Activities of Bart STAES related to 2013/2145(BUD)
Shadow opinions (2)
OPINION on the General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2014 – all sections
OPINION on the Council position on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2014 - all sections
Amendments (2)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Asks to be informed by the Commission about all amounts received during the year 2013 from agreements with the major tobacco companies including penalty payments as foreseen in the agreements, fines from companies that breach EU rules and regulations, including the total amount which was attributed to the budget of the Union;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Draws attention to the specific nature of the humanitarian aid, which brings relief to people in acute danger or deep distress, and to the chronic, grave and further worsening lack of payments money in this chapter; deplores that this lack steadily forces ECHO to improvisations and threatens the EU's ability to take timely and efficient action in places where this is direly needed and the EU has already decided to enter or to step up its engagement; insists on the need to remedy this abnormal situation and calls on the Council to accept a major increase in the Emergency Aid Reserve; invites the Commission to mobilise swiftly this Reserve in case of need and if necessary to table an amending budget in order to increase appropriations;