7 Amendments of Nora MEBAREK related to 2021/2046(INI)
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the particular vulnerability of workers in the transport sector, who have been disproportionately affected by the many consequences of the restrictions, such as job losses, increased workloads, deterioration in working conditions, exposure to health risks, and non-compliance with applicable social standards;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Considers that the main obstacle to the modal shift to carbon-free means of transport is the artificially low cost of certain modes of transport, especially road transport; calls, therefore, on the Commission to properly tackle the issue of environmental and social costs being externalised by these sectors; considers it essential in this respect to set a fair price for road transport that reflects the true costs of this mode of transport and corrects its unjustified competitive advantage;
Amendment 654 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Amendment 701 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Calls on the Commission to include strict social and environmental conditions in its next proposed revision of the State aid rules concerning transport;
Amendment 704 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 b (new)
Paragraph 27 b (new)
27b. Considers that opening up national markets to free competition in the various modes of transport has not achieved the aims of the reforms, particularly in terms of service quality; deplores the disastrous social outcome of such policies, which includes but is not limited to: development of non-standard employment in the aviation sector due to increased use of pseudo self-employed status, deterioration in the working conditions of airport ground handling staff, spread of social dumping in the road transport sector, and increase in the subcontracting of onboard services in many sectors, sometimes to third-country operators not subject to EU rules (river cruise sector); considers that a genuine sustainable mobility strategy requires a change of approach and the abandonment of free competition as the only goal of EU action in the area of transport;
Amendment 748 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Welcomes the European Commission’s analysis in its Communication on the Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy, which states that ‘providing higher social standards would contribute directly to reverse the current general lack of attractiveness of the sector’; calls on the Commission to implement the conclusions of this analysis through practical and ambitious legislative initiatives;
Amendment 778 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31a. Notes the Commission’s commitment in its communication on the sustainable and smart mobility strategy to consider measures to strengthen the legislative framework on working conditions, but deplores the fact that this commitment is not followed up in the action plan annexed to the communication;