Traduction de «Commission des régimes de retraite de l'Ontario » (Français → Anglais) :

With me this morning is Erik Leicht, chair of the pension committee for the Ontario Professional Fire Fighters Association, which is the IAFF affiliate here in the province of Ontario, with a membership of over 9,800 members. Also with me this morning is Rick Miller, the firefighters' representative to the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, or OMERS.

12. Stresses the importance of combating indirect discrimination in pension schemes, not only in occupational schemes but also in the practices of statutory pension schemes; emphasises that the CJEU has made it clear that occupational pension schemes are to be considered as pay and that the principle of equal treatment therefore applies to those schemes as well, despite the fact that the distinction between statutory and occupational pension schemes is problematic in some Member States and that the concept of occupational pension schemes is unknown in others, potentially leading to indirect discrimination in the labour market; recognises that women’s access ...[+++] to occupational pension schemes is more restricted, owing to shorter working hours, shorter length of service and horizontal and vertical gender segregation in the labour market, and the gender pay gap, and that contribution-based schemes rarely take care-related breaks and involuntary part-time work into account; calls on the Commission to examine the impact of the shift from statutory state pensions towards occupational and private schemes on the gender pension gap; calls on the Commission to monitor closely and report on the implementation of this principle, as the transposition has proved to be unclear in some Member States;

10. Observes that the first-, second- and third-pillar pension schemes in Member States differ significantly from one another, that the EU lacks a set of common criteria, definitions and an in-depth analysis which would thoroughly explain the various pension systems and their capacity to meet the needs of citizens and that there is therefore a lack of transparent supervision applicable to all systems; stresses that the EU should primarily enhance the comparability of pension schemes and promote the exchange of good practices; is of the opinion that the Commission needs to make the necessary efforts to come up with a typology of pension ...[+++] systems in Member States as well as with a common set of definitions in order to make systems comparable;

27. Strongly criticises the Commission's orientation that funded schemes shall be given a new boost by ‘strengthening the internal market for pensions’ – not only for occupational pension schemes, but for a wide variety of private pension funds, life insurance and the like - which obviously shall inform the proposed review of the Directive concerning the Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision (IORP); strongly criticises that the IORP Directive opened service provision for occupational pension schemes to competition and he ...[+++]avily liberalised requirements on prudential regulations;

18. Calls on the Commission to carry out a comparison between the current pension systems in the European Union and to provide for studies on the operation and impact, in terms of sustainability and security, of funded pension systems, pay-as-you-go pension systems and combined systems; recalls in this respect the recommendation of the high-level group on social protection to examine occupational and fully funded pension schemes in the light of the criteria of a fair balance of risk, equality for women, solidarity and equal distribution of incomes, and in addition analyse the effects of the volatility of financial markets on these syste ...[+++]ms;

17. Calls on the Commission to carry out a comparison between the current pension systems in the European Union and to provide for studies on the operation and impact, in terms of sustainability and security, of funded pension systems, pay-as-you-go pension systems and combined systems; recalls in this respect the recommendation of the high-level group on social protection to examine occupational and fully funded pension schemes in the light of the criteria of a fair balance of risk, equality for women, solidarity and equal distribution of incomes, and in addition analyse the effects of the volatility of financial markets on these syste ...[+++]ms;