Activities of Marco VALLI related to 2014/2077(DEC)
Plenary speeches (1)
Discharge 2013: EU general budget - 8th, 9th and 10th EDFs (A8-0102/2015 - Martina Dlabajová) IT
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the eighth, ninth and tenth European Development Funds for the financial year 2013 PDF (197 KB) DOC (131 KB)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32a. Draws attention to the need to support the fight against fraud and corruption in all the areas of government covered by the Union’s cooperation strategy; emphasises that the risk of resources being diverted remains high and that it is the areas in which public funds are managed which offer scope for corruption and fraud;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Recalls that robust and objectively verifiable conditions for any continuing budget support programmes have to be applied with a steadily attention to be given, both on the use of the differentiation principle to avoid relaxed interpretation of budget support disbursement conditionality and on the support to anti-corruption mechanisms as corruption seems to be the key issue, which may affect the Commission´s reputation and reduce the effectiveness of the support programmes; criticises the fact that the funds made available by the Union are ultimately combined with the partner country's own budget resources and that as a result the EU funds cannot be traced; calls for detailed reports to be published on the way funds are used, in order to increase transparency and ensure that the monies made available by the EU are more readily traceable;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Welcomes the Commission's ability to stop transfers of funds in recipient countries when macro-economic conditions are not met; calls on the Commission to block the transfer of funds to countries which have high levels of corruption and which fail to implement policies designed to combat that phenomenon;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53
Paragraph 53
53. Welcomes the EIB's approach on expected results, notably with the introduction of a Result Measurement Framework which allows for the soundness of projects, their financial and economic sustainability and the EIB's own added value to be assessed; asks that a permanent dialogue on the measurement indicators and on the convergence of results achieved with the associated partners be ensures; reiterates that the EIB’s priority should be to support environmentally sustainable projects, and emphasises the need to focus on the funding of new, not obsolete, technologies;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53 a (new)
Paragraph 53 a (new)
53a. Emphasises the importance of the EIB’s zero tolerance policy on fraud and corruption; draws attention to the importance of not funding undertakings which have been shown to be involved in fraud and corruption; regards as inadequate the EIB’s current policy on non-cooperative jurisdictions, including the latest addendum, and calls on the EIB to implement without delay a new ‘responsible tax policy’ under which it would carry out a forensic review of the beneficial owners of the undertakings funded and, in cases where multinationals are in receipt of funding, it would require the latter to provide in advance a breakdown of the revenue and profits they generate and the amounts of tax they pay in each country in which they operate;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53 b (new)
Paragraph 53 b (new)
53b. Emphasises how important it is that EIB-funded projects should have a broad social impact and that they should support local firms, rather than fuelling speculative transactions; calls for a detailed annual assessment to be drawn up of the social impact of EIB-funded projects;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53 c (new)
Paragraph 53 c (new)
53c. Asks that the granting from EU be awarded only for financial intermediaries not operating in offshore financial centres, which have substantial local ownership and are equipped to implement a pro-development approach supporting the specificity of SMEs in each country; asks that the EIB shall not cooperate with financial intermediaries with negative track record in terms of transparency, fraud, corruption and environmental and social impacts; stresses that a stringent list of criteria for selection of financial intermediaries shall be established by the EIB jointly with the Commission and be publicly available;