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"Mr President, firstly I would like to thank the rapporteur, Madam Arena for her good cooperation on this dossier. I believe we have come forward with a good document which broadly reflects the political priorities of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. I sincerely hope that the Commission will take full consideration of these priorities in their forthcoming proposals.
Now this report is against a background of a failed attempt so far at agreeing an updated modern Maternity Leave Directive and, of course, in the expectation of a new proposal from the Commission on work-life balance and hopefully some kind of carers leave directive. Indeed, I was encouraged to hear the Commissioner talk about a new start for parents and carers.
Today we are assessing the implementation of the Parental Leave Directive. Some of the political messages we put forward include: family rights, including parental leave, are equal in terms of individual rights and accessibility. Secondly, we believe that these rights should be individualised, as far as possible, and that a significant part of the leave should be transferable. But we have left some flexibility for Member States in conjunction with social partners.
I believe this is a reasonable and a sensible approach, it allows us to strongly indicate our position in regard to gender equality and work-life balance without insisting how individuals lead their lives. We are sending a strong political message, but we are giving some choice.
We call for a paternity leave directive; we say it is essential and urgent. We ask Member States to extend the period of parental leave, currently at four months; that is, in particular, for parents of children with disabilities. This is very important and recognises the special circumstances which those parents face. We also call on the Commission and the social partners to increase the age of the child for which parental leave can be taken; again this builds in flexibility and allows for a life cycle approach.
We welcome the fact that some Member States have gone beyond the minimum provisions and enabled same-sex couples, and parents of adopted children, to benefit and we recognise the need to extend that. Finally, we recognise the need for fully compensated family leave."@en1
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