Activities of Monika VANA related to 2020/2140(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2019, Section III – Commission and executive agencies
Amendments (5)
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that women’s rights and a gender equality perspective should be integrated and ensured into all policy areas; reiterates therefore its call for the implementation of gender mainstreaming, including the implementation of gender budgeting at all stages of the budgetary process;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is concerned that in its internal spending review of the current Union programmes, the ECA found that gender equality had not been mainstreamed across the Union budget in the same way as climate change or biodiversity and that instead, specific programmes, mainly those tackling employment and social issues, had been used to address discrimination based on gender; regrets that there is no methodology in place to track the spending dedicated to gender equality; welcomes the Court’s decision to examine gender mainstreaming in the Unionbudget and to publish the audit report in the first quarter of 20211 ; _________________ 1 https://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocu ments/INAP20_03/INAP_Gender_equality _EN.pdf
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the fact that gender equality and mainstreaming has been introduced as one of the horizontal principles for Union funds in the new Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for 2021-2027, stipulating that gender equality and gender mainstreaming will now be prioritised in the MFF; regrets that gender mainstreaming was already included in a joint declaration attached to the MFF for 2014-2020 but was not fully implemented; expects the Commission to take its commitments seriously in the future;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Welcomes the commitment to develop a methodology to track spending on gender equality and requests the Commission to ensure that the methodology will be designed by the end of 2021 to make it operative as soon as possible;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Reiterates its request for the Commission to include an independent budget line for all measures specifically targeting gender equality, including on gender-based violence, which will be a first step to increase transparency, facilitate the tracking of gender related spending and have an open decision- making process on the funds allocated to gender equality in which the Parliament should play a fundamental role in its capacity as budgetary authority;