21 Amendments of Vito BONSIGNORE
Amendment 16 #
2011/2024(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the recognition process under the general system and the automatic system based on professional experience is overly cumbersome and time-consuming for both competent authorities and those who pursue certain professionals;
Amendment 20 #
2011/2024(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on Member States, therefore, preferably to use modern communication technologies, including databases and online registration procedures, in order to ensure that the deadlines set under the general recognition system are met and that significant improvements are made in terms of access to information and transparency of decision-making for professionals;
Amendment 39 #
2011/2024(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission, moreover, to evaluate the option of supplementing the provisions laid down in the second paragraph of Article 5(2) of the directive with the establishment for all professions of a benchmark proportionate to the number of times a service is provided (or number of days’ work) by local professionals in the host state;
Amendment 43 #
2011/2024(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that compensation measures, which allow competent authorities to impose an aptitude test or an adaptation period of up to three years and play an invaluable role in ensuring consumer and patient safety, can be applied in a disproportionate manner; calls for enhanced transparency of decision-making for professionals and an evaluation of the Code of Conduct to assist competent authoritiesthe protocols concerning recognition procedures for professionals once the specific nature of the individual professions has been evaluated;
Amendment 67 #
2011/2024(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses that Member States should regulate professions in a more proportionate manner, with a view to reducing the total number of regulated professions in the EU, setting aside the healthcare sector and the tourism professions, owing to their specific, distinctive and atypical features;
Amendment 71 #
2011/2024(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 bis (new)
Paragraph 8 bis (new)
8a. Underlines, however, the importance of ensuring that the intellectual professions continue to be regulated, also in order to increase consumer protection;
Amendment 89 #
2011/2024(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Argues that the protection of consumer and patient safety is a vital objective in the context of the revision of the directive; draws attention to the special status of healthcare professionals and calls on the Commission to take into account also all other professions involving citizens and recipients of services;
Amendment 142 #
2011/2024(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Calls on the Commission, prior to the introduction of any card, to provide evidence, through a thorough impact assessment, of the possible added value for the recognition process, beyond that provided by an enhanced IMI, of a voluntary card for certain professionals and competent authorities; argues that the impact assessment must address the concerns raised in the consultation and by numerous other stakeholders, assess the merits of an ‘e-card’, provide a cost-benefit analysis, specify its potential features and explain exactly how data protection and completeness and consumer safety would be ensured, without prejudice to respect for the country of establishment principle;
Amendment 15 #
2009/2215(INI)
Draft opinion
Point 4
Point 4
4. Welcomes the selection of six main strategic projects: (the de-pollution of the sea, the solar energy plan, transport, education, SMEs and civil protection), and hopes that the associated major integrated projects will receive adequate support from European and international financial institutions,
Amendment 16 #
2009/2215(INI)
Draft opinion
Point 4 a (new)
Point 4 a (new)
4a. Acknowledges the administrative and operational contribution that the new secretariat will be able to make to the UfM’s work in pursuing Euro- Mediterranean priorities and objectives, on the basis of adequate, specified resources,
Amendment 21 #
2009/2215(INI)
Draft opinion
Point 5 a (new)
Point 5 a (new)
5a. Takes the view that enhancing port and land transport infrastructure may help to promote economic growth and trade between Euro-Mediterranean countries,
Amendment 25 #
2009/2215(INI)
Draft opinion
Point 6
Point 6
6. Hopes for an improvement in the economic and legal environment in the region, an essential guarantee for future direct foreign investment,
Amendment 31 #
2009/2215(INI)
Draft opinion
Point 7
Point 7
7. Calls on the Commission to assess the social and environmental effects of the liberalisation process and to enable this to be applied gradually, as necessarywhile protecting comparable production sectors on both shores of the Mediterranean, which are more likely to face competition as a result of greater liberalisation,
Amendment 35 #
2009/2215(INI)
Draft opinion
Point 8
Point 8
8. Underlines the need to establish a regional agricultural policy which observes the requirements of food sovereigntyprotects typical Mediterranean products by ensuring greater support for the production and distribution phases and setting common minimum standards for certifying the quality of agricultural produce,
Amendment 41 #
2009/2215(INI)
Draft opinion
Point 10
Point 10
10. Hopes that the association agreements will be reviewed in the light of these new requirements, and with a view to establishing a Euro-Mediterranean free trade area: trade liberalisation should happen gradually, extending to services as well as goods, and in the longer term to the movement of persons, with particular reference to job opportunities requiring specific, recognised skills,
Amendment 43 #
2009/2215(INI)
Draft opinion
Point 10 a (new)
Point 10 a (new)
10a. Urges the countries in the Euro- Mediterranean area to step up their cooperation activities with countries characterised by high levels of migration, and to promote the conclusion of agreements with those countries with a view to supporting their economic and employment growth,
Amendment 46 #
2009/2215(INI)
Draft opinion
Point 11
Point 11
11. Urges the Commission to keep up its demands for democracy from Libyafurther development of democracy from both Libya and all the member countries of the Union for the Mediterranean in its trade negotiations,
Amendment 50 #
2009/2215(INI)
Draft opinion
Point 12 a (new)
Point 12 a (new)
12a. Reiterates the importance of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly as a natural forum for political, economic and social dialogue between the democratically elected representatives of Euro-Mediterranean countries,
Amendment 209 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Reiterates its conviction that the UfM should have a strong parliamentary dimension, in order to improve its democratic legitimacy; believes that this objective can be achieved by reinforcing the role and the activity of EMPA with the aim of becoming a true consultative body for the different ministerial meetings of the UfM; notes, therefore, that the work of EMPA should be better aligned with that of the other institutions of the UfM;
Amendment 175 #
2008/2334(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. calls on the European Union and the Member States to launch important and effective plans for the realisation of transport infrastructure at national level, with the aim of improving national traffic flows, in particular in areas where there are bottlenecks, and to connect them in an effective manner using trans-European assets, possibly through the application of measures introduced by the proposal of Parliament and Council, which establishes the general norms for the granting of Community financial aid in the area of trans-European networks in transport and energy and which also modifies Council Regulation (EC) No 2236/95;
Amendment 289 #
2008/0098(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 7 – point c
Annex I – paragraph 7 – point c
(c) use of environmentally compatible raw and secondary materials in the construction works by means of the declaration of renewable and non-renewable energy and secondary material quantities used in the construction, by-products recovered during the production cycle and the quantities of greenhouse gas emissions and waste generated during the lifecycle of the product.