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Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas the 2013 Commission represents the end of a multiannual programming period for which the new Commission cannot be held responsible for, the Parliament can only recommend that the lessons taught particularly within the discharge procedure and the financial and social crisis are to be learnt. 2013 marks a historical point in terms of impact and change of political and economic challenges, obliging us all to review our priorities and the results achieved. Welcomes the progress made and calls the Commission as well as the other institutions for a performance orientation, transparency and good governance in Europe;

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Committee: CONT

Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)

27a. Welcomes that during the Annual Review meetings, the implementation of the financial instruments is systematically included in the agenda and that shortcomings are then analysed and remedial actions proposed; acknowledges with satisfaction that for the next period 2014-2020, shortcomings in the area have been corrected ( i.e. payments will only be transferred to the Funds managing financial instruments when the actual disbursement to the final recipients has reached a certain percentage;

2015/03/09
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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40

40. Emphasises that in some Member States, there is no legislation concerning conflict of interests for members of government owing companies or shares of companies even if those companies receive national or Union funds; insists that under no condition can a former or current beneficiary of Union funds can be in a political and/or management position in which he or she holds a leading role in a national management and control system; the same should apply to the candidate members and members of the Commission; urges the Commission to look for a legally binding solution to this problem;

2015/03/09
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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47 a (new)

47a. Points out the weaknesses found by the Court in the Special Report 02/2014, in the control strategy and risk management in Germany, France and the United Kingdom leading to potential losses to the EU budget. These weaknesses were confirmed by the amount of revenue potentially lost in these three Member States. By extrapolating the errors found in its sample of 2009, the Court has estimated the amount of duties at stake in these Member States because of time-barring to be 655 million euro. This represents around 6 % of the gross amount of import duties collected in the five selected Member States that year, made up of 167 million euro in respect of Germany, 176 million euro in respect of France and 312 million euro in respect of the United Kingdom.

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 112

112. Takes note that the Courts of Auditors methodology has to be consistent and applied to all management areas; understands that further alignment could lead to inconsistencies in the Court of Auditors' definitions of an illegal transaction in direct and shared management;deleted

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 113

113. Notes that in 2013 the Commission decided on financial corrections amounting to EUR 912 371 222 on Member States' operational programmes~~, of which EUR 239,50 million fell on the Czech Republic, EUR 147,21 million fell on Hungary and EUR 95,47 million fell on Greece~~;

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 114

114. Notes furthermore that, during the programming period 2007-2013, six Member States (the Czech Republic, Greece, Spain, Hungary, Poland and Romania) were responsible for 75% (equalling EUR 1 342 million) of the confirmed financial ERDF/CF and ESF corrections;deleted

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 125

~~125. Calls on the Commission to clarify the ‘inaccuracies’ in the FEIs and to assess the results in detail in the DG REGIO's 2014 annual activity report;~~deleted

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Subheading after paragraph 125

~~Privatisation of infrastructure projects financed by Union funds~~deleted

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 126

126. Notes that the Union-financed the modernisation of a water distribution network in Skorkov (CZ) with EUR 1,1 million; is concerned about the fact that the communal authorities have let the exploitation of the water distribution system to a company which already manages the local sewerage system; notes that the latter was also co-financed with EUR 1,4 million from Union funds and that the price for the supply of drinking water increased by 45 %; notes that citizens whose water quality is inferior must therefore continue to use local wells; calls on the Commission to ensure the success of the project; supports the establishment of an independent water authority;deleted

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 127

~~127. Calls on the Commission to inform Parliament about all cases in which projects with an Union share of at least 30 % were afterwards privatised;~~deleted

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 130

130. Emphasises that the reduction of youth unemployment is particularly urgent; ~~welcomes that more than~~regrets that only around EUR 12.4 billion from the ESF and the Youth Employment Initiative have been earmarked for the fight against youth unemployment during the new programming period; calls on the Commission to support Member States in implementing the Union funds and make sure that this money will be spent for its indicated purpose; calls on the Commission to establish a system, for the 2014-2020 programming period which allows for reports on progress made in integrating disadvantaged people or groups of people (i.e. youth, elderly, long-term unemployed, Roma, women, migrants and persons with disabilities) into employment;

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 131

131. Points out that the funds available for the integration of Roma were not always spent for this purpose; icalls concerned that many Roma face discrimination and social exclusion living in very poor socio- economic conditions; is also particularly concerned by the information that, following a survey carried out by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights in 2012119 , in 90 % of the Roma households the average income was below national poverty thresholds, and that on average about 45 % of the Roma live in severely deprived housing conditions; __________________ 119 European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, The situation of Roma in 11 EU Member States, Luxembourg 2012 the Commission to develop the necessary indicators and instruments for better targeting the social inclusion of Roma.

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 131 a (new)

131a. Calls on the Commission to put pressure on the Member States and urge them to implement the Roma strategy and to ensure a Roma targeted implementation of Union funds;

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 132

132. Observes that, of the 182 transactions audited by the Court of Auditors 50 (27 %) were affected by error; notes that on the basis of the 30 errors which it has quantified, the Court estimates the most likely error rate to be 3,1 % (3,2% in 2012); notes that in 13 cases of quantifiable errors made by final beneficiaries, the national authorities had sufficient information to prevent, detect and correct the errors before declaring the expenditure to the Commission; ~~considers that if all this information had been used to correct errors, the most likely error rate estimated for this chapter would have been 1,3 percentage points lower;~~

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 133

133. Notes that the errors in this policy area concerned, ~~as in previous years,~~ ineligible expenditure (93% concerning overcharging of overhead costs, over- declaration of personnel costs, and costs calculated incorrectly) and failures to comply with public procurement rules (7%);

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 139

139. Supports the Court of Auditors when it asks the Commission to consistently disclose in its annual activity report the reasons for not making reservations (or making reservations with a lower financial impact) in those cases where this is due to exceptions to applicable Commission guidance or approved audit strategies;deleted

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 140

~~140. Remains worried about systemic weaknesses in Spanish and Italian management and control systems aggravated by decentralised and devolved state structures;~~deleted

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 142

~~142. Is concerned that, by the end of 2014 EUR 129 million may have to be de- committed in six Member States (BE, CZ, DE, ES, IT and UK);~~deleted

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 143

143. Observes that the Union has contributed EUR 100 million to Progress Microfinance; recalls that the European Investment Fund that implements Progress Microfinance on behalf of the Commission and the European Investment Bank reported that 52 microcredit providers in 20 Member States had signed agreements under Progress Microfinance and 31 895 microloans worth EUR 260,78 million had already been disbursed to micro- entrepreneurs; ~~is concerned in this context that not enough attention is paid to the question of democratic accountability when setting up financial instruments;~~

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 146

~~146. Calls on the Commission to put pressure on the Member States and urge them to implement the Roma strategy and to ensure the Roma targeted implementation of Union funds;~~deleted

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 152

152. Asks the Court of Auditors to calculate a separate error rate in external relations for the expenditures not included in the budget support or in the contributions to multi donor projects carried out by international organisations;deleted

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 153

153. Asks the Commission to modify the standing instructions given by the Secretariat General of the Commission so as to make it possible when the financial impact exceeds the materiality threshold for the whole budget under a DG's responsibility, that an adverse opinion be given;deleted

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 156

156. Notes that in the light of the KPIs set up by the Commission the best performing Union delegations are those to Nepal and Namibia since they reached the benchmarks set by the Commission for 23 of the 26 key performance indicators; ~~regrets that the worst performing delegation~~acknowledges that the delegation which encounters difficulties is the Union’s delegation to Libya that reached the benchmarks for only three of 26 KPIs, followed by the ~~similarly bad per-forming~~ delegation to the Central African Republic that reached only four benchmarks;

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 159 – indent 1

– present to Parliament the measures taken in order to improve the performance of Union delegations as regards financial planning and resource allocation, financial administration and auditing ~~in particular as regards the worst performing delegations~~;

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 160

160. Is deeply concerned by the fact that the Commission continues to treated International Management Group (IMG) as an international organisation while an OLAF investigation was open in 2011 in this regard and while Parliament has alerted the Commission about this issue; notes that this organisation received more than EUR 130 million from the Commission since its creation under joint management, direct or indirect management mode; asks the Director General of OLAF to inform Parliament about the follow-up given to the OLAF enquiry opened in 2011 as regards the status of international organisation of IMG; urges the Commission to provide Parliament with a list enumerating all the organisations, companies, other bodies or persons having received contracts from the Commission without a call for proposals and detailing their legal status;deleted

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 160 a (new)

160a. Recalls that, one year ago, Parliament declined to include in the 2012 discharge for the European Commission reference to concerns at the lack of international status for the IMG and other reiterated concerns; is very surprised and deeply concerned at the possibly serious consequences for the IMG of the recent wrongful leaking of an OLAF report, seriously harming its image and reputation and jeopardising the jobs of over 300 employees, as well as the very survival of the organisation as such; questions the suitability of OLAF to deal yet again with a case relating not to fraud but to the legal status of an organisation, especially since, when it was consulted on this in 2008, OLAF decided that, having failed to detect any financial fraud in the IMG, it was neither competent nor empowered to rule on its status; recalls that the IMG was formally established in the context of the war in former Yugoslavia at a meeting in Geneva on 25 November 1994 chaired by the coordinator of the UNHCR Special Operation in former Yugoslavia, at which all present acknowledged that it was at that time the only body systematically monitoring water supply, electricity and housing infrastructures, the UNHCR being responsible for emergency humanitarian aid; recalls that, at this meeting, the IMG was formally established with the signatures of Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the Russian Federation, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and ECHO, the EU Humanitarian Aid Office (Sweden announced its intention to sign later) and with Denmark, Germany, the Russian Federation, ECHO, Italy, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, France Norway and the United Kingdom pledging financial assistance; stresses that IMG has for 20 years been working for the European Commission and Member States specialising in project implementation focused exclusively on in crisis- or emergency-stricken countries (Bosnia, Kosovo, Palestine, Lebanon, Haiti, Myanmar, etc) obtaining excellent results earning it a reputation recognised by the Commission and the international community; points out in addition that the Commission's own legal service has endorsed its credentials as an international organisation under the EU Financial Regulation;

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 163

~~163. Appreciates that Ukraine finds itself currently in a particularly difficult situation (illegal annexation of the Crimean peninsula by Russia and a separatist rebellion in Eastern Ukraine);~~deleted

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 164

164. Calls therefore on the Commission and the Union delegation to Ukraine to be particularly vigilant when disbursing funds and to assure themselves that the funds are invested in the projects they were destined for;deleted

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 165

165. Is concerned about the high administration costs of aid delivery to Central Asia calculated by the Court of Auditors; asks the Commission to inform Parliament about the administrative costs of external aid delivery if they exceed ~~10 %~~significantly of the forecasted budget;

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Inés AYALA SENDER, Jytte GUTELAND

Motion for a resolution
Subheading after paragraph 165

~~Possible embezzlement of~~ Union humanitarian and development aid funds

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 166

166. Is surprised by the fact that OLAF has not recommended that the Commission establish a recovery order on the basis of the financial damage caused to the Union budget with regard the humanitarian support granted to the refugee camp of Tindouf whilst it has estimated in its report (OF 2003/0526) that the number of refugees was considerably lower than indicated by the Sahrawi or Algerian authorities;deleted

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Jytte GUTELAND, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 166

166. Is surprised by the fact that OLAF has not recommended that the Commission establish a recovery order on the basis of the financial damage caused to the Union budget with regard the humanitarian support granted to the refugee camp of Tindouf whilst it has estimated in its report (OF 2003/0526) that the number of refugees was considerably lower than indicated by the Sahrawi or Algerian authorities;deleted

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Inés AYALA SENDER, Jytte GUTELAND

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 166 a (new)

166a. Notes that last year an old OLAF Report (OF 2003/0526) from 2003 on allegations of misapplication of funds to Sahrawi refugees in Tindouf camp was disclosed upon request by a private party showing that: 1) the Commission suspended the funding in 2003, assessed together with OLAF the number of refugees and adapted the funding to the Tindouf camp according to the new needs. 2) As a result of the new assessment done by the Commission and OLAF, the UN took the new figures of refugees as reference 3) OLAF concluded that the amount of financial damage caused to the European Union budget could not precisely be determined; 4) OLAF closed the report in 2007 as no evidence was found which would have led to any judicial or administrative proceedings.

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Inés AYALA SENDER, Jytte GUTELAND

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 167

~~167. Urges the Commission to adapt Union aid to the actual needs of the population concerned in order to put an end to all kinds of trafficking and to the embezzlement of humanitarian assistance;~~deleted

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Jytte GUTELAND, Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 167

~~167. Urges the Commission to adapt Union aid to the actual needs of the population concerned in order to put an end to all kinds of trafficking and to the embezzlement of humanitarian assistance;~~deleted

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 167 a (new)

167a. Points out that the attempt to deprive Saharawi refugees vital humanitarian aid based on a more than a decade-old research in a report recently exhumed from the archives not only contradicts definitely the long term and strongly based position of the European Parliament on the Saharawi refugees but is just unacceptable;

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Inés AYALA SENDER, Jytte GUTELAND

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 167 b (new)

167b. Acknowledges that the Commission has reviewed its approach with respect to the aid provided in order to reduce the risk of diversion by privileging the supply of food items for distribution which are less prone to diversion and intervening in sectors where diversion is unlikely, such as water network in the camp;

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Inés AYALA SENDER, Jytte GUTELAND

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 167 c (new)

167c. Acknowledges that following the results and recommendations drawn by the OLAF report, ECHO has further strengthened the control architecture in place for operations in the Tindouf camp, composed of five sub camp. This includes regular and strict monitoring of operations by ECHO staff, and control by all Commission-funded partners of the logistic chain and the distribution of aid, including joint efforts to improve WFP procedures;

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 169 a (new)

169a. Takes note that the main component of this spending area is research and innovation projects, with EUR 7,7 billion of payments in 2013. Other internal policies cover spending on a range of policy objectives, including education and culture, security, migration and measures to combat the effects of the financial crisis. Recalls that the majority of the expenditure is managed by the Commission;

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 169 b (new)

169b. Regrets that 35% of the estimated error is caused by incorrectly calculated or ineligible personnel costs. This includes declaring budgeted rather than actual personnel costs, as well as charging time that was not spent on the projects;

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 170

170. Observes that the spending in this policy group covered a wide range of policy objectives, such as research and innovation, education, security, migration and measures to combat the effects of the financial crisis; notes that the Commission spent more than 50 % (EUR 5 771 million) of the available amount on research; notes that 45 % of the Commission's research budget was implemented by bodies (i.e. agencies, joint undertakings) outside the Directorate General; notes that almost 90 % of the spending took the form of grants to beneficiaries participating in projects and that in 2013 the Commission concluded 809 grant agreements;deleted

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 171

171. Notes that Court of Auditors audited 150 transactions, namely 89 transactions relating to research (86 for the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) and three for the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6)), 25 transactions for the Lifelong Learning (LLP) and Youth in Action (YiA) Programmes and 36 transactions for other programmes; ~~note~~regrets that the Court of Auditors estimated the most likely error at 4,6 % (2012: 3,9%);

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 172 a (new)

172a. Regrets that 23% of indirect ineligible costs, 25% other ineligible direct costs (VAT, travelling, etc.), 17% do not respect the rules on public procurement;

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 173

173. ~~Is astounded~~Regrets that in nine of 32 cost statements certified by independent auditors the Court of Auditors found a significant level of error; considers that such a level of error is not acceptable as auditors work in the area of their professional expertise;

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 174

174. ~~Welcomes~~Takes note the fact that the Commission conducted, in 2013, 500 ex post audits and the associated recovery and corrective action, and risk based ex ante checks;

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 176

176. Reiterates the necessity to strike the right balance between less administrative burden and effective financial control; ~~notes that due to the specifics of the research field, a risk-tolerant and science- based approach should be encouraged so as to achieve research excellence and better impact of projects;~~

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 177

177. ~~Welcomes~~Takes note that, in 2014, the time-to- grant time span has dropped from 249 days to 209 days for 94% of the grant agreements;

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 177 a (new)

177a. Regrets that within the comparison of the results from those certified by independent auditors (for those projects with a budget over EUR 375 000), the Court found out that in 9 out of 32 cases, costs attained a significant level of error;

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 182

182. ~~Is surprised~~Takes note that the Director-General of Directorate-General for Research and Innovation issued a general reservation with regard to the accuracy of cost claims (EUR 3 664 million) for the FP7 in the Directorate-General's annual activity report, although he himself expects the ‘net financial impact of errors’, based on 1552 closed projects, to be around 2,09%, meaning close to the materiality threshold; considers that such reservations render the term ‘sound financial management’ meaningless; calls therefore on the Director-General to use reservations, in future, in a more specific and targeted way;

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 184 a (new)

184a. Regrets that the Commission did still not send the list of beneficiaries by country; expects to receive answer in the 2013 Commission discharge follow-up report;

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 189

189. ~~Is worried that a fully functioning w~~Welcomes the on-going discussions between OLAF and OLAF Supervisory Committee (SC) on the revision of the Working aArrangement ~~between OLAF and its Supervisory Committee (SC) may still not be in pla~~s (WA) and encourages them to reach a common and satisfactory agreement; Takes note of the efforts of OLAF to implement the WA. Stresses that these efforts should not be disproportionate, considering the resource constraints in the office;

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 190

190. Points out that Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 883/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council123 in force since 1 October 2013 obliges OLAF to guarantee the independent functioning of the Supervisory Committee Secretariat (Recital 40 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 883/2013); ~~is unaware, at this stage, of measur~~ask OLAF's in this regard to assess t~~aken to implement this legal obligation; urges the Commission to take immediate steps to remedy the situation; __________________ 12~~he situation in the context of the evaluation of Regulation 883/2013 foreseen by 2 October 2017; __________________ 123 Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 883/2013 Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 883/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 September 2013 concerning investigations conducted by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1073/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Regulation (Euratom) No 1074/1999 (OJ L 248, 18.9.2013, p. 1).

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 191

191. CIn the framework of the WA, calls on OLAF to timely consult the OLAF-SC prior to modifying instructions to staff on investigation procedures and prior to setting investigation policy priorities;

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 192

192. Regrets the fact that OLAF does not necessarily implement the OLAF-SC's recommendations, sometimes even without giving a justification; calls on the Director General to improve his cooperation in this respect;deleted

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 193

193. Recalls that OLAF opened 423 investigations on 31 January 2012; is concerned about the legality of such a procedure; calls on the OLAF-SC to assess the legality of the 423 investigations opened over night and the outcome of those investigations; also asks the OLAF- SC to assess the statisticAsks OLAF-SC to assess the statistics on the duration of investigations, including the costs onf the ~~duration of~~423 investigations opened from 2012, to analyse the functioning of the case management system and to report back to Parliament;

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 198

198. Asks the Commission to provide information about the financing of all social, sports and cultural measures for its staff; including the benefits of those measures on the performance and the integration of expats and their families.

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 198 a (new)

198a. Asks the Commission to report on the use of flexitime in the follow-up of the 2013 Commission discharge;

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 199

199. Is worried about the substantial increase in the number of high officials with grades AD 13 to AD 16 with a monthly income of between EUR 11 700 and EUR 18 500 who used the flexitime scheme in 2013125 ; sees a reputational risk for the Union as it is difficult to explain that overtime is not seen to be included in such high salaries; __________________ 125See Commission Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva's reply to question 48 in the questionnaire.deleted

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 199 a (new)

199a. Notes with concern the enormous translation cost disparities between the different European institutions; calls on that the Interinstitutional Work Group for Translation accordingly to identify the causes thereof and propose solutions designed to even out the imbalance and harmonise translation costs, taking full account of quality and language diversity; to this end, the Work Group should re- launch interinstitutional collaboration in order to share best practices and results and identify areas where cooperation or interinstitutional agreements can be consolidated; it should also seek to standardise translation cost presentation for all institutions, so as to simplify cost analysis and comparison; it should submit the results before the end of 2015; calls on all institutions to participate actively in its work; recalls in this connection the importance of upholding multilingualism in the European institutions, so as to guarantee equal treatment and opportunities for all citizens of the Union;

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 199 b (new)

199b. Considers that, in times of crisis and general budget cuts, expenditure on away days for EU staff should be reduced, and that such activities should, as far as possible, be confined to in the places of work of the institutions, since the added value resulting does not justify such high costs;

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 199 c (new)

199c. Is concerned about the absence of women in positions of responsibility at the Commission; calls on the Commission to launch an equal opportunities scheme designed to remedy this imbalance as soon as possible, particularly at management level;

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 205

205. Regrets that according to the audit report on the annual accounts of the Trans-European Transport Network Executive Agency127 , the Agency does not perform satisfactory ex ante verification on the charges for its premises invoiced by the building manager resulting in EUR 113 513 of VAT unduly paid and not recovered in 2013 by the Executive Agency; notes that most of the underlying contracts, invoices and receipts were not at the Executive Agency's disposal; points out to the high carry over rate for Title II (27% equivalent to EUR 666 119) which raises questions to the sound financial management of this Executive Agency; __________________ 127See Court of Auditors’ report on the annual accounts of the Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (formerly the Trans-European Transport Network Executive Agency) for the financial year 2013, together with the Agency’s replies (OJ C 442, 10.12.2014, p. 358), points 11 to13.deleted

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Inés AYALA SENDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 206

206. Recalls that Parliament asked in the resolution accompanying the 2012 Commission discharge for an assessment of the existing agreements with the four tobacco groups (Philip Morris International Corporation Inc. (PMI), Japan Tobacco International Corporation, British American Tobacco Corporation and Imperial Tobacco Corporation); ~~deplor~~notes that ~~the Commission did not give the requested follow-up and reiterates this demand~~during the in camera hearing on this issue, the Commission committed to presenting, by May 2015, an assessment of the experiences made with respect to the agreement with PMI which expires soon.

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Activities of Inés AYALA SENDER related to 2014/2075(DEC)

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