6 Amendments of Jan OLBRYCHT related to 2014/2075(DEC)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the Court of Auditors ('the Court') has concluded that regional policy remains one of the policy areas which is particularly error prone and that there is not much difference observed in 2013 as compared to 2012, as the most likely error rate for 2013 was set at 6,9 % (as compared to 6,8 % in 2012), which proves the stability of the system and the significant improvement in the 2007-2013 programming period as compared to the 2000-2006 programming period;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the Court detected serious errors in public procurement (39 % of estimated error rate), a high frequency of non-compliance with state aid rules (17 % of the estimated error rate), as well as extremely low rates of disbursement of financial engineering instruments to final recipients in 2013;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Draws attention to the different approach by the Commission and the Court to the calculation of error rate in relation to transactions to which the Commission applied flat-rate corrections and calls once again for the standardisation of the methodology; acknowledges the efforts of the Commission in this respect;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that 80 % of funding is administered under shared management at Member State level and that the Court found that for the majoritysome of errors identified there was sufficient information available for Member States to detect these errors themselves; points out, therefore, that measures such as improving administrative capacity onin relation to public procurement, eligibility rules and state aid, and focusing on simplification and on a risk-based approach should be implemented at Member State level;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Draws attention to the multiannuality of the cohesion policy management system and underlines that the final evaluation of irregularities related to the policy implementation will be possible only at the closure of the programming period;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the reinforced control and audit procedures foreseen in the regulatory framework for the 2014-2020 programming period, and in particular regarding the management verifications and controls before the certification to the Commission of programme annual accounts and the submission of management declarations by the managing authorities; notes that the Commission’s corrective capacity was further improved by removing, under certain conditions, the possibility for Member States to re-use funds, resulting in net financial corrections; welcomes the establishment of a Competence Centre on administrative capacity building to support public administrations managing ERDF and the Cohesion Fund; supports the enhanced result-orientation and thematic concentration of cohesion policy that should ensure high added value of the co- financed operations.