6 Amendments of Catherine TRAUTMANN related to 2013/2157(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Strongly regrets that the Commission has failed to provide the European Parliament an exhaustive report on the implementation of the Growth and Jobs pact agreed in June 2012;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on Member States to make full use of the additional financing opportunities provided for by the European Investment Bank and new innovative financial instruments such as project bonds, as well as the new SME initiative to be launched in January 2014;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the fact that the low level of payment appropriations and the tight ceiling on payments remain a crucial problem for the EU budget, which has a particularly negative effect on economic recovery as late payments are harmful primarily to the direct beneficiaries; underlines moreover that this low level of payment in the EU annual budget is in total contradiction with the measures agreed by the co- legislators to increase temporarily EU co- financing rates of EU programs under shared management in Member states experiencing or threatened with serious difficulties with respect to their financial stability; recalls the need to ensure, in the light of implementation, an orderly progression of payments so as to avoid any abnormal shift of outstanding commitments (‘RAL’) onto the 2015 budget and, in this connection, to make use, where appropriate, of the various flexibility mechanisms included in the MFF Regulation; intends to continue its in- depth monitoring of the overall situation on payments, especially in relation to the very high amount of payments still needed for the completion of the programmes of the previous MFF;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Regrets once more that Member States keep on considering their contribution to the EU budget as an adjustment variable to their consolidation efforts which in turn lead to artificial reduction in the volume of payments available in the EU budget; calls on the Commission to take full account of this recurrent and dangerous trend when assessing Member states budgetary plans and to propose concrete actions to reverse it;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls its view that the fiscal situation of Member States can be eased through a new system of own resources to finance the Union budget that will reduce GNI contributions, thus enabling Member States to redirect these resources towardsmeet their consolidation efforts without jeopardizing EU funding to support investment in economic recovery and reform measures; underlines, therefore, the importance it attaches to the new high- level group on own resources, which should lead to a true reform of EU financing;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Deplores the fact that no real progress had been achieved over the past year on the debate on a ‘genuine Economic and Monetary Union’ and reiterates its belief that the European Semester can only be truly successful when embedded in the right structure; if embedded in the community method; reiterates that stronger economic cooperation should go hand in hand with an incentive based mechanism; considers that any additional funding or instruments, such as a solidarity mechanism , must be an integral part of the EU budget, but over and above the agreed MFF ceilings;