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Activities of Hildegard BENTELE related to 2021/2158(DEC)

Shadow opinions (1)

OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the - 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th European Development Funds for the financial year 2020
2022/03/03
Committee: DEVE
Dossiers: 2021/2158(DEC)
Documents: PDF(138 KB) DOC(70 KB)
Authors: [{'name': 'Charles GOERENS', 'mepid': 840}]

Amendments (4)

Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Insists that the Union and its Member States scale uprespect their ODA and climate finance so as to honour their commitments, that maximum efficiency of the spending be sought, that policy coherence for development (PCD) be practiced in a more convincing way and that new efforts to create an enabling international environment for domestic resource mobilisation (DRM) be made; takes the view that well-functioning PCD and support for DRM should be considered part and parcel of sound financial management as these are means to increase the efficiency of EU action which do not need to imply significant additional costs to the Union budget;
2022/02/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Calls on the Commission with regard to the new financial instrument NDICI - Global Europe succeeding the EDF, to display on a country by country basis and from the very start of the implementation of NDICI - Global Europe actions, information on all actions funded through this instrument, whether or not they are co-funded with grants or loans from any other actor, regarding the amounts of Union funding and results in a standardized and with Member States harmonized manner and in a way which is easily understandable by Union citizens and by citizens in partner countries;
2022/02/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Supports the recommendations in the annual report of the European Court of Auditors, in particular that international organisations must grant the Court full, unrestricted and timely access to documents, not only in the form of read-only access; calls on the Commission to take action on this matter;
2022/02/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Notes the high number of fraud investigations in recent years; calls on the Commission to ensure better transparency of the money flow and enhance its control systems; welcomes the decision of the Commission to create the obligation that any suspected case of fraud against the Union budget detected during the work on the Residual Error Rate (RER) study is reported by the RER study contractor and insists to receive information on the progress;
2022/02/09
Committee: DEVE