11 Amendments of Marcus PRETZELL related to 2018/2109(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Customs Union, which is 50 years old this year, is a cornerstone of the EU - one of the world’s largest trading blocs - and whereas a fully operational Customs Union is essential for the proper functioning of the single marketfrictionless trade both in the single market and with third countries, in the interests of both EU businesses and EU citizens, but also for the credibility of the EU, putting it in a strongprovides support for the EU’s position in negotiations on trade agreements;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas EU imports and exports totalled EUR 3 700 billion in 2017 and customs duties collected make up 15 % of the EU budget, and whereas an important step must be taken towards strengthening the sovereignty of EU Member States by paying over any customs revenue to the Member States concerned;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas implementation of the Union Customs Code (UCC) is essential to safeguard EU own resources, in particular customs duties, and national fiscal interests, but alsomust under no circumstances mean that customs duties accrue directly to the EU as own resources, thus circumventing the Member States; whereas, rather, since they are levied there, they should be used to boost the national budgets of Member States, in particular given that Member States already pay over part of their budgets to the EU and must not be additionally penalised by having customs revenue taken away, but implementation also serves to safeguard European consumers;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the work carried out every day by Member State customs authorities and by the Commission, which endeavour to facilitate trade and cut back on administrative formalities, to collect receipts for national budgets and the EU budget, and to protect populations againstslash administrative formalities, with the aim of making procedures transparent and standardised in order to dismantle needless trade barriers resulting from non-standard customs rules, generate an appropriate volume of receipts that should accrue solely to Member States’ national budgets and provide populations with extensive protection against threats of any kind, in particular terrorist, health-related, and environmental and other threats;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that, while the EU is more than just an economic area, the Customs Union i the Customs Union represents the way forward for successful trade both within the EU economic area and with third countries uandeniably a succes other trading areas in that it not only enables firms established in the EU to sell their goods and invest throughout the EU, with no internal borders, and that that achievement takes on fundamental importance in the context of Brexitwhich takes on particular importance in the context of Brexit, but also makes trade with other economic areas and third countries transparent and easier;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Points out that, while 75 % of the European components of the IT systems needed to implement the UCC ought to be ready in December 2020, that does not necessarily mean that 75 % of the IT systems will be ready by then, since 25 % of the IT systems is made up of national components, for which Member States are responsible and delays have been identified;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that implementation of the customs code and digitisation of the customs procedures it establishes must be priorities shared by the Commission and Councilthe Commission and Council, as a matter of the utmost priority, must ensure that the customs code is implemented and customs procedures digitised within an appropriate, i.e. practicable, and precisely defined time frame; considers that, in that connection, setting up the IT architecture requiresthat the development and deployment of 17 IT tools with major financial implicationsrequire must be handled flexibly, and not rigidly, and can be done gradually on a modular basis so that further rollout delays, which are highly costly for trade, businesses and Member States, are averted as far as possible; considers it imperative, therefore, that there should be no duplication of effort as regards resources in how Member State and Commission IT projects are run;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to update the timetable for its UCC work programme to take account of the extension to the transitional period that it has proposed (COM(2018)0085) and as adopted by Parliament and the Council; calls onis of the opinion that Parliament and the Council to work to ensurhave no choice but to agree theo promptly adoption of a decision on that extension while making it subject toa very final extension, but at the same time must create the conditions needed for successful deploymentimplementation of the customs IT architecture, e.g. in the form of standard guidelines on simplification, harmonisation and transparency; points out, as the European Court of Auditors has done, that, as the same causes produce the same effects, the process of updating the 2017 multiannual strategic plan, by concentrating the introduction of six IT tools in the same year, poserepresents a major risk that deploychallenge that must not result in further postponement, will again be postponhich is why Parliament points out that any further extension would be regarded as an admission that the project had failed;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission not to modify the statutory and technical specifications that have now been adopted for the 17 IT tools, – in order to prevent further rollout delays and, – since the scale of the projects to be carried out and the time needed to deploy them are not compatible either with the fact that the technologies involved are constantly evolving or with the inevitable legislative and regulatory changes that willare expected to take place over the period concerned, – while making it possible - through gradual, modular implementation of the IT architecture - to respond on the basis of updates and upgrades to future technological advances;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Takes note of the funding effort made under the EU budget, increasing the allocation for the next Customs programme, for 2021-2027, to EUR 950 million; calls for Member Stateson the Commission also to provide the necessary resources for deployment of the national components, on which the introduction of the European electronic customs system is dependent, and calls for timely submission to it, by the Commission, of a report on deployment of the EU components and of the non-EU components developed by Member Statettaches importance to ensuring that, when the new system is introduced, all revenue generated from customs duties is paid over exclusively to the Member States concerned, and calls on the Commission to submit a report to Parliament on deployment of the EU components and of the non-EU components developed by Member States, i.e. a state-of-play report as at #date = 61 calendar days after adoption of this resolution# and again no later than one year after the rollout of all systems;