12 Amendments of Eugen JURZYCA related to 2023/0000(BUD)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Welcomes the higher amount contributed to the functioning of the internal market; highlights however the impact of the significant inflation rise in the EU last year; notes that due to the high inflation, the proposed budget represents a deduction compared to last year´s one; emphasises the necessity to consider such inflation in the determination of the budget; calls for an adaption taking into account the inflation rate. ; warns that high government spending could further increase inflation and calls therefore for prioritising the savings in existing inefficient programmes in order to fund new priorities, rather than relying on additional fresh new resources;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2a (new)
Paragraph 2a (new)
Stresses that failure to reduce funding of programs with low efficiency would have negative consequences for economic growth and the overall standards of living in the Union, as pointed out by the European Court of Auditors;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Calls for adequate and effective initiatives to restore, further deepen and complete the single market while supporting the transition towards a digital, sustainable social market economy, to promote the interest of European consumers by enhancing a consumer welfare, ensuring a high standard of protection, and to address unjustified and disproportionate barriers to the four freedoms making the Single Market stronger, and more resilient aiming at increasing EU trade flows and improving value chains, thus contributing to economic growth;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3a (new)
Paragraph 3a (new)
Reminds that volume of public investment recovered after the financial crisis, reaching a comparable level to that of the United States; emphasizes that private investment in the Union lags significantly behind; calls for adequate structural policies at both the EU and member states levels to improve their attractiveness as destinations for investment and talent, including by reducing red tape; https://oecdecoscope.blog/2022/05/17/how-can- europe-catch-up-on-its-digital-backlog/
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Welcomes the positive reception of the Single Market and InvestEU Programmes; believes that those programmes will continue to help improving the functioning of the internal market and the competitiveness of SMEs and Start-ups to generate Europe’s growth in the globalised market; calls therefore on the Commission and Member States to maintain sufficientimprove the efficiency and monitoring of funding of the Programmes, especially in the context of the green and digital transition;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4a (new)
Paragraph 4a (new)
Urges the Commission to strictly separate the competition policy from other policy goals, such as the green and digital transition, in order to promote free, fair and effective competition favouring an efficient allocation of resources;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4b (new)
Paragraph 4b (new)
Reminds that digitalisation is not a “one- size-fits-all” strategy for firms to boost productivity, as it is not within the key drivers of productivity growth for majority of firms, according to ECB report; calls therefore on the Commission and Member States to focus on productivity-enhancing reforms and to properly measure the results of publicly funded projects in order to use available funding efficiently; https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/date/2023/ht ml/ecb.blog230621~3c2f72aa70.el.html
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Highlights, in particular, the great potential of the free movement of services, which is still underdeveloped, and calls for initiatives and actions to boost cross-border trade in services in full respect of the freedom to provide services and taking into account the right for Member States to regulate the services in the general public interest while respecting the criteria of non-discrimination, necessity and proportionality; calls on the Commission to swiftly investigate all cases of hampering the internal market rules, irrespective of the size of the Member State is;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Highlights that the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act as well as the future legislation on Artificial Intelligence and the Data Act strengthen the digital economy, protect consumers online, ensure fairness and contestability in the digital market and established clear rules on how online platforms and gatekeepers operate; calls for sufficient funding of digital policies of the Union in order to strive for a leadership position of the Union in the global digital economy. stresses in this regard the importance of ensuring the net neutrality;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6a (new)
Paragraph 6a (new)
Stresses that new industrial policies have all the characteristics of the old industrial policies that all too often ended with no results but massive budgetary deficits; calls on the Commission to prioritize productivity of European companies and economic growth and to create better regulatory environment for the private sector as the key to long term success;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Underlines the importance of clear labelling to indicate publicly that a project had been funded or partly funded by the EU ; reiterates that effective and sustainable spending and proper evaluation of results and impacts of funded projects creates savings that could finance further activities;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10a (new)
Paragraph 10a (new)
Urges the Commission and authorities managing EU funded projects to always assess the need for public funding in their project selection procedures in order to avoid crowding out private investments; reminds that such a cost-benefit analysis demonstrating a funding gap would help in assessing the need for EU funding in research projects, according to the Court of Auditors; regrets in this regard it is not already a standard procedure;