluate the effective application of the automatic exchange of information on advance cross-border rulings and advance pricing arrangements and to make available to the public the exchanged information on rulings. Such communication will not discharge a Member State from its obligations to notify any state aid to the Commission.

2015/09/24
Committee: ECON

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1

(1) The austerity policies in response to the economic and financial crisis hasve led to a lowering of the level of investments within the Union. Investment has fallen by approximately 15% since its peak in 2007~~. The Union suffers in particular from a lack of investment as a consequence of market uncertainty regarding the economic future and the fiscal constraints on Member States. This lack of investment~~ in relative terms, while the absolute loss in investment due to the deep recession in some Member States is much larger. The Union suffers in particular from a lack of investment as a consequence of arbitrary fiscal constraints on Member States, due rules of the Stability and Growth Pact and the Fiscal Compact, resulting in a deeper recession, sluggish recovery and uncertainty regarding the economic future. This lack of investment, which has been particularly severe in Member States most affected by the crisis and the policies prescribed in the Memorandums of Understanding signed with the Troika, slows economic recovery and negatively affects job creation, and long-term growth prospects ~~and competitiveness~~.

2015/03/19
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/0009(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Marisa MATIAS, Matt CARTHY

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2

(2) Comprehensive action is required to reverse the vicious circle created by a lack of investment. ~~Structural reforms and fiscal responsibility are necessary preconditions for stimulating investment. Along with a renewed impetus towards investment financing, these preconditions can contribute~~Increased public investment and reforms that reduce inequality, support rising wages and social transfers and enhance fiscal sustainability through a fair and progressive tax system, constitute a way to establish~~ing~~ a virtuous circle, where investment projects help support employment and demand and lead to a sustained increase in growth potential.

2015/03/19
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/0009(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Matt CARTHY

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4

(4) Throughout the economic and financial crisis, the Union has ~~made efforts to promote growth, in particular through~~promoted policies that deepen the recession and impede recovery, regardless of initiatives set out in the Europe 2020 strategy that put in place an approach for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. The European Investment Bank ('EIB') has ~~also~~ strengthened its role in instigating and promoting investment within the Union, partly by way of an increase in capital in January 2013. Further action is required to ensure that the investment needs of the Union are addressed and that the liquidity available on the market is used efficiently and channelled towards the funding of viable investment projects.

2015/03/19
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/0009(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10

(10) The purpose of the EFSI should be to help resolve the difficulties in financing and implementing productive investments in the Union and to ensure increased access to financing. It is intended that increased access to financing should be of particular benefit to small and medium enterprises, as well as other entities, such as social economy enterprises that provide high value for invested money, including a high social and societal quality and citizen-ownership of economic processes and results. It is also appropriate to extend the benefit of such increased access to financing to mid- cap companies, which are companies having up to 3000 employees. Overcoming Europe's current investment difficulties should contribute to strengthening the Union's economic, social and territorial cohesion.

2015/03/19
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/0009(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11

(11) The EFSI should support strategic investments with high social or economic value added contributing to achieving Union policy objectives of enhancing economic, social and territorial cohesion across the Union.

2015/03/19
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/0009(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14

(14) The EFSI should target projects delivering high societal and economic value. In particular, the EFSI should target projects that promote job creation, and long- term ~~growth and competitiveness~~sustainable growth. The EFSI should support a wide range of financial products, including equity, debt or guarantees, to best accommodate the needs of the individual project. ~~This wide range of products should allow the EFSI to adapt to market needs whilst encouraging private investment in the projects.~~ The EFSI should not be a substitute for private ~~market~~ finance but should instead catalyse private finance by addressing market failures so as to ensure the most effective and strategic use of public money. The requirement for consistency with State aid principles should contribute to such effective and strategic use.

2015/03/19
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/0009(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18 a (new)

(18a) Private contributions shall not be classified as so-called senior tranches, which means that they would be served even in the case of financial difficulties or default. Public contributions shall not cover the so-called junior tranches

2015/03/25
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/0009(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2

The purpose of the EFSI shall be to support public and private investments in the Union and to ensure increased access to financing for companies having up to 3000 employees, social economy enterprises and service providers, with a particular focus on small and medium enterprises, through the supply of risk bearing capacity to the EIB ('EFSI Agreement'). The overall objective of the EFSI shall be to promote and guarantee sustainable, inclusive and long-term growth and quality job creation as well as social inclusion in the Union.

2015/03/25
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/0009(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2

2. The EFSI Agreement shall be open to accession by Member States. Subject to the consent of existing contributors, the EFSI Agreement shall also be open to accession by other public third parties, including national promotional banks or public agencies owned or controlled by Member States~~, and private sector entities~~.

2015/03/25
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/0009(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. The EFSI agreement shall provide that the EFSI shall have an advisory board composed of representatives of the European Social partners as well as representatives from national social partner organisations from both sides of industry. Members of the Steering Board will participate in the meetings of the social advisory board.

2015/03/25
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/0009(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2

The Investment Committee shall be composed of six eight independent experts and the Managing Director. Independent experts shall have a high level of relevant ~~market~~ experience in project structuring and financing, as well as macroeconomic expertise. The Investment Committee shall have a pluridisciplinary composition encompassing a broad range of expertise in various sectors, such as research and development, transport and SMEs. A specialist fin~~ance and~~ social policies and a specialist in environmental policy shall be appointed as independent experts in the Investment Committee. The Investment Committee It shall be appointed by the Steering Board for a renewable fixed term of three years.

2015/03/25
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/0009(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point e a (new)

(ea) investments in sectors with high job- creation potential, focusing on long-term and sustainable effects, including the social, health and care sectors as well as the social economy.

2015/03/25
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/0009(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point b

(b) EIB funding to the EIF enabling it to undertake loans, guarantees, counter- guarantees, ~~any other form of credit enhancement instrument,~~ capital market instruments and equity or quasi-equity participations. Credit enhancement instruments such as project bonds shall not be granted until the evaluation of the Project Bond Initiative has been carried out as requested by the relevant EU decisions. These Iinstruments shall be granted, acquired or issued for the benefit of operations carried out in the Union, in compliance with this Regulation and where EIF financing has been granted in accordance with a signed agreement which has neither expired nor been cancelled.

2015/03/25
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/0009(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point f a (new)

(fa) detailed information on the tax payments resulting from its investment and lending operations under the EFSI.

2015/03/19
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/0009(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1

The ~~EU guarantee and the payments and recoveries under it that are attributable to the general budget of the Union shall be audited by the Court of Auditors~~external audit of the activities undertaken in accordance with the EFSI Regulation is carried out by the European Court of Auditors in accordance with Article 287 TFEU.

2015/03/19
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/0009(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY

Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 2

2. In its financing and investment operations, the EIB shall apply the principles and standards set out in Union law on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering and terrorist financing, including a requirement to take reasonable measures to identify the beneficial owners where applicable. In its financing and investment operations under the EFSI and through investment platforms and national promotional banks, the EIB shall make both direct funding or funding via intermediaries contingent upon the disclosure of both country-by-country tax relevant data along the lines of the CRD IV provision for credit institutions, as well as disclosure of beneficial ownership information according to the EU Anti- Money Laundering Directive.

2015/03/19
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/0009(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Matt CARTHY

Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. The EIB shall not cooperate with financial intermediaries having a negative track record in terms of transparency, tax evasion and aggressive tax planning practices, or use other harmful tax practices such as 'tax rulings' and abusive transfer pricing.

2015/03/19
Committee: BUDG ECON

2014/2252(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the closer participation of national parliaments in the European legislative process, which has resulted in a positive increase in awareness of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality in the interinstitutional context; Believes, however, that the efforts to increase the participation of national parliaments in the legislative process should be strengthened;

2015/04/20
Committee: EMPL

2014/2252(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Calls on the Commission to provide prior information on its choice of legal base for legislative acts as this will facilitate the cooperation with national parliaments;

2015/04/20
Committee: EMPL

2014/2252(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Notes that the national parliaments came close to raising a "yellow card" in the context of the proposal for a European Public Prosecutors Office; Believes that in cases where the yellow card procedure is supported by a number of national parliaments, the follow-up Commission Communication should address all objections of these parliaments;

2015/04/20
Committee: EMPL

2014/2240(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Patrick LE HYARIC, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Inês Cristina ZUBER, Lynn BOYLAN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Stresses that blue growth should never be considered in isolation from the maintenance and sustainability of the natural resources of the seas, the restoration of those which have been lost and measures which are certainly sustainable and have been proven to be so;

2015/04/23
Committee: EMPL

2014/2240(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Patrick LE HYARIC, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Lynn BOYLAN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses the importance of improving the necessary skills for applying the new technologies to the marine environment and of strengthening research coordination in order to create sustainable quality jobs and contribute to the full achievement of the social and employment objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy;

2015/04/23
Committee: EMPL

2014/2240(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Patrick LE HYARIC, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Inês Cristina ZUBER, Lynn BOYLAN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Highlights the need to focus on environmental aspects and on improving the quality of the marine environment in order to ensure we have a sustainable blue economy w~~ithout restrict~~hile realising its employment potential;

2015/04/23
Committee: EMPL

2014/2240(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Patrick LE HYARIC, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Inês Cristina ZUBER, Lynn BOYLAN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Takes the view that coastal and maritime tourism can contribute to economic growth and t~~o reducing casual or temporary work, provided~~he creation of quality jobs; stresses, however, that ~~the~~all activities armust be carried out in an environmentally-~~friendly~~sustainable way;

2015/04/23
Committee: EMPL

2014/2240(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Patrick LE HYARIC, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Stresses the importance of social dialogue and considers that all ~~parties involved in the blue economy should be represented in that dialogue, together with the individuals or companies concerned and civil society,~~concerned parties should be involved in the dialogue on the development of the blue economy, including coastal communities and civil society organisations; highlights in particular, the importance of including workers, so that the latter are actively involved in the framing of policies and solutions at local level;

2015/04/23
Committee: EMPL

2014/2240(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Patrick LE HYARIC, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Inês Cristina ZUBER, Lynn BOYLAN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Considers that in order to maximise sustainable economic growth and ~~employment and~~increase the creation of quality jobs based on blue technologies, exchanges of ideas between the world of research and that of business should be encouraged, to promote and increase their ability to cooperate and network.

2015/04/23
Committee: EMPL

2014/2238(INI)

Lynn BOYLAN, Rina Ronja KARI, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Urges the Commission to maintain policy coherence on the need for green employment, a just transition and decent work across all areas of its work, including by promoting this agenda in its Integrated Guidelines on economic and employment policies;

2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL

2014/2238(INI)

Lynn BOYLAN, Rina Ronja KARI, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the 'just transition' and decent work agenda are part of its position in the climate negotiations at the COP21 summit in Paris this year;

2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL

2014/2238(INI)

Lynn BOYLAN, Rina Ronja KARI, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Stresses the critical importance of workers’ participation in achieving these changes; ~~calls for~~notes that trade unions have stated that the lack of any legal obligation on employers to include workers' representatives in green workplace programmes is blocking the potential of this partnership; calls for the Member States to ensure the involvement of trade union ‘green representatives’ working with employers on increasing sustainability at their workplaces;

2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL

2014/2238(INI)

Lynn BOYLAN, Rina Ronja KARI, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Welcomes the tools for skills development and the forecasting of skill needs proposed by the Commission; stresses, however, that more ambitious action and investment is needed;

2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL

2014/2238(INI)

Lynn BOYLAN, Rina Ronja KARI, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Notes that these strategies should include the identification of skill gaps and targeted vocational and lifelong training programmes; stresses the need to actively include in the strategies both displaced workers and low-skilled workers at risk of being excluded from the labour market by ensuring that skills training must be targeted, accessible and free for these workers; stresses that steps need to be taken to counter the gender imbalance in certain sectors;

2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL

2014/2238(INI)

Lynn BOYLAN, Rina Ronja KARI, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Member States to fully respect and implement the new provisions of the revised EU legislation on public procurement, and to introduce proactively environmental and social criteria in their public procurement policies without delay in order to create sustainable jobs;

2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL

2014/2228(INI)

Matt CARTHY, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph a

a. ~~take immediate action to ensure that a comprehensive and ambitious agreement is reached on the TTIP enhancing fair competition on both sides of the Atlantic~~suspends all actions with regards to the TTIP agreement in view of guaranteeing the adequate democratic scrutiny of the citizens of the options, at both European and national level;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2228(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Lynn BOYLAN, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point i

(i) to ~~ensure that TTIP will make a significant positive contribution~~immediately suspend the negotiations; and to cre~~ating more and better jobs and set ambitious global trade standards for sustainable development and labour~~frain from any further attempts of imposing a global model of free trade standards; Believes that any further negotiations between the EU and US need to be subject to a fundamental rethink as called for by the European Trade Union Conference (ETUC);

2015/03/09
Committee: EMPL

2014/2228(INI)

Matt CARTHY, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Miguel VIEGAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph b

b. take immediate action to ensure that ~~free and fair competition on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as market access,~~any dispositions in the Treaty are subordinated to the right of the EU and its Member-States to define the levels of protection and that any such policy is not secured at the cost of social cohesion or the delivery of critical infrastructure or public services and is addressed on the basis of maintaining the highest standards ~~possible within the~~and is done so with regard to existing levels of protection, especially within areas such as health and safety, education, consumer, labour and environmental legislation;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2228(INI)

Matt CARTHY, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph c

c. take immediate action to ~~include restrictions on state aid in the agreement; propose greater transparency within state aid rules and within the allocation of state aid~~allow individual member states use more state aid to vulnerable sectors of industry and allow for more proactive public sector enterprises. ;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2228(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Lynn BOYLAN, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point ii

(ii) to ~~ensur~~guarantee that TTIP includes comprehensive provisions on labour laws and policies that are consistent with the ~~core~~ ILO Conventions and the Decent Work Agenda, with a clear commitment to promote higher standards and, furthermore, to ~~ensur~~guarantee that where disputes arise, labour provisions will have ~~a conditional dimension~~primacy over provisions of free movement;

2015/03/09
Committee: EMPL

2014/2228(INI)

Matt CARTHY, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph d

d. take immediate action to ensure that ~~market access~~ongoing negotiations ~~on financial services are combined with upward convergence in financial regulation; support high international standards in on-going cooperation efforts in other international fora~~and any eventual Agreement are used as an opportunity to improve and enforce higher standards through regulatory convergence;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2228(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Lynn BOYLAN, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point ii a (new)

(ii a) to guarantee a clear commitment from the EU and the US to revoke anti- trade union laws and actors such as the Troika and the right to work legislation;

2015/03/09
Committee: EMPL

2014/2228(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Lynn BOYLAN, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point iii

(iii) to ~~ensur~~guarantee that the horizontal dimensions of labour and social provisions are recognised and fully integrated into all relevant operational parts of the agreement to ensure a coherent and comprehensive approach to trade and sustainable development;

2015/03/09
Committee: EMPL

2014/2228(INI)

Matt CARTHY, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph e

e. take immediate action to ~~ensure that aggressive tax planning, and distortion of competition by e.g. moving of headquarters across the Atlantic to obtain competition-distorting conditions, are addressed~~prevent fiscal competition, namely through the dumping in the taxation of profits and financial gains and maintenance of offshores and other fiscally privileged zones;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2228(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Lynn BOYLAN, Patrick LE HYARIC, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point iv

(iv) to ~~ensure that civil society can make a meaningful contribution to implementing relevant TTIP provisions~~respect the overwhelming opposition in civil society against TTIP which has been clearly expressed by the 1.5 million European citizens who have signed the Citizens' Initiative against TTIP;

2015/03/09
Committee: EMPL

2014/2228(INI)

Matt CARTHY, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph f

f. take immediate action to ensure that systematic movement of capital across the Atlantic, in order to avoid tax payments in the country of production and/or sale of goods or services, is ~~addressed~~prohibited or subject to heavy taxation within the realm of TTIP;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2228(INI)

Matt CARTHY, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph g

g. take immediate action to ensure reciprocal market access for European companies to public contracts in the United States; underlines that an imbalance of market access to public contracts constitutes unfair competition;deleted

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2228(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Lynn BOYLAN, Patrick LE HYARIC, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point v

(v) to ~~take immediate steps to safeguard the right of EU governments to legislate, organise, set quality and safety standards for, manage and regulate public services~~unequivocally exclude public services, including Services of General Interest and Services of Non-Economic Interests, as well as rules on public procurement from areas that can be liberalised;

2015/03/09
Committee: EMPL

2014/2228(INI)

Matt CARTHY, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph h

h. take immediate proactive measures against American protectionism, and address legislation that hinders European market access to the United States, such as Buy American, Buy America and the American Job Act;deleted

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2228(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Lynn BOYLAN, Patrick LE HYARIC, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point vi

(vi) to ensure that the specific challenges faced by ~~SMEs are fully taken into accou~~the 87 percent of all SMEs in Europe which are not involved in export but relies on domestic demand are fully taken into account; and to identify and clearly communicate which sectors and branches are likely to be adversely affected by TTIP prior to the signing of an agreement;

2015/03/09
Committee: EMPL

2014/2228(INI)

Matt CARTHY, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph i

i. propose the introduction of a national court systems-first principle, to be supplemented with mediation and intergovernmental dispute mechanisms in legal disputes in order to ensure easier access and lower litigation costs than those offered by current ISDS- mechanisms, benefitting especially SMEs (having fewer resources available than large corporations), thus insists on the protection of democratic powers of legislators and takes immediate action to ensure the removal of any investor - state dispute settlement body (ISDS) as any interference from non- democreati~~ng more equal competition conditions; stress that any and all dispute mechanisms set in place within the TTIP-framework must uphold full transparency and be subject to democratic principles~~c or non -EU bodies, contravenes democratic principles of sovereignty, transparency and scrutiny;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2228(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Lynn BOYLAN, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point vii

(vii) to take steps to promote the uptake of corporate social responsibility (CSR), which must be additional to and not replace ~~existing~~ labour and environmental laws;

2015/03/09
Committee: EMPL

2014/2228(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Lynn BOYLAN, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point viii

(viii) to guarantee that ~~agreement on any~~no mechanism for investor-state dispute- settlement ~~mechanism must take into accoun~~(ISDS) will be part of a final agreement; and to respect the results of the public consultation ~~on investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), must be fully transparent and democratically accountable and must not hinder legislators from passing laws in the area of employment policy~~which showed wide opposition against ISDS rather than public support of a reformed ISDS; Believes that the ISDS undermines democratically adopted legislation which has been put in place to safeguard public interests;

2015/03/09
Committee: EMPL

2014/2228(INI)

Matt CARTHY, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph j

j. acknowledge the importance of state- owned enterprises for certain crucial services; and calls for immediate action in order to ensure that specific and identifiable provisions for the protection of State Owned Enterprises are prioritised;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2228(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Lynn BOYLAN, Patrick LE HYARIC, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x

(x) to ensure that statistical projections on job losses/gains, and on sectors, affected are constantly updated so that timely intervention can be undertaken by the Commission to support affected sectors, regions or Member States.; Believes that the negotiations are based on a flawed and biased impact assessment study which has not addressed the negative impacts on employment, job displacement, public finances and trade diversion1 ; __________________ 1 The Commission Impact assessment of TTIP is based on analysis carried out by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). However, a number of independent studies which have critically assessed the CEPR studies points out that the study has exaggerated the claims of growth and job creation. "Nor does it contain an adequate assessment of the risks or drawbacks", says the European Parliament Impact Assessment team (IMPA) (page 8 of the EP Initial appraisal of a European Commission Impact Assessment http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/et udes/note/join/2013/507504/IPOL- JOIN_NT%282013%29507504_EN.pdf )

2015/03/09
Committee: EMPL

2014/2228(INI)

Matt CARTHY, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph k

k. stress the need ~~to uphold the EU’s tradition for organis~~for each Member State to organise its own public services, to prioritise funding ~~its~~for public services, and calls for ~~an exclusion of public services from the agreement~~immediate action to make provisions to allow flexibility to bring public services back into public control;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2228(INI)

Matt CARTHY, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph l

l. ~~propose that there should be no obligation in TTIP to expose sensitive sectors to competition~~take immediate action in order to table additional vulnerability provisions which will allow for the exclusion of susceptible sectors from any final trade agreement; any agreed provisions should be made in tandem with consultation with relevant stakeholders and interested committees.

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2228(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Lynn BOYLAN, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)

(x a) to abandon the export-led growth model and explore and prioritise other ways of stimulating much needed growth and creation of decent jobs in the EU: - promote counter-cyclical actions aimed at stimulating domestic demand and consumption and countering high; unemployment and social exclusion - revoke the 1/20 rule on debt reduction; - allow all public investments to be regarded as fiscally neutral as regards the Stability and Growth Pact;

2015/03/09
Committee: EMPL

2014/2228(INI)

Matt CARTHY, Marisa MATIAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph l a (new)

la. ensure that the application of the Lisbon Treaty Article 218.10 (TFEU) which provides that the European Parliament shall be immediately and fully informed at all stages of the procedure;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2228(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Lynn BOYLAN, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x b (new)

(x b) to reject the Regulatory Cooperation Council as it lacks democratic accountability, does not ensure multi- stakeholder representation and does not foresee social impact assessments of how new laws and regulations will affect working and living conditions of citizens;

2015/03/09
Committee: EMPL

2014/2228(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Lynn BOYLAN, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point x c (new)

(x c) to insert a sunset clause that activates after 5 years and that ensures that any subsequent re-activation can only be proposed after an extensive evaluation of the effects of the TTIP agreement;

2015/03/09
Committee: EMPL

2014/2221(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the economic recovery in the EU slowed down considerably in the course of 2014 ~~but has a prospect of catching up in 2015 and of doing even better in 2016;~~

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Welcomes~~Regret that the Commission’'s Annual Growth Survey 2015, ~~which endeavours to promote a return to higher growth levels and to strengthen the recovery; support~~did not focus its analysis of the true causes of the crisis; questions the three main pillars approach (boosting investment, accelerating structural reforms and pursuing responsible growth friendly fiscal consolidation) as the right way to achieve these goals; welcomes the Commission’s suggestions for improving the European Semester by simplifying procedures and increasing national ownership as needed, considering that only 10-15 % of the Country Specific Recommendations are fully implemented by the Members Statesrecovery;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Expresses concern that most Member States are still losing market shares globally and have a growing negative net international investment position; believes that the EU economy as a whole needs to boost its competitiveness further in the global economy, particularly by increasing competition in the product and services markets in order to enhance innovation-dRegret that the Commission's Annual Growth Survey 2015, did not focus its analysis of the true causes of the crisis; questions the three main pillars approach (boosting investment, accelerating structural reforms and pursuing responsible growth friven ~~efficiency, while keeping labour costs in line with productivit~~dly fiscal consolidation) as the right way to achieve recovery;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Believes that the lack of investment is caused by ~~low confidence, high indebtedness, slow deleveraging and subdued expectations of~~excessive austerity biased policies, and lack of aggregate (public and private) demand;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Welcomes~~Expresses its concern about the Iinvestment Pplan ~~for Europe, which is an important instrument for increasing private and publ~~of President Junker, in particular regarding the assumptions under which the creation of the European Fund for Strategic iInvestment~~; notes that the~~ (EFSI) is built. This plan, is ~~meant to trigger additional investment, develop new projects, attract investors and restore confidence;~~ insufficient, and does not contain a single cent of fresh money and is based on an exercise of creative accounting and financial engineering without any credible basis.

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. ~~Calls~~ Questions the ~~Members States actively to support the Investment Pl~~principle of using public money to leverage an,d a~~nd to contribute to the European Fund for Strategic Investment, supplementing the amounts provided through the EU budget and by the EIB, in order to gu~~ttract additional private capital and draws attention to not feed the illusory idea a~~nd encourage the private sector to invest; welcomes the principle of using public money to leverage and attract additional private capital;~~ccording to which the creation of a climate of trust alone will be enough to resuscitate private investment.

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Is still concerned about the lack of progress in reducing excessive private debt levels; points out that this is not only a concern for financial stability, as it also limits the EU’'s growth potential and makes the ECB’'s monetary policy less effective; calls on the Commission to make proposals for the preparation of effective procedures for private sector deleveraging, including bankruptcy and insolvency procedures~~, as the huge debt burden weighing on companies and households is one of the key factors limiting private investment~~;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. ~~Welcomes the ambitious~~Expresses concern about the structural reforms imp~~lement~~osed byin those Member States most affected by the crisis; ~~welcomes as well~~although the fact that those Member States ~~that~~ have successfully implemented adjustment programmes or financial sector programmes ~~have been able to return to the capital markets, where they now access capital at low interest rates~~, almost all imbalances remains unsolved and social impacts have been dramatic;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls on the Member States to ~~make their~~support labour markets ~~more efficient, to modernise~~with active job creation policies and avoiding downward pressure on wages to strength social protection systems, including pensions, and to improve and streamline the legal and administrative environment for business investment; stresses th~~at structural reforms need to be complemented by well-targeted~~e need for, longer- term investments in education, research and development, innovation, infrastructure, ICT and sustainable energy;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Points out that EU financial assistance to certain Member States, provided on terms combining solidarity with conditionality, has proved to be most successful when there was a strong ownership and commitment to reform; reminds the Commission and the Member States that they need to explore ways of bringing the financial assistance under the EU framework;deleted

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls for urgent action to be taken by the Commission to fight tax fraud and tax evasion; calls for a tax system that is simple, fair and transparent; reiterates its call on the Member States to ~~shift taxes from labour to consump~~introduce more fiscal fairness by taxing increasingly the financial sector and financial transactions;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

~~14. Believes that the Member States and the Commission have not yet delivered on their commitment to complete the single market, especially the single market for services and the digital economy;~~deleted

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Reiterates its call on the Commission to improve the governance of the single market; urges the Commission to align the aims of the Single Market with those of the European Semester; believes that analytical tools, composed of indicators measuring the implementation of the single market,meditate the European Semester; believes that a thoughtful analysis of the effects of imposed austerity policies can provide useful guidance for country-specific recommendations and the Annual Growth Survey;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

~~16. Underlines the fact that the absence of a well-functioning internal labour market and of a balanced approach to immigration is hampering growth in the EU;~~deleted

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Reiterates the importance of ~~ensuring labour mobility (both cross-border and cross-sectoral), enhanced labour pro~~labour market policies supporting collective bargaining and limiting the use of precarious work, preserving the necessary scope of work security, improved educati~~vity (connected with skills trainings to improve employability) and labour market flexibility, while preserving the necessary scope of work security~~on and training opportunities for workers (on and off the job), enhancing labour productivity, and ensuring opportunities for labour mobility (both cross-border and cross-sectorial);

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Welcomes the strong decrease in the number of countries under the excessive deficit procedure – down to 11 in 2014 from 24 in 2011; notes that due to this fiscal improvement the fiscal stance in the EU is now expected to remain broadly neutral in the coming years; expresses its concern, however, about the still very high indebtedness of a number of Member States in the euro area, a circumstance that not only hinders growth but also constitutes a substantial risk in case of possible future shocks;deleted

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Draws attention to the need to reflect on the large number of countries that were under the excessive deficit procedure – 24 among 28, and note that the decrease in the number of countries under the excessive deficit procedure – down to 11 in 2014 from 24 in 2011 was not accompanied by an improvement in the performance of the economies that remain without growing, with high unemployment and some of them suffering deflationary processes;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)

18b. In light of those facts, urges the Commission to launch a process of reform of the Stability and Growth Pact in order to make it more adapted to the needs of economies and more oriented to growth and employment;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. ~~Agrees with the Commission that most Member States need to continue to pursue growth-friendly fiscal consolidation; i~~Invites Member States with sufficient fiscal space to ~~consider reducing taxes and social security contributions with a view to stimulating private~~increase public investment and promote higher wages, with a view to stimulate public and private consumption and investment;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Is concerned that only five Member States were found to be fully compliant with the provisions of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) which questions again the reasonableness of the stability pact rules;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. ~~Welcomes~~Is concerned about the Alert Mechanism Report~~; welcomes the gradual reduction of internal imbalances in the EU economy; draws attention to the external imbalances, including the large trade surplus~~ and the effect it will have in perpetuating austerity and prevent member states to choose their own development policies;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Points out that the objective of the macroeconomic imbalance procedure is not only meant to avoid strong negative effects on growth and employment inside a country, but also to prevent the effects of ill-designed national policies from spilling over into other Member States in the euro area;deleted

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2158(INI)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas European citizens want a high- quality and ~~affordable~~universal provision of public services;

2014/12/17
Committee: ECON

2014/2158(INI)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas the successful development of SMEs ~~under conditions of free competition~~, public firms and social enterprises is one of the most essential preconditions for job creation, growth and investment;

2014/12/17
Committee: ECON

2014/2158(INI)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas competition policy must be subordinated to the goals of sustainable growth and social cohesion;

2014/12/17
Committee: ECON

2014/2158(INI)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Takes the view that ensuring a level- playing field for companies in the internal market also depends on combating social dumping, which should be regarded as an anticompetitive practice;

2014/12/17
Committee: ECON

2014/2158(INI)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Reiterates that the Commission cshould ~~consider reallocation of resources from obsolete or underused budget lines towards DG Competition, in order to enable a more proactive stance~~take particular note to direct competition policy to the goals of job creation and economic growth to end the crisis;

2014/12/17
Committee: ECON

2014/2158(INI)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the Commission to consider the social and labour impacts of its interventions, especially in those regions with high levels of unemployment, integrating this analysis in its decisions;

2014/12/17
Committee: ECON

2014/2158(INI)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Calls for the fourth consecutive time for a swift end to the state aid crisis regime for the banking sector; recognises that the Commission’s Banking Communication of August 2013 constitutes an important yet insufficient step to protect European taxpayers and limit the amount of aid that banks may receive, and thus contributes to breaking the link between ~~sovereigns and banks~~tax-payers and the financial system;

2014/12/17
Committee: ECON

2014/2158(INI)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Underlines that State aid to the banking system has failed to increase credit or restore confidence, thus failing to meet the criteria of public interest;

2014/12/17
Committee: ECON

2014/2158(INI)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Underlines the importance which should be given to taking into consideration social and environmental criteria in public procurement procedures;

2014/12/17
Committee: ECON

2014/2158(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Reiterates that EU Structural Funds may not be used in a way that directly or indirectly supports the relocation of services or production to other Member States;

2014/12/17
Committee: ECON

2014/2158(INI)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Agrees that effective merger control is an important instrument for competition enforcement since it contributes to the maintenance of competitive pressure on market participants; regrets the erratic action of the Commission in this field, which has not limited the process of accumulation in big firms;

2014/12/17
Committee: ECON

2014/2158(INI)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Stresses the importance of affordability, sustainability and security of energy supply; considers competition policy to be of vital importance in encouraging unbundling and addressing the current fragmentation of the market; stresses that the regulation of state aid in this field must be carried out in the same spirit as in any otherthat Member States must act against energy poverty;

2014/12/17
Committee: ECON

2014/2158(INI)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Regrets the measures adopted by certain Member States against renewable energy, which benefit vested private interests against the development of an efficient and clean energy supply;

2014/12/17
Committee: ECON

2014/2158(INI)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Notes the c~~onsiderable adv~~hancges that have been made in EU banking regulation since 2008, and particularly in 2013; believes that a comprehensive analysis of the competitive aspects of this large amount of new EU financial regulation is in order;

2014/12/17
Committee: ECON

2014/2158(INI)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. Notes that agreements such as the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement or the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership alter competition in a way harmful to SMEs, public companies and social enterprises;

2014/12/17
Committee: ECON

2014/2158(INI)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)

21b. Is concerned that the use of ISDS in free-trade agreements serves to remove democratic control of competition policy;

2014/12/17
Committee: ECON

2014/2157(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas, according to the same forecast, unemployment in the euro area rose from 11.3 % at the end of 2012 to 12 % at the end of 2013, and ~~may fall slightly to 11.8 %~~remains at a high level in 2014;

2014/11/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2157(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas, according to the Commission services’ spring 2014 forecast, the average inflation rate in the euro area was 1.3 % in 2013, down from 2.5 % in 2012; whereas inflation in the euro area has continued to be on a downward path since the beginning of 2014, reaching a low of 0.3 % in September, posing a risk of deflation;

2014/11/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2157(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas the level of public and private investment in the euro area has been stagnating at levels significantly below those registered before the start of the crisis and needs to be given a fresh boost as a matter of urgency;

2014/11/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2157(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas credit to the private sector has moved further into negative territory, with an annual rate of change of -2.4% in December 2013, compared with -0.2% in December 2012, demonstrating the failure of the central bank’s policy, in particular its unconventional operations; whereas the lack of credit affecting SMEs in some Member States is one of the main problems delaying the economic recovery;

2014/11/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2157(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Notes with concern that the ECB has announced that it will purchase asset- backed securities (ABS) and covered bonds in order to empower the credit-easing impact of the TLTROs; stresses that ~~such~~, in practice, interventions ~~on ABS market must be conducted in a transparent manner that does not create excessive risks for the ECB’s balance sheet~~represent a potential vehicle for purchasing toxic assets held by the financial sector;

2014/11/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2157(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Stresses that the ~~impact of the unconventional monetary policy~~failure of what are known as unconventional measures, c~~urrently in use on the real economy should not be over~~ombined with the austerity policiest im~~ated; stresses that such measures are transitory in nature and that their main advantage is that they can give Member States time to consolid~~posed on the Member States, is still standing in the way of genuine policies to combate the~~ir fiscal situation and implement structural reforms that will create conditions for~~ crisis and reinvigorate economic activity ~~to rebound~~;

2014/11/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2157(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. ~~Recalls that monetary policy alone cannot stimulate aggregate demand unless it is complemented by adequate fiscal and structural national reforms and policie~~Stresses that a single monetary policy aimed at guaranteeing price stability, without any objectives in terms of economic growth, job creation and higher wages, is not capable of tackling the highly diverse economic situations in the Member States and is, on the contrary, one of the causes of the current crisis;

2014/11/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2157(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Maintains that the Statute, guidelines and sham independence of the ECB need to be changed, allowing all Member States to be represented on an equal footing in its governing body, so as to ensure that every Member State can control its national central bank and monetary policy, with a view to promoting economic growth and employment;

2014/11/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2157(INI)

Miguel VIEGAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Emphasises that the SSM contributes to ensuring confidence in the euro area banking sector, and thus to financial stability; recalls that democratic accountability of the new SSM towards Parliament is crucial to ensuring the credibility of the new supervisory regime; stresses, therefore, the importance of the Interinstitutional Agreement between Parliament and the ECB, concluded in November 2013, on the practical modalities of the exercise of democratic accountability over the SSM, and of its full implementationrepresents a further step in the process of taking fundamental supervisory mechanisms away from countries and citizens;

2014/11/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2155(INI)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. (a) Notes that the Commission is not very clear about the reasons for the increase in the number of irregularities as fraudulent. At first, the Commission states in its Communication that this mainly reflects the increased resources made available to various spending programmes, more programmes being implemented, and the fact that European institutions and national audit services are paying more attention to the management of funds, whereas elsewhere it argues that the most likely factor causing the increase is the fact that the EU institutions (the European Commission and Court of Auditors) and national services have paid more attention to and exercised greater control over the management of EU funds; (b) Requests the Commission to examine in more detail which are the main underlying reasons for the increase in irregularities; (c) Calls for proposals to reduce the number of spending programmes, in particular, when they partly overlap, and to target programmes, whenever possible, to Member States who are in need of support most, so that not all programmes necessarily benefit activities in all Member States;

2014/12/12
Committee: CONT

2014/2155(INI)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Considers that Member States which detect and report irregularities, including cases of fraud, on their own should be supported and encouraged to further improve their reporting and management systems~~, avoiding the counterproductive practice of ‘naming and shaming’~~ ; expresses concern at the Commission’s inability to establish whether or not the low number of irregularities and cases of fraud detected by certain Member States and the wide gaps in the number of cases reported for different years are due to the ineffectiveness of these Member States’ control systems;

2014/12/12
Committee: CONT

2014/2155(INI)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Is of the opinion that effective action against corruption is possible if criminal law measures are complemented by other measures such as better transparency and accountability; insists, therefore, that Member States demonstrate firm political will in countering corruption and calls upon citizens to convincingly exert pressure on governments to vigorously pursue meaningful anti-corruption policies; urges the Commission to fulfil its obligations under the UN Convention Against Corruption and to submit regular reports on the implementation of this Convention by the EU institutions; Requests the Commission to submit a supplementary report to the European Parliament and the Council on the implementation by the European institutions of their internal anti- corruption policies;

2014/12/12
Committee: CONT

2014/2155(INI)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Urges the Commission to revert to interruptions and suspensions of payments ~~only as a last resort~~ for preventing irregularities ~~since such measures increase the risk of errors due to the reduced time frames required for the proper absorption of EU funds~~; requests that the Commission report on the actual contribution from interruptions and suspensions of payments in reducing irregularities and errors;

2014/12/12
Committee: CONT

2014/2155(INI)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. ~~Welcom~~Notes the adoption of new working arrangements between OLAF and its supervisory committee and ~~expects that they will contribute to better cooperation and mutual understanding between both bodie~~calls for a speedy resolution of the remaining issues between these two institutions;

2014/12/12
Committee: CONT

2014/2150(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Lynn BOYLAN, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

~~1. Recognises that REFIT represents a first step towards reducing the burden of regulation on businesses and eliminating barriers to growth and job creation;~~deleted

2015/03/30
Committee: EMPL

2014/2150(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Lynn BOYLAN, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Supports the Commission’s commitment on cutting red tape ~~and better regulation~~; believes that cutting ~~red~~ tape should deliver proportionate, evidence-based protection for workers, while ensuring that businesses can grow, create jobs and boost competitiveness; notes that deregulation and better regulation are not mutually exclusivebe evidence-based and under no circumstances diminish the protection for workers;

2015/03/30
Committee: EMPL

2014/2150(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Lynn BOYLAN, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Welcomes efforts to identify genuine opportunities for simplification of legislation; stresses the need for simpler, clearly-worded rules that ~~remove complexity and~~ can be implemented in a simple manner in order to improve compliance, particularly in the area of health, safety and employment legislation;

2015/03/30
Committee: EMPL

2014/2150(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Lynn BOYLAN, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Insists that legislation on employment and Health & Safety represents minimum standards of protection of workers which Member States can go beyond. The EU legislation will not be interpreted as maximum standards in situations in which these regulations can be seen as obstacles for competition in the single market;

2015/03/30
Committee: EMPL

2014/2150(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Lynn BOYLAN, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Insists that a worker have the right to occupational health and safety protection and minimum working conditions regardless whether the workplace is in a small, medium-sized or large enterprise.

2015/03/30
Committee: EMPL

2014/2150(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Lynn BOYLAN, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. ~~Welcomes~~Calls on the Commission~~’s indication that~~ to continue negotiations on the maternity leave directive ~~should be considered for withdrawal~~;

2015/03/30
Committee: EMPL

2014/2150(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Lynn BOYLAN, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Commission to increase the protection of workers; in particular, calls the Commission to present a proposal on muscular skeletal disorders, environmental tobacco smoke and make necessary updates to carcinogens and mutagens.

2015/03/30
Committee: EMPL

2014/2150(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Lynn BOYLAN, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Welcomes~~Takes note of the SME -test; ~~calls on the Commission to use lighter regimes for micro-enterprises and SMEs and to consider exemptions for micro-enterprises~~believes that micro-enterprises could be considered for exemption on a case-by-case -basis, while not ~~compromising on~~leading to lower health, safety and employment standards;

2015/03/30
Committee: EMPL

2014/2150(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Lynn BOYLAN, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls for further measures to check that legislation is doing what it was intended to do and to identify areas where there are inconsistencies and ineffective measures; as a consequence legislation needs to be better enforced;

2015/03/30
Committee: EMPL

2014/2150(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Lynn BOYLAN, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Urges the Commission to continue to improve the legislative ~~cycle and to introduce sunset~~protection of workers via employment and Health and Safety standards and that revision clauses to ensure that employment legislation is periodically reviewed;

2015/03/30
Committee: EMPL

2014/2150(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Opposes the setting of a net target for reducing regulatory costs, as this ignores the aim pursued by regulation and its corresponding benefits;

2015/03/30
Committee: EMPL

2014/2150(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Lynn BOYLAN, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Commission ~~to prioritise action in the fields of what have been identified as~~not to use the ‘Top Ten’ most burdensome laws for SMEs~~, including~~ as justification to review the working time and temporary agency directives; because the protection of workers must be guaranteed regardless whether the workplace is in a small, medium sized or large enterprise.

2015/03/30
Committee: EMPL

2014/2150(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Lynn BOYLAN, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. There are no satisfactory criteria to measure "efficiency" and "costs; these terms are not adequate in terms of occupational accidents and disease. This could lead to decisions taken by administration and controllers thereby circumventing the legitimate democratic legislators;

2015/03/30
Committee: EMPL

2014/2150(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Calls on the European Parliament to systematically review Commission impact assessments and review IMPAs analysis as early as possible in the legislative process, and to call for impact assessments on its own reports.

2015/03/30
Committee: EMPL

2014/2150(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Lynn BOYLAN, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. "Simplification" and "burden reduction" are void of meaning in a situation which is ever more complex. New technologies and procedures could endanger the health of workers with requires new protection and this may be administrative burdens.

2015/03/30
Committee: EMPL

2014/2150(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9b. Questions the balance of representation of the High Level Group of Administrative Burdens (HLG) and its recommendations (24 July 2014), rejects its recommendations and asks for recognition of the Dissenting Opinion of four members of the HLG;

2015/03/30
Committee: EMPL

2014/2145(INI)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas, according to the Commission’s autumn forecast, investment in the euro area decreased by 3.4 % in 2012, by 2.4 % in 2013 and by 17 % since the pre-crisis period, with the expected rebound rate in 2014 (0.6 %) and that anticipated for 2015 (1.7 %) being very weak; whereas a lack of investment can be ~~just as~~ detrimental to future generations ~~as excessive public debt~~;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas the euro area continues to be characterised by high and persistent current account imbalances, with surpluses reaching 10.4% of GDP in the Netherlands and 7.5% of GDP in Germany in 2013;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas a European investment plan is being put in place to ~~raise~~guarantee almost EUR 31500 billion in ~~new~~private investments with public funds over the next three years;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Believes that the current economic situation calls for urgent, comprehensive and decisive measures to face ~~the threat of deflation or very low in~~very low inflation and the threat of deflation, low growth and high unemployment;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Believes that the current economic situation calls for urgent, comprehensive and decisive measures to face the threat of deflation or very low inflation, low growth and high unemployment as well as persistent current account imbalances and rising inequality;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Highlights the fact that the current economic governance framework does not allow for ~~a proper debate on the economic perspective of the euro area or on~~ an aggregate fiscal stance and does not address the different economic and fiscal situations on an equal footing;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Stresses that public investment is crucial to correct structural imbalances within the European economy and ensure the transition towards a socially and environmentally sustainable economy;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Believes that high surpluses in the core of the Eurozone, most notably in Germany, are just as alarming as high deficits in the Eurozone periphery and therefore insists that macroeconomic imbalances must be considered of joint responsibility;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Finds that changes in economic governance have not fostered European solidarity, but instead resulted in great tensions and divisions between income groups and between surplus and deficit countries.

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)

2c. Believes that internal devaluation such as wage restraint is just as harmful to the collective of the euro zone as excessive debt;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that major policy initiatives which included policy recommendations were based on economic forecasts that had not anticipated the low growth and inflation experienced and have not ~~fully~~ taken into account the underestimation of the size of the fiscal multiplier, the importance of spillover effects across countries in a period of synchronised consolidation and the deflationary impact ~~of cumulative~~ structural reforms, leading to the failure of those initiatives;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that the current situation calls for ~~closer and inclusive economic coordination (to~~ increased aggregate demand~~, improve fiscal sustainability and allow for fair and sustainable structural reforms~~ and related investments) and for swift reactions so as to correct the most obvious fault lines in the economic governance framework;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Believes that the crisis tools promoted and implemented by the European institutions and Member States have resulted in a decline in internal demand and consumption, which has subsequently led to deflation, negative growth and an increase in unemployment, particularly among young people;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Warns that the accumulation of procedures makes the economic governance framework complex and not transparent enough, which is detrimental to the ownership and acceptance by parliaments, social partners and citizens of guidelines, recommendations and reforms stemming from this framework;economic governance framework undermines the relevance of democratic choices made at the national and local level which is in contradiction with the primacy of local parliaments, social partners and citizens.

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Believes that the economic governance framework has not been able to alleviate the negative social impacts of the crisis and has in some cases prolonged the crisis for ordinary people;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Acknowledges that progress has been made with a debate on the Medium-Term Objective (MTO) and a better ownership of the national debate in euro area Member States, also thanks to the contribution of the national fiscal councils;deleted

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Fabio DE MASI, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Underlines all the existing provisions under the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) which have been put in place to ensure a~~n anti~~ counter-cyclical policy; finds it regrettable that these provisions were not put to full use in previous years, in the context of low inflation, low growth and high unemployment, even more so in the case of the countries under adjustment programmes;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. ~~Welcom~~Notes the fact that in its interpretative communication on flexibility, the Commission acknowledges that the way in which the current fiscal rules are interpreted is crucial in bridging the investment gap in the EU and implementing growth-enhancing structural reforms;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Considers however that persisting poor economic performance should lead to a serious debate on those fiscal rules and their capacity to serve economic performance, job creation and fiscal sustainability;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Insists that the economic governance framework - in particularly the SGP - must not prevent Member States from adopting the necessary counter-cyclical actions aimed at stimulating internal demand, countering high unemployment, social exclusion and low growth;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Supports ~~all the~~ incentives to finance ~~the new European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), mainly by making national contributions to the fund fiscally neutral as regards the SGP; calls for further clarification regard~~new investments. Believes that all investment should be regarded as fiscally neutral as regards the SGP. Believes, however, that the primacy of private investors ing the ~~concrete~~ European Fund for Streat~~ment of these contributions in accordance with the new paradigm set out in the communication;~~egic Investments (EFSI) implies an unequal distribution of risks which puts additional costs on taxpayers

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Believes that the communication ~~righ~~does not sufficiently broadens the scope of the investment clause, and does not allow~~ing~~ for sufficient flexibility in the preventive arm of the SGP to accommodate investment programmes by the Member States, in particular as regards expenditure on projects under structural and cohesion policy, including the Youth Employment Initiative, trans- European networks and the Connecting Europe Facility, and co-financing under the EFSI; believes that this approach must be urgently reassessed to be symmetrically applied to; believes that this approach must be urgently reassessed, both in terms of broadening the scope to all investment programmes and of a similar treatment in the corrective arm of the SGP;.

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Believes that the structural reform clause under the preventive arm and the means of considering structural reform plans under the corrective arm constitute a step forward as regards ensuring the more efficient implementation of reforms by Member States; calls for further clarification as to the types of structural reforms eligible under this new scheme; believes that a direct link to the cost, timeframe impact and value of structural reforms should also be explicit in the corrective arm of the SGP;deleted

2015/03/03
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Believes that structural reforms should be designed by national parliaments and governments, with full knowledge of each country's specific challenges and respect for the choices of its elected officials, and should have a positive socioeconomic return and contribute to increased administrative capacity;

2015/03/03
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Deplores, ~~however,~~ the fact that the communication does not touch upon the nature of ‘'unusual events’' falling outside the control of a Member State which could allow it to temporarily depart from the adjustment path towards achieving its MTO, leaving an unacceptable margin for discretion for european institutions and paving the way for the different treatment of similar situations;

2015/03/03
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Believes that ~~more~~there is no room for flexibility and soft laws ~~exists~~ under the SGP and in the European Semester; ~~invites the Commission to build on this flexibility and to propose rule changes where needed~~Underlines that economic performance in the Euro area as a whole, and in the peripheral economies in particular, strongly requires a new and flexible approach; invites the Commission to propose rule changes that allow for flexible ways of reaching economic, social and environmental sustainability;

2015/03/03
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Invites the Commission and the Council to better articulate the fiscal and macroeconomic frameworks, notably in the corrective arm of the SGP, to allow for earlier debate among stakeholders~~, taking into account the need to increase convergence between euro area Member States and the role of national parliaments and social partner~~ and social partners and deliberation by national parliaments regarding the design and implementation of structural reforms;

2015/03/03
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Insists that the Annual Growth Survey (AGS) and euro area recommendation must be better designed and put to better use to allow for a global economic debate, notably as regards ~~convergence in the euro area~~the structural flaws and inequalities in the euro area and the rise in unemployment and social exclusion; proposes that the country-specific recommendations (CSRs) should be established on the basis of striking a better balance between the AGS and the macroeconomic imbalance procedure (MIP), and suggests that the euro area recommendation should be ~~made~~non- compulsory following a proper debate with the European Parliament, with incentives being offered so as to encourage the implementation thereof; requests that the excessive deficit procedure (EDP) recommendation be joined together with the CSRand preceded by a proper debate in National and European Parliaments;

2015/03/03
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. ~~Asks the Commission to verify whether~~Considers that the current 1/20 rule on debt reduction is ~~sustainable and whether it needs to be reconsider~~not viable for many of the member states and should be revoked;

2015/03/03
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Asks the Commission's to make the three-pillar strategy (investment, fiscal rules and structural reforms), presented in the AGS 2015, more concrete under the euro area recommendation and in the CSRs and to strengthen its approach by building a fourth pillar on taxation, with a particular focus on european-wide tax evasion, avoidance and arbitrage;

2015/03/03
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Asks the Commission to take into account all relevant factors, including real growth ~~and~~, inflation and unemployment, when evaluating the economic and fiscal situations of Member States under the EDP;

2015/03/03
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Calls on the Commission, when evaluating the fiscal position of Members States, to include a better ~~balance between~~assessment of the impact of the agreed fiscal measures ~~and the fiscal figures based on estimated potential growth for GDP, output gaps and structural deficits that may introduce unexpected radical change at a later stage;~~on GDP growth, drawing from the experience of consistently optimistic forecasts for adjustment countries and the debate on the fiscal multiplier.

2015/03/03
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Believes there is a strong need for less complexity, better ownership, more transparency and democracy in economic governance; believes that looking forward towards deeper integration cannot be achieved by adding a new layer of rules to the already existing ones or by imposing economic policies on elected national governments or parliaments;

2015/03/03
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Acknowledges, based on the current situation, that the economic governance framework must be corrected ~~and completed~~ in both the medium and long term to allow for the EU and the euro area to meet the challenges of growth, economic convergence, long- lasting investment, job creation and reliance;

2015/03/03
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31

31. Calls for a ~~new~~ legal framework and a policy shift for future assistance programmes in order to ensure that all decisions are taken under the responsibility of the Commission with full and real involvement of European and National Parliament;

2015/03/03
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33

33. Requests that a reassessment of the Eurogroup’s decision-making process be conducted so as to provide for appropriate democratic accountability; ~~believes that in the long term the Commissioner for Economic Affairs should assume the role of President of the Eurogroup;~~

2015/03/03
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34

34. Recalls that ~~a ‘~~the realisation of a 'genuine Economic and Monetary Union’' (EMU) ~~cannot simply be limited to a system of rules but also requires an increased euro area fiscal capa~~would require political and democratic support of a transfer union which is nowhere to be found in the EU. As it stands, the EMU will continue to exacerbate the macroeconomic imbalances within the Eurozone, leading to excessive surpluses and corresponding excessive deficity;s

2015/03/03
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35

~~35. Recalls that the banking union was the result of the political will to avoid a financial crisis and that the same will is needed as regards a fiscal union in order to avoid a political crisis;~~deleted

2015/03/03
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 – indent 1

– a ~~‘taxation union’~~commitment to European-wide measures against tax fraud and evasion and corporate tax dumping,

2015/03/03
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 – indent 2

– a social dimension, including a minimum wage mechanism and a minimum unemployment benefit scheme for the euro area and in-depth reforms ~~to favour mobility~~reduce income inequalities,

2015/03/03
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 – indent 4

– a euro area fiscal capacity notably to finance counter cyclical actions~~, structural reforms~~ or part of debt reduction;

2015/03/03
Committee: ECON

2014/2139(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. Regrets in this regard, the lack of visibility and democratic accountability of the Agencies, as they are generally not well known with citizens and are vulnerable in respect of external influences from specialist lobbyists, in particular from those representing big businesses;

2015/03/06
Committee: CONT

2014/2139(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Reminds that the reputational risk related to the agencies is high for the Union, as they ~~are highly visible in the Member States and~~ have significant influence on policy and decision making and programme implementation in areas of vital importance to the Union citizens;

2015/03/06
Committee: CONT

2014/2139(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Notes from the Court’s summary that a high level of committed appropriations carried over remains the most frequent issue of the budgetary and financial management and that that issue concerned 24 agencies; acknowledges that~~, although~~ a high level of carryovers is ~~usually considered to be~~ at odds with the budgetary principle of annuality~~, it often resulted from events which were, completely or partly, beyond the agencies’ control, or was justified by the multiannual nature of operations, procurement procedures or projects~~;

2015/03/06
Committee: CONT

2014/2139(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Takes note that ~~the~~in seven cases, the Court of Auditors still noted a high level of cancellations of carryovers from previous years ~~was noted by the Court only in seven cases~~; observes that such carryovers indicate that the appropriations carried over were made on the basis of over-estimated needs or were otherwise not justified; acknowledges from the Network that the level of cancellation is indicative of the extent to which the agencies have correctly anticipated their financial needs, and is a better indicator of a good budgetary planning than the level of carryovecalls upon the Network to do everything in its power to prevent future carryovers, in particular concentrating on those Agencies, that cancelled carryovers from previous years;

2015/03/06
Committee: CONT

2014/2139(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Regrets the fact that in the case of EIT and Frontex, the Court of Auditors still had to issue qualified opinions on the legality and regularity of the transactions underlying their accounts; is concerned by the still high number (97) of comments by the Court of Auditors affecting 35 agencies; urges the Network to see to it that the agencies concerned take all necessary measures to follow up on the Court's observations;

2015/03/06
Committee: CONT

2014/2139(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Acknowledges from the Network that some agencies are already facing serious difficulties in fulfilling their mandates with the limited resources put at their disposal; notes with concern that it will be difficult for the agencies to provide the same level of quality of work if this process of additional staff reductions continues, as the Union is entrusting an increasing number of tasks and responsibilities to them; calls on the Commission to review its plan regarding the additional staff reductions and to adapt it to the specific situation of well- functioning agencies which are successful in fulfilling their mandates and are valued for the work they do;deleted

2015/03/06
Committee: CONT

2014/2139(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)

25a. Notes that the Guidelines are not legally binding on the Agencies and calls upon the Commission to examine how more binding agreements with the Agencies can be concluded to promote transparency and to avoid conflicts of interest;

2015/03/06
Committee: CONT

2014/2139(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)

27 a. Notes, however, that seconded national experts, external and interim staff are not specifically mentioned in the guidelines and that especially in the case of so-called independent experts, there is still room for interpretation, for example, in the case of academics who have also undertaken research for individual companies or the business community at large; calls upon the Network to ensure a harmonised approach in this respect, which will also prevent any indirect conflicts of interest;

2015/03/06
Committee: CONT

2014/2086(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI, Dennis de JONG

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Is of the opinion that the EEAS is not yet a fully-fledged Union diplomatic service because of resource constraints; considers that the Commission and the Member States are the appropriate actors to push for the consolidation of the EEAS;deleted

2015/03/06
Committee: CONT

2014/2086(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI, Dennis de JONG

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Notes that the EEAS has had practical difficulties in the coordination of actions concerning the Association Agreement with Ukraine, as well as the current security situation within Europe regarding this Agreement; these difficulties, in addition to other actions towards Russia, may lead to a situation where in the future, Russia may use military tools when negotiating economic agreements in Ukraine or other frozen conflicts in order to force economic concessions from the Union;deleted

2015/03/06
Committee: CONT

2014/2086(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI, Dennis de JONG

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Finds that the EEAS continues to lack sufficient expertise on how to manage relations with neighbouring countries, in particular with Russia; is convinced that a thorough understanding of the specifics and negotiation patterns of that country is essential for the efficient implementation of Union foreign policies;deleted

2015/03/06
Committee: CONT

2014/2078(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas the Court of Auditors Report adopted on 11.07.2014 states that the potential saving for the EU Budget would be about 114 million euro a year if the European Parliament centralised its activities;

2015/03/09
Committee: CONT

2014/2078(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Notes that the implementing measures for the Code of Conduct for Members were adopted by the Bureau on 15 April 2013; is, however, concerned by the lack of implementation and differences of interpretation as reported by a coalition of NGOs[1] and calls for a strengthening of the position of the Advisory Committee by providing it with a right of initiative to start random checks of the declarations of interests provided by Members; [1] ALTER-EU: Mind the Gap (http://www.alter- eu.org/sites/default/files/documents/Mind %20the%20Gap%20briefing.pdf)

2015/03/09
Committee: CONT

2014/2078(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)

29a. Furthermore, recommends the Bureau to consider augmenting the existing remedies and/or sanctions and applying these when conflicts of interest occur and to consider the current Code of Conduct as a rolling document which shall be clarified or modified in the light of any issues identified by the Advisory Committee or the Bureau itself; calls, in particular, for a clarification to the extent that it should be prohibited that entities involved in lobbying give support in terms of staff to Members;

2015/03/09
Committee: CONT

2014/2078(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Stresses that Members must be more transparent about the on-the-side activities they do while in public office; recalls, however, that Members, similarly to Members of national parliaments, do not have an exclusive mandate and may therefore exercise other professional activities; is of the opinion that a more comprehensive declaration template for Members would help to increase transparency and avoid potential conflicts of interests; requests the Secretary- General to set up a public database, to be accessible through the Parliament's website, of all the on-the-side activities of individual Members;

2015/03/09
Committee: CONT

2014/2078(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 c (new)

30c. Regrets that until now the General Expenditure Allowance for Members is considered as a lump-sum amount and that there are no precise rules for the expenditures that may be covered by the Allowance; is astonished that Members do not have to account for the way they have used the allowance and that for Members who wish to do so, verification of their accounts by the internal auditor of the Parliament is not possible; calls for further clarifications in respect of the type of expenditure the GEA is to be used for and for the introduction of obligatory annual reporting by the Members of their expenditures paid out of the GEA, or, failing that, for at least opening a procedure for verification of the Members' accounts on a voluntary basis;

2015/03/09
Committee: CONT

2014/2078(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Catherine BEARDER, Marisa MATIAS, Aldo PATRICIELLO, Jan ZAHRADIL, Evžen TOŠENOVSKÝ, Lynn BOYLAN, Giovanni LA VIA, Jan Philipp ALBRECHT, Jens GEIER, Marietje SCHAAKE, Pina PICIERNO, Richard SULÍK, Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ, Benedek JÁVOR, Salvatore Domenico POGLIESE, Bart STAES, Pascal ARIMONT, Paul TANG, Morten MESSERSCHMIDT, Anneleen VAN BOSSUYT, Ashley FOX, Ulla TØRNÆS, Ivo BELET, Ivan ŠTEFANEC, Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI, Esther DE LANGE, Fredrick FEDERLEY, Jeroen LENAERS, Nicola CAPUTO, Tom VANDENKENDELAERE, Peter van DALEN, Ulrike LUNACEK, Daniel DALTON, Diane DODDS, Ernest URTASUN, Molly SCOTT CATO, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Elly SCHLEIN, Luigi MORGANO, Ruža TOMAŠIĆ, Simona BONAFÈ, Anneliese DODDS, Daniele VIOTTI, Massimo PAOLUCCI, Anne-Marie MINEUR, Patrizia TOIA, Lambert van NISTELROOIJ, Helga STEVENS, Sander LOONES, Mark DEMESMAEKER, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 c (new)

33c. Stresses that the Parliament and the Council, in order to create long term savings in the Union budget, must address the need for a roadmap to a single seat, as stated by the Parliament in several previous resolutions;

2015/03/09
Committee: CONT

2014/2077(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI, Dennis de JONG

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the specific development policy objectives must be safeguarded under the EEAS; emphasises that other considerations such as trade policy and foreign and security policy considerations should not cut across the Union's development priorities;

2015/03/06
Committee: CONT

2014/2077(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI, Dennis de JONG

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas ~~direct~~ budget support ~~remains highl~~carries a considerable fiduciary risky a~~s money introduced into the general budget of the state/country cannot be sufficiently monitored.~~nd should be given only if it provides sufficient transparency and accountability;

2015/03/06
Committee: CONT

2014/2077(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI, Dennis de JONG

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37

37. Is of the opinion that the Commission has to strongly support the development of parliamentary control and oversight bodies and capabilities in beneficiary countries; insists that an independent national audit body must be a condition for granting budget support;

2015/03/06
Committee: CONT

2014/2075(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a decision 1
Citation 7 a (new)

- having regard to the various decisions and recommendations of the Ombudsman concerning the Commission, together with the institutions' implementation of her recommendations in the interests of citizens;

2015/03/09
Committee: CONT

2014/2075(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Points up the fact that, under Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Cohesion Fund and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1260/19991a, monies from the European Social Fund may not be used to relocate jobs from one Member State to another; insists that the Commission and Member States carry out proper checks to make sure that EU monies are not misappropriated in that way; _____________ 1a OJ L 263, 7.10.2011, p. 22.

2014/12/10
Committee: EMPL

2014/2075(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas, especially in a situation of scarce resources, ~~greater importance should be attached to the need to observe budgetary discipline and to use funds economically~~the Commission should lead by example by showing the European added value of its expenditure and by making sure that the funds for which it carries shared or full responsibility, are spent in accordance with the applicable financial rules and regulations;

2015/03/09
Committee: CONT

2014/2075(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. ~~Consider~~Regrets furthermore that those measures have still a limited impact on the Union budget since more than 40% of the financial corrections implemented in 2013 are not considered as assigned revenue84 but may be used by the same Member States having caused these corrections in cohesion policy, thus undermining the preventive effect of financial corrections; __________________ 84 See Commission communication COM(2014)0618, table 5.2: withdrawals in cohesion (EUR 775 million), rural development recoveries (EUR 129 million) and financial corrections implemented by de commitment /deduction at closure be it in cohesion policy (EUR 494 million of euro) or in the other policy areas than agriculture and cohesion policies (EUR 1 million).

2015/03/09
Committee: CONT

2014/2075(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)

33a. Urges the Commission to submit a recommendation to the Council and the European Parliament to promote the use of national declarations in line with the recommendations contained in the inter- institutional working group for the establishment and use of national declarations;

2015/03/09
Committee: CONT

2014/2075(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 79 a (new)

79a. Notes that the Commission states in its reply to the Court of Auditors that for the 2014-2020 programming period, the legal framework has been simplified, and requests the Commission to report by the end of 2015 how these simplification measures worked out in practice, and which additional measures could be taken with regard to any remaining complex rules and eligibility conditions;

2015/03/09
Committee: CONT

2014/2075(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 97

97. Recognises that as the largest source of Union funds to regions, localities and enterprises, representing 29% of the total Union budget in 2013 - regional policy has aimed at assisteding Member States to ~~conciliate their fiscal consolidation constraints with the support to~~engage in long-term investments strategies which are necessary to recover from the crisis and return to a job-creating growth (EU2020 objective 1); regrets, however, that for the measurement of the national budget deficit in the context of European economic governance, long-term investments have not been exempted, thus making it extremely difficult for Member States to engage in any such investments, despite the potential support through the ERDF and CF, taking into account that these funds require co-funding by Member States for their projects;

2015/03/09
Committee: CONT

2014/2075(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 112

112. Takes note that the Courts of Auditors methodology has to be consistent and applied to all management areas; ~~understands that further alignment could lead to inconsistencies in the Court of Auditors' definitions of an illegal transaction in direct and shared management;~~

2015/03/09
Committee: CONT

2014/2075(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 118

118. ~~Is worried about the~~Notes the delays in and lack of implementation of the priority projects in Greece under the Task Force management; notes that 48 priority projects have to be accelerated; notes that the main problems are, according to the Commission: (a) delays at maturation stage, (b) delays in licensing, (c) dissolution of contracts due to lack of liquidity of contractors and (d) lengthy court appeals during awarding procedures; calls therefore on the Commission to provide an updateconsiders that this may be explained, at least partly, because these projects were not demand driven or had unrealistic ambitions to begin with, and therefore calls upon the Commission to reconsider the working methods onf the ~~priority projects for the 2013 follow-up report~~Task Force and to recognise the need for broad public support for these projects;

2015/03/09
Committee: CONT

2014/2075(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 126

126. Notes that the Union-financed the modernisation of a water distribution network in Skorkov (CZ) with EUR 1,1 million; is concerned about the fact that the communal authorities have let the exploitation of the water distribution system to a company which already manages the local sewerage system; notes that the latter was also co-financed with EUR 1,4 million from Union funds and that the price for the supply of drinking water increased by 45 %; ~~notes~~considers that drinking water is a public good and that all citizens ~~whose water quality is inferior must therefore continue to use local wells; calls on the Commission to ensure the success of the project; supports the establishment of an independent water authority~~need to have access to high quality drinking water at a reasonable price; calls on the Commission to ensure that Union-financed projects do not directly or indirectly limit access to high quality drinking water;

2015/03/09
Committee: CONT

2014/2075(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 151 a (new)

151a. Asks the Commission to submit a special report on the added value of budget support and, in particular, on the way it has helped developing countries in realising the Millennium Development Goals; requests in this regard a survey of measures taken to avoid part of the funding to be wasted as a result of corruption and fraud and of the effectiveness of financial management systems in this regard;

2015/03/09
Committee: CONT

2014/2075(DEC)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 181

181. Notes the Commission replies on the progress made in implementing the Galileo project: four Galileo In-Orbit Validation (IOV) satellites were successfully launched in 2011 and 2012, the Galileo In-Orbit Validation phase was successfully concluded in 2014, the system design, the performance targets and the baseline for system operation were successfully confirmed, the ground infrastructure, with many groundIs concerned about the costs of the Galileo system which are estimated at €13 million will become yet higher because of the failure to correctly launch the latest two stations worldwide, has been completed for the initial operations, the Galileo Search-and- Rescue capability of the IOV-satellites was successfully demonstrated, the launch of two satellites (no. 5 and 6) on 22 August 2014 resulted in an injection of these satellites into incorrect orbit, and since December 2014 the satellites have been gradually moved to a more favourable orbit to allow their best possible use, and the testing of the satellites' navigation payload is on-going; expects to be informed about additional costs for these unforeseen measuresellites; considers that due to the ever-increasing costs of Galileo and taking into account that in 2007 the EU stepped into the project after a consortium of eight European companies withdrew their investment as they considered it not financially sound, there is every reason to re-examine the usefulness of this project;

2015/03/09
Committee: CONT

2014/2059(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)

- having regard to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union,

2014/09/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2059(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

~~C. whereas the European Semester plays an essential role in coordinating economic and budgetary policies in the Member States;~~deleted

2014/09/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2059(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas, in the context of persistently high debt and unemployment levels, low nominal GDP growth, and the challenges of ~~an ageing society and of~~ supporting job creation, particularly for young people, ~~fiscal consolidation must continue in a growth-friendly and differentiated manner~~growth and job creation policies are the crucial pre- conditions to fiscal consolidation;

2014/09/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2059(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas the priorities for this year’s European Semester were established by the European Council in March, and were reconfirmed in June; whereas the emphasis is on policies that enhance competitiveness, ~~support job creation and fight unemployment,~~ and on the follow-up to reforms to ~~improve the functioning of~~further deregulate labour markets;

2014/09/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2059(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas the global financial crisis and the ~~sovereign debt crisis in the EU have significantly hampered access by~~austerity policies have significantly hampered demand, restricting the flow of credit to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) ~~to financial resources~~;

2014/09/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2059(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Notes the fact that ~~economic recovery in the EU is under way; reiterates, how~~growth in the EU has stagnated, with 0,2% in the 2nd semester of 2014. Furthermore, ever,n th~~at this recovery is fragile and uneven, and must be sustained in order~~is stagnation scenario is uneven, with several member-states in recession. In any case, austerity policies are failing to deliver more growth and jobs ~~in the medium term~~;

2014/09/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2059(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Notes that even this extremely low growth was only possible because of 0,3% rise in household consumption, showing the importance of a shift from labour market deregulation to demand-oriented policies and wages increases;

2014/09/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2059(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Welcomes the ambitious~~Notes the structural reforms implemented by Member States under the macroeconomic adjustment programmes; finds it regrettable that the Member States in the rest of the euro area are less ambitious in modernising their economies, which is one of the reasons for the low growth prospects in the medium and long term which have caused recession, huge rises in unemployment and also public debt relative to GDP;

2014/09/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2059(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Inês Cristina ZUBER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. ~~Welcomes the abovementioned mild decline in~~Is concerned with the persistently high unemployment rates in the EU; recalls, ~~howe~~moreover, that the Europe 2020 strategy accurately states that the figure to watch is the employment rate, which indicates the availability of human and financial resources to ensure the sustainability of our economic and social model; asks that the slowdown in the unemployment rate not be confused with the recovery of lost jobs, as no account is taken of increased emigration or forced early retirement; asks that the deterioration in job quality, including rising involuntary part-time and temporary employment, and involuntary self-employment, are given adequate consideration;

2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL

2014/2059(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses, therefore, the importance of ~~continuing the process of deep and sustainable structural reform~~shifting from austerity to public investment and demand-oriented policies to deliver on growth and jobs; reiterates, in this connection, the fact ~~that~~ the EU cannot compete on costs ~~alone~~, but needs to invest more in research and development, education and skills, and resource efficiency, both at national and European level;

2014/09/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2059(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Inês Cristina ZUBER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10 a. Insists that the Commission refrains from interfering in wage-setting mechanisms in Member States; wage- setting must remain the prerogative of the autonomous social partners, or by similar means, specific to the individual Member States;

2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL

2014/2059(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Underlines, once again, the fact that the overall indebtedness of Member States in the euro area was worsened by austerity policies; Notes that this situation is not only an obstacle to growth but also puts a huge burden on future generations;

2014/09/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2059(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Reiterates, therefore, the fact that Member States should pay particular attention when devising economic policies and reforms as regards the impact on future generations not to deprive young people of ~~their~~job opportunities ~~from th~~, decent work and welfare starte;

2014/09/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2059(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Inês Cristina ZUBER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, as a matter of urgency, to exclude productive investments, for instance in green growth, infrastructure, education or research and development, from the deficit targets established under EU and national rules;

2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL

2014/2059(INI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Inês Cristina ZUBER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13 a. Stresses that welfare services are essential for the social cohesion in Member States and that they play a crucial role in maintaining a well- functioning workforce; calls, therefore, on the Commission and the Member States to immediately exclude welfare spending from the deficit targets established under EU and national rules;

2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL

2014/2059(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

~~8. Calls, in this connection, on the future Commission to put forward a proposal on the single external representation of the euro area based on Article 138 TFEU;~~deleted

2014/09/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2059(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Notes the 2014 package of country- specific recommendations (CSRs) by the Commission; ~~notes~~Is puzzled by the Commission’'s assessment that some progress has been achieved in sustaining fiscal consolidation ~~and structural reform, particularly in reforming labour markets~~when the opposite has occurred;

2014/09/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2059(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Supports the objective of placing emphasis on policies that ~~enhance competitiveness,~~ support job creation, fight unemployment and improve the functioning of the labour market; Notes however that emphasis on labour market and "competitiveness" that has inspired those policies has failed to deliver on any those objectives;

2014/09/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2059(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Recalls, however, that Member States’ track record of implementing the CSRs is v~~ery low~~ariable; believes that there is an inconsistency between European commitment and national implementation of the CSRs by Member States; stresses the importance of ~~‘national ownership’ by the relevant governments of EU-level commitment~~respecting the sovereignty of elected governments and deplores persistent attempts by the Commission to put pressure or override national institutions;

2014/09/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2059(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Underlines the fact that a number of CSRs ~~are based on EU~~have no legal ~~act~~basis and ~~that failure to act upon them may result in legal procedures; reminds Member States to deliver on their legal obligations under EU law~~are examples of interference of the Commission on national policies;

2014/09/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2059(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Calls on the Commission, ~~as guardian of the Treaty, to make full use of all measures provided for in EU law to support the enforcement of the implementation of the CSRs~~to assess the results of the implementation of the CSRs and other European policies on eurozone economic performance and evaluate the impact of its guidelines on growth and job creation;

2014/09/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2059(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Requests that the Commission report on a quarterly basis in Parliament’s competent committee on the measures taken to ensure progress on the implementation of the CSRs and on the progress achieved thus far; invites Member States to explain the reasons for non- compliance with the CRSs in Parliament’s competent committee; suggests that the economic results of complying member- states are compared with those of non- complying ones;

2014/09/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2059(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Calls on the President of the Eurogroup to effectively monitor the implementation of the CSRs by the Member States of the euro area, and to report on the progress made and the results as part of the assessment by the Eurogroup of the draft 2015 budgetary plans, to be submitted by mid-October 2014 by the Member States concerned;

2014/09/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2059(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Fabio DE MASI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Encourages Member States to ~~overcome domestic political opposition to modernise their economies,~~strengthen their public social security systems and health care, in order to avoid ~~placing an excessive burden on future generations~~robbing future generations of the welfare state;

2014/09/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2059(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Stresses, once again, its call on Member States to simp~~lify~~rove the redistributive capacity of their tax systems and reiterates its call to shift taxes from ~~labour to~~ consumption to ~~make the use of resources more efficient and sustainabl~~revenue; calls on the Commission to take urgent action and develop a comprehensive strategy based on concrete legislative measures to fight tax fraud and tax evasion banning tax heavens and creating and a minimum corporate tax rate in the eurozone;

2014/09/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2059(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Reiterates the fact that structural reforms must be complemented by longer- term investment in education, research, innovation and sustainable energy; ~~stresses, however, the fact that private investment is more conducive to growth than public investment;~~

2014/09/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2059(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Points out that government-induced growth risks being unsustainable over the medium term; stresses the fact that the already high levels of public debt do not allow for a significant increase in spending, if the reform and consolidation efforts are not to be in vainin a liquidity trap scenario, with historically low levels of credit to the real economy, even unconventional monetary policy will prove ineffective without public expenditure and investment; stresses the fact that austerity reforms and consolidation efforts proved counter- productive, particularly in the countries under the adjustment programmes which have consistently failed all consolidation objectives;

2014/09/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2059(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31

31. Underlines the fact that ~~a lack of access to finance, particularly for SMEs, poses a huge obstacle to growth in the EU~~SMEs main obstacle is a depressed demand;

2014/09/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2059(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Matt CARTHY, Miguel VIEGAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32

32. Calls on the Commission urgently to propose measures to complete the internal market for capital to improve the allocation of capital to businesses in order to revitalise the real economy; believes that further alternatives to bank financing are needed, particularly by improving the conditions for financing through the capital markets;deleted

2014/09/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2059(INI)

Marisa MATIAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36

36. Stresses the need to strengthen democratic accountability to the European Parliament and the national parliaments as regards essential elements of the euro area’s operation, such as the European Central Bank, the European Stability Mechanism, Eurogroup decisions, and the monitoring and evaluation of financial assistance programmes;

2014/09/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2040(BUD)

Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)

-1. Maintains that the 2015 budget, as regards the matters falling within the terms of reference of this committee, is cast in the same ideological mould as the EU now being built along federalist, neo- liberal lines, which is seeking to impose one governance model on all Member States, regardless of their specific nature and their level of development;

2014/07/31
Committee: ECON

2014/2040(BUD)

Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)

-1. Notes that, accordingly, greater amounts are being allocated for analysis and control of the policies that the EU is imposing on its Member States;

2014/07/31
Committee: ECON

2014/2040(BUD)

Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)

-1. Deplores the fact that the EU as such and coordination, supervision, and communication related to EMU in particular are accounting for a growing volume of expenditure, which is thus fuelling the propaganda machine – covering the European area and extending into non-EU countries – whose purpose is to disseminate the values of the current European model, even though these have already been rejected several times by referendum;

2014/07/31
Committee: ECON

2014/2040(BUD)

Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Condemns the fact that greater amounts are being earmarked for international economic and financial affairs, or what is termed financial assistance, which follows the EU approach of encroaching on the sovereignty of nation-states, but is serving merely to impose structural reforms and open the door to multinationals;

2014/07/31
Committee: ECON

2014/2040(BUD)

Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Notes that, faced with the financial crisis in the banking sector brought about by serious flaws in the workings of the market, the EU is responding with supervision by various agencies, in the hope that it can, by that shift, resolve inconsistencies inherent in the system;

2014/07/31
Committee: ECON

2014/2040(BUD)

Fabio DE MASI, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Notes, however, that the response to the financial crisis in the banking sector, brought about by serious flaws in the workings of the market, is taking the form of supervision by various agencies, but the 2015 budget is completely overturning that approach by cutting the amounts earmarked for supervision, thus limiting the technical and human resources available to perform that task and creating an undoubted contradiction that is bound to cause confusion among the public about the EU’s real aims;

2014/07/31
Committee: ECON

2014/2040(BUD)

Miguel VIEGAS, Fabio DE MASI, Rina Ronja KARI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Objects to this budget, therefore, as it will not help to resolve any of the serious problems affecting the EU and its Member States and, indeed, constitutes a further stage in a policy that is causing the present economic stagnation, unemployment, and social inequalities.

2014/07/31
Committee: ECON

2014/2010(ACI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Helmut SCHOLZ

Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 1

1. Considers the proposed modification of the Agreement of 23 June 2011 to be a ~~reasonable~~small step forward at the present stage;

2014/02/27
Committee: AFCO

2014/2010(ACI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Helmut SCHOLZ

Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to submit, by the end of July 20165, a legislative proposal for the establishment of a mandatory register on the basis of Article 352 TFEU;

2014/02/27
Committee: AFCO

2014/2010(ACI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Helmut SCHOLZ

Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 7 – indent 3 a (new)

– hiring unregistered entities, such as unregistered consultancies, law firms or other middlemen, for eligible activities in order to avoid transparency obligations;

2014/02/27
Committee: AFCO

2014/2010(ACI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Helmut SCHOLZ

Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Believes that the Code of Conduct attached to the Joint Transparency Register and the Code of Conduct for Members should be amended in order to ensure that Members do not enter into any kind of agreement or contractual relationship with an external body to either fund or directly employ individuals within a Member’s staff;

2014/02/27
Committee: AFCO

2014/2010(ACI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Helmut SCHOLZ

Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Considers, however, that the involvement of law firms in lobbying activities is significant; Believes therefore that the Parliament should maintain and publish a regularly updated list of the unregistered law firms that lobby the Parliament;

2014/02/27
Committee: AFCO

2014/2010(ACI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Helmut SCHOLZ

Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 13

13. Asks former Members of Parliament to comply with the relevant provisions1 when carrying on activities falling within the scope of the Transparency Register; Believes that in these situations, former Members may not use their Members’ badge to access the Parliament building; ______________ 1 Quaestors' ordinary meeting held on Thursday, 19 April 2012, PV QUAEST.

2014/02/27
Committee: AFCO

2014/2010(ACI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Helmut SCHOLZ

Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Requests that in the next revision of the Joint Transparency Register, registered organisations are obliged to disclose employment of former Members of the European Parliament and EU officials during the first years after their engagement with the EU institution has terminated;

2014/02/27
Committee: AFCO

2014/2010(ACI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Helmut SCHOLZ

Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 13 b (new)

13b. Calls on the Commission to follow the example of the Parliament and introduce by the end of 2014 strong incentive measures in order to enhance participation in the Joint Transparency Register, including: – limit meetings with unregistered interest representatives to a minimum; – ban unregistered interest representatives from participating in the Commission’s Advisory bodies and expert groups; – restrict the participation of Commissioners and Commission officials in meetings and events organised by unregistered interest representatives; – limit the possibility to host or co-host a meeting or an event in Commission’s buildings to registered organisations; – change its current rules of funding so that unregistered interest representatives covered by the scope of the Register are not eligible for EU funding;

2014/02/27
Committee: AFCO

2014/2010(ACI)

Rina Ronja KARI, Helmut SCHOLZ

Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Commits itself to a full and ambitious review of the Joint Transparency Register in the autumn of 2015; Believes the review process should be a fully transparent parliamentary process, as well as allowing for a broad and inclusive public consultation;

2014/02/27
Committee: AFCO

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 3

4a. In order to determine the exclusion and its duration and/or financial penalties in compliance with the principle of proportionality, the panel shall take into account in particular the seriousness of the situation, including the impact on the Union's financial interests and image, its duration and its recurrence, the intention or degree of negligence and the measures taken to remedy the situation or any other mitigating circumstances.

2015/01/20
Committee: CONT

2014/0180(COD)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 3

Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012
Article 108 – paragraph 8

~~8. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt~~ delegated acts in accordance with Article 210 concerning detailed rules on the Union’s system for the protection of the Union's financial interests, including its standardised procedures and the details subject to publication, the time limits to exclude, the organisation of the panel, the duration of exclusion and financial penalties.

2015/01/20
Committee: CONT

2014/0180(COD)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 3

Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012
Article 110 – paragraph 3

~~3. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt~~ delegated acts in accordance with Article 210 concerning details on the selection criteria, the award criteria and the most economically advantageous tender. Furthermore, the Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 210 concerning the documents that give evidence of legal capacity, economic and financial capacity and the evidence of technical and professional capacity and detailed rules on electronic auctions and abnormally low tenders.

2015/01/20
Committee: CONT

2014/0180(COD)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 3

Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012
Article 111 – paragraph 6

~~6. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt~~ delegated acts in accordance with Article 210 concerning detailed rules on the time limits for receipt of tenders and requests to participate, access to procurement documents, the time limits to provide additional information, the time limits in urgent cases as well as on the arrangements for submission of tenders and electronic catalogues. Furthermore, the Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 210 concerning the possibility of requesting a tender guarantee, the opening and evaluation of tenders and requests to participate and the establishment of opening and evaluation committees.

2015/01/20
Committee: CONT

2014/0180(COD)

Dennis de JONG, Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 3

Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012
Article 112 – paragraph 2

~~2. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt~~ delegated ~~acts in accordance with Article 210 concerning contacts that are allowed between the contracting authority and candidates or tenderers during the procurement procedure.~~

2015/01/20
Committee: CONT

Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Recital Aa (new)

whereas more than half of the Lithuanians polled in May 2013 voiced misgivings at the introduction of the euro;

2014/07/10
Committee: ECON

2014/0170(NLE)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Approve~~Rejects the Commission proposal;

2014/07/10
Committee: ECON

2014/0170(NLE)

Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. ~~Endors~~Notes the adoption of the euro by Lithuania on 1 January 2015;

2014/07/10
Committee: ECON

2014/0170(NLE)

Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3a (new)

3a. Regrets that the Lithuanian Government has adopted the euro without consulting the Lithuanian people through a referendum;

2014/07/10
Committee: ECON

2014/0170(NLE)

Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3b (new)

3b. Believes that the euro is inherently flawed and has exacerbated the imbalances between euro-zone countries which in turn has reinforced the sovereign debt crisis;

2014/07/10
Committee: ECON

2014/0170(NLE)

Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. ~~Welcom~~Notes the fact that, according to the Convergence Report, in the year ending in April 2014 Lithuania had a mean inflation rate of 0.6%, and therefore fulfils this convergence criterion;

2014/07/10
Committee: ECON

2014/0170(NLE)

Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Welcom~~Notes the fact that, according to the Convergence Report, in the reference year 2013 Lithuania had a budget deficit of 2.1% and a government debt of 39.4% of Gross Domestic Product, and therefore fulfils this convergence criterion; notes the fact that to meet the criteria, severe austerity measures such as increased retirement age and cuts in public servants' salaries have been put forward which has caused high unemployment to 12.40% in the first quarter of 2014 and increased income inequality;

2014/07/10
Committee: ECON

2014/0170(NLE)

Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. ~~Welcom~~Notes the fact that, according to the Convergence Report, there have been no tensions surrounding the litas-euro exchange rate and Lithuania therefore fulfils this convergence criterion;

2014/07/10
Committee: ECON

2014/0170(NLE)

Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. ~~Welcom~~Notes the fact that, according to the Convergence Report, during the reference period from May 2013 until April 2014 long-term interest rates in Lithuania averaged 3.6%, and Lithuania therefore fulfils this convergence criterion;

2014/07/10
Committee: ECON

2014/0170(NLE)

Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7a (new)

7a. Is concerned that the implemented austerity policies under the convergence criteria have caused mass emigration of Lithuanians and increased the income inequality; stresses that austerity should not be a model for accession to the euro or for the current euro-zone countries;

2014/07/10
Committee: ECON

2014/0170(NLE)

Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI, Miguel VIEGAS, Marisa MATIAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7b (new)

7b. Regrets the transposition of the Fiscal Compact Treaty into the Lithuanian Constitution;

2014/07/10
Committee: ECON

2014/0124(COD)

Inês Cristina ZUBER, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Lynn BOYLAN, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a decision
Recital 2

(2) In accordance with Article 148(4) of the Treaty, the Council by Decision 2010/707/EU25 adopted guidelines26 for the employment policies of the Member States. These integrated guidelines give orientations to the Member States on defining their national reform programmes and on implementing reforms. The employment guidelines form the basis for country-specific recommendations that the Council addresses to the Member States under that Article. In recent years, those recommendations have included country- specific recommendations on the fight against undeclared work. __________________ 25 Council Decision 2010/707/EU of 21 October 2010 on guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (OJ L 308, 24.11.2010, p. 46) 26The guidelines have been maintained for 2011, 2012 and 2013.deleted

2014/12/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0124(COD)

Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Inês Cristina ZUBER, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Lynn BOYLAN, Rina Ronja KARI, Tania GONZÁLEZ PEÑAS

Proposal for a decision
Recital 7 a (new)

(7a) The implemented fiscal consolidation dictated by the EU through both the European Semester and the Troika aggravates the problem of undeclared work. Undeclared work is not a worker’s choice but very often his/her only alternative to receive income

2014/12/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0124(COD)

Inês Cristina ZUBER, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Lynn BOYLAN, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. The Platform shall also encourage the Member States to: (a) combat non-permanent employment conditions for the performance of tasks corresponding to permanent needs, promoting stable and lasting contractual conditions; (b) combat forms of undeclared and illegal work and labour trafficking; (c) combat practices involving the use of labour without any employment relationship; (d) combat the use of part-time contracts when this is not the choice of the worker concerned; (e) promote the exercise of workers’ individual and collective rights.

2014/12/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Recital 2

(2) Part I of this Directive takes over the provisions of Directive 2009/102/EC as regards all single-member limited liability companies. It requires that in case all shares come to be held by a single shareholder, its identity should be disclosed to the public by the entry in the register. This Directive also provides that decisions taken by the single shareholder exercising the power of the general meeting as well as the contracts between the shareholder and the company should be recorded in writing, unless they relate to contracts concluded under market conditions in the ordinary course of business.deleted

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Recital 8

(8) The availability of a harmonised legal framework governing the formation of single-member companies, including the establishment of a uniform template for the articles of association should contribute to the progressive abolition of restrictions on freedom of establishment as regards the conditions for setting up subsidiaries in the territories of Member States and lead to a reduction in costs.deleted

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Recital 10

(10) ~~To respect~~ Member States’ existing traditions ofin company law, flexibility should be afforded to them as regards the manner and extent to which they wish to apply harmonised rules governing the formation and operation of SUPs. Member States may apply Part 2 of this Directive to all single-member private limited liability companies so that all such companies would operate and be known as SUPs. Alternatively, they should be fully respected by affording them the flexibility to govern company forms at national level and enforce related standards. To facilitate entrepreneurship for small and micro- enterprises, Member States should provide for the establishment of an SUP as a separate company law form which would exist in parallel with other forms of single- member private limited liability company provided for in national law.

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Recital 11

(11) To ensure that ~~the harmonised rules are applied as widely as possible, both natural and leg~~standards can be maintained and enforced, only natural persons should be entitled to form SUPs. For the same reason private limited liability companies that were not formed as SUPs should be able to benefit from the SUP framework if they choose to opt in this legal framework. They should be able to be transformed into SUPs in accordance with applicable national law.

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Recital 12

(12) To enable business to enjoy the full benefits of the internal market, Member States should not require the registered office of an SUP and its central administration to be in the same Member State.deleted

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Recital 13

(13) ~~In order to make it easier and less costly to establish subsidiaries in other Member States, t~~The founders of SUPs shcould ~~not~~ be obliged to be physically present before any Member State’s registration body. The register should be accessible from any Member State and a company founder should be able to make use of existing points of single contact created under Directive 2006/123/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council19 as a gateway to national on-line registration points. ~~It should, therefore, be possible to establish SUPs from distance and fully by electronic means.~~ __________________ 19 Directive 2006/123/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on services in the internal market (OJ L 376, 27.12.2006, p. 36).

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Recital 15

(15) To ensure a high level of uniformity and on-line accessibility, the documents used to register SUPs should follow a uniform format available in all official languages of the Union. Each Member State may require registration to be completed in an official language of the Member State concerned, but are also encouraged to allow for registration in other official languages of the Union.deleted

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Recital 18

(18) Provisions concerning the establishment of single-member private limited companies should not affect the right of Member States to maintain existing rules concerning the verification of the registration process~~, provided that the whole registration procedure may be completed electronically and at a distance~~.

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Recital 19

(19) The use of the template of articles of association should be required if the SUP is registered electronically. If another form of registration is allowed by national law, the template does not have to be used, but the articles of association need to comply with the requirements of the Directive. The minimum capital required for the formation of a single-member private limited liability company varies among the Member States. Most Member States have already taken steps towards abolishing the minimum capital requirement or keeping it at a nominal level. The SUPs should not be subject to a high mandatory capital requirement, since this would act as a barrier to their formation. Creditors, however, should be protected from excessive distributions to single-members, which could affect the capacity of an SUP to pay its debts. Such protection should be ensured by the imposition of minimum balance sheet requirements (liabilities not exceeding assets) and the solvency statement prepared and signed by the management body. There should be no further restrictions placed on the use of capital by the single-member.deleted

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Recital 23

(23) In order to facilitate the operation of groups of companies, instructions issued by the single-member to the management body should be binding. Only where following such instructions would entail violating the national law of the Member State in which the company is registered, the management body should not follow them. With the exception of any provision in the articles of association which limit the company’s representation to all directors jointly, any other limitation of powers of the directors, following from the articles of association, should not be binding insofar as it concerns third parties.deleted

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Recital 25

(25) In order to reduce the administrative and legal costs associated with the formation of companies and to ensure a high level of consistency in the registration process across Member States, implementing powers to adopt the templates for registration and for the articles of association of an SUP should be conferred on the Commission. Those powers should be exercised in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council23. __________________ 23 Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers (OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13).deleted

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Recital 26

(26) In order to accommodate future changes to the laws of Member States and to Union legislation concerning company types, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission to update the list of undertakings contained in Annex I. It is of particular importance that the Commission carry out appropriate consultations during its preparatory work, including at experts’ level. The Commission, when preparing and drawing-up delegated acts, should ensure a simultaneous, timely and appropriate transmission of relevant documents to the European Parliament and Council.deleted

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Recital 28

(28) Since the objectives of this Directive, namely, to facilitate the establishment of single-member private limited liability companies, including SUPs cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States, but can rather, by reason of their scale and effects, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary to achieve those objectives.deleted

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Recital 29

~~(29) Since substantial amendments are being made to Directive 2009/102/EC, in the interests of clarity and legal certainty that Directive should be repeal~~deleted.

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point a

~~(a) the types of company listed in Annex I;~~deleted

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point b

(b) Societas Unius Personae (SUP) referred to in Article 6. on condition that the company is incorporated by a natural person and the company not exceed the limits defined in Article 3.1 of Directive 2013/34/EC

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1

~~Member States shall inform the Commission within two months of any changes to the types of private limited companies provided for in their national law affecting the contents of Annex I.~~deleted

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2

~~In such a case the Commission shall be empowered to adapt, by means of~~ delegated ~~acts in accordance with Article 26, the list of companies contained in Annex I.~~

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 3

3. Where a Member State allows other companies than those listed in Annex I to be established as or become single- member companies, as defined in Article 2 (1), Part 1 of this Directive shall also apply to them.deleted

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1

(1) ‘single-member company’ means a company whose shares are held by a single person and that is incorporated by a natural person;

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 2

~~2. Member States shall not hinder SUPs from being single-members in other companies.~~deleted

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 2

~~2. Member States shall provide that the single-member shall not be liable for any amount exceeding the subscribed share capital.~~deleted

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. This Directive is without prejudice to any national laws governing matters related to labour law, including among others the workers` participation in the management or supervisory bodies of companies and the right to information and consultation, and taxation, accounting or insolvency proceedings. It is also without prejudice to the application of the national rules on the conflict of laws.

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Workers’ participation in company boards and workers’ rights on information and consultation in an SUP shall be governed by the provisions of the Member State in which the SUP has its single seat. On registration a SUP has to prove compliance with this provision.

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. If a SUP exceeds over a period of 2 years the limits defined in Art. 1 paragraph 1 point b the SUP is transformed into a national legal company form following the provisions of the Member States in Annex 1.

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 8

An SUP may be incorporated by a natural ~~or legal person~~person at a single seat on conditions that a share capital of at least 1.000 EUR is provided for.

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 9

1. Member States shall ensure that an SUP may be formed by the conversion of the types of companies listed in Annex I. 2. The formation of an SUP by conversion shall not result in any winding-up procedures, any loss or interruption of the legal personality or affect any rights or obligations existing prior to the conversion. 3. Member States shall ensure that a company shall not become an SUP unless: (a) a resolution of its shareholders is passed or a decision of its single-member is taken authorising the conversion of the company into an SUP; (b) its articles of association comply with the applicable national law; and (c) its net assets are at least equivalent to the amount of its subscribed share capital plus those reserves which may not be distributed according to its articles of association.Article 9 deleted Conversion into an SUP

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 10

An SUP shall have its registered office ~~and either its central administration or its principal place of business in the Union.~~ in the Member State where it has its principal place of business. A Member State may in addition impose on SUPs registered in its territory the obligation of locating its head office and its registered office in the same place.

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 11

1. Member States shall require that the articles of association of the SUP shall cover at least the subject matters provided for in paragraph 2. 2. The uniform template of articles of association shall cover the questions of formation, shares, share capital, organisation, accounts and the dissolution of an SUP. It shall be made available by electronic means. 3. The Commission shall adopt the uniform template of articles of association by an implementing act. That implementing act shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 27.Article 11 deleted Uniform template of articles of association

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 12

Amendments to the articles of association 1. An SUP may, after registration, amend its articles of association by electronic or other means in accordance with applicable national law. This information shall be entered in the register of companies in the Member State of registration. 2. The amended articles of association of the SUP shall cover at least the subject matters provided for in the uniform template referred to in Article 11(2).rticle 12 deleted

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

1. Member States may additionally to other informationly require for the registration of an SUP the following information or documentation:

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point b

(b) the address of the registered office, which has to be identical with the central administration ~~and/or~~being the principal place of business of the SUP and its single seat;

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 2

2. The Commission shall establish, by means of an implementing act, a template to be used for the registration of SUPs in the registers of companies of the Member States in accordance with paragraph 1. That implementing act shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 27.deleted

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. On registration, Member States shall verify the identity of the founding members as well as compliance with the provisions of this directive, especially as regards scope, incorporation by a clearly identifiable natural person and single seat.

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1

Member States may lay down any additional rules for verifying the identity of the founding member, and any other person making the registration on the member’s behalf, and the acceptability of the documents and other information submitted to the registration body. Any identification issued in another Member State by the authorities of that State or on their behalf, including identification issued electronically, shall be recognised and accepted for the purposes of the verification by the Member State of registration.

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 6

6. Member States shall not make the registration of an SUP conditional on obtaining any licence or authorisation. The registration of the SUP, all documents provided during the process of registration and subsequent changes to them, shall be disclosed in the relevant register of companies immediately after registration.deleted

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 1

1. The share capital of an SUP shall be at least EUR 1000 EUR. In Member States in which the euro is not the national currency, the share capital shall be at least equivalent to one unit of that Member States’ currency.

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 3

~~3. Member States shall not impose any maximum value on the single share.~~deleted

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 4

4. Member States ~~shall~~may ensure that the SUP ~~is not~~can be made subject to rules requiring the company to build up legal reserves. Member States shall allow companies to build reserves in accordance with their articles of association.

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 26

~~Exercise of delegated powers 1. The power to adopt delegated acts is conferred on the Commission subject to the conditions laid down in this~~ Article. 2. The delegation of power referred to in Article 1(2) shall be conferred on the Commission for an indeterminate period of time. 3. The delegation of power referred to in Article 1(2) may be revoked at any time by the European Parliament or by the Council. A decision to revoke shall put an end to the delegation of the power specified in that decision. It shall take effect the day following the publication of the decision in the Official Journal of the European Union or at a later date specified therein. It shall not affect the validity of any delegated acts already in force. 4. As soon as it adopts a delegated act, the Commission shall notify it simultaneously to the European Parliament and to the Council. 5. A delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 1(2) shall enter into force only if no objection has been expressed either by the European Parliament or the Council within a period of two months of notification of that act to the European Parliament and the Council or if, before the expiry of that period, the European Parliament and the Council have both informed the Commission that they will not object. That period shall be extended by two months at the initiative of the European Parliament or the Council.6 deleted

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0120(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a directive
Article 29

1. Directive 2009/102/EC is repealed 24 months after the date of adoption of this Directive plus one day. 2. References to the repealed Directive shall be construed as references to this Directive and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex II.Article 29 deleted Repeal

2015/05/18
Committee: EMPL

2014/0017(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 a (new)

(2a) Subsequently, on 14 October 2014, the FSB published a regulatory framework for haircuts on collateral posted in non-centrally cleared SFTs in which the FSB recommended a set of numerical haircut floors for securities- against-cash transactions.

2015/02/04
Committee: ECON

2014/0017(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17

(17) Re-hypothecation provides liquidity and enables counterparties reducing funding costs. However, it creates complex collateral chains between traditional banking and shadow banking, posing financial stability risks. The lack of transparency on the extent to which financial instruments provided as collateral have been re-hypothecated and the respective risks in case of bankruptcy can undermine confidence in counterparties and magnify risks to financial stability. Therefore, establishing the FSB recommendation of 6 percent as a mandatory minimum haircut and not allowing collateral to be subject to another collateral re-use transaction are necessary steps to ensure financial stability.

2015/02/04
Committee: ECON

2014/0017(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21

(21) The Commission should be empowered to adopt implementing technical standards developed by ESMA by means of implementing acts pursuant to Article 291 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and in accordance with the procedure set out in Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010 with regard to the format and frequency of the reports, , the format of the application for registration of a trade repository, as well as the procedures and forms for exchange of information on sanctions with ESMA. However, the format and frequency for reporting, which is to be developed by ESMA, should allow for the reporting of real time data to the public.

2015/02/04
Committee: ECON

2014/0017(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 1

In order to ensure uniform conditions of application of paragraph 1, ESMA shall, in close cooperation with the ESCB and taking into account its needs, develop draft implementing technical standards specifying the format and frequency of the reports referred to in paragraphs 1 and 3 for the different types of SFTs; these formats shall allow for the reporting of real time data to the public.

2015/02/04
Committee: ECON

2014/0017(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)

(b a) the financial instrument is not subject to another collateral re-use transaction.

2015/02/04
Committee: ECON

2014/0017(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Credit institutions which engage in non-centrally cleared SFTs with other counterparties that are not credit institutions against collateral other than government securities shall apply the FSB-recommendation of 6 percent as a minimum to the collateral received.

2015/02/04
Committee: ECON

2014/0017(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 4

4. Member States may provide for financial incentives to persons who offer relevant information about potential breaches of this Regulation to be granted in accordance with national law where such persons do not have other pre- existing legal or contractual duties to report such information, and provided that the information is new, and it results in the imposition of an administrative sanction or other measure for a breach of this Regulation or a criminal sanction.deleted

2015/02/04
Committee: ECON

2014/0002(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Inês Cristina ZUBER, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 a (new)

(2a) While the freedom of movement for workers is an important right, labour mobility is not the solution to high unemployment, and labour mobility cannot replace the need to create more jobs in areas with high unemployment.

2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL

2014/0002(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Inês Cristina ZUBER

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6

(6) In the ‘Compact for Growth and Jobs’, the European Council requested to explore the possibility of extending to apprenticeships and traineeships the EURES network, apprenticeships and traineeships can be covered under the present Regulation, provided that the persons concerned are considered workers with reference to the rights conferred on citizens under Article 45 of the Treaty. An appropriate exchange of general information on mobility for apprenticeships and traineeships within the Union needs to be introduced and adequate assistance to the candidates for those positions should be developed, based on a mechanism for clearance of offers, once such a clearance is deemed feasible in accordance with the appropriate standards and with due respect to the competences of the Member States. EURES will cooperate with national institutions to ensure that apprenticeship and traineeship offers do not hide irregular labour relationships.

2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL

2014/0002(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Inês Cristina ZUBER

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 28

(28) ~~Transparency of labour markets and adequate matching capabilities are pre- conditions for labour mobility within the Union. A better balance between labour supply and demand can be achieved through a~~An efficient system at Union level for exchanging of information on national and sectoral labour ~~surpluses and~~ shortages ~~that~~ should be set up between Member States and the European Commission ~~and used as a basis for Member States to develop their mobility policies and underpin the practical cooperation within the EURES network~~.

2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL

2014/0002(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Inês Cristina ZUBER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point c

(c) the functioning of a European network of employment services between Member States and the Commission, with the appropriate involvement of the social partners;

2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL

2014/0002(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Inês Cristina ZUBER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point d

(d) ~~increased~~to support voluntary geographical and occupational mobility in the Union on a fair basis, in full respect and promotion of safe, decent and regulated working conditions and rights;

2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL

2014/0002(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Inês Cristina ZUBER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point c

(c) the rights benefiting, and rules applicable to, workers;

2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL

2014/0002(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 8

8. The Commission may, by means of ~~implementing~~delegated acts, adopt a template for the description of the national system and procedures for sharing information on national systems between Member States. ~~Those implementing acts shall be adopted by the Commission in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 34(2).~~

2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL

2014/0002(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Inês Cristina ZUBER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1

1. The Coordination Group ishall be composed of representatives of the European Coordination Office and the National Coordination Offices and the social partner organisations.

2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL

2014/0002(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 8

8. The Commission shall adopt, by means of ~~implementing~~delegated acts, the necessary technical standards and formats aimed at reaching the uniform system referred to in paragraph 7. ~~Those implementing acts shall be adopted by the Commission in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 34(3).~~

2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL

2014/0002(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Inês Cristina ZUBER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 3

3. Taking into account the exchange of information and the joint analysis, Member States shall develop mobility policies as an integral part of their employment policies. These mobility policies provide the framework on the basis of which Member States carry out the programming referred to in Article 28.deleted

2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL

2014/0002(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Inês Cristina ZUBER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 3

3. The National Coordination Offices, after consulting the national social partners, and the European Coordination Office review together the draft work programmes before finalising them.

2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL

2014/0002(COD)

Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO, Rina Ronja KARI, Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS, Inês Cristina ZUBER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1

Taking into account the information gathered as referred to in this Chapter, the European Commission shall submit every ~~two~~ years a report to the European Parliament, the Council, the Committee of the Regions and the European Economic and Social Committee on labour mobility within the Union, its effects on the structure and functioning of national labour markets, including worker protection and wages and the services provided to workers to facilitate the exercise of the freedom of movement in accordance with Article 46 TFEU.

2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL

2013/2256(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Recalls that in July 2012, Parliament, the Council and the Commission adopted a Common Approach on decentralised agencies (‘the Common Approach’), a political agreement concerning the future management and reform of the agencies; ~~welcom~~notes the conclusion of this agreement;

2014/02/25
Committee: CONT

2013/2256(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Welcomes the Court of Auditors’ reports; acknowledges that its reports have become even more comprehensive in the course of latest discharge procedures; encourages the Court of Auditors to further develop performance audit elements, both in its annual audit reports as well as in the dedicated special reports of the Court of Auditors addressing the agencies; encourages the Court of Auditors to monitor and report on the follow-up from previous discharge reports.

2014/02/25
Committee: CONT

2013/2256(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a.(new)

9a. Recalls that agencies are independent and that the Commission can give agencies guidance through the development of guidelines; is of the opinion, however, that it is up to the agencies to decide on the follow-up; believes that the only institution that can politically discuss the agencies is Parliament; is of the opinion, therefore, that the reporting system to the discharge authority is of utmost importance and should be strengthened;

2014/02/25
Committee: CONT

2013/2256(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Considers that as regards the agencies’ way of reporting to the discharge authority, their democratic accountability should be further streamlined, and believes that the relationship between Parliament and the agencies would benefit from a stronger and better structured system of reporting to Parliament; proposes the establishment of a working group on this matter to come forward with proposals for improving the reporting system, both on the agencies’ and Parliament’s side;

2014/02/25
Committee: CONT

2013/2256(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Is of the opinion that the trend to focus reporting more on effectiveness and results achieved is a positive one; requests to strengthen the reporting system further in this respect to enhance the democratic accountability of the agencies;

2014/02/25
Committee: CONT

2013/2256(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)

10b. Requests that the agencies enhance their work and reporting on social accountability, which will lead to the increased visibility of the agencies’ activities for the general public;

2014/02/25
Committee: CONT

2013/2256(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to merge agencies where appropriate and its willingness to continue its assessment of the possibilities to merge some of the existing agencies, as well as to obtain further synergies from the sharing of services between the agencies themselves and from within the Commission, and to carefully look into the matter of unnecessary spending due to distant and multiple sites of location and is looking forward to further proposals in that regard;

2014/02/25
Committee: CONT

2013/2256(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 a (new)

38a. Points out that activity-based budgeting is still the fundamental principle when drafting the budget of the Union; is worried by the fact that the Court of Auditors, in its 2012 annual report, concludes that for many areas of the Union budget, the legislative framework is complex and that there is insufficient focus on performance; welcomes the steps taken by the agencies to focus more on performance reporting;

2014/02/25
Committee: CONT

2013/2256(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42 a (new)

42a. Recalls that conflicts of interest are a cause of corruption, fraud, mismanagement of funds and human resources, favouritism and have a negative impact on the impartiality of the decisions and quality of work and undermines Union citizens’ trust in the Union institutions, including the agencies;

2014/02/25
Committee: CONT

2013/2256(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46

46. Acknowledges that EFSA since 2011 has made efforts to strengthen its framework for avoiding potential conflicts of interest with the adoption of its revised policy on independence and scientific decision-making processes; notes with concern, however, that despite this revision, the procedure for assessing possible conflicts of interest at EFSA is burdensome and subject to criticism, therefore calls on EFSA to come up with a simplified procedure which would streamline the process, without, however, jeopardising the newly set standards for the detection and prevention of conflicts of interest;

2014/02/25
Committee: CONT

2013/2256(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50

50. Acknowledges from the Commission that its overall legal framework on conflicts of interest is robust and in conformity with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development guidelines in that regard, and, according to the Commission, no major new legal instrument is necessary, and the Commission has never committed to putting forward legislative proposals and does not intend to do so at the moment;deleted

2014/02/25
Committee: CONT

2013/2256(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54 a (new)

54a. Notes that seconded national experts, external and interim staff are not specifically mentioned in the guidelines; requests that the agencies take these groups of staff into account when evaluating and redrafting their conflicts of interest policies;

2014/02/25
Committee: CONT

2013/2256(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls on the Court of Auditors to include in its next annual report a review of the follow-up by the agencies of Parliament’s recommendations in this resolution;

2014/02/25
Committee: CONT

2013/2220(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Believes that the procedure for assessing possible conflicts of interests at the Authority, where declarations of interest are screened by Heads of Unit and are generally assessed on a case by case basis, is burdensome and is subject to criticism, raising questions about its credibility and effectiveness; notes with concern that even a revised procedure has not helped dispel fears about the Authority’s expert impartiality; calls on the Authority to come up with a simplified procedure with less uncertainty which would validate and streamline the process and save both human resources and money without, however, jeopardising the newly set standards for the detection and prevention of conflicts of interests;

2014/02/25
Committee: CONT

2013/2220(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Welcomes the progress made by the Authority on its conflicts of interests policy; calls on the Authority to continue its work on this matter and to dedicate sufficient resources and staff to this matter and to consider appointing specialised staff for the screening work on conflicts of interests;

2014/02/25
Committee: CONT

2013/2215(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 6 a (new)

Conflicts of interests

2014/02/25
Committee: CONT

2013/2215(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Looks forward to the revised version of the Agency's conflicts of interests policy; emphasises that the Agency should continue its work to further strengthen its conflicts of interest policy;

2014/02/25
Committee: CONT

2013/2215(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)

10b. Notes that the Agency works together closely with a variety of patient, healthcare and consumer organisations in order to take their opinions into account; calls on the Agency to request the public disclosure of funding information of any patient, consumer and healthcare organisation and to carry out a conflicts of interests check before the Agency involves them in its work;

2014/02/25
Committee: CONT

2013/2205(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49 a (new)

49a. Calls on the Court of Auditors to include in its next annual report a review of the follow-up by the EEAS of Parliament's recommendations in this resolution;

2014/02/25
Committee: CONT

2013/2204(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16 a. Calls on the Court of Auditors to include in its next annual report a review of the follow-up by the Supervisor of Parliament's recommendations in this resolution.

2014/02/28
Committee: CONT

2013/2203(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Calls on the Court of Auditors to include in its next annual report a review of the follow-up by the European Ombudsman of Parliament's recommendations in this resolution;

2014/02/25
Committee: CONT

2013/2202(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Calls on the Court of Auditors to include in its next annual report a review of the follow-up by the Committee of Parliament's recommendations in this resolution;

2014/02/25
Committee: CONT

2013/2201(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20a. Calls on the Court of Auditors to include in its next annual report a review of the follow-up by the EESC of Parliament’s recommendations in this resolution;

2014/02/25
Committee: CONT

2013/2200(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24a. Calls on the Court of Auditors to include in its next annual report a review of the follow-up of Parliament's recommendations in this resolution;

2014/02/25
Committee: CONT

2013/2199(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)

27a. Calls on the Court of Auditors to include in its next annual report a review of the follow-up by the Court of Justice of Parliament's recommendations in this resolution;

2014/02/25
Committee: CONT

2013/2197(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Insists that the expenditure of the Council must be scrutinised in the same way as that of other institutions and that the fundamental elements of such scrutiny have been laid down in its discharge resolutions of the past years, in particular the discharge resolution of 23 October 2012;

2014/09/04
Committee: CONT

2013/2197(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Considers that effective supervision of the Union’s budget implementation requires cooperation between Parliament and the Council through a working arrangement; regrets the difficulties encountered in the discharge procedures up to date; points out that Parliament refused to grant discharge to the Secretary- General of the Council for the implementation of the Council’s budget for the financial years 2009, 2010 and 2011 for the reasons set out in its resolutions of 10 May 2011, 25 October 2011, 10 May 2012 and 23 October 2012, 17 April 2013 and 9 October 2013;

2014/02/25
Committee: CONT

2013/2197(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Reiterates that it is only possible to implement effective budgetary control with the cooperation of Parliament and the Council, the main elements of which must comprise formal meetings between representatives of the Council and Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control, answering questions asked by the committee’s members on the basis of a written questionnaire and submitting documents to serve as background material for budgetary controls on request; is of the opinion that the fundamental elements of an effective budgetary control is laid down in its resolution of 23 October 2012

2014/02/25
Committee: CONT

2013/2197(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)

25 a. Calls on the Court of Auditors to include in its next annual report a review of the follow-up by the European Council and the Council of Parliament’s recommendations in this resolution;

2014/02/25
Committee: CONT

2013/2196(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. ~~Notes with satisfaction the high quality of~~Takes note of the written answers to the 2011 discharge resolution provided to the Committee on Budgetary Control on 25 October 2013 and, therefore, received before the start of the 2012 discharge exercise; welcomes the subsequent Secretary-General presentation of the replies and follow-up of Parliament’'s administration on 25 November 2013 to the various questions and requests of Parliament’'s 2011 discharge resolution and the exchange of views with Members that followed;

2014/02/28
Committee: CONT

2013/2196(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)

30a. Notes that many requests made in the annual discharge reports concerning Parliament are not met; notes that the Secretary-General argues that these requests fall within the remit of the Bureau of the Parliament or the Conference of Presidents of the Parliament; notes with concern the current highly undemocratic situation in which decisions are taken at the highest political level; i.e. endorsement by plenary, are often stalled or blocked within the internal decision-making process of the Parliament; insists that plenary requests made in the annual discharge reports are fully implemented and without undue delay;

2014/02/28
Committee: CONT

2013/2196(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 a (new)

34a. Considers prizes not to be a core activity of Parliament and requests that a cost-benefit analysis be carried out before any new prize initiatives are developed;

2014/02/28
Committee: CONT

2013/2196(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Subtitle and paragraph 40 a (new)

– General expenditure allowance 40a. Regrets that until now, it has not been possible to obtain an insight into the use made by Members of their General expenditure allowance and requests that for Members who wish to do so, a procedure be developed, so that they can submit their accounts to the internal auditor for annual verification;

2014/02/28
Committee: CONT

2013/2196(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 a (new)

46a. Is looking forward to the publication of the Court of Auditors study to provide a comprehensive analysis of the potential savings for the Union budget if Parliament had only one working place, as requested in the Fox/Hafner report and asks that this analysis includes budgetary aspects and ancillary costs such as savings made through the reduced loss of working time and greater efficiency; asks not only to look into the travel costs for Parliament staff (including interim staff, external experts and temporary agents) but also to the increased travel costs for Commission and Council staff due to the multiple location sites;

2014/02/28
Committee: CONT

2013/2196(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58 b (new)

58b. Considers the House of European History not to be a core activity of the European Parliament and regrets the increasing costs for this project;

2014/02/28
Committee: CONT

2013/2196(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 59 b (new)

59b. Considers EuroparlTV not to be a core activity of Parliament and requests that a cost-benefit analysis be carried out before any new EuroparlTV activities are developed;

2014/02/28
Committee: CONT

2013/2196(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 71 a (new)

71a. Regrets that due to a reduction in administrative burden for low value contracts, aimed at increasing SME participation in tenders for these contracts, the administration does not dispose of the number of SMEs that secured low value contracts; therefore the Secretariat General is not able to show whether or not the reduction in administrative burden actually led to an increased SME participation and thus the effectiveness of the measures taken; requests to monitor the number of SMEs that secured low value contracts;

2014/02/28
Committee: CONT

2013/2196(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 76 b (new)

76b. Calls on the Court of Auditors to include in its next annual report a review of the follow-up of Parliament's recommendations in this resolution;

2014/02/28
Committee: CONT

2013/2195(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a decision 1
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Grants the Commission discharge/~~Postpones its decision on granting the Commission discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2012;

2014/02/27
Committee: CONT

2013/2195(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Citation 9

– having regard to the Court of Auditors’ Annual Report on the implementation of the budget for the financial year 2012, together with the institutions' replies80 (Annual Report), and to the Court of Auditors' special reports, ~~__________________ 80~~in particular Special Report No 24/2012 of the Court of Auditors entitled "The European Union Solidarity Fund's response to the 2009 Abruzzi earthquake: The relevance and cost of operations" and its relevant working document; __________________ 80 OJ C 331, 14.11.2013, p. 1. OJ C 331, 14.11.2013, p. 1.

2014/02/27
Committee: CONT

2013/2195(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Heading 5 – Subheading 1 a (new)

The European Union Solidarity Fund

2014/02/27
Committee: CONT

2013/2195(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 160 a (new)

160a. Notes that the EUSF is an important instrument in responding to major natural disasters in the Union and an expression of European solidarity to disaster-stricken regions within the Union; observes that Italy received EUR 493,8 million in response to the Abruzzi earthquake;

2014/02/27
Committee: CONT

2013/2195(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 160 b (new)

160b. Notes that the Court of Auditors' Special Report 24/2012 identifies serious deficiencies and irregularities in the management of the Union funds in the Abruzzi region after the 2009 earthquake; deeply regrets the fact that the Court of Auditors found that around 70 % of the contribution from the Union was used in violation of the EUSF Regulation;

2014/02/27
Committee: CONT

2013/2195(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 160 c (new)

160c. Believes that the EUSF Regulation must be safeguarded; is deeply concerned that the violation of the regulation and the serious deficiencies in the implementation of the funds have made the EUSF contribution to the earthquake victims less effective;

2014/02/27
Committee: CONT

2013/2195(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 160 d (new)

160d. Notes the observation by the Court of Auditors that the cost of the construction work for re-housing the victims of the earthquake was 158% over the market price, and also regrets that the solidarity aid has benefited fewer victims than it should have done. Also regrets the many instances of substandard building work which have even led to at least one whole apartment block having to be evacuated as unsuitable for human habitation.

2014/02/27
Committee: CONT

2013/2195(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 160 e (new)

160e. Deeply regrets that it is still waiting for answers from the Commission in connection with the implementation of the EUSF for Abruzzi; reserves for this reason its final judgement of the EUSF response to Abruzzi;

2014/02/27
Committee: CONT

2013/2195(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Heading 6 a (new)

Troika and ESM

2014/02/27
Committee: CONT

2013/2195(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 177 a (new)

177a. Notes with concern the participation of the Commission, together with the IMF and ECB, in the so-called Troika in designing and supervision of the adjustment programs for the European deficit countries;

2014/02/27
Committee: CONT

2013/2195(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 177 b (new)

177b. Believes it to be deeply undemocratic that the Commission assumes ever greater powers to control national budgets, without any serious oversight by Parliament;

2014/02/27
Committee: CONT

2013/2195(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 177 c (new)

177c. Points out that the targets of the adjustment programs are unrealistic since they underestimate the implications of the deepening recession especially in Greece where the estimated public deficit will not fall below 3 % of GDP until 2020, while the public debt will reach 178 % of GDP in 2013 and 152 % in 2020 and the reasons offered for these divergences are the 'longer and more severe recession' than expected because the GDP has declined by more than 10 % since the start of the programme and it will continue to decline; notes furthermore that the policy recommendations remain unchanged and in the meantime unemployment has risen from 8,3 % of the labour force in 2007 to nearly 17 % in 2011 and more than 26 % in 2012;

2014/02/27
Committee: CONT

2013/2195(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 177 d (new)

177d. Is highly concerned that Commissions' austerity policies are also blighting the lives of millions of Europeans, most especially in the South and East European Member States of the periphery; notes that the official unemployment rate in 2011 was in Greece 17,7 % and in Spain 21,7 %; is highly concerned about the increase of the rates in 2012 in Spain to 26,1 % and in Greece to 26,8 % while the youth unemployment rate for the Union was 22,7 % in Spain and Greece it was over 50 %; therefore urgently invites the Commission to change its politics by giving up their austerity orientation in order to fight unemployment;

2014/02/27
Committee: CONT

2013/2195(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 177 e (new)

177e. Strongly criticises that Commission's policy on austerity has focussed on expenditure cuts and privatisations resulting in the postponement or cancellation of infrastructure projects as well as reductions in recurrent expenditure in healthcare, education, social provision and welfare benefits; therefore public employment has been reduced significantly in many countries and, due to the recession and the impact of austerity policies, there has been a significant increase in the proportion of the population at risk of poverty; deplores that the poorest sectors have been hit hardest but, in the crisis stricken Member States, many middle-class citizens have also been affected;

2014/02/27
Committee: CONT

2013/2195(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 177 f (new)

177f. Notes that historically, social policies in Europe have been provided by managing or removing the market in the provision of services, through food subsidies or the free provision of health services and certain levels of education; deplores that now the de-commodification of public services is being reversed through the introduction of vouchers and user fees for health and education services;

2014/02/27
Committee: CONT

2013/2195(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 177 g (new)

177g. Criticises that the Commission advocates with its adjustments programs the flexibility of labour markets, pay freezes, cuts in pensions and increased retirement ages, together with an easing of restrictions on layoffs and limits on unemployment benefits; is of the opinion that all these represent a further weakening of the provisions of Europe's vaunted social model;

2014/02/27
Committee: CONT

2013/2195(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 177 h (new)

177h. Notes with concern the pressure currently exerted by the Troika on Cyprus and Greece to privatise the water sector; recalls that recent water privatisation policies in the United Kingdom and Portugal show that privatisation generally leads to cost increases, rather than cost reductions; is concerned about the potential risks for public health of this development; therefore urges the Troika to reconsider their policies and not to demand the privatisation of the water sector;

2014/02/27
Committee: CONT

2013/2195(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 177 i (new)

177i. Notes that the programs of memoranda of understanding in all cases were presented as one-way road: they were used on the one hand to save and to shield the financial sector, recapitalizing the banks and converting private debt into public debt and on the other to repay the speculative rates of the accumulated debt; the programs of understanding did not finance the real economy nor used for public and productive investment in order to lead the economy into a growth path, but on the opposite with the tough fiscal austerity measures imposed have led to a more profound and lasting recession and social misery; calls for a breakaway from these policies so that the problems of economic sustainable growth, unemployment, poverty, social exclusion, and income inequalities can be truly addressed and combated;

2014/02/27
Committee: CONT

2013/2195(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 184 a (new)

184a. Notes that both the EFSF and the ESM benefit from the service of prominent Union institutions, such as the Commission and the ECB, while their respective relationship do not find a sufficient legal basis and control of the institutions according to the procedure laid down in the TFEU; underlines that the creation outside the institutions of the Union represents a setback from the evolution of the Union, essentially at the expense of Parliament, the Court of Auditors and the Court of Justice;

2014/02/27
Committee: CONT

2013/2195(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 184 b (new)

184b. Criticises the fact that the ESM Treaty lacks sufficient provisions for ensuring effective external audit; regrets that in Article 24 (Board of Auditors) of the bylaws of the Treaty only one member can be nominated by the Court of Auditors while two members upon the proposal of the Chairperson;

2014/02/27
Committee: CONT

2013/2195(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 184 c (new)

184c. Is concerned by the regulation of paragraph 6 of Article 24 of the by-laws of the Treaty with the agreed procedure only to inform Parliament by sending the annual report of the Board of Auditors to Parliament; underlines the right of Parliament to have a debate on the annual report with the Board of Auditors in presence of the Board of Governors of the ESM;

2014/02/27
Committee: CONT

2013/2195(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 201 a (new)

201a. Is deeply concerned about the reporting of the OLAF Supervisory Committee on the Dalli case; finds it unacceptable that OLAF has undertaken investigative measures that go beyond those explicitly listed in Articles 3 and 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1073/1999 which was in force at that time; notes that these investigative measures include: preparing the content of a telephone conversation for a third party to have with a person subject to the investigation; being present during such a conversation and having it recorded; and requesting national administrative authorities to provide OLAF with information not directly held by those authorities and which could be considered to relate to the right to respect for private life and communications or to the subsequent use, collection and storage of such information by OLAF;

2014/02/27
Committee: CONT

2013/2195(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 201 b (new)

201b. Is shocked by such actions, given that, according to the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, the use of such methods can be seen as 'interference by a public authority' with the exercise of the right to respect for 'private life', 'correspondence' and/or 'communications', which is required to be 'in accordance with the law' (Article 7 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which corresponds to Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights);

2014/02/27
Committee: CONT

2013/2195(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 204 a (new)

204a. Is deeply concerned about the findings of the Supervisory Committee that OLAF has not established a prior legality check for investigative measures other than those specifically listed in OLAF's Instructions to Staff on Investigative Procedures (ISIP); notes that this endangers respect for the fundamental rights of, and procedural guarantees relating to, the persons concerned;

2014/02/27
Committee: CONT

2013/2195(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 204 b (new)

204b. Notes that breaches of essential procedural requirements during preparatory investigations could affect the legality of the final decision taken on the basis of investigations by OLAF; assesses this as potentially high-risk, since breaches would thus incur the legal liability of the Commission;

2014/02/27
Committee: CONT

2013/2195(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 204 c (new)

204c. Deems the direct participation of OLAF's Director-General in some investigative tasks, inter alia interviews of witnesses, unacceptable; points out that the Director-General could be faced with a conflict of interest, since, under Article 90(a) of the Staff Regulations and Article 23(1) of the ISIP he is the authority who receives complaints against OLAF's investigations and decides whether or not appropriate action is taken with regard to any failure to respect procedural guarantees;

2014/02/27
Committee: CONT

2013/2195(DEC)

Rina Ronja KARI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 223 a (new)

223a. Calls on the Court of Auditors to include in its next annual report a review of the follow-up by the Commission of Parliament's recommendations in this resolution;

2014/02/27
Committee: CONT

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1

(1) Money market funds (MMF) provide, similar to banks and other financial institutions, short-term finance to financial institutions, corporates or governments. By providing finance to these entities, money market funds contribute to the financing of the European economy.

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 a (new)

(2a) They can be considered part of the Shadow Banking System on the basis that they perform maturity and liquidity transformation. However, in contrast with bank deposits, MMFs do not have access to official support and backstop facilities, and, whereas they have little ability to absorb losses, they also do not have explicit support from sponsor companies. Moreover, investors may perceive MMFs, in particular constant net asset value (CNAV) funds that seek to maintain an unchanging face value, as safe alternatives to bank deposits.

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4

(4) Large redemption requests force MMFs to sell some of their investment assets in a declining market, fuelling a liquidity crisis. In these circumstances, money market issuers can face severe funding difficulties if the market of commercial papers and other money market instruments dries up. Any contagion to the short term funding market could then also represent direct and major difficulties for the financing of the financial institutions, corporations and governments, thus the economy. In the absence of a credible solution to the too- big-too fail problem for banks this has major implications from an economic stability point of view.

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6

(6) In order to pre~~serve the integrity and stability of the internal market~~duce systemic risk and the possibility of public bail-outs by promoting more resilient MMFs and limiting contagion channels, it is necessary to lay down rules regarding the operation of MMFs, in particular on the composition of the portfolio of MMFs. Uniform rules across the Union are necessary to ensure that MMFs are able to immediately redeem investors, especially during stressed market situations. Uniform rules on the portfolio of a money market fund are also required to ensure that MMFs are able to face massive and sudden redemption requests by a large group of investors.

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23

(23) Asset Backed Commercial Papers (ABCPs) should not be considered eligible money market instruments to the extent that they respect additional requirements. Due to the fact that during the crisis certain securitisations were particularly unstable, it is necessary to impose maturity limits and quality criteria on the underlying assets. Not all categories of underlying assets should be eligible because some were more confronted to instability than others. For this reason the underlying assets should be exclusively composed of short-term debt instruments that have been issued by corporates in the course of their business activity, such as trade receivables. Instruments such as auto loans and leases, equipment leases, consumer loans, residential mortgage loans, credit card receivables or any other type of instrument linked to the acquisition or financing of services or goods by consumers should not be eligible. ESMA should be entrusted with drafting regulatory technical standards to be submitted for endorsement by the Commission with regard to the conditions and circumstances under which the underlying exposure or pool of exposures is considered to exclusively consist of corporate debt and the conditions and numerical thresholds determining when corporate debt is of high credit quality and liquid, due to the fact that these instruments have proven to be particularly unstable and intransparent.

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 27

(27) In order to limit risk-taking by MMFs it is essential to reduce counterparty risk by subjecting the portfolio of MMFs to clear diversification requirements. To this effect it is also necessary that the reverse repurchase agreements be fully collateralized and that, for limiting the operational risk, one reverse repurchase agreement counterparty cannot account for more than 20% of the MMF's assets. All ~~over-the-counter (OTC)~~ derivatives should be subject to Regulation (EU) No 648/20125. Over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives should not be eligible. __________________ 5 Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012 on OTC derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories (OJ L 201, 27.7.2012, p. 1).

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 42 a (new)

(42a) The financial crisis is evidence of the fact that the conduct and nature of constant net asset value MMFs make them more vulnerable to destabilising investor runs, which can spread quickly among funds, impairing liquidity and the availability of short-term credit, in particular for banks. Against this background, CNAV MMF should not be offered to retail investors.

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 43

(43) To allow for the specificities of CNAV MMFs it is necessary that CNAV MMFs, until they have been fully converted into VNAV MMFs, be permitted to use also the amortised cost accounting method for the purpose of determining the constant net asset value (NAV) per unit or share, subject to the agreement of national competent authorities. This notwithstanding, for the purpose of ensuring at all times the monitoring of the difference between the constant NAV per unit or share and the NAV per unit or share, a CNAV MMF should also calculate the value of its assets on the basis of the marking to market or marking to model methods.

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 44

(44) As a MMF should publish a NAV that reflects all movements in the value of its assets, the published NAV should be rounded at maximum to the nearest basis point or its equivalent. As a consequence, when the NAV is published in a specific currency, for example €1, the incremental change in value should be done every €0.0001. In the case of a NAV at €100, the incremental change in value should be done every €0.01. Only if the MMF is a CNAV MMF, the MMF can publish a price that does not follow entirely the movements in the value of its assets. In this case the NAV can be rounded to the nearest cent for a NAV at €1 (every €0.01 move) for an interim period of five years.

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 45 a (new)

(45a) In addition to NAV buffers, MMFs should impose redemption fees of up to 3% in case the weekly maturing assets fall below 15% of the fund's total assets at the end of any business day.

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 46 a (new)

(46a) After a transitional phase of five years after publication of this regulation in the Official Journal all CNAV MMFs should be converted into VNAV MMFs.

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 47

(47) External support provided to a MMF other than a CNAV MMF with the intention of ensuring either liquidity or stability of the MMF or de facto having such effects increases the contagion risk between the MMF sector and the rest of the financial sector. Third parties providing such support have an interest in doing so, either because they have an economic interest in the management company managing the MMF or because they want to avoid any reputational damage should their name be associated with the failure of a MMF. Because these third parties do not commit explicitly to providing or guaranteeing the support, there is uncertainty whether such support will be granted when the MMF needs it. In these circumstances, the discretionary nature of sponsor support contributes to uncertainty among market participants about who will bear losses of the MMF when they do occur. This uncertainty likely makes MMFs even more vulnerable to runs during periods of financial instability, when broader financial risks are most pronounced and when concerns arise about the health of the sponsors and their ability to provide support to affiliated MMFs. For these reasons, MMFs should not rely on external support in order to maintain their liquidity and the stability of their NAV per unit or share ~~unless the competent authority of the MMF has specifically allowed the external support in order to maintain stability of financial markets~~.

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 48

(48) Investors should be clearly informed, before they invest in a MMF, if the MMF is of a short-term nature or of a standard nature and if the MMF is of a CNAV type or not. In order to avoid misplaced expectations from the investor it must also be clearly stated in any marketing document that MMFs are not a guaranteed investment vehicle. CNAV MMFs should clearly explain to investors the buffer mechanism they are applying to maintain the constant NAV per unit or share. They should further explain to investors that they may impose redemption fees in case the weekly maturing assets fall below a specific threshold.

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 54

(54) It is essential to carry out a review of this Regulation in order to assess the appropriateness of exempting certain CNAV MMFs that concentrate their investment portfolios on debt issued by the Member States from the requirement to establish a capital buffer that amounts to at least 3 % of the total value of the CNAV MMF's assets or the mandatory convergence into VNAV MMFs. Therefore, during the three years after the entry into force of this Regulation, the Commission should analyse the experience acquired in applying this Regulation and the impacts on the different economic aspects attached to the MMFs. The debt issued or guaranteed by the Member States represents a distinct category of investment displaying specific credit and liquidity traits. In addition, sovereign debt plays a vital role in financing the Member States. The Commission should evaluate the evolution of the market for sovereign debt issued or guaranteed by the Member States and the possibility to create a special framework for MMF that concentrate their investment policy on that type of debt.

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2

~~2. Member States shall not add any additional requirements in the field covered by this Regulation.~~deleted

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 11

(11) ‘amortised cost method’ means a valuation method which takes the acquisition cost of an asset and adjusts this value for amortisation of premiums (or discounts) until maturity; the use of this accounting method shall be subject to approval of national competent authorities;

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new)

An MMF or an MMF manager may be established in a third country provided that the third country is not a country: - where there are no or nominal taxes, - where there is a lack of effective exchange of information with foreign tax authorities, - where there is a lack of transparency in legislative, judicial or administrative provisions, - where there is no requirement for a substantive local presence, - which acts as an offshore financial centre.

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new)

An AIF MMF or an AIFM of a MMF may be established in a third country provided that the third country is not a country: - where there are no or nominal taxes, - where there is a lack of effective exchange of information with foreign tax authorities, - where there is a lack of transparency in legislative, judicial or administrative provisions, - where there is no requirement for a substantive local presence, - which acts as an offshore financial centre.

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point c

(c) financial derivative instruments used exclusively for hedging purposes;

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point d

~~(d) Where it takes exposure to a securitisation, it shall be subject to the additional requirements laid down in Article 10.~~deleted

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

1. A securitisation shall not be considered as eligible ~~provided that all of the following conditions are met:~~.

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point a

~~(a) the underlying exposure or pool of exposures consists exclusively of corporate debt;~~deleted

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point b

~~(b) the underlying corporate debt is of high credit quality and liquid;~~deleted

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point c

~~(c) the underlying corporate debt has a legal maturity at issuance of 397 days or less; or has a residual maturity of 397 days or less.~~deleted

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1

For the purpose of a consistent application of paragraph 1, ESMA shall develop draft regulatory technical standards specifying: (a) the conditions and circumstances under which the underlying exposure or pool of exposures is considered to exclusively consist of corporate debt; (b) conditions and numerical thresholds determining when corporate debt is of high credit quality and liquid.deleted

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2

~~ESMA shall submit the draft regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph to the Commission by […].~~deleted

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3

~~Power is~~ delegated ~~to the Commission to adopt the regulatory technical standards referred to in the first subparagraph in accordance with Articles 10 to 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.~~

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

A financial derivative instrument shall be eligible for investment by a MMF if it is dealt in on a regulated market referred to in Article 50(1)(a), (b) or (c) of Directive 2009/65/EC ~~or over-the-counter (OTC)~~ , provided that all of the following conditions are in any case fulfilled:

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – point c

(c) the counterparties to ~~OTC~~ derivative transactions are institutions subject to prudential regulation and supervision and belonging to the categories approved by the competent authorities of the MMF's home Member State;

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – point d

(d) the ~~OTC~~ derivatives are subject to reliable and verifiable valuation on a daily basis and can be sold, liquidated or closed by an offsetting transaction at any time at their fair value at the MMF's initiative.

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 3

3. Securitisations ~~as defined in Article 10~~ shall not be received by the MMF as part of a reverse repurchase agreement. The assets received by the MMF as part of a reverse repurchase agreement shall not be sold, reinvested, pledged or otherwise transferred.

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 2

~~2. The aggregate of all exposures to securitisations shall not exceed 10% of the assets of a MMF.~~deleted

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 3

3. The aggregate risk exposure to the same counterparty of the MMF stemming from ~~OTC~~ derivative transactions shall not exceed 5% of its assets.

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 5 – point c

(c) ~~OTC~~ financial derivative instruments giving counterparty risk exposure to that body.

2015/01/12
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 5

5. In addition to the marking to market method referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 and marking to model method referred to in paragraph 4, the assets of a CNAV MMF exceptionally may also be valued by using the amortised cost method. Amortised cost accounting shall be applied only when all of the following conditions have been fulfilled: (a) national competent authorities have accepted this accounting method; (b) it is deemed to allow for an appropriate approximation of the price of the instrument. The use of amortisation shall be restricted to instruments with low residual maturity and in the absence of any particular sensitivity of the instruments to market factors. A residual maturity of 60 days shall be considered to be the maximum. Materiality thresholds and escalation procedures shall be in place to ensure that corrective actions are promptly taken when the amortised cost no longer provides a reliable approximation of the price of the instruments: at the level of the overall portfolio, thresholds of 10 basis points shall be deemed to be appropriate.

2015/01/09
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 2 – point b

(b) the competent authority of the CNAV MMF, after consultation with ESMA, is satisfied with a detailed plan by the CNAV MMF specifying the modalities of the use of the buffer in accordance with Article 31;

2015/01/09
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Matt CARTHY, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 2 – point g a (new)

(ga) it shall not be offered to retail investors as defined in Article 4 (11) of Directive 2014/64/EU [MIFID II].

2015/01/09
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. If the weekly maturing assets of a CNAV MMF fall below 15% of the fund's total assets at the end of any business day, the MMF shall impose a redemption fee to investors redeeming their shares of up to 3%. Any fee imposed would be lifted automatically once the MMF's level of weekly liquidity returns to 30% of its total assets.

2015/01/09
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1

Each CNAV MMF shall establish and maintain a NAV buffer amounting at all times to at least 3% of the total value of the CNAV MMF's assets. The total value of the CNAV MMF's assets shall be calculated as the sum of the values of each asset of the MMF determined in accordance with Article 26(3) or (4). By [OJ please insert date: five years after entry into force of this Regulation], all CNAV MMF established, managed or marketed in the Union shall be converted into VNAV MMF.

2015/01/09
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2

The CNAV MMF shall inform immediately the competent authority and ESMA as well as each investor thereof in writing and in a clear and comprehensible way.

2015/01/09
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 1

1. A CNAV MMF may not receive external support ~~other than in the form and under the conditions laid down in Articles 30 to 34~~.

2015/01/09
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 2

~~2. MMFs other than CNAV MMFs shall not be allowed to receive external support, except under the conditions laid down in Article 36.~~deleted

2015/01/09
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 3

3. External support shall mean a direct or indirect support offered by a third party that is intended for or in effect would result in guaranteeing the liquidity of the MMF or stabilising the NAV per unit or share of the MMF. External support shall include: (a) cash injections from a third party; (b) purchase by a third party of assets of the MMF at an inflated price; (c) purchase by a third party of units or shares of the MMF in order to provide liquidity to the fund; (d) issuance by a third party of any kind of explicit or implicit guarantee, warranty or letter of support for the benefit of the MMF; (e) any action by a third party the direct or indirect objective of which is to maintain the liquidity profile and the NAV per unit or share of the MMF.deleted

2015/01/09
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 36

1. In exceptional circumstances justified by systemic implications or adverse market conditions the competent authority may allow a MMF other than a CNAV MMF to receive external support referred to in Article 35 that is intended for or in effect would result in guaranteeing the liquidity of the MMF or stabilising the NAV per unit or share of the MMF provided that all of the following conditions are fulfilled: (a) the MMF duly justifies the necessity of external support and demonstrates through conclusive evidence the urgent need for external support; (b) the external support is limited in terms of the amount provided and the period of time when it is made available; (c) the competent authority is satisfied that the provider of the external support is financially sound and has sufficient financial resources to withstand without any adverse effects possible losses resulting from the external support granted. 2. For the purposes of paragraph 1(c), in case the provider of the external support is an entity subject to prudential supervision the agreement of the supervisory authority of that entity shall be sought in view of ensuring that the support to be granted by the entity is subject to adequate own funds provided by that entity and is in line with the risk management system of that entity. 3. Where the conditions referred to in paragraph 1 for receiving external support are fulfilled the MMF shall immediately inform each investor thereof in writing and in a clear and comprehensible way.Article 36 deleted Exceptional circumstances

2015/01/09
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 43 – paragraph 3

3. By way of derogation from the first sentence of Article 30(1), an existing UCITS or AIF that meets the criteria for the definition of a CNAV MMF set out in Article 2(10) shall establish a NAV buffer of at least (a) 1% of the total value of the CNAV MMF's assets, within one year from the entry into force of this Regulation; (b) 2% of the total value of the CNAV MMF's assets, within two years from the entry into force of this Regulation; (c) 3% of the total value of the CNAV MMF's assets, within three years from the date of entry into force of this Regulationdeleted

2015/01/09
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 43 – paragraph 4

4. For the purposes of paragraph 3 of this Article, the reference to 3% in Articles 33 and 34 shall be interpreted as referring to the amounts of the NAV buffer mentioned in points (a), (b) and (c) of paragraph 3 respectively.deleted

2015/01/09
Committee: ECON

2013/0306(COD)

Fabio DE MASI, Marisa MATIAS, Miguel VIEGAS, Rina Ronja KARI, Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 45 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

By three years after the entry into force of this Regulation, the Commission shall review the adequacy of this Regulation from a prudential and economic point of view. In particular the review shall consider the operation of the CNAV buffer and the operation of the CNAV buffer to those CNAV MMFs that, in future, might concentrate their portfolios on debt issued or guaranteed by the Member States as well as the mandatory conversion into VNAVs for those funds. The review shall:

2015/01/09
Committee: ECON

2013/0157(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Title 1

~~REGULATION~~DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL establishing a framework on market access to port services and financial transparency of ports (This amendment applies throughout the text. Adopting it will necessitate corresponding changes throughout.)

2015/09/07
Committee: EMPL

2013/0157(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1

(1) The full integration of ports in seamless logistic and transport chains is needed to contribute to growth and a more efficient use and functioning of the trans- European transport network and the internal market. This requires modern port services contributing to an efficient use of ports and a climate favourable to investments to develop portModern port services should contribute to an efficient use and functioning of ports and a climate favourable to develop ports and create quality jobs in line with current and future transport and logistics requirements.

2015/09/07
Committee: EMPL

2013/0157(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7

(7) In the interest of efficient, safe and environmentally sound port management, the managing body of the port should be able to require that port service providers can demonstrate that they meet minimum requirements to perform the service in an appropriate way. These minimum requirements should ~~be limited to~~provide a clearly defined set of conditions concerning the professional qualifications of the operators, including in terms of training, ~~and~~ the equipment required in~~sofar as these requirements are transparent, non- discriminatory, objective and relevant for the provision of the port service~~ order to provide the specific port service in compliance with maritime safety requirements and environmental requirements. These requirements should take into account relevant social and labour standards as well as the good repute of the port service provider with regards to the respect of social and labour rights as well as applicable collective bargaining agreements.

2015/09/07
Committee: EMPL

2013/0157(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14

(14) The recourse to public service obligations leading to a limitation in the number of providers of a port service should ~~only~~ be justified for reasons of public interest in order to ensure inter alia the accessibility of the port service to all users, the availability of the port service all year long or, the affordability of the port service to certain category of users, environmentally sustainable port operations or safe and secure port operations.

2015/09/07
Committee: EMPL

2013/0157(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17

(17) The managing body of the port should not discriminate between providers of port services~~, in particular in favour of an undertaking or body in which it holds an interest~~.

2015/09/07
Committee: EMPL

2013/0157(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19

(19) Member States should retain the power to ensure an adequate level of social protection for the staff of undertaking providing port services. This Regulation shall not affect the application of the social and labour rules of the Member States and it shall take into account Article 28 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. In cases of limitation of the number of port service providers, where the conclusion of a port service contract may entail a change of port service operator, ~~it should be possible for~~ the competent authorit~~ies to ask~~y shall ensure that the chosen service operator to applyies the provisions of Council Directive 2001/23/EC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the safeguarding of employees’ rights in the event of transfers of undertakings, businesses or parts of undertakings or businesses11 . __________________ 11 OJ L 82, 22.3.2001, p. 16. OJ L 82, 22.3.2001, p. 16.

2015/09/07
Committee: EMPL

2013/0157(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19 a (new)

(19a) The port service sector is highly dangerous therefore adequate and continuous training of all employees is essential to ensure workers’ health and safety as well as the quality of modern port services. Adequate training should be a right for every worker. The EU-level Sectorial Social Dialogue should be able to develop guidelines for the creation of minimum training requirements to ensure a high quality of training of workers in order to minimise the risk of accidents and to adapt to future skill requirements.

2015/09/07
Committee: EMPL

2013/0157(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 28

(28) The different independent supervisory bodies should exchange information on their work and cooperate in ~~order to ensure a uniform application of this Regulation~~case of any cross-border dispute or complaint.

2015/09/07
Committee: EMPL

2013/0157(COD)

Rina Ronja KARI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)

(aa) a framework for the recognition of safety, environmental and labour standards and Social Dialogue in the port service sector;

2015/09/07
Committee: EMPL

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)

(1a) In order to address the challenges facing the maritime transport sector, it is essential that the actions on administrative simplifications set out in the Commission communication entitled 'Ports: an engine for growth' on administrative simplification be implemented in tandem with this Regulation. The complexity of administrative procedures for customs clearance, resulting in delays at ports, represents a major obstacle to the competitiveness of short sea shipping and the efficiency of Union ports.

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5

(5) The objective of Article 56 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union is to eliminate restrictions on freedom to provide services in the Union. In accordance with Article 58 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be achieved within the framework of the provisions of the Title relating to transport, more specifically Article 100 (2).deleted

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6

(6) The self-provision of service which entails shipping companies or providers of port services to employ staff of their own choice and to provide themselves port services is regulated in a number of Member States for safety or social reasons. The stakeholders consulted by the Commission when preparing its proposal highlighted that imposing a generalised allowance of the self- provision of service at Union level would require additional rules on safety and social issues in order to avoid possible negative impacts in these areas. It appears therefore appropriate at this stage not to regulate this issue at Union level and to leave it to the Member States to regulate the self-provision of port services or not. Therefore, this Regulation should only cover the provision of port services for remuneration.deleted

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7

(7) In the interest of efficient, safe and environmentally sound port management, the managing body of the port should be able to require that port service providers can demonstrate that they meet minimum requirements to perform the service in an appropriate way. These minimum requirements should be limited to a clearly defined set of conditions concerning the professional qualifications of the operators, ~~including in terms of training, and the~~ the equipment needed in order to provide the relevant port service, and compliance with maritime safety requiprement ~~required insofar as these requirements are transparent, non- discriminatory, objective and relevant for the provision of the port service~~s. These minimum requirements should also take into account environmental requirements as well as national social standards and the good repute of the port service provider regarding the respect of social and labour rights, and compliance with the applicable collective bargaining agreements.

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10

(10) Since ports are constituted of limited geographical areas, access to the market could, in certain cases, be subject to limitations relating to the scarcity of land or in case the land is reserved for certain type of activities in accordance with a formal development plan which plans in a transparent way the land use and with relevant national legislation such as those related to town and country planning objectives.deleted

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13

(13) The selection procedure for providers of port service in the case the number of those providers is limited should follow the principles and approach determined in Directive ../../… [concession]7 , including the threshold and method for determining the value of the contracts as well as the definition of substantial modifications and the elements related to the duration of the contract. __________________ 7 Proposal for a Directive on the award of concession contracts (COM 2011) 897 finaldeleted

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19

(19) Member States should retain the power to ensure an adequate level of social protection for the staff of undertaking providing port services. This Regulation shall not affect the application of the social and labour rules of the Member States~~. In cases of limitation~~ and should take into account Article 28 of the ~~numb~~Charter of ~~port service providers, w~~Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Where the conclusion of a port service contract may entail a change of port service operator, ~~it should be possible for the competent authorities to ask~~the Member States shall require the chosen service operator to apply the provisions of Council Directive 2001/23/EC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the safeguarding of employees' rights in the event of transfers of undertakings, businesses or parts of undertakings or businesses11 . __________________ 11 OJ L 82, 22.3.2001, p. 16. OJ L 82, 22.3.2001, p. 16.

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19 a (new)

(19a) In a highly complex and dangerous sector such as port services, training of new recruits as well as lifelong training of staff are essential for ensuring dockworkers' health and safety, as well as the quality of services. Adequate training shall be a right for every worker entering the port sector. The EU-level Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee for Ports should be able to develop guidelines for the establishment of training requirements to ensure a high quality of education and training of dockworkers, to minimise the risk of accidents and to meet future skill requirements.

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19 b (new)

(19b) Developments in the maritime industry, such as the increasing size of vessels and overcapacity, aggravate the already fluctuating demand for dockworkers. In many ports this has resulted in an increase of casual work arrangements, which lead to precarious and unsocial working conditions. The Member States, together with the social partners, shall take measures to ensure employment continuity and social protection, despite the fluctuations in demand for dock labour, in accordance with the principles set out in the ILO Convention concerning the Social Repercussions of the New Methods of Cargo Handling in Docks (ILO Convention No. 137).

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 30

(30) In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of this Regulation implementing powers relating to appropriate arrangements for the exchange of information between independent supervisory bodies should be conferred on the Commission. Those powers should be exercised in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by the Member States of the Commission's exercise of implementing powers13. __________________ 13deleted OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13.

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point c

~~(c) dredging;~~deleted

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point 2

2. ‘cargo handling services’ means the organisation and handling of cargo between the carrying waterborne vessel and the shore be it for import, export or transit of the cargo, including the processing, lashing, unlashing, securing transporting and temporary storage of the cargo on the relevant cargo handling terminal and directly related to the transporting of the cargo, ~~but excluding warehousing, stripping, repackaging or any other value added services related to the handled cargo~~without prejudice to the definitions in place in the Member States;

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Chapter 2 – title

~~Market ac~~Organisation of port servicess

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3

1. Freedom to provide services in seaports covered by this Regulation shall apply to the providers of port services established in the Union under the conditions set out in this Chapter. 2. Providers of port services shall have access to essential port facilities to the extent necessary for them to carry out their activities. The terms of the access shall be fair, reasonable and non- discriminatory.Article 3 deleted Freedom to provide services

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1

1. ~~The managing body of the port~~Without prejudice to the possibility of imposing public service obligations as provided for in Article 8, the managing body of the port or the competent national authority may require that providers of port services, including subcontractors, comply with minimum requirements to perform the corresponding port service.

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – introductory part

2. The minimum requirements provided for in paragraph 1 ~~may only relate, where applicable,~~relate to:

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point c

(c) the compliance with requirements on the maritime safety or the safety and security of the port or access to it, its installations, equipment, workers and persons;

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)

(da) the compliance with social and labour laws, including applicable collective agreements, and agreements on the protection of health and safety of workers;

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point d b (new)

(db) the good repute of the port service provider with regard to the respect of social and labour rights, including the compliance with applicable Union and national law, with standards set by collective bargaining agreements and with agreements to protect health and safety, including accidental prevention.

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. When a managing body of a port provides port services itself or through a legally distinct entity which it directly or indirectly controls, the competent national authority shall exercise the powers provided for in paragraph 1.

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

1. BWithout prejudice to the different models for the organisation of port services and by way of derogation from Article 3, the managing body of the port or the competent national authority may limit the number of providers of port service for a given port service for one or several of the following reasons:

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)

(aa) the need to ensure the health and safety of workers, or the provision of secure or environmentally sustainable port operations;

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 4

4. When a managing body of a port provides port services itself or through a legally distinct entity which it directly or indirectly controls, the Member State may entrust the adoption of the decision limiting the number of providers of port services to an authority which is independent from the managing body of the port. If the Member State does not entrust the adoption of the decision limiting the number of providers of port services to such an authority, the number of providers shall not be less than two except if any of the reasons laid down in paragraph 1 justifies a single provider.

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7

Procedure for the limitation of the number of providers of port services 1. Any limitation of the number of providers for a port service in accordance with Article 6 shall follow a selection procedure which shall be open to all interested parties, non-discriminatory and transparent. 2. If the estimated value of the port service exceeds the threshold defined in paragraph 3, the rules on the award procedure, the procedural guarantees and the maximum duration of the concessions as set out in Directive …./…. [concession] shall apply. 3. The threshold and the method to determine the value of the port service shall be those of the relevant and applicable provisions of Directive .…/…. [concession]. 4. The selected provider or providers and the managing body of the port shall conclude a port service contract. 5. For the purposes of this Regulation, a substantial modification within the meaning of Directive …./… [concession] of the provisions of a port service contract during its term shall be considered as a new port service contract and shall require a new procedure as referred to in paragraph 2. 6. Paragraphs 1 to 5 of this Article shall not apply in the cases referred to in Article 9. 7. This Regulation is without prejudice to Directive …/… [concession]15 , Directive .…/….[public utilities]16 and Directive …/… [public procurement]17 __________________ 15 Proposal for a Directive on the award of concession contracts (COM 2011) 897 final 16Proposal for a Directive on procurement by entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors (COM/2011/0895 final) 17Proposal for a Directive on public procurement (COM/2011/0896 final)Article 7 deleted

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)

(ca) the health and safety of workers and the safety, security or environmental sustainability of ports operations.

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point c b (new)

(cb) the compliance with social and labour law, including applicable collective agreements.

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2

2. TWhile the obligations referred to in paragraph 1 shall be clearly defined, transparent, non- discriminatory, verifiable and shall guarantee equality of access to all port service providers established in the Union, they are not subject to restrictions by the Union.

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 6

6. In the event of a disruption of port services for which public service obligations are imposed or when an immediate risk of such a situation occurs, the competent authority may take an emergency measure. The emergency measure may take the form of a direct award so as to attribute the service to a different provider for a period up to one year. During that time period, the competent authority shall either launch a new procedure to select a provider of port service ~~in accordance with Article 7~~ or shall apply Article 9.

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1 (new)

Collective actions do not constitute a disruption of port services for which emergency measures can be taken.

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1

1. This Regulation shall not affect the application of the social and labour rules ~~of the Member States~~, including applicable collective agreements, of the Member State in which the port is located.

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2

2. Without prejudice to national and Union law including collective agreements between social partners, the managing bodies of the port may require the designated provider of port services appointed in accordance with the procedure established by Article 7, in the case where this provider is different from the incumbent provider of port services, to grant staff previously taken on by the incumbent provider of port servicesat European, national, regional or local level, the Member States shall require the designated provider of port services, in the case where this provider is different from the incumbent provider of port services and where the incumbent provider ceases its commercial operations, to respect the rights in terms of information and consultation of workers and to grant staff previously taken on by the incumbent provider of port services, irrespective of whether they perform their tasks on board vessels or on land for the services in question, the rights to which they would have been entitled if there had been a transfer within the meaning of Directive 2001/23/EC.

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 3

3. ~~Where m~~Managing bodies of the port require all providers of port services to comply with ~~certain~~all social and labour standards as ~~regards the provision of relevant port services~~set out in Union or national law including applicable collective agreements. To this end, tender documents and port service contracts shall list the staff concerned and give transparent details of their contractual rights and the conditions under which employees are deemed to be linked to the port services.

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Working arrangement shall ensure the protection and continuation of employment in accordance with Member States rules and applicable collective agreements, and in line with ILO Convention No 137. Member States, in full cooperation with the social partners, shall take actions to ensure a balance between the fluctuation in demand for port work and the continuity and protection of employment.

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 a (new)

Article 10a Training and labour protection 1. The employer shall ensure that its employees receive the necessary training to acquire a sound knowledge of the conditions in which their work is conducted and that they are properly trained to tackle the hazards which the work may entail. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that such a principle is properly enforced. 2. In full respect of the autonomy of social partners, the EU-level Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee for Ports is invited to develop guidelines for the establishment of training requirements to prevent accidents and ensure the highest level of safety and health for dockworkers. Such training requirements shall be regularly updated in order to reduce on an ongoing basis the occurrence of accidents at the workplace. 3. Member States, in full cooperation with social partners, shall take measures in order to set up arrangements which ensure a balance between the fluctuation in the demand for port work and flexibility required by port operations, on the one hand, and continuity and protection of employment, on the other hand. 4. Without prejudice to national law and applicable collective agreements, the employer shall ensure that working time arrangements safeguard the health and safety of its employees and are in line with Directive 2003/88/EC.

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1

This Chapter, with the exception of Articles 4(2), 8(6), 10, and the transitional provisions of Article 24 shall not apply to cargo handling services ~~and~~, passenger services, pilotage and towage.

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

2013/0157(COD)

Stelios KOULOGLOU, Rina Ronja KARI, Fabio DE MASI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

1. The managing body of the port shall regularly consult stakeholders such as trade unions, the local community, environmental organisations, the local business community, undertakings established in the port, providers of port services, operators of waterborne vessels, cargo owners, land transport operators and public administrations operating in the port area on the following:

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

1129 Amendments of Rina Ronja KARI