5 Amendments of Thijs BERMAN related to 2011/2212(DEC)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 (new)
Paragraph 5 (new)
5. Urges the Commission once again to help partner countries develop parliamentary control and audit capacities and increase transparency and public access to information, in particular when aid is provided via budget support, in line with the provisions of Article 25(1)(b) of the Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI) Regulation1and; invites the Commission to report regularly on progress achieved; _____________ 1 Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 establishing a financing instrument for development cooperation (OJ L 378, 27.12.2006, p. 41.).
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 (new)
Paragraph 6 (new)
6. Welcomes the Commission's swift and appropriate mobilisation of funding in reaction to the earthquake which struck Haiti on 12 January 2010 and the cholera epidemic which broke out in October 2011, with a total of EUR 122 000 000 allocated for the provision of humanitarian aid by the end of 2010;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 (new)
Paragraph 7 (new)
7. Regrets that DG ECHO's current system of checks and balances does not allow the Commission to uphold the same high accountability and control standards for the jointly managed operations with international organisations, which accounted for 46,4 % of contracts signed in 2010, as for operations under direct centralised management; urges the Commission to continue working with the UN organisations concerned to address the remaining issues, such as difficult access to internal audit reports and insufficient reporting on results, to allow the discharge authority to have sufficient information on the financial management of Union aid channelled through international organisations;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 (new)
Paragraph 8 (new)
8. Takes note of the revised ACP-EU Partnership Agreement (Cotonou Agreement), which has been provisionally applied since 1 November 2010; encourages the Commission to urgently launch an inclusive debate on the priorities, architecture and modalities of ACP-EU cooperation post 2020; recalls that Parliament has for many years been in favour of integrating the EDF into the Union budget, as a way to simplify procedures, to allow for better coordination of Union aid instruments and to increase parliamentary scrutiny, resulting in more coherent, efficient and accountable development spending in ACP countries; welcomes the Commission's commitment1 to propose EDF budgetisation for 2020, when the Cotonou Agreement expires; expects the Commission to honour this commitment and to take all necessary measures to start preparing for EDF budgetisation; ______________ 1 A budget for Europe 2020, COM(2011)0500, 29.6.2011, p. 20.
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 (new)
Paragraph 10 (new)
10. Reiterates its concern that Parliament does not have the right to scrutinise EDF operations in the same way as it does for other aid instruments such as the DCI; urges the Commission to bring forward concrete proposals to improve Parliament's democratic scrutiny over the EDF by bringing it into line with the DCI;