4 Amendments of Jens GEIER related to 2017/2053(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas, as a result of the 2014- 2020 MFF negotiations, a High Level Group on Own Resources (HLGOR) was established, including representatives of all three main EU institutions and chaired by Mario Monti; whereas in December 2016 the HLGOR presented its final report and recommendations, which represent the basishave been duly taken into account for the elaboration of Parliament’s position as set out in the present report; highlights that the final report was adopted by all of its members, including by the members appointed by the Council;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Considers, in particular, that the decision on the size of the annual EU budget is affected by financial considerations at national level and thatpolitical and financial factors internal to each MS, thus creating constraints on the budgetary negotiations often resultand ending in a zero- sum game between net payers and net beneficiaries in the Council; considers that, as a result, a number of EU policies that show the highest European added value are often the areas where cost savings are proposedagreement ;regrets that, as a result, cuts are proposed on some EU programmes ignoring the Union commitments, including the ones taken by Council; considers that national contributions to the EU budget as well as the contributions made by MS to co- finance EU programmes should not be taken into account when calculating the national spending deficit for compliance with the Maastricht criteria, thus facilitating the negotiations and improving the implementation of these programmes;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24 a. Calls for accounting the existing and future own resources such as VAT or custom duties, collected by a Member State on behalf of the EU, in a separate budgetary item in the national budget of the Member State which collects the revenue; deplores that OLAF repeatedly found severe cases of customs fraud in Member states which created a significant loss of income to the Union budget; points to the ECA special report 19/2017 on import procedures and is concerned that fraudsters will continue to find the ‘weakest link’ among Member states as their points of entry to the customs union, and that losses to the Union budget will continue even during the next MFF; calls on the Commission and the Member states to take the necessary measures to stop these activities that are damaging to the Union budget;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 61 a (new)
Paragraph 61 a (new)
61 a. Highlights that in 2016, assigned revenues to EU decentralised agencies such as fees and charges from industries and contributions from national budgets amounted to approximately EUR 1 billion, thereby providing a significant contribution to the Union budget; points to the ongoing study commissioned by the European Parliament Budgetary Committee on exploring ways to extend the scope of fee-financing; underlines that some agencies such as ACER, EBA, EIOPA, and ERA provide services to industries, but do not have the possibility to charge fees yet; asks the Commission to propose a consistent approach as regards fee-financing of agencies in the next MFF