13 Amendments of Alda SOUSA related to 2012/0295(COD)
Amendment 12 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (hereinafter the ‘Fund’) should strengthen social cohesion by contributing to the reduction of poverty in the Union by supporting, primarily through the provision of food supplies, national schemes that provide non-financial assistance to the most deprived persons to alleviate food deprivation, homelessness and material deprivation of children.
Amendment 15 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) The Fund can not replace public policies undertaken by Member State governments to limit the need for emergency food aid and to develop sustainable targets and policies for the full eradication of hunger, poverty and social exclusion.
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) It is necessary to establish a maximum level of co-financing from the Fund to the operational programmes to provide for a multiplier effect of Union resoThe Member States most in need of the Fund are least likely to be able to afford to co-finance the measurces, while the situation of Member States facing temporary budget difficulties should be addressetherefore the Fund should be 100% funded by the Union in order to ensure the highest possible uptake of the Fund.
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – subparagraph 1 – point 7
Article 2 – subparagraph 1 – point 7
(7) ‘end recipient’final beneficiary" means the most deprived persons receiving the food or goods and/or benefiting from the accompanying measures;
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. The Member States most in need of the Fund are least likely to be able to afford to co-finance the measures, therefore the Fund should be 100% funded by the Union in order to ensure the highest possible uptake of the Fund.
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – point 12 a (new)
Article 5 – point 12 a (new)
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. The global resources available for budgetary commitment from the Fund for the period 2014-2020 shall be at least EUR 23 500 000 000 at 2011 prices, in accordance with the annual breakdown set out in Annex II.
Amendment 51 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Article 10 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
This platform shall include encouraging an exchange between all those working on immediate material deprivation alleviation and organisations working for longer-term, sustainable social reintegration, and looking at how links could be developed between these different objectives.
Amendment 53 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 13 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1
Article 18 – paragraph 1
1. The co-financing rate at the level of the operational programme shall not be higher than 85be 100% of the public eligible expenditure.
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 2
Article 18 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission decision adopting an operational programme shall fix the co- financing rate applicable to the operational programme and the maximum amount of support from the Fund.
Amendment 70 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Article 21 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
They may also be purchased by a public body and made available free of charge to the partner organisations. In that case, the food may be obtained from the use, processing or sale of the products in intervention stocks made available in accordance with Article 15 of the Regulation (EU) No [CMO], provided that this is economically the most favourable option and does not unduly delay the delivery of the food products to the partner organisations. Any amount derived from a transaction concerning those stocks shall be used for the benefit of the most deprived persons, and. It shall not be applied so as to diminish the obligation of the Member States, provided in Article 18 of this Regulation, to co-finance the programmein addition to the obligations and allocated budgets, of and for the Member States.
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
Article 35 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
Any unused funds shall remain within the programme and shall be made available to other Member States using this programme or other beneficiaries as defined in Article 2.