8 Amendments of Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI related to 2014/2150(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
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1. Recognises that REFIT represents a first step towards reducing the burden of regulation on businesses and eliminating barriers to growth and job creation; welcome effort to ensure that European legislation serves its purpose efficiently, without unnecessary burden on European citizens and businesses and reduces administrative burden when European legislation replaces 28 national legislation benefiting especially SMEs operating cross-border;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
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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 exclusive;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
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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;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
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4. WelcomDeplores the Commission’s indication that the maternity leave directive should be considered for withdrawal;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
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5. Welcomes the SME test; calls on the Commission to use lighter regimes for micro-enterprises and SMEs and to consider exemptions for micro-enterprises on a case-by-case basis, while not compromising on health, safety and employment standards;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion
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6. Calls for further measuresSupports continuous work to check that legislation is doing what it was intended to do and to identify areas where there are inconsistencies and ineffective measures;
Amendment 113 #
Draft opinion
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7. Urges the Commission to continue to improve the legislative cycle and to introduce sunset clauses to ensure that employment legislation is periodically reviewed;
Amendment 127 #
Draft opinion
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8. Calls on the Commission to prioritise action in the fields of what have been identified as the ‘Top Ten’ most burdensome laws for SMEs, including the working time and temporary agency directive, after 'Top Ten', to seek wider range of cooperation with different stakeholders, e.g. social partners and enterprises, to find ways to create jobs and to reduce burdens of SMEs;