Activities of Maria Gabriela ZOANĂ related to 2018/2201(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Institute for Gender Equality for the financial year 2017
Amendments (11)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) was established in order to contribute and to strengthen the promotion of gender equality in the Union, including gender mainstreaming in all relevant Union policies and the resulting national policies, the fight against discrimination based on sex, and raising Union citizens’ awareness of gender equality, and welcomes the prioritising of the work on several areas with outputs of high quality and high visibility, without losing focus on gender mainstreaming;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Welcomes that the outreach of EIGE’s communication activities grew significantly in 2017 and its publications have received positive feedback from users, which contributed to spreading the messages of gender equality and raising the citizen’s awareness in the Union;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Welcomes EIGE’s participation and its valuable contributions of gender aspects in the European Justice and Home Affairs Agencies’ network;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1 c. Takes note that the EIGE has advanced on some recommendations of the External Evaluation(2015); welcomes EIGE’s effort to shift toward a project-led organisation which will increase internal synergies and promote knowledge sharing across the units; appreciates that EIGE has started to implement an action plan addressing the recommendations and calls on the Institute to further continue this process to improve governance and efficiency;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the ongoing cooperation between the EIGE and the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality and welcomes the EIGE’s contribution to the ongoing efforts of the Committee including on the study and promotion of gender budgeting and on gender aspects of Trafficking in Human Beings; welcomes in this respect in particular EIGE’s contribution to integrate to the Anti- Trafficking Directive and the Victims’ Rights Directive a gender perspective;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Points out the need of EIGE’s close cooperation not only with the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, but also with other parliamentary Committees in order to better realise gender mainstreaming in all policies and actions; calls for additional funding to be allocated to EIGE to increase the number of staffs, which will allow EIGE to provide assistance to its key stakeholders, for example, in implementing gender budgeting and other gender mainstreaming tools;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Welcomes the EIGE’s achievements in 2017, in particular its release of the Gender Equality Index 2017 (the Index), the development of harmonised definitions and indicators on gender-based violence, and its expanded gender mainstreaming platform and tools; appreciates the new feature of the Index which focuses on gaps among different groups of women and men and the fact that the Index will be updated on an annual basis since 2019; calls upon more methodological tools to be developed to better ensure gender mainstreaming in all policies and actions; calls on the Commission to include the Index in the European Semester as one of the monitoring tools;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Strongly recommends that EIGE, as the European Union expertise centre on gender equality, to be assigned to monitor the implementation of the Istanbul Convention;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Deplores the circumstances of constant risk of budgetary cuts and lack of human resources under which EIGE must work;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3 c. Appreciates the work of EIGE on the topic of digitalisation and welcomes its project focusing on work-life balance, the gender pay and pension gap, and the development of a gender-sensitive parliament tool;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6