23 Amendments of Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES related to 2021/0227(BUD)
Amendment 1 #
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, thereby promoting the principle of gender mainstreaming in all of its policies, including via gender budgeting at all levels of the budgetary process;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the draft budget for 2022 as the first general budget with full implementation of the MFF Agreement, with the highest share of climate-relevant EU expenditure to date and a significant contribution to the EU’s digital transition; underlines the importance of ensuring sufficient funding in order to contribute to the twin transition towards the achievement of the 2030 energy and climate targets and climate-neutrality by 2050; considers that the budget should fully align with the updated New Industrial Strategy; stresses that 2022 should be a year for boosting a rapid recovery for a resilient Europe;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas this Parliament has repeatedly urged the Commission to promote and implement the use of gender mainstreaming, gender budgeting and to conduct gender impact assessments in all the Union policy areas, whereas the European Court of Auditors confirmed this has not been achieved;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas Parliament has repeatedly called for sufficient funding for the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), for the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme and for the subsequent Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) Programme and for its Daphne strand in order to enforce non- discrimination, gender equality and gender mainstreaming instruments and to prevent gender-based violence;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Recalls its resolution of 16 September 2020 on the draft Council decision on the system of own resources of the EU; calls on Commission to ensure timely implementation of New Own resources as agreed in the Interinstitutional agreement of16 December 2020;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas women are disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly women working in precarious employment, feminised sectors and the informal economy, whereas the Union budget for 2022 should play a key role in the economic recovery of the Union paying special attention to those sectors, heavily feminised, that have been essential during the pandemic or have been severely affected by the subsequent economic crisis;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Reminds of the crucial role of strategic foresight and importance of the evidence based anticipatory policy making;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas women remain under- represented in leadership and decision- making positions, while being overrepresented in low-paid sectors such as care and service work, whereas they devote more time than men to unpaid housework and care responsibilities;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1 c. Reminds that ambitious policies in pathway to climate neutrality require significant investments in research and innovation and in this regard regrets recent Council cuts in allocations to Horizon Europe for 2022;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas women remain under- represented in the digital economy and the science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) sectors in terms of education, training and employment, whereas resources supporting women ́s and girl’s empowerment through digital inclusion could lead to advancing gender equality in the digital age;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1 d. Welcomes the Commissions ambition to strengthen Union competitiveness, strategic autonomy and resilience and in this context recalls the success of the European Battery Alliance that in line with EGD, Circular Economy Action Plan and New Industrial Strategy aims to contribute to clean and digital transition by creating a competitive, circular, sustainable and safe value chain for batteries, crucial for future low- emissions mobility and energy storage and can, therefore, serve as a good example;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1 e. Stresses the importance of achieving the biodiversity spending level of 10 % and a climate mainstreaming spending level of 30 % agreed under the 2021-2027 MFF ; stresses that clear eligibility criteria and comprehensive methodology for defining and tracking relevant climate and biodiversity expenditure in line with the ‘do no harm’ principle are necessary, together with the corresponding correction measures, and the proofing mechanism to identify potential harmful impacts of Union actions on biodiversity and climate;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1 f. Calls for addressing the social, economic, energy and environmental impacts of the transition whilst maintaining and expanding employment opportunities in the affected territories in order to avoid social exclusion; points, in this respect, to the role of the Just Transition Fund in addressing societal, socio-economic, technological and environmental impacts on workers, sectors and communities adversely affected by the transition from coal and carbon dependence; calls for securing workers’ rights, reducing of the energy poverty and avoiding deepening of inequalities;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 g (new)
Paragraph 1 g (new)
1 g. Underlines the important role that SMEs, microenterprises and start-ups play in the recovery while maintaining employment and growth and calls on Union and Member States to ensure stronger support for SMEs and start-ups and to further reduce their administrative burden; underlines that SMEs are an essential part of the European economy and stresses the need to create a SMEs- friendly business environment and support SMEs cluster and network; Calls for the need for sufficient financial resources in the SME window under InvestEU;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. RStresses that women’s rights and a gender equality perspective should be integrated and ensured into all policy areas, particularly in light of the multiple gendered impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s rights, reaffirms its strong request to implement gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting throughout the budgetary procedure, underlines that some Member States used the pandemic to further restrict women rights;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 h (new)
Paragraph 1 h (new)
1 h. Underlines the need to reform the European industry and hard-to-abate sectors in order to achieve a competitive and sustainable Union and its climate goals; stresses, therefore, the need for sufficient funding for programmes supporting these goals, innovative solutions and breakthrough technologies such as Horizon Europe, CEF, InvestEU and the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen 2 (FCH 2) Joint Undertaking;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 i (new)
Paragraph 1 i (new)
1 i. Insists on the importance of increased investments in digitalisation and digital connectivity to clearly define 2030 digital target and tackle challenges related to reducing the digital divide and digital literacy, cybersecurity, free flow of data, safety, liability and artificial intelligence;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Is concerned about the conclusions of the European Court of Auditors’ report “Gender mainstreaming in the EU budget: time to turn words into action” as well as its internal spending review of the Union programmes, which revealed that gender mainstreaming had not been mainstreamed across the Union budget in the same way as other policies, regrets that there is no methodology in place to track the spending dedicated to gender equality;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Expresses its concern at the interrelation between the attacks on the rule of law and the backlash on gender equality and women’s rights, recalls that the budgetary conditionality applies in context of women rights in the same way as in other policy areas, calls on the Commission to address this issue through the Article 7 procedure against Member States concerned;
Amendment 41 #
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 on women, underlines the EIGE’s central role in collecting, analysing, processing and disseminating data and information as regards gender equality and in developing, analysing, evaluating and disseminating methodological tools to support the integration of gender equality into all Union policies and the resulting national policies;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Reiterates 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 strand;dedicated to preventing and combating gender-based violence under for the Daphne strand, especially following the escalation of violence against women during the COVID-19 crisis,
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Stresses the need to reinforce budgetary allocations that support universal respect for and access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR); calls on the Commission and the Member States to allocate additional resources to the EU4Health Programme in particular to ensure continued and timely provision of accessible SRHR services as well as to support actions aimed at addressing health issues related to gender-based violence and supporting victims of gender-based violence, including by ensuring that adequate appropriations are allocated for women’s rights organisations, especially those working on promotion of SRHR;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Calls for further increase of resources in the European Social Fund Plus (EFS+) to allow inclusion in the labour market and adapted training, as the COVID-19 crisis affected women’s employment disproportionally, in particular women working in the informal economy, many of whom may not be able to undertake formal employment as they are performing childcare duties, women in precarious working conditions, part- time contracts and in some heavily impacted and highly feminised sectors such as health, retail and care structures and services;