3 Amendments of Isabelle THOMAS related to 2015/2341(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Acknowledges the added value of pooling a large number of national contributions at Union level in addition to substantial contributions from the external financing instruments and the European Development Fund (EDF); notes, however, that according to the Commission communication of 10 February 2016, four months after the fund was set up, on the state of play of implementation of the priority actions under the European Agenda on Migration, Member State funding pledges totalled only EUR 81.71 million, or 4.5% of the projected EUR 1.8 billion; urges the Member States, however, to effectively match the Union contribution rather than provide the minimum required to obtain voting rights;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that trust funds are part of an ad hoc response which shows that the Union budget and the Multiannual Financial Framework lack the resources and flexibility needed for a rapid and comprehensive approach to major crises; deplores the fact that they result in bypassing the budgetary authority and undermining the unity of the budgetnotes that the fact that this ad hoc instrument has been set up is acknowledgement that the 2014-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework is undersized; points out that Member State contributions make up 85% of the Union budget; considers that setting up this trust fund is de facto tantamount to revising the ceilings for the current Multiannual Financial Framework by increasing Member State contributions; deplores the fact that, in spite of its budgetary authority status, Parliament is not represented on the management committee responsible for funding allocation; deplores, accordingly, the fact that, as a result of setting up the Trust Fund, the budgetary authority is being bypassed and budget unity undermined; considers that revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework would provide greater budgetary, democratic and legal certainty;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Observes that Parliament has demonstrated responsibility, as one arm of the budgetary authority, by agreeing to release emergency funds; deplores the fact, however, that, as a result of the proliferation of emergency instruments, the Community method is being abandoned; gives an assurance of its intention to safeguard the fundamental principles of the Union budget, notably budget unity and codecision; considers that a rethink of the Union's ability to respond to large-scale crises, in particular as regards their budgetary implications, is what is genuinely imperative; makes its agreement to future proposals for crisis instruments subject to incorporation of those implications into the mid-term review of the Multiannual Financial Framework, which is scheduled to take place before the end of 2016.