21 Amendments of Michalis HADJIPANTELA
Amendment 11 #
2024/2030(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Acknowledges the importance of localized initiatives that strengthen health systems and environmental initiatives, while increasing collaboration with Member States and Agencies.
Amendment 12 #
2024/2030(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Calls for improvement in the funding distribution approach, prioritizing the reduction of administrative burdens and channelling resources directly to final recipients by simplifying procedures to enhance accessibility to economic players on the ground.
Amendment 18 #
2024/2030(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the continued development of the One Health Framework and the creation of the One Health Task Force to strengthen collaboration with EMA, EFSA, EEA and ECHA; highlights the importance of ensuring good and fair cooperation between the Agencies and increased collaboration with Member States;
Amendment 21 #
2024/2030(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Acknowledges the lessons learnt during the COVID-19 pandemic, calling for the need for pandemic preparedness and a unified EU response strategy, that utilises digital early warning systems for prompt and efficient decision making.
Amendment 42 #
2024/2030(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes with concern the difficulty to recruit sufficient experts from Member States to the ECHA’s Scientific Committees, posing a risk to the ECHA’s ability to meet legal deadlines and targets in regulatory processes that are dependent on the Committees’ outputs, in particular in the light of increasing tasks being attributed to the ECHA; identifies a need for increased localised collaboration with universities, research centers and specialised national services from the Member States;
Amendment 52 #
2024/2030(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the EEA is tasked with tracking progress towards the 8th Environment Action programme (‘8th EAP’), which builds on the European Green Deal and sets the framework for Union environmental policy until 2030, with a long-term priority objective for 2050 of living well within planetary boundaries, while investing in competitiveness as outlined in the Draghi report; welcomes the release of its first annual monitoring report in December 2023, on the basis of a set of 28 headline indicators and corresponding targets such as climate change mitigation and adaptation, circular economy and biodiversity;
Amendment 62 #
2024/2030(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Takes note with concern that despite the multi-year nature of the EEA’s tasks, an imbalance exists concerning the numbers of permanent versus contractual posts, as well as operational staff versus support staff, leading to a constant need for reskilling as well as an overload of administrative work for scientists; considers that taking into account the substantial increase of workload, and in order to properly perform the tasks on the Union’s goals for, inter alia, climate neutrality, circular economy and nature restoration, the EEA’s staff number should continue to substantially grow in the years to coreflect the scope and extent of its demanding work programme.
Amendment 70 #
2024/2030(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the EFSA closed 660 scientific questions in 2023, slightly below the target of 673 but better than the result achieved since 2020; highlights the need to decrease the amount of questions in stock; welcomes the measures put in please to increase the speed of the Risk Assessment process; proposes the establishment of an expedited assessment track for urgent health concerns and response mechanisms for discrepancies between Union standards and trade obligations, to reduce backlog and respond to trade obligations;
Amendment 92 #
2024/2030(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that in 2023, the EMA recommended for marketing authorisation 77 new human medicines, including 39 new active substances, and 14 new veterinary medicines, including 9 new active substances; welcomes the fact that the EMA confirmed seventeen orphan- status designations under the Union framework for orphan medicines, the purpose of which is to encourage the development and marketing of medicines for patients with rare diseases, adopting an expedited mechanism under special conditions;
Amendment 104 #
2024/2030(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Recommends the establishment of a formal framework for joint procurement of essential medicines across Member States, modelled on the success of the COVID-19 vaccine procurement process, for ensuring equitable access to high- quality medicines through economies of scale.
Amendment 7 #
2024/2019(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that the largest contribution to the climate-relevant spending in 2023 came from the RRFecovery and Resilience Facility (RRF); highlights that the delivery model of the RRF constitutes a significant change of EU financing in so far as the disbursement of funds is based on the fulfilment of targets and milestones and not linked to costs; in this context, is concerned about the Court of Auditors’(the ‘Court’) annual report for 2023 which, similar to previous years findings, states weaknesses in the design of measures and cases of vaguely defined milestones and targets, weaknesses in the Member States’ reporting and control systems and problems with the reliability of information that Member States included in their management declaration; also notes with concern the Court’s Special Report No 14/2024 that finds multiple shortcomings of the RRF framework and the national recovery and resilience plans as well as inconsistencies in the implementation of measures which call into question the achievement of its climate and environmental objectives, and that concludes that the contribution of the RRF to the green transition idoes not clearfulfil the intended objectives, particularly in the field of industrial decarbonisation;
Amendment 9 #
2024/2019(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Considers that Member States have significantly underestimated the financing support required for the decarbonisation and overall modernisation of heavy industries when allocating funds under the RRF; calls on the Commission to minimise the risk of national misadministration and to reevaluate the capacity and ability of the Member States to act as intermediary between the Commission and final recipients regarding the financing of industrial decarbonisation and modernisation; further urges the Commission to consider adopting more straightforward direct financial instruments when planning future budgetary measures for protecting the environment, safeguarding public health and mitigating climate change;
Amendment 16 #
2024/2019(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Notes the findings of the Court’s Special report 13/2024 regarding the number of payment requests submitted and the limited funds of the RRF disbursed by the Commission to Member States and regrets the important gap between Member States in the administrative capacities to ensure absorption and implementation progress of that facility; recognises nevertheless the benefits of RRF pre-financing to facilitate the deployment of climate mitigation projects on the ground and for providing funding certainty to final recipients; acknowledges the responsibility for ensuring sufficient administrative capacity lies ultimately with each Member State;
Amendment 19 #
2024/2019(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Calls on the Commission to further think beyond the issuance of guidelines and to maximise the streamlining between application processes between directly and indirectly managed funds for climate, health and environmental matters, in particular for countries, which are recipients of both cohesion and RRF funds; welcomes in that regard the policy discussions that led to the creation of the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP)1a, as a tool to support Member States in the management of European funding; _________________ 1a https://strategic- technologies.europa.eu/about/eu- programmes-supporting-step_en
Amendment 3 #
2024/0286(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Recalls that the Belgian authorities shall acknowledge the origin and ensure the visibility of the Union funding and highlight the Union added value of the intervention, by providing coherent, effective and targeted information to multiple audiences, including targeted information to beneficiaries, local and regional authorities, the social partners, the media and the public;
Amendment 4 #
2024/0286(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers it as a social responsibility of the Union and Member States to provide the affected workers witha possibility to obtain the necessary qualifications for future employment, considering the digital and ecological transition having a significant impact on their sectors whilst leading to a reduction of demand; welcomes the fact that the co- ordinated package of personalised services was drawn up by Belgium in consultation with targeted beneficiaries, their representatives and social partners;
Amendment 5 #
2024/0286(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recalls that personalised services to be provided to the workers consist of the following actions: social intervention advisor, guidance, counselling, and vocational orientation, active job-search support, training, retraining and vocational training, including training in digital skills, as well as training at the workplace;
Amendment 6 #
2024/0286(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Reiterates that assistance from the EGF must not replace actions which are the responsibility of companies, by virtue of national law or collective agreements, or any allowances or rights of the displaced workers, to ensure full additionality of the allocation; recalls that the Member States applying for funding support from the EGF must ensure that the requirements laid down in national and Union law concerning collective redundancies have been complied with and that the company concerned has provided for its workers accordingly;
Amendment 6 #
2024/0275(COD)
Paragraph 4
4. ECalls on the Commission to assist Member States in the reprogramming of the available resources under the ERDF and ESF+, to explore options of simplified administrative procedures, and to quickly assess modified programmes in order to inject liquidity to cover the most pressing needs in affected Member States, alleviating the burden on local, regional and national budgets; moreover, expects the Commission to take into account in its draft budget for 2026 the updated payment needs for ERDF and ESF+ following the actual re-programming by Member States and to keep the European Parliament informed in a timely manner about the evolution of RESTORE uptake in the Member States;
Amendment 9 #
2024/0275(COD)
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that payments to 2021-2027 cohesion policy programmes were on a very low level in the first years of implementation leading to an increase of payment needs towards the later years; recalls that this actual payment cycle does not co-incide with the more linear payment profile set out in the MFF Regulation and that this situation results in a risk of exceeding payment ceilings in the later years; considers that the frontloading of payments towards 2025 and 2026 could alleviate the pressure on payments; calls on the Commission to closely monitor the payments evolution and, provide timely information to the European Parliament in this regard and to propose any necessary remedial action to the budgetary authority in due time if the risk of a backlog of payments materialises;
Amendment 191 #
2024/0176(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 a (new)
Paragraph 37 a (new)
37 a. Deems it necessary to increase the support to the Turkish-Cypriot line by EUR 1 million above DB in order to finance the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus and support the bi- communal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage;