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Activities of Jonathan ARNOTT related to 2014/2040(BUD)

Plenary speeches (2)

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2015 - all sections (A8-0014/2014 - Eider Gardiazabal Rubial, Monika Hohlmeier)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2014/2040(BUD)
General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2015 - all sections (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2014/2040(BUD)

Amendments (10)

Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the importance of decentralised agencies, which are vital for the implementation of Union policies and programmes; stresses the need to provide them with appropriate financial means and staff so that they can properly fulfil the tasks assigned to them by the legislative authority;deleted
2014/10/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48
48. Notes with regret that, despite this,that the Council has decreased the appropriations in Heading 5 by EUR 27,6 million, of which EUR 16,7 million is from the Commission's administrative budget for expenditure related to officials and temporary staff, as a consequence of increasing the standard flat rate abatement;
2014/10/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50
50. Notes moreover the Council's statement annexed to its position, concerning «the importance of monitoring closely the appropriations for all categories of external staff, against the backdrop of the additional capacity built up by the increase of working time», and the parallel cuts brought to support expenditure in various policy areas, amounting to EUR 20,8 million; besides the already mentioned threats posed by this type of cuts considers them to be ill justified; recalls that according to the IIA of 2 December 2013, that supposed additional capacity was to be already neutralised by rendering 5 % of the official staff over five years; notes in this respect that Commission already over complies with its commitments as it is reducing staff of all categories, whether financed from heading 5 or from other headings;deleted
2014/10/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51
51. Restores, therefore, the DB on all the lines of the administrative and support expenditure and on all the lines in Heading 5 decreased by the Council;deleted
2014/10/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53
53. EndorsesTakes note, as a general rule, the Commission's estimates of the budgetary needs of agencies; notes that the Commission had already considerably reduced the initial requests of most agencies;
2014/10/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54
54. Considers, therefore, that any further cuts proposed by the Council would endanger the proper functioning of the agencies and would not allow them to fulfil the tasks they have been assigned by the legislative authority;deleted
2014/10/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56
56. Emphasises the fact that the staff reduction agreed upon shall be based on the existing staff and tasks as on the reference date of 31 December 2012 and that any new tasks of existing agencies or the set-up of new agencies have to be accompanied by additional resources;deleted
2014/10/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69
69. RecallsNotes with regret that the Parliament's estimates for 2015 were set at EUR 1 794 929 112, corresponding to an overall rate of increase of 2,24 % over 2014; stresses, however, that only 0,67 % of this increase is linked to the legally binding exceptional transitional allowance for the end of the Members' mandate and 0,4 % to the agreement on the adjustment of the remunerations and pensions for 2011-2012; underlines that the level of other expenditure therefore increased by only 1,18 % over 2014;
2014/10/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 73
73. DecidesCannot accept to increase the appropriations for funding of the European political foundations by EUR 3 million, stresses that this increase will be budgetary neutral as it will be offset from the contingency reserve; sets therefore the overall level of its budget for 2015 at EUR 1 794 929 112; points out that this will correspond to a 0 % increase over the level of its estimates, adopted in the Plenary Session of 17 April 2014;
2014/10/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 74
74. Recallgrets the Gentlemen’s Agreement between Council and European Parliament stipulating that both Institutions shall respect each other’s Budget without amending it; criticises therefortakes note that the Commission has amended the Council’s estimates; and maintains the Council's position on lines: 2200 and 2202, thus honouring the Agreement;
2014/10/03
Committee: BUDG