8 Amendments of José Manuel FERNANDES related to 2021/0000(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy 2021 assessments, the strategy’s enhanced focus on social and environmental dimensions and itsachieving competitive sustainability and cohesion, fostering reforms to support a robust recovery, while placing emphasis on the importance of combining crisis management with the transformative aspirations of the Green Deal and the digital transition; underlines that the COVID-19 crisis is having an impact on the notion ofeed for reforms, recovery and resilience and highlights the Portuguese Presidency’s emphasis on the European social model as a valuable contribution in this regard;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that the agreements on the multiannual financial framework, Next Generation EU, the own resources (OR) decision, the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) and the Rule of Law (RoL) regulation constitute a viable baseline for innovative policies and is convinced that the common issuance of bonds at EU level is a sea change in EU public finances which adds value by mutualising the outstanding credit rathighlights the importance of disbursing the funds generated by the Commission’s borrowing ofn the EU budget based on its OR systemcapital markets via programmes and instruments of the new MFF;
Amendment 21 #
2a. Points to serious delays in the implementation of EU programmes and funds, especially under shared management, of the 2014-2020 period; calls, therefore, on Member States to accelerate the implementation of those programmes, in order not to jeopardise the timely launch of the new EU programmes of the 2021-2027 MFF, as well as those financed by the European Recovery Instrument, considering particularly the tight timetable in force for its implementation;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the RRF reshapes the European Semester framework and that, together with the Just Transition Fund, will be an exemplary test case of how EU strategic guidance and financial firepower can be synchronised with national priorities and implementation capacities; in this regard, underlines the need for synergies between the national recovery and resilience plans and the partnership agreements under the MFF 2021-2027; calls on Member States to put forward their respective proposals for national recovery and resilience plans and partnership agreements without undue delay;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to complementensure that the relevant scoreboards and dashboards with indicators that better reflect the impact of the EU budget as well as social, gender- related, macroeconomic and environmental impacts;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the need for the recovery and resilience plans to deliver public goods likcontribute to the pandemic prevention and to contribute to implementingthe implementation of the six pillars of the RRF, including economic competitiveness and entrepreneurship, social and territorial cohesion, youth policies, the European Pillar of Social Rights, the EU’s climate and biodiversity objectives, the digital and green transformation and the Gender Equality Strategy;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Reiterates the urgency of diversifying the EU budget’s revenue sources, in line with the roadmap integrated in the Interinstitutional Agreement, and of linking own resources with policy objectives more effectivelyminds that the financing of the Next Generation EU, in particular of the RRF, depends on the urgent ratification by the Member States of the OR decision, and calls on Member States for a swift ratification procedure; reiterates the urgency of diversifying the EU budget’s revenue sources, in line with the roadmap integrated in the Interinstitutional Agreement, and of linking own resources with policy objectives more effectively; notes that the proceeds from the new own resources should be sufficient to repay the expenditure under the EU Recovery Instrument, without leading to an undue reduction in programme expenditure or investment instruments under the MFF 2021-2027;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Underlines the important contribution that the InvestEU programme should make towards a successful and sustainable recovery of European economy, by generating strategic investments across critical sectors and mobilising about €400 billion on key projects for the EU; highlights, in particular, the possibility to provide capital support to SMEs that have been negatively affected by the crisis, as well as the potential of the programme to enhance competitiveness and productivity, while promoting economic, social and territorial cohesion in the EU;