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Shadow opinions (1)

OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2016, Section III - Commission and executive agencies
2016/11/22
Committee: AFET
Dossiers: 2017/2136(DEC)
Documents: PDF(185 KB) DOC(67 KB)

Amendments (1)

Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. While welcomingNotes the progress achieved, notes that 4 out of 10 civilian missions under the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) have not yet been recognised by the Commission as compliant with Article 60 of the Financial Regulation; urges the Commission to step up work in order to accredit all civilian CSDP missions, in line with the ECA’s recommendation, allowing them to be entrusted with budget implementation tasks under indirect management.criticizes civilian CSDP missions in general since the purely civilian nature of such missions have to be questioned in many cases against the background that as a matter of fact civilian and military aspects are increasingly blurred and merged in particular within Security Sector Reform (SSR) and training missions and are therefore at odds with the provision of Art. 41(2) TEU; further sees the budget implementation through indirect management for civilian CSDP missions as critical, as only the Member State concerned is responsible for publishing data on the beneficiaries of the funds it administers under indirect management; is therefore concerned that parliamentary control could be further undermined;
2017/12/07
Committee: AFET