10 Amendments of Luke Ming FLANAGAN related to 2017/2053(INI)
Amendment 3 #
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1. Calls for an in-depth reform of the existing own-resources system, including new own resources (ORs) that could reduce the share ofbelieves that GNI-based contributions (which accounted for 65.4 % of the Union’s revenue in 2016) andre the most transparent system of funding EU programs, (though Ireland’s GNI-based contribution should be calculated on GNP rather than the multinational-skewed GDP); also calls for a phase-out of all forms of rebate; stresses that the current system includes complex and opaque correction mechanisms andthat contributes to the lack of sufficient payment appropriations each year;
Amendment 9 #
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1. Considers that own resources should focus on projects that can generate the highest European added value (EAV), while recognizing that some such areas, as for example the social impact, do not lend themselves to easily defined measurement; emphasises that expenditure should be focused on areas for which funding at European level is indispensable, or where funding at national level would be insufficient to achieve the European goal;
Amendment 10 #
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2. Points out that the report of the High Level Group on Own Resources (HLGOR) put forward new proposals, including reforming the VAT own resource and the EU emissions trading system, a CO2 levy, transport taxation, electricity taxation and revenues deriving from the digital single market; emphasisbelieves that the concept of own resources moves the European Union away from a union of states cooperating with each other for the common good, to an unaccountable super state which goes against the wishes of the majority of its citizens; also believes that the introduction of new ORs could lead to greater policy incoherence and a lack of transparency between the revenue and expenditure sides of the budget;
Amendment 18 #
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2. Points out that the use of own resources should be oriented to public EU goods that can benefit all Member States equally; notes two areas of increased EAV that also enjoy a high approval rating among citizens, namely research and development, and both internal and external security;
Amendment 20 #
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3. Invites all parties to draw the appropriateir own independent conclusions from the HLGOR’s report and to analyse the feasibility of the recommendations to help make the Union budget more stable, simple, autonomous, fair and predictablewhich would not have the support of many of the Member States;
Amendment 23 #
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Amendment 29 #
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4. Points out that these new types of ORs are essential to financsome of the more recent Union priorities such as migration, and internal security and defence and to offset thecombined with a potential 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 th will require new resources, believes that an increase in GNI contributions is the most equitable and transparent way to achieve this (though Ireland’s GNI-based contribution should be calculated on GNP rather than the multinational-skewed GDP); notes that this would also mitigate potential spending cuts to the common agricultural policy (CAP) presented in the Commission’s ‘Reflection Paper on the Future of EU Finances’;
Amendment 39 #
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10. Points out that the policies which would benefit all EU citizens and provide more EAV are not attractive in terms of net balances; believes, therefore, that a new method of measuring the value of projects should be developed, including the social impact - positive and negative- of such projects, and streamlined reporting should be introduced;
Amendment 45 #
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5. Stresses that agricultural duties are both a policy instrument and a financing tool for the CAP; notes that the HLGOR’s report recommends that they be retained within the CAP budget in future since they are a simple, efficient and genuine own resource for the Union;
Amendment 54 #
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6. Stresses the CAP’s added value in strengthening the Union’s long-term food security through more stable farm incomes and rural development measures to prevent rural depopulation; emphasiszes the potential ofat in order to build credibility and a rationale for continued support with the non- farming public the CAP musto provide more environmental public goods and ensure a more equitable distribution of payments between Member States and within Member States, also stresses the need to safeguard the contribution of agricultural duties to EU finances.;