Activities of Marie PANAYOTOPOULOS-CASSIOTOU related to 2007/2238(INI)
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Amendments (6)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that, from the macroeconomic point of view, hedge funds and private equity (HFs & PE) represent welcome additional investors at a time when economic structures are experiencing ever more substantial change at an ever- increasing pace, but that t. This type of alternative investment is unregulated; stresses, in addition, that lack of scrutiny and excessive profit-seeking are solely at the expense of employees and/or other third partiesshould be regulated by jointly agreed procedures and subject to scrutiny so as to prevent any form of abuse;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to present a proposal as to how the legal status of HFs & PE as employers can be determinedexamine whether hedge funds and private equity funds are assuming the role of employers and whether the legal provisions governing their operation are in accordance with Community legislation;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to present a proposal as to how Council Directive 2001/23/EC of 12 March 2001 on the safeguarding of employees' rights in the event of the transfer of undertakings should be supplemented so as to safeguard the rights of the employees concerned inprovide also for the case of HF & PE takeovers; thereof;·
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
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5. Calls on the Member States to use best practice to ensure that employees are informed about the way in which their pensions are invested and the associated risks, and that they can have a say thereinall the implications for them of investments in the undertakings in which they are employed;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
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6. Expects the fund industry to move further towards binding measurjointly excepted rules on corporate governance which will also be made public; considers that funds which act as entrepreneurs cannot distance themselves frommust cultivatinge human resources, ensuring worker participation and the pursuit of environmental and social objectives;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to monitor and analyse the effects of the operations of HF & PE companies, and to propose a directiveframework provisions on minimum transparency rules on the way in which investments are financed, the objective, the funding of investment projects, the disclosure of ownership structures and the registration of hedge funds;