12 Amendments of Corina CREȚU related to 2020/2045(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas setting up trust funds and going beyond the EU’s budgetary rules undermines the principle of a single budget and creates a number of issues in terms of sound financial management, transparency and accountability; whereas it increases the complexity of existing financial structures, which may lead to operational inefficiencies;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the Facility for Refugees in Turkey (FRT) differs from the other EU trust funds, mainly because it remains embedded within the budget of the EU;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that Union trust funds are set up to react swiftly to challenging circumstances and to increase the flexibility of funding; Reiterates however that these should be considered exceptional or emergency-led instruments whose added value and effects on the ground should be well justified and monitored; stresses the need to ensure that Union trust funds bring clear political visibility for the Union and that the objectives of Union trust funds are aligned with the objectives of the Union.
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Recalls the Special Report of the European Court of Auditors 27/2018 on ‘the Facility for Refugees in Turkey: helpful support, but improvements needed to deliver more value for money’; notes that according to the Court, the audited projects provided helpful support to refugees and that most of them achieved their outputs, but half of them had not yet achieved their expected outcomes; notes the Court’s finding that monitoring of the cash-assistance projects under the Facility was limited because the Commission and its UN implementing partners did not have access to primary beneficiary data; welcomes that some of the recommendations of this report have been considered in designing the programming of the second tranche of the FRT; invites the Commission to report further on the implementation of the Court’s recommendations in the context of the discharge procedure;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Insists on the need to ensure that the objectives of the FRT areimplementation of the FRT and Union trust funds is consistent with the EU’s general principles, policies and objectives, including democracy, the rule of law and human rights;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Calls the Commission to monitor continuously whether the Facility is being implemented according to the principles of good financial management, transparency, proportionality, non- discriminatory and equal treatment in full accordance with the right of the European Parliament, to exercise scrutiny and control over the EU funding.
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to better address refugees’ needs for municipal infrastructure and socio-economic support, as well as to ensure access to education, health, protection and other basic needs in order to improve the streamlining and complementarity of the assistance provided to them;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Welcomes the success of the first tranche of the FRT, highlighting specifically the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN), the biggest humanitarian project managed by the Commission; welcomes the progress of the second tranche, allowing for a gradual shift from humanitarian to development assistance;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to address the need to improve the operating environment for civil society organisations and the Turkish authoritieStresses the challenging working environment that non-governmental organisations face in the course of the implementation of the FRT; Invites the Commission to address the need to improve the operating environment for civil society organisations, including through continuing the dialogue with the Turkish authorities on issues involving registration and permits;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the monitoring reports provided through the Facility Results Framework; Underlines the need to make sure strict monitoring exercises and audits are carried out based on clear procedures to ensure compliance with the Financial Regulation; invites the Commission to scale up reporting on the FRT and provide all information necessary for the European Parliament to exercise its right of scrutiny and control; asks it to ensure that these funds specifically target refugeeintended projects and are not used for any other purposes; in this context recalls the importance of accessibility of primary data on beneficiaries and traceability of EU funding and invites the Commission to present the planned strategic mid-term evaluation of the FRT;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Notes with concern that the Covid- 19 crisis led to a significant slowdown in progress on individual Actions and the FRT as a whole, leading to an estimated implementation delay of 3 to 12 months as of June 2020; underlines that, according to the Monitoring Report from November 2021, the most vulnerable refugees working in the informal sector were most impacted; regrets that the suspension of in-person activities such as those in the area of social cohesion, language teaching and psycho-social support disproportionately affected women refugees;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes with appreciation the efforts and measures taken by the EU and its Member States to support refugees in Turkey; regrets, however, the general public’s lack of knowledge about these actionsCalls on the Commission to improve its communication strategy and intensify its contact with the general public to communicate the efforts made by EU to support refugees and host communities in Turkey.