11 Amendments of Marco ZANNI related to 2015/2074(BUD)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the fact that the Commission Draft General Budget of the European Union for the financial year 2016 reinforces those priorities and proposes to step up EU support for investment, knowledge, jobs and growth-orientated programmes, and in particular for an emblematic mobility programme such as Erasmus+; is satisfied that, in addition to takes note of the duly expected increases throughout Heading 3 (Security and Citizenship) and Heading 4 (Global Europe),asks the Commission isto takinge up the challenge of responding to new developments such as the crises in Ukraine, Syria and the Mediterranean by responding to the EU's and Member States' needs in the area of security and migration and by demonstrating strong political will in the field of external action;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. WelcomeRegrets the inclusion of the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI) in the Draft Budget for 2016 and, in particular, the mobilisation of the Global Margin for Commitments to cover part of the expenditure needed, instead of relying only on the cuts to Horizon 2020 and the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF); stresses that the deal struck by the co-legislators further reduces those cuts by EUR 1 billion overall, sparing in particular fundamental research; expects the final agreement to be reflected as soon as possible in the 2016with significant cuts to Horizon 2020 and the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF); points out, in any case, that to partially finance the contribution from the Union budget on, the basis of an amending letter aiming at minimising to the maximum extent the impact of the reductions on these two programmes; points out, however, that the cuts remain significant and commits to further offsetting them through a reinforcement of Horizon 2020 and the CEF in the context of the budgetary procedure, in order to allow these programmes to fully accomplish the objectivesavailable envelopes of the Instrument for Preaccession Assistance (IPA II) should be used, given that President Juncker has himself stated that no new accessions to the EU agreed only two years ago as a result of the negotiations on their respective legal bases planned during his term of office;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes that the EU Draft Budget for 2016 amounts to EUR 153.5 billion in commitment appropriations (including EUR 4.5 billion reprogrammed from 2014) and EUR 143.5 billion in payment appropriations; points out that, disregarding the effect of the reprogramming in 2015 and 2016, this corresponds to an increase of +2.4% in commitments and +1.6% in payments as compared to the 2015 budget; stresses that these are overall moderate increases following the path set by the MFFwe need to maintain the same level for commitment and payment appropriations or eventually reduce commitment appropriations in order to avoid the increase of the problem of outstanding payments;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Underlines the need for an accurate evaluation on the performance of the European Budget, taking into account the economic added value of each EU Programme and the principle of subsidiarity;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Reiterates its backing for the enhancement of the EU's means and the development of a culture of fair burden- sharing in the areas of asylum, migration and the management of external borders, and asks therefore praises theto increases in commitment and payment appropriations for the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund and for the Internal Security Fund; welcomes the Commission proposal to mobilise the Flexibility Instrument with EUR 124 million in order to respond to the current crisis in the Mediterranean; underlines however the need for a strict control on the destination of these funds, taking into account different investigations concerning several abuses discovered in some Member States;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. WelcomesTakes note of the increase in payment appropriations requested by the Commission across all programmes under Heading 4 (+28.5% up to EUR 9.5 billion), whereby payments exceed commitments especially in the areas of development, humanitarian aid and EU assistance to Palestine and to UNRWA; believes that such increases are fully justified by the need to redress the effects of the dramatic payment shortages encountered in that heading in 2014 and 2015, which have led the Commission to decrease pre-financings and postpone legal commitments; recalls that EUR 1.7 million in interest for late payments had to be paid in 2015 under Heading 4; expects the gap between commitments and payments to be progressively reduced and the backlog of unpaid bills to be brought back to a normal level; stresses that such a move is indispensable for the financial sustainability of the vulnerable beneficiaries and for the EU to act as a reliable partner vis-à-vis international organisations;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Believes that external financing instruments should provide tools to address, in a multifaceted manner and alongside their respective objectives, the root causes of those internal security and migration challenges which are at the core of next year's budget, with particular reference to the southern and eastern borders of the Union and more generally to conflict- stricken areas; points, in particular, to the Development Cooperation Instrument and the European Neighbourhood Instrument but also to policies undergoing more moderate increases such as humanitarian aid, the Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace, Common Foreign and Security Policy and the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights; calls on the Commission to clearly identify areas which can help in coping with those topical challenges and where potential reinforcements can be efficiently absorbed;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35 a. Underlines, in the context of the post-electoral MFF revision, to reconsider the global amount provided for the Instrument for Preaccession Assistance (IPA II), given that President Juncker has himself stated that no new accessions to the EU are planned during his term of office;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. NoteRegrets that Heading 5 expenditure increases by 2.9 % compared with Budget 2015 to EUR 8 908.7 million, that figure accounting globally for the administrative expenditure of the institutions (+2.2%) and for Pensions and European Schools (+5.4%); notes that a margin of EUR 574.3 million is left under the ceiling; underlines that Heading 5 ‘s share of the EU budget remains stable at 5.8 %underlines the need to freeze any increase in the administrative expenditures for the EU Institutions; recalls, howemoreover, that this figure does not take into account technical assistance accounted for as operational expenditure;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Underlines the crucialneed to analyse the role of decentralised agencies play, in order to assess the real added value in EU policy- making; and is determinedsks to evaluate the budgetary and staffing needs of all the agencies on a case-by-case basis, in order to and ensureing adequate appropriations and staff for all the agencies and particularly for those that have recently been assigned new tasks or face a higher workload for political-priority-setting or other reasons; is particularly determined to provide the agencies in the area of justice and home affairs with the necessary resources to tackle the current migratory challenges; highlights once more its opposition to the redeployment pool and expects to find a solution during the budgetary procedure to stop the additional staff cuts in decentralised agencies; reiterates, furthermore, its intention to use the Interinstitutional Working Group on decentralised agencies to find common ground between the institutions on the treatment of agencies in budgetary terms, also with a view to the conciliation on the 2016 budgetonly where actually necessary;