7 Amendments of Richard ASHWORTH related to 2012/2058(BUD)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)
Citation 3 a (new)
- having regard to the outcome of the EPSCO Council on 1-2 December 2011,
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the future of the EGF within the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) remains unclear,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Requests the institutions involved to make the necessary efforts to improve procedural and budgetary arrangements in order to accelerate the mobilisation of the EGF; appreciates, in this sense, the improved procedure put in place by the Commission, following Parliament's request to accelerate the release of grants, aimed at presenting to the budgetary authority the Commission's assessment on the eligibility of an EGF application together with the proposal to mobilise the EGF; hopes that further improvements in the procedure will be reached in the framework of the upcoming reviews of the EGF and in the event of an agreement being reached on its continuation into the next MFF that greater efficiency, transparency and visibility of the EGF will be achieved;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the fact that following repeated requests from the Parliament, the 2012 budget shows payment appropriations of EUR 50 000 000 on the EGF budget line 04 05 01; recalls that the EGF was created as a separate specific instrument with its own objectives and deadlines and that it therefore, deserves a dedicated allocation, which will avoid transfers from other budget lines, as happened in the past, which could be detrimental to the achievement of the policy objectives ofre is not yet any political agreement on the continuation of the EGF beyond 2013 and asks the Commission to outline clearly the added value in terms of tangible outcomes in creating a separate budget line for the EGF;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. RegretNotes the decision of the Council to block the extension of the "crisis derogation", allowing to provide financial assistance to workers made redundant as a result of the current financial and economic crisi; is of the opinion that the financial crisis can no longer be considered the cause of redundancies in addition to those loosing their job because of changes in global trade patterns, and inc; streasse the rate of Union co-financing to 65% of the programme costs, for applications submitted after the 31 December 2011 deadline, and calls on the Council to reintroduce this measure without delays real concern that the EGF could be used as a tool to support the transfer of large multinational companies from one Member State to another;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes the Commissions requests for technical assistance in previous years and therefore questions the budget requested for its information activities; calls on the Commission to reduce its audio-visual activities notably on the production of a video; stresses that information activities should focus on the maintenance of the website and the publication of the annual reports;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Believes that other savings could be made with regard to the administrative and technical support requested by the Commission;