Activities of Dariusz ROSATI related to 2015/2132(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2016 – all sections
Amendments (11)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes how the pace of economic recovery and long-term growth prospects in the EU are being affected by the slowdown in investment, reflecting in part budgetary constraints in the Member Stateshigh indebtedness of public sector in Member States, structural weaknesses as well as subdued expectations of demand; welcomes therefore the draft budget’s strong emphasis, in point 1.1, on creating fresh impetus for jobs, growth and investment; acknowledges the creation of a favourable environment for entrepreneurship as one of the main priorities of the draft budget;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights the crucial role to be played by the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) in closing gaps not covered by the market and in attracting private investmentsmobilising new sources of finance for investment, boosting competitiveness and economic recovery, as well as increasing market confidence; welcomes the agreement reached by the co-legislators on the increase in contributions to the EFSI to EUR 3 billion, to be found from the overall budgetary margins in the period 2016 to 2020; reaffirms its determination to further reduce the budgetary impact on Horizon 2020 and the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF);
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the 2016 draft budget to reflect Parliament’s posEuropean Semester’s prioritiones including with regard to a more comprehensive analysis of individual Member States’ economic prospects within the framework of the European Semesterboosting investment, supporting job creation, pursuing structural reforms and fiscal consolidation that lead to real, sustainable growth;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Asks for the financing of a new pilot project entitled ‘Consumer Empowerment and Education in the Digital Single Market (DSM)’, contributing to a large public education campaign to support consumer and business understanding and appreciation of the challenges associated with e-commerce; stresses that this should help citizens and SMEs comply with consumer protection law in the online environment; emphasises that, in a truly connected DSM, every consumer should be able to trust the safety of products purchased online; considers that better compliance with the rules would reducincrease consumer problemstection and benefit traders by avoiding potential problems with the enforcement authorities; considers, in this respect, that traders should also gain information on how to settle their taxes from cross-border transactions within the EU, i.e. on how to efficiently use the VATMOSS system;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Draws attention to the crucial role of the three European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) in relation to EU-level financial supervision and the banking union; emphasises that the 2016 draft budget must provide for a sufficient increase in budgetary resources for the ESAs to address the ever-increasing range of tasks being assigned to them, as well as external factors such as exchange rate fluctuations and general increases in levels of paycorresponding to the newly allocated roles of the agencies;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights, in this regard, the need for the ESAs to be not only properly financed but also adequately staffed, both numerically and in terms of levels of qualification, to be able to perform the tasks assigned to them in a satisfactorhigh quality manner; to that end, calls on the Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities to submit a report on the authorities’ future staffing needs;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that the ESAs are currently financed from compulsory contributions by the national member authorities, money from the EU budget and charges payable by the institutions they supervise; finds it regrettable that this nationally oriented, mixed financing system is not used more extensively; renews its call to the Commission, therefore, to submit by 2017 aif proven by the Commission’s assessment, to proposal fore a financing concept that combines financing from a specific line in the general EU budget with charges payable by operators in marketsystem by 2017 that is solely based on the introduction of fees by market participants; sees this system as a means of securing both the European authorities’ independence from their national member authorities and the full integrity of the ESAs vis-à-vis financial market participants;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission, when implementing the planned restructuring measures with regard to staff cuts, to focus on its main priorities; emphasises, in that regard, the need to increase staffing in the Directorate-General for Competition, and particularly the department responsible for state aid, so as to ensure that taxation practices in relation to tax rulings and other measures similar in nature or effect which are questionable under state aid rules can, in future, be properly investigated, thus helping to make corporate taxation in the European Union faireradequate staffing, to focus on its main priorities;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Highlights the need for more Europe- wide statistical data of as which are more comprehensive, meaningful and up-to-date naturethodological comparable, accurate and timely; welcomes, therefore, the provision in the draft budget for a substantialn increase in expenditure on applying new methods of generating European statistics and on enhanced cooperation within the European Statistical System;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for wider-rangingthe implementation of the reforms incommendations provided by the Maystadt report referring to the task and responsibilities of the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) recommended in the Maystadt report;