European Parliament 2019-2024 Committee on Budgets 2021/0077(BUD) 14.4.2021 AMENDMENTS 1 - 7 Draft report Eider Gardiazabal Rubial (PE691.201v01-00) Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund to provide assistance to Greece and France in relation to natural disasters and to Albania, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain in relation to a public health emergency (2021/0077(BUD)) AM\1228915EN.docx PE691.310v01-00 EN United in diversityEN AM_Com_NonLegReport PE691.310v01-00 2/5 AM\1228915EN.docx EN Amendment 1 Karlo Ressler Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 Motion for a resolution Amendment 1. Welcomes the decision as a sign of 1. Welcomes the decision as a the Union’s solidarity with the Union’s concrete, tangible and visible form of the citizens and regions hit by natural disasters Union’s solidarity with the Union’s and the major public health emergency citizens and regions hit by natural disasters caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in and the major public health emergency 2020; caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020; Or. en Amendment 2 Karlo Ressler Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) Motion for a resolution Amendment 1a. Applauds the widening of the scope of Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002 from March 2020 in the context of the ongoing pandemic; Or. en Amendment 3 Karlo Ressler Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 b (new) Motion for a resolution Amendment 1b. Expresses empathy and solidarity with all the victims of devastating natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic; Or. en AM\1228915EN.docx 3/5 PE691.310v01-00 EN Amendment 4 Henrike Hahn on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) Motion for a resolution Amendment 2a. Points out that, due to climate change, natural disasters will become increasingly violent and recurrent; calls for a reform of the EUSF in order to take into account the future consequences of climate change, while stressing that the EUSF is only a curative instrument and that climate change requires primarily a preventive policy in line with the Paris Agreement and the Green Deal; Or. en Amendment 5 Dimitrios Papadimoulis on behalf of the The Left Group Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) Motion for a resolution Amendment 2a. Regrets that the assessment of the applications for financial assistance due to the major public health emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, which were submitted by the official final deadline of 24 June 2020, were delayed, resulting in the Commission submitting its proposal for the mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund with a 9-month delay; Or. en Amendment 6 Victor Negrescu PE691.310v01-00 4/5 AM\1228915EN.docx EN Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) Motion for a resolution Amendment 2a. Underlines the importance of ensuring that the financial assistance will adequately reach the affected regions and beneficiaries in Albania, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Portugal, Romania, Serbia and Spain; Or. en Amendment 7 Henrike Hahn on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 b (new) Motion for a resolution Amendment 2b. Stresses that, due to climate change, islands and coastal regions are particularly at risk of being affected by natural disasters; questions, however, whether the EUSF is appropriately focused on climate adaptation for those particularly fragile territories; Or. en AM\1228915EN.docx 5/5 PE691.310v01-00 EN.