9 Amendments of Gabriele ZIMMER related to 2009/2222(INI)
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses the importance of public services – publicly owned and managed, with democratic involvement of users of such services – in areas essential to people's welfare, such as health, education, justice, water, housing, transport, childcare and care for the elderly;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses the importance of conducting, as a matter of urgency, an assessment of the social consequences and the impact on people’s lives of liberalisation measures in sectors that are essential to social progress (transport, energy, water, postal services, telecommunications, etc.) and urges the Commission to prevent any further liberalisation measures from being taken until this assessment has been submitted;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Highlights the need to review liberalisation policies in order to promote a policy of social progress ensuring universal access to high-quality public services, with special consideration for disadvantaged groups, such as single mothers, women, elderly people, children, migrants and those with any kind of disability;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Considers that steps must be taken to address the current legal uncertainty as regards SSGI, making it clear that public goods, public services, services of general interest and the not-for-profit sector are not subject to rules on competition, public aid, public contracts and the internal market, but form a sector geared solely towards the public interest and that is organised in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity within the exclusive competence of the Member States and their respective regional and local authorities, with a view to ensuring its proper functioning;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Points out that the economic and financial crisis and the austerity policies imposed by Member States should not encourage disinvestment in SSGIs, but that, on the contrary, given their importance and absolute necessity, such services need to be consolidated in order to meet people’s needs;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to respect the diversity of the methods of organising and managing SSGIs, of their resources and of the methods of funding these services; calls on the Member States to reverse ‘reforms’ which have institutionalised market-based models of welfare provision, with competition and tendering obligations, and to cease promoting public-private partnerships or externalising social services to the private sector as these are misleading strategies for ‘modernising’ social services; considers that taking care to promote the general interest and ensure the provision of efficient and high-quality services by both the public sector and the not-for-profit 'third’ sector or the social economy is the most appropriate strategy for ensuring high-quality, integrated and inclusive social services;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for EU legislation to enablerecognise the specific nature of European models for the organisation and functioning of the social economy and to provide a specific framework for mutual societies, associations, cooperatives and foundations to operate on a transnational basis;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls for reform of the criteria for classifying economic and non-economic SSGI in the framework of current EU legislation so as to remove them from the sphere of competition policy, which has the effect of jeopardising their intended aims;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Expresses regret that only certain SGI and SSGI are exempted from the scope of the Services Directive (2006/13/EC), calls for a pluralist and independent appraisal of the transposition of that directive to be performed as swiftly as possible, taking into account its partial exemptions and the impact in terms of practical access to SGI and SSGI;