31 Amendments of Jean-Paul DENANOT related to 2016/2019(BUD)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union places an obligation on the Union to respect linguistic diversity and prohibits discrimination on grounds of language, thereby giving the right to any Union citizen to use any of the 24 official Union languages when corresponding with Union institutions, which must reply in the same language used by the citizen;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas the real inflation rate in the Parliament's working places was 0.25 % in 2015 and 0.76 % in 2016, while the approved Parliament's budgets for these years were based on a higher estimation of inflation rate;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
Hb. whereas the real inflation rate was also lower than the rate foreseen in the adopted budget in the previous budgetary years;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H c (new)
Recital H c (new)
Hc. whereas the Parliament stressed in its resolution of 29 April 2015 on Parliament's estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 20161a that the 2016 budget should be set on a realistic basis and should be in line with the principles of budgetary discipline and sound financial management; _____________ 1a Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0172.
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H d (new)
Recital H d (new)
Hd. whereas the budgeting based on indexation in several consecutive years may become very remote from the real budgetary needs;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Starts from the premise that the forecast level of inflation of 1,7% does not mean that increases for ordinary expenditure have to be as high; questions the proposal for a 3.9% overall increase and requests the budgetary forecast for the financial year 2017 to be further discussed in the Committee on Budgets before the vote on the budget in autumn 2016;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines that Parliament should be provided with sufficient resources needed to comply with all its powers and ensure a proper functioning of the institution, although in the current economic context those resources should be managed with rigour, pragmatism and efficiency;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that while the overall spending levelensuring a proper level of financing the Parliament is appropriate for the exercise of European democracy, efforts to look for savings and to strive for further enhancing the efficiency of the use of public money are strongly encouraged;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Secretary-General to make a proposal for presenting the budget to the general public in appropriate detail and in an intelligible and user-friendly manner on the website of the Parliament in order to enable all Members, researchers, journalists and citizens in generalcitizens to develop a better understanding of Parliament's spending patternactivities and priorities; considers that a first step could consist of making the information graphic currently available in the intranet appear on the website of the Parliament;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Reiterates its call for a medium and long term budgetary planning, including a clear information with regard to expenditure relating to investments (buildings, acquisitions, etc.) and the sdistinction between investments and operational expendingture relating to the functioning of Parliament as well as its statutory obligations, as requested inin line with its resolution of 29 April 2015 on Parliament's estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 20167 ; __________________ 7 Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0172. Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0172.
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Considers that any measure in this field should be based on a clear evaluation of Parliament's needs and proportionality with the incurred risks; requests the Secretary- General and the Bureau to present on time before the Parliament's reading on the 2017 budget a global evaluation on risks and security measures envisaged, alternative proposals placed on the table for consideration, accompanied by detailed evaluation of their budgetary impact, with a clear distinction between investments and recurrent expenditure;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Taking into account the budgetary impact of the security measures proposed so far, invites the Bureau to deliberate on the Global Security Concept by June 2016 and requests the Secretary-General and the Bureau to report to the Committee ofn Budgets;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. WBelcomieves the increasingat, in order to fulfil their mandate, Members need high quality of advice and research provided to Members and committees, yet, opposes any increase in the dedicated budget of the General Secretariat; recalls that a mid- term evaluation of the efficacy of the cooperation between the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) and the policy departments has been foreseen when creating the EPRS in 2013; requests therefore the Secretary-General to proceed to such an evaluation and present to the Committee on Budgets its results by the end of 2016; considers that this evaluation should contain proposals as to how to ensure that the support provided by EPRS is better articulated with developments in the respective thematic committees and does not overlap with their activities nor encourage competition between services;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Believes that mobile workspaces for Members and support in constituencies should be based on real needs and use assessment, and should not generate any additional costs to the Parliament; insists that no hardware should be provided as the GEA provides sufficient resources for the purchase of state-of-the- art devices; questions the need for developing a private mobile work space for Members as this does not seem to correspond to the way Members and their offices organise themselves;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Agrees that the IT tools are an important instrument for Members to deliver on their function; reiterates, however, the necessity to allow the installation of free-source software which would allow considerable cost savings in/from communication fees, and would improve the work-flow of Members' offices, while respecting protection of personal data;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls the Bureau to revise the rules governing the end of contracts for Accredited Parliamentary Assistants (APAs); suggests that, besides the resignation and dismissal procedures, a third path is introduced, allowing a "termination by mutual consent of employment contracts" (consent between the Parliament's administration and involved Members and APA) and addressing the concern of delays in the conciliation period within the process of request for dismissals;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Believes that the current depiction of Members' parliamentary activities on Parliament's website is not accurate and transparent enough; suggests that a more detailed and accurate system of weighing and categorising of parliamentary activdoes not reflect the real activities and involvement of Members;; suggests that the current use of ranking websities is necessary in order to give a better and more detaigradually phased out while enforcing the information availabled overview of Members' activities which in turn would contribute to a better communication and liaison with citizensn every Member's page on the external, official Parliament website; expects the relevant Bureau working group to present its agenda and findings to the Committee on Budgets as soon as it is available;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Welcomes the progress that has been made regarding translation and interpretation efficiencies; askscknowledges the quality and added value of services provided by the interpreters ; calls for an early, sustainable agreement between the Secretary- General to make further rationalisation proposals such as increased translation and interpretation on demandand the representatives of interpreters combining high quality working conditions and efficient management in order to avoid situations of imbalances in terms of working hours and overall insecurity among interpreters; asks the Secretary-General to make further proposals such as increased translation and interpretation on demand, particularly concerning the activities of the Intergroups of the European Parliament;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Calls on the Bureau to evaluate and, where necessary, to revise rules governing the statute of trainees, including introducing minimum remuneration and harmonising catering-related price offers for all trainees both in the Parliament's administration and in the Members' offices in order to ensure equal treatment and to protect social rights of trainees;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Calls on the Bureau to revise the rules governing the reimbursement of the missions' expenses related to travels between the Parliament's working places and incurred by accredited parliamentary assistants in order to align them with the rules applicable to the rest of the staff;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Takes note of the proposal of internalisation of chauffeur service replacing the external service provider with Parliament's contractual agents, which will correspond to approximately EUR 23,7 million of immediate additional expenses; considerssupports the principle of an internalisation if its costs do not exceed the costs related to the current system, and if it allows decent working conditions and pay for drivers, greater integration of women drivers, and the use of greener cars; considers as well that a well organised external contract concluded pursuant to applicable public procurement rules, where the external service provider is clearly obliged to take responsibility for security and background checks as well as for decent working conditions and pay, would be a preferable alternativegreater integration of women driver and the use of greener cars, would be an alternative if the costs should remain as high; asks for detailed information to be provided to the Committee on Budgets before any decision is taken;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Asks the Secretary-General to hold discussions with Parliament's travel agency with view to systematically proposing the cheapest options of travel for Members and all categories of staff while ensuring the same level of comfort, especially for long- haul flights, and the same general conditions for ticket exchanges;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 a (new)
Paragraph 34 a (new)
34a. Reiterates that the utmost should be done in order to assure that the dissemination of the Parliament's information and messages, including the Parliament services welcoming visitors' groups, is available in all of the 24 official languages of the Union;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 b (new)
Paragraph 34 b (new)
34b. Takes note of the construction of mini-Parlamentariums in Berlin (opening on 9 May 2016) and Strasbourg (2017); asks however for more information related to the budgetary impact of developing such installations in other cities across the Union;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Urges the Secretary-General to devisepresent a detailed arrangements for the full sharing of back office funcreport on the implementation of the administrative parts of the cooperations and servicegreements between the Parliament, the Committee of the Regions and the European Economic and Social Committee and on this basis to devise possible arrangements for further administrative cooperation in areas such as logistics, infrastructure or security;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 a (new)
Paragraph 38 a (new)
38a. Encourages a greater promotion of healthy and organic food; furthermore, calls therefore on the Bureau to evaluate the possibilities of providing healthy food not only in terms of diversification of services but also, above all, in terms of providing fresh fruit and vegetables at more affordable prices;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40