11 Amendments of Marc TARABELLA related to 2012/2004(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
1. Recalls that social businesses are usually organisations which have different standards and regulations than classic enterprises, are created to meet social and/or public policy objectives, are mainly non-profits that generate many jobs and whose profits are mainly reinvested to sustain or develop social activities or to meet public policy objectives, and that their operation also aims to ensure the participation or even the codecision of their employees and/or users and/or partners; highlights that the activities of social businesses cannot usually be outsourced and play a strong role in the social, economic and territorial cohesion of the European Union and its Member States;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Acknowledges that social businesses have the potential to provide innovative responses to the current social and economic problems; encourages, therefore, the development of a supportive regulatory framework and the provision of financial support to enable them to grow and surviveto promote the structural diversity of social businesses, to meet the specific nature of their activities in particular by adopting specific EU statutes for social and charitable economy players, and forms of aid and ad hoc financial support to enable them to carry out their activities under suitable conditions with the aim of meeting social and public policy needs and to grow;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Highlights that the recognition of social businesses on an EU level should not be limited to including social objectives in certain commercial enterprises but should take into account the specific nature of each category of social businesses, particularly those in the social and charitable economy; to do this, emphasises the need to adopt and implement funding tools which allow these businesses to carry out their activities according to their own goals and objectives and to establish solidarity between them; also emphasises the fact that a better knowledge of social businesses and a qualitative, multi-party and independent assessment of their activities would promote their contribution to society as a whole and raise awareness of how social cohesion is a source of economic and social wealth, where it too often is considered to be merely a cost;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights the contribution of social businesses to understanding and meeting the needs of vulnerable consumers in particularat social businesses aim primarily to meet social and public policy needs but also the growing demands of citizens for ethical behaviour which is more respectful of human beings, the environment, nature, social standards and solidarity on both a local and an overall level and therefore social businesses aim to meet the needs of all citizens not only those who are in a vulnerable situation, even though special attention to the integration of these groups is often given;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to adopt measures to increase consumers’ knowledge of,aimed at the general public to increase awareness of the activities of social businesses and confidence in, social these businesses and to encourage them to actively support this type of business;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that social businesses help to build an ‘activeby the nature of their activities and their modus operandi help to build a more cohesive and democratic society’ which is supportive of sustainable and inclusive economic growth;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Is of the opinion that the reform of the EU’s public procurement rules provides a good opportunity to improve respect for social standards and increase theensure the equal participation of social businesses at least in public contracts; insists that the main goals of the reform – simplification and modernisation – should not be jeopardised by overly burdensome social obligations or condit and to reinforce the more systematic implementation of social and environmental criteria in awarding these public contracts and concessions;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the Commission’s proposal to add the new category of disadvantaged persons to reserved contracts; stresses that such a significant extension of the notion of reserved contracts should not come at but considers that social businesses usually have social diversity objectives involving equal access to their services and activities for all groups including, but not limited to, the cmost of competitivenesvulnerable groups; therefore emphasises the need to avoid equating social businesses to charities;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Welcomes the Commission’s proposal concerning Article 11 on revising the public procurement Directive but calls for the specific nature of social businesses, particularly those in the social and charitable economy, to be included, particularly when they are responsible for managing an SGEI in the context of public–public cooperation, in order to take into account the pooling of resources of social businesses as a response to social needs, to the continuity of public social services in the general interest in the EU, and to the requirement of citizenship and the performance of their tasks;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Asks the Commission to develop a long- term strategy to safeguard social goals and to enhance the participation of social businesses in public procurement, without hampering the competitive awarding of contracts or creating incentives to circumvent the rulesguarantee the respect, promotion and development of EU social goals in accordance with Article 3 of the TEU and Article 9 of the TFEU, and, in addition, to guarantee the equal participation of social businesses and the social and charitable economy in public procurement;