Activities of Ljudmila NOVAK related to 2021/2106(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2020 – Section III, Commission and executive agencies
Amendments (3)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes that DG Climate Action and DG Budget monitor the 20 % climate mainstreaming target in the 2014-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework , and that DG Climate Action supports other DGs in integrating climate in their activities; welcomes the fact that 21 % of the 2020 Union budget was spent on climate-related activities,
Amendment 8 #
11. Notes with concern the Court's findingthe Court's conclusions and recommendations in Special Report 18/2020: "The EU’s Emissions Trading System: free allocation of allowances needed better targeting" that free allowances are not well targeted, tended to slow decarbonisation and that the Commission needs to update its procedure for targeting free allowances to reflect the Paris Agreementdespite good reasons for their use, free allocation should be better targeted, and that despite providing significant incentives for improvement of energy efficiency, there is scope to improve the methodology for the benchmarks in light of the obligations of the Union under the Paris Agreement; takes note, in this light, of the recent Commission proposal for the revision of the EU emission trading system (ETS);
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to provide Parliament with an annual report setting out in detail the contribution of each budget item to the climate mainstreaming (at least 30 % under the 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF)) and the biodiversity (7,5 % as of 2024 and 10% in 2026 and in 2027 under the 2021-2027 MFF) targets, in order to facilitate their monitoring; calls further on the Commission to report whether any budget iteminitiative under the Next Generation EU Recovery Plan fails to respect the "do no significant harm" criterion as referred to in the Taxonomy Regulation; and whether any climate expenditure and expenditure contributing to halting and reversing the decline of biodiversity principle fails to respect the “do no harm” principle as agreed in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 16 December 2020 between the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission on budgetary discipline, on cooperation in budgetary matters and on sound financial management, as well as on new own resources, including a roadmap towards the introduction of new own resources1a; _________________ 1a OJ L 433 I, 22.12.2020, p. 28.