3 Amendments of Elsi KATAINEN related to 2018/2166(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the findings of the Court of Auditors confirming that the level of error has continued to decrease, given that the error rate fell from 2.5% in 2016 to 2.4% in 2017 in the ‘Natural resources’ area and its financial impact is reduced further by financial corrections and recoveries, since amounts wrongly paid come back to the budget; notes that agricultural and rural development policies account for 98% of spending in this area and that, in its report, the Court of Auditors used a sample totalling 230 transactions in 21 Member States; expects the error rate to keep decreasing further as beneficiaries complete their adjustment to the new rules of the ongoing CAP period;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Reminds the Commission that the risk of unintentional errors owing to complex regulation have the effect in the end to the beneficiary; stresses that there is a significant difference in types of errors for example between unintentional omissions and cases of fraud, and that omissions do not as arule, cause financial damage to the taxpayer, which should also be taken into account while estimating the actual error rate;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Takes account that in agricultural sector the amounts received by the beneficiaries are relatively small compared to other EU-projects and therefore the administrative burden to prove correct use of money is proportionally higher;