3 Amendments of Britta THOMSEN related to 2012/2321(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that, in the EU, there are about 160 000 cooperative enterprises owned by 123 million members and providing jobs for 5.4 million people – including around 50 000 cooperative enterprises in industry and services providing jobs for 1.4 million persons – and that cooperatives contribute around 5% on average to Member State GDP; notes that, over the last few years, several hundred industrial and service cooperative enterprises have been established as the result of the restructuring of businesses in crisis or without successors, thereby saving and re- developing local economic activities and jobs; notes that industrial and service cooperative groups have had a key impact on regional development in some of the most industrialised regions of the EU; notes that ‘some industrial and servicecial cooperatives’ specialised in labour integration provide jobs to over 30 000 disabled and disadvantaged persons in the industrial and service sectors; notes that cooperatives therefore play a very important role in the EU in economic, social and employment terms;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Expresses the view that this greater resilience is in large part due to the cooperative model of governance, which is based on joint ownership and democratic control by their member-stakeholders, and that it is also due to their characteristic method of capital accumulationprinciples of re-investing surpluses in the development of the undertakings, thus considerably reducing the indebtedness of cooperatives; considers that this modelese principles helps to ensure that cooperatives take a long-term approach and anchors them in the local economy, giving them a stake incontributing to local sustainable development and ensuring that they do not delocalise, even when they internationalise;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls also on the Commission to ensure that measures under the Social Business Initiative are coordinated and that administrative barriers between the two initiatives are reduced;