Just transition directive in the world of work: ensuring the creation of jobs and revitalising local economies

Wording as published by the EP, in English.

1. Amendment 1Rejected

   Recital A

   Tabled by Georgiana Teodorescu · ECR

   … ensure that no one is left behind; whereas a fair transition alone Removed: could yield 261 billion euro per year in benefits, Added: could, possibly, yield, relative to the baseline EUR 260 billion in 2050, particularly by addressing social inequalities and regional Removed: disparities8 ; Added: disparities8; whereas the pathways of each affected region will be different, based on …

2. Amendment 2Rejected

   Recital E

   Tabled by Marlena Maląg · ECR

   E. whereas managing the shift Removed: to a carbon neutral economy should not only support transitions to new quality jobs in emerging sectors … on regions and industries dependent on fossil fuels is crucial as these Removed: will have to be redesigned to meet the Union’s climate commitments; Added: must be protected from deprivation; whereas it is important that everyone, including workers and jobseekers are Removed: supported Added: involved in managing transitions in order to Removed: foster understanding and acceptance and effectiveness of the goals of the 2050 long-term strategy; Added: build reasonable and acceptable solutions; whereas as shown by Eurofound Removed: research9 , Added: research9, broad involvement of civil society, social partners and public authorities in the …

3. Amendment 3Rejected

   Recital F

   Tabled by Marlena Maląg · ECR

   … whereas Europe’s economic transformation requires a strong focus on competitiveness and growth; Added: whereas a slowdown of the pace of the implementation of the climate-neutral goals is essential in this regard; whereas the Emission Trading Scheme must be abandoned; whereas entrepreneurs and job creators must be given the right conditions to …

4. Amendment 10Rejected

   Recital F a (new)

   Tabled by Sarah Knafo · ESN

   Added: F a. whereas preserving and strengthening the European industrial base is essential in order to avoid relocations, the loss of strategic productive capacities and an increased dependence of the Union on third countries;

5. Amendment 13Rejected

   Paragraph 10 a (new)

   Tabled by Séverine Werbrouck, Marie Dauchy, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión +3 · PfE

   Added: 10a. Stresses that, in the face of the structural decline in the working-age population in the Member States, only a proactive birth-rate policy at Member State level, supported by Union institutions, can provide a long-term solution to this vital challenge to the economic and social model of the Member States; further underlines that under no circumstances does the replacement of European workers with jobseekers from third countries constitute a sustainable solution, and that such immigration entails other currently underestimated risks, notably in terms of security and social cohesion; insists on the need to better assess the long-term consequences of the decline in the working-age population for the economic and social model of the Member States and invites the Member States to prioritise its statistical monitoring and the sharing of the resulting data;