1 Amendments of Edina TÓTH related to 2023/0264(BUD)
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls for increasing the level of support to the European Health Union in addition to the EU4Health programme in the 2024 Union budget; stresses that sufficient resources should be allocated for increasing investments in research and development in the area of health, inter alia, in improving pandemics preparedness and management; reiterates its concern that over 50 % of the EU4Health budget was allocated for operational expenditures of the Commission’s European Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (DG HERA) and stresses the importance of appropriate funding to be allocated to the activities as foreseen by the EU4Health Regulation; stresses the importance of an enhanced system of Union own resources to finance the Union’s goals on health, the environment and the climate, and contribute to NextGeneration EU’s debt recovery; welcomes the agreed related provisions concerning, inter alia, the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) and the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and calls on the Member States to adopt, as soon as possible, the new own resources package proposed by the Commission on 14 December 2021; calls for stronger linkage of the Union’s own resources with environmental and climate policies in the upcoming second package;