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Activities of Marta ANDREASEN related to 2008/2277(DEC)

Plenary speeches (1)

2007 discharge: EU general budget - Council (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2008/2277(DEC)

Amendments (10)

Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 (to be inserted also into the decision if adopted)
- having regard to the Council's annual report to the discharge authority on internal audits carried out in 2007, of which its competent committee should have received the full version,
2009/10/15
Committee: CONT
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 (to be inserted also into the decision if adopted)
– having regard to the Annual Report of the Court of Auditors on implementation of the budget for the financial year 2007, together with the audited institutions' replies1, 1 OJ C 286, 10.11.2008, p. 1.which contains only one paragraph concerning the Council, Or. en
2009/10/15
Committee: CONT
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 (also to be inserted into the decision if adopted)
- having regard to a summary of the Council's annual report to the discharge authority on internal audits carried out in 2007, bearing in mind that, unlike other documents referred to here, this document was only transmitted to the committee's chairman and the discharge rapporteur,
2009/09/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 (also to be inserted into the decision if adopted)
- having regard to the single paragraph in the Annual Report of the Court of Auditors on the implementation of the budget concerning the financial year 2007, together with the audited institutions'hat relates to the Council, consisting of a mere 31 words, together with the Council's replies*, 1,
2009/09/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new) (also to be inserted into the decision if adopted)
- having regard to the practice whereby Members of the European Court of Auditors including the Member responsible for auditing the Council are politically appointed, which complicates the writing of a thorough and independent report,
2009/09/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new) (also to be inserted into the decision if adopted)
1 OJ C 286, 10.11.2008, p. 1. 2 House of Lords, European Union Committee, 50th Report of Session 2005-06, Fina- having regard to a House of Lords report2, which states that ‘neither the Budget Council nor any other Councial Management and Fraud of the European Union: Perceptions, Facts and Proposals, Volume I, notably points 107 and 108.formation focuses [...]on what happens to the money once it has been spent[...] We consider this lack of Council level consideration to be a serious weakness’, Or. en
2009/09/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 b (new) (also to be inserted into the decision if adopted)
- having regard to the letter the Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs sent to the competent committee on 11 May 2009, which states that ‘Increased transparency is in line with the Council’s principles and should be the basis for the budget management of all EU institutions’,
2009/09/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 - bullet point 7
• whether the Council is ready to meet formally with its competent committee in order to answer questions from its Members,
2009/10/15
Committee: CONT
Amendment 13 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital A (new)
A. whereas the Council failed to clarify important elements, as specified in point 5 of the motion for a resolution,
2009/10/15
Committee: CONT
Amendment 14 #
Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 1
1. GrantRefuses discharge to the Secretary- General of the Council in respect of the implementation of the Council's budget for the financial year 2007;
2009/10/15
Committee: CONT