12 Amendments of Jonás FERNÁNDEZ related to 2020/1998(BUD)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for the 2021 Union budget, which corresponds to the first year of the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021- 2027, to make an ambitious contribution to the recovery of the Union economy in view of the COVID-19 outbreak effects; welcomes the pEuroposal forean Council agreement on a new recovery instrument, Next Generation EU, based on common borrowing by the Union, relying on necessary solidarity to face a symmetric shock and that is composed of mainly of grants, loans and provisioning for guarantees; welcomes the initiative of the President of the European Commission to directly involve the Parliament in the negotiations of the recovery plan by activating Article 324 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls for the 2021 Union budget to put European citizens at the heart of a sustainable recovery strategy, including by delivering on the Green Deal and the EU commitment to a carbon-neutral economy by 2050 at the latest, on the digital agenda and on an inclusive industrial strategy;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for the 2021 Union budget to support the speedy implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility which aims to address the challenges identified in the European Semester, in which the Sustainable Development Goals shall be integrated; underlines that such Facility should focus on growth-enhancing investment in line with the European Pillar of Social Rights, the Paris Agreement and the “do no significant harm” principle and should be consistent with national energy and climate plans; reminds that the Union budget should also support delivering sustainable and socially balanced structural reforms that increase competitiveness, convergence, sustainable, inclusive and cohesive growth and urges, in that context, first payments to be done as early as possible in 2021; calls for a role of the European Parliament in the governance of the Recovery and Resilience Facility ensuring that there is a balance of institutional powers and that the European Commission is empowered in the monitoring of the Recovery and Resilience Plans;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines the importance of supporting companies with solvency issues as a result of COVID-19; highlights the proposal for a Solvency Support instrument and calls for fast-acting supportwarns about the risk of distortions within the Single market due to uneven capacity to provide financial support for Member States; regrets the withdrawal of the temporary Solvency Support instrument by the European Council; insists that firms at risk of insolvency would need rapid support to avoid any supplementary negative impact on investment and unemployment levels, as part of the current Multiannual Financial Framework of the Union;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls for the 2021 Union budget to ensure that the InvestEU Programme delivers on both its long term objective by providing more investments capacity aimed at supporting jobs, SMEs, sustainable infrastructure, research, and its new short term mission to support the economic recovery via strategic investments; calls on the Commission to ensure that the enterprises which play a role in the European value chain, such as subcontractors, remain viable and oriented towards greening and digital transitions;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the State aid Temporary Framework to support the economy in the context of COVID-19; calls for reinforced resources to ensure full and fast application of Union competition policy; highlights in this regard the possibility granted by the Third Amendment to the State aid Temporary Framework to provide public support to all micro and small companies, even if they were already in financial difficulty on 31 December 2019 and supports its application for as long as necessary during the recovery period; encourages Member States and the EU via its new recovery instrument, Next Generation EU, to make full use of the State aid Temporary Framework; anticipates that the Commission will also have to monitor such schemes approved under the Temporary Framework and their impact on the functioning of the Single Market; recalls inequality of means amongst Member States to provide such economic support via State Aid creating distortions in a fully functioning internal market.
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the European Green Deal; calls for adequate funding to allow challenges related to sustainable development to be met, including through the Sustainable Europe Investment Plan; recalls the importance of moving the economies of the Member States towards the EU objective of climate neutrality economy;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for sufficient resources to fight tax evasion and tax avoidance and against financial crime and money laundering and for adherence to the economic governance framework; stresses that estimates of annual losses due to tax evasion and tax avoidance vary between 750 and 1000 billion euros for all Member States; notes in particular the Commission’s Action Plan for a Comprehensive EU policy on Preventing Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing that should be implemented in 2020 and 2021 and which foresees six pillars including one aimed at ensuring EU-level supervision;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Emphasises that funding toe need for increased human and financial resources for accounting entities and tax authorities should continue, including to support the Union action to fight tax evasion and tax avoidance; welcomes the creation of the EU Tax and Financial Crimes Observatory as a preparatory action and its inclusion in the Commission Action Plan for fair and simple taxation supporting the recovery;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recalls that the introduction of a basket of new own resources is essential to meet the financial needs of supporting the recovery and for other Union priorities. and remains the only way to ensure that the financing of the green and the digital transitions does not weigh directly on citizens; urges Member States to swiftly agree on an increase of the own resources ceilings and to adopt rapidly the legislative proposals that will create new own resources that would feed into the 2021 Union budget; such taxes should include a share of revenue based on a common consolidated corporate tax base, digital services taxation, a financial transaction tax, a plastics contribution and a carbon border adjustment mechanism and would include the simplification of the VAT-based own resource;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls for the budget to contribute to fulfilling policy priorities in terms of the completion of the Capital Markets Union, including fostering investments in a post-pandemic recovery context;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Calls for adequate financial and human resources for the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) in view of their newly assigned tasks and powers deriving from the adoption of the Regulation (EU) 2019/2175 of the European Parliament and of the Council1a; believes, however, that the governance structure and accountability should be improved; highlights that developments in the fields of fintech, payments and non-bank financial intermediation may entail new competences and tasks for the ESAs, which should be matched by adequate resources; _____________________ 1a Regulation (EU) 2019/2175 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2019 amending Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 establishing a European Supervisory Authority (European Banking Authority), Regulation (EU) No 1094/2010 establishing a European Supervisory Authority (European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority), Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010 establishing a European Supervisory Authority (European Securities and Markets Authority), Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 on markets in financial instruments, Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 on indices used as benchmarks in financial instruments and financial contracts or to measure the performance of investment funds, and Regulation (EU) 2015/847 on information accompanying transfers of funds (OJ L 334, 27.12.2019, p. 1).