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Lead | BUDG | DEHAENE Jean-Luc (EPP), JENSEN Anne E. (ALDE) | HAUG Jutta (S&D), TRÜPEL Helga (Verts/ALE), ASHWORTH Richard (ECR), KLUTE Jürgen (GUE/NGL), MORGANTI Claudio (EFD) |
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Debate in Parliament
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2014/04/07
Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
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A7-0270/2014
summary
The Committee on Budgets adopted an own-initiative report by Jean-Luc DEHAENE (EPP, BE) and Anne E. JENSEN (ADLE, DK) on implementing measures for the system of own resources of the European Union. Members recalled that Parliament has continuously called for the financing of the EU budget to return to a genuine system of own resources, as stipulated in the Treaty. From their point of view, national contributions to the EU budget, based on GNI, which amount nowadays to around 74 % of total EU revenue, cannot be considered as genuine own resources as they simply constitute transfers from national treasuries to the EU budget. Members welcomed the Council’s agreement to lay down implementing measures for the Union’s own resources as provided for in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. They considered it regrettable, however, that the Council has decided to transfer the provisions related to the calculation of the GNI resources back to the Own Resources Decision. The committee deplored the fact that the Council has not been able to make any progress on the reform of the own resources system on the basis of the legislative proposals put forward by the Commission in 2011. Parliament has consistently manifested its support for the Commission proposals, which – by reducing the share of national contributions to the EU budget to a maximum of 40%, abolishing the current purely statistical VAT-based contribution and replacing it by a genuine VAT-based EU resource, creating one new and genuine own resource and replacing all rebates and correction mechanisms by a system of lump sums for the period 2014-2020 – took a step in the right direction. Members maintained its call for reform of the own resources system of the European Union in order to make it simple, transparent, fair, visible and understandable to EU citizens. Lastly, they placed high expectations on the work of the High-Level Group on Own Resources, which it believes offers a unique opportunity to overcome the current blockage of the reform of the system of own resources.
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A7-0270/2014
summary
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2014/04/01
Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
Documents
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T7-0434/2014
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A7-0270/2014
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2014/2020(INI)
2014/03/11
BUDG
22 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas Article 311 TFEU also stipulates that the budget shall, without prejudice to other revenue, be financed wholly from own resources and allows the Council to establish new categories of own resources or abolish an existing category, providing
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas Parliament has consistently manifested its support for the Commission proposals, presented in June 2011, which – by reducing the share of national contributions to the EU budget to a maximum of 40 %, abolishing the current VAT-based contribution and replacing it by a more modern VAT based resource, creating
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas despite its discontent with the inability of Council to progress on the reform of the system of own resources, Parliament eventually gave its consent to the MFF
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the High-Level Group on Own Resources aims at producing a first assessment of the current system’s shortcomings by the end of 2014, with a final outcome in 2016 to be assessed at an inter-institutional conference
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the High-Level Group on Own Resources aims at producing a first assessment of the current system’s shortcomings by the end of 2014, with a final outcome in 2016 to be assessed at an inter-institutional conference
Amendment 15 #
G. whereas the High-Level Group on Own Resources aims at producing a first assessment of the current system
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Regrets, however, the Council's decision to transfer the provisions related to the calculation of the GNI resources back to the own resources Decision; is of the opinion that this represents a missed opportunity to regroup all provisions of an implementing nature in a single text, and also that article 311 of the Treaty of Lisbon does not provide for an objective justification to this split;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Maintains its call for reform of the own resources system of the European Union in order to make it simple, transparent, visible
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas Parliament has continuously called for the EU budget to be financed wholly by
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Places high expectations on the work of the High-Level Group on Own Resources, which it believes offers a unique opportunity to overcome the current blockage of the reform of the system of own resources; strongly regrets that the High-Level Group has not yet started its work; calls for its inaugural meeting to be convened without delay, in
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas Parliament has continuously called for the
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas Parliament has continuously called for the EU budget to be financed wholly by genuine own resources, as stipulated in the Treaty; whereas it has regularly highlighted the shortcomings and limits of the existing system of own resources, the lack of transparency and high complexity of which make it totally incomprehensible to European citizens, who ultimately bear the consequences; whereas it is imperative to ensure a comprehensive reform of the EU budget financing system in favour of a simple, transparent, fair and sustainable system for the European citizens;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas national contributions to the EU budget, which amount nowadays to around 85 % of the total EU revenue, cannot be considered as a
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas national contributions to the EU budget, which amount nowadays to around 85 % of the total EU revenue (GNI based and VAT based) , cannot be considered as
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas national contributions to the EU budget
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) D a.whereas, because of austerity measures, Member States are reluctant to increase their contributions to the EU budget, despite the undisputed benefit they receive from EU budget-funded programmes, and whereas a system of direct own resources for the EU is the only viable solution in this case;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E source: PE-530.056
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