5 Amendments of Kristoffer STORM related to 2024/2019(DEC)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
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2. Is satisfied withAcknowledges the work carried out by the five decentralised agencies which are under its remit, which carry out technical, scientific or managerial tasks that help the Union institutions elaborate and implement policies in the area of environmentbut stresses the need to streamline their operations, celiminate action, public health and food safety, as well as with the way in which those agencies' budgets are implemented; stresses that, given the scale and importance of their current tasks and the increase of responsibilities some of them are facing, adequate funding and staffing must be guaranteed for the agencies and the Commission Directorates-General working in the areas of environment, climate action, public health and food safredundancies, and focus resources on achieving measurable outcomes; calls for a comprehensive review of their mandates to ensure alignment with core objectives and cost- efficiency, avoiding unnecessary expansion of staff and budgetys;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
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3. RecognisNotes that in 2023 about EUR 160 billion, approximately 38% of the Union budget, based on commitment appropriations, was dedicated to climate mainstreaming objectives, in line with the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 April 2016 on Better Law-Making1 plans for at least 30 % of 2021-27 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) to be used for this purpose; notes that the largest contributions to those spendings come from the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and from cohesion policy programmes; notes that the Innovation Fund provided an additional EUR 6,5 billion in grants for projects advancing innovative low-carbon technologies; questions the allocation of EUR 160 billion to climate mainstreaming objectives and stresses the need for clear, measurable outcomes to justify such expenditures; calls for an evaluation of both the cost-effectiveness and real impact of climate-related spending under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and cohesion policy programs; _________________ 1 OJ L 123, 12.5.2016, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/agree_interinstit/2 016/512/oj.
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
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4. Notes that the largest contribution to the climate-relevant spending in 2023 came from the RRF; in this context, is concerned about the Court of Auditors’(the ‘Court’) annual report for 2023 which, similar to previous years findings, states weaknesses in the design of measures and cases of vaguely defined milestones and targets, weaknesses in the Member States’ reporting and control systems and problems with the reliability of information that Member States included in their management declaration; also notes with concern the Court’s Special Report No 14/2024 that finds multiple shortcomings of the RRF framework and the national recovery and resilience plans as well as inconsistencies in the implementation of measures which call into question the achievement of its climate and environmental objectives, and that concludes that the contribution of the RRF to the green transition is not clear; expresses concern over the shortcomings in RRF implementation, including weak monitoring, vague milestones, and unreliable data; calls for the Commission to introduce stricter oversight mechanisms to ensure that RRF spending delivers tangible environmental and climate outcomes;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
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6. Underlines the importance of properStresses the need for rigorous scrutiny of climate-related expenditure in the Union budget, and to ensure maximum cost-efficiency and measurable results; holds the Commission fully accountable for the implementation of a robusing a transparent and relverifiable methodology, in line withstrict adherence to the commitments undertaken inof the MFF agreement and paragraph 16d of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 16 December 2020 between the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission on budgetary discipline, on cooperation in budgetary matters and on sound financial management, as well as on new own resources, including a roadmap towards the introduction of new own resources2 ; calls on the Commission to follow the Court’s recommendations in the relevant reports to better estimat; calls on the Commission to adopt the Court’s recommendations to improve climate spending estimates under future funding instruments, to ensure adequate design of future funding instruments that are to support the climate and environmental objectives and targets, to enhance the performancefunding directly supports concrete climate and environmental objectives, enhance the effectiveness of green transition measures, and to ensure comprehensive, consistent, reliable and transparentguarantee full transparency and accountability in reporting on climate- related spending under the RRF; _________________ 2 OJ L 433I, 22.12.2020, p. 28, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/agree_interinstit/ 2020/1222/oj
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
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10. Notes that HERA, established in 2021, has continued in 2023 to grow the number of its staff and to expand its operations; welcomes the progress of HERA’s efforts in ensuring the Union’s preparedness and crisis response readiness for health emergencies as well as its involvement in collaborations with international partners to increase global preparedness, prevention and detection of health emergence progress of HERA and the EU4Health program but cautions against continuous expansion without measurable proof of effectiveness. Calls for a cost-benefit analysis of HERA’s activities and staffing increases to ensure that resources are allocated efficiently to deliver on core public health priorities;