Activities of Reimer BÖGE related to 2015/2132(BUD)
Plenary speeches (1)
General budget of the European Union for 2016 - all sections (debate) DE
Amendments (11)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that adequate appropriations should be allocated to the trade-related budget lines to enable the Commission to efficiently and effectively pursue its ambitious trade agenda aimed at creating growth and jobs across Europe and attaining the Union’s wider international goals as well as to step up its efforts regarding the monitoring of the implementation and the effects of trade agreements;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is concerned that many Union citizens equate globalisation with a loss of European output and jobs; points to the increasing role of NGOs in shaping public opinion on trade-related matters due to the lack of an effective Union communication strategy explaining the Union’s trade policy; emphasises the need for an increase in the Commission’s information and communication budget to allow for better engagement with citizens; calls on the Commission to present a study on the funding sources and the impact of NGOs active in trade issues to increase transparency regarding the role of NGOs and to identify possible adjustment needs of NGOs funding from the EU budget;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that the implementation of the Trade Facilitation Agreement reached at the 9th Ministerial Conference of the WTO will require increased funding support for the least developed and developing countries; deplores, therefore, the reduced appropriations for Aid for Tradeis concerned by indications of irregularities in relation to the cooperation with certain partners leading to reduced spending effectiveness of Aid for Trade; calls for the additional appropriations to be put into a reserve until the Commission has proved that the programme fully complies with the Financial Regulation;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes the moderate increase in appropriations for the Partnership Instrument; recalls the programme objective to foster international trade and investment opportunities of European SMEs; calls on the Commission to assess and improve the existing tools regarding their efficiency and effectiveness and to ensure sufficient controls and oversight of all activities with the aim to develop a more coherent approach, also taking account of existing private initiatives.
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls upon the Commission to analyse the financial burden caused by fees and charges due within obligatory certification and licensing procedures; urges the Commission to provide a proper evaluation of the impact of those costs on the competitiveness of industrial companies and SMEs;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Confirms its support for the ITER programme and is committed to securing its appropriate financing; is concerned, however, about possible further delays and additional costs of this programme as well as the related potential repercussions on the Union budget; regrets, therefore, that it was unable to assess the level of the 2016 ITER appropriations against the updated payment plan and schedule, which is only due to be presented in the ITER Council in November 2015; expects, however, that this revised plan will provide sufficient evidence that Parliament's recommendations, as set out in the relevant 2013 discharge resolution8 , have been properly taken into account and that financial soundness and spending efficiency will be ensured; intends to raise this matter in the 2016 budgetary conciliation; moreover, is alarmed by the current lack of transparency regarding the use of Fusion for Energy's contributions to the ITER programme; calls for a proper accountability mechanism giving a clear overview of the amount of the financial resources provided to the international project and evaluating their efficient use; __________________ 8 European Parliament resolution of 29 April 2015 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget for the Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy for the financial year 2013 (Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0168).
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Decides, in light of the current, exceptional flows of migrants and refugees to concentrate its reinforcements on strengthening the AMIF; strongly supports in this context the second EUR 780 million package on the relocation of 120 000 persons; decides to incorporate it in its reading, and to align the first relocation package with the second one by adding EUR 20 million to finance transport costs (EUR 500 per migrant to Italy and Greece); approves an additional increase of EUR 79 million for general reinforcements of the AMIF; stresses the importance of a proper financing of return operations in accordance with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the principle of 'non- refoulement' in order to achieve an effective return policy, preventing and reducing irregular migration; finally decides to reinforce the agencies with migration-related tasks for a total of EUR 26 million;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Complements the package of amendments on migration and the refugee crisis by adopting targeted reinforcements in commitment appropriations first and foremost within the European Neighbourhood Instrument (+ EUR 178,1 million) but also in the Development Cooperation Instrument (+ EUR 26,6 million), Humanitarian aid (+ EUR 26 million), the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (+ EUR 11,2 million), the Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace (+ EUR 12,6 million) and the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (+ EUR 1 million); while supporting, where necessary, reprioritisation within those programmes to focus onaddress the most topical challenges; considers such reinforcements as necessarystresses that this reprioritisation must not lead to reduced efforts related to the initial objectives of the respective legal basis, thus risking the destabilisation of the European neighbourhood or other regions concerned; emphasizes the need to reinforce cooperation with third countries to effectively tackle the current migration crisis; considers, therefore, such reinforcements indispensable to finance additional initiatives, on top of the initial objectives of the respective legal bases;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Calls for these extra appropriations to be used in particular to increase the funding forNotes that the Union Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis and for the Emergency Trust Fund for stability and addressing root causes of irregular migration and displaced persons in Africa, as well as for immediate assistance via the UNHCR and the World Food Programme; calls on the individual Member States to bring additional contributions to the Trust Funds and to were created because the Union budget lacks both the necessary flexibility and funding to allow for a rapid and comprehensive response to the crisis; stresses, however, that the recourse to financial instruments outside the budget must remain exceptional and that a solution needs to be found in the MFF review on how to make support from the Union budget for humanitarian assistance and development more effective and more readily available; calls for the extra appropriations for the programmes under Heading 4 to be used in particular to increase the funding for the two Trust Funds as well as for immediate assistance via the UNHCR and the World Food Programme; calls on the individual Member States to turn words into deeds and bring the necessary additional contributions to match the Union funding linked to the Trust Funds and to close the funding gap of the UN agencies without further delay; notes that the pipeline of projects potentially funded by the Trust Funds further weakens the Council’'s case for an alleged lack of absorption capacity in Heading 4;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47
Paragraph 47
47. Decides to increase, within the overall package on migration, the appropriations for the main agencies working in this field: the European Asylum Support Office, Frontex, Europol, Eurojust, eu.LISA, Cepol and the Fundamental Rights Agency for a total of EUR 26 million, as these agencies are vital to address the current pressing problem of migratory flows in an effective manner; notes with concern that such appropriations may not be sufficient in light of the quickly deteriorating crisis situation and tremendous increase in migratory flows; urges the Commission to provide updated and consolidated information about these agencies' needs in due time, before the end of the budgetary conciliation procedure; calls upon the Commission to propose a medium-term and long-term strategy for these agencies' actions, objectives, missions, coordination, development of hotspots and financial resources;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 52
Paragraph 52
52. Underlines once more that that posts financed from industry have no impact on the Union Budget and therefore should not be subject to the staff reduction at all, but; emphasises that it should be left to the discretion of the agency concerned to balance fluctuating workload by not filling all posts at their disposal;