Activities of Frédéric DAERDEN related to 2011/0385(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Economic and budgetary surveillance of Member States with serious difficulties with respect to their financial stability in the euro area - Monitoring and assessing draft budgetary plans and ensuring the correction of excessive deficit of the Member States in the euro area (debate)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) The unprecedented global crisis that and the downturn in economic activity thast hit the world over the last three years hasve seriously damaged economic growth and financial stability and provoked a strong deterioration in financial, economic and social conditions and increased the government deficit and debt position of the Member States, leading a number of them to seek financial assistance outside the framework of the Union.
Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
(1 a) All policies of the European Union have to be consistent with the Charter of Fundamental Rights, which grants both individual and collective rights to citizens. Besides, the EU and its Member States should respect the main principles of the core conventions of the International Labour Organisation, which protects the basic rights of all workers.
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) A decision regarding the non- compliance of a Member State with its adjustment programme would also entail a suspension of payments or commitments of Union funds as provided by Article 21(6) of Regulation (EU) No XXX laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European SociMember States which are experiencing or threatened with serious difficulties with regard to their financial stability and/or which receive or could receive financial assistance are dependent upon European solidarity. The EU's Structural Fund,s and the Cohesion Fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund cove can make a vital contribution to ensuring that, even where there are financial constraints, investment to achieve the Europe 2020 growth, employment and social targets still occurs. A draft adjustment programme could therefored by the common strategic framework and laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Socie coupled to a request from the Member State concerned in order to receive a temporary increase in payments or in payments of the final balance from the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006,
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Application of this Regulation complies with Articles 153(3) and 152 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Decisions taken pursuant to this Regulation shall respect the principle of subsidiarity, social dialogue, and the competences of the Member States and of management and labour in regard to wage formation and the provision of pensions. Application of this Regulation complies with the Article 28 of the Charter on Fundamental Rights of the European Union, and doesn't affect the right to negotiate, conclude or implement collective agreements, as well as the right to collective actions, with due respect to national collective bargaining practices or national law.
Amendment 51 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point d a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point d a (new)
(d a) communicate to the European Parliament, the Commission and the national parliaments information on public investment in achieving the growth, employment and social targets of the Europe 2020 Strategy.
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5
Article 5
Where financial assistance is sought from the EFSF or the ESM, the Commission shall prepare – in liaison with the ECB and wherever possible, the IMF - an analysis of the sustainability of the government debt of the Member State concerned, including the Member State's ability to repay the envisaged financial assistance while still achieving its targets in regard to growth and poverty levels of the Union and employment strategy, and forward it to the EFC, the EMCO and the SPC or to any subcommittee the lasaid committeres may designate for that purpose.
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. A Member State receiving financial assistance from one or several other States, the IMF, the EFSF or the ESM shall prepare in agreement with the Commission - acting in liaison with the ECB - a draft adjustment programme aimed at re- establishing a sound and sustainable economic and, social, financial and employment situation and restoring its capacity to finance itself fully on the financial markets. TWithout prejudice to Article 9 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, as well as the Europe 2020 growth, employment and social targets, the draft adjustment programme shall take due account of the current recommendations addressed to the Member State concerned under Articles 121, 126 and/or 148 of the Treaty- and its actions to comply with them - while aiming at broadening, strengthening and deepening the required policy measures. A draft adjustment programme may therefore be coupled to a request from the Member State concerned to receive a temporary increase in payments or in payments of the final balance from the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund.