10 Amendments of Martina DLABAJOVÁ related to 2014/2131(DEC)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas the Joint Undertaking has involved from the start of its operations more than 600 participants in its Programme and has led to new collaborations and to the participation of new organisations (This should be RECITAL E)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
D b. whereas small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have participated very extensively in the Programme with approximately 40 % of the budget for calls for proposals allocated to them. (This should be RECITAL F)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Is concernedNotes that several weaknesses were identified when the GMT tool was tested by the accounting officer; agrees with the Court's recommendation that follow-up on resolving these weakness is needed, in particular regarding the function used to enter comments made by the financial and verifying officers, as this function is essential to the validation procedure; notes that several developments of GMT have been implemented by the Joint Undertaking in the first half of 2014 and other developments of the system are planned;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes with concern that the ex ante control on activities performed by the Joint Undertaking's members identified one case when, contrary to the provisions of the Joint Undertaking's financial rules and its manual of procedures, the same staff member performed the procedure for validating the commitment in the capacity of both verifying agent and authorising officer; notes furthermore that one payment was made under the conditions described above; acknowledge that the Joint Undertaking has updated the financial back-up system by introducing new actors to perform the roles of financial verifier and authorising officer and that the initiation and verification/authorisation functions are kept separate. notes moreover a second case identified by the ex ante control in which the technical assessment report was not available in the GMT tool;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – introductory part
Paragraph 9 – introductory part
9. Notes with concern from the Court's report that a series of weaknesses were identified in respect of the ex ante control of cost claims submitted by the Joint Undertaking's partners, such as:
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point b
Paragraph 9 – point b
(b) in one case the financial and operational verification tasks and authorisation were performed by the same staff member, as well as three other cases where the tasks of the financial and authorisation officers were performed by the same staff member; notes with concern that these cases are contrary to the provisions of the financial procedures and the principle of segregation of duties;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point c
Paragraph 9 – point c
(c) in another case a grant agreement with the partner was signed five months after the activities had started as approved in the negotiation report and in the grant agreement but in the absence of the requisite declaration justifying the need to begin activities prior to the signature of the grant agreement; . Notes the important results achieved in relation to the management of grant agreement for Partners in the year 2013 where a total of 106 new grant agreements for Partners were signed, a total of 99 negotiations for new grant agreements with Partners were successfully finalized, a total of 106 amendments of on-going grants were signed and a total of 105 payments were made to Partners.
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point d
Paragraph 9 – point d
(d) out of 163 cost claims as of 31 December 2013, 56 had not been submitted; is deeply concernednotes that 15 of the 56 have delays exceeding one year;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Acknowledges that the mission charter of the IAS was adopted by the Governing Board on 31 March 2011; is concerned however, thatnotes the Joint Undertaking's financial rules have not yet been amended to include the provisions of the framework Financial Regulation referring to the powers of the Commission's internal auditor due to the pending adoption of the model financial regulation for public-private partnership bodies referred to in Article 209 of the new Financial Regulation which entered into force only on 8 February 2014;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Acknowledges that the Seventh Framework Programme Decision17 (FP7 Decision) establishes a monitoring and reporting system related to the protection, dissemination and transfer of search results; notes with concern that the procedures related to the monitoring and reporting system developed by the Joint Undertaking do not fully meet the provisions of the FP7 Decision as regards the dissemination of the research results and their integrations in the Commission's systemrequire further developments; calls on the Joint Undertaking to resolve this issue as a matter of urgency; __________________ 17 OJ L 412, 30.12.2006, p.1; OJ L 412, 30.12.2006, p.1;