2 Amendments of Gabriele STAUNER related to 2007/2040(DEC)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes with satisfaction the adoption by the ECJ in July 2007 of a code of conduct applying to Members and former Members of the Court of Justice, the Court of First Instance and the Civil Service Tribunal, including an obligation to submit a declaration of financial interests to the President of the Court of Justice; stresses, however, its repeated request, in the interest of transparency, even in the absence of legal requirement at present, for the publication of thesconcrete declarations, for example on the ECJ's website;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Recalls that in point 35 of its Special Report No 2/2007 concerning the Institutions' expenditure on buildings the Court of Auditors commented as follows on the financing arrangements for the building of the extension to the Court of Justice in Luxembourg: '(...) the Court of Justice was not involved in the tender and the detailed negotiation of the contract - whose clauses and options it did not agree in advance - and it is not signatory to the financing contracts even though it will have to bear the financial costs (e.g. interest rates, management charges). The Court of Justice's departments examined the procedure followed by the government for awarding the contract concerning the financing of the project and pointed out that there had been a lack of appropriate competition (...)'; calls on the Commission to submit, by July 2008 at the latest, the findings of the further investigations into possible breaches of the directives on public procurement announced in connection with the Court of Justice extension project in its answer to Written Question E-4016/2007;