4 Amendments of Alexandr VONDRA related to 2022/2081(DEC)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the Court of Auditors (the 'Court'), in its annual report on the implementation of the budget concerning the financial year 2021, continued to find a material level of error in the spending area 'natural resources and environment', also noting that expenditure in those areas is subject to complex eligibility conditions and eligibility rules, drawing attention to the type of errors that may occur, such aswhich is most commonly ineligible beneficiaries or expenditure, administrative errors, and failure to meet agri- environmental commitments;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes with grave concern the Court's finding in Special Report 09/20223 , stating that the reported spending was not always relevant to climate action, and that the amount reported as having been spent for that purpose had been overstated by at least EUR 72 billion, meaning that only aroundapproximately 13% of the 2014-2020 budget was spent on climate related purposes. Therefore deploresUnderlines its discontent that reliability issues could remain in the Commission's reporting for the 2021-2027 period; _________________ 3 Climate spending in the 2014-2020 EU budget – Not as high as reported, 30 May 2022.
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to provide Parliament with an annual report setting out in detail the contribution of each budget item to the climate mainstreaming and the biodiversity targets, in order to facilitate their monitoring; calls further on the Commission to report whether any budget item fails to respect the "do no significant harm" criterion as referred to in the Taxonomy Regulation;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Regrets the Court's finding, in its Special Report 16/20214 , that EU agricultural funding destined for climate action has not contributed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions; shares the Court's view that the new Common Agricultural Policy should have a greater focus on reducing agricultural emissions, and be more accountable and transparent about its contribution to climate mitigation; _________________ 4 Common Agricultural Policy and climate – Half of EU climate spending but farm emissions are not decreasing, 21 June 2021.