Activities of Daniela AIUTO related to 2015/2132(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2016 - all sections
Amendments (10)
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Maintains that when funding is to be provided under the EU budget, the following principles have to be observed: – monitoring to ensure proper use of funds from the moment when they are first allocated until the works have been completed, with ex ante and ex post checks; guaranteeing transparency and legality so as to prevent criminal infiltration, and using funding in accordance with European regulations; – environmental impact assessment by means of independent studies, the object being to reduce the impact on the environment and the landscape to a minimum; – involving local people, for example through referendums, in order to assess how the areas concerned are being affected by the works financed.
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Points out that Parliament has less than the other institutions in the way of a guarantee of access to official documents concerning the EU budget; calls, therefore, for the interinstitutional agreements to be revised with a view to providing the Members of Parliament, who represent European citizens, with proper access to documents, even when these contain ‘sensitive’ information.
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Recommends that in its financial planning, the Commission give priority to funding for forms of sustainable mobility with a view to reducing pollutant emissions in keeping with the Europe 2020 targets and the transport White Paper.
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Maintains that the Commission should emphasise the strategy of promoting public rather than private transport, and carriage by rail rather than by road; accordingly considers it necessary to provide funding and establish best practice, extending also to local authorities, so as to enable public transport to be made free of charge to residents.
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Calls on the Commission to provide for budget items to finance innovative technology applications enabling the carriage of goods by road to be properly monitored and supervised so as to prevent any unlawful carriage and combat social dumping and illegal cabotage.
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Points out that the financial transparency of agencies needs to be improved, not least as regards the actual tasks which they perform; considers that appointments should be made on the basis of merit and by public procedures, with published selection criteria and ceilings on salaries.
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Points out that agency costs need to be reviewed in the light of the current economic crisis and the sacrifices that people are being asked to make; calls, in addition, for dual headquarters, where they still exist, to be merged into one.
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Believes that the Commission should reassess the data on, and the feasibility of, works which over the years have proved, objectively speaking, to be useless and harmful, whether because of the poor economic returns, or because of criminal infiltration, or because of the serious impact on the environment and public health, one such case being the Turin- Lyon section of the TEN-T Mediterranean Corridor.
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Deplores the fact that the Commission is still not allocating enough funding for the tourism sector, even though it could become a major asset to the European economic recovery.
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 d (new)
Paragraph 7 d (new)
7d. Believes that the TEN-T networks, including the financial aspects, should be reviewed with a view to incorporating particularly important routes which have hitherto been excluded, for example the Italian Adriatic stretch on the Scandinavian-Mediterranean corridor.