Activities of Søren Bo SØNDERGAARD related to 2012/2168(DEC)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2011, Section I – European Parliament PDF (288 KB) DOC (278 KB)
Amendments (10)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the added value of the parliamentary procedure leading up to the annual Parliament discharge; reiterates that the Parliament discharge is an additional possibility for exercising, in public, a critical scrutiny of the institution's financial management, thereby facilitating Union citizens' understanding of Parliament's particular governance structure and working methods; reiterates its request to hold a separate plenary debate on Parliament's discharge with the President of the Parliament;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Recommends to follow up the recommendation of the Court of Auditors to request staff to deliver at appropriate intervals documents confirming their personal situation and that it implements a system for the timely monitoring of these documents;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Welcomes the formal decision to discontinue the Prize for Journalism that in 2011 represented an expenditure of EUR 154 205 as proposed by the Committee on Budgetary Control and voted in Plenary in the 2010 discharge report; acknowledges that contacts with journalists were reinforced in the Member States by organising thematic seminars in the capital cities, thereby using the Parliament's existing administrative capacity, while providing journalists with an opportunity to exchange views with Members and to acquire a complete understanding of Parliament's structure and role in the legislative process;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 a (new)
Paragraph 36 a (new)
36 a. Recalls its request to introduce rules to ensure that the General Expenditure Allowance is transparent and that it is used solely for the purpose for which it is intended;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 a (new)
Paragraph 36 a (new)
36a. Calls upon the Secretariat to devote sufficient resources to the control of the Members' documents confirming their personal situation, financial interest and outside activities;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
41. Takes note of the Bureau's adoption, by unanimity, of the ‘New global security concept’ on 6 July 2011 which includes the idea of reserving the various entrances to Parliament for different categories of users; requests to be informed of the implementation of the ‘New global security concept’ by the end of 2013; insists on the continuing reinforcement of security in the Parliament's premises while ensuring easy access for the public;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42 a (new)
Paragraph 42 a (new)
42 a. Requests to receive information from the Secretariat General on the procedure to be followed on the evaluation of the joint transparency register, which is due to take place in 2013, according to the inter-institutional agreement reached in 2011;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44 a (new)
Paragraph 44 a (new)
44a. Insists that the communication budget must be used only to provide citizens with factual information on EU policies; stresses that that also applies to social media activities;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
Paragraph 45
45. Regrets that the audience of Europarl TV, although greater in 2011 as compared with 2010*1 , continues to be very low in the case of direct individual users (excluding viewers through partnership agreements with regional TVs) despite the considerable financing that it still received in 2011, amounting to some EUR 8 000 000 (item 3 2 4 6); regrets further that no cost-benefit evaluation of Europarl TV has being made, despite the fact that this was requested by Parliament in its resolution on the discharge 2010; wbelcomes, howievers, the decision of the Bureau of 12 December 2012 to implement a set of reforms in order to achieve significant savingsin view of the persistent low number of viewers, that Europarl TV should be discontinued;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47 a (new)
Paragraph 47 a (new)
47a. Regrets the fact that until now the Commission has not made clear which part of the costs it will carry relating to the running of the House of European History which makes it impossible for the European Parliament to calculate the precise budgetary consequences in this respect; calls upon the Secretary-General to increase the pressure on the Commission to come up with the required information as soon as possible and at the latest before September 2013;