Activities of Monika BEŇOVÁ related to 2023/0264(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2024 - all sections
Amendments (8)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) should contribute to the mainstreaming of biodiversity and climate action in Union policies, to facilitating just transition and financing pandemic recovery as well as to the modernisation and preparedness of health systems; calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure the full execution of the REPowerEU Plan to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy sources and technologies to speed up the green transition;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Insists that the Commission must guarantee that EU funds are not allocated or linked to any form of terrorism and/or religious and political radicalization while ensuring notably that individuals or groups affiliated, linked to, or supporting terrorist organisations are excluded from Union funding; reiterates its position that salaries of education civil servants responsible for drafting and teaching school textbooks paid by Union funds, must be made conditional on full compliance with UNESCO standards of peace and tolerance; is concerned about antisemitism, hate speech and incitement to violence taught in Palestinian school textbooks, funded by the EU; stresses that conditionality of EU financial assistance in the educational sector needs to be duly considered; underlines the importance of proper training of Palestinian teachers, in line with UNESCO education standards.
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recalls that in order to properly comply with new actions foreseen under the adopted and upcoming proposals, the Union agencies under the remit of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (EEA , ECHA , EMA, ECDC and EFSA) must be adequately funded and staffed; stresses that the deterioration of the staff levels of the Union agencies could jeopardise, among others, the achievement of the European Green Deal or the successful management of public health risks and the creation of European Health Union underpinned by the European Health Data Space;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses the importance of strengthening the sustainability and resilience of health systems whilst reducing disparities in equal and equitable access to health care and medication; stresses that health related expenditure should follow the ‘One Health’ and ‘Health in all policies’ approaches; recognises the importance of Union programmes, in providing investment and support to prevent health crises and strengthen the resilience of healthcare systems and infrastructure; stresses the necessity to continue the Union’s fight against cancer aligned with the Beating Cancer Plan and by ensuring adequate funding, with a strong focus on actions delivering tangible results for citizens; calls for further action and funding to address issues related to Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR);
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses the importance of strengthening the sustainability and resilience of health systems whilst reducing disparities in equal and equitable access to health care and medication; stresses that health related expenditure should follow the ‘One Health’ and ‘Health in all policies’ approaches; recognises the importance of Union programmes, in providing investment and support to prevent cross border health crises and strengthen the resilience of health care systems and infrastructure; stresses the necessity to continue the Union’s fight against cancer aligned with the Beating Cancer Plan and by ensuring adequate funding, with a strong focus on actions delivering tangible results for citizens;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls for increasing the level of support to the European Health Union in addition to the EU4Health programme in the 2024 Union budget; stresses that sufficient resources should be allocated for increasing investments in research and development in the area of health, inter alia, in improving pandemics preparedness and management; reiterates its concern and regrets that over 50 % of the EU4Health budget was allocated for operational expenditures of the Commission’s European Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (DG HERA) and stresses the importance of appropriate funding to be allocated to the activities as foreseen by the EU4Health Regulation; stresses the importance of an enhanced system of Union own resources to finance the Union’s goals on health, the environment and the climate, and contribute to NextGeneration EU’s debt recovery; welcomes the agreed related provisions concerning, inter alia, the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) and the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and calls on the Member States to adopt, as soon as possible, the new own resources package proposed by the Commission on 14 December 2021; calls for stronger linkage of the Union’s own resources with environmental and climate policies in the upcoming second package;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Emphasises that the Union budget is at the heart of the transition and is a key enabler of a greener, sustainable, more resilient, competitive and more socially inclusive Union where access to health care is equitable and universal.