9 Amendments of Marco ZULLO related to 2015/2154(DEC)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes, that the Annual report of the Court of Auditors ("the Court") of 10 November 2015 on the implementation of the 2014 budget of the European Union found the error rate in Cohesion Policy to be estimated at 5,7%, comprising 6.1 % of estimated level of error for regional and urban policy and 3.7 % for employment and social affairs, which represents an increase as compared to 2013 (5,3%); expresses its concern at this increase, which is especially significant as far as errors with financial implications and serious negative effects on the budget are concerned;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that the EU’s economic situation still shows there to be many weaknesses as regards gender equality;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Points to the considerable difficulties women experience in accessing credit, which has serious repercussions in terms of their personal and business prospects;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Emphasises that difficulties in accessing credit adversely affect women and serve to widen the gap between their wages and pensions and those of men;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to produce an assessment of the impact that EU financing has had on promoting gender equality;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on all the EU institutions to assess whether there is genuine parity as regards the distribution of posts within the institutions and bodies of the EU, providing gender-by-gender statistics on staff numbers and grades as part of the discharge procedure.
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Notes that the main source of error continues to be infringement of public procurement rules, accounting for nearly half of the estimated level of error, with cases of serious failure to comply with public procurement rules identified, by the Annual report of the Court of Auditors on the implementation of the 2014 budget of the European Union , in unjustified direct award of contracts, additional works or services, unlawful exclusion of bidders, as well as cases of conflict of interest and discriminatory selection criteria;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Member States to use all the information available to prevent, or detect and correct the errors before claiming reimbursement from the Commission, stressing that if all this information had been used to correct errors before declaring the expenditure to the Commission, the estimated level of error for expenditure under economic, social and territorial cohesion would have been 1.6 percentage points lower;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Invites the Commission to further strengthen the control system for audit authorities, ensuring adequate checks of compliance with state aid and public procurement rules and the provision of specific information on audits of operations;