2014/2040(BUD) OPINION

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1 EUROPEAN PARLIAMT Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs 2014/2040(BUD) OPINION of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs for the Committee on Budgets on the Council position on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2015 (2014/2040(BUD)) Rapporteur: Tomáš Zdechovský AD\ doc PE v02-00 United in diversity

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3 SUGGESTIONS The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs calls on the Committee on Budgets, as the committee responsible, to incorporate the following suggestions in its motion for a resolution: 1. Takes into account the decrease of 1,9% in commitments in Heading 3 on security and Citizenship compared to the 2014 budget, mostly due to the end of the Schengen Facility for Croatia, in accordance with its Treaty of Accession and welcomes the increase of 12,2% in payments, which will contribute to ensure that payment appropriations are sufficient to implement the policies in this area; 2. Recalls that the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice entered into a new phase following the adoption of the strategic guidelines at the European Council of June 2014; underlines that the implementation of the guidelines could entail, in some very specific areas, the need to reinforce the financial means allocated to those areas; underlines that, in this event, the already allocated resources should not be put under pressure and expects the Commission to bring forward concrete proposals if a financial reinforcement is needed during 2015; 3. Insists that the Agencies under its responsibility should have adequate resources to fulfil their mandate and is aware of the inter-institutional Agreement to reduce staff levels by 5 per cent in the next five years; insists, however, that those cuts are implemented on a caseby-case basis respecting the resources needed by the Agencies to fulfil their assigned tasks; 4. Calls for a greater increase in the budget of EASO, as this Agency is crucial to address pressing asylum issues and will have a reinforced role in promoting the uniform application of the Asylum package; therefore requests an appropriate budget increase in order to allow the Agency to effectively fulfil its tasks and operations, including the promotion of best practises and cooperation between Member States; 5. Welcomes the increase of the budget lines "Ensuring the protection of rights and empowering citizens" and "Promoting non-discrimination and equality", implementing the programme Rights, Equality and Citizenship ; 6. Is not entirely satisfied with the increase in the budget of Frontex as it must reinforce its operational assistance in particular to Member States facing strong pressure at the external borders and to increase its reactivity to rapid evolutions in migration flows; considers that Frontex should have additional staff and resources to fulfil its tasks and implement the EUROSUR system; 7. Stresses the importance of an adequate EU budget in the field of asylum and migration and for the common management of the EU single external border and to face the challenges it poses, especially in relation to the current situation affecting the Southern border of the EU, and calls for a clear commitment of all Union partners in that direction; 8. Welcomes the Commission's proposal to increase Europol s annual budget, also in view of AD\ doc 3/5 PE v02-00

4 the new Europol Regulation to be adopted by the co-legislators; recognises that increases in agencies' budgets to enable them to properly fulfil their functions must be matched by an appropriate staffing level for those agencies; considers that the Agency's establishment plan should be adjusted to allow it to recruit additional temporary personnel in the light of the rising demand for support in the fight against cybercrime and serious international crime and terrorism and to reinforce the assessment and analysis of the these risks; 9. Supports the increase of the budget of eu.lisa in order to ensure secure and wellfunctioning IT systems in Home Affairs, namely SIS II, VIS and Eurodac systems under the management of the Agency as well as the implementation of the necessary evolutions foreseen for the respective systems; supports the further development of the Agency, in view of possible further tasks, which might be entrusted to it such as to design, develop and implement new systems; 10. Questions the existence of the budget line "Setting up new IT systems to support the management of migration flows across the external borders of the Union" even though the "Smart Borders" package has yet to be adopted by the co-legislators; underlines that no specific funding has been allocated to that budget line since its creation; calls on the Commission to establish budget lines for such actions only after the co-legislators have approved those actions through the appropriate legislative act; 11. Is disappointed by the decrease of the budget dedicated to EMCDDA as the Centre will have to deal with the possible adoption of the Regulation on new psychoactive substances (2013/0305 (COD)), which provides for additional tasks for the Centre; 12. Recalls that the fair and transparent distribution of funding between the different objectives of the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund was a priority for Parliament during negotiations leading to the adoption of that fund; calls on the Commission accordingly to increase the number of budget lines under the Asylum Migration and Integration Fund to facilitate a better readability and transparency of how the financial resources allocated to the different objectives and thus to those budgetary lines will be spent; calls, in particular, on the Commission to separate expenditure on enhancing fair and effective return strategies from expenditure on legal migration and promoting the effective integration of third-country nationals in all future draft budgets; 13. Stresses the need and the importance of continuous evaluations of how all funds and programmes are implemented and its resources used in order to detect possible shortcomings at an early stage as well as their effectiveness. PE v /5 AD\ doc

5 RESULT OF FINAL VOTE IN COMMITTEE Date adopted Result of final vote +: : 0: Members present for the final vote Substitutes present for the final vote Jan Philipp Albrecht, Heinz K. Becker, Malin Björk, Michał Boni, Caterina Chinnici, Ignazio Corrao, Rachida Dati, Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Frank Engel, Cornelia Ernst, Laura Ferrara, Monika Flašíková Beňová, Kinga Gál, Ana Gomes, Nathalie Griesbeck, Sylvie Guillaume, Jussi Halla-aho, Monika Hohlmeier, Filiz Hyusmenova, Sophia in t Veld, Eva Joly, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, Barbara Kudrycka, Kashetu Kyenge, Marju Lauristin, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Vicky Maeijer, Barbara Matera, Roberta Metsola, Louis Michel, József Nagy, Péter Niedermüller, Soraya Post, Judith Sargentini, Birgit Sippel, Csaba Sógor, Helga Stevens, Valdemar Tomaševski, Traian Ungureanu, Marie-Christine Vergiat, Harald Vilimsky, Udo Voigt, Josef Weidenholzer, Cecilia Wikström, Kristina Winberg, Tomáš Zdechovský Marina Albiol Guzmán, Janice Atkinson, Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, Pál Csáky, Teresa Jiménez-Becerril Barrio, Rikke Karlsson, Miltiadis Kyrkos, Kati Piri, Josep-Maria Terricabras, Axel Voss AD\ doc 5/5 PE v02-00