6 Amendments of Konstantinos POUPAKIS related to 2011/0459(COD)
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex – chapter I – point 1.1 – paragraph 1
Annex – chapter I – point 1.1 – paragraph 1
Endorsement of the Europe 2020 strategy for ‘smart, sustainable and inclusive’ growth by the June 2010 European Council has shaped to a large extent the strategic agenda for the European Union and national policies in the years ahead. This agenda establishes a number of headline targets and flagship initiatives for which statistical indicators have to be delivered by the ESS in a number of areas (i.e. improving the conditions for innovation, research and development, promoting employment, promoting the quality of employment, meeting EU climate change and energy objectives, resource efficiency, improving education levels, including learning mobility, active and healthy ageing, and promoting social inclusion through the reduction of poverty).
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex – chapter I – point 1.1 – paragraph 3 – indent 1
Annex – chapter I – point 1.1 – paragraph 3 – indent 1
Updated headline target indicators for Europe 2020 (in the area of employment, research and development, innovation, energy/climate change, education, environment, social protection and social inclusion and combating poverty) available on the Eurostat website;
Amendment 56 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex – chapter I – point 2.1 – paragraph 1
Annex – chapter I – point 2.1 – paragraph 1
The economic crisis has reinforced the need to have a set of high-quality macroeconomic indicators to better understand and analyse economic fluctuations also in relation to social consequences and unrest and thereby facilitate the decision-making process. Increasingly globalised production makes it necessary to develop a consistent framework that facilitates the interpretation and integration of statistics from different domains.
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex – chapter I – point 3.2 – paragraph 1
Annex – chapter I – point 3.2 – paragraph 1
European citizens are at the heart of a large number of EU policies. Consequently, social statistics in the broad sense are in heavy demand to support the decision- making process, in particular by relating them to economic indicators, but also to help European citizens assess the impact of these policies on their lives.
Amendment 71 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex – chapter I – point 3.2 – paragraph 2
Annex – chapter I – point 3.2 – paragraph 2
Provide quality statistics on key areas of social policy where the citizen is the centre of interest, such as social cohesion, poverty, including the phenomenon of poor workers, demographic challenges (elderly people and migration in particular), the labour market, unemployment, education and training, including learning mobility of young people, culture, physical activity, quality of life, safety, health, disability, consumption, free movement and the single market, mobility of young people, technological innovation and new lifestyle choices.
Amendment 82 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex – chapter II – point 4 – paragraph 1
Annex – chapter II – point 4 – paragraph 1
Make the ESS the first data source on EU statistics for all users and, in particular, for public and private decision-makers, by providing a quality statistical information service based on the principles of free and easy access to European statistics.