Activities of Michael THEURER related to 2013/2195(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on Discharge 2012: EU general budget - European Commission
Amendments (15)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that there is an important difference in the type of errors and a distinction should be drawn between major errors, such as overpayment/underpayment or fraud, and minor and clerical errors, since only 0.42% of errors were reported by Member States to be a consequence of frauReminds Member States that for 56% of the regional policy transactions affected by errors the European Court of Auditors considered that sufficient information was available to Member States authorities to have detected and fcor ERDF, Cohesion Fund and ESF programmes rected one or more of the errors before certifying the 2007-2013 programming perexpenditure to the Commissiodn;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the cumulative financial corrections and recoveries implemented to the end ofin 2012 for ERDF, Cohesion Fund and ESF programmes, in the curre amount to more than EUR 3 billion, and that the individual amounts programming period, amounts to 0.2%er policy area represent 8.8% of the ERDF payments, 2.2% of the Cohesion fund payments and 3.8% of the ESF payments;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the new rules for the 2014- 2020 programming period, decided through the co-decision procedure, including measures such as the designations of audit and certifying authorities, accreditations of audit authorities, audit examination and acceptance of accounts, financial corrections and net financial corrections, proportional control, ex-ante conditionalities that aim to further contribute to the reduction of the level of error; reminds that the audit shall be performance-oriented.
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Heading 1
Heading 1
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Heading 1 - Subheading 1
Heading 1 - Subheading 1
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that, according to the Communication from the Commission on Protection of the European Union budget86 , eight Member States are responsible for 90 % of the financial corrections in the fields under shared management; urges the Commission therefore to direct its particular attention to those countries; __________________ 86 COM(2013) 682, 26 September 2013.
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Heading 1 - Subheading 4
Heading 1 - Subheading 4
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Acknowledges, as the Commission over and over indicates, that around 80% of the funds are being spend under shared management; nevertheless recalls that TFUE article 317 stipulates that the Commission bears the ultimate responsibility for the implementation of the budget;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Commission, in its annual activity reports, to indicate how its own risk analyses have influenced the use of its own audit capacities, which countries were concerned and whether the shortcomings were remedied; calls for more direct audits of random samples taken from national granting authorities and final beneficiaries; furthermore urges the Commission to look at positive incentives vis-a-vis Member States that have low error rates for example by adjusting audit sample sizes;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32a. Calls on the Member States which did not already introduce a voluntary Member State Declaration to do so on the basis of the management declaration as foreseen by Article 59 of the Financial Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012; urges the Commission to establish the template for the management declaration as soon as possible; reiterates in this respect the ongoing work of the interinstitutional working group on Member State Declarations which for its result is very dependent on the new content of the management declarations;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Heading 1 - Subheading 8
Heading 1 - Subheading 8
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35a. Asks the Commission for a concise and comprehensive action plan that could also be endorsed by the new Commission in order to effectively respond to the reservations expressed in this discharge resolution;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54
Paragraph 54
54. Welcomes the fact that the Commission succeeded in rapidly imposing a significant number of financial corrections in 2012 whilst many financial corrections are in general made many years after initial disbursement of funds; is critical of the fact that the EU budget incurs additional administrative costs and losses of revenue and interest due to excessively protracted procedures, considers effective ex-ante controls a better way of protecting the Union budget than ex post financial corrections;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 65 a (new)
Paragraph 65 a (new)
65a. Regrets that the Commission continues to ignore Parliament's long standing request to add the individual Commissioner's signature to the annual activity reports of his/her related Directorate-General for which he/she is responsible; notes that the synthesis report is adopted by the College of Commissioners, but deems this unsatisfactory in the light of democratic accountability principles;