Activities of Marian-Jean MARINESCU related to 2021/2153(DEC)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen 2 Joint Undertaking (now the Clean Hydrogen Joint Undertaking) for the financial year 2020
Amendments (4)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that at the end of 2020 the Union contributed a total of EUR 498 577 000 from Horizon 2020 and the members from the Industry and Research Groupings contributed a total of EUR 20 630 000 in validated in-kind contributions comprising EUR 11 916 000 in-kind validated contributions in the Joint Undertaking’s Horizon 2020 projects; notes from the Court’s report that the low level of validated industry members’ in-kind contributions for operational activities of EUR 11 916 000, is due to the fact that the FCH2 certifies them later in the Horizon 2020 programme, when the final payment for the projects is made and the certificates of financial statement are due; notes additionally that the Industry and Research Grouping contributed a total of EUR 1 095 070 000 in kind to additional activities as at the end of 2020, significantly more than the minimum EUR 285 000 000 set in the FCH2 founding regulation for the entire duration of Horizon 2020; notes that there are different procedures across Joint Undertakings regarding the calculation for the in-kind contributions and calls for their harmonisation;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes from the Court’s report that the Joint Undertaking’s practice of reactivating unused payment appropriations from previous years to the extent of open administrative commitments, results in an accumulation of unused payment appropriations and that, aggravated by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, this practice resulted in a low budget implementation rate for the FCH2 administrative budget (Title 2) infrastructure and communication expenditure representing around 3 % of the FCH2’s total available payment budget, which was 56 % at the end of 2020; notes the FCH2 reply that the administrative budget showed a consistent high implementation rate between 75 % and 80 % for the previous four years, and that in 2020, however, the situation was different due to the significant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and that cancellation of planned activities of up to 13 % of Title 2 payment appropriations could not be known to their full extent before the end of the year; calls on the FCH2 to report to the discharge authority on that regard;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes from the Court’s report that the Joint Undertaking’s practice of reactivating unused payment appropriations from previous years to the extent of open administrative commitments, results in an accumulation of unused payment appropriations and that, aggravated by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, this practice resulted in a low budget implementation rate for the FCH2 administrative budget (Title 2) infrastructure and communication expenditure representing around 3 % of the FCH2’s total available payment budget, which was 56 % at the end of 2020; notes the FCH2 reply that the administrative budget showed a consistent high implementation rate between 75 % and 80 % for the previous four years, and that in 2020, however, the situation was different due to the significant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and that cancellation of planned activities of up to 13 % of Title 2 payment appropriations could not be known to their full extent before the end of the year; calls on the FCH2 to report to the discharge authority on that regarddevelop a plan to limit the reactivation of the unused payment appropriations as a way to prevent low budget implementation rate;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Notes that the Court audited randomly sampled Horizon 2020 payments made in 2020, at the level of the final beneficiaries to corroborate the ex-post audit error rates, as part of the operational payment controls, and that these detailed audits showed an error above 1 % of the audited costs caused by the application of a wrong exchange rate for the conversion of the declared costs into euro; calls on the FCH2 to report to the discharge authority on that regard;