2 Amendments of Eva-Maria Alexandrova POPTCHEVA related to 2022/2081(DEC)
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 125
Paragraph 125
125. Is worried byNotes the Court’s serious finding that for the payment made to Spain in 2021, one milestone was not satisfactorily fulfilled; regrets to note that the Court was not able to quantify this error because of the absence of a methodology to quantify the impact of (partially) not achieving a milestone or target; notWelcomes the Commission’s Internal Auditor also observed the absence of this methodology; considers it grave negligence of the Commission to not have this methodology in place before making payestablishment of a methodology for the partial suspension of payments in case of non-fulfillment of some milestones or targets as established in the Annex II of the Communication from the Commission on the “Recovery and Resilience Facility: Two years on A unique instruments, ast this calls into question the Commission’s sincerity of assessing the satisfactorye heart of the EU’s green and digital transformation”; Calls on the Commission to remain vigilant and rigorous in his assessments of the fulfilment of all milestones and targets;
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 126
Paragraph 126
126. Notes that the Commission’s Internal Audit Service did not perform any audit engagement as regards the NGEU programme in 2021; notes that the Internal Auditor draws attention to the need to continue work on control design and implementation of appropriate financial management, and audit and control strategies; considers the Internal Auditor to be an essential element of internal checks and balances within the Commission and that independent and objective information derived from its own audit activities is indispensable for the Internal Auditor to function effectively; underlines that the work by the Court as external auditor cannot substitute the work of the Internal Audit Service; Notes the conclusions by the CONT Mission to Spain on the 20- 23rd of February 2023, whereby the difficulties with the full implementation of the management and control platform for the Spanish RRF funds, CoFFEE, were acknowledged, especially in relation to the lack of interoperability with regional and EU platforms; notes that there are indices that the European Commission evaluated positively the Spanish Recovery Plan milestone related to the full functionality of the COFFEE platform at a time where, according to several stakeholders, this was not yet the case; regrets the lack of transparency as regards final beneficiaries of the NGEU funds and execution rates in terms of payments, which could be provided to the public in an aggregated and comprehensible manner; calls on the Commission to thoroughly evaluate the fullfilment of milestones in targets, and in particular reforms;