Activities of Bas EICKHOUT related to 2023/0264(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2024 - all sections
Amendments (7)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines that climate change and biodiversity loss are the largest compound threat to long-term Union security, including food security, and only reinforce inflationary pressures; stresses that accelerating the green transition will strengthen the Union’s long-term strategic autonomy, economic security and resilience, and improve the well-being of its citizens;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that the 2024 Union budget should be aligned with the Union’s ambitions of making the Union climate neutral by 2050 at the latest, as well as the Union’s international commitments, in particular the Paris Agreement and the Kunmin-Montreal Agreement, and significantly contribute to the implementation of the European Green Deal and the 8th Environmental Action Programme ;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Reiterates its call for the phase-out of harmsul subsidies and for coherence between all Union funds and programmes; insists that projects and programmes that are inconsistent with the objective of limiting global warming to under 1,5°C or with the objective of halting and reversing biodiveristy loss should not be eligible for support under the Union budget;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses the need for continuous efforts towards the achievement of climate and biodiversity mainstreaming targets laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 16 December 2020 in the Union budget and the European Union Recovery Instrument expenditures and calls for increased efforts in the 2024 Union budget to achieve these levels of spending; deplores that the Commission has not yet published the methodology for ex-ante tagging expenditure contributing to halting and reversing biodiversity loss; underlines that further efforts must be made within the 2024 Union budget to ensure that biodiversity spending target set for the years 2026 and 2027 are met; highlights that the biodiversity financing gap over the period from 2021 to 2030 is around EUR 18,69 billion per year1 and should be remedied as soon as possible; calls on the Commission to carefully take into account the conclusions of Special Report 09/2022 of the European Court of Auditors on 'Climate spending in the 2014-2020 EU budget' as well as the performance audit from November 2022; _________________ 1 https://op.europa.eu/en/publication- detail/-/publication/793eb6ec-dbd6-11ec- a534-01aa75ed71a1/language-en/format- PDF/source-258471562
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Takes note of the Commission estimates based on the ex-ante methodology that the total climate financing in the Union budget will reach EUR 58 134 million, representing a share of 31,9 %; looks forward to the Commission presenting in 2023 a methodology for tracking climate related expenditure which are effect-based (looking at CO2 impact) as a complement to the intention-based methodology (using Union climate coefficients); calls for further work to differentiate between climate mitigation and adaptation, as set out in the Interinstitutional Agreement;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Stresses the need to ensure consistency between climate and biodiversity funding and calls on the Commission to publish the amounts and shares of expenditure that will contribute to both targets per programme when presenting the draft budget;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Welcomes that the Commission has further developed a methodology to track gender equality-related spending in the 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework, which looks at policy design and resource allocation and in particular the presentation of an ex-post gender impact assessment on a more granular level and reporting on volumes; calls on the Commission to assess holistically gender impact and facilitate that all the relevant data is available for the tracking;