1 Amendments of Ingeborg GRÄSSLE related to 2009/2118(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. notes that the Agency reported EUR 2 046 000 in income from interest in 2008; concludes from the financial statements and from the level of the interest payments that the Agency has a permanently extremely high level of cash holdings; notes that on 31 December 2008 the Agency’s cash holdings amounted to EUR 41 887 000; asks the Commission to examine what scope there is for helping to ensure that the cash holdings are managed entirely on a needs-orientated basis, in accordance with Article 15(5) of Regulation (EG, Euratom) No 2343/2002, and what changes of approach are necessary in order to keep the Agency’s cash holdings permanently as low as possible;