6 Amendments of Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK related to 2017/2053(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that the report of the High Level Group on Own Resources (HLGOR) put forward new proposals, including reforming the VAT own resource and the EU emissions trading system, a CO2 levy, transport taxation, electricity taxation and revenues deriving from the digital single market; emphasises that the introduction of new ORs could lead to greater policy coherence between the revenue and expenditure sides of the budget and stresses that, in spite of these proposals, the Member States’ contributions must remain a key own resource;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses that the EU needs a stable form of own resources and notes that punitive duties, for example, cannot therefore be foreseen as income and are not, for the same reason, suitable as predictable sources of income;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Points out that these new types of ORs are essential to finance more recent Union prioritienew Union tasks such as migration, internal security and defence and to offset the expected loss in revenue of EUR 9 to 12 billion a year which could result from Brexit; notes also that new ORs are needed to avoid the potential spending cuts to the common agricultural policy (CAP) presented in the Commission’s ‘Reflection Paper on the Future of EU Finances’;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that an indirect boost to income is also possible through simplification of, and reducing red tape in, the common agricultural policy;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls for the funding which was allocated via the financial discipline mechanism in the agricultural sector but was not used to be made available in its entirety in the coming budgetary year as direct payments;