19 Amendments of Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL related to 2018/2001(BUD)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the response to the request from the Committee on Budgets expressed in various budget resolutions on additional information on medium- and long-term planning, investments, statutory obligations, operational expenditure and a methodology on the basis of the current needs rather than of coefficients; notes that lump sums are a useful and recognised tool to add flexibility and transparency;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Expects the 2019 Parliament’s budget to be realistic and sharp regarding the matching of the needs and their costs, to avoid as much as possible over budgeting;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes the communication campaign as a helpful effort to explain the purpose of the Union and the Parliament to the citizens; underlines that this campaign should aim, among other things, at explaining the role of the Union, the power of the Parliament, its functions, includingsuch as the election of the President of the Commission, and its impact on the lives of citizens;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. WelcomesTakes notes of the process of improving Members’ and staff working environments as decided by the Bureau in December 2017, which will continue in 2019 in order to provide flexible workspaces for Members to satisfy needs arising from changing working patterns, providing them with three offices in Brussels and two in Strasbourg after the 2019 elections; stresses nevertheless that in Strasbourg it would be more useful to provide flexible spaces for meetings; notes that costs for maintenance of Parliament’s buildings in 2019, including security and environmental requirements, should be taken into account and coordinated as early as possible;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19 a. Asks for further details on the shape of the furniture in the Brussels’ ASP building that justified its replacement, and on the procedure followed to choose the new furniture, notably on the ratio between its price and the need for replacement;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Welcomes in particular the ever- increasing quality of advice and research provided to Members and committees through the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) and the policy departments; asks for information on the way these two different services coordinate among themselves to avoid duplication of work; welcomes the new and existing specific projects in the IT application, which will be implemented in full or in part in 2019: e-Parliament project, the Electronic Records Management System (ERMS) project, the Open Digital Library Program, the new project on research and development on machine learning with translation memories and the conference and event participants’ registration tool;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Recalls the abovementioned resolutions of 5 April 2017 on Parliament's estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 201812 and of 25 October 2017 on the Council position on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 201813 ; reiterates the appeal for transparency regarding the General Expenditure Allowance (GEA) for Members; calls on Parliament's Bureau to work on better guidancein this sense welcomes the creation of the Parliament's Bureau Working group on the General Expenditure Allowance; recalls the expectations of a greater transparency regarding the general expenditure allowance and a need to work on a definition of more precise rules regarding the accountability of the expenditure authorised under this allowance, without generating additional costs or administrative burden to Parliament´s administration or to Members and their offices; __________________ 12to Parliament; __________________ 12 Texts adopted, P8_TA(2017)0114. Texts adopted, P8_TA(2017)0114. 13 Texts adopted, P8_TA_PROV(2017)0408
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Recalls the principle of the independence of the mandate; underlines that it is the responsibility of elected Members to use the expenditures for parliamentary activities and that it is possible for Members who wish to do so to publish their spending record of the GEA on their personal webpages; stresses the fact that the lump sum is widely used and recognised as the useful tool in Member States; reiterates that improved efficiency and transparency of the GEA does not mean to infringe upon the privacy and should not require additional staff in Parliament's administration;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25 a. Urges the Parliament's Bureau Working group on the General Expenditure Allowance to complete their work to enable recommendations based on the view of Parliament expressed in October 2017 to be considered prior to the election of the 9th Legislature;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls on the Bureau to ensure that the social and pension rights of Members and of Accredited Parliamentary Assistants are respected and that adequate financial means are made available; in this regard, reiterates its call to find a workable solution for those APAs who, having worked for two parliamentary terms in the end of the current term, will not be entitled to access to the European pension rights scheme, when they will reach the pension age, since they will be lacking some time out of the ten years' service needed, due to early elections in 2014 and the delays in the validation of the APAs new contracts because of heavy workload during the periods after the elections of 2009 and 2014;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Considers it appropriate to have an adequate increase inadequate the appropriations of the budget line 422 ‘Expenditure related to parliamentary assistance’, in particular taking into account the higher workload as a result of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union, the growing number of trilogues, the increasing number of temporary and special committees, reaching a historical threshold of 25 standing and temporary committees, and the coincidence of the end of legislature with the complex package of legislative MFF proposals;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 b (new)
Paragraph 27 b (new)
27 b. With a view to next parliamentary term, calls again on the Conference of Presidents to revise the Implementing provisions governing the work of delegations and missions outside the European Union; underlines that such a revision should consider the possibility for APAs, subject to certain conditions, to accompany Members on official Parliament Delegations and Missions;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 c (new)
Paragraph 27 c (new)
27 c. Calls on the EP Bureau to amend the EP Bureau decision of the 19th of April 2010 ¨rules concerning the Member’s trainees" to ensure a decent remuneration in trainee’s contract; stresses that remunerations of trainees in Member’s offices or political groups must be, at least, at a similar level of the Schuman trainees in order to ensure that their salaries cover living expenses in Brussels, or in the city where the traineeships take place;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 d (new)
Paragraph 27 d (new)
27 d. Believes that adequate funding should be made available for the implementation of the Roadmap for the adaptation of preventive and early support measures to deal with conflict and harassment between members and APAs or other staff;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Asks the Secretary-General to build on the existing cooperation agreements between the Parliament, the Committee of the Regions and the European Economic and Social Committee, for which the EPRS is the ; suggests to analyse the extent to which each party of this agreement takes benefit of this service, relativerly positive exampleto its financial participation to its functioning; requests to identify other areas, such as IT services or security, in which the back office functions could be shared in order to increase synergies and to use the lead experience of the Parliament, taking fully into account the governance difficulties and the differences in terms of scale of the services between the Parliament and the other two bodies, and to use the acquired experience to build up faire cooperation agreements;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30 a. Underlines the need for an assessment of the savings reached due to the Inter-Institutional Administrative cooperation agreement between the European Parliament, the Committee of the Regions and the European Economic and Social Committee both in the areas submitted to Joint Services (Translation; Printing/distribution, except pre-press; IT + Telecommunications; Programming/contractual and financial management, security; Infrastructure, Eco-Management and Audit Scheme, and catering) and in the areas submitted to cooperation (rooms, interpretation, libraries, pre-press, health services, and transportation);
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Calls upon the Secretary-General and the Bureau to instil a culture of performance-based budgeting across Parliament's administration, in line with theand a lean management approach in order to enhance efficiency, reduce paperwork and diminish bureaucracy in the institution's internal work; recalls in this regard the principle of the independence of the mandatestresses that the experience of lean management is the continuous improvement of the work procedure thank to the simplification and experience of the administrative staff;