Activities of Marielle DE SARNEZ related to 2015/2284(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Activities, impact and added value of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund between 2007 and 2014 (A8-0227/2016 - Marian Harkin) FR
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the activities, impact and added value of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund between 2007 and 2014
Amendments (5)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to conduct thorough impact assessments of all trade agreements to anticipate more effectively their impact on the economy and jobs in the EU. Sectors identified as vulnerable, such as agriculture, should be closely monitored and should benefit from safeguard measures, transitional periods and even exclusion from negotiations. Social partners and Member States with sectors at high risk should be duly informed and assisted in the process of application;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to lower the threshold for EGF eligibility, which currently stands at 500 redundancies. This has the effect that in practice only large corporations -which are often globally profitable - are eligible. To make sure that employees of smaller companies in sectors that are directly hurt by the effects of globalisation are assisted, the threshold should be lowered to 100 redundancies. Calls on the Commission to support not only employees of companies affected by redundancy plans but all affected sectors, including subcontractors. Calls on the Commission to be more flexible and responsive in using the EGF. Regrets that the amounts earmarked under the fund must too often be advanced by the Member States;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to reorientate the EGF towards SMEs, which are key players in the dynamism of the European economy;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission and the Council to unlock the modernisation ofregulation to modernise Trade Defence Instruments (TDIs). Updated and strengthened TDIs should be used to ensure that the EGF is not unnecessarily used for redundancies brought on by social, environmental or price dumping by other countrieThe EU must equip itself with strong and dissuasive Trade Defence Instruments;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission to implement, at the same time, a strategy to support a common industrial and investment policy and to strengthen the EU’s Trade Defence Instruments;