Activities of Gunnar BECK related to 2022/0212(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2023
Amendments (9)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that the budget should continue to support the post-pandemiclockdown recovery, building on the lessons learned from the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) and from audits and investigations by OLAF, Europol and DG ECFIN into fraud, corruption and conflicts of interest;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Considers that the budget should ensure the transparency of the RRF, including by setting up a publicly accessible online tool that allows Union citizens to identify the final beneficiaries of the RRF funds; therefore calls on the Council to reach an agreement with the Commission and the Parliament to publish the lists of final beneficiaries.
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Considers that the budget should guarantee adequate funding for Europol and OLAF to detect misuse of RRF funds by Member States, public officials and final beneficiaries, and to recover funds where fraud, corruption and conflicts or interests are detected;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the budget should ensure appropriate financial support for the economies of Ukraine and the Union in the context of the war in order to make the Union economiesy and financial systems more resilient;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the provision of adequate resources for the coordination and surveillance of macroeconomic policies, for the fight against financial crime, money laundering and, tax evasion and terrorist financing, for the implementation of the OECD agreement on corporate taxation, for the enforcement of competition law, and for compliance with the economic governance framework;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls for adequate resources to be allocated to DG Competition to investigate compliance with EU competition rules in RRF funding; regrets, in this regard, that DG ECFIN cannot guarantee that RRF funding does not benefit oligarchic structures;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Emphasises the need to stimulate sustainable growth while supporting green and digital transformations, structural reforms to modernise the Union economies and access to finance and capital markets for SMEs and retail investors through information, investor protection and transparency;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for the budget to support the completion of the Capital Markets Union, including by enablingenable an economic environment which will improve access to finance for SMEs, start-ups as well as green and digital innovative businesses and support investment in innovation;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for adequate resources for the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) given the increased tasks and powers included in the ESAs review and sectorial legislations, including in the field of digital and sustainable finance.; regrets that probing investment projects for greenwashing does not fall within the scope of Europol's mandate; calls on the ESAs to prioritise such probes in 2023;