Activities of Angelika WINZIG related to 2023/2174(DEC)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking for the financial year 2022
Amendments (10)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Welcomes the JU's role in advancing competitive circular bio-based industries in Europe;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Notes, from the Court’s report, that in the JU’s 2022 annual accounts, the amounts of contributions recognised per member category (EU and private members) differ significantly from each other; notes,understands that this is because EU cash contributions are validated and recognised when paid to the JU at the beginning of the project implementation, but members’ in- kind contributions are only recognised after validation of the costs incurred and declared for project implementation;
Amendment 5 #
16. Notes, thatCalls on the JU to address the gap between the recognised amount of cash contributions on the one hand and in-kind contributions on the other hand, was addressed in a suboptimal way in the JU’s 2022 annual accounts by not by providing information on the JU members’ legal commitments at year end, in terms of signed grant agreements and contracts; welcomes the commitment of the JU to address the issue in the next year's annual accounts;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Notes with concern that the Court assessed the risk to programme implementation as medium for CBE JU due to the high risk that they maythe risks in relation to programme implementation for the CBE JU in case private members will not achieve the minimum contributions targets for their private members by the end of the Horizon 2020 programme;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. NotWelcomes that, while the JU stated that it achieved the operational objectives for its Horizon 2020 calls,; notes, nevertheless that the Court considers that this significant reduction in private members’ contributions presents a risk to the overall achievement of the JU’s Horizon 2020 programme;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. NotWelcomes that in order to mitigate the JU’s risk of not achieving the new target for in-kind contributions to additional activities by the end of the programme, the Bio-based Industries Consortium proposed to the JU’s Governing Board in November 2022, to approve further private members’ investment of EUR 416 million for additional activities in 2023;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Notes with concern that the Court considers that the implementation of the 2022 budget payments for Horizon 2020 activities worsened; ascknowledges that this was due to the fact that beneficiaries faced rising costs and delivery problems;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Notes that, in 2022, the JU implemented only 47 % of its commitment budget for projects under the first significant Horizon Europe call of EUR 120 million, it had launched earlier in the year;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Notes that the JU staff managed an increasing number of ongoing projects for multiple MFF programmes simultaneously, is concerned that this may; draws attention to the fact that such a trend must not weaken the effectiveness of the JUs’ internal controls and their management of these funds and delay the implementation of the new programmes;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
Paragraph 42
42. AppreciatWelcomes that CBE developed a risk-based approach to ex-post audit with the aim to reduce its error rate by better targeted sample to detect the most error- prone beneficiaries and thus, strengthening the cleaning effect of their ex-post audits. This is an important positive change in ex- post audit approach as the Commission internal control framework for Horizon Europe grants does not allow for establishing JU specific representative samples and consequently, to calculate specific representative and residual error rates for JUs;