15 Amendments of Frances FITZGERALD related to 2022/0212(BUD)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas gender equality is a core value of the Union enshrined in Article 2 TEU; whereas Article 8 TFEU states that in all its activities the Union shall aim to eliminate inequalities, establishing the principle of gender mainstreaming in Union policies, wherever relevant;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas the EU Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025 presented policy objectives and actions with a view to achieving significant progress towards a gender-equal Europe by 2025;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas Parliament has repeatedly urged the Commission to promote and implement the use of gender mainstreaming in its actions, gender budgeting and gender impact assessments in all the Union policy areas;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. 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 and gender equality;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
B b. whereas the current humanitarian as well as energy crisis, deriving from the unjustified attack of Russia on Ukraine, calls for specific measures and priorities to be considered to address the needs of women and girls, both as refugees as well as persons impacted by the consequences of the crisis;
Amendment 29 #
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 combatallocate sufficient financing, thus increase its budget as deemed appropriate to work to combat various gender inequalities that have been exacerbated by the crises; _________________ 1 Established by Regulation (EU) 2021/692.
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Stresses the need for adequate funding to promote the key objectives of the EU Gender Equality Strategy 2020- 2025, among others vis à vis ending gender-based violence, challenging gender stereotypes, closing gender gaps in the labour market, and achieving equal participation across different sectors of the economy;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Strongly reiterates its demand to increase resources to combat gender-based violence as well as its demand for adequately increased funding for gender equality and gender mainstreaming and the relevant organisations under the Daphne and Values strands;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls in this context to splitdedicate within the budget line "Equality and rights" with the aim of ensuring transparency by dedicating a specific budget linespecific resources to measures exclusively relating to gender equality; to earmark funding for projects which contribute to implementing specific objectives to promote gender equality and gender mainstreaming;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls to create a new budget line within the Daphne strand intended to earmark funding to support projects that contribute to the specific objective to prevStresses the importance of strengthening the specifically dedicated Daphne initiative by increasing its resources, in particular to measures that combat at all levels all forms of GBV against woment and combat all forms of GBVgirls and domestic violence in line with Article 7(6) of Regulation (EU) 2021/692 and to properly support victims;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the crucial work of EIGE, which has been reflected in an increase of tasks allocated; therefore requests the allocation for 8 Contract Agentsufficient resources to enable EIGE to effectively fulfil its mandate;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Regrets the gender gap in digital skills, as well as in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics careers, in industrial leadership, and in entrepreneurship; calls on the Commission to strengthen the instruments available and to develop synergies between these to advance gender equality in these sectors and to encourage women’s participation and interest in the digital economy and STEM sectors and careers through Union programmes;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. 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;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6 c. Stresses that the general objective of the EaSI strand is to promote employment, equal access to the labour market, education and training, gender equality and social inclusion by providing financial support for the Union’s objectives, thus, that support should also address the needs of Ukrainian women and children refugees, as far as the aid to the regions hosting them is concerned;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and the Council to increase budget allocationsallocate sufficient budget allocations, increased wherever needed, to civil society organisations that promote women’s rights, including those working on promotion of Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) and LGBTI+ rights in the context of the backlash against women’s rights, especially in terms of SRHR.