2024 budget – assessing the implementation of the gender mainstreaming methodology in the EU budget

Amendments tabled for the plenary sitting on this text, in their own numbering series. This is a different set from the committee amendments tracked elsewhere on AmendEU, and is not counted in any of the site’s amendment totals.

1. Amendment 1Motion for a resolution · Paragraph 4
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   4. Stresses that the Commission’s methodology differs from the gender equality policy marker developed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development as it does not include a score that would allow for tracking the negative effects of EU spending on gender mainstreaming objectives and introduces the category of 0* for interventions with a likely but as yet unclear positive impact on gender equality;

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   4. Stresses that the Commission’s methodology differs from the gender equality policy marker developed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development as it does not include a score that would allow for tracking the potentially negative effects of EU spending on gender mainstreaming objectives and introduces the category of 0* for interventions with a likely but as yet unclear positive impact on gender equality; underlines that the Commission’s methodology should in any case avoid leading to unintended consequences, such as discouraging or refusing investments in sectors that are strategic yet traditionally dominated by a single gender, including the defence sector;

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2. Amendment 2Motion for a resolution · Paragraph 18
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   18. Further regrets that the potential negative impacts of programmes on gender equality are not taken into account, especially given the poor contributions to gender equality reported for programmes in sectors such as competitiveness, defence and preparedness;

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   18. Further notes that the potential negative impacts of programmes on gender equality are insufficiently considered, particularly in sectors such as competitiveness, defence and preparedness; underlines that promoting gender equality should not lead to restrictions or reductions in investments in critical sectors; calls on the Commission to propose concrete measures to improve gender equality, while ensuring that investment decisions are not adversely affected.

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3. Amendment 3Motion for a resolution · Paragraph 28
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   28. Calls on the Commission to ensure that no legislative proposals should be adopted if their ex ante impact assessments demonstrably indicate that they would contribute to a decrease in gender equality within the EU;

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   28. Recalls that all EU legislative proposals must comply with EU primary law, including the principle of gender equality; calls on the Commission to strengthen their ex ante impact assessments in order to carefully consider and minimise any potential negative effects on gender equality within the EU when preparing legislative proposals;

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4. Amendment 4Motion for a resolution · Paragraph 4 a (new)
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   4a. Regrets the absence of a cost assessment for the mechanism implementing this policy (including human resources, information systems created for the monitoring of these indicators, etc.), and for the prospects set out in the present report, which prevents an evaluation of the actual conditions for its deployment; recalls in particular that, in the context of the growing precariousness faced by Europeans, taxpayers’ money must be used with exemplary responsibility and efficiency and should not be allocated to ideological programmes;

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