5 Amendments of Barbara SPINELLI related to 2016/2120(BUD)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes the use of the Flexibility Instrument under heading 3 in the Draft Budget 2017 for an amount of EUR 530 million and recalls that this amount is the maximum one that can be mobilised in 2017 with this instrument with the current MFF rules;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Acknowledges that the financial impact of the current refugee, and migration and internal security crisessituation was not accounted for when the current MFF was adopted in 2014; stresses that the Flexibility Instrument has to be used according to the purpose for which it was created, for clearly identified expenses which cannot be covered by other Union budgetary resources;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that, even with the systematic mobilisation of the totality of the Flexibility Instrument under heading 3 in the coming years, the financial resources available will not be sufficient to tackle the increased needs; therefore considers as essential a fair distribution of funding according to priorities, fully transparency,t and accountability and wise spele funding;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 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 1b ;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 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 Budget 1b ; _________________ 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.