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DRAFT OPINION (COM(2016)0468 – C80325/2016 – 2016/0225(COD))

On the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a Union Resettlement Framework and amending Regulation (EU) No 516/2014 of the European Parliament and the Council

BUDG-PA-601018

Committee on Budgets · Rapporteur: Gérard Deprez

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The Committee on Budgets draft opinion concerns the proposed regulation establishing a Union Resettlement Framework. The rapporteur supports the proposal and calls on the lead committee to propose that Parliament adopt its position taking over the Commission proposal. He wants resettlement plans to be ambitious and funded, welcomes EUR 10,000 per resettled person from AMIF, and asks that both arms of the Budgetary Authority receive full information on the financial implications of the next annual resettlement plan.

Committee position. The rapporteur supports the Commission proposal and calls on the lead committee to propose that Parliament adopt its position at first reading taking over the Commission proposal. He also asks for ambitious, funded resettlement plans and full budgetary information.

Key points

  1. The rapporteur holds that the EU needs an integrated, sustainable migration policy based on solidarity and fair burden-sharing between all Member States.
  2. He believes legal ways to seek refuge in Europe could avoid deaths at the Mediterranean Sea and break down the business model of migrant smugglers.
  3. He supports linking the proposed recast of the Dublin regulation to this proposal, so that resettled persons are added to applications for international protection when calculating the corrective allocation mechanism.
  4. He favours a link with the recast Eurodac regulation so that data on resettled persons is stored in the Eurodac system.
  5. Although the proposal has no well defined quota of persons to be resettled, he wants the resettlement plans to be ambitious and the means for their implementation to be made available.
  6. He welcomes allocating EUR 10,000 from the Union budget to Member States for each resettled person, paid from AMIF under annual Union resettlement plans adopted by the Council.
  7. He understands the removal of co-financing from the EU budget for resettlement under national resettlement programmes, to ensure funding of the European resettlement programmes.
  8. He stresses that the two arms of the Budgetary Authority must have full information on the financial implications of the next annual resettlement plan when the proposal on the draft Union annual budget for the following year is presented.
  9. The Committee on Budgets calls on the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, as committee responsible, to propose that Parliament adopt its position at first reading taking over the Commission proposal.

Who is affected

  • Member States: receive EUR 10,000 per resettled person from AMIF under annual Union resettlement plans.
  • Resettled persons: their number is added to applications for international protection in the corrective allocation mechanism, and their data stored in Eurodac.
  • The two arms of the Budgetary Authority: must receive full information on the financial implications of the next annual resettlement plan.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 10,000 from the Union budget to Member States for each resettled person, paid from AMIF.