Activities of Angelika WERTHMANN related to 2011/0269(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
European Globalisation Adjustment Fund 2014-2020 (debate)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (2014-2020)
Amendments (29)
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) In order to maintain the European nature of the EGF, an application for support should be triggered when the number of redundancies reaches a minimum threshold. In small labour markets, such as small Member States or remote regions, and in exceptional circumstances, applications may be submitted for a lower number of redundancies. As regards farmers, the necessary criteria should be determined by the Commission in relation to the consequences of each trade agreement.
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) Redundant workers should have equal access to the EGF independently of their type of employment contract or employment relationship. Therefore, workers with fixed term contracts and temporary agency workers made redundant as well as owner-managers of micro, and small and medium-sized enterprises and self- employed workers who are forced to cease their activities and farmers who change or adjust their activities to a new market situation following trade agreements, should be regarded as redundant workers for the purposes of this Regulation.
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Financial contributions from the EGF should be primarily directed at active labour market measures aimed at reintegrating redundant workers rapidly into employment, either within or outside their initial sector of activity, including the agricultural sector. The inclusion of pecuniary allowances, even in a coordinated packages of personalised services, should therefore be restricteduled out.
Amendment 51 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) When drawing up the coordinated package of active labour market policy measures, Member States should favour measures that will significantly contribute to the employability of the redundant workers. Member States should strive towards the reintegration into employment or new activities, which should be long term if at all possible, of at least 50 % of the targeted workers within 12 months of the date of application.
Amendment 56 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
Amendment 60 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) To facilitate the implementation of this Regulation, expenditure should be eligible either from the date on which a Member State incurs administrative expenditure for implementing the EGF or from the date on which a Member State starts to provide personalised services or, in the case of farmers, from the date set in a Commission act in accordance with Article 4(3).
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) In order to cover the needs arising during the final months of each year, it is necessary to ensure that at least one quarter of the annual maximum amount of the EGF remains available on 1 September. Financial contributions made during the remainder of the year should be allocated taking into account the overall ceiling laid down for support to farmers in the Multiannual Financial Framework.
Amendment 72 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2
Article 1 – paragraph 2
The aim of the EGF shall be to contribute to economic growth and employment in the Union by enabling the Union to show solidarity towards workers made redundant as a result of major structural changes in world trade patterns due to globalisation, trade agreements affecting agriculture, or an unexpected crisis, and to provide financial support for their rapid reintegration into employment, or for changing or adjusting their agricultural activities.
Amendment 73 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 3
Article 1 – paragraph 3
Actions benefiting from financial contributions by the Fund pursuant to Article 2(a) and (b) shall aim to ensure that a minimum of 50 % of workers participating in these actions find long- term, stable employment within a year from the date of application.
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point c
Article 2 – point c
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – point d
Article 3 – point d
(d) 'a worker' means owner-managers of micro, and small and medium-sized enterprises and self- employed workers (including farmers) and all members of the household active in the business, provided that, if farmers, they were already producing the output affected by the relevant trade agreement before the measures concerning the specific sector were implemented.
Amendment 83 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3
Article 4 – paragraph 3
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 4
Article 4 – paragraph 4
4. Where owner-managers of micro, small and medium-sized and small enterprises and self- employed workers change or, in the case of farmers, adjustease their previous activities, such situations shall be considered as redundancies for the purposes of this Regulation.
Amendment 88 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – point c
Article 5 – point c
(c) For owner-managers of micro, small and medium-sized and small enterprises and self- employed workers (including farmers), the redundancy shall be counted either from the date of cessation of the activities caused by any of the conditions set out in Article 2, and determined in accordance with national law or administrative provisions, or from the date specified by the Commission in the delegated act adopted in accordance with the Article 4(3).
Amendment 94 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – point c
Article 6 – point c
Amendment 98 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
A financial contribution may be made for active labour market measures that form part of a coordinated package of personalised services, designed to facilitate the re-integration of the targeted redundant workers into employment or self- employment or, in the case of farmers, to change or adjust their previous activities. The coordinated package of personalised services may include in particular:
Amendment 99 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) job-search assistance, occupational guidance, advisory services, mentoring, outplacement assistance, entrepreneurship promotion, aid for self-employment and business start-up or for changing or adjusting activity (including investments in physical assets), co-operation activities, tailor-made training and re-training, including information and communication technology skills and certification of acquired experience;
Amendment 100 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) special time-limited measures, such as job-search allowances, employers' recruitment incentives, mobility allowances, subsistence or training allowances (including allowances for carers or farm relief services), all of which limited to the duration of the documented active job search or life-long learning or training activities;
Amendment 104 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Amendment 106 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
3. At the initiative of the applicant Member State, a financial contribution may be made for the preparatory, management, information and publicity, control and reportingcontrol activities.
Amendment 110 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1
1. The Member State shall submit a complete application to the Commission within a period of 12 weeks from the date on which the criteria set in Article 4(1) or (2) are met or, where applicable, before the deadline set by the Commission in accordance with Article 4(3). In exceptional and duly justified circumstances the application may be supplemented with additional information by the applicant Member State within six months from the date of application, following which the Commission shall assess the application on the basis of the available information. The Commission shall complete its assessment of the application within twelve weeks of the date of receipt of a complete application or (in the case of an incomplete application) six months after the date of the initial application, whichever is the earlier.
Amendment 112 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) a reasoned analysis of the link between the redundancies and the major structural changes in world trade patterns, or the serious disruption of the local, regional or national economy caused by an unexpected crisis, or the new market situation in the agricultural sector in the Member State and resulting from the effects of a trade agreement initialled by the European Union in accordance with Article XXIV of the GATT or a multilateral agreement initialled within the World Trade Organisation as per Article 2(c). This analysis shall be based on statistical and other information at the most appropriate level to demonstrate the fulfilment of the intervention criteria set out in Article 4;
Amendment 119 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 1
1. At the initiative of the Commission, subject to a ceiling of 0,53 % of the annual maximum amount of the EGF, the EGF may be used to finance the preparation, monitoring, data gathering and creation of a knowledge base relevant to the implementation of the EGF. It may also be used to finance administrative and technical support, information and communication activities, as well as audit, control and evaluation activities necessary to implement this Regulation.
Amendment 124 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 4
Article 12 – paragraph 4
Amendment 127 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14
Article 14
Expenditure shall be eligible for a financial contribution from the dates set out in Article 8(2)(h) on which the Member State starts the personalised services to the targeted workers or the administrative expenditure to implement the EGF in accordance with Article 7(1) and (3) respectively. In the case of farmers, expenditure shall be eligible for a contribution from the date set in the delegated act taken in accordance with Article 4(3).
Amendment 136 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 18 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
No later than 15 months after the date of the application pursuant to Article 8(1) or by the date laid down in the delegated act taken in accordance with Article 4(3) the Member State shall present an interim report to the Commission on the implementation of the financial contribution, including on the funding, timing and type of actions already carried out and on the rate of reintegration into employment or new activities achieved 12 months after the date of the application.
Amendment 146 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23
Article 23