22 Amendments of Ernest MARAGALL related to 2016/2024(BUD)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Expresses its continued strong support for the programmes in the field of education training, youth and culture, and calls for the allocation of sufficient commitment and payment appropriations to ensure their proper implementation;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines that multiannual programmes such as COSME, CEF and Horizon 2020 constitute necessary investment in the EU’s globalsustainability and competitiveness and in the accomplishment of the goals of Europe 2020 strategy;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Asks Member States to comply with the decisions they themselves, as budgetary authorities, have taken with regards to payment appropriations;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reiterates its firm belief that Erasmus+, as an emblematic mobility programme, must receive increased funding, and to allow for the provision of quality mobility for all; in this sense, recalls the urgent need to enhance the lines addressed to cover the mobility demand for VET students, centre and teachers; notes that the decentralisation of the Erasmus + Programme towards National Agencies, represents a significant obstacle to the action of the European civil society organizations especially impacting their involvement in strategic partnership (KA2); calls for the strengthening of the Creative Europe and Europe for Citizens programmes;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recalls that grants and loans do not finance the same type of activities and that those different instruments support different types of beneficiaries and projects; stresses the need of continuing with grants for financing European fundamental and collaborative research, in particular research performed by the academia; alerts against the tendency in the Commission of transforming grants into loans or equity, in particular when university research budgets are suffering cuts in many Member States; believes that this tendency works towards the loosing of the research basis, which in turn significantly reduces the innovation potential of the European Union in the future;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reiterates its firm belief that Erasmus+, as an emblematic mobility and lifelong learning programme, must receive increased funding, and calls for the strengthening of the Creative Europe and Europe for Citizens programmes;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls for the significant extension of the SME instruments, in order to meet at minimum its legal budgetary commitments as negotiated under Horizon 2020 with the European Parliament; requests to the Commission improve the budgetary oversight and control, and ensure a genuine bottom-up approach to its implementation, by establishing a single budget line for this instrument in Horizon 2020;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Insists on a thorough simplification of the application forms and criteria, of reporting and reimbursement, especially for small-scale projects, both in Erasmus+ and in the Creative Europe and Europe for Citizens programmes;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Recommends the Commission to pay special attention to the implementation of the financial Guarantee facility tool which is delayed by more than a few months; is concerned that cultural NGOs and small associations will not be eligible for this tool, and only cultural and creative SMEs would be able to participate; recommends a thorough analysis of the experiences done throughout the whole process in order to check the pertinence and sustainability of such a tool, aside COSME;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Considers that Erasmus+ would reach its cruising speed only if it takes on board a growing number of smaller projects that allow a larger diffusion of the programme at schools or for youth, an increase of VET mobility, and therefore a better efficiency in realising its educative, social and humanitarian goals;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Notes that some of the budgetary lines within Erasmus+ have not been fully utilised, and, therefore, proposes flexibility in the management of such funds; this would allow their reallocation to other, insufficiently funded, categories within the programme that are currently struggling to meet demand within the allotted budget;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 e (new)
Paragraph 2 e (new)
2e. Highlights the need of strengthening a European approach to face common European challenges by supporting large scale innovation projects in the field of education, training and youth carried out by European Civil Society networks which should be done by allocating 5% of the overall KA2 Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices of Erasmus+ to centralised actions;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI) must contribute substantially to investment in the areas of education, training, youth and research, and that the cultural and creative sectors must be given adequate support; recalls the urgency of fully offsetting the budgetary lines in Horizon 2020 Program affected by significant cuts to make possible the first EFSI guarantee funds;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls the importance of completing the Internal Energy Market in order to accomplish the goals of the Energy Union, especiallyi.e. energy security, sustainability and resilience to disruptions in energy supplies; highlights the necessity of providing adequate funds to projects of common interest aimed at ensuring the diversification of energy sources and supply routes and connectivity of power and gas networkthe five mutually supportive dimensions of the Energy Union: energy security, solidarity and trust; the internal energy market; energy efficiency as a contribution to the moderation of energy demand; decarbonisation of the economy; and research, innovation and competitiveness; recalls in this context the adopted ‘energy efficiency first’ principle as well as the target for the EU to become number one in renewables;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls for the continuation of the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI); calls for subsequent adjustments in regulation and resources to be proposed to overcome existing implementation impediments up to the end of the current financial framework;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the importance of the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) and the need to assign sufficient resources to ensure that it executes the tasks conferred on it by EU legislative authorities, in particular with respect to the completion of the Internal Energy Market, the development of infrastructure of European common interest and the monitoring of trading on wholesale eassisting the national regulatory authorities in the completion of the Internal Energy mMarkets; is concerned that persisting funding shortages may hamper the functioning, integrity and transparency of energy markets, heighten the risk of market abuse and prevent energy consumers and citizens from reaping the full benefits of market liberalisation;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Urges the Member States to implement fully the Youth Guarantee, based on a strong cooperation between employment services and the education system; the Youth Guarantee should be integrated in national employment plans, but also in youth plans and education plans;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Draws attention to the importancenew delay - by more than a decade - and the further increases of another 4 billion euros of cost overruns of the ITER programme a; reminds tohat the need to support itEuropean Parliament has voted to withhold appropriate financing and to eliminate delays in paymentsval of the 2014 accounts of ITER on ground of lack of coherence in the budgetary and financial management; calls to stop supporting ITER in the 2017 budget and to spend the EU research funds into development and deployment of sustainable energy solutions that are already available, or available in the foreseeable future to deliver the climate and energy 2020 goals;.
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Urges the Commission and Council to review their position on the "Europe for Citizens" programme, the only programme which involves all citizens directly, and to provide it with a substantial additional budget allowing better implementation of the goals of the programme; indeed, having been cut beyond any reason, the programme can only accept a dramatically low percentage of projects, a situation that it is not sustainable and defendable towards the EU citizens, even more so in the present social and humanitarian situation in the EU;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls for developing better synergies between Horizon 2020 and smart specialisation initiatives (RIS3) to enable focusing investments in the sustainable energy transition, resource efficiency and circular economy, to deliver better R&D exploitation and support regional economic convergence;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes, in the context of the evolving migration and refugee crisis, the importance of the Paris Declaration of 17 March 2015, which calls for intercultural dialogue and EU-level cooperation to prevent and tackle marginalisation, intolerance, racism and ranew increasing challenges, including migration and diverse societies, more investments in education, training, youth and culture are very much needed to reinforce cohesive, equal and inclusive societies as well as intercultural dicalisation.ogue;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Strongly believes that programmes relating to culture, education, youth and sport play a crucial role when it comes to integration policies for migrants and refugees, and thus asks European institutions to respond to the migration crisis by providing for additional resources in both the directly managed programmes and the Structural Funds, in addition to dedicated budget lines;