4 Amendments of Barbara SPINELLI related to 2016/2118(BUD)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that additional financial needs are likely to arise in relation to the migration, and refugee and internal security crisessituation in 2017 and recalls that no more margin is available under the ceiling of heading 3 while the Flexibility Instrument has already been used up in its entirety for 2017; therefore, requests the Commission to clarify if and how additional funds could be possibly mobilised using the Contingency Margin to respond to possible additional financial needs for heading 3 during the course of 2017;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. NotWelcomes the proposals of the Commission to mobilise an additional EUR 2,55 billion under heading 3 over the period 2018-2020 as part of the MFF mid- term review/revision; recalls that immediate response is needed to the security, migration and refugee crisessituation and considers it important that full transparency of payments and regular monitoring/reporting of the expenditure are ensured by all actors involved.
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Reiterates its belief that Union funding for reception and integration of migrants and asylum seekers should be substantially increased, as opposed to the priority which is given today to border control and other costly security measures, such as administrative detention, which have not shown their effectiveness and often contravene the rights of migrants; calls on the Commission, primarily, to allocate additional resources for earmarked specific actions to Member States that volunteer for actions focusing on the reception and integration of migrants and asylum seekers, as proposed in the LIBE opinion for the 2016 Budget 1a . _________________ 1a §1 of EP budget opinion 2016
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Recalls that the fair and transparent distribution of funding between the different objectives of the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (Fund) was a priority for Parliament during the negotiations leading to the adoption of Regulation (EU) No 516/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council1a, which established the Fund; calls on the Commission to increase the number of budget lines under the Fund accordingly, in order to facilitate a better readability and transparency of how the financial resources allocated to the different objectives and thus to those budgetary lines will be spent; calls on the Commission, in particular, to separate expenditure on enhancing fair return strategies from expenditure on legal migration and promoting the effective integration of third-country nationals in all future draft budgets as proposed in the LIBE opinion for the 2015 Budget1b; _________________ 1aREGULATION (EU) No 516/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 establishing the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund, amending Council Decision 2008/381/EC and repealing Decisions No 573/2007/EC and No 575/2007/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Decision 2007/435/EC (OJ L 150,20.5.2014,p. 168). 1b §12 of EP budget opinion 2015.