11 Amendments of Franziska Katharina BRANTNER related to 2009/2002(BUD)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomesTakes note of the Commission's intention to contribute to economic and social recovery, while recalling tha; stresses that budgetary and macro-economic policies in the EU have been gender blind throughout, demands that Parliament, the Council and the Commission accept the principle of gender mainstreaming in the recovery plans, as enshrined in the Amsterdam Treaty, should be accept and as defined inby the recovery plans, meaning not only that a gender equality perspective should apply to measures designed specifically to promote equal opportunities, but also that it should be incorporated in all policies and at all levels of the budgetary process by means of gender budgeting; UN as a strategy for making women’s and men’s concerns and experiences an integral dimension of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes in all political, economic and societal spheres;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission's intention to contribute to economic and social recovery, while recalling that the principle of gender mainstreaming, as enshrined in the Amsterdam Treaty, should be accepted in the recovery plans, meaning not only; demands that a gender equality perspective shouldshould not only apply to measures designed specifically to promote equal opportunities, but also that it should be incorporated in all policies and at all levels of the budgetary process by means of gender budgeting;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission to set up a gender budgeting working group within its Directorate-General for Budget; also calls on the Commission to carry out a separate annual gender impact assessment of the EU budget, and to be presented as an annexed document; suggests that such an annex serve as a gender mainstreaming monitoring document, on which Parliament's Committee for Women's Rights and Gender Equality should deliver a report;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. With a view to the mid-term evaluation of many multiannual programmes foreseen for 2010, asksdemands that the Commission to develop a monitoring and evaluation system that shows the effect on men and women of various budget lines in terms of the implementation of the principle of gender equality;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. While still awaiting the study on the feasibility of gender budgeting, rReiterates the call for the use of the gender budgeting approach in assessing and restructuring all relevant budget programmes, measures and policies, in determining to what extent resources are allocated in gender equal or unequal ways and ultimately in achieving gender neutrality, whereby equal consideration is given regardless of gender;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. CDemands that the Council and the Commission evaluate the Lisbon Strategy, particularly the broad economic policy guidelines and the employment guidelines from a gender perspective; calls for greater emphasis to be placed on the reconciliation of family and working life in the preparation of the preliminary draft budget with a view to facing demographic challenges and meeting the Lisbon targets on employment of women;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Points out that the gender aspect of the economic downturn cannot be excluded any longer, demands that the Council and the Commission assess all projects and programmes concerning the credit crunch and the economic crisis, in particular the European Economic Recovery Plan, in terms of their separate effects on women and men, including legislation, policies and programmes, in all areas and at all levels, so that women and men benefit equally and inequality is not perpetuated;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Demands that the European Commission Humanitarian Aid (ECHO) prioritise aid and financial assistance for women victims of gender-based violence perpetrated during conflicts;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Calls on the Commission to make full use of the financial envelope for implementation of Article 24 of Regulation (EC) No 1717/2006 of the European Parliament and Council of 15 November 2006 establishing the Instrument for Stability1; 1 OJ L 327, 24.11.2006, p. 1.
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Calls on the Commission to present a plan to restore, over the period 2010 to 2013, the financial means reallocated from the Instrument for Stability to the Food Facility, in order to ensure that the European Union has the full financial means available, under heading 4 of the budget, to fulfil its role on the international stage as expected by the citizens of Europe;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 c (new)
Paragraph 23 c (new)
23c. Reminds the Commission of the commitments made by the Community in the Instrument for Stability, namely the promotion of stable conditions for human and economic development and the promotion of human rights, democracy and fundamental freedoms as the prime objectives of European Union external action; in this respect, calls on the Commission to present a plan for the mobilisation of financial resources for any external emergency assistance facilities or mechanisms that are created outside the Instrument for Stability in a way that would avoid drawing on the funds foreseen for the Instrument for Stability;