Activities of Indrek TARAND related to 2014/2040(BUD)
Plenary speeches (1)
General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2015 - all sections (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the Council position on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2015 PDF (379 KB) DOC (361 KB)
Amendments (21)
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Invites the Commission to start a reflection on how to integrate gender budgeting principles into the EU budget;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24 a. Believes that to further energy security, promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency is essential also in the context of Russian energy dependency, especially in the Member States most dependent on Russian gas; calls for aligning spending objectives of energy funds under Horizon 2020 to the commitments made during the legislative process; expects accordingly the Commission to allocate 15% of the energy research budget to finance activities for market uptake of existing renewables and energy efficiency solutions through an Intelligent Energy Europe Programme III;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 27 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Underlines that appropriations for the experimental fusion plant ITER amount to another 838 million € (CA) in the 2015 budget; highlights the extremely low-cost effectiveness of this project which does not foresee tangible results before 2050;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27 a. Underlines the huge discrepancy between funding for nuclear activities in the EU budget and support for future- oriented renewable energy; believes therefore that abandoning the ITER project would free up much needed resources, which could be used for investing into already working renewable energy technologies;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 b (new)
Paragraph 27 b (new)
27 b. Believes that the Euratom budget line on Nuclear fission and radiation protection should be reoriented towards the decommissioning of nuclear power plants; in the same vein, the appropriations for nuclear activities of the Joint Research Centre should be used only for activities necessary for implementing safeguards;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 c (new)
Paragraph 27 c (new)
27 c. Believes that the role of SME innovation for EU competitiveness is often emphasised but support underfinanced; invites therefore the Commission to dedicate sufficient resources, notably for the implementation of actions foreseen under its Green Action Plan for SMEs; regrets that the dedicated SME instrument foreseen in the Horizon 2020 regulation remains underfinanced; requests the Commission to establish as of 2016, a unique budget line for the SME Instrument, in order to allow clearer budgetary oversight and control, and ensure a genuine bottom-up approach to its implementation;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Underlines that Heading 1b bears the biggest part of the current outstanding commitments which is impeding reimbursement for resources already spent by the beneficiary Member States and regions; highlights that this practice caused serious consequences for Member States and regions mostly affected by crisis; deplores that the Council seems to completely ignore this issue;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33 a. Welcomes the Commission's ambition to play a stronger role in the preparation and implementation of programmes under the European Structural and Investment Funds; demands in particular that the requirements for the involvement of local and regional actors as well as civil society organisations are met to increase ownership of the policy and reach Union targets in the field of climate change and poverty reduction; calls on the Member States to take full advantage of available instruments and methodologies such as climate change tracking to increase the visibility of their efforts;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Agrees that additional support is needed to alleviate the impact of the Russian ban on the import of certain Union agricultural and fisheries products; welcomes the emergency support measures taken by the European Commission as a first response to this crisis; increases, therefore, the Union co-financing for promotion measures in the Common Agricultural Policy by 30 million in order to help producers find alternative sales opportunities, while providing EUR 5 million additional support to fishermen via the EMFF; believes that this additional funding should not lead to increased EU exports to developing countries at prices undermining markets there; also decides to increase the amount available for the school fruits scheme by EUR 7 million and school milk scheme by EUR 4 million above the draft budget of the Commission;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 35 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Calls on the Commission to monitor climate-related expenditure and to take immediate corrective action in case achieving the 20% target and maintaining the effectiveness of the spending programmes are at risk;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35 a. Increases the appropriations foreseen for rural development by reducing direct payments, in order to compensate partially the cuts made by the new MFF;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 b (new)
Paragraph 35 b (new)
35 b. Calls on Member States to ensure a fair distribution of funds by increasing support for sustainable farming systems, which preserve biodiversity, protect water resources and soil fertility, respect animal welfare and employment;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 c (new)
Paragraph 35 c (new)
35 c. Considers export refunds to be trade distorting and in contradiction to the EU development goals; supports therefore their complete elimination;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 d (new)
Paragraph 35 d (new)
35 d. Believes that CAP appropriations or any other appropriations from the budget should not be used for financing lethal bull fighting activities; recalls that such funding is a clear violation of the European Convention for the protection of animals kept for farming purposes (Council Directive 98/58/EC);
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 a (new)
Paragraph 46 a (new)
46 a. Believes that the lack of public trust in the TTIP negotiations does not depend on the amount of information made available by the Commission but on the fact that the Commission withholds the basic negotiation documents whose publication on the web would not make additional costs, while it would increase public trust in the process much more; considers therefore the creation of a new budget line worth 4 mio € as superfluous;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 52
Paragraph 52
52. DecidesRegrets that Commission expert groups continue to be excessively dominated by corporate interests; decides therefore to hold some appropriations in reserve until the Commission modifies the rules on expert groups and ensures their full implementation within all DGs;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69 a (new)
Paragraph 69 a (new)
69 a. Stresses that Parliament had aimed for an increase of its budget corresponding to the rate of inflation; underlines that an increase of 2.2.4 % is far higher than the current rate of inflation; believes furthermore that such an increase of an already impressive budget is difficult to justify in the current times;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 73 a (new)
Paragraph 73 a (new)
73 a. Believes that in the medium term the Members' statute, which generates important costs due to the change of legislature, should be opened for revision in order to limit some of these costs;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 73 b (new)
Paragraph 73 b (new)
73 b. Requests an assessment on the results of the voluntary approach chosen by the Joint Working Group to limit business class flights by EP Members and staff;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 73 c (new)
Paragraph 73 c (new)
73 c. Welcomes the Secretary General's recognition that costs could be reduced for running Parliament's car park; hopes that this will materialise in next year's EP budget proposal;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 88
Paragraph 88