Activities of Richard ASHWORTH related to 2015/2252(BUD)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 7/2015 of the European Union for the financial year 2015, Managing the refugee crisis: immediate budgetary measures under the European Agenda on Migration PDF (171 KB) DOC (81 KB)
Amendments (4)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
F a. whereas the Multiannual Financial Framework, that was unanimously adopted by the Member States in Council, sets the maximum amount of commitment appropriations in the Union budget for each year for headings and fixes an overall annual ceiling on payment and commitment appropriations in Union law;
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the increase of the number of refugees and migrants was not foreseeable when adopting the current Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020, and it cannot be considered a temporary phenomenon and therefore requires longer term solutions which need to be addressed in the upcoming annual budgetary procedures and considered as part of the revisionew of the Multiannual Financial Framework;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is convinced that the Union needs to do more to address the current migration and refugee crisis and to help stabilise countries of origin and assist countries of transit as the proposed measures will certainly not be sufficient, given the overall number of persons seeking protection in the Union; calls on the Commission to present a long-term financial plan to respond to the migration and refugee crisis, including the search and rescue operations, and to propose aconsider these issues as part of the revisionew of the Multiannual Financial Framework accordingly;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Reminds the Commission and the Council of the recent agreement for a payment plan aimed at putting the Union budget back on a sustainable track; noteswelcomes the fact that the Commission did not propose any additional overall payment appropriations in the 2015 budget but reverts to the redeployment of already existing resources; stresses that this could increase the burden on the payment appropriations in 2016 which may not be sufficient to if financial programmes across all headings are not sufficiently rationalised to ensure paymeent the actual needs of financial programmes across headingappropriations are targeted in the highest priority areas;