8 Amendments of Siegfried MUREŞAN related to 2015/2353(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the current MFF, which was agreed in 2013, reflects the priorities of the Union at the time of adoption; whereas the EU will continue to face in the coming years challenges which were not foreseen when the MFF was approved; whereas EU's financing priorities have multiplied, while the MFF has remained unchanged;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas the EU must be able to respond to multiple challenges while continuing to address its long-standing priority of creating growth and jobs;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3 a (new)
Subheading 3 a (new)
Situation in the Eastern Neighbourhood
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Recalls that Russia's invasion of Ukraine has created and continues to pose serious security challenges to the EU and its Eastern Partners; stresses that these challenges must be addressed during the MFF revision by providing enhanced support to countries that are currently implementing Association Agreements, in order to advance reforms and ensure the deepening of the relations between the EU and the respective countries;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Underlines that, in response to this pressing problem, the new Commission in 2014 proposed an investment plan for Europe and the establishment of EFSI, with the aim of mobilising EUR 315 billion in new investment in the real economy; welcomes in this respect the adoption of EFSI, which will serve as one of the main tools for enhancing investments at EU level and will contribute to stimulating the creation of jobs; notes with satisfaction that a significant number of projects and EIF operations have already been approved and synergies between the EFSI and Horizon 2020 could be detected; calls on the Commission and EIB to ensure that geographical concentration is avoided and that all Member States benefit from EFSI; notes that the guarantee provided by the Union for EFSI is covered by a Guarantee Fund of EUR 8 billion constituted in the EU budget;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Recalls the build-up over the previous (2007-2013) MFF of a backlog of unpaid bills, which rose from a ‘normal’ level of EUR 5 billion at end 2010 to EUR 11 billion at end 2011, EUR 16 billion at end 2012, and EUR 23.4 billion at end 2013; warns that this backlog has spilled over into the current (2014-2020) MFF, reaching an unprecedented peak of EUR 24.7 billion at the end of 2014; stresses that, at the insistent request of Parliament, a payment plan has been agreed with the aim of reducing the backlog of outstanding cohesion policy-related payment claims for 2007-2013 to EUR 2 billion by the end of 2016; points out that at least EUR 8.2 billion of unpaid bills were identified at the end of 2015 for 2007-2013 in the field of cohesion policy, a figure which is expected to fall below EUR 2 billion by the end of 2016; notes that this decrease provides merely temporary relief as it is only the result of submissions of payable claims for both the 2007-2013 and 2014-2020 programmes being less than announced; regrets that no action has been undertaken to address the ‘hidden backlog’ identified under other headings; draws the attention that the situation of 2012-2014 might recur at the end of the current MFF if no concrete measures are taken;
Amendment 246 #
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 thehich will in fact lower the annual MFF ceilings ofin the last years of the period and thus create additional pressure on the EU Budget; 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;
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50
Paragraph 50
50. Underlines, however, that, especially for programmes under shared management in the field of cohesion policy and rural development, but also for other EU programmes, longer-term predictability is essential, given the time it takes to agree on sectoral legislation and operational programmes at national and regional level;