Activities of Martin KASTLER related to 2012/2258(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing
Amendments (9)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Regards cross-border health and care provision as providing a good opportunity for using existing resources more efficiently, creating uniform high standards for the benefit of the people concerned and in addition reducing the costs of ageing;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Welcomes the Commission’s approach, which is clearly geared to promoting the vitality and dignity of older people in Europe by means of innovations of relevance to them, reinforcing a ‘culture for active ageing’ in a generation-friendly Europe and guiding this process jointly with recognised partners in the world of research and in civil society;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need to create the appropriate conditions forto permit people to work longer and to be more productive, both, by improving labour-market flexibility through the introduction of lifetime accounts and, part-time possibilities and by making provision for modern forms of employment contract, including temporary oneflexible arrangements for retirement, for example by means of partial pensions or bonus years;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is convinced that comprehensive reforms are necessary in order to prevent and avoid serious shortages oncomings in access to our labour markets, which would result in a further economic slowdown and a threat to the level of prosperity in Europe;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Expects the Member States, in using the Structural Funds, to devote more attention to the living and working conditions of the older generation, to jointly create a generation-friendly Europe by 2020 and to expand their social infrastructure so that they can combat poverty among older people;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out the essential role of investing more in education and training, with priority for lifelong learning, in order to prepare an active and productive ageing workforceestablish a generation-friendly world of work and enable older workers, too, to hold their own in a changing technological environment;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses the responsibility of the European Union with regard to cross- border promotion of lifelong learning and the associated necessity to specifically support this by means of grants from a separate heading in the EU budget, ‘Older people in action’;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Maintains that further reforms of pension systems are necessary, as, where possible, is adherence to a structure comprising three pillars – State, occupational and private pension schemes – in order to make them sustainable; more coherence must be established between the effective retirement age, the official retirement age and life expectancy;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to submit proposals for combating discrimination against older people in access to the labour market, in the workplace and in the performance of work with a view to a consistently generation-friendly world of work;