Activities of José BLANCO LÓPEZ related to 2016/2151(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2015: European Commission
Amendments (7)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Takes note of the opinions of the Court of Auditors on the legality and regularity of the transactions underlying the accounts; takes note that the positive trend of recent years in financial management has been maintained, with the accumulated error rate falling to 0.74% in 2015; notes the adverse opinion of the Court of Auditors on payment appropriations, in respect of which the overall error rate was 3.8 %, but lower than in 2014 and with no specific error rate concerning fisheries; calls for fisheries to be dealt with separately and not merged with agriculture, in order to guarantee greater transparency in the area of fisheries;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Takes the view that the Member States should improve the instruments and channels they use to transmit information to the Commission; recommends that the Commission exert greater pressure on Member States to submit reliable dataCommission should establish a homogeneous and flexible system so that Member States deliver reliable data and improve the instruments and channels they use to transmit information to the Commission;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission to provide all necessary assistance to the Member States to facilitate the transition from direct management to shared management of the EMFF and to ensure that EMFF resources are used properly and fully; therefore welcomes the fact that this issue is taken fully into account in the DG MARE audit programme for 2017;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Underlines that the information provided by independent ex post evaluations was not always sufficiently complete, consistent or comparable, which reduced its usefulness in the decision-making process and negotiations;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Expresses concern at the lack of reliable information on fish stocks and on the fishing effort of domestic fishing fleets, or of other foreign fleets that have also been granted access, as one of the main objectives of the FPAs is only to fish surplus stocks and this was proven as very difficult to implement in practice;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 c (new)
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12c. Urges the Commission to monitor more closely the implementation of sectoral support and takes the view that the trade-related parts of the agreements should ultimately be made conditional upon effective, sufficiently monitored, substantial sectoral support;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls for additional fiscal effort in the field of international fisheries agreements, in view of the major fishing grounds still awaiting new protocols;