Activities of Hélène LAPORTE related to 2021/2162(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the revision of the Financial Regulation in view of the entry into force of the 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework
Amendments (11)
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Believes that the revision should seek to modernise the rules applicable to the EU budget in line with its latest evolutions and in line with the budgetary principles without their violation, and to increase parliamentary oversight, democratic accountability and the ability to respond to citizens’ needs;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that the number and scope of off-budget instruments have grown significantly in the past decade, and that NGEU has taken this practice to the next level, by greatly, if temporarily, increasing the magnitude of the EU budget in the form of external assigned revenue, and creating liabilities until 2058 through borrowing for lending and borrowing for direct EU expenditure; warns that these developments put at risk central budgetary principles such as unity and budgetary accuracy, equilibrium and, universality and transparency;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Is concerned that these mechanisms pose a serious challenge to the ability of the Parliament to fulfil its decision-making, scrutiny and discharge functions; strongly believes that EU financial accountability rules must be updated and reinforced, as regards the role of the budgetary authority in relation to these mechanisms, in order to bring them closer to the principles and responsibilities set out in the Treaties;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. BelievUnderlines that Parliament, as one arm of the budgetary authority, shouldmust be able to scrutinise and authorise as appropriate the Commission’s plans with respect to the management of external assigned revenue and of its borrowing and lending operations; suggests that relevant articles of the Financial Regulation, including Articles 7, 46 and 56, be revised to clarify that assets and liabilities linked to borrowing and lending operations are included in the EU budget;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for the revision of reporting requirements on the Commission’s debt management strategy, including maturity and schedule of payments, to adapt them to the increased complexity and risk of borrowing and lending operations, as this is crucial for transparency and accountability;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that it is important to know who benefits from EU funds in order to protect the financial interests of the EU and to detect fraud, corruption and conflicts of interest in particular; notes that data for identifying economic operators and their beneficial owners is not easily, or not at all, accessible12 ; considers that the centralisation of the information in a single, interoperable EU database with information on direct and ultimate beneficiaries would overcome the identified fragmentation and lack of transparency, although this must not be at the expense of the Member States' control; _________________ 12Study on the largest 50 beneficiaries in each EU Member State of CAP and Cohesion Funds, requested by the CONT Committee, PE 679.107 - May 2021.
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4
Subheading 4
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. SuggeInsists that the re-use of decommitted appropriations as a result of full or partial non-implementation of projects pursuant to Article 15(3) of the Financial Regulation should be extended beyond research and innovation, to include apshall be returned in their entirety into the national budgets of the Member States proporiations that support social policies, youth and humanitarian aid; believes that decommitted appropriations should be made available in their entirety the year following that of their decommitally to the initial national contributions into the EU budget; calls for a revision of the articles of the Treaties regulating the decommitments management;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Notes that the Commission’s Vademecum on public procurement was last updated in January 2020; notes that the current definition of ‘professional conflict of interest’ is limited to a conflicting interest that affects the capacity of an economic operator to perform a contract; calls on the Commission to provide for a more explicit definition and to ensure that its implementation rules on public procurement do not permit the awarding of policy-related service contracts to undertakings that are under the economic control of a parent company or a group that owns shares related to activities that are not in line with the EU’s environmental, social and Green Deal objectives;