3 Amendments of Geoffrey VAN ORDEN related to 2012/2016(BUD)
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that, thanks to Parliament’s strong commitment, the EU’s annual contribution to the Palestinian Authority, the UNRWA and the Middle East peace process over the last years amounts, at a minimum, to EUR 300 million, and recalls that the budgetary authority has, in the course of the budgetary conciliation, agreed to an allocation of EUR 200 million for the year 2012, conditioned by a sine qua non supplementary increase of EUR 100 million for the 2011 financial year stemming from unused appropriations; insists that strict financial controls are imposed and that a detailed breakdown and evaluation of expenditure is made to the European Parliament;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Reiterates its concerns regarding the parliamentary scrutiny and transparency of the CFSP budget; firmly believes that a clear breakdown should be made of all items financed within the CFSP budget, including CSDP operations, EU sSpecial rRepresentatives and other attendant policies, convinced that this will not infringe on the necessary flexibility and reactivity required for the CFSP; calls on the Commission to provide, without delay, the rationale for using allocations from the CFSP budget, rather than from the budget of the External Action Service, to finance the outlays for EU Special Representatives;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the substantial expenditure savings achieved by the External Action Service in 2012, and the continuation of this trend in 2013 as projected in the Estimates; takes the view, in this context, that while the phasing-in of the Service can justify an expenditure increase proportionally greater than that foreseen by the other Institutions, a variation of +5.7 %, relative to Budget 2012 does not tally with the savings to be implemented at operational and administrative levels throughout the whole EU budget.underlines that the European External Action Service, when created, was to be a budget neutral institution; urges the EEAS and the High Representative to make substantial reductions to the EEAS's operational and administrative expenditure in 2013;