1 Amendments of Monika HOHLMEIER related to 2017/2043(BUD)
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
Paragraph 46
46. Reiterates its conviction that the European agencies active in the Justice and Home Affairs field must be provided with the necessary operational expenditure and staffing levels to allow them to achieve the additional tasks and responsibilities they have been given in recent years; welcomes, in this regard, the substantial staff increases proposed for the European Coast and Border Guard Agency (Frontex) and the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), which it considers as an absolute minimum to ensure that these agencies can effectively perform their operations; requestunderlines that the proposed budget and staffing level for Europol is insufficient to fulfill the assigned tasks as the Ccommission to reassess whether the proposed operational funding (-23.6 % compared to 2017) and staffing levels (-4) for Eurojust will indeed allow this agency to fulfil in an effective manner its key role in the promotion of judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters, including in the fields of drug policy and crime preventionand the member states have decided in previous years to strengthen the cooperation of member states especially in the field of combatting terrorism, organized crime, cybercrime, human trafficking and protection for unaccompanied children; regrets the decrease of the proposed operational funding (-23.6 % compared to 2017) and staffing levels (-4) to the detriment of Eurojust which is confronted with a serious increase in its casework especially in the area of terrorism and organized crime;