Activities of Marta ANDREASEN related to 2012/2000(BUD)
Plenary speeches (1)
General guidelines for the 2013 budget: Section III - Commission (debate)
Amendments (15)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
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3. RecallNotes that the European Union’s budget is one of the most important instruments of solidarity between Member States and between generations, and that it provides a clear added value, given its extraordinaryhas little impact on the real economy and daily lives of European citizens; recallnotes that if the Union’s policies were to be financed solely by Member States, their costs would skyrocket and that, seen in this light, the European budget intrinsically represents a clear common saving for the wellbeing of allmany would be eliminated as unnecessary and expensive;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
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4. Stresses that, in times of crisis more than ever, the collective efforts taken at EU level must be strengthened in order to ensure that our actions deliver results; underlines the fact that the annual budget, as well as all other European instruments, needs to be aligned with the Europe 2020 Strategy for Growth and Jobs and that this is essential for the Strategy’s credibility and in order to preserve confidence in EU policies, especially amongst its citizens; stresses that, given its role as a catalyst for investment, lowering the level of the EU budget would haveexamined carefully to ensure that they are not wasteful and that they increase productivity; underlines the fact that the annual budget is seen by the taxpayer as another burden in a time of crisis and adverse impact on the creation of growth and jobs of the Unionusterity;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
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5. Takes the view that the promotion of growth and jobs require specific actions and enhanced budgetary effortss a less burdensome regulatory environment to support competitiveness, innovation and small and medium enterprises (SMEs), since most of the EU economic potential lies in SMEs, which, according to latest studies, created 85 % of net new jobs in the EU between 2002 and 2010 and are the backbone of our economic growth;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
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6. Stresses that such supportlighter regulation would be instrumental in preventing SMEs from cutting down their investments, in particular on research and development, while at the same time promoting employment and ensuring that skills are conserved, thus helping to unleash SMEs’ innovation potential, which is essential to the EU’s prosperity and to the creation of a knowledge-based society;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 8
8. Underlines the fact that all the measures taken so far to combat the crisis should assist a return to the path of growth; stresses, in this regard, that the tailor-made austerity measures already taken need to be accompanied by targeted investments; points out that the EU budget has a determining role to play in this context as a tool to ensure prompt and well coordinated action in all fields to mitigate the effects of the crisis on the real economy and to act as a catalyst to boost investment, growth and jobs in Europe;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 11
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
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12. Will pay specific attention, in the context of the 2013 budgetary procedure, to the implementation of the EP’s previous years’ budgetary priorities and will, in particular, follow closely the funding and implementation of the Europe 2020 Strategy, which is fully endorsed by Member States, in terms of promoting competitiveness and employment, as well as of its other sectoral priorities;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 13
13. Recalls that the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2007-2013 was designed to improve the prosperity and quality of life of our citizens and to exploit all the potential of enlargement, yet since 2008 the EU has experienced an unprecedented crisis, which has also impacted on each of the annual budgets; underlines against this background the fact that the 2007-2013 financial framework was not revised to accommodate additional financing needs stemming from the economic and financial crisis and that, to that extent, all the annual budgets have been contained and austere; stresses that the corresponding payments should therefore at least be disbursed according to the normal budget cycle; recalls that payments are dissociated from commitment appropriations only because of the time lag, in the case of multiannual programmes, before the actual disbursement of the funds;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
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14. Stresses that, 2013 being the last year of the current programming period, catching up will be necessary in terms of payments, as has always been the case at the end of financial perspectives, owing to the start of the completion process of 2007- 2013 programmes, and, in terms of commitments, in order to respect the financial programming amounts; repeats that any artificial cut made to the level of payments will delay meeting both contractual obligations and past EU commitments, and could also result in late interest being due and loss of confidence in European policies; underlines, therefore, that contractual debts should be paid as soon as possible as a matter of budgetary discipline;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
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17. Stresses that undover-budgeting should be avoided as a matter of sound financial management, and that appropriations need to be aligned to realistic estimates of absorption capacity; points out the fact that artificially lowering the level of appropriations as against the Commission’s realistic estimates may, conversely, prevent the final level of budgetary implementation to reach its full potential;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
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