10 Amendments of Wolf KLINZ related to 2018/0166R(APP)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls the European budgetary principles of unity, budgetary accuracy, annuality, equilibrium, universality, specification, performance, sound financial management and transparency, which must be respected when the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) is established;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. NotWelcomes that the Commission’s proposed reprioritisation focuses on the headings ‘Migration and Border Management’ and ‘Security and Defence’ that will rise to make up nearly 5 % of the budget as a whole, from the current level of 1 %, and that spending under ‘Single Market, Innovation and Digital’ will rise to 15 % from the current level of 11 %;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Points out that the Europe 2020 strategy will end before the start of the new MFF period, and that no new set of strategic EU goals has been decided on yet; stresses once again that public budgets are to be determined after the setting of political objectives and the designing of policies, in order to deliver results; regrets that the new MFF proposal has become a vehicle for shaping the EU’s political objectives after 2020 rather than simply reflecting them;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Recalls thatWonders why the Commission uses two sets of objectives and indicators to measure the performance of financial management: on the one hand, the Commission’s Directors-General evaluate the achievement of the objectives defined in their management plan in their annual activity reports (AAR), and, on the other, the Commission measures the performance of spending programmes via the programme statements of operational expenditure annexed to the draft budget;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 22 – introductory part
Paragraph 22 – introductory part
22. WelcomeRegrets the fact that the Commission has only carried out a spending review coverinstead of analysing all major programmes under the current MFF, and that this review through a zero-based budget approach; notes that the Commission's limited review, however, aimed to combine:
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Recalls that in the Reflection Paper on the Future of EU finances3 , the Commission proposed a list of seven criteria for the assessment of EU value added and spelled out the fact that EU financial support for programmes should depend on the results of that assessment4 ; is concerned that a transparent and foreseeable definition of EU value added is missing; _________________ 3 Reflection Paper on the Future of EU finances, 28 June 2017, COM (2017)0358. 4 The criteria comprised: Treaty objectives and obligations, public goods with a European dimension, economies of scale, spillover effects, subsidiarity, benefits of EU integration and European values: peace, democracy rule of law.
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. WelcomeAccepts the Commission’s proposals to improve the EU budget’s capacity to respond to changing circumstances by increasing overall flexibility and ensuring sufficient appropriations to cover unforeseen events without hampering monitoring and control; welcomes, in particular, the proposals to raise the own resources ceiling, reduce the difference between total payment appropriations and total commitment appropriations, remove the limits placed on the Global Margin for Payments, increase the size and scope of special instruments outside the MFF (Flexibility Instrument, Emergency Aid Reserve, and European Union Solidarity Fund and European Globalisation Adjustment Fund) and to widen the Global Margin for Commitments and rename it the Union reserve;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Fears that the cuts in the CAP will affect the capacity of a large number of farmers to maintain their professional activity; believes that increasing the effectiveness of CAP support is an absolute necessity in order to limit these negative effectsto justify it's continued existence;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38