4 Amendments of Jürgen KLUTE related to 2011/0455(COD)
Amendment 10 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) The potential advantages for officials and other servants of the European Union of the application of the method should be balanced by the continuation of the system of special levy, to be renamed as 'solidarity levy'. This levy should therefore be collected and assigned in accordance with real solidarity principles. While the rate of the special levy in force during the period from 2004 to 2012 increased gradually over time and averaged at 4.23 %, it seems appropriate in the present circumstances to increase the solidarity levy at the uniform rate of 6%to an overall equivalent rate of 6%, to be applied progressively according to the position of the official concerned in the salary scale, so as to take account of a difficult social and economic context and its ramifications for public finances throughout the European Unionthroughout the European Union. The amounts levied should be applied to increase the appropriations allocated to Progress 1. Such a solidarity levy should apply to all officials and other servants of the European Union for the same period as the 'method' itself. ------------------------------- 1 See Decision No. 1672/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 2006 establishing a Community Programme for Employment and Social Solidarity – Progress (OJ L 315, 15.11.2006, p. 1).
Amendment 15 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) Working hours applied in the institutions should be aligned to those in force in certain of the Member States of the European Union to compensate for the reduction of staff in the institutions. The introduction of a minimum number of weekly working hours will ensure that the staff employed by the institutions is able to carry out the work- load resulting from the European Union's policy objectives while, at the same time, harmonising working conditions in the institutions, in the interest of solidarity throughout the European Union's civil service.
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 21 – point d
Article 1 – point 21 – point d
Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Communities
Article 55 – paragraph 4
Article 55 – paragraph 4
4. The appointing authority of each institution mayshall introduce flexible working- time arrangements. Officials to whom the provisions of the second paragraph of Article 44 apply shall manage their working-time without resorting to such arrangements.
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 32 – point a
Article 1 – point 32 – point a
Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Communities
Article 66a
Article 66a
'1. By way of derogation from Article 3(1) of Council Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 260/68 and in order to take account of the application of the method for updating the remuneration and pensions of officials and the difficult social and economic context throughout the Union, a temporary measure regarding remuneration paid by the Union to staff in active employment, to be known as the ‘solidarity levy’, shall be applied from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2022. 2. The rate of this solidarity levy, which shall apply to the base defined in paragraph 3, shall be 6 %.';applied in a progressive manner according to the position of the official concerned in the salary scale, with an aggregate total effect equivalent to 6 %. 2a. The amounts levied shall be applied to increase the appropriations allocated to Progress 1.' -------------------------------------------- 1 See Decision No. 1672/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 2006 establishing a Community Programme for Employment and Social Solidarity – Progress (OJ L 315, 15.11.2006, p. 1).