8 Amendments of Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY related to 2011/2020(BUD)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is deeply concerned, against this background, that the current crisis has resulted in a drop in public investment in some of these areas because of the adjustments that Member States have made to their national budgets; calls for this trend to be reversed and firmly believes that investments need to be guaranteed both at EU and national level if the EU as a whole is to deliver on the EU 2020 strategy; is of the opinion that the EU budget has a significant role to play as a leverage tool for Member States' recovery policies by triggering and supporting national investment to reinforce growth and employment and should be used as such; 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 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes that the low level of payments proposed by Council would lead to a bigger discrepancy between PA and CA, mechanically resulting in an increase of RALs at year end, particularly in subheadings 1a and 1b; warns in this context of the already extremely large amount of accumulated RAL so close to the end of this MFF;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Decides to restore DBaccept the Council's cut on payments for the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) line; underlinhowever, notes the fact that the insertion of payment appropriations not only gives higher visibility to the fund but also helps to avoids transfers from other budget lines pursuing different aims and covering different needs;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Recalls the important role regional and cohesion policies play towards the achievement of the goals of the EU 2020 strategy and economic recovery of European regions; deplores Council's restrictive approach on payments, which were cut by some EUR 1 300 million as compared to Commission's forecasts of payment needs for 2012; notes that only the convergence objective and the technical assistance lines remained untouched by the cuts of Council; reminds that these cuts apply to budget allocations that were already far below Member States' own estimates (EUR 61 billion for 2012 or some 50% above DB) and widely considered as being the bare minimum for honouring upcoming payment claims and be consistent with the speeding up of implementation at the end of the programming period; requests an assessment of the implementation of regional and cohesion policy, with concrete proposals on how to reduce RALs;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47
Paragraph 47
47. Stresses that such a restrictive approach, while resulting in short-term savings for the EU budget and the Member States, endangers the implementation of EU policies and programmes, ultimately to the detriment of citizens and with a deferred negative effect on national budgets; further stresses that the Commission and other institutions should be provided with adequate resources to carry out their tasks, especially after the entry into force of the TFEU;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 68 a (new)
Paragraph 68 a (new)
68a. Reiterates that a number of reserves have been proposed during the Parliament's budgetary negotiations; notwithstanding the conciliation compromise between the Budgets committee and the Bureau, calls for the underlying questions in these reserves regarding the Parliament's budget to be answered and set out transparently by the cost accounting office, providing clear information on translation and interpretation needs, catering, cleaning and maintenance as well as travel services and facilities, other external services and on price structure or any applicable subsidies for these services;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72
Paragraph 72
72. Requests to be kept informed on a regular basis on new developments for building projects with a significant impact on the budget, such as e.g. the KAD building; asks the Administration to establish a service agreement for cost sharing with the Commission of part of the running costs; , the House of European History and building/acquisition projects at the Parliament's places of work; asks the Administration to establish a service agreement for cost sharing with the Commission, and any other institution that may wish to use the facilities, of part of the running costs of the House of European History and the Parlamentarium;