European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a Council decision granting a Community guarantee to the European Investment Bank against losses under a special lending action for selected environmental projects in the Baltic Sea basin of Russia under the Northern Dimension (COM(2001) 297 - C5-0307/2001 - 2001/0121(CNS))
Date: 2001-10-24
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: Baltic Sea, EIB loan, European Investment Bank, Russia, credit guarantee, environmental protection, financial loss, investment abroad, regional development

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37.
Reiterates its call to the Council to recognise household work carried out by a third party in private
households for remuneration as a sector of the employment market; considers that such recognition would
include introducing rules on the social entitlements of these employees, as well as regulating supply and
demand in the sector and the possibility of training;

Procedure and state of implementation

Underscores the call for an increase in political coordination in the Member States between the
38.
individual institutional players (national, regional and local administrations) and with the social partners
in preparing and implementing the Luxembourg strategy; calls, furthermore, for a public debate in the
Member States with a view to securing the participation of all the political players (national and regional)
in this strategy;

39.
Urges the governments of the candidate countries to adapt their labour market policies to facilitate
possible future involvement in the Luxembourg strategy and welcomes, in this connection, the fact that
protocols on this matter have been signed with a number of candidate countries; highlights the problem of
taking into account areas of Community policies which do not form part of the Community ‘acquis’
because they are subject to the method of open coordination but which, nevertheless, should be covered
by the accession negotiations;

40.
Asks to be fully involved in the review and evaluation of the impact of the employment strategy;
calls on the Council Presidency to seek, together with the European Parliament, appropriate forms of
coordination in order to ensure democratic scrutiny of policy areas which are governed by the method
of open coordination;

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Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission and the parlia-

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ments of the Member States and the candidate countries.

4. EIB: Community guarantee against lending losses *

A5-0350/2001

Proposal for a Council decision granting a Community guarantee to the European Investment Bank
against losses under a special lending action for selected environmental projects in the Baltic Sea
basin of Russia under the Northern Dimension (COM(2001) 297 2 C5-0307/2001 2 2001/
0121(CNS))

The proposal was approved.

European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a Council decision granting a Com-
munity guarantee to the European Investment Bank against losses under a special lending action
for selected environmental projects in the Baltic Sea basin of Russia under the Northern Dimen-
sion (COM(2001) 297 2 C5-0307/2001 2 2001/0121(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

2 having regard to the Commission proposal to the Council (COM(2001) 297) (1),

2 having been consulted by the Council pursuant to Article 308 of the EC Treaty (C5-0307/2001),

(1) OJ C 240 E, 28.8.2001, p. 295.

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2 having regard to Rule 67 of its Rules of Procedure,

2 having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgets and the opinion of the Committee on the

Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (A5-0350/2001),

Wednesday 24 October 2001

1.

Approves the Commission proposal;

Calls on the Council to notify Parliament should it intend to depart from the text approved by

2.
Parliament;

3.

4.

Asks to be consulted again if the Council intends to amend the Commission proposal substantially;

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission.

5. EIB: Community contribution to EBRD *

A5-0345/2001

Proposal for a Council decision on a second contribution of the European Community to the
the Chernobyl Shelter Fund
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

for

(COM(2001) 251 2 C5-0305/2001 2 2001/0113(CNS))

The proposal was amended as follows:

TEXT PROPOSED
BY THE COMMISSION (1)

AMENDMENTS
BY PARLIAMENT

Amendment 1
Recital 4

(4)
In accordance with the Communication of 6 September
2000 from the Commission to the Council and the European
Parliament, Community financial support for nuclear safety in
the Newly Independent States and the countries of Central and
Eastern Europe should be taken from existing Tacis credits or
from a separate budget line for assistance to those partner
states.

(4)
In accordance with the Communication of 6 September
2000 from the Commission to the Council and the European
Parliament, Community financial support for nuclear safety in
the Newly Independent States and the countries of Central and
Eastern Europe should be taken from existing Tacis credits or
from a separate budget line for assistance to those partner
states. If, at the end of the financial year, the Commission
can justify that certain appropriations cannot be used in
budget lines B7-524 or B7-525 dedicated for nuclear safety,
transfers from these budget lines to B7-520 can be proposed
to the budgetary authority.

Amendment 2
Article 2, paragraph 1, subparagraph 2

The Commission shall forward all relevant information to the
Court of Auditors and shall request from the EBRD any
supplementary information that the Court of Auditors may
wish to receive, as regards the aspects of the operation of the
Chernobyl Shelter Fund that relate to the Community’s con-
tribution.

(1) OJ C 240 E, 28.8.2001, p. 157.

The Commission shall forward all relevant information to the
budgetary authority and the Court of Auditors and shall pro-
vide any supplementary information that they may wish to
receive, as regards the aspects of the operation of the Cherno-
byl Shelter Fund that relate to the Community’s contribution.