Activities of Jan MULDER related to 2013/2145(BUD)
Plenary speeches (2)
2014 budgetary procedure: joint text (debate)
Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2014 - all sections (debate)
Amendments (2)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Emphasizes that recovered amounts are considered revenues that should remain in the Union budget and therefore contribute to a stabilisation of the budget; points out that this delivers a strong message and incentive to Member States to improve their management and control systems; regrets that while approximately 80 % of the budget is actually spent by Member States there is no clear commitment from most of the Member States for a declaration justifying that the money is well spent;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Regrets the fact that the 2014 budget will increase the RAL with an expected amount of EUR 6 billion (compare working document BUDG_DT(2013)510689 on the outstanding commitments for 2013 and calculation methods); calls upon the Commission and the Council to take the still increasing amount of outstanding commitments into account and come forward with measures to reduce the amount of outstanding commitments.