4 Amendments of Bendt BENDTSEN related to 2010/2072(INI)
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to evaluate the contributions granted with reference to, among other things: the beneficiaries' re- integration into employment; the difference between the number of potential beneficiaries and the number of workers that have received support; the disparities between Member States in terms of the funding provided per worker and the reasons for those disparities; compliance with the non-discriminationstablish relevant parameters whereby the contributions granted can be evaluated on the basis of their value to the individual criterion with reference to the contractual position of the workers made redundant; the procedures for consulting the social partners that were or were not used when preparing applications and the checks carried out on their implementation; and the procedures for verifying the implementation of contributions and any repayments Member States are requested to makeizen and society, as well as their European added value, in order to better justify the EGF; calls on the Commission to reflect the findings of that evaluation in its proposal for the revision of the regulation;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view that the time required to mobilise the EGF could be halved and that, to this end, applications for mobilisation of the EGF should be drawn up by Member States as soon as a collective redundancy has been announced, and not after it has taken place, so as to reduce the 10-week period Member States have in which to forward their applications once the intervention criteria have been fulfilled; considers that Member States should forward their applications in their own language and one of the European institutions' working languages so that the Commission department responsible for scrutinising applications may do so without delay, and that the Commission should assign additional staff to processing applications submitted by Member States andconsiders that Member States should forward their applications in their own language and one of the European institutions' working languages so that the Commission department responsible for scrutinising applications may do so without delay; considers that the time needed to mobilise the EGF should be reduced; considers that the Commission should be given a time limit of eight months to process each application and take a final decision on it, the time to be calculated from the date on which the Commission registers receipt of a given application; considers, finally , that the Commission should scrupulously observe the time limit of 15 days between the adoption of a mobilisation decision and the payment of the financial contribution to the Member State;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Wishes the EGF to beCommission to examine the possibility of the EGF being made a permanent fund in the next multiannual financial framework, with its own commitment and payment appropriations, instead of one which depends on the non- utilisation or under-utilisation of appropriations from previous financial years;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to improve its reporting on the use of the EGF by substantially fleshing out its annual reports and regularly forwarding to Parliament information on Member States' implementation of financial contributions; calls, furthermore, for the Commission's annual report on implementation of the EGF to become a six-monthly report, should the Commission be delegated decision-making powers under the next multiannual financial framework;