Activities of Søren Bo SØNDERGAARD related to 2012/2169(DEC)
Plenary speeches (2)
2011 discharge: European Council and Council (debate)
2011 discharge
Shadow reports (2)
SECOND REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2011, Section II – European Council and Council PDF (164 KB) DOC (78 KB)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2011, Section II – European Council and Council PDF (142 KB) DOC (89 KB)
Amendments (19)
Amendment 2 #
Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Grants/rRefuses to grant the Secretary- General of the Council discharge in respect of the implementation of the European Council's and the Council's budget for the financial year 2011;
Amendment 2 #
Proposal for a decision 1
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Grants the Secretary-General of the Council discharge in respect of the implementation of the European Council's and the Council's budget for the financial year 2011; / Postpones its decision on granting the Secretary-General of the Council discharge in respect of the implementation of the European Council's and the Council's budget for the financial year 2011;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Welcomes, however, that the Presidency in office of the Council accepted Parliament's invitation to the debate held in plenary on 17 April 2013 on the 2011 discharge reports; endorses the Presidency's openness to develop a fruitful cooperation between Parliament and the Council to find mutually acceptable solution to the outstanding concerns with the preparation of the discharge;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Highlights the role that the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union gives the Parliament in respect of the budget discharge;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. AcknowledgNotes the Irish Presidency's proposal to establish an interinstitutional working group to negotiate possible solutions to the Council's discharge; looks to the Lithuanian Presidency for a specific proposal;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Notes that, contrary to what the Council has claimed, there is no Parliament-Council ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ concerning discharge for the Council;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Invites the European Council and the Council to send Parliament theirReiterates its hope that Parliament will receive the complete annual activity report withincluding a comprehensive overview of all the human resources available to both institutions, broken down by category, grade, gender, nationality and vocational training; points out that the legal service of the Parliament as well as independent legal experts agree that Parliament has a right to information;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Hopes that Parliament will receive the internal budget decisions of the Council;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. CongratulatesTakes note of the fact that the Council onhas takingen measures to improve the performance of the ‘Europa building’ project, and in particular on having set up a permanent team to follow the carrying-out of the project together with the reporting plan and the creation of a document platform;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Council to provide a thorough written explanation detailing the total amount of appropriations used in the purchase of the Résidence Palace building, the budget items from which these appropriations were drawn, the instalments that have been paid thus far, the instalments that remain to be paid, and the purpose that the building will serve no later than 1 July 2013;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Is interested in receiving moreCalls on the Council to submit all information on the Service Level Agreements established with the EEAS and the concrete measures taken to promote administrative modernisation; is of the opinion that the Council's human resources management has not been efficient enough;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Considers that effective supervision of the Union's budget implementation requires cooperation between Parliament and the Council through a working arrangement; regrets the difficulties encountered in previous discharge proceduresRegrets that the Council continues to refuse to answer the questions of the Parliament, and considers that effective supervision of the Union's budget implementation requires that the Council is willing to have an open and formal dialogue with Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Reiterates that the Parliament is still waiting for the reply of the Council on the actions and request for documents set out in its resolution of 10 May 20121; calls on the Secretary-General of the Council to provide Parliament's committee responsible for the discharge procedure with comprehensive written answers to these questions;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Reiterates that it is only possible to implement effective budgetary control through the cooperation of Parliament and the Council, the main elements of which must comprise: formal meetings between representatives of the Council and the parliamentary committee competent to grant discharge, answering questions put by the committee's members on the basis of a written questionnaire, and submitting documents to serve as background material for budgetary controls on request; 1the expenditure of the Council must be scrutinised in the same way as that of other institutions; is of the opinion that the fundamental elements of such scrutiny are laid down in its resolution of 23 October 20121; Or. en OJ L 350, 20.12.2012, p. 71.
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Regrets the difficulties encountered in discharge procedures for the 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 financial years, which were due to lack of cooperation from the Council; points out that the Parliament refused to grant discharge to the Secretary-General of the Council in respect of the implementation of the Council's budget for the financial years 2009 and 2010 for the reasons set out in its resolutions of 10 May 20111, 25 October 20112, 10 May 20123 and 23 October 20124;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Recalls that, during negotiations on a revised Financial Regulation, no agreement could be reached on ways in which the discharge procedure could be improved; believes that if the Council continues to refuse to cooperate with the Parliament, Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control is forced to introduce to the Commission its questions and request for information about the budget of the Council;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. RegDeplorets that not all the Union institutions respect the same standards in relation to transparency; believes that the Council cshould make improvements in that regard; is convinced that Parliament and the Council, as joint legislators, should apply the same standards of transparency.