Activities of John HOWARTH related to 2019/2037(BUD)
Reports (1)
REPORT on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 4/2019 of the European Union for the financial year 2019: Reduction of commitment and payment appropriations in line with updated needs of expenditure and update of revenue (own resources) PDF (186 KB) DOC (89 KB)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Takes note of the Commission’s proposal; reiterates its position considering that the Union budget is too small to respond to pressing needs and challenges it faces as well as its citizens;
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Notes the Council position on Draft amending budget No 4/2019;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 4/2019; Considers that a draft amending budget should follow one purpose only; notes that Draft amending budget No 4/2019 has two purposes, namely to release commitment and payment appropriations of budget lines for headings 1a - Competitiveness for growth and jobs, 1b - Economic, Social and Territorial Cohesion, 3 - Security and Citizenship, 4 - Global Europe as well as for the European Union Solidarity Fund, and to increase the budget 2019 of some institutions as a result of the postponement of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union to 31 October 2019; notes that the most urgent purpose of Draft amending budget No 4/2019 is to increase the budget 2019 of some institutions as a result of the postponement of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union to 31 October 2019; approves, therefore, these adjustments but rejects the proposed release of commitment appropriations;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Decides to amend the Council position on Draft amending budget No 4/2019 as shown below;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Asks the Commission to put forward a new proposal, the aim of which would be to redeploy the potential savings identified both in its proposal for Draft amending budget No 4/2019, as well as any newly identified appropriations which would not be used, to fund key Union programmes in lack of funding;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, together with Parliament’s amendments, to the Council, the Commission, the other institutions and bodies concerned and the national parliaments.