9 Amendments of Michal ŠIMEČKA related to 2022/2081(DEC)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes with concern that, despite the fact that Member States stepped up implementation of their national programmes in 2021, for both the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) and the Internal Security Fund (ISF) significant amounts remain undisbursed; deeplycalls on the Commission to step up its efforts towards assisting Member States in the effective implementation of their respective national programmes; regrets that its previous calls for splitting the AMIF lines by priority has not been followed up; stresses that such splitting could help increase transparency and accountability in budget spending and therefore reiterates its call to do so;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that a gender equality perspective should be integrated and ensured into all policy areas, particularly in light of the multiple gendered impacts of various ongoing climate, energy and social crises, including the backlashes against gender equality and women’s rights, especially sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), in several Member States and worldwide; reiterates therefore its call for the implementation of gender budgeting at all stages of the budgetary process;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Welcomes the adoption in 2021 of the EU Strategy to tackle Organised Crime 2021-2025, setting out tools and measures to disrupt criminal organisations across borders, both online and offline; further welcomes the Commission legislative proposals of 2021 in the area of anti-money laundring and the financing of terrorism, area in which the justice and home affairs EU decentralised agencies, bodies and other institutions have a fundamental role in the implementation of the relevant EU legislation;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the position of gender equality and mainstreaming as one of the horizontal principles for Union funds in the Multiannual Financial Framework for 2021-2027 and in the Recovery and Resilience Facility and calls for gender impact assessments, objectives and monitoring to be deployed as outlined in the ECA report;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the Commission's work on a new classification to measure the gender impact of Union spending; calls on the Commission to ensure that this classification focuses on an accurate and comprehensive representation of the impact of programmes on gender equality; recalls that women and men should benefit equally from the Recovery and Resilience Facility, in particular in the light of the Union’s gender pay gap of 13%;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Notes that by November 2021, 75% of the measures under the 2019 Commission Anti-Fraud Strategy had been implemented; calls on the Commssion to continue towards the full implementation of this strategy and to continue strengthening its cooperation with OLAF and the EPPO towards protecting the financial interests of the Union; reminds that prevention is a key aspect in the fight against crime against the financial interests of the Union and calls on the Commission to enhance the usability its prevention tools such as the Early Detection and Exclusion System (EDES), or the ARACHNE pre-detection tool, ensuring their better effectiveness through regular updates with reliable data from Member States; calls on the Commission to enhance its dialogue with the national authorities towards increasing the quantity and reliability of data fed to such systems by the Member States;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls on the Commission to strengthen the rule of law in the Union, and thus protect fundamental rights and gender equality, via the rule of law conditionality mechanism for access to EU funds;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Is deeply concerned about revelations regarding the Commission’s reaction to a rape which occurred in the institution in 2015 in which the Commission suspended the convicted and sentenced official but continued to pay his salary throughout the lengthy legal proceedings; calls on the Commission to strengthen the protocol to ensure that in such cases, the Commission should remove entirely the salary; calls on the Commission to add to its protocol the right to access to psychological and other support for victims; urges the Commission to ensure that all rules in place guarantee a zero-tolerance to any forms of misconduct and a full support for all victims; recalls the Commission’s duty to put in place all necessary policies to prevent and address all forms of harassment and violence.