4 Amendments of Jean-Pierre AUDY related to 2013/2256(DEC)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls the importance of the tasks performed by agencies and their direct impact on the daily life of citizens; recalls that the main purpose of establishing decentralised agencies was to be able to provide independent technical and scientific assessments, in particular, to have them perform technical, scientific or supervisory tasks in such a way as to help the EU institutions draw up and implement Union policies; points out that the role of the executive agencies is to help the Commission manage Union programmes on behalf of the Union itself;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Draws attention to vastly different roles, functions and resources of various agencies which are subject to the uniform procedure of the agencies’ discharge; observes that in certain cases, the demands of the core functions of the agencies do not easily or logically yield themselves to the traditional discharge procedure, while in other cases, ensuring uniform procedure has proven difficult due to very limited staffing and/or a tiny budget, and invites the Court of Auditors to take this into account in its future audit work;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Reiterates that the principle of annuality is one of the three basic accounting principles (unity, annuality and balance and accuracy, annuality, balance, unit of account, universality, specification, sound financial management and transparency) indispensable to ensuring the efficient implementation of the Union budget; notes that decentralised agencies do not always fully comply with that principle;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Emphasises thehow importance of the agencies’ independencet it is that the agencies should be answerable politically to the Union authorities, save in cases where their mandate, and therefore their statutes, provide for full or partial independence vis-à-vis those authorities; recalls that the agencies should be able to independently execute their mandate in accordance with their purpose and regrets that currently this is not always the case; believes that the Commission’s Directorates General should be seen as partners of the agencies;