11 Amendments of Sophia IN 'T VELD related to 2022/2172(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas, according to Article 311 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), the Union must provide itself with the means necessary to fulfil its objectives and carry out its policies; and whereas according to the same article the budget shall be financed wholly from own resources;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas currently the Budget is already financed by own resources through custom duties and value-added tax, despite that Member States regard these resources as part of their national budget and thus as national contributions to the Union;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
D b. whereas the Union has created own resources for specific aims such as the Next Generation EU;
Amendment 8 #
1. Notes that the introduction of new genuine own resources is behind the schedule set out in the legally binding roadmap of Annex II to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 16 December 20204 ; reiterates the need to move swiftly; urges the Council, therefore, to approve the first basket of new genuine own resources without any further delay; _________________ 4 OJ L 433 I, 22.12.2020, p. 28.
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines that new genuine own resources (also known as ‘fresh income’) are urgently needed in order to make the Union budget more resilient and autonomous so as to allow the Union to deliver on its policies and to ensure its standing as a credible and smart debt issuer; underlines that such new resources should also enable the Union to repay the common debt and interests under Next Generation EU
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Insists that new genuine own resources will reduce the Union budget’s dependence othe increase in revenue financed through new genuine own resources must be coupled with the progressive reduction in gross national income- based contributions and thus reduce Member States’ tendency to think in terms of net positionfrom Member States; insists that national rebates should be cancelled;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Stresses that the practice of transferring resources allocated for the Cohesion Policy to other instruments, such as the Resilience and Recovery Facility, to finance emergency policies risks undermining the balance between the long-term and short-term policy objectives of the Union;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5 c. Underlines that the decision- making procedures laid down by Article 311(3) TFEU, which binds the adoption of new own-resources to unanimity voting in the Council, and to the ratification by all 27 Member States in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements, severely hamper the Union's capacity to swiftly adapt its macroeconomic interventions;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls in this regard for Article 311(3) TFEU to be amended to allow Parliament to co-decide when adopting new own resources;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls furthermore for the application of the ordinary legislative procedure when adopting the implementing measures of the Own Resources Decision, and to give Parliament full budgetary powers;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8