Activities of Petros KOKKALIS related to 2022/0212(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2023-all sections
Amendments (7)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the Union must be committed to obtaining a resilient, sustainable, socially fair recovery for all through the 2023 Union budget concluding the revised 2030 framework for Union climate, energy and environmental targets; calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure a smooth adoption and implementation of the files included in the ‘Fit for 55’ package to ensure that the Union is climate neutral by 2050 at the latest;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Stresses that the 2023 Union Budget should be 100% climate proof and consistent with the goal of limiting global warming to less than 1.5oC; believes that much further investment is necessary for climate action and that climate resilience needs to be built into long-term investments; underlines that financial instruments for delivering RepowerEU should fully exclude the financing of fossil fuels;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Reminds the importance of achieving climate and biodiversity mainstreaming targets in the Union budget and the European Union Recovery Instrument expenditures; in this regard insists on the need to track climate and biodiversity-related expenditure and welcomes the biodiversity tracking methodology upgraded by the Commission in view of the Union budget 2023; calls on the Commission to address the conclusions of the European Court of Auditors regarding overstated climate spending1 ; calls on Member States to ensure the integration of biodiversity in partnership agreements and operational programmes; calls on the Commission to enforce the climate adjustment mechanism to take corrective actions to address potential gaps in the achievement of climate spendi ng targets of individual EU spending prog rammes; _________________ 1 Special report of the European Court of Auditors: Climate spending in the 2014- 2020 EU budget
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Calls for immediate action and continuous work towards the achievement of the overall ambition of providing at least 30% of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and NGEU expenditure to climate objectives and 7.5 % of annual spending under the MFF to biodiversity objectives in the year 2024 and at least10 % in 2026 and 2027, revised upwards in the next MFF, while considering the existing overlaps between climate and biodiversity goals; expresses concern over the latest figures of the Statement of Estimates pointing at an imminent risk of falling way short of the biodiversity expenditure commitments for 2026 and 2027; deplores the fact that the share of the 2023 EU Draft Budget contributing to biodiversity is only 5.5%; recalls that 37% of the spending under Regulation (EU) 2021/241 should contribute to climate objectives;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Highlights the need to ensure that the do-no-significant-harm principle is mainstreamed in all Union activities through the budgetary implementation according to the Commission proposal for amending the Financial Regulation in line with the Union’s commitment to sustainable financing and the green transition; stresses that the implementation of the do-no-significant- harm principle in the EU budget should translate into the exclusion of any possibility to finance fossil fuel related infrastructure in all individual instruments of the EU budget;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Notes the need to ensure sufficient resources in the 2023 Union budget for the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)