Activities of Søren Bo SØNDERGAARD related to 2011/2201(DEC)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010, Section III – Commission and executive agencies PDF (684 KB) DOC (542 KB)
Amendments (6)
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51 a (new)
Paragraph 51 a (new)
51a. Criticises that the Council used Article 122 TFEU in 2010 for setting up the European Stability Facility (EFSF) because that Article is only applicable for natural disasters and not for economic catastrophes;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51 b (new)
Paragraph 51 b (new)
51b. Is concerned about the fact that the European Stability Facility (EFSF) and the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) contain neither any elements of democratic control by Parliament nor audit control by the Court of Auditors; strongly criticises that the EFSF has not even a provision for external public audit;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51 c (new)
Paragraph 51 c (new)
51c. Underlines the warning of Parliament in its resolution of 23 March 20111 against establishing the permanent European Stability Mechanism (ESM) outside the Union institutional framework as this decision entails problems for the control mechanism of the institutions of the Union and it constitutes a high risk for the whole budget of the Union due to the fact that a part of the ESM and EFSF funds are guaranteed by the Commission's budget; 1 European Parliament resolution of 23 March 2011 on the draft European Council decision amending Article 136 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union with regard to a stability mechanism for Member States whose currency is the euro (P7_TA(2011)0103).
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53 a (new)
Paragraph 53 a (new)
5 a. Criticises that the current EFSF framework foresees neither any element of political control by Parliament, nor any financial control or audit by the Court of Auditors; is of the opinion that the political control of the EFSF currently exercised by national parliaments is insufficient and is far from a proper control of this program;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53 b (new)
Paragraph 53 b (new)
53b. Is concerned about the fact that the new European Stability Mechanism (ESM) contains no reference to any form of control by Parliament or audit competences by the Court of Auditors;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53 c (new)
Paragraph 53 c (new)
53c. Is concerned about the fact that the Court of Auditors did not pay sufficient attention to these new challenges in the Union in its annual report on 2010; especially deplores that the Court of Auditors did not mention these risks for the Union budget in a sufficient way; underlines that the Court of Auditors has to give the new European Stability Mechanism a prominent role in its further work;