10 Amendments of Ulrike MÜLLER related to 2017/2053(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that in order to boost the transition towards a sustainable, circular and low-carbon economy and to deliver on the commonly agreed Energy Union targets, significant additional investments are as well as reaching the goals set for climate relevant spending, significant climate mainstreaming of the EU budget is required infor the period 2020-2030;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for an in-depth reform of the own-resources system without increasing the fiscal burden for European tax payers, including new own resources (ORs) that could reduce the share of GNI-based contributions (which accounted for 65.4 % of the Union’s revenue in 2016) and a phase-out of all forms of rebate; stresses that the current system includes complex and opaque correction mechanisms and contributes to the lack of sufficient payment appropriations each year;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Welcomes the view presented in the final report of the High Level Group on Own Resources that the reform of the own resources system should be budget neutral; therefore the introduction of new own resources or other types of EU revenue should result in reductions in GNI-based contributions;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Invites all parties to draw the appropriate conclusions from the HLGOR’s report and to analyse the feasibility of the recommendations to help make the Union budget more stable, simple, autonomouscoherent, fair and, predictable and transparent;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Highlights the importance of the principle of subsidiarity in any change to the composition of own resources; emphasizes that complementarity between the national and European levels enables the appropriate funding of the EU budget, supports the overall EU policy objectives and allows a targeted use of the budget;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that DG Environment accounts for the second largest volume of fines imposed for non-compliance with EU legislation, amounting to EUR 284 million for the period 2014-2017; calls for revenue stemming directly from EU legislation and its enforcement to be invested in common EU projects with tangible added value; recalls, however, that the revenue from fines does not constitute stable means of income to the Union budget;
Amendment 36 #
4. Points out that these new types of ORs are essential to finance more recent Union priorities such as migration, internal security and defence while creating synergies and minimizing the fiscal burden, and to offset the loss in revenue of EUR 9 to 12 billion a year which could result from Brexit; notes also that new ORs are needed to avoid the potential spending cuts to the common agricultural policy (CAP) presented in the Commission’s ‘Reflection Paper on the Future of EU Finances’;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for an analysis of whether revenue from commonly agreed national road charging schemes, based on distance, journey time and transport emissions, can be used to fund EU projects promoting the development of low-emission mobility, including incentives for zero- and low- emission vehicles, low-emission alternative energy sources for transport, and sustainable multimodal transport, in particular high-speed railways and inland waterways; recognizes, however, the possible problems of such approach in remote and rural areas where distances are long and railways and public transport are not available;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the CAP’s added value in strengthening the Union’s long-term food and environmental security through more stable farm incomes and rural development measures to prevent rural depopulation; emphasises the potential of the CAP to provide more environmental public goods and stresses the need to safeguard the contribution of agricultural duties to EU finances.