14 Amendments of Nedzhmi ALI related to 2016/2151(DEC)
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas Union spending is a significant instrument for achieving Europe-wide policy objectives utilising the European added value and on overage represents 1.9% of Union Member states general government expenditure;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Welcomes Commissioner Oettinger’'s intention to bring the various shadow budgets, in the long run, back under the Union budgeroof of the Union budget, as the Commission would be answerable to the European Parliament; Calls on the Commission to prepare a communication on this issue before November 2017;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Points out that five Member States (Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, Poland and Romania) accounted in 2015 for more than half of the unused commitments of Structural Funds that have not led to payment;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Notes with concernWelcomes that if the corrective measures taken by the Member States and the Commission had not been applied to the payments audited by the Court, lowered the overall estimated level of error would have been 4,3% rather than 3,8from 4,3% to 3,8 %; notes however that if the Commission, authorities in the Member States or independent auditors had made use of all information available to them, they could have prevented, or detected and corrected a significant proportion of the errors before the related payments were made;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53
Paragraph 53
53. Deeply regretNotes that the director general of Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, as in previous years, continues to issue a horizontal reservation covering all payments and cost claims under the 7th Framework Programme (FP7); calls on the director generalCommission to develop, at long last, a more meaningful, risk based approach and use specific reservations when needed;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 71
Paragraph 71
71. Regrets that the Court found that the current setup does not enable the CommissionSupports the Commission's view that it is not necessary to monitor and report separately the spending and performance of research and development (R&D) and innovation within Horizon 2020; in addition, while the financial contribution of Horizon 2020 within Europe 2020 is well established in the budgetary process through the published programme statements, it is regrettable thatnvites the Commission has not yeto reported on the implementation of Horizon 2020 and its contribution to Europe 2020 in a meaningful way as the results of the programme become available;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 92
Paragraph 92
92. Regrets that that the target to invest 3% of Member States’' gross domestic product (GDP) into research by 2020 will most likely not be met; is aware, that the majority of all Research and Innovation expenditure in the EU is, at the national and regional level in Member States and through the private sector, where the Commission plays the role of a catalyst and facilitator, encouraging increased and smarter investment in research and innovation by Member States and the business sector through working with the Member States and the development of appropriate policies of open science and open innovation; calls on the Commission to draw the necessary conclusions for the mid-term revision of the MFF and for the next MFF;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 110
Paragraph 110
110. Regrets furthermoreNotes that the first monitoring report on Horizon 2020 gave only little information about synergy effects between the programme and structural funds88 ; invites the Commission to report on these synergy effects as results of the programme become available; _________________ 88 European Court of Auditors, Annual Report 2015, point 3.22
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 111
Paragraph 111
111. Also regretnotes that, according to the Court89 , Horizon 2020 is not sufficiently performance driven; welcomes the Commission's commitment to improve the work programmes, including their role in performance reporting; _________________ 89 European Court of Auditors, Annual Report 2015, Section 3
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 113
Paragraph 113
113. Calls on the Member States to make an extra effort with the view to meeting the target of 3 % GDP being invested in research; this would boost excellence and innovation; ask the Commission to explore the possibility of setting the target of 3 % GDP being invested in research as a prerequisite for using EU funding relevant to research and innovation during the mid-term revision of the MFF and for the next MFF;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 121
Paragraph 121
121. Notes, however, that very few programmes had a focus on results or measured impact; therefore little to nothing is known about the sustainability and the European added value of the investments;
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 151
Paragraph 151
Amendment 288 #
Czech paying agenconformity clearance inquiry
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 172
Paragraph 172
172. Asks the Commission to speed up theall conformity clearance procedures opened on 8 January 2016and to get detailed and precise pieces of information related to them, especially on the risk of a conflict of interest concerning the State Agricultural Intervention Fund in the Czech Republic; is aware that in 2015 the Commission adopted 3 such conformity clearance decisions covering 207 individual net financial corrections for a total amount of EUR 2 551.7 million; takes note that a failure to remedy a conflict of interest may ultimately result in the withdrawal of the accreditation of the paying agency by the competent authority or in imposing financial corrections by the Commission and asks the Commission to inform the Parliament without delay if at the end of theany conformity clearance procedure information related to possible cases of fraud, corruption or any illegal activity affecting the financial interests of the EU are transmitted to OLAF by DG AGRI;