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2012/2290(INI) Forward policy planning and long-term trends: budgetary implications for capacity-building

Progress: Procedure completed

RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead BUDG ELLES James (icon: ECR ECR) KALFIN Ivailo (icon: S&D S&D)
Committee Opinion AFCO BROK Elmar (icon: PPE PPE) Enrique GUERRERO SALOM (icon: S&D S&D), Morten MESSERSCHMIDT (icon: ECR ECR)
Committee Opinion REGI VLASÁK Oldřich (icon: ECR ECR) Joachim ZELLER (icon: PPE PPE)
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 54

Events

2014/03/06
   EC - Commission response to text adopted in plenary
Documents
2013/10/08
   EP - Results of vote in Parliament
2013/10/08
   EP - Decision by Parliament
Details

The European Parliament adopted by 604 votes to 59, with 6 abstentions, a resolution on forward policy planning and long-term trends: budgetary implications for capacity-building.

Parliament recalled that the 2010 EU budget provided, on Parliament’s initiative, for the Commission to undertake a pilot project over two years with the aim of exploring the possibility of establishing an ‘interinstitutional system identifying long-terms trends on major policy issues facing the EU’. The 2012 EU budget authorised the project to go to the next phase as a preparatory action for the three years from 2012 to 2014, with the aim of putting in place, by the end of 2014, a fully functioning ‘European Strategy and Policy Analysis System’ (ESPAS) involving all relevant EU institutions, by developing closer working cooperation between the research departments of the various EU institutions and bodies which are devoted to the analysis of medium- and long-term policy trends.

For the Parliament, the establishment of such a system would assist and support the EU institutions in preparing and responding to challenges and defining coherent strategic options for the years ahead and would provide a basis for reflection in the context of preparing the EU budget and establishing political priorities on an annual and multiannual basis and linking financial resources more directly to political objectives.

Parliament urged the four institutions and bodies currently involved in the ESPAS process – the Commission, Parliament, the Council and the European External Action Service – to elaborate and sign some form of interinstitutional agreement , ideally to be concluded in the spring of 2014, with each partner undertaking to maintain and participate in the agreement on a continuing basis.

Parliament stressed the need for the participating institutions and bodies to devote the necessary staff and financial resources to the ESPAS system through each of their respective budgets, in the context of the annual budgetary procedure, so as to ensure that this capability can be developed in a budgetarily neutral way in future years.

Analysis of trends: Parliament highlighted the importance of monitoring and analysing long-term trends, as well as cooperating and networking with other actors, including the wider research community, who are interested in similar issues in third countries. It pointed out that, in line with the principle of subsidiarity, the development of long-term socio-economic strategies and the implementation of policies in the EU is the responsibility of a variety of public organisations , such as the European institutions, government ministries, regional or local authority departments and specific agencies but that the economic and social partners, non-governmental organisations and other stakeholders also play an important role.

ESPAS: Parliament welcomed specifically the outcome so far of the administrative-level pilot project (2010-2011) and preparatory action (2012-2014) designed to develop a European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS), and strongly recommended that this process continue with the involvement of all relevant interest groups . Such a system should involve staff from all the relevant EU institutions and bodies, including the Committee of the Regions.

In parallel, Parliament called for the resources to implement this initiative as well as the governance rules for its management (they insisted that ESPAS be steered and overseen by an interinstitutional board which would comprise designated members and on which the European Parliament would be represented ).

The work of ESPAS should be carried out on an independent basis.

Strategic report : lastly, Parliament considered that a permanent system – aiming to provide regular analysis of medium- and long-term trends for the EU institutions in order to encourage a more strategic approach to decision-making – should include provisions for the submission of an annual strategic trends report to the institutions, in advance of the State of the Union debate, and the publication of the Commission’s annual work programme in order to track and assess the changing pattern of long-term trends, and also to provide specific input to the budgetary authority in the run-up to the negotiation of a post-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), as well as for any mid-term revision of the 2014-2020 MFF.

Documents
2013/10/08
   EP - End of procedure in Parliament
2013/10/07
   EP - Debate in Parliament
2013/07/16
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary
Details

The Committee on Budgets adopted the initiative report by James ELLES (ECR, UK) on forward policy planning and long-term trends: budgetary implications for capacity-building.

Members recalled that the 2010 EU budget provided, on Parliament’s initiative, for the Commission to undertake a pilot project over two years with the aim of exploring the possibility of establishing an ‘interinstitutional system identifying long-terms trends on major policy issues facing the EU’. The 2012 EU budget authorised the project to go to the next phase as a preparatory action for the three years from 2012 to 2014, with the aim of putting in place, by the end of 2014, a fully functioning ‘European Strategy and Policy Analysis System’ (ESPAS) involving all relevant EU institutions, by developing closer working cooperation between the research departments of the various EU institutions and bodies which are devoted to the analysis of medium- and long-term policy trends.

Members urged the four institutions and bodies currently involved in the ESPAS process – the Commission, Parliament, the Council and the European External Action Service – to elaborate and sign some form of interinstitutional agreement , ideally to be concluded in the spring of 2014, with each partner undertaking to maintain and participate in the agreement on a continuing basis.

Analysis of trends: Members highlighted the importance of monitoring and analysing long-term trends, as well as cooperating and networking with other actors, including the wider research community, who are interested in similar issues in third countries. They pointed out that, in line with the principle of subsidiarity, the development of long-term socio-economic strategies and the implementation of policies in the EU is the responsibility of a variety of public organisations , such as the European institutions, government ministries, regional or local authority departments and specific agencies but that the economic and social partners, non-governmental organisations and other stakeholders also play an important role.

ESPAS: Members welcomed specifically the outcome so far of the administrative-level pilot project (2010-2011) and preparatory action (2012-2014) designed to develop a European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS), and strongly recommended that this process continue with the involvement of all relevant interest groups .

In parallel, they called for the resources to implement this initiative as well as the governance rules for its management (they insisted that ESPAS be steered and overseen by an interinstitutional board which would comprise designated members and on which the European Parliament would be represented ).

Strategic report : lastly, Members considered that a permanent system – aiming to provide regular analysis of medium- and long-term trends for the EU institutions in order to encourage a more strategic approach to decision-making – should include provisions for the submission of an annual strategic trends report to the institutions, in advance of the State of the Union debate, and the publication of the Commission’s annual work programme in order to track and assess the changing pattern of long-term trends, and also to provide specific input to the budgetary authority in the run-up to the negotiation of a post-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), as well as for any mid-term revision of the 2014-2020 MFF.

Documents
2013/07/11
   EP - Vote in committee
2013/07/09
   EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2013/06/20
   EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2013/05/30
   EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2013/05/27
   EP - BROK Elmar (PPE) appointed as rapporteur in AFCO
2013/04/24
   EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2012/11/27
   EP - VLASÁK Oldřich (ECR) appointed as rapporteur in REGI
2012/11/22
   EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2012/10/03
   EP - ELLES James (ECR) appointed as rapporteur in BUDG

Documents

Votes

A7-0265/2013 - James Elles - Vote unique #

2013/10/08 Outcome: +: 604, -: 59, 0: 6
DE FR PL IT ES GB RO HU BE BG SE EL CZ SK AT PT LT IE NL FI HR DK SI LV LU MT EE CY
Total
85
68
47
59
46
62
28
18
20
15
19
20
16
12
18
20
11
12
24
9
11
12
7
8
6
5
4
6
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253

Czechia PPE

For (1)

1

Denmark PPE

For (1)

1

Luxembourg PPE

3

Malta PPE

2

Estonia PPE

For (1)

1
2
icon: S&D S&D
164

Hungary S&D

3

Bulgaria S&D

2

Ireland S&D

2

Netherlands S&D

3

Finland S&D

2

Slovenia S&D

2

Luxembourg S&D

For (1)

1

Estonia S&D

For (1)

1
icon: ALDE ALDE
68

Greece ALDE

1

Slovakia ALDE

For (1)

1

Austria ALDE

1

Lithuania ALDE

1

Finland ALDE

For (1)

1
3

Slovenia ALDE

For (1)

1

Latvia ALDE

For (1)

1

Luxembourg ALDE

For (1)

1

Estonia ALDE

1
icon: ECR ECR
52

Hungary ECR

For (1)

1

Belgium ECR

For (1)

1

Lithuania ECR

1

Netherlands ECR

For (1)

1

Croatia ECR

For (1)

1

Denmark ECR

For (1)

1

Latvia ECR

For (1)

1
icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE
52

United Kingdom Verts/ALE

4

Sweden Verts/ALE

Against (1)

4

Greece Verts/ALE

1

Austria Verts/ALE

1

Portugal Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Netherlands Verts/ALE

3

Finland Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Denmark Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Latvia Verts/ALE

1

Luxembourg Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Estonia Verts/ALE

For (1)

1
icon: NI NI
26

Italy NI

For (1)

Against (1)

2

Spain NI

1

United Kingdom NI

For (1)

Abstain (1)

4
2

Hungary NI

Abstain (1)

1

Belgium NI

Against (1)

1

Bulgaria NI

1

Ireland NI

For (1)

1
icon: EFD EFD
23

Belgium EFD

Against (1)

1

Greece EFD

1

Slovakia EFD

For (1)

1

Lithuania EFD

2

Netherlands EFD

Against (1)

1

Finland EFD

For (1)

1

Denmark EFD

Against (1)

1
icon: GUE/NGL GUE/NGL
30

Spain GUE/NGL

Against (1)

1

United Kingdom GUE/NGL

Against (1)

1

Sweden GUE/NGL

Against (1)

1

Czechia GUE/NGL

Against (1)

1
4

Ireland GUE/NGL

Against (1)

1

Netherlands GUE/NGL

1

Croatia GUE/NGL

Against (1)

1

Denmark GUE/NGL

1

Latvia GUE/NGL

Against (1)

1

Cyprus GUE/NGL

2
AmendmentsDossier
26 2012/2290(INI)
2013/03/22 REGI 17 amendments...
source: PE-508.002
2013/06/20 BUDG 9 amendments...
source: PE-514.638

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  • date: 2013-10-08T00:00:00 type: Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P7-TA-2013-395 title: T7-0395/2013 summary: The European Parliament adopted by 604 votes to 59, with 6 abstentions, a resolution on forward policy planning and long-term trends: budgetary implications for capacity-building. Parliament recalled that the 2010 EU budget provided, on Parliament’s initiative, for the Commission to undertake a pilot project over two years with the aim of exploring the possibility of establishing an ‘interinstitutional system identifying long-terms trends on major policy issues facing the EU’. The 2012 EU budget authorised the project to go to the next phase as a preparatory action for the three years from 2012 to 2014, with the aim of putting in place, by the end of 2014, a fully functioning ‘European Strategy and Policy Analysis System’ (ESPAS) involving all relevant EU institutions, by developing closer working cooperation between the research departments of the various EU institutions and bodies which are devoted to the analysis of medium- and long-term policy trends. For the Parliament, the establishment of such a system would assist and support the EU institutions in preparing and responding to challenges and defining coherent strategic options for the years ahead and would provide a basis for reflection in the context of preparing the EU budget and establishing political priorities on an annual and multiannual basis and linking financial resources more directly to political objectives. Parliament urged the four institutions and bodies currently involved in the ESPAS process – the Commission, Parliament, the Council and the European External Action Service – to elaborate and sign some form of interinstitutional agreement , ideally to be concluded in the spring of 2014, with each partner undertaking to maintain and participate in the agreement on a continuing basis. Parliament stressed the need for the participating institutions and bodies to devote the necessary staff and financial resources to the ESPAS system through each of their respective budgets, in the context of the annual budgetary procedure, so as to ensure that this capability can be developed in a budgetarily neutral way in future years. Analysis of trends: Parliament highlighted the importance of monitoring and analysing long-term trends, as well as cooperating and networking with other actors, including the wider research community, who are interested in similar issues in third countries. It pointed out that, in line with the principle of subsidiarity, the development of long-term socio-economic strategies and the implementation of policies in the EU is the responsibility of a variety of public organisations , such as the European institutions, government ministries, regional or local authority departments and specific agencies but that the economic and social partners, non-governmental organisations and other stakeholders also play an important role. ESPAS: Parliament welcomed specifically the outcome so far of the administrative-level pilot project (2010-2011) and preparatory action (2012-2014) designed to develop a European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS), and strongly recommended that this process continue with the involvement of all relevant interest groups . Such a system should involve staff from all the relevant EU institutions and bodies, including the Committee of the Regions. In parallel, Parliament called for the resources to implement this initiative as well as the governance rules for its management (they insisted that ESPAS be steered and overseen by an interinstitutional board which would comprise designated members and on which the European Parliament would be represented ). The work of ESPAS should be carried out on an independent basis. Strategic report : lastly, Parliament considered that a permanent system – aiming to provide regular analysis of medium- and long-term trends for the EU institutions in order to encourage a more strategic approach to decision-making – should include provisions for the submission of an annual strategic trends report to the institutions, in advance of the State of the Union debate, and the publication of the Commission’s annual work programme in order to track and assess the changing pattern of long-term trends, and also to provide specific input to the budgetary authority in the run-up to the negotiation of a post-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), as well as for any mid-term revision of the 2014-2020 MFF.
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  • The Committee on Budgets adopted the initiative report by James ELLES (ECR, UK) on forward policy planning and long-term trends: budgetary implications for capacity-building.

    Members recalled that the 2010 EU budget provided, on Parliament’s initiative, for the Commission to undertake a pilot project over two years with the aim of exploring the possibility of establishing an ‘interinstitutional system identifying long-terms trends on major policy issues facing the EU’. The 2012 EU budget authorised the project to go to the next phase as a preparatory action for the three years from 2012 to 2014, with the aim of putting in place, by the end of 2014, a fully functioning ‘European Strategy and Policy Analysis System’ (ESPAS) involving all relevant EU institutions, by developing closer working cooperation between the research departments of the various EU institutions and bodies which are devoted to the analysis of medium- and long-term policy trends.

    Members urged the four institutions and bodies currently involved in the ESPAS process – the Commission, Parliament, the Council and the European External Action Service – to elaborate and sign some form of interinstitutional agreement, ideally to be concluded in the spring of 2014, with each partner undertaking to maintain and participate in the agreement on a continuing basis.

    Analysis of trends: Members highlighted the importance of monitoring and analysing long-term trends, as well as cooperating and networking with other actors, including the wider research community, who are interested in similar issues in third countries. They pointed out that, in line with the principle of subsidiarity, the development of long-term socio-economic strategies and the implementation of policies in the EU is the responsibility of a variety of public organisations, such as the European institutions, government ministries, regional or local authority departments and specific agencies but that the economic and social partners, non-governmental organisations and other stakeholders also play an important role.

    ESPAS: Members welcomed specifically the outcome so far of the administrative-level pilot project (2010-2011) and preparatory action (2012-2014) designed to develop a European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS), and strongly recommended that this process continue with the involvement of all relevant interest groups.

    In parallel, they called for the resources to implement this initiative as well as the governance rules for its management (they insisted that ESPAS be steered and overseen by an interinstitutional board which would comprise designated members and on which the European Parliament would be represented).

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