Activities of Marie-Christine ARNAUTU related to 2015/2154(DEC)
Plenary speeches (1)
Discharge 2014: EU general budget - European Commission and Executive Agencies (A8-0140/2016 - Martina Dlabajová) FR
Amendments (6)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. WelcomNotes the high implementation rate of 98.2% for the commitment appropriations for the transport policies, and the considerably high implementation rate of 95.2% for the payment appropriations; notes that the amount of outstanding commitments increased by EUR 1 653 372 424 in 2014 to the overall amount of EUR 5 647 143 046 and that the increase in outstanding amounts is usually higher at the beginning of the new Multiannual Financial Framework as payments for new projects would catch up later; however, calls on the Commission and Member StatesMember States and the Commission to ensure that transport projects are duly implementeduseful, accurately budgeted for, and duly implemented, and that independent experts produce detailed assessments of the real impact of EU transport policy, so that citizens of Member States will be exactly informed about the use being made of European funding, to which they contribute through their taxes and levies of various kinds;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Regrets that for the area of “Competitiveness for growth and employment”, to which transport belongs, the estimated level of error was 5.6% in 2014, caused to a large extent by reimbursement of ineligible costs; calls on the Commission and the Member States to appoint independent auditors to carry out carefully ex ante checks in order to detect and correct errors before reimbursement;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Draws attention to the large number of high qualitygood projects that could not be adopted at the 2014 CEF-Transport calls owing to a lack of available funds; believes that it is necessary to ensure sufficient funding for CEF-T projects; notes that CEF budget was decreased by funding provided to the European Fund for Strategic Investments; recalls however that point 17 of Interinstitutional Agreement on budgetfor funding to be redistributed more strictly in accordance with the subsidiarity principle and for projects to be selected on the basis of more clearly discipline provides for 10% flexibility to increase CEF budget efined criteria; considers that CEF- Transport infrastructure fin annual budgetary procedure and that this flexibility exists regardless EFSI funding; insists that implementation of projects agreed between the European Parliament and the Council in Annex I to Regulation 1316/2013 would justify such increase of the CEF budgcing should be increased if, and only if, this is justified from the point of view of Member States and taxpayers alike; calls on Member States to make every CEF-Transport- funded project subject to a performance requirement and to impose penalties when agreed completion deadlines are not met; __________________ 1 OJ C 373, 20.12.2013
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that there is information on transport projects available in various databases, such as the Financial Transparency System, the INEA database of TEN-T projects and CORDIS for Horizon 2020 projects; calls for smart use of these toolsthese tools to be improved in order to hagive a betteclear overview, upstream and downstream, of the process of allocating EU funds; reiterates the importance of publishneed to counteract the lack of transparency in project financing and the award of procurement contracts for projects; considers that it would be wise, from that poingt of view, to publish an easily accessible annual list of transport projects co-financed by the Union;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. WelcomNotes that the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking was established in June 2014; will not endorse this project until it has shown itself to be useful; notes that separate discharge procedures on Shift2Rail JU wouldill be done, once it becomes financially autonomous in the forthcoming years;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that in the 2014 budget, as finally adopted and amended during the course of the year, specifically for tourism, a total of EUR 11 226 160 was included in commitment appropriations and EUR 6 827 266 was available in payment appropriations; calls on the Commission and the Member States to appoint a group of independent auditors to make an impact assessment of financed projects in order to better define future spending priorities and identify potential savings;