Activities of Monika VANA related to 2019/2213(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
Opinion on Guidelines for the 2021 Budget - Section III
Amendments (14)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas Article 8 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union states that ‘in all its activities, the Union shall aim to eliminate inequalities and promote equality between men and women’, thus estipulatingablishing the principle of gender mainstreaming which stipulates that gender equality must be incorporated into all EU policies;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the Council of Europe defines gender budgeting as a ‘gender based assessment of budgets incorporating a gender perspective at all levels of the budgetary process and restructuring revenues and expenditures in order to promote gender equality’; whereas the purpose of gender budgeting is to promote accountability and transparency in fiscal planning, to increase gender responsive participation in the budget process, for example by undertaking steps to involve women and men equally in budget preparation, and to advance gender equality and women’s rights;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas inequality is a growing problem in the EU, and whereas an increasing percentage of the EU budget must be spent on developing social rights and access to public welfare services, with a specific focus on improving gender equality, including for LGBTI+ persons, and the situation of women and girls;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the Commission should maintain sufficient funding levels for programmes aimed at supporting women’s rights, such as the Rights, Equality and Citizenship (REC) and Values Programme, with a special focus on non-discriminationgender equality and gender mainstreaming instruments and the prevention of gender- based violence;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls that gender budgeting is one dimension of a broader gender mainstreaming strategy and points out the importance of implementing gender mainstreaming in all the stages of the policy cycle;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for greater synergies between the instruments available to advance gender equality and improve the work-life balance; reiterates the need for greater efforts to support the mostwomen who are put in a more vulnerable womesituation, including women with disabilities, single mothers and migrant, ethnic minority and sexual minorityLGBTI+ women;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Regrets that the Commission’s proposal on the Common Provisions Regulation did not include gender equality as an ex-ante conditionality as required under EU Structural Funds for the previous programming period; requests that the 2021 budget allocated to EU funds governed by the Common Provisions Regulation strictly respects and promotes gender equality;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Reaffirms its request for increased resources under the EU Structural Funds to uphold women’s economic and social rights, especially through measures to increase women’s participation in the labour market and investment in high- quality public care services;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Reiterates its call to maintain the sub-programme ‘Women in rural areas’ as part of the Common agricultural policy and for a specific budget allocation to that end;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for spending on gender equality to be traced and for proper indicators and a dedicated methodology to be established, particularly as regards the fight against gender-based discrimination, violence, sexual harassment and women’s access to sexual and reproductive health and rights; calls for regular monitoring, taking into account those indicators, and for gender-sensitive reviews of the programmes and spending;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for the EU to increase the budget allocation for civil society organisations that promote women’s rights in Europe and the Global South; through the Values Strand in the Rights and Values programme and also through NDICI; stresses the importance to ensure funding for small NGOs that work on the field;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses the increasing backlash against gender equality and women’s rights and the importance of NDICI to combat this situation; regrets that the Commission did not include a specific programme on gender equality in their proposal and calls for ambitious and specific budget allocations to support women human rights defenders and the protection and promotion of sexual and reproductive health and rights;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Reiterates its call to allocate 20% of the funds under NDICI to projects with gender equality as principal objective and 85% of the funds to projects with principal or significant objectives linked to gender equality;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Recalls that a very significant number of refugees and asylum seekers entering the EU are women and children; highlights that gender mainstreaming is also among the founding principles of the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) and reiterates its call for the gender dimension to also be taken into account in migration and asylum policies by allocating specific funds dedicated to prevent gender-based violence and ensuring access to health and sexual and reproductive health and rights;