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1 Amendments of Ingeborg GRÄSSLE related to 2009/2124(DEC)

Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that the Centre’s accounts for the financial year 2008 show income from interest in the amount of EUR 313 000 and that, in accordance with the Financial Regulation, a sum of EUR 307 000 had to be paid back to the Commission; concludes from the annual closure of accounts and the amount of interest payments that the Centre maintains enormously high cash reserves over long periods; notes that as of 31 December 2008 the Centre’s cash reserves amounted to EUR 16 705 090.95; calls on the Commission to examine ways of ensuring that the principle of needs-based cash management, as laid down in Article 15(5) of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002, is implemented to the full and what changes in approach are needed to ensure that the Centre’s cash reserves are kept as low as possible on a long-term basis;
2010/03/03
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