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European Ombudsman's activity report for 2009 - Special Report from the European Ombudsman to the European Parliament following the draft recommendation to the European Commission in Complaint 676/2008/RT (According to Rule 205(2), 1st part) - 26th Annual Report on Monitoring the Application of European Union Law (2008) (debate)
Explanations of vote
Development aspects of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty - Role of minimum income in combating poverty and promoting an inclusive society in Europe (debate)
Improvements in the safety and health at work of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding - Precarious women workers (debate)
EU cohesion and regional policy after 2013 - Future of the European Social Fund (debate)
Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (debate)
Annual report of the Petitions Committee 2009 (debate)
Atypical contracts, secured professional paths and new forms of social dialogue (short presentation)
The organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (debate)
Equal treatment between men and women engaged in an activity in a self-employed capacity (debate)
General provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Cohesion Fund as regards simplification of certain requirements and as regards certain provisions relating to financial management (debate)
Internal Market Scoreboard - Consumer protection - SOLVIT (debate)
European Microfinance Facility for Employment and Social Inclusion (Progress) (debate)
Elimination of violence against women (debate)
Multi-annual programme 2010-2014 regarding the area of freedom, security and justice (Stockholm Programme) (debate)
The European Ombudsman’s activities (2008) (debate)
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Reports (1)
REPORT Report on atypical contracts, secured professional paths, flexicurity and new forms of social dialogue PDF (211 KB) DOC (128 KB)
Amendments (165)
Amendment 6 #
2010/2239(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas people are entering the labour force at a later age due to unemployment rates that particularly affect poorly qualified young people, or due to longer and higher education, and on average people leave the labour market earlier than the legal pension age, and longevity is increasing,
Amendment 59 #
2010/2239(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Sorely misses any mention ofConsiders that SMEs, which are one of the main sources of employment in the EU and can, must and wish, will continue to make a major contribution to the sustainability and adequacy of pension systems; wishes therefore to see the adoption of measures tailored to employees working in SMEs, particularly on assistance for combining work and retirement;
Amendment 80 #
2010/2239(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that long-term investment in pension systems requires a positive approach as part of economic governance and more particularly in the Stability and Growth Pact; calls on the competent bodies in the Member States to promote social inclusion and combat undeclared work in order to improve the balance of pension systems;
Amendment 116 #
2010/2239(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Regrets that the Green Paper does not devote any attention to the gender issue, particularly bearing in mind that, because of disparities in careers, women have smaller pensions on average; wants specific attention to therefore be paid to the situation of women and in particular to considering maternity leave as time actually worked providing entitlement to retirement benefits;
Amendment 117 #
2010/2239(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Given that a large proportion of female workers are employed in atypical and very atypical forms of work, whilst there continues to be a 17% wage gap between men and women, because of which female workers receive lower pensions on average, calls on the Member States, with the assistance of the Commission, to intensify their efforts to effectively combat discrimination in relation to work and, consequently, pension benefits;
Amendment 147 #
2010/2239(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Considers that effectively tackling unemployment and creating new, sustainable, high-quality jobs are important factors in ensuring that pension funds are adequate;
Amendment 157 #
2010/2239(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Considers that Member States are themselves responsible for making adequate pension provision for their citizens as part of their social and economic policies and that those Member States should be encouraged to put in place a minimum old-age pension for all, putting the emphasis on those who are most vulnerable, especially disabled people;
Amendment 212 #
2010/2239(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 α. Calls on the Commission to set up a pensions observatory to study and assess the economic and social impact of the structural changes introduced in the Member States, as well as the effectiveness of each pension system in the light of the objective of ensuring that pension benefits are adequate and pension funds are financially sustainable;
Amendment 235 #
2010/2239(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Considers that, in view of demographic trends and the need to ensure that pensions can be paid for, it is necessary for more people to participate in the labour market and to do so for longer; observes that life expectancy is growing and calls on Member States to consider linking the statutory retirement age to life expectancy; however, calls on the Member States which have increased the statutory retirement age or will be doing so to encourage work by older people through fiscal and social security exemptions; also calls on the Member States to create adapted and flexible employment contracts for older people so as to encourage and facilitate combining work with retirement and put in place dissuasive measures so that companies find it harder to make older people redundant;
Amendment 236 #
2010/2239(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Considers that, in view of demographic trends and the need to ensure that pensions can be paid for, it is necessary for more people to participate in the labour market and to do so for longer; observes that life expectancy is growing and calls on Member States to consider linking the statutory retirement age to life expectancy, together with quality of life and health, in an effort to achieve a balance between the length of working life and the length of retirement;
Amendment 239 #
2010/2239(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 α. Considers it would be useful, given that more and more young people are entering the labour market later because of the longer duration of higher education, for there to be a formula linking practice, study and work experience programmes with the social security systems;
Amendment 270 #
2010/2239(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Considers that, for older employees performing physically and/or mentally demanding work during or towards the end of their career, a labour market geared to flexibility and security must offer creative solutions such as greater flexibility in the statutory retirement age, part-time pensions or adapted working conditions, with the emphasis on ability to work, promoting transitional measures and versatility to enable people to transfer from one job to another, with the effective support of lifelong learning programmes, to strike a lasting balance between the requirements of employment and the capacities of workers; considers there to be a need for an active policy to prevent discrimination on grounds of age;
Amendment 278 #
2010/2239(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18 α. Calls on the Member States to combat effectively the practice of making workers approaching retirement redundant by providing more support for job-seeking services and training to enhance their employability, and to examine the possibility of subsidising, jointly with employers, part of their insurance contributions under certain terms and conditions, such as age, possibility of reintegration into the labour market, etc.;
Amendment 283 #
2010/2239(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18 b. Calls on the Member States, in the context of the reforms and the extension of working life, and with the assistance of the Commission, to intensify their efforts to promote health at work through more effective implementation of the directives on health and safety at work, and by creating a culture which promotes health among the workforce, with the emphasis on small and medium-sized businesses;
Amendment 284 #
2010/2239(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 c (new)
Paragraph 18 c (new)
18 c. Stresses that, in the case of intellectually and physically demanding jobs, lifelong learning is a useful tool for giving older workers the opportunity to carry on working by performing other tasks;
Amendment 300 #
2010/2239(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Considers that there is a need to reinforce mutual recognition between the Member States of training courses which could improve the match between supply and demand on the job market at European level, thus helping to meet the EU 2020 strategy target of a 75% employment rate;
Amendment 301 #
2010/2239(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20 α. Considers that, in the light of the marked differences between the Member States' individual pension systems, greater use should be made of the open coordination method for the exchange of best practice and experience in relation to pension systems, particularly in the context of the structural changes which are in progress to ensure that pension systems are sustainable and pension benefits are adequate;
Amendment 311 #
2010/2239(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21 α. Calls on the Member States, with the assistance of the Commission, to adopt effective policies to help the disabled gain access to employment and training and to activate that section of the population, which will both increase the revenue of the funds and secure a decent standard of living for the disabled;
Amendment 315 #
2010/2239(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls on the Member States to put measures in place to protect workers' health and safety at work as soon as they enter the job market;
Amendment 317 #
2010/2239(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21 b. Calls on the Member States, with the assistance of the Commission, to support efforts to promote the economic integration of immigrants by combating undeclared work and improving the employability of the immigrant section of the population;
Amendment 319 #
2010/2239(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 c (new)
Paragraph 21 c (new)
21 c. Calls on the Member States, in cooperation with the EU, to take initiatives to facilitate access to the labour market for students who wish to work while pursuing their studies;
Amendment 325 #
2010/2239(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Stresses the growing importance of labour-market mobility in the EU, as well as the need for such mobility; calls for further improvements to be made with regard to the conditions for carrying out cross-border activities, particularly concerning the harmonisation of tax and social security rules;
Amendment 331 #
2010/2239(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Considers therefore that there is a need to improve information and advice to members of pension schemes by setting up, where needed, one-stop-shops to give an efficient and precise response to the requests of those who have worked in several Member States;
Amendment 439 #
2010/2239(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32a. Points out that complementary pension schemes which are capitalised are often considered as difficult to access because they are too technically complex; considers that if employers and employees are to be encouraged to join such schemes, not only must their management be improved, but also their rules must be simplified, and at least better information should be provided, by standardising it on a common basis to make it more intelligible; considers that there should be more rules for capitalisation systems, which should be more tightly regulated on a voluntary basis, ensuring monitoring and transparency, supervision and improvement of the solvency of capitalisation systems; considers that legislative changes could be made, particularly with regard to solvency rules;
Amendment 458 #
2010/2239(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35 α. Stresses that correct information and transparency in relation to pension systems is extremely important; proposes that one-stop-shops should be set up to provide information on the operation of the pension systems, and obligations and benefits in order to create a workforce that knows its rights and obligations, whilst at the same time facilitating workers' mobility;
Amendment 39 #
2010/2234(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for training by means of apprenticeships to be assigned priority over any other type of training, e.g. traineeships; encourages Member States not to plan any university courses of a vocational nature which are not accompanied by an apprenticeship contract;
Amendment 79 #
2010/2234(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls for apprenticeship contracts, while protecting the apprentice and providing for a certain flexibility and flexible measures for their application, to permit termination of the contract if the person concerned proves unsuited to his employment or is guilty of serious misconduct;
Amendment 27 #
2010/2162(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point 2
Paragraph 1 – point 2
2. Underlines that financing for the European Social Fund should be significantly increased in order to provide adequate resources for measures and activities under the Social Inclusion Strategy and the ‘Europe 2020’ flagship initiative on combating poverty and social exclusion, through integration into the employment market via training, and social exclusion; considers that women must receive particular support, as they are most faced with insecure contracts; stresses that they are often alone in educating their children in the majority of cases of single-parent families;
Amendment 32 #
2010/2162(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses the need to reduce the pay gap between men and women which cause those with equal skills and equal jobs to fall behind in terms of income and which result in a high rate of women experiencing poverty when they retire or are widowed;
Amendment 33 #
2010/2162(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point 2 b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point 2 b (new)
2b. Considers that older women may be the victims of direct or indirect discrimination on the labour market, or even of multiple discrimination, and that this problem should be tackled; stresses that employment must be seen as the best means of fighting female poverty; calls for the participation of women of all ages in lifelong training programmes to be facilitated; emphasises that reconciling family and working life and continuing training requires special attention and support;
Amendment 45 #
2010/2162(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point 4
Paragraph 1 – point 4
4. Takes note of the Council’s decision of 17 June 2010 to leave it up to Member States to set their national targets for reducing the number of people at risk of poverty and exclusion on the basis of one or several of the three indicators agreed upon by the Council; considers that Member States using only the ‘jobless household’ indicator may systematically neglect problems such as in-work poverty, energy poverty, child poverty and social exclusion; stresses that school and university education for women must be a priority target in connection with which each Member State must set targets;
Amendment 46 #
2010/2162(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point 4
Paragraph 1 – point 4
4. Takes note of the Council’s decision of 17 June 2010 to leave it up to Member States to set, in cooperation with the regions, their national targets for reducing the number of people at risk of poverty and exclusion on the basis of one or several of the three indicators agreed upon by the Council; considers that Member States using only the ‘jobless household’ indicator may systematically neglect problems such as in-work poverty, energy poverty, child poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 54 #
2010/2162(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point 5
Paragraph 1 – point 5
5. Points out that social protection and social policy make important contributions to lessening the depth and duration of the recession by stabilising labour markets and consumption, and that the social protection system is a stabiliser on both the revenue and the expenditure side.; calls, in the interests of not adding to the insecurity experienced by women on the employment market, for family responsibilities to be taken into account when selecting employees for dismissal, bearing in mind that in many situations women have charge of children; calls for accessibility to be improved, in particular through financial support for childcare, thus making it easier for the most disadvantaged women to pursue their occupation;
Amendment 60 #
2010/2162(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point 5 a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Member States, where necessary, to re-examine welfare systems in order to avoid the considerable inequalities between women’s and men’s pension levels, and consider the options of introducing corrective factors taking account of the gaps in contributions arising from insecure employment or maternal responsibilities;
Amendment 63 #
2010/2162(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States for specific programmes to promote the active inclusion or reintegration of women on the labour market and for specific training with a view to providing the skills and qualifications needed in the light of the EU 2020 Strategy which puts an emphasis on green jobs for a new sustainable economy; calls, in the interests of not adding to the insecurity experienced by women on the employment market, for family responsibilities to be taken into account when selecting employees for dismissal, bearing in mind that in many situations women have custody of children;
Amendment 100 #
2010/2162(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Regrets that the commitments assumed in Barcelona in 2002, targeting childcare, and fixing objectives until 2010, are far from being met; calls on the Council and the Member States to reconsider the above- mentioned objectives concerning childcare facilities; calls for accessibility to be improved, in particular through financial support for childcare, thus making it easier for the most disadvantaged women to pursue their occupation;
Amendment 47 #
2010/2160(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls for the development of a one- stop shop scheme to provide practical guidance, information and advice for those concerned, so as to ensure that the public is kept properly up to date; urges that this move towards simplification be brought to the attention of the public, the purpose being to reduce to the necessary minimum the amount of information requested;
Amendment 2 #
2010/2156(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises – given that the creative industries represent an important part of the European economy and will contribute significantly to achieving the Union’s employment targets under the Europe 2020 strategy, especially through the initiatives for new jobs and the ‘industrial policy for the globalisation era’ – the need to reduce the inequalities faced by practitioners in the cultural and creative sector and to fight discrimination in these sectors, especially as regards pay, jobs that match the level of qualifications, and social security; calls on the Member States to introduce changes to their social security systems to meet the needs of practitioners in the cultural and creative sectors;
Amendment 28 #
2010/2156(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to respect and acknowledge actions taken by cultural services and not-for-profit organisations involved in the development of a creative inclusive economyencourage cooperation involving universities, companies and arts initiatives that enables access to cultural services and contributes to the development of a creative economy in the EU; stresses the importance, in terms of the creative sector’s economic development in the EU, of implementing job-preservation and job-creation policies;
Amendment 34 #
2010/2156(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Favours initiatives on mobility, particularly for students and young creators whether qualified or notin training, as well as the development of residencies and workshops for artists, and calls on the Member States to remove barriers to free movement, particularly with reference to exchanges between EU artists and between EU and non-EU countries; calls on the Commission to ensure that the right, while ensuring compliance with laws on entry and with regulations to combat trafficking in human beings; calls on the Commission to do more to combat impediments to free movement can be exercisedd to remove any barriers in the way of young people considering a career in the creative sector;
Amendment 43 #
2010/2156(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Encourages the Member States to guarantee that, in terms of preferential arrangements for access to culture (e.g. reduced prices, free entry on certain days), all young people are treated equally irrespective of their status (as students, apprentices, trainees or job seekers, etc.);
Amendment 56 #
2010/2156(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Advocates the mobilisation of EU funds and programmes for the development of the cultural and creative sectorCalls on the Commission to promote joint research between the cultural and creative industries and the education and training sector, so as to facilitate the use of creative techniques and tools in the education sector; and to step up lifelong education and training, specifically through use of the European Social Fund, given the pace of technological change in this field;
Amendment 72 #
2010/2156(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that a highEncourages the Member States to provide an appropriate level of social protection, and in particular unemployment insurance, which is necessary to provide a guaranteed income for those periods without employment natural to the cultural and creative sector, and enable personal and collective emancipation.
Amendment 28 #
2010/2139(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on Member States to reduce excessive administrative costs and obstacles that hamper policy goals regarding access to employment, combating poverty and development of skills; recognises that ‘earmarking’ discipline has improved implementation of the programmes; calls for the role of the relevant authorities to be geared more towards the provision of information and advice, through the development of ‘one- stop’ facilities, if necessary, and by making the relevant legislation accessible to members of the public; calls for particular attention to be paid, in the course of checks carried out by social authorities, to ensuring that the procedures afford both sides a hearing; calls too, given the complexity of labour law, for recourse to dialogue rather than court proceedings in cases where a member of the public is – in good faith – in dispute with the authorities;
Amendment 33 #
2010/2139(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to boost the effectiveness of the ESF in guaranteeing opportunities for European citizens to make themselves employable and adaptable and in generating the conditions for sustainable growthand public profile of the ESF, thus making it more accessible, with a view to having more funds allocated to it for expanding access to the job market through the effective implementation of lifelong training to enable people to adapt to labour-demand changes in an era of globalisation and the computerisation of work, for introducing flexible working time and promoting part-time working and teleworking as means of getting more people into the job market, for generating the conditions for sustainable growth and for giving substance to the concept of social Europe, while paying particular attention to the situation of people with disabilities;
Amendment 42 #
2010/2139(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Bearing in mind that the ESF is a basic tool against poverty,for combating poverty by getting people into jobs, and for tackling social exclusion and unemployment, calls on the Commission to strengthen the ESF’s potential, and its financial autonomy and flexibility andin relation to the pursuit of economic and social cohesion, to make it more flexible so that current and future employment challenges can be addressed, to simplify procedures, and controls and to follow- up and controlsongoing projects more effectively;
Amendment 11 #
2010/2138(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses, however, that childcare must not be developed at the expense of a policy to develop parental leave; hopes therefore that, when a child is born, its parents will have a genuine choice between continuing to work and caring for their child; calls on Member States therefore to pursue ambitious policies on parental leave in order to give financial autonomy to those parents who so wish;
Amendment 11 #
2010/2099(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. In all budgetary assessments, structural reforms undertaken by Member States should be taken into account, in particular pension and heath care reforms and social protection in general; the employment situation should also be taken into account when establishing common instruments and, accordingly, no rules should be laid down without a prior assessment of their impact on employment and social protection in the Member States.
Amendment 22 #
2010/2099(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Introduce a sound and transparent monitoring and evaluation framework for Employment Guidelines based on EU headline targets, to be followed up with appropriate sub-targets, indicators and scoreboards; establish a high-level group, chaired by the Commission, that is responsible for developing a strategic, pragmatic approach with a view to harmonising the rules on combating social fraud, i.e. all voluntary behaviour that seeks to obtain undue advantages with the intention of eluding law enforcement.
Amendment 39 #
2010/2099(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Encourage measures supporting sound remuneration policies that focus on long- term sustainable growth rather than short- term gains. Such initiatives should be applied throughout the financial sector; strengthen legal instruments that enable social dialogue to be developed in undertakings, in particular with workers' representatives, so that workers receive full information, also on financial matters, and that the decisions taken are concerted.
Amendment 11 #
2010/2072(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls onReminds the Member States that they are obliged, on the one hand, to involve the social partners right from the outset in the task of preparing applications in accordance with Article 5 of the EGF regulation and, on the other hand, to comply with Article 9 of this regulation which requests Member States to provide information on and publicise the funded actions and that this information has also to be addressed to the workers concerned, the local and regional authorities and the social partners and to standardise procedures;
Amendment 14 #
2010/2072(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Welcomes the Council conclusions for New Skills for New Jobs and underlines that the EGF provides the Member States with additional funding for the training of redundant workers for future oriented jobs and increased mobility;
Amendment 25 #
2010/2072(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States to adopt a personalised approach to assistance for redundant workers, particularly in cases of large-scale redundancies, so as to improve workers' opportunities on a labour market that is undergoing profound restructuring; calls on the Member States and local authorities to do everything possible to revitalise places which have suffered from the impact of relocation in order to maintain economic activity in the area, bearing in mind that the EGF is geared solely to employees; to this end, recommends that the Member States step up their exchanges of good practice, especially making use of Progress;
Amendment 68 #
2010/2054(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Points out that, as in urban areas, a further precondition for pursuing the above aims is the adaptation of infrastructure for everyday life – such as childcare facilitiesreplacing services in case of illness and pregnancy, childcare facilities inclusive on farm infrastructure , care services, educational facilities, local outlets for everyday goods, and leisure and cultural facilities – and calls for agricultural policies to be framed in such a way that women in rural areas are enabled to fulfil their potential in making multifunctional farming a reality;
Amendment 112 #
2010/2054(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for women'’s entrepreneurial spirit to be encouraged, for support to be given to networks of female entrepreneurs, and also for provision to be made in the financial sector for affording rural businesswomen, including individually self-employed or part-time self-employed women with low earnings, access to investment and credit – thus empowering them more effectively in the marketplace and enabling them to develop businesses from which they can make a stable living;
Amendment 119 #
2010/2054(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls for greater account to be taken, in company-level and regional-level development strategies, of women'’s agricultural and non-agricultural vocational skills; stresses how important it is for women farmers and other women in rural areas to be able to obtain qualifications and training as producers and entrepreneurs, and calls on the Commission and the Member States, in consultation with rural organisations and women'’s and farmers‘’ associations, to propose rural development measures in the axes 3 of the rural Development programmes accordingly;
Amendment 42 #
2010/2053(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that the points of single contact should be used as information and advice centres for issues related to the directive, in particular regarding applicable labour law and social security law and workers’ rights in force under the directive; in view of the complexity of the legislation, considers that, when checks are carried out by employment or social security authorities, dialogue, advice and information must be favoured over punitive action;
Amendment 46 #
2010/2053(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Considers that, in the light of the complex legislation, each citizen must be able to consult the authorities in their respective areas of responsibility in order to obtain a precise reply to his/her questions; considers that the concept of a 'response' should therefore be developed in the area of labour law and in the area of social security in order to combat legal uncertainty; considers, furthermore, that, in order to ensure transparency, decisions taken should be published;
Amendment 65 #
2010/2039(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the need for concrete measures to effectively and significantly reduce poverty and social exclusion, ensuring a fair redistribution of income and wealthby exploring ways of reintegrating people into the labour market and also giving meaning and content to the European Year for Combating Poverty and to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, including guaranteeing an adequate minimum income throughout the European Union;
Amendment 105 #
2010/2039(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the promotion of social integration and inclusion, in order to guarantee protection of fundamental human rights, and clear commitments to draw up EU and national policies to combat poverty and social exclusion, by ensuring universal access to public health services, vocational education and training, housing and social protection, in addition to employment with rights, fair wages, a basic old-age allowance which ensures that people who have worked all their lives enjoy a dignified retirement, decent pensions and an adequate income for everyone;
Amendment 116 #
2010/2039(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Emphasises the importance of introducing rules on the level of unemployment benefits which serve to keep recipients out of poverty and of urging the Member States to take measures to encourage people returning to the labour market to take unpopular jobs, for example by facilitating mobility within the European Union;
Amendment 119 #
2010/2039(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Emphasises the role of social protection, in particular in the form of sickness insurance, family allowances, pensions and disability allowances, and calls on the Member States to pay special attention to the most vulnerable members of society by guaranteeing them a minimum set of rights even if they are unemployed;
Amendment 132 #
2010/2039(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Regards it as the duty of every Member State to take all appropriate measures to protect their citizens against extreme financial vulnerability by ensuring that they do not take on excessive levels of debt, in particular in the form of bank loans, for example by taxing the banks and financial institutions which agree to lend to persons who are not creditworthy;
Amendment 91 #
2010/2027(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Emphasises that lifelong learning must be a central aim in all education-related measures and that it is something for which all generations carrybear a responsibility; calls on the Member States in consequence to endorse training schemes only if they include a period of practical training, sometimes in the form of an apprenticeship;
Amendment 101 #
2010/2027(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses that demographic change should not be advanced as a justification for the dismantling of social entitlements and services; urges the Member States to simplify social legislation with a view to making it more flexible, more accessible and more comprehensible for employers and employees alike;
Amendment 134 #
2010/2027(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 – point iv
Paragraph 17 – point iv
iv) developing incentives, including financial incentives, for workers over the age of 60 to remain available for work and for companies to recruit such workers (calls on the Member States accordingly to adopt appropriate legislation designed to promote recruitment of such people);
Amendment 156 #
2010/2027(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Is convinced that it must be up to the workers concerned to decide for how long they wish to remain in work beyond national retirement ages; believes nonetheless that Member States must be allowed to set an age limit which enables an employer to retire an employee;
Amendment 184 #
2010/2027(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Encourages the Member States to introduce measures to support parents, for example entitlement to additional allowances and tax or social relief for in- company crèches; likewise, encourages exchanges of proven good practice through the European Alliance for Families; calls on the Member States to implement systems of incentives enabling workers to take full-time or part-time leave to care for their children, and to find their acquired rights intact when they return to the company;
Amendment 42 #
2010/2010(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for the development of a European job strategy for a sustainable economy, aiming at optimising job potential whilst paying special attention to decent work, employees’ health and safety, skills needs and a socially just transition; stresses that a sustainable economy combines social and ecological objectives;
Amendment 46 #
2010/2010(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and the social partners to ensure that everyone across the EU benefits from a sustainable jobs strategy; calls for attention to be focused on people furthest from the labour market, the most vulnerable and low-skilled workers, especially disabled people and low-skilled workers, as well as on protecting these people;
Amendment 91 #
2010/2010(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls for an employment monitoring centre to be set up to carry out a detailed assessment of future jobs with a view to making basic vocational training and lifelong learning more relevant;
Amendment 114 #
2010/2010(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls on the Member States to incorporate the concept of a sustainable economy into basic training, education and lifelong learning;
Amendment 124 #
2010/2010(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Calls on the Commission to provide EU-level support for research into the careers of the future so as to prevent redundancies and retain jobs in the European Union;
Amendment 21 #
2010/2009(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls for a specific framework for the granting of end-of-contract bonuses;
Amendment 23 #
2010/2009(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for complete transparency towards shareholders, as well as towards employees and third parties, with regard to remuneration policies for directors and urges the Commission to explore the possibilities of standardising such disclosure;
Amendment 34 #
2010/2009(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for the setting-up, in companies of a significant size whose opinions are published, of internal and independent remuneration committees;
Amendment 18 #
2010/2002(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Deplores the fact that, in spite of an extremely high profile and a very high implementation rate – reaching between 95-100% every year over the period 2007- 2009 – the increase in appropriations proposed in the DB for the key youth instruments and programmes, such as Lifelong Learning, Youth in Action and Erasmus Mundus, is rather symbolic; considers that this increase does not allow the EU to adequately address this priority and therefore intends to provide further support for these programmes; recalls, in this context, that these programmes have an indisputable European added value, concrete implications in the European citizens daily life and greatly contribute to the creation of a strong European civil society, despite the modest financial allocation that they receive;
Amendment 29 #
2010/2002(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Recalls that the priorities for 2011, with a view to the EU2020 strategy, will be financed mainly from this heading, and that the EU competences stemming from the entry into force of the Treaty are likely to have budgetary implications; emphasises that space policy, seeking towhich constitutes a concrete example of an European industrial policy promoteing European scientific, technological and environmental progress andwhilst reinforcing industrial competitiveness, requires both the EU and the Member States to make a realfurther financial effort within the context of the GMES;
Amendment 33 #
2010/2002(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Welcomes the Commission's Youth on the Move initiative seeking to enhance the performance and international attractiveness of Europe's higher education institutions and raise the overall standard of education and training in the EU; stresses that this initiative should not focus exclusively in higher education mobility; wishes to stress the importance of ensuring sufficient funding for an ambitious policy in the area of education and training, which plays a crucial role in the EU2020 strategy; stresses that the EU will bring all its resources to bear in meeting this ambitious challenge, which creates an unprecedented momentum for the development of a comprehensive EU youth policy; stresses, nevertheless, that the launch of such an over-arching flagship initiative covering a number of distinct and well-established EU programmes in this area should not lower the profile of the individual programmes;
Amendment 111 #
2010/2002(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
43. Reiterates that coordinated and multidisciplinary investment in youth must be started without delay as a cross-policy theme, and that an increase in youth policy instrument funding should accordingly be proposed; deplores the lack of ambition shown by the Commission in failing properly to address this priority and confirms its intention to amend the draft budget in order to provide appropriate funding for this priority; in this context, the "Youth in Action" programme should be considered as a priority;
Amendment 73 #
2010/0115(NLE)
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, creating a common body of knowledge among the nationals of the Member States, ensuring access for all, and strengthening research and business performance in order to promote innovation and knowledge transfer throughout the EU. 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 91 #
2010/0115(NLE)
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, in particular by implementing savings schemes for employees accompanied by tax or social incentives. Ensuring effective functioning of the labour markets through investing in successful transitions, appropriate skills development, rising job quality, particularly by implementing and promoting efficient training systems, and fighting segmentation, structural unemployment and inactivity while ensuring adequate, sustainable social protection and active inclusion to reduce poverty should therefore be at the heart of Member States’ reform programmes.
Amendment 156 #
2010/0115(NLE)
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, active labour market policies, effective lifelong learning, policies to promote labour mobility and mobility within the European Union States, and adequate social security systems to secure professional transitions accompanied by clear rights and responsibilities for the unemployed to actively seek work.
Amendment 171 #
2010/0115(NLE)
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph 2
Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph 2
Member States should step up social dialogue and tackle labour market segmentation with measures addressing temporary and precarious employment, underemployment and undeclared work. They should also devise flexible arrangements that enable companies in economic difficulties to make temporary modifications to their workers’ contracts with the aim of retaining their jobs. Professional mobility should be rewarded, including by tax or social incentives. The quality of jobs and employment conditions should be addressed by ensuring that workers can carry out their duties in an environment that preserves their health, by fighting low-wages and by ensuring adequate social security also for those on fixed contracts and the self-employed. Employment services should be strengthened and open to all, including young people and those threatened by unemployment, so employers and workers know their rights, with personalised services targeting those furthest away from the labour market.
Amendment 191 #
2010/0115(NLE)
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph 3
Annex – Guideline 7 – paragraph 3
In order to increase competitiveness and raise participation levels, particularly for the low-skilled, and in line with economic policy guideline 2, Member States should review tax and benefit systems and the capacity of public services to provide the necessary support. Member States should increase labour force participation through policies to promote active ageing, gender equality and equal pay and labour market integration of young people, disabled, legal migrants and other vulnerable groups. Work-life balance policies with the provision of affordable care and innovation in work organisation should be geared to raising employment rates, particularly among youth, older workers and women, in particular to retain highly-skilled women in scientific and technical fields. Likewise, particular attention should be given to teleworking by encouraging Member States to implement social and tax measures that make the development of this type of activity possible. Member States should also remove barriers to labour market entry for newcomers, support self-employment and job creation in areas including green employment and care and promote social innovation.
Amendment 219 #
2010/0115(NLE)
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, 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 develop systems for recognising acquired competencies, remove barriers to occupational and geographical mobility of workers, make the rules that allow Member State nationals to benefit from social security schemes in another Member State more flexible, encourage the setting up of businesses, including where workers are involved, by simplifying administrative procedures and offering attractive tax and social insurance contributions for the start-up period, encourage the combination of a job with retirement, 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, if necessary by granting aid to undertakings or tax or social incentives, while at the same time enhance the training, skills and experience of highly skilled workers, including researchers.
Amendment 234 #
2010/0115(NLE)
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Guideline 8 – paragraph 2
Annex – Guideline 8 – paragraph 2
In cooperation with social partners and business, Member States should improve access to training, strengthen education and career guidance combined with systematic information on new job openings and opportunities, promotion of entrepreneurship and enhanced anticipation of skill needs. Investment in human resource development, up-skilling and participation in lifelong learning schemes should be promoted through joint financial contributions from governments, individuals and employers. To support young people and in particular those not in employment, education or training, Member States in cooperation with the social partners, should enact schemes to help recent graduates find initial employment, if necessary by tax or social incentives, or further education and training opportunities, including apprenticeships, and intervene rapidly when young people become unemployed, including by individual support. Regular monitoring of the performance of up- skilling and anticipation policies should help identify areas for improvement and increase the responsiveness of education and training systems to labour market needs. EU funds should be fully mobilised by Member States to support these objectives. With this aim, the Member States should take steps to publicise information on the purpose of these funds and the conditions of use.
Amendment 259 #
2010/0115(NLE)
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 efficiently in education and training systems notably to raise the skill level of the EU'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 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. Likewise, it would be desirable to develop this type of learning within higher education. 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. Public aid for higher education establishments should be linked to the requirement to set up partnerships with undertakings. The teaching profession should be made more attractive. 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 277 #
2010/0115(NLE)
Proposal for a decision
Annex – Guideline 10 – paragraph 1
Annex – Guideline 10 – paragraph 1
Member States’ efforts to reduce poverty 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. The Member States should also ensure that the oral or written information provided by the public services is clear and complete and that, in the event of a refusal to grant an entitlement, a reason should be given, mentioning the possibilities for an appeal by the person concerned. 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 can be fully deployed to ensure adequate income support and access to healthcare — thus providing social cohesion — 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.
Amendment 65 #
2010/0074(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) These procedures and conditions should be clear, simple, user-friendly and proportionate to the nature of the citizens' initiative, so as to encourage participation by citizens and to make the Union more accessible. They should strike a judicious balance between rights and obligations.
Amendment 66 #
2010/0074(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) It is important that information campaigns concerning citizens' initiatives be organised, in order to raise citizens' awareness and to provide accurate information on this new instrument. The Commission and the European Parliament, via their respective representations and offices in the Member States, should upon request provide citizens with information and informal advice about citizens' initiatives, notably as regards the registration criteria, the values and competencies of the Union and the European Treaties. A user's guide to the citizens' initiatives should be prepared in every official language of the Union and should be available online.
Amendment 71 #
2010/0074(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7a (new)
Recital 7a (new)
(7a) It is important to involve young people and to encourage them to participate in citizens' initiatives. Therefore, in the long term, a European system for the verification of signatures should be set up. This would make it possible to have one common minimum age for signing purposes throughout the Union.
Amendment 73 #
2010/0074(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12a (new)
Recital 12a (new)
(12a) It is crucial that transparency be maintained throughout the whole process. Therefore, any financial or political support received should be indicated in the statement of support form relating to each citizens' initiative. Funding by political parties and European political groups should not be permitted.
Amendment 75 #
2010/0074(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) The Commission should examine a citizens' initiative and set out its conclusions and the actions it envisages to take in response to it, within a period ofrespond to it in a clear, comprehensible and detailed manner and within a time frame corresponding to its handling of legislative initiatives of the European Parliament under Article 225 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Thus, as a first step, the Commission should after three months inform the organisers of a successful initiative how it intends to act on the initiative. As a second step, citizens should have the assurance that a successful citizens' initiative will be the subject of an official public hearing at European Union level. The Commission, as the addressee of an initiative, should ensure that such a hearing takes place and that it will be represented at an appropriate level. The European Parliament, through its committee responsible, should always be invited to participate in the organising of such hearings. The Petitions Committee of the European Parliament should, in view of its long experience in dealing with citizens' petitions, be a privileged contact in this matter. As a third step, the Commission should come forward with its final response to the initiative after one year, either by proposing legislation accordingly or by explaining in a detailed manner its reasons four monthsnot acting on the initiative. The Commission should also give a thorough explanation in the event that the legislative proposal diverges significantly from the citizens' initiative.
Amendment 83 #
2010/0074(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. Prior to initiating the collection of statements of support from signatories for a proposed citizens' initiative, the organisers shall be required to register it with the Commission, providing the information set out in Annex II, in particular on the subject-matter and objectives as well as on the sources of funding and support for the proposed citizens' initiative. of the proposed citizens' initiative. The organisers shall provide, for the register defined in the third subparagraph and where appropriate on their website, regularly updated information on all sources of support and funding for the initiative. Funding by political parties and European political groups shall not be permitted. This information shall be provided in one of thr more official languages of the Union, in an online register made available for that purpose by the Commission (hereafter "the register"). Information in an official language other the language(s) in which it was originally provided may be provided subsequently for entry in the register. The translation of the initiative into other official languages of the Union shall be the responsibility of the organisers.
Amendment 90 #
2010/0074(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
At the end of that period, the register shall indicate that the period has expired and, where appropriate, that the Commission has ascertained that the necessary statements of support have not been submitted.
Amendment 92 #
2010/0074(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2
2. Prior to initiating the collection of statements of support from signatories, the organisers shall ensure that the online collection system used for that purpose complies with the provisions of paragraph 4. The organisers may, at any time, ask the relevant competent authority of the Member State in which the data collected is or will be stored, to certify that the online collection system complies with those provisions. The organisers shall, in any case, request that certification prior to submitting statements of support for verification in accordance with Article 9initiating the collection of statements of support. The organisers shall make a copy of the certificate issued in that regard publicly available on the website used for the online collection system. Within six months following the entry into force of this Regulation, the Commission shall make available an open-source software incorporating some of the technical and security features necessary for compliance with the provisions of this Regulation regarding the online collection systems. The software shall be freely made available to organisers. The Commission shall inform the European Parliament of the state of progress in the creation of the open- source software by no later than three months after the entry into force of this Regulation.
Amendment 101 #
2010/0074(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1
After having obtained the certificates provided for in Article 9(2), and provided that all relevant procedures and conditions set out in this Regulation have been complied with, the organisers may submit the citizens’ initiative to the Commission. When doing so, the organisers shall provide the Commission with precise and detailed information concerning all the sources of support and funding received for the citizens' initiative. Funding by political parties and European political groups shall not be permitted.
Amendment 104 #
2010/0074(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 1
1. Where the Commission receives a citizens’ initiative in accordance with Article 10 it shall: a. publish the citizens' initiative without delay on its website; b. examine the citizens' initiative and, within 4three months, set out in a communication its initial conclusions on the initiative, the action it intends to take, if any, and its reasons for doing so; ba. organise a public hearing, if appropriate jointly with the European Parliament, notably its Petitions Committee, at which the organisers shall have the opportunity to explain in detail the matters raised by the initiative; bb. present a legislative proposal within one year or include that proposal in its next year's Work Programme. If the Commission does not present such a proposal it shall give the organisers as well as the European Parliament and the Council detailed explanations of its reasons for not acting on the initiative.
Amendment 107 #
2010/0074(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15
Article 15
The Commission may adopt, by means of delegated acts in accordance with Articles 16, 17 and 18,: – technical specifications for online collection systems pursuant to Article 6(5); – amendments to the Annexes tof this Regulation.
Amendment 109 #
2010/0074(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21
Article 21
Amendment 114 #
2010/0074(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – box 2 – point 5 a (new)
Annex III – box 2 – point 5 a (new)
5a. all sources of support and funding received in respect of the proposed citizens' initiative.
Amendment 3 #
2009/2236(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the new CAP will have to face new and demanding challenges with a view not merely to meeting the food consumption needs of European citizens with adequate quality products and supporting the income of the agricultural sectorensuring a sustainable income to farmers through innovative market regulation mechanisms but also preserving the environment and responding to climate change,
Amendment 21 #
2009/2236(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the need, given the new Common Agricultural Policy objectives, to provide adequate funding in the new MFF, in order to be able to better support the policy in accordance to the major challenges this crucial sector for the EU food security will have to face in the coming years;
Amendment 128 #
2009/2236(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that CAP market instruments specific to each sector play a fundamental role and are now used as safety nets to help managreduce market volatility and ensurein order to guarantee farmers a certain degree of stability and that, moreover, since the adoption of decoupled Single Farm Payments there has been a resolute move away from trade-distorting measures in line with WTO requirements;
Amendment 195 #
2009/2236(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Affirms that Europe will have to make a substantial contribution to meeting that need against a background of opportunities afforded by, in particular, new technologies to address the problems of less land, less water and reduced energy inputs due to the impact of climate change, which will act as a serious constraint on European capacity to increase supply;
Amendment 204 #
2009/2236(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Believes that agriculture is well placed to make a significant contribution to the fight against climate change by continuing to reduce its Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions and increasing carbon sequestration by stepping up the production of biomass;
Amendment 413 #
2009/2236(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Believes that there has to be a minimum safety net within the future framework of the CAP in order to managreduce extreme market price volatility, manage the impact thereof and provide rapid and efficient responses to economic crises arising in the sector;
Amendment 579 #
2009/2236(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48 – point 3 (new)
Paragraph 48 – point 3 (new)
(3) stresses that the distribution of aid should take into account the specific nature of different sectors;
Amendment 772 #
2009/2236(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 64
Paragraph 64
64. Believes that the design and implementation of the new CAP, including the establishment of the ecoconditionality mechanism, should have simplicity, proportionality and the reduction of bureaucracy at its heart and, therefore, calls on the Commission to use outcome agreements, simple contracts and territorial contracts where appropriate;
Amendment 18 #
2009/2221(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
Amendment 39 #
2009/2221(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Member States to have ambitious policies on training young people;
Amendment 46 #
2009/2221(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Member States to establish inclusive and targeted labour market policies that secure the respectful inclusion and meaningful occupation of young people, e.g. through the setting-up of inspirational networks, trainee arrangements along with financial aid so that the trainee can relocate and live close to the place where the traineeship is held, international career centres and youth centres for individual guidance;
Amendment 66 #
2009/2221(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. by studying with them the possibility of seeking a new direction;
Amendment 77 #
2009/2221(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls for each Member State to monitor compliance;
Amendment 90 #
2009/2221(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recognises that, in times of crisis, young people seek education and should be encouraged to do so; calls on all Member States to secure equal access to education for all by guaranteeing a minimum right of 12 years free education and securing financial support for young students, and invites Member States to invest further in education and training, even if fiscal and social constraints are present;
Amendment 102 #
2009/2221(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 – point b
Paragraph 12 – point b
b. comprehensive lifelong training, traineeship or learning programmes securing the continued development of skills,
Amendment 107 #
2009/2221(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 – point d
Paragraph 12 – point d
d. social-security systems that provide young people with secure transition securitybetween various employment situations, between unemployment and employment or between training and employment, rather than forcing them to be flexible;
Amendment 125 #
2009/2221(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on Member States and the Commission to provide better childcare opportunities for young parents at an acceptable cost, thus facilitating the possibility for young mothers to participate in the labour market;
Amendment 127 #
2009/2221(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on Member States and the Commission to provide better childcare opportunities for young parents, thus facilitating the possibility for young mothers and young fathers to participate in the labour market;
Amendment 128 #
2009/2221(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls for the assistance given by Member States to young parents in the form of either childcare or crèches to be substantial enough not to deter them from participating in the labour market;
Amendment 137 #
2009/2221(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Recognises the importance of young people being able to be financially independent and calls for Member States to ensure that all young people are individually entitled to a minimum level of income that secures for them the possibility of cpreatingparing for an independent adult life;
Amendment 141 #
2009/2221(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls on Member States to ensure that young people can, if they so wish, receive effective assistance in choosing their career, finding out about their rights and managing their minimum income;
Amendment 4 #
2009/2220(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
- having regard to the Council Decision 2008/618/EC of 15 July 2008 on guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States for 2008-2010,
Amendment 5 #
2009/2220(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 b (new)
Citation 6 b (new)
– having regard to the Commission Recommendation on the active inclusion of people excluded from the labour market (COM(2008) 5737),
Amendment 15 #
2009/2220(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the financial and economic crisis mayhas lead to unstable labour markets and rising poverty and social exclusion, in particular for already vulnerable individuals and disadvantaged groups,
Amendment 19 #
2009/2220(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the number of people living in in-work poverty is increasing, having reached 8% of the European workforce, and the number of low-wage earners currently is about 17%,
Amendment 43 #
2009/2220(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas, within employment policies, equal opportunities for women and men, as well as non-discrimination principles, need to be actively promoted,
Amendment 53 #
2009/2220(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls upon the 2010 spring European Council for clear guidance and concrete measures towards safeguarding quality work and employment and creating sustainable job opportunities in the framework of an ambitious EU2020 Strategy;
Amendment 71 #
2009/2220(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recommends that the priorities for labour law reform, where it is needed, should focus on: extension of the protection of workers in atypical forms of employment situations in which it is possible to use these types of contracts; grouping atypical contracts together for the purpose of simplification; clarification of the situation of dependent employment; action against undeclared work; and the facilitation of transitions between various situations of employment and unemployment;
Amendment 87 #
2009/2220(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Encourages Member States to develop new modes of access to employment through the framing of new labour law provisions covering, for example, ‘distance working’, ‘freelance contract work’, ‘specified-purpose’ contracts and ‘mission’ contracts;
Amendment 94 #
2009/2220(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that the increase in the proportion of non-standard or atypical contracts has a strong gender and intergenerational dimension, as women, older and also younger workers are disproportionately represented in non-standard employment; calls upon the Member States and the Commission to combat and monitor the imbalance, in particular through a greater focus on social dialogue with worker representatives in companies;
Amendment 95 #
2009/2220(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that the increase in the proportion of non-standard or atypical contracts has a strong gender and intergenerational dimension, as women, older and also younger workers are disproportionately represented in non-standard employment; notes that some sectors are worse off than other as certain sectors experience more rapid an dramatic structural changes; calls upon the Member States and the Commission to combat and monitor the imbalance;
Amendment 99 #
2009/2220(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stressed that recurrence to atypical forms of employment should be a personal choice, and not an imposition dictated by increasing barriers to access the labour market on the part of different groups, or the lack of quality jobs available. In particular for multiply disadvantaged workers, individually tailored atypical contracts provided by work integration social enterprises may be a choice as they offer a first stepping stone into employment;
Amendment 123 #
2009/2220(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls upon the Union and the Member States to eradicate illicit employment mainly through prevention and deterrent penalties and believes that implementation of flexicurity strategies can help in effectively fighting illicit employment and in making ‘very atypical’ forms of work less precarious;
Amendment 128 #
2009/2220(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses the need to create high-quality jobs, if necessary after a period of training, including green jobs, and to ensure social cohesion; considers, therefore, that people are more likely to accept the efforts required of them if those efforts are perceived to be fair and to facilitate employment and social integration;
Amendment 182 #
2009/2220(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Condemns the abusive replacement of regular employment with forms of atypical contracts that are at the expense of the general public, employees and competitors; stresses that such forms of contract violate the European social model calls upon the Member States to impose stricter penalties where the atypical contracts concluded are abusive;
Amendment 188 #
2009/2220(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for the EU and the Member States to step up their efforts to invest in skills and training to support sustainable employment; therefore calls upon the Member States to invest in people by vigorously implementing and financing lifelong training or learning strategies;
Amendment 197 #
2009/2220(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls on the Member States to implement measures to enable workers to return to work after parental leave, after first undergoing refresher training if needed;
Amendment 214 #
2009/2220(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Calls upon the Member States not to allow economic redundancies until every effort has been made to (re)train workers;
Amendment 24 #
2009/2201(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for companies to be urged to apply CSR with a view to safeguarding their workers’ physical integrity, safety, physical and mental wellbeing, labour rights and human rights, so as to prevent discrimination between employees;
Amendment 28 #
2009/2201(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that CSR should address new areas such as the organisation of work, equal opportunities and, social inclusion and anti-discrimination measures;
Amendment 47 #
2009/2201(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the promotion of CSR internationally, and calls on the Commission to integrate CSR better in its trade policies and to draw up more binding rules for European companies operating in developing countries directly or through subcontractors, emphasising in particular the role that workers’ representatives should play and the importance of social dialogue;
Amendment 12 #
2009/2171(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for priority to be given to education, follow-up assistance to school- leavers, vocational training, technology education, skills training, lifelong learning, access to finance, settting up high-quality training courses which improve the prospects of those who take them, health and safety and encouraging entrepreneurial initiative schemes primarily for small and micro enterprises to create a sustainable workforce, thereby focusing especially on young people and women;
Amendment 2 #
2009/2108(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 26 #
2009/0096(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The ongoing Community and national efforts need to be strengthened to increase the supply of micro-credits to a sufficient scale and within a reasonable time-frame so as to address the high demand of those who need it most in this period of crisis i.e. unemployed or vulnerable people, including the youngpersons, who want to start or develop a micro enterprise including self- employment but do not have access to credit.
Amendment 34 #
2009/0096(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) In many cases the providers of micro- credits in Europe are commercial banks and should become important partners in the project, with a view to re-establishing trust on the credit market and with a focus mainly on customers with no credit standing.
Amendment 43 #
2009/0096(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) For the maximisation of the final outcome provided by the Facility there should be joint actions between the Member States and the European Community in terms of monitoring, implementation and impact assessment, by engaging national financial instruments and national employment strategies.
Amendment 50 #
2009/0096(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
The Facility shall provide Community resources to increase access and availability to micro- credits for:
Amendment 55 #
2009/0096(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b
Amendment 62 #
2009/0096(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) micro-enterprises in the social economy which employ persons who have lost their job or which employ disadvantaged persons, including the youngwhich employ persons at risk of social exclusion.
Amendment 71 #
2009/0096(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
(da) The Facility should finance the capacity building of targeted groups to ensure a better outcome of the spending.
Amendment 1 #
2009/0091(COD)
Proposal for a decision - amending act
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) In line with the Inter-institutional agreement of 17 May 2006 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and sound financial management, EUR 100 million needs to be in the event that no additional appropriations are allocated from the existing budget to finance, then the new European microfinance facility for employment and social inclusion – Progresshould be financed by reallocating resources from other budgetary sources.
Amendment 2 #
2009/0091(COD)
Proposal for a decision - amending act
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) After examining all possible optionsa thorough examination of all financing possibilities and for a maximization of the final outcome, and in the event that no additional appropriations are allocated, the amount of EUR 1050 million shcould be reallocated from the Progress Pprogramme, set up by 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, to the new European microfinance facility for employment and social inclusion – Progress.
Amendment 3 #
2009/0091(COD)
Proposal for a decision - amending act
Article 1
Article 1
Decision No 1672/2006/EC
Article 17 - paragraph 1
Article 17 - paragraph 1
1. The financial envelope for implementing the Community activities referred to in this Decision for the period from 1 January 20107 to 31 December 2013 is herebycan be set at EUR 643 25300 000.
Amendment 63 #
2008/0195(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 2 – subpoint a
Article 1 – point 2 – subpoint a
Directive 2002/15/EC
Article 3 – point a – paragraph 2
Article 3 – point a – paragraph 2
Amendment 64 #
2008/0195(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 2 – subpoint a
Article 1 – point 2 – subpoint a
Directive 2002/15/EC
Article 3 – point a – paragraph 2
Article 3 – point a – paragraph 2
a) point (a) 2, first sentence is deleted. amended as follows:. "in the case of self-employed drivers, the same definition shall apply to the time from the beginning to the end of work – including a fixed period of working time calculated for points iv and v taken together – during which the self- employed driver is at his workstation, at the disposal of the client and exercising his functions or activities other than general administrative work that is not directly linked to the specific transport operation underway".
Amendment 79 #
2008/0195(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 2 – subpoint d
Article 1 – point 2 – subpoint d
Directive 2002/15/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point f
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point f
Amendment 89 #
2008/0195(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 3 a (new)
Article 1 – point 3 a (new)
Directive2002/15/EC
Article 4 – point b a (new)
Article 4 – point b a (new)
3a) The following point (ba) is inserted in Article 4: the fixed period of working time referred to in Article 3 (a) (2) shall be one hour per week.
Amendment 49 #
2008/0193(COD)
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
Amendment 58 #
2008/0193(COD)
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 13 a (new)
Recital 13 a (new)
(13a) Fertility rates vary from one Member State to the next. Ideas on best practices could therefore be sought from those Member States that still have high fertility rates whilst ensuring the continued participation of women in the labour market.
Amendment 64 #
2008/0193(COD)
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point -1 a (new)
Article 1 – point -1 a (new)
Directive 92/85/EEC
Article 2 – point a
Article 2 – point a
-1a. In Article 2, point (a) is replaced by the following: "(a) pregnant worker shall mean a pregnant worker, including a domestic worker, who informs her employer of her condition, in accordance with national legislation and/or national practice;"
Amendment 66 #
2008/0193(COD)
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point -1 b (new)
Article 1 – point -1 b (new)
Directive 92/85/EEC
Article 2 – point b
Article 2 – point b
-1b. In Article 2, point (b) is replaced by the following: "(b) worker who has recently given birth shall mean a worker, including a domestic worker, who has recently given birth within the meaning of national legislation and/or national practice and who informs her employer of her condition, in accordance with that legislation and/or practice;"
Amendment 67 #
2008/0193(COD)
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point -1 c (new)
Article 1 – point -1 c (new)
Directive 92/85/EEC
Article 2 – point c
Article 2 – point c
-1c. In Article 2, point (c) is replaced by the following: "(c) worker who is breastfeeding shall mean a worker, including a domestic worker, who is breastfeeding within the meaning of national legislation and/or national practice and who informs her employer of her condition, in accordance with that legislation and/or practice;"
Amendment 27 #
2007/0229(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) working conditions, including pay and dismissal as well as health and safety at the workplace, working hours, paid leave and disciplinary procedures;