3 Amendments of Marie-Thérèse SANCHEZ-SCHMID related to 2010/2142(DEC)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that cohesion funds are subject to particularly complex rules and are implemented differently from other EU spending areas, which makes them more vulnerable to errors; draws attention to the fact that the error rate in cohesion spending remains the highest of all EU payments with greater than 5 % in 2009; is aware of thehighlights, nonetheless, the major decrease in the error rate in comparison to 2008;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. In the context of the revision of the Financial Regulation, stresses the need to harmonise rules and management schemes for cohesion programmes under shared management, where it is demonstrated that this can bring improvements, while retaining procedures that have proved effective; notes that any governance problem between the Financial Regulation and the cohesion regulations can be avoided by better alignment of eligibility rules across various policies;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to consider the advisability of developing the 'contract of confidence’ principle so as to be able to scale down checks on systems that have proved their worth in combating errors and fraud;