1 Amendments of Neena GILL related to 2018/2166(DEC)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
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3. SWelcomes the ECA´s special report 22/2017 on EU election observation missions (EOM) and the efforts made to ensure the rapid and full implementation of its recommendations by the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS); stresses the importance of continuing to improve the rationalisation and sound financial management, together with a better budgeting of the expenditure for individual EU election observation missionOMs, notably regarding reoccurring procurement by service providers’ procurement costs for technical equipment and visibility material; calls upon the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS); encourages the Commission to foster more competition between service providers as a way to bring down costs; invites the Commission and the EEAS to engage in a reflection to reon how to further reinformce the current systemefficiency and effectiveness of the approach taken;