6 Amendments of Rina Ronja KARI related to 2014/2078(DEC)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the Court of Auditors Report adopted on 11.07.2014 states that the potential saving for the EU Budget would be about 114 million euro a year if the European Parliament centralised its activities;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Notes that the implementing measures for the Code of Conduct for Members were adopted by the Bureau on 15 April 2013; is, however, concerned by the lack of implementation and differences of interpretation as reported by a coalition of NGOs[1] and calls for a strengthening of the position of the Advisory Committee by providing it with a right of initiative to start random checks of the declarations of interests provided by Members; [1] ALTER-EU: Mind the Gap (http://www.alter- eu.org/sites/default/files/documents/Mind %20the%20Gap%20briefing.pdf)
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Furthermore, recommends the Bureau to consider augmenting the existing remedies and/or sanctions and applying these when conflicts of interest occur and to consider the current Code of Conduct as a rolling document which shall be clarified or modified in the light of any issues identified by the Advisory Committee or the Bureau itself; calls, in particular, for a clarification to the extent that it should be prohibited that entities involved in lobbying give support in terms of staff to Members;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Stresses that Members must be more transparent about the on-the-side activities they do while in public office; recalls, however, that Members, similarly to Members of national parliaments, do not have an exclusive mandate and may therefore exercise other professional activities; is of the opinion that a more comprehensive declaration template for Members would help to increase transparency and avoid potential conflicts of interests; requests the Secretary- General to set up a public database, to be accessible through the Parliament's website, of all the on-the-side activities of individual Members;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 c (new)
Paragraph 30 c (new)
30c. Regrets that until now the General Expenditure Allowance for Members is considered as a lump-sum amount and that there are no precise rules for the expenditures that may be covered by the Allowance; is astonished that Members do not have to account for the way they have used the allowance and that for Members who wish to do so, verification of their accounts by the internal auditor of the Parliament is not possible; calls for further clarifications in respect of the type of expenditure the GEA is to be used for and for the introduction of obligatory annual reporting by the Members of their expenditures paid out of the GEA, or, failing that, for at least opening a procedure for verification of the Members' accounts on a voluntary basis;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 c (new)
Paragraph 33 c (new)
33c. Stresses that the Parliament and the Council, in order to create long term savings in the Union budget, must address the need for a roadmap to a single seat, as stated by the Parliament in several previous resolutions;