15 Amendments of Martin EHRENHAUSER related to 2009/2069(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes the general concept of 'corporategood governance' as a set of processes, customs, policies and rules affecting the way a company or institution is directed, administered and controlled’, particularly its inherent principles of administrative transparency, efficiency, participation and responsibility, with the aim of reducing costs and improving output for the benefit of the groups concerned;
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Views the prevention and investigation of corruption as a fundamental precondition of 'good governance';
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – introductory part
Paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Draws the attention to the need urgently to introduce a clear and transparent corporatesystem of governance system in Parliament, defined as a set of responsibilities and practices exercised by Parliament's principal decision-makers (the Bureau, the Secretary-General and senior line management), with the aim of:
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that key elements of a good corporatesystem of governance include honesty and integrity, transparency and openness, responsibility and accountability and some degree of independence from top management on the part of the persons entrusted with corporate governance in an organisation;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that Parliament is a complex organisation in which the boundary between political and administrative decisions and responsibilities is not always clear due to the multilayered character of the institution's governance structure and the fact that high- level administrative decision-makers are not alwaysusually appointed on the basis ofnot for their managerial capabilities alone, but rather on the basis of their position of trust within a political group;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Invites the competent services, therefore, to review and reinforce the minimum internal control standards in order to include lessons learned and to keep in line with developments in risk management and corporate governance; recalls that authorising departments are under an obligation to respect the standards in developing their internal control systems and implementing measures; invites the competent services to seek the opinion of its Committee on Budgetary Control before the revised minimum internal control standards is sent to the Bureau for review and approval;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Emphasises the decisive importance to Parliament's credibility of ensuring that the EU rules on public procurement, agreed with significant input from Parliament, are properly and rigorously applied;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 b (new)
Paragraph 28 b (new)
28b. Welcomes and supports the European Ombudsman's efforts to ensure that the rules on the award of public contracts are properly applied and that errors and infringements are investigated and corrected, because only in this way can transparency and fairness be guaranteed;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 c (new)
Paragraph 28 c (new)
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 d (new)
Paragraph 28 d (new)
28d. Points to Special Report No 2/2007 of the Court of Auditors, in which the Court reviewed the procedure for the Willy Brandt and Jószef Antall buildings and found that in place of the competitive tendering normally envisaged by the Financial Regulation and the directives on public procurement, the method of 'negotiated procedure' (without advertising) had been used, which meant that the prices paid 'have not been determined under conditions of open competition' (Report, paragraph 23, Official Journal C 148 of 2.7.2007, page 1);
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 e (new)
Paragraph 28 e (new)
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 f (new)
Paragraph 28 f (new)
28f. In the light of the C-536/07 judgment and on the basis of Article 103 of the Financial Regulation, calls on the Praesidium of Parliament to investigate whether sums already paid to private contractors for the Willy Brandt and Jószef Antall buildings might not be recovered if tendering rules have been infringed;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 68 a (new)
Paragraph 68 a (new)
68a. Calls on the Secretary-General, the Director-General for Personnel and the Director-General for Innovation and Technological Support to look at how far use might be made of new video- conferencing technologies as a way of reducing the cost of missions; points especially to the use of Open Source software as a secure and cheap way of conducting video conferences;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 68 b (new)
Paragraph 68 b (new)
68b. Calls on the Secretary-General and the Director-General for Personnel to end the system of flat-rate reimbursement of mission expenses and replace it with a system whereby only costs actually incurred are reimbursed; points in this context to the need to encourage staff to choose less expensive travel and accommodation options, perhaps by publishing individuals' mission expenses on Parliament's website so that they are fully transparent;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 75
Paragraph 75
75. Recalls – as stated in paragraph 104 of its resolution of 23 April 2009 accompanying the discharge decision in respect to the financial year 2007 – that the Members' additional voluntary pension scheme (the fund) originally should have been established as a self-governing entity outside the structure of Parliament and; takes the view that ultimate financial responsibility for the fund should be carriedis borne by the fund and its members and not by Parliament and that tax money may not be used to cover any losses of this fund;