4 Amendments of Edit HERCZOG related to 2013/2017(BUD)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Strongly opposes any attempt to cover the necessary resources through redeployment from Heading 1a to settle any future, potential failure to cover all unpaid payment claims of the actual financial year of the next MFF;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the need to address the problems faced by SMEs through an ambitious COSME programme; in view of the particularly difficult situation for accessing finance, calls for the allocation of at least 60% of the COSME budget to the most effective financial instruments;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Insists that the major EU infrastructure projects (such as Galileo and Copernicus) and the ITER project must be financed outsidever and above the MFF budget and insists that no EU funds must be used to cover additionceilings, so as to ensure that possible cost overruns do not threaten the funding and successful implementation of other Union policies particularly in the research area, while maintaining the full powers of both arms of the budgetary authority; on the basis of the overall cost overruns or to cover the costs of the ITER projectto be agreed, the funding should be ring fenced in commitment appropriations in the MFF regulation in order to guarantee the funding for these projects without jeopardising other EU priorities like Horizon 2020, COSME or the Erasmus Programme;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Believes that better governance and coordination of spending between the EU and the Member States is needed in order to implement the EU 2020 strategy; calls for optimal use of existing EU financing with a focus on EU added value, effective streamlining and leveraging effects, together with appropriate and urgent implementation in the Member States; asks for the European Semester process to monitor investments in research, innovation, industrial policy and SME, SMEs, energy and ICT infrastructures.