14 Amendments of Monica MACOVEI related to 2011/2201(DEC)
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 – indent 5 a (new)
Paragraph 17 – indent 5 a (new)
- unclear eligibility conditions for working capital;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 – indent 5 b (new)
Paragraph 17 – indent 5 b (new)
- possibility for unjustified recourse to preferential private sector treatment;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
43. Is concerned, however, about the Court of Auditors' observations that the Commission has substantially increased the use of pre-financings between 2005 and 2010 (Annual Report, point 1.28) and that there is a lack of clearing of pre-financings (Annual Report, point 1.29 and point 86 of Opinion No 6/2010 of the Court of Auditors); believes the Commission should ensure that clearing of pre- financings is compulsory;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
New subheading after paragraph 50
New subheading after paragraph 50
Budgetary contribution to decentralised agencies and joint undertakings
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50 a (new)
Paragraph 50 a (new)
50a. Notes that the Union contribution for the financial year 2010 amounted to over EUR 620 000 000 to the decentralised Agencies and to over EUR 500 000 000 for the Joint Undertakings; noting some difficulties to find information on the Union contribution for agencies, calls on the Commission to provide annually the discharge authority with consolidated information on the total annual funding per Agency/Joint Undertaking made from the general budget of the Union, such as: - the initial contribution of the Union entered in the budget for the Agency/Joint Undertaking ; - the amount of funds coming from the recovery of surplus; - the overall contribution of the Union for the Agency/Joint Undertaking; - the amount of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA)'s contribution where this applies;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50 b (new)
Paragraph 50 b (new)
50b. Expects the Commission, in such time of financial crisis, to avoid increases in the Agencies' budgets and to even consider reducing the Union contribution to their budgets based on an assessment of its priorities;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50 c (new)
Paragraph 50 c (new)
50c. Invites the Commission to draw up guidelines for templates that could be used by all Agencies/Joint Undertakings to establish their Annual Working Programmes and Annual Activity Reports, in order to ensure meaningful comparison of results against planned objectives;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50 d (new)
Paragraph 50 d (new)
50d. Calls on the Commission to provide the Parliament with a detailed overview of the criteria and verification mechanisms applied to avoid conflict of interest and 'revolving door' cases for Agencies/Joint Undertakings;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 77 a (new)
Paragraph 77 a (new)
77a. Welcomes the clarification brought by the Commission1 regarding the distinction between 'significant deficiency' and 'serious deficiency'; takes note that the assessment which leads to such qualification is based on the guidance note COCOF 08/0019/01-EN, using the key requirements provided therewith; __________________ 1 Reply to question 21, document "Annexe questions to Commissioner Šemeta" made available by the Budgetary Control Secretariat on 16 December 2011, after the hearing of Commissioner Šemeta on 8 December 2011 in the Committee on Budgetary Control.
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 88 a (new)
Paragraph 88 a (new)
88a. Notes that the current system does not ensure a full transparency of the beneficiaries of European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)/Cohesion Fund (CF) support; in the current framework, the Commission provides a portal with access to lists of beneficiaries available on national websites, which are only in the respective national language and without following common criteria; expects the future regulation covering the structural instruments1 to ensure that Member States provide the data on the final beneficiaries of ERDF/CF funds to be published on the Commission's official website in one of the three working languages of the Union and based on a set of common criteria to allow comparison and detection of errors; __________________ 1 2011/0276 (COD).
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 90 a (new)
Paragraph 90 a (new)
90a. Recalls that IACS must ensure that correct and traceable payments are made to farmers; notes however that the effectiveness of IACS is adversely affected by inaccurate data in the databases, incomplete cross checks or incorrect or incomplete follow up of anomalies (Court of Auditors Annual Report, point 3.29); calls on the Commission to ensure that all databases are up to date and all anomalies are properly followed up;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 97
Paragraph 97
97. Reiterates its belief that transparency is one of the main instruments in achieving legal and regular expenditure; calls, therefore, on the Commission to submit as soon as possible a proposal for a new regulation requiring Member States to publish information on legal and natural persons receiving European agricultural funds, while taking into account the judgement of the Court of Justice in Joined Cases Volker and Markus Schecke GbR C- 92/09 and Hartmut Eifert C-93/09; takes the view that this information should be available on the Commission's official website in one of the three working languages of the Union and based on a set of common criteria to allow comparison and detection of errors;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 106 a (new)
Paragraph 106 a (new)