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Activities of Jasenko SELIMOVIC 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, Section III – Commission and executive agencies
2016/11/22
Committee: AGRI
Dossiers: 2016/2151(DEC)
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Amendments (7)

Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Whereas the CAP must be made more effective and its legitimacy reaffirmed as one of the principal tools for EU action aimed at the retention and creation of employment and competitiveness in rural areas, mainly in the farming sector;
2016/12/06
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the reliability of information on CAP direct payments as reported by Member States is often seriously undermined as a result of misreporting; based on the Annual Activity Report 2015 from Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development, Member States have sufficient information to detect and correct errors before declaring the expenditure to the Commission, and stresses, in that connection, if the Member States would have acted on this information, the error rate would have been 0.6 percentage point lower 1a; __________________ 1a European Commission - Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development (2015), Annual Activity Report.
2016/12/06
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Stresses the importance of the possibility of paying advances before 16 of October and also after the year 2017, especially concerning area-based payments to areas facing natural or other specific concerns while bearing in mind the economic situation of the farmers and two derogations made to the Article 75 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 concerning years 2015 and 2016;
2016/12/06
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for small-scale programmes to be transferred to the second CAP pillar;deleted
2016/12/06
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the Commission’s proposed new approach to error rate analysis; welcomes also the Commission’s new procedure, likely to be applied for the first time in 2016, for prior checks, while retaining the method for dealing with minor errors; stressing that more proportionality is needed for the penalty system;
2016/12/06
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Stresses the need of inter alia strengthening of the monitoring and evaluation systems in order to reduce the risk of weaknesses and errors and to measure progress towards the achievement of the policy's general objectives;
2016/12/06
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Stresses the importance of reducing the bureaucratic burden for both the farmers and the administration caused by a duplicated measurement of areas that have been measured (already) earlier;
2016/12/06
Committee: AGRI