19 Amendments of Marco ZANNI related to 2014/2040(BUD)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls its deep concern about the fact that the Commission finds it increasingly difficult to honour all payments requests in the year within the limits of the payment appropriations originally voted and stresses that one reason for this situation is that commitment appropriations have been close to the ceiling defined while payment appropriations have been kept to a minimum during each period; considers, nonetheless, that the continuous requests to raise the level of payment funding during the year, through amending budgets, run counter to the principle of sound financial management and calls on the Commission to plan its spending in a more realistic manner in order to avoid continuous requests for additional funding which are not due to emergency situations and which conflict with the Member States’ need to contain their budgets;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. FeaConsiders that the Council will keep following its strategy during the 2014-2020 period to cut the level of payments, without taking into consideration real needs for which a sustainable solution must be found; calls on the Commission to identify which programmes do not provide EU added value and have not performed efficiently in order to discontinue them and free up resources to be used efficiently;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Expresses its readiness to accept cuts in commitments to humanitarian aid, food aid and disaster preparedness; calls, however, at the same time for an increase inStresses that, as a matter of priority, the level of payments to the emergency aid reserve must be substantially increased to cope with unforeseen events; recalls that payments from the emergency aid reserve are financed outside the MFF, as a special instrument;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Points out that the EU budget is never actually in balance in accordance with Article 310 TFEU; considers that the current amount of RAL is a significant indication of how the EU budget has, for years, been infringing this principle and takes the view that this seriously undermines the legality of the entire EU construction;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers that certain cuts proposed by the Council are unacceptable, as some programmes, such as the Pan-African programme, may not require specific levels of commitments at this stage.
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Expresses therefore its concerns with respect toIntends to assess the Commission proposal for a considerable decrease in payment appropriations for the three ESAs, in comparison to their respective budgets for 2014, as well as the Commission proposal to keep the number of establishment plan posts of the ESAs stable at the level of 2014 in 2015;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the ESAs need the appropriate human resources in order to fulfil their supervisory and regulatory role in a satisfactory manner; suggests that eventual increases in human resources should be precedednotes, however, that the grading of staff is manifestly top- heavy, with a very high number orf accompanied by rationalisation effdministratorts such as reallocation to achieve efficiency gains; points out that the ESAs stated having difficulties in employing staff members of a certain seniority and are limited in fulfilling their mandate by a lack of resources, staff and available resources do not reflect the tasks required to be carried out, in particular the highly resource intensive and time-constrained work of delivering the single rulebook(AD) compared with the number of assistants (AST); suggests, therefore, that staffing be rationalised and reorganised so as to restore balance to in- house resources; points out in addition that any increases in human resources would have to allow for the criteria referred to above;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48
Paragraph 48
48. Notes with regret that, despite this,that the Council has decreased the appropriations in Heading 5 by EUR 27,6 million, of which EUR 16,7 million is from the Commission's administrative budget for expenditure related to officials and temporary staff, as a consequence of increasing the standard flat rate abatement;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50
Paragraph 50
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51
Paragraph 51
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53
Paragraph 53
53. EndorsesTakes note, as a general rule, the Commission's estimates of the budgetary needs of agencies; notes that the Commission had already considerably reduced the initial requests of most agencies;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54
Paragraph 54
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55
Paragraph 55
55. Cannot accept, however,Supports the Commission's approach to staff, according to which the establishment plans of the agencies are not only to be reduced by 1 % on the basis of the political agreement on the MFF, which applies to all institutions and bodies, but are also to contribute another 1 % to a «redeployment pool»;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56
Paragraph 56
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69
Paragraph 69
69. RecallsNotes with regret that the Parliament's estimates for 2015 were set at EUR 1 794 929 112, corresponding to an overall rate of increase of 2,24 % over 2014; stresses, however, that only 0,67 % of this increase is linked to the legally binding exceptional transitional allowance for the end of the Members' mandate and 0,4 % to the agreement on the adjustment of the remunerations and pensions for 2011-2012; underlines that the level of other expenditure therefore increased by only 1,18 % over 2014;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 73
Paragraph 73
73. DecidesCannot accept to increase the appropriations for funding of the European political foundations by EUR 3 million, stresses that this increase will be budgetary neutral as it will be offset from the contingency reserve; sets therefore the overall level of its budget for 2015 at EUR 1 794 929 112; points out that this will correspond to a 0 % increase over the level of its estimates, adopted in the Plenary Session of 17 April 2014;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 74
Paragraph 74
74. Recallgrets the Gentlemen’s Agreement between Council and European Parliament stipulating that both Institutions shall respect each other’s Budget without amending it; criticises therefortakes note that the Commission has amended the Council’s estimates; and maintains the Council's position on lines: 2200 and 2202, thus honouring the Agreement;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 88
Paragraph 88
88. Strongly disagrees withupports the Commission's cuts of the expenditure directly linked to the political activities of the CoR10 , notably those related to Members' travel and subsistence allowances, attendance at the meetings and associated expenditure or to the information and communication activities; increases, in the light of the start of the new CoR mandate, the concerned budget lines by EUR 332 523 (item 1004) and by EUR 81 000 (item 264); __________________ 10 Due to the fact that the CoR Members are not receiving salaries at Union level, for their political activities in CoR the CoR budget reflects only the reimbursement of their travel and subsistence allowances as well as attendance allowances when participating in meetings.