5 Amendments of Igor ŠOLTES related to 2014/2249(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers it fundamental to observe budgetary discipline and use available EU funds more efficiently and effectively; notes that the existing Structural Funds should be used more effectively to foster competitiveness and social cohesion, with stringent supervision of their proper implementation;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Is concerned by the difficulties encountered annually in the discharge procedures for the Council to datefact that since 2009 the Council has refused to cooperate with the discharge procedure as implemented by Parliament, failing to provide the necessary information, answer written questions and attend hearings and debates on the implementation of its own budget; stresses that Parliament’'s Treaty-based oversight of all institutions managing the EU budget is not taken seriously by the Council, and that is therefore impossible for Parliament to take an informed decision on gwhich by doing so undermines the legitimacy and the legality of the Parliament's operanting dischargeons;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Considers the sustained lack of cooperation by the Council to havemakes it impossible for the Parliament to take an informed decision on granting a discharge having a persistent negative effect on citizens’' perceptions on the credibility of the EU institutions;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Acknowledges the crucial role of the Court of Auditors in ensuring better and smarter spending of European funds; recalls that the Court is in a pre-eminent position to provide the legislator and the budgetary authority with valuable opinions on the results and outcomes achieved by the Union’'s policies, with a view to improving the performanceeconomy, efficiency and effectiveness of Union- financed activities;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Is of the opinion that, pursuant to Article 287(3) TFEU, closer cooperation between the Court and national supreme audit institutions, in particular in connection with conducting the performance - (Value for Money) audit reports of different EU policies and programmes and the auditing of shared- management arrangements, should be pursued; expects concrete results as regards the sharing of the Court’'s annual work programme;