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Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Is of the opinion that the amounts entered in the Draft Budget (DB) 2015 for heading 1b to cover the minimum needs and objectives of cohesion policy as set by the Union in the Treaty and in the policy legislative framework for 2014-2020 are insufficient;deleted

2014/09/05
Committee: REGI

Bill ETHERIDGE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Is of the opinion that the people of the UK, as a net contributor to the EU can ill afford further contributions to these projects. When British people are forced to use foodbanks in increasing numbers and are seeing essential services cut.

2014/09/05
Committee: REGI

Bill ETHERIDGE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Notes with concern the decrease in payment appropriations under heading 1b by 5,0% to EUR 51 601,9 million over 2014, while the so-called increase in commitment appropriations of +3,6% stems mainly from the proposed mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument in 2015 to address the situation of Cyprus;deleted

2014/09/05
Committee: REGI

Bill ETHERIDGE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Is of the opinion that all payment appropriations are reduced to zero on any projects that do not directly benefit the UK. The tax payers of the UK do not wish to see their money redistributed in this way.

2014/09/05
Committee: REGI

Bill ETHERIDGE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Notes with concern that, while the proposed level of payment appropriations will be mainly dedicated to covering outstanding commitments and the winding down of programmes, the Commission declares that the payments backlog will continue to grow and is expected to reach around EUR 18 billion at the end of 2015, even if DAB No 3/2014 is approved;deleted

2014/09/05
Committee: REGI

Bill ETHERIDGE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. We propose that all funding lines, which are not benefitting the UK are scrapped. With the current level of over spending by this committee we will not support further projects that the people of the UK will not benefit from and cannot afford in this time of austerity.

2014/09/05
Committee: REGI

Bill ETHERIDGE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

~~5. Notes with concern that the Commission seems to be unable to honour all payment requests. Calls on the Commission to provide all necessary details if resulting delays in payments occur.~~deleted

2014/09/05
Committee: REGI

7 Amendments of Bill ETHERIDGE related to 2014/2040(BUD)

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