Activities of Iris HOFFMANN related to 2014/2077(DEC)
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 (12)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the 'budgetisation' of the EDF, consisting of its incorporation and integration into the Union budget structure, remains a priority for Parliament in the long-term;; The inclusion of the EDF in the general budget would lead to greater financial security for recipient countries but also to improved policy coherence and democratic scrutiny.
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. wWhereas direct budget support remains highly risky as money introduced into the general budget of the state/country cannot be sufficiently monitoredquires close monitoring and policy dialogue between the EU and the partner countries regarding objectives, progress towards agreed results and performance indicators; whereas risks associated to budget support are subject to a systematic risk analysis and a risk mitigation strategy.
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Regrets that according to the Court of Auditors' estimate thation the most likely error rate for expenditure transactions from the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth EDFs is 3,4 %, which indicates a slight increase compared to 2012 (3 %) but still remains below the peak from 2011 (5,1 %);
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Concludes that an intensification of efforts is needed in order to accelerate the achievement of the MDGs in Africa by the target date of 2015; calls on the Commission to take the Post-2015 Development Agenda and the negotiations on the Sustainable Developments Goals (SDG) once adopted into account as a basis for the CoA performance audit; welcomes the fact that the EDFs, which are the main instrument for providing Union aid for development cooperation to the ACP States, accounted for as much as 45 % of the total value of new contracts concluded by the Commission's Directorate-General for Development and Cooperation (DG DEVCO) in 2013;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Notes that agreement was found in 2013 on the establishment of the 11th EDF with a total value of close to EUR 27 billion (in 2011 prices), thuhowever regrets that this is effectively freezing funds at the level of the 10th EDF, rather than increasing them by 13 % as the Commission had proposed, despite the Union’s standing commitment to increase development financing in the coming years; Calls on the Member States to follow the Commission's recommendation concerning increasing the contribution of the fund.
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Follows with interWelcomest the implementation of the Commission's new budget support approach; notes that in 2013 a total of EUR 660 million was allocated to new budget support operations in Africa, used in part to implement the 'MDG initiative' to support those countries that were lagging behind in important sectors such as health, water, sanitation, food security and nutrition;
Amendment 36 #
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; requests a strong support tof anti- corruption mechanisms as corruption seems to be one of the key issues, which may affect the Commission´s reputation and reducereduces the effectiveness of the support programmes and thus leads to lack of effectiveness of European development cooperation; stresses the reffectiveness of the support programmes;ore to strengthen the cooperation for good governance measures and the enforcement of incentives against corruption.
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Is of the opinion thatCalls on the Commission has to strongly support the development of parliamentary control and oversight bodies and capabilities in beneficiary countries;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Welcomes the Commission's ability to stop transfers of funds in recipient countries when among others the required macro-economic conditions are not met;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49
Paragraph 49
49. BStrongly believes that the investment facility of the European Investment Bank (EIB)should be subject to Parliament’s discharge as the investment facility is contributed to by Union tax payers and its operations are managed by the EIB on behalf of the Union; ;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69
Paragraph 69
69. Encourages the Commission and the EEAS to work more systematically and jointly on the four phases of the disaster management cycle; calls on the Commission and the EEAS to inform Parliament about the developments, in particular with regard to risk management and preparations to implement and achieve programme objectives in a post-disaster context;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 74
Paragraph 74
74. Considers that the new parliamentary term is a new political window of opportunity to encourage the Union institutions to initiate soon a reflection and an evaluation on the post 2020 scenario for possible replacement of the current Cotonou Agreement; recalls that it isn the view of the Parliament that the inclusion should happene EDF shall be included in the general budget as soon as possible;