10 Amendments of Monica MACOVEI related to 2012/2167(DEC)
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(ba) The Commission should report on and evaluate the anti-fraud strategies established within each Directorate General following the adoption of the Commission's new Anti-Fraud Strategy1 and the Internal Action Plan2 for its implementation in June 2011;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31a. 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 instruments 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;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Urges all Member States to follow the example ofPoints out that the annual summaries provided by the 15 Member States that have included an ‘overall level of assur"in [their] current form [have] been seen to provide little added value" and that "the compliance statelement’ in their annual summaries for structural actions in the European Social Fund (ESF) and the ERDF*; 1 See the Commission's Synthesis report, point 3.3, in footnote 9 on page 11 of COM(2012)0281. 2 See the reply given by Commissioner Andor to the wrs of the current annual summary simply duplicate information readily available from other sources"2; urges therefore all Member States to increase the usefulness of their annual summaries by including an overall analysis of the results and an overall level of assurance statement to demonstrate their committmen question 18 in preparation of the hearing in the Committee on Budgetary Control on 26 November 2012 together with the 2011 Annual Activity Report - Directorate Gent to the sound financial management of Union funds and transparency; urges in particular all Member States to follow the example of the 15 Member States that have included an "overall Regional Policy, page 84. 3 See the Commisslevel of assurance statement" in their annual summaries for structural action's Synthesis report, point 3.3, in footnote 9 on page 11 of COM(2012)0281.in the European Social Fund (ESF) and the ERDF3;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60
Paragraph 60
60. Notes that numerous errors derive from the incorrect application of national rules (in particular, as regards the ESF errors in 2011, breaches of national rules have contributed 86% of the error rate), and that eligibility error (especially for grant beneficiaries) and breaches of public procurement rules (in particular for shared and indirectly managed funds) are the two main sources of errors;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 87 a (new)
Paragraph 87 a (new)
87a. Welcomes that EUROFISC, a common operational structure allowing Member States to react rapidly to cross- border VAT fraud, became fully operational and notes that a specific working field was created in February 2011 in order to exchange targeted information on fraudulent transactions using the customs procedure 42;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 89
Paragraph 89
89. Welcomes the Commission's Action Plan to strengthen the fight against tax fraud and tax evasion* 1; commends in particular the Commission's proposal to set up a Quick Reaction Mechanism and insists that this would enable Member States to respond more swiftly and efficiently to VAT fraud; stresses that the potential cost of tax evasion and avoidance for EU Member States is estimated to amount to some EUR 1 trillion every year while in comparison, the Union budget for 2011 in terms of appropriations for commitments amounted only to EUR 142,5 billion;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 96 a (new)
Paragraph 96 a (new)
96a. Takes note that Member States recovered from the beneficiaries EUR 172,7 million during financial year 2011, and that the overall outstanding amount still to be recovered from the beneficiaries at year-end was EUR 1 206,9 million of which EUR 458 million have been charged to the Member States for EAGF expenditure in line with the 50/50 rule; acknowledges that around EUR 25,7 million will be borne by the Union budget for cases reported irrecoverable during financial year 2011; points out that DG AGRI cleared all pending non-recovered cases dating from 2006 or 2002 by Decisions 2011/272/EU of 29 April 2011 and that following the application of the 50/50 rule EUR 27,8 million was charged to the Member States while EUR 29,2 million was borne by the Union budget for reasons of irrecoverability;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 133
Paragraph 133
133. In this context draws the attention of the Commission and the Member States to the fact that under the EU 2020 objectives operational programmes should increasingly be designed in such a way that its sub-objectives are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and timely and, consequently, the programme lends itself to performance audits; welcomes in this respect the launch by DG REGIO of its first performance audits on technical assistance and the selection of projects in the water area;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading after paragraph 146 (new)
Subheading after paragraph 146 (new)
Fraud Prevention
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 146 a (new)
Paragraph 146 a (new)