14 Amendments of Irène TOLLERET related to 2022/0212(BUD)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas Parliament has repeatedly urged the Commission to promote and implement the use of gender mainstreaming, gender budgeting and gender impact assessments in all the Union policy areas; whereas it strongly requested to implement gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting throughout the budgetary procedure; whereas the recommendations of the Court of Auditors report of 2021 on Gender mainstreaming in the EU budget found that gender has not been adequately mainstreamed thus far;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. welcomes the Union's efforts to accelerate the digital transformation in agriculture and in rural areas; notes the continued importance of support for investments in modernisation and innovation if the agriculture sector is to contribute to meeting the targets of the European Green Deal, the Biodiversity Strategy and Farm to Fork Strategy;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that with the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV)1 being the only programme with gender-related spending targets, including on preventing and combating gender-based violence (GBV), it is imperative to increase its budget to combat inequalities that have been exacerbated by the crises; of the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and the backlash against women’s rights, specifically SRHR, in several Member States; _________________ 1 Established by Regulation (EU) 2021/692.
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. welcomes the mobilisation of the crisis reserve to finance exceptional measures for Union farmers most affected by the war in Ukraine; calls on the Commission to prepare a detailed analysis into how the Member States have spent their crisis reserve envelopes and investigate whether the support was aimed at the sectors that were mostly hit by the current crisis;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Welcomes also all the other additional support to farmers affected by the war in Ukraine that was provided by the Commission, such as the market interventions, the exceptional support under EAFRD, early disbursement of direct payments and also derogations on the greening obligations; hopes that as the crisis and the fallout from the Ukraine war will continue in the future, the Commission will be willing to thus support farmers also in 2023;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Welcomes the fact that the Commission proposed in the draft budget that the new agriculture reserve in 2023 is established solely from the availabilities under the EAGF sub-ceilings and that the left over of the 2022 crisis reserve is redistributed back to farmers;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Insists also that financial discipline is not used to fill in the new agriculture reserve in 2023;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Stresses the need to reinforce budgetary allocations that support actions ensuring the gender aspect of health through the facilitation of exchange between Member States including on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR); calls on the Commission to allocate additional resources to the EU4Health Programme in order for the Member States to ensure adequate provision of accessible SRHR services and for research and treatment of gender- specific conditions such as fibroids, premenstrual syndrome and endometriosis with an intersectional perspective, in particular regarding diagnosis and treatment of black and minority ethnic women;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. deplores the sharp rise in forest fires in Europe due to climate change and strongly urges the Member States to strengthen fire prevention measures and improve farmers' access to irrigation, as well as to modernise facilities, within the framework of national strategic plans; considers, furthermore, that there is a pressing need to promote the restoration of forests in the European Union;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Stresses that 2023 is the first year of the implementation of the new CAP with a new, performance-based, delivery model; points that it is crucial that the new CAP is supported by a strong budget and that Member States need to be prepared and supported financially to make this transition to a new system; highlights that there is a number of new practices and measures under Strategic Plans, such as new enhanced eco- schemes, but also farm advisory services or practices that will help us achieve also the goals set under the Farm to Fork Strategy, such as carbon farming, agroforestry and paludiculture; if we want to achieve high uptake by farmers, we need them to be supported also financially;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the crucial work of EIGE, which has been reflected in an increase of tasks allocated, and is particularly important in the light of ongoing crises facing Europe such as the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the backlash against women’s rights, and specifically access to SRHR, in Europe and globally; therefore requests the allocation for 8 Contract Agents to enable EIGE to effectively fulfil its mandate;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Stresses the importance of using European Structural and Investment Funds such as the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) to promote gender equality, women’s employment and access to the labour market, childcare and long-term care facilities, particularly in the light of the Union’s 14% average gender pay gap;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and the Council to increase budget allocations to civil society organisations that promote women’s rights, includingespecially those working on promotion of Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR), such as the global initiative SheDecides, and LGBTI+ rights in the context of the backlash against women’s rights, especially in terms of SRHR. and to ensure that Union funds cannot be accessed by anti-gender and anti-choice organisations;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Calls for the Union budget to encourage women’s participation in the digital economy and STEM sectors and careers through Union programmes, for example in research, innovation and technology;