6 Amendments of Pascal CANFIN related to 2010/2099(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Establish an enhanced analytical surveillance framework (including a scoreboard with specific trigger values for early warning) with appropriate methodological tools and transparency for an effective multilateral surveillance based on key economic indicators (real and nominal), which may affect competitiveness positions, including, but not limited to, growth rate, composition of the national GDP, employment rate, real exchange rate developments, labour cost developments, current account/balance of payments developments, credit growth, capital formation and inflows, productivity developments, asset markets (including private debt , including, but not limited to, developments in current account balance of payments, net foreign asset positions, evolution of the tax basis, effective real exchange rates, inflows, productivity (including resource productivity and total factor productivity), unit labour costs, quantitative and qualitative indicators related to levels of employment and social cohesion, environmental externalities indicators, as well as credit growth and asset prices developments (including financial assets and property markets) developments, investment in R&D as a % of GDP, reduction of greenhouse gas emission, rate of achievement of tertiary and secondary education and reduction of poverty (Recommendation 1, Indent 2);. Alert thresholds should be defined for indicators included in the scoreboard,
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Establish common rules for a more active use of the Broad Economic Policy Guidelines as a key tool for economic guidance, surveillance and Member State- specific recommendations in line with the EU 2020 strategy, focusing on growth, structural reforms, productivity and competitiveness, while taking into consideration the convergences and divergences between Members States, with the aim to strengthening the relativsilience of the ecompetitive advantages of Member States (Recommendation 1, Indent 4; deletion of last part)nomy to external shocks and the positive impact that Member States’ decisions may have on other Member States,
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Make the necessary changes to the Commission’s internal decision-making procedure in order to guarantee an efficient a rapid implementation of those preventive penalties and incentives (Recommendation 2, Indent 9; partly deleted),
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Establish a euro-area-specific framework for reinforced monitoring focusing on excessive macro-economic divergences, price competitiveness, real exchange rates, credit growth and current account developments of the Member States concerned,. investment in R&D as a percentage of GDP, reduction of greenhouse gas emission, rate of achievement of tertiary and secondary education and reduction of poverty (Recommendation 3, Indent 1). With this purpose to establish a differentiated scoreboard for euro-area Member States including specific alert thresholds in particular concerning the analysis of real effective exchange rates developments, as well as specific enforcement mechanisms (sanctions and incentives) aimed at addressing excessive macroeconomic imbalances,
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Continue efforts regarding EU tax harmonisation. Given that tax cooperation is a cornerstone of economic governance, establish a high-level tax policy group chaired by the Commission with a mandate to work for a strategic and pragmatic approach to tax policy issues in the Union, while paying particular attention to combating tax fraud, reinvigorate the code of conduct on business taxation while making more extensive use of state aid procedures against unfair tax competition, adopting the savings tax directive enlarged in scope and with automatic information exchange as the general rule, broaden and deepen environmental taxation, facilitate the adoption of the Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base while working towards minimum tax rates, and growth- enhancing tax reforms as well as introducing a financial transaction tax at Union level. (Recommendation 5, new indent).