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Debate: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - Serious cross-border threats to health
Date: MONDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2021
Speaker: Ivo Hristov
Political group: S-D
Country: France
Language: BG

Г-н Председател, пандемията драматично подрони доверието между гражданите и държавите в сферата на здравето. Милиони европейци се тревожат дали здравето не е повод за трайно ограничаване на права. Всички си задаваме въпроса къде свършва грижата за здравето и къде започва злоупотребата със страха, защото болестите са разход за социалните системи, но и доходоносен бизнес за корпорациите. Европейският здравен съюз е призван да въведе механизми за съгласуваност и солидарност в превенцията и управлението на кризи. Здравната солидарност предполага гражданите, бедни и богати, жители на коя да е страна от Съюза, да могат да разчитат на удовлетворяващи грижи за здравето си. Категорично подкрепям равния достъп до лечение да е водещата идея в регламента за сериозните трансгранични заплахи за здравето. Новата нормалност не е тази на маските, локдауните и поредните дози ваксини. Tова е новост, но не е нормалност. Новата нормалност трябва да се основава на прозрачна лекарствена политика и ценообразуване, на достоверната научна информация, здравната грамотност, осъзнатата лична отговорност и солидарността.
Debate: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - Serious cross-border threats to health
Date: MONDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2021
Speaker: Loucas Fourlas
Political group: PPE
Country: Italy
Language: EL

Κύριε Πρόεδρε, κυρία Επίτροπε, άκουσα πάρα πολλά από τους συναδέλφους, ότι η πανδημία μας έμαθε πάρα πολλά πράγματα. Μας έμαθε το πιο σημαντικό: μόνο μαζί και ενωμένοι μπορούμε να αντιμετωπίζουμε τέτοιες καταστάσεις. Οφείλουμε όχι μόνο να παρακολουθούμε, αλλά να προλαβαίνουμε και να αντιμετωπίζουμε τα σοβαρά θέματα υγείας ενωμένοι. Η Ευρώπη πρέπει να λειτουργεί αυτόνομα και να είναι σε θέση να χειρίζεται τα θέματα υγείας. Κυρία Επίτροπε, σας οφείλουμε ευχαριστίες. Ως Κύπριος, αισθάνομαι υπερήφανος για το συλλογικό, ψύχραιμο και αποτελεσματικό τρόπο με τον οποίο αντιμετωπίσατε την πανδημία. Το ότι έχουμε εμβολιαστικό πρόγραμμα, το ότι έχουμε εμβόλια οφείλεται εν πολλοίς και σε σας. Οφείλουμε να συνεχίσουμε ενωμένοι, διότι η υγεία αφορά όλους μας και δεν έχει σύνορα.
Debate: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - Serious cross-border threats to health
Date: MONDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2021
Speaker: Stella Kyriakides
Language: EN

I began by underlining the need for bold action, and I very much welcome hearing all your interventions today. It’s clear that you share our level of ambition and the need for quick and decisive action. The health union will have to ensure, as many of you have said, that we need a strong common response, but recognising specific needs and contexts. When protecting our citizens, we need to be one step ahead; we cannot be running behind and trying to catch up. The progress made so far in Parliament on these proposals is definitely taking us in the right direction, but we need to move faster towards adoption. The number of citizens that we have lost to this virus in the past year is a wake-up call to us all. The Council has already made considerable progress and adopted its general approach on 23 July. Now we start the interinstitutional negotiations, and let me assure you that the Commission will play its part in reaching quick and meaningful agreement. I heard some colleagues speak about the need to have more work done on therapeutics. We have been working on an EU therapeutic strategy for the last few months, and I am in a position to tell you that we have launched this strategy and are expecting the European Medicines Agency’s assessment of three new therapeutics in October. So we are leaving no stone unturned. But on the other hand, I have also heard many raise the subject of national competences – a taboo subject in the area of health. What we seem to forget is that the world after COVID-19 is fundamentally different. We cannot treat public health matters as we did before. We need a strong EU legal framework. We need to be able to act at EU level while respecting Member States’ competences. A strong European Health Union is not about, as I have heard, using the COVID-19 crisis to grab power. It is about using this crisis to turn it into positive action. It is using this crisis to bring about positive change for EU citizens, all within the Treaty framework. So let’s all work together. Let’s press ahead with these ambitious and much-needed proposals so we can adopt them at the end of this year. This is what this European Union needs. This is what our citizens expect from us and we should not deliver anything less.
Debate: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - Serious cross-border threats to health
Date: MONDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2021
Speaker: Othmar Karas
Country: Germany
Language: DE

Die gemeinsame Aussprache ist geschlossen. Die Abstimmungen über die Änderungsanträge finden morgen, Dienstag, 14. September 2021, die Schlussabstimmung am Mittwoch, 15. September 2021, statt.
Debate: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - Serious cross-border threats to health
Date: MONDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2021
Speaker: Sirpa Pietikäinen
Political group: PPE
Country: Italy
Language: FI

Olen jo pitkään peräänkuuluttanut vahvempaa EU:ta terveyden osalta. Komission terveysunioniesityksessä kaikki jäsenmaat valmistautuisivat ja reagoisivat terveyskriiseihin yhdessä, edulliset ja innovatiiviset lääkintätarvikkeet olisivat kaikkien saatavilla ja maat yhdessä parantaisivat syövän ja muiden sairauksien ennaltaehkäisyä, hoitoa ja jälkihoitoa. Tämä on askel oikeaan suuntaan. Tarvitsemme normaaliaikojen yhteistyötä, panostamista perussairauksien hoitoon, terveydenhuollon investointeihin ja henkilökunnan kouluttamiseen. Suurten kansansairauksien kuten sydän- ja verisuonitautien ja diabeteksen vastainen työ on yhä tärkeämpää väestön ikääntyessä. Esimerkiksi harvinaissairauksien osalta referenssikeskukset kokoavat alan parasta osaamista samaan paikkaan, ja niiden riittävästä resursoinnista pitää huolehtia. Samaa osaamiskeskusmallia on syytä laajentaa myös muiden yleisten sairauksien osalta.
Debate: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - Serious cross-border threats to health
Date: MONDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2021
Speaker: Edina Tóth
Political group: NI
Country: Slovakia
Language: HU

Az Uniónak az általános célok mentén kell nagyobb erőkifejtést tanúsítania: erősítenie kell a lakosság védelmét a határon átnyúló egészségügyi veszélyekkel szemben, támogatnia kell a gyógyszerek, orvostechnikai eszközök hozzáférhetőségét és megfizethetőségét. Éppen ezért nem támogatható a Központ hatáskörének kiterjesztése a nem-fertőző betegségek monitorozására. Fontos még megjegyezni, hogy 2020 elején, amikor már egyértelmű volt a koronavírus jelentette egészségügyi fenyegetettség, a Központ nem elemezte megfelelően a helyzetet és nem tett ajánlásokat a tagállamok számára, ezzel is bizonyítva, hogy a legfontosabb most a Központ eredeti szerepének megerősítése, nem pedig a hatáskörök bővítése lenne. A magyar kormány számára az emberélet, emberek élete és biztonsága az első, ezért is tartom aggályosnak a Parlament azon javaslatait, amelyek új struktúrákat hoznának létre, jelentősen megnehezítve, vagy adott esetben gátolva ezzel a tagállamok válságkezelését.
Debate: Fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digital development
Date: MONDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2021
Speaker: Othmar Karas
Country: Germany
Language: DE

Als nächster Punkt der Tagesordnung folgt die Aussprache über den Bericht von Sylvie Brunet im Namen des Ausschusses für Beschäftigung und soziale Angelegenheiten über das Thema „Gerechte Arbeitsbedingungen, Rechte und soziale Sicherung für auf Online-Plattformen beschäftigte Arbeitnehmer – Neue Beschäftigungsformen im Zusammenhang mit der digitalen Entwicklung“ [
Debate: Fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digital development
Date: MONDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2021
Speaker: Radan Kanev
Political group: PPE
Country: Ireland
Language: EN

Of course, we are all committed to improving working conditions. We are all looking forward to quality employment and fair incomes on our continent. We share the same concerns that more and more of our younger citizens are sometimes working in insecurity and often even falling out of the social security and health systems, which is a great risk both for them and for the solidarity model as a whole. And yet we could not and we should not fight the achievements of digital technology through outmoded regulations. We have to see the risk that this Parliament might try to impose 19th-century metrics over 21st-century social relations. What is really most important for us is that we must accept the realities of the 21st-century labour market and then adjust our regulations to life rather than doing it the other way around.
Debate: Fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digital development
Date: MONDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2021
Speaker: Elisabetta Gualmini
Political group: S-D
Country: Germany
Language: EN

But innovations and transformations in the labour market have to move forward with social protection – the safeguarding of the dignity and safety of workers. Social rights are, at the very end of the day, human rights.  We have been ambitious here. There is a three—step revolution going on. The rebuttable presumption of the employment relationship – if you have an obligation as an employee, you must have a right as an employee. There is no third way.  We have put the burden and charge of solving eventual court conflicts between a platform and workers on the shoulders of platforms, of employers.  Finally, transparency and clear information coming from algorithms. We do not want to see any more shameful salaries in what we call a ‘democratic Europe’. We don’t want to see new forms of slavery in what we call a ‘social Europe’. We don’t want to see forms of labour force exploitation and abuse in what we call a ‘fair Europe’.  We do not ask much. We ask simply for a good balance between rights and duties, between economic growth and social compensation. We ask to build a new social, progressive, compassionate Europe.
Debate: Fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digital development
Date: MONDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2021
Speaker: Dragoş Pîslaru
Political group: Renew
Country: Spain
Language: RO

Cuvântul-cheie aici este echilibru. Echilibru între drepturile sociale solide, pentru care europenii s-au luptat zeci de ani, și spiritul de inovație și antreprenoriat în tehnologie, pentru care sper să nu fie nevoie să ne luptăm alte zeci de ani ca să îl păstrăm și să îl dezvoltăm. Adevărul pentru platforme este că spațiul legislativ vag a început să fie tot mai problematic. Niște principii generale care asigură o protecție de ambele părți ale relației de muncă sau colaborare sunt vitale pentru evitarea erorilor, abuzurilor, dar și a atacurilor împotriva platformelor digitale. Trebuie păstrat echilibrul și între tipurile de platforme, iar cerințele către companii trebuie adaptate la dimensiunile acestora. Sigur, e bine să avem principii generale de protecție și reprezentare pentru lucrătorii care colaborează cu ele, dar și spațiu pentru subsidiaritate pentru statele membre. Cu siguranță, elementele cheie sunt transparența și accesul la deciziile de operare, la cadrul în care colaborarea cu platformele digitale este oferită și gestionată de către acestea. Cu scopul clar, și asta trebuie să o spunem foarte clar și răspicat, de a proteja lucrătorii și drepturile acestora. Dar la fel de importante sunt și predictibilitatea legală pentru antreprenori și investitori și spațiul de libertate pentru inovare. Flexibilitatea platformelor este ceea ce le face atractive pentru lucrători, dar și pentru utilizatori, și acestea nu trebuie îngrădite artificial sau din cauza fricii. Să nu uităm că platformele digitale au fost vitale în timpul pandemiei. Ele au ținut în viață zeci de mii de restaurante europene, de furnizori de servicii, au furnizat locuri de muncă și venituri, iar tocmai flexibilitatea lor a fost factorul-cheie în reziliența domeniului. Așteptăm, așadar, din partea Comisiei, o propunere care să fie atentă la aceste componente și care va fi gândită pentru viitor și pentru cetățeni, și nu motivată de fricile trecutului. Felicitări Silviei Brunet.
Debate: Fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digital development
Date: MONDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2021
Speaker: France Jamet
Political group: ID
Country: Poland
Language: FR

À l’ère du progrès technique, les plateformes dont l’ère numérique a permis l’avènement déstructurent les institutions, déconstruisent les conventions et désintègrent les avancées sociales. Sous couvert de liberté et d’auto-entrepreneuriat, leurs promoteurs osent vanter un nouvel esclavagisme qui ne dit pas son nom. L’État nation seul peut mettre au pas ces grands féodaux. L’État nation seul permettra à un peuple de décider comment l’économie et le progrès technologique doivent servir nos forces vives et non le contraire. L’État nation seul permettra l’exercice réel de la démocratie et de la souveraineté populaire face aux multinationales qui entendent nous imposer leurs choix mortifères. L’État nation seul permettra de se tourner vers l’avenir et non de revenir à des modèles d’exploitation d’un autre temps. L’État nation, c’est la liberté et c’est cette liberté pour laquelle nous nous battons et nous devons nous battre. C’est un combat que l’Union européenne a vraisemblablement abandonné. C’est peut-être même un combat que l’Union européenne a tout simplement refusé de livrer.
Debate: Fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digital development
Date: MONDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2021
Speaker: Elżbieta Rafalska
Political group: ECR
Country: Germany
Language: PL

Ogranicza się również swobodę wyboru umowy przez strony. Nie nakładajmy dodatkowych obowiązków na państwa członkowskie, zmniejszając konkurencyjność ich gospodarek. Nie możemy ingerować w kształt systemu zabezpieczenia społecznego. Prawo pracy to kompetencja państw członkowskich. Unia Europejska może interweniować tylko w zakresie swobodnego przepływu pracowników i równego traktowania. W związku z tym działania w zakresie platform powinny być rozwiązywane na szczeblu państw, a nie Unii Europejskiej.
Debate: Fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digital development
Date: MONDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2021
Speaker: Leila Chaibi
Political group: The Left
Country: Cyprus
Language: FR

Et la définition du mot présomption est sans ambiguïté. Du latin  Si nous vous demandons d’agir, Monsieur le Commissaire, ce n’est donc pas pour forcer les indépendants à se salarier. Si nous vous pressons, c’est d’abord pour remédier à l’extrême précarité des chauffeurs VTC et des livreurs de repas en deux-roues. Mais c’est aussi, et surtout, pour l’ensemble du monde du travail: si aujourd’hui, nous permettons à Uber d’avoir des travailleurs sous ses ordres sans assumer sa responsabilité d’employeur, demain, c’est tous les salariés dont le statut sera menacé de remplacement par un faux indépendant.
Debate: Fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digital development
Date: MONDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2021
Speaker: Daniela Rondinelli
Political group: NI
Country: Spain
Language: IT

Signora Presidente, onorevoli colleghi, la risoluzione che ci apprestiamo a votare ha una valenza storica, perché il Parlamento prende una posizione netta a difesa dei lavoratori delle piattaforme, vittime di sfruttamento e precarietà basati su indeterminatezza giuridica, salari indecenti, algoritmi opachi e pervasivi. Per questo è fondamentale una direttiva europea che sancisca in modo inequivocabile che i lavoratori delle piattaforme sono lavoratori subordinati, invertendo l'onere della prova in capo alle aziende, esigendo trasparenza e accessibilità sugli algoritmi ed eliminando ogni riferimento a un "terzo status" che potrebbe aprire la via a nuove forme di dumping fiscale e salariale. Come Movimento 5 Stelle esprimiamo soddisfazione per aver contribuito in modo decisivo alla versione finale di questa risoluzione, grazie ai nostri emendamenti che sono stati tutti inclusi nei compromessi. La nuova direttiva sarà l'architrave, insieme a quelle su diritto alla disconnessione e salario minimo, su cui edificare una ripresa socialmente equa, assicurando tutele al passo con le trasformazioni del mercato del lavoro per realizzare il nuovo modello sociale europeo.
Debate: Fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digital development
Date: MONDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2021
Speaker: Eugen Tomac
Political group: PPE
Country: France
Language: RO

Doamnă președintă, domnule comisar, felicit raportorul pentru că răspunde prin acest document unei urgențe și cred că este esențial să tratăm cu multă responsabilitate, atât noi, cât și Comisia, pentru că acest domeniu are nevoie de o reglementare urgentă. Avansul tehnologic a permis economiei digitale să se dezvolte într-un timp rapid. Însă nu sunt puține vulnerabilitățile pe care le observăm cu toții. Tocmai de aceea cred că este esențial ca Comisia Europeană, într-un timp cât mai scurt, să vină cu o inițiativă legislativă pentru a le putea oferi celor care desfășoară activități în acest domeniu garanții reale. Acești oameni desfășoară activități lucrative și au nevoie de reglementări foarte clare pentru a fi protejați. Dar nu doar cei care desfășoară și dezvoltă platforme online au nevoie de aceste reglementări legale. Este vital ca și consumatorul final să fie protejat de reglementările pe care statele membre le așteaptă din partea Uniunii Europene. Cred că este absolut esențial să înțelegem că avansul tehnologic ne-a pus în față noi provocări, iar noi trebuie să ținem pasul cu aceste așteptări pe care le are societatea din partea noastră.
Debate: Fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digital development
Date: MONDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2021
Speaker: Agnes Jongerius
Political group: S-D
Country: Poland
Language: NL

Voorzitter, commissaris, we staan hier op wat mij betreft een prettige dag, omdat we vandaag in Nederland een belangrijke overwinning hebben behaald voor de bescherming van platformwerknemers. De rechtbank van Amsterdam oordeelde dat Uber zijn chauffeurs als werknemer in dienst moet nemen.  Nu moeten we doorpakken met regelgeving voor alle platforms zoals Uber, Temper en Deliveroo, want ze rollen allemaal hetzelfde verdienmodel in één keer uit over heel Europa en dus moeten we voor een Europees antwoord zorgen.  Voor ons is het duidelijk dat platformwerkers recht hebben op een eerlijk loon, op sociale bescherming en op pensioen. We kunnen dit bereiken door de bewijslast om te draaien. Niet langer de platformwerkers moeten naar de rechter stappen, maar het platform. Platformwerkers zullen automatisch gewoon werknemers zijn en zullen niet langer individueel hun rechten moeten gaan opeisen. Op deze manier is het voor iedereen duidelijk dat ze goed beschermd worden. Zo sturen we de platformeconomie de eerlijke kant op.  Ik reken op een sterk voorstel van de commissaris. Begin december gaan we door met dit debat, maar eerst gaan we woensdag stemmen en met veel plezier in de goede richting.
Debate: Fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digital development
Date: MONDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2021
Speaker: Atidzhe Alieva-Veli
Political group: Renew
Country: Bulgaria
Language: BG

Г-жо Председател, уважаеми колеги, г-н Комисар, на първо място, бих искала да поздравя докладчика Силви Бруней. С огромно желание подкрепям доклада относно справедливите условия на труд, права и социална закрила на работещите през платформи, защото той предоставя актуалните предизвикателства и възможности за такъв вид работа и необходимостта от осигуряване на подобрени и прозрачни условия на труд за работещите. Работата през платформа обхваща различни реалности и се характеризира с висока степен и разнородност в извършваните дейности. COVID-19 ни изправи пред много предизвикателства, едно от които бе да запазим колкото се може повече бизнеси и да им създадем възможности за по-лесна, бърза и успешна адаптация към пандемичните и постпандемичните условия. Огромна част от успелите да продължат дейността си предприятия използваха различни цифрови платформи, за да избегнат временни затваряния и фалити. Вярвам, че работата на платформа засяга огромен дял от работниците. Немалка част от хората загубили работата си се преориентираха към заетост през различни платформи. Други, които имаха временна или непълна заетост, също успяха да се възползват от избора и безпрецедентната гъвкавост, която този вид заетост предлага. Разбира се, не по-малко достоен за отбелязване е фактът, че работата през платформи предлага предимства за учащите, за тези, които желаят да съчетаят учене и работа. В период, когато младите бяха засегнати изключително много и когато всеки шести младеж беше останал без работа заради пандемията, този тип заетост създаде възможности за тях. За съжаление работниците през платформи обикновено биват определяни като формално заети или самонаети лица, независимо от действителното им положение по отношение на заетостта. Поради това много на брой работещи не се ползват от еквивалентна социална закрила, трудови права или разпоредби за здраве и безопасност. В така актуалния преход към цифровизация е от съществено значение да се гарантира, че новите форми на труд ще останат устойчиви, прозрачни и справедливи, а работата през платформа ще се ръководи от ценностите на Съюза и от ориентиран към човека подход.  Моята делегация винаги е подкрепяла обещаващи и иновативни политики за бъдещето, които представят нови възможности за социално включване на всички работоспособни лица без място за дискриминация. Ще продължим да работим за създаване на още повече възможности, които новите условия на труд и форми на работа да предлагат, като в същото време се спазват социалните и трудовите права.