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Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Takes note of the ~~incapacity~~contradictions of the positions of Heads of State and Government ~~to come to an agreement on the next multiannual financial framework (MFF) at the European Council of 22 and 23 November 2012~~who are divided between those who want the European budget to reflect the austerities in their national budgets and those who want more money;

2013/02/07
Committee: BUDG

Marta ANDREASEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Recalls that, due to the intransigent position of the Council in the negotiations, the overall level of payments set in the 2013 budget is EUR 5 billion lower than the Commission’s estimates for payment needs in the draft budget; is extremely worried about the level of payments in the 2013 budget and believes that this level of appropriations will be insufficient to cover actual payment needs in 2013Believes that amounts agreed after the negotiation of the annual budget should be respected by the Commission when approving programmes and their implementation to avoid having to inject more money at the end of the year; this practice of asking for more renders budget negotiations a useless exercise;

2013/02/07
Committee: BUDG

Marta ANDREASEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Attaches the greatest political importance to the joint statements signed by Parliament, the Council and the Commission at their highest political level in December 2012, which are an integral part of the agreement between the two arms of the budgetary authority on the 2013 budget and according to which the necessary additional resources will be provided by Member States next year in order for the Union to be able to pay its bills and preserve its institutional credibility and solvability;deleted

2013/02/07
Committee: BUDG

Marta ANDREASEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Recalls that, in line with the provisions of the joint statement on payments 2012, the Commission shall present at an early stage in 2013 a draft amending budget devoted to the sole purpose of covering the suspended claims from 2012, amounting to EUR 2.9 billion, and other pending legal obligations, without prejudice to the proper implementation of the 2013 budget; recalls that in November and December 2012 additional payment requests under shared management for an overall amount of around EUR 16 billion were submitted to the Commission, which will need to be paid out in 2013; therefore urges the Commission to submit this draft amending budget already during the first trimester of 2013, in order to avoid any interference with the budget 2014 procedure;deleted

2013/02/07
Committee: BUDG

Marta ANDREASEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Further calls on the Commission and the Council to work constructively, together with Parliament, to avoid any repetition of this situation in future budget cycles by ~~improving forecasting accuracy and agreeing on realistic budget estimate~~not setting commitments at unrealistic levels that do not match the level of payments;

2013/02/07
Committee: BUDG

Marta ANDREASEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Is of the opinion that the 2013 budget negotiations have demonstrated once more that the system of financing the EU budget – with national contributions amounting to more than 75 % of EU revenue – is today on its last legs; urges that the structure of Union revenue be reformed by introducing new and genuine own resources and recalls its support to the Commission proposal for reforming the own resources system;deleted

2013/02/07
Committee: BUDG

Marta ANDREASEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Recalls that the EU budget is an investment budget and that 94 % of it goes back to the Member States and European citizens through its policies and programmes, and therefore should not be seen as an additional burden but as a tool to boost investment, growth and jobs in Europe; emphasises that, for the regions and Member States, public investment would be minimised or impossible without the contribution of the EU budget; believes that any decrease in the EU budget would inevitably increase imbalances and hamper the growth and competitive strength of the entire Union economy, as well as its cohesiveness, and would undermine the principle of solidarity as a core EU value;deleted

2013/02/07
Committee: BUDG

Marta ANDREASEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Calls, therefore, on the Member States to consider synergies between the national consolidation effort and the added value of a well-prioritised EU budget, allowing the implementation of the political commitments already made at the highest level; recalls that implementation of political commitments and priorities is much more effective when there is a synergy between national and EU budgets and underlines the importance of inter- parliamentary debates on the common economic and budgetary orientations of the Member States and of the Union, within the framework of European Parliamentary Week on the European Semester for Economic Policy Coordination;deleted

2013/02/07
Committee: BUDG

Marta ANDREASEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Emphases the need to take advantage of all tools and actions at the disposal of the European Union to help Member States emerge from the crisis and to prevent future ones; highlights the crucial role played by the three European supervisory authorities in enabling comprehensive delivery of the financial regulation agenda and supervisory structures; calls on the Commission to propose sufficient funding for these three agencies in its 2014 draft budget and to foresee, when preparing the assessment and a revision of the regulations for January 2014, a revised funding model for these agencies that will increase their independence, while safeguarding the unity of the EU budget;deleted

2013/02/07
Committee: BUDG

Marta ANDREASEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Deplores the Council’s usual horizontal cuts and warns it against the temptation to again make use of such artificial cuts; will pay particular attention to ensure a sufficient level of payments for policies and programmes fostering growth and competitiveness;deleted

2013/02/07
Committee: BUDG

10 Amendments of Marta ANDREASEN related to 2013/2010(BUD)

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