Activities of Paul RÜBIG related to 2015/2012(BUD)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on Parliament’s estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2016 PDF (346 KB) DOC (523 KB)
Amendments (6)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that, since the entry in force of the Treaty of Lisbon, significant additional expenditure has been borne by the Parliament's budget, as a result of the following developments: the establishment of the European Parliament as a true co- legislator and the enhanced building policy (2010-2012), the accession of Croatia and the House of European History (2013), additional expenditure resulting from the changeover to the next parliamentary term, third offices for Members, establishment of the Parliament's research service (2014- 2015); welcomes that Parliament was able to offset a major part of this expenditure through savings stemming from structural and organisational reforms, thus leading to only moderate budgetary increases around the inflation rate;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that, during the past legislature, the Parliament agreed on a number of political priorities, which gave rise either to moderate budgetary increases or to budgetary savings; considers that the newly elected Parliament should scrutinise in depth the implementation of these multiannual projects and decide, on this basis, on its own political priorities, including, if necessary, the negative ones;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 – point ii a (new)
Paragraph 10 – point ii a (new)
ii a) savings should be found by means of the above mentioned new structural and organisational reforms and/or by reducing the contingency reserve;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Considers that in order to consolidate the role of the Parliament, the administrative capacity of the secretariats of the specialised parliamentary committees should, where it has not yet been done, be reinforced accordingly, essentiallywhere appropriate by means of redeployment;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Believes that, in order to ensure adequate support to the Members for the accomplishment of their parliamentary activities, adequate resources should be made available to employ Members' assistants; considers that a new balance needs to be found between accredited parliamentary assistants and local assistants, while taking account of the level of duties of the Members and ensuring that their work is strictly related to the exercise of the Members' mandate; requests the Secretary-General to present a proposal for a decision to the Bureau to this end as soon as possible; expects that the final decision shall enter into force as of January 2016;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Recalls that, due to the construction of the KAD building, total payments per year will in the future be much lower than the rental expenses of comparable property; stresses that the costs for the financing could be even further reduced by avoiding future interest rate payments though pre-financing; considers that this could be achieved, as in previous years, by a transfer at the year-end 2015, as well as by a pre-financing in the Parliament's budget for 2016;