6 Amendments of Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ related to 2009/2222(INI)
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that SSGI, their providers and their users have a number of special characteristics in addition to the common characteristics of SGI. SSGI encompass, in addition to health services, both statutory and complementary universally available services, provided directly to the person, that play a preventative and social cohesion and inclusion role and make tangible fundamental social rights;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that access to SSGI must be universal and independent of wealth or income, and are not only f since the character and the aim of SSGI is to protect everyone against elementary risks and not only the most disadvantaged or vulnerable users;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Believes that the delivery of quality SSGI requires Member State governments to ensure a financial framework for SSGI which guarantees continuity of services and stable financing, as well as decent incomes and working conditions and training for those deliveremployed ing the servicesctor;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls for reform of the criteria for classifying economic and non-economic SGI including SSGI in the framework of current EU legislation;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Commission formally to recognise other modalities for the selection of providers, such as ‘in-house’ and ‘service concession’ methods, and, to introduce the notion into the positive EU law thereby explicitly to according equal value to all options for the contracting and financing of SGI including SSGI; calls for the expansion of the ‘in- house’ method to include service providers who meet specific general interest criteria;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Supports the normative anchoring of a practical ‘in-house’ tendering option for SGI including SSGI, based on the model of the revised Regulation 1370/2007 on public passenger transport services by rail and road, which would provide that any competent local authority may decide to provide services itself or to award public service contracts to a legally distinct entity over which the competent local authority exercises control similar to that exercised over its own department;