13 Amendments of Inés AYALA SENDER related to 2009/2002(BUD)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Suggestion 1
Suggestion 1
1. Considers that the Preliminary Draft Budget as proposed by the Commission represents the minimum necessary to sustain momentum in the implementation of European Union policy and law in the fields of transport and tourism. Requests the Commission to present as soon as possible the results and new proposals resulting from the pilot projects on road safety and the preparatory actions on tourism in order to prepare the necessary support measures already.
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Suggestion 2
Suggestion 2
2. Welcomes in particular its proposals for sustained investment in the Trans European Transport Network (TEN-T). Regrets however that a number of TEN-T projects will nevertheless not benefit from investment from the EU budget in 2010 and insists that at no point must a perceived lack of EU funding act as a break on the implementation of those projects. Insists on the importance of ensuring the financing of the 30 TEN-T projects following the recommendations made in its resolution of 11 March 2009 on a European Economic Recovery Plan*. ________________ * Texts adopted, P6_TA(2009)0123.
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Suggestion 3
Suggestion 3
3. Notes the increase in commitment appropriations for the European Maritime Safety Agency and expects with some concern that this will be matched in due course by an increase in payment appropriations available for anti pollution measures.
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Proposes that Parliament should give the Commission the resources needed to conduct a study based on all the annual summaries received; the study should analyse the strengths and weaknesses of each and every Member State's national system for administering and controlling Community funds and produce as its outcome an estimated figure for the cost of the national systems controlling Community funds;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Amendment
Amendment
5. Reiterates, as a requirement for legal certainty, its request that the Commission refrain from re-calculating the financial statements for projects under the 6th Framework Programme, which it has already approved and settled, by applying new interpretations to the eligibility criteria for costs established in the General Conditions (Annex II) of the FP6 model contract, except in those cases where the need to do so is adequately justified;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to carry out the three-yearly review of the Financial Regulation early in 2010 and to incorporate simplification measures for all beneficiaries, particularly those in research; calls, furthermore, for the European Union to be better prepared for external policy challenges and for it to be possible, under that policy, for the Commission to manage multi-donor trust funds;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Expects the Commission to continue its annual staff review and to draw conclusions from the fact that a large number of its staff work in administrationpropose the necessary measures to provide optimum service for citizens; calls for the number of staff supervising the implementation of EU law in Member States to be increased and expects to find all the information required by Parliament in the next report on this matter;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for an external assessment of the language system and its productivity per language in order to meet the increasing demand for translation in Member States’ national parliaments and to develop various standard payment models for translations for these institutions; consider that all this must be achieved without prejudice to ensuring that all EU documents are made as accessible as possible to the public in each and every EU official language;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Commission to organise as soon as possible a conference with all EU and external stakeholders, particularly those countries covered by the European Neighbourhood Policy, with a view to pooling the mechanisms necessary to make the management and control of the EU’s external funds and programmes more efficient;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Is disappointed by the lack of anti- fraud measures and the lack of action by the Commission to continue the reform of Regulation (EC) No 1073/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 May 1999 concerning investigations conducted by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) ; calls on the Commission to strengthen OLAF so that it mayprovide OLAF with the requisite ethical framework and all the necessary instruments to enable it to carry out its role within the European Union with all the necessary guarantees and meet needs which arise outside the European Union;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Proposes that consideration should be given to establishing a Community pension fund in order to externalisewhich guarantees these financial commitments vis-à-vis staff; calls for the claims against Member States in respect of staff pensions, estimated at EUR 33.5 billion at 31 December 2007, to be both entered in the accounts as an asset and included in the 2010 budget and for the accounts and the budget to be corrected, following negotiations with the Member States, to take account of these claims;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for examination of the possibility of including provisions in the budget for major maintenance and refurbishment work on the European Communities' buildings stock, given the lack of a buildings depreciation schedule broken down by specific component and setting out the main tangible fixed assets to be replaced at regular intervals; takes the view that such provisions for major maintenance or refurbishment works should be backed by multiannual upkeep programmes designed to keep buildings in a good state of repair without extending their life;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls, pursuant to Article 248(3) of the EC Treaty, as regards shared-management controls, for cooperation to be stepped up between national audit bodies and the European Court of Auditors; proposes examining the possibility that said institutions, in their capacity as independent external auditors, and with due regard for international audit standards, might issue national audit certificates for the management of Community funds and programmes, which would be submitted to Member State governments with a view to being produced during the discharge process in accordance with an appropriate interinstitutional procedure to be introduced;