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Committee / Commission BUDGETARY AMENDMENTS Committee / Commission CULT Meeting of / Réunion du 13/09/04 BUDGETARY AMENDMENTS / AMENDEMENTS BUDGÉTAIRES Rapporteur: Helga TRÜPEL EN EN Draft amendment 5650 === CULT/5650=== Budget reference line : 15 04 01 03 << Tabled by Maria Badia Cutchet, Alejandro Cercas, Committee on Culture and Education >> ------------------------------- Volume 4 (section 3) — Commission Item 15 04 01 03 Subsidy for cultural organisations advancing the idea of Europe Amend remarks and figures as follows: 15 04 01 03 DB 2004 PDB 2005 DB 2005 AMENDMENT DB+AMENDMENT Commitments Payments Commitments Payments Commitments Payments Commitments Payments Commitments Payments Appropriations 5 308 000 5 308 000 4 300 000 4 300 000 4 300 000 4 300 000 1 230 750 1 230 750 5 530 750 5 530 750 Reserves Heading: Subsidy for cultural organisations advancing the idea of Europe Remarks: After paragraph Add following text: This appropriation is intended to cover operating and administrative expenditure of networks and organisations which promote European culture and cultural cooperation and make a contribution of their own to the development of cultural life and administration. Add following text: — EUR 750 000 is earmarked for a grant to the European Union Youth Orchestra, — EUR 330 000 is earmarked for a grant to the European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO), — EUR 250 000 is earmarked for a grant to Philharmony of the Nations, — EUR 250 000 is earmarked for a grant to the European Choral Academy, — EUR 60 000 is earmarked for a grant to the Fédération européenne des choeurs de l'Union, — EUR 50 000 is earmarked for a grant to Les Choeurs de l'Union européenne, — EUR 60 000 is earmarked for a grant to Europa Cantat (European Federation of Youth Choirs), — EUR 400 000 is earmarked for a grant to the European Opera Centre in Manchester, — EUR 338 000 is earmarked for a grant to the European Union Jazz Youth Orchestra («Swinging Europe»), — EUR 295 000 is earmarked for a grant to the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation, — EUR 165 000 is earmarked for a grant to the European Chamber Orchestra, — EUR 100 000 is earmarked fora grant to the Association Européene des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen (AEC), — EUR 250 000 is earmarked for a grant to the Yuste Academy Foundation, — EUR 125 000 is earmarked for a grant to the European Council of Artists (ECA), 2 — EUR 125 000 is earmarked for a grant to the European Forum for the Arts and Heritage (EFAH), — EUR 80 000 is earmarked for a grant to the Informal European Theatre Meeting (IETM), — EUR 80 000 is earmaked for a grant to the Convention Théâtrale européenne, — EUR 80 000 is earmarked for a grant to L'Union des Théâtres de l'Europe, — EUR 50 000 is earmarked for a grant to the Prix Europe pour le Théâtre, — EUR 130 000 is earmarked for a grant to the Prix Europa (prize awarded to the best television and radio programme), — EUR 100 000 is earmarked for a grant to Europa Nostra, — EUR 70 000 is earmarked for a grant to the European Writers' Congress (EWC), — EUR 85 000 is earmarked for a grant to the European Network of Arts Organisations for Children and Young People (EU-NET ART), — EUR 50 000 is earmarked for a grant to the Fédération européene des villages d'artistes (Euro Art), — EUR 85 000 is earmarked for a grant to the European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres (ENCATC), — EUR 85 000 is earmarked for a grant to the European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA), — EUR 85 000 is earmarked for a grant to the Network of European Museums Organisations (NEMO), — EUR 85 000 is earmarked for a grant to Momentum Europa, — EUR 85 000 is earmarked for a grant to the Pan-European Public Children's Network, — EUR 75 000 is earmarked for a grant to Les Rencontres: Association of European Cities and Regions for Culture, — EUR 50 000 is earmarked for a grant to Europalia, — EUR 50 000 is earmarked for a grant to Euroballet, — EUR 50 000 is earmarked for a grant to the International Festivals and Events Association Europe, — EUR 75 000 is earmarked for a grant to the Pegasus Foundation. — EUR 50 000 is earmarked for a grant to Hors-les-Murs, — EUR 60 000 is earmarked for a grant to Huis Doorn (Netherlands), — EUR 81 000 is earmarked for a grant to the European Music Festival, — EUR 40 500 is earmarked for a grant to Tuning Educational Structures in Europe, — EUR 60 750 is earmarked for a grant to the St Boniface Memorial Foundation 2004, — EUR 40 500 is earmarked for a grant to the European Community of Historic Armed Guilds. Legal basis: Reference acts: Justification: Annex 2 to Decision No 792/204/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 establishing a Community action programme to promote bodies active at European level in the field of culture contains a list of cultural organisations which may be awarded grants without calls for proposals. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=- 3 Draft amendment 5651 === CULT/5651=== Budget reference line : 15 06 01 03 << Tabled by Mario Mauro, Committee on Culture and Education >> ------------------------------- Volume 4 (section 3) — Commission Item 15 06 01 03 Grants to European think tanks and organisations advancing the idea of Europe Amend remarks as follows: 15 06 01 03 DB 2004 PDB 2005 DB 2005 AMENDMENT DB+AMENDMENT Commitments Payments Commitments Payments Commitments Payments Commitments Payments Commitments Payments Appropriations 2 405 000 2 405 000 2 405 000 2 405 000 2 405 000 2 405 000 2 405 000 2 405 000 Reserves Heading: Grants to European think tanks and organisations advancing the idea of Europe Remarks: Add following text: This appropriation is intended to cover expenditure on the activities and operation of think tanks making a direct contribution to research into European integration policy and organisations actively working for European cooperation. It is also intended to cover expenditure on the activities and operation of organisations actively working for European integration: — EUR 120 000 is earmarked for a grant to the International Secretariat of the Union of European Federalists, — EUR 250 000 is earmarked for a grant to the Council of European Municipalities and Regions, — EUR 225 000 is earmarked for a grant to the European Citizens Action Service, — EUR 250 000 is earmarked for a grant to the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, — EUR 200 000 is earmarked for a grant to the Centre for European Studies in Strasbourg, — EUR 100 000 is earmarked for a grant to the College of Europe in Hamburg, — EUR 100 000 is earmarked for a grant to «Soul for Europe», — EUR 100 000 is earmarked for a grant to Fair Trials Abroad, — EUR 100 000 is earmarked for a grant to the Intercultural Leadership School, — EUR 50 000 is earmarked for a grant to CEJI (Centre européen juif d'information), — EUR 75 000 is earmarked for a grant to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, — EUR 120 000 is earmarked for a grant to the Europäisches Übersetzer-Kollegium Straelen, — EUR 155 000 is earmarked for a grant to the Festival of Europe (9 May), — EUR 50 000 is earmarked for a grant to the Association européenne des représentants territoriaux, — EUR 75 000 is earmarked for a grant to the Meeting for Friendship among Peoples Association, — EUR 75 000 is earmarked for a grant to the Institute of European Affairs (Dublin), 4 — EUR 50 000 is earmarked for a grant to the Centre for European Not-for-profit Organisations, — EUR 80 000 is earmarked for a grant to the Institut für Europäische Politik (Berlin), — EUR 80 000 is earmarked for a grant to the European Institute of International Relations (IERI), — EUR 150 000 is earmarked for a grant to the European Academy of the Urban Environment in Berlin. Delete following text: This appropriation is intended to cover expenditure on the activities and operation of think tanks making a direct contribution to research into European integration policy and organisations actively working for European cooperation. Delete following text: It is also intended to cover expenditure on the activities and operation of organisations actively working for European integration. Legal basis: Reference acts: Justification: The appendix to the annex to Council Decision 2004/100/EC of 26 January 2004 establishing a Community action programme to promote active European citizenship (civic participation) contains a list of organisations which may be awarded grants without calls for proposals. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=- Draft amendment 5652 === CULT/5652=== Budget reference line : 15 06 01 06 << Tabled by Doris Pack, Committee on Culture and Education >> ------------------------------- Volume 4 (section 3) — Commission Item 15 06 01 06 Support for the Jean Monnet House and the Robert Schuman House Amend remarks as follows: 15 06 01 06 DB 2004 PDB 2005 DB 2005 AMENDMENT DB+AMENDMENT Commitments Payments Commitments Payments Commitments Payments Commitments Payments Commitments Payments Appropriations 375 000 375 000 383 000 383 000 383 000 383 000 383 000 383 000 Reserves Heading: Support for the Jean Monnet House and the Robert Schuman House Remarks: After paragraph Add following text: 5 EUR 250 000 is earmarked for grants to the Jean Monnet House and EUR 133 000 is earmarked for grants to the Robert Schuman House. Legal basis: Reference acts: Justification: In order to take into account the 2 % budgetary increase in grants, the earmarking of 2004 for the Jean Monnet House and the Robert Schuman House has to be adapted accordingly. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=- Draft amendment 5653 === CULT/5653=== Budget reference line : 15 06 06 << Tabled by Luis Francisco Herrero-Tejedor Algar, Committee on Culture and Education >> ------------------------------- Volume 4 (section 3) — Commission Article 15 06 06 Special annual events Amend remarks and figures as follows: 15 06 06 DB 2004 PDB 2005 DB 2005 AMENDMENT DB+AMENDMENT Commitments Payments Commitments Payments Commitments Payments Commitments Payments Commitments Payments Appropriations p.m.
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