Activities of Younous OMARJEE related to 2023/2183(DEC)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the ninth, tenth and eleventh European Development Funds for the financial year 2022
Amendments (2)
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Is concerned that Benin´s EDF national authorising officer awarded a contract to a consultancy company to strengthen civil society involvement in the country, in serious breach of the public procurement rules; notes with concern that according to the Commission, the Evaluation Committee used its “discretionary power” to apply a calculation method which was not sufficiently documented in the procedure; recalls that in the Qatargate scandal has revealed the role of non-profit organisations and civil society in corruption; recalls that European Court of Auditors Special Report No 35/2018 warns that the Commission does not have sufficiently detailed information on how the money is spent on civil society organisations,non- governmental organisations were misused by corrupt actors to influence the decision making process within the EU; recalls the report of the Budgetary Control Committee A9- 0446/2023 on the transparency and accountability of non-governmental organisations; calls on the Court to produce a special report on EU funds being funnelled into civil society organisreminds that NGOs are submitted to the same level of control and investigations, and to propel s any other Evaluation Committee and its discretionary powerU recipient of funds concverning public procurement procedall expenditures, as well as any contacts and ties between the Evaluation Committee, including its members, and civil society organisations and other non- governmental organisationswithin the respective mandate of both OLAF and EPPO;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
41. Notes that in 2022 the two largest budget support recipients were Morocco and Tunisia; recalls that Tunisia denied entry to an official delegation of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee in September 2023 and has been the first country to ever do so; recalls that Morocco is at the centre of the Qatargate scandal and that a senior member of the Moroccan royal family features prominently in the Pandora Papers; urges therefore for thecalls for the delivery of EDF support to these countries to be substantially lowered until all concerns regarding human rights abuses, corruption and tax evasion have been properly addressedchecked against human rights abuses, corruption and tax evasion, with the final goal to protect the final beneficiaries;