9 Amendments of Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS related to 2010/0281(COD)
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) Internal imbalances shall be considered in the study of macroeconomic imbalances, including private and public debt, its evolution and origin (domestic or international) and late payments of the country, especially from the public sector and big multinationals to SMEs.
Amendment 79 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 b (new)
Recital 3 b (new)
(3b) Internal market developments shall also be considered, including the linkage between wages and productivity in the labour market and the existence of legal barriers that do not allow direct free concertation between enterprises and workers.
Amendment 94 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
(5a) The consolidation of the European Single Market is an essential precondition to ensure the correct functioning and the strengthening of the economic and monetary union. In this sense, it is necessary to eliminate the existing regulatory and physical barriers that make impossible to achieve a single European railway area, especially in the freight transport.
Amendment 103 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) The scoreboard should consist of a limited set of economic and financial indicators relevant to detection of macroeconomic imbalances, with corresponding indicative thresholds. The composition of the scoreboard may evolve in time, inter alia due to evolving threats to macroeconomic stability or enhanced availability of relevant statistics. Its indicative thresholds should be the same for all Member States in order to have clear and common standards.
Amendment 107 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)
Recital 7 a (new)
(7a) Symmetrical criteria will not be taken into account on the implementation of fines for commercial surpluses and commercial deficits.
Amendment 160 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 a (new)
Recital 15 a (new)
(15a) The envisaged measures for the prevention and correction of macroeconomic imbalances should not lead to a centrally planned economy for the Member States of the European Economic and Monetary Union
Amendment 174 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) 'imbalances‘ means macroeconomic developments which are adversely affecting, or have the potential adversely to affect, the proper functioning of the economy of a Member State or of economic and monetary union, or of the Union as a whole, particularly due to large current account deficits, sharply rising debt levels or persistently low levels of competitiveness.
Amendment 217 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
2. The scoreboard shall be made up of an array of macroeconomic and macrofinancial indicators for Member States. The Commission may set indicative lower or upper thresholds for these indicators to serve as alert levels. The thresholds applicable to Member States whose currency is the euro may be different from those applicable to the other Member States. Nevertheless, no differences should be stated between eurozone countries in order to ensure clear macroeconomic standards.
Amendment 260 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3
Article 4 – paragraph 3
3. The report shall identify Member States that the Commission considers to be affected by, or at risk of, imbalances; symmetrical criteria will not be taken into account in order to assess commercial deficits and surpluses.