Activities of Raffaele FITTO related to 2019/0183(COD)
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REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002 in order to provide financial assistance to Member States to cover serious financial burden inflicted on them following a withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union without an agreement
Amendments (5)
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002
Article 1 - paragraph 1 - subparagraph 1 a
Article 1 - paragraph 1 - subparagraph 1 a
“For the purpose of this Regulation, the notion of “major disasters” covers natural disasters as well as, exceptionally for the period between the date of withdrawal and 31 December 2020, situations where serious financial burden is inflicted on a Member State as a direct consequence of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union without an agreement.”.
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002
Article 3a - paragraph 2
Article 3a - paragraph 2
2) The available appropriations for this goal shall be limited to half30 % of the maximum available amount for the Fund intervention for the years 2019 and 2020.
Amendment 62 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002
Article 3b - paragraph 1
Article 3b - paragraph 1
1) Assistance provided under Article 3a shall cover only the financial burden borne by a Member State compared to the situation where an agreement between the Union and the United Kingdom would have been concluded. Such assistance may be used, for example, to provide support to businesses affected by the withdrawal without an agreement, including support to State aid measures for those businesses and related interventions; measures to preserve existing employment; and to ensure the functioning of border, customs, sanitary and phytosanitary controls, including additional personnel and infrastructure and to address issues associated with an increase in tariffs by third countries.
Amendment 80 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002
Article 4a - paragraph 6
Article 4a - paragraph 6
6) The decision to mobilise the Fund shall be taken jointly by the European Parliament and the Council as soon as possible after the submission of the proposal by the Commission. The Commission, on the one hand, and the European Parliament and the Council, on the other hand, shall endeavour to minimise the time taken to mobilise the Fund and shall commit to proposing, in as short a time as possible, an purpose-made instrument to tackle such emergency.
Amendment 82 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002
Article 4b - paragraph 3
Article 4b - paragraph 3
3) The amount of an advance shall not exceed 25 % of the amount of the financial contribution anticipated and shall in no case exceed EUR 100 000 000. Once the definitive amount of the financial contribution has been determined, the Commission shall take into account the sum of the advance prior to the balance of the financial contribution being paid. The Commission shall recover unduly paid advances. The amount of an advance shall not exceed 10 % of the amount of the financial contribution anticipated in the event that the reason for submitting an application for a financial contribution from the Fund is the serious financial burden caused by the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union without an agreement.