2 Amendments of Jan OLBRYCHT related to 2015/2132(BUD)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes with concernConsiders alarming the decrease of payment appropriations under heading 1b to EUR 49 billion (-4% as compared to 2015), and questions with concern whether the amounts proposed in the Draft Budget (DB) 2016 for heading 1b are indeed sufficient to face the current unprecedented level of payments needed under this heading;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 94 a (new)
Paragraph 94 a (new)
94a. Underlines that, barely two years after the beginning of the current MFF, the Commission had to request the mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument twice, as well as the deployment of the Contingency Margin, in order to cover pressing and unforeseen needs that could not possibly be financed within the existing MFF ceilings; also notes that the Global Margin for Commitments in 2015, the first year of its operation, was immediately utilised to its full extent while two important Union programmes needed to be reduced to allow for the financing of new initiatives; stresses that new commitments are no longer available in 2016 to finance key political Union objectives, like youth employment; clearly sees that the available flexibility mechanisms in the MFF have already been pushed to their limits, due to the tight MFF ceilings in most headings; considers that these developments make the case for a substantial MFF mid-term revision; eagerly anticipates the Commission proposals to that effect in the course of 2016;