Activities of Frédéric DAERDEN related to 2011/0386(COD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on common provisions for monitoring and assessing draft budgetary plans and ensuring the correction of excessive deficit of the Member States in the euro area
Amendments (11)
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
(1 a) Pursuant to Article 9 TFEU, the Union shall take into account requirements linked to the promotion of a high level of employment, the guarantee of adequate social protection, the fight against social exclusion, and a high level of education, training and protection of human health when defining and implementing its policies and activities.
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3 a) The European Council, meeting on 17 June 2010, adopted a new strategy for jobs and growth, the EU2020 strategy, to enable the Union to emerge stronger from the crisis, and to turn its economy towards smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, accompanied by a high level of quality employment, productivity and social cohesion.
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) Biased and unrealistic macroeconomic and budgetary forecasts can considerably hamper the effectiveness of budgetary planning and consequently impair commitment to budgetary discipline. Forecasts from independent bodies canould provide unbiased and more realistic macroeconomic forecasts.
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) As demonstrated by the sovereign debt crisis, and in particular by the need to put in place common financial backstops, Member States whose currency is the euro share enhanced spillovers from their budgetary policy. Each of the Member States whose currency is the euro should consult the Commission and other Member States whose currency is the euro before the adoption of any major fiscal policy reform plans with potential spillover effects, so as to give the possibility for an assessment of possible impact for the euro area as a whole. They should consider their budgetary plans to be of common concern and submit them to the Commission for monitoring purposes in advance of the plans becoming binding. The Commission should be in a position, if necessary, to adopt an opinion on the draft budgetary plan, that the Member State and in particular budgetary authorities should be invited to take into account in the process of the budget law adoption. Such an opinion should ensure that Union's policy guidance in the budgetary area is appropriately integrated in the national budgetary preparations. In particular, this opinion should include an assessment of whether or not the budgetary plans appropriately address the EU 2020 growth, employment and social targets as well as the recommendations issued in the context of the European semester in the budgetary area. The Commission should stand ready to present this opinion to the Parliament of the Member State concerned at its request. The extent to which this opinion has been taken into account should be part of the assessment, if and when the conditions are met, leading to the decision to place the concerned Member State in excessive deficit procedure, where no follow-up to the early guidance from the Commission should be considered as an aggravating factor. Also, based on an overall assessment of the plans by the Commission, the Eurogroup should discuss the budgetary situation and prospects for the euro area.
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) In order to enhance the dialogue between the Union institutions, in particular the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission, and to ensure greater transparency and accountability, the competent committee of the European Parliament may offer the opportunity to the Member State concerned by a Commission recommendation as well as the social partners of that Member State to participate in an exchange of views,
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. The application of this Regulation shall fully respect Articles 153(3) and 152 TFEU and the decisions taken under this Regulation shall respect the principles of subsidiarity and social dialogue and the competences of Member States and social partners with regard to wage formation and pension provision. The application of this Regulation complies with Article 28 of the Charter on Fundamental Rights of the European Union, and does not 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 65 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 3 – point a a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 3 – point a a (new)
(a a) the impact of the draft budgetary plan with regard to the EU 2020 growth, employment and social targets.
Amendment 81 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 3
Article 6 – paragraph 3
3. The Commission shall make an overall assessment of the budgetary situation and prospects in the euro area as a whole. The assessment shall be made public, as well as their effects with regard to the EU 2020 growth, employment and social targets.
Amendment 86 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Member State shall report regularly to the Commission and to the Economic and Financial Committee or any sub-committee it will designate for that purpose, for the general government and its sub-sectors, the in-year budgetary execution, the budgetary impact of discretionary measures taken on both the expenditure and the revenue side, targets for the government expenditure and revenues, as well as information on the measures adopted and their impact with regard to the EU 2020 growth, employment and social targets as well as the nature of those envisaged to achieve the targets. The report shall be made public.
Amendment 91 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 a (new)
Article 10 a (new)
Article 10 a Consistency with the Union's growth and employment objectives This Regulation shall neither acquit a Member State to fulfil its obligations with regard to the growth, employment and social targets of the EU 2020 strategy nor to disregard or neglect its general obligation to promote a high level of employment, to guarantee adequate social protection and to fight social exclusion in accordance with Article 9 TFEU.
Amendment 92 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point b a (new)
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point b a (new)
(b a) the effects of this Regulation with regard to growth, employment and social targets of the EU2020 strategy.