7 Amendments of Viorica DĂNCILĂ related to 2016/2144(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the Commission’s Strategic Engagement for Gender Equality 2016-2019, published in December 2015, highlights the key role of EU funding in support for gender equality; whereas no EU institution has consistently implemented gender budgeting;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the Joint Declaration of the European Parliament, the European Commission and the European Council calls for the annual budgetary procedures applied for the MFF 2014-2020 to integrate, as appropriate, gender-responsive elements, taking into account the ways in which the overall financial framework of the Union contributes to increased gender equality and ensures gender mainstreaming; whereas, despite this fact, there is a need to step up the firm commitment to gender mainstreaming, since there has been minimal implementation of existing policies and insufficient budgetary resources have been earmarked for gender issues;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas budgetary expenditure is not gender-neutral and can have a different impact on women and men;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Regrets that tools for gender mainstreaming such as gender indicators, gender impact assessment (GIA) and gender budgeting (GB) are very rarely used in policy design and implementation, whether at EU level or by national institutions; highlights the fact that the lack of specific gender indicators and of collection of gender-disaggregated data makes it impossible to estimate the gender equality impact of EU policies; therefore repeats its call for indicators and statistics on gender issues to be further developed in order to permit assessment of the EU budget from a gender perspective and the monitoring of gender budgeting;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Notes that the two objectives related to gender equality and to the Daphne programme for combating violence against women currently account for around 35 % of the REC funds; points out that a majority of funds have been allocated under the Daphne objective compared to the gender equality objective; nonetheless finds it regrettable that Daphne has no separate budget line, given that it is currently one of the specific objectives of the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme; emphasises the need for Daphne to be provided with sufficient financial support and for its visibility and highly successful profile to be maintained;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Reiterates its request for gender budgeting to be used at all levels of the EU budgetary procedure; calls for consistent use of gender budgeting throughout the budgetary process so that budgetary expenditure can be used as a means of promoting gender equality;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
Paragraph 45
45. Calls for the EU institutions and Member States to organise regular training and technical support programmes on gender mainstreaming tools for all staff involved in policymaking and budgetary procedures; calls for the mainstreaming of gender budgeting into both EU and national strategies to be encouraged, so as to promote gender equality more effectively;