Activities of Igor ŠOLTES related to 2015/2158(DEC)
Plenary speeches (1)
Discharge 2014: EU general budget - European Court of Auditors (A8-0107/2016 - Ryszard Czarnecki) SL
Amendments (4)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. 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 economy, efficiency and effectiveness of Union-financed activities;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Supports the Court in its efforts to devote more resources to performance audits; expects the tasked-based organisation of audit staff to enable the Court to assign resources more flexibly without undermining it's mission; 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;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. regrets that less than 33% of the managers is women while 50% of the staff is composed by women; stresses therefore that only 18% (2 out of 11) of the Directors is women; calls upon the Court to correct this imbalanced situation concerning women;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Recognises that the Court has been making efforts to reduce translation costs; believes that envisaging a cooperation agreement for translation - as the consultative committees have with Parliament - could be considered as part of the Court's 2013-2017 strategy to improve efficiency and reduce costs; asks the Court to consider to outsource translation as an additional way of saving;