3 Amendments of Richard ASHWORTH related to 2012/2089(BUD)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
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1. Requests the institutions involved to make the necessary efforts to improve procedural and budgetary arrangements in order to accelerate the mobilisation of the EGF; appreciates the improved procedure put in place by the Commission, following Parliament's request for accelerating the release of grants, aimed at presenting to the budgetary authority the Commission's assessment on the eligibility of an EGF application together with the proposal to mobilise the EGF; hopes that further improvements in the procedure will be integrated in the new Regulation on the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (2014–2020) in the event of an agreement being reached on its continuation into the next Multiannual Financial Framework and that greater efficiency, transparency and visibility of the EGF will be achieved;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
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5. Welcomes the fact that following repeated requests from Parliament, the 2012 budget shows payment appropriations of EUR 50 000 000 on the EGF budget line 04 05 01; recalls that the EGF was created as a separate specific instrument with its own objectives and deadlines and that it therefore deserves a dedicated allocation, which will avoid transfers from other budget lines, as happened in the past, which could be detrimental to the achievement of the policy objectives ofre is not yet any political agreement on the continuation of the EGF beyond 2013 and asks the Commission to outline clearly the added value in terms of tangible outcomes in creating a separate budget line for the EGF;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
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6. RegretNotes the decision of the Council to block the extension of the "crisis derogation allowing to provide financial assistance to workers ma"; is of the opinion that the financial crisis can no longer be conside redundant as a result of the current financial and economic crisi the cause of redundancies in addition to those losing their job because of changes in global trade patterns, and allowing the increase in the rate of Union co-financing to 65% of the programme costs, for applications submitted after the 31 December 2011 deadline, and calls on the Council to reintroduce this measure without delaystresses real concern that the EGF could be used as a tool to support the transfer of large multinational companies from one Member State to another;