2 Amendments of Valentino GRANT related to 2023/0201(APP)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Highlights the need to streamline administrative procedures, rationalise expenditure and enhancing transparency and accountability in EU spending to grant an efficient and accountable use of taxpayers’ money for funding priorities and challenges;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Regrets, therefore, that the draft Council regulation does not take up Parliament’s proposal of scrapping the annual cap in payments appropriations for recourse to the Single Margin Instrument, which would have eliminated any risk of a payments crisis; recalls that an increase of payment appropriations ceilings does not automatically correlate with better absorption capacity of the EU budget; points out, in this regard, that the amount of outstanding commitments (amounts committed but not yet paid) attained a record 490 billion EUR at the beginning of 2024;