Activities of David CAMPBELL BANNERMAN related to 2015/2132(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2016 - all sections
Amendments (4)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that adequate appropriations should be allocated to the trade-related budget lines to enable the Commission to pursue its ambitious trade agenda aimed at creating growth and jobs across Europe and attaining the Union’s wider international goals as well as to step up its efforts regarding the monitoring of the implementation and the effects of trade agreements;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that the Union must step up its efforts regarding the monitoring of the implementation and the effects of trade agreements, ensuring that those obligations entered into by trading partners are fully implemented and enforced;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is concerned that many Union citizens equate globalisation with a loss of European output and jobs; points to the increasing role of NGOs in shaping public opinion on trade-related matters due to the lack of an effective Union communication strategy; emphasises the need for an increase in the Commission’s information and communication budget to allow for better engagement with citizens, while underlining that any increase should come from redeployments and reallocations from other areas of the budget; calls on the Commission to present a study by 31st March 2016 on the funding sources and the impactransparency policies of NGOs active in trade issues, as well as their impact on the public discourse;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that the implementation of the Trade Facilitation Agreement reached at the 9th Ministerial Conference of the WTO will require funding support for the least developed and developing countries; deplornotes, therefore, the reduced appropriations for Aid for Trade;