Activities of Sandra PEREIRA related to 2020/0103(COD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing a Technical Support Instrument
Amendments (5)
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 changexposed the economic outlook for the years to come in the EU and in the world. In the Union, new priorities have emerged, linked with the crisis, specifically focussing on recovery and resilience. They require an urgent and coordinated response from the Union in order to cope with the economic consequences for Member States as well to mitigate the social and economic fallouts. The current COVID-19 pandemic as well as the previous economic and financial crisis have shownshortcomings of the policies promoted by the EU, which have centralised powers in its institutions and diminished the Member States’ sovereign capacity; which have deregulated industrial relations, relaxed rules on hours and reduced workers’ incomes; and have contributed to thate developing sound and resilient economies and financial systems built on strong economic and social structures helps Member States to respond more efficiently to shocks and recover more swiftly from them. Growth enhancing reforms and investments to address structural weaknesses of the economies and strengthen their resilience will therefore be essential to set the economies and societies back on a sustainable recovery path and overcome the economic, social and territorial divergences in the Unionstruction and privatisation of public services. The COVID-19 pandemic is proving that the Member States with more regulated labour conditions and public services that provide universal social responses and help to tackle structural exclusion have a better capacity for resilience and better recovery potential.
Amendment 48 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) Given its specific recommendations and structural reforms, the European Semester is a tool for EU interference, designed to enforce and circumscribe the Member States’ fiscal and economic policies, and very often it resorts to blackmail and sanctions as a means to apply measures intended to liberalise public services, deregulate labour and enforce austerity policies. Its implementation leads to sluggish economic development, unemployment, poverty and socio-economic and territorial disparities.
Amendment 56 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)
Recital 7 a (new)
(7a) The Technical Support Instrument may help to build the capacity of national authorities, public and private organisations and the populations that benefit from the projects it supports, paving the way for more efficient and effective use of recovery and resilience funds, with better implementation and a real impact on the delivery of policies that are in line with Member States’ needs and their development strategies, promoting decent work that is fairly paid and based on collective bargaining; that promote public investment in infrastructure and productive sectors, supporting green and innovative development that safeguards social and territorial cohesion; that boost and invest in public services, providing high-quality and universal social responses.
Amendment 85 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
The general objective of the instrument shall be to promote the Union’s economic, social and territorial cohesion in the European Union by supporting Member States’ efforts to implement reforms necessaryprojects that promote their development, investment in productive and strategic sectors, and the structuring of universal, free and high-quality public services, with a view to achieveing economic and social recovery, resilience and upward economic and social convergence, and to support Member States’ efforts to strengthen their administrative capacity to implement Union law in relation to challenges faced by institutions, governance, public administration, and economic and social sectors.
Amendment 94 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
To achieve the general objective set out in Article 3, the instrument shall have the specific objectives of assisting national authorities in improving their capacity to design, develop and implement reformprojects, including through exchange of good practices, appropriate processes and methodologies and a more effective and efficient human resources management. Those specific objectives shall be pursued in close cooperation with the Member States concerned.