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14 Amendments of Alin MITUȚA related to 2020/2190(DEC)

Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
A a. Whereas Parliament is not involved in establishing and allocating EDF resources compared to other development instruments;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
A b. Whereas effective pre- conditionalities and regular checks are key components in ensuring the effectiveness and sound financial management of the EDF
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are core objectives to be pursued in cooperation instruments;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
C a. Whereas the prerequisite for sustainable development is a transparent, inclusive and efficient participatory policy framing process;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
I. whereas budget support, for sustainable development while playing a key role in driving change and in addressing the main development challenges, carries a considerable governance risk and should be granted only if the beneficiary state is able to demonstrate a sufficient level of transparency, accountability and human rights prior to receiving budget support assistance;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Agrees with the Court of Auditors that the controls carried out abroad remain insufficient;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12 b. Regrets that, as in previous years, the Commission made more errors in transactions relating to estimates, grants, contribution agreements concluded with international organisations and delegation agreements concluded with the cooperation agencies of the EU Member States;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12 c. Strongly regrets that additional measures are not being taken to increase ex ante controls;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Notes with concern that out of the 28 payments with quantifiable errors, in 9 cases (32 %) the Commission had sufficient information to prevent, or to detect and correct, the error before accepting the expenditure; calls on the Commission to substantially improve its processes to verify legality and regularity of transactions and to make sure the verifications are properly followed-up; Regrets to note that this lack of verification is similar to previous years.
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23 a. Reiterates the necessity to ensure full transparency and access to data, in accordance with existing Union legislation, on projects implemented by international organisations and civil society organisations, as well as providing clear rules on governing control and monitoring;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Recallunderlines that entities entrusted with the implementation of Union funds must, as a general principle, respect the principles of sound financial management and transparency; stresses that any entity must fully contribute to the protection of the financial interests of the Union and must, as a condition for receiving the funds, grant the necessary rights and access required for that the authorising officer responsible, for the Court and for the European Anti-Fraud Office; notes, in that regard, the difficulty faced by the Court in getting visas for a duly announced and planned on-the-spot-visit to projects in Burundi and the resulting limitations faced by the Court; calls on the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) to raise that issue and remind their counterparts in Burundi of their obligations as recipients of Union funding;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 b (new)
32 b. Asks the Commission to carry out an evaluation on a country-by-country approach of the long-time on-going EDF financed projects in order to demonstrate their impact on the economic, social and sustainable development of the country and calls the Commission to limit and/or terminate further funding of ineffective projects;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 b (new)
35 b. Calls on the Commission to encourage international institutions, in particular in the case of co-funded and multi-donor initiatives, to approximate their results management frameworks with the Union;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35 a. Believes that a better focus on local SMEs, private sector and civil society organisations should be a core axis of cooperation in the management of the Union delegations’ pipelines of projects; stresses that, given the funding gap required to reach the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals, strategic dialogue with the private sector and civil society organisations must play a crucial role for the development of local economies;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT