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2017/2134(BUD) Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument: European Fund for Sustainable Development
RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Opinion AFET
Lead BUDG GEIER Jens (S&D)
Opinion DEVE
Lead committee dossier: BUDG/8/10554

Activites

  • 2017/10/24 Vote in plenary scheduled
  • 2017/10/11 Budgetary report tabled for plenary, 1st reading
  • 2017/10/10 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • 2017/09/11 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • 2017/07/28 Non-legislative basic document published
    • COM(2017)0480 summary
    • DG {'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/international-cooperation-and-development_en', 'title': 'International Cooperation and Development'}, MIMICA Neven

Documents

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)

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  • The Committee on Budgets adopted the report drafted by Jens GEIER (S&D, DE) on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the flexibility instrument to provide the financing for the European Fund for Sustainable Development.

    The Committee approved the proposed decision to use the flexibility instrument to provide the amount of EUR 275 million in commitment appropriations and payment appropriations under Heading 4 of the MFF (Global Europe). This amount would be used to provide the financing for the European Fund for Sustainable Development (EFSD).

    Members noted that the ceiling for Heading 4 does not allow for an adequate financing of the EFSD and recalled the need for a more flexible budget for the Union.

    Members reiterated Parliament’s position that:

    • the financial resources for external action of the Union are not sufficient to cover the needs of a proactive and sustainable external policy;
    • the payments stemming from commitments previously mobilised through the Flexibility Instrument can only be counted over and above the MFF ceilings.
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  • type: Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading title: T8-0400/2017
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  • url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A8-2017-0298&language=EN type: Budgetary report tabled for plenary, 1st reading title: A8-0298/2017
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  • PURPOSE: to mobilise the flexibility instrument to provide the financing of the European fund for sustainable development Fund (EFSD).

    BACKGROUND: the flexibility instrument allows the financing of clearly identified expenditure which could not be financed within the limits available for one or more headings of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for the period 2014- 2020.

    The ceiling on the annual amount available for the flexibility instrument is EUR 600 million (2011 prices), as laid down in Council Regulation (EU, EURATOM) No 1311/2013 laying down the multiannual financial framework.

    In order to address the ongoing challenges of migration, refugee inflows and security threats, it is necessary to mobilise significant additional amounts to finance appropriate measures as a matter of urgency.

    Having examined all possibilities for re-allocating appropriations under the expenditure ceiling for heading 4 (Global Europe), the Commission considers that it is necessary to mobilise the flexibility instrument to supplement the financing available in the general budget of the Union for the financial year 2017, beyond the ceilings of heading 4 to provide the financing for the European Fund for Sustainable Development (EFSD).

    CONTENT: within the framework of the Union’s 2017 general budget, the Commission proposes to mobilise the flexibility instrument to provide EUR 275 million in commitment and payment appropriations in heading 4 of the MFF (Global Europe). This amount shall be used to provide the provisioning of the European Fund for Sustainable Development Guarantee fund.

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  • date: 2017-07-28T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/docs_autres_institutions/commission_europeenne/com/2017/0480/COM_COM(2017)0480_EN.pdf title: COM(2017)0480 type: Non-legislative basic document published celexid: CELEX:52017PC0480:EN body: EC commission: type: Non-legislative basic document published
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  • body: EP responsible: False committee_full: Foreign Affairs committee: AFET
  • body: EP responsible: True committee: BUDG date: 2017-08-30T00:00:00 committee_full: Budgets rapporteur: group: S&D name: GEIER Jens
  • body: EP responsible: False committee_full: Development committee: DEVE
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    2017/2134(BUD)
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    Mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument: European Fund for Sustainable Development
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    8.70.70 Flexibility instrument