8 Amendments of Iskra MIHAYLOVA related to 2014/2075(DEC)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the Court detected serious errors in public procurement (39 % of estimated error rate), a high frequency of non-compliance with state aid rules (17 % of the estimated error rate), as well as extremely low rates of disbursement of financial engineering instruments to final recipients in 2013; points out that the Commission should assess the progress made in the financing and implementing of financial instruments, to improve absorption rates and to report to the Parliament on the results of such assessment;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Acknowledges the corrective actions taken by the Commission in terms of suspension and interruption of payments; recalls that these measures may hinder the smooth implementation of projects as they do not contribute to reaching the goals of cohesion policy, due to the short time required for the proper absorption of Union funds; urges the Commission to undertake interruption and suspension of payments only as a last resor increasing level of suspension and interruption of payments by the Commission, on the one hand ensures that corrective actions are systematically carried out in cases where serious deficiencies in management and control systems are identified; requests the Commission to report to Parliament on the real contribution of interrupare identified; considers that, on the other hand, these measures may disrupt the smooth project implementations and suspensions of payments to reducing irregularities and errorhence the achievement of the envisaged programme results and cohesion policy goals;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Urges the Commission to undertake interruption and suspension of payments only as a last resort in cases where serious deficiencies in management and control systems are identified and when all other options have been exhausted, because suspending payments could have serious consequences for the respective programmes and regions, severely hit by crisis, as well as for the achievement of cohesion policy goals, as a whole; requests, however, that the Commission make an assessment before taking a decision on suspension of payments as to what extent it shall really contribute to reducing the error rate, and at the same time how it will affect the respective region or country.
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Requests that the Commission assess in detail the impact of the corrective measures implemented over time on the progress towards the policy goals, taking into account a cost-benefit approach to this issue; requests that the Commission report to the Parliament on the real contribution of interruptions and suspensions of payments to reducing irregularities and errors;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that 80 % of funding is administered under shared management at Member State level and that the Court found that for the majority ofin 1/3 of the transactions examined, some of the errors identified there was sufficient information available for Member States to detecttected could have been prevented at national level before declaring these errors themselves; points out, therefore, that measures such as improving administrative capacity on procurement, eligibility rulxpenditure to the Commission, as national authorities hand state aid, and focusing on simplification and on a risk-based approach should be implemented at Member State leufficient information available to detect these errors themselvels;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Requests the Commission and Member States to put particular attention in simplifying procedures, including those for beneficiaries, which can have benefits for both auditing and decreasing error rates, while in parallel increasing the effectiveness of the management and control system; is of the opinion that both the Member States and Commission should implement targeted and timely measures to strengthen administrative capacity, including by means of effective guidance and training, as well as by establishing schemes for retaining qualified and skilled staff; requests that the Commission report to Parliament on the concrete results achieved so far as a result of the activities of the Competence Centre and the implementation of the Public Procurement initiative and action plan developed by the Competence Centre in collaboration with the competent Commission services;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Asks the Commission to ensure that Audit Authorities in the Member States comply with International audit standards and harmonise the interpretation of the rules and procedures among Commission auditors, Audit Authorities and Managing Authorities in order to avoid contradictory findings.
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Recognises the Commission efforts to move to a performance culture; asks, therefore, the Commission (DG REGIO) to include in its Management Plan and Annual Activity Report the assessment of their work in relation with increasing the efficiency, effectiveness and impact of the cohesion policy, besides the budget execution approach; asks the Commission to check the performance against objectives and better use the evaluations, as well as supporting the Member States and their Managing Authorities to increase the quality of their evaluation reports;