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dcterms:Date	"2007-06-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Portability of supplementary pension rights (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20070620.2.3-014"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-06-20-Speech-3-0152
lpv:speaker	lp:Luigi Cocilovo2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2004-12-09--2009-07-13)3 unknown; La Margherita (2004-07-21--2008-02-06)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2006-06-15--2009-07-13)3 member; EMPL (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; TRAN (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 vice-president; European Parliament (2007-01-16--2009-07-13)3 vice-president; Parliament's Bureau (2007-01-16--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	". Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, it also gives me pleasure to thank the rapporteur, as well as the many Members who have worked as shadow rapporteurs, for their efforts and their work on this highly complex issue. I would like, however, to be clear on the fact that the complexity escapes nobody. Nobody is unaware of the distinctions between the various types of fund: redistribution funds, capitalisation funds, defined contribution and defined benefits funds, funds that are actually company funds and funds managed through the accumulation of contribution reserves on the company’s books. It is therefore difficult to find solutions which do not take account of this high degree of differentiation. It is also true, however, that on this issue we all ought to have shown greater consistency. I refer in particular to the Council, which in my view is turning into a bog that sucks in and smothers all Parliament’s efforts to make balanced and consistent progress on social issues. This is true, for example, with regard to the Working Time Directive and the directives adopted by Parliament on the regulation of temporary employment agencies. To the extent practicable we have made some progress, although of course we have had to accept inevitable compromises, if not outright butchery, but we have not made any progress at all on portability. Once again the problem is being postponed. On this point, we hope that those timid but positive steps forward designed to guarantee some minimum threshold requirements are not swept away too. These include, for example, the pension entitlement conditions for workers covered by the second pillar, the conditions for the reimbursement of contributions paid on behalf of workers exiting schemes before acquiring vested pension rights, and the conditions regarding the treatment of workers exiting schemes who leave their contributions within the fund, insofar as there is in substance a postponement of the payment of benefits, but there are already acquired rights relating to equity in these benefits. On these points, in some cases the minimum thresholds identified in the report are still subject to criticism or have been questioned. In the future we will have to take a different approach to tackle problems like these – one that ensures that we can offer workers involved in mobility issues at least the certainty that they will not be discriminated against or penalised. I believe, however, that any solution that falls below the thresholds indicated would be so negative that the traumatic solution of a rejection within Parliament would be preferable. We hope that at least the compromise reached between these thresholds can be maintained in relations with the Council."@en1

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