Activities of Pina PICIERNO related to 2021/0227(BUD)
Opinions (1)
OPINION on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2022 - all sections
Amendments (18)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas Article 8 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union provides that the Union, in all its activities, shall aim to eliminate inequalities, and to promote equality, between men and women, thereby promoting the principle of gender mainstreaming in all of its policies, including via gender budgeting at all levels of the budgetary process;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas this Parliament has repeatedly urged the Commission to promote and implement the use of gender mainstreaming, gender budgeting and to conduct gender impact assessments in all the Union policy areas, whereas the European Court of Auditors confirmed this has not been achieved;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas Parliament has repeatedly called for sufficient funding for the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), for the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme and for the subsequent Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) Programme and for its Daphne strand in order to enforce non- discrimination, gender equality and gender mainstreaming instruments and to prevent gender-based violence;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the importance of transitional common agricultural policy (CAP) measures to bridge the gap to the new legal basis for a strong contribution to the European Green Deal; points at the possible strong repercussions of the negotiated compromises on the budget structure; welcomes the reinforcement of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) by EUR 5,7 billion from Next Generation EU (NGEU) in 2022; highlights that NGEU support is not only essential to the recovery of farmers and rural areas from the impact of the pandemic, but also crucial to the Union’s ambitious environmental targetsRecalls that under the CAP transitional rules, the EAGF and EAFRD measures will continue in 2022 under the rules of the 2014-2020 framework until the implementation of the reformed CAP in 2023; Draws attention to the need to bring the 2014-2020 programmes progressively to a successful closure with the final payments on outstanding commitments; highlights the importance of transitional common agricultural policy (CAP) measures to bridge the gap to the new legal basis for a strong contribution to the European Green Deal; points at the possible strong repercussions of the negotiated compromises on the budget structure;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas women are disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly women working in precarious employment, feminised sectors and the informal economy, whereas the Union budget for 2022 should play a key role in the economic recovery of the Union paying special attention to those sectors, heavily feminised, that have been essential during the pandemic or have been severely affected by the subsequent economic crisis;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Welcomes the reinforcement of the EAFRD by some EUR 5,7 billion from NGEU in 2022; recalls that NGEU funds will be available as external assigned revenue not subject to the annual budget procedure; highlights that NGEU support is not only essential to the recovery of farmers and rural areas from the impact of the pandemic, but also crucial to Europe’s ambitious environmental targets; calls therefore on the Commission for the swift deployment of the NGEU;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas women remain under- represented in leadership and decision- making positions, while being overrepresented in low-paid sectors such as care and service work, whereas they devote more time than men to unpaid housework and care responsibilities;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas women remain under- represented in the digital economy and the science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) sectors in terms of education, training and employment, whereas resources supporting women ́s and girl’s empowerment through digital inclusion could lead to advancing gender equality in the digital age;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Takes note of the EUR 54 117 million in commitments and EUR 55 859 million in payments for agriculture; takes note of the Council's mandate and the absence of further cuts to the Commission's draft budget; nonetheless calls for an increase of the budget considering the amount of challenges that the agrifood sector has faced this year and still need to tackle in 2022;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. RStresses that women’s rights and a gender equality perspective should be integrated and ensured into all policy areas, particularly in light of the multiple gendered impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s rights, reaffirms its strong request to implement gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting throughout the budgetary procedure, underlines that some Member States used the pandemic to further restrict women rights;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Questions the cost-benefit analysis of the current crisis reserve which has remained unused despite several demands for support during the COVID-19 pandemic; reiterate its request to use this reserve in case of possible new markets disruption or sectorial crisis linked to the still ongoing COVID-19 pandemic;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Is concerned about the conclusions of the European Court of Auditors’ report “Gender mainstreaming in the EU budget: time to turn words into action” as well as its internal spending review of the Union programmes, which revealed that gender mainstreaming had not been mainstreamed across the Union budget in the same way as other policies, regrets that there is no methodology in place to track the spending dedicated to gender equality;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Expresses its concern at the interrelation between the attacks on the rule of law and the backlash on gender equality and women’s rights, recalls that the budgetary conditionality applies in context of women rights in the same way as in other policy areas, calls on the Commission to address this issue through the Article 7 procedure against Member States concerned;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Regrets the conclusion of the Court of Auditors’ opinion n° 10/2021 that the Commission does not yet have a fully effective framework in place for supporting gender mainstreaming in the EU budget; stresses the importance of gender analyses and gender monitoring and evaluation in the agricultural sector to adjust for inequalities; calls on the Commission to develop specific actions to implement the new 2020-2025 Gender Equality Strategy in the agricultural sector;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to increase the budget of the EIGE in order to promote gender equality across the Union, particularly in the light of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on women, underlines the EIGE’s central role in collecting, analysing, processing and disseminating data and information as regards gender equality and in developing, analysing, evaluating and disseminating methodological tools to support the integration of gender equality into all Union policies and the resulting national policies;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Reiterates its request to assign an independent budget line to the objective in the CERV Programme dedicated to promote gender equality; reaffirms its request to increase resources for the Daphne strand;dedicated to preventing and combating gender-based violence under for the Daphne strand, especially following the escalation of violence against women during the COVID-19 crisis,
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Stresses the need to reinforce budgetary allocations that support universal respect for and access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR); calls on the Commission and the Member States to allocate additional resources to the EU4Health Programme in particular to ensure continued and timely provision of accessible SRHR services as well as to support actions aimed at addressing health issues related to gender-based violence and supporting victims of gender-based violence, including by ensuring that adequate appropriations are allocated for women’s rights organisations, especially those working on promotion of SRHR;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Calls for further increase of resources in the European Social Fund Plus (EFS+) to allow inclusion in the labour market and adapted training, as the COVID-19 crisis affected women’s employment disproportionally, in particular women working in the informal economy, many of whom may not be able to undertake formal employment as they are performing childcare duties, women in precarious working conditions, part- time contracts and in some heavily impacted and highly feminised sectors such as health, retail and care structures and services;