9 Amendments of Marian-Jean MARINESCU related to 2015/2204(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision 1
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Grants the Executive Director of the ECSEL Joint Undertaking (formerly the ENIAC Joint Undertaking and the ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking) discharge in respect of the implementation of the Joint Undertaking’s budget for the financial year 2014 / Postpones its decision on granting the Executive Director of the ECSEL Joint Undertaking (formerly the ENIAC Joint Undertaking and the ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking) discharge in respect of the implementation of the Joint Undertaking’s budget for the financial year 2014;
Amendment 3 #
Proposal for a decision 2
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Approves the closure of the accounts of the ECSEL Joint Undertaking (formerly the ENIAC Joint Undertaking and the ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking) for the financial year 2014 / Postpones the closure of the accounts of the ECSEL Joint Undertaking (formerly the ENIAC Joint Undertaking and the ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking) for the financial year 2014;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Notes that the Institutions and Bodies are required to produce each year a Report on Budgetary and Financial Management and that the information provided by the Joint Undertakings in this report lacked harmonisation and was often incomplete. Guidance is required from the Commission as to the nature and content of the report.
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that the Joint Undertaking’s programmes funded under FP7 are ongoing; takes note that those appropriations remain available until 2016 because of the Joint Undertaking’s financial rules which allow its commitment and payment appropriations to be re-entered up to three years after they have been cancelled from the Joint Undertaking's budget; encourages the Joint Undertaking to conduct its budget planning carefully, taking into due account the parallel process;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. IndicatesPoints out that, despite all the above, the Court issued a qualified opinion on the legality and regularity of the transactions underlying the annual accounts on the grounds that the administrative agreements signed with the NFAs regarding the audit of project cost claims do not include practical arrangements for ex-post audits;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Notes form the Court's report that the Joint Undertaking did not assess the quality of the audit reports received from the NFAs concerning the costs relating to completed projects; notes, furthermore, that, after an assessment of the audit strategies of three of the NFAs, it was not possible to conclude whether ex-post audits are functioning effectively due to different methodologies used by NFAs which did not allow the Joint Undertaking to calculate either a weighted error rate or a residual rate error; this technical difficulty does not result, however, in a negative opinion of the ECA, but understandably prevents it from confirming the legality and regularity of the transactions without formulating a reservation; notes also that the Joint Undertaking has confirmed that its extensive assessment of the national assurance systems concluded that they can provide a reasonable protection of the financial interests of its members;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that the Joint Undertaking is of the opinion that the national procedures provide reasonable assurance with regard to the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions in spite of several reports from different Union institutions, including the discharge authority; calls on the Joint Undertaking to assess the procedures followed in order to avoid that the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions be put into ques, following the assessment of the procedures applied by the National Authorities, to invite the National Authorities to produce evidence that the implementation inof the future and report to the discharge authority the outcome of such assessmentnational procedures provides a reasonable assurance on the legality and regularity of transactions24 ; __________________ 24 ECSEL AAR - p.33.
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Notes that the Court's report includes a qualified opinion which is based on the lack of information necessary to calculate either a weighted error rate or a residual error rate following the ex post audits by NFAs. Invites the European Court of Auditors to collect additional and necessary documents and information, for which the Joint Undertaking is not empowered to require, from the national audit bodies of the Member States and/or the national competent departments, in accordance with the provisions of Article 287(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Moreover, invites the Court to use this additional information as an alternative way to justify its opinion and to report to the discharge authority on its assessment of these additional elements;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Supports the Joint Undertaking's initiative to collaborate with smaller contributors and to extend the coverage of grants assessment in order to include 90 % of the grants awarded; calls on the Joint Undertaking to continue its assessment in order to approach the 100 % coverage of the total grants and inform the discharge authority on the advancements realised in the financial year of 20145 and 201628 ; __________________ 28 ECSEL AAR - p.33. ECSEL AAR - p.33.