4 Amendments of Salvador GARRIGA POLLEDO related to 2014/2020(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas Parliament has continuously called for the EU budget to be financed wholly by genuinefinancing of the EU budget to return to a genuine system of own resources, as stipulated in the Treaty; whereas it has regularly highlighted the shortcomings and limits of the existing system of own resources, the lack of transparency and high complexity of which make it totally incomprehensible to European citizens, who ultimately bear the consequences;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas national contributions to the EU budget, which based on GNI amount nowadays to around 8574 % of the total EU revenue, cannot be considered as a genuine own resource as they simply constitute transfers from national treasuries; whereas this situation has reinforced, over decades, the logic of ‘fair return’ that has also clearly prevailed in the conclusions of the European Council of 7-8 February 2013 on the MFF 2014-2020 and has largely prevented a structural reform of the EU budget;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the High-Level Group on Own Resources aims at producing a first assessment of the current system’s shortcomings by the end of 2014, with a final outcome in 2016 to be assessed at an inter-institutional conference inwith the presenceactive participation of national parliaments; whereas the High-Level Group shallould examine all aspects of the reform of the own resources system with a view of providing the Commission with the necessary means to propose a successful reform for the period covered by the next Multiannual Financial Framework;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Places high expectations on the work of the High-Level Group on Own Resources, which it believes offers a unique opportunity to overcome the current blockage of the reform of the system of own resources; strongly regrets that the High-Level Group has not yet started its work; calls for its inaugural meeting to be convened without delay, in complianceorder to comply with the objectives and the calendar set out in the joint declaration establishing the High Level Group on Own Resources annexed to the MFF (2014-2020) regulation;