7 Amendments of Clare DALY related to 2019/2028(BUD)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes the overall reduction of AMIF commitment appropriations by 15,4 % (-172 million euros) compared to 2019; regrets the decrease of commitment appropriations aimed at strengthening and developing the CEAS and enhancing responsibility-sharing between Member States (-29,5 %) compared to 2019; recalls the importance of ensuring high standards of asylum in the European Union as well as providing adequate financial capacity to improve the integration of migrants as well as re- integration of migrants who forcibly or voluntarily returned to a third country, and to respond to emergency assistance needs of Member States under migratory pressure, and to respond to emergency assistance needs of Member States hosting large numbers of asylum seekers and/or of first arrivals; expresses its disappointment at the fact that the AMIF budget does not include some financial reserves to finance the reformed Dublin legislation and the new Union Resettlement schemes in case of adoption during 2020; proposes to foresee an amount in the reserve for temporary arrangements for disembarkation in the Union and relocation of people rescued in the Mediterranean; requests, in order to free financial resources, that the EU Trust Fund for Africa and the Regional development protection programmes for North Africa that primarily support external policies of the Union are funded by Heading IV of the Union budget (Global Europe) instead of by AMIF under Heading III (Security and Citizenship);
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Welcomes the suspension of the “Better Migration Management Programme” of the EU Trust Fund in Sudan as well as the ROCK center in Khartoum; calls for the suspension of other EU Trust Fund projects raising serious human rights concerns such as the “Support to Integrated border and migration management in Libya”;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. WelcomNotes the increases of Commitment appropriations of JHA Agencies such as EASO (41,5 %), EBCG (34,6 %), CEPOL (14 %), EMCDDA (7,7 %), FRA (5,4 %), Eurojust (5,2 %), and Europol (2,1 %) compared to the budget 2019;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Points outDeplores that the budget of the EBCG has increased by 34,8 % (+108 million euros) in 2020 which is by far the largest increase among all JHA agencies; recalls that the Court of Auditors identified as part of the discharge of the 2017 Budget that Member States overestimated the financial need of the EBCG in 2017; underlines that whendeplores the objective of providing the EBCG with more human resources (10.000 border guards by 2027), the number of migrants arriving irregularly over sea or land in the Union has substantially decreased compared to previous years; suggests that such boost in resources should also be used for rescuing livesand the fact that the number of deaths at sea keeps increasing in light of the absence of SAR assets in the Mediterranean; calls on the European Commission to create a fund aimed at supporting search and rescue in the Mediterranean in order to guarantee a strong SAR presence at sea; regrets the remarkable difference between the commitment appropriations assigned to EBCG (420 million euros) in 2020 and the amount accorded to EASO (133 million euros); suggests that the budget and staffing of EASO should be increased for a better performance of the duties entrusted to the Agency;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Regrets that the Commission did not follow the budgetary request of Europol and proposed to underfund the Agency by 30 million euros in 2020Takes note of the increased budget for Europol; notes that the decrease of the eu-LISA commitment appropriations by 18,7 % (-55 million euros) corresponds to the end of the development of the Entry Exit System; reiterates the need to ensure adequate financial support for JHA Agencies to deliver the tasks assigned to them in full transparency and to fight against cross- border serious crime in full compliance with fundamental rights;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the amount allocated to the EDPS (19 million euros); notes that more than 30% of this amount are used to provide the secretariat for the EDPS; emphasises the need to ensure appropriate budgetary and staff resources for EDPS to carry out the additional tasks resulting from the implementation of the new Union data protection framework (GDPR) with full independence; stresses therefore that the allocated budget is the bare minimum;