Activities of José Ignacio SALAFRANCA SÁNCHEZ-NEYRA related to 2017/2142(DEC)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2016, Section VII – Committee of the Regions PDF (364 KB) DOC (56 KB)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision 1
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Grants the Secretary-General of the Committee of the Regions discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Committee of the Regions for the financial year 2016; / Postpones its decision on granting the Secretary- General of the Committee of the Regions discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Committee of the Regions for the financial year 2016;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the importance of a positive assessment of the cooperation agreement between the Committee and the European Parliament; asks that the Committee’s strategy strengthen connections first of all with Parliament, but also with other Union institutions in order to increase the involvement of the regions in the EU legislative process;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. AsksCalls on the Committee to ensure an overall execution rate for payments of around 90% at minimum;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Notes that in the Annual Activity Report for 2016, the Committee had as target 15 file notes and studies and the result was 12; encourages the Committee to keep on working in order to fulfil the targets and invites the Committee to communicate detailed results in this regard in its annual activity report for 2017;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Notes in this regard that the objective of getting a 10 % more subscribers to the Committee’s eNewsletter has not been achieved, nor the objective of getting a 5 % more enrolments to the Committee’s online course for regional and local authorities (MOOC), with a loss of 49 % compared to 2015; notes with concern the 30 % loss of visitors groups probably influenced by the terrorist attacks of 2016;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Notes that one whistleblowing file was opened in 2016 and has been forwarded to OLAF; asks the Committee to keep Parliament informed of the progress of the casthe discharge authority informed of the outcome and possible legal proceedings of this specific case and any other that may come;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Notes that the average time for payment to the Committee’s creditors has increased from 20 days in 2015 to 26 days in 2016; calls on the Committee, to improve the average payment time to its creditors as a matter of urgency, while taking into account that payments need to be made within 30 days.; calls on the Committee to report to the discharge authority on the actions made in order to turn this negative trend, and the results achieved respectively;