12 Amendments of Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES related to 2021/2106(DEC)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas Parliament has repeatedly askurged the Commission to promote and implement the use of gender mainstreaming, gender budgeting and gender impact assessments in all the Union policy areas and the Court of Auditors (the ‘Court’) to incorporate a gender perspective, including gender- disaggregated data, into its reports on the implementation of the Union budget;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas equality and the Rule of law are founding values of the Union and the European institutions shall aim to promote them according to Article 13 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU);
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas women are disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly women working in precarious employment, feminised sectors and the informal economy; whereas this should be taken into account in all the economic recovery measures designed to mitigate the negative impact of the pandemic;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that women’s rights and a gender equality perspective should be integrated and ensured in all policy areas, particularly in light of the gendered impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the backlash against women’s rights in several Member States; reiterates, therefore, its call for the implementation of gender budgeting at all stages of the budgetary process, including the implementation of gender budgeting and the assessment of its execution; reiterates its demand to include gender-specific indicators in the common set of result indicators for the implementation of the EU budget;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is concerned that the Court, in its Special report No 10/21 on gender mainstreaming in the EU budget (the ‘Court’s special report’)1 , found that the Commission has not adequately applied gender mainstreaming, made insufficient use of sex-disaggregated data and indicators, and published little information on the Union budget’s overall impact on gender equality, ; calls on the Commission to implement gender-responsive budgeting to ensure women and men benefit equally from public spending including within Next Generation EU and all the economic recovery measures; __________________ 1 https://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocu ments/SR21_10/SR_Gender_mainstreamin g_EN.pdf
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the fact that gender equality and mainstreaming is one of the horizontal principles for Union funds in the multiannual financial framework for 2021- 2027 and in the Recovery and Resilience Facility and calls for gender impact assessments, gender objectives and gender monitoring to be rolled out as outlined in the Court’s special report, expects the Commission to take its commitments seriously in the future by closely monitoring the implementation of these horizontal principles in all of the EU policy areas and providing thorough gender impact assessments and monitoring of all of its policies and programmes;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to strengthen the rule of law in the Union, and thus protect fundamental rights and equality, via the rule of law conditionality mechanism for access to Union funds., urges the Commission to strictly apply this conditionality and effectively protect the Union’s budget in the event of generalised deficiencies in upholding the rule of law, breaches of human rights, including women’s rights and violations of the fundamental values of the European Union;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Repeats its concern at the interrelation between the attacks on the rule of law and the backlash on gender equality and women’s rights; calls for this issue to be addressed through the Article 7 procedure against Member States concerned;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Welcomes Commission’s commitment and ongoing work to design a methodology to track spending on gender equality;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Strongly reiterates its demand to increase resources dedicated to preventing and combating gender-based violence under the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values, especially following the escalation of violence against women during the COVID-19 crisis; reiterates its request for the Commission to include an independent budget line for all measures specifically targeting gender equality, including on gender-based violence; calls on the Commission and the Member States to apply effectively the gender mainstreaming horizontal priority in the multiannual financial framework 2021- 2027;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Stresses a need to further increase resources in 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 and in precarious working conditions, and in some heavily impacted and highly feminised sectors;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 e (new)
Paragraph 4 e (new)
4e. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to apply effectively the gender mainstreaming horizontal priority in the multiannual financial framework 2021-2027.