15 Amendments of Laura AGEA related to 2016/2151(DEC)
Amendment 4 #
Proposal for a decision 1
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. GPostpones its decision on grantsing the Commission discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2015;
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a decision 8
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. ApprovesPostpones its decision on the closure of the accounts of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2015;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Points out the increasing use of financial instruments principally composed of loans, equity instruments, guarantees and risk sharing instruments under indirect management for the 2014-2020 period and that the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group managed almost all of the financial instruments under indirect management; does not believe there is enough information available for an assessment of what these instruments have achieved, especially in regard to their social and environmental impact;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Welcomes Commissioner Oettinger’s intention to bring the various shadow budgets, in the long run, back under the Union budget; Ccalls on the Commission to prepare a communication on this issue by the end of 2017;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Expresses concern at the absorption rate for funds, which varies considerably between Member States;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Requests that the Commission considers in its budgetary and financial management the capacity constraints of certain Member States in order to avoid the underutilisation of funds and to increase the absorption rates especially in the area of the ESI funds; calls on the Commission to present a thorough analysis of why some regions still exhibit low fund absorption rates and to assess specific ways of remedying the structural problems underlying those imbalances; asks the Commission to take on-the-spot action to improve absorption capacity in Member States experiencing difficulties in this regard;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Points out that unused amounts of financial instruments remain relatively high, 80 % of which were at the end of 2014 concentrated in five Member States (of which Italy constituted 45 % of the total); considers the Commission ought to carry out a comprehensive assessment of these instruments before the end of 2018 in order to determine whether they should be carried over into the next financial programming period;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50 a (new)
Paragraph 50 a (new)
50a. Asks the Commission to conduct an careful analysis of so-called ‘retrospective projects’ i.e. the practice of inserting into the regional operational programme (ROP) projects already launched by the authorities using other funds and which may incorporate or replace measures or projects that present operational problems or are in breach of the rules, said analysis to include ex-ante assessments verifying that replacement projects meet the planned objectives;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 57
Paragraph 57
57. Regrets that the so called evaluation report, on the one hand, confuses descriptions of activities with results, and, on the other hand, attempts to evaluate the impact of policies and makes promises for the future; points out that Member States are not required to include common indicators in their programmes, with the exception of the Youth Employment Initiative and EAFRD, and that results- based assessments do not form part of the initial control stage in the Member States;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 127
Paragraph 127
127. Is anxious that the 16 Member States, which have not yet transposed the directive on public procurement, and the 19 Member States which have not transposed the directive on award of concession contracts, and the 17 Member States, which have not transposed the directive on procurement by entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors, do so as swiftly as possible, as the directives aim at further simplification; calls on the Commission to verify progress in these areas; expresses concern at the lack of targeted national legislation on combating organised crime in many northern European countries and calls on the Commission to provide for extending the anti-mafia certification requirement to all procurement procedures involving EU funding;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 129 a (new)
Paragraph 129 a (new)
129a. Expresses concern at the fact that in Italy there have been unacceptable delays in payments to trainees under the Youth Guarantee; calls on the Commission to monitor the situation and to draw up a specific action plan for those Member States in which this problem is occurring;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 133 a (new)
Paragraph 133 a (new)
133a. Notes with regret that one of the main sources of expenditure-related errors under the heading ‘Economic, social and territorial cohesion’ continues to be breaches of the rules on public procurement; points out that the serious breaches of the rules on public procurement include the direct award of additional contracts or additional works or services for which no justification is given, the illegal exclusion of bidders, conflicts of interest and discriminatory selection criteria; regards as essential a policy of complete transparency in respect of information concerning contractors and subcontractors, with a view to addressing errors and abuses of the rules;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 151 – indent 5 a (new)
Paragraph 151 – indent 5 a (new)
– to foresee full transparency and access to documentation for infrastructure work financed by the European Union, focusing particularly on data relating to contractors and subcontractors;
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 193 a (new)
Paragraph 193 a (new)
193a. Regards it as essential that suspension of pre-accession funding should be possible not only in cases of proven misuse of funds, but also in cases where pre-accession countries violate in any way the rights laid down in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
Amendment 328 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 211 a (new)
Paragraph 211 a (new)
211a. Expresses concern over checks carried out on funds for refugees, which are frequently allocated by the Member States in emergencies in ways that do not comply with the rules in force; regards it as essential that the Commission introduce more rigorous checks, including with a view to ensuring that the human rights of refugees and asylum seekers are upheld;