Activities of Petr JEŽEK related to 2018/2166(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2017, Section III - Commission and executive agencies
Amendments (4)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
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1. Welcomes the opinion of the European Court of Auditors (the Court) on the 2017 accounts of the Union; highlights especially the further reduction of the aggregated payment errors in 2017 at the EU level, reaching an all-time low of 2.4 %, close to the target of 2%; Stresses the importance of reaching below the target of 2% in payment errors;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
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2. Deeply rRegrets, however, that for 2017, just likeas for 2016, the Court chose to ignore the request of the LIBE Committee to calculate the specific payment error rate of Heading III (Security and Citizenship); notes that DG HOME self-assessed its payment error rate below the materiality threshold of 2%; regrets that the limited sample of 15 transactions audited for 2017 was not sufficient for the Court to confirm this positive resulte Court's justification for not doing so, in particular the fact that Heading III accounted for only 2% of payments in the 2017 budget; further notes that Court based its opinion on a sample of 15 transactions; highlights that DG HOME self-assessed its payment error rate below the materiality threshold of 2%;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
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3. Stresses nevertheless the importance for the EU that the Court systematically and independently assesses payment error rates of all politically sensitive areas of the EU budget; fears especially that the misuse of EU funds in Migration, Security and Border Management policies could have severe detrimental impacts on the functioning of the EU due to institutional reputation degradation, loss of trust by citizens or governments, rise of anti-EU sentiment, etc.public perception of the EU; insists that intangible (non-financial) risks should properly be taken into account by the Court in its audit strategy and in addition to tangible and quantifiable financial ones;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
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4. Welcomes that the Court did not find any major flaws in the Commission’s AMIF and ISF clearance procedures and that it agrees with the Commission's clearance decisions; regrets however that of the 15 transactions examined by the Court, three (20 %) contained errors, of which two were above the target materiality threshold of 2 %, specifically one transaction relating to relocation under the AMIF fund (error rate of 10%) and one relating to an operational subsidy to EASO (error rate of 2.9%);