Activities of Ivars GODMANIS related to 2012/2016(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the mandate for the trilogue on the 2013 Draft Budget
Amendments (1)
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Reminds that already in 2011 a significant level of legitimate claims, notably in the field of cohesion policy, could not be paid out by the Commission; notes that those claims will also need to be covered by the Budget 2012, which already suffers from a shortage of funds as a consequence of the limited increase in payment appropriations due to Council's position throughout last year's budgetary procedure; calls, therefore, on the Commission to come up with a draft amending budget as early as possible, in order to rectify this situation, and to avoid shifting 2012 payments to the following year, which would create an unsustainable level of payments in 2013; asks the Commission, by coming up with draft amending budget for 2012 and draft budget 2013, to take into account the real implementation of the European Economic Recovery Plan programmes;