4 Amendments of José Manuel FERNANDES related to 2021/2162(INI)
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Underlines that the coordinated collection of GNI-based national contributions in the form of external assigned revenue and outside the budgetary procedure is not exclusive to NGEU, but has been the chosen fix for the Facility for Refugees in Turkey, COVID-19 vaccine contracts and perhaps, in the future, the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA); recalls that borrowing on capital markets has been a long-standing feature of Union’s budgetary operations to the extent that both the Commission and Parliament already called for its budgetisation in the 1970’s and 1980’s, well before the creation of the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism (EFSM), the temporary Support to mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) or NGEU;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Is concerned that these mechanisms pose a serious challenge to the ability of the Parliament to fulfil its decision-making, scrutiny and discharge functions; and more generally to the ability of the general public and any public or private institution to understand the Union budget and hold the Commission to account; strongly believes that EU financial rules must be updated as regards the role of the budgetary authority and the budget structure in relation to these mechanisms, in order to bring them closer to the principles and responsibilities set out in the Treaties;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Believes that Parliament, as one arm of the budgetary authority, should be able to scrutinise and authorise as appropriate the Commission’s plans with respect to theuse and management of external assigned revenue and of its borrowing and lending operations; suggests that relevant articles of the Financial Regulation, including Articles 7, 46 and 56, be revised to clarify thatand complemented to clarify that external assigned revenue, assets and liabilities linked to borrowing and lending operations are included in the EU budget;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Believes that external assigned revenue pursuant to current Article 21 of the Financial Regulation, and assets and liabilities deriving from off-budget operations, including borrowing on capital markets, should be allocated to the relevant budget lines in line with Article 8 of the Financial Regulation and classified in accordance with the budget nomenclature; suggest, classified in accordance with the budget nomenclature and consolidated in respective Parts II and III of the Union budget; considers that they should form an integral part of the EU budget and be adopted by the budgetary authority as part of that budget;