Activities of Hugues BAYET

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Insists, in the light of the Authority's assignments and the positions recently adopted by Parliament in this connection, that the Authority set up a secure channel for whistle-blowers as quickly as possible.

2018/01/22
Committee: ECON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

2018/01/22
Committee: ECON

2017/2172(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Considers that the minutes of meetings of the Board of Supervisors and of the Stakeholder Groups, which are publicly available, should be published more swiftly. ; states that those minutes ought also to be clearer as regards how discussions relate to each other, what stances members have taken and how they have voted; points out that access to documents and information relating to internal meetings should be facilitated too;

2018/01/22
Committee: ECON

2017/2172(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

2018/01/22
Committee: ECON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2018/01/22
Committee: ECON

2017/2171(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

2018/01/22
Committee: ECON

2017/2171(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

2018/01/22
Committee: ECON

2017/2171(DEC)

Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Ismail ERTUG, Hugues BAYET, Lucy ANDERSON, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Michael DETJEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

2018/01/22
Committee: ECON

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

Regulation 1071/2009
Article 1 – paragraph 6

6. Article 3(1)(b) and (d) and Articles 4, 6, 8, 9, 14, 19 and 21 shall not apply to undertakings engaged in the occupation of road haulage operator solely by means of motor vehicles with a permissible laden mass not exceeding 3.5 tonnes or combinations of vehicles with a permissible laden mass not exceeding 3.5 tonnes. Member States may, however: (a) require those undertakings to apply some or all of the provisions referred to in the first subparagraph; (b) lower the limit referred to in the first subparagraph for all or some categories of road transport operations.;deleted

2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN

2017/0123(COD)

Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Ismail ERTUG, Hugues BAYET, Lucy ANDERSON, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Isabella DE MONTE, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Michael DETJEN

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

Regulation 1071/2009/EC
Article 5 – point a a (new)

(a a) the following point (a a) is added: (a a) The vehicles referred to in point (b) shall perform, in the framework of a transport contract, at least one loading or one unloading of goods per week in the premises of one company located in the same territory than the one of the establishment country.

2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN

2017/0123(COD)

Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Lucy ANDERSON, Hugues BAYET, Ismail ERTUG, Isabella DE MONTE, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Michael DETJEN

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

Regulation 1071/2009
Article 6, paragraphe 1 point b (xii a) new

(xii a) cabotage

2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN

2017/0123(COD)

Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Lucy ANDERSON, Hugues BAYET, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Ismail ERTUG, Isabella DE MONTE, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Michael DETJEN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point a

Regulation 1071/2009
Article 7 paragraph 1

In order to satisfy the requirement laid down in Article 3(1)(c), an undertaking shall, on a permanent basis, be able to meet its financial obligations in the course of the annual accounting year. The undertaking shall demonstrate, on the basis of annual accounts certified by an auditor or a duly accredited person, that, every year, it has at its disposal equity capital totalling at least : (a) EUR 9 000 when only one vehicle is used and EUR 5 000 for each additional vehicle used. (b) two months’ worth of salary per employed mobile worker, at the level of the country where or from where they habitually carry out their activity. Undertakings engaged in the occupation of road haulage operator solely by means of motor vehicles with a permissible laden mass not exceeding 3.5 tonnes or combinations of vehicles with a permissible laden mass not exceeding 3.5 tonnes shall demonstrate, on the basis of annual accounts certified by an auditor or a duly accredited person, that, every year, they have at their disposal equity capital totalling at least EUR 1 800 when only one vehicle is used and EUR 900 for each additional vehicle used.;

Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Ismail ERTUG, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Hugues BAYET, Lucy ANDERSON, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Michael DETJEN

2a. Road transport undertakings shall not be allowed to carry out cabotage operations, with the same vehicle, or, in the case of a coupled combination, the motor vehicle of that same vehicle, in the same host Member State within 7 days from the end of the 48 hours period referred to in paragraph 1

2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN

2017/0123(COD)

Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Ismail ERTUG, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Hugues BAYET, Lucy ANDERSON, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Michael DETJEN

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

Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009
Article 8 – paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. In case the vehicle is not equipped with a smart tachograph, the control authorities may require clear evidence that operations have been carried out at least in 3 different member states in a time span of 7 consecutive days.

2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN

2017/0122(COD)

Lucy ANDERSON, Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Jens NILSSON, Nicola CAPUTO, Michael DETJEN, Ismail ERTUG, Isabella DE MONTE, Hugues BAYET, Theresa GRIFFIN, Miltiadis KYRKOS

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1

(1) Good working conditions for drivers and fair business conditions for road transport undertakings are of paramount importance to creating a safe, efficient and socially accountable road transport sector, which is able to attract qualified workers and ensure a wide-level playing field across Europe. To facilitate that process it is essential that the Union social rules in road transport are clear, fit for purpose, easy to apply and to enforce and implemented in an effective and consistent manner throughout the Union.

2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN

Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Hugues BAYET, Ismail ERTUG, Michael DETJEN, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point a

Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1

(a) in paragraph 6, the first subparagraph is replaced by the following: ‘6. In any four consecutive weeks a driver shall take at least: (a) four regular weekly rest periods, or (b) two regular weekly rest periods of at least 45 hours and two reduced weekly rest periods of at least 24 hours. For the purposes of point (b), the reduced weekly rest periods shall be compensated by an equivalent period of rest taken en bloc before the end of the third week following the week in question.’deleted

Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ, Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Michael DETJEN, Ismail ERTUG, Lucy ANDERSON, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Hugues BAYET, Theresa GRIFFIN

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

4. Member States may ~~only~~ impose the following administrative requirements and control measures necessary to ensure effective monitoring of compliance with the obligations arising from this Directive and Article 9 of Directive 2014/67/EU, provided that they are justified in accordance with Union law and relatively. To this end Member States may, in particular, provide for the following measures:

2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN

Lucy ANDERSON, Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Nicola CAPUTO, Hugues BAYET, Theresa GRIFFIN

Gabriele PREUSS, Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Nicola CAPUTO, Lucy ANDERSON, Miltiadis KYRKOS, Ismail ERTUG, Isabella DE MONTE, Hugues BAYET, Claudia ȚAPARDEL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. The decision not to initiate an investigation in accordance with paragraph 4 shall be accompanied by a statement of reasons thereof and shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union. The Commission shall further justify its decision before the competent committees of the European Parliament.

2018/01/24
Committee: TRAN

9a. In Article 27(3), the following point is added: ‘(ga) liabilities to institutions or entities referred to in points (b) or (c) of Article 2 that are part of the same resolution group without being themselves resolution entity, regardless of their maturity.’.

2018/02/01
Committee: ECON

2016/0360A(COD)

Mady DELVAUX, Hugues BAYET

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 56

(56) In light of the strengthened group supervision resulting from the reinforcement of the prudential regulatory framework and the establishment of the Banking Union, it is desirable that institutions take ever more advantage of the benefits of the single market, including for ensuring an efficient management of capital and liquidity resources throughout the group. Therefore the possibility to waive the application of requirements on an individual level for subsidiaries or parents should be available to cross-border groups, provided there are adequate safeguards to ensure that sufficient capital and liquidity will be at the disposal of entities subject to the waiver. Where all the safeguards are met, it will be for the competent authority to decide whether to grant such waivers. Competent authorities' decisions should be duly justified.deleted

Tom VANDENKENDELAERE, Lieve WIERINCK, Sander LOONES, Hugues BAYET, Lívia JÁRÓKA, Dariusz ROSATI

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

(b) the parent institution on a consolidated basis or the subsidiary institution on a sub-consolidated basis monitors and has oversight at all times over the liquidity positions, and the funding positions where the NSFR set out in Title IV of Part Six is waived, of all institutions within the ~~liquidity~~group or sub- group, that are subject to the waiver ~~in accordance with this paragraph~~ and ensures a sufficient level of liquidity, and of stable funding where the NSFR set out in Title IV of Part Six is waived, for all of those institutions;

2018/02/02
Committee: ECON

2016/0360A(COD)

Tom VANDENKENDELAERE, Lieve WIERINCK, Hugues BAYET, Lívia JÁRÓKA, Dariusz ROSATI, Sander LOONES

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

Regulation (EU) No 575/2013
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point c

(c) the distribution of amounts, location and ownership of the required liquid assets to be held within the single liquidity sub-group where the LCR as defined in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/61 is waived and the distribution of amounts and location of available stable funding within the single liquidity sub- group where the NSFR set out in Title IV of Part Six of this Regulation is waived;

2018/02/02
Committee: ECON

2016/0360A(COD)

Tom VANDENKENDELAERE, Lieve WIERINCK, Sander LOONES, Hugues BAYET, Lívia JÁRÓKA, Dariusz ROSATI

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

Regulation (EU) No 575/2013
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point d

(d) the determination of minimum amounts of liquid assets to be held by institutions for which the application of ~~Part Six will be~~the LCR as defined in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/61 is waived and the determination of minimum amounts of available stable funding to be held by institutions for which the application of the NSFR set out in Title IV of Part Six of this Regulation is waived;

2018/02/02
Committee: ECON

2016/0360A(COD)

Mady DELVAUX, Hugues BAYET

Hugues BAYET, Cătălin Sorin IVAN, Jeppe KOFOD, Emmanuel MAUREL, Pervenche BERÈS, Peter SIMON, Neena GILL, Paul TANG

Proposal for a directive
Recital 3

(3) As pointed out in the proposal of 16 March 2011 for a Council Directive on a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB)7 , a corporate tax system which treats the Union as a single market for the purpose of computing the corporate tax base of companies would facilitate cross-border activity for companies resident in the Union and promote the objective of making it a more competitive location for investment internationally. The proposal of 2011 for a CCCTB focussed on the objective of facilitating the expansion of commercial activity for businesses within the Union. In addition to that objective, it should also be taken into account that a CCCTB can be highly effective in improving the functioning of the internal market through countering tax avoidance schemes. In this light, the initiative for a CCCTB should be re- launched in order to address, on an equal footing, both the aspect of business facilitation and the initiative's function in countering tax avoidance. Once implemented in all Member States, the CCCTB would ensure that taxes are paid where profits arise. Such an approach would best serve the aim of eradicating distortions in the functioning of the internal market. __________________ 7 Proposal for a Council Directive COM (2011) 121 final/2 of 3.10.2011 on a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base.

2017/09/29
Committee: ECON

Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Hugues BAYET, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ

4. This implementing act shall also specify~~, based on the percentages notified by Member States under Article 6(2),~~ the quantities that may be taken into account for their compliance under Article 9 between 2021 and 2030. If the sum of all Member States' quantities were to exceed the collective total of 100 million, the quantities for each Member State shall be reduced on a pro rata basis so that the collective total is not exceeded.

2017/02/07
Committee: TRAN

2016/0231(COD)

Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Hugues BAYET, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 3

3. A Member State whose greenhouse gas emissions for a given year are below its annual emission allocation for that year, taking into account the use of flexibilities pursuant to this Article ~~and Article 6~~, may bank that excess part of its annual emission allocation to subsequent years until 2030.

2017/02/07
Committee: TRAN

2016/0231(COD)

Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Hugues BAYET, Lucy ANDERSON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 4

4. A Member State may transfer up to 5% of its annual emission allocation for a given year to other Member States. The receiving Member State may use this quantity for compliance under Article 9 for the given year or for subsequent years until 2030.Such transfer shall be included in the European Register pursuant to Article 11.

2017/02/07
Committee: TRAN

2016/0231(COD)

Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Hugues BAYET, Lucy ANDERSON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 5

5. A Member State may transfer the part of its annual emission allocation for a given year that exceeds its greenhouse gas emissions for that year, taking into account the use of flexibilities pursuant to paragraphs 2 to 4 and Article 6, to other Member States. A receiving Member State may use this quantity for compliance under Article 9 for that year or subsequently until 2030. Such transfer shall be included in the European Register pursuant to Article 11.

2017/02/07
Committee: TRAN

2016/0231(COD)

Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Hugues BAYET, Lucy ANDERSON, Karoline GRASWANDER-HAINZ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 6

6. Member States shall be able to use credits from projects issued pursuant to Article 24a (1) of Directive 2003/87/EC for compliance under Article 9, without any quantitative limit and while avoiding double-countingBy 31 December 2019, the Commission shall adopt a delegated act in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 12 to establish a European Project Mechanism for issuing credits from projects generating long-term and economy-wide reduction of greenhouse gas emissions falling within the scope of this Regulation.

2017/02/07
Committee: TRAN

Ana GOMES, Peter SIMON, Jeppe KOFOD, Maria GRAPINI, Hugues BAYET, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Pervenche BERÈS

2016/0010(CNS)

Emmanuel MAUREL, Elisa FERREIRA, Peter SIMON, Jeppe KOFOD, Liisa JAAKONSAARI, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO, Neena GILL, Sergio Gaetano COFFERATI, Anneliese DODDS, Hugues BAYET

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

Directive 2011/16/EU
Article 8aa – paragraph 2 a new

2a. The competent authority of a Member State to which the country-by-country report was sent pursuant to paragraph 1 shall, within 24 months after the end of the reporting fiscal year, communicate the report to any state belonging to the category of least developed countries (as defined by the United Nations), in which, on the basis of information contained in the statement by country, one or more constituent entities of multinational enterprises are resident for tax purposes, or are subject to tax with respect to the business carried out through a permanent establishment.

2016/03/22
Committee: ECON

2016/0010(CNS)

Emmanuel MAUREL, Peter SIMON, Jeppe KOFOD, Liisa JAAKONSAARI, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO, Neena GILL, Sergio Gaetano COFFERATI, Anneliese DODDS, Hugues BAYET

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

Directive 2011/16/EU
Article 8aa – paragraph 3 – point a

(a) aggregate information relating to the amount of revenue, profit (loss) before income tax, income tax paid, income tax accrued, stated capital, accumulated earnings, number of employees, and tangible assets other than cash or cash equivalents with regard to each jurisdiction in which the MNE Group operates, public subsidies received, the value of assets and annual cost of maintaining them, and sales and purchases;

2016/03/22
Committee: ECON

2016/0010(CNS)

Emmanuel MAUREL, Elisa FERREIRA, Peter SIMON, Jeppe KOFOD, Liisa JAAKONSAARI, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO, Neena GILL, Sergio Gaetano COFFERATI, Anneliese DODDS, Hugues BAYET

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

Directive 2011/16/UE
Article 8aa – paragraph 3 – point b a (new)

(ba) the future European tax identification number (TIN) referred to in the Commission's 2012 Action Plan to strengthen the fight against fraud and tax evasion.

2016/03/22
Committee: ECON

2016/0010(CNS)

Emmanuel MAUREL, Elisa FERREIRA, Peter SIMON, Jeppe KOFOD, Liisa JAAKONSAARI, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO, Neena GILL, Sergio Gaetano COFFERATI, Anneliese DODDS, Hugues BAYET

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

4a. In order to enhance transparency for citizens, the Commission shall publish the country-by-country reports, based on the information contained in the centralised register of country-by-country reports. In doing so, the Commission shall comply with the provisions of Article 23a on confidentiality.

2016/03/22
Committee: ECON

2016/0010(CNS)

Emmanuel MAUREL, Elisa FERREIRA, Peter SIMON, Jeppe KOFOD, Liisa JAAKONSAARI, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO, Neena GILL, Sergio Gaetano COFFERATI, Anneliese DODDS, Hugues BAYET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – indent 3 – paragraph 1 a (new)

– Social cohesion, including EMU- wide minimum social standards;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2340(INI)

Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Miltiadis KYRKOS, Ana GOMES, Emilian PAVEL, Anna HEDH, Soraya POST, Marju LAURISTIN, Hugues BAYET

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Insists on the need for the EU to enhance police and judicial cooperation between Member States and with third countries in the prevention, the investigation and prosecution of trafficking in human beings (THB), in particular via Europol and Eurojust, including information sharing, participation in Joint Investigation Teams and in combating recruitment of people for THB through the internet and other digital means; encourages greater cooperation between Europol and Interpol in the fight against trafficking in human beings;

2016/04/06
Committee: LIBE

2015/2340(INI)

Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Caterina CHINNICI, Miltiadis KYRKOS, Ana GOMES, Emilian PAVEL, Anna HEDH, Soraya POST, Marju LAURISTIN, Hugues BAYET

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Believes that trafficking in human beings, as a serious crime which constitutes one of the worst forms of human rights violations, has to be understood in a holistic manner, focusing not only on sexual exploitation, but also - in particular- on forced labour, organ trafficking, forced begging, forced marriages, child soldiers or trafficking of babies;

2016/04/06
Committee: LIBE

2015/2340(INI)

Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Caterina CHINNICI, Miltiadis KYRKOS, Ana GOMES, Emilian PAVEL, Anna HEDH, Soraya POST, Marju LAURISTIN, Hugues BAYET, Miriam DALLI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Expresses concern that according to Europol at least 10 000 unaccompanied child refugees have vanished after arriving in Europe and having been registered by state authorities, that many are feared to have fallen into the hands of criminal groups, and that there is little information about what happens after their disappearance; deplores that children at risk are frequently treated as offenders or irregular migrants by law enforcement officials who do not systematically look for indicators of human trafficking to identify victims;

2016/04/06
Committee: LIBE

2015/2340(INI)

Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Birgit SIPPEL, Caterina CHINNICI, Miltiadis KYRKOS, Ana GOMES, Emilian PAVEL, Anna HEDH, Soraya POST, Marju LAURISTIN, Hugues BAYET, Miriam DALLI, Barbara SPINELLI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Believes that it is essential as regards unaccompanied minors to achieve a better and more proactive identification of children victims of trafficking, in particular at border crossings and in reception centres, as well as a stronger multi-disciplinary cooperation to ensure the best interests of the child are effectively protected; underlines that it is also imperative to promptly appoint legal guardians to all unaccompanied children and to ensure that the latter are properly trained; recalls that, according to the Directive 2011/36/EU, "Member States shall take the necessary measures with a view to finding a durable solution based on an individual assessment of the best interests of the child"; believes a durable solution can be found through integration of the child into her or his host society, or facilitation of family reunification in order to enable the child to join her or his family in another Member State;

2016/04/06
Committee: LIBE

2015/2340(INI)

Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Miltiadis KYRKOS, Ana GOMES, Emilian PAVEL, Anna HEDH, Soraya POST, Marju LAURISTIN, Hugues BAYET, Miriam DALLI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 e (new)

4e. Stresses that no possible consent to perform labour or services should ever be considered valid for a trafficked child, and that there can be no valid consent in a situation where a third country national is taken away from her or his country to go into the EU (or when a EU national is taken away to another Member State) for the purposes of prostitution, any other form of sexual exploitation or forced labour;

2016/04/06
Committee: LIBE

2015/2340(INI)

Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Birgit SIPPEL, Miltiadis KYRKOS, Ana GOMES, Emilian PAVEL, Anna HEDH, Soraya POST, Marju LAURISTIN, Hugues BAYET, Barbara SPINELLI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 f (new)

4f. Calls on Member States to fully and properly implement article 8 of Directive 2011/36/EU; recalls that victims of trafficking shouldn't be criminalised and held responsible for criminal activities they were forced to take part in, in particular in case of prostitution, any other form of sexual exploitation or forced labour;

2016/04/06
Committee: LIBE

2015/2326(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Alfred SANT, Tibor SZANYI, Cătălin Sorin IVAN, Hugues BAYET, Renato SORU, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Notes with concern that 11 directives in the area of banking and finance legislation are being infringed by one or more Member States, with Germany being the only country to comply with all existing legislation in this field, and Austria the only other Member State with fewer than three infringements1 ; __________________ 1 Particularly worrying are the cases of Poland (10 infringements), Luxembourg (9) and Slovenia, Spain and Estonia (8 each).;

2016/03/31
Committee: ECON

2015/2326(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Tibor SZANYI, Hugues BAYET, Renato SORU, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Recalls that ~~non-compliance with the Maastricht criteria, and the lenient enforcement of the Stability and Growth Pact rules by the Commission and the Council before 2010, contribu~~following the global financial crisis which led to a European debt crisis, the EU has further strengthened its economic coordination and banking supervision; stresses the importance of completing the Banking Union, deepening the EMU and creating a CMU that finances the real economy and growth in Europe; invites all Member Stateds to ~~the emergence of the European debt crisis that followed the global financial crisis~~make full use of flexibility within the existing rules of the Stability and Growth Pact as per Commission's Communication COM (0215)12;

2016/03/31
Committee: ECON

2015/2326(INI)

Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Tibor SZANYI, Hugues BAYET, Renato SORU, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 b (new)

10b. Welcomes the Commission's efforts to improve access to information on the application of the Union Law. Encourages further efforts to enhance transparency;

2016/03/31
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Calls for neutralisation in the calculation of debt and deficit in public investment carried out by Member States’ public operators which prevents Member States from paying their co-financing share to the structural funds (in particular the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Youth Employment Initiative) and thus using these funds to escape from the economic crisis and re- launch growth and employment;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls for a greater ~~shift of taxation away from labour~~balance between labour and capital taxation;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2258(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on Member States and the European Institutions to promote opportunities for people with disabilities to vote and stand for election, with reference both to the right to vote and to the right of access to polls or appropriate information;

2016/04/08
Committee: LIBE

2015/2258(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Recognises that vulnerable members of society are further marginalised if they have a disability; stresses in this context the impact of austerity policies on the everyday lives and rights of people with disabilities, particularly with regard to access to employment and public investment, and calls for this to be duly taken into account in the work carried out in connection with the European Semester; considers that the EU should redouble its efforts to fully accommodate the provision of rights and services for all people in its care, including stateless people, homeless people, refugees and asylum seekers;

2016/04/08
Committee: LIBE

2015/2258(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Calls on the Union Institutions to organise and support information campaigns both on the rights of persons with disabilities and on their diversity, skills and talents;

2016/04/08
Committee: LIBE

2015/2210(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Welcomes the entry into force of the regulation on the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI), aimed at boosting ~~private~~ investment in the EU, and calls on all relevant stakeholders to ensure its swift and effective implementation;

2015/09/11
Committee: ECON

2015/2210(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Notes that further fiscal consolidation is still needed in many Member States ~~in order to comply with the conditions of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP)~~; notes the Commission's interpretative communication on flexibility in the SGP, a~~imed at clarifying the scope of the investment clause and allowing for a certain degree of temporary flexibility in the preventive arm of the SGP;~~ sk for extension of the scope including on the establishment of a favourable climate for the development of public- sector investment; wishes in particular the neutralisation in calculations of the debt and deficits of public-sector investments made by public-sector operators of the Member States, in particular in view of the impact of the new accounting standards ESA2010 on the investment capacity of some public authorities;

2015/09/11
Committee: ECON

2015/2210(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Underlines the need to improve the EU's business environment as well as to raise productivity levels; ~~stress~~Reiterates the importance of ~~sound business regulation for the success of the EFSI; calls, therefore, for the removal of administrative barriers, cutting red tape and~~ensuring a quality workforce within the EU and ensuring full respect for the right to health and safety at work; recalls also the urgent need to adapt legislation concerning the posting of workers in order to put an end to the unacceptable practice of social dumping within the Union; calls, therefore, reform of Member States' tax systems;

2015/09/11
Committee: ECON

2015/2210(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Stresses the role of flexible labour markets in combatting unemployment, in particular the negative impact on job creation rates of rigid rules on dismissal, excessive minimum wage levels and lengthy labour disputes; calls for a shift away from labour taxes to other sources of taxation;importance to preserve the quality workforce; Ask for a real plan to combat unemployment; calls for a better repartition of taxation between labour, consumption and capital.

2015/09/11
Committee: ECON

2015/2127(INI)

Maria João RODRIGUES, Jakob von WEIZSÄCKER, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Anneliese DODDS, Hugues BAYET, Neena GILL, Udo BULLMANN, Elisa FERREIRA, Peter SIMON, Renato SORU, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Takes note of the 2014 EIB A~~nnual~~ctivity Report and the increase by 6.92% to EUR 80.3 billion in the EIB Group’s lending; is very concerned a~~t the increasing~~bout still very high unemployment, inequality and poverty levels, as well as weak investment in Europe and the continuous uncertainty in the financial markets, also in view of a worsening global economic outlook;

2015/11/06
Committee: ECON

2015/2127(INI)

Maria João RODRIGUES, Jakob von WEIZSÄCKER, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Anneliese DODDS, Hugues BAYET, Neena GILL, Udo BULLMANN, Elisa FERREIRA, Peter SIMON, Renato SORU, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Regrets that overall EU investment in 2013 decreased by 13% compared with the pre- crisis period with investment in some countries decreasing 25% and even by as much as 60% in others, creating a dangerous investment imbalance in the EU; is of the opinion that this constitutes a major challenge for the EIB Group and will require extraordinary efforts from its side for the years to come, as part of an overall EU effort to implement a renewed long-term strategy for sustainable, convergent and inclusive growth;

2015/11/06
Committee: ECON

2015/2127(INI)

Maria João RODRIGUES, Jakob von WEIZSÄCKER, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Anneliese DODDS, Hugues BAYET, Neena GILL, Elisa FERREIRA, Peter SIMON, Renato SORU, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Notes the urgent need for an increase in EIB ~~lending activity~~Group investment activity, including innovative financial instruments with greater additional risk-bearing capacity, and for the improvement of its activity in line with Protocol (No 28) on Economic, Social and Territorial Cohesion;

2015/11/06
Committee: ECON

2015/2127(INI)

Maria João RODRIGUES, Jakob von WEIZSÄCKER, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Anneliese DODDS, Hugues BAYET, Neena GILL, Elisa FERREIRA, Peter SIMON, Renato SORU, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the EIB Group to re-examine its strategic planning programme, given the high degree of concentration of funding for the four biggest economies in the EU accounting for more than 45%, and the disproportionate rise in unemployment levels and investment gaps in some other countries which remains at alarming levels, and which ~~could~~ hamper economic convergence in the EU and further damage growth prospects and social cohesion in specific countries and regions in the EU;

2015/11/06
Committee: ECON

2015/2127(INI)

Maria João RODRIGUES, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Anneliese DODDS, Hugues BAYET, Neena GILL, Elisa FERREIRA, Peter SIMON, Renato SORU, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Takes note of~~Welcomes the establishment of the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI) and emphasises the need for the EFSI to function in an effective, transparent and fair way, to honour fully the requirement of additionality, and to take into account that priority should be given to projects in strategic sectors, countries ~~in adjustment programme~~where investment gaps have widened most during the economic crisis and regions which have difficulties in attracting funding because ~~of their high risk environment;~~ their geographical or historical disadvantage translates into a higher high risk profile in an economic environment marked by uncertainty; Regrets the selection procedure used to appoint the Managing Director and the Deputy Managing Director and stresses the need to finalise as soon as possible the inter-institutional agreement between the EIB and the Parliament on reporting and on the selection procedure for both positions;

2015/11/06
Committee: ECON

2015/2127(INI)

Maria João RODRIGUES, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Anneliese DODDS, Hugues BAYET, Neena GILL, Elisa FERREIRA, Peter SIMON, Renato SORU, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Urges the EIB Group to develop an increased focus on economic and labour market resilience in the context of technological changes, environmental constraints, globalisation and demographic trends; calls on it to prioritise investment operations with high potential in terms of job creation and environmental sustainability, particularly in areas of greatest need, and to expand its cooperation with other development banks in this direction;

2015/11/06
Committee: ECON

2015/2127(INI)

Maria João RODRIGUES, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Anneliese DODDS, Hugues BAYET, Neena GILL, Elisa FERREIRA, Peter SIMON, Renato SORU, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Calls on the EIB Group to consider strengthening non-financial criteria in its project assessment models, giving greater weight to projects' contribution to sustainable and inclusive development and cohesion in line with Protocol (No 28) on Economic, Social and Territorial Cohesion, while aiming at maximum transparency;

2015/11/06
Committee: ECON

2015/2127(INI)

Maria João RODRIGUES, Jakob von WEIZSÄCKER, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Anneliese DODDS, Hugues BAYET, Neena GILL, Elisa FERREIRA, Peter SIMON, Renato SORU, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the EIB Group to refrain from cooperating with financial partners with a negative track record, particularly in the field of corporate taxation, and to enforce prevention measures against tax havens, tax fraud and tax evasion as well as aggressive tax avoidance; requests a list of outstanding EIB Group transactions involving counterparts established in jurisdictions featuring on the Commission's list of "top 30" tax havens around the world;

2015/11/06
Committee: ECON

2015/2127(INI)

Maria João RODRIGUES, Jakob von WEIZSÄCKER, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Anneliese DODDS, Hugues BAYET, Neena GILL, Elisa FERREIRA, Peter SIMON, Renato SORU, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the EIB Group to further enhance transparency and access to information ~~both interna~~for the Parliament and other EU institutions as welly ands for the public, especially regarding the selection, monitoring and evaluation of activities and programmes;

2015/11/06
Committee: ECON

2015/2127(INI)

Maria João RODRIGUES, Jakob von WEIZSÄCKER, Alessia Maria MOSCA, Anneliese DODDS, Hugues BAYET, Neena GILL, Udo BULLMANN, Elisa FERREIRA, Peter SIMON, Renato SORU, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9

9. Requests the EIB Group to increase its reporting to Parliament regarding its decisions, progress achieved and the impact of its lending activities within and outside the EU; calls on the EIB Group to engage in deeper dialogue with the Parliament on all its activities within the same scheme for reporting and accountability as set out in the EFSI regulation and to fully comply with the spirit and letter of the EFSI regulation, notably concerning inter-institutional cooperation with the Parliament.

2015/11/06
Committee: ECON

2015/2110(INI)

Iliana IOTOVA, Emilian PAVEL, Tanja FAJON, Caterina CHINNICI, Hugues BAYET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on the Commission to publish its second Anti-corruption Report without delay.

2016/07/04
Committee: LIBE

2015/2110(INI)

Iliana IOTOVA, Tanja FAJON, Emilian PAVEL, Ana GOMES, Birgit SIPPEL, Hugues BAYET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Calls on the Commission to look into how to combine the various monitoring mechanisms at Union level, including the Cooperation and Verification mechanism, the EU Anti- Corruption Report, the EU Justice Scoreboard, into a broader rule of law monitoring framework which could be applied to all 28 Member States.

2016/07/04
Committee: LIBE

2015/2110(INI)

Iliana IOTOVA, Tanja FAJON, Emilian PAVEL, Caterina CHINNICI, Birgit SIPPEL, Hugues BAYET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 – point b

(b) a definition of 'public official'; to be adopted, bearing in mind that the Directive on the Protection of the Union's financial interests by means of criminal law ("PIF Directive") proposes to establish such a definition;

2016/07/04
Committee: LIBE

2015/2110(INI)

Iliana IOTOVA, Tanja FAJON, Birgit SIPPEL, Hugues BAYET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 – point d a (new)

(da) further alignment of the various legislative norms in criminal law matters, including minimum common penalties and sentences for the same crimes and offences.

2016/07/04
Committee: LIBE

2015/2110(INI)

Iliana IOTOVA, Tanja FAJON, Emilian PAVEL, Ana GOMES, Caterina CHINNICI, Birgit SIPPEL, Hugues BAYET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Reiterates its call for the establishment of an independent European Public Prosecutor’s Office ~~with clearly defined responsibilities and powers;~~, to be adopted as soon as possible with the participation of as many Member States as possible with clearly defined responsibilities and powers detailing how the new Office would complement and synergize the work of OLAF, Eurojust and the Member States, thus, preventing the overlapping of the spheres of competences of the different agencies and bodies

2016/07/04
Committee: LIBE

2015/2110(INI)

Iliana IOTOVA, Tanja FAJON, Emilian PAVEL, Ana GOMES, Caterina CHINNICI, Birgit SIPPEL, Hugues BAYET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. In that context, since the offences for which the future European Public Prosecutor's Office would be responsible will be laid down in the PIF Directive, calls on the Council and Member States to unblock negotiations on the PIF Directive as quickly as possible, and in that regard, include VAT fraud within the scope of the Directive;

2016/07/04
Committee: LIBE

2015/2110(INI)

Iliana IOTOVA, Tanja FAJON, Ana GOMES, Hugues BAYET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20a. Calls on the Commission to find an appropriate way to monitor the corruption within the European Institutions and agencies, and ensure that the relevant legislative framework is in place to ensure that dissuasive and effective sanctions exist for offenders;

2016/07/04
Committee: LIBE

2015/2110(INI)

Iliana IOTOVA, Tanja FAJON, Caterina CHINNICI, Hugues BAYET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23a. Notes the Commission's intention to propose a revision to the 4th Anti- money laundering Directive. Calls on the Commission, in that revision, to ensure that registries of beneficial owners cover all forms of legal entities, including trusts, and provide adequate transparency guarantees with regard to the information contained in those registries;

2016/07/04
Committee: LIBE

2015/2110(INI)

Iliana IOTOVA, Tanja FAJON, Emilian PAVEL, Hugues BAYET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)

25a. Calls on the Commission to present a European Agenda on fighting corruption, organised crime and money laundering, based on the same principle and model, as the Agendas on Migration and Security;

2016/07/04
Committee: LIBE

2015/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas illicit financial flows (IFFs), i.e. all unrecorded private financial outflows involving capital that is illegally earned, transferred or utilised, typically originate from tax evasion activities, trade misinvoicing and abusive transfer pricing, against the principle that taxes should be paid where profits have been generated, and tax evasion and avoidance have been identified as major obstacles to the mobilisation of domestic revenue for development by all major international texts and conferences on financing for development;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Hugues BAYET, Elly SCHLEIN, Eva JOLY, Molly SCOTT CATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls for the introduction of a mandatory consolidated common tax base for corporation tax in order to standardise tax returns; Calls for a minimum corporate tax rate;

2015/04/15
Committee: ECON

2015/2058(INI)

Hugues BAYET, Elly SCHLEIN, Anneliese DODDS, Eva JOLY, Molly SCOTT CATO, Miguel VIEGAS, Tibor SZANYI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls for ~~the establishment of a globally accepted definition of tax havens, of penalties for operators making use of them and of a blacklist of countries that do not combat tax evasion or accept~~ a blacklist to be drawn up of such tax havens and countries distorting competition with favourable tax conditions, including those in the EU, by end of 2015; the definition of tax havens should include but should not be limited to the following: "Provision for tax measures which entail no or nominal taxes, a lack of effective exchange of information with foreign tax authorities and a lack of transparency in legislative, legal or administrative provisions, or where advantages are granted even without any real economic activit,y a~~s has already been called for previously~~nd substantial economic presence within country offering such tax advantages";

2015/04/15
Committee: ECON

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Hugues BAYET, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas the need for an increase of domestic revenues has become more pressing due to the financial and economic crisis;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)

Eb. whereas the amount of resources raised by developing countries through domestic revenue mobilisation has been increasing steadily, and important progress has been done in this field with the aid of international donors;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas developing countries still rely heavily on taxes from trade, which exposes national budgets to volatile commodity price, and are having difficulties in compensating for the decline in trade taxes resulting from the current global context of trade liberalisation, and in shifting to other types of domestic resources;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)

Fb. whereas corporate tax revenues constitute a significant share of developing countries' national income, and in the past years developing countries have continually lowered corporate tax rates;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on EU bodies ~~such as, for instance, the EIB and the EBRD not to~~not to cooperate with those jurisdictions or companies that have been deemed to be uncooperative on tax matters, for instance by ensuring that institutions such as the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) do not cooperate any longer through their financial intermediaries with non- cooperative tax jurisdictions and by committing not to grant EU funding to companies that breach EU tax standards;

2015/04/15
Committee: ECON

2015/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas, comparatively speaking, developing countries raise substantially less revenue than advanced economies (with-a-tax to GDP ratio ranging between 10 to 20%, as opposed to 30 to 40% of OECD economies) and are characterised by extremely narrow tax bases, and there is considerable potential for increasing the tax-to-GDP ratio, especially in the least industrialised countries (LICs);

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas developing countries have been offering various tax incentives and exemptions, which are not transparent and guided by proper cost-benefit analyses and often fail to attract real and sustainable investments, putting developing economies against each other, competing to offer the most favourable tax treatments, and leading to harmful tax competition and a ‘race to the bottom’ that brings greater benefit to multinational corporations (MNCs) than to developing countries;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. whereas tax havens and secrecy jurisdictions that allow banking or financial information to be kept private, combined with 'zero-tax' regimes to attract capital and revenues that should have been taxed in other countries generate harmful tax competition and particularly affect developing countries, with a loss of an estimated $189 billion of tax revenue annually;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Hugues BAYET, Elly SCHLEIN, Anneliese DODDS, Eva JOLY, Molly SCOTT CATO, Tibor SZANYI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. ~~Calls on the OSCE and the G20 to abide by their pledges and adopt the latest BEPS measures in 2015~~Asks the Commission to fully cooperate with the OECD, the G20 and developing countries to address BEPS and to report regularly to Parliament and the Council on the progress made; welcomes the upcoming revised Commission Action Plan in 2015 on tax evasion and tax avoidance and calls on the Commission to come forward with an EU anti-BEPS Directive;

2015/04/15
Committee: ECON

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)

Hb. whereas the fiscal treatment of mining investments varies across countries, and arrangements between developing countries' governments and extracting companies are usually ad hoc and negotiated without transparency and clear guidelines, with the risk of hampering tax collection;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Recital H c (new)

Hc. whereas the existence of large informal sectors in developing countries' economies makes broad-based taxation next to impossible, and in countries where a large proportion of the population lives in poverty a considerable share of GDP is not taxable;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Hugues BAYET, Elly SCHLEIN, Anneliese DODDS, Eva JOLY, Molly SCOTT CATO, Miguel VIEGAS, Petr JEŽEK

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Calls for a review of existing double taxation agreements in order to allow for a 'fair share' of the tax base to be taxed in developing countries;

2015/04/15
Committee: ECON

2015/2058(INI)

Hugues BAYET, Elly SCHLEIN, Anneliese DODDS, Eva JOLY, Molly SCOTT CATO, Miguel VIEGAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7b. Furthermore, calls on the Commission to propose changes to EU company law to effectively ban shell companies and similar entities by introducing for example substance requirements, limitation of multiple directorships etc.

2015/04/15
Committee: ECON

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

Ia. whereas the amount of aid in support of domestic resource mobilisation is still low, accounting for less than one percent of total ODA in 2011;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)

Ib. whereas a recent impact assessment carried out by the Netherlands government concluded that the Dutch tax system facilitated avoidance of withholding tax, leading to foregone dividends and interest from withholding tax revenues in developing countries in the range 150-550 million euros per year;1 b __________________ 1b'Evaluation issues in financing for development Analysing effects of Dutch corporate tax policy on developing countries', Study commissioned by the Policy and Operations Evaluation Department (IOB) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, November 2013

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9

9. Stresses the urgent need for a study on the impact of international tax treaties, and a 'spillover analysis' of the impacts of Member States' corporate tax regimes and their bilateral tax treaties with developing countries, based on the principles and methodology of studies previously carried out by the International Monetary Fund;

2015/04/15
Committee: ECON

2015/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)

Ja. whereas the Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters is a subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Council which pays special attention to developing countries and countries with economies in transition;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

Ka. whereas the European Investment Bank supports private companies in developing countries directly by providing loans, or indirectly by supporting financial intermediaries such as commercial banks and private equity funds, which then on-lend or invest in enterprises;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10

10. Calls for a code of conduct to be established for governments of the countries concerned in order to ensure tax systems are managed efficiently, stemming from a review of the work of the existing Code of Conduct on Business Taxation Group;

2015/04/15
Committee: ECON

2015/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Insists that effective mobilisation of domestic resources and a strengthening of tax systems will be an indispensable factor in achieving the post-2015 framework that will replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which represents a viable strategy to overcome foreign aid dependency in the long term, and that efficient and fair tax systems are crucial for poverty reduction, fighting inequalities, good governance and state- building;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses that tax avoidance and tax evasion represent a considerable financial loss for developing countries, and that taking appropriate measures at national, European and international level against these practices should be a top priority for the EU, taking into account the needs and constraints that developing countries face in gaining access to their tax revenues; considers that the EU should be taking a leading role in driving international efforts to combat tax havens, tax fraud and evasion, leading by example; and that it should cooperate with developing countries in counteracting aggressive tax avoidance practices by certain transnational companies, as well as in seeking ways to help them withstand pressures to engage in tax competition;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Hugues BAYET, Elly SCHLEIN, Anneliese DODDS, Eva JOLY, Molly SCOTT CATO, Miguel VIEGAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the EU and the Member States to enforce the ~~recommendations of the~~principle that multinational companies must adopt country-by-country reporting as standard, requiring them to publish as part of their annual report on a country-by-country basis for each territory in which they operate the names of all subsidiaries, their financial performance, relevant tax information, assets and number of employees, and to ensure that this information is publicly available; Calls for CbC reportsing to be implemented for multinational companies in all sectors and in all countries.;

2015/04/15
Committee: ECON

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Urges the Commission to support developing countries and regional tax administration frameworks, such as the African Tax Administration Forum and the Inter-American Centre of Tax Administrations, in the fight against tax dodging, in developing fairer tax policies, in promoting administrative reforms and in order to increase the share, in terms of aid and development, of financial and technical assistance to the national tax administrations of developing countries;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Calls for the establishment of an intergovernmental tax body under the auspices of the United Nations with the aim of ensuring that developing countries can participate on an equal footing in the formulation and reform of global tax policies;

2015/04/15
Committee: ECON

2015/2058(INI)

Hugues BAYET, Elly SCHLEIN, Anneliese DODDS, Eva JOLY, Molly SCOTT CATO, Petr JEŽEK, Tibor SZANYI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Calls for a swift implementation of the Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD) and the Transfer of Funds Regulation (ToFR); considers, however, that room for improvement remains and urges MSs to use the available flexibility, provided for in particular in the AMLD, towards the use of unrestricted public registers with access to beneficial ownership information for companies, trusts, foundations and other legal entities;

2015/04/15
Committee: ECON

2015/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Asks the Commission to give good governance in tax matters and fair tax collection a high place on the agenda in its policy dialogue (political, development and trade) and in all development cooperation agreements with partner countries, enhancing ownership and domestic accountability by fostering an environment where national parliaments are enabled to meaningfully contribute to the formulation and oversight of national budgets, including on domestic revenues and tax matters, and supporting the role of civil society in ensuring public scrutiny of tax governance and monitoring of cases of tax fraud, inter alia by setting up effective systems for protecting whistleblowers and journalistic sources;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Urges that information on beneficial ownership of companies, trusts and other institutions be made publicly available in open-data formats, in order to prevent anonymous shell companies and similar legal structures from being used to launder money, finance illegal activities or terrorist activities, conceal the identity of corrupt and criminal individuals, hide the theft of public funds and profits from illegal traffic and illegal tax evasion;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the EU and the Member States to enforce the principle that multinational companies, and especially those companies extracting natural resources, must adopt country-by-country reporting (CBCR) as standard, requiring them to publish as part of their annual report on a country-by-country basis for each territory in which they operate the names of all subsidiaries, their financial performance, relevant tax information, assets and number of employees, and to ensure that this information is publicly available; calls on the OECD to recommend that its proposed CBCR template should be made public by all MNCs, to ensure that all tax authorities in all countries are able to access thorough information so they can assess transfer pricing risks and determine the most effective way to deploy audit resources;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Welcomes the adoption of an Automatic Exchange of Information mechanism, a fundamental tool for enhancing global transparency and cooperation in the fight against tax avoidance and tax evasion; acknowledges, however, that support and time is needed for developing countries to build the required capacity to send and process information; therefore stresses the importance of ensuring that the new OECD Global Standard on Automatic Exchange of Information include a transition period for developing countries, recognising that by making this standard reciprocal, those countries that do not have the resources and capacity to set up the necessary infrastructure to collect, manage and share the required information might effectively be excluded; moreover, considers that a single standard on confidentiality should be envisaged;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. UStrongly supports the range of existing international initiatives to reform the global system, with a focus on the increased participation of developing countries in the structures and procedures of international tax cooperation; urges the EU and the Member States to ensure that the UN taxation committee is transformed into a genuine intergovernmental body equipped with additional resources, ensuring that developing countries can participate equally in the global reform of existing international tax rules;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Stresses that gender analysis should be made central to tax justice, recognising that while tax evasion has an impact on the welfare of individuals across the world, it is especially damaging to poor and lower- income households, in many of which women are disproportionately represented;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2058(INI)

Elly SCHLEIN, Enrique GUERRERO SALOM, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Hugues BAYET, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Seb DANCE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the EIB to ensure that companies that receive EIB support do not participate in tax evasion and avoidance via offshore centres and tax havens, and to increase its transparency policy by, for example, making publicly available all of its reports and investigations;

2015/05/06
Committee: DEVE

2015/2052(INI)

Hugues BAYET, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Stresses the need ~~for a stable and predictable investment environment, not least with a view to attracting private investment; underlines the role of sound economic governance in the creation of this kind of favourabl~~to create a climate which will promote the development of public and private investment ~~environment;~~and emphasises the need for an overall investment framework in the EU;

2015/05/26
Committee: ECON

2015/2052(INI)

Hugues BAYET, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls for neutralisation in the calculation of debt and deficit in public investment carried out by Member States’ public operators, particularly with regard to the impact of the new ESA 2010 system of accounts, which prevents Member States from paying their co-financing share to the structural funds (in particular the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Youth Employment Initiative) and thus using these funds to escape from the economic crisis and re- launch growth and employment;

2015/05/26
Committee: ECON

2015/2052(INI)

Maria ARENA, Hugues BAYET, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Commission to avoid any suspension of commitments or payments provided for in the second strand of Article 23 of the CPR where Member States are involved in any of the situations described in sub-paragraphs (a) to (e) of paragraph 1 of Annex III to the CPR; calls for neutralisation in the calculation of debt and deficit in public investment carried out by Member States’ public operators, particularly with regard to the impact of the new ESA 2010 system of accounts, which prevents Member States from paying their co-financing share to the Structural Funds (in particular the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Youth Employment Initiative) and thus using these funds to escape from the economic crisis and re-launch growth and employment;

2015/06/02
Committee: EMPL

2015/2052(INI)

Hugues BAYET, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls for the continued investment of structural funds in transition regions to ensure continuity in their effects and in the efforts made so far;

2015/05/26
Committee: ECON

2015/0263(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3

(3) Several Member States have been undergoing and continue to undergo adjustment processes to correct macroeconomic imbalances accumulated in the past and many are facing the challenge of low potential growth, in particular as a result of a lack of investment. The Union has identified the implementation of structural reforms among its policy priorities to set the recovery on a sustainable path, unlock the growth potential to strengthen the adjustment capacity, increase investment and support the process of convergence. To win back the confidence of its citizens, the EU should initiate adjustment processes whilst meeting the requirements laid down in Article 9 TFEU. In particular, that should involve a proactive public investment policy.

2016/09/01
Committee: ECON

2015/0263(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4

(4) Reforms are by their very nature complex processes that require a complete chain of highly-specialised knowledge and skills. Addressing structural reforms in a variety of public policy areas is challenging since their benefits often take time to materialise. Therefore, early and efficient design and implementation is crucial, be it for crisis-struck or structurally-weak economies. In this context, the provision of support by the Union in the form of technical assistance ~~has been crucial in supporting the economic adjustment of Greece and Cyprus in the last years~~should be consistent, in each Member State, with the requirements laid down in Article 9 TFEU.

2016/09/01
Committee: ECON

2015/0263(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5

(5) Member States may benefit from support in addressing challenges as regards the design and implementation of structural reforms. These challenges may be dependent on various factors, including limited administrative and institutional capacity or inadequate application and implementation of Union legislation designed to support growth.

2016/09/01
Committee: ECON

2015/0263(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6

(6) The Union has a long-lasting experience on providing specific support to national administrations and other authorities of Member States as regards capacity building and similar actions in certain sectors (e.g. taxation, customs, support to small and medium-sized enterprises) and in relation to the implementation of cohesion policy. The experience gained by the Union in assisting national authorities carrying out reforms should be used in order to enhance the capacity of the Union to provide support to Member States. Comprehensive and integrated action is indeed necessary in order to provide support to those Member States that are undertaking growth- enhancing reforms and request assistance from the Union in this respect. At all events, the purpose of assistance should be to improve the social well-being of citizens by safeguarding jobs, combating exclusion and poverty and promoting high levels of social protection and high- quality health and education services.

2016/09/01
Committee: ECON

2015/0263(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3

(3) Several Member States have been undergoing and continue to undergo adjustment processes to correct macroeconomic imbalances accumulated in the past and many are facing the challenge of low potential growth in particular as a result of a lack of investment. The Union has identified the implementation of structural reforms among its policy priorities to set the recovery on a sustainable path, unlock the growth potential to strengthen the adjustment capacity, increase investment and support the process of convergence. To win back the confidence of its citizens, the EU must initiate adjustment processes whilst meeting the requirements laid down in Article 9 TFEU. In particular, that should involve a proactive public investment policy.

2016/09/20
Committee: REGI

2015/0263(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7

(7) Against this background, it is necessary to establish a Structural Reform Support Programme ('the Programme') with the objective of strengthening the capacity of Member States to prepare and implement growth-enhancing administrative and structural reforms, including through assistance for the efficient and effective use of the Union funds. The Programme is intended to contribute to the achievement of common goals towards obtaining economic recovery, and job creation, guaranteeing a high level of social security and high-quality health and education services, combating poverty and social exclusion and boosting Europe's competitiveness and stimulating investment in the real economy.

2016/09/01
Committee: ECON

2015/0263(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4

(4) Reforms are by their very nature complex processes that require a complete chain of highly-specialised knowledge and skills. Addressing structural reforms in a variety of public policy areas is challenging since their benefits often take time to materialise. Therefore, early and efficient design and implementation is crucial, be it for crisis-struck or structurally-weak economies. In this context, the provision of support by the Union in the form of technical assistance ~~has been crucial in supporting the economic adjustment of Greece and Cyprus in the last years~~must, in each Member State, be in keeping with the requirements laid down in Article 9 TFEU.

2016/09/20
Committee: REGI

2015/0263(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3

(3) Several Member States have been undergoing and continue to undergo adjustment processes to correct macroeconomic imbalances accumulated in the past and many are facing the challenge of low potential growth, in particular as a result of a lack of investment. The Union has identified the implementation of structural reforms among its policy priorities to set the recovery on a sustainable path, unlock the growth potential to strengthen the adjustment capacity, increase investment and support the process of convergence. To win back the confidence of its citizens, the EU must initiate adjustment processes whilst meeting the requirements laid down in Article 9 TFEU. In particular, that should involve a proactive public investment policy.

2016/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2015/0263(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4

(4) Reforms are by their very nature complex processes that require a complete chain of highly-specialised knowledge and skills. Addressing structural reforms in a variety of public policy areas is challenging since their benefits often take time to materialise. Therefore, early and efficient design and implementation is crucial, be it for crisis-struck or structurally-weak economies. In this context, the provision of support by the Union in the form of technical assistance ~~has been crucial in supporting the economic adjustment of Greece and Cyprus in the last years~~must, in each Member State, be in keeping with the requirements laid down in Article 9 TFEU.

2016/09/09
Committee: EMPL

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14

(14) Member States that request support should be able to contribute to the financial envelope of the Programme with additional funds. Currently, Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 limits the possibility of a transfer of resources dedicated to technical assistance at the initiative of a Member State to those Member States which face temporary budgetary difficulties. Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 should therefore be amended in order to allow all Member States to participate financially to the Programme. The resources transferred to the Union budget should be used for supporting actions contributing to smart, sustainable ~~and inclusive growth~~ growth that leaves room for social inclusion, or for Fund- specific purposes in the Member States concerned.

2016/09/09
Committee: EMPL

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21

2016/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2015/0263(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2

2. Taking into account the principles of transparency, equal treatment, respect for the role of the social partners and sound financial management, further to a dialogue with the Member State, including in the context of the European Semester, the Commission shall analyse the request for support referred to in paragraph 1 based on the urgency, breadth and depth of the problems identified, support needs in respect of the policy areas concerned, analysis of socioeconomic indicators and general administrative capacity of the Member State. Taking into account the existing actions and measures financed by Union funds or other Union programmes, the Commission in close cooperation with the Member State concerned shall identify the priority areas for support, the scope of the support measures to be provided and the global financial contribution for such support.

2016/09/01
Committee: ECON

2015/0263(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3 – point a

(a) the implementation of reforms in the context of economic governance processes, in particular of the relevant Country Specific Recommendations issued in the context of the European Semester or of relevant actions related to the implementation of Union law; The main objectives of the reforms shall be growth, the stimulation of investment, the creation of good jobs, the promotion of high- quality education and social protection, equal opportunities and the fight against poverty.

2016/09/01
Committee: ECON

2015/0263(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3 – point b

(b) the implementation of economic adjustment programmes for Member States that receive Union financial assistance under existing instruments, in particular in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 472/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council23 for the euro area Member States and Council Regulation (EC) No 332/200224 for non-euro area Member States; The main objectives shall be growth, the stimulation of investment, the creation of good jobs, the promotion of high-quality education and social protection, equal opportunities and the fight against poverty. _________________ 23 Regulation (EU) No 472/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on the strengthening of economic and budgetary surveillance of Member States in the euro area experiencing or threatened with serious difficulties with respect to their financial stability (OJ L 140, 27.5.2013, p. 1). 24 Council Regulation (EC) No 332/2002 of 18 February 2002 establishing a facility providing medium-term financial assistance for Member States' balances of payments (OJ L 53, 23.2.2002, p. 1).

2016/09/01
Committee: ECON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point b

2016/09/20
Committee: REGI

2015/0263(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1

The general objective of the Programme shall be to ~~contribu~~help Member States to ~~institutional, administrative and structural reforms in the Member States by providing support to national authorities for~~boost their growth, their investment and their policies for the creation of good jobs, social protection and the fight against poverty and social exclusion, as well as to become more competitive, by taking measures aimed at reforming institutions, governance, administration, economic and social sectors in response to economic and social challenges with a view to enhancing ~~competitiveness, growth, jobs, and investment~~social well-being, in particular in the context of social economic governance processes, including through assistance for the efficient and effective use of the Union funds.

2016/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2015/0263(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point d

(d) education and training, labour market policies for the creation of good jobs, social inclusion, social security and social welfare systems, the fight against poverty, public health and healthcare systems, asylum, migration and borders policies;

2016/09/20
Committee: REGI

2015/0263(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point a

2016/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2015/0263(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point b

2016/09/09
Committee: EMPL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point b

2016/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2015/0263(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point d

(d) education and training, labour market policies for the creation of good jobs, social inclusion, social security and social welfare systems, public health systems, the fight against poverty, and healthcare systems, and asylum, migration and borders policies;

2016/09/09
Committee: EMPL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2

2016/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2015/0263(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3 – point a

(a) the implementation of reforms in the context of economic governance processes, in particular of the relevant Country Specific Recommendations issued in the context of the European Semester or of relevant actions related to the implementation of Union law; the main objectives of the reforms shall be growth, stimulation of investment, the creation of good jobs and the promotion of high- quality education and social protection, equal opportunities and action against poverty;

2016/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2015/0263(COD)

Hugues BAYET, Anneliese DODDS, Emmanuel MAUREL, Peter SIMON, Jakob von WEIZSÄCKER, Neena GILL, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Cătălin Sorin IVAN, Elisa FERREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3 – point b

(b) the implementation of economic adjustment programmes for Member States that receive Union financial assistance under existing instruments, in particular in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 472/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council23 for the euro area Member States and Council Regulation (EC) No 332/200224 for non-euro area Member States; the main objectives shall be growth, stimulation of investment, the creation of good jobs and the promotion of high-quality education and social protection, equal opportunities and action against poverty; __________________ 23 Regulation (EU) No 472/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on the strengthening of economic and budgetary surveillance of Member States in the euro area experiencing or threatened with serious difficulties with respect to their financial stability (OJ L 140, 27.5.2013, p. 1). 24 Council Regulation (EC) No 332/2002 of 18 February 2002 establishing a facility providing medium-term financial assistance for Member States' balances of payments (OJ L 53, 23.2.2002, p. 1).

2016/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2015/0068(CNS)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 5

(5) The possibility that the provision of information may be refused where it would lead to the disclosure of a commercial, industrial or professional secret or of a commercial process, or of information whose disclosure would be contrary to public policy should not apply to provisions of mandatory automatic exchange of information on advance ~~cross- border~~ rulings and advance pricing arrangements in order not to reduce the effectiveness of these exchanges. The limited nature of the information that is required to be shared with all Member States should ensure sufficient protection of those commercial interests.

2015/09/24
Committee: ECON

2015/0068(CNS)

Hugues BAYET, Anneliese DODDS, Emmanuel MAUREL, Jakob von WEIZSÄCKER, Neena GILL, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Cătălin Sorin IVAN, Elisa FERREIRA

Proposal for a directive
Recital 6

(6) In order to reap the benefits of the mandatory automatic exchange of advance ~~cross-border~~ rulings and advance pricing arrangements, the information should be communicated ~~promptly~~immediately after and at the latest one month after the end of the quarter during which after they are issued and therefore regular intervals for the communication of the information should be established (at least twice a year).

2015/09/24
Committee: ECON

2015/0068(CNS)

Evelyn REGNER, Hugues BAYET, Sergio Gaetano COFFERATI, Dietmar KÖSTER

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3

Hugues BAYET, Jakob von WEIZSÄCKER, Neena GILL, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Cătălin Sorin IVAN, Elisa FERREIRA

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3

Directive 2011/16/EU
Article 8a – paragraph 3

3. Paragraph 1 shall ~~not~~also apply ~~in a case where an advance cross-border ruling exclusively concerns and involves the tax affairs of one~~ where the request for an advance ruling relates to a legal structure without legal personality. In that instance, the competent authority of the Member State issuing the advance ruling shall forward the information it has to the competent authorities of all other Member States and shall arrange for the memorandum of incorporation to be transferred to the Member State or States where the incorporator mor~~e natural persons~~ incorporators and the beneficiary or beneficiaries are resident.

2015/09/24
Committee: ECON

2015/0068(CNS)

Hugues BAYET, Emmanuel MAUREL, Neena GILL, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Cătălin Sorin IVAN, Anneliese DODDS, Elisa FERREIRA

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3

Directive 2011/16/EU
Article 8a – paragraph 4 – point a

(a) in respect of the information exchanged pursuant to paragraph 1: ~~within~~immediately after and at the latest one month ~~following~~after the end of the quarter during which the advance ~~cross-border~~ rulings or advance pricing arrangements have been issued or amended.

2015/09/24
Committee: ECON

2015/0068(CNS)

Hugues BAYET, Anneliese DODDS, Emmanuel MAUREL, Peter SIMON, Neena GILL, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Cătălin Sorin IVAN, Elisa FERREIRA

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3

Directive 2011/16/EU
Article 8a – paragraph 4 – point b

(b) in respect of the information exchanged pursuant to paragraph 2: ~~before 31 December 2016~~within three months following the entry into force;

2015/09/24
Committee: ECON

2015/0068(CNS)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3

Directive 2011/16/EU
Article 8a – paragraph 5 – point b

(b) the content of the advance ~~cross-border~~ ruling or advance pricing arrangement, including a description of the relevant business activities or transactions or series of transactions;

2015/09/24
Committee: ECON

2015/0068(CNS)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3

Directive 2011/16/EU
Article 8a – paragraph 5 – point d

(d) the identification of the other Member States likely to be directly or indirectly concerned by the advance ~~cross-border~~ ruling or advance pricing arrangement;

2015/09/24
Committee: ECON

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3

Directive 2011/16/EU
Article 8a – paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Member States shall require each issuer to annually publicly disclose, specifying by Member State and by third country in which it has a subsidiary, the following information on a consolidated basis for the financial year : (a) name(s), nature of activities and geographical location, (b) turnover, (c) number of employees on a full-time equivalent basis, (d) profit or loss before tax, (e) tax on profit or loss, (f) public subsidies received.

2015/09/24
Committee: ECON

2015/0068(CNS)

Hugues BAYET, Emmanuel MAUREL, Peter SIMON, Neena GILL, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Cătălin Sorin IVAN, Elisa FERREIRA

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3

Directive 2011/16/EU
Article 8a – paragraph 6

6. To facilitate the exchange the Commission shall adopt any measures and practical arrangements necessary for the implementation of this Article, including measures to standardise the communication of the information set out in paragraph 5 of this Article, as part of the procedure for establishing the standard form provided in Article 20(5). In Member States where decentralised territorial or administrative bodies are endowed with fiscal-related competences, the Commission shall assist member states to ensure that they meet their responsibility to provide training and support to these bodies.

2015/09/24
Committee: ECON

2015/0068(CNS)

Hugues BAYET, Emmanuel MAUREL, Peter SIMON, Jakob von WEIZSÄCKER, Neena GILL, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Cătălin Sorin IVAN, Elisa FERREIRA

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3

Directive 2011/16/EU
Article 8a – paragraph 8

8. Member States – or their territorial or administrative bodies including local authorities if applicable – may, in accordance with Article 5, request additional information, including the full text of an advance cross- border ruling or an advance pricing arrangement, from the Member State which issued it.

2015/09/24
Committee: ECON

2015/0068(CNS)

Hugues BAYET, Emmanuel MAUREL, Peter SIMON, Jakob von WEIZSÄCKER, Neena GILL, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO, Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ, Cătălin Sorin IVAN, Evelyn REGNER, Elisa FERREIRA

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 precondition~~structural reforms which respect economic and social rights can ~~contribute to~~d fiscal responsibility are a means of establishing 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)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15

(15) The EFSI should target projects with a higher risk-return profile than existing EIB and Union instruments to ensure additionality over existing operations. The EFSI should finance projects across the Union, including in the countries most affected by the financial crisis. The EFSI should only be used where financing is not available from other sources on reasonable terms.

2015/03/19
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18

(18) In order to enable the EFSI to support investments, the Union should grant a guarantee of an amount equal to EUR 16 000 000 000. When provided on a portfolio basis, the guarantee coverage should be capped depending upon the type of instrument, such as debt, equity or guarantees, as a percentage of the volume of the portfolio of outstanding commitments. It is expected that when the guarantee is combined with EUR 5 000 000 000 to be provided by the EIB, that the EFSI support should generate EUR 60 800 000 000 additional investment by the EIB and EIF. This EUR 60 800 000 000 supported by the EFSI is expected to generate a total of EUR 315 000 000 000 in additional investment in the Union within the period 2015 to 2017. The principle of flexibility must apply as regards the neutralisation of the impact of Member State investments in the fund in the calculation of their deficit. Additional Member State contributions to the EFSI’s capital would increase this amount and thereby bring the Fund’s investments closer to actual needs. Guarantees that are attached to projects which are completed without a call on a guarantee are available for supporting new operations.

2015/03/25
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/0009(COD)

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

(aa) pursuing in particular a general objective associated with infrastructure development, research, development and innovation; investment in education and training, health, information and communications technology; urban and rural development; development of the energy sector, etc.

2015/03/25
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. It is hoped that the principle of flexibility will take into account the impact of the new SEC2010 accounting standards on investment capacity driving the growth of certain public authorities;

2015/03/25
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. The EFSI shall implement provisions with respect to guaranteeing compliance with EU standards on the environment, labour, social and human rights and transparency.

2015/03/25
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. The EFSI shall ensure that social and environmental criteria are included in the implementation of the projects that it supports in order to combat dumping in those areas.

2015/03/25
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Transparency must be ensured, as well as proper assessment of the economic and social repercussions of loans made and the effectiveness of due diligence measures.

2015/03/19
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 b (new)

The EFSI must take all requisite measures to ensure the utmost reliability of financial intermediaries, to enhance transparency of the lending and to publish information on the amounts disbursed, the recipients of these funds, the regions and sectors to which they were allocated and the environmental, social and macroeconomic impact of these loans.

2015/03/19
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/0009(COD)

Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Sylvia-Yvonne KAUFMANN, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marju LAURISTIN, Hugues BAYET, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Soraya POST

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 a (new)

Article 13a It must be ensured that EFSI transparency policy complies with the provisions of Regulation 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents.

2015/03/19
Committee: BUDG ECON

2014/2254(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas, the rule of law is the backbone of European liberal democracy, and is one of the founding principles of the European Union stemming from the common constitutional traditions of all Member States;

2015/05/18
Committee: LIBE

2014/2254(INI)

Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Miriam DALLI, Marju LAURISTIN, Elly SCHLEIN, Hugues BAYET, Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Soraya POST, Anna HEDH, Daniele VIOTTI

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas many fundamental rights violations still occur in the EU and in Member States, as pointed out in reports by the Commission, the FRA, NGOs, the Council of Europe and the UN; such as the violations of the right to freedom of assembly and expression of civil society organisations, freedom of media, the institutional discrimination of LGBTI persons through marriage bans and anti- propaganda legislation, and the remaining high-levels of discrimination and hate crime and hate speech motivated by racism, xenophobia, religious intolerance, or by bias against a person's disability, sexual orientation or gender identity;

2015/05/18
Committee: LIBE

2014/2254(INI)

Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Sylvia-Yvonne KAUFMANN, Birgit SIPPEL, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marju LAURISTIN, Hugues BAYET, Miltiadis KYRKOS, Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Soraya POST, Daniele VIOTTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point c

(c) ~~develop, in cooperation with the FRA, a database that collates and publishes data on~~be based on a system of annual country assessment, developed by the Commission and the Council, on the compliance with the rule of law and the situation ~~regarding~~of fundamental rights in ~~the EU and in individual Member States; reiterates, i~~all Member States of the European Union, based on data of FRA, Council of Europe and its Venice Commission and NGOs. In that connection, the need for the Commission to propose a revision of the FRA Regulation is essential in order to grant the FRA wider powers; in particular in relation to the situation assessment in each Member States and the possibility of the FRA auto-referral as part of an alert mechanism;

2015/05/18
Committee: LIBE

2014/2254(INI)

Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Sylvia-Yvonne KAUFMANN, Birgit SIPPEL, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marju LAURISTIN, Hugues BAYET, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Soraya POST, Caterina CHINNICI, Daniele VIOTTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Calls on the Council to push for a more ambitious plan on the rule of law framework that enables the various European institutions to monitor and safeguard Member States' compliance with the rule of law; either in form of a Treaty change, allowing the fundamental values enshrined in Article 2 to be monitored and safeguarded beyond the areas covered by EU law, or in form of a peer review, with the involvement of the European institutions and possibly the Council of Europe and its Venice Commission; considers that such ambitious plan should also foresee a more important role for the European Court of Justice that is not limited to procedural guarantees;

2015/05/18
Committee: LIBE

2014/2254(INI)

Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Elly SCHLEIN, Hugues BAYET, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Daniele VIOTTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Deplores recent in~~stance~~cidents of anti- Semitic and ~~anti-~~Islamophobic discrimination and violence; calls on Member States to protect freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief and to promote tolerance, as well as to ban any form of discrimination and exception from the law on grounds of individuals' personal choice of thought, conscience, religion or belief;

2015/05/12
Committee: LIBE

2014/2254(INI)

Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Marju LAURISTIN, Elly SCHLEIN, Hugues BAYET, Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Soraya POST, Emilian PAVEL, Anna HEDH, Daniele VIOTTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Deplores incidents of hate speech and hate crime motivated by racism, xenophobia, religious intolerance, or by bias against a person's disability, sexual orientation or gender identity, which occur in the EU on a daily basis; calls on Member States to protect fundamental rights and to promote tolerance;

2015/05/12
Committee: LIBE

2014/2254(INI)

Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Damian DRĂGHICI, Marju LAURISTIN, Hugues BAYET, Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Soraya POST, Emilian PAVEL, Daniele VIOTTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7b. Urges the EU and the Member States to mainstream social inclusion and non- discrimination measures in future internal security strategies;

2015/05/12
Committee: LIBE

2014/2254(INI)

Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Hugues BAYET, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Emilian PAVEL, Daniele VIOTTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Deplores the fact that even today people belonging to any kind of minorities are still victims of discrimination throughout the EU;

2015/05/12
Committee: LIBE

2014/2254(INI)

Ulrike LUNACEK, Daniele VIOTTI, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Tanja FAJON, Ian DUNCAN, Isabella ADINOLFI, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Marju LAURISTIN, Hugues BAYET, Miltiadis KYRKOS, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Soraya POST, Anna HEDH, Daniele VIOTTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Strongly deplores th~~e fact that negotiations with~~at the Council has still not adopted the 2008 proposal for a Directive on implementing the ~~Council on the proposal for an anti-discrimination directive have stalled, and~~principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation; welcomes the prioritization of this Directive by the European Commission; reiterates its call to the Council to adopt the proposal as soon as possible;

2015/05/12
Committee: LIBE

2014/2254(INI)

Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Marju LAURISTIN, Hugues BAYET, Miltiadis KYRKOS, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Soraya POST, Anna HEDH, Daniele VIOTTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Strongly deplores th~~e fact that negotiations with~~at Council has still not adopted the 2008 proposal for a Directive on implementing the ~~Council on the proposal for an anti-discrimination directive have stalled,~~principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation; welcomes the prioritisation of this Directive by the European Commission; and reiterates its call to the Council to adopt the proposal as soon as possible;

2015/05/12
Committee: LIBE

2014/2254(INI)

Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Damian DRĂGHICI, Hugues BAYET, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Soraya POST, Daniele VIOTTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)

10c. Deplores that ethnic minorities continue to face widespread discrimination in law enforcement and judicial system as well as over-policing practices such as ethnic profiling and unequal treatment;

2015/05/12
Committee: LIBE

2014/2254(INI)

Ulrike LUNACEK, Daniele VIOTTI, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Tanja FAJON, Ian DUNCAN, Isabella ADINOLFI, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Miriam DALLI, Marju LAURISTIN, Elly SCHLEIN, Hugues BAYET, Miltiadis KYRKOS, Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Soraya POST, Anna HEDH, Daniele VIOTTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence ~~on EU territory~~ against lesbian, gay, trans~~sexual~~gender, bisexual and intersex people (LGBTI), as fostered by laws and policies that restrict the fundamental rights of these persons; calls on the Commission and Member States to adopt laws and policies to combat homophobia and transphobia; calls on the Commission to issue an action plan or strategy against homophobia and for equality on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity by the end of this year, as repeatedly called for by Parliament and as promised by Commissioner Jourova in the process of the Commission hearings;

2015/05/12
Committee: LIBE

2014/2254(INI)

Ulrike LUNACEK, Daniele VIOTTI, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Tanja FAJON, Ian DUNCAN, Isabella ADINOLFI, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Miriam DALLI, Elly SCHLEIN, Hugues BAYET, Miltiadis KYRKOS, Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Soraya POST, Anna HEDH, Daniele VIOTTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)

11b. Considers that LGBTI people's fundamental rights are more likely to be safeguarded if they have access to legal institutions such as cohabitation, registered partnership or marriage; welcomes the fact that 18 Member States currently offer these options, and calls on other Member States to consider doing so;

2015/05/12
Committee: LIBE

2014/2254(INI)

Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Marju LAURISTIN, Hugues BAYET, Miltiadis KYRKOS, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Daniele VIOTTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Expresses its concerns regarding investigations and convictions in connection with hate crimes in the Member States; calls on the EU to make the fight against hate crimes a priority when drawing up European policies against discrimination and in the field of justice; calls for a review of ~~the framework decision on racism and xenophobia~~European legislation against hate speech and hate crime expanding it to the grounds of religion, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity; in order to fully cover all forms of hate crimes and crimes committed with a bias or discriminatory motive related to the victims’ personal characteristics, and to clearly define consistent investigation and prosecution standards;

2015/05/19
Committee: LIBE

2014/2254(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Damian DRĂGHICI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Hugues BAYET, Miltiadis KYRKOS, Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Soraya POST, Daniele VIOTTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 d (new)

13d. Condemns all forms of discrimination and violence on EU territory against members of specific ethnic and religious communities; calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt specific policy commitments to combat all forms of racism, including anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Afrophobia and anti- Gypsyism;

2015/05/19
Committee: LIBE

2014/2254(INI)

Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Sylvie GUILLAUME, Marju LAURISTIN, Elly SCHLEIN, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Hugues BAYET, Miltiadis KYRKOS, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Soraya POST, Caterina CHINNICI, Daniele VIOTTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Calls on EU institutions to put solidarity and a human rights based approach at the heart of the EU migration policies. Calls on the EU institutions to guarantee that sufficient resources are made available to implement a search and rescue operation in the Mediterranean and promote legal and safe routes for people fleeing wars and seeking for international protection;

2015/05/19
Committee: LIBE

2014/2254(INI)

Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Marju LAURISTIN, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Hugues BAYET, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Soraya POST, Daniele VIOTTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Emphasises that, in Member States subject to economic adjustment programmes, the EU institutions are also responsible for the associated conditions; stresses that the EU institutions are always under an obligation to observe the Charter, even when acting outside the framework of EU law, thus, under no circumstances obligations imposed to Member States by the economic adjustment programmes should lead to restrictions and violations of fundamental rights guaranteed in the EU Charter;

2015/05/19
Committee: LIBE

2014/2254(INI)

Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Marju LAURISTIN, Hugues BAYET, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Soraya POST, Daniele VIOTTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Calls on the EU institutions to look into the impact on fundamental rights of the measures proposed or implemented to deal with the crisis and to take remedial action immediately; ensure, empower and promote the involvement of civil society organization in monitoring applications of fundamental rights in Member States and designing and implementing remedial actions;

2015/05/19
Committee: LIBE

2014/2254(INI)

Ulrike LUNACEK, Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Damian DRĂGHICI, Marju LAURISTIN, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Hugues BAYET, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Soraya POST, Daniele VIOTTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Calls on the EU institutions and on the Member States to recognise that long- term investment in social inclusion is beneficial as it tackles the high cost of discrimination and inequality; calls on EU institutions and the Member States to ensure that access to justice and redressing discrimination are not put in danger by drastic funding cuts in equality bodies budgets; calls on EU and national institutions not to threaten social inclusion by budgetary measures threatening the survival of community- based organisations working for equality;

2015/05/19
Committee: LIBE

2014/2254(INI)

Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Damian DRĂGHICI, Marju LAURISTIN, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Hugues BAYET, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Soraya POST, Daniele VIOTTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Calls on the EU institutions~~, when adopting and implementing austerity measures,~~ to further strengthen the role of the European Union in the protection and promotion of economic, social and cultural rights and to guarantee that sufficient resources are ~~still~~ made available to ~~ensure the satisfaction of minimum essential levels of economic~~this aim, especially when adopting and implementing austerity measures; this should also possibly include the extension of the social rights in the EU Charter to other social rights mentioned in the revised Social Charter of the Council of Europe such as the right to work, the right to fair remuneration, the right to be protected from poverty and social ~~rights~~exclusion;

2015/05/19
Committee: LIBE

2014/2254(INI)

Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Miriam DALLI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Hugues BAYET, Miltiadis KYRKOS, Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Soraya POST, Caterina CHINNICI, Emilian PAVEL, Anna HEDH, Anna HEDH, Daniele VIOTTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)

22b. Recognises that the financial and economic crisis has had a serious negative impact on the realisation of children’s rights and well-being;

2015/05/19
Committee: LIBE

2014/2254(INI)

Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Miriam DALLI, Marju LAURISTIN, Damian DRĂGHICI, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Hugues BAYET, Miltiadis KYRKOS, Christine REVAULT D'ALLONNES BONNEFOY, Monika BEŇOVÁ, Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Soraya POST, Caterina CHINNICI, Anna HEDH, Daniele VIOTTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 c (new)

22c. Calls on Member States to step up their efforts on tackling child poverty and social exclusion through effective implementation of the European Commission Recommendation ‘Investing in children: breaking the cycle of disadvantage’ through integrated strategies supporting access to adequate resources, enabling access to affordable quality services and promoting children’s participation in decision making that affects them; calls on the Commission to take further measures for monitoring the implementation of the Recommendation;

2015/05/19
Committee: LIBE

2014/2253(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Draws attention to the fact that the austerity measures imposed on Member States have resulted in public spending cuts which may make it more difficult for government bodies and the courts in some Member States to apply EU law correctly;

2015/05/28
Committee: LIBE

2014/2253(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that trafficking in human beings is a serious crime and represents a violation of human rights and human dignity that the Union cannot tolerate; deplores the fact that the number of people being trafficked to and from the EU is rising; points out that, although the legal framework is adequate, its concrete implementation by the Member States is still deficient; stresses that the current situation in the Mediterranean has increased the likelihood of trafficking, and calls on the Member States to take an extremely firm line with perpetrators of such crimes and to protect the victims as effectively as possible;

2015/05/28
Committee: LIBE

2014/2253(INI)

Hugues BAYET, Costas MAVRIDES

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9

9. Welcomes the efforts made by the Commission during the past years and acknowledges the range of measures that have been put in place to assist Member States with implementation (correlation tables, conformity checking, scoreboards and barometers, guidelines, etc); ~~considers, however,~~stresses, nonetheless, that the Commission’s Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme (REFIT), one of the main aims of which is to improve lawmaking, must not be allowed to undermine people’s basic right to health care, as established in Article 35 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and elsewhere, and considers that the information on the implementation of EU law in the AFSJ should be more structured, detailed, transparent and accessible; points out that the annual monitoring report could be supplemented by other measures that would allow Parliament to be more regularly and thoroughly informed about the state of implementation, delays, incorrect transposition, incorrect implementation and infringement procedures, with regard to each legal instrument adopted in the area of justice and home affairs.

2015/05/28
Committee: LIBE

2014/2245(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Welcomes the ‘investment clause’ outlined in the Commission communication on flexibility within the SGP; strongly believes that the investment clause should be symmetrically extended to the corrective arm; insists in this respect on the establishment of a favourable climate for the development of public- sector investment; wishes that the flexibility principle keep in mind the impact of the new accounting standards ESA2010 on the investment capacity of some public authorities;

2015/03/26
Committee: ECON

2014/2245(INI)

Hugues BAYET, Costas MAVRIDES

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls to set up productive investments that have a significant impact on real economy and employment rate

2015/03/26
Committee: ECON

2014/2245(INI)

Hugues BAYET, Costas MAVRIDES

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls to continue to invest in Structural Funds across all regions including transition areas in order to not interrupt the effects of means and efforts already implemented;

2015/03/26
Committee: ECON

2014/2228(INI)

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, is addressed on the basis of the highest standards possible w~~ithin the existing~~hilst working for even higher levels of protection, especially within areas such as health and safety, consumer, labour, social rights, regulation on financial services and environmental legislation;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2228(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph d

d. take immediate action to ensure that market access negotiations on financial services are combined with upward convergence in financial regulation, meaning that the treaty and the mechanisms it sets up must have as their primary objective the protection of the public interest, consumers, workers, the environment and democracy, which must explicitly be given precedence over the remedying of trade distortions or the promotion of trade and investment, and must provide the requisite guarantees of transparency and democracy; support high international standards in on- going cooperation efforts in other international fora; ensure that initiatives in the area of regulatory cooperation do not curtail the regulatory and supervisory sovereignty of the EU and its Member States, including their power to ban financial activities and products;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2228(INI)

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 addressedcalls on the Commission to come forward with an anti-BEPS Directive (base erosion and profit shifting) to end harmful competition by businesses, in particular multinationals, who organise their global tax position, often across the Atlantic, in a way that allows profit shifting towards lower tax jurisdictions;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2228(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph f

f. take immediate action to ~~ensure that~~include legal measures within the TTIP to counter aggressive tax planning via the 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 within the TTIP~~;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2228(INI)

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, guarantee that all public contracts lay down binding social, ethical and environmental criteria/guarantee that the more stringent social, ethical and environmental criteria secured by the European Parliament are not watered down and that further progress can still be made towards the systematic use of such clauses;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2228(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph j

j. acknowledge ~~the~~and emphasize the continued importance of state- owned enterprises for certain crucial public services such as public transportation, health care and education;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2228(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph j a (new)

ja. call for due account to be taken of the outcome of the public consultation procedure on investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms and for the inclusion of such mechanisms in the TTIP to be rejected.

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Notes that the ambitious structural reforms introduced by those Member States most affected by the crisis have not borne fruit; calls therefore for a review of the austerity policy in Europe and, given the context, for the encouragement of public investment;

2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Regrets the fact that the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) will be based on recycled EU resources and will not raise public ‘fresh’ money, apart from an extra EUR 5 billion from the EIB; stresses the risks of an insufficient fund based on overly optimistic assumptions about the likelihood of attracting the bulk of the financing needed from private investors; calls on the ~~Commission~~EIB to consider ~~using the EIB’s annual profits and undisbursed dividends to increase resources without endangering the bank’s AAA rating~~a change in character from a purely commercial banking and AAA-rating methodology towards that of a project risk assessment model based on defined criteria and transparency; calls on the Commission to explore ways of using the EU budget and other, new resources to ensure that it will not fail to deliver;

2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Calls on the Commission and the EIB to assess the effect of the economic crisis in relations with the banking system and the final recipients of EIB funding, in particular regarding SMEs, social economy sector and public companies;

2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Stresses that once again, to re-launch growth and quality jobs in Europe, public capital is being used to offset the risk- aversion of the private sector by taking on the role of venture capital; recalls in this respect the very mixed results of the TLTRO operation launched by the ECB in 2014;

2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Insists in this respect on the establishment of a favourable climate for the development of public-sector investment; wishes in particular the neutralisation in calculations of the debt and deficits of public-sector investments made by public-sector operators of the Member States, in particular in view of the impact of the new accounting standards SEC2010 on the investment capacity of some public authorities; calls therefore for the European Central Bank to take appropriate decisions in this connection;

2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14 a. Calls for urgent action to be taken by the Commission to fight tax dumping, tax fraud and tax evasion and for the adoption at the Council level of an ambitious FTT, as both measures would enable public investment for growth and quality jobs;

2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Commission to design tailor-made policies to support quality job creation for the long-term unemployed, senior unemployed people, women and other priority groups hit especially hard by the crisis, such as immigrants or people with disabilities; calls for CSR to systemically address gender pay and pension gaps reduction;

2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Recalls that decent wages and social protections are important not only for social cohesion through fight against social dumping, but also for maintaining a strong economy with high internal demand and a productive labour force; calls on the Commission to submit a proposal for an ambitious European framework for minimum wages with a view to reducing wage inequalities and limiting nominal imbalances in competitiveness as well as an ambitious framework for minimum social protection thresholds;

2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)

27a. Recalls the EU objectives in gender matter, notably the 75% employment rate of women and men by 2020 and the reduction by 20 millions of people in or at risk of poverty;

2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32

32. Welcomes the fact that the Joint Employment Report annexed to the AGS includes a scoreboard for employment and social policies; considers it regrettable, however, that these indicators are not sufficient and that the~~y have not been made binding~~ Commission is not bound to automatically readjust its macroeconomic analysis taking into account these indicators, which would allow them to be used more forcefully; asks the Commission to remedy this situation;

2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL

2014/2221(INI)

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~~and there is great uncertainty about economic recovery in the EU despite the substantial fall in oil prices;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the investment level has fallen by EUR 470 billion since the peak of the crisis, and the investment gap is EUR 230- 370 billion compared to its long-term trends which clearly demonstrates the need to encourage consistent private and public-sector investment to support recovery and create jobs;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. having regard to the social and human toll and the poor economic results of the austerity policy within the Union;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Notes that growth ~~in 2014 is more broadly based; believes, however,~~has remained weak in 2014; believes that the recovery is still fragile and should be enhanced if it is to deliver substantially more growth and jobs in the medium term;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Welcom~~Notes the Commission’s Annual Growth Survey 2015, which endeavours to promote a return to higher growth levels and to strengthen the recovery; supports 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 States;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

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- driven efficiency, while keeping labour costs in line with productivity~~, taking into account all the factors linked to competitiveness;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Believes that the lack of investment is caused by low confidence, high indebtedness, ~~slow deleveraging~~the risk-aversion of the private sector, the absence of measures to encourage productive public investments and subdued expectations of demand;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Welcom~~Notes with interest the Investment Plan for Europe, which is an important instrument for increasing private and public investment; notes that the plan is meant to trigger additional investment, develop new projects, attract investors and restore confidence;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Members States actively to support the Investment Plan, and to contribute to the European Fund for Strategic Investment, supplementing the amounts provided through the EU budget and by the EIB, in order to guide and encourage the private sector to invest; ~~welcomes the principle of using public money to leverage and attract additional private capital~~stresses that once again public capital is being used to offset the risk-aversion of the private sector by taking on the role of venture capital; recalls in this respect the very mixed results of the TLTRO operation launched by the ECB in 2014;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Insists in this respect on the establishment of a favourable climate for the development of public- sector investment; wishes in particular the neutralisation in calculations of the debt and deficits of public-sector investments made by public-sector operators of the Member States, in particular in view of the impact of the new accounting standards SEC2010 on the investment capacity of some public authorities; calls therefore for the European Central Bank to take appropriate decisions in this connection;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

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)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. ~~Welcomes~~Notes that the ambitious structural reforms i~~mplement~~ntroduced by those Member States most affected by the crisis; welcomes as well 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 have not borne fruit; calls therefore for a review of the austerity policy in Europe and, given the context, for the encouragement of public investment;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls on the Member States to make their labour markets more efficient, to modernise social protection systems, including pensions, and to improve and streamline the legal and administrative environment for business investment; stresses that structural reforms need to be complemented by well-targeted, longer- term investments in education, the social sectors, research and development, innovation, infrastructure, ICT and sustainable energy;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. ~~Calls for urgent act~~Urges the Commission to be take~~n by the Commiss~~ urgent action to fight tax fraud and tax evasion; calls for a tax system that is harmonised, simple and transparent; reiterates its call on the Member States to shift taxes from labour to c~~onsumption~~apital;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Reiterates the importance of ensuring ~~labour mobility (both cross-border and cross-sectoral), enhanced labour productivity (connected with skills trai~~a quality workforce within the EU and ensuring full respect for the right to health and safety at work; recalls also the urgent need to adapt legislation concernings t~~o improve employability) and labour market flexibility, while preserving the necessary scope of work security~~he posting of workers in order to put an end to the unacceptable practice of social dumping within the Union;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Agrees with the Commission that most Member States need to continue to pursue growth-friendly fiscal consolidation; invites Member States ~~with sufficient fiscal space to consider reducing taxes and social security contributions with a view to stimulating private investment~~to switch the burden from labour to capital in order to stimulate job creation and economic recovery;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Notes the Commission assessment of the Member States’ draft budgetary plans; stresses that the examination of draft budgetary plans should aim at sustainable finance; insists on the ~~strict~~judicious application of fiscal rules and on respect for the equal treatment principle;

2015/01/19
Committee: ECON

2014/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Points out, in that perspective, that national projections demonstrate that nearly half of all Member States will not achieve their national targets on education schemes and greenhouse gas reductions by 2020 and that trends regarding employment and poverty reduction are even worse, moving away rather than towards the national EU 2020 targets; and the 2030 climate and energy package;

2014/12/16
Committee: ECON

2014/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Calls on the EIB to consider a change in character from a purely commercial banking and AAA-rating methodology towards that of a project risk assessment model based on defined criteria and transparency;

2014/12/16
Committee: ECON

2014/2156(INI)

Hugues BAYET, Ernest URTASUN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Insists that the evaluation to be carried out by the Commission in December 2014 take into account the negative impact of some projects in the PBI Pilot Phase; considers it regrettable that the EIB is supporting some unviable and unsustainable infrastructure projects which are neither climate-friendly nor address the needs and interests of the population they are intended to serve;

2014/12/16
Committee: ECON

2014/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Asks the EIB to evaluate and report in detail on the impacts on the real economy and results of its support to SMEs in Europe for the years 2010 - 2014;

2014/12/16
Committee: ECON

2014/2156(INI)

Hugues BAYET, Ernest URTASUN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)

15b. Notes the launching of the "Skills and jobs - Investing for Youth" initiative and asks the EIB to report on the implementation of this initiative;

2014/12/16
Committee: ECON

2014/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Calls on the EIB to step up its investment efforts with view to reducing significantly its carbon footprint, and to work on policies leading to more ambitious climate targets; requests that the EIB perform a climate assessment and review of all its activities in 2015, with a view to a renewed climate protection policy; calls on the EIB to make publicly available the results of the evaluation;

2014/12/16
Committee: ECON

2014/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Calls on the EIB to significantly increase its lending volume to energy efficiency projects in all sectors, notably where relating to process optimisation, SMEs, buildings and the urban environment; calls the EIB to support more projects especially in countries in economic difficulty in Europe;

2014/12/16
Committee: ECON

2014/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23a. Draws attention to the fact that the EIB is required to make sure that its transparency policy is consistent with the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 on public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents;

2014/12/16
Committee: ECON

2014/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)

25a. Encourages the EIB to make both direct funding and 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. To this end, calls on the EIB to establish a new Responsible Taxation policy, starting from the review of its policy on Non-cooperative jurisdictions (NCJ policy) in 2015;

2014/12/16
Committee: ECON

2014/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)

25b. Urges the EIB to take a leading and exemplary role on issues of tax transparency and responsibility; calls in particular the EIB to collect precise data on the tax payments resulting from its investment and lending operations, especially on taxation of corporate profits and particularly in developing countries, and to analyse and publish this data annually;

2014/12/16
Committee: ECON

2014/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)

30a. Recalls previous demands from the European Parliament requesting that the European Court of Auditors produce a special report on the performance and alignment of EIB external lending activities with EU policies before the mid- term review of the EIB's external mandate in 2016, asks to be included in this report the added value in relation to the use EIB own resources;

2014/12/16
Committee: ECON

2014/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 b (new)

30b. Asks also the European Court of Auditors to include in its analysis the management by the EIB of EU-budget derived funds in the context of the investment facility via the European Development Fund and through the various forms of blending via EU blending facilities, and the usage of reflows for these investments;

2014/12/16
Committee: ECON

2014/2156(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)

31a. Urges the Conference of Presidents to make a proposal for a single committee approach, with view to ensuring a permanently high level of accountability of the EIB towards the EP and civil society. Calls for the EIB and the EP to set up a platform for dialogue between the EIB and the relevant EP Committees; asks on this basis for the EIB to come to the European Parliament to report and discuss on EIB progress and activities on a quarterly basis;

2014/12/16
Committee: ECON

2014/2155(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Reiterates its call for an independent and efficient EPPO, operating as a single office which investigates, prosecutes and brings to court the perpetrators of criminal offences affecting the Union’s financial interests, while ensuring that procedural safeguards for the suspected and accused persons are protected; stresses the importance of a common agreement of Parliament and the Council in the selection and appointment procedures for independent prosecutors with investigative powers in Member States; points out that establishing the EPPO will require effective coordination between the EPPO, EUROJUST and OLAF;

2014/12/09
Committee: LIBE

2014/2155(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Recalls the findings and recommendations of the first Commission report on anti-corruption policy in the EU, published in February 2014, and reaffirms the particular importance of intensifying exchanges of the current good practices highlighted in that report;

2014/12/09
Committee: LIBE

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 a (new)

- having regard to the Commission’s Sixth report on economic, social and territorial cohesion of 23 July 2014 (COM(2014)0473),

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Is ~~pleased with the~~in favour of a European economic governance framework, which, bywhile coordinating policies more closely in order to prevent major imbalances, must fosters smart, sustainable and inclusive growth in line with the targets set by the Europe 2020 strategy;

2015/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2014/2145(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Welcomes the Commission's initiative to conduct an initial review of the framework's effectiveness with a view to assessing the effective and uniform application of governance rules by the Member States and by the Commission, as well as the pertinence thereof; also suggests that the review presents an opportunity for an exchange of views on the ways in which the framework could be ~~deepen~~updated;

2015/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2014/2145(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Takes the view that recognition today by the Commission of the need for a massive investment programme constitutes a major shift in approach by the economic governance framework that has been discouraging investment over the last few years;

2015/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2014/2145(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Stresses in this respect the need for a favourable public-sector investment climate; calls in particular for the neutralisation of public investment in calculating Member State debt, especially given the impact of the new SEC2010 accounting standards on the investment capacity of certain public authorities; calls for European Central Bank decision making to be adapted accordingly;

2015/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2014/2145(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls for the European Semester to be ~~strengthened and deepen~~reviewed as an effective way of preventing a crisis:; with this in mind, welcomes the Commission's proposal to focus its action not only on budget responsibility but also on investment and structural reform ~~in or~~, providerd tohat they link the market economy with social progress;

2015/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2014/2145(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Notes that the structural reforms introduced by those Member States worst affected have not borne fruit; urges that the austerity policy blindly followed in Europe be reviewed accordingly and public investment stepped up in response to the situation;

2015/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2014/2145(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the ~~Member States to implement the country-specific recommendations so as to support growth and jobs; calls on the~~ Commission to submit to the European Parliament an annual assessment of the progress made as regards the effective implementation of those recommendations and their effects on the debt and deficit and on the social indicators, and points out that the assessment could be included as an annex to the Annual Growth Report;

2015/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas since 2008 regional disparities in employment, unemployment and per capita GDP have increased considerably between and within the majority of Member States;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. With a view to improving the effectiveness and focus of budget policies, calls on the Member States to ~~press ahead with their efforts to~~make the moderniseation of their labour markets and social security systems subject to maintaining quality of employment and social protection as a means of ensuring social cohesion, competitiveness and resistance to economic and financial crises; with this in mind, encourages them to share best practices;

2015/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2014/2145(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Proposes to protect salary levels with regard to the inherent obligations associated with economic governance, at least at the levels negotiated in collective agreements;

2015/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2014/2145(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9

9. So as to address the urgent situation with regard to youth unemployment, encourages the Commission to allow the Member States to use the available resources in an effective and focused way via precise, legally sound guidelines for the introduction of the youth employment initiative, and recommends that cross- border mobility be supported via the development of the EURES portal as a vector for youth employment;

2015/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Warns that the complexity and lack of transparency caused by 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~~, local and regional authorities and citizens;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Suggests, in light of the fact that 16 of the 28 country-specific recommendations contained provisions relating explicitly to the competences of local and regional authorities, that these authorities should be more involved in line with the partnership principle governing the structural funds;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Urges the Commission to assess the impact of the new ESA 2010 rules on the investment capacity of the public authorities and to ensure compliance with the principle of non-discrimination between public and private investments in accordance with Article 345 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;

2015/03/04
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

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 partners and, in the light of the allocation of powers within the Member States, the role of the regions and towns regarding the design and implementation of structural reforms;

2015/03/03
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Suggests that, in connection with the Macro-economic Imbalances Procedure, use should be made of additional indicators relating to regional disparities;

2015/03/03
Committee: ECON

2014/2145(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)

31a. Insists that the European Parliament must, generally and systematically, be fully informed and consulted about decisions of the Eurogroup, and must play a genuine role of democratic control in assessing them;

2015/03/03
Committee: ECON

2014/2122(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Acknowledges that the ESFS is still in a setting-up phase and stresses that the tasks already entrusted to ESMA, as well as future tasks envisaged in on-going legislative work, require an adequate level of staff and budget to allow for ~~satisfactory~~ supervision; stresses however that any potential increases in its means should be preceded ~~by rationalisation efforts wherever possible~~, wherever possible, by the rationalisation efforts necessary to avert any new crisis in the banking sector and the extremely damaging consequences entailed in human, social, and economic terms;

2015/01/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2121(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Acknowledges that the ESFS is still in a setting-up phase and stresses that the tasks already entrusted to EIOPA, as well as future tasks envisaged in on-going legislative work, require an adequate level of staff and budget to allow for ~~satisfactory~~ supervision; stresses however that any potential increases in its means should be preceded ~~by rationalisation efforts wherever possible~~, wherever possible, by the rationalisation efforts necessary to avert any new crisis in the banking sector and the extremely damaging consequences entailed in human, social, and economic terms;

2015/01/09
Committee: ECON

2014/2120(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Acknowledges that the ESFS is still in a setting-up phase and stresses that the tasks already entrusted to EBA, as well as future tasks envisaged in on-going legislative work, require an adequate level of staff and budget to allow for ~~satisfactory~~ supervision; stresses however that any potential increases in its means should be preceded ~~by rationalisation efforts wherever possible~~, wherever possible, by the rationalisation efforts necessary to avert any new crisis in the banking sector and the extremely damaging consequences entailed in human, social, and economic terms;

2015/01/09
Committee: ECON

2014/0807(CNS)

Draft regulation
Recital 6

(6) The ECB should publish decisions imposing administrative pecuniary penalties for breaches of directly applicable Union law and sanctions for breaches of ECB regulations or decisions, both in the supervisory and non-supervisory fields, unless such publication would be disproportionate, considering the degree of severity of the administrative pecuniary penalty or sanction imposed on an undertaking, or jeopardise the stability of financial markets. Where the ECB considers that immediate publication of a decision would jeopardise the stability of financial markets or be disproportionate considering the degree of severity of the administrative pecuniary penalty or sanction imposed on an undertaking, it should have the discretion to delay the publication in question by up to one year from the date on which the decision was taken. Upon request the ECB should hold confidential discussions behind closed doors with the Chair and Vice-Chairs of the European Parliament committee with responsibility for such cases. The ECB should state the reasons for the delay in an annex to the publication in which the decision appears.

2014/10/21
Committee: ECON

2014/0807(CNS)