5 Amendments of Jens GEIER related to 2016/2047(BUD)
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Takes note that the Council's reading failed to predict the actual execution of the Union budget for the last five consecutive years and that, taking all amending budgets into account, considerably more funds were needed in each of the final budgets; therefore calls on the Council to adjust its position in the conciliation committee in order to provide adequate funding for the Union budget 2017 immediately from the beginning;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. recalls the European Court of Auditor's Special Report 19/2016 "Implementing the EU budget through financial instruments - lessons to be learnt from the 2007-2013 programme period", which concludes that financial instruments had high administrative costs and fees in comparison to private funds and often had an insufficient leverage effect in mobilising private investment; therefore warns Commission and Council to overestimate the effects of financial instruments and to further move the Union budget in this direction, particularly because this would change the fundamental set up of the Union budget and its financing structure;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 a (new)
Paragraph 37 a (new)
37 a. Notes that the guarantee fund for external actions, which covers defaults on loans and loan guarantees granted to non-Member States or for projects in non- Member States, has, according to the Commission report on guarantees covered by the general budget (COM(2016) 576 final) additional financial needs in order to reach the target amount, which consequently led to a provisioning of EUR 228,04 million being inserted in the DB 2017; is concerned that this requirements put additional pressure on the already very tight ceilings in Heading 4;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41 a (new)
Paragraph 41 a (new)
41 a. Considers that interinstitutional administrative cooperation is a source of efficiency as know-how, capacities and resources developed for an institution can be made available to others; therefore asks to establish a system which limits administrative burdens to the necessary minimum, ensures the appropriate quality of services, provides the main responsible institution with the necessary budgetary means and incentivises the cooperation of the other institutions by limiting their share to the marginal costs caused by the cooperation and as such aligning sound financial management decisions on level of the institutions with the overall sound financial management of the budget;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60 b (new)
Paragraph 60 b (new)
60 b. stresses that the Parliament and the Council, in order to create long term savings in the Union budget, must address the need for a roadmap to a single seat, as requested by the large majority of this Parliament in several resolutions;