Activities of Jan MULDER related to 2010/0395(COD)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the financial rules applicable to the annual budget of the Union PDF (1 MB) DOC (1 MB)
Amendments (20)
Amendment 244 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Part 1 – article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The budgetary provisions shall apply mutatis mutandis to the guarantee for borrowing-and-lending operations entered into by the Union in the management of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) and the European Financial Stability Mechanism (EFSM) and payments to the Guarantee Fund for external actions.
Amendment 245 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 5 – paragraph 4
Part 1 – article 5 – paragraph 4
4. Interest yielded by the funds which are the property of the Union shall not be due to the Union save otherwise provided for in the agreements concluded with the entrusted entities listed in points (ii) to (viii) of Article 55(1)(b), and in grant decisions or agreements concluded with beneficiaries. In those cases, such interest shall be re-used for the corresponding programme or recovered.
Amendment 255 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 15 – paragraph 1
Part 1 – article 15 – paragraph 1
1. The balance from each financial year shall be entered in the budget for the following financial year as revenue in the case of a surplus or as a payment appropriation in the case of a deficit, in strict accordance with Article 7 of the Council Decision on Own resources, not including a quasi-automatic adaptation of Member States' contributions to the Union budget.
Amendment 256 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 15 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Part 1 – article 15 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. The surplus and the unspent commitments of the previous budgetary years of the current multi-annual financial framework as well as decommitted appropriations shall be entered in the reserve for payments and commitments. This reserve shall be used in first instance for any additional and/or unforeseen needs as well as to compensate any negative reserve, which procedure is laid down in article 44. The decision to mobilise this reserve will be taken jointly by the two arms of the budgetary authority following a proposal by the Commission.
Amendment 264 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 22 – paragraph 3
Part 1 – article 22 – paragraph 3
3. Any institution other than the Commission may propose to the budgetary authority, within its own section of the budget, transfers from one title to another exceeding the limit of 105 % of the appropriations for the financial year on the line from which the transfer is to be made. Those transfers shall be subject to the procedure laid down in Article 24.
Amendment 267 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 23 – paragraph 1 – point c
Part 1 – article 23 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) as regards expenditure on staff and administration which is c, transfer appropriations fromm on to several titles, transfer appropriations frome title to another up to a maximum of 15 % of the appropriations for the year shown on the line from which the transfer is made, and up to a maximum of 30 % of the appropriations for the year shown one title to another; he line to which the transfer is made;
Amendment 268 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 23 – paragraph 1 – point d
Part 1 – article 23 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) as regards operational expenditure, transfer appropriations between chapters within the same title, up to a maximum total of 105 % of the appropriations for the year shown on the line from which the transfer is made.
Amendment 277 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 29
Part 1 – article 29
Amendment 289 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 34 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Part 1 – article 34 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The draft budget shall contain a summary general statement of the expenditure and revenue of the Union, including a summary general statement of the reserve for payments and commitments, and consolidate the estimates referred to in Article 32.
Amendment 294 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 34 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Part 1 – article 34 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. The Commission shall accompany the draft budget with a proposal to mobilise the reserve for payments and commitments for any arising needs not initially foreseen in the annual budget or the regulation laying down the multiannual financial framework.
Amendment 296 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 38 – paragraph 2
Part 1 – article 38 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission shall, save in exceptional circumstances, submit any the case of the mobilisation of the solidarity fund for which a draft amending budget can be presented at any time of the year, submit in a row its draft amending budgets, simultaneously to the European Parliament and the Council by 1 September each year at the latest, either in April and / or in September. It may attach an opinion to the requests for amending budgets from the other institutions.
Amendment 298 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 44 – paragraph 2
Part 1 – article 44 – paragraph 2
This reserve must be drawn upon as soon as possible and before the end of the financial year, in first instance by means of the reserve for payments and commitments, as laid down in Article 15 (3a), or by means of transfer in accordance with the procedure laid down in Articles 21 and 23.
Amendment 301 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 46 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
Part 1 – article 46 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
(ca) as regards funding to international organisations, the Commission will specify in a document annexed to its section: (i) a summary of all those contributions, with a breakdown per EU programme/fund and per international organisation, (ii) a justification explaining why it was more efficient for the EU to fund those international organisations rather than to act directly.
Amendment 312 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 56 – paragraph 1
Part 1 – article 56 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall respect the principles of sound financial management, transparency and non-discrimination and ensure the visibility of Union action when they manage Union funds. To this end, Member States shall fulfil the control and audit obligations and assume the resulting responsibilities laid down in this Regulation. Complementary provisions mayshall be laid down in sector-specific rules.
Amendment 353 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 56 – paragraph 6 a (new)
Part 1 – article 56 – paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. National declarations of assurance Member States shall provide a national declaration on the expenditure made under the system of shared management. Such declaration shall be signed at the appropriate political level, and be based on the information to be provided under paragraph 5(c), and shall at least cover the effective functioning of the internal control systems in place and the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions. It shall be subject to the opinion of an independent audit body and be provided to the Commission by 15 March of the year following the budgetary year concerned.
Amendment 392 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 116 – paragraph 1 – point a
Part 1 – article 116 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) reimbursement of a specified proportion of the eligible costs actually incurred, taking into account the full economic costs for the purpose of the project;
Amendment 395 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 116 – paragraph 1 – point e
Part 1 – article 116 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) a combination of the forms referred to in points (a) to (d). and taking into account the preferences of the beneficiaries with regard to their usual accounting principles;
Amendment 396 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 116 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
Part 1 – article 116 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
(ea) For the purpose of this regulation, "very low value grants" shall be grants not exceeding EUR 10.000 and "low value grants" shall be grants not exceeding EUR 100.000. For those kind of grants, lower standards in accounting and authorisation maybe applied in order to create a beneficiary driven approach.
Amendment 404 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 117 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Part 1 – article 117 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. For the purpose of this regulation, grants may also be authorised in the field of basic research, where no outcome or result can be presented in consequence of the research activity.
Amendment 405 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 117 – paragraph 6
Part 1 – article 117 – paragraph 6
6. For lumps sums, standard scale of unit costs and flat rate financing, the no-profit and the co-financing rules laid down in paragraphs 3 and 4 shall be reasonably ensured at the time of their determination or at the stage of the evaluation of the grant application. Where the maximum amount per grant does not exceed EUR 100.000, the authorisation may be given by the competent officer.