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Activities of Anne E. JENSEN related to 2011/2018(BUD)

Plenary speeches (1)

Estimates of revenue and expenditure for 2012 - Section I - Parliament (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2011/2018(BUD)

Amendments (11)

Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Reaffirms that the Parliament should show budgetary responsibility and self- restraint by staying around the inflation rate and finding additional savings; following the interinstitutional line, enlargement-related needs are to be integrated either by a letter of amendment or an amending budget; the needs for the 18 new MEPs following the Lisbon Treaty will be also integrated by a letter of amendment or an amending budget;
2011/03/17
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Furthermore urges the administration to present an objective evaluation of the European Parliament's budget with the aim of identifying savings throughout and present this evaluation to the Committee on Budgets in a timely fashion before the end of the budgetary procedure;
2011/03/17
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Is of the opinion that the European Parliament and the other institutions should show budgetary responsibility and self- restraint in the context of economic crisis and the heavy burden of public debt and restraint in times of ongoing national budgetary consolidation efforts without undermining the goal of legislative excellence; is therefore ready to accept a revision of the ceiling of heading 5 of the MFF according to point 23 of the Inter-Inter- Institutional Agreement (IIA); this revision should be an offsetting with a reduction of the ceiling of heading 5 (administration) by EUR 100 million and a corresponding increase of other headings in favour of youth;
2011/03/17
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Decides to maintaipostpone its decision on the following new requests for new posts in reserve until it isuntil it has received sufficient information showning that no redeployment and training is possible and that outsourcing is not appropriate; this concerns the following new posts: 6 temporary posts for DG COMM, 12 permanent posts in total for the committees BUDG; JURI and INTA, 1 permanent and 1 temporary post for the European Parliament Mediator for International Parental Child Abduction, 2 permanent posts for the Protocol Unit, two permanent posts for DG EXPO for the Latin America and Enlargement units, the 17 new posts in connection with the ongoing DG INLO's three-year plan and the 4 posts for dealing with confidential documents; welcomes that already a total of 36 redeployments are planned;
2011/03/17
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Considers that the ongoing efforts to modernise and rationalise the administration and the proposals for 2012 should contribute to a reduction in the external provision of services and expects significant savings to be made here so as to achieve a level of expenditure comparable at least to that of 2010;
2011/03/17
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Requests more detailed information regardingjects the creation of an European Added Value Assessment Unit, its tasks and competences; puts all appropriations concerning this new Unit and the request for new staff for this Unit into reserve until sufficient information received;
2011/03/17
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. CutKeeps the contingency reserve by X million EUR.at the level for 2011;
2011/03/17
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Keeps the funding for European political parties at the level of 2011 while allowing for an adjustment according to the inflation rate;
2011/03/17
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Welcomes the Secretary General's proposal to continue to implement Parliament's environmental policy, to start- up an information campaign, to provide support for the multi-annual ICT strategy and to continue to modernise and rationalise the administration; would further welcome that the continued modernisation and rationalisation include that: - the library services provide expertise in all three working languages, - that the medical service continues to be adequately funded with an increase of 15%, - that exchanges with national parliaments continue to be adequately funded and kept at the level of 2011;
2011/03/17
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Considers that efforts to modernise and rationalise the administration must also include the security of the parliament; requests a reserve of EUR 3 million, which would be lifted upon presentation of a viable concept for improvements and costs-plan;
2011/03/17
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Welcomes the detailed information received concerning the continuation of the realisation of the House of European History; takes note of the estimated total cost for setting up the House of European History, the estimated running costs and the staffing needs; requests - in order to maintain a transparent and fruitful dialogue with the parties involved - to be presented with a business plan setting out the long-term business strategy of the House of European History and requests to be informed as soon as possible on the building project according to Article 179(3) of the Financial Regulation; proposes a reserve of EUR 2 million until receipt of said business plan;
2011/03/17
Committee: BUDG