75 Amendments of Margot PARKER
Amendment 6 #
2017/2002(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomNotes the Commission proposals for actions to reduce disparity in education and disadvantages throughout the lifetime of a person, but draws attention to a number of administrative ‘bottlenecks’ which are slowing progress in attaining those objectives in relation to mobility, recognition of qualifications and the social dimension;
Amendment 30 #
2017/2002(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to provide significant support forRecognises that the development of digital abilities in all age groups, irrespective of employment status, could act as a first step towards the better alignment of labour market shortages and demand; to that end, encourages the Commission to increase the funding under Horizon 2020, fostering inclusive, innovative and reflective European societies to getconsiders this to be of the greatest benefit to the elderly, the unemployed and poorly educated, migrants, people in need of care, people living in remote or poorer areas, persons with disabilities, and the homeless to fully participate in society and the labour market;
Amendment 37 #
2017/2002(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 4 #
2016/2325(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 63 #
2016/2061(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
Amendment 99 #
2016/2061(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital U
Recital U
U. whereas Member States have sole responsibility for the organisation of pension systems; whereas, nonetheless, the European Union has a supporting competence in this area;
Amendment 130 #
2016/2061(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the strategy must be in keeping wMember States have the sole responsibilithy the division of competences between the Union and its Member States in accordance with the subsidiarity principleo organise their pensions systems and the EU should not interfere in any way;
Amendment 7 #
2016/2052(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 83 #
2016/2052(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 24 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the relevant acts making up the Common European Asylum System must be transposed and implemenrepealed as the only legitimated in accordance withternational law is the Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and other relevant instruments;
Amendment 31 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas criminal networks are taking advantage of regional instability and conflict and the vulnerability of women and girls trying to flee in order to exploit them through trafficking, prostitution and sexual exploitation, which the free movement of people across the EU has provided the perfect environment for;
Amendment 57 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 62 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Insists it is for individual Member States to decide refugee and asylum policy in compliance with the Geneva Convention; Furthermore calls for Member States to be allowed to impose their own border controls and immigration system;
Amendment 84 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 90 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 92 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Urges the Commission to develop interpretative guidelines on FGM which give full consideration toMember States to adopt a zero- tolerance policy towards FGM and to take in to account the UNHCR Guidelines on gender-based persecution and Guidance Note on FGM and which clearly outline Member States’ obligations;
Amendment 97 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. NotOpposes the Commission’'s proposal to establish a common EU list of safe countries of origin; demands that all appropriate steps be taken to ensure that this approach is consistent with the principle of non-refoulement anbelieves that only the Member States should thatve the rights of women, children and other vulnerable groups are not undermined; calls for gender differentiation to be applied; believes that claims based on fear of gender-based violence or discrimination should never be subject to accelerated asylum procedures to decide asylum applications in compliance with the Geneva Convention;
Amendment 112 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 131 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Urges the Commission and the Member States to guarantee full access to sexual and reproductive health and rightsInsists it is only for Member States to decide access to healthcare, including access to safe abortion, and tohe allocate additionalion of resources to healthcare provision as a matter of urgency, in line with any agreed international law;
Amendment 145 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take immediate measurMember States to ensure that reception conditions are safe and adequate, with separate accommodation and sanitation facilities for women and families;
Amendment 166 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
Amendment 177 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 196 #
2015/2325(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
Amendment 15 #
2015/2255(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that in certain sectors women are the most affected by social dumping, including housekeeping and the care sector (especially home care), but also in traditional ‘posting’ sectors such as the meat processing or transport sectors; calls on the Commission to evaluate those sectors in which women experience social and wage dumping or undeclared work as the worst form of social dumping, as well as the existing related EU legislation;
Amendment 30 #
2015/2255(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 41 #
2015/2255(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to ensureInsists that only thate Member States reinforchave the right to ensure effective control measures and sanctions for employers in sectors in which women are victims of social dumping and introduce a blacklist for employers that do not comply with EU legislation.
Amendment 45 #
2015/2255(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Points out that the best way to counter social dumping is to end the free movement of people, allow Member States to reintroduce border controls and decide their own employment laws.
Amendment 2 #
2015/2223(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas women and their dependent children are disproportionately at risk of poverty and social exclusion, and the economic crisis and EU imposed austerity policies have exacerbated these inequalities, leading to a ‘feminisation of poverty’; whereas income distribution within households is unequal and gendered, requiring individualised measurements of income and costs;
Amendment 44 #
2015/2223(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 55 #
2015/2223(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for more ambitious action to tackle energy poverty, which disproportionately affects single-parent and female-headed households, by repatriating all parts of EU energy policy back to Member States;
Amendment 60 #
2015/2223(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Believes that EU energy policy has led to increased fuel poverty, loss of jobs, unsustainable costs for business and higher household costs; calls therefore for the repatriation of energy policy back to Member States;
Amendment 74 #
2015/2223(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 29 #
2015/2222(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 42 #
2015/2222(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 51 #
2015/2222(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 56 #
2015/2222(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 296 #
2015/2147(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Is concerned about thRecognises that there are different national approaches taken to regulating the internet and the sharing economy; urges the Commission to take action to preserve the integrity of the single market and the internet as an open and global platform for communication and innovation;
Amendment 402 #
2015/2147(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 469 #
2015/2147(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 489 #
2015/2147(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls for an ambitious enforcement framework forNotes the Services Directive; encourages the Commission to make use of all means at its disposal to ensure the full and correctrespect Member States who do not wish to implementation of existing rules, including fast-track; believes that EU infringement procedures whenever incorrect or insufficient implementation of the directive is identifiedagainst Member States is, in fact, an infringement on national sovereignty;
Amendment 724 #
2015/2147(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Stresses that since the development of over-the-top services has increased demand and competition to the benefit of consumers, modernisation of the telecommunication framework shouldmust not lead to more regulatory burdens, but should drive innovation and fair competition;
Amendment 764 #
2015/2147(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Stresses that uniform enforcement ofConsiders that the Connected Continent package, including thewhich includes plans to end of roaming surcharges andin the net neutrality principle, requires the establishment of a singleEU, will come at a great financial cost to mobile operators across Europe an telecommunications regulatord will likely increase domestic tariff prices;
Amendment 17 #
2015/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
Amendment 23 #
2015/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
Amendment 30 #
2015/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
Amendment 40 #
2015/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 72 #
2015/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 78 #
2015/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 84 #
2015/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 88 #
2015/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 103 #
2015/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 104 #
2015/2111(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
Amendment 36 #
2015/2038(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Competence over negotiating and concluding international trade agreements should be repatriated from the EU back to Member States to ensure democratic accountability, the protection of citizens’ rights and the safeguarding of public services.
Amendment 66 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Urges the Commission and the Council toInsists that only the Member States have the right to legislate and fully exploit the potential that the information society, ICT and the internet have to promote women’s empowerment, women’s rights and freedoms as well as gender equality;
Amendment 74 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 81 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 85 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 88 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the EU andInsists that only the Member States have the right to develop, support and implement the actions promoted by the UN and its bodies, notably in the framework of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and of the World Summits on the Information Society (WSIS), in order to strive for women’s empowerment in the digital age at European and global level;
Amendment 94 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to make better use of the considerable potential that digitalisation has at all levels of political participation and the inclusion of women in decision- making processes; hHighlights the major opportunities that digitalisation holds with respect to access to information, transparency and greater government accountability;
Amendment 103 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 116 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to address the severe underrepresentation of women in the ICT sector, in particular those in higher positions and on boards; urges the Commission and the Member States to unblock the Directive on Equal Representation of Women on Executive Boards; urgently reminds the Commission of its responsibility to take any action that could help break the deadlock in the Council as regards EU legislation addressing transparency and greater balance in recruitment for decision- making positionreject and withdraw the Directive on Equal Representation of Women on Executive Boards;
Amendment 122 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Urges the Commission andInsists that only the Member States have the right to safeguard fundamental workers’ rights and the social protection of employees and to combat precarious working conditions; urges the Commission to propose, and the Member States to further develop, new protection mechanisms adapted to the working and career patterns shaped by digitalisation, paying particular attention to the situation of women;
Amendment 127 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 134 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 149 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
Amendment 157 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
Amendment 164 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 170 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
Amendment 174 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
Amendment 177 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
Amendment 203 #
2015/2007(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
Amendment 167 #
2014/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 206 #
2014/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Reiterates its cCalls on the Council to state its position onreject the proposal for a directive on gender balance among non- executive directors of listed companies, so as to enable the legislative process to continue as soon as possible;
Amendment 246 #
2014/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Reiterates that the gender dimension of preventing andbest way to combating trafficking in human beings must be consistently monitored in the implementation of EU anti-trafficking legislationand cross-border crime is to close down the Schengen area, aend repeats its call on the Commission to continue to monitor this in its assessment of Member States’ compliance with and implementation of the directive, while ensuring that the reporting obligations and timetable as outlined in the directive are metthe free movement of people and allow Member States to control their own borders in line with international law;
Amendment 263 #
2014/2015(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23