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14 Amendments of Jens GEIER related to 2014/2075(DEC)

Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Cannot politically ensure that the control procedures put in place in the Commission and the Member States give the necessary guarantees concerning the legality and regularity of all the underlying transactions in agriculture and rural development as demonstrated by the following reservations issued by the Director General of DG AGRI in its annual activity report of 31 March 2014:;
2015/03/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Observes that 14 FEIs have been set up in the Members States under the rural development fund; observes that EUR 443,77 million have been paid out to banks in Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy and Lithuania from the Union budget until the end of 2013; expresses concern that of this amount, not a single euro reached the final beneficiaries; observes that for six financial FEIs set up under the European Fisheries Fund EUR 72,37 million were paid out to banks in Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia and the Netherlands; notes that only in Greece and the Netherlands the available amounts were fully disbursed to the final beneficiaries while in Romania only 72% of the funds were disbursed to the final beneficiary, 23% in Bulgaria , 9% in Estonia and none in Latvia91 ; __________________ 91Information provided by Commission Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva during the discharge procedure.from the Union budget until the end of 2013;
2015/03/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Regrets furthermoreNotes that these instruments are complex and difficult to account for correctly, which also make public scrutiny more challenging; calls on the Commission for transparency and to regularly report on leverage, losses and risks like investment bubbles; urges the Commission to give a full overview of the number of projects financed under each of the financial engineering instruments and the results achieved, and to indicate clearly how much Union budget allocations were used to co- finance these FEI projects;
2015/03/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading after paragraph 35
Worst performing Member Stadeletesd
2015/03/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
36. Welcomes the overview of Union spending in funds managed under shared management in agriculture and cohesion over the 2007-2013 Multiannual Financial Framework published by the Court of Auditors together with its 2013 annual report which partially address Parliament's request expressed in the 2012 discharge resolution for country specific information in shared management;deleted
2015/03/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
39. Asks the Court of Auditors to develop its own country-specific reporting method bearing in mind not only the amounts at risk but also the management and control systems of the Member States together with the corrective mechanisms applied by the Commission and the Member States in order to adequately assess the evolution of the management in the worst performing Member States and recommend the best possible solutions;deleted
2015/03/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44
44. Regrets that the Commission, despite the fact that it was aware since spring 2013 that the changes in the statistical methodology to calculate the GNI contribution would create a big increase in the contributions of certain Member States, insisted on handling this file as a purely technical one94 ; __________________ 94Jacek Dominik' statement on the revision of Member States ' gross national income, Press release, Brussels 27 October 2014 last sentence.deleted
2015/03/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47 – indent 4
– put in place and closely monitor a detailed action plan with clear targets to address the problems in the compilation of Greece's national accounts,deleted
2015/03/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47 – indent 5
– introduce a modification to the proposal (COM (2014)0704) in order to empower the Commission to defer the reimbursement of the amounts in case of ‘negative’ balances and adjustments;deleted
2015/03/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54
54. Is worried about the fact that the error rate with regards to agricultural market measures stands at 7,44% as calculated by the Commission itself; deplores the fact that it is the second highest error rate in a policy area for 2013;
2015/03/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69
69. Notes that according to the data provided in the 2013 annual activity report of DG AGRI103 , the worst performing Member States as regards the recoveries of undue payments are Bulgaria with a recovery rate of 4%, 21% in Greece , 25% in France, 25 % in Slovenia, 27 % in Slovakia and 33 % in Hungary; __________________ 103See 2013 annual activity report of DG AGRI, Annex 10, table 51: ‘new cases open since 2007’.Is concerned about the in parts alarmingly low levels of recoveries and requests a report from the Commission about the causes and the possibilities to achieve improvements;
2015/03/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 115
115. Regrets that in 2013 EUR 397,8 million had to be de-committed, EUR 296,7 million alone from the Czech Republic; considers that de-commitments run counter to sound financial management;deleted
2015/03/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 341 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 140
140. Remains worried about systemic weaknesses in Spanish and Italian management and control systems aggravated by decentralised and devolved state structures;deleted
2015/03/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 439 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 199
199. Is worried about the substantial increase in the number of high officials with grades AD 13 to AD 16 with a monthly income of between EUR 11 700 and EUR 18 500 who used the flexitime scheme in 2013125 ; sees a reputational risk for the Union as it is difficult to explain that overtime is not seen to be included in such high salaries; __________________ 125See Commission Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva's reply to question 48 in the questionnaire.
2015/03/09
Committee: CONT