BETA

Activities of Nedzhmi ALI

Plenary speeches (43)

Discharge 2017 (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2219(DEC)
2018 Report on Turkey (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2150(INI)
Annual report 2017 on the protection of the European Union’s financial interests- fight against fraud (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2152(INI)
Annual report on the control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank for 2017 (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2151(INI)
Protection of the Union's budget in case of generalised deficiencies as regards the rule of law in the Member States (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/0136(COD)
Interim report on the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027 – Parliament's position with a view to an agreement (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/0166R(APP)
Discharge 2016: European Asylum Support Office (EASO) (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2177(DEC)
General budget of the European Union for 2019 - all sections (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2046(BUD)
Financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/0282A(COD)
The use of IPA funds in Turkey (debate)
2016/11/22
The future of food and farming (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2037(INI)
The next MFF: Preparing the Parliament’s position on the MFF post-2020 - Reform of the European Union’s system of own resources (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2053(INI)
European Semester for economic policy coordination: Annual Growth Survey 2018 - European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social aspects in the Annual Growth Survey 2018 (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2226(INI)
Annual report on the financial activities of the European Investment Bank (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2071(INI)
Current human rights situation in Turkey - Situation in Afrin, Syria (debate)
2016/11/22
Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report - 2016 (debate)
2016/11/22
2016 Report on Turkey (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2308(INI)
European Fund for Sustainable Development (EFSD) and establishing the EFSD Guarantee and the EFSD Guarantee Fund (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/0281(COD)
Annual report 2015 on the protection of EU's financial interests - Fight against fraud (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2097(INI)
Evaluation of external aspects of customs performance and management as a tool to facilitate trade and fight illicit trade (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2075(INI)
Annual report on the control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank for 2015 - Annual report on the financial activities of the European Investment Bank (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2099(INI)
Annual report on the control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank for 2015 - Annual report on the financial activities of the European Investment Bank (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2099(INI)
CAP tools to reduce price volatility in agricultural markets (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2034(INI)
Towards a definitive VAT system and fighting VAT fraud (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2033(INI)
EU-Turkey relations (debate)
2016/11/22
Situation in Turkey (debate)
2016/11/22
Mid-term review of the Investment Plan (debate)
2016/11/22
Discharge 2014 (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2205(DEC)
2015 Report on Turkey (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2898(RSP)
Preparation of the European Council meeting of 17 and 18 March 2016 and outcome of the EU-Turkey summit (debate)
2016/11/22
Annual report 2014 on the Protection of the EU's financial interests - Fight against fraud (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2128(INI)
Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report - 2014 (debate)
2016/11/22
2016 budgetary procedure: joint text (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2132(BUD)
General budget of the European Union for 2016 - all sections (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2132(BUD)
Discharge 2013: ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking - Discharge 2013: European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) - Discharge 2013: ENIAC Joint Undertaking - Discharge 2013: EU general budget - European Council and Council (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2014/2079(DEC)
Situation in Turkey (debate)
2016/11/22
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
2016/11/22
2016 Budget - Mandate for the trilogue (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2074(BUD)
Adjustment rate for direct payments in respect of 2015 (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/0070(COD)
2014 Progress Report on Turkey (debate)
2016/11/22
Discharge 2013 (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2014/2140(DEC)
Guidelines for the 2016 budget - Section III (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2008(BUD)
Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report - 2013 (debate)
2016/11/22

Reports (2)

REPORT on the annual report on the control of the financial activities of the EIB for 2015 PDF (413 KB) DOC (76 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2098(INI)
Documents: PDF(413 KB) DOC(76 KB)
REPORT on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (application from the Netherlands – EGF/2016/005 NL/Drenthe Overijssel Retail) PDF (429 KB) DOC (74 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2017/2014(BUD)
Documents: PDF(429 KB) DOC(74 KB)

Shadow reports (199)

REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Railway Agency (ERA) (now European Union Agency for Railways) for the financial year 2017 PDF (191 KB) DOC (68 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2193(DEC)
Documents: PDF(191 KB) DOC(68 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of Eurojust for the financial year 2017 PDF (184 KB) DOC (69 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2186(DEC)
Documents: PDF(184 KB) DOC(69 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) (before 1 May 2017: European Police Office) for the financial year 2017 PDF (187 KB) DOC (63 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2200(DEC)
Documents: PDF(187 KB) DOC(63 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) for the financial year 2017 PDF (195 KB) DOC (64 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2195(DEC)
Documents: PDF(195 KB) DOC(64 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) for the financial year 2017 PDF (172 KB) DOC (63 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2207(DEC)
Documents: PDF(172 KB) DOC(63 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) for the financial year 2017 PDF (186 KB) DOC (63 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2201(DEC)
Documents: PDF(186 KB) DOC(63 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Agency for the Οperational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (now European Union Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice) (eu-LISA) for the financial year 2017 PDF (194 KB) DOC (70 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2209(DEC)
Documents: PDF(194 KB) DOC(70 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) for the financial year 2017 PDF (185 KB) DOC (65 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2179(DEC)
Documents: PDF(185 KB) DOC(65 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European GNSS Agency (GSA) for the financial year2017 PDF (175 KB) DOC (55 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2196(DEC)
Documents: PDF(175 KB) DOC(55 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) for the financial year 2017 PDF (185 KB) DOC (67 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2204(DEC)
Documents: PDF(185 KB) DOC(67 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union agencies for the financial year 2017: performance, financial management and control PDF (203 KB) DOC (75 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2210(DEC)
Documents: PDF(203 KB) DOC(75 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) for the financial year 2017 PDF (183 KB) DOC (58 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2181(DEC)
Documents: PDF(183 KB) DOC(58 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) for the financial year 2017 PDF (184 KB) DOC (63 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2183(DEC)
Documents: PDF(184 KB) DOC(63 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) for the financial year 2017 PDF (186 KB) DOC (68 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2203(DEC)
Documents: PDF(186 KB) DOC(68 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) for the financial year 2017 PDF (185 KB) DOC (61 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2180(DEC)
Documents: PDF(185 KB) DOC(61 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the financial year 2017 PDF (187 KB) DOC (70 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2185(DEC)
Documents: PDF(187 KB) DOC(70 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) for the financial year 2017 PDF (183 KB) DOC (66 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2191(DEC)
Documents: PDF(183 KB) DOC(66 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) for the financial year 2017 PDF (179 KB) DOC (65 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2197(DEC)
Documents: PDF(179 KB) DOC(65 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Euratom Supply Agency (ESA) for the financial year 2017 PDF (165 KB) DOC (57 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2199(DEC)
Documents: PDF(165 KB) DOC(57 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Training Foundation (ETF) for the financial year 2017 PDF (182 KB) DOC (64 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2187(DEC)
Documents: PDF(182 KB) DOC(64 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) for the financial year 2017 PDF (189 KB) DOC (64 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2188(DEC)
Documents: PDF(189 KB) DOC(64 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) for the financial year 2017 PDF (172 KB) DOC (62 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2192(DEC)
Documents: PDF(172 KB) DOC(62 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) for the financial year 2017 PDF (184 KB) DOC (69 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2190(DEC)
Documents: PDF(184 KB) DOC(69 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Environment Agency (EEA) for the financial year 2017 PDF (191 KB) DOC (65 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2182(DEC)
Documents: PDF(191 KB) DOC(65 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) for the financial year 2017 PDF (191 KB) DOC (65 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2198(DEC)
Documents: PDF(191 KB) DOC(65 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Banking Authority (EBA) for the financial year 2017 PDF (187 KB) DOC (67 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2202(DEC)
Documents: PDF(187 KB) DOC(67 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union (CdT) for the financial year 2017 PDF (182 KB) DOC (67 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2184(DEC)
Documents: PDF(182 KB) DOC(67 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL) for the financial year 2017 PDF (184 KB) DOC (64 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2194(DEC)
Documents: PDF(184 KB) DOC(64 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2017 PDF (190 KB) DOC (66 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2189(DEC)
Documents: PDF(190 KB) DOC(66 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2017 PDF (184 KB) DOC (60 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2178(DEC)
Documents: PDF(184 KB) DOC(60 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Office of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) for the financial year 2017 PDF (171 KB) DOC (61 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2206(DEC)
Documents: PDF(171 KB) DOC(61 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators for the financial year 2017 PDF (171 KB) DOC (60 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2205(DEC)
Documents: PDF(171 KB) DOC(60 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2017, Section I – European Parliament PDF (270 KB) DOC (124 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2167(DEC)
Documents: PDF(270 KB) DOC(124 KB)
INTERIM REPORT on the draft Council and Commission decision on the conclusion by the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement establishing a Partnership between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and Turkmenistan, of the other part PDF (181 KB) DOC (61 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: AFET
Dossiers: 1998/0031R(NLE)
Documents: PDF(181 KB) DOC(61 KB)
REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the EU Anti-Fraud Programme PDF (242 KB) DOC (106 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/0211(COD)
Documents: PDF(242 KB) DOC(106 KB)
REPORT on the Annual Report 2017 on the protection of the European Union’s financial interests – fight against fraud PDF (188 KB) DOC (65 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2152(INI)
Documents: PDF(188 KB) DOC(65 KB)
REPORT on the Annual Report 2017 on the control of the financial activities of the EIB PDF (488 KB) DOC (68 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2151(INI)
Documents: PDF(488 KB) DOC(68 KB)
REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of the Union's budget in case of generalised deficiencies as regards the rule of law in the Member States PDF (1 MB) DOC (182 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDGCONT
Dossiers: 2018/0136(COD)
Documents: PDF(1 MB) DOC(182 KB)
REPORT on the Council position on the second draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2019 PDF (506 KB) DOC (64 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2018/2275(BUD)
Documents: PDF(506 KB) DOC(64 KB)
REPORT on assessing how the EU budget is used for public sector reform PDF (360 KB) DOC (56 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2086(INI)
Documents: PDF(360 KB) DOC(56 KB)
REPORT on the Council position on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2019 PDF (1 MB) DOC (199 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2018/2046(BUD)
Documents: PDF(1 MB) DOC(199 KB)
SECOND REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Asylum Support Office for the financial year 2016 PDF (282 KB) DOC (58 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2177(DEC)
Documents: PDF(282 KB) DOC(58 KB)
REPORT on protection of the EU’s financial interests – Recovery of money and assets from third countries in fraud cases PDF (353 KB) DOC (53 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2006(INI)
Documents: PDF(353 KB) DOC(53 KB)
REPORT on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (application from the Netherlands – EGF/2018/001 NL/Financial service activities) PDF (415 KB) DOC (67 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2018/2220(BUD)
Documents: PDF(415 KB) DOC(67 KB)
REPORT on Parliament’s estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2019 PDF (1 MB) DOC (154 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2018/2001(BUD)
Documents: PDF(1 MB) DOC(154 KB)
REPORT on the Annual Report 2016 on the protection of the EU’s financial interests – Fight against fraud PDF (498 KB) DOC (73 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2216(INI)
Documents: PDF(498 KB) DOC(73 KB)
REPORT on the annual report on the control of the financial activities of the EIB for 2016 PDF (545 KB) DOC (86 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2190(INI)
Documents: PDF(545 KB) DOC(86 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union agencies for the financial year 2016: performance, financial management and control PDF (428 KB) DOC (75 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2179(DEC)
Documents: PDF(428 KB) DOC(75 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security for the financial year 2016 PDF (290 KB) DOC (62 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2161(DEC)
Documents: PDF(290 KB) DOC(62 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of Eurojust for the financial year 2016 PDF (397 KB) DOC (73 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2155(DEC)
Documents: PDF(397 KB) DOC(73 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Agency for the Οperational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice for the financial year 2016 PDF (425 KB) DOC (76 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2178(DEC)
Documents: PDF(425 KB) DOC(76 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Police Office (Europol) for the financial year 2016 PDF (320 KB) DOC (69 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2169(DEC)
Documents: PDF(320 KB) DOC(69 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) for the financial year 2016 PDF (331 KB) DOC (68 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2164(DEC)
Documents: PDF(331 KB) DOC(68 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Fisheries Control Agency for the financial year 2016 PDF (318 KB) DOC (65 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2166(DEC)
Documents: PDF(318 KB) DOC(65 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union for the financial year 2016 PDF (311 KB) DOC (63 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2153(DEC)
Documents: PDF(311 KB) DOC(63 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2016, Section I – European Parliament PDF (724 KB) DOC (110 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2137(DEC)
Documents: PDF(724 KB) DOC(110 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Medicines Agency for the financial year 2016 PDF (333 KB) DOC (69 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2154(DEC)
Documents: PDF(333 KB) DOC(69 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Euratom Supply Agency for the financial year 2016 PDF (270 KB) DOC (51 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2168(DEC)
Documents: PDF(270 KB) DOC(51 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Securities and Markets Authority for the financial year 2016 PDF (314 KB) DOC (63 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2173(DEC)
Documents: PDF(314 KB) DOC(63 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (before 1 July 2016: European Police College) (CEPOL) for the financial year 2016 PDF (322 KB) DOC (70 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2163(DEC)
Documents: PDF(322 KB) DOC(70 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology for the financial year 2016 PDF (295 KB) DOC (59 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2176(DEC)
Documents: PDF(295 KB) DOC(59 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights for the financial year 2016 PDF (314 KB) DOC (61 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2149(DEC)
Documents: PDF(314 KB) DOC(61 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions for the financial year 2016 PDF (322 KB) DOC (65 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2148(DEC)
Documents: PDF(322 KB) DOC(65 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Food Safety Authority for the financial year 2016 PDF (329 KB) DOC (63 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2159(DEC)
Documents: PDF(329 KB) DOC(63 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Environment Agency for the financial year 2016 PDF (313 KB) DOC (63 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2151(DEC)
Documents: PDF(313 KB) DOC(63 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority for the financial year 2016 PDF (320 KB) DOC (63 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2172(DEC)
Documents: PDF(320 KB) DOC(63 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Institute for Gender Equality for the financial year 2016 PDF (310 KB) DOC (60 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2170(DEC)
Documents: PDF(310 KB) DOC(60 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Chemicals Agency for the financial year 2016 PDF (328 KB) DOC (66 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2167(DEC)
Documents: PDF(328 KB) DOC(66 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for the financial year 2016 PDF (322 KB) DOC (71 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2160(DEC)
Documents: PDF(322 KB) DOC(71 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2016 PDF (316 KB) DOC (61 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2152(DEC)
Documents: PDF(316 KB) DOC(61 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Asylum Support Office for the financial year 2016 PDF (339 KB) DOC (79 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2177(DEC)
Documents: PDF(339 KB) DOC(79 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European GNSS Agency for the financial year 2016 PDF (370 KB) DOC (63 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2165(DEC)
Documents: PDF(370 KB) DOC(63 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for the financial year 2016 PDF (307 KB) DOC (60 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2150(DEC)
Documents: PDF(307 KB) DOC(60 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Training Foundation for the financial year 2016 PDF (313 KB) DOC (62 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2156(DEC)
Documents: PDF(313 KB) DOC(62 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Railway Agency (now European Union Agency for Railways) for the financial year 2016 PDF (433 KB) DOC (65 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2162(DEC)
Documents: PDF(433 KB) DOC(65 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Maritime Safety Agency for the financial year 2016 PDF (319 KB) DOC (64 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2157(DEC)
Documents: PDF(319 KB) DOC(64 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators for the financial year 2016 PDF (284 KB) DOC (57 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2174(DEC)
Documents: PDF(284 KB) DOC(57 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Office of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications for the financial year 2016 PDF (288 KB) DOC (59 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2175(DEC)
Documents: PDF(288 KB) DOC(59 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2016 PDF (306 KB) DOC (60 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2147(DEC)
Documents: PDF(306 KB) DOC(60 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Banking Authority for the financial year 2016 PDF (318 KB) DOC (64 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2171(DEC)
Documents: PDF(318 KB) DOC(64 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2016 PDF (325 KB) DOC (64 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2158(DEC)
Documents: PDF(325 KB) DOC(64 KB)
REPORT on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (application from Spain – EGF/2017/006 ES/Galicia apparel) PDF (413 KB) DOC (69 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2018/2014(BUD)
Documents: PDF(413 KB) DOC(69 KB)
REPORT on the Annual Report on the Financial Activities of the European Investment Bank PDF (484 KB) DOC (96 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2017/2071(INI)
Documents: PDF(484 KB) DOC(96 KB)
REPORT on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (application from Spain EGF/2017/001 ES/Castilla y León mining) PDF (421 KB) DOC (66 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2017/2079(BUD)
Documents: PDF(421 KB) DOC(66 KB)
REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union and amending Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002, Regulations (EU) No 1296/2013, (EU) 1301/2013, (EU) No 1303/2013, EU No 1304/2013, (EU) No 1305/2013, (EU) No 1306/2013, (EU) No 1307/2013, (EU) No 1308/2013, (EU) No 1309/2013, (EU) No 1316/2013, (EU) No 223/2014, (EU) No 283/2014, (EU) No 652/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Decision No 541/2014/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council PDF (3 MB) DOC (682 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDGCONT
Dossiers: 2016/0282A(COD)
Documents: PDF(3 MB) DOC(682 KB)
REPORT on the Annual Report 2015 on the protection of the EU’s financial interests – Fight against fraud PDF (594 KB) DOC (85 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2097(INI)
Documents: PDF(594 KB) DOC(85 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2015, Section I – European Parliament PDF (717 KB) DOC (110 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2152(DEC)
Documents: PDF(717 KB) DOC(110 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union agencies for the financial year 2015: performance, financial management and control PDF (519 KB) DOC (78 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2206(DEC)
Documents: PDF(519 KB) DOC(78 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European GNSS Agency for the financial year 2015 PDF (287 KB) DOC (55 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2180(DEC)
Documents: PDF(287 KB) DOC(55 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators for the financial year 2015 PDF (293 KB) DOC (54 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2189(DEC)
Documents: PDF(293 KB) DOC(54 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights for the financial year 2015 PDF (303 KB) DOC (63 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2163(DEC)
Documents: PDF(303 KB) DOC(63 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2015 PDF (318 KB) DOC (65 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2161(DEC)
Documents: PDF(318 KB) DOC(65 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Office of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications for the financial year 2015 PDF (285 KB) DOC (61 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2190(DEC)
Documents: PDF(285 KB) DOC(61 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union (now European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex)) for the financial year 2015 PDF (404 KB) DOC (67 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2179(DEC)
Documents: PDF(404 KB) DOC(67 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Maritime Safety Agency for the financial year 2015 PDF (299 KB) DOC (59 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2172(DEC)
Documents: PDF(299 KB) DOC(59 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of Eurojust for the financial year 2015 PDF (405 KB) DOC (64 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2170(DEC)
Documents: PDF(405 KB) DOC(64 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Railway Agency (now European Union Agency for Railways) for the financial year 2015 PDF (416 KB) DOC (64 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2177(DEC)
Documents: PDF(416 KB) DOC(64 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology for the financial year 2015 PDF (299 KB) DOC (67 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2191(DEC)
Documents: PDF(299 KB) DOC(67 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Euratom Supply Agency for the financial year 2015 PDF (274 KB) DOC (57 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2183(DEC)
Documents: PDF(274 KB) DOC(57 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Securities and Markets Authority for the financial year 2015 PDF (306 KB) DOC (66 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2188(DEC)
Documents: PDF(306 KB) DOC(66 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Training Foundation for the financial year 2015 PDF (293 KB) DOC (61 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2171(DEC)
Documents: PDF(293 KB) DOC(61 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2015 PDF (302 KB) DOC (63 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2167(DEC)
Documents: PDF(302 KB) DOC(63 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security for the financial year 2015 PDF (283 KB) DOC (60 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2176(DEC)
Documents: PDF(283 KB) DOC(60 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions for the financial year 2015 PDF (299 KB) DOC (63 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2162(DEC)
Documents: PDF(299 KB) DOC(63 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Police Office (Europol) for the financial year 2015 PDF (304 KB) DOC (62 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2184(DEC)
Documents: PDF(304 KB) DOC(62 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Institute for Gender Equality for the financial year 2015 PDF (304 KB) DOC (65 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2185(DEC)
Documents: PDF(304 KB) DOC(65 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Agency for the Οperational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice for the financial year 2015 PDF (399 KB) DOC (68 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2193(DEC)
Documents: PDF(399 KB) DOC(68 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority for the financial year 2015 PDF (305 KB) DOC (64 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2187(DEC)
Documents: PDF(305 KB) DOC(64 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Fisheries Control Agency for the financial year 2015 PDF (302 KB) DOC (65 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2181(DEC)
Documents: PDF(302 KB) DOC(65 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for the financial year 2015 PDF (308 KB) DOC (60 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2164(DEC)
Documents: PDF(308 KB) DOC(60 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Food Safety Authority for the financial year 2015 PDF (320 KB) DOC (64 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2174(DEC)
Documents: PDF(320 KB) DOC(64 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Asylum Support Office for the financial year 2015 PDF (305 KB) DOC (67 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2192(DEC)
Documents: PDF(305 KB) DOC(67 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2015 PDF (310 KB) DOC (64 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2173(DEC)
Documents: PDF(310 KB) DOC(64 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Chemicals Agency for the financial year 2015 PDF (317 KB) DOC (64 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2182(DEC)
Documents: PDF(317 KB) DOC(64 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Environment Agency for the financial year 2015 PDF (300 KB) DOC (59 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2166(DEC)
Documents: PDF(300 KB) DOC(59 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Medicines Agency for the financial year 2015 PDF (314 KB) DOC (64 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2169(DEC)
Documents: PDF(314 KB) DOC(64 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for the financial year 2015 PDF (305 KB) DOC (60 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2175(DEC)
Documents: PDF(305 KB) DOC(60 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Police College (now European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training) (CEPOL) for the financial year 2015 PDF (300 KB) DOC (63 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2178(DEC)
Documents: PDF(300 KB) DOC(63 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Banking Authority for the financial year 2015 PDF (310 KB) DOC (68 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2186(DEC)
Documents: PDF(310 KB) DOC(68 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union for the financial year 2015 PDF (284 KB) DOC (60 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2168(DEC)
Documents: PDF(284 KB) DOC(60 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2014 PDF (287 KB) DOC (92 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2169(DEC)
Documents: PDF(287 KB) DOC(92 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Asylum Support Office for the financial year 2014 PDF (286 KB) DOC (94 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2194(DEC)
Documents: PDF(286 KB) DOC(94 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Agency for the Οperational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice for the financial year 2014 PDF (379 KB) DOC (99 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2195(DEC)
Documents: PDF(379 KB) DOC(99 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Police Office (Europol) for the financial year 2014 PDF (288 KB) DOC (93 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2186(DEC)
Documents: PDF(288 KB) DOC(93 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions for the financial year 2014 PDF (288 KB) DOC (93 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2165(DEC)
Documents: PDF(288 KB) DOC(93 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Chemicals Agency for the financial year 2014 PDF (301 KB) DOC (105 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2184(DEC)
Documents: PDF(301 KB) DOC(105 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology for the financial year 2014 PDF (280 KB) DOC (89 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2193(DEC)
Documents: PDF(280 KB) DOC(89 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Training Foundation for the financial year 2014 PDF (284 KB) DOC (92 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2173(DEC)
Documents: PDF(284 KB) DOC(92 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union for the financial year 2014 PDF (296 KB) DOC (100 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2181(DEC)
Documents: PDF(296 KB) DOC(100 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Medicines Agency for the financial year 2014 PDF (303 KB) DOC (105 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2171(DEC)
Documents: PDF(303 KB) DOC(105 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European GNSS Agency for the financial year 2014 PDF (269 KB) DOC (82 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2182(DEC)
Documents: PDF(269 KB) DOC(82 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Euratom Supply Agency for the financial year 2014 PDF (260 KB) DOC (74 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2185(DEC)
Documents: PDF(260 KB) DOC(74 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights for the financial year 2014 PDF (291 KB) DOC (97 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2166(DEC)
Documents: PDF(291 KB) DOC(97 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Railway Agency for the financial year 2014 PDF (296 KB) DOC (100 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2179(DEC)
Documents: PDF(296 KB) DOC(100 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for the financial year 2014 PDF (283 KB) DOC (91 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2167(DEC)
Documents: PDF(283 KB) DOC(91 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Fisheries Control Agency for the financial year 2014 PDF (286 KB) DOC (94 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2183(DEC)
Documents: PDF(286 KB) DOC(94 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for the financial year 2014 PDF (292 KB) DOC (97 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2177(DEC)
Documents: PDF(292 KB) DOC(97 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Maritime Safety Agency for the financial year 2014 PDF (293 KB) DOC (96 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2174(DEC)
Documents: PDF(293 KB) DOC(96 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Environment Agency for the financial year 2014 PDF (291 KB) DOC (98 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2168(DEC)
Documents: PDF(291 KB) DOC(98 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union's Judicial Cooperation Unit (Eurojust) for the financial year 2014 PDF (408 KB) DOC (94 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2172(DEC)
Documents: PDF(408 KB) DOC(94 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security for the financial year 2014 PDF (268 KB) DOC (81 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2178(DEC)
Documents: PDF(268 KB) DOC(81 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Securities and Markets Authority for the financial year 2014 PDF (297 KB) DOC (100 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2190(DEC)
Documents: PDF(297 KB) DOC(100 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2014 PDF (314 KB) DOC (106 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2175(DEC)
Documents: PDF(314 KB) DOC(106 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Office of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications for the financial year 2014 PDF (284 KB) DOC (85 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2192(DEC)
Documents: PDF(284 KB) DOC(85 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority for the financial year 2014 PDF (298 KB) DOC (101 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2189(DEC)
Documents: PDF(298 KB) DOC(101 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Banking Authority for the financial year 2014 PDF (295 KB) DOC (101 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2188(DEC)
Documents: PDF(295 KB) DOC(101 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Police College for the financial year 2014 PDF (288 KB) DOC (94 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2180(DEC)
Documents: PDF(288 KB) DOC(94 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators for the financial year 2014 PDF (289 KB) DOC (87 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2191(DEC)
Documents: PDF(289 KB) DOC(87 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Food Safety Authority for the financial year 2014 PDF (302 KB) DOC (107 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2176(DEC)
Documents: PDF(302 KB) DOC(107 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Institute for Gender Equality for the financial year 2014 PDF (284 KB) DOC (92 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2187(DEC)
Documents: PDF(284 KB) DOC(92 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union for the financial year 2014 PDF (270 KB) DOC (81 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2170(DEC)
Documents: PDF(270 KB) DOC(81 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2014 PDF (285 KB) DOC (93 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2164(DEC)
Documents: PDF(285 KB) DOC(93 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union agencies for the financial year 2014: performance, financial management and control PDF (381 KB) DOC (114 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2205(DEC)
Documents: PDF(381 KB) DOC(114 KB)
REPORT on the Annual Report 2014 on the Protection of the EU’s Financial Interests – Fight against fraud PDF (556 KB) DOC (182 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2128(INI)
Documents: PDF(556 KB) DOC(182 KB)
REPORT on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, in accordance with point 13 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 2 December 2013 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline, on cooperation in budgetary matters and on sound financial management (application EGF/2015/006 - IE/PWA International, from Ireland) PDF (182 KB) DOC (103 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2015/2295(BUD)
Documents: PDF(182 KB) DOC(103 KB)
REPORT on the joint text on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2016 approved by the Conciliation Committee under the budgetary procedure PDF (203 KB) DOC (189 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDE
Dossiers: 2015/2132(BUD)
Documents: PDF(203 KB) DOC(189 KB)
REPORT on the Council position on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2016 PDF (354 KB) DOC (319 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2015/2132(BUD)
Documents: PDF(354 KB) DOC(319 KB)
SECOND REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology for the financial year 2013 PDF (168 KB) DOC (88 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2125(DEC)
Documents: PDF(168 KB) DOC(88 KB)
REPORT on protecting the European Union’s financial interests: towards performance-based controls of the Common Agricultural Policy PDF (162 KB) DOC (96 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2234(INI)
Documents: PDF(162 KB) DOC(96 KB)
REPORT on the mandate for the trilogue on the 2016 draft budget PDF (906 KB) DOC (1 MB)
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2015/2074(BUD)
Documents: PDF(906 KB) DOC(1 MB)
REPORT on financing the Common Security and Defence Policy PDF (178 KB) DOC (94 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: AFETBUDG
Dossiers: 2014/2258(INI)
Documents: PDF(178 KB) DOC(94 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Euratom Supply Agency for the financial year 2013 PDF (151 KB) DOC (67 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2117(DEC)
Documents: PDF(151 KB) DOC(67 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators for the financial year 2013 PDF (157 KB) DOC (78 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2123(DEC)
Documents: PDF(157 KB) DOC(78 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Fisheries Control Agency for the financial year 2013 PDF (164 KB) DOC (85 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2115(DEC)
Documents: PDF(164 KB) DOC(85 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Agency for the Οperational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice for the financial year 2013 PDF (169 KB) DOC (93 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2128(DEC)
Documents: PDF(169 KB) DOC(93 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Institute for Gender Equality for the financial year 2013 PDF (169 KB) DOC (85 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2119(DEC)
Documents: PDF(169 KB) DOC(85 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Food Safety Authority for the financial year 2013 PDF (175 KB) DOC (96 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2108(DEC)
Documents: PDF(175 KB) DOC(96 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority for the financial year 2013 PDF (168 KB) DOC (87 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2121(DEC)
Documents: PDF(168 KB) DOC(87 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European GNSS Agency for the financial year 2013 PDF (160 KB) DOC (78 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2114(DEC)
Documents: PDF(160 KB) DOC(78 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union for the financial year 2013 PDF (173 KB) DOC (93 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2113(DEC)
Documents: PDF(173 KB) DOC(93 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights for the financial year 2013 PDF (166 KB) DOC (84 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2089(DEC)
Documents: PDF(166 KB) DOC(84 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions for the financial year 2013 PDF (167 KB) DOC (85 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2088(DEC)
Documents: PDF(167 KB) DOC(85 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of Eurojust for the financial year 2013 PDF (166 KB) DOC (87 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2103(DEC)
Documents: PDF(166 KB) DOC(87 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Training Foundation for the financial year 2013 PDF (164 KB) DOC (81 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2104(DEC)
Documents: PDF(164 KB) DOC(81 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security for the financial year 2013 PDF (159 KB) DOC (77 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2110(DEC)
Documents: PDF(159 KB) DOC(77 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Maritime Safety Agency for the financial year 2013 PDF (163 KB) DOC (81 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2105(DEC)
Documents: PDF(163 KB) DOC(81 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Securities and Markets Authority for the financial year 2013 PDF (170 KB) DOC (91 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2122(DEC)
Documents: PDF(170 KB) DOC(91 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Police College for the financial year 2013 PDF (167 KB) DOC (85 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2112(DEC)
Documents: PDF(167 KB) DOC(85 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Asylum Support Office for the financial year 2013 PDF (165 KB) DOC (82 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2126(DEC)
Documents: PDF(165 KB) DOC(82 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union for the financial year 2013 PDF (159 KB) DOC (78 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2101(DEC)
Documents: PDF(159 KB) DOC(78 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Environment Agency for the financial year 2013 PDF (170 KB) DOC (88 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2099(DEC)
Documents: PDF(170 KB) DOC(88 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Office of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications for the financial year 2013 PDF (158 KB) DOC (76 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2124(DEC)
Documents: PDF(158 KB) DOC(76 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Police Office for the financial year 2013 PDF (167 KB) DOC (82 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2118(DEC)
Documents: PDF(167 KB) DOC(82 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2013 PDF (167 KB) DOC (84 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2087(DEC)
Documents: PDF(167 KB) DOC(84 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Railway Agency for the financial year 2013 PDF (169 KB) DOC (93 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2111(DEC)
Documents: PDF(169 KB) DOC(93 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology for the financial year 2013 PDF (161 KB) DOC (81 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2125(DEC)
Documents: PDF(161 KB) DOC(81 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2013 PDF (167 KB) DOC (87 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2100(DEC)
Documents: PDF(167 KB) DOC(87 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Medicines Agency for the financial year 2013 PDF (174 KB) DOC (94 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2102(DEC)
Documents: PDF(174 KB) DOC(94 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2013 PDF (168 KB) DOC (91 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2106(DEC)
Documents: PDF(168 KB) DOC(91 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Chemicals Agency for the financial year 2013 PDF (176 KB) DOC (96 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2116(DEC)
Documents: PDF(176 KB) DOC(96 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Banking Authority for the financial year 2013 PDF (172 KB) DOC (96 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2120(DEC)
Documents: PDF(172 KB) DOC(96 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union agencies for the financial year 2013: performance, financial management and control PDF (185 KB) DOC (112 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2139(DEC)
Documents: PDF(185 KB) DOC(112 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for the financial year 2013 PDF (167 KB) DOC (85 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2109(DEC)
Documents: PDF(167 KB) DOC(85 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for the financial year 2013 PDF (165 KB) DOC (85 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2090(DEC)
Documents: PDF(165 KB) DOC(85 KB)
REPORT on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, in accordance with point 13 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 2 December 2013 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline, on cooperation in budgetary matters and on sound financial management (application EGF/2014/018 GR/Attica Broadcasting, from Greece) PDF (163 KB) DOC (91 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2015/2031(BUD)
Documents: PDF(163 KB) DOC(91 KB)
REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union PDF (786 KB) DOC (537 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2014/0180(COD)
Documents: PDF(786 KB) DOC(537 KB)
REPORT on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, in accordance with point 13 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 2 December 2013 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline, on cooperation in budgetary matters and on sound financial management (application EGF/2013/009 PL/Zachem, from Poland) PDF (172 KB) DOC (89 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2015/2016(BUD)
Documents: PDF(172 KB) DOC(89 KB)
REPORT on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, in accordance with point 13 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 2 December 2013 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline, on cooperation in budgetary matters and on sound financial management (application EGF/2013/007 BE/Hainaut Steel (Duferco-NLMK), from Belgium) PDF (171 KB) DOC (98 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2015/2019(BUD)
Documents: PDF(171 KB) DOC(98 KB)
REPORT on general guidelines for the preparation of the 2016 budget, Section III – Commission PDF (161 KB) DOC (82 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2015/2008(BUD)
Documents: PDF(161 KB) DOC(82 KB)

Opinions (8)

OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the EU Anti-Fraud Programme
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Documents: PDF(183 KB) DOC(150 KB)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing rules on support for strategic plans to be drawn up by Member States under the Common agricultural policy (CAP Strategic Plans) and financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and repealing Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Documents: PDF(210 KB) DOC(165 KB)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing, as part of the Integrated Border Management Fund, the instrument for financial support for customs control equipment
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Documents: PDF(235 KB) DOC(143 KB)
OPINION on the future of food and farming
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Documents: PDF(190 KB) DOC(68 KB)
OPINION on reform of the European Union’s system of own resources
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Documents: PDF(263 KB) DOC(67 KB)
OPINION on the evaluation of external aspects of the customs performance and management as a tool to facilitate trade and fight illicit trade
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Documents: PDF(126 KB) DOC(62 KB)
OPINION on CAP tools to reduce price volatility in agricultural markets
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Documents: PDF(135 KB) DOC(63 KB)
OPINION on Towards a definitive VAT system and fighting VAT fraud
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Documents: PDF(129 KB) DOC(220 KB)

Shadow opinions (34)

OPINION on Implementation of the legal provisions and the Joint Statement ensuring the parliamentary scrutiny over decentralised agencies
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2114(INI)
Documents: PDF(159 KB) DOC(43 KB)
OPINION on the implementation of the Treaty provisions on Parliament’s power of political control over the Commission
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2113(INI)
Documents: PDF(180 KB) DOC(46 KB)
OPINION on the implementation of the legal provisions and the Joint Statement ensuring the parliamentary scrutiny over decentralised agencies
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2018/2114(INI)
Documents: PDF(145 KB) DOC(63 KB)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Border and Coast Guard and repealing Council Joint Action No 98/700/JHA, Regulation (EU) No 1052/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EU) No 2016/1624 of the European Parliament and of the Council
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2018/0330(COD)
Documents: PDF(176 KB) DOC(151 KB)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the Asylum and Migration Fund
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2018/0248(COD)
Documents: PDF(213 KB) DOC(149 KB)
OPINION on the state of the debate on the Future of Europe
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/2094(INI)
Documents: PDF(167 KB) DOC(43 KB)
OPINION on the Annual Report on the financial activities of the European Investment Bank
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2018/2161(INI)
Documents: PDF(248 KB) DOC(46 KB)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the Justice programme
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2018/0208(COD)
Documents: PDF(181 KB) DOC(119 KB)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing, as part of the Integrated Border Management Fund, the instrument for financial support for border management and visa
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2018/0249(COD)
Documents: PDF(212 KB) DOC(139 KB)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing, as part of the Integrated Border Management Fund, the instrument for financial support for customs control equipment.
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2018/0258(COD)
Documents: PDF(196 KB) DOC(120 KB)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the 'Customs' programme for cooperation in the field of customs
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2018/0232(COD)
Documents: PDF(167 KB) DOC(150 KB)
OPINION on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of persons reporting on breaches of Union law
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2018/0106(COD)
Documents: PDF(345 KB) DOC(167 KB)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a European Labour Authority
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2018/0064(COD)
Documents: PDF(206 KB) DOC(135 KB)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 establishing a European Supervisory Authority (European Banking Authority); Regulation (EU) No 1094/2010 establishing a European Supervisory Authority (European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority); Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010 establishing a European Supervisory Authority (European Securities and Markets Authority); Regulation (EU) No 345/2013 on European venture capital funds; Regulation (EU) No 346/2013 on European social entrepreneurship funds; Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 on markets in financial instruments; Regulation (EU) 2015/760 on European long-term investment funds; Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 on indices used as benchmarks in financial instruments and financial contracts or to measure the performance of investment funds; and Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 on the prospectus to be published when securities are offered to the public or admitted to trading on a regulated market
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2017/0230(COD)
Documents: PDF(241 KB) DOC(177 KB)
OPINION on the situation in Hungary (pursuant to the European Parliament resolution of 17 May 2017)
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2131(INL)
Documents: PDF(195 KB) DOC(58 KB)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on ENISA, the "EU Cybersecurity Agency", and repealing Regulation (EU) 526/2013, and on Information and Communication Technology cybersecurity certification (''Cybersecurity Act'')
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2017/0225(COD)
Documents: PDF(207 KB) DOC(152 KB)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 as regards the location of the seat of the European Banking Authority
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2017/0326(COD)
Documents: PDF(453 KB) DOC(149 KB)
OPINION on the next MFF: Preparing the Parliament’s position on the MFF post-2020
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/2052(INI)
Documents: PDF(358 KB) DOC(77 KB)
POSITION IN THE FORM OF AMENDMENTS on the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU, Euratom) No. 1141/2014 of the European Parliament and the Council of 22 October 2014 on the statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2017/0219(COD)
Documents: PDF(450 KB) DOC(144 KB)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (recast)
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2016/0378(COD)
Documents: PDF(188 KB) DOC(126 KB)
OPINION on control of spending and monitoring of EU Youth Guarantee schemes’ cost-effectiveness
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2016/2242(INI)
Documents: PDF(184 KB) DOC(65 KB)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA), and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 2062/94
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2016/0254(COD)
Documents: PDF(183 KB) DOC(124 KB)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the European Foundation for the improvement of living and working conditions (Eurofound), and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 1365/75
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2016/0256(COD)
Documents: PDF(183 KB) DOC(92 KB)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 337/75
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2016/0257(COD)
Documents: PDF(183 KB) DOC(126 KB)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Fund for Sustainable Development (EFSD) and establishing the EFSD Guarantee and the EFSD Guarantee Fund
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/0281(COD)
Documents: PDF(544 KB) DOC(146 KB)
OPINION on European Semester for economic policy coordination: Annual Growth Survey 2017
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2016/2306(INI)
Documents: PDF(172 KB) DOC(63 KB)
OPINION on EU funds for gender equality
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2144(INI)
Documents: PDF(126 KB) DOC(63 KB)
OPINION on the European Defence Union
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2016/2052(INI)
Documents: PDF(130 KB) DOC(59 KB)
OPINION on budgetary capacity for the eurozone
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/2344(INI)
Documents: PDF(117 KB) DOC(199 KB)
OPINION on the European Union Solidarity Fund: an assessment
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2016/2045(INI)
Documents: PDF(130 KB) DOC(211 KB)
OPINION on the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the European Union, of the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products to the World Health Organisation's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, in so far as the provisions of the Protocol which fall under Title V of Part III of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union are concerned
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2015/0100(NLE)
Documents: PDF(134 KB) DOC(74 KB)
OPINION on Control of the Register and composition of the Commission’s expert groups
2016/11/22
Committee: BUDG
Dossiers: 2015/2319(INI)
Documents: PDF(122 KB) DOC(182 KB)
OPINION on improving the functioning of the European Union building on the potential of the Lisbon Treaty
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2249(INI)
Documents: PDF(133 KB) DOC(185 KB)
OPINION on the fruit and vegetables sector since the 2007 reform
2016/11/22
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2014/2147(INI)
Documents: PDF(122 KB) DOC(181 KB)

Institutional motions (184)

JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Zimbabwe PDF (159 KB) DOC (55 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2019/2563(RSP)
Documents: PDF(159 KB) DOC(55 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Zimbabwe PDF (146 KB) DOC (52 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2019/2563(RSP)
Documents: PDF(146 KB) DOC(52 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Sudan PDF (153 KB) DOC (60 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2019/2512(RSP)
Documents: PDF(153 KB) DOC(60 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Togo PDF (163 KB) DOC (57 KB)
2016/11/22
Documents: PDF(163 KB) DOC(57 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Sudan PDF (146 KB) DOC (53 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2019/2512(RSP)
Documents: PDF(146 KB) DOC(53 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on conflicts of interest and the protection of the EU budget in the Czech Republic PDF (166 KB) DOC (51 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2975(RSP)
Documents: PDF(166 KB) DOC(51 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the human rights situation in Bangladesh PDF (293 KB) DOC (60 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2927(RSP)
Documents: PDF(293 KB) DOC(60 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the human rights situation in Cuba PDF (286 KB) DOC (54 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2926(RSP)
Documents: PDF(286 KB) DOC(54 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Vietnam, notably the situation of political prisoners PDF (286 KB) DOC (59 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2925(RSP)
Documents: PDF(286 KB) DOC(59 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Burundi PDF (162 KB) DOC (53 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2785(RSP)
Documents: PDF(162 KB) DOC(53 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Somalia PDF (161 KB) DOC (64 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2784(RSP)
Documents: PDF(161 KB) DOC(64 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Burundi PDF (306 KB) DOC (54 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2785(RSP)
Documents: PDF(306 KB) DOC(54 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Somalia PDF (375 KB) DOC (56 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2784(RSP)
Documents: PDF(375 KB) DOC(56 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation of Rohingya refugees, in particular the plight of children PDF (291 KB) DOC (59 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2756(RSP)
Documents: PDF(291 KB) DOC(59 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION Situation of Rohingyas refugees, in particular the plight of children PDF (286 KB) DOC (51 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2756(RSP)
Documents: PDF(286 KB) DOC(51 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Sudan, notably the situation of Noura Hussein Hammad PDF (156 KB) DOC (58 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2713(RSP)
Documents: PDF(156 KB) DOC(58 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation on women’s rights defenders in Saudi Arabia PDF (162 KB) DOC (61 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2712(RSP)
Documents: PDF(162 KB) DOC(61 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation of imprisoned EU-Iranian dual nationals in Iran PDF (159 KB) DOC (52 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2717(RSP)
Documents: PDF(159 KB) DOC(52 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in Nicaragua PDF (154 KB) DOC (51 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2711(RSP)
Documents: PDF(154 KB) DOC(51 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Sudan, notably the situation of Noura Hussein Hammad PDF (265 KB) DOC (52 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2713(RSP)
Documents: PDF(265 KB) DOC(52 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation of women's rights defenders in Saudi Arabia PDF (293 KB) DOC (53 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2712(RSP)
Documents: PDF(293 KB) DOC(53 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation of imprisoned EU-Iranian dual nationals in Iran PDF (294 KB) DOC (52 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2717(RSP)
Documents: PDF(294 KB) DOC(52 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in Nicaragua PDF (264 KB) DOC (50 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2711(RSP)
Documents: PDF(264 KB) DOC(50 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the Philippines PDF (159 KB) DOC (57 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2662(RSP)
Documents: PDF(159 KB) DOC(57 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the Philippines PDF (293 KB) DOC (51 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2662(RSP)
Documents: PDF(293 KB) DOC(51 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in the Maldives PDF (166 KB) DOC (53 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2630(RSP)
Documents: PDF(166 KB) DOC(53 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on mercy killings in Uganda PDF (156 KB) DOC (56 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2632(RSP)
Documents: PDF(156 KB) DOC(56 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the arrest of human rights defenders in Sudan, notably the case of Sakharov Prize Laureate Salih Mahmoud Osman PDF (165 KB) DOC (53 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2631(RSP)
Documents: PDF(165 KB) DOC(53 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in the Maldives PDF (265 KB) DOC (49 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2630(RSP)
Documents: PDF(265 KB) DOC(49 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on mercy killings in Uganda PDF (296 KB) DOC (51 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2632(RSP)
Documents: PDF(296 KB) DOC(51 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the arrest of human rights defenders in Sudan, notably the case of Sakharov Prize laureate Salih Mahmoud Osman PDF (283 KB) DOC (50 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2631(RSP)
Documents: PDF(283 KB) DOC(50 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on executions in Egypt PDF (292 KB) DOC (53 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2561(RSP)
Documents: PDF(292 KB) DOC(53 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on child slavery in Haiti PDF (154 KB) DOC (55 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2562(RSP)
Documents: PDF(154 KB) DOC(55 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in Venezuela PDF (279 KB) DOC (49 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2559(RSP)
Documents: PDF(279 KB) DOC(49 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on executions in Egypt PDF (355 KB) DOC (54 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2561(RSP)
Documents: PDF(355 KB) DOC(54 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Child slavery in Haiti PDF (153 KB) DOC (52 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2562(RSP)
Documents: PDF(153 KB) DOC(52 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in Venezuela PDF (145 KB) DOC (58 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2559(RSP)
Documents: PDF(145 KB) DOC(58 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the Democratic Republic of the Congo PDF (161 KB) DOC (58 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2515(RSP)
Documents: PDF(161 KB) DOC(58 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Nigeria PDF (285 KB) DOC (54 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2513(RSP)
Documents: PDF(285 KB) DOC(54 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo PDF (357 KB) DOC (55 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2515(RSP)
Documents: PDF(357 KB) DOC(55 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION Nigeria PDF (156 KB) DOC (53 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2018/2513(RSP)
Documents: PDF(156 KB) DOC(53 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on El Salvador: the cases of women prosecuted for miscarriage PDF (374 KB) DOC (54 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/3003(RSP)
Documents: PDF(374 KB) DOC(54 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Cambodia: notably the dissolution of CNRP Party PDF (283 KB) DOC (56 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/3002(RSP)
Documents: PDF(283 KB) DOC(56 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on freedom of expression in Vietnam, notably the case of Nguyen Van Hoa PDF (280 KB) DOC (52 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/3001(RSP)
Documents: PDF(280 KB) DOC(52 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on El Salvador: the cases of women prosecuted for miscarriage PDF (157 KB) DOC (55 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/3003(RSP)
Documents: PDF(157 KB) DOC(55 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Cambodia: notably the dissolution of CNRP Party PDF (163 KB) DOC (50 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/3002(RSP)
Documents: PDF(163 KB) DOC(50 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Vietnam: freedom of expression PDF (145 KB) DOC (51 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/3001(RSP)
Documents: PDF(145 KB) DOC(51 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Madagascar PDF (291 KB) DOC (59 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2963(RSP)
Documents: PDF(291 KB) DOC(59 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on freedom of expression in Sudan, notably the case of Mohamed Zine al-Abidine PDF (155 KB) DOC (50 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2961(RSP)
Documents: PDF(155 KB) DOC(50 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on terrorist attacks in Somalia PDF (162 KB) DOC (52 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2962(RSP)
Documents: PDF(162 KB) DOC(52 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Madagascar PDF (160 KB) DOC (53 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2963(RSP)
Documents: PDF(160 KB) DOC(53 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Freedom of Expression in Sudan, notably the case of Mohamed Zine El Abidine PDF (153 KB) DOC (52 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2961(RSP)
Documents: PDF(153 KB) DOC(52 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the Terrorist attacks in Somalia PDF (153 KB) DOC (52 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2962(RSP)
Documents: PDF(153 KB) DOC(52 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in the Maldives PDF (287 KB) DOC (56 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2870(RSP)
Documents: PDF(287 KB) DOC(56 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation of persons with albinism in Africa, notably in Malawi PDF (287 KB) DOC (52 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2868(RSP)
Documents: PDF(287 KB) DOC(52 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION The Situation in the Maldives PDF (158 KB) DOC (52 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2870(RSP)
Documents: PDF(158 KB) DOC(52 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION Situation of people with albinism in Malawi and other African countries PDF (150 KB) DOC (53 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2868(RSP)
Documents: PDF(150 KB) DOC(53 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Myanmar, in particular the situation of Rohingyas PDF (153 KB) DOC (55 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2838(RSP)
Documents: PDF(153 KB) DOC(55 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Laos, notably the cases of Somphone Phimmasone, Lod Thammavong and Soukane Chaithad PDF (148 KB) DOC (54 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2831(RSP)
Documents: PDF(148 KB) DOC(54 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Gabon: repression of the opposition PDF (162 KB) DOC (52 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2830(RSP)
Documents: PDF(162 KB) DOC(52 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Cambodia, notably the case of Kem Sokha PDF (151 KB) DOC (57 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2829(RSP)
Documents: PDF(151 KB) DOC(57 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Myanmar including the situation of Rohingyas PDF (162 KB) DOC (53 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2838(RSP)
Documents: PDF(162 KB) DOC(53 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Gabon: repression of the opposition PDF (148 KB) DOC (52 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2830(RSP)
Documents: PDF(148 KB) DOC(52 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Laos: notably the cases of Somphone Phimmasone, Lod Thammavong and Soukane Chaithad PDF (145 KB) DOC (49 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2831(RSP)
Documents: PDF(145 KB) DOC(49 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Cambodia: notably the case of Mr Kem Sokha PDF (158 KB) DOC (51 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2829(RSP)
Documents: PDF(158 KB) DOC(51 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in Burundi PDF (156 KB) DOC (55 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2756(RSP)
Documents: PDF(156 KB) DOC(55 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Eritrea, notably the cases of Abune Antonios and Dawit Isaak PDF (169 KB) DOC (63 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2755(RSP)
Documents: PDF(169 KB) DOC(63 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in Burundi PDF (155 KB) DOC (54 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2756(RSP)
Documents: PDF(155 KB) DOC(54 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Eritrea, notably the cases of Abune Antonios and Dawit Isaak PDF (155 KB) DOC (52 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2755(RSP)
Documents: PDF(155 KB) DOC(52 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Pakistan, notably the situation of human rights defenders and the death penalty PDF (278 KB) DOC (50 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2723(RSP)
Documents: PDF(278 KB) DOC(50 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo PDF (276 KB) DOC (49 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2703(RSP)
Documents: PDF(276 KB) DOC(49 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Pakistan, notably the situation of human rights defenders and the death penalty PDF (145 KB) DOC (52 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2723(RSP)
Documents: PDF(145 KB) DOC(52 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Ethiopia, notably the case of Dr Merera Gudina PDF (163 KB) DOC (53 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2682(RSP)
Documents: PDF(163 KB) DOC(53 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Zambia, particularly the case of Hakainde Hichilema PDF (153 KB) DOC (55 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2681(RSP)
Documents: PDF(153 KB) DOC(55 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on South Sudan PDF (164 KB) DOC (56 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2683(RSP)
Documents: PDF(164 KB) DOC(56 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the Dadaab refugee camp PDF (159 KB) DOC (53 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2687(RSP)
Documents: PDF(159 KB) DOC(53 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Ethiopia notably the case of Dr Merera Gudina PDF (183 KB) DOC (53 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2682(RSP)
Documents: PDF(183 KB) DOC(53 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Zambia, particularly the case of Hakainde Hichilema PDF (150 KB) DOC (50 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2681(RSP)
Documents: PDF(150 KB) DOC(50 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on South Sudan PDF (176 KB) DOC (53 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2683(RSP)
Documents: PDF(176 KB) DOC(53 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the Dadaab refugee camp PDF (156 KB) DOC (52 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2687(RSP)
Documents: PDF(156 KB) DOC(52 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in Venezuela PDF (278 KB) DOC (53 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2651(RSP)
Documents: PDF(278 KB) DOC(53 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in Venezuela PDF (329 KB) DOC (48 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2651(RSP)
Documents: PDF(329 KB) DOC(48 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Bangladesh, including child marriages PDF (152 KB) DOC (57 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2648(RSP)
Documents: PDF(152 KB) DOC(57 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Bangladesh, including child marriages PDF (166 KB) DOC (53 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2648(RSP)
Documents: PDF(166 KB) DOC(53 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the Philippines – the case of Senator Leila M. De Lima PDF (156 KB) DOC (48 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2597(RSP)
Documents: PDF(156 KB) DOC(48 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the Philippines, the case of senator Leila M. De Lima PDF (144 KB) DOC (51 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2597(RSP)
Documents: PDF(144 KB) DOC(51 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation of human rights and democracy in Nicaragua – the case of Francisca Ramirez PDF (149 KB) DOC (48 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2563(RSP)
Documents: PDF(149 KB) DOC(48 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Guatemala, notably the situation of human rights defenders PDF (165 KB) DOC (57 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2565(RSP)
Documents: PDF(165 KB) DOC(57 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation of human rights and democracy in Nicaragua, the case of Francesca Ramirez PDF (145 KB) DOC (52 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2563(RSP)
Documents: PDF(145 KB) DOC(52 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Guatemala, notably the situation of human rights defenders PDF (151 KB) DOC (52 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2565(RSP)
Documents: PDF(151 KB) DOC(52 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in Burundi PDF (152 KB) DOC (56 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2508(RSP)
Documents: PDF(152 KB) DOC(56 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Indonesia, notably the case of Hosea Yeimo and Ismael Alua PDF (148 KB) DOC (53 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2506(RSP)
Documents: PDF(148 KB) DOC(53 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the Central African Republic PDF (279 KB) DOC (53 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2507(RSP)
Documents: PDF(279 KB) DOC(53 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in Burundi PDF (388 KB) DOC (51 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2508(RSP)
Documents: PDF(388 KB) DOC(51 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Indonesia, notably the cases of Hosea Yeimo, Ismael Alua and the Governor of Jakarta PDF (279 KB) DOC (49 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2506(RSP)
Documents: PDF(279 KB) DOC(49 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the cases of the Larung Gar Tibetan Buddhist Academy and Ilham Tohti PDF (163 KB) DOC (52 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/3026(RSP)
Documents: PDF(163 KB) DOC(52 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar PDF (157 KB) DOC (58 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/3027(RSP)
Documents: PDF(157 KB) DOC(58 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on mass graves in Iraq PDF (158 KB) DOC (57 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/3028(RSP)
Documents: PDF(158 KB) DOC(57 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the Situation of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar PDF (168 KB) DOC (54 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/3027(RSP)
Documents: PDF(168 KB) DOC(54 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the cases of the Larung Gar Tibetan Buddhist Academy and Ilham Tohti PDF (149 KB) DOC (51 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/3026(RSP)
Documents: PDF(149 KB) DOC(51 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the case of mass graves in Iraq PDF (171 KB) DOC (54 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/3028(RSP)
Documents: PDF(171 KB) DOC(54 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation of the Guarani-Kaiowá in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso Do Sul PDF (149 KB) DOC (54 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2991(RSP)
Documents: PDF(149 KB) DOC(54 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation of the Guarani-Kaiowa in Brazilian State of Mato Grosso do Sul PDF (142 KB) DOC (49 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2991(RSP)
Documents: PDF(142 KB) DOC(49 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Thailand, notably the situation of Andy Hall PDF (153 KB) DOC (80 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2912(RSP)
Documents: PDF(153 KB) DOC(80 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Sudan PDF (167 KB) DOC (89 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2911(RSP)
Documents: PDF(167 KB) DOC(89 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Sudan PDF (148 KB) DOC (52 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2911(RSP)
Documents: PDF(148 KB) DOC(52 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Thailand, notably the case of Andy Hall PDF (152 KB) DOC (52 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2912(RSP)
Documents: PDF(152 KB) DOC(52 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Rwanda, the case of Victoire Ingabire PDF (346 KB) DOC (51 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2910(RSP)
Documents: PDF(346 KB) DOC(51 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Zimbabwe PDF (289 KB) DOC (80 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2882(RSP)
Documents: PDF(289 KB) DOC(80 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the Philippines PDF (289 KB) DOC (84 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2880(RSP)
Documents: PDF(289 KB) DOC(84 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Somalia PDF (295 KB) DOC (91 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2881(RSP)
Documents: PDF(295 KB) DOC(91 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Zimbabwe PDF (154 KB) DOC (52 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2882(RSP)
Documents: PDF(154 KB) DOC(52 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Philippines PDF (149 KB) DOC (50 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2880(RSP)
Documents: PDF(149 KB) DOC(50 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Somalia PDF (146 KB) DOC (52 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2881(RSP)
Documents: PDF(146 KB) DOC(52 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Myanmar, in particular the situation of the Rohingya PDF (164 KB) DOC (86 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2809(RSP)
Documents: PDF(164 KB) DOC(86 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Bahrain PDF (157 KB) DOC (83 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2808(RSP)
Documents: PDF(157 KB) DOC(83 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation of people with albinism in Africa, notably in Malawi PDF (162 KB) DOC (86 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2807(RSP)
Documents: PDF(162 KB) DOC(86 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Tajikistan: situation of prisoners of conscience PDF (164 KB) DOC (86 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2754(RSP)
Documents: PDF(164 KB) DOC(86 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Vietnam PDF (167 KB) DOC (91 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2755(RSP)
Documents: PDF(167 KB) DOC(91 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Cambodia PDF (161 KB) DOC (87 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2753(RSP)
Documents: PDF(161 KB) DOC(87 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in Venezuela PDF (160 KB) DOC (83 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2699(RSP)
Documents: PDF(160 KB) DOC(83 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Djibouti PDF (176 KB) DOC (93 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2694(RSP)
Documents: PDF(176 KB) DOC(93 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on The Gambia PDF (163 KB) DOC (88 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2693(RSP)
Documents: PDF(163 KB) DOC(88 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the follow-up to and review of the 2030 Agenda PDF (285 KB) DOC (83 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2696(RSP)
Documents: PDF(285 KB) DOC(83 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Nigeria PDF (167 KB) DOC (91 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2649(RSP)
Documents: PDF(167 KB) DOC(91 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Honduras: situation of human rights defenders PDF (162 KB) DOC (85 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2648(RSP)
Documents: PDF(162 KB) DOC(85 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Pakistan, in particular the attack in Lahore PDF (159 KB) DOC (85 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2644(RSP)
Documents: PDF(159 KB) DOC(85 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the Democratic Republic of the Congo PDF (164 KB) DOC (88 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2609(RSP)
Documents: PDF(164 KB) DOC(88 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on freedom of expression in Kazakhstan PDF (168 KB) DOC (88 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2607(RSP)
Documents: PDF(168 KB) DOC(88 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in Eritrea PDF (163 KB) DOC (91 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2568(RSP)
Documents: PDF(163 KB) DOC(91 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the case of the missing book publishers in Hong Kong PDF (157 KB) DOC (83 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2558(RSP)
Documents: PDF(157 KB) DOC(83 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Bahrain: the case of Mohammed Ramadan PDF (149 KB) DOC (82 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2557(RSP)
Documents: PDF(149 KB) DOC(82 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the humanitarian situation in Yemen PDF (159 KB) DOC (84 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2515(RSP)
Documents: PDF(159 KB) DOC(84 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the systematic mass murder of religious minorities by the so-called ‘ISIS/Daesh’ PDF (168 KB) DOC (94 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2529(RSP)
Documents: PDF(168 KB) DOC(94 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in Libya PDF (162 KB) DOC (88 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2537(RSP)
Documents: PDF(162 KB) DOC(88 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in Libya PDF (275 KB) DOC (71 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2537(RSP)
Documents: PDF(275 KB) DOC(71 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Estonian and UK seamen under detention in India PDF (148 KB) DOC (72 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2522(RSP)
Documents: PDF(148 KB) DOC(72 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on North Korea PDF (159 KB) DOC (83 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2521(RSP)
Documents: PDF(159 KB) DOC(83 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in Ethiopia PDF (166 KB) DOC (91 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2520(RSP)
Documents: PDF(166 KB) DOC(91 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the mutual defence clause (Article 42(7) TEU) PDF (150 KB) DOC (76 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/3034(RSP)
Documents: PDF(150 KB) DOC(76 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION in support of the peace process in Colombia PDF (277 KB) DOC (78 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/3033(RSP)
Documents: PDF(277 KB) DOC(78 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in the Maldives PDF (285 KB) DOC (84 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/3017(RSP)
Documents: PDF(285 KB) DOC(84 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the 20th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Agreement PDF (271 KB) DOC (71 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2979(RSP)
Documents: PDF(271 KB) DOC(71 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in Burundi PDF (303 KB) DOC (93 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2973(RSP)
Documents: PDF(303 KB) DOC(93 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the political situation in Cambodia PDF (281 KB) DOC (78 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2969(RSP)
Documents: PDF(281 KB) DOC(78 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Afghanistan, in particular the killings in the province of Zabul PDF (286 KB) DOC (79 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2968(RSP)
Documents: PDF(286 KB) DOC(79 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on freedom of expression in Bangladesh PDF (292 KB) DOC (85 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2970(RSP)
Documents: PDF(292 KB) DOC(85 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION situation in Cambodia PDF (147 KB) DOC (73 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2969(RSP)
Documents: PDF(147 KB) DOC(73 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Afghanistan, in particular the killings in the province of Zabul PDF (157 KB) DOC (75 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2968(RSP)
Documents: PDF(157 KB) DOC(75 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the freedom of expression in Bangladesh PDF (167 KB) DOC (74 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2970(RSP)
Documents: PDF(167 KB) DOC(74 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the mass displacement of children in Nigeria as a result of Boko Haram attacks PDF (158 KB) DOC (85 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2876(RSP)
Documents: PDF(158 KB) DOC(85 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in Thailand PDF (166 KB) DOC (84 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2875(RSP)
Documents: PDF(166 KB) DOC(84 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the Central African Republic PDF (170 KB) DOC (97 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2874(RSP)
Documents: PDF(170 KB) DOC(97 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the death penalty PDF (155 KB) DOC (81 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2879(RSP)
Documents: PDF(155 KB) DOC(81 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the case of Ali Mohammed al-Nimr PDF (159 KB) DOC (80 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2883(RSP)
Documents: PDF(159 KB) DOC(80 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the case of Ali Mohammed al-Nimr PDF (141 KB) DOC (68 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2883(RSP)
Documents: PDF(141 KB) DOC(68 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the mass displacement of children in Nigeria as a result of Boko Haram attacks PDF (144 KB) DOC (71 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2876(RSP)
Documents: PDF(144 KB) DOC(71 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in Thailand PDF (146 KB) DOC (72 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2875(RSP)
Documents: PDF(146 KB) DOC(72 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the Central African Republic PDF (174 KB) DOC (82 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2874(RSP)
Documents: PDF(174 KB) DOC(82 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the death penalty PDF (147 KB) DOC (74 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2879(RSP)
Documents: PDF(147 KB) DOC(74 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Azerbaijan PDF (155 KB) DOC (85 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2840(RSP)
Documents: PDF(155 KB) DOC(85 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Angola PDF (154 KB) DOC (84 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2839(RSP)
Documents: PDF(154 KB) DOC(84 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Azerbaijan PDF (155 KB) DOC (84 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2840(RSP)
Documents: PDF(155 KB) DOC(84 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in Angola PDF (158 KB) DOC (79 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2839(RSP)
Documents: PDF(158 KB) DOC(79 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Russia in particular the case of Eston Kohver, Oleg Sentzov, and Alexander Kolchenko PDF (152 KB) DOC (70 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2838(RSP)
Documents: PDF(152 KB) DOC(70 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the EU’s role in the Middle East Peace Process PDF (152 KB) DOC (72 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2685(RSP)
Documents: PDF(152 KB) DOC(72 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the Srebrenica Commemoration PDF (174 KB) DOC (79 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2747(RSP)
Documents: PDF(174 KB) DOC(79 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation of two Christian pastors in Sudan PDF (146 KB) DOC (76 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2766(RSP)
Documents: PDF(146 KB) DOC(76 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Bahrain, in particular the case of Nabeel Rajab PDF (155 KB) DOC (80 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2758(RSP)
Documents: PDF(155 KB) DOC(80 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in particular the case of the two detained human rights activists Yves Makwambala and Fred Bauma PDF (159 KB) DOC (89 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2757(RSP)
Documents: PDF(159 KB) DOC(89 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Cambodia’s draft laws on NGOs and trade unions PDF (153 KB) DOC (79 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2756(RSP)
Documents: PDF(153 KB) DOC(79 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in Yemen PDF (155 KB) DOC (83 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2760(RSP)
Documents: PDF(155 KB) DOC(83 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Sudan, "Situation of two Christian pastors" PDF (165 KB) DOC (74 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2766(RSP)
Documents: PDF(165 KB) DOC(74 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Bahrain, in particular the case of Nabeel Rajab PDF (153 KB) DOC (76 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2758(RSP)
Documents: PDF(153 KB) DOC(76 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on The Democratic Republic of CONGO, the case of two detained human rights activists Yves Makwambala and Fred Bauma PDF (167 KB) DOC (78 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2757(RSP)
Documents: PDF(167 KB) DOC(78 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Cambodia, draft laws on NGOs and trade unions PDF (166 KB) DOC (69 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2756(RSP)
Documents: PDF(166 KB) DOC(69 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in Yemen PDF (147 KB) DOC (79 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2760(RSP)
Documents: PDF(147 KB) DOC(79 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Syria: situation in Palmyra and the case of Mazen Darwish PDF (191 KB) DOC (87 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2732(RSP)
Documents: PDF(191 KB) DOC(87 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Paraguay: legal aspects related to child pregnancy PDF (157 KB) DOC (82 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2733(RSP)
Documents: PDF(157 KB) DOC(82 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on recent revelations on high-level corruption cases in FIFA PDF (162 KB) DOC (87 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2730(RSP)
Documents: PDF(162 KB) DOC(87 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in Nepal after the earthquakes PDF (135 KB) DOC (65 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2734(RSP)
Documents: PDF(135 KB) DOC(65 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Paraguay: the legal aspects related to the child pregnancy PDF (150 KB) DOC (71 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2733(RSP)
Documents: PDF(150 KB) DOC(71 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Syria, the situation in Palmyra and the case of Mazen Darwish PDF (146 KB) DOC (73 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2732(RSP)
Documents: PDF(146 KB) DOC(73 KB)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the escalation of violence between Israel and Palestine PDF (127 KB) DOC (54 KB)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2014/2723(RSP)
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Oral questions (6)

Disturbance of the free movement of goods by Greece PDF (99 KB) DOC (27 KB)
2016/11/22
Documents: PDF(99 KB) DOC(27 KB)
According to Europol at least 10 000 refugee children are missing PDF (196 KB) DOC (25 KB)
2016/11/22
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According to Europol at least 10 000 refugee children are missing PDF (196 KB) DOC (25 KB)
2016/11/22
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OLAF investigations PDF (103 KB) DOC (25 KB)
2016/11/22
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EU agricultural innovation systems PDF DOC
2016/11/22
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European Tourist Board PDF DOC
2016/11/22
Documents: PDF DOC

Written questions (13)

Protection of minority languages in Europe PDF (100 KB) DOC (18 KB)
2016/11/22
Documents: PDF(100 KB) DOC(18 KB)
EU reconstruction aid for Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew PDF (195 KB) DOC (17 KB)
2016/11/22
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EU reconstruction aid to Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew PDF (195 KB) DOC (16 KB)
2016/11/22
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Promoting the role of women in combating radicalisation and violent extremism PDF (196 KB) DOC (16 KB)
2016/11/22
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Chemical warfare agents (CWA) in the Baltic Sea PDF (100 KB) DOC (28 KB)
2016/11/22
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Follow-up Directive Women on Board PDF (105 KB) DOC (26 KB)
2016/11/22
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Implementation of Council decisions on the relocation of 160 000 asylum seekers from Italy and Greece PDF (195 KB) DOC (25 KB)
2016/11/22
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VP/HR - The case of President Omar al-Bashir before the International Criminal Court PDF (197 KB) DOC (26 KB)
2016/11/22
Documents: PDF(197 KB) DOC(26 KB)
VP/HR - Draft Amending Budget No 5/2015 PDF (101 KB) DOC (24 KB)
2016/11/22
Documents: PDF(101 KB) DOC(24 KB)
Draft Amending Budget No 5/2015 PDF (99 KB) DOC (24 KB)
2016/11/22
Documents: PDF(99 KB) DOC(24 KB)
European Aid for Nepal PDF (99 KB) DOC (27 KB)
2016/11/22
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Total ban on the use of languages other than the official language of Bulgaria during election campaigns PDF (197 KB) DOC (29 KB)
2016/11/22
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VP/HR - Case of Ahmed Douma and other political prisoners in Egypt PDF (99 KB) DOC (28 KB)
2016/11/22
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Written declarations (13)

Written declaration on increasing energy efficiency in rural, mountainous and remote areas

Written declaration on facilitating the access of regional and local authorities to European Structural and Investment Funds

Written declaration on supporting the European shipbuilding sector

Amendments (695)

Amendment 14 #

2019/2001(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines that the 2020 Union budget is the bridge to the next multiannual financial framework (MFF) for the period 2021-2027 and should contribute to creating a common, long-term vision on the future political priorities of the Union which bring the highest European added value; expects that, at the time of adoption of the 2020 budget, the Council and Parliament will be engaged in fully-fledged MFF negotiations, following a political agreement in the European Council; believes that a strong, responsible and forward-looking 2020 budget will facilitate an agreement and the transition towards the next MFF;
2019/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 15 #

2019/2001(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Believes that the last annual budget of the current MFF calls for special attention to its diligent implementation; expresses its support for the performance-based budgeting approach and reinforcing of the well performing programmes in the 2020 budget;
2019/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 31 #

2019/2001(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the transition from Horizon 2020 to Horizon Europe must be smooth to ensure stability for businesses, research facilities and academia; underlines the importance of Europe’s claim to leadership in key technologies in areas such as space, healthcare, the environment, safety and transportation, digitalisation and artificial intelligence; recalls at the same time the important role of fundamental research; requests an increase in financial resources to ensure that research and innovation activities continue to provide solutions for Europe’s needs and challenges and competitiveness; is alarmed by the substantial underfunding of Horizon 2020 during the entire period, resulting in a low success rate for excellent applications;
2019/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 34 #

2019/2001(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Underlines that the 2020 budget is expected to be the largest annual budget of Horizon 2020 and calls on the Commission to make full use of the upward flexibility when increasing its resources; calls for deepening of synergies with the European Structural and Investment Funds, for example by using these to enhance R&I capabilities especially in Member States with below average research and innovation performance;
2019/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 36 #

2019/2001(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Highlights the successes of EFSI in triggering additional investment in the EU, is concerned therefore by some of the recent findings by the European Court of Auditors pointing to instances of EFSI financing partly replacing other EU financial instruments or projects receiving EFSI support while they could have been financed otherwise1a, calls for improvements in the rest of the implementation period following the ECA’s recommendations; __________________ 1a European Fund for Strategic Investments: Action needed to make EFSI a full success. Special Report. European Court of Auditors, Luxembourg, 2019.
2019/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 44 #

2019/2001(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Considers the protection of the EU’s external borders with the support of a strengthened European Border and Coast Guard to be an inseparable condition for a European Union without internal borders, the proper functioning of the Schengen area and freedom of movement within the EU; considers it to be an obligation to ensure adequate funding, staffing and training of staff for all agencies operating in the field of border control, migration and security, acknowledging the considerable increase in their responsibilities, the importance of cooperation among them, and their vital role in reinforcing cooperation and coordination among the Member States;
2019/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 48 #

2019/2001(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Strongly supports initiatives in the field of defence with the aim of encouraging better cooperation between Member States; underlines furthermore the need to improve the competitiveness and innovation in the European defence industry that can contribute to stimulate growth and job creation;
2019/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 50 #

2019/2001(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that cybersecurity is critical to the Union’s prosperity and security, as well as to the privacy of its citizens, that cyberattacks and manipulation are threatening open societies, and that economic espionage is hindering the functioning of the digital single market and endangering the competitiveness of European enterprises; requests adequate financial resources to secure network and information systems and build strong cyber resilience; supports the new strategic cooperation agreement between the centre of expertise for cyber security in Europe (ENISA) and Europol to facilitate collaboration and exchange of expertise in the fight against cybercrime; considers it necessary to ensure adequate funding and staffing for ENISA;
2019/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 57 #

2019/2001(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Believes, with reference to its resolution of 25 October 2018 on the use of Facebook users’ data by Cambridge Analytica and the impact on data protection, that the fight against disinformation and any other type of foreign interference is a priority to ensure fair and democratic elections, in particular in the year of the European elections; requests additional financial resources to invesupports the guidelines that the Commission has set out on how exist in tools such as the recent What the EU does for me initiative to inform citizens on the Union’s work and highlight the efforts undertaken to promote peace, democracy, the rule of law and freedom of speechg EU rules should be used to tackle the use of personal data to target citizens on social media during election periods and guarantee the fairness of the electoral process; calls on all the political parties and foundations which are increasingly using these data to participate in the implementation of these guidelines;
2019/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 60 #

2019/2001(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Stresses that many citizens have the impression that Europe today does nothing for them but the opposite, and that Europe is viewed as a mechanics, distant and anonymous, from which only the economic, political, cultural or media elites benefit; requests, therefore, adequate financial resources to invest in tools such as the recent Citizens’ App and What Europe does for me initiative to inform citizens on the Union’s work and highlight the efforts undertaken to promote peace, democracy, the rule of law and freedom of speech; considers that such tools should be better disseminated at national level;
2019/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 63 #

2019/2001(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Requests additional financial resources to meet future demand for Erasmus+, the primary programme for education, training, youth and sport in Europe, also taking into account its external dimension; highlights the need for adequate resources for vocational education and training and for making the Programme’s funding accessible for people from all backgrounds; recalls that Parliament requested that the financial envelope for this programme be tripled in the next MFF; calls for cooperation to be strengthened between education and research, apprenticeship and research and in the area of sharing best practices based on participation in the Programme’s actions to maximize its added value;
2019/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 70 #

2019/2001(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that the fight against youth unemployment requires substantial additional financial efforts to create opportunities for education, training and employment; underlines, in this respect, the positive impact of the Youth Employment Initiative, supporting approximately 1.7 million young people until the end of 2017, thanks also to additional appropriations that Parliament secured for this programme in the EU budget over the years; underlines however that the Youth Employment Initiative should be further improved and be made more efficient, notably by ensuring that it brings real European added value to youth employment policies in the Member States and does not replace the financing of former national policies;
2019/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 71 #

2019/2001(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Stresses the importance of democratising Erasmus+ in order to develop a European Framework for Quality and Effective Apprenticeship as a way to boost the fight against youth unemployment; considers that the structural funds could be deployed in a more targeted manner for the financing of Vocational Education and Training (VET) centres as well as any relevant action undertaken to support apprenticeships; believes that, depending on the regional level of development, this support should be more saliently reflected in the investment priorities of the European Social Fund (for the apprentice’s work compensation and the social security coverage) as well as of the European Regional Development Fund as regards the provision of infrastructure and equipment for the VET centres;
2019/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 78 #

2019/2001(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Reiterates that social cohesion in Europe must contribute to sustainable solutions to long-term structural demographic change; emphasises the need for financial resources for research to provide ageing populations in Europe with adequate support in terms of access to mobility, healthcare and public services;
2019/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 83 #

2019/2001(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Recalls the need for solidarity and responsibility-sharing between the Member States in the area of migration and for asylum seekers, with a focus on effective integration of migrants and refugees in the Member States, as well as fair and mutual beneficial partnerships with countries in need; calls on the Member States to make good use of AMIF funds through national programs; reaffirms that tackling the root causes of migration represents a long-term sustainable solution; recalls therefore the necessity to devote sufficient financial means to instruments that aim at tackling issues such as lack of investment, instability and conflict in the countries of origin and transit especially in Africa;
2019/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 90 #

2019/2001(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Stresses that 2020 is the last year to achieve 20 % climate mainstreaming in the budget over the years 2014-2020; considers that a significant increase in climate-related spending is essential; calls for a robust, annual consolidation exercise to progress towards the mainstreaming target, with concrete and coherent safeguards that guarantee climate proof budgetary decisions are in line with the EU’s commitments under the Paris agreement, with comprehensive reporting and monitoring of results and a realistic assessment of climate change needs that corrects overestimations and proposes additional measures in case the exercise shows that targets will not be met; calls furthermore for the establishment of climate and sustainability proofing throughout the budget, where applicable;
2019/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 96 #

2019/2001(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses that the 2020 budget must significantly contribute to tackling environmental challenges and climate change; recalls the Union’s pledge to make the transition to a low-carbnet-zero emissions circular economy, but regrets that the Union might fall short of its climate goals; requests increased financial resources for LIFE and other programmes to support projects with European added value contributing to a clean energy transition and resource efficiency, as well as nature conservation, with a focus on biodiversity, habitats and endangered species;
2019/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 99 #

2019/2001(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Stresses that, in view of a coherent and effective approach to tackling climate change, the ratification and implementation of the Paris Agreement should be a condition of the EU for future trade agreements; recalls in this regard the European Parliament resolution of 3 July 2018 on climate diplomacy and its call on the Commission for a comprehensive assessment of consistency of existing free trade agreements with the Paris Agreement commitments; considers that if these commitments should not be fulfilled by a EU partner, the Commission could impose a temporary suspension of EU trade liberalisation commitments towards those partners;
2019/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 110 #

2019/2001(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. IRequests the application of Article 15(3) of the Financial Regulation, allowing de-committed amounts made as a result of total or partial non- implementation of corresponding research projects to be made available again to the benefit of the research programme in the framework of the annual budgetary procedure; recalls that contrary to the previous Financial Regulation where this possibility only existed under exceptional circumstances and had to be duly justified, no pre- conditions are now set for the implementation of this article; invites the Commission to report specifically on the amounts de-committed for research programmes and to provide all relevant information and details concerning Article 15(3) of the Financial Regulation; expects this Article and its corresponding procedure to be fully respected in the context of the 2020 budgetary procedure;
2019/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 3 #

2018/2275(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the overall level of commitment appropriations agreed, which represents an increase of EUR 1.728 million compared to the original reading of the Council; is pleased that the increases obtained in the negotiations worth EUR 943 million correspond to Parliament’s main political priorities, namely in support of researchers, young people, SMEs, increasing the security of EU citizens, tackling root causes of migration and, climate change and defence;
2018/12/07
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 4 #

2018/2275(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Regrets that, due to a late proposal from the Commission, the Council was not in position to agre the Council under the pretext that it did not have the necessary time to analyse it, refused as a matter of principle, in the context of the 2019 budgetary procedure, toany discussion on the use of the new Article 15(3) of the Financial Regulation, allowing de- committed amounts from research to be made available again in the framework of the annual budgetary procedure; invites therefore the Commission to report at least on a biannual basis specifically on the amounts de-committed for research programmes and to propose the use of Article 15(3) in the context of the 2020 budgetary procedure;
2018/12/07
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 6 #

2018/2275(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a In view of the increased support that Europol provides to the Member States in the framework of the law enforcement cooperation and its involvement in the fight against terrorism and cybercrime, welcomes the creation of 10 additional posts and the related increase of appropriations for Europol;
2018/12/07
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 6 #

2018/2180(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Notes that, during recent years, two legal proceedings were brought against the Agency concerning allegations of irregular recruitment decisions and; notes that the Agency was accused of irregular practicGeneral Court of the European Union dismissed both cases and ordered the applicants to pay the costs; notes the allegations in the press of potential conflict of interest relating to the use of the consulting services of a former stand- by temporary judge of the Civil Service Tribunal, and that certain ambiguities in that regard may still endure; calls on the Agency to report to the discharge authority on any updates to this issue; calls on the Agency to report to the discharge authority on measures taken to mitigate any risks of potential conflict of interest;
2019/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 212 #

2018/2166(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 96
96. Encouraged, in this context, the Commission and the Court to pay greater attention to simplification, results achieved, performance audits and the final impact of policies;
2019/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 260 #

2018/2166(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 46
Conflicts of interestRule of law and fight against fraud
2019/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 265 #

2018/2166(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 130
130. Deplores any kind of conflict of interestthreats to breach the values stated in Article 2 of the TEU that could compromise the implementation of the Union budget and undermine the trust of Union citizens in the proper management of Union taxpayers’ money; calls on the Commission to ensure that a zero tolerance policy with no double standards will apply regarding conflicts of interestany breach of EU law;
2019/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 268 #

2018/2166(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 131
131. Calls on the Commission to make acreate a unified Europe-wide strategy for the active avoidance of conflicts of interest as one of its priorities with an adapted strategy of ex ante and ex- post control; calls on the commission, OLAF and the future EPPO to include in this strategy the protection both of whistleblowers and of investigative journalists;
2019/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 21 #

2018/2151(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Takes note of the reported results of 26 completed projects in 2017 outside the EU to which the assessment through results measurement framework (REM) for external interventions allows appraisal of results not only as expected, but as achieved; observes, however, that concerning activities inside the EU, information is presented exclusivemostly on the potential impact and expected results of the new operations signed in 2017 based on the three pillar assessment (3PA) tool; reiterates its call on the Bank to include information about results achieved by completed projects inside the EU and to adapt 3PA if necessary for this purpose;
2018/11/27
Committee: CONT
Amendment 26 #

2018/2151(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Notes that the indicative geographical concentration limits set by the EFSI Steering Board requiring at the end of the investment period, the share of IIW investment (in terms of signed operations) in any three Member States together not to exceed 45% of the total EFSI portfolio has not been respected given that by 31 December 2017 the three Member States with the highest volume of signatures (France, Italy and Spain) accounted for roughly 47% of the volume signed; strongly believes there is still room forbut acknowledges recent relative improvement for broadening EFSI territorial distribution of funds while disseminating as well more widely its investment opportunities;
2018/11/27
Committee: CONT
Amendment 30 #

2018/2151(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
32. Asks the EIB, in this regard, to seriously take into consideration this recommendation and to ensure clear division of responsibilities at the level of the Management Committee; expects progress to be reported for 2018welcomes the initiated reform to alter the governance structure of the EIB;
2018/11/27
Committee: CONT
Amendment 40 #

2018/2151(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
39. Welcomes the adoption of the Interim Approach to the EIB policy towards weakly regulated, non-transparent and uncooperative jurisdictions (NCJ), adopted by the Board of Directors in January 2017, but expects that it should lead to theacknowledges the current revisionew of this policy in order to ameliorate the EIB’s tax due diligence in its external lending alongside the revised EIB group AML-CFT framework; calls on the EIB to perform adequate corporate and integrity due diligence to identifying the true beneficial owners of all of its clients and operations as well as ultimate investee companies when EIB investments into equity funds are at stake;
2018/11/27
Committee: CONT
Amendment 48 #

2018/2151(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
45. Recalls the need to provide for more stringent rules on conflicts of interest and for clear, strict and transparent criteria to prevent any form of influence or lack of objectivity in the mechanism of attribution of loans; reiteratacknowledges that the EIB musthas begun discussions to revise its Code of Conduct as soon as possible in order to make sure that its Vice- Presidents are not in charge of operations in their home Member States, since this poses a risk to the independence of the institution; calls on the EIB, in order to better prevent conflicts of interest in its governing bodies and potential ‘revolving door’ issues, to take into consideration the Ombudsman’s recommendations and to revise its Code of Conduct;
2018/11/27
Committee: CONT
Amendment 178 #

2018/2150(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, taking all of the above into account and in accordance with the Negotiating Framework, to formally suspend the accession negotiations with Turkey; remains, however,into account that the accession negotiations have been the main driving force for the comprehensive reforms in Turkey having changed the daily lives of millions of Turks in positive way, to continue with the accession process; remains committed to democratic dialogue with Turkey; asks the Commission to use, during the formal suspension of negotiations, all funds available under IPA II and the future IPA III to support, through a dedicated envelope directly managed by the EU, Turkey’s civil society, and to increase opportunities for people-to-people contacts, academic dialogue, access for Turkish students to European universities and media platforms for journalists;
2018/12/17
Committee: AFET
Amendment 7 #

2018/2046(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights that the Union continues to face numerous challenges and is convinced that, especially ahead of the UK withdrawal from the Union and, the 2019 European elections, Union citizens expect the necessary financial resources to be deployed from the Union budget, in order to allow the Union to effectively respond to the abovementioned challeUnion needs the necessary financial resources to respond to citizens expectations and allow the Union to effectively tackle the numerous challenges it faces such as the fight against youth unemployment, the security as well as humanitarian and migratory challenges, the fight against climate changes and to improve the day- to-day life of its citizens;
2018/10/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 14 #

2018/2046(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that Europe's citizens expect the Union to strain every sinew to ensure economic growth and foster job creation; recalls that meeting those expectations requires investments in research and innovation, digitalisation, education, infrastructure, SMEs and employment, particularly among the young people of Europe, and that any failure in that regard will foster disillusionment with the European ideal; expresses wonderment that the Council yet again proposes cuts to the very programmes that are designed to make the Union economy more competitive and innovative; stresses moreover that many of these programmes, for example Horizon 2020, are heavily oversubscribed, which constitutes a poor use of resources and means that many excellent projects do not receive funding; highlights also the fact that programmes such as Erasmus +, Horizon 2020 and the Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises (COSME) provide a vivid demonstration of the advantages of working together across the Union and help create a feeling of European belonging; decides therefore to reinforce considerably Erasmus + and to strengthen programmes that contribute to growth and job creation, including Horizon 2020, Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) and COSME;
2018/10/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 19 #

2018/2046(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to speed up the delivery of cohesion policy programmes and related payments with a view to reducing the length of the implementation period in the next Multiannual Financial Frameworks, initially, to year n+2;
2018/09/06
Committee: CONT
Amendment 20 #

2018/2046(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights that youth unemployment remains unacceptably high in certain Member States and that the situation of young people in NEET (not in education, employment or training) situations and the long-term unemployed is particularly worrying; stresses that young people are the most at risk of poverty and social and economic exclusion; decides therefore to reinforce the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) beyond the level proposed by the Commission; stresses that such reinforcement should in no way be seen as a frontloading of the YEI allocation endorsed in the context of the MFF mid-term revision; underlines however that the YEI should be further improved and be made more efficient, notably by ensuring that it brings real European added value to youth employment policies in the Member States and does not replace the financing of former national policies;
2018/10/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 21 #

2018/2046(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights that youth unemployment is the lowest since 2000 in the Union, but remains unacceptably high in certain Member States and that the situation of young people in NEET (not in education, employment or training) situations and the long-term unemployed is particularly worrying; stresses that young people are the most at risk of poverty and social and economic exclusion; decides therefore to reinforce the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) beyond the level proposed by the Commission; stresses that such reinforcement should in no way be seen as a frontloading of the YEI allocation endorsed in the context of the MFF mid-term revision;
2018/10/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 27 #

2018/2046(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Regrets that, under current projections, only 19,3 % of the Union budget 2014 – 2020 would be devoted to climate-related measures, failing thus to reach the target of 20 %; understands that this is largely due to delays in cohesion policy and the rural development programmes; urges Member States, who manage them, to speed up their implementation with a focus on climate- related spending in order to offset the lower allocations made during the first years of the MFF; calls on the Commission to develop an action plan within programmes having massive potential to contribute to reaching the climate-related spending target; calls also for a robust, annual consolidation exercise to progress towards the mainstreaming target, with concrete and coherent safeguards that guarantee climate proof budgetary decisions are in line with the EU’s commitments under the Paris agreement, with comprehensive reporting and monitoring of results anda realistic assessment of climate change needs that corrects overestimations and proposes additional measures in case the exercise shows that targets will not be met;
2018/10/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 35 #

2018/2046(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Underlines that Heading 3 has been largely mobilized in the recent years to address the migratory and refugee crisishallenge and that such actions should continue for as long as needed; calls on the Commission to actively monitor the adequacy of allocations under Heading 3 and make full use of all available instruments to respond in a timely manner to any unforeseen event that might require additional funding in the area of migration; decides to reinforce the Asylum Migration and Integration Fund to fully cover the needs of the Union in the field of migration, notably to support Members States in improving reception conditions, integration measures and practices for migrantasylum seekers and migrants, enhancing solidarity and responsibility-sharing between the Member States and fair and effective return strategies; notes, once again, that the Heading 3 ceiling is inadequate to provide appropriate funding to the internal dimension of those priorities, as well as to other priority programmes, for example in the field of security, justice, citizenship and culture; considers that willingness of local authorities to do more than planned in their National Programme under shared management, to support the Union Resettlement Programme, should be further supported through the direct management strand of the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF);
2018/10/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 44 #

2018/2046(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Reiterates that part of the solution to the migratory and refugee crisishallenge as well as to the security concerns of Union citizens lies in addressing the root causes of migration and devoting sufficient financial means to internal and external instruments that aim at tackling issues such as poverty, lack of employment, education and economic opportunities, instability, conflict and climate change in the European Neighbourhood and Africa ; is of the opinion that the Union should make optimal use of financial means under Heading 4 which proved to be insufficient to equally address all external challenges;
2018/10/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 46 #

2018/2046(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Regrets that Parliament has not been duly involved in the discussions on the extension of the Facility for Refugees in Turkey (FRT); reiterates its longstanding position that new initiatives must not be financed to the detriment of existing Union externalsuccessful Union projects; maintains, while recalling its support for the continuation of the FRT, that, given the stretched situation under Heading 4 to respond to external challenges, including migration, the Union budget should contribute to the financing of the second tranche in the same proportion as for the first one, i.e. EUR 1 billion, while the Member States should contribute EUR 2 billion to its financing;
2018/10/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 47 #

2018/2046(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Restores all cuts proposed by Council to the Draft Budget (DB) 2019 across all headings, with limited exceptions in Heading 4 and subheading 1b; fails to understand the reasoning behind the proposed cutsrefuses to accept the proposed cuts to programs with the highest European added value, for example those to Horizon 2020 and CEF, two programmes already affected by redeployments to EFSI, or majority of cuts to external policies; stresses that the logic behind Council’s cuts is not substantiated by the actual implementation figures and ignores the varying implementation patterns of certain programmes;
2018/10/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 53 #

2018/2046(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Recalls that Erasmus+ remains a highly valued and hugely popular programme promoting youth learning mobility and vocational training, as demonstrated by the volume of applications received, which by far exceeds the funding available, and notes also that it helps foster a strong sense of European identity and encouragement for young people to take part in European democracy; deeply regrets that the 2019 draft budget for Erasmus+ falls well below Parliament’s expectations, failing to go beyond the programmed figures under the current MFF; considers it therefore essential to reinforce the education and training and youth strands of Erasmus +, as a corollary to the strengthening of the Youth Employment Initiative under subheading 1b;
2018/10/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 55 #

2018/2046(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Highlights yet again the fact that SMEs are an essential part of the Union economy and play a crucial role in job creation throughout the Union; believes that there is a need to create an SME- friendly business environment, as well as to support SME clusters and networks; notes, however, with deep concern the Council cuts to the SME instrument, which send a contradictory signal to businesses in the Union; considers that the Union budget and access to finance backed by it can be a key tool in making SMEs more competitive and more innovative and in fostering the spirit of enterprise in the Union; recalls in this regard COSME and Horizon 2020;
2018/10/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 63 #

2018/2046(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Recalls that youth unemployment ratesWelcomes the decreasing rate of youth unemployment at Union level, with 14,8 % (1.10.2018) which is lower than before the economic crisis, but regrets that the level still remains unacceptably high in the Unioncertain Member States; emphasises that, in order to address this issue, it is of importance to ensure proper funding of the Youth Guarantee schemes through YEI and the European Social Fund (ESF); welcomes the agreement on the need to provide fresh funding for YEI, and the inclusion of the corresponding appropriations in the DB 2019; considers nevertheless that, given the challenges and risks posed by youth unemployment, YEI should benefit from increased appropriations and therefore decides to bring YEI to EUR 580 million in commitments in 2019; considers that this increase is in addition to the amount for YEI currently programmed for the 2014- 2020 period;
2018/10/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 88 #

2018/2046(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
35. Points out the essential role played by the Union agencies in the area of justice and home affairs in enhancing cooperation between Member States to address the concerns of Union citizens; decides to increase budgetary appropriations and staffing of European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (EUROPOL), European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL), European Union Agency for the operational management of Large-Scale IT Systems (eu- LISA), European Union’s Judicial Cooperation Unit (Eurojust) and for the new European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO);
2018/10/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 119 #

2018/2046(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53
53. In the context of the challenges the Union is still facing in terms of security, and bearing in mind the necessity for a coordinated European response, decides to reinforce the appropriations for the EUROPOL, EU-LISA, CEPOL, EUROJUST, EPPO, and the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA);
2018/10/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 163 #

2018/2046(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 79 a (new)
79 a. Reiterates Parliament’s support to the Strategic Communication Capacity and reinforces it to deliver a stronger coordinated EU response to the challenge of disinformation;
2018/10/03
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 10 #

2018/2037(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas the EU is both the world’s largest importer and exporter of agri-food products; at the same time the options of using CAP rural development programmes (RDPs) to contribute towards insurance, mutual funds and income stabilisation schemes for farmers have not been implemented widely;
2018/04/09
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 11 #

2018/2037(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
B b. whereas there is a gap between income in agricultural sector and those in other sectors of the economy and additionally agricultural income is highly volatile; there is a risk of land being abandoned in areas with natural constraints; there should be sufficient investment into farm restructuring, modernization, innovation, diversification and the uptake of new technologies;
2018/04/09
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 12 #

2018/2037(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)
B c. whereas according to ECA´s Mar 2018 briefing paper Future of the CAP in 2010, for every 100 farm managers above 55, there were 14 farm managers below 35; in 2013 this value decreased to 10.8 farm managers below 35; the average age of EU farmers increased from 49.2 to 51.4 years over the period 2004 to 2013; the smallest farms are most often those of older farmers;
2018/04/09
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 17 #

2018/2037(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas making EU value added a core objective is one of Commission´s proposals for all future EU policies; however, there is no commonly accepted definition for this concept;
2018/04/09
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 41 #

2018/2037(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Draws attention toWelcomes the intention to simplify and modernise the CAP, but; calls on the Commission to ensure that financial and performance control and audit functions are performed tounder the same standards and under the same criteria across all Member Statcross all Member States while fully respecting the principles of subsidiarity and flexibility; stresses that the Member States need to be given adequate competence to decide on the content, monitoring, control and sanctions of the support schemes applicable in their territories;
2018/04/09
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 71 #

2018/2037(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. SUnderlines that agreeing on applying a sound definition of EU value added would benefit public debate and decision-making on future EU spending; supports the move towards increased efficiency of farming and EU added value.
2018/04/09
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 76 #

2018/2037(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Stresses the need to continue the financing for rural development measures; endorses in this context the principles of LEADER-method as it is fostering innovations, partnership and networking in rural areas;
2018/04/09
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 78 #

2018/2037(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls for increased support for family farms and young farmers;
2018/04/09
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 79 #

2018/2037(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Calls for better synergies between CAP and other EU policies, in particular regarding energy, water supply, land use, biodiversity and ecosystems, and the development of remote and mountainous areas;
2018/04/09
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 82 #

2018/2037(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4 c. Urges the Commission and the Member States to monitor the significant price volatility of agricultural products and encourage the uptake of ‘risk management’ tools as they help to protect farmers’ incomes;
2018/04/09
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 83 #

2018/2037(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4 d. Calls for measures to further increase the competitiveness of food production sector, introduction of new technologies and increased productivity thus thereby strengthening the EU's leading role in the world.
2018/04/09
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 12 #

2018/2024(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the proposed reinforcements to Horizon 2020, the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), Erasmus+ and programmes contributing to increase the security of EU citizens; points, however, to the need to further reinforce support for SMEs, which are key to enabling economic growth and job creation, and to dedicated appropriate resources to the digitalisation of the EU industry and the promotion of digital skills and digital entrepreneurship, as well as for programmes supportive to young people, namely ErasmusPro; recalls its conviction that the 2019 Erasmus+ budget needs to be at least doubled in 2019;
2018/06/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 35 #

2018/2024(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses that in 2019, cohesion policy programmes will be at cruising speed, and emphasises Parliament’s commitment to ensuring adequate appropriations for these programmes; welcomeregrets the fact that almost allsome of the managing authorities for the 2014-2020 programmes have still nowt been designated ; asks the Commission to analyse the reasons for the delays and, if it results from procedural difficulties, to review the whole designation procedure; points out that the unacceptable delays in the implementation of operational programmes have been to a large extent due to the late designation of those authorities; calls on the Member States to ensure that the implementation of the programmes is accelerated so as to catch up with the delays, and to seek the Commission’s assistance in this respect;
2018/06/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 45 #

2018/2024(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. AgreBelieves that migrationensuring the security of its citizens and addressing the migration challenges remains a top Union priorityies in 2019; deems it crucial to maintain spending in thisese areas at a high and stable level;
2018/06/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 58 #

2018/2024(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. DisapprovesTakes note of the Commission’s proposal for the funding of the second tranche of the Facility for Refugees in Turkey (FRT); supports the continuation of the FRT, but maintains that, as also proposed by the Commission on 14 March 20186 , the EU budget should contribute to its financing to the sum of EUR 1 billion, with Member States contributing EUR 2 billion by means of bilateral contributions, in order to leave sufficient margins under the MFF special instruments for unforeseen events in the last two years of the current MFF, as well as the financing of other priorities; also maintains that as the FRT has been a new initiative within this MFF, it should be funded by fresh appropriations; _________________ 6 OJ C 106, 21.3.2018, p. 4. OJ C 106, 21.3.2018, p. 4.
2018/06/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 64 #

2018/2024(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Stresses that Erasmus+ remains the leading programme to foster youth mobility at all levels of education and vocational training and to encourage young people to take part in European democracy; recalls that administrative efforts need to be done to increase access to Erasmus+ and that the volume of eligible applications is by far exceeding the current budget ; believes, therefore, that the envelope of Erasmus+ should at least be doubled in 2019 to meet the eligible demand for this programme, notably that linked to lifelong learning;
2018/06/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 65 #

2018/2024(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17 b. Recalls the crucial role of SMEs as an important driver of EU’s employment, economic growth and competitiveness, and underscores that their adequate funding must remain one of the top priorities of the EU budget; reminds that the EU programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (COSME)is a successful programme, which have far more applicants than recipients of funding; regrets, in this respect, that the proposed allocation in commitments for COSME is not higher than 2.3 % in comparison with the 2018 budget and that the proposed allocation in payments is 0.6% lower in comparison with the 2018budget; calls, therefore, for COSME appropriations and payments to be reinforce in 2019, given the success of this programme;
2018/06/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 70 #

2018/2024(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Welcomes the fact that the implementation of the 2014-2020 programmes is reaching full speed, and reiterates that any ‘abnormal’ buildup of unpaid bills must be avoided in the future; also welcomeregrets the fact that the great majoritysome of the national managing authorities have still nowt been designated ; asks the Commission to analyse the reasons for the delays and, if it results from procedural difficulties, to review the whole designation procedure; calls on the Commission and the Member States to resolve any outstanding issues in order for the implementation to proceed smoothly;
2018/06/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 76 #

2018/2024(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Notes that a total of EUR 3 728.5 million in commitment appropriations is proposed for Heading 3, which represents a 6.7 % increase over 2018, and that the total for payment appropriations is EUR 3 486.4 million, i.e. a 17 % increase over last year’s proposals; underlines, however, that these increases follow years of declining funding levels and that overall funding for different key areas such as migration, border management or internal security still represents only 2.3 % of total proposed EU spending in 2019; questions the proposed EUR 281.2 million in commitments for supporting legal migration to the Union and promoting the effective integration of third-country nationals and enhancing fair and effective return strategies, which represents a 14.4 %decrease over 2018 ; calls on the Commission to provide further explanations as to the reasons for this cut;
2018/06/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 79 #

2018/2024(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
31. Expects the pressure on some Member States’ migration and asylum systems, as well as on their borders, to remain high in 2019, and urges the Union to remain vigilant regarding any future, unpredictable needs in these areas; calls in this regard for a reinforcement of the means of control at the external borders and reaffirms that tackling the root causes of the migration and refugee crisis represents a long-term sustainable solution, along with stabilisation of the EU’s neighbourhoods, and that investments in the countries of origin of migrants and refugees are key to achieving this objective ;
2018/06/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 83 #

2018/2024(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32 a. Takes note of the fact that, in its financial programming for the year 2019, the Commission grants EUR 175 million of financial aid for Greece: considers this aid appropriate in the light of the situation in that country and in any case does not relieve this aid in question; considers, however, that financial support should also be granted to Italy and questions the lack of such support in the Commission's programming; calls therefore on the Commission to state the reasons which led it to take such a decision; recalls that Italy is the only country where a majority of its population considers that they have not benefited from membership of the European Union;
2018/06/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 89 #

2018/2024(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
33. Believes that in the context of a wide range of security concerns, including changing forms of radicalisation, violence and terrorism that surpass individual Member States’ capacity to respond, the EU budget should encourage cooperation on security-related matters; in this context, questions how this high-risk security context is reconcilable with the proposed significant decrease of commitment appropriations (-26,6 %) for the Internal Security Fund (ISF); regrets that the Commission has still not presented a proposal which would provide for the expression of financial solidarity at EU level to victims of acts of terrorism and their families; recalls the commitments made by the Commission in this respect during the conciliation on the 2018 budget and calls on the Commission to do the necessary to ensure that such aid is put in place rapidly;
2018/06/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 107 #

2018/2024(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
45. Stresses the importance of pilot projects (PP) and preparatory actions (PA) as tools for the formulation of political priorities and the introduction of new initiatives that might turn into standing EU activities and programmes; intends to proceed with the identification of a balanced package of PP-PAs, reflecting the political priorities of Parliament; calls for and taking into account a proper and timely technical pre- assessment of its proposals submitted toby the Commission; notes that in the current proposal, the margin in some headings is limited, or even non-existent, and intends to explore ways to make room for possible PP-PAs without decreasing other political priorities;
2018/06/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 116 #

2018/2024(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47
47. Reiterates its position that the 5 % staff reduction target has been successfully reached and underlines that in the light of the Court of Auditors’ rapid case review, there isis practice did not need to continue this policycessarily meet the expected results; believes that the decentralised agencies need to be assessed using a case-by-case approach; welcomes the endorsement by all institutions of the recommendations of the Interinstitutional Working Group;
2018/06/20
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 4 #

2018/2001(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas a budget of EUR 2 026 844 000 has been proposed by the Secretary-General for Parliament's preliminary draft estimates for 2019, representing an overall increase of 3,90 % on the 2018 budget (including EUR 37,3 million for the change of parliamentary term and EUR 34,3 million for other extraordinary expenditure) and an increas share of 18,79 % onf heading V of the 2014-2020 MFF;
2018/03/14
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 9 #

2018/2001(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Recital F
F. whereas, in the case of the US House of Representatives, the total appropriations dedicated to the representational allowance of Members amounted to EUR 500 million for 435 Representatives8 , whereas for Parliament, those appropriations amounted to EUR 458 million for 751 MEPs9 ; __________________ 8 CRS report on Legislative Branch: FY2016 Appropriations, 1 February 2016. 9 Report of the Secretary General to the Bureau on the Preliminary Draft Estimates of the European Parliament for the Financial Year 2019;
2018/03/14
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 22 #

2018/0254(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
(2) The Fund would contribute to the establishment of a strong, competitive and innovative defence industrial and technological base and go hand in hand with the Union's initiatives towards a more integrated European Defence Market and in particular, the two Directives6 on procurement and on EU transfers in the defence sector adopted in 2009. The fund will form a cornerstone of a sound European defence industrial policy. _________________ 6 Directive 2009/43/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, simplifying terms and conditions of transfers of defence-related products within the Community, OJ L 146, 10.6.2009, p. 1; Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the coordination of procedures for the award of certain works contracts, supply contracts and service contracts by contracting authorities or entities in the fields of defence and security, OJ L 216, 20.8.2009, p. 76.
2018/10/11
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 26 #

2018/0254(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) The Fund should provide adequate support for research and development actions in the area of disruptive technologies for defence;
2018/10/11
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 33 #

2018/0254(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21 a (new)
(21a) Actions with the participation of cross-border SMEs support the opening up of the supply chains and contribute to the objectives of the Fund. Such actions should therefore be eligible for an increased funding rate which should benefit all entities participating in the consortium.
2018/10/11
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 35 #

2018/0254(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
(23) The promotion of innovation and technological development in the Union defence industry should take place in a manner coherent with the security and defence interests of the Union. Accordingly, the action's contribution to those interests and to the defence research and capability priorities commonly agreed by Member States should serve as an award criterion. Within the Union, common defence research and capability shortfalls are identified in the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) framework notably through Overarching Strategic Research Agenda and the Capability Development Plan. Other Union processes such as the Coordinated Annual Review on Defence and the Permanent Structured Cooperation will support the implementation of relevant priorities through identifying and taking forward opportunities for enhanced cooperation with a view to fulfilling the EU level of ambition on security and defence. Where appropriate, regional and international priorities, including those in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation context, mayshould also be taken into account if they are in line with Union priorities and do not prevent any Member State or an associated country from participating, while also taking into account that unnecessary duplication should be avoided.
2018/10/11
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 43 #

2018/0254(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 46 a (new)
(46a) The Commission should establish and maintain a standing stakeholder conference on the development of a common European armaments and capability policy. Twice a year this conference should be an open forum for an exchange between all defence stakeholders where the European armaments and capability policy stands and how it could develop in the future.
2018/10/11
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 46 #

2018/0254(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) support collaborative development projects of defence products and technologies consistent with defence capability priorities commonly agreed by Member States within the framework of the Common Foreign and Security Policy, thus contributing to greater efficiency of defence spending within the Union, achieving greater economies of scale, reducing the risk of unnecessary duplication and as such reducing the fragmentation of defence products and technologies throughout the Union. Ultimately, the Fund will lead to greater interoperability between Member States' capabilities and to the effective implementation of a sound European defence industrial policy.
2018/10/11
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 52 #

2018/0254(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) up to EUR 8 900 000 000 for development actions of which up to 5% for SMEs.
2018/10/11
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 59 #

2018/0254(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2
2. Proposals shall be systematically screened to identify those actions raising complex or serious ethics issues and submit them to an ethics assessment. Ethics screenings and assessments shall be carried out by the Commission with the support of experts on defence ethicin close cooperation with the Member States. The Commission shall ensure the transparency of the ethics procedures as much as possible.
2018/10/11
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 83 #

2018/0254(COD)

2. The Commission shall implement information and communication actions relating to the Fund, and its actions and results. Financial resources allocated to the Fund shall also contribute to the corporate communication of the political priorities of the Union, as far as they are related to the objectives referred to in Article 3, and set- up and maintain a standing stakeholder conference on the development of a common European armaments and capability policy.
2018/10/11
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 31 #

2018/0249(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3
3. Within the specific objectives set out in paragraph 2, the instrument shall be implemented inter alia through the implementation measures listed in Annex II.
2018/10/11
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 32 #

2018/0249(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. Within the objectives referred to in Article 3 and, where appropriate, in line with the implementation measures listed in Annex II, the instrument shall in particular support the actions listed in Annex III.
2018/10/11
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 41 #

2018/0249(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. The contribution from the Union budget to the technical assistance at the initiative of the Member States may amount to 100% of the total eligible expenditure.
2018/10/11
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 43 #

2018/0249(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 3
3. ItThe Commission shall consult the European Border and Coast Guard Agency on the draft programmes with a specific emphasis on the activities included under operating support in line with Article 3(2)(a) to ensure consistency and complementarity of the actions of the Agency and those of the Member States regarding border management as well as to avoid double financing and to achieve cost efficiency.
2018/10/11
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 46 #

2018/0249(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 12 – point c
(c) Member States may decide to purchase items for multi-purpose maritime operations supported by the instrumentassets or develop ICT-systems, provided that these items when operated by the relevant national authorities are involved in border surveillance operations at least 60 % of the total period of use for national purposes within a year. These iItems shall be registered at the technical equipment pool of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency in view of making these assets available in accordance with Article 39(8) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1624;
2018/10/11
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 47 #

2018/0249(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Member States may decide to purchase equipment or develop ICT- systems for multi-purpose use provided that these items and systems when operated by the relevant national authorities are in a majority used for the actions which fall under the scope of the Fund or instrument. The costs of these actions maybe included in full to the Fund or instrument.
2018/10/11
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 53 #

2018/0249(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – point 9 a (new)
(9 a) Measures which aim at improving the interoperability of IT systems and communication networks.
2018/10/11
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 149 #

2018/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) Particular attention shall be paid to rural areas affected by industrial transition, and regions which suffer from severe and permanent natural or demographic handicaps pursuant to Article 174 of TFEU.
2018/10/24
Committee: REGI
Amendment 327 #

2018/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 64
(64) A certain amount of the resources from ERDF, the ESF+ and the Cohesion Fund should be allocated to the European Urban Initiative which should be implemented through direct or indirect management by the Commission. Following the EP Resolution calling for an EU Agenda for rural, mountainous and remote areas, similar provision should be addressed to those areas as well.
2018/10/24
Committee: REGI
Amendment 429 #

2018/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) a Europe closer to citizens by fostering the sustainable and integrated development of urban areas, rural and coastal areareas, regions suffering from severe and permanent natural or demographic handicaps and local initiatives.
2018/10/24
Committee: REGI
Amendment 625 #

2018/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point g a (new)
(g a) where appropriate, an integrated approach to address the demographic challenges of regions or specific needs of geographical areas which suffer from severe and permanent natural or demographic handicaps as referred to in Article174 TFEU.
2018/10/24
Committee: REGI
Amendment 1 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Draft opinion
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;
2018/10/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 13 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Draft opinion
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;
2018/10/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 27 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Draft opinion
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.
2018/10/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 10 #

2017/2286(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas support for populist and extremists movements in all Member States has been rising and has often led to misleadingpopulist movements in all Member States highlighting the need for better and more transparent information about the EU and its budget;
2018/02/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 12 #

2017/2286(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas years of austerity policies have reinforced the mistrust of citizens towards the EU;deleted
2018/02/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 23 #

2017/2286(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the slow recovery from the consequences of the financial, economic and social crisis has fallen short of influencing positively the day-to-day lives of EU citizens, while sociwhile the strengthening recovery from the financial, economic and social crisis creates possibilities for the EU Member States and citizens, a special focus should however be on the different regions capability to take advantages of the increasing growth, so as to avoid social and regional inequalities keep onfrom growing;
2018/02/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 25 #

2017/2286(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the slow recovery from, after many of them have been hard hit, for several years, by the consequences of the financial, economic and social crisis has fallen short of influencing positiv, citizens feely the day-to-day lives of EU citizens, while social inequalities keep on growingbeneficial effects of the renewed growth, the increase in employment and the stabilizing of public finances;
2018/02/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 33 #

2017/2286(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises that, contrary to populist narrative, EU citizens expect the Union to do more, and to protect them from the consequences of global competition, climate change and international security threaclimate change, international security threats and the negative consequences of global competition, while helping them reap its benefits; believes that in order to fulfil these expectations, the EU must, within the remit of its competences, perform better, so as to narrow the gap in living standards between EU citizens, to prepare the European economy and EU citizens to face up to the challengefor the opportunity of digitalisation, to manage migration flows, and to put an end to various kinds of discrimination, such as discrimination against women or LGBTI people, while fully adhering to the EU 2020 strategy and, UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris agreement;
2018/02/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 47 #

2017/2286(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that the 2019 EU budget must primarily answer to the challenges the EU youth is facing, through support for entrepreneurship and via an improved mobility at all levels of education and vocational training;
2018/02/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 52 #

2017/2286(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Believes that the priorities for the 2019 EU budget should be growth, innovation, competitivness, fight against climate change and transition to renewable energy, migration and security;
2018/02/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 53 #

2017/2286(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Calls on the Commission to fulfil the objectives of the Paris agreement and the EU’s own long-term climate goals by meeting the 20 % spending target for climate in current 2014-2020 MFF; stresses, in this regard, that the contribution for 2019 should significantly overshoot the overall target in order to offset the lower allocations made during the first years of the MFF and that the mechanism of climate change mainstreaming should be fully optimised;
2018/02/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 54 #

2017/2286(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Supports the widening of opportunities for the young people to participate in solidarity activities; calls for a swift roll-out and thorough implementation of the European Solidarity Corps following the foreseen adoption of the initiative in 2018;
2018/02/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 59 #

2017/2286(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the fact that, at the strong request of Parliament, the result of the conciliation on the 2018 EU budget was to increase the originally proposed specific allocation for the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) by EUR 116.7 million of fresh appropriations, bringing its total amount to EUR 350 million in 2018, but points to the need to improve the implementation of the funds that has lagged behind; expects the 2019 budget to demonstrate great ambition to fight youth unemployment in accordance with the real absorption capacity in that area;
2018/02/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 63 #

2017/2286(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls on the Commission to make available for 2019 the financial data on implementation of the Youth Employment Initiative broken down by national share to complement the data reporting on total costs that is currently publicly available; urges the Commission to improve synergies between the Youth Employment Initiative, the European Social Fund, and national budgets of the Members States to make sure that the YEI does not substitute for national funding for the NEETs;
2018/02/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 66 #

2017/2286(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Believes that, in the light of the celebration of its 30as proved by the volume of applications exceeding the anniversaryvailable funding, Erasmus+ remains the leading programme to foster youth mobility, learning and inculcateing key European values in young people, together with the EU’s culture programmes; believes that the 2019 Erasmus+ budget should be sufficient to answer positively to all eligible demands;
2018/02/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 70 #

2017/2286(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. RecommendsBelieves that research, competitiveness and SMEs are key to enable economic growth and job creation; underlines therefore the importance to providinge EU companies, especially SMEs, with a favourable environment for innovation, by properly financing the EU’s research programmes, such as Horizon 2020, and programmes that support SMEs, such as COSME; considers this to be necessary in view of the rapidly changing and highly competitive world and the profound changes in all sectors brought on by digitalisationresearch and investments to reach a genuinely competitive EU economy on a global level; stresses the importance of a stable and increased budget of Heading 1a, with a proper financing of the successful Horizon 2020, and programmes that support SMEs, such as COSME;
2018/02/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 75 #

2017/2286(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Stresses the potential for economic growth stemming from the technological transformation and calls for an appropriate role of the EU budget in supporting the digitalisation of the European industry and the promotion of digital skills and digital entrepreneurship.
2018/02/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 80 #

2017/2286(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls thatWelcomes the extension and enhancement of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) and the expansion of the investment target enabled by the increase of the EU guarantee; reminds that the enlarged guarantee fund has been financed partly at the expense of Horizon 2020 and the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF); reiterates Parliament’s long-standing position that any new initiatives should be financed by new appropriations;
2018/02/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 86 #

2017/2286(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Stresses that the extended EFSI should make a significant progress in 2019 on delivering on better geographical coverage, so that all regions can equally benefit from the leverage provided by the EU budget guarantee; calls on the Member States to implement structural reforms that improve the investment environment and local capacities for successful implementation of EFSI support in all regions;
2018/02/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 93 #

2017/2286(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the Member States’ recent commitment to a renewed EU defence agenda, which seeks to enhance both hard and soft power, and considers it to be in line with the security concerns of citizens, in the light of rising global instability that is exacerbated by new types of threats; supports the recent Commission initiative to launch the European Defence Industrial Development Programme, as a first stage of the European Defence Fund; reiterates that it should not be financed by any redeployments from existing successful programmes;
2018/02/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 94 #

2017/2286(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Underlines that tackling internal security must remain the Union’s top priority and calls for the reinforced funding for this evolving policy; is convinced that the EU needs to invest more in the strengthening and the management of its borders, enhancing cooperation between law enforcement agencies and national authorities and fighting terrorism, radicalisation and organised crime, ensuring the interoperability of information systems; underlines, in this respect, the role played by the Internal Security Fund (ISF) and the need to adequately fund agencies in the areas of borders, security and justice; reminds that the financial envelope of this instrument was significantly reduced for 2018;
2018/02/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 96 #

2017/2286(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8 b. Calls for increased funding to combat the phenomenon of radicalization that breeds violent extremism within the Union; considers that this objective can be achieved by promoting integration and combating discrimination, racism and xenophobia;
2018/02/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 97 #

2017/2286(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8 c. Considers that tackling irregular migration and the reception of the asylum seekers is one of the main challenge; welcomes the role played by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF); calls for adequate budgeting in 2019 for this fund in order to support dignified reception of asylum seekers in the Member States, fair return strategies, resettlement programs, legal migration policies and the promotion of effective integration of third country national; reaffirms the importance of having targeted financial means to tackle the root causes of the migrant and refugee crisis; stresses that, to this end, the EU budget must fund measures in the countries of origin of migrants and in the host countries of refugees, including, but not limited to, measures to tackle poverty, unemployment, educational and economic challenges and instability, conflict and climate change;
2018/02/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 98 #

2017/2286(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 d (new)
8 d. Calls on the Commission to present a proposal which would aim at providing at the European level for the expression of financial solidarity to victims of acts of terrorism and their families;
2018/02/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 101 #

2017/2286(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Expects the negotiations on the 2019 budget to lead to realistic operational and administrative funding of the EU agencies and the new EU bodies, enabling them to accomplish their growing tasks of fighting organised crime, terrorism and border managemen against cross-border crime and cybercrime, drugs, fraud, money laundering, terrorism, support for asylum, judicial cooperation, police cooperation, border management, data protection, support for information systems on a large scale and support for fundamental rights; calls for the allocation of adequate resources to ensure the proper implementation and functioning of the European Public Prosecutor's Office; calls, in a more general way, for a thorough assessment of the strategic interest and tasks of all agencies and the possibilities of grouping agencies according to the strategic nature of their mission and their result;
2018/02/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 105 #

2017/2286(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Expects the negotiations on the 2019 budget to lead to realistic operational and administrative funding of the EU agencies, enabling them to accomplish their growing tasks of fighting organised crime, terrorism and border management, and completeing the Energy Union;
2018/02/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 117 #

2017/2286(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. StressBelieves that the Member States’ strong social protection systems have helped them to mitigate the consequences of the crisis; believes that the EU can support the Member States, while fully respecting their competences, by budgeting properly programmes which set out to fight inequalities, alleviate the worst forms of poverty, including child poverty, and overcome the negative effects of digitalisation on working conditions and social protection systemsEU budget should contribute to the efforts by the Member States, to fight inequalities, create growth and jobs, alleviate the worst forms of poverty, including child poverty, and prepare citizens to benefit from digitalisation;
2018/02/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 132 #

2017/2286(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Reiterates its concern about delays to the implementation of the cohesion policy, and expects this important expresse Member States to get the implementation of theis EU’s territorial solidarity to getmost important investment policy up to speed; believes that sufficient levels of payment and appropriations for commitments should be provided in order for implementation to proceed smoothly;
2018/02/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 143 #

2017/2286(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Believes that both the EU and the Member States should demonstrate solidarity towards migrantasylum seekers arriving in Europe in facing up to this challenge; reiterates the importance of the principle of burden-sharing among Member States in financing the efforts needed to provide sufficient support for refugees; believes that EU agencies and policies involved in or relating to the management of migration flows should be adequately financed to meet this challenge and that the EU, in order to mitigate the cost in the long term and by acting in a manner befitting its values, should also demonstrate solidarity in creating conditions for peace and prosperity in the countries of origin by placing greater emphasis on development policies; recalls that the redeployment of funding from development to security and defence objectives must be avoided;
2018/02/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 147 #

2017/2286(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Reiterates its position that the satellite budgetary mechanisms such as trust funds and other similar instruments circumvent the budgetary procedure, undermine transparency of budgetary management and obstruct the right of the Parliament to exercise effective scrutiny of expenditures; considers, therefore, that these external instruments that were created in recent years must be incorporated into the Union budget;
2018/02/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 9 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. InvitWelcomes the EIB to pursue efforts in that direction by´s efforts to providinge policymakers with complete and exhaustive information on the concrete and achieved economic, social and environmental impacts and added value of its operations in the Member States and outside the EU in the form of 3PA and ReM reports respectively; stresses the importance of carrying out, for each project, an independent ex-ante and ex-post evaluation; calls on the EIB to provide detailed examples of crossnational added value in its impact investment reporting as well as key-indicators of sectoral and intersectoral successes;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 15 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Points out the recurrent need for the EIB to contribute to reducing the lasting investment gap on the basis of sound economic criteria; emphasisesnotes therefore that the assessment of funded projects should also takes into account social, economic and environmental externalities (both positive and negative), especially with respect to the effects that they have on local communities, in order to understand whether real added value is delivered to EU citizens;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 16 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Considers that approval of investment projects should be based on a sound, independent analysis assessing the financial sustainability and risks associated with the projects, in order to avoid the risk of socialisation of losses and privatisation of returns when public resources are involved; stresses that the provision of public subsidieslending should be envisaged only for the execution of missions of general interests and where market failures have been clearly identified;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 21 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the EIB to take into account, in the case of large-scale infrastructure projects, all risks likely to have an impact on the environment and to finance only those which have demonstrated real added value for the environment, the economy and the local population; stresses the importance of strict monitoring of possible risks of corruption and fraud and asks the EIB to freeze any loans to projects wheren an official investigation is underway, OLAF or national, so requires;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 25 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Considers the triple-A rating to be a relevantn essential asset for the development of the EIB’s investment strategy and long- term lending priorities; recalls, however, that in order to contribute to the economic development of the EU, the EIB’s instruments and interventions – notably the ones based on risk transfers – cannot be risk-free;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 28 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Considers that leveraging up the impact and ensuring additionality are of pivotal relevance; takes note of the modelling and estimated impact of the EIB’s activities, which should contribute to an additional 1.1 % of GDP growth and to the creation of an additional 1.4 million jobs by 2030; welcomes the fact that 385 000 SMEs, which are the backbone of the EU economy and drivers of employment and sustainable growth, will benefit from EIF financing; asks the EIB to regularly report on updated leverage effects; understands however, that leverage vary among sectors and a project with lower leverage does not necessarily imply low added value;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 33 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Recalls that the underlying rationale of the EFSI, which is supported by the EU budget, unlike other current EIB financing instruments, is to provide additionality by identifying truly additional and innovative future-oriented sectors, and projects with higher risk, along with new counterparts from the private sector;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 34 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Recalls that the assessment of the additionality of all EFSI-supported projects must be duly documented; regrets that the scoreboards for the approved operations are not published under EFSI 1.0; recalls that this failure to publish creates both accountability and transparency issues; emphasises thate importance of transparency regarding the EFSI Scoreboard of Indicators is necessary, also in view of the need to hold the EFSI Investment Committee accountable, and notes therefore positively that the Scoreboard of Indicators will be made public under EFSI 2.0;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 37 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Deplores the fact that tCalls on the Bank to shed lisght ofn EFSI projects chosen to receive funding under EFSIwhich potentially includes infrastructure installations with serious environmental impact and dubious additionality, such as first generation biorefineries, steelworks, regasification and gas storage facilities and motorways; criticises the fact that in many cases the EIB has failed to take action on reports from local authorities, stakeholder communities and civil society groups of environmental and social legislation being breached by funding recipients and by the projects financed, claiming that it was not its responsibility to carry out the necessary investigations; calls onalls on the Bank to seriously take into account statements from local authorities, stakeholder communities and civil society groups according to its due diligence procedures; recommends the EIB, with reference to the precautionary principle, to freeze and, if necessary, to withdraw funding wherever there is any suspicionenough evidence of environmental infringements and damage to society or to local communities;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 40 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Regrets the fact that only 20 % of EFSI financing has supported projects that contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation, whereas the EIB’s standard portfolio has attained the 25% threshold; calls on the EIB to ensure that its maximum standards are respected in all circumstances, with a view to protecting the environment and meeting the COP21 criteria; notes therefore with satisfaction that at least 40% of EFSI projects under the Infrastructure and Innovation Window will be committed to climate action in line with the COP21 objectives;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 44 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
31. UrgesTakes note of the improvement of the transparency of the operations selection process and disclosure of all operational information on signed operations through the scoreboard of indicators, as well as of the accountability of operations, under EFSI 2.0 regulation;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 50 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
45. Notes that total lending to innovative projects in 2016 amounted to EUR 13.5 billion, of which EUR 12.2 billion concerned first signatures, while total project investment costs corresponding to new operations were EUR 50.2 billion;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 51 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
46. UrEncourages the EIB to ensurcontinue its support for innovative firms in their development and commercialisation of new products, processes and services as they face difficulties in obtaining financial aid from commercial banks; stresses the role of the EIB in helping to complete Europe’s digital network (e.g. fast broadband) and create a single digital market, including digital services; encourages the EIB to develop incentives aimed at promoting public and private sector investment in R&D in the fields of information and communications technology, life sciences, food, sustainable agriculture, forestry and low- carbon technologies;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 58 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58
58. Calls on the EIB, with regard to its newrevised External Lending Mandate, to ensure that real added value and additionality are brought by the new priority on migration added to the previous ones, namely climate, SMEsby the co- legislators to the existing ones, namely climate, private sector development and socio-economic infrastructure; stresses, therefore, the need to implement the newly-created Economic Resilience Initiative in an appropriate manner, supporting projects that are different from previously financed ones;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 64 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 61
61. Welcomes the disclosure of the minutes of the meetings of the EIB Board of Directors, and calls onrecommends the EIB also to disclose the minutesconsider disclosing non-confidential information of the meetings of the Management Committee; at project level, reiterates its request concerning the systematic disclosure of Completion Reports for EIB activities outside Europe, as well as of the 3PA and REM sheets for EIB projects; believes that the practice of disclosing the Scoreboard of Indicators, as foreseen for EFSI 2.0, should be applied to all projects implemented by the EIB;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 69 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 66
66. Positively notes the importance given by the EIB to its policy of zero tolerance of fraud, corruption and collusion; insists that the EIB revise its policy on preventing and deterring prohibited conduct in EIB activities, which should set in stone the need for the EIB to freeze financing or approving furthercalls on the EIB to take all appropriate measures, including suspension of payments and loan disbursements for, with view of projtects that are under ongoing national or OLAF investigation for corruption and frauding the EIB´s and the EU´s financial interests whenever OLAF or criminal investigations so require and calls further the EIB to adapt its internal rules accordingly; underlines the need to disclose information on the contracting and subcontracting system in order to avoid any risk of fraud and corruption; stresses the fact that the EIB website should contain a dedicated and visible space where debarred entities are listed publicly, in order to ensure a deterrent effect; underlines the importance of the EIB entering into cross-debarment networks with other multilateral lenders; calls on the EIB to harmonise its debarment policy with other multilateral lenders, such as the World Bank, which lists more than 800 individuals and firms as ‘debarred’ despite its volume of funding being approximately one half of that of the EIB;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 1 #

2017/2179(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
- having regard to the report of the European Court of Auditors on the rapid case review on the implementation of the 5% reduction of staff posts published on 21 December 2017,
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 3 #

2017/2179(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that the agencies are highly visible in the Member States and have significant influence on policy and decision making and programme implementation in areas of vital importance to European citizens, such as health, safety, security, freedom and justice, research and industrial development, economic and monetary affairs, employment and social progress; reiterates the importance of the tasks performed by agencies and their direct impact on the daily lives of Union citizens; reiterates also the importance of the autonomy of the agencies, in particular of the regulatory agencies and those with the function of independent information collection; recalls that the main reasons for establishing agencies was for the purpose of making independent technical or scientific assessments, operating Union systems and facilitating the implementation of the Union Single Market;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2017/2179(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the agencies employ 10 364 (2015: 9 848) permanent, temporary, contract or seconded staff, representing an increase of 5,24 % compared with the previous year mainly due to the new tasks assigned; points out that the number of staff increased the most in agencies dealing with matters related to industry, research and energy (110), civil liberties, justice and home affairs (177) and economic and monetary affairs (85);
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 9 #

2017/2179(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Is of the opinion that the discharge procedure needs to be streamlined and accelerated towards n+1; calls therefore on the Agencies and the Court to follow the good example set by the private sector and proposes to set the deadline for the publication of the Agencies’ final accounts, annual activity reports and reports on budgetary and financial management on 31 March as well as advance the publication of the Court’s annual reports on Agencies for July 1st at the very latest, in order to simplify and speed up the process, thereby closing the discharge procedure within the year following the accounting year in question;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 17 #

2017/2179(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses, therefore, the need to establish clear definitions of acceptable carry-overs in order to streamline the Court’s reporting on this issue, as well as to enable the discharge authority to distinguish between the carry-overs indicating poor budgetary planning, and the carry-overs as a budgetary tool which support multiannual programmes as well as procurement planning; believes that Court’s suggestion to use differentiated carry overs would allow more transparency as regards what constitutes a justified carry-over;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 19 #

2017/2179(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Observes that the audited budgetary implementation reports of certain agencies differ from the level of detail provided by most other agencies, which hampers readability and comparability, and which demonstrates the need for clear guidelines on the agencies’ budget reporting; acknowledges the efforts made in order to ensure consistency on the presentation and reporting of accounts; callsstresses the importance of more standardized and comparable reporting to simplify and rationalize the discharge procedure and to facilitate discharge authority’s work; calls furthermore on the Network and the individual agencies to continue working on streamlined indicators and report the measures taken to the discharge authority;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 27 #

2017/2179(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Notes that some agencies continue to have dual headquarters and multiple operational centres and offices; considers that all dual and multiple seats which do not offer any operational added value should be done away with at the earliest opportunity; expects Commission’s evaluation in this regard, with focus on added value and costs incurred;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 29 #

2017/2179(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Highlights the benefits of sharing services, which enable consistent application of administrative implementing rules and procedures that concern human resources and finance issues, as well as the potential efficiency and cost-effectiveness gains of sharing services between the agencies, in particular when considering the budget and staff reductions that the agencies are facing; notes that seeking synergies amongst agencies could alleviate administrative burden especially on smaller agencies;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 32 #

2017/2179(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Is particularly concerned that with the additional staff reduction, fulfilment of the agencies’ mandates and annual work programmes are proving increasingly difficult to deliver, particularly for the agencies classified by the Commission as “cruising speed agencies”; calls on the Commission and the budgetary authority to look into other options in order not to hinder the agencies’ ability to fulfil their mandate and recommends the budgetary authorities to authorise additional resources to agencies that are entrusted by the legislators to carry out new tasks; calls moreover on the Commission to recognise the savings the Network and the individual agencies achieved by using joint procurement procedures, by increasing efficiency and human resources management, as well as to allow, where needed, for the staff reduction targets to adapt accordingly;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 38 #

2017/2179(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Is concerned by a number of factors hindering the operational performance of justice and home affairs agencies, such as establishment plan cuts, limited human resources, difficulties in recruiting qualified people at given grades, a low correction coefficient in certain countries and the implementation of activities through a lengthy and administratively demanding grant process; acknowledges from the Network that the grading of staff at the entry-level grades do not allow recruitment of appropriate personnel and that the very low coefficient corrector for some countries results in the systematic use of higher grading in order to attract and retain suitable personnel; calls on the Commission to work on the revision of the formula used to calculate the correction coefficient in order to come to a more suitable solution for the agencies most affected by the low correction coefficient, to allow them to retain suitable personnel;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 47 #

2017/2179(DEC)

37. Notes that, according to the Court’s summary, the external evaluations of the agencies are in general positive and agencies prepared action plans to follow up issues raised in the evaluation reports; notes that while most agencies’ founding regulations provide for an external evaluation to be carried out periodically (usually every four to six years), the founding regulations of fivesix decentralised agencies - BEREC Office, EASO, eu- LISA, ETF, ENISA and European Institute for Gender Equality - do not include such a provision and the founding regulation of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) requires an external evaluation only every ten years; is of the opinion that this issue should be addressed;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2017/2175(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that carry-overs are often partly or fully justified by the multiannual nature of the agencies’ operational programmes, do not necessarily indicate weaknesses in budget planning and implementation and are not always at odds with the budgetary principle of annuality, in particular if they are planned in advance by the CentrOffice and communicated to the Court;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 10 #

2017/2175(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Notes with concern that the Office was negatively affected with the highest possible rate of cut according to the report of the European Court of Auditors on the implementation of the 5% reduction of staff posts published on 21 December 2017, namely a cut of 12.5%, irrespectively of the fact that Regulation (EU) 2015/2120 assigned additional tasks to the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications without adjusting the resources of the Office accordingly; Stresses the need for adequate human resources to ensure carrying out the mandate of the Office, while maintaining its smooth day-to-day operation;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 14 #

2017/2175(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 – introductory part
16. Welcomes the three main achievements and successes identified by the Office in 2016 reached in support to the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications, namely:
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 15 #

2017/2175(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 – indent 1
- it adoptedsupporting the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications in the adoption of the Guidelines on net neutrality, including in processing the unprecedented high number of contributions (close to 500 000) received during the public consultation held in the period from 6 June to 18 July 2016 and in the field of roaming, thus bringing further benefits for the end user of electronic communication services;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 18 #

2017/2175(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 – indent 2
- it commissioneding two studies on net neutrality and mergers and acquisitions;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 19 #

2017/2175(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 – indent 3
- it further expandeding its transparency policy, including by the adopimplementation of an up- dated communication strategy and communication plan of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 27 #

2017/2145(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Observes that the 5% staff reduction agreement has led to institutions increasingly hiring staff with temporary contracts; regrets that internal competitions are organised with the aim and result of retaining staff that have previously held the same position under previous temporary contracts; considers it more cost and time efficient as well as transparent and fair if well-performing staff with temporary contracts would be switched to permanent contracts without the added financial and administrative burden of organising competitions with pre-determined outcomes at the expense of disappointing outside applicants;
2018/03/06
Committee: CONT
Amendment 45 #

2017/2145(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Notes that during the discharge procedure, Annual Activity reports are currently submitted to the Court of Auditors in June, submitted by the Court of Auditors to the European Parliament in October and voted in plenary by May; notes that by the time discharge is closed, if not postponed, at least 17 months have passed since the closing of annual accounts; points out that auditing in the private sector follows a much stricter timeline; stresses that the discharge procedure needs to be streamlined and sped up; requests that the EEAS and the Court of Auditors follow the good example set by the private sector and proposes to set a deadline for the submission of Annual Activity reports on 31 March of the following year, a deadline for the submission for the Court of Auditor’s reports on the 1st of July and subsequently vote on the discharge during the plenary in November, thereby closing the discharge procedure within the year following the accounting year in question;
2018/03/06
Committee: CONT
Amendment 47 #

2017/2145(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 a (new)
36a. Regrets the decision by the UK to withdraw from the Union; observes that at this point no predictions can be made about the financial, administrative, human and other consequences related to the withdrawal, asks the EEAS and the Court of Auditors to perform impact assessments and inform the European Parliament on the results by the end of the year 2018;
2018/03/06
Committee: CONT
Amendment 6 #

2017/2144(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Welcomes the overall prudent and sound financial management of the Supervisor in the 2016 budget period; expresses support for the successful paradigm shift towards performance- based budgeting in the Commission’s budget planning introduced by Vice- President Kristalina Georgieva in September 2015 as part of the “EU Budget Focused on Results” initiative; encourages the Supervisor to apply the method to its own budget-planning procedure;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2017/2144(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Notes that during the discharge procedure, annual activity reports are currently submitted to the Court of Auditors in June, submitted by the Court of Auditors to the European Parliament in October and voted in plenary by May; notes that by the time discharge is closed, if not postponed, at least 17 months have passed since the closing of annual accounts; points out that auditing in the private sector follows a much stricter timeline; stresses that the discharge procedure needs to be streamlined and sped up; requests that the Supervisor and the Court of Auditors follow the good example set by the private sector and proposes to set a deadline for the submission of annual activity reports on 31 March of the following year, a deadline for the submission for the Court of Auditor’s reports on the 1st of July and subsequently vote on the discharge in the plenary session of November, thereby closing the discharge procedure within the year following the accounting year in question;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 10 #

2017/2144(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Observes that the 5 % staff reduction agreement has led to institutions increasingly hiring staff with temporary contracts; regrets that internal competitions are organised with the aim and result of retaining staff that have previously held the same position under previous temporary contracts; considers it more cost and time efficient as well as transparent and fair if well-performing staff with temporary contracts would be switched to permanent contracts without the added financial and administrative burden of organising competitions with pre-determined outcomes at the expense of disappointing outside applicants;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 12 #

2017/2144(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Regrets the decision of the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union; observes that at this point no predictions can be made about the financial, administrative, human and other consequences related to the withdrawal, and asks the Committee and the Court of Auditors to perform impact assessments and inform Parliament on the results by the end of 2018;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 5 #

2017/2143(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Welcomes the overall prudent and sound financial management of the Ombudsman in the 2016 budget period; expresses support for the successful paradigm shift towards performance- based budgeting in the Commission’s budget planning introduced by Vice- President Kristalina Georgieva in September 2015 as part of the “EU Budget Focused on Results” initiative; encourages the Ombudsman to apply the method to its own budget-planning procedure;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 6 #

2017/2143(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Welcomes that the Ombudsman submitted the Annual Activity report to the Court of Auditors on in March; notes that the Court of Auditors submitted its report to the European Parliament in October and that the discharge will be voted on in plenary by May; notes that by the time discharge is closed, if not postponed, at least 17 months have passed since the closing of annual accounts; points out that auditing in the private sector follows a much stricter timeline; stresses that the discharge procedure needs to be streamlined and sped up; welcomes that the Ombudsman follows the good example set by the private sector and proposes to set a deadline for the submission of Annual Activity reports on 31 March of the following year, a deadline for the submission for the Court of Auditor’s reports on the 1st of July and subsequently vote on the discharge in the plenary session of November, thereby closing the discharge procedure within the year following the accounting year in question;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 24 #

2017/2143(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Observes that the 5% staff reduction agreement has led to institutions increasingly hiring staff with temporary contracts; regrets that internal competitions are organised with the aim and result of retaining staff that have previously held the same position under previous temporary contracts; considers it more cost and time efficient as well as transparent and fair if well-performing staff with temporary contracts would be switched to permanent contracts without the added financial and administrative burden of organising competitions with pre-determined outcomes at the expense of disappointing outside applicants;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 31 #

2017/2143(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Regrets the decision of the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union; observes that at this point no predictions can be made about the financial, administrative, human and other consequences related to this withdrawal; asks the Ombudsman and the Court of Auditors to perform impact assessments and inform Parliament on the results by the end of the year 2018;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 2 #

2017/2142(DEC)

Proposal for a decision 1
Paragraph 1
1. Grants the Secretary-General of the Committee of the Regions discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Committee of the Regions for the financial year 2016; / Postpones its decision on granting the Secretary- General of the Committee of the Regions discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Committee of the Regions for the financial year 2016;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 10 #

2017/2142(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Welcomes the overall prudent and sound financial management of the Committee in the 2016 budget period; expresses support for the successful paradigm shift towards performance- based budgeting in the Commission’s budget planning introduced by Vice- President Kristalina Georgieva in September 2015 as part of the “EU Budget Focused on Results” initiative; encourages the Committee to apply the method to its own budget-planning procedure;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 11 #

2017/2142(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Notes that during the discharge procedure, Annual Activity reports are currently submitted to the Court of Auditors in June, submitted by the Court of Auditors to the European Parliament in October and voted in plenary by May; notes that by the time discharge is closed, if not postponed, at least 17 months have passed since the closing of annual accounts; points out that auditing in the private sector follows a much stricter timeline; stresses that the discharge procedure needs to be streamlined and sped up; requests that the Committee and the Court of Auditors follow the good example set by the private sector and proposes to set a deadline for the submission of Annual Activity reports on 31 March of the following year, a deadline for the submission for the Court of Auditor’s reports on the 1st of July and subsequently vote on the discharge in the plenary session of November, thereby closing the discharge procedure within the year following the accounting year in question;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 27 #

2017/2142(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Observes that the 5% staff reduction agreement has led to institutions increasingly hiring staff with temporary contracts; regrets that internal competitions are organised with the aim and result of retaining staff that have previously held the same position under previous temporary contracts; considers it more cost and time efficient as well as transparent and fair if well-performing staff with temporary contracts would be switched to permanent contracts without the added financial and administrative burden of organising competitions with pre-determined outcomes at the expense of disappointing outside applicants;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 37 #

2017/2142(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Regrets that the whistleblower file of the Committee’s former internal auditor is still not closed; insists that the Committee do its utmost to find a just, honourable and equitable settlement of the case as soon as possible; requests that the Committee keep Parliament informed of its progress;deleted
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 41 #

2017/2142(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Notes that there has been a decision by the Civil Service Tribunal in the case of the Committee's former internal auditor in November 2014; acknowledges that the Civil Service Tribunal ruled that the Committee must indemnify the former internal auditor yet further dismissed the allegations made by him; underlines that the Committee has promptly complied with the Tribunal's decision and paid the indemnities; considers therefore that the Committee has done its part to bring the case to a just, honourable and equitable settlement as requested by the Committee on Budget Control in the discharge report for the year 2015; notes that the former internal auditor has lodged a new case against the Committee in November 2015; notes that a hearing has taken place in December 2017 and that the Court's ruling is expected in summer 2018; observes that the Committee has no influence either on the plaintiff having lodged a new case nor on the timetable of the Court;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 44 #

2017/2142(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Regrets the decision of the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union; observes that at this point no predictions can be made about the financial, administrative, human and other consequences related to the withdrawal, and asks the Committee and the Court of Auditors to perform impact assessments and inform Parliament on the results by the end of 2018;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2017/2141(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Welcomes the overall prudent and sound financial management of the Committee in the 2016 budget period; expresses support for the successful paradigm shift towards performance- based budgeting in the Commission’s budget planning introduced by Vice- President Kristalina Georgieva in September 2015 as part of the “EU Budget Focused on Results” initiative; encourages the Committee to apply the method to its own budget-planning procedure;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2017/2141(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Notes that during the discharge procedure, Annual Activity reports are currently submitted to the Court of Auditors in June, submitted by the Court of Auditors to the European Parliament in October and voted in plenary by May; notes that by the time discharge is closed, if not postponed, at least 17 months have passed since the closing of annual accounts; points out that auditing in the private sector follows a much stricter timeline; stresses that the discharge procedure needs to be streamlined and sped up; requests that the Committee and the Court of Auditors follow the good example set by the private sector and proposes to set a deadline for the submission of Annual Activity reports on 31 March of the following year, a deadline for the submission for the Court of Auditor’s reports on the 1st of July and subsequently vote on the discharge in the plenary session of November, thereby closing the discharge procedure within the year following the accounting year in question;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 13 #

2017/2141(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Is concerned with the high amount of expenditure related to travel expenses and allowances of the Committee members; nNotes that the final appropriations for travel and subsistence allowances for members were EUR 19 561 194; calls on the Committee to provide a detailed breakdown of members’ expenditure, particularly those concerning item 1004, in its next annual activity report, and asks for the adoption of appropriate measures in order to make savings and reduce environmental pollution; urges the Committee members to increase theassess the potential of wider use of videoconference and telepresence facilities, which may contribute to economic savings, such as on travel expenses;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 20 #

2017/2141(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Is of the opinion that a joint assessment of the budgetary savings resulting from the cooperation between the Committee and Parliament is of interest to both institutions and to the Union citizens; suggests that the Committee propose that exercise tois exercise to be conducted jointly with the Parliament as part of the strategy to strengthen contacts between the two institutions; is aware that the Committee is building up a capacity in terms of policy assessment for accompanying its role in the legislative process as a consultative body; asks the Committee to submit to the discharge authority a detailed analysis of the functioning of those activities in its next annual activity report;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 24 #

2017/2141(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Observes that the 5 % staff reduction agreement has led to institutions increasingly hiring staff with temporary contracts; regrets that internal competitions are organised with the aim and result of retaining staff that have previously held the same position under previous temporary contracts; considers it more cost and time efficient as well as transparent and fair if well-performing staff with temporary contracts would be switched to permanent contracts without the added financial and administrative burden of organising competitions with pre-determined outcomes at the expense of disappointing outside applicants;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 30 #

2017/2141(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Notes with interest that the proportion of women holding middle management position in the Committee is above 40%; encourages the Committee to make additional efforts in order to achieve the same results insofar as senior management positions are concerned and to do the necessary to improve the still considerablfurther reduce the geographic imbalance;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 41 #

2017/2141(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Regrets the decision of the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union; observes that at this point no predictions can be made about the financial, administrative, human and other consequences related to the withdrawal, and asks the Committee and the Court of Auditors to perform impact assessments and inform Parliament on the results by the end of 2018;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2017/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that during the discharge procedure, Annual Activity reports are currently submitted to the Court in June, submitted by the Court to the European Parliament in October and voted in plenary by May; notes that by the time discharge is closed, if not postponed, at least 17 months have passed since the closing of annual accounts; points out that auditing in the private sector follows a much stricter timeline; stresses that the discharge procedure needs to be streamlined and sped up; requests that the Court follows the good example set by the private sector and proposes to set a deadline for the submission of Annual Activity reports on 31 March of the following year, a deadline for the submission for the Court's reports on the 1st of July and subsequently to review the timetable for the discharge procedure as set down in Article 5 of Annex IV to Parliament's Rules of Procedure so that the vote on the discharge can be held in in the plenary part-session of November, thereby closing the discharge procedure within the year following the accounting year in question;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 9 #

2017/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Welcomes the overall prudent and sound financial management of the Court in the 2016 budget period; expresses support for the successful paradigm shift towards performance-based budgeting in the Commission’s budget planning introduced by Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva in September 2015 as part of the “EU Budget Focused on Results” initiative; encourages the Court to apply the method to its own budget-planning procedure;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 14 #

2017/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Observes that the 5% staff reduction agreement has led to institutions increasingly hiring staff on temporary contracts; regrets that internal competitions are organised with the aim and result of retaining staff that have previously held the same position under previous temporary contracts; considers it more cost and time efficient as well as transparent and fair if well- performing staff with temporary contracts would be switched to permanent contracts without the added financial and administrative burden of organising competitions with pre-determined outcomes at the expense of disappointing outside applicants;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 20 #

2017/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Regrets the decision by the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union; observes that at this point no predictions can be made about the financial, administrative, human and other consequences related to the withdrawal, asks the Court to perform impact assessments and inform the Parliament on the results by the end of the year 2018;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2017/2139(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Notes that during the discharge procedure, Annual Activity reports are currently submitted to the Court of Auditors in June, submitted by the Court of Auditors to the European Parliament in October and voted in plenary by May; notes that by the time discharge is closed, if not postponed, at least 17 months have passed since the closing of annual accounts; points out that auditing in the private sector follows a much stricter timeline; stresses that the discharge procedure needs to be streamlined and sped up; requests that the CJEU and the Court of Auditors follow the good example set by the private sector and proposes to set a deadline for the submission of Annual Activity reports on 31 March of the following year, a deadline for the submission for the Court of Auditor’s reports on the 1st of July and subsequently to review the timetable for the discharge procedure as set down in Article 5 of Annex IV to Parliament's Rules of Procedure so that the vote on the discharge can be held in the plenary part- session of November, thereby closing the discharge procedure within the year following the accounting year in question;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 12 #

2017/2139(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Welcomes the overall prudent and sound financial management of the CJEU in the 2016 budget period; expresses support for the successful paradigm shift towards performance-based budgeting in the Commission’s budget planning introduced by Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva in September 2015 as part of the “EU Budget Focused on Results” initiative; encourages the Court to apply the method to its own budget-planning procedure;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 46 #

2017/2139(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20 a. Observes that the 5% staff reduction agreement has led to institutions increasingly hiring staff with temporary contracts; regrets that internal competitions are organised with the aim and result of retaining staff that have previously held the same position under previous temporary contracts; considers it more cost and time efficient as well as transparent and fair if well-performing staff with temporary contracts would be switched to permanent contracts without the added financial and administrative burden of organising competitions with pre-determined outcomes at the expense of disappointing outside applicants;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 59 #

2017/2139(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29 a. Regrets the decision by the UK to withdraw from the European Union; observes that at this point no predictions can be made about the financial, administrative, human and other consequences related to the withdrawal, asks the Council and the Court of Auditors to perform impact assessments and inform the European Parliament on the results by the end of the year 2018;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 6 #

2017/2138(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Expresses its support for the successful paradigm shift towards performance-based budgeting in the Commission’s budget planning introduced by Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva in September 2015 as part of the “EU Budget Focused on Results” initiative; encourages the European Council and the Council to apply the method to their own budget-planning procedure;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2017/2138(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Expresses support for the successful paradigm shift towards performance-based budgeting in the Commission’s budget planning introduced in September 2015 as part of the “EU Budget Focused on Results” initiative; encourages the European Council and the Council to apply the method to their own budget-planning procedure;
2018/09/11
Committee: CONT
Amendment 10 #

2017/2138(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Takes note of the decision by the United Kingdom to withdraw from the Union; observes that at this point no predictions can be made about the financial, administrative, human and other consequences related to the withdrawal; asks the European Council and the Council to perform impact assessments and inform Parliament on the results by the end of the year 2018;
2018/09/11
Committee: CONT
Amendment 12 #

2017/2138(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Observes that the 5% staff reduction agreement has led to institutions increasingly hiring staff with temporary contracts; regrets that internal competitions are organised with the aim and result of retaining staff that have previously held the same position under previous temporary contracts; considers it more cost and time efficient as well as transparent and fair if well-performing staff with temporary contracts would be switched to permanent contracts without the added financial and administrative burden of organising competitions with pre-determined outcomes at the expense of disappointing outside applicants;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 15 #

2017/2138(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Regrets the decision by the UK to withdraw from the European Union; observes that at this point no predictions can be made about the financial, administrative, human and other consequences related to the withdrawal, asks the European Council and the Council to perform impact assessments and inform the European Parliament on the results by the end of the year 2018;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 18 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Ba. Whereas budgetary principles of unity, budgetary accuracy, annuality, equilibrium, universality, specification, sound financial management and transparency shall be respected when the Union budget is implemented;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 25 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to align the Union's policy objectives, financial cycles, the legislative period of the Parliament and the mandate of the Commission;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 30 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Insists that the Union budget, as a consequence of the “budget focused on results initiative”, should be presented according to the Union´s political objectives of the MFF; reminds, also in the light of the post-2020 MFF, that the Union budget should be a true European added value budget, aimed for common Union objectives promoting sustainable economic and social development of the whole Union, which cannot be achieved by singular Member States on their own and therefore should not be seen merely as a net balance or benefit of single Member States;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 36 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to commit itself to fundamentally reviewing the young farmers’ and greening schemes in light of the findings of the Court of Auditors (the “Court”) before the next financing periodMFF;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 58 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Welcomes the positive trend of the most likely error rate issued by the Court compared to that of recent years since the payments are affected in 2016 by a most likely error rate of 3.1%; recalls that the most likely error rate for payments was estimated in the financial years 2015 at 3.8%, 2014 at 4,4%, 2013 at 4.7%, 2012 at 4.8%, 2011 at 3.9%, 2010 at 3.7%, 2009 at 3.3%; 2008% at 5.2%, and 2007 at 6.9%; as the Court's s estimated error rate is not final, considers it important that Commission´s residual error rate is taken into account when assessing efficiency of Union´s funding;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 59 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses that the estimated level of error for cohesion does not include a quantification of 2016 disbursements to financial instruments amounting to EUR 2.5 billion that the Court considers to be outside the eligibility period defined in Article 56(1) of Council Regulation EC 1083/2006; notes that those disbursements would represent an estimated level of error of 2.0% of overall expenditure; points outnotes that if the Court had quantified this flagrant irregularity, the most likely error rate would have been estimated at 5.1% (nearly the same level as for 2008); calls on the Court to take on board all the irregularities having a financial impact when determining the most likely error rate and the Commission to table the necessary legislative proposal to put an end to this irregularityseparately (box 1.2 of the 2016 annual report) as a one-off, ring-fenced observation related to the absence of a timely Commission legislative proposal; notes the Commission´s unilateral decision to accept expenditure up to 31 March 2017;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 67 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Points out that the Court found the highest estimated levels of error in spending for economic, social and territorial cohesion (4.8. % or 6.8% with the quantified irregularity concerning the financial instruments) and for competitiveness for growth and jobs (4.1 %), whilst administrative expenditure had the lowest estimated level of error (0.2 %);
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 69 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Notes, in particular, that the Commission points out in its 2016 AMPR76 that the scope of the reservations issued by the directors general in their AARs has increased and amounts at: EUR 35.3 billion, which corresponds to 26 % of the payments (2015: EUR 29.8 Bbillion: 21% of payments); _________________ 76 COM(2017) 351 final, p. 81,
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 74 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Is surprised by the divergent views expressed by the Court and the Commission as to financial management of the first pillar of the CAP; expresses doubts as to the assertion made by the Court that in expenditure the error is not “pervasive”Notes that, while the first pillar of the CAP is included in entitlement payments which are not affected by a material level of error (ECA annual report paragraph 1.8) since11), the director general of the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI), in his AAR, issued a reservation in direct payments concerning 18 paying agencies comprising 12 Member States;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 81 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
35. Points out in particularNotes that for more than three quarters of 2016 expenditure, Commission directorates- general base their estimates of amount at risk on data provided by national authorities, whilst it appears from the AARs of the concerned Commission directorates-general (in particular DG AGRI and DG REGIO) that the reliability of Member States’ control reports remains a challenge; stresses, in this regard, the importance of Member States’ data reliability;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 95 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
42. Endorses the reservations issued by the directors general of DG REGIO, MARE, HOME, DEVCO and AGRI, in their annual activity report; is of the opinion that those reservations demonstrate that the control procedures put in place in the Commission and the Member States cannot give the necessary guarantees concerning the legality and regularity of all the underlying transactions in the corresponding policy areas if necessary correction procedures are implemented successfully;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 103 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44
44. Points out that the delays in the implementation of programmes in the first three years of the current MFF led to the transfer of commitment appropriations from 2014, mainly to 2015 and 2016, and to low payments in 2016 (implementing the Union budget at 7 % in 2014-2016 period of the current MFF);
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 104 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44 a (new)
44a. Notes with concern the complicated web of arrangements in the galaxy within and around the EU budget as this hampers accountability, transparency, public scrutiny and democratic oversight of the EU budget and financial arrangements linked to it; regrets, in this regard, the lack of the unity of the EU budget, and fully shares the Court’s concern as regards the complexity of the EU budget;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 150 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 70 a (new)
70a. Welcomes and takes a careful note of the Court’s observations on performance frameworks and reporting by entities within and outside the EU, especially as regards performance data quality and declaration on the quality of performance data;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 170 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 90
90. Appreciates that the Commission has invested considerable efforts in reducingsimplification leading to reduction of administrative complexity, by introducing a new definition of additional remuneration for researchers, streamlining the Horizon 2020 work programme for 2018-2020, providing targeted support for start-ups and innovators and making wider use of lump-sum funding for projectSimplified Cost Options;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 198 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 123
123. Points out that the errors in cohesion contributed to 43% of the overall estimated level of error of 3,1%; notes that one of the reasons for the high error rate is the complexity of Union´ and Member States´ regulation;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 201 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 125
125. Notes also that 42% of the errors were caused by ineligible caosts included in expenditure declarations, 30% relate to serious failure to respect public procurement rules, and 28% relate to ineligible projects, activities or beneficiaries;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 206 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 131
131. Recalls that the summary of data on the progress made in financing and implementing financial engineering instruments in March 20167 was only published on 20 Septem1 October 20187, and that therefore the Court could not comment on the document;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 208 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 132 – introductory part
132. Notes that the key figures for 201607- 2013 programming period on 31 March 2017 are the following:
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 228 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 156
Greecedeleted
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 243 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 160
Czech Republicdeleted
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 245 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 159
159. Calls on DG REGIO to keep the European parliament informed about future progress;deleted
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 259 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 165
Hungarydeleted
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 271 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 167
Polandeleted
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 284 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 171
Volkswagen Groupdeleted
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 306 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 186 a (new)
186a. Notes that, while having a maximum annual budget of EUR 150 million, the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund mobilised only EUR 28 million for commitments from the reserve in 2016, benefitting eight Member States;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 315 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 187 – point g
(g) bringingenhance transparency and accountability of financial engineering instruments under the EU budget, thereby enhancing transparency and accountability;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 321 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 189 – point c
(c) Calls on DG REGIO to report back to Parliament’s responsible committee, in the 2016 Commission discharge follow-up, on progress made with railway relatall above mentioned projects in Poland;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 328 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 199
199. RegretAsks that DG AGRI has noto defined any objective accompanied with indicators to reduce the income inequalities between farms in the next MFF;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 343 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 213
213. Points out that since the error rates reported by the Member Statemanagement and control systems for each paying agency are not always fully reliable, DG AGRI adjusts that level of error based mainly on the Commission's and the Court's audits carried out in the last three years;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 357 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 232 – point a
(a) the Commission to carefully analyse the causes of the overall decline in factor income since 2013 and to define a new key performance objective for the next MFF, accompanied with indicators, aiming at mitigating the income inequalities between the famers;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 389 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 254
254. CallsStresses that trust funds should be established only when their use is justified and the required action is not possible through other, existing financing channels; calls, in this regard, on the Commission, when establishing trust funds, to set up guiding principles for carrying out concise an structured assessment of the comparative advantages of trust funds relative to other aid vehicles and also to carry out analyses of what specific gaps the trust funds are supposed to fill; calls furthermore on the Commission to consider putting an end to trust funds that are unable to attract a significant contribution from other donors;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 11 #

2017/2083(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines the need for a stronger and more political partnership between the EU and Africa, based on shared values and interests, in order to tackle global issues such as climate change, food insecurity, access to water, population growth, youth unemployment, urbanization of large cities, the fight against impunity, terrorism, organised crime and migratory flows, and to promote a rule-based global order based on a strong UN;
2017/07/26
Committee: AFET
Amendment 21 #

2017/2083(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for continued EU support to African partners in the area of peace and security and conflict prevention, including through specific instruments such as CSDP operations and the African Peace Facility; highlights the importance of fostering security and stability by helping our partners to build more resilient states and societies, including through capacity building and security sector reforms, the creation of more and better jobs, especially for young people, the empowerment of women and the support of education, who are and should, increasingly, be the force of economic progress in the region, the support of education by investing more in schools and universities, and research;
2017/07/26
Committee: AFET
Amendment 41 #

2017/2083(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the pursuit of common interests and cooperation on security must be totally consistent with the EU’s fundamental values and with the objectives of supporting democracy, good governance, and promoting human rights and the rule of law; calls for a more strategic, pragmatic, respectful, comprehensive and structured approach to political dialogue under the Cotonou Partnership Agreement, with the greater involvement of civil society and a stronger people-to-people dimension;
2017/07/26
Committee: AFET
Amendment 47 #

2017/2083(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. As a well-functioning democracy enhances stability and is a powerful tool against terrorism, the European Parliament offers to work more intensively with African Parliaments in building stronger Parliaments and Parliamentarians in taking up their role in the checks and balances between the executive and parliamentary bodies;
2017/07/26
Committee: AFET
Amendment 49 #

2017/2083(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4. Notes that the EU needs to support infrastructure development in ICT in Africa to boost trade and economy in the region and grant people access to health, education and job opportunities;
2017/07/26
Committee: AFET
Amendment 57 #

2017/2083(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls the importance of the effective implementation of external EU policies that are able to address the real root causes of migration; calls for increased joint efforts to implement the Valetta Action Plan based on a fair and true partnership with third countries of origin and transit; recalls the importance of a balanced approach in the new partnership framework; stresses that the new partnership framework with third countries must not become the only pillar of EU action on migration and should extend beyond a quantitative approach focused mainly on border management; underlines in this matter the importance of democratic scrutiny by the European Parliament;
2017/07/26
Committee: AFET
Amendment 62 #

2017/2083(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Recalls that the root causes of migration are conflicts, weak governance, government instability, violation of human rights, corruption, non-existence of the rule of law, impunity, inequality, unemployment or underemployment, lack of livelihoods and resources, and climate change;
2017/07/26
Committee: AFET
Amendment 63 #

2017/2083(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that the upcoming Africa EU summit will provide an opportunity to stress our priorities concerning the EU- Africa relations in the context of the post Cotonou process;
2017/07/26
Committee: AFET
Amendment 64 #

2017/2083(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission to present a legislative proposal on accompanying measures for the ‘Conflict Minerals Regulation’ (2014/0059(COD)) in line with the relevant Joint Communication (JOINT (2014) 8);
2017/07/26
Committee: AFET
Amendment 65 #

2017/2083(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Underlines the importance of small- scale development projects which have a direct effect on people’s lives; urges the Commission to continue their support;
2017/07/26
Committee: AFET
Amendment 66 #

2017/2083(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Emphasises the added value of transport infrastructures to boost the economy and trade between the EU and Africa; Underlines the strategic importance of ports, harbours and airports;
2017/07/26
Committee: AFET
Amendment 67 #

2017/2083(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. urges the European Commission to give special attention to sexual and reproductive health rights of women and girls in their external development programmes;
2017/07/26
Committee: AFET
Amendment 9 #

2017/2071(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas the EIB Group financial activities include both lending own resources and fulfilling the various mandates granted to it with the support of the EU budget and third parties such as EU Member States;
2017/11/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 13 #

2017/2071(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas the EIB maintained a solid profitability in 2016 financial standing accordance withing to the forecast for that year2016, with a net annual surplus of EUR 2.8 billion;
2017/11/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 15 #

2017/2071(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas the EIB should continue to strengthen its efforts to expand its loan activities effectively by providing technical advisory, especially in regions with low levels of investment capacity, while reducing administrative burdens for applicants;
2017/11/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 20 #

2017/2071(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G
G. whereas safeguards against fraud, including tax fraud and money laundering, and risks of financing terrorism are contained in the EIB Group contractual provisions included in the contracts signed by the EIB group and its counterparties; whereas the EIB Group should requires that its counterparties comply with all applicable legislation; whereas additional contractual provisions addressing specific transparency and integrity issues should bare imposed by the EIB Group on the basis of due diligence results;
2017/11/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 23 #

2017/2071(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the currenteconomic crisis has significantly weakened economic growth in the EU and that one of the main contributing factorfallouts is the decline in investment in the EU; underlines that the fall in public and private investment has reached alarming levels in the countries most affected by the crisis, as evidenced by Eurostat’s findings; expresses concern about macroeconomic imbalances and unemployment rates that remain significant in some Member States;
2017/11/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 28 #

2017/2071(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the EIB Group’s willingness to enhance EU competitiveness, provide real support for growth and job creation, and contribute to solving current politicalsocio-economic challenges within and outside the EU, by pursuing its overarching public policy goals relating to innovation, SMEs and midcap finance, infrastructure, the environment, economic and social cohesion, and the climate; recalls that these objectives also necessitate the provision of public goods; insists that, in order to achieve the Europe 2020 strategy objectives successfully, all EIB Group activities should not only be economically sustainable, but also contribute to a smarter, greener and more inclusive EU;
2017/11/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 42 #

2017/2071(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that according to the Corporate Operational Plan 2017-2019 the value of the EIB loans signed is forecast to rise once again in 2019 (to EUR 76 billion, following a fall from EUR 77 billion in 2014 to EUR 73 billion in 2016); points out that the current context should encourage the bank to adopt more ambitious objectives and to increase the loans signed by the EIB; recalls that the EIB should play a fundamental role in the implementation of the Europe 2020 strategy through the Horizon 2020 instrumentinstruments such as for example Horizon 2020 and Connected Europe Facility;
2017/11/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 49 #

2017/2071(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the EIB’s commitment to tackling the phenomenon of forced displacement androot causes of migration and taking action in countries particularly affected by the migration crisis, including by strengthencomplementing humanitarian action and providing support for economic growth, the construction of infrastructure and job creation; expects the EIB Group, to this end, to step up its efforts in coordinating its Economic Resilience Initiative and the External Lending Mandate currently under revision with the establishment of the EFSD mid-2017;
2017/11/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 53 #

2017/2071(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Expects a rapid agreement to be reached on the prolongation of EFSI action, and that the revised fundand adjustment of the European Fund for Strategic Investments, and that the revised fund and the enhanced European Investment Advisory Hub will enable the problems identified in the previous versioncurrent scheme, namely in relation to additionality, geographic balance and advisory hub activities, to be overcome;
2017/11/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 63 #

2017/2071(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Recalls that the EIB’s NCJ Policy needs to be ambitious; notes that relying onon- cooperative jurisdictions (NCJs) Policy needs to be ambitious; welcomes the adoption by the EIB of an interim approach with regard to the NCJ Policy and tax sensitive jurisdictions and notes that the EIB Group NCJ policy will be revised following the adoption of the common EU list of third country jurisdictions that fail to comply with tax good governance standards, which is expected to be endorsed by the Council of the EU by the end of 2017 and which will prevail over other lead organisations’ lists in the case of conflict, is a positive but insufficient step, and calls for. Welcomes the inclusion of country-by- country reportactual safeguards requiring without exemptions to be made a key part of the EIB’s corporate social responsibility strategy, bes counterparties to comply with applicable legislation currently in force the EU adopts its legislation in the fieldincluding but not limited to country- by-country reporting;
2017/11/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 69 #

2017/2071(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Asks the EIB to take greaterWelcomes the fact that the EIB takes into account of the tax impact in countries where investment is made and of how this investment contributes to development and reducing inequality;
2017/11/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 72 #

2017/2071(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Considers that using criteria for selecting financial intermediaries and being in possession of up-to-date information on beneficial ownership of companies, including trusts, foundations and tax havens, are best practices to be permanently followed; welcomes the fact that the EIB identifies during the due diligence process the beneficial owners of such companies; invites the EIB Group to further reinforce its contractual conditions by integrating a clause on or reference to good governance in order to mitigate risks to integrity and reputation;
2017/11/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 80 #

2017/2071(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Welcomes the fact that the EIB Group’s transparency policy is based on a presumption of disclosure and that everyone can access EIB Group documents and information; recalls its recommendation for the publication on the EIB Group website of non-confidential documents, such as Corporate Operational Plans for previous years, interinstitutional agreements and memorandums, and urges the EIB Group not to stop there, but to continue raising the bar and constantly looking for ways to improve;
2017/11/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 89 #

2017/2071(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. UrgNotes the EIB Group to adopt the whistleblowing policy review that has already been announced, which is to update the previous policy dating from 2009ongoing revision of the EIB Group´s whistleblowing policy;
2017/11/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 102 #

2017/2071(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Warns, in this respect, that market- driven instruments risk shifting the focus of the EU budget from EU public common goods and expectncourages the EIB Group to reinforce its reporting to the Commission on the quality as opposed to the quantity of its financing in the context of financial instruments;
2017/11/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 114 #

2017/2071(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
31. Underlines that the pricing ofdue diligence of investment projects financed by the EIB Group products should be based on both factors related to financial return and factors related not to financial return, but instead to the achievement of other kinds of objectives, such as the contribution of the project to upward economic convergence and cohesion in the EU, or to the achievement of the Europe 2020 targets or the 2030 SDGs; considers that the EIB Group should explain these non-financial criteria to institutional and private investors (for example, pension funds and insurance companies) in an appropriate manner, thus promoting an increased focus on socio- economic and environmental impact across the financial sector;
2017/11/06
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 62 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Is convinced that the next MFF should build on the Union’s well- established policies and priorities, which aim at promoting peace, democracy and human rights, at boosting welfare, long- term and sustainable economic growth, high-quality jobs, sustainable development and innovation, protecting healthy living environment, fighting climate change and at fostering economic, social and territorial cohesion, as well as solidarity between Member States and citizens; considers that these pillars are prerequisites for a properly functioning single market, the Energy Union and Economic and Monetary Union as well as for reinforcing Europe’s position in the world; trusts that they are more relevant than ever for Europe’s future endeavours;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 102 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Calls, therefore, for continuous support for existing policies, in particular the long-standing EU policies enshrined in the Treaties, namely the common agricultural and fisheries policies, and the cohesion policy; rejects any attempt to totally renationalise these policies, as this would neither reduce the financial burden on taxpayers and consumers, nor achieve better results, but would instead hamper growth and the functioning of the single market while widening the disparities between territories and economic sectors; intends to secure the same level ofan adequate funding for the EU-27 for these policies in the next programming period while further improving their added value and simplifying the procedures associated with them;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 134 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Highlights that the future framework is expected to integrate two new types of financial support featuring prominently on the Union’s economic agenda, namelyfor instance the continuation of the investment support schemes, such as the European Fund for Strategic Investment, and the development of a fiscal capacity for the euro area and of financial stabilisation functions, possibly through the proposed European Monetary Fund;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 151 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Is convinced that, unledeleted1 __________________ 1 It's not appropriate in this report to discuss the Csouncil agrees to significantly increase the level of its national contributions to the EU budget, the introduction of new EU own resources remains the only option for adequately financing the next MFF; rces of funding for the multiannual financial framework; this point must be dealt with exclusively in the own resources report. That's why we wish to delete this paragraph.
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 166 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Believes that, by translating the political priorities of the EU into concrete investments, the multiannual financial framework constitutes an excellent instrument for the long-term planning of the European projectunion spending and for ensuring a certain stable level of public investment in the Member States; regrets however the lack of mutually agreed long-term strategic vision for the European project; recalls, furthermore, that the EU budget is predominantly an investment budget that serves as an additional and complementary source of funding for actions undertaken at national, regional and local levels;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 175 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Is of the opinion that the decision on the duration of the MFF should strike the right balance between two seemingly conflicting requirements: on the one hand, the need for several EU policies – especially those under shared management, such as agriculture and cohesion – to operate on the basis of the stability and predictability of a commitment of at least seven years, and, on the other hand, the need for democratic legitimacy and accountability that results from the synchronisation of each financial framework with the five-year political cycle of the European Parliament and the European Commission;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 180 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Underlines, therefore, the need for the MFF’s duration to move progressively towards a 5+5 period with a mandatory mid-term revision; calls on the Commission to elaborate a clear proposal setting out the methods of the practical implementation of a 5+5 financial framework;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 184 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Acknowledges, however, that the timing of the next European Parliament elections in spring 2019, given that the current MFF runs until December 2020, does not allow for a 5+5 solution to be implemented immediately, as no satisfactory alignment of the different cycles would be achieved; takes the view, therefore, that the next MFF should be set for a period of seven years (2021- 2027), including a mandatory revision, by way of a transitional solution to be applied for one last time;deleted
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 207 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
34. Calls, in particular, for a substantial increase in the financial envelope of the Flexibility Instrument of up to an annual allocation of at least EUR 2 billion; recalls that the Flexibility Instrument is not linked to any specific policy field and can thus be mobilised for any purpose that is deemed necessary; considers, therefore, that this instrument can be mobilised to cover any new financial needs as they occur during the MFF;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 210 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
35. Points to the role of the Emergency Aid Reserve in providing a rapid response to specific aid requirements for third countries for unforeseen events, and stresses its particular importance in the current context; calls for a substantial increase in its financial envelope of up to an annual allocation of EUR 1 billion;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 213 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
36. Notes, in particular, the significant mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund to provide assistance in a number of serious natural disasters with substantial budgetary consequences; stresses also the positive impact that this instrument has on public opinion; proposes the reinforcement of its financial envelope to an annual allocation of EUR 1 billion;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 230 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 9
Revenue – special reservedeleted1 __________________ 1 These paragraphs come from the own resources report. We wish to delete them outright because the duplication of the same paragraphs in two different reports may lead to an inconsistency in Parliament's position. Moreover, it is inappropriate in this report to mention the sources of funding for the multiannual financial framework; this point must be dealt with exclusively in the own resources report.
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 233 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
42. Reiterates its long-standing position that any revenue resulting from fines imposed on companies for breaching EU competition law or linked to late paydeleted1 __________________ 1 These paragraphs come from the own resources report. We wish to delete them outright because the duplication of the same paragraphs in two different reports may lead to an inconsistency in Parliament's of national contributions to the EU budget should constitute an extra item of revenue for the EU budget without a corresponding decrease of the GNI contributions;position. Moreover, it is inappropriate in this report to mention the sources of funding for the multiannual financial framework; this point must be dealt with exclusively in the own resources report.
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 245 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44
44. Agrees that the search forachieving real European added value should be one of the main principles guiding the EU institutions when deciding about the type of spending in the next MFF; points out, however, the existence of multiple interpretations of the concept and calls for a clear definition of the criteria thereof that should take territorial specificities into account;;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 255 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
46. Considers that better spending, i.e. the efficient use of every single euro of the EU budget based on critical assessment of current expenditure, can be achieved not only by directing EU resources towards actions with the highest European added value and the greatest increase in the performance of the EU’s policies and programmes, but also by achieving greater synergies between the EU budget and the national budgets, and by ensuring the tangible improvement of the spending architecture;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 258 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 a (new)
46a. Reiterates that focus should equally be put on the relationship between spending and performance of the EU budget; supports the recommendations of the 2016 Annual Report of the European Court of Auditors, for an efficient measurement framework of indicators for the spending programmes, more streamlined and balanced reporting on performance, and an easier access to the assessment results.;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 263 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48
48. Underlines that the ‘health check’ of EU spending cannotshould provide for a reduction in the level of EU ambition or a sectoralisation of EU policies and programmes, nor should it lead to a replacement of grants by financial instrumentsn opportunity to re-prioritize with a view to generating some savings, as the great majority of actions supported by the EU budget are not suitable to be funded by the latter;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 278 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 52
52. Questions the justification and added value of establishing instruments outside the Union budget; considers that decisions to set up or maintain such instruments are in reality driven by attempts to conceal the real financial needs and to bypass the constraints of the MFF and own resources ceilings; deplores that they often also result in bypassing Parliament in its triple responsibility as legislative, budgetary and control authority and lead to less transparency towards the general public and beneficiaries;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 318 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 65
65. Believes, therefore, that the current presentation of the headings requires some improvements, but is against any unjustified radical changes; proposes, as a result, the following structure for the MFF post-2020; Heading 1: A stronger and sustainable economy Including programmes and instruments supporting: under direct mcalls on the Commission to propose a new structure for the MFF post-2020; transport, digitalisation, energy environment and climate chanagement: - research and innovation - industry, entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized enterprises - large-infrastructure projects - - adaptation - - - supporting investments in Europe (possible umbrella agriculture and rural development maritime affairs and fisheries horizontal (financial) instrument at EU level, incl. EFSI) Heading 2: Stronger cohesion and solidarity in Europe Including programmes and instruments supporting: - cohesion (under shared management):  investments in innovations economic, social and territorial education and life-long learning culture, citizenship and health and food safety asylum, dmigitalisation, reindustrialisation, SMEs, transport, climate change adaptation  employment, social affairs and social inclusion - - communication - - justice and consumers - national administrations Heading 3: Stronger responsibility in the world Including programmes and instruments supporting: - development - - - - - external relations facilities Heading 4: Security, peace and stability for all Including programmes and instruments supporting: - - - policy - Heading 5: An efficient administration at the service of Europeans - - equipment of EU institutionsration and integration, support to and coordination with international cooperation and neighbourhood enlargement humanitarian aid trade contribution to EU trust funds and security crisis response and stability common foreign and security defence financing EU staff financing the buildings and
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 333 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 67
67. Highlights the importance of completing the European research area, the energy union, the Single European Transport Area and the digital single market as fundamental elements of the European single market and reiterates the need for appropriate funding of the Connecting Europe Facility as strategic tool to support the attainment of these objectives;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 386 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 73
73. Insists on the importance of the MFF for sectors relying on long-term investment, such as the transport sector; highlights that transport infrastructures are the backbone of the single market and the basis for sustainable growth and job creation; notes that accomplishing a single European transport area connected to neighbouring countries requires major transport infrastructure and must be treated as a key priority in terms of the EU’s competitiveness and for economic, social and territorial cohesion, including for peripheral areas; considers, therefore, that the next MFF should provide for sufficient funding for projects that contribute in particular to the completion of the TEN-T core network and its corridors, which should be further extended; stresses that an updated and more effective CEF programme should cover all modes of transport, in particular railway and other modes of transport, which contribute to reducing CO2 emissions, and focus on interconnections and the completion of the network in peripheral areas while using common standards;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 422 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 77
77. Affirms that the common agricultural policy is fundamental for food security and autonomy, the preservation of rural populations, sustainable development and the provision of high-quality and affordable food products for Europeans; points out that food requirements have increased, as has the need to develop environmentally friendly farming practices and the need to tackle climate change; recognises the role of sustainable agriculture and forestry as key components of EU´s work in tackling climate change, biodiversity loss and furthering environmental sustainability; recalls that the next MFF should steer the CAP post-2020 towards a fair, effective efficient farming policy which has as its core objective to the facilitate the transition towards sustainable food and farming system in Europe and stresses that sufficient funding for reaching the targets must be provided; welcomes the Commission's strategic approach presented in the communication The Future of Food and Farming to provide more flexibility to the Member States to find appropriate means to steer their agricultural sector towards reaching the common environmental targets in the most effective way; underlines that the CAP is one of the most integrated policies and is mainly financed at EU level and, therefore, replaces national spending;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 427 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 77
77. Affirms that the common agricultural policy is fundamental for food security and autonomy, the preservation of rural populations, sustainable development and the provision of high-quality and affordable food products for Europeans; stresses the need to secure agricultural production in all parts of the EU as well as in the areas of natural constraints; points out that food requirements have increased, as has the need to develop environmentally friendly farming practices and the need to tackle climate change; underlines that the CAP is one of the most integrated policies and is mainly financed at EU level and, therefore, replaces national spending;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 443 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 78
78. Expects the global amount of direct payments to be kept intact under the next MFF, as they generate clear EU added value and strengthen the single market by avoiding distortions of competition between Member States; opposes any renationalisation and any national co- financing in that respect; while bearing in mind the importance to maintain the variety of measures, including voluntary coupled support, available to Member States to maintain the production on sectors vital for vulnerable areas without distortion effect on internal market stresses the need to increase funding in line with responses to the various cyclical crises in sensitive sectors, to create new instruments that can mitigate price volatility and to increase funding for Programmes of Options Specifically Relating to Remoteness and Insularity (POSEI); concludes, therefore, that the CAP budget in the next MFF should be at least maintained at its current level for the EU-27;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 452 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 78
78. Expects the global amount of direct payments to be kept intact under the next MFF, as they generate clear EU added value and strengthen the single market by avoiding distortions of competition between Member States; opposes any total renationalisation and any national co- financing in that respect; stresses the need to increase funding in line with responses to the various cyclical crises in sensitive sectors, to create new instruments that can mitigate price volatility and to increase funding for Programmes of Options Specifically Relating to Remoteness and Insularity (POSEI); concludes, therefore, that the CAP budget in the next MFF should be at least maintained at its current level for the EU-27receive an adequate funding for the EU-27 based on an analysis of the needs and taking into account the evaluation of the implementation of the policy;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 467 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 80
80. Stresses the importance of the EU’s leading role in tackling cneed for appropriate financial resources to be provided to ensure that EU can meet its international oblimgate change and its internal and external biodiversity commitments and goals; asks for appropriate financial resources to be provided to implement the Paris agreement and thorough climate mainstreaming of future EU spendiions made under the Paris Agreement and UN Sustainable Development Goals as well as its internal and external biodiversity commitments and goals; underlines the importance of sustaining and strengthening the EU’s leading role in tackling climate change; recalls that the next MFF should help the Union to achieve its 2030 climate and energy framework objectives; underlines that the EU should not finance projects and investments that are contrary to the achievement of these goals; calls for thorough climate mainstreaming of future EU spending;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 472 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 80 a (new)
80a. Draws attention to the first recommendations of the High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance1a,including those relating to the multiannual financial framework, and emphasize that the sustainability objectives must be supported by a financial system capable of promoting long-term, sustainable growth; calls on the Commission also to examine and address these recommendations for the next Multiannual Financial Framework, including the need to develop a 'sustainability test' for all future EU financial regulations and policies, and for financial instruments to achieve greater policy steering effects; __________________ 1a https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/17 0713-sustainable-finance-report_en.pdf
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 493 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 81
81. StressUnderlines that cohesion policy post- 2020 should remainis the main investment policy of the European Union covering all EU regions while concentrating the majority of the resources on the most vulnerable ones; believes that, beyond the goal of reducing the disparities between levels of development and enhancing convergence as enshrined in the Treaty, it should focus on the achievement of the broad EU political objectives and proposes, therefore, that under the next MFF, the three cohesion policy funds – the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Cohesion Fund – should concentrate mainly on providing support for innovation, structural reforms, digitalisation, reindustrialisation, SMEs, transport, climate change adaptation, employment and social inclusion; calls, moreover, for a reinforced territorial cooperation component and an urban dimension for the policy;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 509 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 82
82. Considers maintaining thStresses the need for an adequate financing of cohesion policy post-2020 for the EU-27 at least abased on an analysis of the needs and taking into account the level of the 2014- 2020 budget to be of the utmost importancealuation of the implementation of the policy; stresses that GDP should remain one of the parameters for the allocation of cohesion policy funds, but believes that it should be complemented by an additional set of social, environmental and demographic indicators to better take into account new types of inequalities between EU regions; supports, in addition, the continuation under the new programming period of the elements that rendered cohesion policy more modern and performance-oriented under the current MFF;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 518 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 82 a (new)
82a. Considers that the allocation of structural funds post-2020 for the EU-27 shall be conditional on the respect of the fundamental principles of the rule of law, the acceptance of the control by the European Public Prosecutor of the use made of these funds, the acceptance of an effective solidarity in the sharing of the burdens resulting from common European policies; considers, furthermore, that macroeconomic conditionality shall be maintained when allocating these funds.
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 549 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 84
84. Emphasises in particular the continuous need to fight unemployment, especially among young people, and calls, therefore, for a doubling of the Ysubstantial strengthening of initiatives to boost youth Eemployment Initiative envelope in the next programming period; considers that investment to boost education and training, especially the development of digital skills, remains one of the top priorities of the EU; insists that the Union's resources in support of these initiatives result in a net increase in the funds available for NEETs (young people not in employment, education or training) and shall not replace expenditure previously financed by national budgets.
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 586 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 86
86. Expects that in the post-2020 period, the European Union will move from crisis-management mode to a permanent, European common policy in the field of asylum and migration; stresses that the actions in this field should be covered by a dedicated instrument, i.e. the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund; emphasises that the future fund, as well as the relevant Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) agencies, must be equipped with an adequate level of funding for the whole of the next MFF to address the comprehensive challenges in this area; believes, furthermore, that the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) should be complemented by additional components tackling this issue under other policies, in particular by the cohesion funds and the instruments financing external actions, as no single tool could hope to address the magnitude and complexity of needs in this field; recognises, moreover, the importance of cultural, educational and sports programmes in integrating refugees and migrants into European society;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 588 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 87
87. Recognises the European added value of collaboration in addressing common public health threats; notes that no single Member State can tackle cross- border health challenges alone, and calls for the next MFF to reflect the EU’s responsibility to support Member States in reducing health inequalities; considers that, on the basis of the positive outcome of the ongoing actions in this field, the next MFF should include a robust next generation Health programme that addresses these issues on a cross-border basis, notably by making innovative solutions for healthcare delivery, such as the European Reference Networks; recalls that good health is a prerequisite for achieving other goals set by the EU and that policies in such fields as agriculture, environment, employment, social issues or inclusion also have an impact on the health of Europeans; calls, therefore, for the strengthening of health impact assessments and for cross- sectoral cooperation in the next MFF in this field;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 606 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 88
88. Stresses that the world is confronted with multiple challenges including conflicts, cyber-attacks, terrorism, disinformation, natural disasters, climate change, biodiversity loss; marine pollution; human rights violations and protracted crises; believes that the Union has a particular political and financial responsibility which is founded on rules- based foreign policy, cooperation with partner countries, poverty eradication and crisis response;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 673 #

2017/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 96
96. Welcomes initiatives by the institutions, bodies and agencies to further enhance efficiency through increased administrative cooperation and the pooling of certain functions, thereby generating savings to the Union budget; highlights that, for certain agencies, further efficiency gains could be made, especially through increased cooperation among agencies with similar tasks, such as in the field of the financial market supervision and of agencies with multiple locations; calls, in a more general way, for a thorough assessment of the strategic interest and tasks of all agencies and the possibilities of grouping agencies according to the strategic nature of their mission and their result;
2018/02/01
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 2 #

2017/2044(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that Parliament's reading of the 2018 Budget fully reflects the political priorities adopted by an overwhelming majority in its abovementioned resolutions of 15 March 2017 on general guidelines and of 5 July 2017 on a mandate for the trilogue; recalls that jobs, sustainable growth and, security and tackling climate change are at the core of those priorities;
2017/10/04
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 8 #

2017/2044(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights that the Union continues to face numerous challenges and is convinced that, while maintaining budget discipline, the necessary financial resources need to be deployed from the Union budget, in order to meet the political priorities and allow the Union to deliver answers and effectively respond to those challenges; underlines that Union spending should be targeted to areas with genuine European added value, tackling issues with cross-border nature and always respecting the principle of subsidiarity;
2017/10/04
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 34 #

2017/2044(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. BelieveRecalls that, while the peak ofUnion managed to put in place mechanisms helping to cope with the migratory and refugee crisis, seems to have passed,till over one hundred thousand refugees and migrants have arrived to Europe by sea so far in 2017 according to the UNHCR; therefore believes that the Union must stand ready to respond to any unforeseen event in this area and moreover pursue more proactive approach in the field of migration; therefore urges the Commission to continuously monitor the adequacy of allocations under Heading 3 and make full use of all available instruments to respond in a timely manner to any unforeseen event that might require additional funding; decides therefore to reinforce in a limited manner the Asylum Migration and Integration Fund and the Internal Security Fund; notes, once again, that the Heading 3 ceiling is vastly insufficient to provide for appropriate funding for the internal dimension of the migration and refugee crisis as well as other priority programmes, such as culture programmes;
2017/10/04
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 50 #

2017/2044(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Reminds that the Union budget must support the fulfilment of the objectives of the Paris Agreement and the Union’s own long-term climate goals by achieving the target of 20 % climate spending in the 2014-2020 MFF; regrets that the Commission has failed to put forward concrete and realistic proposals to achieve these goals; therefore proposes increases above the level of the DB for climate-related actions; notes however that these increases are not sufficient and calls on the Commission to present all the necessary proposals to reach the goals in the forthcoming amending letter and in the following draft budgets;
2017/10/04
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 66 #

2017/2044(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Warns that such cuts would jeopardize programmes with real European added value and a direct impact on job and growth creation, such as Horizon 2020 or CEF; points out, in particular, that sufficient funding for Horizon 2020 is essential to allow for the development of research and, innovation in Europe and for SMEs, leadership in digitalisation and for the support of SMEs in Europe; recalls that this programme has demonstrated a strong European added- value with 83% of Horizon 2020-funded projects that would not have gone ahead without Union-level support; reiterates the importance of the CEF funding instrument for the completion of the TEN-T network and for achieving a Single European Transport Area; consequently decides to reverse all cuts made by the Council and, furthermore, to fully restore the original profile of the Horizon 2020 and CEF lines that were cut for the provisioning of the EFSI Guarantee Fund;
2017/10/04
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 74 #

2017/2044(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Stresses the importance of stimulating cooperative defence research in Europe for addressing key capability shortfalls at a time when international developments increasingly require Europe to step up its efforts on defence; fully supports the increased allocation for the Preparatory Action on defence research but calls for a defence research programme with a dedicated budget within the next Multiannual Financial Framework; reiterates, nevertheless, its longstanding position that new initiatives should be financed through fresh appropriations and not at the expense of existing EU programmes; underlines, furthermore, the need to improve the competitiveness and innovation in the European defence industry that can contribute to stimulate growth and job creation;
2017/10/04
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 95 #

2017/2044(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
30. Notes that, while the number of migrant crossings on the Central and Eastern Mediterranean routes into the Union fell in the first eight months of 2017, pressure on the Western Mediterranean route remains high; according to IOM, 134,549 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in the first nine months of 2017, compared with 302,175 arrivals across the region through the same period last year, with over 75 % arriving in Italy and the remainder divided between Greece, Cyprus and Spain; is of the opinion that additional funding is needed to fully cover the needs of the Union in the field of migration, notably through the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund;
2017/10/04
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 102 #

2017/2044(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
32. Highlights the crucial role played by the EU agencies in the area of justice and home affairs in addressing pressing concerns of Union citizens; decides therefore to increase budgetary appropriations and staffing of Europol, including the creation of 7 staff posts for the new operating unit called Europol operating unit for missing children, as well as to reinforce Eurojust, EASO and CEPOL; reiterates the contribution of these agencies to enhancing cooperation between Member States in the field;
2017/10/04
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 153 #

2017/2044(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56
56. Recalls also the significance of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF), the Emergency Aid Reserve (EAR) and the EU Solidarity Fund (EUSF); supports the Commission’s intention to provide for a quicker mobilisation of the EUSF by putting most of its annual amount in a reserve in the Union budget, on top of the amount already budgeted for advances; regrets the Council’s cut in that respect and restores partially the DB level, with the exception of the amount which has been frontloaded to 2017 via amending budget 4/2017 and the mobilisation of the EUSF for Italy; extends the scope of the EUSF to provide assistance to victims of acts of terrorism and their families;
2017/10/04
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 10 #

2017/2043(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Believes that in general terms the Commission proposal corresponds to Parliament’s view that the 2018 EU budget must enable the EU to continue to generate growth and jobs while ensuring the security of its citizens yet regrets that the Commission proposal does not fully correspond to the Parliament's call on action against climate change;
2017/06/21
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 48 #

2017/2043(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the EU initiatives and long-term perspective in the field of defence research and technology development and acquisition, which will contribute to achieving economies of scale in the sector and thus lead to greater coordination among Member States in the field; believes that this kind of pooling and sharing of resources can enable a better use of tax payer's money and offers a potential for savings; underlines also the need to improve the competitiveness and innovation in the European defence industry and to stimulate growth and job creation;
2017/06/21
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 55 #

2017/2043(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Stresses the importance of mainstreaming biodiversity protection across the EU budget, and reiterates its previous call for a tracking methodology that takes into account all biodiversity related spending and its efficiency;
2017/06/21
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 69 #

2017/2043(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the fact that the draft budget 2018 includes an additional allocation for the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI), responding thus to Parliament’s previous calls for the continuation of the programme; notes, in parallel, the proposal for draft amending budget 3/2017 that integrates the provision of EUR 500 million in commitments for YEI, as agreed upon by Parliament and the Council in the 2017 budgetary conciliation; is convinced that while the proposed amounts alone will not be sufficient to tackle youth unemployment, YEI will continue to contribute to the Union’s priority objective of growth and jobs; insists on the need to provide an effective response to youth unemployment across the European Union and underlines that YEI can be further improved and become more efficient;
2017/06/21
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 86 #

2017/2043(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Is particularly concerned at the possible reconstitution of a backlog of unpaid bills towards the end of the current MFF period, and recalls the unprecedented amount of EUR 24.7 billion reached at the end of 2014; welcomes the fact that the Commission, on the occasion of the MFF mid-term revision, provided a payment forecast until 2020 for the first time, but stresses that this needs to be duly updated every year, in order to allow the budgetary authority to take the necessary measures in time; is convinced that the credibility of the EU is also linked to its ability to ensure an adequate level of payment appropriations in the EU budget that will allow it to deliver on its commitments yet reminds, in this respect, that only a controlled levels of commitments assures control over the payments;
2017/06/21
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 103 #

2017/2043(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Reaffirms that tackling the root causes of the migratory and refugee crisis represent the long-term sustainable solution and that investments in the countries of origin of migrants and refugees are key to achieving this objective; notes thereforwelcomes, in this regard, the External Investment Plan (EIP) and calls for the swith surpriseft agreement among the institutions and rapid implementation of the European Fund for Sustainable Development (EFSD); notes the decreases in Heading 4 which cannot be fully justified in the framework of past budgetary increases or low implementation rate; is convinced that the EU cannot enter in a post-migratory crisis scenario yet and that the efforts to address the instability in the Eastern and Southern Neighbourhood must be enhanced;
2017/06/21
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 115 #

2017/2043(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Welcomes the increase proposed for the eastern component of the European Neighbourhood Instrument responding to Parliament’s previous calls; is convinced that in order to counter the activities of an increasingly aggressive Russian Federation, the EU’s support, especially for the countries that have signed Association Agreemenbelieves that the EU’s support for these countries is essential in order to further economic integration and convergence with the EU and to advance democracy, rule of law and human rights, is essentialn our Eastern neighborhood;
2017/06/21
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 127 #

2017/2043(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Reiterates its support for the implementation of the Commission's strategy 'Budget Focused on Results' and calls on continuous improvement of the quality and presentation of performance data, in order to provide accurate, clear and understandable information on EU programmes' performance;
2017/06/21
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 132 #

2017/2043(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Is surprisedRegrets, however, that COSME commitment and payment appropriations have been reduced respectively by 2.9 % and 31.3 %, although support to SMEs is identified as one of the top priorities of the EU; expresses its intention to further reinforce this programme in the 2018 budget;
2017/06/21
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 140 #

2017/2043(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Takes note of the Commission’s proposal to set up a European Solidarity Corps (ESC); notes, however, with concern that, despite Parliament’s warnings, the legislative proposal adopted on 30 May 2017 envisages that three fourths of the ESC budget would be financed by redeployments from existing programmes, and mainly from Erasmus+ (EUR 197.7 million); is also concerned byof the proposed cuts to the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and to LIFE programme; is concerned of the risk that this situation would pose to those EU programmes that are subject to cuts;
2017/06/21
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 152 #

2017/2043(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Welcomes the proposed scaling-up of the preparatory action on defence research and the presentation by the Commission of a legislative proposal for a defence industry development programme; recalls its earlier position that new initiatives in this area should be financed by additional funds and not be detrimental to existing research programmes;
2017/06/21
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 166 #

2017/2043(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Highlights the prolongation of exceptional support measures for certain fruits for which the market situation is still difficult, but; regrets that, however, that the Commission is not currently proposing support measures in the livestock sectors, and particularly in the dairy sector, related to the Russian ban on EU imports will not be extendedand expects, therefore, a change of course in this regard; expects, consequently, that if the margin of Heading 2 is deployed, a part of it will be allocated to dairy farmers in countries most affected from the Russian embargo; awaits the Commission’s letter of amendment, expected in October, which should be based on updated information on the EAGF funding to verify the real needs in the agricultural sector, taking duly into account the impact of the Russian embargo and other market volatilities;
2017/06/21
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 170 #

2017/2043(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Notes the proposed EUR 3 473.1 million in commitment appropriations for Heading 3; emphasises the need for joint, comprehensive and sustainable solutions to the current migration and refugee crisihallenges, and to addressing safety and security concerns particularly following the series of terrorist attacks that the European Union has known on its territory; welcomes, therefore, the Commission’s proposal for an additional EUR 800 million dedicated to tackling these issues;
2017/06/21
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 178 #

2017/2043(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
31. Furthermore believes that cooperation among Member States in security related matters could be further enhanced through increased support from the EU budget; questions how such an objective could be reached while relevant budgetary lines of the ISF are significantly decreased compared to 2017 Budget; stresses the need to guarantee the necessary funding to implement the new information and border systems such as European Travel Information and Authorisation and Entry-Exit Systems.
2017/06/21
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 184 #

2017/2043(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
34. Recalls Parliament’s consistently strong support for culture and media programmes; welcomes the proposed increases for the Creative Europe Programme compared with the 2017 budget, including for the European Year for Cultural Heritage under ‘Multimedia actions’; furthermore, insists on sufficient funding for the programme ‘Europe for Citizens’; appreciates, finally, also the increases in commitment appropriations for the Food and Feed programme, and the HealthConsumer programme and the Consumer programme compared with the 2017 budget; emphasises, finally, the importance of a strong Health Programme and an appropriate budget to enable European cooperation in the field of health, including new innovations in health care, health inequalities, the burden of chronic diseases, anti-microbial resistance, cross-border healthcare and access to care;
2017/06/21
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 221 #

2017/2043(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
46. Reiterates its conviction that the European agencies active in the Justice and Home Affairs field must be provided with the necessary operational expenditure and staffing levels to allow them to achieve the additional tasks and responsibilities they have been given in recent years; welcomes, in this regard, the substantial staff increases proposed for the European Coast and Border Guard Agency (Frontex) and the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), which it considers a minimum to ensure that these agencies can effectively perform their operations; calls the Commission to reassess whether the staff increase proposed for Europol is enough, as this does not reflect the increased workload related to the additional tasks recently conferred to the Agency, especially in the area of terrorism, cybercrime and migrant smuggling ; underlines the identified gaps in the existing exchange of information architecture and urges the Commission to provide eu-LISA with the appropriate human and financial resources to fulfil the additional tasks and responsibilities recently assigned to the Agency in this respect ; requests the Commission to reassess whether the proposed operational funding (-23.6 % compared to 2017) and staffing levels (-4) for Eurojust will indeed allow this agency to fulfil in an effective manner its key role in the promotion of judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters, including in the fields of drug policy and crime prevention;
2017/06/21
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 6 #

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
– having regard to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to the UN human rights conventions and the optional protocols thereto,
2017/04/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 9 #

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 b (new)
– having regard to the resolution of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on the participation of the European Union in the work of the United Nations , which grants the EU the right to intervene in the UN General Assembly, to present proposals and amendments orally which will be put to a vote at the request of a Member State, and to exercise the right to reply,
2017/04/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 17 #

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas the EU’s commitment to effective multilateralism and good global governance, with the UN at its core, is an integral part of the EU’s external policy and is rooted in the conviction that a multilateral system founded on universal rules and values is best suited to addressing global crises, challenges and threats;
2017/04/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 21 #

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas the EU should play a proactive part in building a United Nations that can contribute effectively to global solutions, peace and security, human rights, sustainable development, democracy and a rule-of-law-based international order; whereas EU Member States need to make every effort to coordinate their action in the organs and bodies of the United Nations system in accordance with the mandate contained in Article 34(1) TEU;
2017/04/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 29 #

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas the EU and its Member States remain collectively the single largest financial contributor to the UN system, providing almost 50% of all contributions to the UN, with the EU Member States contributing around 40% of the UN’s regular budgetprimary aims of eradicating poverty, promoting long-term peace and stability, and combating social inequalities, and provides humanitarian assistance to populations, countries and regions that are confronted with all types of crises, whether natural or human- made; whereas EU contributions to the UN should be more visible;
2017/04/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 33 #

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the EU works for environmental sustainability, notably in the fight against climate change by promoting international measures and actions to preserve and improve the quality of the environment and the sustainable management of natural resources;
2017/04/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 35 #

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas the EU is one of the most dedicated defenders and promoters of human rights, fundamental freedoms, cultural values and diversity, democracy and the rule of law;
2017/04/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 39 #

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas the EU’s security environment is increasingly unstable and volatile owing to a large number of longstanding or newly emerging internal and external challenges, including violent conflicts, terrorism, organised crime, unprecedented waves of migration and climate change, which are impossible to address at national level and require regional and global responses;
2017/04/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 93 #

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph j
(j) to increase Member State support for UN peacekeeping and peacebuilding operations that include a human rights component and clear exit strategies, in particular by contributing personnel and equipment, and to enhance the EU’s role as a facilitator in this respect; to ensure better visibility for this support and contribution; to further develop procedures for the use of EU Common Security and Defence Policy in support of UN operations while paying sufficient attention to the several dimensions of complex crisis management, such as human rights, sustainable development, and the root causes of mass migration;
2017/04/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 108 #

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph k
(k) to continue to support the efforts to further operationalise R2P and to support the UN in continuing to play a critical role in assisting countries in the implementation of R2P in order to uphold the rule of law and of international humanitarian law;
2017/04/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 123 #

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph m
(m) to support the UN in making counter-terrorism a key element of its prevention agenda in line with the EU’s engagement in preventive measures to combat terrorism and counter violent extremism; to strengthen joint EU-UN efforts in combating the root causes of terrorism, particularly in countering hybrid threats and developing research and capacity-building in cyber defence; to promote education as a main tool for preventing violent extremism and to rely on the existing initiatives set up by local partners to devise, implement, and develop approaches to counter radicalisation and terrorist recruitment;
2017/04/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 159 #

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph t a (new)
(ta) to call for a strengthening of the child protection systems and to support concrete measures in the best interests of the child refugees and migrants, based on the Convention on the rights of the child;
2017/04/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 178 #

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph w
(w) to continue to advocate freedom of religion or belief; to call for greater efforts to protect the rights of religious and other minorities; to call for greater protection of religious and ethnic minorities against persecution and violence; to call for the repeal of laws criminalising blasphemy or apostasy, which serve as a pretext for the persecution of religious minorities and non-believers; to support the work of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief; to actively work for UN recognition of the genocide of religious and other minorities committed by ISIL/Daesh, and for referral to the ICC of cases of suspected crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide; to support the work of UN against torture and other cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment or punishment, mass executions, executions including for drug- related offences;
2017/04/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 202 #

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph aa
(aa) to underline the leading role of the EU in the process that led to the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Agenda 2030) and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the General Assembly in September 2015; to urge countries to fully implement Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development in their policies in order to reach the SDGs; to take concrete steps to ensure the efficient implementation of Agenda 2030 and the 17 SDGs as important instruments for prevention and development;
2017/04/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 211 #

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph aa a (new)
(aaa) to work determinedly for eradicating poverty and to promote ecologically, economically and socially sustainable development all over the world; to fight against social inequalities and to provide humanitarian assistance to populations, countries and regions that are confronted with all types of crises, whether natural or human-made;
2017/04/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 234 #

2017/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph ad
(ad) to support actively a comprehensive reform of the United Nations Security Council on the basis of a broad consensus; in order to better reflect the new world reality and to more effectively meet present and future security challenges; to promote the structural and functional reform of the economic and social council and to develop it into a body capable to enhance sustainable global development in a comprehensive and coordinated way; to promote the revitalisation of the work of the General Assembly, and improved coordination and coherence of the action of all UN institutions, which should enhance the efficiency, effectiveness, legitimacy, transparency, accountability, capacity and representativeness of the system;
2017/04/06
Committee: AFET
Amendment 11 #

2017/2022(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the amount set aside for extraordinary investment and expenditure in 2018 is EUR 47,6 million, the same level as in 2017; considersrecalls that the distinction between ordinary and extraordinary expenditure, first introduced in the 2016 budget and included in the consecutive budgets, was made solely in order to respond to the urgent need for implementation measures concerning security of buildings and cybersecurity following the terrorist attacks; considers that the excessive use of that distinction,namely the inclusion of other expenditure in extraordinary expenditure, gives an erroneous indication of the evolution of the budgetary margin and is thus in contradiction with the principle of transparency of Parliament's expenditure; considers, therefore, that the 2019 communication campaign ought to not be considered as extraordinary expenditure;
2017/03/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 41 #

2017/2022(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Welcomes the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Belgian Government and the European Parliament, the Council, the Commission, the European External Action Service, and other institutions based in Brussels, on security verifications for all external contractors’ staff wishing to access the Union institutions; regrets that that Memorandum of Understanding was signed after the driver service had been internalised for safety reasons; invites the Secretary-General to consider the advisability of extending the application of this Memorandum of Understanding to officials and parliamentary assistants in order to allow the necessary security verifications before their recruitment;
2017/03/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 55 #

2017/2022(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Considers 2018 to be a critical year for the Konrad Adenauer (KAD) building, as it will mark the end of the work on the East site and the start of work on the West site; notes that the budget allocated to cover the management of this large-scale project has had to be revised in order to strengthen the teams which monitor the progress of the work; notesdraws attention to the on-going practice of using the year-end 'mopping up transfer' (ramassage) to contribute to current building projects; considers that while this may be a pragmatic solution to reduce interest rate payments, it nevertheless exists in tension with the transparency of building projects within the Parliament's budget and could even incentivise over-budgeting in certain areas; highlights, on the basis of the figures for the years 2014, 2015 and 2016, that the year-end 'mopping up transfer' (ramassage) takes place systematically on the same chapters and titles and, with a few exceptions, exactly on the same lines; wonders, therefore, whether there is a programmed overvaluation of those chapters and lines in order to generate funds for the financing of buildings policy;
2017/03/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 95 #

2017/2022(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Welcomes in particular the ever increasing quality of advice and research provided to Members and committees through the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) and the policy departments; recalls that a mid-term evaluation of the efficacy of the cooperation between the European EPRS and the policy departments was provided for when the EPRS was created in 2013; requests once again the Secretary- General to proceed to undertake such an evaluation and present to the Committee on Budgets its results before the Parliament's reading of the budget in autumn 2017; approves of the four specific projects being developed over the medium- term in the European Parliament library, namely the digital library, improved resources for research, comparative law sources and open library; considers these projects as a means to improve support to both Members and staff, as well as facilitating access to the external research community and citizens;
2017/03/16
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 8 #

2017/0352(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 60 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. The cost incurred in connection with the establishment and operation of a central EU backup solution for each system indicated in paragraph 1, where necessary, shall be borne by the general budget of the Union.
2018/05/25
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 9 #

2017/0352(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 60 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Costs incurred in connection with the integration of the existing national infrastructures and their connection to the national uniform interfaces as well as in connection with hosting and future developments of the national uniform interfaces shall be borne by the general budget of the Union.
2018/05/25
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 8 #

2017/0351(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 60 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. The cost incurred in connection with the establishment and operation of a central EU backup solution for each system indicated in paragraph 1, where necessary, shall be borne by the general budget of the Union.
2018/05/23
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 9 #

2017/0351(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 60 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Costs incurred in connection with the integration of the existing national infrastructures and their connection to the national uniform interfaces as well as in connection with hosting and future developments of the national uniform interfaces shall be borne by the general budget of the Union.
2018/05/23
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 44 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
(2) To ensure a coherent legislation framework ofor the inter-urban carriage of passengers by regular coach and bus services throughout the Union, Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009 should apply to all inter- urban carriage by regular services. The scope of that Regulation should therefore be extendedEuropean Union is paramount in order to prevent legal ambiguity. The scope of that Regulation should therefore be consistent with the provisions of a Regulation (EC) No1370/2007.
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 49 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
(3) An independent and impartial regulatory body should be designated in each Member StateEach Member State shall designate a national competent authority to ensure the proper functioning of the road passenger transport market. That body may also be responsible for other regulated sectors such as rail, energy or telecommunications.
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 66 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
(6) In order to ensure fair competition in the market, operators of regular services should be provided with access rights to terminals in the Union on fair, equitable, non-discriminatory and transparent terms. Appeals against decisions rejecting or limiting access should be lodged with the regulatory body.national competent authority
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 72 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
(8) Authorisation for both national and international regular services should be subject to an authorisation procedure. Authorisation should be granted, unless there are specific grounds for refusal attributable to the applicant, or the service would compromise the economic equilibrium of a public service contract. A distance threshold should be introduced to ensure that commercial regular service operations do not compromise the economic equilibrium of existing public service contracts. In the case of routes already served by more than one public service contract, it should be possible to increase that threshold.
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 77 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
(9) Non-resident carriers should be able to operate national regular services under the same conditions as resident carriers by attending a competitive tendering procedure, in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2007 on public passenger transport services by rail and by road and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) Nos 1191/69 and 1107/70.
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 80 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
(10) Administrative formalities should be reduced as much as possible without abandoning the controls and penalties that guarantee the correct application and effective enforcement of Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009. The journey form constitutes an unnecessary administrative burden and should therefore be abolished.
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 104 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009
Article 2 – paragraph 7
7. ‘cabotage operation’ means a national road passenger transport service operated for hire or reward on a temporary basis in a host Member State;;
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 115 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point c
Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009
Article 2 – paragraph 9
9. ‘terminal’ means any staffed facility with a minimumhere according to the specified route a rea of 600m2, which provides a parking place that is used by coaches and buses for the setgular service is scheduled to stop for passengers to board or alight, equipped with facilities such as a check-in counter, waiting downroom or pticking up of passengerset office;
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 130 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point c
Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009
Article 2 – paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. ‘public service contract’ means one or more legally binding acts confirming the agreement between a competent authority and a public service operator to entrust to that public service operator the management and operation of public passenger transport services subject to public service obligations; depending on the law of the Member State, the contract may also consist of a decision adopted by the competent authority: – taking the form of an individual legislative or regulatory act, or – containing conditions under which the competent authority itself provides the services or entrusts the provision of such services to an internal operator;
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 140 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009
Article 3 a – paragraph 1
Each Member State shall designate a single national regulatory bodcompetent authority for the road passenger transport sector. That body shall be an impartial authority which is, in organisational, functional, hierarchical and decision making terms, legally distinct and independent from any other public or private entity. It shall be independent from any competent authority involved in the award of a public service contracte national competent authority may be responsible for other regulated sectors.
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 144 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009
Article 3 a – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The regulatory body may be responsible for other regulated sectors.deleted
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 146 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009
Article 3 a – paragraph 2
2. The regulatory body for the road passenger transport sector shall have the necessary organisational capacity in terms of human and other resources, which shall be proportionate to the importance of that sector in the Member State concerned.deleted
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 152 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009
Article 3 a – paragraph 3
3. The regulatory bodnational competent authority shall perform the following tasks::
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 164 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009
Article 3 a – paragraph 4
Information requested shall be supplied within a reasonable period set by the regulatory bodnational competent authority and not exceeding one month. In justified cases, the regulatory bodnational competent authority may extend the time limit for submission of information by a maximum of two weeks. The regulatory bodnational competent authority shall be able to enforce requests for information by means of penalties which are effective, proportionate and dissuasive.
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 167 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009
Article 3 a – paragraph 5
5. Member States shall ensure that decisions taken by the regulatory bodnational competent authority are subject to judicial review. That review may have suspensive effect only when the immediate effect of the regulatory bodnational competent authority’s decision may cause irretrievable or manifestly excessive damages for the appellant. This provision is without prejudice to the powers of the court hearing the appeal as conferred by constitutional law of the Member State concerned.
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 170 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009
Article 3 a – paragraph 6
6. Decisions taken by the regulatory bodnational competent authority shall be made public.;
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 172 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 b (new)
Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009
Article 3 c (new)
(3b) 3c. Member States shall not apply Article 3b when they apply subsidies for the transportation of passengers on unprofitable lines and routes at the expense of a national and/or local budget.
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 223 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009
Article 5 b – paragraph 4
4. Applicants may appeal against decisions by terminal operators. Appeals shall be lodged with the regulatory bodnational competent authority.
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 225 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009
Article 5 b – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1
Where the regulatory bodnational competent authority hears an appeal against a decision by a terminal operator, it shall adopt a reasoned decision within a fixed timeframe and, in any case within three weeks from receipt of all relevant information.
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 228 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7 Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009
The decision of the regulatory bodnational competent authority on the appeal shall be binding. The regulatory bodnational competent authority shall be able to enforce it by means of penalties which are effective, proportionate and dissuasive
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 238 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10
Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009
Article 8 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. In the event that an international regular bus and coach service has compromised the economic equilibrium of a public service contract, due to exceptional reasons which could not have been foreseen at the time of granting the authorisation, the Member State concerned may, with the agreement of the Commission, suspend or withdraw the authorisation to provide the service, after having given three months’ notice to the carrier. The carrier shall have the possibility to appeal such decision.
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 240 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10
Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009
Article 8 – title
Authorisation procedure for the international carriage of passengers over a distance of less than 100 kilometres as the crow flies
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 246 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10
Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009
Article 8 – paragraph 1
1. Authorisations shall be issued in agreement with the competent authorities of all the Member States in whose territories passengers are picked up or set down and are carried over distances of less than 100 kilometres as the crow flies, over distance defined by each Member State. The authorising authority shall send a copy of the application, together with copies of any other relevant documentation, within two weeks of receipt of the application to such competent authorities with a request for their agreement. At the same time, the authorising authority shall forward those documents to the competent authorities of other Member States whose territories are crossed, for information.
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 264 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009
Article 8 a – title
Authorisation procedure for the international carriage of passengers over a distance of 100 kilometres or more as the crow fliesdeleted
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 270 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009
Article 8 a – paragraph 1
1. The authorising authority shall take a decision on the application within two months of the date of submission of the application by the carrier.deleted
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 275 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009
Article 8 a – paragraph 2
2. Authorisation shall be granted unless refusal can be justified on one or more of the grounds listed in points (a) to (c) of Article 8c(2).deleted
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 282 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009
Article 8 a – paragraph 3
3. The authorising authority shall forward to the competent authorities of all Member States in whose territories passengers are picked up or set down, as well as to the competent authorities of Member States whose territories are crossed without passengers being picked up or set down, a copy of the application, together with copies of any other relevant documentation, and its assessment, for information.deleted
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 305 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009
Article 8 b – paragraph 2
2. Authorisations for national regular services shall be granted unless refusal can be justified on one or more of the grounds listed in points (a) to (cd) of Article 8c(2) and, if the service is carrying passengers over a distance of less than 100 kilometres as the crow flies, Article 8c(2)(d).
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 312 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009
Article 8 b – paragraph 3
3. The distance referred to in paragraph 2 may be increased to 120 kilometres if the regular service to be introduced will serve a point of departure and a destination which are already served by more than one public service contract.deleted
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 342 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009
Article 8 d – paragraph 1
1. Member States may limit the right of access to the international and national market for regular services if the proposed regular service carries passengers over distances of less than 100 kilometres as the crow flies and if the service would compromise the economic equilibrium of a public service contract.
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 376 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 16
Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009
Article 15 – point c
(c) regular services, performed in accordance with this Regulation.;by a carrier not resident in the host Member State provided that a stay in that Member State does not exceed 48 hours after the entry into the territory of the Member State, in the course of a regular international service in accordance with this Regulation with the exception of transport services meeting the needs of an urban centre or conurbation, or transport needs between it and the surrounding areas. Cabotage operations shall not be performed independently of such international service.
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 391 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 19 a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009
Article 25 – paragraph 1 a (new)
(19a) In Article 25, the following paragraph 1 a is inserted: "Member States shall not apply the provisions of Chapter III of this Regulation for national regular services on territories covered by services of general economic interest, on the condition that public service contracts are awarded following a competitive tendering procedure, in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007."
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 398 #

2017/0288(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 21
Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009
Article 28
(21) Article 28 is replaced by the following: ‘Article 28 Reporting 1. latest, and for the first time by 31 January […the first January following the entry into force of this Regulation] Member States shall communicate to the Commission the number of authorisations for regular services issued the previous year and the total number of authorisations for regular services valid on 31 December of that year. That information shall be given separately for each Member State of destination of the regular service. Member States shall also communicate to the Commission the data concerning cabotage operations, in the form of special regular services and occasional services, carried out during the previous year by resident carriers. 2. latest and, for the first time by 31 January […the first January following the entry into force of this Regulation], the competent authorities in the host Member State shall provide the Commission with statistics on the number of authorisations issued for cabotage operations in the form of the regular services referred to in Article 15(c) during the previous year. 3. adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 26 to establish the format of the table to be used for the communication of the statistics referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 and the data to be provided. 4. latest and, for the first time by 31 January […the first January following the entry into force of this Regulation], Member States shall inform the Commission of the number of carriers holding a Community licence as of 31 December of the previous year and of the number of certified copies corresponding to the number of vehicles in circulation on that date. 5. calculated 5 years after date of application of this Regulation], the Commission shall submit a report to the European Parliament and the Council on the application of this Regulation. The report shall include information on the extent to which this Regulation has contributed to a better functioning road passenger transport market.’deleted Each year, by 31 January at the Each year, by 31 January at the The Commission is empowered to Each year, by 31 January at the By [please insert the date
2018/10/04
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 49 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
(2) Having evaluated the effectiveness and efficiency of the implementation of the existing set of Union social rules in road transport, and in particular Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council9 , certain deficiencies were identified in the existing legal framework. Unclear and unsuitable rules on weekly rest, resting facilities, breaks in multi-manning and the absence of rules on the return of drivers to their home, lead to diverging interpretations and enforcement practices in the Member States. Several Member States recently adopted unilateral measures further increasing legal uncertainty and unequal treatment of drivers and operators. _________________ 9 Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the harmonisation of certain social legislation relating to road transport and amending Council Regulations (EEC) No 3821/85 and (EC) No 2135/98 and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3820/85 (OJ L 102, 11.4.2006, p. 1).
2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 94 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
(7) There are differences among Member States in the interpretation and implementation of the weekly rest requirements as regards the place where the weekly rest should be taken. It is therefore appropriate to clarify that requirement to ensure that drivers are provided with adequate accommodat. It is desirable to adapt the provision foron their regular weekly rest periods if they are taken away from homeand any weekly rest of more than 45 hours in a such a way that it is easier for drivers to spend it in a suitable rest area.
2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 197 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point r a (new)
(2a) In Article 4, the following points (s)and (t)are added: "(ra) “secure parking lot” means a place that is enclosed by a barrier and organised with a check-in mode, with 24- hour armed or unarmed security; (rb) “home” means the employer's operational centre where the driver is based or to the driver's place of residence.
2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 210 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 b (new) Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
The total accumulated driving time during any two(2b) In Article 6, paragraph 3 shall be amended as follows: "The total accumulated driving time during any four consecutive weeks shall not exceed 180 hours. The total accumulated driving time during any three consecutive weeks shall not exceed 1590 hours. " Or. en (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32006R0561&from=EN)
2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 276 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point a
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 2
For the purposes of point (b), the reducedA weekly rest periods shall be compensated by an equivalent period of rest taken en bloc before the end of the third week following the week in queststart no later than at the end of six 24-hour periods from the end of the previous weekly rest periond.
2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 330 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point c
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – Article 8 a
8a. The regular weekly rest periods and any weekly rest of more than 45 hours taken in compensation for previous reduced weekly rest shall not be taken in a vehicle. They shall be taken in a, but with an exemption: when the cabin is equipped with suitable faccommodation, with adequate sleepilities and the truck is parked ing and sanitary facilities; “secure parking lot”
2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 489 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) No 165/2014
Article 34 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1
7. The driver shall enter in the digital tachograph the symbols of the countries in which the daily working period started and finished as well as where and when the driver has crossed a border in the vehicle on arrival at the suitablefirst planned stopping place. Member States may require drivers of vehicles engaged in transport operations inside their territory to add more detailed geographic specifications to the country symbol, provided that those Member States have notified those detailed geographic specifications to the Commission before 1 April 1998..
2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 271 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall not apply points (b) and (c) of the first subparagraph of Article 3 (1) of Directive 96/71/EC to drivers in the road transport sector employed by undertakings referred to in Article 1(3)(a) of that Directive, when performing international carriage operations or cabotage operations as defined by Regulations 1072/2009 and 1073/2009 where the period of posting to their territory to perform these operations is shorter than or equal to 3 daytwelve days in case of international carriage operations and seven days in case of cabotage operations during a period of one calendar month.;
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 309 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
When the period of posting is longer than 312 days for international transport and as of day 7 for cabotage, Member States shall apply points (b) and (c) of the first subparagraph of Article 3 (1) of Directive 96/71/EC for the entire period of posting to their territory during the period of one calendar month referred to in the first subparagraph.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 321 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – point a (new)
(a) Notwithstanding Article 2(1) of Directive 96/71/EC, a driver shall not be considered to be posted to the territory of a Member State that the driver transits through without loading or unloading freight and without picking up or setting down passengers.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 345 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
3. For the purposes of the calculation of the periods of posting referred to in paragraph 2, a day shall consist of 24 hours:
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 352 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) a daily working period shorter than six hours spent in the territory of a host Member State shall be considered as half a day;deleted
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 365 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) a daily working period of six hours or more spent in the territory of a host Member State shall be considered as a full day;deleted
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 383 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point c
(c) breaks and rest periods, except weekly rest, as well as periods of availability spent in the territory of a host Member State shall be considered as working period.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 550 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 5
5. For the purposes of point (a) of paragraph 4 the road transport operator may provide a posting declaration covering a period of a maximum of six months.deleted
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 22 #

2016/2323(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1
A budget for sustainable growth, jobs and security
2017/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 36 #

2016/2323(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the important role played by the EU budget in delivering concrete answers to the challenges the EU is facing; stresses that jobs, economic growth and sustainable economic growth, climate change, migration, and security and tackling populism are the main concernhallenges at EU level and that the EU budget remains part of the solution to these issues; underlines that only a strong EU budgetand efficient EU budget with a genuine European added value will benefit all Member States and EU citizens alike; expects that the Commission will put forward a draft 2018 budget that enables the EU to continue to generate prosperity and ensure the safety of its citizens;
2017/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 50 #

2016/2323(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Believes that the EU budget must be equipped with the tools to enable it to, while budget discipline should not be compromised, responding to multiple crises simultaneously will require a certain level of flexibility; is of the opinion that, while growth and jobs continue to remain the core priorities of the EU budget, obtaining sustainable progress in these fields will not be possible should EU citizens feel unsafe or insecure;
2017/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 55 #

2016/2323(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Underlines that the EU budget must support the fulfilment of the objectives of the Paris agreement and the EU's own long-term climate goals by meeting the 20% spending target for climate in 2014-2020 MFF; stresses, in this regard, that the contribution for 2018 should overshoot the overall target in order to offset the lower allocations from the first half of the current MFF and that the mechanism of climate change mainstreaming should be fully optimized;
2017/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 57 #

2016/2323(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Notes with concern that the EU's 2020 biodiversity targets will not be met without substantial additional efforts; stresses, therefore, the importance of mainstreaming biodiversity protection across the EU budget, with a particular focus on LIFE programme and Natura 2000 network, and reiterates its previous call for a tracking methodology that takes into account all biodiversity related spending and its efficiency;
2017/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 110 #

2016/2323(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Considers education to be a prerequisite for well-paid, stable jobs; welcomes in this respect the role played by Erasmus+ in facilitating intra-European mobility of young studenunderlines the importance of cross-border mobility as a means of enabling young Europeans to take advantage of the variety of skills of people while expanding opportunities for training and employment; welcomes in this respect the role played by Erasmus+ in facilitating intra-European mobility of young students and apprentices; support the development of the European voluntary service (EVS) which helps young people travel abroad to participate in volunteering projects; calls, in this context, for the financing of this programme Eramus+ to continue to be increased in 2018;
2017/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 113 #

2016/2323(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Considers education to be a prerequisite for well-paid, stsustainable jobs; welcomes in this respect the role played by Erasmus+ in facilitating intra-European mobility of young students; calls, in this context, for the financing of this programme to continue to be increased in 2018;
2017/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 120 #

2016/2323(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines that youth unemployment is one of the main concerns at European level and that it puts at risk an entire generation of young Europeans; stresses that, as part of the conciliation agreement for the 2017 EU budget, a EUR 500 million allocation will be granted to the Youth Employment Initiative through an amending budget in 2017; remains firmly committed to securing adequate funding to fight against youth unemployment and for the continuation of the Youth Employment Initiative until the end of the current MFF, while at the same time improving its functioning and implementation;
2017/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 123 #

2016/2323(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Acknowledges the importance of Erasmus+ programme as a key component in increasing fellowship among European youth; believes that especially in the times of rising nationalism and populism it is important to facilitate natural interaction between different European nations and cultures to increase European consciousness and identity;
2017/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 164 #

2016/2323(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Is convinced that, under the current circumstances, where the ceiling in Heading 3 is too low, the EU budget has maximised its impact in dealing with the effects of the migratory and refugee crisis; points out, however, that a sustainable solution must be found to this issue, as it has been shown by the repeated mobilisation of special instruments, such as the flexibility instrument, that the EU budget was not initially designed to address crises of such magnitudehas proven to insufficient to provide for appropriate funding for the internal dimension of the current security as well as humanitarian and migratory challenges, as it has been shown by the repeated mobilisation of special instruments, such as the flexibility instrument; points out that a sustainable solution must be found in the future to this issue as a matter of utmost urgency and priority; recalls, however, that the necessity to mobilise supplementary means to face these challenges should not take precedence over other important Union policies, for example in the field of jobs and growth;
2017/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 169 #

2016/2323(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Is convinced that, under the current circumstances, where the ceilingand with limited resources in Hheading 3 is too low, the EU budget has maximised its impact in dealing with the effects of the migratory and refugee crisis; points out, however, that a sustainable solution must be found to this issue, as it has been shown by the repeated mobilisation of special instruments, such as the flexibility instrument, that the EU budget was not initially designed to address crises of such magnitude;
2017/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 176 #

2016/2323(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Welcomes the role played by instruments such as the Internal Security Fund (ISF) and the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) in addressing the effects of the migratory and refugee crisisecurity and humanitarian and migratory challenges, and calls for adequate budgeting in the coming years for these funds; welcomes also the role of EU agencies in the area of justice and home affairs, such as Europol and the, European Asylum Agency, European Border and Coast Guard, Eurojust and EU-LISA, and calls, in this context, for their mandate to be executed through adequate budgeting and staffing; is convinced that the EU needs to invest more in strengthening its borders, managing migration, enhancing cooperation between law enforcement national authorities and agencies, fighting terrorism and, radicalisation and ensuringserious and organized crime, ensuring the interoperability of information systems and guarantee sound return operations;
2017/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 187 #

2016/2323(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Strongly supports initiatives in the field of defence research with the aim of encouraging better cooperation between Member States and calls for a defence research programme with a dedicated budget within the next Multiannual Financial Framework; recalls that, while respecting provisions enshrined in the Treaties, strengthened cooperation in the field of defence is needed in order to meet the security challenges that the EU is facing, which are generated by prolonged instability in the EU neighbourhood and uncertainty regarding the commitment of certain EU partners towards NATO objectives; underlines, furthermore, the need to improve the competitiveness and innovation in the European defence industry that can contribute to stimulate growth and job creation;
2017/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 202 #

2016/2323(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Reaffirms its conviction that in order to tackle the root causes of the migratory and refugee crisis, the EU needs to step up its role through investments in the countries of origin of the refugees and migrants; notes that investments in infrastructure, housing, education, medical services and support for SMEs with a particular focus on job creation are part of the solution to tackle the root causes of migration; welcomes therefore the External Investment Plan (EIP) as a coherent and coordinated framework to promote investments in Africa and the Neighbourhood countries; expects that the EIP will promote sustainable development without compromising human rights, climate change mitigation and good governance and that transparent management of the European Fund for Sustainable Development and its projects will be ensured;
2017/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 210 #

2016/2323(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Reaffirms its conviction that in order to tackle the root causes of the migratory and refugee crisicurrent humanitarian and migratory challenges, the EU needs to step up its role through investments in the countries of origin of the refugees and migrants; notes that investments in infrastructure, housing, education, medical services and support for SMEs are part of the solution to tackle the root causes of migration; welcomes therefore the External Investment Plan as a coherent and coordinated framework to promote investments in Africa and the Neighbourhood countries;
2017/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 212 #

2016/2323(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. MaintainsNotes that the current trend by the Commission to resort to satellite budgetary mechanisms such as the Facility for Refugees in Turkey, trust funds and other similar instruments has not always proven to be a success; is concerned that the establishment of financial instruments outside the Union budget could threaten its unity and circumvent the budgetary procedure; considers, indeed, that it undermines the transparent management of the budget and hampers the right of the Parliament to exercise effective scrutiny of expenditures; maintains, therefore, its previous position that ad hoc external financial instruments which emerged in recent years must be incorporated into the EU budget, with Parliament having full scrutiny over the implementation of these instruments; recalls, however, that the funding needed for these instruments should not be deployed to the detriment of the Union's existing external action, including its development policy;
2017/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 214 #

2016/2323(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. MaintainsNotes that the Commission's decision to resort itself to satellite budgetary mechanisms, such as trust funds, has not always been a full success and that there is a risk that this kind of solutions undermine the transparent management of the budget and hamper budget control measures; Maintains, therefore, its previous position that ad hoc external financial instruments which emerged in recent years must be incorporated into the EU budget, with Parliament having full scrutiny over the implementation of these instruments;
2017/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 226 #

2016/2323(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Underlines that one of the conditions for preserving stability and prosperity in the EU is a stable EU Neighbourhood; calls on the Commission therefore to ensure that priority is given to investments in the EU Neighbourhood in order to support efforts to tackle the main issues that this area is facing: the migration and refugee crisicurrent humanitarian and migratory challenges in the Southern Neighbourhood and Russian aggression in the Eastern Neighbourhood; reiterates that supporting countries which are implementing association agreements with the EU is key to facilitating political and economic reforms;
2017/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 231 #

2016/2323(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18 a. Welcomes in principle the establishment of European Defence Fund, with research and capability windows, as a promising model of an EU project with genuine European added value as the union faces unprecedented security challenges both within and beyond its borders;
2017/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 239 #

2016/2323(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Acknowledges that only a controlled level of commitments assures control over the future level of payments and expects, therefore, a more orderly relation between commitments and payments; Stresses that delays in the implementation of 2014-2020 programmes under shared management led to a drop in payment claims for 2016 and 2017; is particularly concerned about the lack of transparency and a possible reconstitution of a backlog of unpaid bills towards the end of the current MFF period, and recalls the unprecedented level of EUR 24.7 billion reached at the end of 2014refore on the Commission to provide a regular, detailed update on scrapped projects to ensure the best use of EU funds and to enable transfers to new political priorities should the need arise; welcomes the fact that the Commission, on the occasion of the MFF mid-term revision, provided for the first time a payment forecast until 2020, but stresses that it needs to be duly updated every year, in order to allow the budgetary authority to take the necessary measures in time;
2017/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 250 #

2016/2323(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Underlines that the Commission will put forward by the end of 2017 its proposals for the post-2020 MFF; attachesunderstands that the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU will have a significant impact on the post-2020 MFF and resources available; attaches therefore the utmost importance to the process leading up to the establishment of the new financial framework, and expects this to be commensurate to the challenges the Union is facinga reformed, more agile and efficient EU budget; calls for a swift conclusion to the ongoing MFF mid-term revision;
2017/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 262 #

2016/2323(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Underlines that predictability and long-term sustainability of the EU budget is a prerequisite for a strong and stable European Union; draws attention to the fact that the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the EU will provide an opportunity to address the long-standing issues which have prevented the EU budget from reaching its real potential, especially as regards the revenue side of the budget; reaffirms its position in favour of an in- depth reform of EU own resources, and welcomes in this respect the presentation of the final report of the High-Level Group on Own Resources (HLGOR); invites all involved parties to draw the appropriate conclusions from this report and analyse the feasibility of implementing the recommendations of the HLGOR that would help make the EU budget more stable and predictable; welcomes the conclusion of the HLGOR regarding the fact that the EU budget needs to focus on areas bringing the highest European added value and regarding the ‘juste retour’ approach, which should end, as it has been shown by the report that all Member States benefit from the EU budget, irrespective of their ‘net-balance’;
2017/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 264 #

2016/2323(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Underlines that predictability and long-term sustainability of the EU budget is a prerequisite for a strong and stable European Union; draws attention to the fact that the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU will provide an opportunity to address the long-standing issues which have prevented the EU budget from reaching its real potential, especially as regards the revenue side of the budget; reaffirms its position in favour of an in- depth reform of EU own resources, and welcomes in this respect the presentation of the final report of the High-Level Group on Own Resources (HLGOR); invites all involved parties to draw the appropriate conclusions from this report and analyse the feasibility of implementing the recommendations of the HLGOR that would help make the EU budget more simple, stable and, predictable; welcom and environmentally sustainable; notes the conclusion of the HLGOR regarding the 'juste retour' approach, which should end, as it has been shown by the report that all Member States benefit from the EU budget, irrespective of their ‘net-balance’; believes that any new own resource should lead to a reduction in Member States' GNI- contributions;
2017/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 268 #

2016/2323(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24 a. Encourages the Commission to continue developing and implementing the 'EU budget focused on results' strategy; underlines, in this regard, the importance of simplifying rules, streamlining the monitoring process and developing relevant performance indicators;
2017/02/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 11 #

2016/2312(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas Albania has made steady and constant progress in its EU accession process; whereas further implementation of, inter alia, the judicial reform package, in particular the vetting law, electoral reform and the so-called decriminalisation law is important in strengthening citizens’ trust in their public institutions and political representatives;
2017/01/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 14 #

2016/2312(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas challenges still persist and need to be addressed swiftly and efficiently in a spirit of dialogue, cooperation and compromise between government and opposition in order to make further progress on its path to EU accession;
2017/01/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 19 #

2016/2312(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas the EU has highlighted the need to strengthen economic governance, the rule of law and public administration capacities in all of the Western Balkan countries;
2017/01/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 38 #

2016/2312(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes Albania’s continuous progress on EU-related reforms, in particular the adoption of constitutional amendments paving the way for a deep and comprehensive judicial reform; stresses that not only consistent adoption but also full and timely implementation of reforms and sustained political commitment are essential in order to further advance the EU accession process;
2017/01/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 47 #

2016/2312(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Fully supports Albania’s accession to the EU, and calls for the accession negotiations to be opened as soon as there is credible and sustainable progress in the implementation of judicial reform, fight against organized crime and corruption in order to keep the reform momentum; expects Albania to consolidate the progress achieved and to maintain the pace of progress on implementation of all key priorities;
2017/01/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 52 #

2016/2312(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Reiterates that a constructive dialogue, sustainable political cooperation and a willingness to compromise is crucial for the success of the reforms and for; underlines that lack of political cooperation and polarisation undermine the entire EU accession process;
2017/01/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 60 #

2016/2312(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Commends the consensual adoption of the constitutional amendments for judicial reform and the adoption of laws on the institutional reorganisation of the judiciary in close cooperation with the Venice Commission; calls for the swift adoption and implementation of all relevant accompanying laws and by-laws, in particular the law on the re-evaluation (vetting) of judges, prosecutors and legal advisors as an important instrument to fight corruption in Albania; notes that the application of the vetting law has been suspended by the Constitutional Court, and that the latter has requested the opinion of the Venice Commission on its constitutionality; reiterates that a comprehensive judicial reform is a major demand by Albania’s citizens for re- establishing trust in their political representatives and public institutions, and that the credibility and effectiveness of the overall reform process, including the fight against corruption and organised crime, depend on the success of the vetting process and judicial reform;
2017/01/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 70 #

2016/2312(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the new justice reform strategy 2017-2020 and its action plan, as well as the increased budgetary means for implementation; stresses that administration of justice continue to be slow and inefficient; notes the lack of progress in the filling of vacancies at the High Court and the administrative courts and the effective use of the unified case management system; calls for any shortcomings in the functioning of the judicial system to be further addressed, including lack of independence from other branches of power, selective justice, limited accountability, ineffective oversight mechanisms, corruption, the overall length of judicial proceedings and enforcements;
2017/01/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 77 #

2016/2312(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Ad-Hoc Parliamentary Committee on Electoral Reform to finalise its review of the electoral code while addressing all previous OSCE/ODIHR recommendations; calls on the competent authorities to ensure implementation in due time before the upcoming parliamentary elections of June 2017; recalls that all political parties are responsible for in order to address the lack of impartiality and professionalism in the electoral administration; calls on all political actors that ensuring thatfair and democratic elections are conducted in compliance with international standards is an important precondition to further advance the EU accession process; calls on Albania’s political parties to respect the law, in spirit and in letter, on the exclusion of criminal offenders from public office when drawing up their candidate lists; calls on the authorities to encourage CSOs to actively participate in the overview of the whole electoral process;
2017/01/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 83 #

2016/2312(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Stresses the fact that around 2 million citizens of Albania living abroad are not able to cast their vote in the upcoming elections which is a basic constitutional right; calls on authorities to make further efforts that allows for the adoption and implementation of the necessary reforms in order to provide voting right for Albanians who live abroad;
2017/01/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 95 #

2016/2312(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Notes the efforts towards a more citizen-friendly public administration and steady progress in the implementation of public administration reform; calls for further progress in strengthening the application of the Civil Service Law and the Law on Administrative Procedures, in order to safeguard the independence of regulatory bodies, improve recruitment procedures based on merit and performance, and enhance institutional and human resource capacities, with a view to ensuring efficient conduct of EU accession negotiations; calls for enhancing the authority, autonomy, efficiency and resources of human rights structures, such as the office of the Ombudsman; commends the National Council for European Integration on its initiatives to enhance the capacities of public administration and civil society in monitoring the implementation of accession-related reforms;
2017/01/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 99 #

2016/2312(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Takes notes of the implementation of the territorial reform; stresses that substantial efforts are needed to increase the financial and administrative capacity of the newly created local government units; calls for the establishment of a consultative council between the central and local governments;
2017/01/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 104 #

2016/2312(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes the adoption of key pieces of anti-corruption legislation, including on the protection of whistle- blowers; is concerned, however, that corruption remains prevalent in many areas and key anti-corruption institutions continue to be subject to political interference and have limited administrative capacities; notes that poor interinstitutional cooperation and exchange of information continue to hamper proactive investigation and effective prosecution of corruption; stresses the need for a more adequate legal framework for conflicts of interest, regulating lobbying and better interinstitutional cooperation, especially between police and prosecution services, with a view to improving their track record as regards investigation, prosecution and conviction, including in high level cases; in view of the upcoming parliamentary elections, calls for effective oversight of political party financing;
2017/01/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 114 #

2016/2312(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Welcomes the continued implementation of the strategy and action plan on the fight against organised crime and intensified international police cooperation; welcomes recent operations against drug plantations; notes, however, that police and prosecution fail to identify criminal gangs behind drug cultivation; calls also for organised crime networks to be dismantled and for the number of final convictions in organised crime cases to be increased, by enhancing cooperation between police and prosecution services and by strengthening institutional and operational capacities; underlines the need to step up efforts to prevent human trafficking, in particular as regards unaccompanied children and child victims of trafficking;
2017/01/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 127 #

2016/2312(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Notes the improving EU-related cooperation between state institutions and civil society organisations (CSOs), including their participation in meetings of the National Council on European Integration (NCEI); stressesnotes that an empowered civil society is a crucial component of any democratic system; stresses, therefore, the need for even closer coordination at all levels of government, including at local level, with CSOs; calls for the effective implementation of the right to information and public consultation and for better regulation of the fiscal framework affecting CSOs;
2017/01/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 136 #

2016/2312(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Urges the competent authorities to actively promote respect of human rights and continue improving the climate of inclusion and tolerance for all minorities and other vulnerable groups in the country, including by enhancing the role of the State Committee on Minorities; as regardsunderlines the need to improve the living conditions for Roma and Egyptians,; calls for continued efforts in improving their access to employment, education, health, social housing and legal aid; is concerned that, despite improvements, the inclusion of Roma children in the education system remains the lowest in the region;
2017/01/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 147 #

2016/2312(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Recalls that institutional mechanisms to protect the rights of the child and to tackle gender-based violence remain poor; calls for better policy implementation and better inter- institutional cooperation in order to tackle social exclusion and discrimination effectively; stresses the need for additional efforts in order to develop a track record of anti-discrimination cases;
2017/01/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 164 #

2016/2312(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Commends religious tolerance and good cooperation among religious communities; encourages the competent authorities and religious communities to cooperate in preserving and fostering religious harmony; notes that Albania has been affected by the phenomenon of foreign terrorist fighters and a number of unauthorized mosques in the country present risks of radicalisation; considers it essential to prevent Islamic radicalisation, including through disengagement and reintegration of returning foreign fighters, to counter violent extremism in cooperation with CSOs and religious communities, and to intensify regional and international cooperation in this area;
2017/01/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 173 #

2016/2312(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Reiterates the critical importance of professional and independent private and public service media; is concerned about political influence in the media and widespread self-censorship among journalists; notes the slow implementation of the law on audiovisual media and the delays in filling vacancies in the Audiovisual Media Authority (AMA); with a view to upcoming parliamentary elections, calls for additional efforts to fully guarantee the independence of the Audiovisual Media Authority (AMA) and of the public broadcaster; calls for measures to raise the professional and ethical standards of and prevalence of regular work contracts for journalists, to enhance the transparency of government advertising in the media and to ensure the independence of the regulatory authority and the public broadcaster;
2017/01/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 182 #

2016/2312(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Commends that according to the Institute of Statistic in Albania (INSTAT) the level of unemployment in Albania decreased at the lowest level during the last three years; stresses the need to rise the quality of education at all levels in order to better equip people with skills and knowledge in line with labour market needs;
2017/01/11
Committee: AFET
Amendment 29 #

2016/2308(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 16
— having regard to the fact that respect for the rule of law, including, in particular, the separation of powers, democracy, freedom of expression, human rights, the rights of minorities and religious freedom, freedom of association and peaceful protest, are at the core of the negotiataccession process,
2017/05/12
Committee: AFET
Amendment 40 #

2016/2308(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 a (new)
- having regard to the fact that Turkey has been admirably hospitable to the large number of refugees living in the country,
2017/05/12
Committee: AFET
Amendment 88 #

2016/2308(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the strategic importance of good EU-Turkey relations for both sides; recognises that both Turkey and the EU have gone through their own internal transformation processes since the accession negotiations were opened in 2004; regrets that the accession instruments have not been used to the fullest extent and that, over the years, Turkey's full integration into the EUEU- membership has lost public support oin both sidesthe Council; remains committed to cooperating and maintaining an open dialogue with the Turkish Government, in order to address common challenges; recommends that the Council urgently invite the Turkish Government to a summit to discuss the obvious crisis incurrent EU-Turkey relations that we are faced with;
2017/05/12
Committee: AFET
Amendment 107 #

2016/2308(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to suspend the accession talks with Turkey if the constitutional package is implemented unchanged;deleted
2017/05/12
Committee: AFET
Amendment 282 #

2016/2308(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to take into account the latest developments in Turkey when conducting the mid-term review of the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) funds in 2017, and to suspend all pre-accession funds if Turkey no longer sufficiently complies with the EU’s Copenhagen criteria; calls on the Commission to use those funds to support Turkish civil society and to invest more in people-to-people exchange programmes, such as Erasmus+ for students;
2017/05/12
Committee: AFET
Amendment 318 #

2016/2308(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Commends the engagement by the Turkish Government and the hospitality shown by the population in hosting around 3 million refugees; notes the EU-Turkey statement on migration, and urges the Member States to initiate the voluntary resettlement scheme for the most vulnerable refugees in Turkey; calls on the Commission to ensure long-term investment in both refugees and their host communities in Turkey; encourages the Turkish Government to grant work permits to all Syrian refugees; calls on Ankara to keep up itsTurkey and the EU to keep up their coordinated patrolling efforts in the Aegean and to implement fully the bilateral readmission agreements signed with Bulgaria and Greece;
2017/05/12
Committee: AFET
Amendment 338 #

2016/2308(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18 a. Calls for a closer cooperation and coordination and strategic alignment of foreign policy challenges between the EU and Turkey; is of the opinion that the Turkish Foreign Minister should be invited to attend foreign affairs Council meetings on a case by case basis given Turkey's geostrategic position;
2017/05/12
Committee: AFET
Amendment 71 #

2016/2152(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
34. Calls in this regard on the bureau to publish on the Parliament's website the documents submitted to it by the secretary- general in a machine-readable format, as soon as they become available, unless the nature of the information contained therein makes this impossible, for example, for the protection of personal data;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 146 #

2016/2152(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
46. Is not convinced of the need to have information offices of the Parliament in all Member States, especially in view of the fact that for effective communication physical presence may not always be is necessary and can easily benot be fully replaced by effective and responsive internet facilities; is in particularnevertheless is sceptical about having an information office in the cities of Brussels and Strasbourg as in both cities the Parliament itself can be visited and in addition for interested visitors there is or will be a Parlamentarium at their disposal;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 33 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas Union spending is a significant instrument for achieving Europe-wide policy objectives utilising the European added value and on overage represents 1.9% of Union Member states general government expenditure;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 75 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Welcomes Commissioner Oettinger's intention to bring the various shadow budgets, in the long run, back under the Union budgeroof of the Union budget, as the Commission would be answerable to the European Parliament; Calls on the Commission to prepare a communication on this issue before November 2017;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 91 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Points out that five Member States (Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, Poland and Romania) accounted in 2015 for more than half of the unused commitments of Structural Funds that have not led to payment;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 125 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
35. Notes with concernWelcomes that if the corrective measures taken by the Member States and the Commission had not been applied to the payments audited by the Court, lowered the overall estimated level of error would have been 4,3% rather than 3,8from 4,3% to 3,8 %; notes however that if the Commission, authorities in the Member States or independent auditors had made use of all information available to them, they could have prevented, or detected and corrected a significant proportion of the errors before the related payments were made;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 147 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53
53. Deeply regretNotes that the director general of Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, as in previous years, continues to issue a horizontal reservation covering all payments and cost claims under the 7th Framework Programme (FP7); calls on the director generalCommission to develop, at long last, a more meaningful, risk based approach and use specific reservations when needed;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 159 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 71
71. Regrets that the Court found that the current setup does not enable the CommissionSupports the Commission's view that it is not necessary to monitor and report separately the spending and performance of research and development (R&D) and innovation within Horizon 2020; in addition, while the financial contribution of Horizon 2020 within Europe 2020 is well established in the budgetary process through the published programme statements, it is regrettable thatnvites the Commission has not yeto reported on the implementation of Horizon 2020 and its contribution to Europe 2020 in a meaningful way as the results of the programme become available;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 181 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 92
92. Regrets that that the target to invest 3% of Member States' gross domestic product (GDP) into research by 2020 will most likely not be met; is aware, that the majority of all Research and Innovation expenditure in the EU is, at the national and regional level in Member States and through the private sector, where the Commission plays the role of a catalyst and facilitator, encouraging increased and smarter investment in research and innovation by Member States and the business sector through working with the Member States and the development of appropriate policies of open science and open innovation; calls on the Commission to draw the necessary conclusions for the mid-term revision of the MFF and for the next MFF;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 198 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 110
110. Regrets furthermoreNotes that the first monitoring report on Horizon 2020 gave only little information about synergy effects between the programme and structural funds88 ; invites the Commission to report on these synergy effects as results of the programme become available; _________________ 88 European Court of Auditors, Annual Report 2015, point 3.22
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 199 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 111
111. Also regretnotes that, according to the Court89 , Horizon 2020 is not sufficiently performance driven; welcomes the Commission's commitment to improve the work programmes, including their role in performance reporting; _________________ 89 European Court of Auditors, Annual Report 2015, Section 3
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 201 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 113
113. Calls on the Member States to make an extra effort with the view to meeting the target of 3 % GDP being invested in research; this would boost excellence and innovation; ask the Commission to explore the possibility of setting the target of 3 % GDP being invested in research as a prerequisite for using EU funding relevant to research and innovation during the mid-term revision of the MFF and for the next MFF;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 220 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 121
121. Notes, however, that very few programmes had a focus on results or measured impact; therefore little to nothing is known about the sustainability and the European added value of the investments;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 257 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 151
151. Fully supports Commissioner Oettinger when he said that financial instruments and “shadow budgets” must be brought back, in the long run, under the roof of the Union budget, as the Commission would be answerable to the European Parliament; calls on the Commission to prepare a communication on this issue before November 2017;deleted
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 288 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Czech paying agenconformity clearance inquiry
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 289 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 172
172. Asks the Commission to speed up theall conformity clearance procedures opened on 8 January 2016and to get detailed and precise pieces of information related to them, especially on the risk of a conflict of interest concerning the State Agricultural Intervention Fund in the Czech Republic; is aware that in 2015 the Commission adopted 3 such conformity clearance decisions covering 207 individual net financial corrections for a total amount of EUR 2 551.7 million; takes note that a failure to remedy a conflict of interest may ultimately result in the withdrawal of the accreditation of the paying agency by the competent authority or in imposing financial corrections by the Commission and asks the Commission to inform the Parliament without delay if at the end of theany conformity clearance procedure information related to possible cases of fraud, corruption or any illegal activity affecting the financial interests of the EU are transmitted to OLAF by DG AGRI;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 1009 #

2016/2114(REG)

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 94 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
The provisions governing the procedure for granting discharge to the Commission in accordance with Article 319 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, in respect of the implementation of the budget, shall likewise apply to the procedure for granting discharge to:
2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 1012 #

2016/2114(REG)

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 94 – paragraph 1 a (new)
The discharge to the bodies referred to in the fourth indent of the first paragraph shall be dealt with in a single report per body.
2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 10 #

2016/2097(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas, having in mind simplification processes, achieving good performance involves inputs, outputs, outcomes/results and impacts regularly assessed through the performance audits;
2017/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 33 #

2016/2097(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Is concerned that despite the positive drop of 11% of fraudulent irregularities reported as fraudulent from 1,649 in 2014 to 1,461 in 2015, the sums involved increased by 18% from 538 million EUR in 2014 to 637.6 million EUR in 2015;
2017/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 60 #

2016/2097(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Takes note of the 241 cases of reported smuggled cigarettes involving an estimated TOR loss of EUR 31 million; puts into question the vigilance of the customs services of those Members States (the Czech Republic, Malta, Cyprus, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden) which have not reported any single case of cigarette smuggling in 2015; also notes in this context that there is no available statistical distinction between "within EU" and "to EU" smuggling;
2017/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 126 #

2016/2097(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31a. Calls the European Commission to explore the possibility of mandatory use of Arachne risk scoring tool by all Member States in order to increase the anti-fraud measures;
2017/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 34 #

2016/2080(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Points out that all ex- Commissioners are banned for 18 months from lobbying "members of the European Commission and their staff for his/her business, client, or employer on matters for which they have been responsible" but are entitled to a very generous transitional allowance after they leave the Commission of between 40 and 65 per cent of their final basic salary for three years;
2016/09/06
Committee: CONT
Amendment 64 #

2016/2080(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 – point i a (new)
(ia) that a discrepancy in length of a ban for lobbying and the length of transitional allowance (unemployment allowance) are narrowed down or removed.
2016/09/06
Committee: CONT
Amendment 15 #

2016/2067(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the EU’s security environment has deteriorated considerably, becoming more fluid, more dangerous and less predictable; notes that threats are both conventional and hybrid, generated by both state and non-state actors, and coming from the South and the East, and thatalthough they are common threats they affect the Member States differently, thus preventing a more common approach; is firmly convinced that EU's vulnerability is direct outcome of the lack of integration as well as lack of coordination;
2016/09/15
Committee: AFET
Amendment 28 #

2016/2067(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that Europe is now compelled to react to an arch of increasingly complex crises: from West Africa, through the Sahel, the Horn of Africa and the Middle East, to the Caucasus; and should prepare towards profound change of international security landscape as societal, economic, technological and geopolitical trends point to the growing vulnerability of the world’s population to shocks and stresses, including: interstate conflicts, natural disasters, extreme weather events, water crises, state collapse and cyber-attacks;
2016/09/15
Committee: AFET
Amendment 62 #

2016/2067(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Is firmly convinced that, as a result, a thorough and substantial revision of the CSDP is needed; emphasises practical and financial benefits of further integrations of European defence capabilities and notes various ongoing initiatives which should be placed into a wider frame to establish a smart roadmap that will lead to a European Defence Union; calls on the Member States to follow through with concrete measures as a matter of urgency;
2016/09/15
Committee: AFET
Amendment 81 #

2016/2067(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines that, as Europe is no longer in control of its security environment and has lost the luxury of choosing the time and place of action, the CSDP, which has, until now, focused mainly on crisis management operations, should complement these operations with crisis prevention and crisis resolution, and truly ensure the common security and defence of the entire area of freedom, security and justice; is of opinion that to do so CSDP’s paramount objective must be strengthening the EU’s resilience;
2016/09/15
Committee: AFET
Amendment 117 #

2016/2067(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the presentation by the VP/HR of the Global Strategy for the European Union’s Foreign and Security Policy (EUGS) as a necessary and positive development for the institutional framework in which the CFSP and the CSDP will operate and develop; stresses that further work is needed to ensure theurges rapid implementation of the EUGS’s political level of ambition, priorities and comprehensive approach;
2016/09/15
Committee: AFET
Amendment 133 #

2016/2067(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Supports the development of a sectoral strategy as a follow-up to the EUGS, to be agreed by the Council, that should further specify the civil-military level of ambition, tasks, requirements and capability priorities; reiterates its previous calls for the development of a European Defence White Book and expresses hope that theurges Council willto assign the task of drafting this document without delay;
2016/09/15
Committee: AFET
Amendment 150 #

2016/2067(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Observes that, to this effect, cooperation with similar NATO activities andis needed; emphasises that an increased exchange of intelligence and information between the Member States are indispensableis indispensable and to that goal urges formation of European Intelligence Agency with the mission and capability to implement a de facto transversal intelligence network within the Member States allowing the European Union to react in a comprehensive and coordinated way to emerging threats;
2016/09/15
Committee: AFET
Amendment 178 #

2016/2067(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Observes as the building resilience should be one of the main goals of CFSP it requires comprehensive approach of different sectors which challenge traditional approaches to foreign and security policy with use of wide range of diplomatic, security, defence, economic, trade, development and humanitarian instruments;
2016/09/15
Committee: AFET
Amendment 186 #

2016/2067(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Underlines that all Council decisions on future missions and operations should prioritise engagements in conflicts directly affecting EU security, making sure it does not affect ongoing operations; considers that the decision to engage should be based on a common analysis and understanding of the strategic environment and on shared strategic interests of the Member States; considers that CSDP capacity-building missions must be coordinated with security sector and rule of law work by the Commission;
2016/09/15
Committee: AFET
Amendment 265 #

2016/2067(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Is convinced that enhancing the EU’s status as a global security provider needs adequate, sufficient capabilities and a competitive defence industry ensuring a sustainable supply chain; notes that the European defence sector is characterised by fragmentation and duplication, which need gradual elimination through a process providing incentives and rewards to all national components; emphasises on development of European capabilities and an integrated defence market;
2016/09/15
Committee: AFET
Amendment 286 #

2016/2067(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Welcomes the European Defence Agency’s (EDA) increasing role in coordinating capability-driven programmes, projects and activities, indispensable to an efficient CSDP; however notes that EDA's results are still far from being satisfactory as it still did not succeed in reaching benchmarks for common investment set in November 2007 on the Ministerial Steering Board (equipment procurement, including R&D/R&T, to 20% of total defence spending; European collaborative equipment procurement to 35% of total equipment spending; defence R&T to 2% of total defence spending; European collaborative defence R&T to 20% of total defence R&T spending); calls on the Council to urge Member States to work in collaboration to reach these benchmarks; welcomes the EDA’s Capability Development Plan and stresses the need for further commitments to ensure its full implementation; notes that EDA's increasing new roles and responsibilities should be followed and by increase of budget;
2016/09/15
Committee: AFET
Amendment 296 #

2016/2067(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Urges the Council to resolve standing problems with financing hybrid missions and to initiate establishment of start-up fond for the urgent financing of the initial phases of military operations; calls for more flexibility in the EU's financial rules in order to support its ability to respond to crises and for the implementation of existing Lisbon Treaty provisions; calls for a reform of the Athena mechanism to extend its scope for all costs related, first to rapid reaction operations, deployment of the EU Battlegroups, then to all military operations;
2016/09/15
Committee: AFET
Amendment 25 #

2016/2064(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises that EFSI was launched to help resolve difficulties and remove obstacles to financing as well as to implement strategic, transformative and productive investments that provide a high level of added value to the economy, the environment and society to complement structural reforms in EU Member States to modernise their economies to create growth and jobs;
2017/03/02
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 44 #

2016/2064(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls the role of Parliament as foreseen in the regulation, in particular in relation to the monitoring of EFSI implementation; acknowledges, however, that it is too early to finalise a comprehensive assessmentwelcomes the Commission’s evaluation on the use of the EU guarantee and the functioning of the guarantee fund; regrets however that its proposal for the extension of the funcdurationing of EFSI and its impact on the EU economy, but is of the opinion that a preliminary evaluation is crucial in order to identify possible areas of improvement for EFSI 2.0 and thereafterfor increasing the EU guarantee is not accompanied by a comprehensive evidence-based impact assessment, which is in contradiction to better regulation guidelines;
2017/03/02
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 50 #

2016/2064(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that the purpose of EFSI is to ensure additionality by helping to address market failures or suboptimal investment situations and supporting operations which could not have been carried out under existing Union financial instruments; notes however that there is a need for further clarification of the concept of additionality; recalls that EIB’s Special Activities operations are currently automatically considered as providing additionality and requires that EIB demonstrates and documents in a systemic way that all EFSI guaranteed projects meet the additionality criteria as set out in Article 5(1) of the Regulation (EU) 2015/2017;
2017/03/02
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 87 #

2016/2064(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission, in cooperation with the EIB, to draw up an inventory of all EU-backed EIB financing falling under the additionality criteria;deleted
2017/03/02
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 224 #

2016/2064(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Recalls that the Managing Director (MD) is responsible for the day-to-day management of EFSI, the preparation and chairing of meetings of the IC and for external representation; recalls that the MD is assisted by the Deputy Managing Director (DMD); regrets that, in practice, the respective roles, especially that of the DMD, have not been clearly identified; invites the EIB to reflect on spelling out the tasks of the MD and the DMD more clearly in order to ensure transparency and accountability; suggests that the MD, assisted by the DMD, could be explicitly put in charge of setting the agenda of the IC meetings, of carrying out an initial screening of the projects presented by the EIB as well as being made explicitly accountable for the decisions of IC experts; suggests, furthermore, that the MD should devise procedures for tackling potential conflicts of interest within the IC, report to the Steering Board (SB), propose sanctions for breaches as well as the means to implement them; believes that the authority of the MD and the DMD in carrying out these tasks would be enhanced by enjoying greater autonomy vis-à-vis the EIB; invites the EIB accordingly to explore options for increasing the independence of the MD and the DMD;
2017/03/02
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 253 #

2016/2064(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Recalls that diversified investments with a geographical or thematic focus should be made possible by helping to finance and bundle projects and funds from different sources; notes with concern that the first investment platform was only set up in the third quarter of 2016; requests the EIB and the EIAH to promote the use of investment platforms as a way to achieve geographic and thematic diversification of investments;
2017/03/02
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 295 #

2016/2064(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Acknowledges that GDP and the number of projects approved are linked; recognises that larger Member States are able to take advantage of more developed capital markets and are therefore more likely to benefit from a market-driven instrument such as EFSI; underlines that lower EFSI support in EU-13 may be attributable to other factors, such as the small size of projects, and competition from the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF); observes with concern, however, the disproportionate benefit to certain countries and underlines the need to diversify geographical distribution further, especially in crucial sectors such as modernising andby improving the productivity and sustainability of economies with a key focus on technological development;
2017/03/02
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 324 #

2016/2064(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
43. Notes that the Commission has proposed an extension of EFSI, both in terms of duration and financial capacity, and that this would have an impact on the EU budget; recalls the Parliaments opposition to finance EFSI by making cuts to Connecting Europe Facility and Horizon 2020 and expresses its intention to put forward alternative financing proposals for the proposed extension;
2017/03/02
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 338 #

2016/2064(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 13
Complementarities with other EU financing sources and policies
2017/03/02
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 349 #

2016/2064(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45 a (new)
45a. Believes that without the implementation of structural reforms, particularly concerning the improvement of the business environment, to complement EFSI operations, EFSI will fall short of its potential; stresses, therefore, that EFSI financing and investment operations on the territory of a Member State should only be approved if the relevant Member State has made substantial progress in implementing country specific recommendations under the European Semester;
2017/03/02
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 380 #

2016/2064(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49
49. Acknowledges that EFSI alone - and on a limited scale- will probably not be able to close the investment gap in Europe, but that it nevertheless constitutes a central pillar of the EU’s investment plan and signals the EU’s determination to tackle this issue; calls for further proposals to be made on how to permanently boost investment in Europe, such as completing the single market in services, digital and energy, and establishing a genuine Capital Markets Union;
2017/03/02
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 4 #

2016/2052(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that, with around EUR 200 billion of annual military spending, European countries are unable to avert the deterioration of their security environment and to weigh on global affairs because of fragmented defence policies that create inefficiencies and hinder their force projection; believes that a more integrated framework for defence could result in significant savings, additional capabilities and more sustained investment; recalls that, according to ‘cost of non-Europe’ estimates, annual efficiency gains in this area could range between EUR 26 billion in the less optimistic scenarios and EUR 130 billion; stresses that the funding of the first preparatory action should be integrated in the European Budget and not remain in an unclear intergovernmental frame; calls on the Member states to agree with Commission and EP on the future financial frame of defence added to the existing European Budget;
2016/09/12
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 16 #

2016/2052(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that common funding has a key role to play in incentivising the use of mechanisms whose potential remains largely untapped, such as permanent structured cooperation and EU Battlegroups; calls, therefore, for the Athena mechanism to be expanded and for consideration to be given to alternative funding for military expenditure in order to do away with the ‘costs lie where they fall’ principle; stresses that, in this context, the EU budget should be able to fund the administrative costs of establishing strategic structures, such as joint operational headquarters, as well as to prepare, organize and deliver defence research, technology and developments activities; calls also for more ambitious civilian missions that are better integrated in the policy cycle and in the range of available instruments;
2016/09/12
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 31 #

2016/2052(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Believes that the time is ripe for unfreezing the budget of the European Defence Agency, and is convinced that more should be done to close the investment gap in defence capabilities, including via EU innovative financing as a preparatory action for defence research; endorses, finally, the proposal for a ‘European Semester’ on defence, whereby Member States would coordinate their defence spending plans in an open process involving the European Parliament and the national parliaments.
2016/09/12
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 18 #

2016/2045(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. StresseRegrets that, contrary to Article 8(1) and (3) of the EUSF Regulation, the closing procedure for assistance from the fund appears to beis remarkably long in some cases: in 2014 the Commission was still closing files from 2005, 2007 and 2010;
2016/07/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 20 #

2016/2045(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. For the sake of facilitating transparent use of funds, calls for a ECA special report on the functioning of the EUSF, especially as the latest report available is from the time before revised EUSF regulation; calls in particular for a study on the possible overlaps in the use of EUSF funds with structural funds and with national schemes;
2016/07/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 10 #

2016/2034(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital B
B. whereas high levels of price and income volatility for farmers are related to the market fundamentals of supply and demand, but can be intensified by other macro-economic variables, the broad political and legislative environment, geopolitics and embargoes, and speculation on agricultural products which, when sold as financial assets, are exposed to shocks on related commodity markets (such as the energy and metal markets);
2016/06/23
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 12 #

2016/2034(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas price volatility increases the unpredictability of farmers' incomes and causes distress for European farmers whose costs remain high;
2016/06/23
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 47 #

2016/2034(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls for concrete tools to reduce negative social repercussions of price volatility to European farmers;
2016/06/23
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 28 #

2016/2031(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Takes note of Turkey’s recent rapprochement with Russia and the statements of the Turkish Government regarding the country’s possible accession to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation; reiterates that the EU is Turkey’s main trading partner and that two thirds of the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Turkey comes from EU Member States; emphasises that the Customs Union requires Turkey to align its legislation with the acquis communautaire; Envisages that the legislative alignment will benefit the EU companies investing in or trading with Turkey, which will, in turn, promote growth and jobs both in the EU and Turkey.
2017/02/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 32 #

2016/2031(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the growing geopolitical and economic challenges facing Turkey as a result of instability in its neighbourhood, terrorism and the aftermath of the coup attempt of 15 July 2016; stresses that while the chaos and instability in the Middle East, the Russian annexation of Crimea and intervention in Ukraine, are adversely affecting Turkey’s foreign trade within its neighbourhood, an upgraded Customs Union can help Turkey to overcome the challenges it faces, and contribute to transforming Turkey into a pillar of stability and an engine of growth for its citizens, if the necessary reforms are made by the government; emphasizes the strategic importance of the political and economic stability in the region for the security and welfare of the European citizens and further deepening and acceleration of Turkey and EU’s dialogue will enhance the sphere of European influence in the region;
2017/02/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 2 #

2016/2019(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas a budget of EUR 1 910 073 000 has been proposed by the Secretary- General for Parliament's preliminary draft estimates for 2017, representing an overall increase of 3,94,3% on the 2016 budget, from which 1,7% is considered to be ordinary expenditure, and 19,26% of heading V of the 2014-2020 MFF;
2016/03/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 6 #

2016/2019(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas additional extraordinary investments of EUR 15 million had been earmarked for urgent security and cyber security measures in the 2016 budget, out of which EUR 8 million to reinforce the entrances of the main building as well as reinforcing the glazing into bullet proof glazing where needed, EUR 4 million to replace the badge system, EUR 1,45 million to install informatics and software for an integrated security system and EUR 1,55 million for cyber security measures;
2016/03/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 13 #

2016/2019(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Recital H f (new)
Hf. whereas the Bureau adopted on 26 October 2015 a new set of rules for the management of the parliamentary assistance allowances, reinforcing the requirements for the reimbursement of local assistant contracts, namely by earmarking at least 25% of the parliamentary assistance allowance to cover expenditure on accredited assistants;
2016/03/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 17 #

2016/2019(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that extraordinary expenditure representing a 0,2% increase over the 2016 budget for the phasing out ofor the Irish language and a 2% increase over the 2016 budget for the additional needs for security and cybersecurity have been requestedtemporary derogation measures for the usage of the Irish language that were established by Regulation No. 1 of 15 April 1958;
2016/03/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 19 #

2016/2019(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
2a. Observes the request of 2 % increase for security and cybersecurity, which would more than double the resources allocated in 2016; urges the Secretary- General to provide the Committee on Budgets detailed information in a transparent manner on current and upcoming security and cybersecurity measures and the breakdown of their costs;
2016/03/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 30 #

2016/2019(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Secretary-General to make a proposal for presenting the budget to the general public in appropriate detail and in an intelligible and user-friendly manner on the website of the Parliament in order to enable all Members, researchers, journalists and citizens in general to develop a better understanding of Parliament's spending patterns and priorities; considers that a first step could consist of making the information graphic currently available in the intranet appear on the website of the Parliament;deleted (Amendment resumed afterwards with a new formulation.)
2016/03/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 37 #

2016/2019(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Commends the Bureau and the DG ITEC on the new layout of Members' personal pages on the official website of the Parliament providing more transparency on the composition and the status of their working team (creation of a new "assistant" tab with sub headings : assistants, accredited assistants, accredited assistants (grouping), local assistants, services providers, paying agents, trainees); asks the Secretary- General to ensure the necessary controls for the implementation of the new set of rules for the parliamentary assistance allowances adopted by the Bureau on 26 October 2015;
2016/03/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 39 #

2016/2019(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Calls on the Secretary-General to take the necessary measures to facilitate the access to all Members, researchers, journalists and citizens in general to the Parliament's budget content, in an intelligible and user friendly manner, on the website of the Parliament;
2016/03/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 40 #

2016/2019(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Calls for a medium and long term budgetary planning, including clear information with regard to expenditure relating to security and cybersecurity; moreover, in light of recent events, invites the Bureau to update the Global Security Concept and communicate it, as fast as possible and at the latest by June 2016;
2016/03/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 41 #

2016/2019(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Considers that any measure in this field should be based on a clear evaluation of Parliament's needs and proportionality with the incurred risks; requests the Secretary- General and the Bureau to present on time before the Parliament's reading on the 2017 budget to the Committee on Budgets a global evaluation on security measures envisaged, accompanied by detailed evaluation of their budgetary impact on 2017 budget and the following budgets, with a clear distinction between investments and recurrent expenditure and to outline the measures envisaged to reinforce Parliament's security inside and outside of its premises, as well as the impact of such measures on the 2017 budget; calls for information on the financial consequences of the interinstitutional administrative cooperation arrangements in the field of security;
2016/03/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 43 #

2016/2019(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Taking into account the budgetary impact of the security measures proposed so far, invites the Bureau to deliberate on the Global Security Concept by June 2016 and requests the Secretary-General to report to the Committee of Budgets;deleted (This paragraph is deleted because it is included in the new paragraph 10.)
2016/03/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 45 #

2016/2019(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Regrets that the internalisation of security staff that was prompted by both considerations of security and cost- efficiency has led to limitations of entrances and opening hours to keep within the agreed budget; points out that costs arising from for example sick leave and other types of leave were not properly factored in;deleted
2016/03/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 54 #

2016/2019(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Welcomes the increasing quality of advice and research provided to Members and committees; recalls that Parliament has been recruiting a maximum of 80 members of staff affected by the restructuring of the translation service of the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions and will work for the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS); recalls that a mid-term evaluation of the efficacy of the cooperation between the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) and the policy departments has been foreseen when creating the EPRS in 2013; requests therefore the Secretary- General to proceed to such an evaluation and present to the Committee on Budgets its results by the end of 2016; considers that this evaluation should contain proposals as to how to ensure that the support provided by EPRS is better articulated with developments in the respective thematic committees; expects, furthermore, that in-house production will increase with less budgetary means devoted to outsourcing studies, assessments or evaluations;
2016/03/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 58 #

2016/2019(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Agrees that the IT tools are an important instrument for Members to deliver on their function; reiterates, however, the necessity to allow the installation of free-source software which would allow considerable cost savings in/from communication fees, and would improve the work-flow of Members' offices, while taking cybersecurity into account;
2016/03/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 64 #

2016/2019(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Welcomes the new reform on additional written questions adopted on 3 September 2015 by the Committee on Constitutional Affairs on a request of the Committee on Budgets upon the adoption of Parliament's budget for the year 2016; asks the Secretary-General to set up the necessary controls for the implementation of the new interpretation; invites the Conference of Presidents to carry out an assessment of this new regime of written questions in respect of additional questions to analyse the generate savings and to inform the Commission on Budgets of the results of this assessment by August 2016, before the Parliament's reading of the budget in autumn 2016;
2016/03/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 67 #

2016/2019(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Considers it appropriate to maintain the appropriations for the envelope of the expenditure regarding parliamentary assistance for 2017 at same level as for 2016, subject to the indexation applicable under Staff Regulations;
2016/03/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 80 #

2016/2019(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. DRecalls that the mid-term building strategy, which was adopted by the Bureau in 2010, is currently under revision; deplores that the Bureau has not concluded yet its deliberations on Parliament's mid-term strategy for buildings; reiterates, therefore, once again its call for the new mid-term building strategy to be presented to the Committee on Budgets in time invites the Secretary-General to present to the Committee on Budgets the new mid-term strategy on building as soon as possible and at the latest by August 2016, before the preparation of Parliament's reading onf the 2017 budget in autumn 2016;
2016/03/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 83 #

2016/2019(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Bureau to present a long term strategy for Parliament buildings; reiterates that long-term investments, such as Parliament's building projects, need to be handled prudently and transparently; insists on strict cost management, project planning and supervision; reiterates its call for a transparent decision-making process in the field of buildings policy, based on early information, having due regard to Article 203 of the Financial Regulation; believes that a report on the reasons of the delay and the higher costs of the House of European History should feed into the long term building strategy;
2016/03/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 85 #

2016/2019(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Invites the Vice Presidents responsible to present to the Committee on Budgets a progress report on the KAD building;
2016/03/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 92 #

2016/2019(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Supports the additional posts required for Irish language translation and interpretation; exempts these additional posts from the reduction target of 5% in line with the recommendation of the Commission; asks the Secretary General to consult Irish Members with view to a possible rationalisation of the use of the Irish language without compromising the guaranteed rights of Members;
2016/03/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 103 #

2016/2019(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Takes note ofHas extremely strong reservations about the proposal of internalisation of chauffeur service replacing the external service provider with Parliament's contractual agents, which will correspond to approximately EUR 23,7 million of immediate additional expenses; considers that a well organised external contract concluded pursuant to applicable public procurement rules, where the external service provider is clearly obliged to take responsibility for security and background checks as well as for decent working conditions and pay, would be a preferable alternative;
2016/03/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 111 #

2016/2019(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
32. Asks the Secretary-General to hold discussions with Parliament's travel agency with view to systematically proposing the cheapest options of travel; encourages the travel agency to intensify comparison of prices; calls on the travel agency to actively seek less expensive tickets when booking and, in general, to offer more competitive prices for Members and all categories of staff;
2016/03/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 115 #

2016/2019(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33a. Recalls on the Secretary-General to report to the Committee on Budgets on the evaluation of the 2014 parliamentary election campaign as well as the effectiveness of the Parliament's communication measures dedicated to the general public;
2016/03/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 126 #

2016/2019(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35a. Urges the Secretary-General to provide clarification on the current management of the Parliament's gym and on the current use of Parliament's staff in this context ; requests, furthermore, clarification on the pending litigation and on the options that are on the table to ensure its efficient and cost-effective management in the future;
2016/03/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 137 #

2016/2019(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
39. Sees no added value in financially supporting tdeleted (The European Parliamentary Association; must be maintained.)
2016/03/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 140 #

2016/2019(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
40. Believes that the activities of the Association of former Members should be financed by current or former members taking in interest in said association. deleted (The European Parliamentary Association must be maintained.)
2016/03/15
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 15 #

2016/0287(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 a (new)
(2a) It is the responsibility of Member States to create wireless connectivity. The Union can play a supportive role.
2017/03/10
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 19 #

2016/0287(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
(4) Support of this kind should encourage entities with a public mission such as public authorities and providers of public services to offer free local wireless connectivity as an ancillary service to their public mission so as to ensure that local communities can experience the benefits of very high-speed broadband in the centres of public life. Such entities could include municipalities and other local public authorities, libraries and hospitals, hospitals and other places accessible to a large number of people.
2017/03/10
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 23 #

2016/0287(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
(5) Local wireless connectivity should only qualify as free where it is provided without corresponding remuneration, whether by direct payment or other types of consideration, including, but not limited to, advertising and the provision of personal data. The security risk increases with the extension of free local wireless connectivity. There is therefore a need to ensure proper protection of personal data.
2017/03/10
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 44 #

2016/0287(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Regulation (EU) No 283/2014
Annex – section 4 – paragraph 3 – point 2 – point b a (new)
ba) has systems in place for the proper protection of personal data of users;
2017/03/10
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 247 #

2016/0282(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 54
(54) This Regulation should stipulate that the payments must be made within a specified time limit and that in the event of failure to respect this time limit creditors will be entitled to default interests to be charged to the budget, with the exception of Member States and as newly introduced, also the European Investment Bank and the European Investment Fund.
2017/04/18
Committee: BUDGCONT
Amendment 456 #

2016/0282(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. a comparative table including the Commission's draft budget for the other institutions and the other institutions' original financial requests as sent to the Commission;
2017/04/18
Committee: BUDGCONT
Amendment 517 #

2016/0282(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 114 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Except in the case of Member States, the European Investment Bank and the European Investment Fund, on the expiry of the time limits laid down in paragraph 1, the creditor shall be entitled to interest in accordance with the following conditions:
2017/04/18
Committee: BUDGCONT
Amendment 530 #

2016/0282(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 123 – paragraph 1
Where an audit based on internationally accepted standards providing reasonable assurance has been conducted by an independent auditor on the financial statements and reports setting out the use of the Union contribution, that audit shall form the basis of the overall assurance, as further specified, where appropriate, in sector specific rules. Information already available at the management authority shall be used to the extent possible to avoid asking beneficiaries for the same information more than once.
2017/04/18
Committee: BUDGCONT
Amendment 557 #

2016/0282(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 150 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) not make use of or engage in tax avoidance structures, in particular aggressive tax planning schemes, or practices not complying with good governance criteria on taxationprinciples, as set out in EU legislation or communications and recommandations or any formal instruction by the Commission;
2017/04/18
Committee: BUDGCONT
Amendment 595 #

2016/0282(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 184 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Co-financing may take the form of the beneficiary’s own resources, beneficiaries´ work force, income generated by the action or work programme or financial or in-kind contributions from third parties.
2017/04/18
Committee: BUDGCONT
Amendment 628 #

2016/0282(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 202 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) after the end of the period of implementation of a financial instrument or budgetary guarantee and taking into account the nature of the financial instrument or budgetary guarantee, any outstanding amount originating in the Union budget shall be returned to the budget;
2017/04/18
Committee: BUDGCONT
Amendment 637 #

2016/0282(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 208 – paragraph 4
4. Where the Union participates in aestablished financial instruments as a minority stakeholder, the Commission shall ensure compliance with this Title in accordance with the principle of proportionality, on the basis of the size and value of the participation of the Union in the instrument. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Commission shall ensure compliance with Article 124.
2017/04/18
Committee: BUDGCONT
Amendment 79 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
(1) The Union's ambitious External Investment Plan (EIP) is needed to support investments starting in Africa and the Union's Neighbourhood as a means to promote the sustainable development goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development ('the 2030 Agenda') in particular poverty eradication and reducing inequality as well as the commitments under the recently revised European Neighbourhood Policy thus addressing root causes of migration. It should also contribute to the implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change (COP 21). , and in particular incorporate climate proofing and climate resilience measures in all financing operations and investments.
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 84 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) Investments under the EFSD should focus on supporting micro enterprises and SMEs from developing countries, in order to create decent, sustainable and inclusive jobs, offer economic opportunities for women and young people and engage in a just transition towards a green and circular economy.
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 97 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
(3) This is in line with the Union Global Strategy for Foreign and Security Policy which embeds challenges such as migration and resilience in the overall EU foreign policy, ensuring coherence and synergies with European development and Neighbourhood policiesthe external policy is coherent with the objectives of the development policy and ensuring synergies with European development and Neighbourhood policies.. This is in line with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and international Human Rights law, ensuring human rights based approach while addressing forced displacement and irregular migration.
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 104 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
(4) The EIP should provide an integrated financial package to finance investments starting in regions of Africa for countries that are signatories to the Partnership Agreement between the members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States of the one part, and the European Community and its member States, of the other part, signed in Cotonou on 23 June 200022 and the Neighbourhood countries, thereby creatingmaking sure not to increase debt risks or macroeconomic vulnerability, thereby supporting longer term development through green and inclusive growth and employment opportunities, maximising additionality, delivering innovative products, and crowding-in private sector funds. __________________ 22 OJ L 317, 15.12.2000 as last amended by OJ L 287, 4.11.2010
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 111 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) In order to fulfil the political commitments of the EU on renewable energy, energy efficiency, and climate change mitigation and adaptation, a minimum share of 35% of the funding under the EFSD should be devoted to financing and investment operations wholly relevant for these sectors thus contributing to the implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 121 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 a (new)
(5a) The EFSD in all its capacity will fully commit to and respect human rights and equal treatment in recipient countries and of all actors associated with financial and investment activities.
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 127 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) The EFSD should deploy innovative instruments to support investments and involve the private sector in particular local micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, targeting areas which can help achieve sustainable development outcome. Bottlenecks and obstacles to domestic and foreign investments need to be addressed in this respect.
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 131 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
(8) Moreover, the Strategic Board should support the Commission in setting strategic guidance and overall investment goals. The Strategic Board should also support coordination and coherence between the regional platforms. This should ensur, with core EU development goals, and with existing strategies and instruments in view of strengthening the complementarity of the various instruments in external action while ensuring policy coherence for development. The Strategic Board should be co-chaired by the Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to ensure consistency and coherence withof Union external policy objectives and partnership frameworks with third countries. The European Parliament shall participate in the Strategic Board as a permanent observer to ensure its right and obligation to exercise scrutiny over the implementation of the EFSD. The minutes of the strategic board shall be published as soon as they are approved by the strategic board.
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 154 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 a (new)
(15a) The European Parliament should act to ensure maximum capacity vis-à-vis decision making on loans financing and investment to ensure the credibility and scrutiny of the EFSD.
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 155 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 b (new)
(15b) Calls for maximum efficiency and effectiveness in financing and investments' management under the EFSD.
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 156 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
(16) The Commission should report annually to the European Parliament and the Council on the financing and investment operations covered by the EFSD Guarantee, and the plans for coming year, with a view to ensuring full accountability to the European citizens. The report should be made public in order to allow relevant stakeholders, including civil society, to express their views. All other documents relating to the fund should be made publicly available, with a limited regime of exceptions. The Commission should also report annually to the European Parliament and the Council on the management of the EFSD Guarantee Fund so that accountability and transparency are ensured.
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 165 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
(17) In order to take into account lessons learned and allow for further evolvement of the EFSD, the functioning of the EFSD and the use of the EFSD Guarantee Fund should be evaluated by the Commission and subjected to an annual consultation process with relevant stakeholders, including civil society organizations. The application of this Regulation should be evaluated independently in order to assess the level of conformity of the implementation with the legal basis, but also to establish the applicability and practicability of the Regulation in the achievement of its objectives.
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 168 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
(19) In order to contribute to the international fight against tax fraud, tax evasion, fraud, corruption and money- laundering, all financing through EFSD should be provided in a completely transparent manner. Furthermore the eligible counterparts should not support any activities carried out for illegal purposes and should notnor participate in any financing or investment operation through a vehicle located in a non-cooperative jurisdiction. or in tax haven. Counterparts shall also refrain from making any use of tax avoidance or aggressive tax planning schemes.
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 172 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20
(20) In order to fulfil the political commitments of the EU on renewable energy and climate change a minimum share of 20% for the funding allocated under the EFSD should be devoted to financing and investment operations relevant for these sectors.deleted
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 179 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5
(5) 'additionality' means the principleevidence based operational approach ensuring that the EFSD Guarantee support contributes to sustainable development by achieving positive results above and beyond what could have been achieved without the support. It may not be aimed at replacing the support of a Member State, private funding or another Union financial intervention, as well as that it is aimed at addressing market failures and avoiding crowding out other public or private investments. It aims to bring development and value additionality as essential parts.
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 189 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2
2. The EFSD shall contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda and the implementation of the European Neighbourhood policy with a particular focus on sustainable growth, job creation, socio-economic sectors and on the support to micro, small and medium sized enterprises, thus addressing. The EFSD shall also contribute to the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement by targeting investments to sectors that advance climate change mitigation and adaptation. The EFSD shall thus address root causes of migration and contributinge to sustainable reintegration of returned migrants in their countries of origin while maximising additionality, delivering innovative products and crowding in private sector funds.
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 215 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2
2. The strategic board shall be composed of representatives of the Commission and of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (High Representative), of the Member States and, of the EIB. The Commission may invite oth, and of partner countributors to become members of the strategic board having regard where appropriate to the view of the board. Partner Countries and res. The European Parliament shall participate in the strategic board as a permanent observer with the right to participate fully in its deliberations. Relevant regional organisations, othe eligibler counterpartsributors, and othe European Parliamentr stakeholders such as civil society groups may be given observer status, where appropriate. The strategic board shall be co-chaired by the Commission and the High Representative.
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 220 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The minutes of the strategic board shall be published as soon as they are approved by the strategic board.
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 221 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. The strategic board should organize annual consultations of relevant stakeholders on the orientation and the implementation of the EFSD as well as the impact on the eradication of poverty and reduction of inequalities. This shall take the form of a civil society advisory board which will ensure that the environmental, social and human rights standards are adequately implemented and respected.
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 229 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The Commission shall establish and make public a scoreboard of indicators covering all three dimensions of sustainable development to be used for the selection of the economically viable projects, to ensure an independent and transparent assessment of the potential and actual use of the EU guarantee.
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 240 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) contribute to economic and social development, with particular focus on sustainability and job creation (in particular for youth and, providing young people, and in particular women), thus addressing root causes of migration and contributing to sustainable reintegration of returned migrants in their countries of origiwith the right skills and decent job creation;
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 243 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
(aa) achieve the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda with a specific focus on poverty eradication, reducing inequalities and domestic resource mobilisation;
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 245 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) target socio-economic sectors, in particular infrastructure including sustainable and renewable energy, water, transportwaste, low-carbon mobility, information and communications technologies, environment, sustainable use of natural resources and blue growth, social infrastructure, human capital, in order to improve the socio-economic environmenthuman capital,, with the objective of promoting an inclusive and sustainable socio-economic development that benefits all and leaves no one behind;
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 256 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) provide finance, including in local currency, and capacity development programmes in favour of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises with a particular focus on private and cooperative sector development in partner countries;
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 272 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) provide additionality; in particular, development additionality as defined in article 2;
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 274 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point a b (new)
(ab) allocate at least 35% of the financing to investments with the principle objective of climate action.
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 275 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
(ba) are implemented in full respect of the Human Rights conventions, the OECD Guidelines for Multi-National Enterprises, the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the ILO conventions and standards, the Maastricht Principles on the Extraterritorial Obligations of States in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the FAO Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security;
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 277 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
(ca) respect the principles of development effectiveness including untied aid, democratic ownership, alignment and mutual accountability;
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 298 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 4
4. The Commission mayshall define investment windows for specific regions or partner countries or for both, for specific sectors, for specific projects or for specific categories of final beneficiaries or for both to be funded by instruments referred to in Article 9 to be covered by the EFSD Guarantee up to a fixed amount. In addition, the EIB should provide a written opinion on banking-related matters to accompany each proposal for investment windows. All requests for financial support within investment windows shall be made to the Commission.
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 322 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. At least 100 000 000 shall be allocated for investments in the Eastern and Southern Neighbourhood partner countries and for this purpose the funds should be transferred from the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA II), established by regulation (EU) No 231/2014;
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 325 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The guarantee agreements shall be made publicly available, with a limited regime of exceptions.
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 340 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 4
4. The management of the resources of the EFSD Guarantee Fund referred to in paragraph 2 shall be directly managed by the Commissionentrusted to the EIB under a mandate on behalf of the Union. These resources shall be managed and invested in accordance with the principle of sound financial management and shall follow appropriate prudential rules. On 30 June 2018 the Commission shall submit to the European Parliament and the Council a report evaluating the application of this paragraph which shall provide input for a possible amendment.
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 348 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) an assessment of the financing and investment operations in operation and covered by the EFSD Guarantee, sector, country and regional levels and their compliance with this Regulation, including the 35% climate change-related spending;
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 350 #

2016/0281(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
(aa) an assessment of the overall contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda and the implementation of the Paris Agreement;
2017/03/27
Committee: AFETDEVEBUDG
Amendment 29 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – introductory part
5. Considers that a review of the MFF in 2016 should take stock of a number of serious crises and new political initiatives, together with their respective budgetary consequences, which werecould not be anticipated at the time of the MFF's adoption; notes, inter alia, the migration and refugee crisis, external emergencies, internal security issues, the crisis in agriculture, the funding of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), the persistent high level of unemployment, especially among young people, and the payment crisis in the EU budget; observes that, in order to finance the additional pressing needs, an unprecedented recourse to the MFF's flexibility mechanisms and special instruments was deemed necessary, as the MFF ceilings proved to be too tight in some headings; considers that, over the past two years, the MFF has essentially been pushed to its limits; in these conditions, the Budget of the European Union will be able neither to further address additional financial needs and new political priorities, nor to avoid the resurgence of a payment crisis;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 54 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Concludes that the activities planned by the Commission to cope with the migrant and refugee crmagnitude of the migrant and refugee crisis and the financial impact of the measures initiated by the Commission to address this issue could not have been foreseen at the time of the conclusion of the MFF 2014-2020; highlights the fact that owing to the lack of sufficient resources the EU has had to set up ad hoc, ‘satellite’ instruments such as EU trust funds, jointly financed by the Member States and by the EU budget, such as EU trust funds (the Madad Trust Fund and the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa) and the Refugee Facility for Turkey; stresses, however, that Member States have not yet delivered on their contribution pledges to the trust funds, thus undermining the success of those funds; calls on Member States to immediately fulfil their commitments to contribute, in order to be able to address the root causes of destabilisation, forced displacement and irregular migration by promoting economic and equal opportunities, strengthening resilience of vulnerable people, security and development; stresses, however, that the multiplication of such instruments creates a problem of accountability in the EU, which needs to be taken into account and analysed;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 79 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Recalls that, in order to secure this additional funding, the financial allocation for two significant EU programmes, Horizon 2020 and the Connecting European Facility (CEF), has had to be reduced by EUR 2.2 billion and EUR 2.8 billion respectively, while the remaining EUR 3 billion are covered by unallocated MFF margins; stresses Parliament’s commitment during the EFSI negotiations to reduce as muchavoid as far as possible tha negative impact on these two programmes, whose financial envelopes were decided only in 2013;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 84 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Underlines that while, according to the MFF regulation, the Global Margin for Commitments should be dedicated in priority to the Youth Employment Initiative, it has been mostly redirected, so far, to the European fund for Strategic Investments;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 98 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Underlines that the EU budget makes a significant contribution to the fight against unemployment, especially through the European Social Fund and the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI); stresses that despite the initial delays in the designation of national authorities and the implementation of the YEI, the current figures indicate full absorption capacity; notes that an evaluation of this initiative will soon be concluded, and expects that the necessary adjustments will be introduced to ensure its successful implementation and its extension to the mobility of apprentices;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 106 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Reminds that, according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), an efficient Youth Guarantee at the European Union level would cost EUR 21 billion;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 109 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Recalls the recent terrorist attacks in France and Belgium and the increased threat levels in other Member States, which call for more coordinated actions and reinforced actionmeans at EU level; underlines that the Union already has the Internal Security Fund as an appropriate instrument and has several agencies operating in this field; considers that more European action, and therefore funding, will be needed in this area to provide will be needed, as well as new initiatives, especially the enlargement of the missions and the reinforcement of the staff of the relevant adequate response to this threatgencies and the interconnection and interoperability of various European databases;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 117 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Recalls the various crises that European farmers have faced since the beginning of the current MFF, most notably the dairy sector crisis and the long- term negative effects on European farmers of the losses caused by the Russian embargo on agricultural products; highlights the budgetary impact ofat the emergency measures taken in response to these crises, involving EUR 500 million in the budget 2016 and EUR 300 million in 2015, where financed from the margins in Heading 2; underlines the persistent situation of crisis in the agricultural sector in several Member States and is therefore of the opinion that future targeted measures are to be financed promptly and appropriately from within the EU budget; recalls that the crisis is an effect of the foreign policy decision taken by the EU, and Russia, and stresses therefore that further emergency measures should not be funded by the CAP;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 129 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7 a (new)
The Paris Agreement on climate change
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 130 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Underlines that the agreement reached on 12 December 2015 in Paris by the 196 parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is a universal, binding, dynamic and differentiated agreement aimed at facing the challenge of climate change; recalls that the EU successfully steered the efforts to reach the Paris Agreement; calls on the Commission to present its first evaluation of the possible impact of the COP21 agreement on the EU budget in due time for the revision, including an assessment on which climate change related action are being funded and whether these guarantee that the targets under the Paris Agreement will be met; calls, in this regard, on the Commission to guarantee that the mechanism of climate action mainstreaming is fully operationalized; further notices that under the Paris Agreement, EU funding needs to be allocated for supporting climate action in developing countries and asks the Commission to address it in the MFF review/revision;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 138 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Recalls the build-up over the previous (2007-2013) MFF of a backlog of unpaid bills, which rose from a ‘normal’ level of EUR 5 billion at end 2010 to unprecedented levels of EUR 11 billion at end 2011, EUR 16 billion at end 2012, and EUR 23.4 billion at end 2013; warns that this backlog has spilled over into the current (2014-2020) MFF, reaching an unprecedented peak of EUR 24.7 billion at the end of 2014; stresses that, at the insistent request of Parliament, a payment plan has been agreed with the aim of reducing the backlog of outstanding cohesion policy-related payment claims for 2007-2013 to EUR 2 billion by the end of 2016; points out that at least EUR 8.2 billion of unpaid bills were identified at the end of 2015 for 2007-2013 in the field of cohesion policy, a figure which is expected to fall below EUR 2 billion by the end of 2016; notes that this decrease provides merely temporary relief as it is only the result of submissions of payable claims for both the 2007-2013 and 2014-2020 programmes being less than announced; regrets that no action has been undertaken to address the ‘hidden backlog’ identified under other headings;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 150 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Notes, in particular, that the special instruments were mobilised to tackle the refugee and migration crisis (full amount of the Flexibility Instrument exhausted in 2016 - EUR 1 530 million; Emergency Aid Reserve in 2016 - EUR 150 million), the payments shortage problem (Contingency Margin activated in 2015 - EUR 3.16 billion), and the financing of the EFSI Guarantee Fund (full use of Global Margin for Commitments 2014 - EUR 543 million); recalls that the decision to mobilise the Contingency Margin in payments is coupled with a decrease in the payment ceilings for the years 2018 to 2020, at the same time when the payment needs should reach their normal peak and when payment ceilings will also face a stronger pressure with the cumulated impact of the slow start of programmes under shared management and of the Youth Employment Initiative, as well as the successful frontloading of COSME, Horizon 2020 and Erasmus + and the effect of frontloading in favour of Greece, notwithstanding the impact of the actions taken in the frame of the migration and refugee crisis;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 156 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Recalls that the legislative flexibility, as enshrined in Point 17 of the Interinstitutional Agreement (IIA), allows for an increase in the overall envelope of programmes adopted by the ordinary legislative procedure of up to +/- 10 % over the seven-year period; notes that ‘new, objective, long-term circumstances’ allow the budgetary authority to depart even further from the original envelope; welcomes the fact that this provision has already been used to allow the Union to respond to unforeseen events by considerably increasing the original annual allocations of programmes such as AMIF;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 172 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Is convinced that, while fully confirming the notion of large-scale political and financial support for EFSI, the EU budget should not be financing new initiatives to the detriment of existing Union programmes and policies; intends to deliver on its commitment to fully offset the EFSI-related cuts affecting Horizon 2020 and CEF, in order to allow them to accomplish their objectives as agreed only two years ago and to allow the EU to reach its research and innovation targets; stresses that this compensation should not be proposed at the expense of other important programmes of the current MFF (in particular COSME, Galileo and Copernicus); considers that an upward revision of the ceilings under sub- Heading 1A is required;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 193 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
30. Strongly supports the continuation of the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI), as a means of ensuring an urgent response in the fight against youth unemployment, following the necessary adjustments brought about by the ongoing evaluation; considers that this can only be achieved through the provision of an adequate level of commitment appropriations for the YEI for the remaining years of the current MFF; notereminds that this should entail an upwards revision of the ceilings of Subheading 1b, as no margins are availablee global margin for commitments, to be made available over and above the ceilings established in the MFF, should be directed, in priority, for youth employment;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 198 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
31. Considers that the magnitude of the migration and refugee crisis goes to show that additional needs with significant budgetary consequences may be expected to arise in the coming years; asks the Commission to draw up as soon as possible an updated estimate of the budget required, by the end of the current MFF, to meet all the challenges of migration pressure (safe and rescue, interception, reception, registration, control, accommodation, transportation, relocation, resettlement, return, integration), the implementation of a genuine European asylum system, the common management of external borders and the internal security of the Schengen area; underlines, moreover, that the need for internal security in the EU and the fight against terrorism should be included in all the budgetary projections and are expected also to necessitate additional funding to back up reinforced action at EU level; is of the firm opinion that, even with the mobilisation of the small margins available under Heading 3 (Security and Citizenship) and existing flexibility provisions, the resources available will not be sufficient to tackle the increased needs under this heading; calls, therefore, for significant reinforcements for the AMIF and the Internal Security Fund, as well as for the Union agencies operating in the field, as well as (FRONTEX, EASO, EUROPOL, EU-LISA, FRA) to ensure the proper functioning of their missions and appropriate staffing levels, and urges for other initiatives that canwill be undertaken not to be funded at the expense of existing programmes and agencies; considers that an upward revision of the ceilings under Heading 3 is required;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 207 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
32. Expects that concerted action to effectively respond to the external dimension of the migration and refugee crisis will intensify over the coming years, and will be accompanied by increased requests for funding under Heading 4 (Global Europe); underlines that such requests for additional funding should not be deployed to the detriment of the EU’s existing external action, including its development policy; calls, therefore, for a significant reinforcement of appropriationn upward revision of the ceilings under this hHeading 4;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 217 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
34. EReminds that payments appropriations are the orderly consequence of past commitments; expects, therefore, that new reinforcements in commitment appropriations will be accompanied by a corresponding increase in payment appropriations, includingand considers that an upward revision of the annual payments ceiling if necessarys required; considers, moreover, that the mid-term review/revision of the MFF provides an excellent opportunity to take stock of payment implementation and updated forecasts for the expected evolution of payments up to the end of the current MFF; believes that acalls for a binding joint payment plan for 2016-2020 shouldto be developed and agreed between the three institutions and enshrined in the Interinstitutional agreement of 2 December 2013 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary matters and on sound financial management;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 224 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
35. Is determined to settle in an unequivocal way the issue of budgeting the payments of the MFF special instruments; recalls the unresolved conflict of interpretation between the Commission and Parliament on the one hand, and the Council on the other, which has been in the forefront of the budgetary negotiations in recent years; notes that the Council's practice of considering the payments of these instruments within the ceiling, make them similar to simple budgetary transfers, which is not their function; reiterates its long-standing position that payment appropriations resulting from the mobilisation of special instruments in commitment appropriations should also be counted over and above the annual MFF payment ceilings;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 245 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
42. Attaches particular importance to the Contingency Margin, as a last-resort instrument for reacting to unforeseen circumstances; stresses that, according to the Commission, this is the only special instrument that can be mobilised only for payment appropriations and thus to prevent a payment crisis in the EU budget as in 2014; deplores the fact that, contrary to the previous period, a compulsory offsetting of the appropriations is stipulated in the MFF Regulation; is of the firm opinion that this requirement creates an unsustainable situation with regard to the MFF ceilings of the last years of the period; stresses that the Contingency Margin is in any event a last- resort instrument, whose mobilisation is jointly agreed by the two arms of the budgetary authority; calls, therefore, for the rule of compulsory offsetting to be lifted immediately with retroactive effect, as well as for an upward revision of its maximum annual amount to 0.05% of EU GNI;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 248 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42 a (new)
42a. Stresses that the rigid structure of the Union budget deprives the budgetary authority of the possibility of reacting adequately to changing circumstances; calls, therefore, for allowing the transfer of available margins between headings at qualified majority in Council, with the aim of fully exploiting the MFF ceilings;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 250 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42 b (new)
42b. Welcomes the creation of an emergency support instrument within the European Union and takes note of the solution proposed by the Commission as a matter of urgency, while repeating its strong concerns as regards its exclusion from the decision-making process as well as the foreseen termination of this instrument by the end of 2018; Considers that a more sustainable legal and budgetary framework should be envisaged in order to allow for emergency aid within the Union to be mobilised in the future, meant at responding to crisis and unforeseen situations, should by its very nature be covered by special instruments and be counted outside the MFF; calls, consequently, for this instrument to be perpetuated in the form of a new MFF flexibility mechanism;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 259 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
43. Believes that the mid-term review/revision provides for an excellent opportunity for the first-time assessment of the functioning of the EU policies and programmes concerned, and, impact, and where appropriate the tangible results, of the EU policies and programmes concerned, suggests the Commission to apply result- oriented framework in analysing how the EU funds are spent, expects the Commission to supply an analysis identifying the shortcomings of the current implementation system; and invites the Commission to come up with concrete proposals to address the possible deficiencies and to improve and rationalize the implementation environment for the remaining years of the current MFF, in order to ensure the besmost efficient possible use of scarce financial resources;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 292 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47 a (new)
47a. Reminds that, at a time of scarcity of resources and erosion of the European citizens' confidence and belief in the EU project, it is important to show the added- value of EU budget delivery; believes that bringing the performance culture at the heart of the EU budget should constitute the roadmap of the inter-institutional working group on performance-based budgeting, which conclusions should be taken into account by the Commission in its legislative proposal for the post 2020 MFF, at the latest;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 293 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47 b (new)
47b. Emphasizes that, where appropriate and in particular in innovation-focused programmes, performance and output-related assessment should become a key principle;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 307 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51
51. BInsists on the need to ensure the synchronisation with the EU institutional cycle, its democratic responsibility, accountability and popular legitimacy and believes that, also given the rapidly changing political environment and with a view to ensuring greater flexibility, some elements of the MFF should be agreed for five years while others, notably those related to programmes requiring longer- term programming and/or policies foreseeing complex procedures for the establishment of implementation systems, should be agreed for a period of 5+5 years with compulsory mid-term revisionand match with the duration of the European Parliament legislature;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 347 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60
60. Notes that the agreement reached on 12 December 2015 in Paris by the 196 parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is a universal, binding, dynamic and differentiated agreement aimed at facing the challenge of climate change; calls on the Commission to present its first evaluation of the possible impact of the COP21 agreement on the EU budget in due time for the revision;deleted (Moved to new 20a.)
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 357 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 62
62. Calls on the Member States to reach a rapid agreement on the next MFF, and on the sectorial regulations accompanying the MFF, in order to allow all new programmes to start without delay on 1 January 2021;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 358 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 62 a (new)
62a. In addition, to better inform national parliaments and European citizens of the importance of programming approach, the European Parliament and the Commission should organize, when appropriate, an inter- institutional and inter-parliamentary conference in which the challenges of the next MFF will be exposed as well as the outline of the negotiations;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 24 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)
– having regard to the declaration ‘Greater European Integration : the way forward’ signed by the Presidents of the Italian Camera dei deputati, the German Bundestag, the French National Assembly and Luxembourg’s Chamber of Deputies;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 31 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas the Treaty on European Union establishes the creation of the single market, and a European Monetary Union whose currency is the euro; whereas the European Monetary Union currently consists of 19 members, two of whomSingle Market consists of the 28 members of the EU and the European Monetary Union currently consists of 19 members; whereas all but two Member States are bound to join the euro; whereas the two Member States not bound to join the euro have opt-outs’ clauses, the remaining seven EU Member States having yet to join;at are different in nature and scope as only the United Kingdom is not committed to join the euro whereas no financial liability will be incurred by the two countries with opt-outs from EMU in the framework of any fiscal capacity for the euro area;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 104 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital H
H. whereas the Community method was abandoned in favour of intergovernmental agreements in order to allow for rapid responses in the crisis; whereas this has made the European Council the leading actor in the crisis, while the European Parliament and its national counterparts have been side-lined and the European Commission relegated to a role of secretariat of the European Council;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 154 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Considers, against this background, that shortcomings have existed in the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) since its inception under the Maastricht Treaty with the attribution of monetary policy to the European level, while budgetary policy remains within the competencies of the Member States and is only framed by provisions on light coordination of national policies; recalls that the Stability and Growth Pact is a necessary set of rules allowing Member States to share a single currency but is not, per se, a European economic policy;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 162 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that during the creation of the euro, the choice was made not to have an economic government for the euro but a clear set of rules; notes that the rules have been systematically infringed; notes that, in the current institutional and political set-up, deprived of the necessary legitimacy, sanctions have never been and cannot be applied; deplores that, as a result, we neither have respect for the rules, nor the economic government to enforce them;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 174 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the introduction of the euro as a common currency has eliminated tried and tested policy options for counterbalancing asymmetric shocks such as exchange rate fluctuation; reiterates that the relinquishing of autonomy over monetary policy therefore requires alternative adjustment mechanisms to cope with asymmetric macroeconomic shocks in order to make the euro zone an optimal currency area able, inter alia, to implement a proper policy mix;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 176 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that the creation of the Euro led to the establishment of a European Central Bank of federal essence; deplores that Member States did not draw the political and institutional consequences of the creation of a single currency by creating a democratic economic, budgetary and fiscal government for the Eurozone; is convinced that without a genuine Economic government the euro area will always be deprived of the necessary tools to implement a proper policy mix;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 210 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Points out that the crisis has proved that a common monetary policy without a common fiscal policy cannot address asymmetricmajor shocks to the euro area; reiterates that the mere coordination of national fiscal policies without credible enforcement mechanisms has not prevented an investment gap, has proved insufficient to trigger growth-enhancing, sustainable and socially balanced structural reforms and has not enhanced the national capacity to absorb economic shocks;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 298 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Takes the view that incentives for sound fiscal policymaking and for addressing structural weaknesses at national level, taking into account the aggregate euro area fiscal stance, are core elements for the functioning of the euro area; considers that a fiscal capacity should, moreover, address specific concerns forthat the role of a fiscal capacity should be to absorb shocks, support sound fiscal and macroeconomic policies at national level and provide the eEuro area in the case of absorbing shockszone with a fiscal backstop;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 316 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses that a fiscal capacity must be created on top of and next to existing EU funding instruments, within itsthe EU legal framework, in order to ensure consistent developmentsynergies and complementarity between euro and non-euro Member States; stresses that, in the long run, genuine own resources in the form of taxation will have to abound a budget of the Eurozone; Such specific budget could go hand-in-hand with a transfer of competences exercised today at national level that could be best dealt with at Eurozone level;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 332 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Points out that effective stabilisation of large euro area Member States or a group of closely economically intertwined countries requires sufficient resourcein order to access the fiscal capacity, Eurozone members will have to qualify for it and converge the way they did in the run-up to the euro; Notes that the creation of the fiscal capacity must go hand-in-hand with the democratisation and strengthening of the governance structure of the Eurozone as well as the harmonisation of national public accounts;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 371 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Argues in consequence that three pillars of a fiscal capacity should be distinguished, wherein action should be undertaken in the framework of a common toolbox to address the different functions, i.e. incentivising convergence and sustainable structural reforms, absorbing asymmetric shocks, and absorbing symmetric shocks; takes note of the various proposals regarding designs put forward on this matter by politicians and academia;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 396 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Demands that the ESM be integrated into the Union's legal framework and evolve towards a Community mechanism, as provided for in the ESM Treaty and as constantly requested by the European Parliament and foreseen in the Five Presidents' report; underlines that the ECJ Pringle case-law and jurisprudence open up the possibility of bringing the ESM within the Union's framework, within the existing Treaties, on the basis of Article 352 TFEU; calls, therefore, on the Commission to bring forward as a matter of urgency a legislative proposal to that end; demands that the ESM be made fully accountable to the European Parliament;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 410 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for the ESM, whilst fulfilling its ongoing tasks, to be further developed and turned into a European Monetary Fund (EMF) with adequate lending and borrowing capacities and a clearly defined mandate, including its contribution to a euro area fiscal capacity; stresses that an EMF should be managed by the Commission and held democraticallyto be further developed and consolidated into a fully- fledged European Monetary Fund (EMF) for countries in difficulties within the Euro area; stresses that, just like the ESM, an EMF should be held accountable by the European Parliament; emphasises that national parliaments would be involved in the process, given that their constitutional prerogatives regarding financial resources could be affected;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 429 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Insists that once it is integrated into Community law, thea fiscal capacity for the euro area should be integcoexist but be kept separated intofrom the EU budget, but over and above the ceilings of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF); underlines however that in no circumstances should the volume of the EU budget fall victim to the creation of budgetary capacity for the Eurozone;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 448 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Considers that the EFSM and the existing balance of payment facility should be integrated into the same budgetary chapter as the ESM once the latter is integrated into Community law, therebyremain to providinge resources for financial assistance to countries outside the euro area but committed to joining on the basis of the agreed rules;;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 453 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Believes that compliance with a convergence code should be the condition for access to funding from the ESM/EMF; reiterates its call on the Commission to put forward a legislative proposal to this end;deleted
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 470 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4
Pillar 1: A convergence code to promote convergence and incentivise the implementation ofsupport structural reforms
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 501 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Reiterates its call for the adoption of a ‘convergence code’, as a legal act resulting from the ordinary legislative procedure, to streamline the existing coordination of economic policies into a more effective convergence of economic policies within the European Semester;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 504 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Suggests that the convergence code define criteria to be reached within five years, building on the merits of the Maastricht criteria and focusing for the first period on convergence requirements regarding: - taxation: base and rate of corporate tax, - labour market, including minimum wages, - investment, notably in research and development; This five-year period should in exchange allow for a phasing-in of the new tasks attributed to the ESM/EMF;deleted
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 575 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Considers that a financial instrument is needed to work as an incentive-based mechanism for convergence and sustainable structural reforms with clear conditionality; believes that the Structural Reform Support Programme (SRSP), which is designed toreforms have a cost and that the fiscal capacity for the Eurozone should provide technicfinancial support to national authorities for measures aimed at reforming institutions, governance, administration, and economic and social sectors with a view to enhancing growth and jobs, can be further developed as a contribution to this function of the fiscal capacityfor structural reforms in line with the mutually agreed Convergence code;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 618 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Notes that the two models for the shock absorption function are featured most prominently in the academic literature: a Rainy Day Fund and a European Unemployment Benefit Scheme;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 634 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
30. Points out that thea Rainy Day Fund should be funded by all thEurozone Member States on the basis of a cyclically sensitive economic indicator and used for payments to all Member States suffering from economic downturns; suggests that such fund should be managed by the EMF;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 648 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
31. Acknowledges that the model of a European Unemployment Benefit Scheme would foster convergence of labour markets in the medium term; Notes that this option would require a Eurozone Treasury based on genuine own resources and the relevant transfer of competence to the Eurozone level;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 659 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
32. Considers that the EMF should provide the financial resources for either of these models, which could require increasing the amount of capital; points out that the fund should avoid long-term redistribution effects by ensuring Member States’ contributions are balanced over the cycle;deleted
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 691 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
33. Warns that future symmetric shocks could destabilise the euro area as a whole since the currency area is not endowed with the instruments to cope with another crisis of the extent of the previous one; is convinced that the right instrument to deal with symmetric shocks depends on the nature of the shock; recalls that the EMF shcould be used as an appropriate financial resource borrowing capacity;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 736 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
37. Points out that the fiscal capacity has to be of significant size in order to be able to address these euro-area-wide shocks and to finance its functions; insists that in order to provide sufficient financial resources, the euro area fiscal capacity, including the EMF, should be able to increase the issuance of equities via a rise in guarantees; considers that these common issued equities should have the highest credit rate;deleted
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 757 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
38. Stresses that the Communitya new federal method should prevail in the development of economic governance for the euro area; urges that no reinforcement of intergovernmental structures should take place in parallel with existing structures;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 763 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
39. Calls urgently for the European Parliament and national parliaments to be given a strengthened role in the renewed economic governance framework in order to reinforce democratic accountability; calls for increased national ownership in the European Semester in order to improve compliance with the CSRa greater involvement of the national parliaments as long as national contributions are the basis of the fiscal capacity; notes that this participation will have to be phased out once genuine own resources in the form of taxation will be agreed on at Eurozone level; stresses, however, that a continued dialogue will have to take place between the European Parliament and the national parliaments;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 775 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
40. Argues that national ownership could be improved by including national parliaments in the procedures, notably by formalising the inter-parliamentary conference foreseen by Article 13 of the Fiscal compact, following the integration of the latter within the EU legal framework; insists, however, that the competences of the EP and the national parliaments conferred upon these institutions by the Treaties should be respected and that mixing of these competences be avoided;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 797 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
41. Considers that in order to provide for a genuine EMU, a euro area treasury should be created for collective decision- making, supervision and management of the budgetary capacity for the euro areain order to give the Euro area the capacity to borrow, spend and raise taxes; calls for the inclusion of this treasury within the European Commission with full macroeconomic, fiscal and financial competences; calls for a vice- president of the European Commission to head the treasury and simultaneously to act as president of the Eurogroup; urges full accountability of this treasury to the European Parliament;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 798 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41 a (new)
41a. Is convinced that the macroeconomic governance of the euro area should evolve towards a system of surveillance centred on a limited number of fiscal indicators with clear and simple rules; considers that a strong enforcement of these rules coupled with an ambitious fiscal capacity should allow for less intrusion from the European level into policy-making at national level; stresses that such an application of the subsidiarity principle would allow for a more credible and more democratic governance of the euro area, which would foster ownership by citizens;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 801 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41 b (new)
41b. Notes that the European Parliament should review its internal organisation so as to allow an expression of these MEPs elected in the euro area;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 824 #

2015/2344(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
43. Acknowledges thatReckons that given the current political climate characterised by deep inequality, mistrust and uncertainty is not conducive to properthe only way to reforms to achieve and complete EMU; believes, therefore, that a comprehensive roadmap, including clear milestones within an agreed timetable and taking into account the political situation, should be urgently adopted with a clear commitment by euro area Heads of State and Government to achieving a genuine and complete EMhe Eurozone is to discuss its future in an open and democratic way; notes that the only way to show citizens and economic actors we are serious about the future of the euro is to modify the European Union treaties; Therefore calls for the opening of a Convention in accordance with the article 48 TEU;
2016/06/09
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 6 #

2015/2342(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the financial response to the exceptional influx of refugees has been an ad hoc one and has demonstrated that the Union budget and the multiannual financial framework (MFF) 2014-2020 lack the necessary resources and flexibility for a rapid and comprehensive approach to a major external crisis; emphasises the importance of tackling the root causes of the refugee and migrant movements;
2016/10/19
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 10 #

2015/2342(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the insufficient size of Heading 4 and the Emergency Aid Reserve in particular has ledRegrets that the Commission tois resorting itself to satellite budgetary mechanisms, such as trust funds and the Facility for Refugees in Turkey, to top up the funding available; notes that this aim has not always been met with full success and that it undermines the transparent management of the budget and hampers budget control measures;
2016/10/19
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 27 #

2015/2342(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes, however, the Commission proposal for a new European External Investment Plan, with a new focus on investment to promote economic and social development in the EU Neighbourhood and Africa; expresses doubts, however, as to whether the proposal is ambitious enough to fully harness the EU’s borrowing and lending potentialects that the investment plan will promote sustainable development without compromising human rights, climate change mitigation and good governance and that transparent management of the European Fund for Sustainable Development and its projects will be ensured;
2016/10/19
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 36 #

2015/2342(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the Commission proposal on the revision of the MFF, in particular with regard to endowing the EU budget with larger crisis instruments; expects that the proposed revision of the financial rules to reconcile the necessary flexibility and accountabilitywill increase accountability and sound financial management.
2016/10/19
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 32 #

2015/2327(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Regrets that due to high level of administrative burden Erasmus+ funding can be unreachable for smaller organisations; believes that bureaucracy and reporting requirements should be simplified;
2016/10/17
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 33 #

2015/2327(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Regrets that the lengthy payment periods in Erasmus+ affects the possibilities of smaller organization to apply for funding;
2016/10/17
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 34 #

2015/2327(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Is of the opinion that volunteering should be considered eligible as a source of own contribution to the project budget as this facilitates the participation of smaller organizations; welcomes the CULT proposal in this regard;
2016/10/17
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 52 #

2015/2319(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to devote, in particular, sufficient resources to the activities relating to the Register, so that it will be kept up to date and does nowithout containing any factual errors and will allow data export in machine-readable format;
2016/09/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 1 #

2015/2258(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1
– having regard to Title V of the Treaty on European Union (TEU), in particular Articles 21, 24, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46,
2015/03/03
Committee: AFETBUDG
Amendment 2 #

2015/2258(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)
- having regard to the 2014 annual report and to the 2013 financial report of the European Defence Agency,
2015/03/03
Committee: AFETBUDG
Amendment 5 #

2015/2258(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas the increasingly volatile security environment, characterised with new risks and threats to which no Member State can cope with alone; calls for a strengthening of the CSDP to make it a more effective policy instrument;
2015/03/03
Committee: AFETBUDG
Amendment 9 #

2015/2258(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas budgetary cuts in defence spending and existing duplications require the rethinking of the financing of CSDP missions and operations by using budgetary allocations in a better and more cost-efficient way while ensuring proper democratic scrutiny at EU institutional level of all missions operations, whether civil or military;
2015/03/03
Committee: AFETBUDG
Amendment 11 #

2015/2258(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas, according to the provisions of the Lisbon Treaty, the EU High Representative is also the Vice-President of the Commission, the Head of the European Defence Agency and also Chairs the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union; whereas, according to article 45 of the TEU, the European Defence Agency "shall carry out its tasks in liaison with the Commission where necessary";
2015/03/03
Committee: AFETBUDG
Amendment 22 #

2015/2258(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the VP/HR and the Member States to unleash the full potential of the Lisbon Treaty with regard to a faster and more flexible use of the CSDP missions and operations by setting-up, for instance, permanent structured cooperation, as foreseen by article 46 of the TEU, enabling EU cooperation on defence matters;
2015/03/03
Committee: AFETBUDG
Amendment 71 #

2015/2258(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Underlines the potential savings which would derive from fostering synergies at EU level in the military field, including transport, training and medical aid; Highlights the role of the European Defence Agency in its mission to foster interoperability and synergies in defence equipment and deployment capabilities among EU Member States, but strongly deplores that, while being headed by the HR/VP, it remains under the authority of the Council and fully funded outside the budget of the European Union, thus escaping from the European democratic scrutiny; calls for the budget of the European Defence Agency to be integrated in the general budget of the European Union;
2015/03/03
Committee: AFETBUDG
Amendment 96 #

2015/2258(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Deplores, in this context, that the review of the Athena mechanism has not produced tangible results, and calls on the Council to deliver quickly on this issue; supports, in particular, an expansion of the costs eligible under Athena, (such as, for instance, the pre-financing of certain costs or the strategic transport of EU battle groups) and their budgetisation in the general budget of the European Union; expects a final decision on these issues at the next European Council on defence;
2015/03/03
Committee: AFETBUDG
Amendment 1 #

2015/2128(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas achieving good performance involves inputs, outputs, results and impacts regularly assessed through the performance audits;
2015/12/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 13 #

2015/2128(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Is concerned by the fact that the TOR recovery rate for 2014 is, at 24%, at its historic lowest point; urges the United Kingdom and Bulgaria to improve their contributions, as theirmember- states whose level of irregularities is three timeswell above the EU average to improve their contributions;
2015/12/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 80 #

2015/2128(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Notes that the reporting on performance is still weak. There is a need to assess regularly input parameters (financial, human, material, organizational or regulatory means needed for implementation of the programme), outputs (the deliverables of the programme), results (the immediate effects of the programme) and impacts (long-term changes in the society);
2015/12/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 9 #

2015/2074(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the fact that the Commission Draft General Budget of the European Union for the financial year 2016 reinforces those priorities and proposes to step up EU support for investment, knowledge, jobs and growth-orientated programmes, and in particular for an emblematic mobility programme such as Erasmus+; will pay particular attention to reducing inequalities between apprenticeships and higher education in Europe, notably through ensuring equal access to mobility; is satisfied that, in addition to duly expected increases throughout Heading 3 (Security and Citizenship) and Heading 4 (Global Europe), the Commission is taking up the challenge of responding to new developments such as the crises in Ukraine, Syria and the Mediterranean by responding to the EU's and Member States' needs in the area of security and migration and by demonstrating strong political will in the field of external action and budgetary commitment towards countries of origin and transit;
2015/06/11
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 23 #

2015/2074(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Notes that the EU Draft Budget for 2016 amounts to EUR 153.5 billion in commitment appropriations (including EUR 4.5 billion reprogrammed from 2014) and EUR 143.5 billion in payment appropriations; points out that, disregarding the effect of the reprogramming in 2015 and 2016, this corresponds to an increase of +2.4% in commitments and +1.6% in payments as compared to the 2015 budget; stresses that these are overall moderate increases following the path set by the MFF, accounting for inflation represent almost no increase in real terms, which stresses on the importance of the efficiency and effectiveness of the spending;
2015/06/11
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 32 #

2015/2074(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Welcomes the fact that the EU Draft Budget reflects the joint statement on a payment plan 2015-2016 agreed between Parliament, the Council and the Commission following the shared diagnosis and commitment entered into by the three institutions to reduce this backlog; recalls that, according to the Commission's estimations, the payment appropriations requested in the Draft Budget would bring the total backlog of unpaid bills down to a sustainable level of approximately EUR 2 billion for the cohesion programmes 2007-2013, and would also reduce the abnormal backlog in other headings; consequently undertakes to fully support the Commission proposal and expects the Council to respect its commitments in this regard;
2015/06/11
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 35 #

2015/2074(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Underlines that Parliament and, the Council and the Commission have committed to avoiding the future build-up of an unsustainable backlog of outstanding payment claims at year's end, while fully respecting and implementing the agreements reached as part of the multiannual financial framework and of the annual budgetary procedures; invites the CommissionReiterates the need, in this regard, to closely and actively monitor the development of this backlog; In this vein, recalls to the Commission its agreement, in the joint statement on a payment plan, to develop its medium- and long-term forecasting tools and to set up an early warning system by early 2016, with the aim to present these first payment forecasts in July, so that the budgetary authority can take duly informed decisions in the future;
2015/06/11
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 82 #

2015/2074(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
40. Recalls that, with programmes expected to reach full swing, with the integration of new major initiatives in the areas of investment and migration, with the opportunity to settle issues of the past such as payments and special instruments, and with the first activation of new MFF provisions such as the global margin for commitments, the 2016 budgetary procedure will be a test case for the assessment of the current MFF, which will culminate in the process of review/revision to be launched next year; reminds the Commission of its legal obligation to present a review of the functioning of the MFF by the end of 2016 and reiterates its call on the Commission to accompany this budgetary review by a legislative proposal for the revision of regulation No 1311/2013 laying down the MFF 2014- 2020;
2015/06/11
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 15 #

2015/2063(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls upon Member States to cooperate and consistently support each other’s efforts to counter violent extremism, which can be conducive to terrorism, including through capacity building, coordination of plans and efforts, and sharing lessons learned;
2015/07/01
Committee: AFET
Amendment 16 #

2015/2063(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Expresses the need to accelerate the implementation of existing measures, including UN Security Council resolutions (especially, UNSCR 2178/2014), both those adopted by the Council (June 2013) and those adopted by the Group of 9 (July 2014);
2015/07/01
Committee: AFET
Amendment 17 #

2015/2063(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
3c. Expresses the need to improve checks at the external borders of the Schengen area, under the existing legal framework, based on risk assessment;
2015/07/01
Committee: AFET
Amendment 19 #

2015/2063(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Calls for international contributions to the UNDP-endorsed funding mechanism to facilitate immediate stabilization of areas cleared of Da'esh;
2015/07/01
Committee: AFET
Amendment 30 #

2015/2063(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
1a. Emphasizes that terrorism cannot and should not be associated with any religion, nationality or civilization;
2015/07/01
Committee: AFET
Amendment 42 #

2015/2063(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Encourages the EU to engage more with third countries on security issues and counter-terrorism, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa and in the Sahel, but also in the Western Balkans, including through new capacity building projects (e.g. border controls) with partners and better targeted EU assistance, while promoting measures to dissuade and disrupt foreign fighters' travel as well as to manage their return;
2015/07/01
Committee: AFET
Amendment 46 #

2015/2063(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Wishes that EU strengthens its political dialogue with the League of Arab States, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, African Union and other relevant regional actors and coordination structures, such as the G5 Sahel;
2015/07/01
Committee: AFET
Amendment 58 #

2015/2063(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Recalls that in the context of the current revision of the ENP, the security dimension and the capacity of ENP tools to contribute to improving partners resilience and capabilities to provide for their own security with respect for the rule of law, must be strengthened;
2015/07/01
Committee: AFET
Amendment 63 #

2015/2063(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Encourages the EU to launch further capacity-building projects and activities with interested MENA countries addressing law enforcement, criminal justice, security sector reform, including crisis infrastructure, crisis and emergency response, border control and aviation security, strategic communication, radicalisation, dealing with the foreign terrorist fighters threat, recruitment and financing of terrorism, paying due regard to international human rights standards, in close cooperation with Europol, Eurojust, Frontex and CEPOL;
2015/07/01
Committee: AFET
Amendment 77 #

2015/2063(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Invites the HR/VP and the Commission to continue to ensure sufficient funds and coherent use of instruments to address the threats of terrorism and more effectively from early warning to early action;
2015/07/01
Committee: AFET
Amendment 81 #

2015/2063(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Welcomes the deployment of security/counter-terrorism experts in a number of key EU Delegations to strengthen their capacity to contribute to European counter-terrorism efforts and to liaise more effectively with relevant local authorities, while further building-up of counter-terrorism capacity within the EEAS;
2015/07/01
Committee: AFET
Amendment 85 #

2015/2063(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Calls upon members states to intensify cooperation with key countries within the framework of EU agencies such as Frontex, Eurojust and Europol and develop frameworks for information exchange and ways for the EU agencies to engage more strategically with the countries in the region to strengthen law enforcement and judicial cooperation;
2015/07/01
Committee: AFET
Amendment 1 #

2015/2031(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that the coordinated package of personalised services to be co-funded consists of occupational guidance, training, retraining and vocational training, specialised training and education, self- employment subsidies, job-search, training and mobility allowances;
2015/03/05
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 61 #

2015/2008(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the Investment Plan presented by the Commission, which can create the potential to mobilise EUR 315 billion of investments in infrastructures, education and research, as well as SMEs and mid-cap companies; notes that the EU budget is expected to provide the backbone of this investment plan by making available the EUR 8 billion required in commitments and payments for the provisioning of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI); considers that the EU budget contribution as an opportunity tos should deliver a significant return on the objectives of the programmes concerned (Horizon 2020, Connecting Europe Facility) through a higher leverage effect calculated for EFSI;
2015/02/12
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 98 #

2015/2008(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Attaches the utmost importance to the establishment and implementation of a sound payment plan with the objective of reducing the level of unpaid bills at year- end to its structural level in the course of the current MFF, as stated by the Council, the Parliament and the Commission in the joint declaration agreed in the framework of the 2015 budget procedure; recalls that this plan will be agreed by the 3 institutions in due time before the presentation of the draft budget 2016; considers that the interinstitutional meeting in March 2015 should provide the opportunity for the three institutions to agree on such a plan, in due time before the presentation of the Draft Budget 2016this plan;
2015/02/12
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 117 #

2015/2008(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Underlines that the 2016 budget will be crucial as it will not only be the first year of implementation of the new MFF provision on the global margin for commitments, but should also serve as a benchmark of the post-electoral MFF review /and post-electoral revision, to be launched before the end of 2016; stresses the need to establish political priorities and identify in good time areas of proven added value of EU spending for which further investments will be deemed necessary in the second half of the MFF 2014-2020; stresses, in this context, the importance of closely monitoring the implementation and performance of key EU programmes already during the current budgetary procedure;
2015/02/12
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 125 #

2015/2008(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Reaffirms its position in favour of an in-depth reform of the system of EU own resources, whose current shortcomings are causing severe impasses in budgetary negotiations; attaches, therefore, the highest political importance to the work of the High Level Group on Own Resources, under the chairmanship of Mario Monti; eagerly anticipates the results and proposals of the work of this High-Level Group that are due to be presented in an interinstitutional conference, with the participation of national parliaments, during 2016, and considered in the context of the MFF review /and post-electoral revision;
2015/02/12
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 148 #
2015/05/18
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 402 #

2014/2254(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Deplores the fact that even today people belonging to minorities are still victims of discrimination; calls for more consistency of the European Union in the field of minority protection; strongly believes that all Member States as well as candidate countries shall be bound by the same principles and criteria in order to avoid the application of double standards; Calls therefore, as a part of resolving the so- called Copenhagen dilemma, for the establishment of an effective mechanism to monitor and ensure fundamental and acquired rights of national and linguistic minorities both in candidate countries and in countries already admitted to the European Union;
2015/05/12
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 38 #

2014/2234(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls the best performing Member States to share their experience with the worst performing Member States;
2015/06/11
Committee: CONT
Amendment 2 #

2014/2205(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that, under Article 208 TFEU, the primary objectives of EU development cooperation isare to reduce and eradicate poverty; highlights the fact that development cooperation must be guided by that objective and not by geostrategic or economic interests; refuses to accept that development cooperation should be subordinate to external and security policy, to promote human rights, to spread and to strengthen democracy, good governance and the rule of law; highlights the fact that development cooperation must be guided by these objectives;
2015/05/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 14 #

2014/2205(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Requests all EU enterprises to fulfil their corporate social responsibility to respect human rights in line with the UN Guiding Principles; Urges the European Union to look for ways to strengthen Corporate Social Responsibility, for example by improving visibility of CSR and enhancing market reward for companies adhering to CSR guidelines;
2015/05/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 15 #

2014/2205(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Calls for the development of more effective transparency and accountability standards for EU technology companies in connection with the export of technologies that can be used to violate human rights, to aid corruption or to act against the EU's security interests;
2015/05/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 16 #

2014/2205(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Notes that the framework for development assistance must be set by governments and that there is a primary task for the public sector; acknowledges however, that the private sector also plays an important role in strengthening the economies of third countries and improving access to capital;
2015/05/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 17 #

2014/2205(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Stresses that development policy cannot achieve these objectives as a stand-alone policy, but must be integrated in a broader approach, which combines foreign and security policy, trade policy and any other external action policy instruments; Notes that coherence between these different branches of EU external action is crucial;
2015/05/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 18 #

2014/2205(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1 c. Stresses the need to look at how the private sector can be further engaged in the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy, to help create economic growth and jobs in Europe's neighbourhood, for example through sharing expertise of providing access to capital;
2015/05/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 21 #

2014/2205(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that reducing poverty is not the primary objective of the private sector, by its very nature, and that that is therefore a task for the public sector; rejects public- private partnerships, blending and the focus on microcredit, since they finance corporate profits, above all, and do not reduce poverty;deleted
2015/05/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 22 #

2014/2205(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that reducing poverty is not the primary objective of the private sector, by its very nature, and that that is therefore a task for the public sector; rejects public- private partnerships, blending and the focus on microcredit, since they finance corporate profits, above all, and do not reduce poverty;deleted
2015/05/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 29 #

2014/2205(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Underlines that the private sector should be involved in EU development policy and projects as long as the different role between private sector and public sector actors are fully understood and recognised by all parties involved; stresses that public-private partnerships within the post-2015 development agenda must have a strong focus on poverty reduction; underlines that a fully functioning market economy, based on the rule of law, remains the best engine for economic and social development and that the EU's development policy should reflect that fact;
2015/05/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 38 #

2014/2205(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Is dismayed that because of public procurement contract awards and debt servicing, inter alia, 61 % of official development assistance goes back to donor countries1 ; calls for an increase in real aid and for sustainable building of regional/local value chains; __________________ 1 ActionAid.deleted
2015/05/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 45 #

2014/2205(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Stresses the importance of local and regional ownership, partner countries' own national strategies and reform agendas; and involvement of development projects and the added value provided by securing local supply chains; believes that development policy has an important role to play in addressing the challenges posted by current migration flows towards the European Union;
2015/05/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 50 #

2014/2205(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. IStresses that respect for human rights should become business imperative; is concerned at the devastating consequences of land grabbing, inter alia, for human rights, especially of indigenous people, the economy and the environment; calls for binding international rules for firms on compliance with human rights, labour law and environmental standards;
2015/05/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 78 #

2014/2205(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States to honour the commitment to give over 0.7% of their GDP to the official development assistance; stresses that private funds must not be used to increase contributions artificially.
2015/05/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 815 #

2014/0100(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 1
1. For the purposes of this Regulation, a product shall be regarded as bearing terms referring to organic production where, in the labelling, advertising material or commercial documents, such a product, its ingredients or feed materials are described in terms suggesting to the purchaser that the product, its ingredients or feed materials have been obtained in accordance with this Regulation. In particular, the terms listed in Annex IV, or their equivalents in other languages that, while not being official languages of the Union, their status is officially recognised by the constitution of a Member State; their derivatives or diminutives, such as 'bio' and 'eco', alone or combined, may be used throughout the Union [and in any language listed in that Annex] for the labelling and advertising of products referred to in Article 2(1) which comply with this Regulation.
2015/06/25
Committee: AGRI