Activities of Elena LIZZI 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 (5)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes with concern the increase of the estimated level of error in the policy area ‘Economic, social and territorial cohesion’' at 5.0 %, which is largely above the 2 % materiality threshold; recalls that, in the 220 transactions examined, the Court identified and quantified 36 errors that had not been detected by the audit authorities, to which the 60 errors already detected by the authorities themselves must be added;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Notes with satisfaction that the estimated error level in the area of ‘Competitiveness for growth and jobs’ is 2.0 % - which represents a substantial decrease compared to 2017 (4.2 %) and 2016 (4.1 %), and notes that most of the errors were related to the research spending while errors on other spending are more limited;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Notes that the Commission completed in 2018 the first cross-cutting evaluation of the European Commission Agencies working in the employment and social affairs policy field (Eurofound, Cedefop, ETF and EU-OSHA) to complement the founding regulation revision of the three tripartite agencies; notes with satisfaction that the assessment confirms the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, coherence and added value of the agencies, as well as the need to reinforce cooperation in order to exploit synergies, however, that these four agencies, to which the European Labour Authority must also now be added, cost money and employ resources which are not always used efficiently; stresses the importance of rationalising costs, reducing waste and avoiding duplication of work;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. WelcomNotes that the Commission has launched four thematic evaluations in 2018 (on support to youth employment, on ESF support to employment and mobility, on ESF support to education and training and on ESF support to social inclusion);
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. AcknowledgesNotes with concern that the ECA recommendation – following which the Commission should, across all its activities, use the terms input, output, result and impact consistently and in line with its better regulation guidelines – has been only implemented in some respects and urges the Commission to strive for full implementation of this recommendation;