8 Amendments of Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ related to 2008/0192(COD)
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The European Parliament has consistently called on the Commission to review the Directive 86/613/EEC, in particular to improve the situation of assisting spouses and the assisting member of unmarried couples in agriculture.
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) The European Parliament proposed, in its resolution of 21 February 1997 on the situation of the assisting spouses of the self-employed, the mandatory registration of assisting spouses and the assisting member of unmarried couples so that they cease to be invisible workers, as well as an obligation on Member States to make it possible for assisting spouses to be members of sickness and invalidity insurance schemes and pension schemes for self-employed workers.
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) In view of their contribution to the family business, assisting spouses and the assisting member of unmarried couples should be entitled, at their request, to benefit from at least an equal level of protection as self- employed workers, under the same conditions applicable to self- employed workers, notably on contributions. Member States should be required to take the necessary measures to make that choice possible. In any case, the level of protection of self-employed workers and assisting spouse or to include assisting spouses and the assisting member of unmarried couples in the compulsory social security scheme, under the same conditions applicable to self- employed workers. In any case, the level of protection of self-employed workers, assisting spouses and the assisting member of unmarried couples can be proportional to the rate of participation in the activities of the family business.
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) Protection of self-employed workers, assisting spouses and the assisting member of unmarried couples from discrimination based on sex should be strengthened by the existence of a body or bodies in each Member State with competence to analyse the problems involved, to study possible solutions and to provide practical assistance to the victims. The body or bodies may be the same as those with responsibility at national level for the defence of human rights or the safeguarding of individuals' rights, or the implementation of the principle of equal treatment. In exercising their powers and fulfilling their responsibilities under this Directive, these bodies should operate in a manner consistent with the United Nations Paris Principles relating to the status and functioning of national institutions for the protection and promotion of human rights.
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6
Article 6
Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that assisting spouses can, at their request,d the assisting member of unmarried couples benefit from at least an equal level of protection as self- employed workers under the same conditions applicable to self-employed workers. These measures shall ensure that assisting spouses and the assisting member of unmarried couples become members in their own right of the social insurance schemes in place for self- employed workers and covering sickness, invalidity and old age, provided they contribute to those schemes on the same basis as self-employed workers and even if their contributions have to be calculated on a flat-rate basis. The insurance contributions of assisting spouses and the assisting member of unmarried couples shall be tax-deductible as operating expenditure, on terms similar to those applying to the remuneration actually paid to the spouse and to the life partner, subject to the double condition that the services have been correctly provided and that the remuneration is that normally practised for such services.
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 — paragraph 1
Article 7 — paragraph 1
1. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that female self- employed workers and, assisting spouses can, at their request, bd the assisting member of unmarried couples are entitled to the same period of maternity leave as provided for in Directive 92/85/EEC.
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 — paragraph 4
Article 7 — paragraph 4
4. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that female self- employed workers, assisting spouses and the assisting spousmember of unmarried couples have access as far as possible to services supplying temporary replacements or to any existing national social services, as an alternative to the allowance referred to in paragraph 2.
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 — paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 7 — paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 7a Recognition of the work of assisting spouses and the assisting member of unmarried couples Member States shall undertake to examine under what conditions recognition of the work of assisting spouses and the assisting member of unmarried couples may be encouraged and, in the light of such examination, consider any appropriate steps for encouraging such recognition.