Activities of Matteo ADINOLFI related to 2021/2106(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2020 (Section III) – European Commission
Amendments (6)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. NIs pleased to notes that, the estimated level of error in spending on ‘Economic, social and territorial cohesion’ decreased from 4,4% in 2019 to 3,5% in 2020; welcomes the continuous improvement, but is disappointed, however, that it has not proven possible to decrease the error rate below 2%, a target that would have meant better financial management and, above all, a more efficient use of the funding sourced from European taxpayers;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Regrets that the absorption rate of European Structural and Investment Funds , which increased from 12% in 2019 to 15% in 2020 , is slower than expected with 45 % (EUR 209 billion) remaining to be absorbed; recommends streamlining procedures to improve the absorption rate of funding, so as to provide concrete support to the economic recovery;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Takes note that the EU will be able to spend significantly more than in the previous programming period, with an overall allocation of EUR 1 824 billion from NextGenerationEU and the MFF; urges the Commission, however, to limit the risk of delayed start to the implementation of shared managed funds and ensure the sound financial management in the use of funds, incl that such delays would prejudingce the respect for the rule of law and the fundamental rights.post- pandemic economic recovery and render fruitless the efforts being made by Europeans;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49
Paragraph 49
49. Notes that the MFF subheading 1a ‘Competitiveness for growth and jobs’ accounts for 13,9 % or EUR 24,1 billion of the Union budget: of this amount, EUR 13,6 billion (56,4 %) is spent on research, EUR 3,1 billion (12,8 %) on education, training, youth and sport, EUR 2,4 billion (10,2 %) on transport and energy, EUR 1,6 billion (6,5 %) on space, and the rest on other actions and programmes; recalls the total planned expenditure under this sub- heading of the 2014-2020 MFF is EUR 142 billion, of which EUR 104,6 billion had been paid out by the end of 2020; points out that 37,4 billion EUR of non disbursed funds represent 26 % out of total planned expenditure; questions the budgetary efficiency and ambitiousness of the budgetary planning for this heading;
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 106 a (new)
Paragraph 106 a (new)
106 a. Is alarmed by doubling of the budgetary support to other countries from 824 million EUR in 2019 to 1.7 billion EUR in 2020; reminds that the budgetary support is financed from the general EU budget and the ECA audit cannot trace what happens beyond the moment the Commission pays aid to the recipient country, since these funds then merge with that country’s own budget resources;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 106 b (new)
Paragraph 106 b (new)