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"Mr President, I welcome this report; I certainly think it was an appropriate follow-on from last year, the European Year of Volunteering.
The report contains a number of very important proposals, first of all, that the ILO Manual on the Measurement of Volunteer Work should be adopted by Member States. This would give us good, robust and comparable data across the EU which could be used by policy makers for making decisions. One of the figures which we already have from the UN satellite accounts is that volunteering contributes between 1% and 5% of GDP. That certainly indicates that not only is it a social good, it is an economic good.
Speaking of the economy, it is absolutely essential that, in these times of austerity, there is no adverse impact on voluntary organisations. They need a certain level of assistance and they have shown that they deliver value for money. For every one euro invested in volunteering, there is a return of between EUR 5 and 8. We must also remember that, while volunteer time is unpaid, it is certainly not cost-free.
So two of the proposals in the report – those on matching funding and VAT exemption – deserve our support."@en1
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