15 Amendments of Marco VALLI related to 2018/2024(BUD)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that in its resolution of 15 March 2018 Parliament identified the following priorities for the 2019 EU budget: sustainable growth, innovation, competitiveness, security, the fight against climate change, the transition to renewable energy and migration, and also called for a particular focus on young people; stresses that the austerity measures must be ended, in order to respond adequately and efficiently to multiple crises simultaneously; reminds the respect the principle of solidarity and calls the Commission to provides as more savings as possible on projects that so far have not shown a real added value;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. WelcomesTakes note of the Commission proposal and believes that it corresponds broadly to Parliament’s own priorities; intends to further defend an appropriate level of appropriations corresponding to the latter; notes theof the proposed increase of 3.1 % in commitment appropriations;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the proposed reinforcements to Horizon 2020, the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), Erasmus+ and programmes contributing to increase the security of EU citizens; points, however, to the need to further reinforce support for SMEs, which are key to enabling economic growth and job creation out that the financing of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) must aim at objectives which ensure a real economic, environmental and social added-value for the Member States and should not be used to finance projects marked out by a controversial realization; points, however, to the need to further reinforce support for SMEs and microenterprises, which are key drivers of sustainable growth, innovation and employment and recognises their important role in ensuring the recovery and boosting of a sustainable economy, as well as for programmes supportive to young people; recalls its conviction that the 2019 Erasmus+ budget needs to be at least doubled in 2019;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. CommendsTakes note of the role of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) inthat should reducinge the investment gap in the EU; regrets the fact that the EFSI have financed also infrastructure installations with serious environmental impact and dubious additionality; reiterates its longstanding position that any new initiatives within the MFF must be financed by new appropriations and not to the detriment of the existing programmes; reiterates also that the cuts made to Horizon 2020 and CEF to finance the extension of EFSI should be reversed in the 2019 budget;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses that in 2019, cohesion policy programmes will be at cruising speed, and emphasises Parliament’s commitment to ensuring adequate appropriations for these programmes; welcomes the fact that almost all of the managing authorities for the 2014-2020 programmes have now been designated; points out that the unacceptable delays in the implementation of operational programmes have been to a large extent due to the late designation of those authorities and to serious shortcomings in the administrative capacity of some national and regional authorities; calls on the Member States to ensure that the implementation of the programmes is accelerated so as to catch up with the delays, and to seek the Commission’s assistance in this respect;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Calls on the Commission to consider, as a matter of urgency, the option of excluding the co-financing of ESIF-funded projects in the so-called less developed regions from the deficit calculation in the context of the European Semester;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Agrees that migration remains a top Union priority in 2019; deems it crucial to maintain spending in this area at a high and stable level to ensure solidarity and a fair sharing of responsibilities among all Member States, in particular within the framework of the revision of the Dublin regulation; regrets indeed that until now there is not an effective system of redistribution, that causes an unequal load for some Member States, notably Italy and Greece;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21 a. Stresses the importance of considering sustainable reconstructions, any anti-seismic investment and all the measures against hydrogeological instability, including the ones co-financed through ESI Funds and allocated to the Thematic Objective 5 "prevention, promotion of climate change adaptation, risk prevention and management" to be excluded from the calculation of national deficits in the framework of the Stability and Growth Pact;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Welcomes the increased support for regional actions in the Western Balkans; is, however, of the opinion that support for political reforms should be further stepped up; notes and stresses the necessity to a stronger link between financial support and democratic reforms; notes with concern the increased support for political reforms in Turkey (IPA II), which is tomust be primarily redirected to civil society actors with a view to implementing measures supportive of the objectives relating to the rule of law, democracy, human rights and media freedoms; supports the overall downward trend in the allocations for Turkey;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
Paragraph 42
42. NoteRegrets that Heading 5 expenditure, related to the administration, is increased by 3.0 % compared to the 2018 budget, up to EUR 9 956.9 million (+EUR 291.4 million) in commitment appropriations; notes that, as for the previous budgetary exercise, the increase is mostly driven by the evolution of pensions (+ EUR 116.7 million), representing 20.2 % of Heading 5 expenditure; observetakes the view that Decision 2005/684/CE on the Statute for Members of the European Parliament needs to be revised, in order to amend Article 14 and bring the pension entitlements of Members into line with the social security systems for ordinary citizens of individual Member States, as regards both the calculation of the amount and the age, and contribution related requirements which entitle them to a pension; calls for a recalculation of the pensions paid out from the EU budget for former members who accrued such an entitlement prior to, and following, the entry force of the current Statute; regrets that the share of expenditure on administration in the draft budget remains unchanged at athe high level of 6.0 % in commitment appropriations;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
43. Acknowledges the effortsEncourages the Commission to madke by the Commissionas much efforts as possible in order to integrate all possibilities for savings and rationalisations in non-salary-relatedof the administrative expenditure for its own budget; notes that the evolution of the Commission’s expenditure (+ 2.0 %) is mostly due to the automatic adaptation of salary expenditure and contractual commitments; further notes the Commission’s internal redeployment of staff to fulfil its new priorities;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44
Paragraph 44
44. Notes that the effective margin is EUR 575.2 million under the ceiling after the offsetting of EUR 253.9 million for the use of the contingency margin mobiliszed in 2018; considers the margin to be important in nominal terms, and believes it reflects the efforts made by the Commission, in particular to freeze the evolution of non-salary expenditurebelieves it is important that the Commission makes as much efforts as possible in order to freeze the evolution of administrative expenditure for its own budget;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
Paragraph 45
45. Stresses the importance of pilot projects (PP) and preparatory actions (PA) as tools for the formulation of political priorities and the introduction of new initiatives that might turn into standing EU activities and programmes; intends to proceed with the identification of a balanced package of PP-PAs, reflecting the political priorities of Parliament in the sole interests of citizens; calls for a proper transparent and timely technical pre- assessment of its proposals submitted to the Commission; notes that in the current proposal, the margin in some headings is limited, or even non-existent, and intends to explore ways to make room for possible PP-PAs without decreasing other political priorities;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 a (new)
Paragraph 46 a (new)
46 a. Asks for an exhaustive analysis in order to identify savings and to improve the efficiency through administrative cooperation and to evaluate the unification of Agencies with similar tasks;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 b (new)
Paragraph 46 b (new)
46 b. Stresses that EMA and EBA relocations costs should be transparent and in any case no raise of the EU contribution should be admitted following the double relocation of EMA from its temporary location to the final;