Activities of Louis MICHEL related to 2016/2120(BUD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument to finance immediate budgetary measures to address the ongoing migration, refugee and security crisis (A8-0351/2016 - Jens Geier) FR
Amendments (4)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
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1. NotWelcomes the use of the FlexiCommission's proposal for an additional EUR 1,8 billity Instrument under heading 3 in the Draft Budget 2017 for an amount of EUR 530 million and recalls that this amount is the maximum one that can be mobilised in 2017 with this instrument with the current MFF rules;on to tackle the humanitarian and migratory challenges in the Union, above the amount initially been programmed for 2017; stresses, however, that the Commission proposes to finance this reinforcement through the mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument under heading 3 for EUR 530 million, thereby fully exhausting the funding available for 2016; reiterates that budgetary flexibility has its limits and can only be a short-term solution.
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
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2. Acknowledges that the financial impact of the current refugee, migration and internal security crises was not accounted for when the current MFF was adopted in 2014; stresses that the Flexibility Instrument has to be used according to the purpose for which it was created, for clearly identified expenses which cannot be covered bunprecedented level of funding of the current humanitarian and migratory challenges was not accounted for when the current MFF was adopted in 2014; acknowledges that, even with the systematic mobilisation of the totality of the Flexibility Instrument under heading 3 in the coming years, the financial resources available will not be sufficient to tackle the increased needs; regrets that the Commission did not use the opportunity of ther Union budgetary resources MFF mid-term revision to adjust the ceiling of heading 3 accordingly;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
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Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
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4. Welcomes, the proposal of the Commission to create a newintroduce a special instrument for setting up a European Union cCrisis rReserve, to be financed from de-committed appropriations, as part of the MFF mid-term reviewsion; with regard to the doubling of the annual amounts, which can be mobilised with the Flexibility Instrument and the emergency aid reserve, requests the Commission to clarify the source of the financing in the interests of budgetary stability and predictability.