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Shadow opinions (1)

OPINION on own Resources: A new start for EU finances. A new start for Europe
2023/01/27
Committee: AFCO
Dossiers: 2022/2172(INI)
Documents: PDF(150 KB) DOC(47 KB)
Authors: [{'name': 'Helmut SCHOLZ', 'mepid': 96646}]

Amendments (12)

Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
B. whereas, in the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE), European citizens proposed both strengthening the Union budget through new own resources1 and that Parliament should decide on the Union budget, as is the right of parliaments at a national level2 ; _________________ 1 CoFoE, proposal 16. 2 CoFoE, proposal 39.deleted
2023/01/16
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital D
D. whereas the Union budget has a very strong credit rating and the link between Union financing and Union policies should be made more visible to European citizens;deleted
2023/01/16
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the introduction of new own resources is behind the schedule set out in the legally binding roadmap of Annex II to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 16 December 20204 ; reiterates the need to move swiftly; urgdeplores the Council, therefore, to approve the first basket of new genuine own resources without any further delayfact that the funds from the Recovery and Resilience Facility are being unlawfully and intentionally withheld from some Member States under false and groundless claims; urges the European Commission to immediately disburse funds which are entitled to the Member States; _________________ 4 OJ L 433 I, 22.12.2020, p. 28.
2023/01/16
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Takes note of the Commission’s commitment to put forward a proposal for the second basket of new own resources by the end of 2023; reiterates its demand that these new own resources be genuine and innovative and include proposals for a financial transaction tax and a digital services tax;
2023/01/16
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines that new genuine own resources (also known as ‘fresh income’) are urgently needed in order to make the Union budget more resilient and autonomous so as to allow the Union to deliver on its policies and to ensure its standing as a credible and smart debt issuer;deleted
2023/01/16
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Insists that new genuine own resources will reduce the Union budget’s dependence on gross national income- based contributions and thus reduce Member States’ tendency to think in terms of net position; insists that national rebates should be cancelled;deleted
2023/01/16
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to establish a continuous and flexible process for proposing new stable and sustainable genuine own resources;deleted
2023/01/16
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for Article 311(3) TFEU to be amended to allow Parliament to co- decide when adopting new own resources;deleted
2023/01/16
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for the application of the ordinary legislative procedure when adopting the implementing measures of the Own Resources Decision;deleted
2023/01/16
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
8. Suggests assigning green and digital-related new genuine own resources to expenditures in the areas of climate protection and digital change; believes that such links would improve coherence and transparency within the EU budget;deleted
2023/01/16
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for the creation of a permanent and sustainable mechanism in order to raise EU debt for the purpose of financing Union policies and programmes in areas with clear European added value, for example, the financing of a health union and/or a genuine energy union; suggests that the mechanism should ensure that the EU budget can better adapt and quickly react to specific crises and their consequences, while respecting the principle of subsidiarity;
2023/01/16
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
10. Calls, correspondingly, for the Treaties to be amended and the own- resources ceiling raisdeleted.
2023/01/16
Committee: AFCO