17 Amendments of Vlad GHEORGHE related to 2021/0227(BUD)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. Whereas the Union transport and tourism sector iss are essential for Union’s economic, social and environmental development and its sustainability and for ensuring the territorial accessibility and connectivity of all regions of the Union, with particular attention for peripheral, rural, mountainous, insular and outermost regions and other disadvantaged areas;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. Whereas transport and tourism will be key to achieving climate neutrality by 2050; whereas sufficient investment is needed to accelerate the shift to sustainable and smart mobility in line with the Green Deal;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. Whereas tourism is an essential sector for the EU economy, as its fourth largest export industry, and plays an important role in fostering its competitiveness, employment and social well-being; whereas Europe’s tourism sector has been severely hit by the COVID crisis, registering an investment gap of EUR 161 billion in 2020, with drastic impacts across the entire system, notably for the 27 million of workers employed directly and indirectly in the tourism sector;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Believes that the Union budget must be equipped with the tools to enable it to respond to multiple crises simultaneously; reiterates Parliament’s view that the 2022 budget should play a pivotal role in ensuring a positive and tangible impact on citizens’ lives; against this background, supports increases to boost investment with a particular focus on SMEs, strengthen efforts towards the green and digital transitions, give fresh opportunities to young people in particular, build a strong European Health Union; reinforces, further, priorities in the fields of security, migration, fundamental rights, while acknowledging the recent deteriorating situation in external policy and humanitarian aid and the need to be able to react swiftly to the upcoming challenges; emphasises the leading role that the European Union must play in ending the pandemic by financing vaccination through COVAX in the low income countries;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. Whereas the EU’s Vision Zero objective sets the goal to reduce road deaths by 50% until 2030 and achieve zero fatalities by 2050; whereas investments in road safety are a key element of the EU’s Strategic Action Plan on Road Safety; whereas the persistent high road fatality numbers suggest that more investment should be provided to guarantee road and user safety;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights that appropriate funding for transport projects will be instrumental in boosting EU recovery and advancing towards the green and digital transition; calls on the Commission and Member States to use the available financial tools - including, but not limited to CEF, RRF, Cohesion Fund, InvestEU, ERDF - in an articulate and complementary way to maximise their effect on recovery while ensuring adequate long-term funding of EU transport projects, including the projects aiming at the reduction of transport- related environmental impact, such as air pollution monitoring;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Highlights the need to use EU financing for information materials and training of transport workers, particularly truck drivers, in order to enable them to react to safety threats;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Calls on the Commission to dedicate additional resources to the fight of cargo theft, the theft of vehicles and other criminal activities putting in danger the lives of transport workers;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. [02 03 01] Reiterates the crucial role of CEF in fostering the development and timely completion of a high performance trans-European network (TEN-T) that is sustainable and interconnected across the areas of transport, energy and digital services infrastructure; regrets in that regard the proposed reduction of the CEF-transport budget in 2022 compared to 2021 and to the levels observed in the previous Multiannual Financial Framework; underlines the need for the increased use of CEF for providing resources for safe and secure parking areas in the EU; requests the Commission to allocate additional resources for the certification and safety control in parking lots;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the role of the Recovery and Resilience Facility and related national plans in stimulating the recovery in the transport and tourism sectors; insists on the need for proper parliamentary scrutiny of its implementation; in full cooperation with regional and local authorities and all related stakeholders;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Emphasises that youth remains an overarching priority for the Union budget; reinforces therefore funding to meet increasing demand for the Erasmus+ programme by a total amount of just over EUR 137 million, as a 5% increase represents an additional 40,000 mobility exchanges; calls the Commission to present a draft amending budget so that the unspent funds from the 2021 budget should be carried over into the 2022 budget in order to help students regaining the missed opportunities due to the pandemic, so that we do not have a lost generation for Erasmus; furthermore increases the European Solidarity Corps by EUR 5 million as the economic crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic should not adversely affect support for the youth;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27 a. Regrets that the increase for EPPO budget in 2021 voted by both arms of budgetary authority is not respected the Commission; reiterates the fundamental role that EPPO plays in protecting the financial interests of the Union, including the use of funds from Next Generation EU, as well as ensuring the respect of the rule of law; invites the Commission to clarify the blockade of the 7.3 million euro and to ensure that the budget for 2021 and 2022 of EPPO will be fully respected and implemented;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Strongly objects to Council’s cuts to the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) as the agency must be adequately equipped and its staff upgraded to enable it to deliver in all areas of responsibility falling under its new mandate; decides, however, to place EUR 90 000 000 into the reserve subject to the recruitment of the remaining 20 fundamental rights monitors at AD grade, the recruitment of the three deputy executive directors and the adoption of a procedure for the implementation of Article 46 of Regulation 2019/18969 ; _________________ 9Regulation (EU) 2019/1896 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 November 2019 on the European Border and Coast Guard and repealing Regulations (EU) No 1052/2013 and (EU) 2016/1624 (OJ L 295, 14.11.2019, p. 1).
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 a (new)
Paragraph 39 a (new)
39 a. Highlights the need to ensure appropriate staff level to Europol as of the beginning of 2022, in line with relevant Commission proposal; Stresses that in the absence of the adoption of Europol’s revised legal basis by the end of 2021, the reserve retained on the agency's budget may lead to delayed recruitment of staff allocated to the Agency in 2022 which is required to ensure the preparation for an efficient implementation of Europol’s revised legal basis and mandate.
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44
Paragraph 44
44. StressDeplores the ineed to support developing countries in improvquality of vaccination coverage ing their health systems and world; therefore stresses the need to enable accessing to COVID-19 vaccines in developing countries, particularly through the COVAX initiative, as well as supporting the improvement of their health systems; decides, therefore, to earmark the amount of EUR 1 billion under the emerging challenges and priorities cushion of NDICI-Global Europe in 2022 to this effect, including the NDICI carry- over funds from year 2021, as well as a further EUR 100 million under the line “People - Global Challenges” in addition to the pledges already made by the Commission in 2021, including the extra 200 million doses announced at the State of the Union; requests that Member States fulfil with urgency the COVAX pledges already made and invites them to commit additional EUR 2 billion, either to COVAX or in vaccine doses, in the first semester of 2022;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49
Paragraph 49
49. Stresses that, given the new legislative proposals, such as and strategic initiatives arising from the European Green Deal, such as the Biodiversity Strategy to 2030, Chemical Strategy for Sustainability, Fit for 55 package, and increased Union spending due to NGEU and the Recovery and Resilience Facility, some services, in particular the Commission’s Directorate-General for Environment and the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), will need staff reinforcements; asks the Commission as honest broker to reassess these needs promptly and to propose thesadequate reinforcements in its Amending letterduring the Conciliation, without undermining the actual human resources level in its other services or agencies;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53 – point i
Paragraph 53 – point i
i) rRecalls the support of the vast majority of Parliament’s Members for a single seat to ensure that Union taxpayers’ money is spent efficiently and for Parliament to assume its institutional responsibility to reduce its carbon footprintneed to find solutions to optimise parliamentary institutional work, financial costs and the carbon footprint with due regard for geographical distribution of European Parliament’s three seats; recalls that according to the Treaty on the European Union, the European Parliament is to have its seat in Strasbourg; notes that permanent changes would require a Treaty change for which unanimity is needed;