10 Amendments of Angelika MLINAR related to 2015/2353(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recognises that gender equality is enshrined in the EU Treaty and should be included in all EU policies to deliver equality in practice; stresses that gender budgeting must become an integral part of the budgetary procedure at all its stages and the Commission should design and apply a gender budgeting methodology to the EU Budget; welcomes the MFF mid- term review as an opportunity to make significant progress, in light of the ‘Budget for Results’ agenda; expects the Commission, therefore, to present further measurable and realistic objectives in order to truly embed gender perspectives in the EU budget for the remainder of this programming period;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Points out that the implementation of Horizon 2020 and COSME has led to very high absorption rates and that this has led to a very low success rate in Horizon 2020 which deters potential applicants from putting forward their projects;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that, according to UNHCR data, since January 2016, 55 % of the refugees and asylum-seekers entering the EU have been women and children; calls for an MFF revision to look at financial tools aimed specifically at integrating women refugees and asylum-seekersas women and girls are disproportionally disadvantaged and at risk in situations of crisis and conflict, calls for an MFF revision to look at financial tools targeted at the specific needs of displaced women and girls, including for sexual and reproductive health services and combatting sexual and gender-based violence, in headings 3 (Security and Citizenship) and 4 (Global Europe);
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Believes that new political priorities should not be proposed at the expense of the agreed programmes of the current MFF, in particular H2020, CEF, COSME, Galileo and Copernicus, and pre-allocated national envelopes; Stresses that any new funds should be alimented with new funding, and should not go to the detriment of existing programmes;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that the gender budgeting exercise has revealed that the gender perspective is far from being assumed in all policies, at all levels and at every stage of the policy making process;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that the 2008 study to assess the feasibility and options for the introduction of elements of gender budgeting into the EU budgetary process commissioned by the European Commission Directorate-General for Budget confirmed that despite its unique features, the EU budget is suitable for gender budgeting and that gender budgeting can be applied at all steps of the budgeting process from the planning and preparation to the auditing and evaluation of the EU budget;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the budgetary authorities to establish the maximum possible flexibility to direct unused annual appropriations towards the programmes under Heading 1a, such as Horizon 2020, COSME and the Connecting Europe Facility;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Stresses that in order to be effective gender mainstreaming needs to be operationalised and supported through predictable funding and allocations;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that Union programmes have significantly contributed to ensuring access to finance for SMEs; calls for further consideration to be given to ways of extending the programme to even more SMEs and meeting the various needs of SMEs more adequately; Stresses that access to finance remains a challenge for many SME's, with a particular focus on risk-financing;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for the mid-term evaluation of the MFF programmes on the basis of their performance against stipulated targets and objectives, absorption capacity and EU added value, taking into account the still existing payment backlog and the late implementation of the current framework.