Activities of Pascal DURAND related to 2018/0166R(APP)
Legal basis opinions (0)
Amendments (9)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph –1 (new)
Paragraph –1 (new)
-1. whereas under Article 8 of the TFEU the EU is committed to promoting equality between men and women and ensuring gender mainstreaming in all of its actions;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that reform of the revenue side should go hand in hand with reform of expenditure and of rebates and corrections, in order to increase the European added value of EU expenditure by ensuring a visible link between expenditure and EU policies and priorities, and by supporting EU policies in the key areas of EU competence which demonstrate high potential for European added value, such as the protection of fundamental rights, the single market, migration and asylum policies, the promotion of gender equality, environmental protection and climate action, energy union, common defence policy, and the reduction of fiscal heterogeneity in the single market, as recommended in the Monti report1 ; _________________ 1 Final report and recommendations of the High-Level Group on Own Resources on the future financing of the EU, adopted in December 2016.
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that EU spending should be given the appropriate flexibility and be the subject of proper democratic scrutiny and accountability, which necessitates the full involvement of Parliament in every phase of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) Regulation decision-making process in respect of its prerogatives as co- legislator; calls, therefore, to move the qualify majority voting in the Council and for closer dialogue between the Council and Parliament when negotiating the next MFF before the Council formally submits for Parliament’s consent its proposal for the MFF Regulation, and warns against the European Council’s usual top-down approach of setting the overall ceilings per heading rather than assessing the actual needs of the programmes first;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Stresses the importance of maintaining post-Brexit budgets at the same level in terms of volume as the 2020 budget;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Reiterates its intention to closely examine all elements of the proposal concerning the rule of law conditionality clause and to introduce the necessary provisions to guarantee that the final beneficiaries of the Union budgeconsiders that suspending EU spending in a Member State should only happen as a last resort and in accordance with Article 7 TEU; proposes that the rule of law conditionality clause should consist in temporarily suspending the principle of shared management can in no way be affected by breaches of rules for which they are not responsibled allow the EU Commission, in close cooperation with regional and local authorities, to directly manage EU funding;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Recalls that gender equality is enshrined in the EU Treaty and should be included in all EU activities so as to deliver equality in practice; stresses that gender budgeting must become an integral part of the MFF by including a clear commitment in the MFF Regulation;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Stresses that the next MFF should take full account of the commitments made by the EU in the context of COP 21;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the fact that the Commission’s proposed new own resources categories that are linked to policies with a high European added value, with the aim not of increasing the overall tax burden for citizens, but of reducing the burden on national treasuries and generating an awareness, among citizens, ofgenerating an autonomous EU budget which demonstrates the added value of European integration; considers, however, that the proposal lacks ambition and autonomous EU budget which demonstrates the added value of European integrationsks to explore other sources of new own resources such as in environment and climate, in transport, in tax justice and the fight against tax avoidance.