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European Parliament
2019-2024
Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality
2021/2226(BUI)
7.2.2022
COMPROMISE AMENDMENTS
1 - 13
Draft opinion
Monika Vana
(PE704.622v01-00)
Guidelines for the 2023 Budget - Section I I
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Amendment 1
Monika Vana
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 1, 2
Draft opinion
Recital A (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
A.
Whereas gender equality is a core
value of the Union enshrined in Article 2
TEU; whereas Article 8 TFEU states that
‘in all its activities, the Union shall aim to
eliminate inequalities and to promote
equality between men and women”, thus
establishing the principle of gender
mainstreaming stipulating that gender
equality must be incorporated also at all
levels of the budgetary process;
Or. en
Amendment 2
Monika Vana
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 3, 7, 12
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
1 a.
Regrets that, despite repeated calls
of this Parliament to promote and
implement the use of gender
mainstreaming, gender budgeting and
gender impact assessments in all the
Union policy areas, the special
report10/2021 of the European Court of
Auditors1a confirmed that the EU’s budget
cycle does not yet adequately take gender
equality into account and the Commission
has not yet lived up to its commitment to
gender mainstreaming in the EU budget;
stresses that this situation should be
adequately addressed by the Commission
in the Budget proposal for 2023; recalls
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the recommendations of the European
Court of Auditors 2021report regarding
the importance of the contribution of the
EU budget to achieving gender equality;
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1a Gender mainstreaming in the EU
budget - time to turn words into action
Or. en
Amendment 3
Monika Vana
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 6, 8, 9, 10, 11
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Draft opinion
Amendment
1.
Underlines that a gender
1.
Underlines that a gender
perspective should be integrated in the
perspective should be fully and adequately
budgetary cycle and in all EU
integrated at all levels of the budgetary
programmes;
process, particularly in light of the
gendered impact of the COVID-
19pandemic and the increasing backlash
against women’s rights, including sexual
and reproductive health and rights
(SRHR), in several EU Member States;
calls for gender budgeting and the
inclusion of gender-related objectives in
all EU programmes and the identification
of relevant budget lines, the effective
monitoring of the EU budget’s
contribution to gender equality and a
gender-sensitive review of the
programmes and spending to adjust them
accordingly;
Or. en
Amendment 4
Monika Vana
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 15, 17, 18, 20
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Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Draft opinion
Amendment
2.
Stresses the need for systematic
2.
Stresses the need for systematic
collection, reporting and evaluation of
collection, reporting and evaluation of
gender-disaggregated data; calls for the
high-quality gender-disaggregated data,
inclusion of requirements to systematically
which until now has not been properly
collect and report this data in upcoming
collected and has been underused; calls
legislative proposals for EU funding
for the inclusion of requirements to
programmes;
systematically collect and report this data
in upcoming legislative proposals for EU
funding programmes and as part of the
performance reports in the annual
budget, taking into account that the
Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025
stresses the need for adequate data
collection and related commitments by the
European Commission;
Or. en
Amendment 5
Monika Vana
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 22, 23
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Draft opinion
Amendment
3.
Recalls the inclusion of gender
3.
Regrets that until now the
mainstreaming as a horizontal principle
European Commission has not adequately
within the 2021-2027 multiannual financial
applied gender mainstreaming despite the
framework (MFF); welcomes the
fact that it is a horizontal principle within
Commission’s commitment to develop a
the 2021-2027 multiannual financial
methodology to measure gender-relevant
framework (MFF); welcomes the
expenditure and its ongoing assessment of
Commission’s commitment to develop a
gender-related data collection; expects
methodology to measure gender-relevant
Parliament to be consulted before the
expenditure and its ongoing assessment of
publication of this assessment in the
gender-related data collection; expects
Commission’s annual management and
Parliament to be consulted throughout the
performance report; recalls that the gender
process of assessment, including before
action plan (GAP) III and the citizens,
the publication of the Commission’s annual
equality, rights and values programme
management and performance report;
(CERV) have gender-related spending
recalls that the gender action plan(GAP) III
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targets; expects the Commission to fully
and the citizens, equality, rights and values
implement its commitments and to report
programme (CERV) have gender-related
specifically on this to the budgetary
spending targets; expects the Commission
authority;
to fully implement its commitments and to
report specifically on this to the budgetary
authority;
Or. en
Amendment 6
Monika Vana
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 28, 29
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Draft opinion
Amendment
5.
Recalls the important role of the
5.
Recalls the important role of the
European Institute for Gender Equality
European Institute for Gender Equality
(EIGE) in collecting data and providing
(EIGE) in collecting data and providing
expertise on gender inequality in the EU;
expertise on gender inequality in the EU;
calls for the EIGE to be sufficiently
calls on the Commission to adequately
resourced, both in terms of budget and
increase the resources to finance EIGE,
staff, to perform its essential duties;
both in terms of budget and staff, in order
for it to be sufficiently resourced to
perform its essential duties, especially in
the context of the COVID-19 pandemic’s
impact on gender equality, and in the
context of the backlash against women’s
rights;
Or. en
Amendment 7
Monika Vana
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 13, 33, 34, 35, 36
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Draft opinion
Amendment
6.
Reiterates that women have been
6.
Reiterates that women have been
disproportionately affected by the COVID-
disproportionately affected by the COVID-
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19 pandemic and stresses the importance
19 pandemic, including by negative
of mitigating growing inequalities, in
impacts on employment, particularly for
particular though recovery and resilience
those in precarious employment,
plans and cohesion policy, and by ensuring
feminised sectors and the informal
gender-equal digitalisation;
economy, an escalation of gender-based
violence and harassment, restricted access
to SRHR and unpaid and unequal
distribution of care and domestic
responsibilities; stresses the importance of
mitigating growing inequalities, in
particular though the implementation of
gender-responsive budgeting in the
recovery and resilience plans foreseen in
Next Generation EU, in cohesion policy,
and by ensuring gender equality in
digitalisation; stresses in that regard the
importance of promoting digital education
and the knowledge of digital technologies,
thus of the consideration of the gender
dimension in the digitalisation policies of
the European Union;
Or. en
Amendment 8
Monika Vana
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 40, 55, 58, 60
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
6 a.
Regrets the gender gap in digital
skills, Science, Technology, Engineering
and Mathematics (STEM) careers, in
industrial leadership, and in
entrepreneurship; stresses the importance
of promoting women’s economic
empowerment through, among other
measures, the support of women’s
entrepreneurship; reiterates that the EU
budget should be equipped with tools to
encourage women’s participation and
interest in the digital economy and STEM
sectors and careers through Union
programmes, such as the research,
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innovation and technology domain; calls
on the Commission to allocate greater
resources, strengthen the instruments
available, and to develop synergies
between these to advance gender equality
in these sectors, including for women in
rural areas;
Or. en
Amendment 9
Monika Vana
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 22, 41, 42, 47
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Draft opinion
Amendment
7.
Stresses the importance of suitable
7.
Stresses the importance of
funding for preventing and combating
adequate and dedicated financial
gender-based violence within Daphne;
resources in a context of an increasing
calls on the Commission to increase
backlash against gender equality and
budget allocation to civil society
women’s rights and an increase in
organisations that promote women’s
gender-based violence during the COVID-
rights in Europe and beyond, including
19 crisis, ,including through EU
sexual and reproductive health and
instruments such as NDICI and CERV;
rights;
7a. Calls for increased, ambitious and
specific budget allocations for preventing
and combating gender-based violence
within Daphne;
Or. en
Amendment 10
Monika Vana
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 45
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
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Draft opinion
Amendment
7 b.
Calls on the Commission to
increase budget allocation to civil society
organisations that promote women’s
rights in Europe and beyond, including
those working in the area of sexual and
reproductive health and rights, such as
those that facilitate cross-border
cooperation between organisations
providing safe and legal abortion;
Or. en
Amendment 11
Monika Vana
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 42
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
7 c.
Reminds of the requirement to
allocate at least 40% of the funds
dedicated to the Equality, Rights and
Gender Equality strand and to the
Daphne strand to activities to prevent and
combat at all levels all forms of gender-
based violence and at least 15 % to
activities promoting women’s full
enjoyment of rights, gender quality,
including work-life balance, women’s
empowerment and gender mainstreaming;
Or. en
Amendment 12
Monika Vana
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 51, 54
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
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Draft opinion
Amendment
8.
Reiterates the request for separate
8.
Reiterates the request for separate
dedicated budget lines in the CERV
dedicated budget lines specifically
specifically targeting measures related to
targeting measures related to gender-based
gender-based violence, as well as gender
violence, as well as gender equality and
equality and gender mainstreaming;
gender mainstreaming, in the CERV;
reiterates that this should be the practice
reiterates that all programmes, as standard
for all programmes including goals related
practice, should include goals and
to gender equality.
indicators related to gender equality in
order to deliver concrete and measurable
impact and, where including specific
targeted measures, they should have
dedicated budget lines;
Or. en
Amendment 13
Monika Vana
Compromise amendment replacing Amendment(s): 57, 59
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Draft opinion
Amendment
8 a.
Calls for greater synergies between
the instruments available in the EU
budget to advance gender equality,
improve work-life balance and support
women in their access to the labour
market including by ensuring investment
in care facilities;
8b. Reiterates the need for greater efforts
to support women who are put in a more
vulnerable situation, including women
with disabilities, single mothers, migrant
women, women living in remote rural
areas and women facing discrimination
on the grounds of race, colour or ethnic
origin, as well as LGBTI+ people;
Or. en
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