European Parliament legislative resolution on the joint text approved by the Conciliation Committee for a European Parliament and Council decision setting up a Community framework for cooperation in the field of accidental or deliberate marine pollution (C5-0501/2000 — 1998/0350(COD))
Date: 2000-11-30
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: EU Member State, accidental pollution, cooperation policy, environmental protection, marine environment, marine pollution

C 228/132

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

13.8.2001

Thursday 30 November 2000

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Calls for Internet sites to be set up and operated at local level with a view to matching the demand
for jobs with supply in given regions, and for local public bodies on the one hand and workers’ trade
union and employers’ representatives on the other to be involved in that process;

Calls on the Member States to support the development of the third system, in particular by adapt-
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ing training and consolidating new occupations, as well as through appropriate fiscal and legislative mea-
sures such as renewing the legal framework and thereby facilitating the appearance of new forms of entre-
preneurship and links between public and private sectors;

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Is in favour of experimenting with new financial instruments such as service vouchers, local unit
trusts and risk capital for social purposes, and reforming certain public expenditure rules to take account
of the real value of services provided by the social economy;

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Commission, the Council, the governments

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of the Member States, the social partners and the Committee of the Regions.

4. Marine pollution ***III

A5-0336/2000

European Parliament legislative resolution on the joint text approved by the Conciliation Commit-
tee for a European Parliament and Council decision setting up a Community framework for coop-
eration in the field of accidental or deliberate marine pollution (C5-0501/2000 + 1998/0350(COD))

(Codecision procedure: third reading)

The European Parliament,

+ having regard to the joint text approved by the Conciliation Committee (C5-0501/2000),

+ having regard to its position at first reading (1) on the Commission proposal to Parliament and the

Council (COM(1998) 769) (2),

+ having regard to the amended proposal(COM(1999) 641) (3),

+ having regard to its position at second reading (4) on the Council common position,

+ having regard to the Commission’s opinion on Parliament’s amendments to the common position

(COM(2000) 475 + C5-0434/2000),

+ having regard to Article 251(5) of the EC Treaty,

+ having regard to Rule 83 of its Rules of Procedure,

+ having regard to the report of its delegation to the Conciliation Committee (A5-0336/2000),

1.

Approves the joint text and confirms its statement thereon;

Instructs its President to sign the act with the President of the Council pursuant to Article 254(1) of

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the EC Treaty;

Instructs its Secretary-General duly to sign the act and, in agreement with the Secretary-General of

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the Council, to have it published in the Official Journal of the European Communities;

4.

Instructs its President to forward this legislative resolution to the Council and Commission.

(1) OJ C 54, 25.2.2000, p. 82.
(2) OJ C 25, 30.1.1999, p. 20.
(3) OJ C 177, 27.6.2000, p. 31.
(4)

‘Texts Adopted’ of 13.6.2000, Item 6.