European Parliament resolution on the Commission communication to the Council and the European Parliament 'Framework Strategy on Gender Equality - Work Programme for 2001' (COM(2001) 119 - SEC(2001) 382 — C5-0193/2001 — 2001/2089(COS))
Date: 2001-07-03
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: European social policy, action programme, gender equality, labour market, participation of women, report

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Is in favour of concluding an interinstitutional agreement on a more structured use of the recasting
technique for legal acts; approves the terms of the draft interinstitutional agreement; makes the future
conclusion of the agreement subject to the condition that it contains a clause worded as follows:

This agreement shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Communities.

It shall apply to any proposal for recasting submitted from the date of its entry into force. An assess-
ment of the application of this agreement shall take place three years after its entry into force.

For this purpose the Legal Services of the institutions signatory to the agreement shall submit an
assessment report and propose, where appropriate, any changes required.

Calls on the Commission to step up its work of electronic consolidation of the main legal acts in

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force and make the results accessible via the Internet;

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Instructs its rapporteur to conduct the negotiations necessary for fulfilling the above conditions with
the Council and Commission, under the authority of the President of Parliament and in close cooperation
with the committee responsible;

Approves the draft interinstitutional agreement provided it includes the above clause; instructs its

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President to sign the interinstitutional agreement once the above clause has been incorporated;

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

6. Framework strategy on Gender Equality (cid:129) Work Programme for 2001

(procedure without debate)

A5-0224/2001

European Parliament resolution on the Commission communication to the Council and the Euro-
(cid:145)Framework Strategy on Gender Equality (cid:129) Work Programme for 2001(cid:146)
pean Parliament

(COM(2001) 119 (cid:129) SEC(2001) 382 (cid:129) C5-0193/2001 (cid:129) 2001/2089(COS))

The European Parliament,

(cid:129) having regard to the Commission communication (COM(2001) 119 (cid:129) SEC(2001) 382 (cid:129) C5-0193/

2001),

(cid:129) having regard to the Council Decision of 20 December 2000 establishing a programme relating to the

Community framework strategy on gender equality (2001-2005) (1),

(cid:129) having regard to its opinion of 15 November 2000 on the proposal for a Council decision on the
programme relating to the Community framework strategy on gender equality (2001-2005)
(COM(2000) 335 (cid:129) C5-0386/2000 (cid:129) 2000/0143(CNS)) (2),

(cid:129) having regard to Rule 47(1) of its Rules of Procedure,

(cid:129) having regard to the report of the Committee on Women(cid:146)s Rights and Equal Opportunities (A5-0224/

2001),

A. having regard to the need to promote gender equality and to integrate this objective into those

policies which have a direct and indirect impact on the lives of both sexes,

(1) OJ L 17, 19.1.2001, p. 22.
(2)
(cid:145)Texts Adopted(cid:146), Item 3.

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B. having regard to the Commission(cid:146)s key role in implementing the Community(cid:146)s global strategy for
equality of treatment and opportunity of women and men, which covers all the Community(cid:146)s policies
aimed at promoting such equality, either by adapting policies (proactive intervention/gender main-
streaming) and/or by implementing concrete actions aimed at improving women(cid:146)s position in society
(reactive intervention/specific actions),

C. whereas the Nice European Council of 7 December 2000 approved the medium-term social policy
agenda (2000-2005), and this, together with the Commission communication on the social policy
agenda amounts to a comprehensive work programme for European social policy in coming years;
whereas equal-opportunities policy in particular plays an important part in the process,

D. whereas the Stockholm European Council of 23/24 March 2001 drew up new policy options on

promoting equal-opportunities policy,

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F.

having regard to the Commission(cid:146)s delay in forwarding the work programme for 2001, which will
make it more difficult to hold a full debate for the current year,

having regard to the vague nature of the document and to the need to debate in advance and plan the
goals to be achieved in realistic and measurable stages in the areas for action set out in the framework
strategy on gender equality (2001-2005),

Calls for priority to be given to implementing the Community(cid:146)s framework strategy on gender equal-

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ity and the recently adopted programme;

Notes that the work programme fails to implement a number of proposals from the social policy
in particular the draft directive on equal treatment of men and women in sectors other than

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agenda,
employment (2002) and the feasibility study on establishing a gender institute (2001);

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Notes the Commission(cid:146)s proposals in the work programme for 2001, and asks for detailed
information on the actions planned in the five areas for intervention set out in the framework strategy
on gender equality;

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Notes that the Stockholm European Council called on the Council and Commission to develop indi-
cators by 2002 on the provision of care facilities for children and other dependants, family benefit systems
and pay differentials between men and women; calls on the Commission to submit a proposal for such
indicators before the end of this year and to consult the European Parliament on this issue;

Calls on the Commission to submit an assessment report to Parliament on compliance with the
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resolutions, recommendations and directives already adopted, such as the Council Recommendation 92/
241/EEC of 31 March 1992 on child care (1) or the Resolution of the Council and of the Ministers for
Employment and Social Policy, meeting within the Council, of 29 June 2000 on the balanced participation
of women and men in family and working life (2);

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Urges the Commission to propose without delay adjustments to existing directives, notably Council
Directive 75/117/EEC of 10 February 1975 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relat-
ing to the application of the principle of equal pay for men and women (3), with a view to ensuring full
implementation of equal pay legislation, Council Directive 92/85/EEC of 19 October 1992 on the intro-
duction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health at work of pregnant workers and
workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding (tenth individual Directive within the meaning
of Article 16(1) of Directive 89/391/EEC) (4), and the directives on the introduction of the principles of
equal treatment for women and men in statutory and occupational social security schemes;

(1) OJ L 123, 8.5.1992, p. 16.
(2) OJ C 218, 31.7.2000, p. 5.
(3) OJ L 45, 19.2.1975, p. 19.
(4) OJ L 348, 28.11.1992, p. 1.

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Recalls its resolution of 21 February 1997 on the situation of assisting spouses of

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the self-
employed (1), which called for improvements to Council Directive 86/613/EEC of 11 December 1986 on
the application of the principle of equal treatment between men and women engaged in an activity, includ-
ing agriculture, in a self-employed capacity, and on the protection of self-employed women during preg-
nancy and motherhood (2); urges the Commission to submit further directives, including one relating to
Article 13 of the EU Treaty, to ensure equality of treatment of women and men in fields other than
employment, and proposes that work on this should begin this year;

Asks for Parliament to be forwarded gender impact assessments relating to selected political areas,

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which have to date not been subjected to gender mainstreaming;

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Proposes that the Commission should submit, before the end of this year, a communication on the
implementation of gender mainstreaming in the new programming documents under the Structural Funds,
with a view to better use of those funds in promoting gender equality;

Calls on the Commission to begin work as of now on the communication on the social aspects of

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public contracts;

Urges the Commission to submit the 2002 work programme by November 2001, so that it can be

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implemented on 1 January 2002, after Parliament has delivered its opinion;

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

(1) OJ C 85, 17.3.1997, p. 186.
(2) OJ L 359, 19.12.1986, p. 56.

7. Resale rights ***III

A5-0235/2001

European Parliament legislative resolution on the joint text approved by the Conciliation Commit-
tee for a European Parliament and Council directive on the resale right for the benefit of the
author of an original work of art (C5-0220/2001 (cid:129) 1996/0085(COD))

(Codecision procedure: third reading)

The European Parliament,

(cid:129) having regard to the joint text approved by the Conciliation Committee (C5-0220/2001),

(cid:129) having regard to its position at first reading (1) on the Commission proposal to the European Parlia-

ment and the Council (COM(1996) 97) (2),

(cid:129) having regard to the amended proposal (COM(1998) 78) (3),

(cid:129) having regard to its position at second reading (4) on the Council common position (5),

(cid:129) having regard to the Commission(cid:146)s opinion on Parliament(cid:146)s amendments to the common position

(COM(2001) 47 (cid:129) C5-0030/2001),

(cid:129) having regard to Article 251(5) of the EC Treaty,

(1) OJ C 132, 28.4.1997, p. 88.
(2) OJ C 178, 21.6.1996, p. 16.
(3) OJ C 125, 23.4.1998, p. 8.
(4)
(5) OJ C 300, 20.10.2000, p. 1.

(cid:145)Texts Adopted(cid:146), 13.12.2000, Item 10.