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Activities of Bernd KÖLMEL related to 2017/2061(BUD)

Shadow reports (1)

REPORT on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 2/2017 of the European Union for the financial year 2017: Entering the surplus of the financial year 2016 PDF (353 KB) DOC (57 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2017/2061(BUD)
Documents: PDF(353 KB) DOC(57 KB)

Amendments (3)

Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Insists that, instead of adjusting the GNI contribution, the Union budget should be enabled to reuse any surplus resulting from under-implementation of appropriations or from fines imposed on companies for breaching Union competition law in order to deal with the financing needs of the Union;deleted
2017/05/31
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Observes that the adoption of Draft amending budget No 2/2017 will reduce the share of GNI contributions from Member States to the Union budget in 2017 by EUR 6 405 million; once more, urges Member States to use the opportunity of such a reflow to honour their pledges in relation to the refugee crisis and to match the Union contribution to Union trust funds and to the new European Fund for Sustainable Development1; ____________________ 1Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Fund for Sustainable Development and establishing the EFSD Guarantee and the EFSD Guarantee Fund (COM(2016) 586 final).
2017/05/31
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. DeplorNotes in the context of this Draft amending budget that the Council has not yet approved the mid-term revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF); reminds the Council that Parliament has undertaken all necessary steps to ensure a swift adoption of the MFF revision; asksnotes the request from the British government to lift its blockadepostpone the approval onf the vote in the Council as soon as possibleDraft amending budget in the Council, in line with the UK’s long-standing practice ahead of national elections; hopes that the reflow of financial resources to Member States will ease the upcoming negotiations on the settlement of financial obligations between the UK and the Union; considers however, that Parliament’s desire to also reuse any surplus to deal with the financing needs of the Union may be contradictory to this belief;
2017/05/31
Committee: BUDG