1645 Amendments of Valérie HAYER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. ~~Fears that, without properly delivering on its~~Recalls the importance of the ECB mandate of maintaining price stability~~, the ECB risks losing its legitimacy~~;

2023/10/06
Committee: ECON

2023/2064(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on the ECB to continue its essential work on climate risk stress tests developed to assess the resilience of banks and corporations in the face of climate transition risk;

2023/10/06
Committee: ECON

2023/2064(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Expresses concern about the high~~Takes note of the differing levels of debt and government deficits within the Member States and the ~~risks that this entails; notes that the situation is worse in the euro area than in non-euro area Member State~~potential risks and problems that this entails; looks forward to the outcome of the Commission’s legislative proposals on revising the EU’s economic governance rules and calls for ambitious rules fit for the challenges currently facing the European Union; and welcomes the ECB’s opinion in this regard;

2023/10/06
Committee: ECON

2023/2064(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. RDeeply regrets Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine; agrees with member of the Executive Board Isabel Schnabel on the risk the war entails in terms of negative supply side shocks;

2023/10/06
Committee: ECON

2023/2064(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Highlights that not only do persistent high levels of inflation, the ongoing war in Ukraine and ~~high~~divergent levels of debt in the Member States threaten the competitiveness of the European economy, and thus the international role of the euro as well, but also the ~~upward price pressure following the~~need for urgent action to implement~~ation of~~ the European Green Deal, ~~the rise of fragmentation and protectionism in global trade, and an impending subsidy race between stat~~ensure Europe’s strategic autonomy as well as a global level playing field for Europe’s companies;

2023/10/06
Committee: ECON

2023/2064(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Notes the inflation target level of 2 % in the medium term; observes that inflation has, thus far, either been well below or far above this target level; ~~questi~~calls ons the ~~scientific evidence for this 2 % target level, as well as~~ECB to better define the meaning of ‘medium term’; invites the ECB to look into a more qualitative approach to price stability;

2023/10/06
Committee: ECON

2023/2064(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Supports the ECB’s decision to scale back its asset-purchasing programmes, in view of the excess liquidity in the market; ~~not~~welcomes the ECB’s announcement to decarbonise its corporate bond holdings by ‘tilting’ its portfolio; stresses the importance of the quality of the collateral;

2023/10/06
Committee: ECON

2023/2064(INI)

Gilles BOYER, Stéphanie YON-COURTIN, Martin HLAVÁČEK, Valérie HAYER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. ~~Takes note of~~Welcomes the ECB’s progress on the digital euro project and welcomes its dialogue with Parliament in this regard; reiterates that a digital euro must respect competition in the banking landscape, must not endanger the existence or use of cash and must respect the privacy of citizens and businesseswith the view for the EU to be at the forefront of the digital transformations in the payments sector and welcomes its dialogue with Parliament in this regard; reiterates that as a complement to cash, the digital euro will only be a success if it ensures citizens’ privacy, is easy to use, and allows the fight against money laundering, without destabilizing the financial system; welcomes in this regard the European Commission’s legislative proposals for a “single currency package” which must give EU co-legislators the opportunity to decide on a number of key design choices of a digital euro;

2023/10/06
Committee: ECON

2023/2064(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Welcomes the Basel III framework, as it will strengthen the resilience of the banking sector; ~~warns about the risk of non-compliance~~underlines the importance of taking European specificities into account, ensuring the competitiveness of European banks and an international level playing field;

2023/10/06
Committee: ECON

2023/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Observes with concern that inflation has been partially driven by some companies increasing their profit margins~~, with, for example, Maersk’s annual pre- tax income soaring from USD 967 million in 2019 to USD 30.2 billion in 2022~~;

2023/09/04
Committee: ECON

2023/2058(INI)

Gilles BOYER, Valérie HAYER, Olivier CHASTEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Is ~~concerned that the impact of temporary VAT reductions for end consumers was limited and was more pronounced for~~of the view that temporary VAT reductions had only a limited impact on end consumers and that, on some occasions, this reduction was used by companies t~~hat~~o increased their profit margins ~~because of these reductions~~;

2023/09/04
Committee: ECON

2023/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. In times of crisis and in the light of current and future economic and climate challenges, the EU and its companies need a well-functioning tax system providing clarity and predictability. For this purpose, the future BEFIT proposal designing a new single EU corporate tax rulebook should be key in reducing administrative burdens, removing tax obstacles, limiting opportunities for tax evasion and creating a more business-friendly environment within the single market.

2023/09/04
Committee: ECON

2023/2058(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Welcomes the adopted solidarity contribution in the EU; ~~regre~~highlights, however, ~~its limited scope and short time span; calls on the Commission to consider a permanent excess profit tax on all sectors, in light of the growing evid~~that measures such as windfall taxes should be temporary and exceptional and that the revencue ~~that inflation is partly profit driven; believes that such taxes would curb the oligopolistic power of certain companies and boost competitiveness, while fighting inflation and raising revenue~~obtained needs to be used in a targeted manner;

2023/09/04
Committee: ECON

2023/2058(INI)

Fabienne KELLER, Martin HOJSÍK, Vlad GHEORGHE, Valérie HAYER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Underlines the potential of the BEFIT initiative to provide clarity and predictability for companies, as well as sustainable tax revenues, which would help Member States to face current and future crises; recognises that simplifying the complexity of tax systems would reduce the administrative burden for SMEs and would attract foreign direct investment, thus improving the efficiency of the systems and the revenue available;

2023/09/04
Committee: ECON

2023/0264(BUD)

Fabienne KELLER, Olivier CHASTEL, Martin HOJSÍK, Vlad GHEORGHE, Valérie HAYER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Regrets the gradual decrease of the EU budget as a percentage of EU gross national income (GNI) and the excessive focus on capping overall spending at roughly 1 % of EU GNI; considers that this has made it difficult for the Union to deliver on its agreed ambitions and deprived it of the ability to respond to crises and emerging needs while ensuring democratic accountability; regrets that the Commission has been forced to resort to double counting methods and the re-use of existing funds, disguising the current situation of the EU budget;

2023/09/29
Committee: BUDG

2023/0264(BUD)

Fabienne KELLER, Olivier CHASTEL, Martin HOJSÍK, Vlad GHEORGHE, Valérie HAYER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Recalls its long-standing position that new policy priorities or tasks should be accompanied by fresh money; regrets for instance the redeployments made on CEF Digital to finance the Digital Europe Programme, as well as the planned earmarking and redeployment made on several lines of the Horizon Europe and Single Market Programmes in order to finance the creation of the European Net Zero Industry Academies to bring the necessary skills to workers and deploy learning programmes on net-zero technologies as part of the Net Zero Industry Act proposal;

2023/09/29
Committee: BUDG

2023/0264(BUD)

Fabienne KELLER, Martin HOJSÍK, Vlad GHEORGHE, Valérie HAYER, Moritz KÖRNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. In the context of the European electoral year, reiterates the importance for direct funding for cities to implement EU programmes locally, as it will allow increased support for project applications, and gain higher visibility on EU priorities and EU programmes such as forthe fight against climate change, or to promote the Rule of Law;

2023/09/29
Committee: BUDG

2023/0264(BUD)

Fabienne KELLER, Martin HOJSÍK, Vlad GHEORGHE, Valérie HAYER, Moritz KÖRNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Recalls the essential work carried out by decentralised agencies; considers that agencies must be properly staffed and adequately resourced so that they can perform their tasks; recalls that the tasks of agencies evolve in line with policy priorities and stresses that new responsibilities must be accompanied by corresponding levels of fresh resources;

2023/09/29
Committee: BUDG

2023/0264(BUD)

Fabienne KELLER, Olivier CHASTEL, Martin HOJSÍK, Vlad GHEORGHE, Valérie HAYER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Underlines that, as part of the STEP proposal designed to secure the open strategic autonomy of the Union, reduce dependence on non-EU countries and boost investment in key strategic sectors, additional appropriations are to be allocated to InvestEU and to the European Innovation Council (EIC); proposes, therefore, to increase appropriations for the InvestEU guarantee by EUR 1,05 billion and for the EIC by EUR 125 million in 2024 in line with its MFF interim report; proposes, furthermore, to make available again EUR 500 million in research decommitments under Article 15(3) of the Financial Regulation for the EIC under Horizon Europe, in addition to the EUR 95 million included in the DB; underlines that the STEP instrument will not be enough to ensure a common European response through the EU budget and to strengthen the Union’s open strategic autonomy, reducing dependencies in strategic sectors and financing investment in key related sectors; therefore, calls on the Commission to rapidly build upon the STEP instrument in order to create in the near future a robust Sovereignty Fund with a real financial capacity to achieve the objective of the Union’s open strategic autonomy;

2023/09/29
Committee: BUDG

2023/0264(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Recalls that the recently agreed Chips Act has a significant impact on the budget under Heading 1, in particular for Horizon Europe and for Digital Europe; underlines that, in accordance with the political agreement on the Chips Act, an additional EUR 50 million is required to meet funding needs over the period 2024 to 2027; proposes, therefore, to cover 25 % of that shortfall by allocating EUR 12,5 million to the Chips Joint Undertaking in 2024; Moreover, underlines that financing for the Chips Act has just been agreed, making the Council cut especially difficult to understand as it goes against a clear Union priority.

2023/09/29
Committee: BUDG

2023/0264(BUD)

Fabienne KELLER, Martin HOJSÍK, Vlad GHEORGHE, Valérie HAYER, Moritz KÖRNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Underlines the ~~important~~essential role played by the decentralised agencies active under this heading; proposes to increase appropriations and staffing for the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity and the European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators in line with their identified needs and expanding mandates;

2023/09/29
Committee: BUDG

2023/0264(BUD)

Fabienne KELLER, Olivier CHASTEL, Martin HOJSÍK, Vlad GHEORGHE, Valérie HAYER, Moritz KÖRNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Points, in this regard, to the flagship Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps (ESC) programmes, which play a vital role in supporting learning mobility opportunities, improving people’s skills and employability and promoting social inclusion; emphasises that both programmes aim to boost participation rates among people with fewer opportunities - an objective that is challenged by soaring inflation and the increased cost of living; calls also on Member States to reassess scholarship amounts in the light of the high inflation; is committed to ensuring that Erasmus+ does not become a de facto selective programme open only to those who can afford to participate and recalls that the Commission is required to put in place financial support measures for people with fewer opportunities; proposes, therefore, an increase of EUR 100 million for Erasmus+ and EUR 2 million for the ESC above DB specifically to ensure the programmes are accessible for all;

2023/09/29
Committee: BUDG

2023/0264(BUD)

Fabienne KELLER, Olivier CHASTEL, Martin HOJSÍK, Vlad GHEORGHE, Valérie HAYER, Moritz KÖRNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Underlines the importance of a stronger Health Union and enhanced preparedness in post-pandemic Europe, as well as the need to better understand and treat long COVID; highlights the vital role that the EU4Health programme plays in this respect, as well as in supporting actions to achieve universal health coverage across the Union, encompassing quality access to sexual and reproductive health services; proposes, therefore, to increase the programme’s appropriations by EUR 20 million above DB, including to help offset redeployments towards the European Health Emergency and Response Authority;

2023/09/29
Committee: BUDG

2023/0264(BUD)

Fabienne KELLER, Olivier CHASTEL, Martin HOJSÍK, Vlad GHEORGHE, Valérie HAYER, Moritz KÖRNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Is alarmed by the growing impact of natural disasters in Europe and its neighbourhood ~~and concerned about the EU’s ability to respond effectively~~; underlines that these disasters are often linked to climate change and are therefore likely to occur with greater frequency and intensity in the future; is concerned about the EU’s ability to respond effectively; increases, therefore, appropriations for the Union Civil Protection Mechanism by EUR 20 million above DB in order to ensure an effective response and protect human lives, to enhance the Union’s response capacity and better protect its citizens, including capacities for the mobilisation of medical units in emergencies, and underlines the need to invest in climate mitigation and adaptation for particularly vulnerable regions; ;

2023/09/29
Committee: BUDG

2023/0264(BUD)

Fabienne KELLER, Olivier CHASTEL, Martin HOJSÍK, Vlad GHEORGHE, Valérie HAYER, Moritz KÖRNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Underscores that soaring energy prices and inflation, following on from the COVID-19 pandemic, have had a significant impact on the cultural and creative sectors, which are often made up of small organisations and individual artists; emphasises the key role that Creative Europe plays in supporting European creations and Union values as well as the recovery of the cultural and creative sectors, fostering media literacy and combatting disinformation; recalls that free press and media pluralism have been under attack in the European Union and that the digital shift creates additional hurdles for a diverse field of media to flourish, which leads the Union to significantly strengthen its support for pluralistic media as the essential basis for a functioning democracy; proposes, therefore, to increase financing for the Creative Europe programme by EUR 25 million above DB, with EUR 15 million for the Culture strand and EUR 10 million for the Cross-Sectoral strand, which plays a vital role in tackling disinformation and promoting media literacy;

2023/09/29
Committee: BUDG

2023/0264(BUD)

Fabienne KELLER, Martin HOJSÍK, Vlad GHEORGHE, Valérie HAYER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)

31a. Takes note that, in 2024, EUR 4.8 billion of the ESF+ budget under shared management would be allocated on food aid and basic material assistance for the most deprived persons, thus going beyond the actual objective of 4% and highlighting the worrying increase in the number of deprived persons; calls on Member States to allocate more of their ESF+ funds to organisations providing the most vulnerable and deprived persons with assistance and food aid, especially in context where the inflation is high and they face increasing demands;

2023/09/29
Committee: BUDG

2023/0264(BUD)

Fabienne KELLER, Olivier CHASTEL, Martin HOJSÍK, Vlad GHEORGHE, Valérie HAYER, Moritz KÖRNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32

32. Recalls the ~~important~~essential role played by the decentralised agencies under Heading 2b; increases funding and staffing levels for the European Institute for Gender Equality, the European Labour Authority and the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation in line with the agencies’ identified needs; ~~proposes, furthermore, to reinforce the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in terms of financing and staff to allow the body to fulfil its duties and~~Underlines the importance of protecting the Union budget against fraud, corruption and other prohibited conduct, which adversely affect the Union and national budgets; stresses, in this regard, the central role that the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) plays in protecting the Union’s financial interests, including with respect to the use of NextGenerationEU funds, and ensuring compliance with the rule of law; decides, therefore, to apply targeted reinforcements to the EPPO and increase its staffing levels to allow the body to fulfil its mandate, thereby reinforcing efforts against fraud, corruption, money laundering and organised crime; calls on all the Member States to join the EPPO and ensure a better protection of the Union’s financial interests; recalls the importance of compliance with the general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget;

2023/09/29
Committee: BUDG

2023/0264(BUD)

Fabienne KELLER, Martin HOJSÍK, Vlad GHEORGHE, Valérie HAYER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34

34. Underlines that the STEP proposal includes additional commitment appropriations in 2024 for the Innovation Fund under Heading 3 and a commensurate increase in the ceiling; considers that the proposed allocation for the Innovation Fund is not to the level of ambition needed but marks important progress towards its full budgetisation; proposes, therefore, to create a new budget line for the Innovation Fund, with appropriations of EUR 1,25 billion in line with its MFF interim report;

2023/09/29
Committee: BUDG

2023/0264(BUD)

Fabienne KELLER, Martin HOJSÍK, Vlad GHEORGHE, Valérie HAYER, Moritz KÖRNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41

41. Stresses that the war has vastly increased pressure on asylum systems in the Member States and that the Union must provide longer-term support to the host Member States to address the ever increasing pressure on national asylum and migration systems, including at the external borders, due to a rise of applications for international protection in the Member States and the exceptional support of the EU to host refugees from Ukraine; stresses moreover that a strong budget is necessary for the reception of asylum seekers and the integration of refugees in their host societies, as well as for strengthening the effective returns of migrants with no right to stay in the EU, and other actions that need a coordinated response, such as resettlement or legal pathways; further stresses that a stronger AMIF budget is a key determinant for the successful implementation of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum the adoption of which is expected before the end of this mandate; reiterates the need to facilitate the reception and integration of refugees from Ukraine, and to help face the recent migration trends via the Mediterranean route and anticipate the financial implications of a timely agreement on the Pact on Asylum and Migration (AMIF); decides, therefore, to reinforce the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund by EUR 110 million above DB in 2024 given AMIF’s positive contribution in providing immediate support to refugees;

2023/09/29
Committee: BUDG

2023/0264(BUD)

Fabienne KELLER, Martin HOJSÍK, Vlad GHEORGHE, Valérie HAYER, Moritz KÖRNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58

58. Reiterates its commitment to the international dimension of Erasmus+, ~~which~~in line with the need identified by the Commission to provide support to Ukrainian students and teaching staff, as well as to all students to cope with high inflation; recalls that Erasmus + enables learning mobility exchanges with partner countries around the world; increases, therefore, appropriations for the international dimension of Erasmus+ by EUR 10 million above DB, split evenly between the NDICI and IPA III; underlines that these appropriations will also help to flatten the heavily back loaded financial profile of Erasmus+, providing more consistent annual financing for a programme with stable year-on-year demand; calls also on Member States to reassess scholarship amounts in the light of the high inflation;

2023/09/29
Committee: BUDG

2023/0264(BUD)

Fabienne KELLER, Martin HOJSÍK, Vlad GHEORGHE, Valérie HAYER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69

69. ~~Condemns~~Disagrees with the Commission’s horizontal approach to reduce the estimates of the institutions in order to adhere to the principle of stable staffing, and to a maximum increase of 2 % for non-salary related expenditure, despite the inflationary pressures for a second year in a row and irrespective of new tasks given to the institutions by the Commission and the co- legislators;

2023/09/29
Committee: BUDG

2023/0264(BUD)

Fabienne KELLER, Martin HOJSÍK, Vlad GHEORGHE, Valérie HAYER, Moritz KÖRNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72 – point c

(c) increase the establishment plans above the DB with the corresponding appropriations in line with the institutions’ requests for the European Data Protection Supervisor and European Data Protection Board to enable them to face new responsibilities and partially in line with the institutions’ requests for the European Committee of the Regions to enhance cybersecurity capabilities and the European External Action Service to enhance primarily cybersecurity and the fight against disinformation, and also to implement the Strategic Compass, and strengthen the crisis response centre~~r and enhance cybersecurity and the fight against disinformation~~.

2023/09/29
Committee: BUDG

2023/0201R(APP)

Valérie HAYER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38

38. Points, furthermore, to the increased needs since the beginning of the MFF for humanitarian aid inside and outside the Union and for support in relation to natural disasters, in particular those driven by climate change, and considers that these needs are likely to grow; stresses that the annual allocation for the SEAR was exhausted in 2021 and 2022 and is expected to be fully used in 2023; points out with concern that beneficiaries of aid under the EU Solidarity Fund have, in some instances, received less than 50 % of the aid they would ordinarily have received and have had to wait a long time for disbursement owing to the limitations of the SEAR;

2023/09/01
Committee: BUDG

2023/0201R(APP)

Valérie HAYER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40

40. Considers, in this respect, that the Commission’s proposal to increase the Flexibility Instrument and the SEAR is a step in the right direction; insists, however, that the EU budget must be equipped with the necessary flexibility and budgetary space to be able to respond to crises and adapt to emerging and growing needs;Delete

2023/09/01
Committee: BUDG

2023/0200(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10

(10) Given that as long as the Russian war in Ukraine lasts, tax revenues collected by the Ukrainian government will continue to be largely allocated to the war effort, and that a residual gap remains in Ukraine’s financing needs for at least until 2027, significant and flexible support to the Ukrainian government to maintain its functions as well as to support the recovery, reconstruction and modernisation of the country has to be mobilised quickly.

2023/09/07
Committee: AFET BUDG

2023/0200(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11

(11) Given the damage from Russia’s war of aggression to the Ukrainian economy, society and infrastructure, the support to the country to maintain its functions, as well as short relief, fast recovery, reconstruction and modernisation of Ukraine will require comprehensive support to rebuild the economy, to create the foundations of a free and prosperous country, anchored in European values, well integrated into the European and global economy, and progressing wactivelly on its path of accession to the European Union.

2023/09/07
Committee: AFET BUDG

2023/0200(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19

(19) The Facility should tie the recovery, reconstruction and modernisation closely to the Union perspective, by linking financial support to the fulfilment of reforms and investments in view of accession without unduly restricting access to essential financial aid in times of war.

2023/09/07
Committee: AFET BUDG

2023/0200(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 35

(35) Strengthening the rule of law, including the independence of the judiciary, the fight against corruption (and notably grand corruption, understood as the abuse of high-level power that benefits the few, and causes serious and widespread harm to individuals and society1a), money laundering and organised crime, as well as transparency, good governance at all levels, safeguarding the free and pluralistic media and fighting disinformation, strengthening public administration reform, including in the fields of public procurement, competition and State aid, remain key challenges and are essential for Ukraine to come closer to the Union and to prepare to fully assume the obligations of Union membership. In view of the longer-term nature of the reforms pursued in those areas and the need to build up track records, support under the Ukraine Facility should address those issues as early as possible. _________________ 1a ECA special report 23/2021: "Reducing grand corruption in Ukraine: several EU initiatives, but still insufficient results"

2023/09/07
Committee: AFET BUDG

2023/0200(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 71

(71) The Plan should also include an detailed explanation of Ukraine’s system along with specific measures to effectively prevent, detect and correct irregularities, corruption and notably grand corruption, fraud and conflicts of interests, when using the funds provided under the Facility, and the arrangements that aim to avoid double funding from the Facility and other Union programmes as well as other donors. Measures under the Plan should, where appropriate, contribute to ensuring an efficient management and control system. Such measures should be implemented by Ukraine by an indicative date which could be set, as appropriate depending on each measure, over the course of the lifetime of the Facility. Compliance with this plan will be instrumental to both preserve the financial interests of the Union and integrate the acquis communautaire into Ukraine's internal legal order, which will actively bring Ukraine closer to EU membership.

2023/09/07
Committee: AFET BUDG

2023/0200(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 78

(78) It is important to guarantee both flexibility and programmability as well as stability in providing Union support to Ukraine. For that purpose, payments under the Facility should occur according to a fixed quarterly schedule, subject to availability of funding, based on a payment request submitted by Ukraine and following verification by the Commission of the satisfactory fulfilment of the relevant conditions. In case a condition is not fulfilled in accordance with the indicative timeline set in the decision approving the Plan, the Commission should deduct from the payment an amount corresponding to those conditions. The disbursement of the corresponding withheld funds could take place during ~~the nex~~a subsequent payment window ~~and up to twelve months after the original deadline set out in the indicative timeline~~, provided the conditions have been fulfilled.

2023/09/07
Committee: AFET BUDG

2023/0200(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 91 a (new)

(91a) Following recommendation 3 of the ECA Special Report on Reducing grand corruption in Ukraine2a and to ensure that the financial support provided under the Facility does not perpetuate or reinforce distorsions to the proper functioning of the market, the Commission should be responsible for establishing, in close cooperation with the Ukrainian authorities, a register of companies under oligarchic influence and identified as potentially hampering free and fair competition on the market. Entities identified on this register should not be eligible to receive funds under the Facility. This register will be prepared within six months of the entry into force of the present regulation, and updated quarterly. _________________ 2a ECA special report 23/2021: "Reducing grand corruption in Ukraine: several EU initiatives, but still insufficient results"

2023/09/07
Committee: AFET BUDG

2023/0200(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point d

(d) further strengthen the rule of law, democracy, the respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including through promoting an independent judiciary, reinforced security, the fight against fraud, corruption and grand corruption, organised crime and money laundering, tax evasion and tax fraud; compliance with international law; strengthen freedom of media and academic freedom and an enabling environment for civil society; foster social dialogue; promote non- discrimination and tolerance, to ensure and strengthen respect for the rights of persons belonging to minorities and the promotion of gender equality; reinforce the effectiveness of public administration and support transparency, structural reforms and good governance at all levels, including in the areas of public financial management and public procurement and State aid; support initiatives and bodies involved in supporting and enforcing international justice in Ukraine;

2023/09/07
Committee: AFET BUDG

2023/0200(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 2 – point h

(h) an detailed explanation of Ukraine’s system along with specific measures to effectively prevent, detect and correct irregularities, fraud, corruption and grand corruption and conflicts of interests, when using the funds provided under the Facility, and of the arrangements that aim to avoid double funding from the Facility and other Union programmes or donors;

2023/09/07
Committee: AFET BUDG

2023/0200(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1

1. The Ukraine Plan shall be prepared by Ukraine. Ukraine shall strive to submit the Plan to the Commission by two months after entry into force of this Regulation. At the request of the government of Ukraine, the Commission shall provide a one-time technical and administrative assistance based on already existing programmes, with the view to accelerating the preparation of the Plan. Ukraine may submit a draft Plan to the Commission.

2023/09/07
Committee: AFET BUDG

2023/0200(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 6

6. Where the Commission concludes that Ukraine has not taken the necessary measures within a period of twelve months from the initial negative assessment referred to in paragraph 5, the Commission shall reduce the amount of the non-repayable financial support and of the loan proportionately to the part corresponding to the relevant qualitative and quantitative steps. Ukraine may present its observations within two months from the communication of the Commission’s conclusions.deleted

2023/09/07
Committee: AFET BUDG

2023/0200(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. The Commission shall prepare, in close cooperation with the Ukrainian authorities, a register of companies under oligarchic influence identified as potentially hampering free and fair competition on the market. Entities identitied on this register will not be eligible to receive funds under the Facility. This register will be prepared within six months after the entry into force of the regulation and updated quarterly.

2023/09/07
Committee: AFET BUDG

2023/0200(COD)

Eva Maria POPTCHEVA, Susana SOLÍS PÉREZ, Valérie HAYER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 4

4. Assistance under this Chapter shall support the creation and strengthening of Ukrainian authorities responsible for ensuring appropriate use of funds and effective fight against mismanagement of public funding, in particular fraud, corruption and grand corruption, conflict of interests and irregularities incurred in relation to any amount spent to achieve the objectives of the Facility.

2023/09/07
Committee: AFET BUDG

2023/0199(COD)

Valérie HAYER, Christophe GRUDLER, Dominique RIQUET, Fabienne KELLER, Nathalie LOISEAU, Moritz KÖRNER, Nicola BEER, Alin MITUȚA, Eva Maria POPTCHEVA

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2

(2) The EU industry has proven its inbuilt resilience but is being challenged. High inflation, labour shortages, post- COVID supply chains disruptions, the Russian war in Ukraine, rising interest rates, and spikes in energy costs and input prices are weighing on the competitiveness of the EU industry. and have put forward the need for the Union to secure its open strategic autonomy and reduce its dependence on non-EU countries. Several strategic dependencies have already been identified in the energy intensive industries, health and digital ecosystems.39a This is paired with strong, but not always fair, competition on the fragmented global market. The EU has already put forward several initiatives to support its industry, such as the Green Deal Industrial Plan,40 the Critical Raw Materials Act41 , the Net Zero Industry Act42 , the new Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework for State aid,43 and REPowerEU.44 While these solutions provide fast and targeted support, the EU needs a more structural answer to the investment needs of its industries, safeguarding cohesion and the level playing field in the Single Market and to reduce the EU’s strategic dependencies. _________________ 39a Commission Staff Working document on Strategic dependencies and capacities (SWD(2021)352) and Commission Staff Working Document on EU strategic dependencies and capacities: second stage of in-depth reviews (SWD(2022) 41) 40 Communication on A Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age, COM(2023) 62 final. 41 COM(2023) 160 final 42 COM(2023) 161 final 43 Communication on a Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework for State Aid measures (OJ C 101, 17.3.2023, p. 3). 44 Regulation (EU) 2023/435 as regards REPowerEU (OJ L 63, 28.2.2023, p. 1).

2023/09/08
Committee: BUDG ITRE

2023/0199(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2

(2) The EU industry has proven its inbuilt resilience but is being challenged. High inflation, labour shortages, post- COVID supply chains disruptions, rising interest rates, and spikes in energy costs and input prices are weighing on the competitiveness of the EU industry. This is paired with strong, but not always fair, competition on the fragmented global market. The EU has already put forward several initiatives to support its industry, such as the Green Deal Industrial Plan,40 the Critical Raw Materials Act41 , the Net Zero Industry Act42 , the new Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework for State aid,43 and REPowerEU.44 While these solutions provide fast and targeted support, the EU needs a more structural answer to the investment needs of its industries, safeguarding cohesion and the level playing field in the Single Market, facilitating access to funding and to reduceing the EU’s strategic dependencies. _________________ 40 Communication on A Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age, COM(2023) 62 final. 41 COM(2023) 160 final 42 COM(2023) 161 final 43 Communication on a Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework for State Aid measures (OJ C 101, 17.3.2023, p. 3). 44 Regulation (EU) 2023/435 as regards REPowerEU (OJ L 63, 28.2.2023, p. 1).

2023/09/08
Committee: BUDG ITRE

2023/0199(COD)

Valérie HAYER, Christophe GRUDLER, Dominique RIQUET, Fabienne KELLER, Nathalie LOISEAU, Moritz KÖRNER, Nicola BEER, Alin MITUȚA, Eva Maria POPTCHEVA

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3

(3) The uptake and scaling up in the Union of deep and digital technologies, clean technologies, and biotechnologies will be essential to reduce the Union’s strategic dependencies, seize the opportunities and meet the objectives of the green and digital transitions, thus securing the sovereignty and strategic autonomy of the Union and promoting the competitiveness of the European industry and its sustainability. Therefore, immediate action is required to support the development or manufacturing in the Union of ~~such~~ technologies, safeguarding and strengthening their value chains ~~thereby reducing the Union’s strategic dependencies~~, and addressing existing labour and skills shortages in those sectors through trainings and apprenticeships and the creation of attractive, quality jobs accessible to all.

2023/09/08
Committee: BUDG ITRE

2023/0199(COD)

Valérie HAYER, Christophe GRUDLER, Dominique RIQUET, Fabienne KELLER, Moritz KÖRNER, Nicola BEER, Alin MITUȚA, Eva Maria POPTCHEVA

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4

(4) There is a need to support critical technologies in the following fields: deep and digital technologies, clean technologies, and biotechnologies (including the respective critical raw materials value chains), in particular projects, companies and sectors with a critical role for EU’s competitiveness and resilience and its value chains. By way of example, deep technologies and digital technologies should include microelectronics, high-performance computing, quantum technologies (i.e., computing, communication and sensing technologies), cloud computing, edge computing, and artificial intelligence, cybersecurity technologies, robotics, ~~5G and~~ advanced and secure connectivity ~~and virtual realities, including actions related to~~including 5G and satellite-based connectivity, and actions related to virtual realities, deep and digital technologies for the development of defence and aerospace applications. Clean technologies should include, among others, renewable energy; electricity and heat storage; heat pumps; electricity grid; renewable fuels of non- biological origin; sustainable alternative fuels; electrolysers and fuel cells; carbon capture, utilisation and storage; energy efficiency; hydrogen and its related infrastructure; smart energy solutions; technologies vital to sustainability such as water purification and desalination; advanced materials such as nanomaterials, composites and future clean construction materials, and technologies for the sustainable extraction and processing of critical raw materials. BThe health ecosystem, in particular biotechnology should be considered to include technologies such as biomolecules and its applications, pharmaceuticals and medical technologies vital for health security, including active pharmaceutical ingredients, medicine and vaccine production, crop biotechnology, and industrial biotechnology, such as for waste disposal, and biomanufacturing. The Commission may issue guidance to further specify the scope of the technologies in these three fields considered to be critical in accordance with this Regulation, in order to promote a common interpretation of the projects, companies and sectors to be supported under the respective programmes in light of the common strategic objective of reducing critical dependencies. Moreover, technologies in any of these three fields which are subjects of an Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) approved by the Commission pursuant to Article 107(3), point (b) TFEU should be deemed to be critical, and individual projects within the scope of such an IPCEI should be eligible for funding, in accordance with the respective programme rules, to the extent that the identified funding gap and the eligible costs have not yet been completely covered.

2023/09/08
Committee: BUDG ITRE

2023/0199(COD)

Valérie HAYER, Christophe GRUDLER, Dominique RIQUET, Fabienne KELLER, Moritz KÖRNER, Nicola BEER, Alin MITUȚA

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6

(6) The scale of investments needed for the transition require a full mobilisation of funding available under existing EU programmes and funds, inclusive those granting a budgetary guarantee for financing and investment operations and implementation of financial instruments and blending operations. Such funding should be deployed in a more flexible manner, to provide timely and targeted support for critical technologies that reduce the Union dependency in strategic sectors. Therefore, a Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (‘STEP’) should give a structural answer to the Union investment needs by helping to better channel the existing EU funds towards critical investments aimed at supporting the development or manufacturing of such critical technologies, while preserving a level playing field in the Single Market, thereby preserving cohesion and aiming at a geographically balanced distribution of projects financed under the STEP in accordance with the respective programme mandates.

2023/09/08
Committee: BUDG ITRE

2023/0199(COD)

Valérie HAYER, Christophe GRUDLER, Dominique RIQUET, Fabienne KELLER, Nathalie LOISEAU, Alin MITUȚA

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6

(6) The scale of investments needed for the transition require a full mobilisation of funding available under existing EU programmes and funds, inclusive those granting a budgetary guarantee for financing and investment operations and implementation of financial instruments and blending operations. Such funding should be deployed in a more flexible manner, to provide timely and targeted support for critical technologies in strategic sectors. Therefore, a Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (‘STEP’) should give a structural answer to the Union investment needs by helping to better channel the existing EU funds towards critical investments (including non-bankable investments) aimed at supporting the development or manufacturing of critical technologies, while preserving a level playing field in the Single Market, thereby preserving cohesion and aiming at a geographically balanced distribution of projects financed under the STEP in accordance with the respective programme mandates.

2023/09/08
Committee: BUDG ITRE

2023/0199(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7

(7) The STEP should identify resources which should be implemented within the existing Union programmes and funds, the InvestEU, Horizon Europe, European Defence Fund and Innovation Fund. This should be accompanied by providing additional funding of EUR 104 billion. Of this, EUR 5,8 billion should be used to increase the endowment of the Innovation Fund46 and EUR 34,2 billion to increase the total amount of the EU guarantee available for the EU compartment under the InvestEU Regulation to EUR 710,5 billion,47 taking into account the relevant provisioning rate. EUR 0.5 billion should be made available to increase the financial envelope under the Horizon Europe Regulation,48 which should be amended accordingly; and EUR 13.5 billion to the European Defence Fund.49 _________________ 46 Directive 2003/87/EC establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading (OJ L 275, 25.10.2003, p. 32). 47 Regulation (EU) 2021/523 establishing the InvestEU Programme (OJ L 107, 26.3.2021, p. 30). 48 Regulation (EU) 2021/695 establishing Horizon Europe (OJ L 170, 12.5.2021, p. 1). 49 Regulation (EU) 2021/697 establishing the European Defense Fund (OJ L 170, 12.5.2021, p. 149.)

2023/09/08
Committee: BUDG ITRE

2023/0199(COD)

Eva Maria POPTCHEVA, Nicola BEER, Fabienne KELLER, Moritz KÖRNER, Susana SOLÍS PÉREZ, Valérie HAYER

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8

(8) A Sovereignty Seal should be awarded to projects contributing to the STEP objectives, provided that the project has been assessed and complies with the minimum quality requirements, in particular eligibility, exclusion and award criteria, provided by a call for proposals under Horizon Europe, the Digital Europe programme,50 the EU4Health programme,51 the European Defence Fund or the Innovation Fund, and regardless of whether the project has received funding under those instruments. The Commission should ensure that any future changes to the mentioned regulations regarding the minimum quality requirements provided by each call for proposals aim to preserve their alignment. These minimum quality requirements will be established with a view to identify high quality projects. This Seal should be used as a quality label, to help projects attract public and private investments by certifying its contribution to the STEP objectives. Moreover, the Seal will promote better access to EU funding, notably by facilitating cumulative or combined funding from several Union instruments. Member States are also encouraged to take into account the Sovereignty Seal when granting national support to projects. _________________ 50 Regulation (EU) 2021/694 establishing the Digital Europe Programme (OJ L 166, 11.5.2021, p. 1). 51 Regulation (EU) 2021/522 establishing a Programme for the Union’s action in the field of health, EU4Health Programme (OJ L 107, 26.3.2021, p. 1).

2023/09/08
Committee: BUDG ITRE

2023/0199(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10

(10) A new publicly available website (the ‘Sovereignty Portal’) should be set up by the Commission to provide information on available support to companies and project promoters seeking funds ~~for STEP investments. To that end, it should~~under EU funding programmes. This Sovereignty Portal should bring EU funding opportunities closer to the citizens and businesses. For this purpose, the Portal should become a single and common online platform, where all available EU funding opportunities are displayed in an comprehensive, accessible and user- friendly manner ~~the funding opportunities for STEP investments availabl~~. It seeks to solve an existing market failure, namely an asymmetry of information problem, that hampers the effective uand~~er the EU budget. This~~ efficient implementation of EU funds. This Portal should include information about directly managed programmes, ~~such as~~including but not limited to Horizon Europe, the Digital Europe programme, the EU4Health programme, and the Innovation Fund, and also other programmes under shared or indirect management, such as InvestEU, the RRF, and cohesion policy funds. The Sovereignty Portal should also include a self-assessment tool and information on any open calls as a means to facilitate access to EU funding. The Sovereignty Portal shall display a list of programmes that have been awarded funds under any EU funding programme. Moreover, the Sovereignty Portal should help increase the visibility for STEP investments towards investors, by listing the projects that have been awarded a Sovereignty Seal. The Portal should also list the national competent authorities responsible for acting as contact points for the implementation of the STEP at national level. The Commission should ensure that already existing Portals (such as, the InvestEU Portal) cease to exist once they have been integrated in the common Sovereignty Portal.

2023/09/08
Committee: BUDG ITRE

2023/0199(COD)

Valérie HAYER, Christophe GRUDLER, Dominique RIQUET, Fabienne KELLER, Moritz KÖRNER, Nicola BEER, Alin MITUȚA

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10

(10) A new publicly available website (the ‘Sovereignty Portal’) should be set up by the Commission to provide information on available support to companies and project promoters seeking funds for STEP investments. To that end, it should display in an accessible and user-friendly manner the funding opportunities for STEP investments available under the EU budget. This should include information about directly managed programmes, such as Horizon Europe, the Digital Europe programme, the EU4Health programme, and the Innovation Fund, and also other programmes such as InvestEU, the RRF, and cohesion policy funds. Moreover, the Sovereignty Portal should help increase the visibility for STEP investments towards investors, by listing the projects that have been awarded a Sovereignty Seal. The Portal should also list the national competent authorities responsible for acting as contact points for the implementation of the STEP at national level. The Commission should ensure the complementarity of the Portal with other similar platforms, including the NZIA Platform, and avoid red tape and administrative burden thereof.

2023/09/08
Committee: BUDG ITRE

2023/0199(COD)

Valérie HAYER, Christophe GRUDLER, Dominique RIQUET, Fabienne KELLER, Alin MITUȚA, Eva Maria POPTCHEVA

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11

(11) While the STEP relies on the reprogramming and reinforcement of existing programmes for supporting strategic investments reducing the Union dependencies, it is also an important element for ~~test~~preparing the ~~feasibility and preparation of new interventions as a step towards~~establishment of a European Sovereignty Fund. The evaluation in 2025 will assess the relevance of the actions undertaken ~~and serve as basis for assessing the need for an upscaling of the supp~~, provide an update on the state of the dependencies of the European Union and the most strategic sectors to strengthen its autonomy in a comprehensive way. This assessment will serve as a basis for the establishment of a European Sovereignty Fund to be integrated into the post-2027 Multiannual Financial Framewortk t~~owards strategic sector~~argeting key dependencies and increasing European investments in innovative projects with a strong economic potential for the Single Market and its competitiveness.

2023/09/08
Committee: BUDG ITRE

2023/0199(COD)

Valérie HAYER, Christophe GRUDLER, Dominique RIQUET, Fabienne KELLER

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12

(12) Directive 2003/87/EC54 should be amended to allow for additional financing with a financial envelope for the period 2024-2027 of EUR 5,8 billion. The Innovation Fund supports investments in innovative low-carbon technologies, which is a scope that is to be covered by the STEP. The increase in volume of the Innovation Fund should therefore allow to provide financing responding to the objective of supporting the development or manufacturing in the Union of critical clean technologies. In line with the objectives of ensuring cohesion and promoting the Single Market, and in order to support the green transition and the development of clean technologies throughout the Union, the additional financial envelope should be made available through calls for proposals open to entities from Member States whose average GDP per capita is below the EU average of the EU-27 measured in purchasing power standards (PPS) and calculated on the basis of Union figures for the period 2015-2017. _________________ 54 Directive 2003/87/EC establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading (OJ L 275, 25.10.2003, p. 32).

2023/09/08
Committee: BUDG ITRE

2023/0199(COD)

Eva Maria POPTCHEVA, Susana SOLÍS PÉREZ, Valérie HAYER

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13

(13) In order to extend support possibilities for investments aimed at strengthening industrial development and reinforcement of value chains in strategic sectors, the scope of support from the ERDF should be extended by providing for new specific objectives under the ERDF, without prejudice to the rules on eligibility of expenditure and climate spending as set out in Regulation (EU) 2021/106055 and Regulation (EU) 2021/105856 . In strategic sectors, it should also be possible to support productive investments in enterprises other than SMEs, which can make a significant contribution to the development of less developed and transition regions, as well as in more developed regions of Member States with a GDP per capita below the EU average. However, even if this possibility exists, it is of the utmost importance that SMEs are not excluded from the programme funding, and a significant and proportionate part of it should still be allocated to them. Managing authorities are encouraged to promote the collaboration between large enterprises and local SMEs, supply chains, innovation and technology ecosystems~~. Thi~~, and to ensure that SMEs still have effective access to the programme. These changes would ~~allow~~ reinforc~~ing~~e Europe’s overall capacity to strengthen its position in those sectors through providing access to all Member States for such investments, thus counteracting the risk of increasing disparities. _________________ 55 Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 laying down common provisions (OJ L 231, 30.6.2021, p. 159). 56 Regulation (EU) 2021/1058 on the European Regional Development Fund and on the Cohesion Fund (OJ L 224, 24.6.2021, p. 31).

2023/09/08
Committee: BUDG ITRE

2023/0199(COD)

Valérie HAYER, Christophe GRUDLER, Dominique RIQUET, Fabienne KELLER, Moritz KÖRNER, Nicola BEER, Alin MITUȚA, Eva Maria POPTCHEVA

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20

(20) Horizon Europe is the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation, and its European Innovation Council (EIC) provides for support for innovations with potential breakthrough and disruptive nature with scale-up potential that may be too risky for private investors. Additional flexibility should be provided for under Horizon Europe~~, so that t~~ to improve the participation of SMEs and their access to finance, in particular to the EIC. The EIC Accelerator ~~can~~should provide equity- only support to non-bankable SMEs, including start-ups, and non- bankable SMEs and small mid-caps, carrying out innovation in the technologies supported by the STEP and regardless of whether they previously received other types of support from the EIC Accelerator. The implementation of the EIC Fund is currently limited to a maximum investment amount of EUR 15 million except in exceptional cases and cannot accommodate follow-on financing rounds or larger investment amounts. Allowing for equity- only support for non-bankable SMEs and small mid-caps would address the existing market gap with investments needs in the range of EUR 15 to 50 million. Moreover, experience has shown that the amounts committed for the EIC Pilot under Horizon2020 are not fully used. These unused funds should be made available for the purposes of the EIC Accelerator under Horizon Europe. The Horizon Europe Regulation should also be amended to reflect the increased envelope for the European Defence Fund.

2023/09/08
Committee: BUDG ITRE

2023/0199(COD)

Valérie HAYER, Christophe GRUDLER, Dominique RIQUET, Fabienne KELLER, Nathalie LOISEAU, Moritz KÖRNER, Nicola BEER, Alin MITUȚA, Eva Maria POPTCHEVA

1. To strengthen European sovereignty and security, reduce its strategic dependencies, accelerate the Union’s green and digital transitions and enhance its competitiveness, ~~reduce its strategic dependencies,~~ favour a level playing field in the Single Market for investments throughout the Union, and promote inclusive access to attractive, quality jobs, the Platform shall pursue the following objectives:

2023/09/08
Committee: BUDG ITRE

2023/0199(COD)

Valérie HAYER, Christophe GRUDLER, Dominique RIQUET, Fabienne KELLER, Nathalie LOISEAU, Alin MITUȚA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)

(ba) facilitate access to finance for project promoters, streamlining the procedures and reducing the administration burden thereof.

2023/09/08
Committee: BUDG ITRE

2023/0199(COD)

Valérie HAYER, Christophe GRUDLER, Dominique RIQUET, Fabienne KELLER, Alin MITUȚA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – introductory part

2. The technologies referred to in point (a) of the first paragraph, shall be deemed to be critical where they ~~meet at least one of the following condit~~contribute to reduce or prevent strategic dependencies of the Unions:.

2023/09/08
Committee: BUDG ITRE

2023/0199(COD)

Valérie HAYER, Christophe GRUDLER, Dominique RIQUET, Fabienne KELLER, Alin MITUȚA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point a

~~(a) bring an innovative, cutting-edge element with significant economic potential to the Single Market;~~deleted

2023/09/08
Committee: BUDG ITRE

Stéphanie YON-COURTIN, Gilles BOYER, Pascal CANFIN, Olivier CHASTEL, Valérie HAYER, Georgios KYRTSOS, Eva Maria POPTCHEVA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1

This Regulation sets out rules ensuring effective coordination of economic policies of the Member States, thereby supporting the achievement of the Union’s objectives for sustainable and inclusive growth and quality employment.

2023/10/26
Committee: ECON

Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 1

1. Each Member State shall submit to the Commission an annual progress report on the implementation of its national medium-term fiscal-structural plan, ~~by 15 April each year at the latest~~each year in April, preferably by mid-April and not later than 30th of April.

2023/10/26
Committee: ECON

Stéphanie YON-COURTIN, Gilles BOYER, Georgios KYRTSOS, Valérie HAYER, Pascal CANFIN, Olivier CHASTEL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4 – point a

Any Council decision to give notice to the participating Member State concerned to take measures for the deficit reduction in accordance with Article 126(9) TFEU shall be taken within two months of the Council decision under Article 126(8) TFEU establishing that no effective action has been taken. In the notice, the Council shall request that the Member State implements a corrective net expenditure path which ensures that the general government deficit remains or is brought and maintained below the reference value within the deadline set in the notice. For the years where the general government deficit is expected to exceed the reference value, the corrective net expenditure path shall be consistent with a minimum annual primary structural fiscal adjustment of at least 0,5% of GDP as a benchmark.

2023/10/25
Committee: ECON

2023/0137(CNS)

Stéphanie YON-COURTIN, Gilles BOYER, Georgios KYRTSOS, Valérie HAYER, Pascal CANFIN, Olivier CHASTEL

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 2 – point b

~~(b) where an innovative solution needs to be developed, the impact and the quality of the implementation plan, including risk management measures;~~deleted

2023/06/23
Committee: ITRE

Christophe GRUDLER, Mauri PEKKARINEN, Susana SOLÍS PÉREZ, Valérie HAYER

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16

(16) In light of their importance for ensuring the security of supply of strategic raw materials, Strategic Projects should be considered to be in the public interest. Ensuring the security of supply of strategic raw materials is of crucial importance for the success of the green and digital transitions as well as the resilience of the defence and aerospace sectors. To contribute towards security of supply of strategic raw materials in the Union, Member States may provide for support in national permit granting procedures to speed up the realisation of Strategic Projects in accordance with Union law.

2023/05/26
Committee: ITRE

Christophe GRUDLER, Susana SOLÍS PÉREZ, Valérie HAYER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9

~~(i) be open to cross-border participation.’;~~deleted

2023/05/25
Committee: ITRE

2023/0077(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4

Directive (EU) 2019/944
Article 15 a – paragraph 1

1. All households, small and medium sized enterprises and public bodies have the right to participate in energy sharing as active customers. Member States shall establish a framework that enables energy sharing. This framework shall include at least the following provisions:

2023/05/25
Committee: ITRE

2023/0077(COD)

Valérie HAYER, Fabienne KELLER, Martin HOJSÍK, Olivier CHASTEL, Vlad GHEORGHE, Nicolae ŞTEFĂNUȚĂ

2022/10/14
Committee: BUDG

2022/2046(INI)

31. Considers that the special instruments are constrained both by scarcity of resources and rigidity of design, hampering their ability to serve as effective crisis response tools; stresses, therefore, that the revision is imperative in broadening the potential of the existing flexibility provisions; c~~riticises in particular the Council’s decision, despite Parliament’s warnings, to merge~~onsiders that the merging of the Emergency Aid Reserve (EAR) and the EUSF in the current MFF has led to shortcomings, while reducing the overall funding available;

2022/10/14
Committee: BUDG

2022/2046(INI)

Valérie HAYER, Fabienne KELLER, Martin HOJSÍK, Olivier CHASTEL, Vlad GHEORGHE, Eva Maria POPTCHEVA, Nicolae ŞTEFĂNUȚĂ, Charles GOERENS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32

32. Calls for annual appropriations for the Flexibility Instrument to be increased from EUR 915 million to EUR 2 billion; calls, in addition, for the SEAR to be split into two strands – the EAR and the EUSF – and for annual appropriations to be increased from EUR 1.2 billion for the SEAR overall to EUR 1 billion for each strand in 2018 prices; considers that this will provide vital additional resources to respond to current and emerging needs;

2022/10/14
Committee: BUDG

2022/2046(INI)

Valérie HAYER, Fabienne KELLER, Martin HOJSÍK, Olivier CHASTEL, Vlad GHEORGHE, Eva Maria POPTCHEVA, Nicolae ŞTEFĂNUȚĂ, Charles GOERENS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35

35. Insists that, beyond a reinforcement of the existing special instruments, it is necessary to establish a permanent fiscal capacity for the Euro Area and common crisis instrument as an additional permanent special instrument over and above the MFF ceilings so that the EU budget can better adapt and quickly react to crises and their social and economic effects;

2022/10/14
Committee: BUDG

2022/2046(INI)

Valérie HAYER, Fabienne KELLER, Martin HOJSÍK, Olivier CHASTEL, Vlad GHEORGHE, Eva Maria POPTCHEVA, Nicolae ŞTEFĂNUȚĂ, Charles GOERENS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36

36. Insists that decommitted appropriations ~~should remain in the budge~~, fines not used for EU programmes top-ups in 2021-2027 and penalties should accrue to the crisis instrument so as to provide additional budgetary flexibility; underlines the need for corresponding changes to the Financial Regulation;

2022/10/14
Committee: BUDG

2022/2046(INI)

Valérie HAYER, Fabienne KELLER, Martin HOJSÍK, Olivier CHASTEL, Vlad GHEORGHE, Nicolae ŞTEFĂNUȚĂ, Charles GOERENS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37

37. Underlines that many of the shortcomings and inadequacies in the current MFF are inherent in its logic and design, where predictability of spending drives decisions on structure and amounts and curbs flexibility; regrets the high tensions the MFF negotiations trigger due to its nature;

2022/10/14
Committee: BUDG

2022/2046(INI)

Valérie HAYER, Fabienne KELLER, Martin HOJSÍK, Olivier CHASTEL, Vlad GHEORGHE, Eva Maria POPTCHEVA, Nicolae ŞTEFĂNUȚĂ, Charles GOERENS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 a (new)

37 a. Regrets the decrease of the EU budget in terms of percentage to the EU GDP over the last decades; considers that capping the EU budget at roughly 1% of the EU GDP as a rule impedes the EU from fulfilling its increasing tasks; calls on the Member States to take decisions based on needs instead of dogmas;

2022/10/14
Committee: BUDG

2022/2046(INI)

Valérie HAYER, Fabienne KELLER, Martin HOJSÍK, Olivier CHASTEL, Vlad GHEORGHE, Eva Maria POPTCHEVA, Nicolae ŞTEFĂNUȚĂ, Charles GOERENS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39

39. Deplores, however, the repeated use of off-budget instruments, in particular under Article 122 TFEU, which runs counter to citizens’ interests, as this frustrates oversight, accountability and the transparency of public spending; considers, in that regard, than an annual plenary debate in Parliament on all EU finances, including off-budget instruments, will be an important step towards enhancing transparency and accountability;

2022/10/14
Committee: BUDG

2022/2046(INI)

Valérie HAYER, Fabienne KELLER, Martin HOJSÍK, Olivier CHASTEL, Vlad GHEORGHE, Eva Maria POPTCHEVA, Nicolae ŞTEFĂNUȚĂ, Charles GOERENS, Moritz KÖRNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40

40. Stresses, in this context, that the trend towards increased use of external assigned revenue is not a satisfactory solution as it weakens the role of the budgetary authority (Parliament and the Council), thereby negatively impacting democratic scrutiny and reducing the transparency of the EU’s finances; demands legally sound solutions that allow for targeted, one-off or needs-based top- ups that display the same advantages as e~~armark~~xternal assigned revenue (i.e. not counted against the ceilings), but that are at the same time subject to full control of the budgetary authority; reminds its strong commitment to the universality principle;

2022/10/14
Committee: BUDG

2022/2046(INI)

Valérie HAYER, Fabienne KELLER, Martin HOJSÍK, Olivier CHASTEL, Vlad GHEORGHE, Eva Maria POPTCHEVA, Nicolae ŞTEFĂNUȚĂ, Charles GOERENS, Moritz KÖRNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42

42. Calls on the Commission, furthermore, to begin a longer-term reflection on the EU budget post-2027 in the light of evolving spending needs and building on the work of the Conference on the Future of Europe with respect to own resources and the budget; insists that the successor to the current MFF be equipped to deal fully and flexibly with a range of policy priorities and spending needs and to ensure resilience in the event of crises; asks the Commission to review the whole architecture of the MFF, including through an assessment of the suitability of a long-term programming framework for all EU programmes and of the duration of programming periods of seven years;

2022/10/14
Committee: BUDG

2022/0272(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 39

(39) Regulation (EU) 2019/881 establishes a voluntary European cybersecurity certification framework for ICT products, processes and services. European cybersecurity certification schemes ~~can cover products with digital elements covered by this Regulation~~thus provide a common framework of trust for users to use ICT products by assessing their level of cybersecurity. This Regulation should consequently create synergies with Regulation (EU) 2019/881. Regulation (EU) 2019/881 should address products with critical cybersecurity aspects and this Regulation should be dedicated to minimising the risk of incidents and cyberattacks. In order to facilitate the assessment of conformity with the requirements laid down in this Regulation, products with digital elements that are certified or for which a statement of conformity has been issued under a cybersecurity scheme pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/881 and which has been identified by the Commission in an implementing act, shall be presumed to be in compliance with the essential requirements of this Regulation in so far as the cybersecurity certificate or statement of conformity or parts thereof cover those requirements. The need for new European cybersecurity certification schemes for products with digital elements should be assessed in the light of this Regulation. Such future European cybersecurity certification schemes covering products with digital elements should take into account the essential requirements as set out in this Regulation and facilitate compliance with this Regulation. The Commission should be empowered to specify, by means of implementing acts, the use of European cybersecurity certification schemes ~~that can be used~~for critical products to demonstrate conformity with the essential requirements set out in this Regulation. Furthermore, in order to avoid undue administrative burden for manufacturers, wthere ~~applicable, the Commission should specify if a cybersecurity certificate issued under such European cybersecurity certification schemes eliminates the~~should be no obligation ~~for~~on manufacturers to carry out a third-party conformity assessment as provided by this Regulation for corresponding requirements where a cybersecurity certificate has been issued under such European cybersecurity certification schemes, at a substantial or high level.

2023/05/04
Committee: ITRE

2022/0272(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 70 a (new)

(70a) This Regulation is without prejudice to the Member States’ prerogatives to take measures safeguarding national security, in compliance with Union law. Member States should be able to apply additional measures to products with digital elements that are used for military, defence or national security purposes.

2023/05/04
Committee: ITRE

2022/0272(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 5

5. This Regulation does not apply to products with digital elements developed exclusively for public security, national security, defence or military purposes or to products specifically designed to process classified information.

2023/05/04
Committee: ITRE

2022/0272(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. This Regulation shall not prevent Member States from applying additional measures to products with digital elements provided that such measures are proportionate and aim to safeguard products, infrastructure or processed information and provided that those specific products are used for critical system functions or critical components deployed in sectors of high criticality as set out in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2022/2555.

2023/05/04
Committee: ITRE

2022/0272(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1

WManufacturers shall ensure, when placing a product with digital elements on the market, and for the expected product lifetime ~~or for a period of five years from the placing of the product on the market, whichever is shorter, manufacturers shall ensure that vulnerabilities of that product are handled effectively and~~ , that vulnerabilities of that product are handled effectively and in accordance with the essential requirements set out in Section 2 of Annex I. The expected product lifetime shall not be less than five years for products covered by Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council1a. _________________ 1a Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 establishing a~~ccordance with the essential requirements set out in Section 2 of Annex I.~~ framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for energy-related products (OJ L 285, 31.10.2009, p. 10).

2023/05/04
Committee: ITRE

2022/0272(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1 a (new)

Manufacturers shall determine the expected product lifetime referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph taking into account the time users reasonably expect to be able to use the product given functionality and intended purpose and therefore can expect to receive security updates.

2023/05/04
Committee: ITRE

2022/0272(COD)