Translation of "Manuel des indicateurs sociaux " (French → English) :

Social: employment and crew wages

Considers it regrettable that the employment and social indicators proposed by the Commission are insufficient to cover the Member States’ employment and social situations comprehensively; calls for the scoreboard to include additional indicators, in particular child poverty levels, access to health care, homelessness, and a decent work index, in order to allow for proper assessment of the social situation in the Member States; The indicators should after consultation of the Parliament be reviewed on a regular basis; whereas arrangements are lacking to ...[+++] ensure that the European Council respects the position of the European Parliament before it yearly adopts the priorities proposed by the Commission in the Annual Growth Survey;

4. Considers it regrettable that the employment and social indicators proposed by the Commission are insufficient to cover the Member States’ employment and social situations comprehensively; calls for the scoreboard to include additional indicators, in particular child poverty levels, access to healthcare, homelessness, and a decent work index, in order to allow for proper assessment of the social situation in the Member States; believes that the indicators should, after consultation of Parliament, be reviewed on a regular basis; points out that arran ...[+++]gements are lacking to ensure that the European Council respects the position of Parliament before its annual adoption of the priorities proposed by the Commission in the AGS;

3. Calls in this context on the Council to agree on the inclusion of social indicators in the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure, including indicators for youth unemployment; calls on the Council to agree in parallel on the development of a scoreboard of common social indicators including indicators for youth unemployment and comprising an alert mechanism for monitoring progress in Member States;

59. Recognises that social indicators lag behind environmental indices in terms of economic valuation and general specificity in many CSR initiatives; believes, notwithstanding the handbook on social procurement, that the EU itself has been too constrained in this area; calls for a study on ‘valuing social capital’ to give rise to a wide-ranging European-led debate on better integrating social impact into sustainable business management; supports funding for pilot projects to develop social ...[+++] indices, social ratings agencies and the practice of social auditing in some Member States and business sectors;

61. Recognises that social indicators lag behind environmental indices in terms of economic valuation and general specificity in many CSR initiatives; believes, notwithstanding the handbook on social procurement, that the EU itself has been too constrained in this area; calls for a study on ‘valuing social capital’ to give rise to a wide-ranging European-led debate on better integrating social impact into sustainable business management; supports funding for pilot projects to develop social ...[+++] indices, social ratings agencies and the practice of social auditing in some Member States and business sectors;