7 Amendments of Mitro REPO related to 2011/0177(APP)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Citation 7 a (new)
Citation 7 a (new)
– having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs on the legal basis of the proposal for a Council regulation establishing for the period 2014-2020 the programme "Europe for Citizens", finalised in March 2012,
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas enhancing citizen participation is of primary importance to the European Union, and therefore a separate programme is needed;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Recommendation i
Recommendation i
(i) Recalls that the current EU education, youth, media and culture programmes are close to the citizens, enjoy high implementation rates, produce noticeable leverage and spill-over effects and generate clear and demonstrated European added value by pooling resources and, enhancing cooperation and encouraging mobility;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Recommendation vii
Recommendation vii
(vii) Remindcalls that the current Europe for Citizens programme involves more than one million citizens per year in its projects and contributes greatly to the development of active citizenship and voluntary work as well as to the European values such as solidarity and, non- discrimination; and cultural diversity; notes that the proposed new programme creates added value by bringing the Union closer to its citizens and creating cross-border debate;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Recommendation ix
Recommendation ix
(ix) Strongly recommends that the minimum allocations for each educational sector and, namely higher, vocational, adult and general education, as well as youth described in the explanatory statement of the proposal be incorporated in the legal basis, in order to make them legally binding and subject to the decision of the budgetary authority; is concerned by the fact that the proposed minimum allocations amount only to 56 % of the total budget; stresses the need for a higher figure in order to secure reliable funding for the different sectors;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Recommendation xiv
Recommendation xiv
(xiv) Notes that the proposed financial envelope for the implementation of the programme amounts to EUR 229 000 000, which is only a very limited increase in comparison with the budget of the existing programme; stresses that this amount is an absolute minimum if the full functioning of the proposed programme is to be ensured;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Recommendation xiv a (new)
Recommendation xiv a (new)
(xiva) Stresses that the financial envelope for the new programme should be equally available to all participating groups;