7 Amendments of Monika HOHLMEIER related to 2021/2251(INI)
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the Recovery and Resilience Scoreboard that provides an overview of the progress made in the implementation of the NRRPs and thereby fosters the transparency, public scrutiny and accountability of the Facility; calls, however, for including more detailed and regional information about the implementation of the milestones and targets in the scoreboard; encourages the Commission to directly transfer the data regarding the implemented milestones and targets into the scoreboard in a timely manner and without any undue delay;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls that irregularities mayshould lead to the reduction of financial contributions or the recovery of funds by the Commission;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that the Commission, the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), the Court of Auditors and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) may exercise their rights laid down in Article 129(1) of the Financial Regulation with regard to the Facility; asks the Commission to provide information about the measures ensuring the early detection of the abuse of EU funds; reiterates the important role of EPPO, OLAF, Europol, and Eurojust in supporting Member States and the Commission to protect the financial interests of the Union during the implementation of NGEU; highlights the NGEU Law Enforcement Forum as well as Operation Sentinel, which in a cooperative manner shall help to prevent and counter threats against the NGEU funds and map vulnerabilities in national allocation systems;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission to encourage Member States to use ARACHNE and, in the meantime, to make sure that the alternative measures to risk- score the entities and individuals involved in implementation of the Facility are equivalent to ARACHNE; calls on the Commission to make sure that, in addition to the information on the beneficiaries of the programme, data on beneficial owners is also collected by the Member States; urges the Commission to establish an integrated,interoperable system building on, but not limited to existing tools, such as ARACHNE and EDES which contains information on all EU co-financed projects, beneficiaries and beneficial owners; stresses the need to harmonise the indicators in ARACHNE with the exclusion grounds of EDES to ensure that excluded economic operators are also visible in ARACHNE; calls for maximum interoperability between ARACHNE, EDES and other software to reduce the need to insert information items into various IT-systems multiple times and keep the administrative burden as low as possible; underlines that this integrated and interoperable system must enable to aggregate all individual amounts received by the same beneficiary or beneficial owner into one total sum;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to report on its assessment of the capacity of national audit systems to prevent, detect and correct corruption, fraud and conflicts of interest, and to ensure compliance with national and Union rules; stresses that, in the event of inadequacies in the national audit systems, the milestones or targets suggested by the Commission to address these inadequacies must be appropriately explained in the annual report on the implementation of the Facility; notes that Spain, France, Greece and Italy, for which the Commission assessment of a first payment request is available, have milestones related to the national audit and control systems;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Reiterates its concern that the Commission only audits the achievement of milestones and targets before paying out RRF funds while leaving it to the Member States to ensure that public procurement or state aid rules have been complied with; notes that the Commission will carry out system audits to ensure that the Member States have put in place strong controls for the protection of the Union’s financial interests against conflicts of interest or serious irregularities; is, however, of the opinion that the Commission as Guardian of the Treaties should not only rely on Member States’ audits on compliance with applicable rules to ensure an equal playing field for investments under the RRF; calls therefore on the Commission to extend its audit activities beyond system audits to include checks on public procurement and state aid rules following its risk-based approach particularly in Member States where severe or systemic weaknesses have repeatedly been detected; recalls in this regard the severe loopholes in the national legislation in certain Member States regarding efficient controls and prevention of conflicts of interests, such as Romania, Bulgaria, Czechia, Slovakia, Malta and Cyprus as well as Greece and Italy;
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Recalls that Member States are required to set up a robust control system in order to guarantee the protection of the financial interests of the Union and to prevent fraud and tackle corruption, and that the Commission is responsible for assuring that these systems are in place before the first payments are approved; reiterates the important role of EPPO, OLAF, Europol, and Eurojust in supporting Member States and the Commission to protect the financial interests of the Union during the implementation of NGEU; highlights the NGEU Law Enforcement Forum as well as the Operation Sentinel, which in a cooperative manner shall help to prevent and counter threats against NGEU funds and map vulnerabilities in national allocation systems;