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"en.20120612.15.2-275-000"2
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"Volunteering has a long tradition in many Member States of the European Union. Volunteers make an inestimable contribution to major sports events, just as volunteer fire brigades make an immense contribution to firefighting. In the social sphere, many assistance services would be impossible without the countless hours put in by volunteers. Given the fact that not even the EU emergency number is well enough known, for instance, in the case of a child abduction, it seems to make little sense to introduce a dedicated EU portal for volunteering. Furthermore, the establishment of a ‘European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps’ and the development of a ‘European Skills Passport’ will most likely only result in additional bureaucracy and enormous costs, for which reason I voted against. It is much more important that we should tackle the detrimental effects of the Working Time Directive on voluntary activities, such as on volunteer firefighting – which, under the case-law of the European Court of Justice, is defined as working time in the form of on-call time and readiness for work – so that volunteers in numerous voluntary organisations can once again carry on their work legally."@en1
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