Activities of Tibor SZANYI related to 2015/2154(DEC)
Plenary speeches (1)
Discharge 2014: EU general budget - European Commission and Executive Agencies (A8-0140/2016 - Martina Dlabajová) HU
Amendments (8)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that the CAP, as one of the original European policies, is still one of the most important tools of the EU with wide impact, not only in terms of food production but in terms of actual and potential socio-economic improvementsand gender dimension improvements as well as efforts to combat depopulation in rural areas;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Takes the view that responsibility for monitoring and supervising paying agencies should be conferred on EU officials working in the Member States themselves, in particular in the case of paying agencies which have not been overly efficient in recent years;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Urges, in extreme cases, that consistently underperforming paying agencies should be stripped of their accreditation;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Emphasises the need to develop a common methodology for calculating the error rate in an effort to guarantee that it is accurate and to ensure that significant disparities do not emerge between the error rate indicated by the Commission and that established by the Court of Auditors;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Draws attention to the Commission´s statement2 that errors in cross compliance (for example timely declarations of animal movement, meeting dates or deadlines) do not affect eligibility of payments (already confirmed by the Court) and ifthat the cross compliance error rate ishould be deducted from the overall error rate would instead by 3%, for EAGF 2.2%3 and for Rural Development 6%for better clarity; __________________ 2 ECA Annual Report 2014 - reply to para 7.15 3 ECA Annual Report 2014 - reply to para 7.18
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Emphasises that some programmes, in particular small-scale ones, have attracted less interest and/or show consistently high error rates as a result of their inflexibility; urges the Commission, therefore, to review such programmes with the aim of reducing the red tape associated with them, which would serve both to make them more attractive and to reduce error rates;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Calls on the Commission to submit in good time a detailed plan for reducing red tape in the context of the CAP;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Notes that the impact of the Russian import ban on agricultural products, which struck mid-way through 2014, is a major challenge and advocates eliminatbetter management ing the unearned advanly phase of any emergency measures to ensure correct targeting of funds;