Activities of Eva ORTIZ VILELLA related to 2013/2196(DEC)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2012, Section I – European Parliament PDF (327 KB) DOC (225 KB)
Amendments (8)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas Parliament’s annual discharge procedure provides added value, involving as it does a thorough examination of the accounts, the object being to enable Parliament to fulfil its responsibility to Union citizens and to act with complete transparency by giving them a detailed insight into its financial management; whereas, secondly, it affords an opportunity for self-criticism and to do better in those areas in which there is still room for improvement in terms of quality, efficiency, and effectiveness in the management of public finances and hence of taxpayers’ money;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Points out the high level of carry-overs into 2012 (EUR 244 600 38423[1]) and calls for the improvedurges that the planning of expenditure be improved; __________________ 23 Automatic carry-overs: EUR 222 900 384, non-automatic carry-overs: EUR 21 700 000.
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48 b (new)
Paragraph 48 b (new)
48b. Calls on the administration to apply further smart cost-cutting measures, to enable savings to be made without impairing the effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of parliamentary activities;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49 d (new)
Paragraph 49 d (new)
49d. Points out that over 1 500 members of Parliament’s staff have children enrolled at the European Schools; and maintains that Parliament has to play a leading role within the organisational structure of the Schools;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Subtitle and paragraph 53 c (new)
Subtitle and paragraph 53 c (new)
Travel agency 53c. Welcomes the fact that, as called for by the Committee on Budgetary Control, the new travel agency contract, which entered into force on 1 January 2014, allows financial and performance audits to be carried out; notes that the only company to bid for the contract was BCD Travel N.V., the agency which held the previous contract, and that the present contract is to run for two years;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58 a (new)
Paragraph 58 a (new)
58a. Notes that, on 22 October 2012, the Bureau fundamentally endorsed the concept for the permanent exhibition at the House of European History;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 63
Paragraph 63
63. Takes note that repairing the ceiling support frame in Parliament’s Brussels Chamber will involve costs just above EUR 2 million, a figure below the EUR 3 million estimated, and that due to the age of the building, no legal proceedings could subsequently be undertaken; acknowledges that the regular on-going inspection and preventive maintenance policy for Parliament’s buildings introduced in 2012 detected the structural defects in the wooden ceiling beams thus preventing a major disaster, potentially including loss of life and huge damage to the building in question; takes note that it was possible to relocate the services displaced to Parliament’s other buildings, with zone A of the Paul-Henri Spaak (PHS) being temporarily closed and that the Chamber should be available for use again at the beginning of April 2014;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 66 a (new)
Paragraph 66 a (new)
66a. Maintains that Parliament must have the final say in all ICT-related matters;