15 Amendments of Jens GEIER related to 2015/2132(BUD)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Reiterates its demand that the Commission draft proposals to sanction false or incorrect reporting by the Member States' authorities in the management of European Union funds; recalls that almost all paying agencies for direct payments were accredited and certified by the certifying authorities in the Member States and is therefore concerned that some paying agencies have particularly high error rates; calls in this context on the Member States to implement a 'better spending' of the EU budget by ensuring more effective and efficient national management and control systems;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Urges the Commission to improve transparency in the use of financial engineering instruments (FEI), to regularly report on leverage, losses and risks and to present a cost-benefit analysis of FEIs compared with more direct forms of project funding; calls on the Commission to implement effective monitoring systems to analyse the demand for financial instruments in the Member States, which would lower the risk of overcapitalisation;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the budgetary authorities to reflect on the Union's efforts to prevent and combat fraud, corruption and any other illegal activities affecting its financial interests; emphasises in this respect that budgetary cuts in programmes such as HERCULE or AFIS would be detrimental to the budget of the European Union, as they support OLAF and the Member States to protect the Union's financial interests;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses the importance of fully respecting the joint statement on a payment plan 2015-2016 agreed between Parliament, Council and Commission, following the shared commitment to reduce the backlog of outstanding payment claims for the 2007-2013 cohesion programmes to around EUR 2 billion by the end of 2016 and to avoid any future build-up of such an unsustainable backlog; criticises in this respect that the Council's cuts in its reading on the 2016 budget go against the agreement in the joint statement plan; considers, for this reason, that unforeseen payment needs should be financed by fresh appropriations and the frontloading of EUR 1 billion in 2016 for Greece should therefore be financed by additional appropriations within the MFF payments' ceiling; stresses its long-standing position that payments deriving from commitments mobilised under the Flexibility Instrument are counted over and above that ceiling;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Concludes that, for the purpose of adequately financing these pressing needs, and considering the very tight MFF margins in 2016, all means available in the MFF Regulation in terms of flexibility, including the full mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument, will need to be deployed; expects that the Council will share this approach and that an agreement will easily be reached in conciliation, allowing the Union to rise to the occasion and effectively respond to the challenges ahead; stresses, in this respect, that the global MFF margin for commitments from 2015 should be mobilised as soon as the legal conditions are fulfilled; expects to reach a pre- agreement with the Council and the Commission on this issue;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Underlines that the current challenges the Union is facing once more disclose the budgetary restrictions set with the current MFF 2014-2020 to appropriately react to ongoing crises; therefore calls on the Commission to present an ambitious proposal for the revision of the MFF as soon as possible in 2016;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. NotCriticizes that, again this year, Heading 1a is severely affected by the Council's cuts with a reduction of EUR 140,9 million in commitments and EUR 435,4 million in payments as compared to the DB; highlights that around half of these cuts are targeted at Horizon 2020, which results in a further reduction for this programme in 2016 after that part of its appropriations have been redeployed to EFSI;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Decides to increases above the DB appropriations for the three supervisory agencies (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA) ands well as for ACER to provide them with adequate resources to face their increasing tasks;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Recalls that the DB provided for reinforcements in the area of security and migration, including a EUR 150 million scheme for the relocation of 40 000 persons in need of international protection, leading the Commission to exceed the ceiling for this heading by EUR 124 million and to propose the corresponding mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument; welcomes the fact that the Council has agreed to the principle of mobilising the Flexibility Instrument for this purpose; reminds however that a long-term financial plan to respond to the refugee crisis, including the set-up of a Search and Rescue Fund, is needed; considers that this shall also be addressed through the revision of the MFF;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Decides, in light of the current, exceptional flows of migrants and refugees to concentrate its reinforcements on strengthening the AMIF; strongly supports in this context the second EUR 780 million package on the relocation of additional 120 000 persons; decides to incorporate ithe necessary funds in its reading, and to align the first relocation package with the second one by adding EUR 20 million to finance transport costs (EUR 500 per migrant to Italy and Greece); approves an additional increase of EUR 79 million for general reinforcements of the AMIF; finally decides to reinforce the agencies with migration-related tasks for a total of EUR 26 millionhighlights the necessity to ensure sufficient financing possibilities for AMIF also for the upcoming years; recalls that point 17 of the Interinstitutional agreement of 2 December 2013 allows for a more than 10 % increase in the amount foreseen for the entire duration of a programme when the new, objective, long-term circumstances arise;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. finally decides to reinforce the agencies with migration-related tasks for a total of EUR 26 million, with the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) receiving the biggest increase of EUR 12 million above the DB; reminds that this agency plays a central, coordinating role in the implementation of the provisional measures in the area of international protection and is increasingly being called upon to assist the Member States concerned;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 a (new)
Paragraph 39 a (new)
39a. Recalls that in order to alleviate damaging long term effects that stem from humanitarian crisis it is essential to ensure that children affected continue to receive an education; therefore increases funding for supporting education in the Humanitarian aid budget so that it accounts for 3 % instead of 1 %, with the aim of reaching a threshold of 4 % by 2019;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51
Paragraph 51
51. Emphasises therefore again its opposition to the concept of a redeployment pool amongst agencies, but reaffirms its openness to free posts by means of achieving efficiency gains between agencies through increased administrative cooperation or even analyse the possibilities of mergers where appropriate and through pooling certain functions with either the Commission or another agency;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53
Paragraph 53
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 67 b (new)
Paragraph 67 b (new)
67b. Stresses that Parliament and the Council must address the need for a roadmap to a single seat, as requested by a large majority in this Parliament in several resolutions, in order to create long term savings in the Union budget;