19 Amendments of Konstantinos POUPAKIS related to 2010/2010(INI)
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes the need for cooperation between the Member States, the social partners and tertiary education providers with a view to setting up undergraduate and postgraduate courses and to creating subject areas geared towards the ecological transformation of economies;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for the development of a European job strategy for a sustainable economy, aiming at optimising job potential whilst paying special attention to decent work, employees’ health and safety, skills needs and a socially just transition; stresses that a sustainable economy combines social and ecological objectives;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and the social partners to ensure that everyone across the EU benefits from a sustainable jobs strategy; calls for attention to be focused on people furthest from the labour market, the most vulnerable and low-skilled workers, especially disabled people and low-skilled workers, as well as on protecting these people;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Member States, in cooperation with the social partners, to draw up integrated plans for evaluating ecological transformation operations at both local and national levels;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Underlines the need to reinforce the open method of cooperation and exchanges of best practice with regard to sustainable development, green jobs and lifelong learning, so as to ensure successful and effective management of the economy's transformation and, by extension, of the new training needs and adverse social consequences resulting from this kind of transition;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12c. Calls on the social partners to establish mechanisms for evaluating employees' participation in the sustainable development strategy, proposing and then adopting policies to reinforce effective participation with regard to sustainable mobility for workers and green growth;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the Member States and the social partners jointly to devise and implement targeted action plans for retraining workers in sectors which will be affected by the ecological transformation of local economies, to ensure that they have access to new green jobs;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls for an employment monitoring centre to be set up to carry out a detailed assessment of future jobs with a view to making basic vocational training and lifelong learning more relevant;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Notes the need for additional funding to carry out targeted studies in the most disadvantaged regions of the EU, so as to set strategic objectives and determine the type of measures required to establish favourable conditions for the development of sustainable local economies, with the specific objectives of creating new green jobs and integrated measures to attract new green companies and support those which already exist;·
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Stresses that targeted investment for the ecological transformation of the EU's disadvantaged regions is one of the most useful instruments for achieving the strategic objectives of regional convergence and territorial cohesion;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls on the Member States to incorporate the concept of a sustainable economy into basic training, education and lifelong learning;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Underlines the need to integrate the sustainable economy in the framework of corporate and social environmental liability, and the possibility of promoting a culture of sustainable development and a sustainable economy through training programmes in the context of corporate social responsibility;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Calls on the Commission to provide EU-level support for research into the careers of the future so as to prevent redundancies and retain jobs in the European Union;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25α. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and the social partners to include essential environmental issues in the social dialogue, at all levels of consultation, with emphasis on sectoral negotiations;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)
Paragraph 25 b (new)
25b. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and the social partners to contribute to the development of training programmes at all levels, with emphasis on consumers and workers, in order to promote a culture of sustainable development and environmental awareness;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 c (new)
Paragraph 25 c (new)
25c. Underlines the need for close and effective cooperation and complementarity between international organisations, and calls on the World Trade Organisation to take action concerning the social and environmental dimensions of investment and trade;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Calls on the EU, with the assistance of the social partners, to begin a systematic dialogue in its external relations, with a view to a similar approach to sustainable development in other parts of the world, so as to secure the same development conditions and ensure that industrial competitiveness is not at risk. Ensuring fair competition in green manufacturing sectors will have a beneficial effect in terms of improving protection and working conditions for green workers;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 b (new)
Paragraph 27 b (new)
27b. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and the social partners to step up their efforts to deal effectively with the adverse effects of restructuring, both in the local economy and in employment. Underlines the need for the dissemination of guidelines on managing change and its social consequences;