10 Amendments of Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY related to 2016/2323(BUD)
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1
Subheading 1
A budget for sustainable growth, jobs and security
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the important role played by the EU budget in delivering concrete answers to the challenges the EU is facing; stresses that jobs, economic growth and sustainable economic growth, climate change, migration, and security and tackling populism are the main concernhallenges at EU level and that the EU budget remains part of the solution to these issues; underlines that only a strong EU budgetand efficient EU budget with a genuine European added value will benefit all Member States and EU citizens alike; expects that the Commission will put forward a draft 2018 budget that enables the EU to continue to generate prosperity and ensure the safety of its citizens;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Believes that the EU budget must be equipped with the tools to enable it to, while budget discipline should not be compromised, responding to multiple crises simultaneously will require a certain level of flexibility; is of the opinion that, while growth and jobs continue to remain the core priorities of the EU budget, obtaining sustainable progress in these fields will not be possible should EU citizens feel unsafe or insecure;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Underlines that the EU budget must support the fulfilment of the objectives of the Paris agreement and the EU's own long-term climate goals by meeting the 20% spending target for climate in 2014-2020 MFF; stresses, in this regard, that the contribution for 2018 should overshoot the overall target in order to offset the lower allocations from the first half of the current MFF and that the mechanism of climate change mainstreaming should be fully optimized;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Notes with concern that the EU's 2020 biodiversity targets will not be met without substantial additional efforts; stresses, therefore, the importance of mainstreaming biodiversity protection across the EU budget, with a particular focus on LIFE programme and Natura 2000 network, and reiterates its previous call for a tracking methodology that takes into account all biodiversity related spending and its efficiency;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that investments in research and innovation represent a pre- condition for achieving genuine competitiveness in the EU; regrets the fact that, a, and for having an innovative and competitive EU economy on a global level; regrets that Member States a result of an alarmingly low success rate of applications, fewer high- quality projects in the field of research and innovation are receiving EU funding cutting their funding for R&I activities and recognises that more applications are directed towards the EU as a result and notes that many interested parties, many of which are new comers or SME's, are being deterred from submitting time-consuming Horizon 2020 project proposals due to lower success rates; calls in this respect for an adequate level of appropriations to be ensured for Horizon 2020;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Is convinced that, under the current circumstances, where the ceilingand with limited resources in Hheading 3 is too low, the EU budget has maximised its impact in dealing with the effects of the migratory and refugee crisis; points out, however, that a sustainable solution must be found to this issue, as it has been shown by the repeated mobilisation of special instruments, such as the flexibility instrument, that the EU budget was not initially designed to address crises of such magnitude;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Acknowledges that only a controlled level of commitments assures control over the future level of payments and expects, therefore, a more orderly relation between commitments and payments; Stresses that delays in the implementation of 2014-2020 programmes under shared management led to a drop in payment claims for 2016 and 2017; is particularly concerned about the lack of transparency and a possible reconstitution of a backlog of unpaid bills towards the end of the current MFF period, and recalls the unprecedented level of EUR 24.7 billion reached at the end of 2014refore on the Commission to provide a regular, detailed update on scrapped projects to ensure the best use of EU funds and to enable transfers to new political priorities should the need arise; welcomes the fact that the Commission, on the occasion of the MFF mid-term revision, provided for the first time a payment forecast until 2020, but stresses that it needs to be duly updated every year, in order to allow the budgetary authority to take the necessary measures in time;
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Underlines that the Commission will put forward by the end of 2017 its proposals for the post-2020 MFF; attachesunderstands that the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU will have a significant impact on the post-2020 MFF and resources available; attaches therefore the utmost importance to the process leading up to the establishment of the new financial framework, and expects this to be commensurate to the challenges the Union is facinga reformed, more agile and efficient EU budget; calls for a swift conclusion to the ongoing MFF mid-term revision;