Activities of Anja HAZEKAMP related to 2021/2106(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2020 – Section III, Commission and executive agencies
Amendments (7)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
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1. Is satisfied with the Commission's overall implementation of the budgetary headings for environment, climate action, public health and food safety in 2020 but stresses that climate and biodiversity spending and mainstreaming is inadequate and relies on ill justified and faulty methodologies;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
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2. Is satisfied with the work carried out by most of the five decentralised agencies which are under its remit, which carry out technical, scientific or managerial tasks that help the Union institutions elaborate and implement policies in the area of environment, climate action, public health and food safety, as well as with the way in which those agencies' budgets are implemented; stresses that, given the scale of current and upcoming challenges, sufficient funding must be guaranteed for the agencies and the Commission Directorates-General ('DG') working in the areas of environment, climate action, public health and, food safety and animal health and welfare;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
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9. Notes that DG Climate Action and DG Budget monitor the 20 % climate mainstreaming target in the Multiannual Financial Framework , and that DG Climate Action supports other DGs in integrating climate in their activities; welcomnotes the fact that, according to the Commission, 21 % of the 2020 Union budget was spent on climate-related activities,; highlights that this is an overestimation according to the Court, especially concerning the contribution of certain Common Agricultural Policy schemes to tackle climate change; points out that the Court has flagged up the risk that some expenditure in agriculture and cohesion policies could speed up climate change;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
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10. Notes the Court's finding in Review No 01/2020: "Tracking climate spending in the EU budget" that the Commission’s climate tracking methodology needs to be reconsidered to render it more reliable and that there are indications that it will be challenging to reliably step up climate- related spending to 25 % of the EU budget; deeply regrets that the Court's recommendations from its 2016 report1a have not yet been implemented and calls for swift remedy of this problem which leads to overestimations of the contributions to climate action, notably by the agricultural and cohesion policies; _________________ 1a European Court of Auditors special report 2016/31: Spending at least one euro in every five from the EU budget on climate action: ambitious work underway, but at serious risk of falling short
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
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14. Highlights the role DG Health and Food Safety has played in securing a coordinated response to the COVID-19 pandemic across the Member States; in authorising and procuring the vaccines against COVID-19 and delivering other essential medical countermeasures; and in supporting Member States in deploying public health measures.; deeply regrets the insufficient transparency with regards to the vaccines Advance Purchase Agreements and the data from the clinical trials;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
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18. Notes with concern that, in its Special Report 15/2020 "Protection of wild pollinators in the EU —Commission initiatives have not borne fruit", the Court found that Union measures did not ensure the protection of wild pollinators and that Union pesticides legislation was a main cause of wild pollinator loss; calls on the Commission to swiftly follow up on the recommendations of the Court to assess whether actions should be added to address threats currently not considered in the Pollinators Initiative in the follow- up actions and measures for the EU biodiversity strategy to 2030, accompanied by appropriate governance and monitoring mechanisms;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
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19. Is of the opinion, on the basis of the data available and the implementation report, that discharge can be granted to the Commission in respect of expenditure in the areas of environmental and climate policy, public health and food safety for the financial year 2020, but expects drastic improvements in the tracking methodologies for climate and biodiversity spending in order to be able to grant discharge in future years.