Activities of Ivan JAKOVČIĆ related to 2017/2053(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the reform of the European Union’s system of own resources
Amendments (6)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for an in-depth reform of the own-resources system without increasing the fiscal burden for European tax payers, including new own resources (ORs) that could reduce the share of GNI-based contributions (which accounted for 65.4 % of the Union’s revenue in 2016) and a phase-out of all forms of rebate; stresses that the current system includes complex and opaque correction mechanisms and contributes to the lack of sufficient payment appropriations each year;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Invites all parties to draw the appropriate conclusions from the HLGOR’s report and to analyse the feasibility of the recommendations to help make the Union budget more stable, simple, autonomouscoherent, fair and, predictable and transparent;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Highlights the importance of the principle of subsidiarity in any change to the composition of own resources; emphasizes that complementarity between the national and European levels enables the appropriate funding of the EU budget, supports the overall EU policy objectives and allows a targeted use of the budget;
Amendment 36 #
4. Points out that these new types of ORs are essential to finance more recent Union priorities such as migration, internal security and defence while creating synergies and minimizing the fiscal burden, and to offset the loss in revenue of EUR 9 to 12 billion a year which could result from Brexit; notes also that new ORs are needed to avoid the potential spending cuts to the common agricultural policy (CAP) presented in the Commission’s ‘Reflection Paper on the Future of EU Finances’;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the CAP’s added value in strengthening the Union’s long-term food and environmental security through more stable farm incomes and rural development measures to prevent rural depopulation; emphasises the potential of the CAP to provide more environmental public goods and stresses the need to safeguard the contribution of agricultural duties to EU finances.