11 Amendments of Rasmus ANDRESEN related to 2021/0227(BUD)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the draft budget for 2022 as the first general budget with full implementation of the MFF Agreement, with the highest including the relative share of climate- relevant EU expenditure to date and a significantand the contribution to the EU’s digital transition; considersstresses again that theis budget should be fully aligned with the Paris Agreement and the European Green Deal, ultimately contributing to achieve the revised 2030 EU climate, energy and environmental targets and the objective of making the EU climate-neutral by 2050 at the latest and, in turn, prompting the updated New Industrial Strategy; stresses that 2022 should be a year for boosting a rapid recovery for a socially, environmentally and economically resilient Europe;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Urges, in light of the climate emergency and the alarming findings of the 6th IPCC Assessment Report, for a substantial increase of the climate expenditure in the 2022 budget and to use available margins and flexibility instruments to strengthen the Union’s programmes supporting the ecological, energy and resource-efficient transition; believes, moreover, that the Union funds spent for harmful projects or false climate solutions, such as ITER, which has accumulated substantial technological delays and costs overruns, should be redirected into the development and deployment of energy- and resource- efficiency measures and sustainable renewable energy solutions that are already available or will be available in the near future in order to deliver the EU climate and energy goals;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Reiterates its call for the phase-out of harmful subsidies and for coherence between all Union funds and programmes; insists that projects and programmes which are inconsistent with the objective of limiting global warming to under 1.5oC, or with the objective of halting and reversing biodiversity loss, should not be eligible for support under the Union budget;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1 c. Demands that all infrastructure investments are in line with the ‘energy efficiency first’ principle and resilient to adverse climate change impacts, and that they contribute to the objective of limiting global warming to under 1.5 C; calls for the integration of GHG emissions in the mandatory cost-benefit analysis over the lifecycle of the project against the most likely baseline and the explicit consideration of related additional investments and lock-in effects to avoid stranded assets;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1 d. Welcomes the dedicated focus in the Commission's performance reporting on climate and biodiversity mainstreaming and calls on the Commission to refine and develop it further; reminds the Commission to fully involve the Parliament; emphasizes that the Commission needs to establish the effective methodology, in particular for tracking halting and reversing biodiversity loss, before the presentation of the draft budget for 2023 in order to ensure that the target set out in the IIA of 16 December 2020 for 2024 can be met effectively; reminds that the implementation of the principle as regards biodiversity must go beyond the full respect of relevant Union acquis; calls on the Commission to assess whether the national recovery and resilience plans collectively put the Union on track towards achieving the 7,5% biodiversity spending target by 2024 (and 10% in 2026 and 2027) and to report the assessment to Parliament;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1 e. Reminds that the implementation of the Green New Deal requires the MFF and NGEU funding to be awarded exclusively to activities in line with the 'do no significant harm' principle and consistent with the Paris Agreement goal to limit the temperature rise to under 1.5oC; expects that the next performance report includes details on how the Union budget contributes to the Green New Deal, in particular though the implementation of the 'do no significant harm principle'; stresses that the guidance published for the RRF should be seen as the standard for all other expenditures of the same nature, in particular must serve as a basis for the partnership agreements;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1 f. Underlines the importance of enhancing the protection of the Union budget and NGEU against fraud and irregularities; welcomes the introduction of standardised measures to collect, compare and aggregate information and figures on the final beneficiaries of Union funding, including on beneficial owners of the recipients and contractors; calls on the Commission to ensure full application of these new measures on all levels of budget implementation and to monitor closely their effectiveness in view of detecting fraud;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights the need to further support research and innovation in the context ofas a driver for prosperity in the context of the recovery from the current pandemic and the EU’s green and digital ambitions; Calls for making available to Horizon Europe Programme the research decommitments from 2020 in line with Article 15(3) of the Financial Regulation; calls for the expenditure on health research from the Union budget to be at least equal to that in the 2021 general budget, given the evolving pandemic situation; calls for allocation of Next Generation EU funds to sectors hard hit by the crisis and to instruments that can contribute directly to the recovery of the European economy; while spurring the ecological and sustainable digital transition of the European economy; believes that the digital transition should itself facilitate and contribute to the green transition and highlights the importance of further greening of the ICT sector;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Regrets the lack of ambition of draft budget for 2022 in regards to SME policy; underlines that withoute need for additional support it will not be possible to address adequately the severe, long-term consequences of the crisis on SMEs.and to enable SMEs and micro-enterprises in particular to take full advantage of the opportunities arising from the Green Deal and to successfully and swiftly take up green practices, products, processes and services;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for sufficient staffing for all agencies in line with their tasks and responsibilities; underlines in particular the need to substantially reinforce ACER, EUSPA and the EIT which have been understaffed for many years while more tasks were conferred to them through recent legislation; welcomes the addition of new establishment plan posts in the EUSPA, but calls for a gradual reduction of external personnel in order to prevent disruptions in security related activities.
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Recalls its plea for promoting gender equality and equal rights and opportunities for all in the Union budget; highlights that special efforts are needed to ensure that the Union budget catalyses gender-equal ecological and sustainable digital transitions; stresses the importance of targeting, in particular, the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and the field of ICT and space sectors; expects the commission to swiftly come up with its methodology to measure the contribution of each relevant programme to gender equality, in line with the inter-institutional Agreement accompanying the 2021-2027 MFF, taking on board the European Court of Auditors' recommendations1a; _________________ 1aSpecial report N10/2021:"Gender mainstreaming in the EU budget:time to turn words into action. https://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADoc uments/SR21_10/SR_Gender_mainstream ing_EN.pdf