Activities of Victor NEGRESCU related to 2024/0056(BUD)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2024 of the European Union for the financial year 2024 Amendments of the 2024 budget required due to the MFF revision
Amendments (9)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. StresseExpects that, with the adoption of Draft amending budget No 1/2024, the 2024 Union budget will be more fit for purpose, more flexible and better equipped to meet the challenges the Union faces;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that, on 5 March 2024, the Commission put forward a proposal to establish a new defence programme - the European Defence Industry Programme - for the period 2025-2027, with a planned transfer of EUR 1,5 billion from the EDF, precisely the amount of the EDF reinforcement agreed under STEP; insists that the additional resources assigned to the EDF for the remainder of the MFF period be used for STEP objectives as per the agreement of the co-legislators;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes that, of the total EUR 3,1 billion in reinforcements for Heading 6 between 2024 and 2027 agreed in the MFF revision, only EUR 500 million is included in Draft amending budget No 1/2024; points out, furthermore, that planned redeployments of funds within that Heading are not included; reiterates its request to the Commission to provide the budgetary authority with detailed information explaining how it intends to manage all changes to programmes, including Heading 6, and special instruments resulting from the MFF revision;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Welcomes the fact that the Union will be better able to respond to crises as a result of the increased financing for natural disasters and other emergencies included in Draft amending budget No 1/2024; notes that Draft amending budget No 1/2024 creates new lines in accordance with the decision to split the Solidarity and Emergency Aid Reserve into two parts - the European Solidarity Reserve for natural disasters and public health emergencies within the Union and in accession countries and the Emergency Aid Reserve for rapid response to emergencies inside and outside the Union; considers that the new architecture will make the funds easier to manage; recalls the importance of swift and timely mobilisation of the European Solidarity Reserve in the treatment of applications as well as the disbursement of the funds;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Expects humanitarian aid needs to remain highfurther increase in 2024; calls on the Commission to monitor those needs closely and to propose any necessary measures to the budgetary authority in good time; recalls, in that regard, that the Flexibility Instrument has been reinforced by around EUR 500 million for 2024 as part of the MFF revision;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that the 2024 allocation for the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers (EGF) is reduced to EUR 33,8 million, in accordance with the revised MFF Regulation; calls on the Commission to monitor EGF implementation and to take any necessary measures to ensure that all justifiedrelevant requests for EGF support can be met and put in place a contingency plan in case any requests cannot be met;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Takes note of the changes to the budgetary remarks to enable the Digital Europe programme to finance the costs of recruiting contractual agents for the Artificial Intelligence Office established under the recently agreed Artificial Intelligence Act; underlines that such a workaround solution is only necessary owing to insufficient resources under Heading 7 (Administration) and to, the Commission’s self- imposed stable staffing policy and the Council's intransigence during the MFF revision by refusing to acknowledge that with new competences comes the need to reinforce EU institutions with adequate staff; insists that covering staffing costs for the new Office in this manner is a temporary fix and that a, does not constitute a precedent, that a long-term structural solution under Heading 7 must be found beyoand the current MFFat spending under Heading 7 must be set at a level that guarantees that the EU has an effective and efficient administration;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Recalls that, in its executability letter assessing Parliament’s and the Council’s respective readings on the 2024 budget, the Commission stated that the budget remarks should, “as a general rule, [...] reflect the legal base and should be reviewed only if necessary to reflect the changes in applicable legal bases” and “should not propose any changes and modifications to programme general and specific objectives or actions that are not explicitly mentioned in basic acts”; expects that, given the Commission’s evident flexibility in amending the remarks for the Digital Europe programme to accommodate the recruitment of external personnel unrelated to the programme’s implementation, it will apply a different yardstickthe same yardstick to ensure equal treatment when assessing any changes to the budgetary remarks that Parliament or the Council may propose in the 2025 budgetary procedure;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Underlines the need for additional resources for the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (the ‘EPPO’) given Poland’s planned accession in 2024 and the future accession of Sweden and in the context of accelerated implementation of NextGenerationEU funding; regrets that those additional resources were not included in Draft amending budget No 1/2024; calls on the Commission to include reinforcements for the EPPO budget with 81 new posts and its budget line with 7 835 000 EUR in the next draft amending budget to ensure the EPPO can deliver fully on its mandate, in particular to ensure that the operationalisation of Poland’s accession is not delayed or rendered ineffective because of lack of prosecutor posts or the necessary legal expertise in the Central Office, that the current EPPO investigations are adequately pursued and that EPPO has sufficient additional resources to ensure the security of its IT system and the adequate functioning of its administration;