Activities of Nils UŠAKOVS related to 2019/2214(BUD)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on Parliament’s estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2021
Amendments (10)
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines that Parliament’s key functions are to co-legislate with Council, to decide on the Union budget, to represent citizens and to scrutinise the work of other Union institutions; considers as well that newly decided special committees or sub- committees should not have as a consequence the decrease of staff in the other committees;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that significant savings as compared to the proposal of the Secretary- General are required to bring closer the rise of this proposal to the expected general inflation rate for 2021 and that all efforts to strive for the more efficient and transparent use of public money are strongly encouraged; recommends for that purpose that adequate attention should be paid to the cost of projects, not only by the members of Committee on Budgets at the time of deciding the annual budget with the Parliament’s Bureau, but also by the latest, at the time of deciding on the launch of projects;
Amendment 20 #
7 a. Highlights in this respect that requests voted by the plenary of the Parliament should be implemented as a matter of principle, without delay;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Underlines that the European Parliament should be fully capable of properly participate in the process of the Conference on the Future of Europe, and commits therefore to come up with the potentially needed reinforcements during the annual budgetary procedure for 2021 or in the course of the budget 2021 execution through the transfer procedure;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Notes that DG TRAD is aiming to develop a tool that is able to automatically transcribe and translate parliamentary multilingual debates in real time, so that all citizens have equal access to information in their language; asks that a financial analysis be carried out on the total cost of the whole projecthighlights that the effectiveness and added value of such tools have to be ensured and proven in advance in all 24 official languages; asks that a financial analysis be carried out on the total cost of the whole project; considers therefore that the means dedicated to multilingualism, namely translation and interpretation, should not be reduced, as long as no reduction in workload is performed;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Calls for the protection of the environment and the saving of resources; recalls its request to make greater use of videoconferencing, including with external participants through the use of wide spread software and other technologies, in particular by rationalising the missions of staff between the different workplaces; welcomes the notice of the Questors of 18 February 2020 to encourage members and political group secretariats to apply the trunk-sharing policy with the aim of decreasing the number of lorries needed for Strasbourg missions thereby helping to reduce Parliament’s carbon footprint;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Reminds its call to the Bureau to work on a technical solution to allow Members to exercise their right to vote while benefiting from their maternity, paternity or, sickness leave; or cases of force majeure;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Recalls its request regarding the amount of the allowances paid to the APAs for the missions they carry out between the three places of work of the Parliament with a view to ensuring that the Bureau intervenes to fully harmonisealign it to the level of the allowance systems for civil servants, and other agents and APAs;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40
40. Asks the Bureau to propose extending the status of APAs to local assistants in the interests of administrative simplification; asks for clarification on the criteria taken into account to establish the table of remuneration for local assistants and requests a thorough analysis of these to assess their up to date character;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 a (new)
Paragraph 40 a (new)
40 a. Calls again on the Conference of Presidents to revise the Implementing provisions governing the work of delegations and missions outside the European Union; underlines that such a revision should consider the possibility for APAs, subject to certain conditions, to accompany Members on official Parliament Delegations and Missions;