Activities of Frédéric DAERDEN related to 2010/2072(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Funding and functioning of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (short presentation)
Amendments (10)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas globalisation is a timeless phenomenon and whereas the impact of the economic crisis will continue to be felt after 2013,
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Urges the Commission to enforce correctly Directive 2002/14/EC on informing and consulting employees and Directive 94/45/EC on the European works council in order to give the social partners all the tools to analyse the proposed redundancy or restructuring plan before it is announced and thus to enable them to play their full role in preparing the application;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Requests the Member States to put in place a communication and administration structure for the EGF at national level, in consultation with all stakeholders, particularly the social partners, and to exchange good practice at European level, which will allow the EGF to take rapid and effective action in cases of large-scale redundancies;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to evaluate the contributions granted with reference to, among other things: the beneficiaries' re- integration into employment; the difference between the number of potential beneficiaries and the number of workers that have received support; the disparities between Member States in terms of the funding provided per worker and the reasons for those disparities; compliance with the non-discrimination criterion with reference to the contractual position of the workers made redundant; the systems established by the Member States to assess needs for assistance from the fund and to prepare applications; the procedures for consulting the social partners that were or were not used when preparing applications and the checks carried out on their implementation; and the procedures for verifying the implementation of contributions and any repayments Member States are requested to make; calls on the Commission to reflect the findings of that evaluation in its proposal for the revision of the regulation;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to evaluate the contributions granted with reference to, among other things: the beneficiaries' re- integration into employment; the difference between the number of potential beneficiaries and the number of workers that have received support; the disparities between Member States in terms of the funding provided per worker and the reasons for those disparities; compliance with the non-discrimination criterion with reference to the contractual position of the workers made redundant; the procedures for consulting the social partners that were or were not used when preparing applications and, the checks carried out on their implementation and the way in which account is taken of the web of subcontractors and SMEs potentially affected by the redundancy plan, whose employees could derive benefit from the fund; and the procedures for verifying the implementation of contributions and any repayments Member States are requested to make; calls on the Commission to reflect the findings of that evaluation in its proposal for the revision of the regulation;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Urges the Member States to use the EGF to implement European objectives, to promote new skills for new, lasting, high- quality jobs and to promote lifelong learning, so as to allow workers to develop their individual careers and to contribute to improving the competitiveness of the EU in the context of globalisation;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Reminds undertakings of their responsibility to do all they can to ensure that workers can, right frombefore the start of their period of unemployment, authenticate their experience acquired, so as to ensure that their retraining is as specific and as rapid as possible and that they obtain new, stable jobs with a promising future in a sector which will remain viable;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Invites the Commission to present, in its annual report, statistics showing the effectiveness of the EGF and of training strategies aimed at getting people back to work, analysing the impact of the structure of the labour market on that effectiveness;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Requests the Commission to publish its data on the efficiency of use of the EGF in the interest of sound EU budgetary management, so as to allow Parliament to conduct an ex post controlparticularly the rate of reimbursement of the appropriations allocated and the explanation for it, so as to allow Parliament to conduct an ex post control and to consider the improvements to be made to the functioning of the fund;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Wishes the EGF to be made a permanent fund in the next multiannual financial framework, with its own commitment and payment appropriations, instead of on which depends on the non- utilisation or under-utilisation of appropriations from previous financial years; therefore requests the Commission to come forward with proposals for resourcing a permanent fund;