Activities of Jan MULDER related to 2012/2167(DEC)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2011, Section III – Commission and executive agencies PDF (698 KB) DOC (568 KB)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2011, Section III – Commission and executive agencies
Amendments (12)
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Regrets that the Commission has refused Parliament'sconstantly ignores Parliament's long standing request to add the responsible Commissioner's signature to the annual activity reports of his/her related departmentDirectorate General; notes however that the Synthesis report is adopted by the College of Commissioners and contains a specific statement emphasising the Commission's final responsibility for the management of its authorising officers on the basis of assurances and reservations made by them in their annual activity reports; is therefore of the opinion that the College, when adopting the Synthesis report, took note of the problems in the respective directorates- general and can be held responsible;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission to investigate the possibilities of setting up a correctional system for error prone spending areas, in which the total material value of errors in year n will be partially or entirely depending on the severity of the irregularities, deducted from the yearly reimbursement requests made by accrediting organizations;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Welcomes the fact that the Commission transmits to Parliament the annual summaries submitted by the Member States with an analysis of their content, and; asks the Commission to provide them in a clear and readable format which enables Members of Parliament to easily read them, calls on the Commission to address to the Member States the necessary recommendations in order to improve the reporting instruments;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Calls on the Commission to establish in the short term, in cooperation with the Member States, a model for national management declarations which will make them meaningful and comparable; takes thecalls on the Commission to openly provide its opinion on those declarations; takes the See the Commission's Synthesis report, point 3.3, in footnote 9 on page 11 of COM(2012)0281. view that such declarations should, inter alia, certify criteria (such as true and fair 1 accounts, the effectiveness of management and control systems and the legality and regularity of underlying transactions) and specify the scope of assurance reservations and disclaimers; asks the Commission to present proposals for decreasing the burden of controls for those Member States or regions that perform consistently well according to the annual reports of the Court of Auditors and to their own national management declarations; is of the opinion that the Court of Auditors and the Commission should be able to incorporatetake account of the substance of national management declarations in their audit work;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 78
Paragraph 78
78. Underlines that the Court's findings in its Special Report No 13/2011 were corroborated by the conclusions of the fact- finding mission of Parliament's Budgetary Control Committee to the ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp, which took place on 19 and 20 September 2012; notes that Rotterdam,the Union is major trading block and theat largest European port,s attracts a lot of ships thanks to the simplified Dutch data processing system; stresses that simplification many ships; due to the logistic pressure these ports rely on the procedures and the risk based approach to controls as foreseen in the customs regulation and that also authorized economic operators play a more and more important role; stresses that a risk based approach of customs procedures should not lead to less effective control systems in European ports and that ‘simplifiedall procedures’ should be effectively controlled by the Member States; notes that reduced controls could translate into major economic advantages for a port, points out, however, that seeking such competitive advantages may seriously harm the financial interests of the Union and its Member States; 1 Regime used by an importer in order to obtain a VAT exemption when the imported goods will be transported to another Member State and where the VAT is due in the Member Ststresses that any unjustified reduced control may seriously harm the Union's financial interests and thate of destination. 2 Of which EUR 1 800 million were incurred in the seven selected Member States and EUR 400 million in the 21 Member States of destination of the imported goods in the sample. the Member States.
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 94
Paragraph 94
94. Takes note of the Court's approach which for the first time included cross compliance infringements in the calculation of the error rate as ‘cross- compliance obligations are substantive legal requirements that must be met by all recipients of direct aid and are the basic and in many cases the only conditions to be respected in order to justify the payments of full amount of direct payments’*1 ; asks the Court in this context to explain and justify its changes of methodology and to align its methodology with that of the Commiss, calls on the Commission and the Court of Auditors to agree on a consistent methodology that makes it possible to better compare the year-on-year results of the Commission’s budget implementation;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 102
Paragraph 102
102. Notes with disappointment that the Court of Auditors found that the effectiveness of the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) is adversely affected by inaccurate data in the various databases and also by an incorrect administrative treatment of claims by the paying agencies in thecertain Member States; reminds the Commission that introduction of IACS led to dramatic decrease in errors and calls to remedy the situation without any delays using suspensions and interruptions of funding when necessary;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 106
Paragraph 106
106. Calls on the Commission to take all necessary actions so that paying agencies remedy weaknesses detected in their administration and control system and insists that the design and quality of the work to be performed by certifying bodies must be improved in order to provide reliable assessment of legality and regularity of operations in the paying agencies; asks the Commission to investigate if it is possible to cooperate with private individuals to verify cross compliance standards and reduce administrative burden;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 156 a (new)
Paragraph 156 a (new)
156a. Asks the Commission to report before July 2013 on the number of NGOs to which the Union contributes but which do not generate any revenue other than funding from government agencies;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 158
Paragraph 158
158. Regrets that the great number of Commission services involved in that policy area renders decision-making and the lines of responsibilities opaque; calls on the Commission to designate a single Commissioner as responsible for the ITER projectreview distribution of Commissioners' portfolios in order to better reflect competences distribution of the committees of Parliament and as it is wide spread practice in Member States;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 159
Paragraph 159
159. Is concerned about the delay in dismantling the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) in Lithuania, due to conflicts between the authorities and the contractors; welcomes that thesupports Commission's and the international donor community have's decision to suspended financial support for the project, in line with the recommendations of Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control, until the conflict has been solved;
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 173
Paragraph 173