Activities of Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER related to 2017/2136(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2016, Section III - Commission and executive agencies
Amendments (7)
Amendment 1 #
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Amendment 2 #
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Amendment 2 #
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3. Is encouraged by the positive findings in the Court’s Special Report 11/2017 on the Bêkou Trust Fund for the Central African Republic, which responds to relief and rehabilitation needs and links this response to development; notes the fundamental difference between trust funds of this kind and the Africa Trust Fund; supports the recommendation to prepare guidance on the choice of aid vehicle and underlines that this guidance must reflect the considerable risks and disadvantages with trust funds and the mixed experience of their use so far; calls on the Commission to guarantee, through detailed and regular reporting, effective mechanisms for parliamentary scrutiny as to how the Fund is being implemented; stresses that security should be genuinely factored in to this type of fund, alongside development, with a view to a holistic development-policy approach combining security, economic development, infrastructure, social development and health care; asks the Commission to study the proposal by the Government of the Central African Republic to create a platform enabling private investors, public donors and the authorities of the country to interact in organising security-and-development projects;
Amendment 5 #
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Amendment 6 #
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4. Supports the use of budget support but urges the Commission to better define the development outcomes to be achieved in each case and above all to enhance control mechanisms concerning recipient states' conduct in the fields of corruption, respect of human rights, rule of law and democracy; stresses that, in countries where the State has completely collapsed, the priority must be to rebuild the State, and its authority, by restoring its monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force;notes the Court’s Special Report 35/2016 on the use of budget support for domestic resource mobilisation (DRM) in sub-Saharan Africa, which finds that the Commission's ex-ante analyses of DRM are not sufficiently detailed and do not follow its own guidelines, that the Commission often fails to assess tax exemptions and illicit capital outflows and does not properly consider extraction dividends and whether royalties for access to natural resources have been paid; is concerned about the Commission’s low and sometimes not relevant use of DRM conditions in budget support contracts;
Amendment 9 #
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4. Notes with concern the persisting deficiencies in the quality of expenditure verifications of second Instrument for Pre- Accession (IPA II), carried out by the audit authorities in some candidate countries; calls on DG NEAR to closely assist national authorities concerned in improving the training and recruitment of for a general audit of pre-accession instruments and an accounting valuation by an impartial body of the consequences of policy decisions (economic sanctions, civil wars) prior to any furtheir staff, as well as their audit methodology, supervision and planningenlargement, during which time a funding moratorium will be declared;
Amendment 13 #
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