9 Amendments of Chris DAVIES related to 2013/2196(DEC)
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Stresses that every Member must have an equal right to know how Parliament's financial affairs are managed, and therefore requires the Secretary-General to ensure that copies of all reports prepared by the Internal Audit Service are made available for private inspection by any Member, subject, if necessary, to the removal of references within them that would inappropriately identify specific individuals;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 b (new)
Paragraph 40 b (new)
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 c (new)
Paragraph 40 c (new)
40c. Reiterates its request to propose strict rules applicable to all Members for the use of the General Expenditure Allowance and to make it fully transparent; therefore requests that a system is developed by which Members have to report yearly on their use of this allowance, which will be subject to audit procedures;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 e (new)
Paragraph 40 e (new)
40e. Believes that Parliament is the only European public institution that pays an allowance intended to meet the costs of office administration into private and personal bank accounts without requiring any receipts to be kept or the auditing of the expenditure; suspects that Members would be deeply critical of any other body that so failed to supervise the use of public money; calls on the Secretary- General to propose light touch arrangements to ensure that the General Expenditure Allowance is used for the purpose intended and cannot provide a supplementary private income for Members;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 f (new)
Paragraph 40 f (new)
40f. Requests an evaluation of the daily subsistence allowance for Members concerning its amount and use, and requests that the Bureau revise this implementing measure accordingly to ensure that this allowance is used as cost- efficiently as possible;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 g (new)
Paragraph 40 g (new)
40g. Believes that the register used by Members not attending official meetings of the Parliament to indicate their presence and claim their daily subsistence allowance should be available for signing only during the normal hours of parliamentary business, namely 0900- 1830.
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
41. Notes that Protocol 6, annexed to the Treaties, on the location of the seats of the institutions, decided by common agreement of the governments of the Member States, imposes on Parliament its three working places; notes the call expressed in its resolution of 17 April 2013 on the 2011 discharge for ‘the Secretary-General and the Bureau to provide Members with up-to- date figures and information on the financial and environmental impact of the multiple seat arrangement’ that followed Parliament’s resolution of 6 February 2013 on the guidelines for the 2014 budget procedure and the report on the location of the seats of the European Institutions adopted on 20 November 2013;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
Paragraph 42
42. Recalls that significant historical reasons motivated the seat of the Parliament to be established in its current three places of work and that the question of determination of the seat of an Union institution is the exclusive competence of the Member States; notes in this respect that any decision to change the seats arrangement of Parliament would require a change of the Treaties, a decision which would have to be taken unanimously by the Member States; recalls that with the adoption of the report on the location of the seats of the Europeans institutions, Parliament has taken its first step in invoking Article 48 of the Treaty on European Union;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 59 a (new)
Paragraph 59 a (new)
59a. Expresses concern that despite the expense of equipping Parliament with state-of-the-art studios and its employment of a large team of communications professionals, media coverage of the Parliament's work may be discouraged by the requirement that broadcasters using Parliament's studios pay satellite charges; requests the Secretary-General to assess whether a change in arrangements would promote greater coverage of parliamentary debates and discussions involving Members and to report thereafter;