Activities of Michèle STRIFFLER related to 2010/2002(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the mandate for the trialogue on the 2011 draft budget
Amendments (7)
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 52 a new
Paragraph 52 a new
52a. Welcomes the recognition under the Treaty of Lisbon of humanitarian aid as a European policy in its own right; underlines the increasingly serious consequences of natural or man-made disasters, particularly those linked to climate change, to the changing nature of conflicts and to violations of international humanitarian law; calls therefore for an increase in humanitarian aid funding, incorporating disaster risk reduction;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53 a new
Paragraph 53 a new
53a. Is surprised at the reduction in appropriations, over 2010, proposed in the 2011 draft budget for Article 23 03 06 on civil protection in third countries when the recent disaster in Haiti clearly demonstrated the need to bolster the Community civil protection mechanism; calls in addition on the Commission to provide details of the specific measures it proposes to put in hand in setting up a preparatory action for a European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53 b new
Paragraph 53 b new
53b. Welcomes the proposed 30% increase in the contribution to the global fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria but considers that supporting basic health services is ultimately more effective than such than vertical health funds when it comes to improving health standards in developing countries;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53 c new
Paragraph 53 c new
53c. Notes the vital contribution played by improved access to financial services, such as microfinance schemes, in helping smallholder farmers, particularly women, achieve food self-sufficiency and food security; welcomes the success of financing in the 2009 and 2010 budgets to support such schemes and stresses the need for this to be continued and extended;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53 d new
Paragraph 53 d new
53d. Calls on the Commission to extend and increase funding for existing preparatory actions that target developing countries' specific needs, such as improving water management and combating the economic and financial crisis in non-ACP developing countries; asks the Commission, where necessary, to change the legal basis of these initiatives in order to give them permanent status;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53 e new
Paragraph 53 e new
53e. Points out to the Council the increasing discrepancy between the chronic underfunding of heading 4 and the Council's new political commitments, particularly where development policy is concerned; demands a revision of the heading 4 ceiling for the years 2011-13;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53 f new
Paragraph 53 f new
53f. Insists that the Commission and Council refrain from reducing heading 4 administrative spending budget lines, as these are necessary for full and effective implementation of the multiannual programmes; sincerely regrets that the Commission's draft budget proposes significant cuts to administrative expenditure for development programmes;