Legislative resolution embodying the opinion of the European Parliament on the proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 76/207/EEC on the implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women as regards access to employment, vocational training and promotion, and working conditions (COM(96)0093 C4-0317/96 96/0095(CNS)) (Consultation procedure)
Date: 1999-03-09
Institutions: Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, European Parliament
Subjects: gender equality, vocational training, working conditions

21.6.1999

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 175/67

Tuesday 9 March 1999

11. Equal treatment for men and women *

A4-0038/99

Legislative  resolution  embodying  the  opinion  of  the  European  Parliament  on  the  proposal  for  a
Council Directive amending Directive 76/207/EEC on the implementation of the principle of equal
treatment for men and women as regards access to employment, vocational training and promotion,
and working conditions (COM(96)0093 − C4-0317/96 − 96/0095(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

−  having regard to the Commission proposal to the Council (COM(96)0093 − 96/0095(CNS)) (1),

−  having been consulted by the Council pursuant to Article 235 of the EC Treaty (C4-0317/96),

−  having regard to Rule 58 of its Rules of Procedure,

−  having regard to the report of the Committee on Women’s Rights and the opinions of the Committee
on  Legal  Affairs  and  Citizens’  Rights  and  the  Committee  on  Employment  and  Social  Affairs
(A4-0038/99),

1.

2.

Rejects the Commission proposal;

Calls on the Commission to withdraw its proposal;

Calls on the Commission to submit a proposal for a Directive based on the Treaty of Amsterdam and
3.
on  recognition  of  the  collective  nature  of  positive  action  measures,  which  contains  mandatory  legal
instructions  to  take  positive  action  wherever  necessary  in  order  to  achieve  equal  treatment  and
opportunities  for  men  and  women  and  to  remedy  the  under-representation  of  women  at  all  levels  of
decision-making;

4.

Instructs its President to forward this opinion to the Council and Commission.

(1)  OJ C 179, 22.6.1996, p. 8.

12. Request for waiver of Mr Rosado Fernandes’ immunity

A4-0076/99

Decision on the request for waiver of the immunity of Mr Rau´ l Miguel Rosado Fernandes

The European Parliament,

−  having  received  a  request  for  waiver  of  the  immunity  of  Mr  Rau´l  Miguel  Rosado  Fernandes,
forwarded by the Prosecutor-General of the Portuguese Republic on 23 October 1998 and announced
in plenary sitting on 5 November 1998,

−  having  regard  to  Article  10  of  the  Protocol  on  the  Privileges  and  Immunities  of  the  European
Communities  of  8  April  1965,  and  to  Article  4(2)  of  the  Act  concerning  the  Election  of
Representatives to the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage of 20 September 1976,

−  having regard to the judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Communities of 12 May 1964

and 10 July 1986 (1),

−  having regard to Article 157 of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic,

(1)  See Case 101/63: Wagner v. Fohrmann and Krier [1964] ECR 399 and Case 149/85: Wybot v. Faure [1996] ECR 2403.