Activities of Paul RÜBIG related to 2018/2001(BUD)
Reports (1)
REPORT on Parliament’s estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2019 PDF (1 MB) DOC (154 KB)
Amendments (8)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas a budget of EUR 2 0216 8644 000 has been proposed by the Secretary-General for Parliament's preliminary draft estimates for 2019, representing an overall increase of 3,9038 % on the 2018 budget (including EUR 37,3 million for the change of parliamentary term and EUR 34,3 million for other extraordinary expenditure) and an increase of 18,79 % on heading V of the 2014-2020 MFF;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas almost two thirds of the budget is index-bound expenditure which relates mainly to remunerations and allowances for, pensions, medical expenses and allowances for serving and retired Members (23 %) and staff (34 %), as well as to buildings (13 %), which is adjusted according to the Staff Regulations and Statute for Members, to sector-specific indexation, or to the inflation rate;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Observes that on 8 December 2017, Union and UK negotiators reached an agreement in principle on the financial settlement relating to withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union, which includes a provision that the UK will participate in the Union’s annual budgets for 2019 and 2020 as though it was still a Member State of the Union and will contribute its share of the financing of the Union's liabilities incurred before 31 December 2020; notes that the voluntary pension scheme for Members is included as a liability on the EU balance sheet and a contribution to the outstanding liabilities needed to cover the pension liabilities incurred before but stretching beyond 2020 will be part of the negotiations;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes that the Committee on Constitutional Affairs confirmed with the vote in plenary in February 2018 an own- initiative report on Parliament’s composition, and notably the reduction to 705 Members after the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union; notes that following the informal meeting of the 27 heads of state or government on 23February 2018 President Tusk signalled a broad support for this proposal; notes that in the event that the United Kingdom is still a Member State at the beginning of the 2019-2024 parliamentary term, the number of Members shall be 751, until the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union becomes legally effective; points out, however, that the procedure requires a unanimous decision by the European Council after having obtained the consent of Parliament; underlines that Parliament’s estimates, for the moment, reflect a status- quo situation with a Parliament composed of 751678 Members from 27 Member States between 30 March 2019 and the end of the 8th legislative period, and a Parliament composed of 705 Members from 287 Member States from the start of the 9th legislative period till the end of the 2019 financial year;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Highlights that Parliament alone lacks the resources necessary to reach out to 400 million eligible voters and must therefore make the best use of its own multiplier networks to do that; points out that at European level, a series of citizens and stakeholders conferences will be organised in 2018 and that at national level, the role of the Liaison Offices will be crucial; will continue to include the European Committee of the Regions and its local and regional representatives in the networking approach; considers that as in the final run-up to the elections, the European political parties and the national parties will play an essential role alongside, in particular in the framework of the “Spitzenkandidaten” process; proposes, therefore, to enable them to carry out this mission with funding specifically increased for 2019;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Takes note of the updated mission statement for the Information Offices, which are now to be known as “Liaison Offices”, in accordance with the the Bureau Decision of November 2017; notes that the main function of the Liaison Offices is to inform and communicate locally on behalf of Parliament, in order to provide information about the Union and its policies through the activities of external stakeholders on local, regional and national levels; including the members of the European Committee of the Regions;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Asks the Secretary-General to build on the existing cooperation agreements between the Parliament, the Committee of the Regions and the European Economic and Social Committee, for which the EPRS is the very positive example; requests to identify otherareas within the current agreaements, such as IT services or security, in which synergies between the back office functions could be shared in order to increase synergies and to use the leadincreased using the experience of the Parliament and the two Committees;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Calls upon the Secretary-General and the Bureau to instil a culture of performance-based budgeting across Parliament's administration, in line with the lean management approach in order to enhance efficiency, reduce paperwork and diminish bureaucracy in the institution's internal work; recalls in this regard the principle of the independence of the mandate; notes that missions are often of an unreasonable large size, proposes to replace the current regulation (regarding the composition of the delegation) with a new one allowing each delegation member to nominate one person accompanying him or her on the mission as part of the delegation, be it a political advisor, an accredited parliamentary assistant or a translator;