8 Amendments of Franziska Katharina BRANTNER related to 2010/2073(INI)
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Urges the VP/HR to ensure both an appropriate structure and adequate staffing levels with regard to programming and policy planning for Regulation (EC) No 1717/2006 (Instrument for Stability) within the future External Action Service; reminds the VP/HR that Regulation (EC) No 1717/2006 is a Community instrument and that the competent Commission services should be transferred en bloc to the EEAS in order to ensure continuity of EU programming and policy planning in the field of peacebuilding and to ensure coherence with the EU’s development policy; recalls that under no circumstances is formal or informal control by CSDP structures of Stability Instrument Article 3 and 4 measures acceptable and in line with the Treaties;
Amendment 14 #
Draft Interinstitutional Agreement
Point 18 – paragraph 1
Point 18 – paragraph 1
18. As regards CFSP expenditure which is charged to the general budget of the European Union in accordance with Article 41 of the Treaty on European Union, the institutions will endeavour, in the cConciliation cCommittee, and on the basis of the draft budget established by the Commission, to secure agreement each year on the amount of the operating expenditure to be charged to the budget of the European Union and on the distribution of this amount between the articles of the CFSP budget chapter suggested in the fourth paragraph of this Point. In the absence of agreement, it is understood that the European Parliament and the Council will enter in the budget the amount contained in the previous budget or the amount proposed in the draft budget, whichever is the lower.
Amendment 16 #
Draft Interinstitutional Agreement
Point 18 – paragraph 4
Point 18 – paragraph 4
Amendment 18 #
Draft Interinstitutional Agreement
Point 18 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Point 18 – paragraph 4 a (new)
In the event of a new CFSP mission being decided in the course of a financial year, appropriations relating to this mission will be entered under the article for emergency measures within the CSFP budget chapter. A specific item under the relevant article of the CFSP chapter will be provided for in the following amending budget or draft budget to cover the operational expenditure of the mission concerned.
Amendment 19 #
Draft Interinstitutional Agreement
Point 18 – paragraph 5
Point 18 – paragraph 5
Amendment 21 #
Draft Interinstitutional Agreement
Point 19 – paragraph 1
Point 19 – paragraph 1
19.(1) Each year, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy will consult the European Parliament on a forward-looking document, which will be transmitted by June 15 for the year in question, setting. This document will set out the main aspects and basic choices of the CFSP, including their consistency with European Parliament resolutions and the financial implications for the general budget of the European Union and, an evaluation of the measures launched in the year n-1. Furthermore, t, an evaluation of the coordination of the CFSP with other external policies of the European Union and an assessment of the further perspectives of the CFSP. The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy will also address in this document the actions conducted under the CFSP, including those relating to the common security and defence policy, whose expenditure is not charged to the Union budget, and the implementation and the management of the start-up fund provided for in Article 41 TEU. (1a) The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy will keep the European Parliament informed by holdingregularly informed and take its views duly into consideration including by means of joint consultation meetings to be held at least five times a year, in the framework of the regular political dialogue on the CFSP, to be agreed at the latest in the Conciliation committeeCommittee. Either party in the joint consultation meetings should be able to call for additional meetings should the need arise. The joint consultation meetings will, inter alia, address CFSP missions, both those being implemented and those under preparation, assess the lessons learnt from CFSP missions, their successes and shortfalls, and help develop a strategic approach to future needs, including financial ones. In order to ensure the effective preparation of joint consultation meetings, the European Parliament will receive all relevant information, including the agendas, in advance of all PSC meetings, as well as written summaries of the main items discussed. Participation in these meetings shall be as follows: – European Parliament: the enlarged bureaux of the two Committees concernedCommittee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Budgets, and relevant rapporteurs; – Council: Tthe permanent Chairman of the Political and Security Committee on behalf of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, senior officials of the European External Action Service and Heads of CSDP Mission and Operation, whenever relevant. The Commission will be invited to participate at these meetings.
Amendment 23 #
Draft Interinstitutional Agreement
Point 19 – paragraph 3
Point 19 – paragraph 3
Once a quarter the Commission will inform the budgetary authority about the implementation of CFSP actions and the financial forecasts for the remaining period of the year, the financial forecasts for the following six months and the political reasons justifying the implementation and forecasts. The Commission will also forward to the budgetary authority, on a monthly basis, a summary of the implementation of commitment appropriations under the CFSP budget chapter. Moreover, the Commission will forward to the budgetary authority the results of internal and external audits carried out in relation to CFSP actions and decisions.
Amendment 24 #
Draft Interinstitutional Agreement
Point 19 a (new)
Point 19 a (new)
19a. Once a year, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, also in his or her capacity as Vice-President of the Commission, will consult the European Parliament and the Council on a forward-looking document outlining the Union’s peacebuilding strategy. The document will set out the Union’s peacebuilding activities in the fields of CFSP and other Union policies. It will in particular detail the policy goals pursued and diplomatic and financial means employed by the Union. This will include detailed information about the staff and the administrative and operational expenditure earmarked for peacebuilding in the financial years n, n-1 and n+1.