16 Amendments of Monika HOHLMEIER related to 2014/2004(BUD)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that the European economy is showing some signs of recovery and considers that the European budget can be a very strong tool to increase strategic investment with European added value and putthus can contribute to putting the European economy back on track, generating sustainable growth and employment while aiming to foster economic and social cohesion throughout the EU;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights in particular the importance of the European Structural and Investment Funds, which form one of the biggest single blocks of expenditure in the EU budget; underlines the fact that these ESIFs are particularly important in helpingEU Cohesion policy has been instrumental in sustaining public investment in vital economic areas and has achieved tangible results on the ground that can empower Member States and regions to exitovercome the current crisis and achieve the Europe 2020 targets; stresses the need to endow citizens with the tools to find a way out of the crisis; stresses in this regard the special need to invest in areas such as education and mobility, research and innovation, SMEs and entrepreneurship, in order to boost the creation of employment – in particular youth employmentdustry and services, in order to boost EU competitiveness and contribute to the creation of employment – in particular youth employment; stresses that, in order to ensure the effectiveness of EU spending and improve the implementation rates for these programs, the Commission should actively provide full support to the national administrations at all stages of this process;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers it also important to invest in other areas such as renewable energy, infrastructures, a stronger and enhanced use of ‘innovative financial instruments’, particularly in respect of long term investments; underlines the importance of ensuring that sufficient resources are made available for EU external actions; recalls the EU’s international commitments as regards the allocation of 0.7 % of GNP to the Millennium Development Goals Instruments by 2015increasing needs for humanitarian aid and crisis response;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls the recent agreement on the 2014-2020 multiannual financial framework (MFF), which definesets the main parameters forximum annual amounts (ceilings) of EU expenditure per policy field and, therefore, creates the framework for the adoption of the annual budgets until 2020; underlines the fact that each annual budget must be in line with the MFF Regulation and the Interinstitutional Agreement and should not be conside, including all new measureds an excuse to re-negotiate the MFF; points out, however, that this does not exclude thegreed between Parliament and Council in the MFF negotiations; expects that the Council will not attempt to impose restricted interpretations of specific provisions, especially on the nature and scope of special instruments; reiterates its intention to make full use of all means available to the budgetary authority within the framework of the annual budget procedure;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Emphasises that, as the second year of the new MFF, 2015 will be important for the successful implementation of the new 2014-2020 multiannual programmes; underlines the fact that, in order not to hamper the implementation of key EU policies, all programmes need to be up and running and in full swing as soon as possible; notes that the 2015 budget will be lower in real terms than the 2013 budgeturges, in this context, the Commission and Member States to make the utmost effort for the swift adoption of all Partnership Agreements and Operational Programmes in 2014, in order not to lose any additional time in implementing the new investment programmes;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls the agreement within the MFF, which is being implemented for the first time in the 2014 budget, to frontload commitments for specified policy objectives relating to youth employment, research, Erasmus+ in particular for apprenticeships, and SMEs; emphasiserecalls that, a similar approach needs to be taken for the 2015 budget through a frontloading ofs part of the MFF agreement, an additional frontloading will take place in the 2015 budget for the Youth Employment Initiative (871.4 million in 2011 prices) as well as of Erasmus+ and COSME (20 million each in 2011 prices); is particularly concerned about the funding of the Youth Employment Initiative after 2015 and requests that all funding possibilities, including the Global MFF Margin for commitments, are considered for this purpose;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Expresses, however, its concern about the possible adverse effects of an additional backloading for the CEF Energy programme in 2015 and calls on the Commission to provide adequate information on how such decision will influence the successful launching of this new programme;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Emphasises that, in order to help European citizens to exit the crisis,e added value of bringing forward investments should bin these bprought forward as much as possible in those programmes; invites the Commission, furthermore, to identifygrammes in the context of the current crisis and invites the Commission to consider whether further programmes which could benefit from frontloading, can contribute to this purpose and would also be able to fully absorb the additional appropriations;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Emphasises the need to strengthen the EU industry as a central motor for the creation of jobs and growth; urges that, in order to create a strong, competitive and independent EU industry, the main focus should lie on investments in innovation and important technologies such as in the field of IT-Security and secure communication networks;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines the importance of decentralised agencies, which are vital for the implementation of EU policies and programmes; stresses the need to assess all agencies individuallyimportant role of the new interinstitutional working group on decentralised agencies, which is set up due to a Joint Declaration of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission and should start its work immediately; underlines the need to assess all agencies on a case by case basis in terms of budget and human resources and to provide them in the 2015 budget and in the following years with the appropriate financial means and staff so that they are able to properly fulfil the tasks assigned to them by the legislative authority;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Stresses that for an effective implementation of the European Neighbourhood Policy greater support must be ensured for partner countries committed to building democratic societies and undertaking reforms;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9 b. Reminds on the Joint statement on EU Special Representatives, in which the Parliament and the Council agreed to examine the transfer of appropriations for the European Union Special Representatives from the Commission's budget (Section III) to the budget of the European External Action Service (Section X) in the context of the 2015 budgetary procedure;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recalls, despite the agreement in the 2014 Conciliation Committee on an amount of EUR 350m on top of Council's reading, that the overall level of payment appropriations agreed for the 2014 budget iremains below the level considered necessary and proposed by the Commission in its original draft budget; inotes that, as provided for in the new MFF Regulation and the new Global Margin in Payments, the Commission shall adjust the payment ceiling for the year 2015 upwards by the amount equivalent to the difference between the executed 2014 payments and the MFF payment ceiling of the year 2014; Is deeply concerned that the unprecedented level of outstanding bills at the end of 2013, up to EUR 23.4 billion under Heading 1b alone, cannot be covered within 2014 ceilings; stresses therecalls fore that, even if all the newe mobilisation of the appropriate flexibility mechanisms are mobilised in payments in 2014, this will again lead to a large implementationin order to mitigate the deficit at the end of 2014; underlines the fact that the recurrent shortages of payment appropriations have been the main cause of the unprecedentedly high level of outstanding commitments (RALs) especially in the last years;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Recalls that according to the Treaty4 ‘the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission shall ensure that the financial means are made available to allow the Union to fulfil its legal obligations in respect of third parties’; expects the Commission in its draft budget to propose an adequate level of payment appropriations, based on real forecasts rather thanand not driven by political expectconsiderations; __________________ 4 Article 323 TFEU.
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Insists on the use of all means available under the MFF Regulation, including recourse to the contingency margin and/or revision of the payment ceiling, in order to meet the Union’s legal obligations and so as not to jeopardise or delay payments to all stakeholders, such as researchers, universities etc., and at the same time to decrease the amount of the outstanding year-end payments;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Insists that the use of all special instruments in payments (Flexibility Instrument, Contingency Margin, EU Solidarity Fund, Globalisation Adjustment Fund and Emergency Aid Reserve) must be entered in the budget over and above the MFF payment ceiling;