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European Parliament
2019-2024
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
2021/2226(BUI)
26.1.2022
COMPROMISE AMENDMENTS
1 - 9
Draft report
Committee on Budgets
(PE703.025v01-00)
Guidelines for the 2023 Budget – Section III
(2021/2226(BUI))
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2/12
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Amendment 1
Dragoş Pîslaru
Compromise amendment replacing amendments 4, 5 and 6
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

Draft opinion
Amendment
1.
Points to the economic recovery in
1.
Points to the economic recovery in
2021 and expected further growth in 2022;
2021 and expected further growth in 2022;
notes nonetheless uncertainty in the
notes that 2023 will continue to be an
economic outlook, in the light of factors
important year for the social and
such as supply chain disruption, high
economic recovery from the crisis
energy prices, rising inflation and the
following the COVID-19 pandemic with
continuing COVID-19 pandemic; recalls
nonetheless uncertainty in the economic
therefore that the 2023 Union budget will
outlook, in the light of factors such as
play an important role in strengthening the
supply chain disruption, high energy
Union economy, ensuring that no one is
prices, rising inflationsignificant social
left behind, and in fostering economic,
impact such as rising unemployment and
social and territorial cohesion;
poverty and the continuing COVID-19
pandemic; notes that in this social
landscape of growing inequalities,
women, children, young people and the
elderly are especially affected by the
various precarious socio-economic
situations caused by the COVID-19
pandemic and are exposed to the risk of
being left behind; stresses that social and
employment related challenges caused by
the pandemic have had a disproportionate
impact on some Member States, regions
and social groups, impacting the most
vulnerable ones and affecting the labour
market
; recalls therefore that the 2023
Union budget will play an important role in
strengthening the Union economy and
competitiveness
, ensuring just transition,
social justice and resilience so 
that no one
is left behind, and in fostering economic,
social and territorial cohesion and upward
social convergence
;
Or. en
Amendment 2
Dragoş Pîslaru
3/12
EN

Compromise amendment replacing amendments 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

Draft opinion
Amendment
2.
Commits therefore to working to
2.
Commits therefore to work towards
adopt a future-oriented budget that matches
the adoption of a future and investment-
the Union’s political priorities, ensuring a
oriented budget with a strong social and
stronger Health Union, making a success of
economically sustainable dimension that
the green and digital transitions and
matches the Union’s political priorities,
fostering the recovery, including increased
and the six pillars of the Recovery and
support for SMEs, promoting the rule of
Resilience Facility, ensuring a stronger
law and its application, contributing to
Health Union, leaving no one behind in
greater opportunities for young people
the green and digital transitions and
throughout the Union, and ensuring a
fostering an inclusive, sustainable and
stronger Europe;
resilient recovery, including increased
support for SMEs, promoting the rule of
law and its application, investing in the
new generations and 
contributing to
greater opportunities for young people and
for the most deprived and other
disadvantaged groups, such as children,
LGBTIQ+ families, single parent families,
persons with disabilities, migrants and
refugees and Roma people 
throughout the
Union adapting to the imminent labour
market changes with the support of well-
equipped public employment services,
preserve and create quality and
sustainable employment with full respect
of labour rights and decent employment
and working conditions, contributing to
the fight against poverty, and reducing
social exclusion, inequalities and
discrimination, in particular affecting
children and youth, as well as greater
social inclusion of older people
, and
ensuring a stronger, more resilient and
competitive 
Europe based on strategic
autonomy and sovereignty
;
xOr. en
Amendment 3
Dragoş Pîslaru
4/12
EN

Compromise amendment replacing amendments 23 and 27
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

Draft opinion
Amendment
3.
Welcomes the priority given to
3.
Welcomes the priority given to
Union health policy and highlights in that
Union health policy and highlights in that
connection the EU4Health programme and
connection the EU4Health programme and
Cluster Health in Horizon Europe; notes
Cluster Health in Horizon Europe;
that the budget for preparedness activities
acknowledges recent data1 depicting how
by the Health Emergency Response
mental well-being has reached its lowest
Authority is drawn from those programmes
level across all age groups of Europeans
and from the Union Civil Protection
 since the beginning of the pandemic;
Mechanism, and expresses deep concern
notes that the budget for preparedness
that this could compromise the attainment
activities by the Health Emergency
of other important health objectives;
Response Authority is drawn from those
stresses the need to ensure adequate
programmes and from the Union Civil
funding for the Beating Cancer Plan;
Protection Mechanism, and expresses deep
concern that this could compromise the
attainment of other important health
objectives; stresses the need to ensure
adequate funding for the Beating Cancer
Plan and highlights in this context the
importance of EU legislation laying down
minimum standards in occupational
health and safety and in ensuring the
highest technically possible protection for
workers
Stresses the need for the
Commission to secure sufficient staffing
in order to meet its tasks as regards health
and safety at work, and notably to prepare
an action plan covering at least 25
additional occupational exposure limits
and ensure legislative follow up without
delay.

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Amendment 4
Dragoş Pîslaru
Compromise amendment replacing amendments 24, 25, 26
1 https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/report/2021/living-working-and-covid-19-update-april-2021-
mental-health-and-trust-decline-across-eu-as-pandemic
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Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

Draft opinion
Amendment
4.
Recognises the importance of other
4.
Recognises the importance of other
Union programmes, including the
Union programmes, including the
Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), in
Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), in
providing investment in health measures
providing investment in health prevention,
and infrastructure and stresses the need for
resilient healthcare systems and
synergies between those activities and
infrastructureand stresses the need for
EU4Health; recalls also the importance of
synergies between those activities and
steady implementation and access to
EU4Health; recalls also the importance of
technical assistance for Member States
steady implementation and access to
with low administrative capacity;
technical assistance for Member States
emphasises that the decentralised health
with low administrative capacity;
agencies should be adequately funded;
emphasises that the decentralised health
agencies should be adequately funded in
order to be able to fulfil their mandated
tasks and responsibilities; and calls for
transparency as regards public
investments
; x
Or. en
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Amendment 5
Dragoş Pîslaru
Replacing amendments 29, 30, 31,32, 33, 34
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

Draft opinion
Amendment
5.
Acknowledges that implementing
5.
Acknowledges that implementing
the Green Deal and achieving the Union’s
the Green Deal and achieving the Union’s
emission reduction goals will require
emission reduction goals requires urgent
massive investment, whilst stressing that
and massive investment including to adapt
the cost of inaction would be much higher;
industrial production facilities and to
emphasises that the Union budget is at the
improve related infrastructure, whilst
heart of efforts to make a just transition
stressing that the cost of inaction would be
towards a greener and more resilient Union
much higher; emphasises that climate
in which no one is left behind; in that
measures should be accompanied by
regard, highlights the need to fully
adequate social policies including social
implement the Just Transition Mechanism;
infrastructure, not least to support the
creation of decent and sustainable jobs,
the reskilling and upskilling of workers fit
for jobs in the just transition highlights
the urgency of adopting instruments that

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prevent vulnerable groups from suffering
any negative social consequence that
might arise from the implementation of
the Green Deal climate actions; insists
that in order to design new generation
game changer policies, social and
environmental policies and objectives
must be given the same importance as
economic ones; emphasises that 
the Union
budget is instrumental to make a just
transition towards a greener and more
resilient Union in which no one is left
behind; stresses the importance of policies
and measures to support labour market
transition and the need to strengthen the
competitiveness of our economies in the
context of the green and digital
transitions; 
in that regard, highlights the
need to fully implement the Just Transition
Mechanism in full complementarity with
other instruments, such as the European
Social Fund + and the upcoming Social
Climate Fund to accompany the most
vulnerable people in this transition, be it
in terms of labour market inclusion or
with respect to their capacity to invest in
more efficient energy devices
;
Or. en
Amendment 6
Dragoş Pîslaru
Compromise amendment replacing, 37, 38 39, 40
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

Draft opinion
Amendment
8.
Considers it essential to Union
8.
Considers it essential to Union
competitiveness to further digitalise the
competitiveness to further digitalise the
economy and the public sector; believes
economy and the public sector while
that a successful digital transition requires
overcoming fragmentation and ensuring a
research and innovation efforts under
level-playing field for all economic actors,
Horizon Europe, significant investment in
ensuring labour rights and decent jobs for
digital infrastructure through CEF-Digital,
all workers, including for non-standard
and support in areas such as artificial
and platform workers and fully respecting
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intelligence and cybersecurity through the
the GDPRacknowledges the advantages
Digital Europe Programme; points to the
brought by digital transformation and
need to tackle the digital skills gap by
artificial intelligence in regards to the
promoting advanced digital skills;
creation of new jobs; stresses, however,
that automatisation and artificial
intelligence (AI) might also lead to loss of
jobs and disruptions in the labour market
and recalls the need for adequate
protection of workers affected by these
changes and the need to ensure decent
working conditions and the right to
disconnect especially in the context of the
growing use of AI and telework; stresses
the need for unemployment prevention
mechanisms and professional
reconversion tools to be made available to
workers in order to sustainably support
the digital transition as well as
investments in improving related
infrastructures, connectivity, network
security, and the future organisation of
work; 
believes that a successful digital
transition requires research and innovation
efforts under Horizon Europe, significant
investment in digital infrastructure through
CEF-Digital, and support in areas such as
artificial intelligence and cybersecurity
through the Digital Europe Programme;
points to the need to tackle the digital skills
gap by promoting advanced digital skills
and equal access to such education and
training programmes, not least by
ensuring that EU funds target advanced
digital skills are in line with the socio-
economic needs of the future labour
market; notes the need for investment in
digital skills also for older people and
people living in remote areas;

Or. en
Amendment 7
Dragoş Pîslaru
Compromise amendment replacing 59,60,61,62, 63, 64
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Draft opinion
Paragraph 12

Draft opinion
Amendment
12.
Recognises that the COVID-19
12.
Recognises that the COVID-19
crisis has had a severe negative impact on
crisis has had a severe negative impact on
young people and has led to lost
young people, in particular on their
opportunities and diminished prospects;
mental health and has led to lost
believes strongly that the 2023 budget
opportunities, less employment
should include a focus on youth, building
perspectives, precarious work situations,
on the momentum of the 2022 European
financial insecurity and diminished
Year of Youth; highlights the importance
prospects; believes strongly that the 2023
of Erasmus+, which should become more
budget should include a focus on youth
inclusive, offering greater opportunities to
and assess the impact on youth across
people from disadvantaged backgrounds;
policy areas and offer possibilities to
support them in new challenges that the
pandemic has brought to them, especially
as regards mental health
, building on the
momentum of the 2022 European Year of
Youth and the European Pillar of Social
Rights; 
highlights the importance of the
Reinforced Youth Guarantee and
Erasmus+, which should become more
inclusive and accessible, offering greater
diversity and 
greater opportunities to
people from minorities, such as Roma
people or with a migrant background, the
LGBITQ+ community, people with
disabilities or from disadvantaged
economic backgrounds;

12a. Underlines in this context the
importance of reforming national
education programmes and strengthening
EU action in this area by making sure
that training and education systems and
programmes and workers’ qualifications
are adapted to the needs of the economy
and the society; underlines the need for
policymakers at both EU and national
level to ensure sustainable and quality
learning and training and to facilitate and
support young people (re-) entering and
staying in the labour market, accessing
good quality housing, and completing
their educational trajectory and
developing skills, including digital and
green skills ;

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12b Calls on Member States and the
Commission to make combating youth
unemployment a priority, in particular as
part of the European recovery effort,
allocate adequate funding to the
implementation of the reinforced Youth
Guarantee and make sure that available
financial instruments under the
NextGenerationEU are fully used; calls
on all Member States, not only those the
most affected by youth unemployment, to
continue to invest in the RRF and allocate
sufficient ESF+ resources in measures
and reforms to support quality youth
employment, including in upskilling and
lifelong learning;

Or. en
Amendment 8
Dragoş Pîslaru
Compromise amendment replacing 66, 67, 68 and 69
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13

Draft opinion
Amendment
13.
Points also to the need to bolster the
13.
Points also to the need to bolster the
European Solidarity Corps (ESC), which
European Solidarity Corps (ESC), which
helps young people gain practical
helps young people gain practical
experience in another Member State
experience in another Member State
thereby increasing their employability and
thereby increasing their employability and
life chances; recalls the importance of
life chances as well as their pro-EU
activities for young people under the
sentiment;
European Social Fund Plus, in particular
with regard to training, and the RRF;

Or. en
10/12
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Amendment 9
Dragoş Pîslaru
Compromise amendment replacing 58, 76, 78, 79, 80 , 81
Draft opinion
Paragraph 24

Draft opinion
Amendment
24.
Recalls  that  the  Commission  must
24.
Calls for a mainstreaming of
implement, no later than 1 January 2023 and
gender responsive budget to better align
for certain centrally managed programmes,
policies and activities that promote the
a  methodology  to  measure expenditure
equal participation of women in the
relevant to the promotion of gender equality
labour market and to have comprehensive
as well as rights and equal opportunities for
systems to monitor and measure gender
all;
budget allocationswomen participation
in the labour market, access to non-
standards contracts, and employment and
pay gaps; Calls for the implementation of
gender budgeting in the general budget
2023 by assigning budget allocations
taking into account a gender-responsive
evaluation of the previous budgetary
period and ensuring equal participation
in the budgetary process; 
recalls that the
Commission must implement, no later than
1 January 2023 and for certain centrally
managed programmes, a methodology to
measure expenditure relevant to the
promotion of gender equality as well as
rights and equal opportunities for all;
recalls the importance of ambitious
funding and other instruments that
promote the support of anti-
discrimination legislation and policies
and the implementation thereof; requests
in this regards increased funding for the
Daphne Programme; underlines the
important role played by the European
Institute for Gender Equality and the
need to ensure adequate funding and
staff for its tasks;

Paragraph 24 a (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
24a.
Recalls  that  women have  been
particularly  negatively affected  by  the
pandemic in  terms  of  health  risks,  job
losses, 

pre-existing 
unemployment
inequalities,
precarious 
working
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conditions and  care  responsibilities, and
are  more  at  risk  of  suffering  the
employment and social fallout of the crisis
as  the  gender  gap  widened  during  the
pandemic;

Stresses  that  employment
headline target adopted in Porto can only
be achieved by adopting ambitious targets
at  national  level  to  include  women  in  the
labour 

market; 
strongly 
promotes
solutions  to  stop  direct  and  indirect
discrimination affecting women, and calls
for adequate funding to support measures
for  the  promotion  of  equality  and  equal
access to the labour market;

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