7 Amendments of Elżbieta KRUK related to 2019/2213(BUD)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Reaffirms the importance of programmes in the fields of education and culture and the need to provide adequate funding if they are to deliver on their increased ambitions, as well as to enable more participants to enjoy their benefits, particularly those with fewer opportunities or from remote regions; considers that cultural, educational and creative programmes have the capacity to both strengthen their social objectives with a special focus on inclusion while ensuring the level playing field, and can contribute to the EU’s goal of tackling global challenges such as economic growth, job creation and climate change;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines the value of Creative Europe in supporting the EU’s audiovisual, creative and cultural sectors; insists that funding levels match the ambition of the programme and that the 2021 budget be in line with the demand to double funding for Creative Europe under the next MFF; underlines that the creative and cultural industries (CCIs) are an important part of the EU economy and their adequate funding will contribute not only for the necessary and needed cultural spread, but also for economic growth;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Insists that the adequate funding of the Creative Europe programme is accompanied by a restructuring of the way the funds are distributed, and notably with a focus on artistic quality with lower administrative burdens;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines that all relevant areas of the budget need to contribute to the overall goals of the European Green Deal and the UN Sustainable Development Goals; recalls in this context the importance of the introduction of a Just Transition Fund to address societal, socio-economic and environmental impacts on workers and communities adversely affected by the transition from coal and carbon dependence, and to foster economic diversification in the territories concerned; calls for soliincreased financing of the fund taking into account that a specific allocation of €4.8 bn was made before the announcement of new climate ambitions enshrined in the European Green Deal;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses the importance of the Connecting Europe Facility as a key instrument to reach the goals of the Energy Union and to facilitate the Union’s commitment under the Paris Agreement and calls for adequate appropriations for the programme, in particular for its energy strand;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the need for an ambitious draft budget, in particular for new programmes such as the Digital Europe Programme, which need to become operational as soon as possible in order to help make the EU more competitive; stresses the importance of adequately funding of AI research and innovation in a broad spectrum of programmes in order to capture the full potential of current and future generations of digital tools with a special concern for a challenge of a relatively low AI-readiness in some Member States;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to guarantee timely appropriate level of payments in order to ensure efficient implementation of programmes, which are otherwise often adversely affected by delays in providing grants and payments.