3 Amendments of Michela GIUFFRIDA related to 2017/2053(INI)
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Points out that at present, the majority of the EU’s revenue still comes from national contributions – GNI (69.1 %) and VAT (12.4 %) – which are not perceived as genuine own resources;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Invites all parties to draw the appropriate conclusions from the HLGOR’s report and to analyse the feasibility of the recommendations to help make the Union budget more transparent, stable, simple, autonomous, fair and predictable; points out, in this regard, that the current system of own resources is characterised by a considerable degree of complexity, involving a lack of transparency which needs to be resolved through a joint effort by EU institutions and Member States;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Points out that these new types of ORs are essential to finance more recent Union priorities such as migration, internal security and defence and to offset the loss in revenue of EUR 9 to 12 billion a year which could result from Brexit; notes also that, in order to safeguard the European added value of the EU budget, new ORs are needed to avoid the potential spending cuts to the common agricultural policy (CAP) presented in the Commission’s ‘Reflection Paper on the Future of EU Finances’;