Activities of Angelika MLINAR related to 2018/2046(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2019
Amendments (11)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the European Union is founded on, inter alia, the value of gender equality between men and women and Article 8 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union states that the promotion of such equality is a fundamental principle of the Union, requiring gender equality to be incorporated into all its policies and activities and addressed at all levels of the budgetary process via gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas Gender budgeting is an application of gender mainstreaming in the budgetary process and means a gender based assessment of budgets, incorporating the gender perspective at all levels of the budgetary process and restructuring revenues and expenditures in order to promote gender equality 1a __________________ 1a https://rm.coe.int/1680596143
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas gender-responsive budgets and related policies aimed at contributing towards achieving gender equality lead to more sustainable and inclusive growth and employment and increase transparency and accountability of public expenditure;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas international organisations such as the IMF strongly promote gender responsive budgeting as a good governance standard tool in public finance and consider gender budgeting as good budgeting; whereas the OECD recognizes gender budgeting as a key tool to implement gender equality in the context of public finance; whereas the joint declaration of the EP, the Council and the Commission attached tothe2014- 2020 MFF commits the three institutions to “integrating, as appropriate, gender responsive elements in the EU budget” but whereas the Commission's "Strategic Engagement for gender equality" 2016- 2020states that ”Gender budgeting is not applied systematically to the EU general budget";
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas the EU is committed to promoting gender equality and equal opportunities and whereas women and men should therefore equally benefit from public funds and services; but whereas despite the EU’s high level political commitments to gender equality and gender mainstreaming, spending decisions do not take gender equality into account in all policy areas;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Is committed to safeguard the promotion and protection of gender equality and women’s and girls’ rights in the 2019 budgetary procedure; calls on the Member States and the Commission to integrate the gender-equality perspective in the entire process for the 2019 Budget so that public budget revenues and expenditures advance gender equality and women’s rights;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Is concerned that despite strong inter-institutional and political statements, gender equality objectives are not explicitly stated in EU budget documents nor taken into account in all stages of the budget process and that over the past years, tracking of budgetary commitments for the promotion of gender equality has become impossible due to the deletion of specific budgetary lines for gender equality; Stresses the necessity of linking gender equality goals with dedicated budgetary allocations; adds that these allocations should serve both mainstreaming and targeted actions as the dual approach is key to positively impact gender equality;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Stresses that ‘a modern, focused EU budget’, cannot be achieved without a clear and comprehensive gender perspective that is key to enable better and more evidence-based decision-making, which in turn contributes to ensuring an effective use of public funds and EU added value in all its actions;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the need to increase resources for combating all forms of violence against women and girls, as well as gender-based violence against LGBTQI people, including by reinforcing the Daphne funding within the framework of the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme for the period 2014 to 2020, as well as ensuring thallocating sustainable and adequate funding is made available for actions aimed at the effective implementation of the Istanbul Convention;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Urges the Commission to prioritise investment to support and protect Human Rights Defenders, and specifically women human rights defenders, who face unique gender-based obstacles and threats in their work, by giving them visible political support and recognition, in particular by means of urgent grants under the EIDHR emergency fund for human rights defenders at risk;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Considers that with a view to reaching its commitments to achieve SDG 5 and in particular its target to ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights (SRHR), the Commission should include earmarked funding for SRHR, including family planning, through an explicit SRHR budget line or by designating SRHR as an objective under its various budget lines such as health, education, youth empowerment, human rights, gender;