14 Amendments of Joëlle MÉLIN related to 2016/2237(INL)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas it is up to the Member States alone to decide whether or not to introduce a social and/or solidarity-based enterprise label;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas in some countries, including France, enterprises in the social and solidarity-based economy are required to meet specific national tax and employment criteria; whereas, therefore, introducing a European label would amount to a double attack on national sovereignty;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Bb. whereas Europeans simply cannot be sure whether they will have a job in the future, or what kind of job it will be;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas the influx of migrants, which has speeded up significantly over the last three years, has created a pool of workers who are only too happy to take the unskilled and poorly paid jobs which are sometimes on offer in the social and solidarity-based economy;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas the economic and social impact of the socual and solidarity-based economy is already very considerable in those countries which have passed laws regulating it;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
Bd. whereas each Member State’s welfare protection system has hitherto been based primarily on the level of employment among its own nationals;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Urges the Member States to develop international cooperation policies with a view to disseminating best practices;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Urges the Member States to establish national platforms for the social and solidarity-based economy;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Emphasises that it would be totally inappropriate to introduce at EU level a European social label for social enterprises based on clear criteria, on the grounds that it would constitute an attack on national sovereignty in the areas of tax and employment policy;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Highlights the need to offer financial support to social enterprises at regional, and national and EU level, and draws attention to existing sources of funding, such as the European Social Fund, the European Regional Development Fund and the European Programme for Social Change and Innovation;
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for the funds to be used effectively, and stresses that access to EU funds needs to be made easier, not least in order to rule out the emergence of consultancy services provided purely for profit, given the likely developments concerning ‘posted’ workers, who enjoy inadequate welfare protection in their home enterprise in their country of origin.