18 Amendments of Sophie MONTEL related to 2016/2148(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Is concerned by delays in the adoption of operational programmes and the designation of managing authorities and calls for sufficient payment appropriations to be made available through the current multiannual financial framework (MFF) in order to preventexclude a new backlog of unpaid bills in the second half of the MFF;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes the efforts made to use the ESI Funds in support of key priorities set in the country-specific recommendations; notes the Commission’s proposal on the establishment of the Structural Reform Support Programme; stresses that Article 23 of the Common Provision Regulation must only be used as a last resort and that Parliamentthe following bodies must be fuldirectly involved from the early stages;:
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 – point a (new)
Paragraph 2 – point a (new)
(a) national parliaments;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 – point b (new)
Paragraph 2 – point b (new)
(b) national governments.
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 – point c (new)
Paragraph 2 – point c (new)
(c) the peoples of Europe;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 – point d (new)
Paragraph 2 – point d (new)
(d) the European Parliament;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 – point e (new)
Paragraph 2 – point e (new)
(e) the European Council:
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that there is a stronger focus on performance of ESI Funds in the current MFF; believes that any link between performance and the ESI Funds in the future MFF can only be established after a thorough evaluation of the current arrangement and the current provisions;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that, in the current MFF, financial instruments play a n ever-stronger role; believes, however, that they shouldmust not substitute grants as the core tool for ESI Funds; stresses that their implementation must be effective, transparent and always subject to full parliamentary scrutiny, without any prejudice to the unity of the EU budget;:
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 – point a (new)
Paragraph 4 – point a (new)
(a) national parliamentary scrutiny so as to ensure control of the use of public funds by the peoples of Europe;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 – point b (new)
Paragraph 4 – point b (new)
(b) control by national governments to ensure the sovereignty of each Member State of the European Union;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Expects the Commission to present to Parliament and to the governments of the EU Member States at the earliest opportunity a detailed assessment of the complementarity, additionality and synergies achieved so far between the ESI Funds and the EFSI, and calls for steps to be taken to ensure full coherence and synergies between the ESI Funds and other EU instruments;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that the flood of migrationnts has become a dangerous structural phenomenon infor Europe and calls for further use to be made of ESI Funds in order to promote the integration of asylum seekers and refugees into society;:
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – point a (new)
Paragraph 6 – point a (new)
(a) encourage the return to their countries of origin of clandestine migrants arriving in EU Member States;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – point b (new)
Paragraph 6 – point b (new)
(b) enable EU Member States to resume systematic national border controls so as to turn back clandestine migrants arriving in Europe;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to keep the budgetary authority and the governments of the EU Member States informed about the budgetary consequences of Brexit for the ESI Funds in the EU-27. so as to:
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – point a (new)
Paragraph 7 – point a (new)
(a) clarify the situation regarding Brexit and the positive political and economic consequences thereof for United Kingdom;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – point b (new)
Paragraph 7 – point b (new)
(b) encourage the fragmentation of the European Union and a return to freedom and sovereignty within its Member States.