Activities of Jutta PAULUS related to 2019/2055(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2018, Section III – Commission and executive agencies
Amendments (3)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is satisfied with the work carried out by the five decentralised agencies which are under its remit and which carry out technical, scientific or managerial tasks that help the Union’s institutions to elaborate and implement policies in the area of environment, climate, public health and food safety, as well as with the way those agencies’ budgets are implemented; stresses that, given the scale of upcoming challenges, appropriate funding must be guaranteed for the agencies and Commission DGs working in the areas of environment, climate, public health and food safety, and that further cuts or a failure to increase the budgets will have knock-on effects for the quality of life of European citizens;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that the share of payments exceeding legal deadlines reached 8,20 % of payments executed by DG ENV in 2018 (5,85 % in 2017, 3,92% in 2016); regrets in particular that payment delays under the LIFE Programme reached higher levels in 2018 (10, 3% compared to 5, 8% in 2017 and 3,9 % in 2016); notes that this is the direct result of staffing shortages;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Calls on the Commission to develop a monitoring system for the proper and timely implementation of the climate mainstreaming target for MFF 2021-2027 and recalls that due to the late start of the current MFF the climate mainstreaming target could not be achieved in the first few years; stresses that the Union must ensure that those targets are met, in order to help implement the Paris agreement;