13 Amendments of Jürgen KLUTE related to 2011/2019(BUD)
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that the promotion of jobs and high-quality employment by delivering on the Europe 2020 strategy’s seven flagship initiatives is a jointly endorsed goal of the 27 EU Member States; recalls that the implementation of this strategy will require a huge amount of future-oriented investment up to 2020, estimated at no less than EUR 1 800 billion by the Commission in its communication entitled ‘The EU Budget Review’3 ; underlines, therefore, that necessary investment in education at all levels, fostering a knowledge society, research and grounded on the overall EU scientific and technological capacity, the budget devoted to research, development, innovation, and support to SMEs, and green and new technologiess well as the reinforcement of the funding in domains fostering a sustainable and inclusive growth model must be made now and delayed no longer;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is deeply concerned, against this background, by the alarming drop in public investment in the Member States in some of these areas and firmly believes that this trend must be reversed if the EU as a whole is to deliver on the EU 2020 strategy; is of the opinion that the EU budget has an role to play as a leverage tool for Member States’ recovery policies by triggering and supporting national investment to reinforce growth and employment and to reduce poverty and social exclusion; emphasises that this is fully in line with the dynamics of the European Semester, which, as a new mechanism for enhanced European economic governance, aims at increasing consistency, synergies and complementarities between the EU and the national budgets in delivering on the jointly agreed Europe 2020 goals;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Stresses that the European Supervisory Authorities have a crucial role to play in safeguarding market stability and that they need to be adequately funded in order for regulatory reforms to be effective; reiterates that one single supervisory authority would be more cost-efficient; welcomes the budget increases proposed for all three authorities as important steps in their build-up procedures, while calling for additional resources for the joint committee; emphasises that any additional tasks entrusted to these authorities must be swiftly accompanied by the corresponding allocation of supplementary resources; underlines, inter alia, that the new responsibilities planned for the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in the areas of short-selling and derivatives must be promptly reflected in the 2012 budget procedure as soon as the legal bases are in place;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. RDeeply regrets that with the limited increase foreseen for the PROGRESS programme in the DB 2012 as compared to Budget 2011, the Commission will not be able to reinstate the amount of EUR 20 million for the period 2011-2013 to which it had committed itself in 2010 in order to compensate partially for the redeployment of PROGRESS in favour of the Microfinance Facility; recalls that the PROGRESS programme is an essential pillar of the Europe 2020 strategy, owing in particular to its contribution to the two social flagship initiatives ‘European Platform against Poverty’ and ‘Youth on the Move’;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Stresses the European added value of investments in cross-border transport, particularly the TEN-T programme, which improve trans-border and intermodal connections, thus promoting economic development and employment; recalling the traditional under-funding of TEN-T, urges that increased resources be made available for this purpose, including through recourse to alternative sources of financing such as Public Private Partnerships (PPP) and other forms of financial instrument;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Is concerned about the proposed reduction in appropriations for the Union Statistical Programme and the very limited – below the rate of inflation – increase in staff expenditure in the ‘Statistics’ policy area; emphasises that there is a strong need to continuously make sure that the resources of Eurostat match the expanding workload and the enhanced quality demands in the key area of economic and financial statistics;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Notes that the crisis has clearly highlighted the importance for the strength of government finances of having effective and fraud-proof tax collection systems; stresses that the fight against tax fraud and evasion must be highly prioritised and that the appropriations for Fiscalis must enable the programme to respond to this ambition;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Asks the Commission to keep on working closely with those Member States with a low absorption rate in order to further improve absorption on the ground; calls, therefore, for the further promotion of mutual learning, exchange of best practices and reinforcimprovement of administrative capacities in certain Member States;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
43. Notes that these increases are mostly linked to three of the four Solidarity and Management of Immigration programmes: External Borders Fund (+38%), European Return Fund (+43%) and European Fund for the Integration of Third-Country Nationals (+24%); emphasises, however,underlines that the increases foreseen under this heading for 2012 are simply the result of the yearly breakdown of multiannual global amounts agreed upon by both Parliament and Council when these programmes and actions were adopted; are much more remarkable in those programmes oriented to prevent the arrival and to repatriate immigrants than other programmes which aim is their integration; highlights that this fact is paradoxical confronted with the challenges arisen by the processes of transition to democracy in the Southern Mediterranean;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
Paragraph 45
45. Takes note of the repeated calls by the European Council to strengthen the operational capacity and role of FRONTEX; aAsks the Commission to present the full budgetary implications for 2012 of the ongoing revision of FRONTEX and to provide a clearer picture of the Member States’ financial participation in its functioning;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49
Paragraph 49
49. Takes the view that programmes and actions under this heading play an important role in achieving headline targets and flagships initiatives of the Europe 2020an strategy; reiterates that education, training and culture carry economic value since they contribute notably to economic growth and quality job creation and support the development of active citizenship;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50
Paragraph 50
50. Underlines the fact thatDisagrees with the very small margin available that will allow limited room for manoeuvre when proposing new actions or taking decisions on stepping up the funding of priorities directly relevant to citizens;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53
Paragraph 53
53. Is astonished that the Commission has not proposed in its Draft Budget 2012 any specific programme in favour of sport, although this is now a fully-fledged competence of the Union deriving from the Treaty of Lisbon; finds this attitude all the more surprisingdeplorable since some funding – though of limited magnitude – was available in Budgets 2009, 2010 and 2011;