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6 Amendments of Auke ZIJLSTRA related to 2017/2052(INI)

Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Points out that the structure of the new multiannual financial framework (MFF) must correspond to the top five political priorities of the EU; calls for more coherence betweebudgetary restraint in the funding of the EU budget and its objectives, if needed by breakby lowering the 1 % glass ceiling of Member State GDP contributions and/or by adapting and reducing the EU’s objectives in line with a strict interpretation of the principal of subsidiarity as enshrined in article 5.3 of the TEU;
2017/11/23
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Recommends separating the asylum, border and justice programmes into three comprehensive MFF headings corresponding to clear EU objectives in the framework of ‘Solidaecurity’, ‘Security’ and ‘Respect for the Rule of LawImproved Returns’ and ‘Reintroduction of Internal Border Controls by Member States’, which are understandable and identifiable by EU citizens;
2017/11/23
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the importance of the different EU funds and highlights that actions in the field of security and migration should not only be covered by dedicated, yet limited, instruments, such as the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) or the Internal Security Fund (ISF), but should also be included by design in more generic future instruments such as the European Social Fund (ESF), the Cohesion Fund or Security Union Fund (corresponding to the European Agenda on Security); recommends that all Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) agencies should have access to these funds to strengthen their operational capabilities; considers it necessary that all ESI Funds be continued post-2020, and stresses that certain funds, such as the ESF, should significantly address the issue of programmes for combating radicalisation, marginalisation, hate crime and xenophobia;deleted
2017/11/23
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that the possible extension of the use of EU trust funds for financing humanitarian support actions inside the Union1 should require that 100 % of these funds be included in the EU budget; recalls that Parliament should be able to exercise its powers of scrutiny not only over the creation of such EU trust funds, but also over their entire disbursement; _________________ 1 As proposed by the Commission during the mid-term revision of the current MFF.deleted
2017/11/23
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the importance played by the JHA agencies and newly created Union bodies as part of the Security Union Agenda, as well as the significant role they play in countering trans-border crime, fraud and money laundering; calls for the allocation of appropriate resources for their operations and activities: a. regrets the insufficient provision of resources to law enforcement agencies, such as Europol, Eurojust and Cepol, under the current MFF and calls for resource programming in line with political expectations and agencies’ operational demands, including the need for technological and technical support, as well as training; b. stresses the importance of the work performed by the European Agency for the operational management of large- scale IT systems in the area of freedom, security and justice (eu-LISA) on a number of existing and new systems in the area of freedom, security and justice; calls for the allocation of adequate financial and human resources in order to ensure the continuation of this work, as well as for the smooth implementation and management of the Entry-Exit System, the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS), the European Criminal Records Information System (ECRIS-TCN) and upcoming actions within the New European Interoperability Framework, taking into consideration their multi-annual nature; c. recalls the Union’s commitment to fighting poverty and social exclusion, as part of the Europe 2020 growth strategy, as well as the need for a better understanding of and response to the phenomena of radicalisation, the growing marginalisation of some groups, hate speech and hate-crime; underlines the role of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) in relation to these matters; d. calls for adequate resources for the consolidation of the new mandate of the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union (FRONTEX) and underlines that its new tasks, competences and activities will require ongoing funding in the post-2020 financial framework; e. calls for the allocation of proper resources in order to ensure the smooth implementation and running of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office;deleted
2017/11/23
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to propose clear and strict rules for financially sanctioningstop interfering with Member States "failing to comply with ‘the rule of law’".
2017/11/23
Committee: LIBE