12 Amendments of Helmut SCHOLZ related to 2015/2353(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for adequate financing in order to implement the Commission’s ambitious trade policy agenda, clear estimate of the adequate level of financing to meet the increased costs of the Commission’s ambitious trade policy agenda, including the costs of the numerous ongoing processes of negotiating free trade agreements; calls for investment in accompanying measures to offset the impact of trade agreements, with a view to contributing thereby to the stability and prosperitysustainable development of the EU and third countries;
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for the full involvement of the whole Parliament in the interinstitutional debate on the role, structure, goals, priorities and results of the multiannual financial framework (MFF) in accordance with its mandate adopted by the plenary;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes that the conclusion of each new free trade agreement means substantial revenue losses for the Union’s own-resources budget;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls on the Commission to provide precise estimates of the revenue losses expected to result from each of the free-trade agreements currently in negotiation and to indicate clearly what budgetary restructuring is to be undertaken to offset the lost amounts;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Calls on the Commission to indicate the costs entailed in the investment court systems (ICS) to be set up under the free trade agreements with Vietnam and Canada and the costs implied by other agreements that require the establishment of a specific investment protection court; calls on the Commission to indicate from which budget heading these costs will be met;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for a genuine revision of the MFF, encompassing the financial means made available under the current framework; notes the deployment of the special and flexibility tools in order to respond to the exceptional and unforeseen circumstances the Union is facing; calls for even greater flexibility in order to deal adequately with such circumstances; stresses, however, that in tackling new challenges the EU must not prejudice the allocation of resources for cohesion purposes; underlines that any increase of flexibility should go hand in hand with a stronger parliamentary control; expresses its deep concern for the increased recourse to ad hoc financial instruments in the field of external action, since they undermine, as currently arranged, the unity of the EU budget and the community method; stresses, therefore, the need to fully involve the European Parliament in the adoption, management and control of these instruments and to allocate, during the revision of the MFF, more resources in the relevant headings in order to enable the EU to provide a more structured response to the current humanitarian crisis and, at the same time, to preserve and guarantee the prerogatives of the European Parliament as co-legislator;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers it necessary to reform the system of financing of the MFF, particularly through the creation of new and genuine own resources, e.g. the already by the Commission proposed financial transaction tax (FTT); urges the Council to commit to reflecting on this issue, without prejudice to the final report from the High-Level Group on Own Resources; also urges the Council to reflect on the establishment of a fiscal capacity within the eurozone in order to assist Member States in the implementation of agreed structural reformscreasing their public investment; underlines that any new instrument should be placed to ensure the needed parliamentary control and transparency within the EU budget, but above the ceilings of the MFF, and financed from real own resources;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to indicate clearly the budgetary resources from which compensation payments to investors will be made if the European Union loses a case in the investor protection courts established under the trade agreements with Singapore, Vietnam and Canada; calls on the Commission not to commit the EU to any further obligations under investor protection arrangements in new trade agreements that could result in substantial burdens on the Union budget;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers the European Guarantee Fund for External Actions to be an efficient and effective mechanism for provisioning for risks related to EU lending operations in third countries; urges that more lending be made available to support SMEs and the development of social and economic infrastructure in the regions most affected by the migration and refugee crisis; calls, in particular, for experience in the realm of fair trade to inform this approach and for a sustained strengthening of relevant structures and principles;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that the valuable support under the EU’s Macro-Financial Assistance mechanism to partner countries facing severe economic difficulties must be reflected in the EU budget; criticises the fact that Macro-Financial Assistance in its current form is granted as credit, increasing the recipient countries’ debt burden, while neither EU taxpayers nor the people of the recipient countries are afforded transparency about how the financing is channelled and the uses to which it is put;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission to present proposals on the contribution international trade is intended to make in relation to the restructuring of the budget and the Union’s own resources;