Activities of Davor ŠKRLEC related to 2017/2044(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2018
Amendments (4)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines the importance of cohesion policy as one of the main investment instruments of the Union budget to helppursue its Treaty-based objective of reduceing economic, social and territorial disparities within and between European regions; stresses its role in creating growth and jobs across the Union and in achieving the Europe 2020 objectives, including its climate and energy targets and social objectives;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Welcomes the Council Conclusions of 21 March 2017 on the European Court of Auditors' special report No 31 from 26 October 2016 which warned of the serious risk of falling short of the objective to spend at least 20% of the Union Budget on climate action;calls therefore on the Commission and the Member States to step up their efforts in that respect in the final years of the current Multiannual Financial Framework;stresses the important contribution of cohesion policy spending in this end;emphasises, however, that this target should be increased in the future in order to achieve the objectives deriving from the Paris Agreement adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) and signed by the Union and all its Member States;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for greater synergies of European Structural and Investment Funds programmes with European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) and other financial instruments to leverage additional financing, as well as for greater complementarities with the other Union programmes; in that context supports the EFSI extension until 2020the other Union programmes; believes that grants should remain the basis of the financing of cohesion policy; points out that financial instruments can play a complementary role to grants, but they should be used only when their added value has been carefully demonstrated, based on ex-ante assessments analysing not only on their leverage effect but also on their contribution to policy principles and objectives;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the fact that the draft 2018 budget incorporates the elements of the mid-term revision package, which will allow greater flexibility; calls on the Commission to continue to focus the Union budget implementation on the results, supports all steps undertaken towards a performance-based approach; points out that the 2018 budget should be implemented in line with the increased potential of the proposed simplification and flexibility within the “Omnibus package”.regrets, however, that the mid-term revision package did not take full account of the Parliament's resolution of 6 July 2016, especially its call to increase the current MFF ceilings; calls on the Commission to continue to focus the Union budget implementation on the results, supports all steps undertaken towards a performance-based approach;