Activities of Luke Ming FLANAGAN related to 2021/2054(INL)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT with recommendations to the Commission on digitalisation of the European reporting, monitoring and audit
Amendments (11)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)
Citation 15 a (new)
— having regards to the Court of Auditors' Special Report 04/2020: Using new imaging technologies to monitor the Common Agricultural Policy: steady progress overall, but slower for climate and environment monitoring,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas public knowledge and full transparency about the spending of Union funds is essential for the acceptance of this spending and is also crucial in order to ensure accountability and ensure better control of spending including avoidance of misuse, corruption, fraud and of conflicts of interests;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
F a. whereas fragmentation of data make the identification of final beneficiaries extremely difficult, if not impossible for direct, indirect or shared management Union funds;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
K a. whereas the Court of Auditors' findings presented during the public hearing of the 2nd September 2021 in CONT showed a clear need to improve transparency of the existing system of the oversight of Union funds;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O a (new)
Recital O a (new)
O a. whereas such a system should be transparent and easy to use;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital V a (new)
Recital V a (new)
V a. whereas more and a better use of satellite data should be made, removing the obstacles currently hampering the wide use of new technologies by paying agencies9a _________________ 9aECA Special Report 04/2020: Using new imaging technologies to monitor the Common Agricultural Policy: steady progress overall, but slower for climate and environment monitoring
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Underlines that transparency about final beneficiaries will ensure that auditing, control and discharge authorities in national administrations, the Commission, the Council and the Parliament will have much better and more accurate possibilities to ensure that money is being spent efficiently or to carry out recoveries in the event of fraud according to rules and policy ambitions;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Considers that the present situation where it is impossible to get a reasonably complete picture about who is receiving how much from especially shared management funds is unacceptable and needs to be changed as soon as possible to increase theransparency and efficiency of Union funds;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Underlines that in situations where the direct recipient is a company which is owned by another company, it should be ensured that it is possible to identify the owners of the second company also, and that this obligation should continue to apply no matter how many companies are involved; considers therefore that it is necessary to have unique identification numbers set up for beneficiaries by parent companies, so that every subsidiary has a subsequent number, allowing to really know where money goes;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Notes that this obligation to identify the owner should as a minimum apply whenever any natural or legal person owns more than 30%25%10a of the company in question; _________________ 10aDefinition of ultimate beneficiary in the Study “The Largest 50 beneficiaries in each EU Member State of CAP and Cohesion Funds”
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – paragraph 12 – point 2 – point a – paragraph 3
Annex I – paragraph 12 – point 2 – point a – paragraph 3
Where the recipient of funds is a legal person, information shall be published on persons and entities holding more than 3025% ownership of that entity.;