10 Amendments of Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ related to 2014/2125(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision 1
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1. Grants the Director of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology discharge in respect of the implementation of the Institute's budget for the financial year 2013 / Postpones its decision on granting the Director of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology discharge in respect of the implementation of the Institute's budget for the financial year 2013;
Amendment 2 #
Proposal for a decision 1
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Grants the Director of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology discharge in respect of the implementation of the Institute’s budget for the financial year 2013 / Postpones its decision on granting the Director of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology discharge in respect of the implementation of the Institute’s budget for the financial year 2013;
Amendment 3 #
Proposal for a decision 2
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1. Approves the closure of the accounts of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology for the financial year 2013 / Postpones the closure of the accounts of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology for the financial year 2013;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
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1. Recalls that the Court of Auditors (“the Court”), in its report on the annual accounts of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (“the Institute”) for the financial year 2013 (“the Court's report”), found for the second consecutive year no reasonable assurance on the legality and regularity of the grant transactions; notes that in the Court´s view the quality of the certificates was compromised as they were issued by independent audit firms insufficientcontracted by the grant beneficiaries, covering about 87 % of the grant expenditure; recalls furthermore that in order to address the shortcomings related to the quality of the audit certificates, the Institute improved the instructions provided to certifying auditors and communicated the updated instructions to the “Knowledge and Innovation Communities” (KICs), the recipients of the Institute's grants, in June 2013;
Amendment 4 #
Proposal for a decision 2
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2. Approves the closure of the accounts of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology for the financial year 2013 / Postpones the closure of the accounts of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology for the financial year 2013;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
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2. Notes from the Institute that the improved instructions resulted in a considerable increase inn improvement of the quality of the audit certificates received in respect to 2013 grant transactions for which the final payments were made in 2014;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
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10. Notes with concern, however, that the budget implementation rate for Title I (staff expenditure) was low at 74 %; ascertains from the Court’s report that this is mainly related to the high turnover of staff and the outstanding adoption of the regulations on salary adjustments; in this regard calls on the Institute to effectively address its staffing policies to avoid the high turnover of staff;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
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4. Recalls that the Institute introduced complementary ex post verifications for grant transactions as a second layer of assurance on the legality and regularity of grant transactions; acknowledges that the Institute carried out “on the spot” audits covering around 40 % of the grants paid under the 2013 Grant Agreements; notes that these audits resulted in the recovery of EUR 263 239, out of the total audited amount of EUR 29 163 272; acknowledges that the detected error rate in the audited sample is 0,90 % and the residual error rate is 0,69 %, which is below the materiality threshold of 2 %; notes that the Court has not raised any comments or findings in relation to ex ante or ex post verifications in its preliminary observations for the financial year 2014;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
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5. Acknowledges from the Institute that it improved its procurement procedures since 2013 and took a proactive approach after the detection of errors by the Court; notes in particular that the Institute cancelled the two framework contracts concluded in 2010 and 2012 where the use of the negotiated procedure was found as being irregular; notes furthermore that the Institute revised extensively its internal procedures, circuits and templates in order to fully comply with the respective public procurement rules, with special attention given to the sound planning and estimation of needs; acknowledges that the Institute recruited an additional procurement officer in 2015 and that it carried out a series of trainings on procurement for its staff;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 6 – indent 2
— ensuring thatrequiring the procurement function to verifiesy all requests for service before requesting an offer, which provides an additional layer of control;