Activities of Inés AYALA SENDER related to 2016/2144(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on EU funds for gender equality
Amendments (7)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas equality between men and women is a fundamental value of the EU enshrined in the Treaties, whereas the Commission's Strategic Engagement for Gender Equality 2016-2020 highlights the importance of EU funding in support for gender equality; whereas the EUs strategy for equality between women and men 2010- 2015 is about to come to an end, providing an opportunity for a stocktaking exercise;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas the Joint Declaration calls for the annual budgetary procedure applied for the MFF 2014-2020 to integrate, as appropriate, gender- responsive elements, taking into account the ways in which the overall financial framework of the Union contributes to increased gender equality and ensures gender mainstreaming;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that gender budgeting should be an instrument of democratic governance that will help to ensure that gender equality becomes a reality; considers, likewise, that budgetary control tasks should indicate to what extent the EU budget and its implementation favour or hinder equality policies; is of the opinion that the current gulf between male and female pay for the same work is totally unacceptable;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that gender budgeting is considered in certain policy areas (employment, social affairs and inclusion, home affairs, justice, development and cooperation, research and innovation, education and culture), but believes it should be included in all policy areas and that it should help to guarantee access to both the labour market and positions of responsibility and decision-making positions on the same terms as men, as well as helping to eliminate the gap in pay for the same work;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Regrets the lack of gender- disaggregated data and gender-specific indicators required to monitor and evaluate the action receiving funding from the EU budget to tackle gender equality; calls on the Commission to introduce these indicators in all sectors where they are relevant for these purposes;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Reiterates its concern at the huge lack of gender balance – with the widest gap of all the EU institutions – among Members of the European Court of Auditors, which currently comprises 28 men and only three women (two fewer than at the start of this year); calls on the Council, from now on and until an acceptable balance has been reached, to propose two candidates to Parliament, a woman and a man, for each future appointment;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the European Court of Auditors, with a view to the EU's new budgeting for results procedure, to provide data on the impact of the budget and European programmes in relation to both the specific objectives of the EU’s equality policies and horizontal aspects of those policies, in both its recommendations and its special reports;