3 Amendments of Marco ZULLO related to 2016/2047(BUD)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Acknowledges the Commission’s efforts in developing the strategy ‘EU budget focused on results’; calls on the Commission to further simplify EU funding, especially with regard to the implementation and management of EU- funded projects, always considering the need for a proper balance between simplification and control;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3a (new)
Paragraph 3a (new)
3a. Takes note of the Commission Press Release on the 2017 draft EU budget, issued on 30 June and stating that, based on the relatively slow take-up of certain spending programmes, especially in the area of cohesion policy, the Commission expects to receive fewer invoices in 2017 than in 2016; asks the Commission to provide the Parliament with more details on this issue and to consider the risk that this decrease in payments would create again a n important backlog of payments from 2017 onwards;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that according to Article 7 of Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1311/2013 laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2014- 2020, the Commission has reviewed, in 2016, together with the annual technical adjustment for 2017, all Member States’ total allocations under the “Investment for growth and jobs” goal of cohesion policy for the years 2017 to 2020; notes the effect of the adjustment is a EUR 4,6 billion increase in the 2017-2020 ceilings for commitments under heading 1b; stresses that, as Member States have agreed to adjust the cohesion envelopes for each Member State in 2016 (for the period 2017-20), in order to take fully into account the impacts of the economic crisis which hit Europe and its regions in 2009, the results of the recalculation of the envelopes provide additional resources to the countries and regions which were seriously hit, and namely: EUR 1,4 billion for Italy, EUR 1,8 billion for Spain and EUR 836 million for Greece; underlines the implications of this adjustment for the 2017 budget.