Activities of Henrike HAHN related to 2020/2087(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the review of the European Union Solidarity Fund
Amendments (5)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Points out that due to climate change, natural disasters will become more and more violent and more and more recurrent; questions, however, whether the fund is adequately adapted to the future consequences of climate change, while stressing that the EUSF is only a curative instrument and that climate change requires primarily a preventive policy in line with the Paris Agreement and the Green Deal;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Stresses that due to climate change, islands and coastal regions are particularly at risk of being affected by natural disasters; questions, however, whether the current EUSF is appropriately focused on climate adaptation for those particularly fragile territories;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. NoteHighlights, while acknowledging that the EUSF is not an instrument for rapid intervention in disaster situations, that aid disbursement has speeded up since the 2014 reform; requests, nevertheless, that the Commission accelerate payments;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the Commission’s proposal of 27 May 2020 to increase the maximum annual amount of the EUSF under the next long-term budget to EUR 1 billion (at 2018 prices), which has been Parliament’s position from the outset; questions, however, whether this amount will be sufficient to cover all of the eligible applications in 2020the coming years, taking into account the Fund’s widened scope;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Requests that the Commission propose a revision of the Regulation, which should enter into force as early as possible in the nextthe regulation on the multiannual financial framework (MFF) for the period 2021-2027: - to simplify and speed up the application procedure for Member States,; - to bring the level of advances up to 33 % and speed up the final disbursement; - - to further increase the annual EUSF envelope to EUR 2 billion per year, which should be entered in the budget over and above the MFF ceilings (both in commitment and payment appropriations), in order to take into account the widened scope of the Fund; -to ensure unlimited carry- over of uncommitted and unpaid appropriations to the following financial years and MFFs; - to prioritise reimbursements that will secure more resilient and climate-friendly investments and reconstructions (such as earthquake-proof construction and natural (re)forestation); - to focus reimbursements on investments and reconstructions that are in line with the Paris Agreement and the Green Deal; - to include an island and coastal dimension in order to take into account the climate adaptation dimension of those territories particularly at risk;