5 Amendments of Iuliu WINKLER related to 2015/2128(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission to prepare an impact study concerning payment discontinuation, both on the Member States and with regard to the effects on the delay of the cohesion policy.
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes, on the one hand, that once again cohesion policy is not the area with the highest number of irregularities reported as fraudulent, and, on the other hand, that the largest proportion of such irregularities in this policy area concern the European Regional Development Fund; calls on the Commission to prepare an impact study on the impact of the irregularities related to the delays in the implementation of the cohesion policy.
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that measures to detect irregularities continue to vary between Member States, mainly on account of differing definitions of irregularities; calls on the Commission to impose all Member States to adopt the same concepts when defining errors and the distinction between error and fraud; welcomes the preventive and corrective measures taken by the Commission to avoid fraudulent irregularities, including by interrupting 193 payments under the cohesion policy;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that the Common Provisions Regulation requires managing authorities to put in place effective and proportionate anti-fraud measures; calls on the Commission to reinforce preventive action, in particular by strengthening the technical and administrative capacities of managing authorities to ensure more robust control systems able to reduce the risks of fraud and increase detection capacity; welcomes the establishment of the system for the early detection of irregularities and calls on the Member States to implement an emergency mechanism for dealing with deficiencies.
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Appreciates the Commission’s decision to carry out a mid-term assessment in 2018 in order to establish whether the new regulatory architecture for the cohesion policy prevents fraud and reduces the risk of irregularities; calls on the Council to endorse the proposal for a directive on the fight against fraud to the EU’s financial interests by means of criminal law. Calls on the Commission to adopt a coordinated regulatory framework for the Member States concerning the recovery of the damages, in order to increase the solvency of beneficiaries.