7 Amendments of Evžen TOŠENOVSKÝ related to 2019/2213(BUD)
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines that all relevant areas of the budget need to contribute to the overall goals of the European Green Deal and the UN Sustainable Development Goals; recalls in this context the importance of the introduction of a Just Transition Fund to address societal, socio-economic and environmental impacts on workers and communities adversely affected by the transition from coal and carbon dependence, and to foster economic diversification in the territories concerned; calls for soliincreased financing of the fund taking into account that a specific allocation of €4.8 bn was made before the announcement of new climate ambitions enshrined in the European Green Deal;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses the importance of the Connecting Europe Facility as a key instrument to reach the goals of the Energy Union and to facilitate the Union’s commitment under the Paris Agreement and calls for adequate appropriations for the programme, in particular for its energy strand;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the need for an ambitious draft budget, in particular for new programmes such as the Digital Europe Programme, which need to become operational as soon as possible in order to help make the EU more competitive; stresses the importance of adequately funding of AI research and innovation in a broad spectrum of programmes in order to capture the full potential of current and future generations of digital tools with a special concern for a challenge of a relatively low AI-readiness in some Member States;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the need for an ambitious draft budget, in particular for new programmes such as the Digital Europe Programme, which need to become operational as soon as possible in order to help make the EU more competitive; stresses in this regard the strategic importance of the Space Programme, namely of its Galileo, EGNOS and Copernicus components, in respect of the transition to a climate-neutral and digitized economy and its contribution to enhancing European strategic autonomy;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls the important role that EU agencies play in helping to achieve policy objectives set by the legislator; calls therefore for sufficient funding and staffing for all agencies in line with their tasks and responsibilities; underlines in particular the need to substantially reinforce the following EU agencies: – European Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER), which has been underfunded and understaffed for many years; insists that the Commission address this problem already in its draft budget – European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA), which will succeed the European GNSS Agency (GSA); recalls that the Parliament annually highlighted a resourcing gap, concerning critical security of Galileo and EGNOS; regrets that the Commission in its proposal on the Space Programme did not sufficiently increase the human and financial resources to reflect this gap and the new tasks assigned to the agency; emphasises that the provisional inter- institutional agreement on the Space Programme further broadened the list of EUSPA’s tasks.
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recalls that the BEREC Office has not reached critical mass and still lacks some key capacities, which may put at stake the delivery of its new mandate as defined by the 2018 Electronic Communications Code and the BEREC Regulation; more over this smallest EU decentralised agency had been negatively affected by the highest reduction of staff posts in previous years;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to guarantee timely appropriate level of payments in order to ensure efficient implementation of programmes, which are otherwise often adversely affected by delays in providing grants and payments.