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2020/2092(BUD) Amending budget 5/2020: continuation of the support to refugees and host communities in response to the Syria crisis in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey
Next event: Specific opinion 2020/06/23

Progress: Preparatory phase in Parliament

RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead BUDG HOHLMEIER Monika (icon: EPP EPP) LARROUTUROU Pierre (icon: S&D S&D), ARMAND Clotilde (icon: Renew Renew), LAPORTE Hélène (icon: ID ID), ANDRESEN Rasmus (icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE), RZOŃCA Bogdan (icon: ECR ECR), PAPADIMOULIS Dimitrios (icon: GUE/NGL GUE/NGL)
Committee Opinion DEVE
Committee Opinion LIBE DELBOS-CORFIELD Gwendoline (icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE) Cornelia ERNST (icon: GUE/NGL GUE/NGL), Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ (icon: PPE PPE), Jan-Christoph OETJEN (icon: RE RE), Annalisa TARDINO (icon: ID ID), Domènec RUIZ DEVESA (icon: S&D S&D), Joachim Stanisław BRUDZIŃSKI (icon: ECR ECR)
Committee Opinion AFET

Events

2020/06/23
   EP - Specific opinion
Documents
2020/06/17
   EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2020/06/15
   EP - HOHLMEIER Monika (EPP) appointed as rapporteur in BUDG
2020/06/03
   EC - Commission draft budget published
Details

PURPOSE: presentation of draft amending budget No 5/2020 to provide support to refugees and host communities in response to the Syria crisis.

CONTENT: the aim of this Draft Amending Budget (DAB) No 5 for the year 2020 is to continue providing support to refugees and host communities in response to the Syria crisis.

Under the MFF heading 4 Global Europe, EUR 100 million in commitment and payment appropriations shall be provided as resilience support to refugees and host communities in Jordan and Lebanon whereas EUR 485 million in commitment appropriations and EUR 68 million in payment appropriations shall be provided to ensure the continuation of the urgent humanitarian support to refugees in Turkey

Syrian crisis and assistance to host communities (Jordan and Lebanon)

In 2020, the conflict in Syria has entered into its 10th year with no immediate end in sight. Its neighbouring countries, Jordan and Lebanon, host the largest number of refugees per capita in the world. Both countries have displayed extraordinary solidarity with refugees from the conflict in Syria. Already struggling with complex domestic situations, they continue to need assistance in view of the protracted nature of the crisis. The EUR 214 million allocated for resilience support in response to the Syria crisis for Lebanon and Jordan for 2020 is already fully committed.

Given the current sanitary crisis, both Jordan and Lebanon are facing further economic difficulties. Therefore, EUR 100 million in new commitment and payment appropriations is urgently needed to fund projects in the areas of access to education, support to livelihoods and provision of health, sanitation, water and waste services and social protection to host communities and refugees (Syrian refugees and Palestinian refugees from Syria) in Jordan and Lebanon.

Refugees in Turkey

Several Member States called for continued support to refugees in Turkey in recent months. In this context, there is an urgent need to provide EUR 485 million to fund the continuation of the two main EU humanitarian support actions, the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) and the Conditional Cash Transfer for Education (CCTE). Humanitarian projects in protection, health and education in emergencies will end in summer 2020. EU 50 million will be provided from within the existing 2020 budget for humanitarian aid to continue those activities for an additional year. EUR 68 million in payment appropriations are requested in order to cover pre-financing under the CCTE in 2020.

Financing

All redeployment possibilities under heading 4 Global Europe have been exhausted. The unallocated margin under this heading of EUR 103.4 million allows the financing of EUR 100 million in commitment appropriations to support for resilience to host communities in Jordan and Lebanon. The remaining portion of this margin (EUR 3.4 million) is however insufficient to cover the urgent humanitarian support to refugees in Turkey.

Therefore, the Commission proposes to mobilise the Contingency Margin, the last resort special instrument, for the balance (EUR 481.6 million), with a corresponding offset against the margins available in 2020 under heading 5 Administration (EUR 16.2 million) and heading 2 Sustainable growth: natural resources (EUR 465.3 million).

2019/07/24
   EP - DELBOS-CORFIELD Gwendoline (Verts/ALE) appointed as rapporteur in LIBE

Documents

  • Specific opinion: PE653.855
  • Committee draft report: PE653.769
  • Commission draft budget published: COM(2020)0421
  • Commission draft budget published: EUR-Lex
  • Committee draft report: PE653.769
  • Specific opinion: PE653.855

History

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

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  • PURPOSE: presentation of draft amending budget No 5/2020 to provide support to refugees and host communities in response to the Syria crisis.
  • CONTENT: the aim of this Draft Amending Budget (DAB) No 5 for the year 2020 is to continue providing support to refugees and host communities in response to the Syria crisis.
  • Under the MFF heading 4 Global Europe, EUR 100 million in commitment and payment appropriations shall be provided as resilience support to refugees and host communities in Jordan and Lebanon whereas EUR 485 million in commitment appropriations and EUR 68 million in payment appropriations shall be provided to ensure the continuation of the urgent humanitarian support to refugees in Turkey
  • Syrian crisis and assistance to host communities (Jordan and Lebanon)
  • In 2020, the conflict in Syria has entered into its 10th year with no immediate end in sight. Its neighbouring countries, Jordan and Lebanon, host the largest number of refugees per capita in the world. Both countries have displayed extraordinary solidarity with refugees from the conflict in Syria. Already struggling with complex domestic situations, they continue to need assistance in view of the protracted nature of the crisis. The EUR 214 million allocated for resilience support in response to the Syria crisis for Lebanon and Jordan for 2020 is already fully committed.
  • Given the current sanitary crisis, both Jordan and Lebanon are facing further economic difficulties. Therefore, EUR 100 million in new commitment and payment appropriations is urgently needed to fund projects in the areas of access to education, support to livelihoods and provision of health, sanitation, water and waste services and social protection to host communities and refugees (Syrian refugees and Palestinian refugees from Syria) in Jordan and Lebanon.
  • Refugees in Turkey
  • Several Member States called for continued support to refugees in Turkey in recent months. In this context, there is an urgent need to provide EUR 485 million to fund the continuation of the two main EU humanitarian support actions, the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) and the Conditional Cash Transfer for Education (CCTE). Humanitarian projects in protection, health and education in emergencies will end in summer 2020. EU 50 million will be provided from within the existing 2020 budget for humanitarian aid to continue those activities for an additional year. EUR 68 million in payment appropriations are requested in order to cover pre-financing under the CCTE in 2020.
  • Financing
  • All redeployment possibilities under heading 4 Global Europe have been exhausted. The unallocated margin under this heading of EUR 103.4 million allows the financing of EUR 100 million in commitment appropriations to support for resilience to host communities in Jordan and Lebanon. The remaining portion of this margin (EUR 3.4 million) is however insufficient to cover the urgent humanitarian support to refugees in Turkey.
  • Therefore, the Commission proposes to mobilise the Contingency Margin, the last resort special instrument, for the balance (EUR 481.6 million), with a corresponding offset against the margins available in 2020 under heading 5 Administration (EUR 16.2 million) and heading 2 Sustainable growth: natural resources (EUR 465.3 million).
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  • name: LARROUTUROU Pierre group: Group of Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats abbr: S&D
  • name: ARMAND Clotilde group: Renew Europe group abbr: Renew
  • name: LAPORTE Hélène group: Identity and Democracy abbr: ID
  • name: ANDRESEN Rasmus group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance abbr: Verts/ALE
  • name: RZOŃCA Bogdan group: European Conservatives and Reformists Group abbr: ECR
  • name: PAPADIMOULIS Dimitrios group: Confederal Group of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left abbr: GUE/NGL
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  • name: DELBOS-CORFIELD Gwendoline date: 2019-07-24T00:00:00 group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance abbr: Verts/ALE
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