20 Amendments of Ryszard CZARNECKI related to 2016/2152(DEC)
Amendment 3 #
Proposal for a decision 1
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Grants itsPostpones its decision on granting the President discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Parliament for the financial year 2015;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Points out, however, that the reputational risk in the case of the Parliament’s budgetary and financial management is relatively high, especially against the background of the Members of Parliament (MEPs) being the representatives of the citizens in the Union and hence any irregularities do not only damage the administration’s reputation, but also undermine the credibility of the MEPs as aneven if the error rate is remarkably low, the reputational risk is relatively high, given that such financial and budgetary errors might impact negatively on the standing of the institution;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that against this background, the work undertaken by the Parliament and in particular by CONT in the context of the discharge procedure is of particular importance, as it offers the sole opportunity to consider more thoroughly the accounts of the Parliament’s administration;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Notes that ‘mopping-up’ transfers accounted for EUR 83 419 000, which represents 4,6 % of final appropriations with a total of EUR 71 000 000 transferred from provisional appropriation headings and from other sources, so as to help fund the annual lease payments for the Konrad Adenauer building; reaffirms, yet again,urges that Parliament's property policy should be set with sufficient clarity as part of the budgetary strategy;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Is strongly concerned with the Court’s finding that of the 151 transactions examined for all the Union institutions, 22 (14,6 %) were affected by error;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Takes furthermore note of the specific findings concerning Parliament contained in the annual report of the Court for 2015; notes that the Court found that in one out of the sixteen Parliament transactions examined, related to a political group, the Court found weaknesses in controls of the authoriszation and settlement of expenditure made in 2014 but cleared in 2015, and in the related procurement procedures; these involved only one out of 16 Parliament transactions and these weaknesses were cleared in 2015;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Believes that MEPs ought to be able to use the Parliament’s website to provide their constituencies with maximum transparency on their activities and therefore calls upon the secretary-general to develop a system in which MEPs can indicate how they want their personal webpages to be organised; refers, in this respect, to the wish of certain MEPs to have their diaries and, in particular, their meetings with interest representatives, included on these webpages, and urges the secretary-general to make this possible without further delays, as already requested in Parliament’s 2014 discharge resolution;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Calls on the bureau to make it possible for MEPs who wish to do so, to have their accounts relating to the general expenditure allowance audited by the Parliament’s administration in a manner that is both efficient and effective (for example, by taking samples or by concentrating on expenditures over a certai; asks the bureau to insure that any measure taken financial threshold) and to publish the results on their personal webpages on the Parliament’s website; alternatively, to earmark a percentage of the general expenditure allowance for MEPs to hire an external audit this regard produces no additional costs; recalls about the answer to the 2014 discharge questionnaire that "a comprehensive system of control and direct payment of the general expenditure allowance (GEA) would necessitate the creation of 40 to 75 new posts in the area of financial management, depending on the degree of control required"; recalls about the principle of the independence of the mandate;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Calls on the secretary-general to ensureNotes that the accounts of the political groups and of NI are easily accessible on the Parliament’'s website in a format that allows for quick and easy searches;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Similarly, calls on the secretary- general to ensure onNotes that the Parliament’'s website full disclosure of the underlyingmakes available a range of documents regarding the decision on the recognition of the European political parties and European political foundations and the determination of the final funding amount;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40
40. Welcomes the introduction of a special form for rapporteurs which enables to indicate which interest representatives had influenced their reports (legislative footprint);
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
41. Reiterates its call for a report by Parliament’s administration on the use of the Parliament’s premises by interest representatives and other external organisations, whilst paying special attention to the MEP-industry fora;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
Paragraph 45
45. Is, however, not convinced of the effectiveness of Parliament’s communication strategy in respect of those who are not automatically interested in Parliament’s activities or are even sceptical about its functioning; invites the secretary- general to develop a new strategy to reach also these citizens and to concentrate in that respect less on “sending messages” than on facilitating access to information and on addressing unjustified prejudices against the Parliament; hopes the secretary-general would put in place a communication strategy that can improve the cost-effectiveness ratio, avoiding unnecessary and costly advertising campaigns;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
Paragraph 46
46. Is not convinced of the need to have information offices of the Parliament in all Member States, especially in view of the fact that for effective communication physical presence may not always be necessary and can easily be replaced by effective and responsive internet facilities; is in particular sceptical about having an information office in the cities of Brussels and Strasbourg as in both cities the Parliament itself can be visited and in addition for interested visitors there is or will be a Parlamentarium at their disposalNotes that the Parliament's information offices' task is to better inform citizens; calls therefore for better use of modern ways of communication;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69
Paragraph 69
69. Notes with concern that no special arrangements have been made for staff’s pensions in case of a Member State leaving the Union and that it is entirely at the discretion of the Member State concerned, whether and to what extent it will acknowledge the pension rights of Union staff of their nationality; while recognising that this issue holds for all European institutions, invites the secretary-general to engage in a dialogue with the Commission in order to make sure that British staff do not become victimised in the case of a Brexit and that their statutory, contractual and acquired rights are fully safeguarded;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 76 a (new)
Paragraph 76 a (new)
76a. Calls once again on the Bureau to make an assessment of the current situation of the Pension Fund as soon as possible;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 101
Paragraph 101
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 109
Paragraph 109
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 112
Paragraph 112