Activities of Ramona Nicole MĂNESCU related to 2011/2201(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2010, Section III, Commission
Amendments (3)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the non-compliance with both public procurement rules and eligibility rules accounts for a high proportion of the estimated error rate (31 % and 43 %, respectively); notes in this context the recommendation of the Court of Auditors to identify areas for further simplification; underlines the need for the Commission to simplify the rules in order to ensure more user-friendly procedures and not to discourage potential beneficiaries from participating in projects; calls on the Member States to simplify their national provisions, which very often add an administrative burden not required by the Union rules;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Regrets the deficiencies in the financial engineering instruments' implementation, namely in respect of the lack of compliance with regulatory requirements in making the contribution from the operational programmes to the funds implementing such instruments, as well as deficient reporting and verification requirements in force; notes that the potential of the financial engineering instruments should be further developed so to allow the development of qualitative strategic projects and the participation of private actors, especially SMEs, and capital into European projects; calls on the Commission to simplify these instruments' rules, as their current complexity limits their use;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that in a great number of transactions affected by error Member States' authorities had sufficient information to detect and apply corrective measures prior to certification.; calls on the Commission to reinforce its assistance to Managing Authorities (MAs), given that the majority of errors occur at the first level control, through targeted workshops, guidance notes, circulation of best practices and training of officials responsible for management; notes that a constant monitoring of the actual transfer of training measures targeted at the MAs should be established in order to check that knowledge is actually being passed on, giving special attention to the local level;