10 Amendments of Richard ASHWORTH related to 2013/2157(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
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1. Notes thatWelcomes the Annual Growth Survey 2014 differs only marginally from the 2013 edition; regrets therefore once again the absence of new proposals from the Commission on the role which the EU budget can play in stimulating growth and job creation in order to achieve the Europe 2020 goalsof the Commission for the year 2014, setting up five main EU economic priorities of pursuing differentiated and growth friendly fiscal consolidation, restoring lending to the economy, promoting growth and competitiveness, tackling unemployment and the social consequences of the crisis and modernising public administration;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Stresses that the Annual Growth Survey launches the 2014 European Semester, which is a surveillance mechanism established to ensure that Member States keep their budgetary and economic policies in line with their EU commitments laid down in Stability and Growth Pact, CSRs and Europe 2020 Strategy;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
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2. Recalls the start of the new Multiannual Financial Framework in 2014 and underlines the need for swifteffective implementation of the new programmes at both EU and Member State level, in order to allow these programmes to contribute to the economic recovery process; calls for a particularly speedy implementation of programmes likesuch as Horizon 2020, COSME and Erasmus +; stresses that these frontloaded programmes have a leverage effect and a synergetic and catalytic role in relation to national investment policies;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
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3. Recalls the need to pay particular attention to the speedy, effective and proper implementation of the frontloaded programmes in order to ensure growth and job creation, especially with regard to the Yackling youth Eunemployment Initiative;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
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4. Calls on the European Commission to provide a regularly updated scoreboard on the implementation of the new programmes to, allowing for comparisons to be made between Member States and to encourage speedy implementationpermitting more informed decisions regarding spending priorities in light of observable trends by the budgetary authority;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
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5. Calls on Member States, where appropriate and in line with the principle of sound financial management, to make full use of the additional financing opportunities provided for by the European Investment Bank and new innovative financial instruments such as project bonds while also exploring new ways of financing through capital markets;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
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6. Underlines the fact that the low level of payment appropriations and the tight ceiling on payments remain a crucial problem for the EU budget, which has a particularly negative effect on economic recovery as late payments are harmful primarily to the direct beneficiaries; recalls the need to ensure, in the light of implementationRecalls in light of increased budgetary rigour the need for effective and high quality implementation as well as the need to ensure, an orderly progression of payments so as to avoid any abnormal shift of outstanding commitments (‘'RAL’') onto the 2015 budget and, in thius connection, to make use, where appropriate, of the various flexibensuring that the EU fulfil ity mechanisms included in the MFF Regulations obligations in compliance with Article 323 TFEU; intends to continue its in-depth monitoring of the overall situation on payments, especially in relation to the very high amount of payments still needed for the completion of the programmes of the previous MFF;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
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7. Recalls its view that the fiscal situation of Member States can be eased through a new systemNotes the establishment of the High Level Group ofn own resources to finance the Union budget that will reduce GNI contributions,, as foreseen by the statement annexed to the MFF Regulation, which is mandated, by thuis enabling Member States to redirect these resources towards investment in economic recovery and reform measures; underlines,declaration agreed by Parliament, to undertake a general review of the system of own resources guided by the overall objectives of simplicity, transparency and democratic accountability, expects the refore, the importance it attaches to the new high-level group on own resources, which should lead to a true reform of EU financingsult of this review to be delivered before the end of 2016;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
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8. Deplores the fact that no reNotes that incremental progress hads been achieved over the past year oin the debate on a ‘genuine Economic and Monetary Union’ and reiterates its belief that the European Semester can only be truly successful when embedded in the right structureimplementing reforms necessary to improve the functioning of the EMU and calls on Member States to continue with work aimed at bringing their fiscal positions to a more sustainable footing;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
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9. Believes that the democratisation of the European Semester and of economic governance in general has been improved through the strong involvement of the European Parliament and national parliaments: considers, nevertheless, that while respecting existing legal frameworks and relevant Treaty provisions further improvements are needed as regards parliamentary scrutiny in order to give decisions taken in the Semester framework, which have direct effect on the lives of European citizens, the necessary democratic legitimacy and accountability. without prejudice to legal consistency, accountability and predictability;