2018/11/20
Committee: ECON

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

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

1. In addition to ESMA, Member States shall designate one or more competent authorities to supervise the compliance of SPEs with this Regulation. Member States shall inform the Commission and ESMA about those competent authorities and, where relevant, about how their functions and duties are divided.

2018/11/20
Committee: ECON

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a directive
Recital 21

(21) The limit values set out in this Directive are to be kept under permanent scrutiny and regular review to ensure consistency with Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council50 , in particular to take account of the interaction between limit values set out under Directive 2004/37/EC and derived no effect levels for hazardous chemicals under that Regulation in order to protect workers effectively. __________________ 50 Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), establishing a European Chemicals Agency, amending Directive 1999/45/EC and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/93 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1488/94 as well as Council Directive 76/769/EEC and Commission Directives 91/155/EEC, 93/67/EEC, 93/105/EC and 2000/21/EC (OJ L 396, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

2018/09/24
Committee: EMPL

2018/0006(CNS)

Caroline NAGTEGAAL, Thierry CORNILLET, Lieve WIERINCK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Jana TOOM, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Jasenko SELIMOVIC, António MARINHO E PINTO

6. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to maximise their efforts in investing in high-quality education and training in order to guarantee that the skills acquired will match labour market demand; underlines, in this respect, the growing demand for digital and other transferable skills and insists that the development of these skills is urgent and particularly necessary; takes the view that mutual recognition of qualifications will be beneficial for overcoming the gap between skills shortages on the European labour market and jobseekers, especially young people;

2018/01/22
Committee: EMPL

2017/2260(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Robert ROCHEFORT, Ivo VAJGL, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Underlines that Member States and the Commission should maximize efforts to ensure equal opportunity and access to education and training to ensure social inclusion and better economic outcomes; Calls on the Commission and Member States to upgrade vocational training and strengthen work-based learning, including quality apprenticeships; Recalls that recognition of skills acquired outside formal education and training and support for adults should also be made easier;

2018/01/22
Committee: EMPL

2017/2260(INI)

Jana TOOM, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Jasenko SELIMOVIC, António MARINHO E PINTO, Robert ROCHEFORT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Underlines that the integration of long-term unemployed individuals through individually tailored measures is a key factor for fighting poverty and social exclusion and contributing to the sustainability of national social security systems; highlights, in this context, the importance of skills and competences acquired in non-formal and informal learning environments;

2018/01/22
Committee: EMPL

2017/2260(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Robert ROCHEFORT, Ivo VAJGL, Jana TOOM, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to take all the necessary measures to improve the services and legislation that are important for a proper work-life balance and for gender equality; calls for the development of accessible, quality and affordable childcare and early education services, and for the creation of favourable conditions for parents and carers by allowing for advantageous family leave take-up and flexible working arrangements ~~which tap into the potential of new technologies; underlines, in this respect, the potential of public-private partnerships~~;

2018/01/22
Committee: EMPL

2017/2260(INI)

Jana TOOM, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, António MARINHO E PINTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Calls on the Member States to provide labour inspectorates or other relevant public bodies with adequate resources to address the issue of undeclared work, as well as to reinforce labour inspection mechanisms and design measures to enable workers to move from the grey to the formal economy in order to have access to employment and social protection systems;

2018/01/22
Committee: EMPL

2017/2260(INI)

Jana TOOM, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, António MARINHO E PINTO, Robert ROCHEFORT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Underlines the potential of SMEs, as well as health and social services and social enterprises, in job creation and the economy as a whole; considers it vital to support entrepreneurship and to improve the business environment by removing administrative burdens, improving access to finance and supporting the development of tax models and simplified tax compliance procedures favouring SMEs, entrepreneurs, micro-entities and start-ups;

2018/01/22
Committee: EMPL

2017/2260(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Robert ROCHEFORT, Ivo VAJGL, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Considers demographic decline, which affects EU regions to different extents, to be among the serious obstacles hindering EU growth; calls on the Commission and the Member States to introduce measures designed to address this challenge; underlines the fact that demographic decline requires a holistic approach, which should include the adaptation of the necessary infrastructure, and the enhancement of public services and flexible working arrangements; Insists that innovation forms of work should go hand in hand with adequate job security and accessible social protection;

2018/01/22
Committee: EMPL

2017/2260(INI)

Robert ROCHEFORT, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Calls on Member States and the Commission to promote lifelong learning, especially for older workers, to adapt their skills and facilitate their employability;

2018/01/22
Committee: EMPL

2017/2260(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Robert ROCHEFORT, Ivo VAJGL, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to pursue the policy of active ageing, the social inclusion of elderly people and solidarity between generations; Recalls that more cost- effective health systems and long-term care that ensure timely access to affordable preventive and curative healthcare of good quality are also fundamental for productivity;

2018/01/22
Committee: EMPL

2017/2260(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Robert ROCHEFORT, Ivo VAJGL, Jana TOOM, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to step up efforts for further inclusion of people with disabilities into the labour market by removing legislative barriers and creating incentives for their employment; Recalls that an adapted work environment for people with disabilities as well as targeted financial support to help them participate fully in the labour market and in the society as a whole are essential;

2018/01/22
Committee: EMPL

2017/2260(INI)

Jana TOOM, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Jasenko SELIMOVIC, António MARINHO E PINTO, Robert ROCHEFORT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Encourages the Member States to implement the necessary measures for the social inclusion of refugees as well as people of ethnic minority or immigrant origin;

2018/01/22
Committee: EMPL

2017/2260(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Robert ROCHEFORT, Ivo VAJGL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Welcomes new initiatives proposed by the Commission such as the launching of a public consultation on a European Labour Authority, as well as a European Social Security Number; calls, therefore, on the Member states to provide labour inspectorates with adequate resources, and also to improve cross-border cooperation between inspection services and the electronic exchange of information and data, in order to improve the efficiency of the controls intended to combat and prevent social fraud and undeclared work and reduce administrative burden;

2018/01/22
Committee: EMPL

2017/2260(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Robert ROCHEFORT, Ivo VAJGL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)

15b. Calls for stronger commitment to combat poverty and rising inequality, and, where needed, for greater investment in social infrastructure and support for those hit hardest to address inequalities correctly notably through social protection systems that provide adequate and well-target income support but also through the design of national tax and benefits systems;

2018/01/22
Committee: EMPL

2017/2260(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Robert ROCHEFORT, Ivo VAJGL, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)

15c. Highlights that in the period 2014 to 2016, real wage growth lagged behind productivity growth despite improvements in the labour market; Recalls that growth in real wages, as a result of increased productivity, is crucial to tackle inequalities;

2018/01/22
Committee: EMPL

2017/2260(INI)

Jana TOOM, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Jasenko SELIMOVIC, António MARINHO E PINTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Underlines the role of the social partners and civil society as essential stakeholders in the reform process and the added value of their involvement in the drafting, sequencing and implementation of reforms; supports the opinion that new forms of employment in the globalised market call for new forms of social dialogue; affirms that the Member States need to help people build the skills required in the labour market;

2018/01/22
Committee: EMPL

2017/2226(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 a (new)

- having regard the Interinstitutional Proclamation on the European Pillar of Social Rights on the 17th November in Gothenburg,

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

A a. whereas European competitiveness depends heavily on non-prices elements related to innovation, technology and organisational capabilities, rather than barely on prices, costs and wages;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Caroline NAGTEGAAL

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas both employment and unemployment rates are still higher than in 2008; whereas hidden unemployment (unemployed, willing to work, but not actively searching for employment) stood at 20 % in 2016; whereas very substantial differences persists in many Member States and employment rates have still some way to go to recover from the crisis notably also to attain the Europe 2020 national targets;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas tax avoidance, tax evasion and aggressive tax planning have caused billions in losses of potential revenues for the public finances of several Member States~~, to the benefit of large corporations~~;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Caroline NAGTEGAAL

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

F a. whereas the free movement of people, goods, services and capital is the cornerstone of the sustainable economic growth in the European Union´s Single Market;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Takes note of the publication of the 2018 Annual Growth Survey (AGS) package and the proposed policy mix of investment, structural reform and fiscal consolidation, presented as a way to further promote higher growth levels and to strengthen European recovery and ~~upward~~ convergence; agrees that faster progress on the adoption of the country-specific recommendations, is needed to deliver on growth, jobs and to fight against inequalities that hamper economic growth;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Highlights, however, the persistent structural problem of insufficient growth of potential output and productivity, flanked by too low a level of investments and wages, leading to persistent social inequalities; Asks the Commission for an impact study of the consequences of growing inequalities on economic growth and job creation in the EU;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. ~~Stresses the importance of a wage increase at European level in order to boost private consumption as the main support for growth~~Highlights that in the period 2014 to 2016, real wage growth lagged behind productivity growth despite improvements in the labour market; Recalls that growth in real wages, as a result of increased productivity is crucial to tackle inequalities; points out the need to focus on the interaction between monetary, fiscal and incomes (including wage and profit development) policies rather than only fiscal issues;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Welcomes the improvements in public finances, which is key to reach a more solid, sustainable and efficient growth, in particular the gradually declining debt/GDP ratios for the EU and euro area and falling headline budget deficits; recalls that, while many Member States have limited fiscal leeway for implementing sustainable, growth-friendly structural reforms, some Member States still have ~~large surpluses which should be used to sustain investments and growth across the EU~~to channel excess savings towards the domestic economy and boost investment;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Recalls the importance of public investment for boosting and leveraging investment in the EU; considers that the policy mix proposed in the AGS 2018 should be further developed to remedy the current decrease in public investment in the EU; ~~highlights that this decrease also affects local and regional authorities, threatening their ability to deliver quality public services;~~

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Underlines that the European Semester and the Country-Specific Recommendations should achieve the objectives set out in the Pillar of Social Rights; Highlights that EPSR is a first step through consolidation of a common approach to the protection and development of social rights across the EU, which should be reflected in measures pursued by Member States; Reiterates the call on the Commission to continue to complement this with further measures on deepening the economic and monetary union;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Caroline NAGTEGAAL, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Lieve WIERINCK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Thierry CORNILLET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7 a. Considers that, as a consequence of the non-binding character of Country- Specific Recommendations regarding structural reforms, responsibility for the consequences of non-implementation remains with the Member States; takes the view that the sharing of the burden of the consequences is conditional to the implementation of the Country-Specific Recommendations;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Caroline NAGTEGAAL, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Lieve WIERINCK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Thierry CORNILLET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Insists on the need to develop within the European semester a comprehensive strategy to support investment ~~that enhances environmental sustainability~~; recalls on the ~~Commission, in this respect, to demonstrate how its statement that ‘the SDGs are now fully integrated~~ importance of credible fiscal rules for regaining t~~he Semester’ (Commission communication of 22 May 2017, COM(2017)0500) is reflected in Annual Growth Survey 2018 and will be reflected in the subsequent Semester proces~~rust of financial markets, which is fundamental to attract investments;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Welcomes the fact that the AGS 2018 acknowledges the need for efficient and fair tax systems to ensure sustainable finance and reverse the current fall in capital income taxation; supports the Commission’s initiatives to achieve increased transparency, a reformed VAT system and a common consolidated corporate tax base; believes that cooperation and a coordinated approach are fundamental to fight against tax abuse;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Insists on a common effort to bring euro area expenditure on R&D closer to the EU2020 targets; calls for proper policies and investment to ensure equal opportunity and access to higher education and training; Calls on the Commission and Member States to upgrade vocational training and strengthen work-based learning, including quality apprenticeships;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Caroline NAGTEGAAL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt adequate measures to help refugees settle and integrate and to anticipate at an early stage the requirements for facilitating their smooth transition to the labour market, as well as ensuring that public services are provided with sufficient resources; stresses that social partners should play a key role in facilitating the integration of migrants and preventing them from suffering from labour abuse;deleted

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Is concerned that gaps and discrimination on the labour market remain high throughout the European Union, contributing to differences in remuneration, retirement, participation in decision- making and wealth between men and women; stresses the importance of preserving high standards in relation to the quality of the proposed employment; Insists that innovation forms of work should go hand in hand with adequate job security and accessible social protection;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Caroline NAGTEGAAL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Thierry CORNILLET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Underlines that any further step towards a deepening of the EMU must go hand in hand with stronger democratic controls; insists that, to this end, the role of the European Parliament and national parliaments must be strengthened; asks to ~~include trade unions in the negotiation~~consult the social partners in the process at both national and European level; ~~urges the launch of the long- awaited negotiation of an interinstitutional agreement (IIA) on the Semester;~~

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2226(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Underlines that any further step towards a deepening of the EMU must go hand in hand with stronger democratic controls; insists that, to this end, the role of the European Parliament and national parliaments must be strengthened; asks to ~~include~~consult trade unions ~~in the negotiation process~~ at both national and European level; urges the launch of the long-awaited negotiation of an interinstitutional agreement (IIA) on the Semester;

2018/01/17
Committee: ECON

2017/2126(INI)

Javier NART, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23a. Is open to the idea of holding future annual conferences of the European Network of Ombudsmen in the premises of the European Parliament, having regard to the direct links between the Committee on Petitions and the European Ombudsman;

2017/07/19
Committee: PETI

2017/2124(INI)

Nils TORVALDS, Thierry CORNILLET, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Petr JEŽEK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas in 2016, the ECB’s net profit stood at EUR 1.19 mbillion compared with EUR 1.08 mbillion in 2015;

2017/09/18
Committee: ECON

2017/2124(INI)

Nils TORVALDS, Thierry CORNILLET, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Petr JEŽEK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Gives a positive assessment of the monetary policy pursued by the ECB in the period 2012-2016 in terms of its contribution to economic recovery by preventing deflation, preserving favourable financing conditions and maintaining financial stability and the proper functioning of the payment systems but stresses its concern regarding the potential consequences of a negative interest rate policy for individual savers and the financial equilibrium of pension schemes as well as about the build up of asset bubbles due to quantitative easing;

2017/09/18
Committee: ECON

2017/2124(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10 a. Notes that 2008 crisis resulted in a quick reversal of capital flows from the periphery to the core;This reversal of capital flows from distressed countries to the core had its origin in a quick re- nationalization of bank cross-border exposures;

2017/09/18
Committee: ECON

2017/2124(INI)

Nils TORVALDS, Thierry CORNILLET, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Petr JEŽEK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Underlines the positive effect of the ECB monetary policy on growth, employment and the financing costs of Member States, non-financial companies and households but stresses that monetary policy will fall short if not complemented by growth-enhancing structural reforms;

2017/09/18
Committee: ECON

2017/2124(INI)

Nils TORVALDS, Thierry CORNILLET, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Petr JEŽEK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14 a. Agrees with the ECB that all Eurozone countries would benefit from intensifying efforts towards achieving a more growth-friendly composition of public finances;

2017/09/18
Committee: ECON

2017/2124(INI)

Nils TORVALDS, Thierry CORNILLET, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Petr JEŽEK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Points out that while unemployment has decreased, aggregate demand in the euro area remains subdued, largely as a result of the rise in poor quality, temporary, low-paid jobs; calls on the ECB to evaluate how this phenomenon is slowing the recovery and explore ways to stimulate demand in spite of wage stagnationmany Eurozone continues to suffer from a high level of unemployment and more should be done to tackle youth unemployment and to create high quality jobs;

2017/09/18
Committee: ECON

2017/2124(INI)

Nils TORVALDS, Thierry CORNILLET, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Petr JEŽEK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15 a. Notes with concern that the Eurozone continues face a low level of productivity growth following a lack of investment since the beginning of the crises;is concerned that the still high level of public debt and large numbers of non- performing loans in the banking sector in some Member States are still fragmenting the financial markets, thus reducing room to manoeuvre to support the most fragile economies

2017/09/18
Committee: ECON

2017/2124(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20 a. Highlights that the cross-border penetration of banking within the euro area remains fairly limited.Mergers and acquisitions in the euro area tend to be overwhelmingly domestic in an environment where growth is low and with some countries still experiencing crisis legacy problems;Notes that, according to the data from the ECB, cross-border mergers and acquisitions accounted for only 9% of total transactions in 2016, against 15% for the period 2000 to 2015;

2017/09/18
Committee: ECON

2017/2124(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)

20 b. Considers that more pan- European banks could achieve scale economies, which could also enhance their capability to compete globally and strengthen European capital markets, and better diversify risk;

2017/09/18
Committee: ECON

2017/2124(INI)

Nils TORVALDS, Thierry CORNILLET, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Petr JEŽEK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Acknowledges that the current policy of low interest rates has a positive effect on the level of nonperforming loans (NPLs); calls for a European strategy involving a secondary market for NPLs in order to alleviate the burden of NPLs in some Member States which would include strict conditionality on progress in Member States regarding insolvency law or banks' governance;

2017/09/18
Committee: ECON

2017/2124(INI)

Nils TORVALDS, Thierry CORNILLET, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Petr JEŽEK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Calls the ECB’s attention to the need for the sufficiently wide coverage of recent stress tests vis-à-vis the resolution or liquidation of certain banks; calls the ECB as overseer of financial market infrastructures to assess constantly the resilience of the individual cyber security systems, the network as a whole but also its own system;

2017/09/18
Committee: ECON

2017/2124(INI)

Nils TORVALDS, Thierry CORNILLET, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Petr JEŽEK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Agrees that a well-functioning, diversified and integrated capital market would support the transmission of the single monetary policy; is of the opinion that the CMU plays a key role in expanding the pool of capital in the EU; calls for the full and timely completion and implementation of the capital markets union and the banking union;

2017/09/18
Committee: ECON

2017/2124(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Welcomes the positive opinion of the ECB on the quick establishment of the European deposit insurance scheme (EDIS) as the third pillar of a fully-fledged banking union; stresses that the EDIS will further help to enhance and safeguard financial stability and it will contribute to financial integration by facilitating banks’ cross-border operations, and enhance its resilience by limiting destabilising capital flows;

2017/09/18
Committee: ECON

2017/2124(INI)

Nils TORVALDS, Thierry CORNILLET, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Petr JEŽEK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36

36. Considers that the ECB’s growing number of responsibilities and tasks ~~necessitate~~ greater ECB transparency ~~and accountability towards Parliament~~goes hand in hand with a growing accountability towards Parliament in association with the CJEU, the European Ombudsman, the European Court of Auditors, the OLAF and the European Data Protection Supervisor;

2017/09/18
Committee: ECON

2017/2124(INI)

Nils TORVALDS, Thierry CORNILLET, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 a (new)

36 a. Is aware of the growing expectation among the citizens in terms of accountability;considers that accountability of the euro area tasks should be done by a euro area composition of the European Parliament;

2017/09/18
Committee: ECON

2017/2114(INI)

Lieve WIERINCK, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Thierry CORNILLET, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

C a. whereas in 2016 only 2 % of country-specific-recommendations (CSRs) have been fully implemented, 43 % with some progress and 45 % with limited or no progress;

2017/07/10
Committee: ECON

2017/2114(INI)

Lieve WIERINCK, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Thierry CORNILLET, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the good performance of the European economy, supported by moderate GDP growth and decreasing, yet still high, unemployment rates; considers that the positive trend is due to the right policy mix in the past years; notes that the modest recovery, however, remains fragile and that the development of GDP per capita is close to stagnation;

2017/07/10
Committee: ECON

2017/2114(INI)

Lieve WIERINCK, Thierry CORNILLET, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to consider the challenges linked to ageing societies as a matter of priority;

2017/07/10
Committee: ECON

2017/2114(INI)

Lieve WIERINCK, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Thierry CORNILLET, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Underlines that the correct implementation of EU law is a basic instrument for economic convergence inside the EU and the Eurozone, and calls for stronger enforcement and public pressure from the Commission on infringing Member States;

2017/07/10
Committee: ECON

2017/2114(INI)

Lieve WIERINCK, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Thierry CORNILLET, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Considers that the uneven growth and employment situation in the euro area requires better coordination of structural reforms, in particular through improved implementation of the country-specific recommendations (CSR); notes that in 2016 55 % of CSRs have not been implemented or only seen limited progress, and only 2 % have been fully implemented; warns that the low implementation rate of CSRs jeopardizes the convergence process in the euro area and hinders growth and job creation;

2017/07/10
Committee: ECON

2017/2114(INI)

Lieve WIERINCK, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Thierry CORNILLET, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6 a. Notes that youth unemployment remains excessively high across the countries of the Euro area;points out that elevated and persistent youth unemployment represents a dangerous long-term structural risk to the economy of the Euro area;considers that specific policies must be developed and implemented to tackle this;

2017/07/10
Committee: ECON

2017/2114(INI)

Lieve WIERINCK, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Thierry CORNILLET, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Stresses th~~e importance of~~at wage developments ~~in line with~~should not outstrip productivity;

2017/07/10
Committee: ECON

2017/2114(INI)

Lieve WIERINCK, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Thierry CORNILLET, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Stresses that the lack of competitiveness and investment in the EU is, in part, linked to a general tax burden that is 10 to 15 % higher than in competing markets, creating hindering tax wedges on companies, investments and labour; believes that moderately lowering the tax burden on labour would increase employment and foster growth;

2017/07/10
Committee: ECON

2017/2114(INI)

Lieve WIERINCK, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Thierry CORNILLET, Petr JEŽEK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11 a. Notes that difficulties in access to finance faced by companies across the EU, in particular by small and medium- sized enterprises, represents an obstacle to the overall competitiveness of the euro area;considers the implementation of measures to improve access to finance a key priority for the improvement of competitiveness in the euro area;

2017/07/10
Committee: ECON

2017/2114(INI)

Lieve WIERINCK, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Thierry CORNILLET, Petr JEŽEK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)

11 b. Considers the deepening of the single market to be a major contributor to the economic development of the euro area;notes that administrative, legal and financial obstacles remain to cross-border economic activity, which represent a particular burden to small and medium- size enterprises;considers that steps should be taken for the harmonisation of administrative, legal and financial requirements for cross-border economic activity;

2017/07/10
Committee: ECON

2017/2114(INI)

Lieve WIERINCK, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Thierry CORNILLET, Petr JEŽEK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)

11 c. Emphasises that excessive and inefficient government bureaucracy represents an obstacle to business across the EU, being particularly burdensome to small and medium-sized enterprises, and could represent a barrier to entry;considers that measures need to be implemented to streamline government bureaucracy and make it more efficient;stresses that digitalisation of such bureaucracy would be a welcomed step forward;

2017/07/10
Committee: ECON

2017/2114(INI)

Lieve WIERINCK, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Thierry CORNILLET, Petr JEŽEK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Considers that reforms removing investment bottlenecks would allow for immediate support for economic activity and at the same time set the conditions for long-term growth; stresses that the completion of the Capital Markets Union is a crucial factor to attract and to increase investment, and improve the financing of growth and jobs;

2017/07/10
Committee: ECON

2017/2114(INI)

Lieve WIERINCK, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Thierry CORNILLET, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Welcomes the fact that deficits in the euro area are projected to decline; is concerned, however, that this process is slowing down and agrees that government debt remains too high in some Member States impeding on investment and growth and making them vulnerable to interest rate shocks;

2017/07/10
Committee: ECON

2017/2114(INI)

Lieve WIERINCK, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Thierry CORNILLET, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19 a. Recalls the assessment of the European Fiscal Board of 20 June 2017, which concludes that in 2018 there is neither the case for a discretionary fiscal impulse nor for a fiscal contraction;supports its recommendation to recompose government expenditure towards higher investment spending in full compliance with the SGP;

2017/07/10
Committee: ECON

2017/2114(INI)

Lieve WIERINCK, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Thierry CORNILLET, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Recognises that Member States have made progress in the area of fiscal policy and active labour market policies, while least progress was made in areas such as competition in services ~~and the business environment~~, constituting a significant portion of the EU economy, and the business environment; calls on the Commission to enforce the implementation of the CSRs, where possible, through the fiscal and macroeconomic surveillance framework; calls on the Commission to propose a binding legal framework enabling the enforcement of all CSRs; expects a greater commitment on the part of Member States to take the necessary policy actions based on the CSRs;

2017/07/10
Committee: ECON

2017/2114(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. Considers it necessary to enhance and supplement internal market cohesion and freedom of movement in line with the specific recommendations for each Member State;

2017/07/10
Committee: ECON

2017/2114(INI)

Lieve WIERINCK, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Thierry CORNILLET, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Considers it ~~of great importance~~essential therefore that all Member States take the necessary policy action to address imbalances, in particular high levels of indebtedness, and commit to structural reforms ensuring the economic sustainability of each individual Member State, thereby ensuring the overall competitiveness and resilience of the European economy;

2017/07/10
Committee: ECON

2017/2114(INI)

Lieve WIERINCK, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Thierry CORNILLET, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)

25 a. Considers that the implementation of country-specific recommendations launched in the framework of the European Semester is crucial to addressing imbalances in the Euro area;notes that the voluntary nature for the implementation of the recommendations represents a vulnerability for the Euro area as a whole;calls on the Commission to make the country-specific recommendations binding;

2017/07/10
Committee: ECON

2017/2072(INI)

Thierry CORNILLET, Caroline NAGTEGAAL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Subheading –1 (new)

Introduction

2017/11/24
Committee: ECON

2017/2072(INI)

Thierry CORNILLET, Caroline NAGTEGAAL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph –1 (new)

-1. Considers that, even though improvements are desirable notably in terms of communication and transparency, the Banking Union remains a very positive and fundamental change for the Member States having the euro;encourages all Member States that have not yet adopted the euro to take all necessary steps to do so, or to join the BU, in order to progressively align the BU with the entire internal market; Or. en ((This paragraph should go under the new heading "Introduction"))

2017/11/24
Committee: ECON

2017/2072(INI)

Thierry CORNILLET, Caroline NAGTEGAAL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph –1 a (new)

-1 a. Recalls that the Banking Union should be recognised as a single jurisdiction; Or. en ((This paragraph should go under the new heading "Introduction"))

2017/11/24
Committee: ECON

2017/2072(INI)

Thierry CORNILLET, Caroline NAGTEGAAL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph –1 b (new)

-1 b. Calls on the Commission to use regulation as the legislative tool when proposing banking legislation; Or. en ((This paragraph should go under the new heading "Introduction"))

2017/11/24
Committee: ECON

2017/2072(INI)

Thierry CORNILLET, Caroline NAGTEGAAL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Reiterates its concerns about the high level of non-performing loans (NPLs) in certain jurisdictions; agrees with the Commission that ‘Member States and banks themselves have a primary responsibility in tackling the legacy of non-performing loans’4 ; welcomes, nonetheless, the work done by different EU institutions and bodies on this issue; calls on these actors and the Member States to duly implement the Council conclusions of 11 July 2017 on the action plan to tackle non-performing loans in Europe; recalls the necessity for the Commission and Member States to improve and harmonise where necessary the insolvency framework; _________________ 4 Commission communication on completing the Banking Union, 11 October 2017, p. 15 (COM(2017)0592).

2017/11/24
Committee: ECON

2017/2072(INI)

Thierry CORNILLET, Caroline NAGTEGAAL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Welcomes the banking reform package proposed by the Commission in November 2016; underlines the importance of the fast-track procedure for the phasing- in of International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 9 in order to avoid cliff effects on the regulatory capital of credit institutions; supports the efforts made to reduce the reporting burden for smaller banks~~; is concerned, however, about the proposed amendments to the waivers in Articles 7 and 8 of the CRR, and more generally, about the proposed shift in the home-host balance;~~ and to safeguard an appropriate level of supervision; welcomes the steps proposed by the Commission to foster integration and remove obstacles to cross- border consolidation in the EU banking sector, desirable to address the challenge of low-profitability and to increase resilience through diversification of type of assets and location of these assets;

2017/11/24
Committee: ECON

2017/2072(INI)

Thierry CORNILLET, Caroline NAGTEGAAL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Welcomes the work done by the EBA and ESMA on promoting supervisory convergence in the context of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU with a view to limiting the development of regulatory and supervisory arbitrage risks; believes that, in order to preserve financial stability, a new supervisory cooperation model should be developed between the EU and the UK;deleted

2017/11/24
Committee: ECON

2017/2072(INI)

Thierry CORNILLET, Caroline NAGTEGAAL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

~~10. Looks forward to the Commission’s proposal on large investment firms;~~deleted

2017/11/24
Committee: ECON

2017/2072(INI)

Thierry CORNILLET, Caroline NAGTEGAAL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Underlines that the safety and soundness of a bank cannot be captured by a point-in-time assessment of its balance sheet alone, as they are ensured through dynamic interactions between the bank and the markets, and affected by various elements in the entire economy; underlines, therefore, that a sound framework for financial stability and growth should be comprehensive and balanced so as to cover dynamic supervisory practices and not focus merely on static regulation with mainly quantitative aspects;

2017/11/24
Committee: ECON

2017/2072(INI)

Thierry CORNILLET, Caroline NAGTEGAAL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)

10b. Stresses that managing cyber security is first and foremost banks’ own responsibility; recognises the SSM work to address cyber security through various angles; calls however on the SSM to increase its efforts and to make it formally one of its high-level priorities;

2017/11/24
Committee: ECON

2017/2072(INI)

Thierry CORNILLET, Caroline NAGTEGAAL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. ~~Is concerned about the high number of~~Takes note of the legal applications lodged before the General Court of the EU in relation to the Banco Popular Español S.A. case; asks the Commission to ~~assess whether this could endanger the effectiveness~~monitor the impact ofn the new resolution regime; calls on the SRB and the Commission to provide more transparency in future resolution decisions in order to enable stakeholders to better understand ex ante the resolution regime;

2017/11/24
Committee: ECON

2017/2072(INI)

Thierry CORNILLET, Caroline NAGTEGAAL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Notes that, while the concern about the mismatch between state aid rules and Union legislation as expressed in the previous report5 related to the ability of deposit guarantee schemes (DGSs) to participate in resolution as provided for in the BRRD and DGSD, the 2017 banking cases ~~brought to light other areas of mismatch, in particular the possibility for Member States to avoid being subject to the discipline of the BRRD by paying ‘liquidation aid’~~raise question in terms of transparency and communication; considers that any public support, as provided by BRRD, should be conditional to the implementation of remedial actions at the Member States level or bank specific; _________________ 5 European Parliament, Resolution of 15 February 2017 on ‘Banking Union – Annual Report 2016’, paragraph 38.

2017/11/24
Committee: ECON

2017/2072(INI)

Thierry CORNILLET, Caroline NAGTEGAAL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Welcomes the ~~progress made i~~agreement on further harmonising the priority ranking of unsecured debt instruments through the Commission’s proposal of November 2016; calls for rapid implementation by Member States so that banks can issue debt in the new insolvency class and thereby build up the required buffers;

2017/11/24
Committee: ECON

2017/2072(INI)

Thierry CORNILLET, Caroline NAGTEGAAL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls for progress to be made on the legislative proposals implementing total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC) in Union law; supports the ~~inclusion of a pre- resolution~~need to harmonize the moratoriuma tools in the BRRD taking into account the global practices;

2017/11/24
Committee: ECON

2017/2072(INI)

Thierry CORNILLET, Caroline NAGTEGAAL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Welcomes the EBA’s decision to publish on an annual basis data received by it in accordance with Article 10(10) of the DGSD; regrets that the data do not allow for a direct comparison of the adequacy of funding between deposit guarantee schemes (DGSs); notes, nonetheless, the need for several DGSs to accelerate the build-up of available financial means in order to achieve the agreed target level ~~of 0.8 % of covered deposit~~s by 3 July 2024;

2017/11/24
Committee: ECON

2017/2072(INI)

Thierry CORNILLET, Caroline NAGTEGAAL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Asks the Commission to shed light on the applications ~~for a target level lower than 0.8 % of covered deposits as received and approved by it in accordance with Article 10(6) of the DGSD; draws attention to~~of options and national discretions on coverage and pay out procedure, contributions and available means, DGS competence, phase-in, scope and membership, use of means and their implications ofn the ~~availability of such an exception for the potential design of an EDIS~~internal market as well as on the third pillar of the Banking Union;

2017/11/24
Committee: ECON

2017/2072(INI)

Thierry CORNILLET, Caroline NAGTEGAAL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Recalls that deposit protection is a common concern for all EU citizens and therefore recalls that the Banking Union is open to all Member States; is currently debating the proposal on an EDIS at committee level; notes, in this respect, the Commission’s more proportionate ‘new approach’ to an EDIS as put forward in its communication of 11 October 2017;

2017/11/24
Committee: ECON

2017/2072(INI)

Thierry CORNILLET, Caroline NAGTEGAAL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Notes th~~e potential benefits and the likely risks related to the introduction of an EDIS~~at whatever the final design of the third pillar it can only be beneficial if it allows a uniform level of safety to be reached for depositors across the Banking Union through a reduction of overall and local risks; considers, th~~erefore,~~at risk reduction measures ~~to be essential building blocks laying the foundations for an EDIS~~are per se beneficial for the EU;

2017/11/24
Committee: ECON

2017/2066(INI)

Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the EU market in retail financial services remains underdeveloped and highly fragmented; whereas urgent and efficient action is ~~therefore needed to facilitat~~needed to unlock the full potential of the sin~~novation beneficial to end users, while unlocking the full potential of the single market;~~gle market and provide consumers with better financial services and products, more choice, and lower rates.

2017/06/29
Committee: ECON

2017/2066(INI)

Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas we should remain ambitious in breaking down national barriers and curbing the existing protectionist tendencies that block innovation in retail financial services;

2017/06/29
Committee: ECON

2017/2066(INI)

Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Welcomes~~Notes that the Commission ~~Action Plan on c~~Consumer fFinancial sServices ~~as a means of addressing~~Action Plan has taken on board some of the c~~hallenge~~oncerns raised by the European Parliament in its report on the Green Paper on retail financial services, with the aim of striving towards a genuine technology-enabled single market for retail financial services, while protecting consumers, lowering prices and fighting against tax fraud, tax evasion and tax avoidance;; believes, nevertheless that the Action Plan falls short of the ambition to create a regulatory environment conducive to transparency, growth and innovation, with a high level of trust of businesses and consumers in retail financial products.

2017/06/29
Committee: ECON

2017/2066(INI)

Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Notes that in 2016 the FinTech funding in Europe accounted for only USD 2.2 billion, as compared to USD 12.8 billion in the US and USD 8.6 billion in China, which demonstrates the urgent need for a quick mentality shift and an adequate regulatory response to technological developments in order for Europe to become a lead market for innovation; stresses that a genuine single market for retail financial services where a level playing field for new market entrants is ensured will make the EU attractive as a hub for innovative financial services and will provide consumers with more and better choice, at lower rates; emphasises that although disruptive technologies present regulatory challenges, they also offer great opportunities for innovation that benefit end-users and a stimulus for economic growth and jobs.

2017/06/29
Committee: ECON

2017/2066(INI)

Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Subheading -1 (new)

Action -1 - Removing the existing barriers to internal market of retail finance

2017/06/29
Committee: ECON

2017/2066(INI)

Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Urges the Commission to map the obstacles to internal market in retail finance stemming from different consumer protection, taxation and labour law provisions across Member States; furthermore, urges the Commission following the assessment to come up with concrete proposals by eliminating identified barriers by January, 2018.

2017/06/29
Committee: ECON

2017/2066(INI)

Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Urges the Commission to investigate into possibility of introducing a 29th regime for retail financial products in the absence of harmonised national rules; furthermore, calls on the Commission to look into the possibility of creating a harmonised legal framework for standardised default options for the most commonly used EU financial products along the lines of the Basic Bank Account and PEPP model.

2017/06/29
Committee: ECON

2017/2066(INI)

Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. ~~Approves of~~Welcomes the Commission’s ambition to incorporate the achievements of the Payment Accounts Directive to ~~make it easier to~~ facilitate EU-wide cross-border switchainge of financial services providers and products; calls on the Commission to present legislative initiatives specifically targeted at the financial sector to end unjustified geo- blocking in order to facilitate switching by customers to more advantageous retail financial services in other Member States;

2017/06/29
Committee: ECON

2017/2066(INI)

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Stresses that addressing consumer over-indebtedness linked to credit activities must be given priority if the Commission aims to explore ways of facilitating cross- border access to loans; In this regard, urges the Commission to promote financial education and foster multi- stakeholder collaboration in this important field.

2017/06/29
Committee: ECON

2017/2053(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the work of the High Level Group on Own Resources, and in particular the measures aimed at reducing the share of the GNI-based contribution, which is residual in nature; argues that this reduction should be compensated for by the use of the traditional and new genuine own resources;

2017/12/11
Committee: ECON

2017/2053(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Welcomes the approach taken in the reflection paper on the future of EU finances whereby the basic principle of the EU budget must be to deliver European added value, reaching better outcomes and scales economies than would be possible for uncoordinated national budgets acting individually;

2017/12/11
Committee: ECON

2017/2053(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Considers that preference should be given to genuine, autonomous, transparent and fair European own resources, such as a tax based on the common consolidated corporate tax base (CCCTB) and a contribution based on a dref~~initive VAT system~~ormed European VAT system, which does not place a disproportionate burden only on income tax payers, thereby delivering a fairer system for European citizens with respect to the EU budget;

2017/12/11
Committee: ECON

2017/2053(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Welcomes the Commission intention to put forward a proposal on the creation of a dedicated euro area budget line within the EU budget providing for four functions: structural reform assistance, a stabilisation function, a backstop for the Banking Union, and a convergence instrument to give pre- accession assistance to Member States on their way to euro membership; Believes that a cohesion instrument is also needed.

2017/12/11
Committee: ECON

2017/2053(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Advocates the establishment of a budgetary capacity for the Eurozone with a dedicate budget line in the EU budget that would perform functions of macroeconomic stabilisation ~~and bring about~~to safeguard investment and to prevent unemployment and insecurity and cushioning asymmetric shocks and incentives for Member States to conduct structural reforms to modernize their economies, taking into account the necessary economic and social convergence; considers, moreover, that this capacity should be financed through own resources specific to the euro area, such as a ~~tax on financial transactions, a bank levy and a~~ share of the ECB’s profits;

2017/12/11
Committee: ECON

2017/2053(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Considers that the EU should be able to issue ~~zero-risk~~ debt assets in order to offset the volatility in own resources’ revenues;

2017/12/11
Committee: ECON

2017/2053(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Considers that all currently granted exceptions in form of rebates or corrective mechanisms should be abolished;

2017/12/11
Committee: ECON

2017/2053(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Supports the creation of a dedicated euro area budget line within the EU budget to support the adoption of the euro by Member States not yet part of the euro area, ~~but~~ calls for it to be made separate from the Eurozone’s budgetary capacity~~; considers that the budgetary capacity of the Eurozone should be~~ and excluded from ceiling calculations for commitments and payments under the multiannual financial framework;

2017/12/11
Committee: ECON

2017/2053(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Supports the proposal to create the post, within the Commission, of European Finance Minister, who would be tasked with managing the budgetary and fiscal capacity and ensuring full democratic accountability of the EU’s economic governance;

2017/12/11
Committee: ECON

2017/2053(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Supports the transformation of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) into a European Monetary fund based on EU law;

2017/12/11
Committee: ECON

2017/2043(BUD)

Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Robert ROCHEFORT, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Recalls that ~~growth is the key to more jobs~~sustainable growth and investment are the key to job creation and increased prosperity and that it is necessary to direct the structural funds more effectively towards promoting growth;

2017/05/10
Committee: EMPL

2017/2043(BUD)

Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Robert ROCHEFORT, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Emphasises that the 2018 budget must play a key role in enhancing the Union’'s contribution to ~~growth and jobs~~sustainable growth, jobs and social inclusion, especially in ~~combating~~the areas of youth unemployment and inequality;

2017/05/10
Committee: EMPL

2017/2043(BUD)

Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Robert ROCHEFORT, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Recalls that youth unemployment rates remain ~~ver~~unacceptably high in the Union1a and that the situation of unemployed young people, especially NEETS (not in education, employment, or training), is particularly worrying; emphasises that, in order to address this issue, it is of the utmost importance to ensure the ~~proper~~adequate and timely funding of ~~the~~ Youth Guarantee schemes through the ~~European Youth Initiative and the European Social Fund;~~Youth Employment Initiative and the European Social Fund; in this regard, highlights the importance of continuing the YEI up to the end of the current MFF; also notes the Court of Auditors statement that it is not possible to address the whole NEET population with the resources available from the EU budget alone1b; _________________ 1aIn March 2017, the youth unemployment rate was 17.2% in the EU28 and 19.4% in the euro area, compared with 19.1% and 21.3% respectively in March 2016 - Eurostat, 2nd May 2017: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/29 95521/8002525/3-02052017-AP- EN.pdf/94b69232-83a9-4011-8c85- 1d4311215619 1bSpecial report No 5/2017: Youth unemployment – have EU policies made a difference?, p. 8

2017/05/10
Committee: EMPL

2017/2043(BUD)

Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Robert ROCHEFORT, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Believes it is essential that the Youth Employment Initiative continues to be adequately funded and stresses in the context of the Multiannual Financial Framework mid-term review that the Council must adopt the agreed increase of EUR 500 million;

2017/05/10
Committee: EMPL

2017/2043(BUD)

Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Robert ROCHEFORT, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Underlines the importance of sufficient funding and good budgetary management of the programmes within the 2014-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework that aim to address unemployment, poverty and social exclusion, such as the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI), the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF), the different axes of the Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) and the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD); insists, therefore, that for 2018 these programmes’' resources should at least be maintained at the levels of the previous EU budget; notes that payment amounts for this year's budget were limited as the structural funds have not been absorbed as quickly as expected and stresses that adequate payment appropriations be provided for in budget 2018;

2017/05/10
Committee: EMPL

2017/2043(BUD)

Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Takes the view that the EU budget should also support vocational training and professional qualification measures; highlights, in this respect, that proper funding for the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) is paramountensure the adequate financial and human resourcing of EUROFOUND, CEDEFOP, ETF and EU-OSHA in order to allow them to fulfil their respective remits and ensure the best possible results in support of EU legislative and policy objectives;

2017/05/10
Committee: EMPL

2017/2043(BUD)

Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Points out that micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises are ~~a major source of employment in the Union and~~the backbone of Europe's economy, representing 99% of all businesses in the EU; notes that one of the main problems in setting up and maintaining such enterprises ~~and keeping them going~~ is that of obtaining finance; underlines that the 2018 budget should support measures promoting entrepreneurship ~~in those enterprises~~, including social entrepreneurship ~~and~~, innovative social enterprises and self-employment; stresses, in this respect, that the budget 2018 should in particular facilitate access to micro- credits available through the microfinance and social entrepreneurship axis of the Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) programme;

2017/05/10
Committee: EMPL

2017/2043(BUD)

Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Robert ROCHEFORT, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Urges that financial support ~~be provided for programmes creating jobs for those with multiple disadvantages on~~from EU funds reaches as many targeted beneficiaries as possible in particular for those furthest from the labour market, such as the long-term unemployed, people with disabilities and people from minority backgrounds;

2017/05/10
Committee: EMPL

2017/2043(BUD)

Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Robert ROCHEFORT, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Reiterates that pilot projects and preparatory actions are very valuable tools to initiate new activities and policies in the fields of employment and social inclusion; stresses that several ideas of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs have been implemented successfully in the past as pilot projects/preparatory actions; ~~is of the opinion, therefore, that that committee will make further use of those instruments in 2018;~~ encourages the full use of the margins available under each heading; calls for Parliament to be given regular, detailed updates on the various stages in the implementation of pilot projects and preparatory actions by the Commission.

2017/05/10
Committee: EMPL

2017/2024(INL)

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Javier NART

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5c. Notes the important role of the European Ombudsman in investigating the handling of ECI requests by the Commission, and especially cases of refusal to register an ECI;

2017/07/27
Committee: PETI

2017/0355(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a directive
Recital 5 a (new)

(5a) Member States may provide, on objective grounds, that provisions laid down in Chapter III shall not apply to the armed forces, and the police authorities, firemen, and other law enforcement services.

2018/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2017/0355(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a directive
Recital 16

(16) Workers should have the right to be informed about their rights and obligations resulting from the employment relationship in writing, in paper or electronically, at the start of employment. The basic relevant information should therefore reach them in writing at the latest ~~on the first day of the employment.~~ within three working days of the start of employment, but on the first day of the employment relationship this same information shall be provided orally. It should be possible to extend the three-day deadline for providing the basic information to a maximum of one week in exceptional circumstances, such as in the case of abnormal functioning of the human resources services of the company. The remainder of the information should be provided within a reasonable period thereafter, but in any event within 15 days of the start of employment.

2018/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2017/0355(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a directive
Recital 28

(28) The consultation on the European Pillar of Social Rights showed the need to strengthen enforcement of Union labour law to ensure its effectiveness. ~~As regards~~The evaluation of Directive 91/533/EEC~~, the REFIT evaluation41~~ conducted under the Commission´s Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme, REFIT41 , confirmed that strengthened enforcement mechanisms could improve ~~its~~the effectiveness of Union labour law. It showed that redress systems based solely on claims for damages are less effective than systems that also provide for sanctions (such as lump sums or loss of permits) for employers who fail to issue written statements. It also showed that employees rarely seek redress during the employment relationship, which jeopardises the goal of the provision of the written statement, which is to ensure that workers are informed about their essential features of their employment relationship. It is therefore necessary to introduce enforcement provisions which ensure the use ~~either~~ of favourable presumptions where information about the employment relationship is not provided, and/or of a~~n administrative~~ procedure under which the employer may be required to provide the missing information and may be subject to sanction if ~~it does not. That redress should be subject to a procedure by which the employer is notified~~the employer does not do so. Such favourable presumptions could include a presumption that the worker has an open- ended employment relationship, that there is no probationary period or that the worker has a full-time position, where the respective information is missing. That redress should be subject to a procedure by which the employer is notified by the worker or by a third party such as worker´s representatives or other competent entity or authority, that information is missing and has 15 days in which to supply complete and correct information. __________________ 41 SWD(2017)205 final, page 26.

2018/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2017/0355(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Member States may provide, on objective grounds, that provisions laid down in Chapter III shall not apply to the armed forces, and the police authorities, firemen, and other law enforcement services.

2018/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2017/0355(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point a

(a) the worker shall benefit from favourable presumptions defined by the Member State. Where the information provided did not include the information referred to in points (e), (f), (k) or (l) of Article 3(2), the favourable presumptions shall include a presumption that the worker has an open-ended employment relationship, that there is no probationary period or that the worker has a full-time position, respectively. Employers shall have the possibility to rebut the presumptions; orand

2018/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2017/0224(COD)

Lieve WIERINCK, Thierry CORNILLET, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15

(15) Furthermore, the Commission should have the possibility to screen foreign direct investments likely to affect past, current and future projects and programmes of Union interest on grounds of security or public order. This would give the Commission a tool to protect projects and programmes which serve the Union as whole and represent an important contribution to its economic growth, jobs and competitiveness. This should include in particular projects and programmes involving a substantial EU funding or established by Union legislation regarding critical infrastructure, critical technologies or critical inputs. For greater clarity, an indicative list of projects or programmes of Union interest in relation to which foreign direct investment can be subject to a screening by the Commission should be listed in an Annex.

2018/02/08
Committee: ECON

2017/0224(COD)

Lieve WIERINCK, Thierry CORNILLET, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1

1. Member States ~~may~~shall maintain, amend or adopt mechanisms to screen foreign direct investments on the grounds of security or public order, under the conditions and in accordance with the terms set out in this Regulation.

2018/02/08
Committee: ECON

2017/0224(COD)

Lieve WIERINCK, Thierry CORNILLET, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2

2. The Commission ~~may~~shall screen foreign direct investments that are likely to affect projects or programmes of Union interest on the grounds of security or public order.

2018/02/08
Committee: ECON

2017/0224(COD)

Lieve WIERINCK, Thierry CORNILLET, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3

3. Projects or programmes of Union interest shall include in particular those projects and programmes which involve or have involved a substantial amount or a significant share of EU funding, or which are covered by Union legislation regarding critical infrastructure, critical technologies or critical inputs. An indicative list of projects or programmes of Union interest is included in Annex 1.

2018/02/08
Committee: ECON

2017/0224(COD)

Lieve WIERINCK, Thierry CORNILLET, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

In screening a foreign direct investment on the grounds of security or public order, Member States and the Commission may consider the potential direct and indirect effects on, inter alia:

2018/02/08
Committee: ECON

2017/0224(COD)

Lieve WIERINCK, Thierry CORNILLET, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

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

- critical technologies, including artificial intelligence, robotics, semiconductors, technologies with potential dual use applications, cybersecurity, biotechnology, space or nuclear technology;

2018/02/08
Committee: ECON

2017/0224(COD)

Lieve WIERINCK, Thierry CORNILLET, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

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

- the security of supply of critical outputs such as healthcare;

2018/02/08
Committee: ECON

2017/0224(COD)

Lieve WIERINCK, Thierry CORNILLET, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2

In determining whether a foreign direct investment is likely to affect security or public order, Member States and the Commission ~~may~~shall take into account whether the foreign investor is directly or indirectly controlled by the government of a third country, including through significant funding.

2018/02/08
Committee: ECON

2017/0224(COD)

Lieve WIERINCK, Thierry CORNILLET, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

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

Member States shall notify other Member States and the Commission of any attempts by investors to circumvent the screening mechanisms and screening decisions.

2018/02/08
Committee: ECON

2017/0224(COD)

Lieve WIERINCK, Thierry CORNILLET, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. The Commission shall develop and share a ‘best practice’ screening mechanism which may be adopted by Member States, for instance where there is currently no screening mechanism in place. Member States may call upon the Commission's Structural Reform Support Service (SRSS) in setting up their screening mechanism.

2018/02/08
Committee: ECON

2017/0224(COD)

Lieve WIERINCK, Thierry CORNILLET, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3

3. Member States that do not maintain screening mechanisms shall ~~provide the Commission with an annual report covering foreign directs investments that took place in their territory, on the basis of information available to them~~develop a screening mechanism by ... [one year from the entry into force of this Regulation].

2018/02/08
Committee: ECON

2017/0224(COD)

Lieve WIERINCK, Thierry CORNILLET, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3

3. Where the Commission considers that a foreign direct investment is likely to affect security or public order in ~~one or mor~~more than one Member States, it ~~may~~shall issue an opinion addressed to the Member State in which the foreign direct investment is planned or has been completed and addressed to the other Member State(s) which could potentially be impacted, or which have been impacted. The Commission may issue an opinion irrespective of whether other Member States ~~have provided comments~~choose to do so.

2018/02/08
Committee: ECON

2017/0224(COD)

Lieve WIERINCK, Thierry CORNILLET, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Where the Commission, Member States or the Coordination group have been made aware of a threat to security or public order, such as coordinated efforts by one or more foreign countries to obtain critical assets, this information shall be shared without undue delay so that FDI screening efforts can be coordinated.

2018/02/08
Committee: ECON

2017/0224(COD)

Lieve WIERINCK, Thierry CORNILLET, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 4

4. TUpon request by the Commission or a Member State which duly considers that a foreign direct investment is likely to affect its security or public order ~~may request from~~, the Member State where the foreign direct investment is planned or has been completed, shall deliver any information necessary to provide comments referred to in paragraph 2, or to issue the opinion referred to in paragraph 3.

2018/02/08
Committee: ECON

2017/0224(COD)

Lieve WIERINCK, Thierry CORNILLET, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1

1. Where the Commission considers that a foreign direct investment is likely to affect projects or programmes of Union interest on grounds of security or public order, the Commission ~~may~~shall issue an opinion addressed to the Member State where the foreign direct investment is planned or has been completed.

2018/02/08
Committee: ECON

2017/0224(COD)

Lieve WIERINCK, Thierry CORNILLET, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2

2. ~~The Commission may request from~~Upon request of the Commission, the Member State where the foreign direct investment is planned or has been completed shall deliver any information necessary to issue the opinion referred to in paragraph 1.

2018/02/08
Committee: ECON

2017/0224(COD)

Lieve WIERINCK, Thierry CORNILLET, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1

1. Information received as a result of the application of this Regulation shall be used only for the purpose for which it was requested, without leading 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.

2018/02/08
Committee: ECON

2017/0224(COD)

Lieve WIERINCK, Thierry CORNILLET, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 2

2. Member States and the Commission shall ensure the protection of confidential and commercially sensitive information acquired in application of this Regulation.

2018/02/08
Committee: ECON

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1

(1) EU households are amongst the highest savers in the world, but the bulk of these savings are held in bank accounts with short maturities and low returns. Nonetheless, household saving rates differ significantly among EU countries and persistent differences among EU member states may have an impact on investment and growth as household saving is an important financing source for private and public investment. More investment into capital markets can help meet the challenges posed by population ageing ~~and~~ , low interest rates and low levels of investment in the long-term.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)

(1a) Old age pensions constitute an essential part of a retiree's income, to ensure a decent standard of living and to combat old age poverty. It is a precondition for exercising fundamental rights laid down in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, including in Article 25 on the rights of the elderly which states: "The Union recognises and respects the rights of the elderly to lead a life of dignity and independence and to participate in social and cultural life" as well as the rights enshrined in the Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on the promotion of human rights of older persons of the Council of Europe1a. __________________ 1aRecommendation CM/Rec(2014)2 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the promotion of human rights of older persons

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 b (new)

(1b) The aging of society and falling birth rates are significant demographic challenges for the Union, which threatens both pension adequacy and sustainability as well as intergenerational solidarity. In addition, digitalisation and labour market changes are likely to further exacerbate the problem and put increasing pressure on first and second pillar pensions.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 c (new)

(1c) According to EIOPA, only 67 million people, or 27% of the total EU population between 25-59 years old, are currently voluntarily subscribed to financial products with a long-term pension objective and that this is concentrated in only a few Member States.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 d (new)

(1d) Priority should be given to further developing and strengthening the first pillar public pension schemes of Member States as the primary source of income for pensioners. However, in light of the impending reduction of the working population from a ratio of 1:4 to 1:2 a multi-pillar pension approach is crucial. A voluntary, long-term pan-European Personal Pension Product will act as a complement to and strengthen existing pension savings, boosting their adequacy as well as increasing coverage for categories of people previously faced with a lack, or partial lack, of adequate coverage such as women, young people the self-employed and persons in atypical or new forms of employment.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 e (new)

(1e) Portability of the PEPP will increase its attractiveness as a product particularly to young people and help to further facilitate citizens’ right to live and work across the Union.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2

(2) Personal pensions are important in linking long-term savers with long-term investment opportunities. A larger, European market for personal pensions will support the supply of funds for institutional investors and investment into the real economy which could help increase job creation across the EU.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3

(3) Currently, the functioning of the internal market for personal pensions is impeded by the high degree of fragmentation between national markets and the limited degree of portability of personal pension products. This can result in difficulties for individuals to make use of their basic freedoms. For instance, they may be prevented from searching for or taking up a job in or retiring into another Member State. In addition, the possibility for providers to use the freedom of establishment and the freedom to provide services is hampered by the lack of standardisation of existing personal pension products.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9

(9) In its Communication Mid-Term Review of the Capital Markets Union Action Plan32 , the Commission announced "a legislative proposal on a pan-European Personal Pension Product (PEPP) by end June 2017. This will lay the foundations for a safer, more cost-efficient and transparent market in affordable and voluntary personal pension savings that can be managed on a pan-European scale. It will address the demographical challenge and pension gap, meet the needs of people wishing to enhance the adequacy of their retirement savings, ~~address the demographical challenge,~~ complement the existing pension products and schemes in particular under the first and second pillar, and support the cost-efficiency of personal pensions by offering good opportunities for long-term investment of pension savings". __________________ 32 COM(2017) 292 final, p. 6. COM(2017) 292 final, p. 6.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10

(10) Among personal pension products, the development of a PEPP will contribute to increasing choices for retirement saving and establish an EU market for PEPP providers. It will provide households with ~~better~~more and quality options to meet their retirement goals. Personal pension savings must be safe, cost-effective, transparent and sufficiently flexible to accommodate the current economic and labour market environment in the EU and to promote a Single Market for personal pensions.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11

(11) A legislative framework for a PEPP will lay the foundations for a successful market in affordable and voluntary retirement-related investments that can be managed on a pan-European scale. By complementing the existing pension products and schemes, it will contribute to meeting the needs of people wishing to enhance the adequacy of their retirement savings, addressing the demographical challenge and providing a powerful new source of private capital for long-term investment. This framework will not replace or harmonise existing national personal pension schemes.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20

(20) A PEPP should comprise national compartments, each of them accommodating personal pension product features ~~allowing that contributions to the PEPP qualify for incentives~~. At the level of the individual PEPP saver, a first compartment should be created upon opening of a PEPP.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21

(21) In order to allow a smooth transition for PEPP providers, the obligation of providing PEPPs comprising compartments for each Member State will apply three years after the entry into force of this Regulation. However, uUpon launching a PEPP, the provider should provide information on which national compartments are immediately available, in ~~order to avoid a possible misleading of consumers~~the contract.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21 a (new)

(21a) In order to facilitate provisions to open national compartments in all Member States, PEPP providers should be able to enter partnerships with other PEPP providers.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 24

(24) In order to ensure optimal product transparency, PEPP ~~manufactur~~providers should draw up the PEPP key information document for the PEPPs that they manufacture before the product can be distributed to PEPP savers. They should also be responsible for the accuracy of the PEPP key information document. The PEPP key information document should replace and adapt the key information document for packaged retail and insurance-based investment products under Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council33 which would not have to be provided for PEPPs. __________________ 33 Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 November 2014 on key information documents for packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs), OJ L 352, 9.12.2014, p. 1.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29

(29) PEPP providers should draw up a Pension Benefit Statement addressed to PEPP savers, in order to present them with key personal and generic data about the PEPP scheme and to ensure continuous information on it. The Pension Benefit Statement should be clear, updated, simple and comprehensive and should contain relevant and appropriate information to facilitate the understanding of pension entitlements over time and across schemes and serve labour mobility.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 38

(38) In view of the long-term retirement objective of the PEPP, the investment options ~~grant~~offered to the PEPP savers should be ~~fram~~clearly outlined, covering the elements which will allow investors to make an informed investment decision, including the number of investment options they can choose from. After the initial choice made upon the subscription of a PEPP, the PEPP saver should have the possibility to modify this choice at reasonable intervals (every five years), so that sufficient stability is offered to providers for their long-term investment strategy whilst at the same time investor protection is ensured.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 39

(39) The default investment option should allow the PEPP saver to recoup the invested capital. The PEPP providers cshould in addition include an inflation indexation mechanism to at least partly cover inflation.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 47

(47) In order to find better conditions for their investments, thus also stimulating the competition among PEPP providers, PEPP savers should have the right to switch providers during the accumulation and the decumulation phases, through a clear, quick ~~and safe~~, safe and transparent procedure.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 55

(55) Full transparency on costs and fees related to the investment in a PEPP should be guaranteed. A level-playing field between providers would be established, whilst ensuring consumer protection. Comparative information ~~would~~shall be available between different products, thus incentivising competitive pricing.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 56

(56) Although the ongoing supervision of PEPP providers is to be exercised by the respective competent national authorities, EIOPA should coordinate the supervision with regards to PEPPs, in order to guarantee the consistent application of a unified supervisory methodology, contributing in this way to the pane- European nature of the pension product.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 69

(69) Following the launch of the PEPP, Member States are strongly encouraged to take into consideration Commission Recommendation (EU) 2017/… and to extend the benefits of the tax advantages they grant to national PPPs also to the PEPP.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 12 a (new)

(12a) "lump sum" means the full payment of the accumulated capital at the end of the accumulation phase;

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21

(21) "capital" means aggregate capital contributions and uncalled committed capital, calculated on the basis of amounts investible ~~after~~before deduction of all fees, charges and expenses that are directly or indirectly borne by investors;

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 24

(24) "default investment option" means an investment strategy where the PEPP saver recoups at least the capital invested and which is either selected by the PEPP saver or applied when the PEPP saver has not provided instructions on how to invest the funds accumulating in his PEPP account;

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 28 a (new)

(28a) "biometric risks" mean risks linked to longevity, disability and death.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 28 b (new)

(28b) "compartment partnership" means cooperation between PEPP providers to offer compartments in different Member States as regards the portability service as referred to in Article 12.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2

2. Before taking a decision on the application, EIOPA shall consult the competent authority of the applicant to verify if there are any objections to the granting of the application.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1

1. The portability service allows PEPP savers to continue contributing to the PEPP which they have already contracted with its provider, while changing their domicile by moving to another Member State. The Commission should examine waiving the fee for changing providers as an incentive. In any case, costs shall be reasonable and communicated always at time of the contract.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 2

2. When proposing a PEPP, the PEPP provider or PEPP distributor shall provide potential PEPP savers with information on which national compartments are immediately available and either from the PEPP provider or from a registered partner.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 3

3. Th~~ree years at the latest after~~e available compartments shall be listed in the econtr~~y into application of this Regulation, each PEPP shall~~act between the PEPP saver and PEPP provider. The PEPP provider shall be obliged to offer nat~~ional~~ least the compartments ~~for all Member States upon request address~~listed toin the ~~PEPP provider~~contract.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1

~~Without prejudice to the deadline under Article 13(3),~~ PEPP providers shall ensure that within each individual PEPP account a new compartment could be opened, either by transferal or addition, corresponding to the legal requirements and conditions for using incentives fixed at national level for the PEPP byof the Member State ~~to which the PEPP saver moves~~where the compartment shall be open.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 a (new)

PEPP providers may enter a compartment partnership with other PEPP providers in order to facilitate provisions to open compartments in all Member States.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1

1. ~~Without prejudice to the deadline under Article 13(3), i~~Immediately after being informed about the PEPP saver's intention to exercise his right of mobility between Member States, the PEPP provider shall inform the PEPP saver about the possibility to open a new compartment within the PEPP saver's individual account and about the deadline within which such compartment could be opened.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 1

1. At the request of the PEPP saver, the PEPP provider shall propose to the PEPP saver to arrange for transfer of accumulated assets between different compartments of the individual PEPP account, so that all assets could be consolidated in one compartment. Costs associated with this transfer must have been stipulated at the time the contract was concluded.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – title

17 Provision of information on portability to the ~~national~~competent authorities

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1

1. All contractual arrangements for providing the portability service shall be notified by the PEPP provider to ~~the respective national authority exercising prudential supervision over it~~EIOPA.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – introductory part

2. The information under paragraph 1 shall be filed electronically in a central database held with ~~the national supervisory authority within one month of ope~~EIOPA within one month of opening the new compartment. The database shall be accessible to the national competent authorities who shall automatically be notified of any changes concerning the ~~new~~local compartment ~~and~~. The database shall contain at least:

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)

(aa) identification of the registered partner if any;

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 1

All documents and information under this Chapter shall be provided to PEPP customers electronically, provided that the PEPP customer is enabled to store such information in a way accessible for future reference and for a period of time adequate for the purposes of the information and that the tool allows the unchanged reproduction of the information stored. Upon request, PEPP providers and distributors shall provide free of charge those documents and information also on another durable medium. and in an accessible format to PEPP savers with a visual or hearing impairment as well as an easy to read version for PEPP savers with low or no financial literacy.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1

1. Before a PEPP is proposed to PEPP savers, the PEPP provider shall draw up for that product a PEPP key information document constituting pre-contractual information in accordance with the requirements of this Chapter and shall publish the document on its website.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 2

2. PEPP providers and PEPP distributors shall ~~com~~apply withe requirements contained in Articles 5(2), and 6 to 18 of Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 when drawing up the PEPP key information document.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 3 – point iv

(iv) general information on the portability service, including information on the compartments and registered partners if any;

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 5

5. Potential PEPP savers shall also be provided with information on the past performance of investments related to the PEPP scheme covering ~~a minimum of five years, or, where the scheme has been operating for fewer than five years, covering all~~ the years that the scheme has been operating, as well as with information on the structure of costs and fees borne by PEPP savers and PEPP beneficiaries. In case the information could not be provided, PEPP savers should at least have access to the performance of a comparable scheme of investments.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Article 26

~~26 [...]~~deleted

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 1

1. PEPP providers shall draw up a concise, clear and comprehensible personalised document containing key information for each PEPP saver taking into consideration the specific nature of national pension systems and of relevant national social, labour and tax law (“PEPP Benefit Statement”). The title of the document shall contain the words “PEPP Benefit Statement”.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

1. The PEPP Benefit Statement shall be provided free of charge, annually and include, at least, the following key information for PEPP savers:

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 1 – point a

(a) personal details of the PEPP saver, name ~~of the PEPP provid~~and contact information of the PEPP provider, identification of the scheme of the PEPP saver, information on pension benefit projections, information on accrued entitlements or accumulated capital, contributions paid by the PEPP saver or any third party and information on the funding level of the PEPP scheme, for which Article 39, paragraphs 1(a), (b), (d), (e), (f) and (h) of Directive 2016/2341/EU shall be applied, where the “member” means the PEPP saver, the “IORP” means the PEPP provider, the “pension scheme” means the PEPP scheme and “the sponsoring undertaking” means any third party for the purposes of this Regulation;

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1

1. PEPP savers shall receive information during the pre-retirement phase as set out in Article 42 of Directive 2016/2341/EU. This information must be provided at the latest one year prior to the retirement age.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 1 – point d

(d) investment in derivative instruments shall be possible insofar as such instruments contribute to a reduction in investment risks or facilitate efficient portfolio management. Those instruments shall be valued on a prudent basis, taking into account the underlying asset, and included in the valuation of a PEPP provider’s assets. PEPP providers shall also avoid excessive risk exposure to a single counterparty and to other derivative operations;deleted

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 1 – point f

(f) ~~the assets shall not be i~~Investeding in a high-risk and non- cooperative jurisdiction identified by the Financial Action Task Force is forbidden;

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 34 – paragraph 1

1. PEPP providers and distributors shall offer up to five investment options to PEPP savers.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 34 – paragraph 2

2. TOne of the investment options offers shall include a default investment option while the remaining options and may include alternative investment options.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 1

The PEPP saver shall opt for anone of the investment options upon conclusion of the PEPP contract.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 37 – paragraph 1

1. The default investment option shall ~~ensure capital protection for the PEPP saver, on the basis of a risk-mitigation technique that results in a safe investment strategy~~be a simple, easy to understand product and the PEPP provider shall guarantee the PEPP saver that the capital accumulated by the start of pay-out phase will at least equal the contributions paid including all costs and charges.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 37 – paragraph 2

2. Capital protection shall allow the PEPP saver to recoup the capital invested including fees, cost and inflation.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Article 42 – paragraph 1

PEPP providers ~~may offer PEPPs with an option ensuring the coverag~~shall include a guarantee ofn the ~~risk of biometric risks. For the purpose of this Regulation, “biometric risks” mean risks linked to longevity, disability and death~~capital invested for death and permanent disability of the PEPP saver during the accumulation phase.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Article 46 – paragraph 3 – introductory part

3. Within ~~two~~five working days from receipt of the authorisation referred to in paragraph 2, the receiving PEPP provider shall request the transferring PEPP provider to carry out the following tasks, if provided for in the PEPP saver’s authorisation:

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 48 – paragraph 3

3. The total fees and charges applied by the transferring PEPP provider to the PEPP saver for the closure of the PEPP account held with it shall be limited to no more than 10,5 % of the positive balance to be transferred to the receiving PEPP provider. The Commission shall examine waiving the fee for changing providers as an incentive to promote the PEPP product.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 50 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part

Receiving PEPP providers shall give to PEPP savers the following information about the switching service:

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Robert ROCHEFORT

Proposal for a regulation
Article 52 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

1. PEPP providers ~~may~~shall make available to PEPP savers one or more of the following forms of out-payments:

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0143(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 52 – paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. With regard to the default investment option, a minimum of 25% of out-payments in the form of annuities shall be mandatory.

2018/05/04
Committee: EMPL

2017/0123(COD)

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, António MARINHO E PINTO, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Renate WEBER

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13

(13) The rules on national transport performed on a temporary basis by non- resident hauliers in a host Member State ('cabotage') should be clear, simple and easy to enforce, while ~~broadly~~ maintaining the level of liberalisation achieved so far.

2018/02/01
Committee: EMPL

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, António MARINHO E PINTO, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7

(7) There are differences among Member States in the interpretation and implementation of the weekly rest requirements as regards the place where the weekly rest should be taken. It is therefore appropriate to clarify that requirement to ensure that drivers are provided with adequate fac~~commodation for their regular weekly rest period~~ilities if they are taken away from home.

2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2017/0122(COD)

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, António MARINHO E PINTO, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)

(7a) Many road transport operations within the EU involve transport by ferry or by rail for part of the journey. Clear, appropriate provisions regarding rest periods and breaks should therefore be laid down for such operations.

2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, António MARINHO E PINTO, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

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

8b. A transport undertaking shall organise the work of drivers in such a way that the drivers are able to spend at least one regular weekly rest period or a weekly rest of more than 45 hours taken in compensation for reduced weekly rest at ~~home~~the country of establishment of the undertaking, within each period of ~~three~~four consecutive weeks.;

2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2017/0122(COD)

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, António MARINHO E PINTO, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Robert ROCHEFORT

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

Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 8 c (new)

(ca) the following paragraph is inserted: “8c. Member States shall issue an annual report to the Commission on the availability of suitable rest facilities for drivers and secured parking facilities on their national territory, from the date of entry into force of this Regulation. The Commission shall, by means of implementing acts, establish a common standard for Member States reporting.”

2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2016/2323(BUD)

Nils TORVALDS, Gérard DEPREZ, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Matthijs van MILTENBURG, Lieve WIERINCK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Fredrick FEDERLEY, Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY, Kaja KALLAS, Urmas PAET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that investments in research and innovation represent a pre- condition for achieving genuine competitiveness in the EU~~; regrets the fact that, a~~, and for having an innovative and competitive EU economy on a global level; regrets that Member States a re~~sult of an alarmingly low success rate of applications, fewer high- quality projects in the field of research and innovation are receiving EU funding~~ cutting their funding for R&I activities and recognises that more applications are directed towards the EU as a result and notes that many interested parties, many of which are new comers or SME's, are being deterred from submitting time-consuming Horizon 2020 project proposals due to lower success rates; calls in this respect for an adequate level of appropriations to be ensured for Horizon 2020;

2017/02/15
Committee: BUDG

2016/2307(INI)

Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN, Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Emphasises the need of structural reforms creating a more flexible and secure labour market and responsible fiscal consolidation, thus reinforcing a favourable environment for business with a view to creating more employment while balancing the social and economic dimensions; stresses that those priorities will only be achieved if investment in human capital is prioritised as a common strategy;

2016/12/19
Committee: EMPL

2016/2307(INI)

Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN, Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13 a. Encourages the Member States to implement the necessary measures for the social inclusion of refugees as well as people of ethnic minority or immigrant origin;

2016/12/19
Committee: EMPL

2016/2307(INI)

Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Welcomes that in the AGS 2017 emphasis is placed on the need to promote tax and benefit reforms aimed at improving work incentives and making work pay, as tax systems can also contribute to combating income inequalities and poverty; calls on the Member States to gradually shift taxes from labour to other sources;

2016/12/19
Committee: EMPL

2016/2307(INI)

Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN, Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work together on removing the obstacles to labour mobility, ensuring that EU mobile workers are treated equally with non-mobile workers;

2016/12/19
Committee: EMPL

2016/2306(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 a (new)

- having regard to the ECB Annual Report 2015,

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)

- having regard to the Communication of the Commission of 16 November 2016 'Towards a positive fiscal stance for the Euro Area"' (COM(2016)0726),

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 a (new)

- having regard to the Eurofound's European Restructuring Monitor annual report 2015,

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas consumer spending is the current key driver of growth and is expected to remain as such in 2017;

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas this recovery in the labour markets, and growth, is uneven among the Member States, benefitting those that have implemented structural reforms; whereas there still remain large cross-border unemployment pockets in the Union;

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas growth has to an important degree relied upon unconventional and, in the long term, unsustainable monetary policies; whereas inflation has not substantially varied in the last two years; whereas this supports the call for a three- pronged policy approach of growth- friendly investment, a full and consistent implementation of the Stability and Growth pact across Member States, and a particular focus on structural reforms;

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas the Commission's assessments on the euro area Member State's Draft Budgetary Plan for 2017 finds that only nine Member States are compliant with the requirements under the SGP;

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas the high level of non- performing loans remains a serious challenge in a number of Member States; whereas credit growth is recovering gradually but it is still below pre-crisis levels;

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. whereas European competitiveness also depends heavily on non-prices elements related to innovation, technology and organisational capabilities, rather than solely on prices, costs and wages;

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the Commission’s Annual Growth Survey 2017 reaffirming the strategy of a virtuous triangle of investment, structural reforms and responsible public finances; agrees that faster progress on the adoption of reforms, in line with the country-specific recommendations, is needed to deliver on growth ~~and jobs~~, jobs and to fight against the inequalities that hamper economic growth;

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Finds that while unemployment is, on average, gradually decreasing, and that activity rates are growing, ~~structural deficiencies persist in some Member States~~there are substantial structural asymmetries within the Union which could be more efficiently addressed by higher level of European integration;

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Agrees with the Commission that access to finance is crucial for businesses to grow; notes that in countries with banking systems undergoing adjustments, companies access to credit remain a concern;

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Notes that the financial system and its institutions are crucial for investment and growth in the European economy; stresses that the current financial system is characterised by increased safety and stability; stresses that effectively implementing the Banking Union would crystalize this safety and stability;

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Lieve WIERINCK, Sylvie GOULARD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Notes that tha credible financial system and its institutions are crucial for attracting investment and growth in the European economy; stresses that the current financial system is characterised by increased safety and stability;

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Stresses that a deeper integrated capital markets would provide a buffer against economic shocks through private sector risk-sharing;

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Stresses that a step-by-step completion of the Banking Union shall aim at increasing resilience in the banking sector and contributing to financial stability by ensuring deposits and attracting Foreign Direct Investment;

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Welcomes that the Commission is soon present a proposal on preventing restructuring frameworks, second chance and measures to improve insolvency procedures;

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Agrees with the Commission that the benefits of rational trade are often larger than realised in the public debate, and stresses that international trade is a significant source of jobs for Europeans and a crucial precondition for growth; reiterates that more than 30 million jobs are now supported by exports from the EU;

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Lieve WIERINCK, Sylvie GOULARD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Notes with concern that the EU share of global foreign direct investments flows have fallen significantly since the crisis; calls on the Commission and Member States to step up efforts to improve the business environment for investments inter alia by fully implementing and enforcing EU Single Market legislation;

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Lieve WIERINCK, Sylvie GOULARD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)

10b. Stresses that structural reforms need to be complemented by longer-term investment in education, research, innovation and sustainable energy; believes that public-private partnerships can also be considered as tools to promote investment and to deliver smart and sustainable growth which complement public investment programmes;

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Agrees that structural reforms ~~in product, services and labour markets remain a priority in the Member State~~are necessary to efficiently tackle the recovery of the product, services and labour markets which have been asymmetrically affected by the crisis;

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Considers that well-functioning, flexible labour markets, where effective social dialog exist, have proven to be quicker to recover from the economic downturn;

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Lieve WIERINCK, Sylvie GOULARD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12 a. Underlines the importance of launching or continuing the process of coherent and sustainable structural reforms for stability in the medium and long term; stresses that the EU cannot compete on general or labour costs alone, but needs to invest more in research, innovation and development, education and skills, and resource efficiency, at both national and European level;

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12 a. Considers that Member States need to invest more in creating supportive conditions for greater labour market participation, more jobs and effective training and upskilling;

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13 a. Is concerned about the high levels of inequality that reduces the output of the economy and the potential for sustainable growth and development;

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Stresses the importance of wage developments in line with productivity but also the importance to invest on human capital and social infrastructures; Notes that an effective social dialogue is crucial for a well-functioning social market economy;

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15 a. Stresses the need to modernise vocational training and education by promoting flexible learning paths which requires close partnerships with business and research sector;

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16 a. Welcomes the Commission initiatives on the field of taxation; believes that cooperation and a coordinated approach are fundamental to fight against tax abuse;

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2306(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19 a. Emphasises the Single Resolution Mechanism, the ECB and the ESRB's role as guardians of financial stability;

2016/12/15
Committee: ECON

2016/2304(INI)

Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Robert ROCHEFORT, Marian HARKIN, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. NHighlights that Cohesion policy proved to be one the most important public tools in promoting growth and jobs and reducing regional disparities; notes with concern that in 2015 only 34 % of Europeans said that they had heard about projects co-financed by the EU to improve the area in which they live and that this proportion has remained unchanged since June 20101 ; therefore, there is an urgent need to improve communication strategies to citizens, considering the low awareness of the positive effects cohesion policies have in quality of life and economic growth, which is even more important in times of challenge by populism and spread negativity about the European project; __________________ 1 Flash Eurobarometer 423: Citizens’ awareness and perceptions of EU regional policy.

2017/03/10
Committee: EMPL

2016/2304(INI)

Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Robert ROCHEFORT, Marian HARKIN, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission, in close cooperation with the managing authorities, to monitor regularly that all legal provisions as regards information and communication are being implemented thoroughly in order to ensure transparency and the widespread dissemination of information about the achievements of the Funds, and paying special attention to groups of beneficiaries in vulnerable positions;

2017/03/10
Committee: EMPL

2016/2304(INI)

Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Robert ROCHEFORT, Marian HARKIN, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve the visibility of the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) by communicating the European added value of the projects, particularly in terms of job creation and social integration; in this context, draws attention to the growing importance of social media as the main source of information among many citizens, and also the dissemination of anti-European propaganda on the internet; recommends the more intense use of social media to communicate the successes of cohesion policies and the opportunities related to their use;

2017/03/10
Committee: EMPL

2016/2304(INI)

Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Robert ROCHEFORT, Marian HARKIN, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission to reduce the administrative burden ~~on authorities and beneficiaries~~, without affecting necessary controls and audits, with a view to ensuring a better absorption rate, in particular for SMEs, which have created around 85 % of new jobs within the Union in the past five years, and micro- businesses and companies in remote rural areas in order to foster their capacity to create employment and add economic value;

2017/03/10
Committee: EMPL

2016/2304(INI)

Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Robert ROCHEFORT, Marian HARKIN, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Calls on the Commission to analyse the real impact of investing EU funds during the previous programming period and to draw specific conclusions regarding the positive and negative experiences as a starting-point for adding value to the investment process;

2017/03/10
Committee: EMPL

2016/2304(INI)

Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Robert ROCHEFORT, Marian HARKIN, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)

6c. Stresses that there is a particular need at EU and at Members States level to improve simplification for beneficiaries with more precise targeting to meet their needs. In this regard, the social partners and stakeholders could contribute to the identification of both good and bad practices and help in introducing simplification option in their Member States;

2017/03/10
Committee: EMPL

2016/2271(INI)

Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, in cooperation with social partners, to regularly assess the impact of digitisation on the quality, number and types of jobs and to consider not only the adjust related policies accordingly in case of having a clear negative impact but also a continued strengthening of the policies already considered as having positive effects on the labour market;

2017/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2016/2271(INI)

Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Ivo VAJGL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Recognises the opportunities related to the digitisation of industry; stresses~~, however, that new forms of work must comply wi~~ the importance to ensure the attractiveness of new forms of work by implementing adequate flexibility in the labour ~~and social legislation and guarantee~~market to foster real economic growth while ensuring the protection of workers’ and consumer rights;

2017/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2016/2271(INI)

Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Ivo VAJGL, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to clarify the legal situation of platform workers ~~and to guarantee all workers the same social rights, including the freedom of association, the right to conclude collective agreements and the right to organise~~to uphold their social rights as well as the full respect of freedoms enshrined in the Treaties particularly the right of free movement;

2017/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2016/2271(INI)

Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Member States to ensure universal access to training in digital skills, in order to allow equal participation of all citizens in the digital single market, be it as employees, entrepreneurs or customers; in this regards, highlights the importance of improving the matching between the industrial sector ´s labour requirements and the educational system at all educational levels in order to provide students with knowledge and skills required in knowledge society and for transition to a digitalised economy;

2017/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Recital A

~~A. whereas, in 2015, 23.7% of the population and 12.5% of employed people over the age of 18 in the EU-28 were at risk of poverty and social exclusion1 ; _________________ 1 Eurostat.~~deleted

2017/05/10
Committee: ECON

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

A a. whereas Europe is one of the wealthiest regions in the world, although recent data on income poverty highlights the rising of poverty and severe poverty in Europe;

2017/05/10
Committee: ECON

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)

A b. whereas income poverty is only a part of the overall concept of poverty, therefore poverty does not only refer to material resources, but also to social resources, notably education, health and access to services;

2017/05/10
Committee: ECON

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)

– having regard to the Communication from the Commission of 20 February 2013 "Towards Social Investment for Growth and Cohesion – including implementing the European Social Fund 2014-2020",

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Recital B

B. whereas a number of Member States have been coerced into reducing budget deficits and cutting their social spending, which has undermined public health, education, social security and housing systems;deleted

2017/05/10
Committee: ECON

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 a (new)

– having regard to its question for oral answer O-000087/2016 of 16 June 2016,

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 b (new)

– having regard to its question for written answer P-001004/16 of 2 February 2016,

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Recital C

~~C. whereas tax avoidance and tax evasion schemes have deprived countries of revenue that is essential for a robust social state and public welfare policies, leading to worsening poverty;~~deleted

2017/05/10
Committee: ECON

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas Europe is one of the wealthiest regions in the world, although recent data on income poverty highlights that inequalities enhanced among Member States;

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas income poverty is only a part of the overall concept of poverty, therefore poverty does not only refer to material resources, but also to social resources, notably education, health and access to services;

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Recital D

D. whereas, according to the ILO2 , transfers and social benefits are the most powerful factor for reducing inequalities; _________________ 2 Decomposing income inequality into factor income components: Evidence from selected G20 countries, p. 1.deleted

2017/05/10
Committee: ECON

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas ~~according to~~ the methodology developed by Eurostat, the at-risk-of- poverty threshold is set arbitrarily at 60 % of national median equivalised disposable income, which is very often hard for people to understand, especially because it is a measure of distribution, not of poverty, and income is only an indirect indicator of living standards;

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas reference budget better reflect the diversity of consumption patterns and costs of living across Member States than minimum incomes set as a certain percentage and can be used to more meaningfully compare minimum income support across Member States;

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)

D a. whereas the concept of minimum income must not be confused with the concept of a minimum wage, which is fixed by collective agreement or by legislation;

2017/05/10
Committee: ECON

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas, according to the methodology developed by Eurostat, 120 million people in the European Union – some 25% of the total – are at risk of poverty and social exclusion; whereas this fact is accompanied by persistently high unemployment rates;

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas having a job would protect someone from the risk of poverty and could be considered as a major indispensable means of social integration;

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas the concept of a minimum income must not be confused with the concept of a minimum wage, which is fixed by collective agreement or by legislation;

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Stresses that urgent practical steps need to be taken to eradicate poverty and social exclusion ~~and promote the fair distribution of income and wealth~~; stresses that these steps need to be undertaken at the appropriate level - with actions at national and European level according to the division of competencies for the relevant policies;

2017/05/10
Committee: ECON

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Stresses that urgent practical steps need to be taken to eradicate poverty and social exclusion and ~~promote the fair distribution of income and wealth~~reduce inequalities that will help to ensure economic and territorial cohesion and an equilibrium between economic and social objectives;

2017/05/10
Committee: ECON

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas introducing and strengthening minimum income schemes is an important and effective way to overcome poverty, that will help to ensure economic and territorial cohesion, protect the fundamental rights of individuals, ensure a balance between economic and social objectives, reallocate wealth and income fairly, support social integration and access to the labour market and meet the targets of the Europe 2020 strategy;

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Reinforces that the best way to reduce poverty and avoid social exclusion is to boost sustainable growth and to create favourable framework conditions for European companies - notably avoiding excessive administrative burdens as well as ensuring access to finance - in order to allow them to create jobs;

2017/05/10
Committee: ECON

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas the guarantee of an adequate minimum income ~~and minimum wage~~ is included in the first draft of the European Pillar of Social Rights9 ; whereas, at the high-level conference held in Brussels on 23 January 2017, following the public consultation on this issue, the President of the Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, reiterated that such measures should be adopted by all Member States; __________________ 9 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions launching a consultation on a European Pillar of Social Rights (COM(2016)0127) – Annex 1.

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls for priority to be given now, when shaping macroeconomic policies, to reducing social inequalities and guaranteeing universal ~~free~~ access to public social services, thus tackling poverty;

2017/05/10
Committee: ECON

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital P

P. whereas a transitional job scheme is one ~~of the most~~ effective forms of minimum income, as it combines income support with a proper job; whereas people who keep themselves busy working in a public transitional job scheme will also find it easier to find new jobs in the private sector;

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Points out that redistribution schemes alone will not bring people into work; reinforces also that having a job is always the best way to protect someone from the risk of poverty and a powerful mean of social integration; Stresses that to avoid a class of assisted people, labour market and business environment reforms need to be conducted and monitored;

2017/05/10
Committee: ECON

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Argues that minimum income schemes ~~are essential~~could act as transitional instruments in reducing and fighting poverty, social exclusion and inequalities, and they should be seen not only as a social ~~investment~~but also as an economic investment; Notes the counter-cyclical effects of minimum incomes schemes;

2017/05/10
Committee: ECON

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Takes the view that introducing minimum income schemes in all EU Member States - consisting of specific measures supporting people whose income ~~is insufficient~~and resources are inadequate to have an acceptable standard of living in the society in which they live with a funding supply and facilitated access to services - is one of the most effective ways to combat poverty, guarantee an adequate standard of living and foster social integration keeping people active in society;

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Believes that minimum income schemes should be temporary and always accompanied with active policies of inclusion in labour market;

2017/05/10
Committee: ECON

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4 b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to exchange best practices from minimum income schemes;

2017/05/10
Committee: ECON

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission ~~to propose a framework directive establishing minimum income schemes set at above 60% of national median equivalised disposable income~~and the Member States to evaluate the manner and the means of providing an adequate minimum income in all Member States and to consider further steps in support of social convergence across the EU, taking due account of each country’s specific characteristics., as well as national practices and traditions;

2017/05/10
Committee: ECON

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Emphasises that the establishment of minimum income schemes can both mitigate inequalities and the social impact of the crisis and have a counter-cyclical impact by providing resources to improve demand in the internal market;

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission ~~to propose a framework directive establishing minimum income schemes set at above 60% of national median equivalised disposable income~~, after further study and reflection, to evaluate the potential positive impact of a framework directive establishing minimum income schemes for all Member States, taking due account of each country’s specific characteristics.

2017/05/10
Committee: ECON

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Calls on the Commission to examine funding possibilities based on European solidarity to help every Member States to establish a minimum income schemes in every Member States;

2017/05/10
Committee: ECON

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Recalls the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘European minimum income and poverty indicators’ and ~~support~~notes the proposal concerning a directive on adequate minimum income in the European Union, which should lay down common rules and indicators, provide methods for monitoring its implementation and improve dialogue between the individuals concerned, the Member States and the EU institutions; is of the view that a framework of this kind should be based on tangible factors and should bear in mind the social and economic context of each Member State; calls on the Commission and the Member States, in this regard, to evaluate the manner and the means of providing an adequate minimum income in all Member States;

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Considers that minimum income schemes should be embedded in a strategic approach towards social integration, involving both general policies and targeted measures - in terms of housing, health care, education and training, social services - helping people to recover from poverty and to take action themselves to gain access to the labour market; believes that the real objective of minimum income schemes should be not simply to assist but mainly to accompany the beneficiaries in moving from situations of social exclusion to active life, avoiding any kind of dependency;

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Stresses the need for Member States to take specific action to determine a minimum income threshold, based on relevant indicators, in order to safeguard social and economic cohesion and reduce the risk of poverty throughout the European Union; calls on the Council to express its views more firmly with regard to such action;deleted

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Believes that minimum income should be considered temporary and always accompanied with active policies of inclusion in the labour market;

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Recalls that the Commission in its Social Investment Package Communication calls on the Member States to set reference budgets that ensure adequate livelihoods by considering consumption patterns, costs of living, different life situations and types of households;

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)

13b. Is of the opinion that the reference budget can be used to more meaningfully compare minimum income support across Member States and to establish its level, bearing in mind the economic and social context of each Member State;

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Is of the opinion t~~hat adequate~~o set a common criteria of implementation of minimum incomes schemes ~~should set minimum incomes at a level equivalent to at least 60 % of median income in the Member State concerned~~without, however, specifying a minimum threshold at EU level;

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Calls on further measures to be taken to ensure the achievement of Europe 2020 strategy objectives concerning employment, poverty and social exclusion, notably through a review on how Member States calculate poverty levels and set their national targets;

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)

14b. Believes that the lack of up-to-date figures on income and living conditions is an obstacle to the implementation and comparison of a reference budget and a minimum income taking into account national specificities;

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)

14c. Calls on the Commission and Member States to exchange best practices from minimum income schemes;

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Calls on the Commission to examine funding possibilities to help every Member State to establish a minimum income scheme and to set up an appropriate European Fund, if necessary, in a temporary way, to work as an instrument of cohesion policy and European solidarity;

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)

15b. Calls on the Commission to request regular monitoring and reporting on the effectiveness of minimum income schemes;

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Stresses that inequalities are growing within each Member State and within the EU;

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Notes with ~~particular~~ interest the proposals concerning transitional job schemes, which consist of the option, for those who want to and are able to work, to have a transitional job~~, at a pre-established minimum wage,~~ in the general government sector or in a non-profit institution or non- governmental organisation (NGO);

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Takes the view that a transitional job scheme is one of the most effective tools for improving workers’ employability in a labour market that is structurally imbalanced and to facilitate their transition from the state of being unemployed (especially long-term) to that of a private-sector employee; notes, moreover, that such schemes serve to promote non-inflationary economic growth as well as to combat unemployment and social exclusion;deleted

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2270(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Stresses the importance of increasing participation in lifelong learning of workers, the unemployed and vulnerable social groups and the need to improve the level of professional qualifications and the acquisitions of new skills, which are a fundamental tool to accelerate integration in the labour market, increase productivity and help people to find a job;

2017/03/16
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital –A (new)

-A. Whereas equality and fairness are part of the European values and a cornerstone for the European Social model, the EU and its Member States.Whereas Member States and EU objectives are the promotion of employment, with a view to lasting high employment and the combating of exclusion.

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas inequality can undermines social ~~trust and erodes support for democratic institutions~~outcomes and access to labour market;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

A a. Whereas inequalities are understood both as the income gap among individuals and also as individuals' loss of opportunities, impeding the potential progress of the individual's abilities and skills, curbing their development and, consequently, their potential contribution to society;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas inequality undermines growth and ~~quality~~ job creation16 , according to international institutions such as the IMF17 or the OECD18 ; _________________ 16 IMF (2017) Working Paper 17/76 Inequality Overhang. Grigoli, Francesco; Robles, Adrian. 17 IMF (2015), Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality: A Global Perspective. Staff Discussion Note SDN/15/13 Washington: International Monetary Fund http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/20 15/sdn1513.pdf 18 OECD (2015) In It Together. Why Less Inequality Benefits All. OECD Publishing, Paris.

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

C a. Whereas the OECD and the IMF have stated that too high and rising inequalities have direct social costs, hamper social mobility and can also hamper economic growth today and in the future;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)

C b. Whereas OECD highlights that "lowering inequality by 1-Gini point would translate into an increase in cumulative growth of 0.8% in the following five years" [1]. [1] OECD's report 'In it Together:Why Less Inequality Benefits All', p.67

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

~~D. whereas increases in inequality are linked with declining labour shares of national wealth and shrinking trade union density;~~deleted

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas increased inequality is associated with decreased social mobility~~, reduced human capabilities and limits on individual and collective freedom~~;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas inequalities increased inwithin several Member States between 2008 and 2014 in terms of household disposable income, mainly in Mediterranean countries such as Spain, Greece, Portugal, or Cyprus19 ; _________________ 19 Eurofound (2017) Income inequalities and employment patterns in Europe before and after the Great Recession.

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

H a. Whereas disparities in and within the Member States' economic growth are leading to economic imbalances within the Union, these excessive unequal economic trends have generated excessive unemployment and poverty pockets.

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, António MARINHO E PINTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas the level of structural inequality ismust be shaped by ~~institutions and political~~policy interventions;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Affirms that growing inequalities ~~threaten the future of the European project, erode its legitimacy~~ cand damage trust in the EU as an engine of social progress;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, António MARINHO E PINTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Recalls that inequalities should reflect the difference in efforts and contributions of individuals to society.Nevertheless, current inequalities do have negative effects undermining political and social stability and progress.Emphasises that fostering economic convergence and improving the life of all European citizens needs to continue to be European Union's raisons d'être and the driver for further integration;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Firmly believes that the reduction of inequalities must be ~~an institutional~~one of the main priorityies at the European level in this very moment, not only in order to tackle poverty or to promote convergence, but also as the precondition for economic recovery, ~~quality~~ job creation and shared prosperity;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Highlights that reducing inequalities ~~is essential to promote fairer and~~can help promoting more stable democracies, marginaliseing populism and extremism and ensureing that Europe is a project embraced by all its citizens;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, António MARINHO E PINTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Believes that social measure shall be regarded many times as palliative or alleviating measures and should be completed with economic policies and structural reforms to attain a positive long-lasting economic growth and structurally reducing inequalities trend in the medium and long term.;firmly believes that economic policies are the answer to the question on how to overcome the unequal trend that acts against the economic growth;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Asks the Commission and the Member States to evaluate the performance and outcomes of economic policy coordination, taking into account the evolution of social progress and social justice in the EU; ~~warns that the European Semester has not been successful in the achievement of these aims and in reducing inequalities;~~

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop a concrete framework of measures ranging from social measures to economic ones that could address inequalities;Believes that specific polices aimed to fight economic inequalities should be introduced in the European Semester and in Country- specific recommendations;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. ~~Urges~~Calls on the Commission to ~~extend~~include in the scope of the European Semester and in the in-depth analysis in the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure (MIP) ~~by adding new binding indicators to estimate individual imbalances in inequalities as a way to link economic coordination with employment and social performance~~an estimate of imbalances in inequalities;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Reiterates its call for the establishment of a~~n authentic~~ European Pillar of Social Rights and the building of a deeper and fairer social dimension of the EMU, with the necessary legislative, institutional and financial means being devoted to guaranteeing ~~true~~ social progress for its citizens to ensure a level playing field in our market union;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8 a. Calls on the Member States to continue their efforts and to encourage an adequate framework of measures which ensures public education, health, adequate public infrastructure and social services, among others that encourages equality of opportunities.Such framework should enable a well-functioning "social lift";

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

~~9. Reiterates its call for a European Social Protocol to ensure that fundamental rights take precedence over economic freedoms;~~deleted

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9 a. Calls for more equal economic trends without hampering incentives to free competition, entrepreneurship and innovation;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9 b. Calls on the European Commission and Member States to complement the Gini Index as a measure of inequalities with the Palma ratio as the evolution of the relationship between the 10% richest an the 40% poorest;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2

Boosting ~~quality~~decent job creation

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Expresses its concern regarding the evolution of inequality in the EU after the crisis, which was largely driven by growing unemployment21 ;Understands unemployment as the main source of economic inequality.Despite the fact that it falls under Member States' competences, job-creation policies are the best option to increase productivity and raise competitiveness.Hence, believes that job-creation policies targeted towards the main unemployment pockets will not only homogenise unemployment rates across the Union but they will also help reduce differences in the incomes distribution; _________________ 21 Eurofound (2017) Income inequalities and employment patterns in Europe before and after the Great Recession.

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, António MARINHO E PINTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. ~~Call~~Points onut the ~~Commi~~necessionty to ~~raise the funding level of~~ensure a funding of at least EUR 700 million for the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) for the period 20178-2020 ~~to least EUR 21 billion, including young people under 30~~, as agreed within the MFF mid-term revision; calls on the Commission to ensure better implementation of the Youth Guarantee, taking into account the latest findings of the European Court of Auditors’' report on use of the YEI;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Stresses that the structural inequalities and the widening thereof are basically the result of structural economic policies: - urges the Commission to monitor and encourage the Member States in their efforts to streamline and optimise their their tax systems along redistributive lines; - highlights the need for an investment policy at European and national level (major infrastructures), focusing on benefits in terms of reducing inequalities (i.e. wider internet access, better communications, flexible transport services, housing renovation, etc.); — points out that we cannot ignore the future importance of sectoral policies for reducing inequalities and that, in particular, the formulation of all aspects of energy policy must also take account of the opportunities it offers for promoting equality;points out that the same is true of investment policy and innovation in the healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors.

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12 a. Calls on the European Commission and Members States to complement Economic and Monetary Union with a fully-fledged European labour market;Believes that well- functioning labour markets and welfare systems are vital to the success of the European monetary union and are part of a broader convergence process towards more resilient economic structures within the euro area;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)

12 b. Calls on Members States to ensure better alignment of education and training with labour market needs across the EU, improving opportunities for mobility, improving recruitment and training strategies - particularly 'on the job' training and through targeted investment that will boost job creation and increase employment demand;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)

12 c. Recalls that reskilling is one important element which enables to re- integrate people back into the labour market, helps to tackle long-term unemployment and to better match skills with jobs available;In addition, strongly supports anticipation of future skills' needs as well as fostering entrepreneurship and individual responsibility to meet demands of the labour market;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Expresses its concern about the increas~~ing number of atypical work contracts and forms of non-stand~~e in undeclared ~~employment~~work linked with precarious working conditions, ~~lower wages,~~ exploitation and ~~poorer~~lacking social security ~~contributions~~, and rising inequality;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Commission to present a proposal for a Framework Directive on decent working conditions for all forms of employment, ensuring for every worker a core set of enforceable rights, eliminating discrimination based on contractual status, ensuring a minimum number of working hours and facilitating decent working times and the right to negotiate schedulessocial partners to analyse if there is a need for common approach on decent working conditions for all forms of employment;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. ~~Expresses its concern regarding the negative effects of increasing automation due to the delay in adapting legislation, which threatens to exert downward pressure on~~Acknowledges the effects of increasing automation and the need to ensure the adequacy of the social protection systems and wages, especially affecting low and medium-skilled workers;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Calls for ~~a common ap~~exchange of best proac~~h across~~tices between Member States regarding ~~the introduction of a~~an adequate Minimum Income Scheme, in order to support people with insufficient income, ease access to fundamental services, combat poverty and foster social integration;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17 a. Believes that the major step to avoid economic unequal trends is the creation of a Europe-wide income-policies framework that favour individuals with lower incomes, and a minimum income policy as a last resort for individuals before reaching poverty and social exclusion in line with the principle of subsidiarity;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ~~establish~~reflect on the feasibility of a European Unemployment Insurance sScheme, which avoids moral hazard and free-riding, complementing current national benefit systems; considers that such an automatic stabiliser can play an important role in ~~reducing inequality between countries and in neutralis~~cushioning the consequences arising from the absorption of asymmetric shocks;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, António MARINHO E PINTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Calls on the Commission to set up a living wage index for each Member State and to recommend the establishment, through legislation or collective bargaining, of national wage floors with the involvement of social partners that should be the basis for binding targets in national reform plans;deleted

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19 a. Believes that the intervention in the determination of wages is not a social measure but rather and economic one which comprise a potentially serious distortion for markets and could have pernicious effects on the economic growth;Believes in social dialogues and collective bargaining;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4

~~Reinforcing trade union~~Labour market reforms and workers’' rights

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Considers that regressive labour market reforms have weakened the representation and bargaining power of labour, undermined the fairness of collective bargaining relations, and increased the inequality of labour with respect to capital; expresses its concern at the repercussions of these labour market reforms on increased precarious working conditions and lower wageHighlights the necessity of labour market reforms and the need for a significant leap forward in the liberalisation, opening and unification of the markets of the future still under national control, such as energy markets, telecom markets, digital market and capital markets; highlights the job creation potential in these sectors;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. ~~Calls on the Commission and the Members States to strengthen~~Notes the importance of adequate workers’' rights and fostering the bargaining power of employees through structural reforms of labour markets, w~~idening collective bargaining coverage, and promoting unionisation~~here appropriate; Recognizes that national authorities' role will be to ensure and reinforce the right to syndicate as well as the strength and autonomy of both workers and employers unions when engaging in negotiations at any level;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21 a. Calls for implementation of Anti- discrimination policy that play a key role in ensuring equal employment opportunities and promoting social inclusion;calls on Members States to unblock the Anti-discrimination Directive;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Highlights that, in many countries, welfare and social protection systems have been ~~severely undermined by austerity measures with huge consequences in terms of income inequalities~~impacted by financial consolidation;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22 a. Believes that welfare systems should act as a safety net, but also ensure there are incentives to work;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. ~~Calls on~~Encourages the Member States to reform their welfare systems (education, health, pensions and transfers) in order to achieve more effective redistribution and promote fairer distribution, taking into account the new social risks and vulnerable groups that have arisen from the social and economic challenges confronting socief appropriate in order to achieve better equality;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, António MARINHO E PINTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. ~~Calls on the Commission to put forward a European legal framework in line with the related~~Acknowledges the ILO recommendation to guarantee every European citizen a social protection floor with universal access to healthcare, basic income security and access to the goods and services defined as necessary at national level playing field for our common market;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Affirms that universal access to public, solidarity-based and adequate retirement and old-age pensions must be granted to all; calls on the Commission to support Member States in strengthening public and occupational pension systems to provide an adequate retirement income well above the poverty threshold and to allow pensioners to maintain their standard of livingHighlights also the important role of work-related pension systems and individual pension savings as a way to ensure an adequate mix, in line with Members States' practices;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Considers that international trade has been an engine for growth ~~in many countries, but also can be perceived as a source of inequalities~~but that the benefits are not always well distributed; calls on the Commission and the Member State to ~~promote fairer~~continue promoting international trade agreements that respect European labour market regulations, while ~~protec~~contributing to quality employment and workers’' rights and ensuring intra- European and national mechanisms for the compensation of workers and sectors negatively affected;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Considers that the current inequality of opportunities for children and young people ~~has~~may have damaging consequences for their wellbeing and ‘'wellbecoming’' as individuals, thereby contributing to the estrangement of European youth, especially those on the wrong side of the opportunity gap;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)

28 a. Considers that each and every EU citizen is subject to the right for equal opportunities and free to choose its own path to emancipation;Believes in the capacity of individuals to shape their own destiny and create their own opportunities;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to step up the fight against child poverty~~, ensuring the coordinated implementation of the Investment in Children Initiative through the Child Guarantee scheme~~;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Calls on the Member States ~~and the Commission to facilitate a common approach towards a National Child Basic Income to ensure that every child receives a minimum income, thereby helping~~ to achieve the goals of the Europe 2020 Strategy on reducing poverty and the risk of social exclusion;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31

31. Calls on the Commission to complete its work-life balance legislative package ~~with two essential initiatives: a proposal for a new Maternity Leave Directive renewing these rights and a new proposal for a directive on long-term care and carers~~;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32

32. Considers that, despite existing legislation enshrining the principle of equal pay for work of equal value by male and female workers, there is still a gender pay gap and an even greater gender pension gap; calls on the Commission ~~and~~, the Member States and social partners to address the gender gap challenge in pay and pensions;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 8

~~Modernising tax systems~~(Does not affect the English version.)

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33

33. ~~Calls on the Commission to introduce legislation requiring Member States to publish tax rulings signed with large companies within a limited time- frame~~Asks the Member States to swiftly implement the Directive on Administrative Cooperation;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2269(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, António MARINHO E PINTO, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)

33 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to correct excessive interpersonal inequalities by supporting and encouraging most productive investments;recalls that for that objective taxation policies are crucial and that many Members States need a deep taxation reform.Calls on the Commission to monitor, advice, promote and prepare benchmarks in the light of the European Semester;

2017/07/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2247(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Michael THEURER, Petr JEŽEK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Lieve WIERINCK

Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 a (new)

- having regard to its resolution of 12 April 2016 on the EU role in the framework of international financial, monetary and regulatory institutions and bodies (2015/2060(INI)),

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Michael THEURER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Lieve WIERINCK

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas ~~no non-euro area country has yet expressed a willingness~~all Member States, with the exception of one having a derogation, are committed to joining the euro and therefore to joining the Banking Union;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Michael THEURER, Lieve WIERINCK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Notes the high level of non- performing loans (NPLs) in some ~~jurisdiction~~countries; considers that this issue is crucial and has yet to be solved; welcomes the work of the SSM and its draft guidance on this issue; looks forward to the results of the work on a minimum EU insolvency framework; ~~calls on Member States to improve their insolvency legislation~~welcomes the Commission proposal on insolvency and restructuring; calls on Member States to improve their insolvency legislation and more generally their legal framework concerning the restructuring of debt, and to stimulate growth in order to tackle NPLs;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Michael THEURER, Petr JEŽEK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Lieve WIERINCK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Considers that there are risks associated with sovereign debt; notes, however, that government bonds play a critical role as a source of high-quality, liquid collateral and that modifying its prudential treatment could have a significant effect on both the financial and the public sector, which calls for caution in reform efforts; ~~awaits with interest the~~considers that, in the end, a better resgul~~ts of the~~atory framework, be it European or international, w~~ork on this issue~~ill be needed; considers that~~, in~~ the ~~end, a better regulatory framework, be it European or international, will be needed~~European framework should enable market discipline in delivering sustainable policies and providing safe assets for the financial sector and safe liabilities for governments;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Michael THEURER, Petr JEŽEK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Lieve WIERINCK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Considers it essential to ensure the comparability of risk-weighted assets across institutions in order to allow for effective supervision; welcomes the work done internationally to streamline the resort to internal models and to re-establish the credibility of internal models, as well as the introduction of a leverage ratio to act as a backstop; recalls, however, that the regulatory changes planned should not result in ~~significant~~unjustified increases in capital requirements, nor harm the ability of banks to finance the real economy, in particular SMEs;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Michael THEURER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Lieve WIERINCK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Points out that guidance provided by international fora should be used in order to avoid the risk of regulatory fragmentation; stresses the importance of the role of the Commission, the European Central Bank and the European Banking Authority to engage in the work of the BCBS and provide the European Parliament and the Council with transparent and comprehensive updates on the status of the development of the BCBS discussions; considers that the EU should work on having an appropriate representation in the BCBS and notably for the euro area; calls for a stronger visibility of this role during ECOFIN meetings, as well as enhanced accountability towards the ECON Committee in the European Parliament with a regular de-brief by EU representatives party to the discussions;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Michael THEURER, Petr JEŽEK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Lieve WIERINCK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. SNotes that there are very different banking models within the Banking Union but stresses that national options and discretions are hindering the creation of a level playing field between Member States and the comparability of the financial reporting by banks to the public; welcomes the ECB guidance and regulation harmonising the exercise of some of these within the Banking Union; looks forward to the upcoming amendments to the CRR as a means ~~of closing the most significant one~~to keep only the ones strictly necessary because of the diversity of banking models;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Lieve WIERINCK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Underlines that the separation of the supervisory tasks from monetary policy functions should enable the SSM to take an independent position on all relevant matters, including on potential effects of ECB interest rate targets on the financial position of supervised banks;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Lieve WIERINCK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)

8c. Takes note of the report of the European Court of Auditors on the SSM which stresses the insufficient levels of staffing;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Michael THEURER, Petr JEŽEK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Recalls the need to find, in the exercise of supervision, a balance between the need for proportionality and the need for a consistent approach; invites the SSM to reduce as much as possible the supervisory fees; points out that all banks should be subject to an appropriate level of supervision; reminds that an appropriate supervision is key to monitor all risks whatever the size of the banks;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Michael THEURER, Petr JEŽEK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Lieve WIERINCK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Underlines that the safety and soundness of a bank cannot be captured by a point-in-time assessment of its balance sheet alone, as they are ensured through dynamic interactions between the bank and the markets, and affected by various elements in the entire economy; underlines therefore that a sound framework for financial stability and growth should be comprehensive and balanced to cover dynamic supervisory practices and not focus merely on static regulation with mainly quantitative aspects;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9b. Notes that the outcome of the referendum on the UK membership to the EU makes an assessment of the whole European System of Financial Supervision (ESFS), including the voting modalities inside the EBA, necessary;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Lieve WIERINCK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Recalls the need to adhere to State aid rules in the context of bank resolution and reminds that extraordinary public support shall only be of both precautionary and temporary nature, and cannot be used to offset losses that an institution has incurred or is likely to incur in the near future; takes the view that enough flexibility is embedded within the current framework to address specific situations and might be better exploited, in particular in the case of preventive measures involving the use of DGS funds; reminds that a report assessing the continuing need for allowing precautionary recapitalisations and the conditionality attached to such measures was due by 31 December 2015; calls on the Commission to submit such report as soon as possible;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Michael THEURER, Petr JEŽEK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Lieve WIERINCK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Takes note of the differences between the FSB TLAC standard and the MREL; stresses, however, that both standards share the same objective: to make sure that banks have enough regulatory capital and loss-absorbing liabilities to make bail-in an effective instrument in resolution (without causing financial instability and without needing public money); concludes therefore that a holistic approach to loss-absorption can be reached by combining the two; highlights that due consideration should be given to retaining the two criteria of size and risk- weighted assets;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. calls on the Commission to carefully assess the evolution of the global standard-setting process for the prudential regulation and its effective implementation following the latest political developments, in particular the setting-up of the new American administration;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Michael THEURER, Petr JEŽEK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Stresses that it is crucial to harmonise the hierarchy of claims in bank insolvency across Member States in order to make the implementation of the BRRD more consistent and effective; welcomes the Commission's proposal on this subject;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Michael THEURER, Petr JEŽEK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. reminds that bail-in instruments should only be sold to appropriate investors in the first place which can absorb potential losses without being threatened in their own sound financial standing and considers it fundamental to address the mis-selling of bail-in instruments to retail investors; asks the Commission to carefully assess the EU Investor Protection Framework and to present proposals if necessary;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Michael THEURER, Petr JEŽEK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Regrets that the Commission did not allow for more time to assess the implementation of the DGSD before proposing the EDIS and did not conduct a proper impact assessment of the proposal; stands ready, however, to seize the opportunity generated by the proposal to discuss the DGSD and address some of the options and discretions it includes; takes note of the Commission services' non- paper of a supplementary analytical report on the effect of the proposal;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2247(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Welcomes a European approach to deposit insurance, which must make it possible to address outstanding DGSD implementation issues and phase in the risk reduction measures; is of the opinion that every final scheme should include enough time to build the trust necessary among all stakeholders and citizens; reminds that protection of deposits is a common concern for all EU citizens;

2016/12/20
Committee: ECON

2016/2243(INI)

Cora van NIEUWENHUIZEN, Sylvie GOULARD, Michael THEURER, Nils TORVALDS, Petr JEŽEK, Lieve WIERINCK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)

Eb. whereas creating a level-playing field for financial services in the EU is a prerequisite for boosting Fintech in Europe;

2017/03/09
Committee: ECON

2016/2243(INI)

Cora van NIEUWENHUIZEN, Sylvie GOULARD, Michael THEURER, Nils TORVALDS, Petr JEŽEK, Lieve WIERINCK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)

La. whereas the ESAs have started identifying the potential risks and benefits of those technologies; whereas national competent authorities are monitoring these technological developments and have come up with different approaches;

2017/03/09
Committee: ECON

2016/2243(INI)

Cora van NIEUWENHUIZEN, Sylvie GOULARD, Michael THEURER, Nils TORVALDS, Petr JEŽEK, Lieve WIERINCK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Calls on the Commission and the ESAs to monitor and avoid overlaps of regulation, new barriers to entry on the market and national barriers to those services; calls on the Commission to prevent barriers between Member States due to inconsistencies between national regimes;

2017/03/09
Committee: ECON

2016/2243(INI)

Cora van NIEUWENHUIZEN, Sylvie GOULARD, Michael THEURER, Nils TORVALDS, Petr JEŽEK, Lieve WIERINCK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Emphasizes the need for clear rules on data ownership, access and transfer; highlights that increasing amounts of data are generated by machines or processes based on emerging technologies, such as machine learning; stresses that the General Data Protection Regulation provides a clear legal framework on personal data but that more legal certainty is needed regarding other categories of data; believes, in this regard, that a clear distinction should be made between raw data and data resulting from further processing;

2017/03/09
Committee: ECON

2016/2243(INI)

Cora van NIEUWENHUIZEN, Sylvie GOULARD, Michael THEURER, Nils TORVALDS, Petr JEŽEK, Lieve WIERINCK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Notes the necessity of creating more awareness among consumers as regards the value of their personal data; acknowledges that consumers can sell their personal data through re-sharing; underlines that this may lead to economic benefits but can also be used in a discriminatory way; calls on the Commission to investigate the possibility of a European data re-sharing strategy with the aim of putting consumers in control of their data; believes that a clear, consumer-centric approach will increase trust in cloud-based services and stimulate new innovative services offered by diverse actors in the financial value chain, e.g. by using API's or facilitating direct access to data for electronic payments services; asks the Commission to investigate the future potential of Personal Information Management Systems (PIMS) as technical tools for consumers to manage their personal data;

2017/03/09
Committee: ECON

2016/2243(INI)

Cora van NIEUWENHUIZEN, Sylvie GOULARD, Michael THEURER, Nils TORVALDS, Petr JEŽEK, Lieve WIERINCK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Is concerned by the increased use of unpermissioned blockchain applications, in particular Bitcoin, for criminal activities, tax evasion, tax avoidance and money laundering; calls on the Commission to investigate the role of bitcoin mixers in this process; invites the Commission to organise an annual multi-stakeholder conference on this subject;

2017/03/09
Committee: ECON

2016/2243(INI)

Cora van NIEUWENHUIZEN, Sylvie GOULARD, Michael THEURER, Nils TORVALDS, Petr JEŽEK, Lieve WIERINCK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. Calls on the ESAs to partner with private sector players in developing and evaluate innovative technologies that have the potential to safeguard financial stability and increase consumer protection, for instance by mitigating bias in algorithms or by increasing consumer awareness of cyber threats;

2017/03/09
Committee: ECON

2016/2243(INI)

Cora van NIEUWENHUIZEN, Sylvie GOULARD, Michael THEURER, Nils TORVALDS, Petr JEŽEK, Lieve WIERINCK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)

21b. Notes that the increasing use of big data and artificial intelligence presents benefits to consumers but also entails questions concerning consumer protection; stresses that errors or biases that can lead to discrimination and exclusion in these algorithms can potentially cause systemic risk and harm consumers and investors; notes that insurance is a prominent example of a sector where these technologies are increasingly used, e.g. for risk assessment; asks the Commission and the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) to investigate discriminatory effects;

2017/03/09
Committee: ECON

2016/2243(INI)

Cora van NIEUWENHUIZEN, Sylvie GOULARD, Michael THEURER, Nils TORVALDS, Petr JEŽEK, Lieve WIERINCK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Emphasises that financial education is a prerequisite for raising awareness in society and equipping citizens with the knowledge that is necessary to make sound decisions concerning financial products and services;

2017/03/09
Committee: ECON

2016/2148(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Is of the opinion that the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIFs) must be used to ~~boost quality~~create and boost jobs, sustainable growth and shared prosperity across Europe, w~~ith a special focus on~~hile focusing on the least developed areas, sectors having structural problems and supporting the most vulnerable groups in society;

2016/09/05
Committee: EMPL

2016/2148(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Takes note of the results envisaged in PAs and OPs, and expects Member States ~~and regions~~ to take the right path in order to achieve cohesion policy objectives; recalls that more effective and efficient policies are needed, in order to avoid overlap, redundancies, destructive administrative burden and incoherencies;

2016/09/05
Committee: EMPL

2016/2148(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Ask the Commission to be more assertive in monitoring the implementation of recommendations and investments under the ESIF;

2016/09/05
Committee: EMPL

2016/2148(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Underlines the priority nature of the challenges that the ESF is charged with tackling, this being reflected in the sum of EUR 86.4 billion dedicated to ESF measures under the relevant thematic objectives in line with the Europe 2020 Strategy;

2016/09/05
Committee: EMPL

2016/2148(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls on the Commission to improve simplification for beneficiaries, and for more precise targeting to meet their objectives bearing in mind the specific needs and particularities of Member States; Moreover, calls on the Member States to also make an effort in this area;

2016/09/05
Committee: EMPL

2016/2148(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Notes that 6 million unemployed young people are to benefit from the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) – which will help them find jobs or improve their skills and qualifications – now that YEI has been integrated into 34 ESF programmes in the 20 eligible Member States; is concerned, however, about the delayed start ~~to th~~and effective implementation of the YEI; urges Member States to intensify their efforts to ensure that the results envisaged are achieved successfully;

2016/09/05
Committee: EMPL

2016/2148(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on the Commission to analyse carefully the real impact of investing EU funds during the previous programming period and to draw conclusions regarding the positive and negative outcomes of the PAs and OPs. The same should be done for future programming period; A portal summarising statistics on projects already approved is necessary to avoid fragmented information;

2016/09/05
Committee: EMPL

2016/2148(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Underlines that the EU funds should not be only used to achieve the targets of Europe 2020 but also for more structural improvements and investments in the real economy; A quantified evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of funds already invested must be implemented, especially assessing the effects in job creation;

2016/09/05
Committee: EMPL

2016/2148(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Recommends that the Commission develop and establish a user-friendly portal that provides a brief description of all funding options at EU level and links to the webpage of each individual programme.

2016/09/05
Committee: EMPL

2016/2148(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9

9. Notes that only rarely do ESF- supported measures generate revenue directly, and that grants are therefore the appropriate tool for their implementation, while financial instruments could be a useful complementary tool for certain ESF interventions with a possible leverage effect; Underlines that scarce investment resources can be better targeted by forging links and synergies with other EU funding instruments, notably Erasmus+, Life+, the EU Programme for Employment and Social Innovation and Horizon 2020 with a holistic coordination;

2016/09/05
Committee: EMPL

2016/2148(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Underlines the need to guarantee sufficient administrative capacity before investments are made, taking the fact that more EU funds do not mean more growth; A point is reached where returns begin to decline and additional funds do not lead to higher growth;

2016/09/05
Committee: EMPL

2016/2146(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas petitioners tend to be citizens engaged in the improvement and future well-being of our societies; whereas the experience of these citizens in regard to the processing of their petitions, when based on the Committee's competences, may determine their perception of the EU institutions and respect for the right to petition contained in EU law;

2016/10/24
Committee: PETI

2016/2146(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Cecilia WIKSTRÖM, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas confidence in the system and in the European project as a whole has been dented by recent events in the United Kingdom, the humanitarian refugee crisis, the social and economic impact of the financial crisis, and the rise in xenophobia and racism throughout Europe; whereas the Committee on Petitions has the responsibility and the huge challenge of maintaining and strengthening constructive dialogue with EU citizens on European issues;

2016/10/24
Committee: PETI

2016/2146(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Cecilia WIKSTRÖM

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas the Committee on Petitions is best able to show citizens what the European Union does for them, according to its competences, and what solutions it can provide at European, national or local level; whereas the Committee on Petitions can do excellent work explaining the successes and benefits of the European project;

2016/10/24
Committee: PETI

2016/2146(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Cecilia WIKSTRÖM, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas the right to petition should enhance the European Parliament’s capacity to react, helping to resolve problems relating mainly to how EU legislation is applied, as petitions, which are based on EU competences and fulfil the admissibility criteria, constitute a valuable source of information in detecting deficiencies in how EU legislation is applied; whereas such petitions are a basic tool in the early detection of those Member States lagging behind in transposition of EU law;

2016/10/24
Committee: PETI

2016/2146(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Cecilia WIKSTRÖM, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas, therefore, petitions, which are based on EU competences and fulfil the admissibility criteria, are very important for the legislative process as they provide other Parliament committees with useful and direct input for their legislative work in their respective fields; whereas such petitions are not solely the responsibility of the Committee on Petitions, but should rather be a shared endeavour of all Parliament committees;

2016/10/24
Committee: PETI

2016/2146(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Cecilia WIKSTRÖM, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas, through petitions which are based on EU competences and fulfil the admissibility criteria, EU citizens can complain about poor implementation of EU law; whereas in so doing citizens act as a useful source of information when it comes to detecting breaches of EU law;

2016/10/24
Committee: PETI

2016/2146(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Recital N

N. whereas during 2015 petitions lodged by citizens were processed faster and with greater efficiency, the timespan involved in correspondence with petitioners having been reduced; whereas the Secretariat has performed a noteworthy effort to achieve it;

2016/10/24
Committee: PETI

2016/2146(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Cecilia WIKSTRÖM, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital O

O. whereas petitioners actively contribute to the work of the Committee, providing additional information to its members, the Commission and representatives of the Member States who may be present; whereas petitioners, by taking part in these discussions and presenting their petitions along with more detailed information, contribute to establishing a fluid and constructive dialogue with Members of the European Parliament and with the European Commission; whereas in 2015, 191 petitioners attended and were involved in the Committee’s deliberations; whereas although this number seems relatively low, the meetings of the Committee on Petitions are broadcast, enabling petitioners to follow live discussions in real time by means of internet streaming;

2016/10/24
Committee: PETI

2016/2146(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Cecilia WIKSTRÖM, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Stresses that the right to petition should enhance the European Parliament’s capacity to react, helping to resolve problems relating mainly to implementation of EU legislation, as petitions, which are based on EU competences and fulfil the admissibility criteria, constitute a useful source of information in detecting breaches in the implementation of EU legislation;

2016/10/24
Committee: PETI

2016/2146(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Stresses the work that the Committee on Petitions carries out in listening to and helping to solve problems affecting its citizens at the European level and which fall within the Union's competences; believes that petitions can help in assessing the impact that EU legislation has on their daily lives;

2016/10/24
Committee: PETI

2016/2146(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Cecilia WIKSTRÖM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Recalls that the equal and proportionate representation of petitioners' nationalities in the Committee's public debates should be respected; in order to strengthen the European dimension of the Committee, proper and fair representation of all Member States in the Committee's public debates should be encouraged;

2016/10/24
Committee: PETI

2016/2146(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that petitions ~~are very important for the legislative process, as they~~ detect deficiencies in the transposition of Community legislation and provide other Parliament committees with useful and direct input for their legislative work in their respective fields; applauds the setting up of an informal petitions network within Parliament, with the participation of Members representing every committee of Parliament, in order to ensure smooth and effective coordination of petitions work; considers that petitions are not solely the responsibility of the Committee on Petitions, but should be a shared endeavour of all of the European Parliament’s committees; urges all parliamentary committees concerned to pay due attention to the petitions forwarded to them and to provide the information necessary for petitions to be processed properly;

2016/10/24
Committee: PETI

2016/2146(INI)

Cecilia WIKSTRÖM, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. ~~Not~~Welcomes that, as mentioned by Vice- President Timmermans at his meeting with the Committee on Petitions on 5 May 2015, the Commission is involved with and committed to the petition process and responds as quickly as possible to new petitions forwarded to it by Parliament; points out that Commission replies are usually detailed and pertain to the petitions for which it has jurisdiction; recalls however that on many occasions the Commission does not bring any new information in its replies to petitions for which a review has been requested owing to a change in their status and context; notwelcomes that the written responses are monitored, as are explanations given during oral debates held by the Committee on Petitions; notes that when the Commission cannot provide a detailed response to a request from the Committee on Petitions, it is often because it has no jurisdiction in the matter; ~~not~~welcomes the Commission’s commitment in sending generally competent officials to meetings of the Committee on Petitions; regrets that during public debates with petitioners and Members of Parliament the officials sent by the Commission do not provide any new or relevant information that might enable a solution to the issues raised;

2016/10/24
Committee: PETI

2016/2146(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Notes that, as mentioned by Vice- President Timmermans at his meeting with the Committee on Petitions on 5 May 2015, the Commission is involved with and committed to the petition process and responds as quickly as possible to new petitions forwarded to it by Parliament; points out that Commission replies are usually detailed and pertain to the petitions for which it has jurisdiction; recalls however th~~at on many occasions~~e absence of details in many petitions which make that the Commission ~~doe~~is not able to bring any new information in its replies to petitions for which a review has been requested owing to a change in their status and context; notes that the written responses are monitored, as are explanations given during oral debates held by the Committee on Petitions; notes that when the Commission cannot provide a detailed response to a request from the Committee on Petitions, it is because it has no jurisdiction in the matter; notes the Commission’s commitment in sending generally competent officials to meetings of the Committee on Petitions; regrets that during public debates with petitioners and Members of Parliament the officials sent by the Commission do not provide any new or relevant information that might enable a solution to the issues raised;

2016/10/24
Committee: PETI

2016/2146(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Considers it essential to improv~~ing~~e cooperation with national parliaments and their relevant committees and with Member State governments, particularly to help ensure that the petition is dealt with by the relevant and competent authorities; encourages the representatives of Member States and of local and/or regional authorities concerned to attend meetings; highlights the need for Council and Commission representatives to be present at meetings and hearings of the Committee on Petitions;

2016/10/24
Committee: PETI

2016/2146(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. ~~Deplores~~Is aware of the strict way in which the Commission has interpreted Article 51 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights with its stipulation that ‘the provisions of the [...] Charter are addressed to the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the Union with due regard for the principle of subsidiarity and to the Member States only when they are implementing Union law; recalls that, owing to the existence of Article 51 of the Charter, the expectations of citizens often go beyond what the Charter’s legal provisions strictly allow for; calls on the European Commission to adopt a new approach that is more consistent with those expectations;

2016/10/24
Committee: PETI

2016/2146(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Cecilia WIKSTRÖM, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Marian HARKIN, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Stresses the wide range of subjects raised in the petitions filed by citizens, such as fundamental rights, child welfare, the rights of persons with disabilities, the internal market, environmental law, labour relations, migration policies, trade agreements, public health issues, ~~child welfare,~~ transport, animal rights and discrimination;

2016/10/24
Committee: PETI

2016/2146(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Cecilia WIKSTRÖM, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Believes that the organisation of public hearings is an important way of examining problems raised by petitioners which fall within the EU competences; draws attention to the public hearings organised on 26 February 2015 with the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety in response to the ECI on ‘Water is a Human Right’, and with the Committee on Legal Affairs for the ECI entitled ‘One of Us’;

2016/10/24
Committee: PETI

2016/2146(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Deplores the fact that the Commission considers that it is too early to revise Regulation (EU) No 211/2011 of 1 April 2012 which entered into force three years ago; considers that it is necessary to thoroughly evaluate its implementation to identify possible deficiencies and propose workable solutions with a view to revising it soon; welcomes the Commission’s report of 31 March 2015 on the ECI, and the European Ombudsman’s Decision OI/9/2013/TN, and calls on the Commission to ensure, in its revision of this instrument, that ~~all the appropriate legal measures are taken with a view to providing proper follow-up when an ECI is deemed to have been completed successfully~~the ECI has an actual input to the Union according to its values and Fundamental Rights; calls on the Commission, in view of the various weaknesses identified, to present a proposal for reform of Regulation (EU) No 211/2011 as soon as possible;

2016/10/24
Committee: PETI

2016/2146(INI)

Cecilia WIKSTRÖM, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. ~~Urges the competent administrative bodies to expedite~~Recalls the steps still needed to conclude the introduction of the remaining project phases whereby petitioners will be able to receive information on the status of their petition, be notified of changes in the processing procedure through automated e- mail messages and directly contact officials of the Committee on Petitions for clear, direct information on the evolution of the issue concerning them;

2016/10/24
Committee: PETI

2016/2146(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Emphasises the important role of SOLVIT, a problem-solving network between the Member States which should be thoroughly developed to its full potential in collaboration with the States and their national SOLVIT centres under their national administrations, and requests that it be given ~~mor~~adequate resources and that a more systematic analysis of the problems identified by SOLVIT be conducted as this network helps to give a realistic picture of the dysfunctions of the single market;

2016/10/24
Committee: PETI

2016/2114(REG)

Charles GOERENS, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 215 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 3

~~The Bureau may decide that petitions and correspondence with petitioners may be drafted in other languages used in a Member State.~~deleted

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

2016/2114(REG)

Charles GOERENS, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 215 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 2

If the committee responsible fails to reach a consensus on the admissibility of the petition, it shall be declared admissible at the request of a~~t least one quarter~~ majority of the members of the committee.

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

2016/2101(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Notes that the country-specific recommendations (CSRs) demonstrate the differences that exist between Member States; argues that the Member States should continue to give priority to reforms that will strengthen their economic recovery and job creation, making a commitment to investment, implementing structural reforms and taking an approach based on fiscal and budgetary responsibility; Request that major structural reforms advocated by CSRs should be accompanied by a social impact assessment regarding their medium-long term effects with the propose to better understand the impact on job creation and economic growth;

2016/07/20
Committee: EMPL

2016/2101(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Notes that the country-specific recommendations (CSRs) demonstrate the differences that exist between Member States under the European Semester framework; argues that the Member States should continue to give priority to reforms that will strengthen their economic recovery, making a commitment to growth-friendly investment, implementing necessary structural reforms and taking an approach based on fiscal and budgetary responsibility;

2016/07/20
Committee: EMPL

2016/2101(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Calls on the Commission and the Council to provide stronger guidance on the implementation of the CSRs. Notes that the dialogue with Member States and other European institutions and social partners must continue to be intensified to enhance the ownership of CSRs in order to improve the unsatisfactory rate of reform implementation;

2016/07/20
Committee: EMPL

2016/2101(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Calls for a stronger effort from the Commission and Members States to reduce poverty, social exclusion and growing inequalities, for instance through Member States´ exchange of best practices on the implementation of national minimum income schemes; Reiterates that tackling economic inequalities is fundamental to achieve long lasting economic growth and a socially sustainable rhythm of implementation;

2016/07/20
Committee: EMPL

2016/2101(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Recalls that the longer-term vision outlined in the Europe 2020 Strategy is a good first step, but these targets should be adapted to the reality and needs in different Member States, leaving sufficient political space for Member States to find their own contextually adapted path to reform in close consultation with stakeholders while ensuring that the 2020 Strategy remains central to their objectives;

2016/07/20
Committee: EMPL

2016/2101(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Believes that economic growth should guarantee a positive social impact; welcomes the introduction of the three new headline ~~social~~employment indicators in the macroeconomic imbalances procedure; reiterates the call for ~~these to be p~~a balanced ~~on an equal footing~~equilibrium with existing economic indicators, thereby guaranteeing that internal imbalances are better assessed and making structural reforms more effective; calls, in this connection, for a social imbalances procedure to be introduced; The social imbalance procedure must prevent a race to the bottom in terms of taxation and social standards, building on an effective use of the social and employment indicators in macroeconomic surveillance;

2016/07/20
Committee: EMPL

2016/2101(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Stresses that economic policies should adapt to social needs and should guarantee minimum social policies and basic services for its citizens; Highlights that a renewed process of upward economic and social convergence is needed, notably through investments in human capital and other social infrastructures, in order to tackle the economic and social disparities between Member States and within societies;

2016/07/20
Committee: EMPL

2016/2101(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. The introduction of the 3 employment indicators shows that the European Employment Strategy, including Employment Guidelines, plays an important role in the EU economic governance process, but more efforts need to be made, notably through the introduction of social indicators, like the gini coefficient, palma index and persistent-at-risk-of-poverty rate;

2016/07/20
Committee: EMPL

2016/2101(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)

2c. Calls on the Commission to deliver the results of the consultation and to move forward with new effective steps on the establishment of a European Pillar of Social Rights, which is fundamental to broader efforts to deliver a fairer Union;

2016/07/20
Committee: EMPL

2016/2101(INI)

Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Michael THEURER, Lieve WIERINCK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nils TORVALDS

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1

Europe’s ~~investment~~ challenges in the context of the global economic slowdown

2016/08/30
Committee: ECON

2016/2101(INI)

Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Michael THEURER, Lieve WIERINCK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nils TORVALDS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Stresses that the challenges in the EU are linked to the deteriorating international environment and the divergences in the economic and social performance achieved in different parts of the Union due to a lack of structural reforms as well as the short-comings in completing the single market, which deprive the EU of its full growth potential;

2016/08/30
Committee: ECON

2016/2101(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls for a strong commitment to promoting the Juncker Plan (EFSI) in Member States ~~with a low level of participation~~that are especially affected by severe unemployment;

2016/07/20
Committee: EMPL

2016/2101(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on the European Commission to closely monitor and control the investments under the Juncker Plan; A report should audit and measure the economic and employment impact of the investments in real terms;

2016/07/20
Committee: EMPL

2016/2101(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Recognises the significant progress made by the Member States in implementing structural reforms~~, while nevertheless taking the view that further progress is necessary:~~ to enhance productivity, foster job creation, raise competitiveness and improve the business environment, while nevertheless taking the view that further progress is necessary, especially from Member States with large current account surpluses, notably through the implementation of measures to channel excess savings towards the domestic economy and thereby boost domestic investment;

2016/07/20
Committee: EMPL

2016/2101(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Highlighted the importance of private investment, but believes that public expenditure should be also promoted in an efficient and effective way; Member States should focus on sources of expenditure that will raise productivity capacity in the future and that will have strong positive spill-overs on the economy as a whole - especially through education and training (academic, professional and vocational), R&D and infrastructures (transport, energy and communication);

2016/07/20
Committee: EMPL

2016/2101(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Calls on Member States to reduce the tax wedge on labour, particularly for low earners, in a budgetary neutral way to foster job creation and to implement tax rules that foster incentives on entrepreneurship and employment creation;

2016/07/20
Committee: EMPL

2016/2101(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Recalls once again that free movement of people is fundamental to enhance convergence and integration between European countries;

2016/07/20
Committee: EMPL

2016/2101(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Lieve WIERINCK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nils TORVALDS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Fully supports the efforts made to ensure greater national ownership in the formulation and implementation of CSRs as an ongoing reform process; recalls that CSRs are endorsed by the Heads of State and Government and adopted by the EU Finance Ministers; believes that to achieve greater national ownership CSRs should become part of a legally binding convergence code;

2016/08/30
Committee: ECON

2016/2101(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Regrets the fact that the Commission has disregarded Parliament’'s request to strengthen the application of Article 349 TFEU with a view to enhancing the outermost regions’ ' integration into the EU; notes that these regions have unemployment rates over 30%; Priority should be also given to economies and regions that still face high long-term and youth unemployment and that productivity growth remains slow affecting living standards and competitiveness;

2016/07/20
Committee: EMPL

2016/2101(INI)

Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Michael THEURER, Lieve WIERINCK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nils TORVALDS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Stresses that Europe’'s long economic crisis has shown that there is a strong need to focus on ~~public and~~structural reforms, public investment where Member States have fiscal space and regulatory initiatives that incentivise greater private investment, in order to enhance the EU’'s competitiveness;

2016/08/30
Committee: ECON

2016/2101(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls for account to be taken of the challenges that have been emerging in the EU since ~~2015~~the beginning of the crisis, which have required serious adaptation efforts; calls on the Commission ~~not to apply any sanctions to the Member States in 2016~~to apply the rules of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) exactly the same way in every Member State, so as to prevent any sort of discrimination; Notes the flexibility already contained within the SGP;

2016/07/20
Committee: EMPL

2016/2101(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Stresses that more EU transfers might be expected to generate greater additional growth, but in reality, it appears there may be decreasing returns from investment and investment- stimulating transfers; More funds do not necessarily mean more growth and better results; A point may be reached where returns begin to decline and additional funds do not lead to higher growth; Transfers to regions should therefore not exceed maximum desirable levels if inefficiency and misuse are to be avoided;

2016/07/20
Committee: EMPL

2016/2101(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Calls on the Commission to help and to exchange best practices with Member States to improve administrative capacity at national, regional and local level which is a key challenge for re- launching long-term investments and ensuring job creation and sustainable growth;

2016/07/20
Committee: EMPL

2016/2101(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)

6c. Stresses that Member States deficit levels may be increased due to the Member States need to co-finance projects financed by ESI funds; Having regard to budgetary restrictions, many deprived regions have less possibilities to benefit from ESIF. Asks the Commission to revise the requests of co-financing in areas with dramatic indebtment or deficit;

2016/07/20
Committee: EMPL

2016/2101(INI)

Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Michael THEURER, Lieve WIERINCK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nils TORVALDS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Underlines that the still-too-high unemployment rates show that the capacity to create jobs in most Member States is still limited; emphasises that further action is needed, in consultation with social partners and in accordance with national practices, to make labour markets more inclusive overall; believes that the capacity to create jobs would increase if the EU had a single European labour market;

2016/08/30
Committee: ECON

2016/2101(INI)

Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Michael THEURER, Lieve WIERINCK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nils TORVALDS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Expresses disquiet about the current ‘liquidity trap’ the EU economy seems to have fallen into, with interest rates at the Zero Lower Bound (ZLB), weak demand prospects, and restricted investment and spending by households and companies, not least in surplus countries; due to a lack of confidence in the macro-economic environment and reform fatigue in certain Member States;

2016/08/30
Committee: ECON

2016/2101(INI)

Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Michael THEURER, Lieve WIERINCK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nils TORVALDS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Underlines the fact that investment has so far lagged and failed to lead to sustainable and inclusive growth in the EU because measures to improve the business environment are missing and that under the current circumstances, monetary policy alone is unlikely to bring about recovery, even though the rules made necessary by banking union have imposed more stringent financial criteria on banks; considers that a coordinated fiscal expansion is also needed in the EU, therefore, in line with the rules of the Stability and Growth Pact and its flexibility clauses, in order to place emphasis on public and private investment;

2016/08/30
Committee: ECON

2016/2101(INI)

Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Michael THEURER, Lieve WIERINCK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nils TORVALDS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Emphasises the need to improve the EU’s overall capacity to create and sustain jobs and thus to tackle high levels of unemployment, while considering that migration could play an important role in compensating for the negative effects of the ageing population; emphasises, however, that this alone cannot be the main response to address structural demographic, labour market or fiscal challenges but that it should be complemented with efficient public expenditure, especially in high-quality social and environmentally sustainable growth enhancing investments;

2016/08/30
Committee: ECON

2016/2101(INI)

Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Michael THEURER, Lieve WIERINCK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nils TORVALDS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Highlights the importance of resilient labour markets where an appropriate trade-off is maintained between economic, social and human costs and where wages are in line with productivity in accordance with the EU values of solidarity and subsidiarity, with a focus on the upgrading of educational systems and vocational education;

2016/08/30
Committee: ECON

2016/2101(INI)

Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Lieve WIERINCK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nils TORVALDS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Deeply deplores the fact that with regard to the Europe 2020 strategy, the biggest failure to be recorded concerns the goal of reducing the scale of poverty in the Union, as not only will the goal not be reached, but poverty will in fact have increased; notes however for the first time fighting poverty was part of an EU strategy; considers that fighting poverty should be included right from the conception of all EU policies;

2016/08/30
Committee: ECON

2016/2101(INI)

Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS, Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Lieve WIERINCK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nils TORVALDS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17a (new)

17a. Requests a report from the Commission no later than three months after the adoption of this resolution, which lists all CSRs and Single Market laws by Member State that are not fully implemented and details concrete measures the Commission will undertake to ensure full implementation as well as a timetable by which full implementation will be achieved;

2016/08/30
Committee: ECON

2016/2095(INI)

Morten LØKKEGAARD, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Alexander Graf LAMBSDORFF, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ulrike MÜLLER

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1

– having regard to the Treaty on European Union, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, in particular article 153 laying out the competences of the EU and member states with regards to social policies and labour markets, article 154 and 155 on the role of the social partners; and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union,

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Morten LØKKEGAARD, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Alexander Graf LAMBSDORFF, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ulrike MÜLLER

Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)

– having regard to the conclusions of the European Council of 14 December 2007 endorsing Common Principles of Flexicurity, recognising the importance of a solid, integrated and balanced approach to the key challenges for the modernisation of labour markets,

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Morten LØKKEGAARD

Motion for a resolution
Citation 16

~~– having regard to its resolution of [15 September 2016] on social dumping in the European Union (2015/2255(INI))6 , __________________ 6Not yet published in the Official Journal.~~deleted

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Ivo VAJGL, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 a (new)

– having regard to its resolution of 10 September 2015 on creating a competitive EU labour market for the 21st century,

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 b (new)

– having regard to its resolution of 15 December 2015 on skills policies for fighting youth unemployment (2015/2088(INI)),

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Morten LØKKEGAARD, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Alexander Graf LAMBSDORFF, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ulrike MÜLLER

Motion for a resolution
Citation 20

– having regard to ~~the numerous inputs received from social partners, civil society organisations and other stakeholders and to the exchange of views with some of them held on 1 September 2016~~joint analyses by the European social partners, BusinessEurope, CEEP, ETUC and UEAPME of October 2007 on ‘Key Challenges facing European Labour Markets’ and of July 2015 ‘In-depth employment analysis by the European social partners’,

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Morten LØKKEGAARD, Alexander Graf LAMBSDORFF, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ulrike MÜLLER

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the European Union ~~needs a paradigm shift towards a strong European~~has gradually developed a social model based on solidarity, social justice, a ~~fair~~ redistribution of wealth, gender equality, a high-quality public education systems, quality employment and sustainable growth ~~- a model that ensures good~~, there is a need for a holistic review of the implementation of existing collective legal body that provides the adequate flexibility in labour markets to foster real economic growth while ensuring provision of decent social protection ~~for all~~, empowers vulnerable groups, enhances participation in civil and political life, and improves the living standards for all citizens, delivering on the objectives and rights set out in the EU Treaties, the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the European Social Charter;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the European Union needs a ~~paradigm shift towards a~~ strong European social m~~odel~~arket economy based on solidarity, social justice, a fair distribution of wealth, gender equality, a ~~high-~~quality public education systems, quality employment and sustainable growth - a model that ensures good social protection for all, empowers vulnerable groups, enhances participation in civil and political life, and improves the living standards for all citizens, delivering on the objectives and rights set out in the EU Treaties, the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the European Social Charter;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. The social dimension of the EU is much broader than EU Social Rights, the EPRS or Social Pillar also includes an extensive body of EU and national legislation protecting workers, as well as well-developed national social systems;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the Commission is expected to come forward in the spring of 2017 with ~~a proposal for a binding European Pillar of Social Rights~~the results and conclusions of the consultation process that it has launched as regards a European Pillar of Social Rights, calls on the Commission to ensure that the consultation translates into further specific measures by way of the instruments and proposals available to it within its framework for action;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Morten LØKKEGAARD, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Alexander Graf LAMBSDORFF, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ulrike MÜLLER

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas European social partners in joint conclusions recognise that in today’s labour market it is necessary to improve policy measures which address both the flexibility and security dimensions for workers and employers alike. Applied in the right way, the flexicurity approach can create a win-win situation and be equally beneficial for employers and employees. They conclude that a dynamic labour market should ensure that everyone has the chance to use his or her skills and abilities in their working life. This notably includes ensuring healthy and safe working conditions over the working life, updating competences over the life course through regular and lifelong learning as well as implementing flexible working practices that benefit workers and employers, ensuring possibilities for a second career for those who need this;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Alexander Graf LAMBSDORFF, Ulrike MÜLLER, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Emphasises that the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) ~~cannot be limi~~is a Union of National Welfare States of the EU, constituted toby a declaration of principles o~~r good intentions but must consist of real matter (legislation,~~f Social Rights, the social acquis in this field (Fundamental rights, legislation and ECJ case law) and a process of policy- making mechanisms and financial instruments), needed to deliver~~ing~~ a positive impact on citizens’ lives ~~in the short term~~ and enabling support for European construction in the 21st century by effectively upholding social rights and Treaty objectives, strengthening cohesion and upward convergence in all of the EU, and will help~~ing~~ to complete EMU;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Highlights that the EPSR ~~should equip European citizens with stronger means to keep control over their lives and make markets work for wellbeing and sustainable development~~would support National Welfare States and guide the development and convergence of them through general basic social standards and principles to attain common objectives that are shared and form part of a European Social model. EPSR enhances the legitimacy of the EU and equip European citizens with stronger means to reinforce, guarantee and update its welfare system improving the wellbeing of its citizens and socio-economic development in a context of a highly competitive social market economy, aiming at full employment and social progress;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Alexander Graf LAMBSDORFF, Ulrike MÜLLER, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Acknowledges that the Social Pillar should not undermine the prerogative of social partner to agree beyond minimum standards agreed at EU level, and should never impair the freedom of social partners to negotiate in areas where flexicurity-approaches have proven to be effective. Neither create any difficulty or setback to Member States, sectors or citizens that have reached levels of social rights beyond the basic frame of the Social Pillar;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Alexander Graf LAMBSDORFF, Ulrike MÜLLER, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. In addition, EPSR should provide an instrument to foster upward convergence for national reforms of the economic, social and labour market systems of the member states to facilitate the free movement of labour in a deeper and fairer market;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Alexander Graf LAMBSDORFF, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Ulrike MÜLLER, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)

2c. Underlines that EPRS has an important economic aspect because it establishes a social floor that would encourage a minim of convergence and at the same time enables a level playing field in the EU and encourage free competition;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls for the enactment of a directive on ~~fair~~ working conditions for all forms of employment, ensuring for every worker a core set of enforceable rights, including equal treatment, social protection, protection in case of dismissal, health and safety protection, provisions on working time and rest time, freedom of association and representation, collective bargaining, collective action, accafter a thorough assessment existing legislation and the actual implementation in Member Statess to training, and adequate information and consultation rights; underlines that this directive should apply to employees as well as to all workers in non-standard forms of employment, such as fixed-term work, part-time work, on-demand work, self-employment, crowd-working, internship or traineeship; requests that the EU acquis be updated accordingly so as to apply to all workersidentify and update possible gaps and shortcomings and ensuring proper enforcement and application of existing EU social legislation and cutting unnecessary red tape;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Ivo VAJGL, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Emphasises that the Commission, in cooperation with the Member States and social partners, should also reinforce the European social dialogue with a view to better reconciling labour markets and social protection demands in order to address social inequalities and competitiveness challenges;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Morten LØKKEGAARD, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Alexander Graf LAMBSDORFF, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ulrike MÜLLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – introductory part

4. ~~Calls for decisive steps towards legal certainty on what constitutes ‘employment’, also for work intermediated by digital platforms; underlines that~~To improve employment prospects for all Europeans, in particular young people and women and to ensure the legal certainty for companies, it is important to ensure the attractiveness of different forms of employment contracts and that a variety of employment contracts are available for workers and companies; in this regard member states should carefully design employment protection regulations for open- ended contracts ~~shoul~~and rtem~~ain the norm given their importance for socio-economic security; calls for the directi~~porary contracts in a way that supports labour markets transitions and prevent or reduce the risk of labour market dualism. Member states should also make sure that there is full clarity at national level on ~~fair working conditions to include relevant minimum standards to be ensured in more precar~~the way new job opportunities linked to new business- models as part of the digital platform economy, qualify in terms of the pre- existing legal definitiouns ~~forms of employment, in particular:~~of work and self- employment.

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – introductory part

4. Calls for ~~decisive~~ steps towards legal certainty on what constitutes ‘employment’, also for work intermediated by digital platforms; underlines that open- ended contracts ~~should remain the norm given their importance for~~are the most stable form of employment and should be the norm given that they provide social protection and are socio-economic ~~security~~ally important; calls for the directive on ~~fair~~ working conditions ~~to include relevant minimum standards to be ensured in more precarious forms of employment~~, by integrating and updating basic, recognised rights, to include relevant minimum standards, in particular:

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point a

a. ade~~cent~~quate working conditions for internships, traineeships and apprenticeships, ~~prohibiting those that are unpaid or paid so little that they do not enable workers to make ends meet;~~ encouraging adequate remuneration where possible and a proper training as a valuable step in the transition from education to professional life; such placement should not replace employment for young people; Encourage Member States and stakeholders to implement Council recommendation on a Quality Framework for Traineeships;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point b

b. for work intermediated by digital platforms, a clearer definition of employment ~~that is less dependent on full cumulation of the relevant criteria~~;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point c

c. limits regarding on-demand work:; zero-hour contracts should be banned ~~and certain core working hours should be guaranteed to all workers~~;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point c a (new)

ca. reduce social inequalities and promote employment, especially for young people and the long-term unemployed in order to boost economic growth;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Takes note that traditional work patterns are being challenged by an increase in the diversity of non-standard forms of employment, and new forms of work are emerging that are blurring the boundary between dependent employment and self-employment. Calls on Member States and the Commission improve the legal certainty and legal clarity on worker´s employment status and employers responsibility;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Alexander Graf LAMBSDORFF, Ulrike MÜLLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Emphasises the need for ~~renewed upward~~adequate convergence in wages throughout the EU; calls on the Commission to actively support a wider coverage for collective bargaining; considers that to ensure decent living wages, minimum wages set at a decent level are necessary; recommends the establishment of national wage floors through legislation or collective bargaining, with the objective of attaining at least 60 % of the respective national average wage in line with national practices that will allow that wages evolve in line with productivity developments in consultation with the social partners; Considers that labour market costs influence competitiveness of Europe; stresses that the tax burden should be shifted away from labour to other sources of taxation that are less detrimental to employment and growth, while ensuring adequate social protection;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls on the Commission to come up with a proposal to integrate the Euro Plus pact into the Community Method to combine sufficient oversight from the EU level as well as Member State ownership; The EPRS should incentivise Member States to undertake structural reforms in areas that fall under their national competence; Calls on Member States to accelerate the setting up of national Competitiveness boards to evaluate wage setting mechanism, competitiveness and play an active role in preventing Macro economic imbalances; Underlines that in some cases, social cohesion would require that minimum pensions are complement with EU financial instruments;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Stresses the importance of collective rights; expects the Commission to step up concrete support for strengthening social dialogue in Member States and sectors where ~~it is weak owing to the prolonged crisis or the prevalence of non-standard forms of employment~~this is not sufficiently well developed;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Supports more integrated provision of social protection benefits and social services as a way to make the welfare state more understandable and accessible while not weakening social protection; points to the importance of informing citizens about social rights and to the potential of e- government solutions, possibly including a European social security card, which could improve EU Social Security Coordination, individual awareness and also help mobile workers clarify their contributions and entitlements;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Agrees with the importance of universal access to timely, good-quality and affordable preventative and curative health care; emphasises that all ~~worker~~citizens must be covered by health insurance;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Insists that all workers should be covered by insurance against ~~involuntary unemployment or part-time employment,~~ unemployment, coupled with job-search assistance and investment in (re)-training;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls for ~~a European framework for minimum income schemes~~the right to every citizen to have a minimum income schemes following schemes adapted to every Member State as important tools to combat poverty and social exclusion; Invites the Commission to carry out an impact assessment of minimum income schemes in the European Union and to consider further steps taking into account the economic and social circumstances of each Member State as well as assessing whether the schemes enable households to meet basic personal needs; invites the Commission to evaluate on this basis the manner and the means of providing an adequate minimum income in all Member States in line with national practices and traditions respecting the characteristics of each of them in order to support social convergence across the European Union; highlights the importance of such schemes for maintaining human dignity as well as their role as a form of social investments enabling people to undertake training and/or look for work;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Considers ~~child~~ poverty ~~to be a~~and inequalities are major issues on which Europe should ‘act big’; calls for the swift implementation of a Child Guarantee in all Member States, so that every child now living in poverty can have access to free healthcare, free education, free childcare, decent housing and proper nutritiononsiders the right to free and universal education, health and social security systems as basic conditions for combating poverty, in particular among children; bearing in mind this objective, calls on the Commission and the Member States, in view of the weakening of public services, to introduce a child guarantee so that every child in poverty can have access to free healthcare, free education, free childcare and adequate nutrition, as part of a European integrated plan to combat child poverty including both the Child Guarantee and programmes offering support and opportunities for the parents to come out of social exclusion situations and to integrate the labour market;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls for legislation to ensure that access to social housing or adequate housing benefits are provided for those in need, obviously including homeless people, and that vulnerable people and poor households are protected against eviction; calls for tax incentives to help young people on low incomes set up their own households; calls for greater use of the EFSI to support urban renewal and affordable housing provision;deleted

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Ulrike MÜLLER, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Calls for ~~legislation~~measures ensuring fair access for all to good-quality and affordable social services of general interest and other essential services, such as e-communications, energy, transport and financial services; highlights the role of social enterprises;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 – introductory part

19. Is ~~alarmed at the spre~~concerned about the lack of stability and security of new forms of contractual arrangement and the abusive use of 'atypical' contracts that have led to a certain fade of ~~precariousness arising from the excessive use of ‘atypical’ contract~~the employment relationship, making it difficult for workers to exercise their rights at work, or gain access to social security benefits; points out that a variety of employment contracts should be available for employers and workers; stresses the importance of ensuring sufficient institutional and budgetary capacities to provide adequate protection for people in non-standard forms of employment; considers in particular that:

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 – point a

a. social insurance schemes must be broadened in order to enable all workers to accumulate entitlements providing income security in situations such as unemployment~~, involuntary part-time work~~ or career breaks for family or training reasons;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5

~~Fair m~~Mobility

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Emphasises that labour mobility within the EU ~~is a right whose exercise must be supported but which should not be forced on workers by poor conditions in their home regions, and should not undermine host countries’ social standard~~, non-discrimination and freedom of movement is a cornerstone for a well-functioning internal market, mobility should be encourage and support by the European Commission and Member States;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24a. Calls for a structured, long-term EU strategy to address the challenges posed by demographic change, as all the Member States are now faced with an increasingly ageing population; calls on the Commission, in this context, to look extensively into future shortages and mismatches in the EU labour market, and to examine in depth how such problems can be addressed across the EU, inter alia through targeted anticipation of future skills needs, and by better matching skills with the jobs available in the labour market and further strengthening labour mobility; Calls on the EU and its Member States to continue its efforts to financial aid and services to families to improve labour market conditions favourable for work-life balance;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24a. Notes the importance of the proficiency in languages and the need to provide additional instruction in at least one widely used international language so as to facilitate mobility;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)

24b. Urges the Commission to put in place all suitable mechanisms for greater mobility among young people, with a special accent in apprenticeships, as a way to address skill mismatches in the labour market and improve access to employment opportunities; Calls for the establishment and regular use of coordination mechanisms between business organisations and training institutions to ensure that they provide training programmes adapted to market needs;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Calls on the Commission to propose a clear roadmap for legislative updates and other measures that are necessary for full practical application of the EPSR; ~~highlights that in cases of conflict of law,~~Welcomes that the EPRS delivers on the horizontal social clause (Article 9 TFEU) ~~should be properly applied;~~, calls on the Commission and Member States to inspired the action in the goals and objectives an continue to promote and attaint high level of employment, to guarantee adequate social protection, to fight against social exclusion, and to provide for a high level of education, training and protection of human health.

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)

25a. Calls on the Commission, within the framework of the social pillar, to consider the possibility of creating a European labour inspectorate, that is to say of a body of European inspectors specialised in cross-border mobility and providing technical backup for national inspectors in the implementation of EU legislation, including provisions regarding safety and health at work; notes that this body will also ensure compliance with the rules governing European training funds and European unemployment benefits, as well as protecting the financial interests of the Union against possible liability arising from non-compliance.

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – introductory part

26. Considers that the objective of upward social convergence should be underpinned by a set of targets, building on the Europe 2020 strategy and the Sustainable Development Goals and serving to guide the coordination of economic, employment and social policies in the EU; Regrets that coordination mechanisms used in the employment and social fields have failed to achieve upward convergence in the past; believes that these targets could also form part of the Convergence Code currently being discussed for the euro area, and could be based on the following indicators which are directly affected by public policies:

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – point a

a. Education, including the early school-leaving rate and the proportion of young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs);

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – point a a (new)

aa. Productivity and labour costs

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – point a b (new)

ab. Labour mobility and protection of workers

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – point a c (new)

ac. Investment in infrastructure

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – point c

~~c. the proportion of young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs);~~deleted

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – point d

d. the at-risk-of-poverty ~~rate~~or social exclusion rate (AROPE) ;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – point d a (new)

da. gini and palma index

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – point d b (new)

db. income quintile share ratio

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – point j a (new)

ja. Pensions

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Calls for a ~~rebalancing of~~stronger emphasis for the European Semester so that the existing scoreboard of key employment and social indicators a~~nd the new Convergence Code are directly~~re better taken into account in formulating CSRs and the euro area recommendation as well as for the activation of EU instruments; urges a stronger role for the Macroeconomic Dialogue with social partners; considers ‘macro-social surveillance’ to be of great importance for avoiding that economic imbalances are reduced at the expense of worsening the employment and social situationCalls for the enhancement of national ownership of the CSRs in the European Semester and the incorporation of the CSRs in a legally binding convergence code;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)

27a. Calls on the Commission to take effective measures within the framework of the European Semester to ensure that Member States implement the country- specific recommendations and structural reforms in order to modernise their economies, increase competitiveness and tackle inequalities and imbalances;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Calls for a ‘silver rule’ on social investment to be applied when implementing the Stability and Growth Pact, namely to consider certain public social investments having a clear positive impact on economic growth (e.g. childcare or education and training) as being eligible for favourable treatment when assessing government deficits and compliance with the 1/20 debt rule;deleted

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 – introductory part

30. Reiterates wit~~s c~~hout a comprehensive mid-term revision of the MFF the Union budget will be able neither to further address additional financial needs and new political priorities of the EPSR; Call for the raising of the MFF 2014-20 ceilings in order to cope with increased needs; calls, in particular, for:

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 – point c

~~c. the establishment of a new instrument, to be financed, for example, from EU revenue arising from competition law enforcement, to support the implementation of the Child Guarantee;~~deleted

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 – introductory part

32. Calls for the swift implementation of the Competitiveness and Convergence Instrument (CCI) to incentives Member States to undertake structural reforms by providing financial support for their implementation; Considers that the specific dynamics of economic adjustment within the euro area call for the development of two financial instruments, within the euro area’s fiscal capacity, that would be particularly relevant for the implementation of the EPSR:

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 – point a

a. a fund for renewed structural convergence, supporting the implementation of socially just reforms and investments that are necessary for increasing the growth potential of crisis- affected areas and restoring upward social convergence, including implementation of the Youth Guarantee, Skills Guarantee and ~~Child Guarantee~~investment that reduce inequalities and poverty;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35

35. Considers that the EPSR should be adopted in 2017 as a ~~binding~~n agreement between the European Parliament and the European Council, involving social partners at the highest level, and should contain a clear roadmap for implementation, with concrete commitments and target dates;

2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL

2016/2064(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Believe~~Recalls that the ~~main aim of projects financed under~~purpose of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) ~~should be to create growth and a dynamic labour market in Europe, and hence to enhance the well-being of EU citizen~~is to make sure that scarce public resources are used to mobilise private investment to target market failures by crowding-in private capital and ensuring investment reach real economy; believes that projects financed under the EFSI should create growth, stimulate the creation of jobs in Europeans areas where unemployment is huge and alarming and invest in sectors critical to Europe's future notably through social and human capital, European infrastructures and industry; stresses that it should be clear that all EFSI-supported projects could not have been carried out, without EFSI support; emphasises that the EFSI must be considered as an emergency plan; regrets that the EIB evaluation finds that the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) or H2020 may potentially compete with EFSI, and that the EIB sometimes privileges EFSI over those programmes;

2016/12/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2064(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Recalls that according to recital 13 of the EFSI regulation, EFSI should seek to contribute to strengthening the Union's economic, social and territorial cohesion; in that sense, calls on the Commission to provide guidance to avoid EFSI' aggregated portfolio concentration in the EU15 (92%) as mentioned in the operations evaluation of the European Investment Bank; recalls that the introduction of quotas - regional and sectorial - is not an objective, but the fact that the EFSI is being concentrated in countries where the market gap on investment is less evident, leads to the conclusion that not enough attention is paid to really addressing market failures and labour market constraints; highlights also that 46% of the EFSI financing is allocated to the energy sector and 19% to the transport sector; stresses that there is a need to assess if these concentrations are really enhancing or hampering the fight against the big pockets of unemployment; stresses the need to develop more information campaigns about the EFSI, which would allow to increase private investment and thus avoid this regional and sectorial concentration;

2016/12/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2064(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Recognises the importance of the extension of the lifetime of the EFSI beyond 2020 and of the necessary increase in the EU budget guarantee but regrets that any comprehensive impact assessment has been made, so the Commission has little evidence that the proposed increase is justified;

2016/12/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2064(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Reinforces the additionality of the projects supported under EFSI to enhance the geographical coverage and reinforces the take-up especially in areas with high level of unemployment in order to have a strong impact in the employment figures; highlights the need to develop further the investment in cross-border projects;

2016/12/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2064(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)

1d. Highlights that investment situation in Europe is slowly improving but the pace is still timid and can be reversible; investment levels are still below the pre-crisis level and the investment gap remains wide; in that sense EFSI must be oriented to any kind of projects that lead to job creation and sustainable growth and development;

2016/12/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2064(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)

1e. Highlights that initial results reveal that Member States with greater technical and administrative capacity, as well as financial institutions, are taking greater advantage of the EFSI; underlines that a greater role must be played by the EIB and the Commission in supporting those lagging behind through greater technical assistance and enhancing the capacity of some countries in taking advantage of the EFSI; notes that approximately 63% of total EFSI financing within the Innovation and Infrastructure Window was granted to three Member States, while the EFSI strategy foresees a maximum geographical concentration of 45%; notes that the situation is less problematic when it comes to the SME Window, but even here, only three Member States account for 54% of total EFSI financing;

2016/12/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2064(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the Commission and the EIB to continue their local/national campaigns to help explain and promote the benefits of Investment Plan across the Union; welcomes the opening of new offices by the EIB in the Member States to provide more support and also enhance cooperation with National Promotional Banks contributing to generate more projects in areas of high level of unemployment that have been less covered so far;

2016/12/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2064(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls for the EFSI to operate in closer conjunction with the ~~Structural Funds~~European Structural Investment Funds (ESIF) and other Structural Funds; this articulation must be further simplified and administrative obstacles must be removed;

2016/12/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2064(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission to engage more actively in consultation ~~at local level~~with Member States and stakeholders, especially in cooperation with national investment banks; believes that the EFSI should focus in particular on ~~business startup projects and~~ projects to reduce unemployment and projects on social investment in people's current and future capacities to engage in the labour market; it is important the EFSI covers key sectors for the EU, including a possible inclusion of defence;

2016/12/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2064(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Recalls that the EFSI remains without an assessment and analysis of the causes of the investment gap and the market needs and how to best address them; in that sense, calls on the Commission to provide this assessment;

2016/12/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2064(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Considers itmore than disappointing that the Commission’s assessment of the EFSI has failed to record the number of jobs created to date under the Fund; calls on the Commission to studied and assess the impact of these projects on the number of jobs created and the real impact of these investment in direct and indirect jobs;

2016/12/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2064(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Recalls the importance that new figures and updates are released regularly, including independent assessments, drawing on the experience collected so far; regrets that in terms of the objectives relating to growth and jobs, no targets have been set for EFSI; Calls on the monitoring of indicators relating to growth and jobs, as these are the ultimate objectives of the investments;

2016/12/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2064(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Member States to lay down more clear-cut investment priorities and to draw up projects in collaboration with the European Investment Advisory Hub; the EIB should ensure a proper feedback loop of information with the European Commission regarding eventual regulatory barriers which may be preventing good projects of taking place at the different levels; calls on the Commission to work in closer cooperation with Member States in the European Semester process in order to help them begin as soon as possible to implement the recommendations, in particular by carrying out economic and social reforms, thus removing national barriers to investment; these reforms identified in the country- specific recommendations are an important condition to sustain and increase investment levels in Member States, taking into account national specificities.

2016/12/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2064(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Welcomes that the Commission will, in close cooperation with the EIB, further strengthen the communication on the EFSI and the Hub in order to raise awareness of the availability of funding and technical assistance across the Union; suggests that information on funding solutions, technical assistance and procedures, including through good practices examples and case studies, can stimulate new ideas and boost investment initiatives;

2016/12/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2064(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. As recalled by the European Parliament resolution of 28 April 2016 on the EIB - annual report 2014 there is a need for the EFSI to function in an effective, fully transparent and fair way, in that sense insists in the need to achieve the highest levels of transparency and institutional accountability by ensuring the disclosure of exhaustive and sound budgetary information and access to financial data related to projects funded by the EIB;

2016/12/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2056(INI)

Sophia IN 'T VELD, Nils TORVALDS, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the dynamics of retail financial services markets in many Member States, featuring a combination of high concentration and inadequate competition, tend to result in limited choice and low value for money, as well as huge discrepancies between Member States;

2016/06/29
Committee: ECON

2016/2056(INI)

Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the market for retail financial services in Europe remains highly fragmented, requiring urgent action to unlock the full potential of the Single Market;

2016/06/29
Committee: ECON

2016/2056(INI)

Sophia IN 'T VELD, Nils TORVALDS, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas we should remain ambitious in breaking down national barriers and curbing the existing protectionist tendencies that block innovation in retail financial services; whereas a true single market will make the EU attractive as the hub for innovative financial services;

2016/06/29
Committee: ECON

2016/2056(INI)

Sophia IN 'T VELD, Nils TORVALDS, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 d (new)

18d. Urges the Commission to map the obstacles to internal market in retail finance stemming from different consumer protection, taxation and labour law provisions across Member States; furthermore, urges the Commission following the assessment to come up with concrete proposals for eliminating identified barriers by July, 2017;

2016/06/29
Committee: ECON

2016/2056(INI)

Sophia IN 'T VELD, Nils TORVALDS, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Asks the Commission to study further the ~~benefits and costs of guaranteeing~~options for domestic and cross- border portability in various parts of the retail financial services market ~~(for example as regards insurance products and bank account numbers)~~and come up with concrete proposals until the beginning of 2018;

2016/06/29
Committee: ECON

2016/2033(INI)

Petr JEŽEK, Cora van NIEUWENHUIZEN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Notes that it is essential for the Member States to adopt a coordinated tax policy and improve the speed and frequency of their exchange information concerning intra community trade in order to combat tax evasion and tax avoidance more effectively and finally close the existing ‘VAT gap’;

2016/06/02
Committee: ECON

2016/2033(INI)

Petr JEŽEK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Believes that the lack of comparable data and of adequate relevant indicators to measure Member States' performance affects the effectiveness of the EU system to tackle intra EU VAT fraud and thus calls on tax authorities to establish, in coordination with the COM, a common system to estimate the size of intra EU fraud and then set targets to reduce it, as this would enable the evaluation of MS's performances in tackling this issue;

2016/06/02
Committee: ECON

2016/2033(INI)

Petr JEŽEK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)

22b. Welcomes the Commission announcement to expand the mini-one- stop-shop into a fully-fledged one-stop- shop; notes the paramount importance for it to be user-friendly and equally efficient in all 28 Member States; notes that creating a one-stop-shop would alleviate administrative burdens preventing companies from operating across borders and reduce costs for SMEs1c; __________________ 1c COM(2016) 0148 final

2016/06/02
Committee: ECON

2016/2033(INI)

Petr JEŽEK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Calls in the short term for a comprehensive internet portal for companies and end-users to find, clearly and easily, information on the VAT rates applicable to individual products and services in the Member States; further calls on the Commission to provide guidelines to national tax authorities on the classification of transactions with respect to the applied VAT rate in order to reduce compliance costs and legal disputes;

2016/06/02
Committee: ECON

2016/2024(BUD)

Marian HARKIN, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Ivo VAJGL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Emphasises that the 2017 budget ~~has to be key~~should play a key role in enhancing the Union’s contribution to growth, the creation of jobs and combatting poverty, particularly child poverty;

2016/05/12
Committee: EMPL

2016/2024(BUD)

Marian HARKIN, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Ivo VAJGL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Regrets that the unemployment rate among young people ~~still remains too high and calls on the Commission to provide enough~~is unacceptably high in many Member States and calls on the Commission to work with Member States in utilising the financial support tos for those programmes targeting youth unemployment;

2016/05/12
Committee: EMPL

2016/2024(BUD)

Marian HARKIN, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Ivo VAJGL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses that the budget should support programmes creating jobs, in particular, for those with multiple disadvantages in the labour market, such as women, long-term unemployed, elderly unemployed, people with disabilities and people from minority backgrounds;

2016/05/12
Committee: EMPL

2016/2024(BUD)

Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Considers that the EU budget should invest in education and vocational training to provide opportunities, especially in the areas most affected ~~areas~~ by youth unemployment and in order to integrate migrants inand refugees into the labour market;

2016/05/12
Committee: EMPL

2016/2024(BUD)

Marian HARKIN, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Ivo VAJGL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Points out the potential of digitalisation generating new business models and new jobs and calls for coherent budgetary efforts to provide appropriate ~~recognition,~~ training and re-skilling in the ICT sector;

2016/05/12
Committee: EMPL

2016/2024(BUD)

Marian HARKIN, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Ivo VAJGL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Highlights the importance of the budget in promoting entrepreneurship initiatives including social entrepreneurship, innovative social enterprises, employee financial participation and self-employment;

2016/05/12
Committee: EMPL

2016/2024(BUD)

Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Stresses that the budget should ~~promote~~reinforce a high level of workers’ protection and prevention culture across the EU and help to address new challenges to health and safety at work;

2016/05/12
Committee: EMPL

2016/2024(BUD)

Marian HARKIN, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Ivo VAJGL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Considers that the EU budget should support efforts to upskill and retrain workers in areas where there are skills shortages as well as in the healthcare and care sectors and the ICT and digital sectors;

2016/05/12
Committee: EMPL

2016/2024(BUD)

Marian HARKIN, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Ivo VAJGL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9b. Considers that the EU budget should support the inclusion of people with disabilities in all employment programmes;

2016/05/12
Committee: EMPL

2016/2017(INI)

Renate WEBER, Angelika MLINAR, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Jana TOOM, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Member States to step up protection against discrimination and unlawful dismissal related to work-life balance and to ensure access to justice and legal action; Calls in this sense on the European Commission to propose policies to improve enforcement of antidiscrimination measures in the workplace, including increasing the awareness of legal rights to equal treatment by conducting information campaigns, reversal of the burden of proof (Zaborska report) and empowering national equality bodies to conduct formal investigations on their own initiative of equality issues and help potential victims of discrimination;

2016/06/02
Committee: EMPL FEMM

2016/2017(INI)

Renate WEBER, Angelika MLINAR, Filiz HYUSMENOVA, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Jana TOOM, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Highlights that lack of comparable, comprehensive, reliable and regularly updated equality data makes it more difficult to prove the existence of discrimination, particularly indirect discrimination; Calls on the Member States to collect equality data in a systematic way and with the involvement of national equality bodies and national courts; calls on the Commission to take initiatives to further promote such data collection by means of a Recommendation to Member States, and by tasking Eurostat with the development of consultations aiming at mainstreaming data disaggregation on all discrimination grounds in European Social Surveys' indicators; Calls on the Commission to continue to cooperate with the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) to improve the quantity and quality of sex- disaggregated data in a systematic way;

2016/06/02
Committee: EMPL FEMM

2016/2017(INI)

Renate WEBER, Angelika MLINAR, Filiz HYUSMENOVA, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Jana TOOM, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 d (new)

6d. Considers it necessary that adequate training on non-discrimination legislation in employment and case-law is provided for employees of national, regional and local authorities and law enforcement bodies and labour inspectors; believes that such training is also of critical importance for judges, prosecutors, lawyers and police force;

2016/06/02
Committee: EMPL FEMM

2016/2017(INI)

Renate WEBER, Angelika MLINAR, Filiz HYUSMENOVA, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Jana TOOM, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Urges the Commission to adopt a post-2015 Gender Equality Strategy and to implement it through the ~~European Semester, including the Annual Growth Survey and the~~ country-specific recommendations;

2016/06/02
Committee: EMPL FEMM

2016/2017(INI)

Renate WEBER, Angelika MLINAR, Jana TOOM, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 – point 1

(1) a paternity leave directive with a minimum of a two-week compulsory fully paid leave;

2016/06/02
Committee: EMPL FEMM

2016/2017(INI)

Renate WEBER, Angelika MLINAR, Filiz HYUSMENOVA, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Jana TOOM, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Calls on the Member States to effectively implement the Barcelona targets by 2020 and to endorse the 2014 quality framework on early childhood education and care; Recalls that investing in social infrastructure ,such as child care, does not only generate considerable employment effects, but also significant additional income for the public sector in employment taxes and savings in respect of unemployment insurance; believes that adequate child care should be available and affordable also to allow parents to achieve educational goals;

2016/06/02
Committee: EMPL FEMM

2016/0276(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

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

Regulation (EU) 2015/1017
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

1. The EFSI Agreement shall provide that the EFSI is to support projects which reach real economy and address market failures or sub-optimal investment situations and which:;

2017/02/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/0276(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

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

Regulation (EU) 2015/1017
Article 7 – paragraph 8 – point a a (new)

(-i) In Article 7(8), the following point is added: “ (aa) technologies related to security and defence industries;”

2017/02/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/0276(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

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

Regulation (EU) 2015/1017
Article 7 – paragraph 8 – point f

(~~f) education and trai~~ia) point (f) is replaced by the following: (f) labour market, education and training, vocational training for skills and lifelong learning;

2017/02/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/0276(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Ivo VAJGL

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

Regulation (EU) 2015/1017
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point g – point i

(~~i) education and training~~-a) in paragraph 2, point (g) point (i) is replaced by the following: (i) labour market, education and training, vocational training for skills and lifelong learning ;

2017/02/07
Committee: EMPL

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7

(7) For the period after 2020, the Commission intends to put forward the necessary proposals to ensure that strategic investment will continue at a sustainable level; a comprehensive impact assessment shall be made by the Commission to justify a future proposal.

2017/03/27
Committee: BUDG ECON

2016/0276(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8

(8) The extended EFSI should address remaining market failures and sub-optimal investment situations and continue to mobilise private sector financing in investments crucial for Europe’s future job creation – including for the youth –, growth and competitiveness with strengthened additionality. They include investments in the areas of energy, environment and climate action, social and human capital and related infrastructure, healthcare, research and innovation, cross- border and sustainable transport, as well as the digital transformation, areas which have the highest GDP economic multipliers in order to strength economic, social and territorial cohesion. In particular, the contribution of operations supported by the EFSI to achieving the Union's ambitious targets set at the Paris Climate Conference (COP21) and by Europe 2020 Strategy, especially those that tackle unemployment and inequalities, should be reinforced. Energy interconnection priority projects and energy efficiency projects should also be increasingly targeted. In addition, EFSI support to motorways should be ~~avoided, unless it is need~~reconsidered bearing in mind the need to enhance the intermodality of transports; Stresses the need to support private investment in transport in cohesion countries or in cross-border transport projects involving at least one cohesion country. For reasons of clarity, although they are already eligible, it should be explicitly laid down that projects in the fields of agriculture, fishery and aquaculture but also in technologies related to security and defence industries come within the general objectives eligible for EFSI support.

2017/03/27
Committee: BUDG ECON

2016/0276(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

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

Regulation (EU) 2015/1017
Article 14 – paragraph 1 –subparagraph 2 – second sentence

It shall also support the preparation of climate action and circular economy projects or components thereof, in particular in the context of COP21, ~~the preparation of projects in the digital sector~~especially in less-developed and transition areas in order to make the best impact on employment, including, the preparation of projects in the digital sector, and technologies related to the security and defence industries, as well as the preparation of projects referred to in the fifth subparagraph of Article 5(1).;

2017/02/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/0276(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 a (new)

(8 a) In addition, it is appropriate to reinforce the social dimension of the EFSI implementation such as education, training and vocational training for skills and lifelong learning, innovation in healthcare and medicines and social services.

2017/03/27
Committee: BUDG ECON

2016/0276(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

(f) providing advice on the combination of other sources of Union funding (such as the European Structural and Investment Funds, Youth Guarantee and Youth Employment Initiative, Horizon 2020 and the Connecting Europe Facility) with the EFSI in order to avoid administrative burden.;

2017/03/27
Committee: BUDG ECON

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6

(6) Experimental ecosystem accounts and climate-change statistics, including those relevant to climate-change adaptation and ‘footprints’, should be further developed, particularly in support of the implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The European Energy Union and the 2030 framework for climate and energy, which aims to make the Union’s economy and energy system more competitive, efficient, secure and sustainable, will require new statistics on energy consumption, energy efficiency, renewable energies, energy dependence and security of supply.

2017/02/09
Committee: ECON

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)

(1a) In this respect, it is essential to improve the timeliness of social indicators so that they are available in due time for the relevant policy frameworks, including the European Semester.

2017/03/23
Committee: EMPL

2016/0264(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6

(6) In 2011, the European Statistical System (ESS) endorsed in Wiesbaden its Memorandum on a New Conceptual Design for Household and Social Statistics. In its view, the European surveys that provide data relating to persons and households should be streamlined, and additional, less frequent microdata collections should be used to complement those core social surveys. Furthermore, there should be better access to administrative data, an increased user- friendliness of Eurostat website and the re-use of existing data sources and access to new data sources should be developed at national and EU level.

2017/03/23
Committee: EMPL

2016/0264(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 a (new)

(6a) In this respect, this Regulation should act as a catalyst in order to strengthen and reinforce cooperation between the Commission (Eurostat), the National Central Banks and the Statistical Advisory Committee. It should also foresee more integration with the National Statistical Institutes and ensure Member States' compliance with the European Statistics Code of Practice.

2017/03/23
Committee: EMPL

2016/0264(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)

(7a) For that purpose, large flexibility should be included in this regulation so as to establish a rich statistical basis that responds to current needs, and to enable adaptation to social, economic, technological and legal evolutions taking into account statistical comparability at international level.

2017/03/23
Committee: EMPL

2016/0264(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13 a (new)

(13a) The gross domestic product (GDP) is a fundamental macroeconomic indicator showing the aggregated economic activity. It is however essential to complement it with strong indicators adopting a household perspective, focusing on the citizens situations, describing the distributions of material living conditions and the inequalities as well as investigating better the multiple dimensions of quality of life. Therefore, this regulation should provide a rich and evolving set of statistics in these domains.

2017/03/23
Committee: EMPL

2016/0264(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13 b (new)

(13b) Income, consumption and wealth are three dimensions determining the material wellbeing of the households. It is important to seek, across the existing data sources, to describe better these dimensions, the distribution of each of them as well as their joint distributions across households, taking into account the existence of several data sources and seeking reinforcement of their joint use. Therefore, this regulation should include and enhance the consumption domain and the linkages between the three dimensions.

2017/03/23
Committee: EMPL

2016/0264(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14

(14) European statistics shall have a comprehensive and harmonized approach of the European Union and go beyond the European Commission's political priorities in order to provide accurate data, which would help in further integration processes in the Union. To this respect, Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 provides a reference framework for European statistics and requires Member States to comply with the statistical principles and quality criteria specified in the Regulation. Quality reports are essential for assessing, improving and communicating on the quality of European statistics. The European Statistical System Committee (ESSC) has endorsed an ESS Standard for Quality Reports Structure, in accordance with Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009. This should contribute to the harmonisation of quality reporting under this Regulation.

2017/03/23
Committee: EMPL

2016/0264(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16

(16) Statistics are needed at national and at regional level as well and therefore, any decision of taking comparable territorial units such as NUTS2 must take costs into account. In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1059/200327 , all Member States’ statistics that are transmitted to the Commission and that are to be broken down by territorial units should use the NUTS classification. Consequently, in order to establish comparable regional statistics, data on the territorial units should be provided in accordance with the NUTS classification. __________________ 27 Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 on the establishment of a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) (OJ L 154, 21.6.2003, p. 1).

2017/03/23
Committee: EMPL

2016/0264(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1

1. This Regulation establishes a common framework for European statistics relating to persons and households, based on reliable data at individual level collected from samples of those persons and households, which shall be compatible with the European Statistical Programme, its extension till 2020 and with any future similar programmes.

2017/03/23
Committee: EMPL

2016/0264(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

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

1a. For the implementation of this regulation, Member States shall comply with the European Statistics Code of Practice.

2017/03/23
Committee: EMPL

2016/0264(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

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

1b. An appropriate balance between economic and social goals in the European Semester, supported by high- quality statistics in both domains, is needed for improving the resilience of the Union, the cohesion targets and preserving its welfare levels. Hence, social and employment goals must be supported by country-specific recommendations assessing employment and social challenges.

2017/03/23
Committee: EMPL

2016/0264(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

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

(ga) 'private household' means a person living alone or several persons providing themselves with essentials for living;

2017/03/23
Committee: EMPL

2016/0264(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

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

2a. The data shall be broken down so as to describe sub-populations of interest and shall reflect inequalities, whenever relevant.

2017/03/23
Committee: EMPL

2016/0264(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

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

3a. Member States and the Commission (Eurostat) shall produce information in order to support comparative analysis at NUTS 2 territorial level, taking costs into account.

2017/03/23
Committee: EMPL

2016/0264(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

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

~~(a) the number and description of variables;~~deleted

2017/03/23
Committee: EMPL

2016/0264(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

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

~~(c) the precise characteristics of the statistical populations, the observation units and the respondents;~~deleted

2017/03/23
Committee: EMPL

2016/0264(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

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

~~(d) the reference periods and dates;~~deleted

2017/03/23
Committee: EMPL

2016/0264(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

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

(f) ~~where necessary~~ to achieve a high level of comparability for employment and unemployment data in the labour market domain and for material deprivation data in the income and living conditions domain, the methodology to be used to collect the data~~. This may include, where necessary, the~~ including the formulation, order and placing of the questions in the questionnaire. This necessity shall be duly justified.

2017/03/23
Committee: EMPL

2016/0264(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. In response to policy, social, economic and technological developments, the Commission shall adopt and adapt: (a) the number and description of variables; (b) the precise characteristics of the statistical populations, the observation units and the respondents; (c) the reference periods and dates; The Commission shall adopt these elements through delegated acts, in accordance with article 15.

2017/03/23
Committee: EMPL

2016/0264(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

1. Member States shall provide the data referred to in Article 1 by using one or a combination of the following sources, provided that they meet the quality requirements given in Article 12 and are collected and further processed in accordance with and subject to safeguards provided for in applicable data protection laws:

2017/03/23
Committee: EMPL

2016/0264(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point a

(a) information directly provided by the respondents, unless the provision of information is specifically required under Union or Member State law in accordance with applicable data protection law;

2017/03/23
Committee: EMPL

2016/0264(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. The Commission (Eurostat) shall publish and display the information transmitted under this regulation on the Eurostat's web site in a user-friendly way.

2017/03/23
Committee: EMPL

2016/0264(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jasenko SELIMOVIC

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 3

3. The Commission (Eurostat) shall assess the quality of the metadata on the specifications, of the data transmitted and of the sampling frames having also due consideration to display them in a user- friendly way at the Eurostat website.

2017/03/23
Committee: EMPL

2016/0257(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

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

(d) t~~hree~~wo members representing the Commission;

2017/03/30
Committee: EMPL

2016/0257(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

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

(da) two independent experts representing the European Parliament;

2017/03/30
Committee: EMPL

2016/0257(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

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

All members referred to in points (a)-(da) shall have voting rights.

2017/03/30
Committee: EMPL

2016/0257(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3

The members referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) shall be appointed by the Council on the basis of lists of candidates submitted by the Member States, the European employers’' and employees’' organisations respectively. The European Parliament and the Commission shall appoint the members who are to represent ithem.

2017/03/30
Committee: EMPL

2016/0257(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

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

3a. The members of the Management Board shall be appointed only after they have signed a declaration that they have no conflicts of interests.

2017/03/30
Committee: EMPL

2016/0257(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1

~~By 30 November each year, t~~The Management Board shall adopt the draft programming document referred to in paragraph 1 and shall forward it to the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission no later than 31 January ~~as well as any later updated version of that~~. By 30 November each year, the Management Board shall adopt the final programming document.

2017/03/30
Committee: EMPL

2016/0257(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2

The single programming document shall contain three elements: multi-annual part, annual work programme and budget including human resources. It shall become definitive after final adoption of the general budget of the Union and if necessary shall be adjusted accordingly.

2017/03/30
Committee: EMPL

2016/0257(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 4

4. The Executive Board shall be composed of the Chairperson of the Management Board, the three Deputy Chairpersons, the coordinators of the three groups as referred to in Article 4(5) ~~and~~, one representative of the European Parliament and one of the Commission. Each group referred to in Article 4 (5) may designate up to two alternates to attend the meetings of the Executive Board, in the absence of the full members. The Chairperson of the Management Board shall also be the Chairperson of the Executive Board. The Executive Director shall take part in the meetings of the Executive Board, but shall not have the right to vote.

2017/03/30
Committee: EMPL

2016/0257(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1

The Executive Director shall be appointed by the Management Board, from a list of candidates proposed by the Commission, following an open and transparent selection procedure which guarantees rigorous assessment of the candidates and a high degree of independence. Before his/her appointment, the candidate selected must attend a hearing of the competent European Parliament committee.

2017/03/30
Committee: EMPL

2016/0257(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 6

6. TIn the event of misconduct, unsatisfactory performance or recurring or serious irregularities, the Executive Director may be removed from office only upon a decision of the Management Board acting on a proposal, based on a reasoned assessment, from the Commission.

2017/03/30
Committee: EMPL

2016/0254(COD)

Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5

(5) As the three tripartite Agencies - EU-OSHA, the European Centre for development and vocational training (Cedefop), and the European Foundation for the improvement of living and working conditions (Eurofound) - address issues related to the labour market, working environment and vocational education and training and skills, close coordination among three Agencies is required ~~and the ways to enhance efficiency and synergies should be exploit~~so that the work of the Agencies does not overlap where they have similar fields of interest, while ways to enhance efficiency and synergies should be exploited and any duplication among the Agencies, as well as between them and the Commission, concerning their mandates, objectives and activities, should be avoided. In addition, whenever relevant, the Agency should seek to engage in efficient cooperation with the European Commission's and European Parliament's in-house research capacities.

2017/04/04
Committee: EMPL

2016/0254(COD)

Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 3

3. In carrying out its tasks, the Agency shall maintain a close dialogue particularly with specialised bodies, whether public or private, public authorities and workers' and employers’' organisations. The Agency, without prejudice to its own aims, shall ensure cooperation with other European Union Agencies aimed at avoiding overlaps and promoting synergy and complementarity in their activities, including the possibility of working jointly, in particular with the European Foundation for the improvement of living and working conditions, the European Centre for the development of vocational training and, where relevant, with other EU Agencies.

2017/04/04
Committee: EMPL

2016/0254(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

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

(d) t~~hree~~wo members representing the Commission.

2017/04/04
Committee: EMPL

2016/0254(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

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

(da) two independent experts representing the European Parliament.

2017/04/04
Committee: EMPL

2016/0254(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

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

All members referred to points (a)-(da) shall have voting rights.

2017/04/04
Committee: EMPL

2016/0254(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 7

The European Parliament and the Commission shall appoint the members who are to represent ithem.

2017/04/04
Committee: EMPL

2016/0254(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Renate WEBER

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

3a. The members of the Management Board shall be appointed only after they have signed a declaration that they have no conflicts of interests.

2017/04/04
Committee: EMPL

2016/0254(COD)

Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 4

4. The term of office for members and their alternates shall be four years. It shall be ~~extend~~renewable. Upon the expiry of their term of office or in the event of their resignation, members shall remain in office until their appointments are renewed or until they are replaced.

2017/04/04
Committee: EMPL

2016/0254(COD)

Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

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

5a. A representative of Eurofound and a representative of Cedefop shall have observer status at the meetings of the Management Board in order to enhance the efficiency of the three tripartite agencies and synergies between them, and to avoid overlaps in their activities.

2017/04/04
Committee: EMPL

2016/0254(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Renate WEBER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1

~~By 30 November each year, t~~The Management Board shall adopt the draft programming document referred to in paragraph 1 and shall forward it to the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission no later than 31 January ~~each year as well as any later updated version of that~~. By 30 November each year, the Management Board shall adopt the final programming document.

2017/04/04
Committee: EMPL

2016/0254(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Renate WEBER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2

The single programming document shall contain three elements: multi-annual part, annual work programme and budget including human resources. It shall become definitive after final adoption of the general budget of the Union and, if necessary, shall be adjusted accordingly.

2017/04/04
Committee: EMPL

2016/0254(COD)

Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 4

4. The Management Board may invite any person whose opinion may be of interest to attend its meetings as an observer, in particular Eurofound, EU- OSHA and the European Training Foundation, in order to avoid duplication and to promote synergies and complementarity.

2017/04/04
Committee: EMPL

2016/0254(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 4

4. The Executive Board shall be composed of the Chairperson of the Management Board, the three Deputy Chairpersons, the coordinators of the three groups as referred to in Article 4 (5) ~~and~~, one representative of the European Parliament and one of the Commission. Each group referred to in Article 4 (5) may designate up to two alternates to attend the meetings of the Executive Board, in the absence of the full members. The Chairperson of the Management Board shall also be the Chairperson of the Executive Board. The Executive Director shall take part in the meetings of the Executive Board, but shall not have the right to vote.

2017/04/04
Committee: EMPL

2016/0254(COD)

Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 5

5. The term of office of members of the Executive Board shall be two years. That term shall be ~~extend~~renewable. The term of office of members of the Executive Board shall end when their membership of the Management Board ends.

2017/04/04
Committee: EMPL

2016/0254(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 2

2. The Executive Director shall be appointed by the Management Board, from a list of candidates proposed by the Commission, following an open and transparent selection procedure which guarantees rigorous assessment of the candidates and a high degree of independence. Before his/her appointment, the selected candidate must attend a hearing of the competent European Parliament committee. For the purpose of concluding the contract with the Executive Director, the Agency shall be represented by the Chairperson of the Management Board.

2017/04/04
Committee: EMPL

2016/0254(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Renate WEBER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 6

6. TIn the event of misconduct, unsatisfactory performance or recurring or serious irregularities, the Executive Director may be removed from office only upon a decision of the Management Board acting on a proposal, based on a reasoned assessment, from the Commission.

2017/04/04
Committee: EMPL

Petr JEŽEK, Sylvie GOULARD, Nils TORVALDS, Louis MICHEL, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 21 a (new)

(21a) in Section 3 of Chapter VI, the following subsection is inserted : Subsection IIIa International Cooperation Article 57a 1. Member State should ensure that their competent authorities supervising credit and financial institutions as well as their law enforcement authorities, provide the widest possible range of international cooperation with the competent authorities of third countries that constitute counterparts of the national competent authorities. 2. Member state shall ensure that there are effective gateways to facilitate the prompt and constructive exchange directly between counterparts, either spontaneously or upon request, of information relating to money laundering.

2016/12/19
Committee: ECON LIBE

2016/0208(COD)

Nils TORVALDS, Petr JEŽEK, Sylvie GOULARD, Lieve WIERINCK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Renate WEBER, Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Mircea DIACONU

Proposal for a directive
Recital 7 b (new)

~~(Case C-55/94, Reinhard Gebhard v Consiglio dell'Ordine degli Avvocati~~ (7b) The ECJ has held that the temporary nature of the provision of services is to be determined in the light of its duration, regularity, periodicity and continuity. The Ppro~~curatori di Milano, [1995] ECR I-04165, para. 39; Case C-396/1, Sähköalojen ammattiliitto ry c/~~vider of services, within the meaning of the Treaty, may equip himself in the host Member State with the infrastructure necessary for the purposes of performing the services in question. Or. en Elektrobudowa Spółka Akcyjna [2015] Case C-396/1)

2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL

Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

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

Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 2 – point c

(c) minimum rules on remuneration, including overtime rates; this point does not apply to supplementary occupational retirement pension schemes;

2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL

2016/0070(COD)

Jasenko SELIMOVIC, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

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

Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2

For the purpose of this Directive, remuneration means all the ~~element~~minimum rules ofn remuneration rendered mandatory by national law, regulation or administrative provision, collective agreements or arbitration awards which have been declared universally applicable and/or, in the absence of a system for declaring collective agreements or arbitration awards to be of universal application, other collective agreements or arbitration awards within the meaning of paragraph 8 second subparagraph, in the Member State to whose territory the worker is posted.

2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL

2016/0070(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Robert ROCHEFORT

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

Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 a

1a. If undertakings established in the territory of a Member State are obliged by law, regulation, administrative provision or collective agreement, to sub-contract in the context of their contractual obligations only to undertakings that guarantee certain terms and conditions of employment covering remuneration, , the Member State may, on a non–discriminatory and proportionate basis, provide that such undertakings shall be under the same obligation regarding subcontracts with undertakings referred to in Article 1 (1) posting workers to its territory. The European Union shall exercise strict oversight to forestall any disproportionate use of these restrictions by certain Member States.

2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL

2016/0070(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Robert ROCHEFORT

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

Directive 96/71/CE
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1

(2a) Article 4(2) is amended as follows: Member States shall make provision for cooperation between the public authorities which, in accordance with national legislation, are responsible for monitoring the terms and conditions of employment referred to in Article 3. Such cooperation shall in particular consist in replying to reasoned requests from those authorities for information on the transnational hiring- out of workers, including manifest abuses or possible cases of unlawful transnational activities. That cooperation may be carried out through the European Platform created to enhance cooperation in tackling undeclared work, since cross- border aspects form part of its remit.

2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL

2016/0070(COD)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Robert ROCHEFORT

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

Directive 96/71/CE
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2

~~The Commission and the public authorities referred to in the first subparagraph shall cooperate closely~~ (2b) Article 4(2) is amended as follows: The Commission is also called upon to consider the possibility of creating a European Labour Inspectorate consisting o~~rder to examine any difficulties which might arise in the application of Article 3 (10)~~f European inspectors specialised in cross-border mobility to provide technical support for national inspectors in the implementation of European legislation on the posting of workers.

2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL

2016/0011(CNS)

Sylvie GOULARD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Michael THEURER

Draft legislative resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the Commission to publish an ambitious proposal for a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base, as soon as possible, and for the legislative branch to conclude negotiations on this crucial dossier as quickly as possible;

2016/04/18
Committee: ECON

2016/0011(CNS)

Sylvie GOULARD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Michael THEURER

Proposal for a directive
Recital 6 a (new)

(4a) Due regard should be had to the European Parliament legislative resolution of 19 April 2012 on the proposal for a Council directive on a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB),

2016/04/18
Committee: ECON

2016/0011(CNS)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Proposal for a directive
Recital 11 a (new)

(11a) A Union-wide definition and an exhaustive 'black list' should be drawn up of the tax havens and countries, including those in the Union, which distort competition by granting favourable tax arrangements. The criterion of 10 Member States having identified a country as a non-cooperative tax jurisdiction used in annex I of the communication "A fair and efficient corporate tax system in the European Union" is too restrictive.

2016/04/18
Committee: ECON

2016/0011(CNS)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Proposal for a directive
Recital 14

(14) Considering that a key objective of this Directive is to improve the resilience of the internal market as a whole against cross-border tax avoidance practices, this cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States acting individually. National corporate tax systems are disparate and independent action by Member States would only replicate the existing fragmentation of the internal market in direct taxation. It would thus allow inefficiencies and distortions to persist in the interaction of distinct national measures. The result would be lack of coordination. Rather, by reason of the fact that much inefficiency in the internal market primarily gives rise to problems of a cross-border nature, remedial measures should be adopted at Union level. It is therefore critical to adopt solutions that function for the internal market as a whole and this can be better achieved at Union level. Thus, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve that objective. By setting a minimum level of protection for the internal market, this Directive only aims to achieve the essential minimum degree of coordination within the Union for the purpose of materialising its objectives. However, overhauling the legal framework for tax in order to address practices which erode the tax base by means of regulation would have made it possible to secure a better outcome as regards guaranteeing equal conditions throughout the internal market.

2016/04/18
Committee: ECON

2016/0011(CNS)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Proposal for a directive
Recital 14 a (new)

(14a) The Commission should carry out a cost-benefit analysis and assess the possible impact of high levels of tax on the repatriation of capital from third countries with low tax rates.

2016/04/18
Committee: ECON

2016/0011(CNS)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Proposal for a directive
Recital 14 a (new)

(14a) All trade agreements and economic partnership agreements to which the Union is party should include provisions on the promotion of good governance in tax matters, with the aim of increasing transparency and of combating harmful tax practises.

2016/04/18
Committee: ECON

2016/0011(CNS)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Proposal for a directive
Recital 14 b (new)

(14b) In order to provide a higher level of protection against tax avoidance practices, Member States could target arrangements which have been put in place for the main purpose or one of the main purposes of obtaining an unfair tax advantage. Member States should apply penalties as foreseen by their national law and inform to the European Commission about the penalty systems that they implement.

2016/04/18
Committee: ECON

2016/0011(CNS)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Proposal for a directive
Recital 15

(15) The Commission should evaluate the implementation of this Directive three years after its entry into force and report to the European Parliament and the Council thereon. Member States should communicate to the Commission all information necessary for this evaluation,

2016/04/18
Committee: ECON

2016/0011(CNS)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2

2. Exceeding borrowing costs shall be deductible in the tax year in which they are incurred only up to 310 percent of the taxpayer's earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) or up to an amount of EUR 1 000 000, whichever is higher. The EBITDA shall be calculated by adding back to taxable income the tax-adjusted amounts for net interest expenses and other costs equivalent to interest as well as the tax-adjusted amounts for depreciation and amortisation.

2016/04/18
Committee: ECON

2016/0011(CNS)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

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

4a. The EBITDA carried forward should be limited to 4 consecutive fiscal years.

2016/04/18
Committee: ECON

2016/0011(CNS)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 6

6. Paragraphs 2 to 5 shall not apply to financial undertakings. The Commission must review the scope of this article if and when an agreement is reached at the OECD level, when the Commission assess that the OECD agreement can be implemented at Union level.

2016/04/18
Committee: ECON

2016/0011(CNS)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

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

4a. The European Commission shall monitor that the differences of the legal interest across Member States do not constitute an unfair tax competition between Member States.

2016/04/18
Committee: ECON

2016/0011(CNS)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Member States shall allocate adequate staff, expertise and budget resources to their national tax administrations and tax audit staff, as well as resources for the training of tax administration staff focusing on cross-border cooperation on tax fraud and avoidance, and on automatic exchange of information in order to ensure full implementation of this Directive.

2016/04/18
Committee: ECON

2016/0011(CNS)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. The European Commission shall establish a European tax inspectorate as a strong tool against base erosion and profit shifting that will evaluate and advice on the implementation of this Directive, and on its enforcement and compliance across Member States.

2016/04/18
Committee: ECON

2016/0011(CNS)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Proposal for a directive
Article 10 a (new)

Article 10a Effective tax rate 1. The Commission shall develop a common method of calculation of the effective tax rate in each Member State, so as to make it possible to draw up a comparative table of the effective tax rates across the Member States.

2016/04/18
Committee: ECON

2016/0011(CNS)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Proposal for a directive
Article 10 b (new)

Article 10b Non-cooperative tax jurisdictions 1. The Commission shall develop an exhaustive 'black list' of the tax havens and countries, which distort competition by granting favourable tax arrangements. The Commission will elaborate a proposal on how to define a non-cooperative tax jurisdiction and propose ways to stop this practice.

2016/04/18
Committee: ECON

2016/0011(CNS)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Proposal for a directive
Article 10 c (new)

Article 10c Good governance in tax matters 1. The Commission shall include provisions on the promotion of good governance in tax matters, with the aim of increasing transparency and of combating harmful tax practises, in international trade agreements and economic partnership agreements to which the European Union is party.

2016/04/18
Committee: ECON

2016/0011(CNS)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Proposal for a directive
Article 10 d (new)

Article 10d Penalties 1. In order to provide for a higher level of protection against tax avoidance practices, Member States could target arrangements which have been put in place for the main purpose, or one of the main purposes of obtaining an unfair tax advantage. Member States shall apply penalties to the undertakings that infringe the rules laid down in this Directive as foreseen by their national law. 2. Member States shall inform the European Commission about the penalties that they intend to implement and the type of penalty when transposing this Directive into national law.

2016/04/18
Committee: ECON

2016/0011(CNS)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 1

1. The Commission shall evaluate the implementation of this Directive three years after its entry into force and report to the European Parliament and the Council thereon.

2016/04/18
Committee: ECON

2015/2353(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls for a review/revision of the multiannual financial framework (MFF), to be based on criteria including the prior assessment of the effectiveness of measures to combat unemployment, with funding for the less effective provisions being cut; considers that such an approach is particularly important in times of crisis, such as the present moment, which are marked by unacceptable imbalances;

2016/04/25
Committee: EMPL

2015/2351(INI)

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Renate WEBER, Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Notes the impact of the second cycle of the Youth Strategy (2013-2015) in providing a flexible framework for cross- sectoral involvement; values the structured dialogue with youth organisations in this regard; reminds of the eight fields of action promoted by the Youth Strategy;

2016/03/29
Committee: EMPL

2015/2351(INI)

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Renate WEBER, Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Stresses the importance of the Youth Strategy, given the EU~~’s alarmingly~~'s high youth unemployment and NEET rates; stresses that the next cycle (2016-2018) should contribute to the ~~two~~ objectives of the Youth Strategy by focusing on tackling youth unemployment, fostering entrepreneurship among young people, investing in education, and training ~~and~~for the skills employers look for, and facilitating the transition to the labour market;

2016/03/29
Committee: EMPL

2015/2351(INI)

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Renate WEBER, Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Notes that there has been a decrease in youth unemployment in most Member States since 2013, despite this fact, notes with real concern that youth unemployment continues to be almost double the overall unemployment rate with around 8 million young Europeans still being unemployed;

2016/03/29
Committee: EMPL

2015/2351(INI)

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Renate WEBER, Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses the need to combat early school-leaving by adequately informing students about future labour market opportunities and ~~qualitative apprenticeship~~career paths, including apprenticeships, technical and artisanal job profiles;

2016/03/29
Committee: EMPL

2015/2351(INI)

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Renate WEBER, Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Believes that Member States youth policies should be closely coordinated with other policies and that more synergies should be found; further recommends to enhance the cooperation between schools, businesses, public authorities and other labour market stakeholders to estimate the future skills needs to pre-empt skills ' mismatch and to facilitate the process whereby young people choose jobs profiles that actually match the needs of the labour market;

2016/03/29
Committee: EMPL

2015/2351(INI)

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Renate WEBER, Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Underscores the importance of recognising competencies acquired in non- formal environments; calls on the Member States to ensure the coherent validation of formal, non-formal and informal learning with a view to bridging the gap between the skills shortages and skills´ mismatch observed in the European labour market and the many young job seekers;

2016/03/29
Committee: EMPL

2015/2351(INI)

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Renate WEBER, Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Recalls that employment and entrepreneurship constitute one of the eight priorities identified in the EU Youth Report (2010-2018); stresses that youth work and non-formal learning play a vital role in developing young people’s's creative and innovative potential, including entrepreneurial skills;

2016/03/29
Committee: EMPL

2015/2351(INI)

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Renate WEBER, Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Urges the Member States to implement fully the Erasmus+ programme, thereby fostering further cross-border career and labour mobility; expresses concern that the mobility of apprentices has not yet achieved the desired levels and calls on the Commission, the Member States, companies and schools to find solutions to overcome the remaining obstacles to the mobility of apprentices;

2016/03/29
Committee: EMPL

2015/2351(INI)

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Renate WEBER, Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Welcomes the fact that more than EUR 12.4 billion from the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) have been earmarked for the fight against youth unemployment during the new programming period; calls for the assessment of the results and objectives achieved via such funding;

2016/03/29
Committee: EMPL

2015/2351(INI)

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Renate WEBER, Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7b. Notes that the Court of Auditors' report on 'EU Youth Guarantee - Implementation in Member States', due to be completed at the beginning of 2017, will provide a clearer assessment of the programme's results; considers that, inter alia, analysis of the efficiency and the long-term results should be outlined in the report;

2016/03/29
Committee: EMPL

2015/2344(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Points out that the success of the eEurozone is dependent on increasing the welfare of all its citizens, and on well- functioning labour markets and welfare systems, based on ~~decent work with rights, a strong role for the social partners, social dialogue, collective bargaining and collective agreements, and preventing individual Member States from trying~~boosting economic growth and job creation, on aiming to full employment with permanent increase of high added value jobs; recalls the creation as quick as possible of an European Labour market, as a frame, with full and fair mobility which should complement the EMU, increasing its shock absorbing capacity and give citizens the opportunity to seek employment or employees in other Member States allowing more individuals to gafind a~~n unfair competitive advantage by infr~~ decent job; takes note that a strong role of social partners, fair bargainging ~~workers’ rights or promoting social dumping~~, negotiations and agreements should also be allowed by the budgetary capacity;

2016/06/09
Committee: EMPL

2015/2344(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Regrets the low proportion of the budget in relation to the EU GDP which prevents too much a more efficient policy towards employment and labour markets;

2016/06/09
Committee: EMPL

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)

– having regard to the declaration ‘Greater European Integration : the way forward’ signed by the Presidents of the Italian Camera dei deputati, the German Bundestag, the French National Assembly and Luxembourg’s Chamber of Deputies;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the Treaty on European Union establishes the creation of the single market, and a European Monetary Union whose currency is the euro; whereas the ~~European Monetary Union currently consists of 19 members, two of whom~~Single Market consists of the 28 members of the EU and the European Monetary Union currently consists of 19 members; whereas all but two Member States are bound to join the euro; whereas the two Member States not bound to join the euro have ‘opt-outs’ clauses, th~~e remaining seven EU Member States having yet to join;~~at are different in nature and scope as only the United Kingdom is not committed to join the euro whereas no financial liability will be incurred by the two countries with opt-outs from EMU in the framework of any fiscal capacity for the euro area;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Points out that ~~in order to stabilise the social situation in Member States, economic stabilisers such as a~~economic, cultural and social situation differs greatly across and within Member States; while stressing the importance of continuing with "ad hoc" structural reforms, economic stabilisers could help some Member States in a situation of an adverse shock. One of the targets of the budget should be financing important tools (for example an European Unemployment Insurance (EUI) scheme ~~should strengthen the welfare~~ to enhance cohesion); takes note of the numerous administrative and ~~fight social deprivation caused by one- sided fiscal discipline measures taken under the European economic governance framework~~political burdens that the establishment of these tools would face and calls therefore on the Commission to evaluate the feasibility of such an instrument like EUI;

2016/06/09
Committee: EMPL

2015/2344(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Regrets the fact that the current system of European economic governance is ~~highly~~ unbalanced and focuses almost exclusively on fiscal stability and wage competitiveness, while concerns about economic recovery, public investment policies ~~and~~, more ~~and better~~ jobs and social cohesion are largely ignored; takes note that convergence should be achieved through reduction of destabilizing budgetary surplus;

2016/06/09
Committee: EMPL

2015/2344(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Stresses that economic convergence within the Eurozone is essential to reach more efficient labour markets in the Union, therefore the Eurozone Member States' specific economic and labour market features should be taken into account when setting down the budgetary capacity; points out that large concentrations of unemployment in certain regions in the Eurozone harm the European economy and distort labour markets; underlines that convergence should also be achieved through reduction of disequilibria induced by high public surpluses;

2016/06/09
Committee: EMPL

2015/2344(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Asks the Member States to respect ~~and promote~~ the autonomy of collective bargaining on wages and working conditions, ~~and to restore balance with the economic governance pillar by urgently moving ahead on the social dimension~~in line with Member States' practices and laws and to always take into account the social dimension when improving economic governance;

2016/06/09
Committee: EMPL

2015/2344(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses the importance of ~~not linking any unemployment benefit system with economic conditionality for the Member S~~financing policies to achieve better social cohesion and full employment, to reduce structural unemployment, to erase poverty, to fight economic inequalities that hamper economic growth, to strengthen the welfare states, and ~~of promoting social policies which fight poverty, social exclusion and social dumping~~to help attain all the social objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy;

2016/06/09
Committee: EMPL

2015/2344(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Stresses that fiscal capacity should not be merely a responsive tool in the event of country-specific shocks, but should actively enable Member States to achieve social cohesion and full employment, to erase poverty, to strengthen the welfare state and to help attain all the social objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy.deleted

2016/06/09
Committee: EMPL

2015/2344(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Stresses the importance of reducing unemployment and generating high-skilled employment supporting industries that require high levels of human capital, stimulating high technological sectors and fostering research, development and innovation and, simultaneously, to alleviate in the short term the situation of the excluded nonqualified young unemployed;

2016/06/09
Committee: EMPL

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Sylvie GOULARD, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas the Community method was abandoned in favour of intergovernmental agreements in order to allow for rapid responses in the crisis; whereas this has made the European Council the leading actor in the crisis, while the European Parliament and its national counterparts have been side-lined and the European Commission relegated to a role of secretariat of the European Council;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Sylvie GOULARD, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Considers, against this background, that shortcomings have existed in the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) since its inception under the Maastricht Treaty with the attribution of monetary policy to the European level, while budgetary policy remains within the competencies of the Member States and is only framed by provisions on light coordination of national policies; recalls that the Stability and Growth Pact is a necessary set of rules allowing Member States to share a single currency but is not, per se, a European economic policy;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Notes that during the creation of the euro, the choice was made not to have an economic government for the euro but a clear set of rules; notes that the rules have been systematically infringed; notes that, in the current institutional and political set-up, deprived of the necessary legitimacy, sanctions have never been and cannot be applied; deplores that, as a result, we neither have respect for the rules, nor the economic government to enforce them;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that the introduction of the euro as a common currency has eliminated tried and tested policy options for counterbalancing asymmetric shocks such as exchange rate fluctuation; reiterates that the relinquishing of autonomy over monetary policy therefore requires alternative adjustment mechanisms to cope with asymmetric macroeconomic shocks in order to make the euro zone an optimal currency ~~area able, inter alia, to implement a proper policy mix~~;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Urmas PAET, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Notes that the creation of the Euro led to the establishment of a European Central Bank of federal essence; deplores that Member States did not draw the political and institutional consequences of the creation of a single currency by creating a democratic economic, budgetary and fiscal government for the Eurozone; is convinced that without a genuine Economic government the euro area will always be deprived of the necessary tools to implement a proper policy mix;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Points out that the crisis has proved that a common monetary policy without a common fiscal policy cannot address ~~asymmetric~~major shocks to the euro area; reiterates that the mere coordination of national fiscal policies without credible enforcement mechanisms has not prevented an investment gap, has proved insufficient to trigger growth-enhancing, sustainable and socially balanced structural reforms and has not enhanced the national capacity to absorb economic shocks;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Gérard DEPREZ, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Takes the view that incentives for sound fiscal policymaking and for addressing structural weaknesses at national level, taking into account the aggregate euro area fiscal stance, are core elements for the functioning of the euro area; considers that a fiscal capacity should, moreover, address specific concerns forthat the role of a fiscal capacity should be to absorb shocks, support sound fiscal and macroeconomic policies at national level and provide the eEuro ~~area in the case of absorbing shocks~~zone with a fiscal backstop;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Stresses that a fiscal capacity must be created on top of and next to existing EU funding instruments, within ~~its~~the EU legal framework, in order to ensure consistent ~~development~~synergies and complementarity between euro and non-euro Member States; stresses that, in the long run, genuine own resources in the form of taxation will have to abound a budget of the Eurozone; Such specific budget could go hand-in-hand with a transfer of competences exercised today at national level that could be best dealt with at Eurozone level;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Urmas PAET, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Points out that ~~effective stabilisation of large euro area Member States or a group of closely economically intertwined countries requires sufficient resource~~in order to access the fiscal capacity, Eurozone members will have to qualify for it and converge the way they did in the run-up to the euro; Notes that the creation of the fiscal capacity must go hand-in-hand with the democratisation and strengthening of the governance structure of the Eurozone as well as the harmonisation of national public accounts;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Argues in consequence that three pillars of a fiscal capacity should be distinguished, wherein action should be undertaken in the framework of a common toolbox to address the different functions, i.e. incentivising convergence and sustainable structural reforms, absorbing asymmetric shocks, and absorbing symmetric shocks; ~~takes note of the various proposals regarding designs put forward on this matter by politicians and academia;~~

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Demands that the ESM be integrated into the Union’'s legal framework ~~and evolve towards a Community mechanism~~, as provided for in the ESM Treaty and as constantly requested by the European Parliament and foreseen in the Five Presidents’' report; underlines that the ECJ Pringle case~~-law~~ and jurisprudence open up the possibility of bringing the ESM within the Union’'s framework, within the existing Treaties, on the basis of Article 352 TFEU; calls, therefore, on the Commission to bring forward as a matter of urgency a legislative proposal to that end; demands that the ESM be made fully accountable to the European Parliament;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Calls for the ESM, whilst fulfilling its ongoing tasks, to be further developed and turned into a European Monetary Fund (EMF) with adequate lending and borrowing capacities and a clearly defined mandate, including its contribution to a euro area fiscal capacity; stresses that an EMF should be managed by the Commission and held democraticallyto be further developed and consolidated into a fully- fledged European Monetary Fund (EMF) for countries in difficulties within the Euro area; stresses that, just like the ESM, an EMF should be held accountable by the European Parliament; emphasises that national parliaments would be involved in the process, given that their constitutional prerogatives regarding financial resources could be affected;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Insists that ~~once it is integrated into Community law, the~~a fiscal capacity for the euro area should ~~be integ~~coexist but be kept separated ~~into~~from the EU budget~~, but over and above the ceilings of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF)~~; underlines however that in no circumstances should the volume of the EU budget fall victim to the creation of budgetary capacity for the Eurozone;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Pablo ZALBA BIDEGAIN, Paul TANG, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ramón JÁUREGUI ATONDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)

21b. Considers that the ECB profits should feed into the Eurozone fiscal capacity, once discounted the current percentage set for reserves; points out that to this effect, OLP applies to the reform of Article 33.1.a) of the ECB Statute; believes that this is particularly relevant in a period of quantitative easing;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Considers that the ~~EFSM and the~~ existing balance of payment facility should ~~be integrated into the same budgetary chapter as the ESM once the latter is integrated into Community law, thereby~~remain to provid~~ing~~e resources for financial assistance to countries outside the euro area but committed to joining on the basis of the agreed rules;;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Sylvie GOULARD, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Believes that compliance with a convergence code should be the condition for access to funding from the ESM/EMF; reiterates its call on the Commission to put forward a legislative proposal to this end;deleted

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4

Pillar 1: A convergence code to promote convergence and ~~incentivise the implementation of~~support structural reforms

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Reiterates its call for the adoption of a ‘convergence code’, as a legal act resulting from the ordinary legislative procedure, to streamline the existing coordination of economic policies into a more effective convergence of economic policies ~~within the European Semester~~;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Suggests that the convergence code define criteria to be reached within five years, building on the merits of the Maastricht criteria and focusing for the first period on convergence requirements regarding: - taxation: base and rate of corporate tax, - labour market, including minimum wages, - investment, notably in research and development; This five-year period should in exchange allow for a phasing-in of the new tasks attributed to the ESM/EMF;deleted

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Considers that a financial instrument is needed to work as an incentive-based mechanism for convergence and sustainable structural reforms with clear conditionality; believes that the Structural Reform Support Programme (SRSP), which is designed toreforms have a cost and that the fiscal capacity for the Eurozone should provide ~~technic~~financial support to national authorities for measures aimed at reforming institutions, governance, administration, and economic and social sectors with a view to enhancing growth and jobs, can be further developed as a contribution to this function of the fiscal capacityfor structural reforms in line with the mutually agreed Convergence code;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Notes that ~~the~~ two models for the shock absorption function are ~~featured most prominently in the academic literature:~~ a Rainy Day Fund and a European Unemployment Benefit Scheme;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Points out that ~~the~~a Rainy Day Fund should be funded by all thEurozone Member States on the basis of a cyclically sensitive economic indicator and used for payments to all Member States suffering from economic downturns; suggests that such fund should be managed by the EMF;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31

31. Acknowledges that the model of a European Unemployment Benefit Scheme would foster convergence of labour markets in the medium term; Notes that this option would require a Eurozone Treasury based on genuine own resources and the relevant transfer of competence to the Eurozone level;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32

32. Considers that the EMF should provide the financial resources for either of these models, which could require increasing the amount of capital; points out that the fund should avoid long-term redistribution effects by ensuring Member States’ contributions are balanced over the cycle;deleted

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33

33. Warns that future symmetric shocks could destabilise the euro area as a whole since the currency area is not endowed with the instruments to cope with another crisis of the extent of the previous one; is convinced that the right instrument to deal with symmetric shocks depends on the nature of the shock; recalls that the EMF shcould be used as a~~n appropriate financial resource~~ borrowing capacity;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37

37. Points out that the fiscal capacity has to be of significant size in order to be able to address these euro-area-wide shocks and to finance its functions; insists that in order to provide sufficient financial resources, the euro area fiscal capacity, including the EMF, should be able to increase the issuance of equities via a rise in guarantees; considers that these common issued equities should have the highest credit rate;deleted

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI, Urmas PAET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38

38. Stresses that the ~~Community~~a new federal method should prevail in the development of economic governance for the euro area; urges that no reinforcement of intergovernmental structures should take place in parallel with existing structures;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39

39. Calls urgently for the European Parliament ~~and national parliaments~~ to be given a strengthened role in the renewed economic governance framework in order to reinforce democratic accountability; calls for ~~increased national ownership in the European Semester in order to improve compliance with the CSR~~a greater involvement of the national parliaments as long as national contributions are the basis of the fiscal capacity; notes that this participation will have to be phased out once genuine own resources in the form of taxation will be agreed on at Eurozone level; stresses, however, that a continued dialogue will have to take place between the European Parliament and the national parliaments;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40

40. Argues that national ownership could be improved by including national parliaments in the procedures, notably by formalising the inter-parliamentary conference foreseen by Article 13 of the Fiscal compact, following the integration of the latter within the EU legal framework; insists, however, that the competences of the EP and the national parliaments conferred upon these institutions by the Treaties should be respected and that mixing of these competences be avoided;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41

41. Considers that in order to provide for a genuine EMU, a euro area treasury should be created ~~for collective decision- making, supervision and management of the budgetary capacity for the euro area~~in order to give the Euro area the capacity to borrow, spend and raise taxes; calls for the inclusion of this treasury within the European Commission with full macroeconomic, fiscal and financial competences; calls for a vice- president of the European Commission to head the treasury and simultaneously to act as president of the Eurogroup; urges full accountability of this treasury to the European Parliament;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Sylvie GOULARD, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI, Urmas PAET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41 a (new)

41a. Is convinced that the macroeconomic governance of the euro area should evolve towards a system of surveillance centred on a limited number of fiscal indicators with clear and simple rules; considers that a strong enforcement of these rules coupled with an ambitious fiscal capacity should allow for less intrusion from the European level into policy-making at national level; stresses that such an application of the subsidiarity principle would allow for a more credible and more democratic governance of the euro area, which would foster ownership by citizens;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Sylvie GOULARD, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41 b (new)

41b. Notes that the European Parliament should review its internal organisation so as to allow an expression of these MEPs elected in the euro area;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2344(INI)

Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Nedzhmi ALI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43

43. ~~Acknowledges that~~Reckons that given the current political climate characterised by deep inequality, mistrust and uncertainty ~~is not conducive to proper~~the only way to reforms to achieve and complete EMU; believes, therefore, that a comprehensive roadmap, including clear milestones within an agreed timetable and taking into account the political situation, should be urgently adopted with a clear commitment by euro area Heads of State and Government to achieving a genuine and complete EMhe Eurozone is to discuss its future in an open and democratic way; notes that the only way to show citizens and economic actors we are serious about the future of the euro is to modify the European Union treaties; Therefore calls for the opening of a Convention in accordance with the article 48 TEU;

2016/06/09
Committee: BUDG ECON

2015/2330(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas unemployment rate has been diminishing since 2013 ~~thanks to~~but though not significantly enough to curb unemployment and poverty, despite some supportive macroeconomic policies and ~~the impact of~~ structural reforms; whereas it nevertheless remains too high, currently affecting 9.9 % of active citizens, i.e. 23 million Europeans, about half of them being long- term unemployed;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Ulla TØRNÆS, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

A a. Whereas economic recovery has now entered its third year with a growth forecast for the EU28 of 2 % in 2016 and of 1,8 % in the Eurozone;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the youth unemployment rate at EU level stands at 22.6 %, and in 2014 12.3 % of young people were not in education, employment or training (NEETs), thus being at risk of exclusion from the labour market ~~and of becoming dependent on benefits~~;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

B a. whereas the level of unemployment and its social consequences differs between European countries;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)

B b. whereas employment rate in EU-28 increased by 0.8 percentage points whilst there are considerable differences in the performances of European countries, with five countries having reduced their employment rates in at least five percentage points between 2009 and 2014;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)

B c. whereas about 5% of the labour force in EU28 in 2014 had been unemployed for more than a year and 3.1% of labour force had been unemployed for more than 2 years.

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital B d (new)

B d. whereas, in addition to its financial and social effects, unemployment, youth unemployment and long-term unemployment negatively affect social convergence and ultimately hinder sustainable economic growth;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas about 20 % of active citizens in the EU have only basic skills while 39 % of companies have difficulty finding staff with the required skills, ~~whereas low~~besides the difficulties faced, specially by youth, to enter the labour market; whereas the lack of adjustment between the labour market and education~~al level~~ is one of the key causes of young people becoming NEETs;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Ulla TØRNÆS, Jana TOOM, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

C a. Whereas there are approximately 2 million unfilled vacancies in the EU, of which almost 900.000 are in the digital sector, which hampers economic growth and job-creation; whereas in 2012 one in three Europeans were either over- or under-qualified for their job; whereas this mis-match negatively affects growth;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas undeclared work has serious budgetary implications and leads to loss of tax revenue and social security contributions, as it produces negative effects on employment, productivity and quality of work, skills development and lifelong learning, as well as on ~~the acquisition~~efficient and effective system of pension rights and access to healthcare;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas although atypical or non- standard forms of employment do not in themselves constitute precarious work, it is more likely to be found where contracts of this nature apply~~, albeit~~; to avoid inappropriate use of such contracts, a~~ccount for a minority of existing e~~n efficient and effective labour inspection mechanism must be imployement ~~relationships~~ed;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the demographic old age dependency ratio in the EU12 is projected to increase from 27.8 % to 50.1 % until 2060, and the total economic dependency ratio13 is expected to stabilise at over 120 % up to the middle of the next decade and then to rise above 140 % by 2060; whereas these factors, as well as ageing population, may appear as sufficient justification ~~for the fact that the great majority of European citizens agree that it is important~~ to restructure their pensions systems; __________________ 12 People aged 65 or above relative to those between aged 15 and 64. 13 Total inactive population relative to employed people aged between 20 and 64.

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Ulla TØRNÆS, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the demographic old age dependency ratio in the EU12 is projected to increase from 27.8 % to 50.1 % until 2060, and the total economic dependency ratio13 is expected to stabilise at over 120 % up to the middle of the next decade and then to rise above 140 % by 2060 highlighting the pressing need of labour market and pension reforms which aims at maintaining people in the labour market; whereas these factors may appear as sufficient justification for the fact that the great majority of European citizens agree that it is important to restructure their pensions systems; __________________ 12 People aged 65 or above relative to those between aged 15 and 64. 13 Total inactive population relative to employed people aged between 20 and 64.

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas public debt remains too high in many Member States (the ~~highest figures being for Greece at 167.8 % and Italy at 136 %), impeding~~re are other factors such as the low level of interest rate and the lack of investment in some areas, for instance, affecting sustainable growth and making the entire Union more vulnerable ~~to crises~~;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)

M a. whereas the free movement of people is fundamental to enhance convergence between European countries;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Ulla TØRNÆS, Jana TOOM, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that ~~good and quality jobs~~quality employment constitutes an essential pillar for social fairness~~, promoting human dignity~~; believes that in this sense employment and growth must be placed at the centre of EU policies, especially for youth, as a way to construct a more sustainable social European Union;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that good and ~~quality~~sustainable jobs constitute an essential pillar for social fairness, promoting human dignity; believes that in this sense employment and growth must be placed at the centre of EU policies, especially for youth, as a way to construct a more sustainable social European Union;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Ulla TØRNÆS, Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to foster, at Member State level, forms of cooperation involving governments, enterprises, educational institutions and social partners in accordance with national customs and traditions, with a view to adapting Member States’' education and training systems to combat skills mis-matches and meeting the needs of the labour market;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Ulla TØRNÆS, Jana TOOM, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Notes with concern, that data on government spending in education confirm an increasing risk of investment gaps in human capital, including digital skills; Notes further that educational efforts primarily are focused on the younger part of the workforce, however, many countries need a broader focus on educating the workforce including adult education and vocational training opportunities; Underlines that insufficient investments in education, especially in digital skills, poses a threat to Europe's competitive position and to the employability of Europe's work force; encourages therefore Member States to prioritize broad education in digital skills;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Recalls the importance of skills and competences acquired in non-formal and informal learning environments in terms of improving the employability of young people; stresses, therefore, the importance of creating a validation system for non- formal and informal forms of knowledge~~, especially those acquired via voluntary activities~~;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Ulla TØRNÆS, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Welcomes the Commission’s initiative for an individualised approach for the long- term unemployed; considers that such an approach will require an increased effort in terms of human resources, calling for participants with the educational level needed to be able to orientate the unemployed on how to overcome possible gaps in education or training; stresses that ~~professional requalification processes require adequate financial resources that need to be channelled to the~~for active employment policies to be efficient they must include requirements for the competent national authorities as well as for each of the long-term unemployed;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to exchange best practices on the efficiency of a minimum income to reduce inequality and social exclusion in Europe.

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Notes that the EU continues to suffer from structural problems that need to be addressed urgently, pointing up the need to continue prioritising investment, structural reforms and responsible fiscal consolidation, thus reinforcing a favourable environment for business with a view to creating more ~~quality~~better and sustainable jobs while balancing the social and economic dimensions; stresses that those priorities will only be achieved if investment in human capital is prioritised as a common strategy; Stresses that Economic policies should adapt to the socials needs and should guarantee minimum social policies and basic services for its citizens;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9 a. Stresses that AGS should asses in a more consistent manner the evolution of inequality in Europe through economic indicators, such as the Gini and Palma index;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Considering that flexicurity contributes to avoiding labour fragmentation and promoting the creation of more ~~quality~~better and sustainable jobs; calls on the Member States to modernise their employment protection legislation in order to guarantee more stability in transitions between jobs, as well as employees’ access to social security and welfare rights; calls on the Commission to step up monitoring of the abusive practice of successive fixed-term contracts, in both private and public sectors;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Ulla TØRNÆS, Jana TOOM, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States to gradually shift taxes from labour to other sources with due regard to overall competitiveness, and to implement tax rules that foster incentives to entrepreneurship and employment creation, especially for highly qualified young people, in order to boost research and innovation projects within European enterprises;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States to gradually shift taxes from labour to ~~other sources~~wards wealth, financial transactions, capital gains, pollution and consumption, and to implement tax rules that foster incentives to entrepreneurship and employment creation, especially for highly qualified young people, in order to boost research and innovation projects within European enterprises;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Calls on the European Semester and AGS to asses the importance of the income policies including pensions, revenue indicators and fiscal policy, in order to guarantee social cohesion and revert inequality trends;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Ulla TØRNÆS, Jana TOOM, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to focus on SMEs as a fundamental key for sustainable development and job-creation; urges the Member States to implement tax schemes that favour innovative start-ups and the facilitation of job creation by SMEs, and to develop mechanisms that might impel such enterprises to achieve or operationalise in an international dimension;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17 a. Calls for the EFSI to be applied in particular towards helping European areas with low levels of investment and that are specially affected by unemployment; Calls on the European Commission to monitor and control the investments under the EFSI. A report should audit and measure the economic and social impact of the investment in real terms;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)

17 b. The European Social Fund should devote more resources to funding the engagement of unemployed workers in training programmes in the EU Member States in addition to those in their country of origin, making easier their integration in the European labour market they choose and enhancing European citizenship;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Ulla TØRNÆS, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Points out that enterprises in the social economy face as many difficulties as traditional enterprises in obtaining public or private financing; underlines the need to ~~give them more support~~ensure that all enterprises have equal access to funding, especially as regards access to the different forms of financing, such as European funds;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24 a. Calls for tackling economic inequalities which act as an obstacle against long lasting economic growth;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2330(INI)

Ulla TØRNÆS, Jana TOOM, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Points out to the Member States, in view of the ageing of Europe’s citizens, the social risk implied in not being able to guarantee the sustainability of social security systems over the coming decades, encourages therefore the Member States to develop strategies which ensure that more people are maintained as an active part of the labour force for a longer time;

2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2327(INI)

Renate WEBER, Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Highlights that one of the main end results of Erasmus+ should be closing the skills gap and increasing employability; in this context, outlines that, when measuring the programme's efficiency and success, these indicators should be taken into account;

2016/10/03
Committee: EMPL

2015/2327(INI)

Renate WEBER, Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Encourages the National Agencies, besides managing the top-down implementation of the Erasmus+ programme, also to focus on setting up a forum for constructive dialogue between the authorities in charge with education and labour policies in each Member State, in order to enhance the cooperation aiming to close the skills gap; considers that this undertaking and the data it would gather may be essential during the mid-term evaluation of Erasmus+;

2016/10/03
Committee: EMPL

2015/2327(INI)

Renate WEBER, Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that, despite clear improvements in recognition and validation systems in education and VET, problems still persist; calls for specific targets such as the implementation of a fully operational credit transfer system and recognition, and for validation of competences acquired through non-formal and informal learning.; outlines that the European Voluntary Service (EVS) aims to increase skills and encourage learning, therefore considers that this experience should be recognised for its value with the aim of raising the employability of the EVS participants;

2016/10/03
Committee: EMPL

2015/2320(INI)

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Citation 21 a (new)

- having regard to its resolution of 10 September 2015 on creating a competitive EU labour market for the 21st century: matching skills and qualifications with demand and job opportunities, as a way to recover from the crisis;

2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL

2015/2320(INI)

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Believes that in order to ensure better conditions for job creation for the SME sector Member States must address the following problems, which are unequally present in different Members States and different regions: skills scarcity and brain drain; skills mismatch, insufficient dialogue between labour market stakeholders and estimation of future skills´ needs, regulatory burdens and regulatory uncertainty; the shadow economy; a~~nd the de facto privileged position of multinational corporations (MNCs)~~s well as high taxation on labour;

2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL

2015/2320(INI)

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that high labour costs have an negative impact on SMEs’' job creation potential and competitiveness; to this end, stresses that the tax burden should be shifted away from labour to other sources of taxation that are less detrimental to employment and growth, while protecting adequate social protection;

2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL

2015/2320(INI)

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Ivo VAJGL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Believes that promoting digitalisation in public sector (e- government) and increasing broadband availability in remote areas would reduce establishing and operating costs to SMEs, therefore enabling them to further increase job creating potential;

2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL

2015/2320(INI)

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses, however that lowering labour costs by reducing workers’' protection ishould not abe co~~rrect~~nsidered as means of achieving lower unemployment, and that, in addition, reducing workers’' pay and rights could induces higher skills outflows, and expos~~ing~~e SMEs to shortages of skilled workers;

2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL

2015/2320(INI)

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Ivo VAJGL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8 a. Underlines the need for targeted incentives for start-ups, SMEs, micro- enterprises in order to facilitate their establishment and operation, as well as the necessity to facilitate the hiring of qualified labour force and training of employees;

2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL

2015/2320(INI)

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Considers that traineeship and apprenticeship schemes within SMEs should be promoted by Member States, including through financial incentives; recalls that SMEs have very specific skills 'needs;

2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL

2015/2320(INI)

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Ivo VAJGL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2

Stable and favourable regulatory environment

2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL

2015/2320(INI)

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Member States to review the rules affecting SMEs and to introduce measures based on the ‘Think Small First’ principle, in order to remove the bureaucratic obstacles with which SMEs are confronted and achieve a high level of regulatory certainty, transparency and proportionality as a precondition for job stability and full job creation potential;

2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL

2015/2320(INI)

Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Notes the opportunities offered by the Digital Single Market to generate growth and jobs, notably in the field of e- commerce; stresses, however, the need for an SME-focused evaluation of the potential ~~risks and benefit~~benefits and risks in different Member States;

2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL

2015/2285(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Cora van NIEUWENHUIZEN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas economic recovery and the effective implementation of structural reforms in the European Union is under way but remains uneven between ~~and within~~ Member States ~~and is partly driven by temporary factors~~;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Cora van NIEUWENHUIZEN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the euro area’s ~~current account surplus continues to rise, while Europe still faces an important~~public and private debt levels remain very high and are a drag on growth and hold back investment ~~gap~~;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas the employment rate is improving but not enough to significantly curb unemployment, particularly youth unemployment, and poverty;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas the 2008 crisis was not only of a cyclical nature but also of a structural nature, which explains its lasting effects;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas the free movement of people, goods, services and capital is the cornerstone of the sustainable economic growth in the European Union’s Single Market;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Cora van NIEUWENHUIZEN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the 2016 Annual Growth Survey package and the proposed policy mix of investment, structural reform and fiscal ~~responsibility~~consolidation, with increased emphasis on ~~domestic demand and convergence, complementing accommodative monetary policies~~the effective implementation of structural reforms to ensure well- functioning labour, product, services and capital markets, quality education and training systems, modern and efficient social security systems and to promote innovation and entrepreneurship;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Welcomes improvements in public finances, in particular gradually declining debt/GDP ratios, as a key strategy to reach a more solid, sustainable and efficient growth;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Cora van NIEUWENHUIZEN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Welcomes improvements in public finances, in particular ~~gradually declining debt/GDP ratio~~a fall in headline budget deficits and gradually declining debt/GDP ratios but points out that public debt still remains very high in some Member States, which is a drag on growth and a burden for future generations;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that Europe’s global competitiveness remains an important objective, while the worsening global outlook calls for strengthening ~~domestic sources of growth~~productivity as well as growth and employment by reducing macroeconomic imbalances, particularly current account deficits;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Calls for further efforts to support recovery, foster convergence, sustainable economic growth and correct macroeconomic imbalances, including by channelling excess savings towards the domestic economy and boosting investment;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Is encouraged by mild improvements in labour market indicators; calls for more effort to reduce barriers to entry into the labour market, poverty, social exclusion and growing inequalities;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Is encouraged by mild improvements in labour market indicators; calls for more effort to reduce poverty, social exclusion and growing inequalities and unemployment pockets;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Asks the Commission for an impact study of the consequences of growing inequalities on economic growth and job creation in the European Union;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls for tackling economic inequalities which act as an obstacle against long-lasting economic growth;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Sylvie GOULARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Expresses its concern on the potential consequences for the Union due to a possible decrease of the Chinese economic growth and emphasises the need to take them into consideration in further economic and monetary policies;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7b. Calls for the EFSI to be applied in particular towards helping European areas with low levels of investments and that are specially affected by unemployment;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to use the European Structural and Investment Funds to their full potential; underlines that EU financial means (inter alia structural funds or EFSI) have swiftly been made available and should be used in coherence with each other and with the EU 2020 strategy;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Is aware of the on-going deleveraging process in the private sector; points to the importance of completing the banking and capital markets union and boosting equity investments in SMEs;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Highlights the importance of investments in human capital ~~and other social investments~~;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Considers that~~, after a long period of nominal adjustment, focus should be put on structural reforms and investments aimed at strengthening growth potential, promot~~ focus should be put on structural reforms promoting growth, jobs and investment while ensuring fair and sustainable welfare systems and reducing social inequalities;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls for product and service market reforms and better regulation, promoting open markets, innovation and ~~quality-based~~fair competition;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Urges that further steps be taken towards resilient labour markets with reduced segmentation and sustainable welfare systems with increased focus on ~~social investment~~removing barriers to entry into the labour market, particularly for the young; believes that it is important to improve workers' mobility, notably by providing portability of pensions rights and ensuring adequate and sustainable pension benefits across the EU;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Emphasises the need for modern, efficient and citizen-friendly public administration; in this respect asks the Commission and the Member States to identify and correct deficiencies in the Member States’ and the Commission’s administrations that could prove to be detrimental in crisis situations;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls for a greater shift of taxation away from labour to consumption;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Reiterates the need for ~~responsible fiscal policies~~the continuation of growth-friendly fiscal consolidation, taking into account debt sustainability, the economic cycle and investment gaps;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Insists on the full implementation of the Stability and Growth Pact, while ~~making use of available fiscal space, inter alia, to deal with security threats and refugee inflows~~the Commission may assess that possible temporary deviations may be justified to deal with unusual and unpredictable events outside of a Member State's control;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Emphasises the need for ~~improved~~a more efficient tax collection, fighting tax evasion and avoidance and improved tax policy coordination; stresses the need to concurrently consider furthering the effectiveness and forcefulness of tax policies in its redistributive aspect in order to progressively reduce the inequality dynamic;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Emphasises the need for improved tax collection, fighting tax evasion and avoidance and improved tax policy coordination as well as removing distortions from unfair differential taxation; is convinced that simplification of the tax systems is key and that a common consolidated corporate tax base would help to achieve this;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20 a. Celebrates the efforts and the compromise shown recently by the European Parliament fighting against tax evasion and avoidance, however, more determination and inflexibility must be promoted at the institutional level in order to tackle the issue properly;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Supports ~~all~~rational and country-specific efforts towards improving the quality and growth-~~friendly~~targeted character of public expenditure;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Welcomes the recommendation on the economic policy of the euro area as a way to deepen policy coordination in the follow-up to the Five Presidents’' Report, particularly the recommendations on reforms that enhance productivity, foster job creation, raise competitiveness, improve the business environment and create flexible labour markets; in this regard, considers that the Green Paper on retail financial services is a positive step as it aims to fulfil the promise made to EU citizens of a real Internal Market and can provide tools for growth through daily actions and, for example, unleash the full potential of the digital economy;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Emphasises that, given its high level of interdependence and the singleness of its monetary policy, the euro area needs to be ~~view~~regarded as one macroeconomic entity where convergence must be ~~promot~~ensured; calls therefore for an in-depth aggregate assessment of macroeconomic imbalances in the euro area to coeffectively implement the assessment of country-specific vulnerabilities; insists on full coherence between the euro area recommendation and country-specific recommendations;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Cora van NIEUWENHUIZEN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23a. Recalls that monetary policy can succeed in supporting cyclical recovery but can only facilitate and not replace structural reforms necessary for structural recovery; underlines the Member States' and the European institutions' responsibility to restore confidence to enable private investments, entrepreneurship and active participation of citizens in the economic cycle;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)

25a. Acknowledge that exclusive focus on fiscal sustainability is insufficient to tackle euro area's economic imbalances from a global approach;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Agrees that while the euro area’'s high current account surplus partly is a welcome sign of the euro area’'s external competitiveness, partly it also simpl~~ies a lack of internal investment and a risk of euro appreciation when monetary policy starts to become less accommodative, with adverse effects on growth and employment~~y reflects weaker commodity prices and the depreciation of the euro; believes that the excess of savings is due to a lack of investor confidence in the euro area and its ability to establish a sustainable business environment for long-term investment; calls on the Member States to effectively implement structural reforms to modernise their economies and improve the business environment in coherence with the EU 2020 strategy;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Emphasises the need to foster real economic and social convergence driven by improvements in productivity and non- cost factors; underlines the importance of all Member States ~~having sufficient investment capacity, enabling balanced and sustainable growth;~~ effectively implementing structural reforms and having sufficient investment capacity by leaving a safety margin in economic good times and improving the quality of public expenditure;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Recognises the benefits of ~~symmetrical~~ adjustment, where regaining cost competitiveness does not merely require undergoing deflation ~~which is detrimental to debt sustainability;~~

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Calls for measures preventing a race to the bottom in terms of taxation and social standards~~, building on better use of social indicators in macroeconomic surveillance~~ leading to an increase in inequalities;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)

29a. Expresses its concerns regarding the increase of the U.S. dollar interest rate, which may negatively affect the Foreign Direct Investment in the euro area in the medium term;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 b (new)

29b. Highlights that the current euro depreciation may not only affect the euro area's account surplus but also it may deal to a loss of the euro's relevance in the exchange market and, therefore, its significance in the world economy;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2285(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Sophia IN 'T VELD, Cora van NIEUWENHUIZEN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32

32. Requests that plenary debates with the Commission and the President of the Eurogroup on the draft euro area recommendation become regular features in order to strengthen and complement existing democratic dialogue and accountability, for example the economic dialogue;

2016/01/12
Committee: ECON

2015/2258(INI)

Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, Cecilia WIKSTRÖM, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14 a. Invites all EU Member States to agree to a strong directive on the Accessibility of Public Sector Bodies' websites, which should include all websites providing public services, including where these are provided by private entities and/or funded, or partially funded, by public funds; mobile web and mobile applications; and downloadable documents (Word, PDF, etc.) which are extensively used in online processes;

2016/03/04
Committee: PETI

2015/2258(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Helga STEVENS, Jana TOOM, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to take steps to combat all forms of discrimination, including multiple and intersectional discrimination based on disability, with special regard to women and children with disabilities, older persons and individuals who have complex support needs, including those with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities and to those whose disabilities change over time;

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2258(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Helga STEVENS, Jana TOOM, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Regrets the fact that the Council has still not adopted the 2008 proposal for a directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation; reiterates its call on the Council to do so as soon as possible;

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2258(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Helga STEVENS, Jana TOOM, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Urges the Member States to adopt quality frameworks for traineeships with a view to ensuring reasonable accommodation and accessibility for persons with disabilities and to ensure that all EU programmes such as the Youth Guarantee are fully accessible to persons with disabilities;

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2258(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Helga STEVENS, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Calls for the development of human rights-based indicators and comparable disaggregated disability data; underlines the need to disaggregate data on the basis of various factors including by gender, age and disability;

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2258(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Helga STEVENS, Jana TOOM, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Calls on the Commission to fund research and data collection on violence, abuse and exploitation of all persons with all types of disabilities in the community and in institutions;

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2257(INI)

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Ernest MARAGALL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 c (new)

- having regard to the Declaration of the Ministers in charge of Vocational education and training of 22 June 2015 on a new set of medium-term deliverables in the field of VET for the period 2015- 2020,

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Points out that Erasmus and other mobility programmes have fostered European integration and strengthened the idea of citizenship; notes that these programmes have had an indirect impact on employment; points out that mobility in the context of vocational education and training (VET) is fundamental to the fight against unemployment, enhances employability ~~and reduces the skills gap~~, reduces the skills gap and broadens opportunities for involvement of the manufacturing sector, to make it an effective tool for the job market; it is desired that Erasmus + will not diminish those achievements but, rather, amplify them;

2015/12/01
Committee: EMPL

2015/2257(INI)

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas mobility is considered to be important for personal development, enhances youth´s social inclusion, multicultural dialogue, tolerance, the ability of youth to work in an intercultural environment and active citizenship; The participation in mobility schemes is also particularly valuable in developing language skills and social capital /network and connections/;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Promoting mobility in VET is key to fully developing its international focus, since said occupations are distinguished by having the necessary flexibility to be carried out anywhere in Europe;

2015/12/01
Committee: EMPL

2015/2257(INI)

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Ernest MARAGALL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas entrepreneurs ~~and~~, trade unions ~~must be part of the reflection on mobility structures~~and other relevant social partners should be actively involved in design, organisation, delivery and financing VET and the mobility in it;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and the agencies to revise the requirements of the VET mobility programmes to make them relevant as regards duration and content, combining periods of training and work, these periods lasting no less than five months;

2015/12/01
Committee: EMPL

2015/2257(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Urges that the manufacturing sector, including SMUs, should be more closely involved in the framing, implementation and funding of VET mobility programmes through the use of tools such as ECVET and the European Qualifications Framework; believes that flexible and constructive dialogue between training centres and firms will ensure that VET is a success, since there are still gaps in the dialogue between the public and private sectors as regards the use of systems for the validation, assessment and classification of skills;

2015/12/01
Committee: EMPL

2015/2257(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Notes that early school leaving is ~~one of the most distinct problems faced by mobility target groups, and that better~~a serious problem and that better and more numerous vocational options lead to fewer dropouts from education and training;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Welcomes the tools developed by the Commission, such as Ploteus and Eures, which offer information about VET and mobility, but deplores the fact that they are little known and little used; believes that the involvement of the manufacturing sector in designing and updating these tools would give them added value;

2015/12/01
Committee: EMPL

2015/2257(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Studying the formulas for contribution to the funding of these programmes according to the characteristics of companies. The manufacturing sector could get more involved with a greater financial commitment and supplement the allowance received by individuals participating in these programmes;

2015/12/01
Committee: EMPL

2015/2257(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5 b. Calls for measures to combat the lack of tradition, motivation and language skills in some Member States, particularly in those most affected by youth unemployment. Access to these experiences should be established having regard to the sociological make-up of the country of origin and responding to the need to achieve gender equality in the promotion of opportunities;

2015/12/01
Committee: EMPL

2015/2257(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5 c. Mobility in VET encourages occupational, and not just academic, mobility. Such occupational mobility must be promoted through mechanisms for occupational adjustment and language support to ensure that experiences in other countries are successful and well run. In addition, this mobility must take into account the continuous training aspect (CVET), since continuous training is key to the improvement and updating of skills and expertise;

2015/12/01
Committee: EMPL

2015/2257(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)

5 d. Recommends encouraging the return of professionals so that they can use their knowledge and experience to contribute to the development of the society of others, for example, through agreements involving chambers of commerce, professional associations, unions and training intermediaries;

2015/12/01
Committee: EMPL

2015/2257(INI)

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new) (after subheading ´From mobility to employability´

11a. Underlines that acquiring new diverse and creative ideas abroad may motivate and boost entrepreneurship and creativity; Stresses that the opportunities that learning and training mobility offers - as for instance building international networks may also have positive effects on employability, transnational cooperation and Europe´s competitiveness;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Highlights that there is a positive association between learning mobility and future mobility and earnings as EU and international mobility programmes enhance participants´ employability abroad (European Commission - Joint research centre 2013); stresses that apprenticeships and traineeships abroad improve participants´ language skills /79%/ according to Eurobarometer (2013);

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)

14b. Acknowledges that the success of apprenticeship programmes, in particular their value to youth and their attractiveness to employers, lies in their quality and their appropriate adaptation to individual and local specificities; Calls, in this regard, for the widening of the apprenticeships' coverage of multiple sectors and occupations with the active involvement of employers and trade unions in order to ensure that apprenticeships are offered where there is a demand;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 d (new)

14d. Underlines that apprenticeship programs should be conducted under the guidance of a competent supervisor;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jana TOOM

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)

22b. Welcomes the agreed Riga Conclusions by the Ministers in charge of Vocational education and training on 22 June 2015, new set of medium-term deliverables in the field of VET for the period 2015-2020 and call for their timely and thorough implementation;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2255(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas on 15 July 2014 Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the Commission, undertook before Parliament to ~~combat '~~promote and safeguard ‘the free movement of citizens as a fundamental right of our Union, while avoiding cases of abuses and risks of social dumping'’ and reiterated this commitment in his 2015 State of the Union address2,; __________________ 2 http://europa.eu/rapid/press- release_SPEECH-15-5614_es.htm

2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL

2015/2255(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls for the creation of a European body of cross-border labour inspectors to carry out on-the-spot checks in suspected cases of ~~social dumping, including by identifying 'letterbox companies'~~work under illegal conditions, which body would work in coordination with the platform against undeclared work in order to limit the financial burden involved;

2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL

2015/2255(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

~~9. Calls for a public list to be drawn up of enterprises responsible for serious breaches of EU legislation;~~deleted

2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL

2015/2255(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Considers that the notion of 'minimum wage' contained in Directive 96/71/EC should be revised to ensure equal pay for posted workers and local workers in similar positions; stresses the need to respect the collective agreements of the host country and to ensure, through the revision of Regulations (EC) No. 883/2004 and (EC) No. 987/2009, the payment of gross earnings corresponding to the remuneration paid by the employer before the deduction of taxes and social security contributions payable by employees and withheld by the employer; recalls that specific postings bonuses should be paid on top of remuneration;deleted

2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL

2015/2255(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Wishes periods of postings to be limited in Directive 96/71/CE~~C and temporary employment agencies to be excluded from the scope of the directive~~;

2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL

2015/2255(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Takes the view that ~~a social protocol~~continuous education is necessary ~~to ensure the primacy of fundamental rights over~~concerning the optimal dynamic equilibrium between the inalienable right to work and inalienable economic freedoms;

2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL

2015/2255(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Recalls the Commission'’s commitment to proposing a basis of minimum social rights to guarantee minimum European standards, and to ensuring a minimum level of contributions and taxes to play a part in sufficient levels of social services and benefits; emphasises that the establishment of criteria for comparing the various national social systems cannot provide such a basis, but can only serve as a preliminary analytical framework; notes that comparable social protection is required to achieve a European social model;

2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL

2015/2255(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Desires that wage floors be established, possibly in the form of a minimum wage; emphasises that this instrument should be set up on the basis of legislation or convention, in accordance with national practices, with due respect for the role of the social partners; ~~believes that these wage floors should represent at least 60 % of the average national wage;~~ calls on the Commission to consult the social partners with a view to introducing, where appropriate, a minimum wage in some border areas associated with highly mobile workers;

2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL

2015/2255(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Calls on the Commission to propose an appropriate legislative vehicle providing that companies have a duty of care for which they may be held liable, in respect of ~~both their subsidiaries and~~ their subcontractors operating in third countries ~~in order to prevent the risk of human rights violations, corruption, severe physical injury or environmental damage or the violation of ILO Conventions~~;

2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL

2015/2255(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

~~29. Considers that Directive 96/71/EC and the rules coordinating social security systems must be revised before any trade agreement including provisions relating to 'Mode 4' can be concluded;~~deleted

2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL

2015/2234(INI)

Javier NART, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Carolina PUNSET, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, María Teresa GIMÉNEZ BARBAT

Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)

– having regard to the European Parliament legislative resolution of 8 July 2015 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on seafarers amending Directives 2008/94/EC, 2009/38/EC, 2002/14/EC, 98/59/EC and 2001/23/EC (COM(2013)0798 – C7-0409/2013 – 2013/0390(COD)),

2016/02/29
Committee: AFET

2015/2234(INI)

Javier NART, Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Carolina PUNSET, Beatriz BECERRA BASTERRECHEA, María Teresa GIMÉNEZ BARBAT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Bearing in mind that the majority of the crew on many non-Community flagged vessels calling at European ports are Filipino, and bearing in mind the harsh and inhuman working conditions in which many of these seafarers live, calls on Member States not to allow these vessels to be received in European ports when the working conditions on board contravene the labour rights and principles enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; urges, likewise, non-Community flagged vessels to guarantee their crews’ working conditions in accordance with international legislation and the rules laid down in the ILO and IMO;

2016/02/29
Committee: AFET

2015/2233(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point a

(a) to make financial services one of the EU’s priorities in the TiSA negotiations, as the EU’s own market for those services is already comparatively open; to ensure that, in the area of financial services, no new commitments will be taken on that would jeopardise EU financial regulation, and that EU regulators retain the ability to authorise or deny any new financial product; This allows a rapid and more effective reaction to market failures which contribute better to the stability of the global economic system;

2015/10/23
Committee: ECON

2015/2233(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point a a (new)

(aa) To ensure financial services commitments taken during the TiSA negotiations would not undermine financial and economic stability or set legal coverage for excessive risk taking or speculative behaviour from financial institutions;

2015/10/23
Committee: ECON

2015/2233(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. To ensure that TiSA will contribute fair and significantly to jobs creation and set ambitious trade in service standards which covers the main 21st century issues, notably the persisting jobs crisis, the growing inequalities, the youth unemployment and other social challenges as it happens normally when trade barriers fall and markets are open;

2015/10/20
Committee: EMPL

2015/2233(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. To strength the strategic importance of trade in services - at the present time the sector accounts for three-quarters of EU gross domestic product (GDP) and of jobs - is essential that this agreement works as a first step to break the deadlock in the Doha Round; TiSA negotiations are an opportunity to focus on markets that the EU will not in a foreseeable future open bilateral negotiations and to reorient the European Trade Policy, enhancing labour mobility between countries and widening the multiplier effect; Nevertheless, negotiations should prevail at multilateral level rather than bilateral level;

2015/10/20
Committee: EMPL

2015/2233(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point b a (new)

(ba) Expects that the particular obstacles faced by SMEs are taken into account, notably regarding investment specific barriers;

2015/10/23
Committee: ECON

2015/2233(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point b b (new)

(bb) To take further steps to open the public procurement market on all the TiSA negotiators countries; To grant contracts, companies must comply with the core ‘gold standards’; Contracts should not be only based on the price, but additional criteria should not create barriers to trade;

2015/10/23
Committee: ECON

2015/2233(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point b c (new)

(bc) Regulatory and investment specific barriers, specially for professional services, must be reduced in order to enhance mobility; Calls to the Commission to establish in an efficient way one-stop-shops to help SMEs to exchange services between markets;

2015/10/23
Committee: ECON

2015/2233(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls furthermore, in negotiations on international trade in services, for mandatory working conditions to be secured in accordance with the respective laws on labour and social affairs and collective agreements, a~~s well as for a ban on the dismantling of~~nd respect the workers’ rights and social standards when services are liberalised and assure that quality of services and labour conditions are not negatively affected;

2015/10/20
Committee: EMPL

2015/2233(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Considers that the right of the State to organise and regulate the provision of services, taking account of social and environmental criteria as well as the public interest, must be retained in full, and calls for services of general interest to be excluded from the agreement, irrespective of whether they are provided privately or publicly in order that universal access is guaranteed;

2015/10/20
Committee: EMPL

2015/2233(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. ~~Rejects n~~Negotiations on the further liberalisation of services provided across EU borders s~~o long as no~~hould bear in mind the need for a EU- wide cooperation ~~exists~~in order to maintain working conditions in accordance with the respective laws on labour and social affairs and collective agreements in the EU;

2015/10/20
Committee: EMPL

2015/2233(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point f a (new)

(fa) To take the opportunity of TiSA negotiations to build a collective and united vision on the development of legislative instruments to ensure that profits are taxed where the economic activity takes place and where the profit is generated;

2015/10/23
Committee: ECON

2015/2233(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph f b (new)

1a. To ensure that TiSA will contribute fairly and significantly to set ambitious standards for trade in services to foster long-term growth, promote European competitiveness, combat unemployment and build a smarter, more inclusive and more sustainable Europe in order to achieve the Europe 2020 Strategy goals;

2015/10/23
Committee: ECON

2015/2233(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph f c (new)

(fc) calls on the Commission to consider that TiSA negotiations need to protect consumers against the complexity and opacity of certain financial products; Understandable and correct information is fundamental to prevent suppliers from exploiting the client’s inexperience;

2015/10/23
Committee: ECON

2015/2233(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Considers furthermore that the EU-wide posting of workers should not be regulated in trade agreements but countries should have the right to establish quantitative conditions;

2015/10/20
Committee: EMPL

2015/2233(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Amjad BASHIR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Expects that the particular obstacles faced by SMEs are taken into account specially because they are the biggest jobs creator;

2015/10/20
Committee: EMPL

2015/2233(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. To take further steps to open the public procurement market on all the TiSA negotiators countries; To grant contracts, companies must comply with the core labour and social standards of the ILO; Contracts should not be gained only based on the price, but this measures cannot function as a manner of trade barriers;

2015/10/20
Committee: EMPL

2015/2233(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)

6c. Regulatory barriers such as the mandatory skills accreditation should be reduced, guarantying that professional services provided by lawyers, architects or engineers, for instance, are easily set between TiSA negotiators countries in order to enhance mobility and to create more jobs;

2015/10/20
Committee: EMPL

2015/2233(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Calls for ~~the immediate publication of all documents relevant to TiSA, and urges that the European social partners be permitted to participate transparently in the negotiat~~a more transparent negotiation on the TiSA; The European social partners and civil society should contribute in a meaningful way in the negotiating process, in order to promote a more inclusive and relevant agreement and to avoid lack of understanding pfro~~cess.~~m public opinion;

2015/10/20
Committee: EMPL

2015/2228(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Considers that closing the gender pay gap requires increased transparency in pay systems, gender-neutral classification, ~~a reversal of the onu~~enforcement of relevant EU legislation and a strong emphasis ofn p~~roof when it comes to challenging gender discrimination in the workplace, and desegregation of the workforc~~olicies that promote the reconciliation of professional and family life;

2016/02/04
Committee: EMPL

2015/2228(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Notes that the lack of a~~ffordable child~~ccessible, affordable and quality childcare, disability and elderly support and care contributes to the gender employment gap, the pay gap and related pension gap, and the disproportionate number of women who are in precarious work and in or at risk of poverty; urges the Member States to ensure access to ~~childcare~~these services by, for example, ~~increasing~~ensuring adequate expenditure on the provision of c~~hildcare~~are and support services and/or subsidies to households, incentivising employer contributions to childcare costs, and making better use of EU funds;

2016/02/04
Committee: EMPL

2015/2228(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Notes that women’'s economic independence plays a crucial role in their ability to escape situations of domestic violence, and that women who have exhausted their paid leave are at risk of losing their jobs and economic independence; calls on the Commission ~~and the Member States to consider introducing a statutory right to~~to examine the feasibility and the positive outcomes of introducing a system of paid domestic violence leave.;

2016/02/04
Committee: EMPL

2015/2228(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Ivo VAJGL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Believes that supporting women entrepreneurs through various EU programmes can play a role in generating employment and alleviating poverty.

2016/02/04
Committee: EMPL

2015/2226(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Regrets the strong market orientation of the EU’s agricultural policies and its negative effect on rural incomes and employment, as evidenced by the liberalisation of the dairy sector; condemns the negative impact on agricultural labour of free trade agreements such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership;deleted

2016/04/14
Committee: EMPL

2015/2226(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

~~4. Calls for the introduction of social conditionality in the CAP’s first pillar;~~deleted

2016/04/14
Committee: EMPL

2015/2226(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Stresses that improving access to land ~~through instruments such as public land banks is key to agricultural employment~~is key to agricultural employment as is access to credit and notes the role which the European Investment Bank can play in this regard;

2016/04/14
Committee: EMPL

2015/2226(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Believes that farming and especially family farming is the single most important influence in preserving the economic and social fabric of rural areas; in this regard believes that family farming would be made increasingly sustainable by incentivising consolidation of existing holdings and thereby maximising consequent employment in local areas;

2016/04/14
Committee: EMPL

2015/2226(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9

9. ~~Calls for the defence of the right to public services in rural areas against current neo-liberal policies; supports the development of minimum income schem~~Supports the protection of public services in rural areas such as post offices and some form of one stop shop or multiservice centres; supports the development of minimum income schemes in line with the principle of subsidiarity and Member States´ national practices to ensure social cohesion, given the ~~high~~unacceptable rate of poverty and social exclusion in rural areas.

2016/04/14
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Citation 16 a (new)

- having regard to the OECD report 'In It Together: Why Less Inequality Benefits All' of 21 May 20151 a, __________________ 1ahttp://www.oecd.org/social/in-it- together-why-less-inequality-benefits-all- 9789264235120-en.htm

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital Aa (new)

Aa. whereas the prices of essential goods and services, at certain times and in certain countries, have increased relatively rapidly, and, accordingly, family expenditure;

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

A b. Whereas the increase in family expenditure, associated with the cost of accommodation, food, utilities (electricity, gas, water), transport, medical costs or costs associated with education, makes it difficult to achieve the objective of reducing poverty laid down in the Europe 2020 Strategy;

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. Whereas ~~not having adequate heating has a negative impact on a person’s health~~the difficulty for families of meeting the cost of those essential goods and services has a negative impact on a person’s health, education and social and employment inclusion, in particular for children and older persons;

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. Whereas ~~Directive 2012/27/EU calls on the Member States to develop programmes to raise awareness, and inform and advise individ~~the reduction of poverty and social exclusion is one of the specific objectives of the Union and of the Member States, and progress is made towards equality where all citizens have equals a~~nd households on energy efficiency;~~ ccess to opportunities and basic resources;

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

C a. Considering the situation of poverty of a family as indivisible, the effect which the energy aspect has on poverty must be highlighted;

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt integrated frameworks to combat ~~energy~~the various forms of poverty by linking e~~nergy and~~conomic, education, employment, energy and transport policy, among others, and social policy, particularly poverty/social inclusion policies with short-term effects more closely;

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. In many cases, the most important costs in this area are those of renting or buying housing. The social pillar should put forward decisive measures in relation to social housing and the treatment of homeless families.

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States to sign up to a European winter heating disconnection moratorium so as to ensure that during a defined winter period no household can be cut off from energy or that those who are must be reconnected to energy needed for heating that meets World Health Organisation (WHO) standards for adequate housing temperatureevaluate the measures adopted to comply with the World Health Organisation (WHO) standards for adequate housing temperature, and in particular to move towards signing up to a European winter heating disconnection moratorium so as to take account of the minimum conditions to be met by the client to opt into such a benefit and the scheduling of outstanding payments between client and supplier and the public contribution. Energy companies will not be responsible for social policies, which will always be set by governments;

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Invites the Commission to ~~presen~~carry out, in the context of the announced social pillar, an ~~EU framework directive on adequate minimum income in 2016~~up-to-date study taking account of the economic and social circumstances of each Member State and funding options, including the possibility of setting up a European fund specifically for this purpose; in view of the results of the study, the Commission will evaluate the manner and the means of introducing a temporary minimum family income in the EU Member States in 2016, respecting the characteristics of each of them;

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Member States to ensure a more efficient and targeted use of the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESI Funds) by national, regional and local authorities in order to tackle enpovergty ~~poverty~~and social exclusion within the Union;

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – indent 1

- prioritising ~~decent~~the livfting ~~standards and reducing~~of families out of situations of poverty and extreme poverty and devoting a summit to it;

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – indent 3

- ensuring that the Member States provide everyone with accessible adequate income support, including minimum income above the poverty threshold ~~throughout the life cycle~~for as long as the duly documented situation of poverty persists;

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – indent 4

- targeting household expenditure so that disproportionately higher costs such as housing or energy spending can be reduced in a sustainable manner;

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – indent 5

~~- ending any policies in other policy areas that may lead to increase poverty;~~Deleted

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – indent 5 a (new)

- guaranteeing financial compensation essential for the situation of poverty where costs cannot be lowered in the short term;

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to present a new social pillar; recalls that to deliver on Article 9 TFEU, such a pillar ~~should be aimed at~~may lead to setting a European framework for a ~~minimum~~temporary minimum family income above the poverty level, continuing with a rights- based approach to social policy and improving implementation of existing social, labour and anti-discrimination legislation; the establishment of this European framework will require a prior up-to-date study taking account of the economic and social circumstances of each Member State, examining the possibility of setting up a specific European fund, and, where appropriate, supporting its implementation;

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to aim for a social triple A score for the Union; finds regrettable that this is currently out of reach owing to increasing inequality, high poverty and social exclusion and less and less availability of quality and affordable social, health and care services; recalls that a social triple A must be based on Article 9 TFEU aimed at a ‘high level of employment, the guarantee of adequate social protection, the fight against social exclusion and a high level of education, training and protection of human health’; recalls that achieving a social triple A as a benchmark requires assessing both policies that hinder and work towards achieving the benchmark; ~~finds regrettable that so far the latter has not been addressed at Union level;~~

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Stresses that a ~~decent income is a fundamental element for being~~lthough providing employment is the best way of escaping a situation of poverty, it is important to be able to lihave ~~your life in dignity~~a minimum family income sufficient to help families to meet the basic costs of maintaining the home in the short-term; recalls that 16.7 % of the population in the EU 28 in 2013 were at- risk-of-poverty after social transfers; invites the Commission to ~~presen~~carry out in 2016 in the context of the announced social pillar an ~~EU framework directive on adequate minimum income~~up-to-date study taking account of the economic and social circumstances of each Member State, examining the possibility of setting up a European fund specifically for this purpose, and supporting, where applicable, the implementation of a minimum family income in each of them;

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Recommends that ~~an EU framework directive on minimum income should specify which criteria Member States’ minimum income schemes would need to meet so as to lift people out of poverty~~the study which serves as the basis for defining the framework for the implementation of the minimum income should take account of the social and economic context of each Member State and affect the temporary nature of the instrument by examining funding options, including the possibility of creating a European fund specifically for this purpose; the aim of this minimum family income should be not only to lift people out of poverty but to equip them with a basis to stay out of it; considers that such a framework would need to be rights- based, address the level of income, the non-discriminatory, efficient and easy access and the take-up, targeting especially those groups, who currently are excluded from or at risk of exclusion from minimum income schemes;

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11 a. Recalls that, as the introduction and strengthening of these minimum income schemes must be based on the temporary nature of the instrument, such schemes must be accompanied by general policies and specific measures such as active policies aimed at assisting the unemployed to return to the employment market, or training and employment creation programmes; it is also essential to have an adequate housing policy, healthcare and quality public services;

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Stresses that minimum income schemes should prevent and lift households out of severe material deprivation and allow for an income above the poverty threshold; recalls that a minimum income is a key instrument for delivering on Article 9 TFEU guaranteeing adequate social protection ~~as well as on the fundamental right to decent living condit~~, the reduction of social exclusions, participating in society and protection of human health and greater equality of opportunity;

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Recalls that poor households spend the largest share of their income on housing, utilities and food; stresses that one dimension of household expenditure of poor households – the cost of energy and the related issue of energy poverty lacks an in-depth assessment at Union level; calls on the Commission to improve internal cooperation so as to better link the energy policy andcalls on the Commission to improve internal cooperation so as to better link its economic, employment, education, energy and transport policies, among others, and social policy, particularly the poverty policy;

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Stresses that there is so far no definition of poverty or energy poverty at Union level and therefore it is very difficult to properly assess the seriousness, the causes and the consequences of ~~energy~~this aspect of poverty of poor households in the Union; calls on the Commission to ~~develop with stakeholders a common definition of energy poverty which should aim at assessing at least the following elements: material scope, difficulty f~~promote the adoption of a European Commitment on Energy Security and Solidarity and, within that framework, the creation of a European observatory a ~~household to gain access to essential energy, affordability and share of total household cost, impact on basic household needs such as heating, cooling, cooking, lighting and transpo~~nd the obligation to specifically allocate part of the previously suggested social aid fund to the eradication of energy poverty;

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

~~16. Stresses that there is a lock-in effect as regards energy poverty, as poor households cannot afford the initial upfront investment needed to combat energy poverty;~~Deleted

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5

Targeting funding and policies towards energy poverty - a ~~triple win~~winning situation for all

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Recalls that targeting certain policies and Union funding towards ~~reducing energy costs of poor households by investing in renewables or energy efficiency has multipl~~enabling poor households to be able to meet the pcos~~itive effects: at household level, it improves living conditions and the health of those concerned as~~t of essential goods, including energy, weill as decreasing household costs and therefore provides budgetary relief for poor families; at regional and local level, funding will provide for local investment; at Union level it helps to both decrease poverty, improve energy efficiency and decrease energy emissionscontribute to achieving the objective of reducing poverty laid down in the Europe 2020 Strategy;

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17 a. Insists on the importance of addressing poverty not just from a social or political, but also from an economic point of view, with effects in the medium term; the Commission must include in its priorities the need to tackle the dynamic of inequality which currently exists and seriously limits growth and has a very negative impact on cohesion and poverty;

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 6

Linking social aims and ~~energy~~other European policyies

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Calls on the Member States not to exempt the energy intensive industries from taxes, but to use these revenues for measures that benefit low-income households, including targeted energy efficiency measures and financing of social security systems, which can in turn reduce the burden on labour costs; considers that such an offsetting mechanism could be an integral element of a socially equitable tax shift as proposed by the Commission in the current employment guidelines;Deleted

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2223(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Calls on the Member States to ~~sign up to a European winter heating disconnection moratorium so as to ensure that during a defined winter period no household can be cut off from energy or that those who ar~~evaluate the measures to adopt in order to comply with World Health Organisation (WHO) standards for adequate housing temperature, in particular, signing up to a winter heating disconnection moratorium; in particular, to evaluate the adoption of a winter heating disconnection moratorium, taking account of the minimum conditions to be muset b~~e reconnected to energy needed for heating that meets World Health Organisation (WHO) standards for adequate housing temperature~~y the client in order to opt into such a benefit and the scheduling of outstanding payments between client and supplier and the public contribution. Energy companies will not be responsible for social policies, which will always be set by governments; points out that such a moratorium aims to decrease excess winter mortality, supporting the most vulnerable groups, especially young children, the elderly and permanently sick and disabled people so as to protect their health and well-being;

2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Title

on workers representation ~~on board~~at corporate level in Europe

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the development of the European Union and the European social model require ~~a strengthening of democracy, including economic democracy~~respect for democratic values in all fields;

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas ~~the involvement of employees in supervisory boards is a crucial step in the further democratisation of the economy, whereby~~, depending on the context, an appropriate level of involvement of employees at corporate level may prove beneficial for good economic governance provided this idoes not ~~a matter of legislative burdens which may be tackled by cutting red tape and by deregulation~~limit the freedom of businesses to organise themselves;

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas the scope and intensity of worker participation vary greatly, but it has proved effective, and whereas the countries concerned are essentially economically successful ones16; __________________ 16http://www.worker- participation.eu/About-WP/European- Participation-Index-EPI owing to differences in business and trade union structure and how workers are represented, all of which may have a positive effect on company management;

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas companies with employee participation have tended to weather the crisis better than others17; __________________ 17 Kleinknecht R. (2015) Employee participation in corporate governance: implications for company resilience, http://ejd.sagepub.com/content/21/1/57.ab stractdeleted

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

~~G. whereas the economic model based on the short-term ‘shareholder value’ principle has failed in the financial crisis;~~deleted

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas future corporate management will ~~only~~ be successful with a long-term, sustainable approach which includes all stakeholders~~18; __________________ 18http://de.worker-participation.eu/Ueber- WP.eu/Publications/The-Sustainable- Company-a-new-approach-to-corporate- governance~~;

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas the existing form of the European Company (SE) ~~is also used to avoid national~~enables different forms of worker participation in companies, in line with the management system in force and the company’s freedom to establish its own statutes;

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on single-member private limited liability companies (SUP)19 can be used to circumvent existing national forms of worker representation on supervisory boards, and the Committee on Employment therefore rejected this proposal in its opinion of 29 June 201520; __________________ 19 20deleted COM(2014)0212. PE549.466v02-00.

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

M. whereas company law legislative acts at European level and / or such acts applied cross-border ~~are often drawn up without taking into account~~have to comply with labour law;

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital N

N. whereas ~~giving priority to the fundamental economic freedoms in the European Union often leads to the erosion of the national worker representation, not only at supervisory board level~~the freedom of businesses to act and the right to worker representation must be respected and brought up to date, so they co-exist in the framework of good corporate governance;

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital O

O. whereas there do not yet exist at EU level any general standards for employee representation ~~on supervisory boards~~at corporate level;

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital P

P. whereas ~~the adoption of~~ any further legislative acts in European company law ~~without t~~shall whe re~~gulation of~~ pertinent take worker participation ~~will lead to a further erosion of national rules~~into account;

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1

Worker representation ~~on supervisory boards – general requirement~~at corporate level – general observations

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission and its agencies on a regular basis and systematically to gather, evaluate and publish data and good examples relating to worker representation at ~~supervisory board~~corporate level;

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission to establish permanent ~~joint~~ expert groups of the social partners tasked with gathering over a lengthy period of time information on the development and good examples concerning employee representation ~~on supervisory boards~~at corporate level; points out that they should examine in particular corporate level employee representation at enterprise, local, regional and national levels, as well as at transnational and European ~~supervisory board levels~~level, assessing in turn to what extent the working, business and trade union culture of each Member State may affect the efficiency thereof;

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to ~~ensure that provision is made for~~take into account findings from studies and evaluations of employee representation at ~~supervisory board~~corporate level iwhen drafting all new EU legislative acts or revising existing ones in the context of European company law in order to further corporate governance;

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Council, the Member States and the Commission to respect and protect existing national forms of worker representation at supervisory board level in the EU and to counter any attempt to use existing EU law to circumvent or abuse such arrangements by making appropriate changes in the relevant European Treaties or legislative acts;deleted

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission and the Council, in the event of new legislative acts, particularly in the area of European company law, to determine and publicise the impact on European and national forms of worker participation through an appropriate impact assessment procedure and take appropriate measures to counter any adverse consequences;deleted

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Encourages the Commission, the European Parliament and the Council, in the area of company law to seek at an early stage enhanced cooperation with the bodes responsible for employment because frequently ignored until it is too late or not sufficiently taken into account;deleted

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2

~~Requirement~~Suggestions in respect of how to update existing directives regarding employee representation oin ~~supervisory board~~corporate bodies

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. ~~Calls on~~Recommends that the Commission t~~o introduce in the Directive~~akes account of the results of studies and assessments onf the ~~European Company (SE) minimum EU rules governing~~socioeconomic effects and consequences of employee representation oin ~~supervisory boards, rather than referring to national law or rev~~corporate bodies of companies in any amendment to existing ~~the D~~directive so that the involvement of workers in supervisory boards is not solely determined by conditions when a company is established, but account is also taken of subsequent developments and, in particular, changes in the number of employeess affecting this issue and which can help improve corporate governance;

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Commission to introduce in the Directive on mergers of limited liability companies minimum European rules for employee representation on supervisory boards, rather than referring to national legislation;deleted

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission to revise Directive 2004/25/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 200421 on takeover bids to ensure that the workers of a bidding company are also consulted, rather than just those of the company subject to the takeover bid; __________________ 21 OJ L 142, 30.4.2004, p. 12.deleted

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls on the Commission in all legislative acts on European company law to provide that the place of a company’s registered offices must be identical with its actual place of business so as to prevent the circumvention of the requirement regarding employee representation on supervisory boards, such as would be possible under the proposal for single-member private limited liability companies (SUP), and, instead of this proposal, to submit a proposal for a directive on the cross- border transfer of the registered office, as decided by the European Parliament22; __________________ 22Resolution of 10 March 2009 with recommendations to the Commission on the cross-border transfer of the registered office of a company.deleted

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3

~~Requirement~~Suggestions in respect of a ~~directive on worker representation on supervisory boards applicable to all directives regarding Europea~~n exchange of best practices and reflections on a possible European framework on worker representation in corporate ~~law~~bodies

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Commission to develop ~~standards for~~initiatives to improve familiarity with rules governing employee representation oin ~~supervisory boards that can be applied as a universal model in the form of a directive to all European corporate law directives which takes into account, but does not repla~~corporate bodies in the various EU Member States and foster exchanges of best practices, ~~existing rules on inform~~assessing the different forms of worker participations and ~~consultation~~the socioeconomic effects thereof;

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Asks the Commission to examine and clarify the existing legal basis for a possible European framework in this area, given the impact it could have on areas of national competence;

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)

11b. Recommends basing any changes to rules on worker representation in corporate bodies on an analysis and thorough evaluation of the labour force and business culture in each Member State; adds that this would serve to delineate clearly the decision-making capacity of workers' representatives, the areas in which they should be present and the domains in which the chosen method of participation in the decision-making process can be viable and beneficial;

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Recommends that this Directive should be applicable to all forms of company with a supervisory board at European level, i.e. account should be taken of public and private companies, partnerships and limited companies and also workers employed in the affiliated parent and subsidiary companies;deleted

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Believes that workers' representatives on European supervisory boards should have a say in all fundamental decisions of a company and oversee the management board, without interfering in the management’s right to manage the company;deleted

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Suggests that the nature and scope of decisions requiring approval should be determined in this directive by minimum standards, which should be further development by rules in the Member States23; __________________ 23 e.g. Article 95 AktG, Austria.deleted

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

~~15. Stresses that workers' representatives on supervisory boards should have the same rights and powers as the representatives of the management and / or the owner;~~deleted

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Demands that steps be taken, in appointing the supervisory board, to ensure that the sexes are represented according to the gender ratio in the company's workforce; calls on the Council in this connection to expedite the Parliament-backed proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on improving the gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges and related measures24; __________________ 24deleted COM(2012)0614.

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Demands that this Directive ensure that the representatives of the workforce may be from affiliated companies and, in the case of transnational companies, may also originate from another Member State and that trade union representatives of may also be put forward and elected as external representatives;deleted

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Recommends, with respect to the number of worker representatives sitting on the supervisory boards of companies, including direct or indirect subsidiaries and affiliates with more than 50 employees25, that half the number of seats on the supervisory board should be reserved for workers or their representatives; __________________ 25In Sweden from 50 workers.deleted

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Recommends that efforts should be made to obtain an effective ratio of communication and action between workers' representatives sitting on ~~supervisory board~~corporate bodies, European Works Councils or other I & C representatives and worker representations at national, regional and local levels;

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2222(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

~~20. Is convinced that such a directive would have to be furnished with effective enforcement mechanisms in order to reduce cases of circumvention, avoidance and abuse;~~deleted

2016/04/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/2116(INI)

Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Welcomes the fact that all Member States offer grants or subsidies to employers providing reasonable accommodation, thereby incentiviszing employers to adapt the workplace in order to hire people with disabilities; Recommends that national, regional and local authorities propose guidance for reasonable accommodation and prevention of exclusion of specific vulnerable groups; calls for dialogue with social partners, such as trade unions and employers with an aim at defining guidance for reasonable accommodation practices to be put in place;

2016/03/15
Committee: EMPL

2015/2116(INI)

Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Urges the European Commission and the Member States to adopt quality frameworks for traineeships with a view to ensuring reasonable accommodation and accessibility for persons with disabilities;

2016/03/15
Committee: EMPL

2015/2116(INI)

Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Highlights that lack of comparable equality data makes it more difficult to prove the existence of discrimination, particularly indirect discrimination; calls on the Member States to collect equality data in a systematic way and with the involvement of national equality bodies and national courts; calls on the Commission to take initiatives to promote such data collection by means of a Recommendation to Member States, and by tasking Eurostat with the development of consultations aiming at mainstreaming data disaggregation on all discrimination grounds in European Social Surveys' indicators;

2016/03/15
Committee: EMPL

2015/2116(INI)

Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Notes the important role of the national equality bodies in the implementation of the Employment Equality Directive, contributing to awareness raising and data collection, staying in touch with the social partners and other stakeholders, addressing underreporting and making complaint processes more accessible; calls for the role of the national equality bodies to be strengthened, and their capacities enhanced, including through the provision of adequate funding;

2016/03/15
Committee: EMPL

2015/2116(INI)

Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)

26a. Highlights that the Directive mentions the disproportionate impact of multiple discrimination on women; recommends that national, regional and local authorities, law enforcement bodies, including labour inspectors, national equality bodies and civil society organisations, increase their monitoring of the intersectionality between gender and other grounds in cases of discrimination and in practices;

2016/03/15
Committee: EMPL

2015/2116(INI)

Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31

31. Considers it necessary that adequate training is provided for employees of national, regional and local authorities and law enforcement bodies and labour inspectors; believes that training for judges, prosecutors, lawyers and police force on non-discrimination legislation in employment and case-law is of critical importance, along with training on cultural understanding and unconscious bias provided by organisations representing the most discriminated groups;

2016/03/15
Committee: EMPL

2015/2116(INI)

Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)

31a. Considers it necessary that the European Commission provides private companies, including SMEs and micro companies with models for equality and diversity frameworks which can be later replicated and adapted according to their needs; Calls on the business stakeholders to go further than making pledges with regard to respecting equality and diversity, by, among others, reporting annually their initiatives in this respect with the help of the equality bodies if they want to;

2016/03/15
Committee: EMPL

2015/2107(INI)

Ulla TØRNÆS, Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the proportion of workers, who report their health and safety to be at risk because of their work, varies significantly across Member States, which underlines the need for a much stronger European focus on implementation and enforecement of the excisting OHS legislation14 ; __________________ 14 5th Working Conditions Survey, Overview Report, Eurofound (2012) http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/sites/defa ult/files/ef_publication/field_ef_document/ ef1182en.pdf

2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL

2015/2107(INI)

Ulla TØRNÆS, Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas clear, efficient, well implemented and enforceable legislation is a precondition for compliance with OHS requirements, which is today heavily regulated with 24 directives, and thereby a precondition for a high level of protection for all workers regardless of contract and place of work;

2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL

2015/2107(INI)

Ulla TØRNÆS, Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Stresses that all employees have a right to the highest level of protection regarding health and safety in the workplace regardless of the size of the employer, the underlying contract or the Member State of employment; points out that complex, unclear and overlapping OSH rules can have unintended consequences and undermine employers' protection, stresses therefore the need for better, more clear and efficient rules in the field of OSH;

2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL

2015/2107(INI)

Ulla TØRNÆS, Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Welcomes that many important fields of action are identified in the EU OSH strategic framework; stresses, in this context, that ~~more concrete legislative measures should~~a stronger focus on implementation and enforcement of the existing rules as well as the development of non-legislative tools must be included in the framework, following the 2016- review;

2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL

2015/2107(INI)

Ulla TØRNÆS, Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that national OSHS strategies are essential and contributes to improvements in OSHS in the Member States and stresses that regular reporting on progress made should be encouraged; considers it necessary to ~~continue to initiate and coordinate policies~~apply a much stronger focus on implementation and enforcement of the existing OHS legislation at EU level with a view to ensuring a high level of occupational health and safety for all workers;

2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL

2015/2107(INI)

Ulla TØRNÆS, Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. ~~Calls on~~Encourages the Member States and social partners to take initiatives to upgrade the skills of health and safety representatives and managers in accordance with national customs and traditions; calls on the Commission to draw up guidelines for the involvement of ~~employee~~the social partners in implementing preventive OSH measures;

2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL

2015/2107(INI)

Ulla TØRNÆS, Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Points out that a precondition for good OSHS management and performance is clear, efficient, well implemented and enforceable legislation and documented risk assessment, which allows for appropriate preventive measures to be put in place;

2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL

2015/2107(INI)

Ulla TØRNÆS, Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Believes that ensuring a level playing- field across the EU and eliminating unfair competition ~~and social dumping~~ is crucial; stresses that labour inspectorates play a key role in enforcing workers' rights to a safe and healthy working environment; ~~calls on~~reminds the Member States ~~to follow~~of the ILO recommendation of a minimum of one labour inspector per 10 000 workers ~~and to increase staffing and resources available to labour inspectorates~~;

2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL

2015/2097(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)

- having regard to the Eurofound report 'Maternity leave provisions in the EU Member States: Duration and allowances' (July 2015);

2016/01/29
Committee: EMPL

2015/2097(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Renate WEBER, Ivo VAJGL

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the connection between reconciliation of professional and family life and the principle of gender equality in employment is now established in EU legislation;

2016/01/29
Committee: EMPL

2015/2097(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Renate WEBER, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas Directive 92/85/EEC grants rights to women workers during pregnancy, immediately after giving birth and while breastfeeding, Directive 96/34/EC recognises the reconciliation between professional and family life as a separate topic while Directive 2010/18/EU stipulates that all employees have a right to four months unpaid parental leave while one of those months must be granted on a non-transferable basis thus ensuring that reconciliation of professional and family life involves both men and women;

2016/01/29
Committee: EMPL

2015/2097(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas Eurofound studies have illustrated aspects that influence fathers' take-up rate of parental leave which include the level of compensation, the flexibility of the leave system, the availability of information, availability and flexibility of childcare facilities and the extent to which workers fear isolation from the labour market when taking leave. Therefore these issues need to be addressed;

2016/01/29
Committee: EMPL

2015/2097(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. Notes that where there are no provisions for leave, or where existing ones are considered insufficient, social partners, through collective agreements, may have an important role to play in establishing new provisions or updating current ones for maternity, paternity and parental leave;

2016/01/29
Committee: EMPL

2015/2097(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Renate WEBER, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)

Db. whereas most EU Member States already comply with the minimum requirements of the Parental Leave Directive 2010/18/EU and in many Member States national provisions go beyond these requirements;

2016/01/29
Committee: EMPL

2015/2097(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Renate WEBER, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Believes that since not all Member States have followed the EU separate or sequential approach to maternity and parental leaves classifying the different types of leave at an EU level is problematic;

2016/01/29
Committee: EMPL

2015/2097(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States to introduce financial compensation for parental leave with a view to reaching a level that would act as an incentive for income replacement, over the minimum time period guaranteed by the directive, based on the average EU maternity leave income replacement rate, in order to ~~safeguard families’ social and economic wellbeing~~facilitate the reconciliation of family life with work; considers that a step forward in this regard would contribute to lifting a significant part of the EU out of its demographic winter;

2016/01/29
Committee: EMPL

2015/2097(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Renate WEBER, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Believes that the promotion of individualisation of the right to leave and of positive action aiming at the promotion of the role of fathers is essential in helping to achieve gender balanced reconciliation of work and family life;

2016/01/29
Committee: EMPL

2015/2097(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Renate WEBER, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Believes that an integrated approach to gender equality and the reconciliation of work and family life in future EU legislation would bring coherence and transparency to the process and would help ensure the promotion of gender- balanced reconciliation of work and family life;

2016/01/29
Committee: EMPL

2015/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to take measures in order to respond to the unprecedented crisis in the Mediterranean and to improve management of migration in all its aspects by reinforcing its migration policy and adopting an adequately resourced strategic European Agenda on Migration, which is a good first step;

2015/07/24
Committee: PETI

2015/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Points out that as regards the medium term, the issue being raised by Europe’s current refugee crisis is ~~the integration of refugees into European societ~~its will to integrate them into European society since, unlike economic migrants, refugees do not pursue a permanent stay; calls on the Commission, therefore, to opt for a plan geared towards social and occupational integration of refugees also taking into consideration their wish to stay;

2015/12/16
Committee: EMPL

2015/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Maintains that labour market data have to be taken into account in the permanent relocation mechanism for refugees in order to ensure that it will not worsen the social and economic situation for refugees’ home territories and their populations. A comprehensive approach on migration inclusive of the major demographic problem currently challenging Europe and its economy also needs to be taken into account;

2015/12/16
Committee: EMPL

2015/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that action taken by the EU needs to be regularly monitored and enhanced so as to guarantee shared responsibility in managing and protecting the EU’s borders, and European solidarity in making the necessary resources available;

2015/07/24
Committee: PETI

2015/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Points out that, in the Commission’s view, there is nothing to prevent European funds, including the European Social Fund, from being used to help integrate refugees; calls on fund managing authorities, however, to use the funds as effectively as possible without damaging other goals and recipients; outlines the allocation of a concrete and specific line of budget within the ESF to effectively undertake the integration of migrants and refugees without undermining its employment goals;

2015/12/16
Committee: EMPL

2015/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission, in consultation with the Member States, to set up a system to speed up diploma equivalence and the recognition of skills, while at the same time it is combined with the standardization of acknowledgements and equivalences at the European level in between the Member States, thereby helping refugees and migrants to integrate socially; maintains that refugees and migrants must receive language training as soon as they arrive in the country to which they have been relocated;

2015/12/16
Committee: EMPL

2015/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to ensure a meaningful revision of the Dublin Regulation in order to alleviate sudden and disproportionate migration pressure on Member States such as Italy, Spain, Greece, Cyprus and Malta, which are more directly exposed to migrant flows, without undermining the security of the Union’s external borders;

2015/07/24
Committee: PETI

2015/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Points out to the Commission that illegal work by migrants ~~constitutes a danger~~should never be tolerated; notes that under the ‘Sanctions’ Directive1 and the ‘Seasonal Workers’ Directive2 , employers can be punished for exploiting migrant labour; calls on the Commission, however, to work towards a more integration-oriented system serving to encompass all aspects of this problem; __________________ 1 Directive 2009/52/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009 providing for minimum standards on sanctions and measures against employers of illegally staying third-country nationals, OJ L 168, 30.6.2009, p. 24. 2 Directive 2014/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the conditions of entry and stay of third-country nationals for the purpose of employment as seasonal workers, OJ L 94, 28.3.2014, p. 375.

2015/12/16
Committee: EMPL

2015/2095(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Commission to adopt an ambitious approach when revising the ‘Blue Card’ Directive3 in order to make it clearer and more effective in attracting highly qualified labour, and stresses the necessity for a comprehensive assessment on migration comprising the evaluation of courses of action towards fighting the existing shortages in the European labour markets towards a win-win situation. __________________ 3 Council Directive 2009/50/EC of 25 May 2009 on the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purposes of highly qualified employment, OJ L 155, 18.6.2009, p. 17.

2015/12/16
Committee: EMPL

2015/2094(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Recital C

C. having regard to the particular relationship ~~of dependency~~ between a male employer and a female employee as a result of the latter's working in the former's private space,

2015/09/28
Committee: EMPL

2015/2094(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)

Ca. having regard to the important role played by domestic and care workers in the emancipation of women in the workplace in the EU,

2015/09/28
Committee: EMPL

2015/2094(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. ~~Supports the promotion of organisations working to~~Urges and calls on organisations to take responsibility for safeguarding the labour rights of ~~women~~existing workers;

2015/09/28
Committee: EMPL

2015/2088(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1

– having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Articles 165 and 166 thereof,

2015/09/21
Committee: EMPL

2015/2088(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Ivo VAJGL

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas delays in access to the labour market and long periods of unemployment adversely affect career prospects, pay, health and social mobility;

2015/09/21
Committee: EMPL

2015/2088(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas young people are an asset to the European economy and whereas they should commit themselves to acquiring the skills sought by the labour market, anticipating tomorrow’s needs;

2015/09/21
Committee: EMPL

2015/2088(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas young people fall into three main groups – students, workers and the unemployed – and whereas distinct political approaches should be adopted for each of these groups in order to ensure that members of the group always have access to the labour market, which means that young students must have the skills needed by the labour market, young workers must update their skills and training throughout their careers and, in the case of young unemployed people, the distinction must take into account the fact that they are active job-seekers or NEETs;

2015/09/21
Committee: EMPL

2015/2088(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Motion for a resolution
Recital A d (new)

Ad. whereas the financial crisis of 2008 created additional problems in the access of young people to the jobs market, as youth unemployment is more sensitive to the economic cycle than overall unemployment because young people are generally less experienced;

2015/09/21
Committee: EMPL

2015/2088(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Ivo VAJGL

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas disadvantaged people ~~may be~~are often excluded from the possibility of developing their talents and skills;

2015/09/21
Committee: EMPL

2015/2088(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Notes that skills development is one of the key elements of integrated employment and social policies and that it can make it possible to generate long-term growth, promote European competitiveness, combat unemployment and build a more inclusive European society;

2015/09/21
Committee: EMPL

2015/2088(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Stresses that providers of education and training and businesses should work together to devise qualifications which faithfully reflect the actual skills that holders of those qualifications have acquired throughout their lives;

2015/09/21
Committee: EMPL

2015/2088(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses the need to build up partnerships between local authorities, education and employment services and the business community to support the creation, implementation and monitoring of employment strategies and action plans; calls for closer co-operation between schooling and vocational education, public administration, business and civil society, especially youth organisations;

2015/09/21
Committee: EMPL

2015/2088(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses the importance of administrative capacity; calls therefore for the provision of appropriate training for local and regional authorities in order to use European funds more effectively and strategically; calls furthermore on governments to have the courage to be more politically ambitious, anticipating the needs of young people, businesses and civil society as well as of academic and vocational training establishments, implementing operational employment programmes more quickly;

2015/09/21
Committee: EMPL

2015/2088(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Recalls that the promotion of entrepreneurship is an important factor in promoting an active approach towards one’s own carrier; believes that it is the responsibility of public bodies, businesses and the media to promote entrepreneurship; reiterates the need to develop mobility within businesses;

2015/09/21
Committee: EMPL

2015/2088(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Stresses that training in the workplace and high-quality apprenticeships, backed by partnerships between schools, training establishments and businesses, are ways of improving youth access to the labour market and a better use of these opportunities could enlarge the pool of potential candidates for vacancies and also improve their preparedness for work;

2015/09/21
Committee: EMPL

2015/2088(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Recalls that good quality educational and training guidance at all stages of education is necessary and can lower the risk of early school-leaving as well as help to overcome difficulties in accessing the labour market; stresses that language learning and digital literacy are fundamental;

2015/09/21
Committee: EMPL

2015/2088(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls for the exchange of good practices in vocational education and the development of skills and, if necessary, for the revision of training programmes to be undertaken, anticipating the needs of the market, thus enabling access to the labour market to be enhanced for young people;

2015/09/21
Committee: EMPL

2015/2088(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Urges that a system of training and studies be established which adopts innovative but accessible approaches, and which focuses on developing basic skills as well as intellectual and technical capacities;

2015/09/21
Committee: EMPL

2015/2088(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Welcomes the Quality Framework for Traineeships and the European Alliance for Apprenticeships; calls for additional measures to be taken to provide compulsory social protection;

2015/09/21
Committee: EMPL

2015/2088(INI)

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Stresses the need to provide high- quality careers guidance services based on reliable information about careers and job prospects, to help young people to make the best career choices;

2015/09/21
Committee: EMPL

2015/2088(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Recalls that the dual model of education as well as the acquisition of practical, social and communication skills is of high importance; emphasises that these accomplishments will increase young people’s confidence in the system, make it easier for them to enter the labour market and improve their training and their predisposition to work;

2015/09/21
Committee: EMPL

2015/2088(INI)

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Calls for the development of a single European framework for apprenticeship in order to train young people who have chosen technical training in readiness for European mobility;

2015/09/21
Committee: EMPL

2015/2088(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Recalls that traineeships and apprenticeships should lead to employment and condemns the abuse of such arrangements; calls for Member States to withdraw the incentives which they give to businesses if the latter use traineeships and apprenticeship contracts merely to obtain cheap labour;

2015/09/21
Committee: EMPL

2015/2088(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN, Ivo VAJGL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Stresses that skills development should also be considered as a mechanism leading to equal opportunities for people from disadvantaged groups, in particular for children and young people from families affected by poverty, the long-term unemployed, including second-generation unemployed, immigrants and people with disabilities; stresses that prevention as well as support and counselling at an early stage are of the outmost importance, because although enabling people who are at a disadvantage to develop skills and to enter the labour market requires time and resources it is also socially and economically profitable; stresses that, in order for the most disadvantaged to be included, appropriate training must be provided for employers, human resources teams and teachers, in order to support this fringe group in society in the best possible way so as to render its integration as effective as possible;

2015/09/21
Committee: EMPL

2015/2052(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)

A. whereas the principle of EU solidarity which is partly expressed through the mechanism of the share out of EU funding should remain a central tenet of EU policy;

2015/06/02
Committee: EMPL

2015/2052(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas cohesion policy is first and foremost a Treaty-based policy, aimed at strengthening economic, social and territorial cohesion in the Union, and in particular at reducing structural disparities between the ~~levels of development of the various regions;~~ regions of the Union and achieving balanced development within its territory and real gender equality;

2015/05/22
Committee: REGI

2015/2052(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the Commission's criteria, highlighting the fact that multiannual programmes and the long-term nature of the challenges facing Member States require certainty and permanence, and that frequent reprogramming should therefore be avoided and stability preferred in order to reinforce the predictability and credibility of ESI fund programmes; trust that the European Commission and the Council will be very cautious when applying the reprogramming or the suspension of funds for the programmes as foreseen by the regulation of the Common Provisions;

2015/06/02
Committee: EMPL

2015/2052(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Highlights the fact that investment supported by ESI (European Structural and Investment Funds) should take place in a sound macroeconomic framework to maximised the impact on growth, development, cohesion and jobs creation in Europe, particularly in very depressed areas;

2015/06/02
Committee: EMPL

2015/2052(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Highlights~~Points out the fact that reprogramming or suspension as regulated in Article 23 of the Common Provisions Regulation (CPR) could ~~undermine social and economic convergence between regions and jeopardise goals pursued by ESI funds~~have serious consequences for the respective programmes and regions severely hit by the crisis, as well as for the achievements of cohesion goal as a whole, especially in countries with deep macroeconomic and social imbalances; asks the Commission to use the mechanism only when Member States have persistently failed to take effective action to address its requests to reprogramme funding and giving due consideration to the unemployment rate or the impact on the economies of the Member States concerned; when reprograming funds the Commission and Member States should take in to account the potential of job creation of the new programmes and its contribution to achieve Country Specific Recommendations.

2015/06/02
Committee: EMPL

2015/2052(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Considers it counterproductive that EU funds supporting education, training and employment creation might be suspended if such funds are achieving their objectives;

2015/06/02
Committee: EMPL

2015/2052(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas economic and financial instability and unpredictability may ~~result in~~bring in their wake decreasing levels of public and private investment;

2015/05/22
Committee: REGI

2015/2052(INI)

Marian HARKIN, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Given the long term and result oriented nature of the ESI funds and the annual cycle of the European Semester, believes that the shorter term focus of the CSRs should not jeopardise the long term goals of ESI funds;

2015/06/02
Committee: EMPL

2015/2052(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Commission to ~~avoid~~mitigate the effects of 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. The European Commission should assess the impact on unemployment and try to compensate undesirable effects on weaker population; if reprogramming were to be frequently needed, the European Commission could even design some systems of compensation for depressed an deprived areas;

2015/06/02
Committee: EMPL

2015/2052(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Marian HARKIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Asks the Commission ~~to avoid arbitrariness in applying Article 23 of the CPR,~~ to devise a transparent and democratic decision- making process, in line with Article 23(15) of the CPR, and to allow Parliament, on the basis of a formalised process, to be informed at all stages of the adoption of reprogramming requests or of any proposals and decisions on suspension of commitments or payments.

2015/06/02
Committee: EMPL

2015/2052(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Considers that macroeconomic conditionality must only be used to contribute to a more focused and result- driven implementation of the ESI Funds and facilitate the rationalisation of regional policy in such a way as not to prevent the achievement of national macroeconomic objectives;

2015/05/22
Committee: REGI

2015/2052(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Considers that the partnership agreements and programmes adopted in the current programming period have taken account of the relevant CSRs and the relevant Council recommendations, ~~thus making any~~with the result that reprogramming ~~unnecessary~~ in the medium term will be the exception;

2015/05/22
Committee: REGI

2015/2052(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Recalls that the interpretation and application of Article 23 CPR must ~~comply with~~take account of the horizontal principles provided for in the CPR, in particular with the principles of partnership and multilevel governance, and with the Regulation and the Common Strategic Framework as a whole;

2015/05/22
Committee: REGI

2015/2052(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

~~14. Does not accept that the inability to properly address macroeconomic issues at national level may penalise subnational authorities or call in question the territorial approach of cohesion policy;~~deleted

2015/05/22
Committee: REGI

2015/2052(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Recalls that it is for Member States and regions to select the thematic objectives in function of their needs, and notes that the application of Article 23 CPR may restrict the flexibility of Member States in setting their priorities; recalls in this regard the principle of subsidiarity provided for in Article 4(3) CPR;deleted

2015/05/22
Committee: REGI

2015/2052(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Considers it essential to ensure transparency and accountability by giving Parliament democratic oversight of the system of governance in the context of Article 23 CPR, which introduces ~~important~~a number of necessary limitations in the bottom-up approach which is ~~an important feature~~essential for the overall coordination of cohesion policy;

2015/05/22
Committee: REGI

2015/2052(INI)

Iskra MIHAYLOVA, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivan JAKOVČIĆ, Matthijs van MILTENBURG

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Points out that the decision on the suspension of payments should be taken as a last resort, because suspending payments could have serious consequences for the respective programmes and regions severely hit by crisis, as well as for the achievement of cohesion policy goals as a whole;

2015/05/22
Committee: REGI

2015/2042(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas microfinance can contribute to meeting the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy; and whereas microfinance can lift people out of poverty, give them dignity, and improve social inclusion;

2015/09/16
Committee: EMPL

2015/2042(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Observe that most entrepreneurs have university studies and, therefore, other qualified workers without such background may not have an incentive to become entrepreneurs. Calls on the Commission to study measures to increase entrepreneurship among this target group.

2015/09/16
Committee: EMPL

2015/2042(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Encourages the Commission to link Microfinance facilities with the basic entrepreneurship training so that business' economic viability and the aim of the lending are ensured;

2015/09/16
Committee: EMPL

2015/2013(BUD)

Ivan JAKOVČIĆ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Takes note of the unilateral statement by Croatia, Greece, Italy, Romania and Spain on the amendment of the Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1311/2013 of 2 December 2013 laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2014-20201a; _________________ 1a OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 884.

2015/03/06
Committee: REGI

2015/2013(BUD)

Ivan JAKOVČIĆ, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Considers that the Commission proposal to transfer the unused allocation of Cohesion and Structural Funds from 2014 to only 2015 instead of spreading it over the whole period could lead to decommitment for several Member States, in which the ESIF funds represent the main source of public investment; asks, therefore, the Commission to carefully follow the commitment and payments allocation for 2015 until 2018 for each Member State and take any legislative and budgetary initiative to address the risk of decommitment which leads to the risk of not achieving the Cohesion policy objectives.

2015/03/06
Committee: REGI

2015/2006(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas ~~young people benefit immensely from practical entrepreneurial experience, which contributes to new business creation and~~some Member States have a youth unemployment rate of more than 50%; whereas entrepreneurship should be regarded as a cross-cutting competence and an additional option for creating new businesses and, above all, more jobs, in particular for young people, and whereas it is essential to increase opportunities for practical training in businesses, in particular by offering more incentives for partnerships between businesses and universities, as this contributes to employability and boosts innovation in the wider organisations in which they are employed;

2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL

2015/2006(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Recital B

B. whereas social businesses contribute to ~~innovative sustainable growth and~~greater social cohesion with ~~society and~~ local communities, and create employment opportunities for ~~young people, including~~the most disadvantaged ~~young people~~groups and those furthest from the labour market, focusing on young people in particular;

2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL

2015/2006(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Member States to use existing EU-level funding resources more effectively to support initiatives pursuing ~~links with businesses and offering entrepreneurship education to~~more effective and better targeted links between businesses and the education sector and foster an entrepreneurial spirit among young people, in particular those with low- income ~~young people~~s, school dropouts, young people in danger of long-term unemployment and young people with disabilities; calls on the Commission to look into how such funding is actually used; points out that a young, experienced and appropriately skilled workforce is of essential importance to EU competitiveness and will help to speed up the economic recovery process and create jobs in all the Member States;

2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL

2015/2006(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States to be proactive in simplifying the regulatory frameworks of businesses, in particular SMEs and social businesses, and to promote ~~them~~ and monitor the quality of the employment practices of such businesses; calls on the Commission to determine the extent to which such simplification and tax- and credit-related and other incentives result in more jobs and more wealth creation in the EU economy;

2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL

2015/2006(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Member States to offer ~~micro-~~scholarships ~~and micro-loans schemes~~ to innovative students in secondary and tertiary education respectively in order to start their own ventures or projects; to promote the use of crowdfunding, developing partnerships between the local economy, businesses and universities; to enhance the role of businesses in integrating young people within the labour market, consolidating the ESP (entrepreneurial skills pass) at the various stages of school and university and especially in partnership with SMEs;

2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL

2015/2006(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Member States to improve the entrepreneurial culture within tertiary education, bearing in mind that not all young people currently possess a business profile, by establishing the conditions to support the creation of new companies based on academic research (spin-offs)~~, reducing the bureaucratic burden involved~~ and giving young people the necessary tools to forge deeper links with the busin es~~tablish~~s world, bringing such ~~companies and promoting the benefits of commercialising research~~ools and universities more closely into line with business needs;

2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL

2015/2006(INI)

Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Acknowledges the role of lifelong learning and international mobility as a key measure in Europe’s response to globalisation and the shift to knowledge- based economies, and specifically the importance of ‘a sense of initiative and entrepreneurship’, which is among the eight ‘Key Competences for Lifelong Learning ‒ A European Reference Framework’ which are needed by all individuals for personal fulfilment and development, active European citizenship and participation, social inclusion and employment;

2015/05/27
Committee: CULT

2015/2006(INI)

Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Calls on Members States to promote entrepreneurial skills for young people through legislative actions towards quality traineeships, focusing on quality learning and adequate working conditions as tools to foster employability, as put forward by the Council Recommendation on a Quality Framework for Traineeships;

2015/05/27
Committee: CULT

2015/2006(INI)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission to monitor closely the concrete measures implemented by Member States to support entrepreneurship among young people and to devote special attention to the promotion and publication of information about results and best practice; welcomes the creation of the 'Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs' programme leading to greater harmonization between Member States; asks the Commission to ensure that companies are complying with rules applicable to this programme and not simply using it as a source of cheap labour;

2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL

2015/2006(INI)

Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Ilhan KYUCHYUK, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States to promote the development of training for launching and managing start-ups, including expert mentorship, incubators and accelerators and all entrepreneurship- friendly environments which will facilitate young people’s start-ups and enable quick recovery from initial failures;

2015/05/27
Committee: CULT

2015/0051(NLE)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Recital 6

(6) The financial and economic crisis revealed and emphasised important weaknesses in the economy of the Union and its Member States. It has also underscored the close interdependence of the Member States' economies and labour markets. Moving the Union to a state of strong, sustainable and inclusive growth and job creation, which involves putting a stop to the large pockets of unemployment that have arisen in certain parts of its territory, is the key challenge faced today. This requires coordinated and ambitious policy action both on Union and national level, in line with the provisions of the Treaty and the Union economic governance. Combining supply and demand side measures, these actions should encompass a boost to investment, a renewed commitment to structural reforms and exercising fiscal responsibility.

2015/05/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/0051(NLE)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Annex 1 – section 1 – paragraph 3

Member States should, together with the social partners, encourage wage-setting mechanisms allowing for a responsiveness of wages to productivity developments. In this respect, differences in skills and local labour market conditions as well as divergences in economic performance across ~~region~~non-administrative economic areas, sectors and companies should be taken into account. Whe~~n setting minimum wag~~re minimum wages can be set in accordance with national legislation and practices, Member States and social partners should consider their impact on ~~in-work poverty,~~ job creation and competitiveness.

2015/05/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/0051(NLE)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Annex 1 – section 2 – paragraph 3

Structural weaknesses in education and training systems should be addressed to ensure quality learning outcomes and prevent and tackle early school leaving, promoting all-embracing, high-quality education from the most basic level onwards. Member States should increase educational attainment and consider dual learning systems and upgrading professional training while at the same time increase opportunities for recognising skills acquired outside the formal education system.

2015/05/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/0051(NLE)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Annex 1 – section 2 – paragraph 4

Barriers to labour market participation should be reduced, especially for women, older workers, young people, the disabled and legal migrants. Gender equality including equal pay must be ensured in the labour market, promoting balance in administration and businesses, as well as access to affordable quality early childhood education and care and care for dependents.

2015/05/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/0051(NLE)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Annex 1 – section 2 – paragraph 5

Member States should make a full use of European Social Fund and other Union funds support in order to improve employment, social inclusion, education and public ~~administration~~services.

2015/05/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/0051(NLE)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Annex 1 – section 3 – paragraph 1

Member States should reduce labour market segmentation. Employment protection rules and institutions should provide a suitable environment for recruitment while offering adequate levels of protection to those in employment and those seeking employment or employed on temporary contracts or independent work contracts. Quality employment should as far as possible be ensured in terms of socio-economic security, education and training opportunities, working conditions (including health and safety) and work-life balance.

2015/05/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/0051(NLE)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Annex 1 – section 4 – paragraph 1

Member States should modernise their social protection systems to provide effective, efficient, and adequate protection throughout all stages of an individual’s life, ensuring fairness and addressing inequalities. There is a need for simplified and better targeted social policies complemented by specific rules, affordable quality childcare and education and care for dependents, training and job assistance, housing support and accessible health care, access to basic services such as bank account and Internet and for action to prevent early school leaving and fight social exclusion.

2015/05/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/0051(NLE)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Annex 1 – section 4 – paragraph 3

The pension systems should be reformed in order to secure their sustainability and adequacy for ~~women and men~~individuals in a context of increasing longevity and demographic change, including by linking statutory retirement ages to life expectancy, ~~by increasing effective retirement ages, and by~~providing suitable incentives for the voluntary extension of working life and studying the desirability of developing complementary retirement savings.

2015/05/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/0051(NLE)

Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Annex 1 – section 4 – paragraph 4

Member States should improve the accessibility, efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare and long term care systems, while safeguarding fiscnancial sustainability.

2015/05/06
Committee: EMPL

2015/0026(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3

(3) In order to address the budgetary constraints faced by Member States at the initial stage of the programming period and, taking into account the urgent need to address youth unemployment and the specific features of the YEI, it is appropriate to lay down provisions in order to complement Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013, with a view to increase the level of the initial pre-financing paid to operational programmes supported by the YEI in 2015. To ensure that Member States have sufficient means to provide payments to beneficiaries responsible for the implementation of operations that target youth unemployment, an additional initial pre-financing amount from the specific allocation for the YEI should be paid in 2015 for operational programmes supported by the YEI, in order to complement the pre-financing amounts paid in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013. In order to enable a prompt implementation of the operational programmes supported by the YEI, the Commission should commit itself to pay the pre-financing amount to the Member States immediately after the entry into force of this Regulation.

2015/03/13
Committee: EMPL

Renate WEBER, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON, Ivo VAJGL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – subparagraph 1 a (new)

Member States shall ensure that mobile workers enjoy the same protection on their territory as their own nationals. To that end public policies shall address the hostile working environment, the high risk of exploitation and the poor working conditions that mobile workers might experience when they arrive in a new labour market. The same considerations shall be given to those workers' families and opportunities shall be provided for them to be integrated into the new labour market.

2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL

Activities of Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

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Reports (2)

Shadow reports (12)

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Shadow opinions (19)

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Oral questions (7)

Written explanations (16)