Activities of Olle LUDVIGSSON related to 2012/2092(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2013 - all sections
Amendments (16)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the economic crisis is continuing to grip Europe, resulting in austeritywhich is reflected inter alia in fiscal consolidation measures across many Member States leading to reductions of public spending and increases in taxation;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Believes that the EU budget should not be exempt fromis an effective and important instrument for promoting competitiveness, growth and jobs in Europe; underlines, therefore, that it is a crucial tool for growth and cohesion across the EU at a moment when the efforts of Member States to bringalance public spending under control andrevenues and spending, so as to return public finances to sustainability, are considerable in size;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Encourages a priority driven approach to bBudget 2013, with any budget line increase accompanied by a corresponding budget line cut focus on creating European added value and with a clear aim to identify both positive and negative priorities;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Believes the 2013 budget should be frozenat the Commission's draft budget for 2013 should be increased in order to fulfil the objectives of the Treaties and help the efforts of Member States to restore growth;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Believes the EUat the EU, in line with the Europe 2020 strategy, should prioritise programmes and funding that will deliver growth and jobs in the European Union in a socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable way;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Welcomes the preference of the Commission for putting strong emphasis on innovation, competitiveness, growth and jobs by making subheading 1a – where the key policies promoting positive developments in those fields are concentrated – the most highly prioritised area in its draft budget;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes the long array of important additional tasks delegated to the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) which will require commensurate budgetary increases in order for them to fulfil their supervisory role;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Is very concerned by the cuts proposed by the Commission to the budgets of the EIOPA and ESMA especially given the crucial role they will play to promoting financial market stability and enabling our financial system to deliver growth; deeply deplores the Council's ambition to make the cuts for EIOPA and ESMA even larger as well as to impose a budget cut on EBA;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Is surprised by the Council's approach of not relating its ESA proposals to actual needs but of simply making them subject to a mechanical reduction scheme applied without differentiation to all decentralised agencies;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. Stresses that the cuts proposed by the Commission and the Council for the ESAs run contrary not only to the build- up plans for these fledgling authorities and the well-founded budgetary estimates made by the authorities themselves but also to repeated calls from Parliament for the authorities to be adequately funded;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Believes that when the ESAs are given additional tasks in the future there should be a detailed cost assessment made also at a suitablelater stage during the legislative process, such as during trilogue negotiations, in order for MEPs and Member States understandto get an updated and comprehensive picture of the cost consequences of the proposals they are making;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission to investigate differentadditional funding mechanismodels, such as an industry funding models, foree mechanisms, aimed at strengthening the ESAs so as to ensure their independence and objectivity and relieve the burden; stresses that every such mechanism must ensure that the integrity onf the taxpayerESAs vis-à- vis the financial sector actors is fully safeguarded;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Welcomes the increases suggested by the Commission for the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (EIP) under the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) as an essential step in the right direction, in particular when it comes to facilitating access to financing for SMEs; regrets the markedly less ambitious approach of the Council to a programme of such key importance for the creation of growth and jobs;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9 b. Underlines that, in order for the crucial economic governance reforms to be implemented in an effective way, the human resources situation at the Commission's Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN) must be gradually upgraded so that it matches all the extended and new responsibilities; welcomes, in this regard, the reinforcement of this DG proposed by the Commission; stresses that additional resources will probably need to be allocated following the adoption of the "two pack" legislative package (COD(2011)0385 and 0386);
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9 c. Stresses that the resources allocated to Eurostat must continuously reflect the expanding workload and the enhanced quality demands in the key field of economic and financial statistics; points out that this aspect is particularly important in the process of making the new economic governance framework work; believes, against this background, that the increase below the rate of inflation as proposed by the Commission for staff expenditure in the 'Statistics' policy area is not big enough; calls on the Commission to clarify, as soon as possible, exactly what appropriations are needed for 2013 in the context of a new and more ambitious Union Statistical Programme (for 2013-2017) replacing the existing one;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 d (new)
Paragraph 9 d (new)