1 Amendments of Valentino GRANT related to 2022/2051(INL)
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 – point 6 a (new)
Paragraph 2 – point 6 a (new)
6a. Article 325(4) TFEU shall be amended to impose full budgetary accountability of the NGOs funded by the EU budget and them being submitted to the annual discharge procedure. According to the "ECA Special report 35/2018: Transparency of EU funds implemented by NGOs, more effort needed", in 2014-2017 the European Commission committed an estimated €11.3 billion for implementation by NGOs in many different EU policy areas such as external action, but the level of transparency in respect of the funds implemented by the NGOs is very limited;