23 Amendments of Martina DLABAJOVÁ related to 2015/2353(INI)
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines that the employment rate in the EU currently stands at 69.2 %, which is well below the Europe 2020 target, and calls for increased public and private investment in job creation and skills;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Insists onNotes that the coentinuation ofre envelope earmarked for the Youth Employment Initiative and calls for the resources for this initiative to be provided until 2020was frontloaded in 2014-2015 and that the figures available indicate full absorption to date; stresses the importance of continuing providing resources for the Youth Employment Initiative until 2020 if the assessment of the Court of Auditors in 2017 will demonstrate efficiency of the funds used and the achievement of the objectives of the programme;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – introductory part
Paragraph 5 – introductory part
5. Considers that a review of the MFF in 2016 should take stock of a number of serious crises and new political initiatives, together with their respective budgetary consequences, which werecould not be anticipated at the time of the MFF’'s adoption; notes, inter alia, the migration and refugee crisis, external emergencies, internal security issues, the crisis in agriculture, the funding of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), the persistent high level of unemployment, especially among young people, and the payment crisis in the EU budget; observes that, in order to finance the additional pressing needs, an unprecedented recourse to the MFF’'s flexibility mechanisms and special instruments was deemed necessary, as the MFF ceilings proved to be too tight in some headings; considers that, over the past two years, the MFF has essentially been pushed to its limits; in these conditions, the Budget of the European Union will be able neither to further address additional financial needs and new political priorities, nor to avoid the resurgence of a payment crisis;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that the Court of Auditors’ report on ‘EU Youth Guarantee - Implementation in Member States’, due to be completed at the beginning of 2017, will provide a clearer assessment of the programme’s results; considers that, inter alia, analysis of the efficiency and the long-term results should be outlined in the report;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Notes the persistently high levels of youth unemployment in many Member States; calls on Member States to make use of the possibility to include NEETs in EGF applications where relevant and to promote entrepreneurship among young people as a mechanism to encourage job creation;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Emphasises that the policies for poverty reduction and social inclusion among vulnerable groups have failed to produce the expected results and calls for increased financial aid to social services and the social economympact assessments and value for money analysis to find the reasons for this failure; calls on the Commission and Member States to promote and support the social economy and calls on Member States to ensure the provision of adequate social services;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Draws attention to the huge problem of child poverty in Europe, which is afflicting over 20 million children, and reiterates its call for the establishment of a Child Guarantee with dedicated special resources, together with; notes that between 2008 and 2014 24 EU countries saw an increase in child poverty; emphasises the need for a strong focus on alleviating child poverty in all relevant ESF programmes and the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived along with targeted interventions and programmes to assist parents in getting out of social exclusion and unemployment;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Underlines that while, according to the MFF regulation, the Global Margin for Commitments should be dedicated in priority to the Youth Employment Initiative, it has been mostly redirected, so far, to the European fund for Strategic Investments;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Underlines that the EU budget makes a significant contribution to the fight against unemployment, especially through the European Social Fund and the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI); stresses that despite the initial delays in the designation of national authorities and the implementation of the YEI, the current figures indicate full absorption capacity; notes that an evaluation of this initiative will soon be concluded, and expects that the necessary adjustments will be introduced to ensure its successful implementation and its extension to the mobility of apprentices;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Recalls the recent terrorist attacks in France and Belgium and the increased threat levels in other Member States, which call for more coordinated actions and reinforced actionmeans at EU level; underlines that the Union already has the Internal Security Fund as an appropriate instrument and has several agencies operating in this field; considers that more European action, and therefore funding, will be needed in this area to provide will be needed, as well as new initiatives, especially the enlargement of the missions and the reinforcement of the staff of the relevant adequate response to this threatgencies and the interconnection and interoperability of various European databases;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Is convinced that, while fully confirming the notion of large-scale political and financial support for EFSI, the EU budget should not be financing new initiatives to the detriment of existing Union programmes and policies; intends to deliver on its commitment to fully offset the EFSI-related cuts affecting Horizon 2020 and CEF, in order to allow them to accomplish their objectives as agreed only two years ago and to allow the EU to reach its research and innovation targets; stresses that this compensation should not be proposed at the expense of other important programmes of the current MFF (in particular COSME, Galileo and Copernicus); considers that an upward revision of the ceilings under sub- Heading 1A is required;
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Strongly supports the continuation of the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI), as a means of ensuring an urgent response in the fight against youth unemployment, following the necessary adjustments brought about by the ongoing evaluation; considers that this can only be achieved through the provision of an adequate level of commitment appropriations for the YEI for the remaining years of the current MFF; notereminds that this should entail an upwards revision of the ceilings of Subheading 1b, as no margins are availablee global margin for commitments, to be made available over and above the ceilings established in the MFF, should be directed, in priority, for youth employment;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Considers that the magnitude of the migration and refugee crisis goes to show that additional needs with significant budgetary consequences may be expected to arise in the coming years; asks the Commission to draw up as soon as possible an updated estimate of the budget required, by the end of the current MFF, to meet all the challenges of migration pressure (safe and rescue, interception, reception, registration, control, accommodation, transportation, relocation, resettlement, return, integration), the implementation of a genuine European asylum system, the common management of external borders and the internal security of the Schengen area; underlines, moreover, that the need for internal security in the EU and the fight against terrorism should be included in all the budgetary projections and are expected also to necessitate additional funding to back up reinforced action at EU level; is of the firm opinion that, even with the mobilisation of the small margins available under Heading 3 (Security and Citizenship) and existing flexibility provisions, the resources available will not be sufficient to tackle the increased needs under this heading; calls, therefore, for significant reinforcements for the AMIF and the Internal Security Fund, as well as for the Union agencies operating in the field, as well as (FRONTEX, EASO, EUROPOL, EU-LISA, FRA) to ensure the proper functioning of their missions and appropriate staffing levels, and urges for other initiatives that canwill be undertaken not to be funded at the expense of existing programmes and agencies; considers that an upward revision of the ceilings under Heading 3 is required;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Expects that concerted action to effectively respond to the external dimension of the migration and refugee crisis will intensify over the coming years, and will be accompanied by increased requests for funding under Heading 4 (Global Europe); underlines that such requests for additional funding should not be deployed to the detriment of the EU’s existing external action, including its development policy; calls, therefore, for a significant reinforcement of appropriationn upward revision of the ceilings under this hHeading 4;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. EReminds that payments appropriations are the orderly consequence of past commitments; expects, therefore, that new reinforcements in commitment appropriations will be accompanied by a corresponding increase in payment appropriations, includingand considers that an upward revision of the annual payments ceiling if necessarys required; considers, moreover, that the mid-term review/revision of the MFF provides an excellent opportunity to take stock of payment implementation and updated forecasts for the expected evolution of payments up to the end of the current MFF; believes that acalls for a binding joint payment plan for 2016-2020 shouldto be developed and agreed between the three institutions and enshrined in the Interinstitutional agreement of 2 December 2013 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary matters and on sound financial management;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
Paragraph 42
42. Attaches particular importance to the Contingency Margin, as a last-resort instrument for reacting to unforeseen circumstances; stresses that, according to the Commission, this is the only special instrument that can be mobilised only for payment appropriations and thus to prevent a payment crisis in the EU budget as in 2014; deplores the fact that, contrary to the previous period, a compulsory offsetting of the appropriations is stipulated in the MFF Regulation; is of the firm opinion that this requirement creates an unsustainable situation with regard to the MFF ceilings of the last years of the period; stresses that the Contingency Margin is in any event a last- resort instrument, whose mobilisation is jointly agreed by the two arms of the budgetary authority; calls, therefore, for the rule of compulsory offsetting to be lifted immediately with retroactive effect, as well as for an upward revision of its maximum annual amount to 0.05% of EU GNI;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42 a (new)
Paragraph 42 a (new)
42a. Stresses that the rigid structure of the Union budget deprives the budgetary authority of the possibility of reacting adequately to changing circumstances; calls, therefore, for allowing the transfer of available margins between headings at qualified majority in Council, with the aim of fully exploiting the MFF ceilings;
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42 b (new)
Paragraph 42 b (new)
42b. Welcomes the creation of an emergency support instrument within the European Union and takes note of the solution proposed by the Commission as a matter of urgency, while repeating its strong concerns as regards its exclusion from the decision-making process as well as the foreseen termination of this instrument by the end of 2018; Considers that a more sustainable legal and budgetary framework should be envisaged in order to allow for emergency aid within the Union to be mobilised in the future, meant at responding to crisis and unforeseen situations, should by its very nature be covered by special instruments and be counted outside the MFF; calls, consequently, for this instrument to be perpetuated in the form of a new MFF flexibility mechanism;
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47 a (new)
Paragraph 47 a (new)
47a. Reminds that, at a time of scarcity of resources and erosion of the European citizens' confidence and belief in the EU project, it is important to show the added- value of EU budget delivery; believes that bringing the performance culture at the heart of the EU budget should constitute the roadmap of the inter-institutional working group on performance-based budgeting, which conclusions should be taken into account by the Commission in its legislative proposal for the post 2020 MFF, at the latest;
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51
Paragraph 51
51. BInsists on the need to ensure the synchronisation with the EU institutional cycle, its democratic responsibility, accountability and popular legitimacy and believes that, also given the rapidly changing political environment and with a view to ensuring greater flexibility, some elements of the MFF should be agreed for five years while others, notably those related to programmes requiring longer- term programming and/or policies foreseeing complex procedures for the establishment of implementation systems, should be agreed for a period of 5+5 years with compulsory mid-term revisionand match with the duration of the European Parliament legislature;
Amendment 323 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54
Paragraph 54
54. Calls for the phasing-out of all forms of rebates and for the introduction of one or several new own resources, ideally with a clear link to European policies that create added value; notes that a large number of possible new own resources have already been discussed by the High Level Group, and eagerly awaits its recommendations;
Amendment 357 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 62
Paragraph 62
62. Calls on the Member States to reach a rapid agreement on the next MFF, and on the sectorial regulations accompanying the MFF, in order to allow all new programmes to start without delay on 1 January 2021;
Amendment 358 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 62 a (new)
Paragraph 62 a (new)
62a. In addition, to better inform national parliaments and European citizens of the importance of programming approach, the European Parliament and the Commission should organize, when appropriate, an inter- institutional and inter-parliamentary conference in which the challenges of the next MFF will be exposed as well as the outline of the negotiations;