9 Amendments of Nikolaj VILLUMSEN related to 2020/0000(BUD)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that the 2021 Union budget is the first one under the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for 2021- 2027; stresses that the amounts allocated to the 2021 budget should match up to the expectations of Union citizenspeople living in the European Union in a post- COVID-19 Europe, fostering strong economic recovery, and should be aligned with the Paris Agreementensuring a socially sustainable and equitable recovery, fully aligned with the Paris Agreement’s objective of limiting the global temperature rise to 1,5 ℃ above pre-industrial levels and with the Green Deal objectives, and in particular thatose of becoming climate neutral by 205040 at the latest and achieving a socially just transition, while supporting the Member States that have suffered the most; calls on the Commission to assess the 2021 Union budget in the light of the provisions of this paragraph, and to make the appropriate corrections if they are not met;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the provision of the Solvency Support Instrument that stipulates that beneficiaries of financial support will be encouraged to put in place a green transition plan; is of the opinion that that provision should be mandatory and include an obligation to ‘do no harm’;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that the Union should also show global climate leadership through its budgeting; calls for an increased use of Union and international climate funding to protect and restore natural ecosystems as a way of achieving shared benefits between biodiversity and climate mitigation and adaptation; highlights that every effort should be made to ensure that the overall climate and biodiversity mainstreaming targets are reached as soon as possible; recallsbelieves that 50% of the Union budget should be allocated to climate and biodiversity spending; recalls in this regard Parliament’s position calling for 10 % of the Union budget to be allocated to biodiversity expenditures; points out that climate and biodiversity- related expenditure must be tracked using a more robust, transparent and comprehensive methodology; is of the opinion that the Taxonomy Regulation provides the proper framework to update that methodology based on the conservativeness principle, including having expenditure resulting in negative impact on climate and biodiversity count negatively towards the total allocation; is of the opinion that the Taxonomy Regulation provides the proper framework to update that methodology; believes it necessary, in this regard, to strengthen the framework by introducing a ‘brown’ taxonomy of investments that negatively impact climate and biodiversity and to extend it to all financial products;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Is especially concerned that the contribution to climate and biodiversity spending of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been grossly overestimated, as highlighted by the European Court of Auditors; takes note of the findings from the European Court of Auditors’ Special Report 13/2020 of the CAP 2014-2020 not having contributed to halt the decline in biodiversity; stresses in this regard the need to end all harmful agricultural subsidies, including campaigns promoting animal based products;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Stresses that the climate mainstreaming of the budget must happen in a way that is socially just, making sure that the burdens are carried according to the polluter pays principle and not placed on the most vulnerable people and communities; highlights in this regard the role of securing good and decent jobs for workers in affected sectors in ensuring a socially and environmentally sustainable recovery;
Amendment 25 #
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to implement green budgeting tools as of 2021; underlines in that regard the importance of effectiveapplying the ‘do no harm’ criteria to the entire Union budget and ensuring that it is 100% climate and biodiversity proofing of the budget;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Believes that further investment is needed for climate adaptation and mitigation; calls for the exclusion of public investments in climate and environmental action from the Stability and Growth Pact rule capping national borrowing at 3%;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Strongly believes that a rapid transition to renewable energy is an essential element of any European Green Deal; calls for an end to all subsidies for fossil fuels, including natural gas and nuclear power, as well as the infrastructure for these, and for funds to be diverted towards promoting a full transition to renewable energy;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Highlights that the 2021 Union budget should contain sufficient resources for the development of capabilities in dealing with pandemics in order to ensure the protection of Union citizenspeople living in the European Union, in particular for strategic material such as vaccines, treatments and medical devices; points out that the strengthening of the competencesapabilities, budget and staffing of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), as provided in the new MFF, should be reflected in appropriate budgetary measures as of 2021; calls on the Commission to guarantee that anti- pandemic vaccines and treatments become a global public good, freely accessible to everyone; calls on the Commission to ensure that the results of research funded by Union public money are not protected by intellectual property rights and that price accessibility to patients is guaranteed for the products developed;