12 Amendments of Annika BRUNA related to 2021/0227(BUD)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas Article 8 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union provides that the Union, in all its activities, shall aim to eliminate inequalities, and to promote equality, between men and women, while respecting their mutual differences and complementarity;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas most of the activities organised under the Daphne programme – the aims of which are to combat violence against women and children in Europe and to protect victims – are essential, and whereas needs in the area concerned have been increased by the COVID-19 crisis;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas women remain under- representedthere are still fewer women than men in the digital economy and the science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) sectors in terms of education, training and employment;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Reaffirms its strong request to implement gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting throughoutthe need to mainstream the issue of the place of women, including in the budgetary procedure, where relevant;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Refuses to accept the EU’s misguided efforts to require the collection of data in line with so-called intersectional criteria based, in particular, on sexual orientation or origins; is concerned, on the one hand, about the desire to split the population into opposing categories, and on the other about the potentially excessive costs of collecting data according to those criteria;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission, in the framework of the assessment of the national recovery plans, to provide specific recommendations stressing the need for investments to facilitate women’s fullthe participation in the labour market of women who wish to do so;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to accelerate the introduction of a methodology, in close cooperation with Parliament, to measure relevant gender expenditure, as set out in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 16 December 2020 between the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission on budgetary discipline, on cooperation in budgetary matters and on sound financial management, as well as on new own resources, including a roadmap towards the introduction of new own resources1; _________________ 1 promoting equality between the sexes; OJ L 433 I, 22.12.2020, p. 28.
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to increase the budget of the EIGE in order to promote gender equality across the Union, particularly in the light of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, in the light of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy, to bring the EIGE’s budget under control or reduce it in favour of priority programmes, and thereby help prevent an increase in the share paid by Member States or via own womenresources;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Reiterateaffirms its request to assign an independent budget line to the objective in the CERV Programme dedicated to promote gender equality; reaffirms its request to increase resources for the Daphne strandincrease resources for the Daphne strand, the aims of which are to combat violence against, and protect, women and children, whose needs have increased during the COVID crisis; calls, in parallel, for EIGE-related expenditure to be cut;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the importance of using European Structural and Investment Funds to promote gender equality, women’s employment and access to the labour market, childcare and long-term care facilities, as well as financial arrangements enabling women to choose between working life and family life;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for the budget to encourage women’s participation and interest in the digital economy and STEM sectors and careers through Union programmes, including the Youth Employment Initiative, without however introducing positive discrimination schemes or quotas, which run counter to the principle of merit.