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Shadow reports (1)

REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2020, Section III – Commission and executive agencies
2022/04/11
Committee: CONT
Dossiers: 2021/2106(DEC)
Documents: PDF(474 KB) DOC(218 KB)
Authors: [{'name': 'Olivier CHASTEL', 'mepid': 197463}]

Amendments (12)

Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Reiterates its deep concerns regarding the situation concerning the rule of law in a number of Member States, which is deeply worrying in its own right and may ultimately lead to serious losses for the Union budget and underlines its requests to the Commission to use all available tools to limit the risk of such losses. This should include the immediate and full application of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2092 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2020 on a general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget;deleted
2022/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to continue promoting gender balance and a gender budgeting approach in the allocated funds; calls on the Commission to urgently develop a gender mainstreaming methodology in order to integrate a gender equality perspective in all policy areas;deleted
2022/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49
49. Notes that the MFF subheading 1a ‘Competitiveness for growth and jobs’ accounts for 13,9 % or EUR 24,1 billion of the Union budget: of this amount, EUR 13,6 billion (56,4 %) is spent on research, EUR 3,1 billion (12,8 %) on education, training, youth and sport, EUR 2,4 billion (10,2 %) on transport and energy, EUR 1,6 billion (6,5 %) on space, and the rest on other actions and programmes; recalls the total planned expenditure under this sub- heading of the 2014-2020 MFF is EUR 142 billion, of which EUR 104,6 billion had been paid out by the end of 2020; points out that 37,4 billion EUR of non disbursed funds represent 26 % out of total planned expenditure; questions the budgetary efficiency and ambitiousness of the budgetary planning for this heading;
2022/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 52 a (new)
52 a. Reminds about the specificities of the Horizon 2020 programme management, namely the disbursement of the funds through the Joint Research Centers defined as "the Commission's science and knowledge services"; therefore questions the independence and impartiality of the research carried by the JRC by following the European Commission objectives; points out that the Horizon 2020 is clamed "to be open to everyone", however 38 million EUR were disbursed to JRC under the budgetary line 10 02 - "Horizon 2020 — direct actions of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in support of Union policies"1a; _________________ 1a https://eur- lex.europa.eu/budget/data/DB/2020/en/SE C03.pdf
2022/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56 a (new)
56 a. Is puzzled about the fact that the budget of the Erasmus+ has not been revised immediately by the Commission for the year 2020 during first and second lockdown in Europe and the closure of the borders; reminds that in 2020, 6 academic semesters out of 10 were handled in remote regime and under the prohibition of travel (an initial analysis by DG EAC of the numbers of individual mobility activities shows that there were some 500 000 fewer in 2020 compared with the 2016-2019 average, a reduction of around 60 %);
2022/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60
60. Notes that MFF sub-heading 1b 'Economic, social and territorial cohesion' accounts for 34,3 % or EUR 59,5 billion of the Union budget: of this amount, EUR 32,4 billion (54,5 %) is spent on the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), EUR 10,2 billion (17,1 %) on the Cohesion Fund (CF), EUR 14,7 billion (24,7 %) on the European Social Fund (ESF), and EUR 2,2 billion (3,7 %) on other actions; is alarmed by the fact that by the end of 2020 only EUR 194,8 billion (52%) out of EUR 371 billion had been paid out of the total planned expenditure under this heading in the 2014-2020 MFF;
2022/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 74 a (new)
74 a. Reminds that the ESF/YEI/Multi- Fund amounted to 88 billion EUR in the 2014-2020 programming period, however, according to the European Parliament study1a, sophisticated methods, such as counterfactual analysis, theory-based approaches and cost-benefit analysis were rarely used in the assessment of the intervention outcomes and results pursued with the ressources of this multi- fund; _________________ 1a https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/ etudes/STUD/2020/629219/IPOL_STU(20 20)629219_EN.pdf
2022/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 79
79. Notes that the MFF heading 2 ‘Natural resources‘ accounts for 35 % or EUR 60,6 billion of the Union budget: of this amount, EUR 41,6 billion (68,7 %) is spent on direct payments under the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF), EUR 2,6 billion (4,3 %) on market-related expenditure under the EAGF, EUR 14,6 billion (24,1 %) on the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EARDF), EUR 0,9 billion (1,4 %) on the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) and the rest on other areas; is questioning the non disbursement of 53 billion EUR out of 420 billion EUR of the total planned expenditure under this heading in the 2014-2020 period;
2022/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 92
92. Notes that the MFF heading 3 ‘Security and citizenship’ accounts for 3,7% or EUR 6,3 billion of the Union budget: of this amount EUR 2,6 billion (40,5 %) is spent on instrument for Emergency Support within the Union, EUR 1,6 billion (25,3 %) on migration and security, EUR 1,2 billion (18,5 %) on decentralised agencies, EUR 0,2 billion (3,7 %) on Food and Feed, EUR 0,2 billion (3,8 %) on Creative Europe, and the rest on other areas; recalls that the total planned expenditure under this heading in the 2014-2020 MFF was 22,4 billion EUR, of which only €17,5 billion had been paid out by the end of 2020; sees as problematic the non-disbursement/non absorption of the remaining 4,9 billion EUR, currently qualified as outstanding commitments; raises a question about the budgetary efficiency and ambitiousness of the budgetary planning for this heading;
2022/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 106 a (new)
106 a. Is alarmed by doubling of the budgetary support to other countries from 824 million EUR in 2019 to 1.7 billion EUR in 2020; reminds that the budgetary support is financed from the general EU budget and the ECA audit cannot trace what happens beyond the moment the Commission pays aid to the recipient country, since these funds then merge with that country’s own budget resources;
2022/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 106 b (new)
106 b. Is deeply concerned about the complications experienced by the ECA in auditing the payments to international organisations from the EU general budget; stresses that these payments amounted to €3.2 billion in 2020; reminds that the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU establishes the ECA’s right to be forwarded any document or information necessary to carry out its task; calls to establish a special protocol of the information exchange between the Court and all international organisations in which the European Union has a paid membership;
2022/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 114 a (new)
114 a. Calls most of the Schools and the Central Office to develop emergency or a business continuity plans in case of possible major incidents and disruptions;
2022/03/04
Committee: CONT