5 Amendments of Rolandas PAKSAS related to 2018/2046(BUD)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that the EU budget for 2019 should incorporate the commitment and payment appropriations required to meet the funding needs of the CFP, ensure long-term investment, and mobilise additional private financing; takes the view that an appropriate level of readily available funding is needed in order to put the CFP properly into effect and to guarantee the sustainability of aquaculture and European fishing activities;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses that the Rail Baltica project, based on the European track gauge, is one of the most important of its kind in the EU, but that the proposed funding is inadequate; calls on the Commission, therefore, to ensure that EU financing is maintained at the same unchanging level;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses that the average success rate in Horizon 2020 is 11.6% – and as low as 3% for some programmes; takes into account that almost 75% of the projects evaluated as scientifically excellent have remained unfunded due to lack of budget; urges Commission to ensure that the budget is significantly larger than the budget for Horizon 2020, and that it is ring-fenced to avoid future cuts;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the need to make sufficient financial provision for co-financed activities, so that funding is available for the coastal and, small-scale fishing sectors, and recreational fishing sectors; considers it particularly important, in addition, that appropriate funding be earmarked for the upgrading of fisheries infrastructure; takes the view that, on the basis of the general framework provided by the EMFF, it is the Member States which must set their funding priorities in such a way as to respond to the specific problems facing these sectors;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls the importance of adequate financial and staff resources for all agencies under ITRE-remit to ensure that they can properly fulfil their tasks; stresses that the 5 % cut in staff and the redeployment pool are ended with this general budget and urges the Commission to refrain from similar actions in the future; insists that resources be increased in accordance with the increase of tasks of concerned agencies; in this respect, welcomes the increases in staff for ENISA and GSA, but notes with concern the insufficiency of those increases; urges the Commission to provide adequate funding to instruments supporting curiosity-driven science on a competitive basis, such as the European Research Council, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA) and the FET Open (Future and Emerging Technologies) instruments;