8 Amendments of Monica MACOVEI related to 2011/2212(DEC)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 16
Citation 16
– having regard to its resolutions of 5 July 2011 on increasing the impact of EU development policy , and on the future of EU budget support to developing countries1, __________________ 1 Texts adopted, P7_TA(2011)0317.
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reconfirms its position of supporting EDF budgetisation; strongly believes that this is an indispensable step towards strengthening the democratic control, the accountability, and the transparency of funding and towards providing more coherence in Union policy concerning ACP countries; underlines that budgetisation would reduce transaction costs and would simplify reporting and accounting requirements by having only one set of administrative rules and decision-making structures instead of two; expects the Commission to ensure that the budgetisation is not made on the expenses of a loss of predictability of ACP funding;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26 a. Calls on the Commission to concentrate on the effectiveness of the programmes by checking results against indicators, to publish the conditionalities and performance indicators in Country Strategy Papers and to ensure that Delegations' reports provide a structured and formalised demonstration of public finance management progress by clearly setting the criteria against which progress is to be assessed, the progress made and the reasons why the reform programme may have not been implemented according to plan;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27 a. Recalling that public finance management is one of the criteria for choosing the beneficiaries of budget support, is concerned that only 28 countries1 out of the 102 benefiting of budget support2 have undergone the assessment of this criterion; furthermore, is concerned by the fact that not all these Commission's country assessment reports are available in one of the three main working languages of the Union; __________________ 1 According to the Commission’s official website http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/what/econo mic-support/public- finance/pefa_assesments_en.htm. 2 Reply to written question 23, addressed to Commissioner Piebalgs in the framework of the 2010 EDF discharge, for the hearing on 12 January 2012.
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 b (new)
Paragraph 27 b (new)
27 b. Expects the Commission and the Member States to create a public register in which budget support agreements, procedures and development indicators are transparently listed1; __________________ 1 As requested in the resolution on the future of EU budget support to developing countries, Texts adopted P7_TA(2011)0317, paragraph 52.
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47
Paragraph 47
47. Urges the Commission to ensure that EDF funding is coordinated with other instruments (Food Facility, Food Security Thematic Programme, European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights, Non-State Actors/Local Authorities Thematic Programme, Instrument for Stability, Pilot Project Rural Micro-Finance); calls on the Commission to ensure better coherence and complementarity between humanitarian aid and development aid, both at a policy level and in practice; calls on the Commission, and to put greater emphasis on disaster risk reduction and disaster preparedness, ands well as to strengthen the resilience of the population at risk;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48 a (new)
Paragraph 48 a (new)
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55
Paragraph 55
55. Deplores the fact that the Investment Facility is not covered by the Court of Auditors' Statement of Assurance or the Parliament's discharge procedure even though the operations are conducted by the EIB on behalf of and at the risk of the Union, using EDF resources; finds this to be undesirable politically and for reasons oflacking the full accountability; stresses that these provisions reduce the scope of Parliament's powers of discharge, especially considering that EDF resources are derived from public funds contributed by European taxpayers;