10 Amendments of Silvia COSTA related to 2010/0115(NLE)
Amendment 60 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) As part of comprehensive ‘exit strategies’ for the economic crisis and of comprehensive strategies for creating the conditions for growth, Member States should carry out ambitious reforms to ensure macroeconomic stability and the sustainability of public finance, improve competitiveness, reduce macroeconomic imbalances and enhance labour market performance. The withdrawal of the fiscal stimulus should be implemented and coordinated within the framework of the Stability and Growth Pact.
Amendment 71 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Within the Europe 2020 strategy, Member States should implement reforms aimed at ‘smart growth’, i.e. growth driven by knowledge and innovation. Reforms should aim at improving the quality of education, ensuring access for all, reducing the number of people who fail to complete their schooling or training, affirming the right of every individual to lifelong learning so as to enable skills to be recognised and certified, irrespective of how and where they have been acquired, promoting the widest possible dissemination of tertiary education, including in science and engineering, and strengthening research and business performance in order to promote innovation and knowledge transfer throughout the EUuropean Union. They should encourage entrepreneurship and help to turn creative ideas into innovative products, services and processes that can create growth, quality jobs, territorial, economic and social cohesion, and address more efficiently European and global societal challenges. Making the most of information and communication technologies is essential in this context.
Amendment 83 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) Member States should also, through their reform programmes, aim at ‘sustainable growth’. Sustainable growth means building a resource-efficient, sustainable and competitive economy, a fair distribution of the cost and benefits and exploiting Europe’s leadership in the race to develop new processes and technologies, including green technologies. Member States should implement the necessary reforms to reduce greenhouse gases emissions and use resources efficiently. They should also improve the business environment, stimulate creation of green jobssustainable, low-carbon jobs, including by ensuring the provision of training geared to new skill requirements, and modernise their industrial base.
Amendment 94 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) Member States’ reform programmes should also aim at ‘inclusive growth’. Inclusive growth means building a cohesive society in which people are empowered to anticipate and manage change, thus to actively participate in society and economy. Member States’ reforms should therefore ensure access and opportunities for all throughout the lifecycle, thus reducing poverty and social exclusion, through removing barriers to labour market participation especially for women, older workers, young people, disabled and legal migrants. They should also make sure that the benefits of economic growth reach all citizens and all regions. Ensuring effective functioning of the labour markets through investing in successful transitions, appropriate skills development, rising job quality, getting rid of rigidity in working arrangements and working hours and fighting segmentation, structural unemployment and inactivity while ensuring adequate, and sustainable social protection, introducing effective universal income guarantee schemes to that end, and active inclusion to reduce poverty, should therefore be at the heart of Member States’ reform programmes.
Amendment 127 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) These new integrated guidelines reflect the conclusions of the European Council. They give precise guidance to the Member States on defining their national reform programmes and implementing reforms, reflecting interdependence and in line with the Stability and Growth Pact. Pursuant to these guidelines, annual national reports will be drawn up and considered and assessed together with national budget consolidation measures, thus establishing the necessary link between implementation of the Europe 2020 strategy objectives and the requirements of the Stability Pact. These guidelines will form the basis for any country-specific recommendunications which have an impact on structural funding that the Council may address to the Member States. They will also form the basis for the establishment of the Joint Employment Report sent annually by the Council and Commission to the European Council.
Amendment 131 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1
Article 2 – paragraph 1
The guidelines in the Annex shall be taken into account in the employment policies of the Member States, which shall be reported upon in national reform programmes. Member States should design reform programmes consistent with the objectives set out in the ‘Europe 2020 integrated guidelines’and the national reform programmes shall be treated as a priority in the employment policies of the Member States. The employment and social impact of national reform programmes, which must be consistent with the objectives set out in those guidelines, must be carefully monitored. When reporting on the application of the guidelines in the Annex, Member States shall follow the structure agreed at EU level, in order to ensure the clarity, transparency and comparability of the action taken and the results achieved.
Amendment 151 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph 1
Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph 1
Member States should integrate the flexicurity principles endorsed by the European Council into their labour market policies and apply them, making full use of European Social Fund support with a view to increasing labour market participation and combating segmentation and inactivity, gender inequality, whilst reducing structural unemployment. Measures to enhance flexibility and security should be both balanced and mutually reinforcing. Member States should therefore introduce a combination of flexible and reliable employment contracts providing for specific forms of mentoring during the transition from one job to the next, new supplementary social insurance arrangements and the delivery of services that are essential for work-life balancing, active labour market policies, effective lifelong learning, policies to promote labour mobility, and adequate social security systems towhich take account of career breaks, in particular for young people and women, and secure professional transitions accompanied by clear rights and responsibilities for the unemployed to actively seek work.
Amendment 220 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Guideline 8 – paragraph 1
Annex – Guideline 8 – paragraph 1
Member States should promote productivity and employability through an adequate supply of knowledge and skills to match current and future demand in the labour market. Quality initial education and attractive vocational training must be complemented with effective incentives for lifelong learning,lifelong learning drawing on all available resources at EU, national and regional level, in both the public and the private sectors, and targeted at priority groups on the basis of selective policies. In addition to making the necessary resources available, the two sides of industry should develop rules governing new ways of combining work and training, with particular attention being paid to gender equality and work-life balancing issues. Provision should also be made for second- chance opportunities, ensuring every adult the chance to move one step up in their qualification, and by targeted migration and integration policies. Member States should, on the basis of the EQF (European Qualifications Framework), which the Commission must definitively adopt without any further slippage, develop systems for recognising acquired competencies, remove barriers to occupational and geographical mobility of workers, promote the acquisition of transversal competences and creativity, and focus their efforts particularly on supporting those with low skills and increasing the employability of older workers, while at the same time enhance the training, skills and experience of highly skilled workers, including researchers.
Amendment 263 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Guideline 9 – paragraph 1
Annex – Guideline 9 – paragraph 1
In order to ensure access to quality education and training for all and to improve educational outcomes, Member States should invest efficientlyver more resources in education and training systems notably to raise the skill level of the EUuropean Union's workforce, allowing it to meet the rapidly changing needs of modern labour markets. Action should cover all sectors (from early childhood education and schools through to higher education, vocational education and training, as well as adult training) taking also into account learning in informal and non-formal contexts. Reforms should aim to ensure, including by means of the introduction of teaching staff assessment systems based on objective criteria, the acquisition of the key competencies that every individual needs for success in a knowledge-based economy, notably in terms of employability, further learning, or ICT skills. Steps should be taken to ensure learning mobility of young people and teachers becomes the norm. Member States should improve the openness and relevance of education and training systems, particularly by implementing national qualification frameworks enabling flexible learning pathways and by developing partnerships between the worlds of education/training and work. The teaching profession should be made more attractive, with teacher qualifications being raised by means of ongoing, across-the-board investment in further training. Higher education should become more open to non-traditional learners and participation in tertiary or equivalent education should be increased. With a view to reducing the number of young people not in employment, education, or training, Member States should take all necessary steps to prevent early school leaving.
Amendment 278 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Guideline 10 – paragraph 1
Annex – Guideline 10 – paragraph 1
Member States’ efforts to reduce poverty and foster social inclusion should be aimed at promoting full participation in society and economy and extending employment opportunities, making full use of the European Social Fund. Efforts should also concentrate on ensuring equal opportunities, including through access to affordable, sustainable and high quality services and public services (including online services, in line with guideline 4) and in particular health care. Member States should put in place effective anti- discrimination measures. Equally, to fight social exclusion, empower people and promote labour market participation, social protection systems, lifelong learning and active inclusion policies should be enhanced to create opportunities at different stages of people’s lives and shield them from the risk of exclusion. Social security and pension systems must be modernised to ensure that they, adapted to new forms of discontinuous and flexible employment and backed up by universal guaranteed minimum income schemes, to be coordinated, inter alia, by means of an EU framework directive laying down access criteria, eligibility requirements and common accompanying measures, that can be fully deployed to ensure adequate income support and priority access to healthcareservices of general interest such as healthcare and training — thus providing social cohesion and job opportunities — whilst at the same time remaining financially sustainable. Benefit systems should focus on ensuring income security during transitions and reducing poverty, in particular among groups most at risk from social exclusion, such as one- parent families, minorities, people with disabilities, children and young people, elderly women and men, legal migrants and the homeless. Member States should also actively promote the social economy and social innovation in support of the most vulnerable.