6 Amendments of Jens GEIER related to 2014/2224(BUD)
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Regrets however that the Council was once again not willing to complement its political declarations with sufficient budgetary resources regarding the support for jobs and growth and the Union's international commitments, which it demonstrated by not agreeing to budgeting up to the MFF ceiling in Headings 1a and 4; is however pleased that the increases obtained in the negotiations correspond to Parliament's political priorities; regrets however in this context that the Council seems to not have any political priorities anymore and is solely interested in horizontally limiting the expenses as much as possible;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes however that, particularly with regard to payments, the budgetary negotiations have become more and more difficult over the past years, mainly due to the uncompromising position of the Council; underlines once again its position that the main function of the budgetary procedure should be to agree on the political priorities in budgetary commitments, whereas payments should simply be considered as a technical follow- up to honour these commitments; reminds the Council of the definitions of the type of appropriations in Article 10(3) of the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the Union and its rules of application, stating that "payment appropriations shall cover payments made to honour the legal commitments entered into the financial year or preceding financial years";
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the fact that Council, in the end, agreed to the mobilisation of the Contingency Margin in 2014, even though to a lower amount than needed; welcomes furthermore the overall reinforcement in payments in the 2014 budget, on a number of budget lines up to a level EUR 4,2 billion, of which EUR 3 168,2 million will be mobilised through the Contingency Margin for 2014 as well as the fact that the increases proposed in DAB No 3/2014 in payment appropriations for Heading 1a and Heading 4 have been largely preserved in the final compromise; reminds that the Parliament already in its reading on the budget 2014 envisaged the higher need for payment appropriations (final agreement was EUR 983 million lower than the adopted Parliament position); calls on the Council not to try to artificially cut the EU budget every year;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Regrets the unwillingness of both Council and Commission to provide EU agencies with the necessary resources, especially with regard to staff, to fulfil the mandates they were given by the legislative authority and underlines that the present agreement does not imply an acceptance by Parliament of the redeployment pool concept by the Commission; furthermore, highly regrets the staff cuts in fee-financed agencies and considers them unjustified as far as the respective posts are not financed from the EU budget;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Welcomes the implementation of the first phase of the cooperation agreement between the Parliament and the European Economic and Social Committee and Committee of the Regions; believes that this agreement is a good example of finding synergies between the institutions which will increase efficiency and generate eavings; expects the second phase of that agreement to be completed by July 2015 as well as the budgetary neutral transfers of "common administrative costs" for Commission staff in delegations from Section III (Commission) to Section X (EEAS) of the budget;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15