Activities of Michail TREMOPOULOS related to 2009/2167(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION Protection of the Communities' financial interests -Fight against fraud- annual report 2008
Amendments (5)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers the overall increase of the reported irregularities as a sign of the effort made by the Member States to improve their control systems and is confident that the new provisions established by the Structural Funds Regulations for the period 2007-2013 will help to reduce the level of irregularities in the next years. Notes, however, that since the assessments of the effective functioning of the management and control systems in 545 operational programmes made by the Directorates- General for Regional Policy and Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities of the Commission conclude that in 2008 only 31% of these systems worked well, and that considerable efforts by the Member States to improve the performance of their management and control systems are needed;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Takes note also that according to the European Court of Auditor's report on the implementation of the 2008 budget a major part of the estimated error rate is attributable to eligibility errors; stresses that for some of these risk errors, like eligibility issues and the breaches of public procurement rules, the Commission should not only target its own audit work at them, but also set up a preventive guidance to Member States and their regional and local authorities on how to correctly apply these rules;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Takes note of the reply to observation 6.17 of the Court of Auditors in which the Commission states that most of the projects with high quantifiable errors are concentrated in only three Member States and urges the Commission to take appropriate remedial measures towards these Member States;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Insists that the Commission curtails the practice highlighted by the Court of Auditors whereby Member States replace without effective ex-ante verification ineligible expenditure rejected by the Commission with new expenditure which is also ineligible;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Urges the Commission and the Member States to act with full responsibility and strengthen their efforts to avoid irregularities, administrative errors and failings and asks for a better demarcation between the concepts of irregularity and suspected fraud. Urges the Member States to step up judicial reform and the fight against fraud and urges the Commission to take corrective actions where irregularities are detected and to ensure that new errors do not stem from this process;