2 Amendments of Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA related to 2016/2151(DEC)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
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1. Acknowledges that the Annual Report of the Court of Auditors (the ‘Court’) for 2015 found that the estimated error rate in Cohesion Policy decreased from 5,7 % in 2014 to 5,2 % in 2015; highlights the reduced level of error for the 2007-2013 programming period compared to the 2000-2006 period, which is a result of the strengthened management and control systems of Member States and the corrective measures taken by the Commission; reminds that the Commission should ensure legal consistency between State aid rules applying to ESI Funds and public procurement rules in order to ensure that monitoring and evaluation requirements are focused on the information really needed to determine the performance and results of the programmes, and to avoid adding extra reporting burdens on the beneficiaries; highlights, moreover, that the Commission should review the reporting requirements and the indicators in the fund-specific regulations and those elements that do not reflect a result-driven approach should be deleted or frequency of collection of such data should be reduced to avoid double reporting;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
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3. Urges the Commission through the HLG1 to pay specific attention to national eligibility rules in its audit of national management and control systems, helping Member States to simplify them; urges the Commission to clarify the notion of recoverable VAT by providing guidancesimplified and effective guidance; expresses its concern regarding the relevance of interpretation and guidance notes as well as questions & answers documents, highlights, that these should be limited, so they do not become another layer of de facto legislation, and replaced by a wide dissemination of good practices; _________________ 1 High Level Group of Independent Experts on Monitoring Simplification for Beneficiaries of the European Structural and Investment Funds