Activities of Marta ANDREASEN related to 2010/0395(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Explanations of vote
Amendments (54)
Amendment 227 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
Amendment 236 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 49
Recital 49
Amendment 239 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 56 a (new)
Recital 56 a (new)
(56a) The readability of this Regulation should be improved by attaching an annex that includes also the names of each article, as well as a glossary of financial terms,
Amendment 242 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 4 – paragraph 1
Part 1 – article 4 – paragraph 1
1. The budget is the instrument which, for each financial year, forecasts and authorisesand its annexes include forecasts of all revenue and expenditure considered necessary for the Union and the European Atomic Energy Communityfinancial year for the Union.
Amendment 246 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 8 – paragraph 6
Part 1 – article 8 – paragraph 6
6. By way of derogation from paragraphs 3, 4 and 5, the expenditure of the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund shall be entered in the accounts for a financial year in accordance with the rules laid down in Title I of Part Two (i.e. articles 160 to 166).
Amendment 250 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 10 – paragraph 1 – point a
Part 1 – article 10 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) external assigned revenue shall be carried over automatically and must be fully used until all the operations relating to the programme or action to which they are assigned have been carried out; external assigned revenue received during the last year of the programme or action may only be used in the first six months of the first year of the succeeding programme or action;
Amendment 251 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 12
Part 1 – article 12
Article 12 Article 12 The appropriations entered in the budget may be committed with effect from 1 January, once the budget has been finally adopted, save as otherwise provided in Title I and Title VI(i.e. articles 160 to 166) and Title VI (i.e. articles 193 to 195) of Part Two.
Amendment 258 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 19 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Part 1 – article 19 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. All individual donations to the Commission exceeding EUR 999 or aggregate donations from one donor in excess of this amount in any one year will be traceable via a dedicated website.
Amendment 260 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 22 – paragraph 1 – point b
Part 1 – article 22 – paragraph 1 – point b
Amendment 261 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 22 – paragraph 1 – point b
Part 1 – article 22 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) from one chapter to another and from one article to another without limiup to 50 % of the original budget.
Amendment 262 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 22 – paragraph 2
Part 1 – article 22 – paragraph 2
2. ThreFive weeks before making the transfers referred to in paragraph 1, the institutions shall inform the budgetary authority of their intentions. In the event of duly substantiated reasobjections being raised within this period by either branch of the budgetary authority, the procedure laid down in Article 24 shall apply.
Amendment 263 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 22 – paragraph 3
Part 1 – article 22 – paragraph 3
Amendment 265 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 22 – paragraph 4
Part 1 – article 22 – paragraph 4
Amendment 270 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 24 – paragraph 1
Part 1 – article 24 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall submit its proposal of transfers simultaneously to the European Parliament and the Council, immediately, with no delay for translation.
Amendment 273 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 26 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3 a (new)
Part 1 – article 26 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3 a (new)
Any concern about possible violations of these three principles will be investigated.
Amendment 278 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 29
Part 1 – article 29
Amendment 286 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 30 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Part 1 – article 30 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
The consolidated annual accounts and the report on budgetary and financial management drawn up by each institution shall be published immediately upon adoption in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Amendment 287 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 31 – paragraph 2
Part 1 – article 31 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission shall make available, in an appropriate manner, information on the recipients of funds - including successful tenderers - deriving from the budget held by it when the budget is implemented on a centralised basis and directly by its departments or by Union Delegations in accordance with the second paragraph of Article 53, and information on the recipients of funds as provided by the entities to which budget implementation tasks are delegated under other modes of management.
Amendment 288 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 34 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Part 1 – article 34 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
The Commission shall submit a proposal containing the draft budget to the European Parliament and the Council, at the latest, by 1 SeptemberJuly of the year preceding that in which the budget is to be implemented.
Amendment 299 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 46 – paragraph 1 – point a – subpoint v
Part 1 – article 46 – paragraph 1 – point a – subpoint v
(v) the expenditure committed and the expenditure paid in year n – 2, the latter also expressed as a percentage of the budget;
Amendment 316 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 56 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Part 1 – article 56 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
As it is not only in the Union's interest but also in that of the Member States, each shall set up an information point where contractors, staff and individuals can go to with indications of irregularities with EU money. These information points will be sufficiently staffed to investigate these indications before deciding to transmit them to OLAF.
Amendment 358 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 57 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Part 1 – article 57 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Member States and the EU institutions and bodies will actively encourage the reporting of suspected irregularities with EU funding.
Amendment 363 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 63 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 2
Part 1 – article 63 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 2
The ex ante controls shall be carried by theout by members of staff other than those responsible for the ex post controls. The members of staff responsible for the ex post controls shall not be subordinate to the members of staff responsible for the ex ante controls.
Amendment 364 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 63 – paragraph 8
Part 1 – article 63 – paragraph 8
8. Any member of staff, involved in the financial management and control of transactions who considers that a decision he is required by his superior to apply or to agree to is irregular or contrary to the principles of sound financial management or the professional rules he is required to observe, shall inform the aAuthorising oOfficer by dDelegation in writing and, if that officer fails to take action,unless the superior in question is the Authorising Officer by Delegation. If that officer fails to take action within a period of three weeks of being informed, or in the event of the officer in question being the Authorising Officer by Delegation, the report should be addressed to the panel referred to in Article 70(6). In the event of any illegal activity, fraud or corruption which may harm the interests of the Union, he shall inform the Member State authorities and bodies designated by the applicable legislation.
Amendment 366 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 65 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Part 1 – article 65 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) preparing and presenting the accounts in accordance with Title IX (i.e. articles 132 to 148);
Amendment 368 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 65 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point f
Part 1 – article 65 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point f
(f) treasury management. He shall ensure that the treasury function is audited every year.
Amendment 369 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 65 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Part 1 – article 65 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
The accounting officer of the Commission shall alsonot act as the accounting officer of the EEAS in respect of the implementation of the EEAS section of the budget, subject to Article 208.
Amendment 370 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 70 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 3
Part 1 – article 70 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 3
Each year, Heads of Union Delegations provide to the authorising officer by delegation of the Commission the reasoned - as opposed to pro forma - assurance on the internal management and control systems put in place in their Delegation, as well as on the management of operations subdelegated to them and the results thereof, in order to allow the authorising officer to establish his statement of assurance, as provided for in Article 63(9).
Amendment 372 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 78 – paragraph 1
Part 1 – article 78 – paragraph 1
Without prejudice to the provisions of specific regulations and the application of the Council Decision relating to the Union's own resources system, entitlements of the Union in respect of third parties and entitlements of third parties in respect of the Union shall be subject to a limitation period of fiveour years.
Amendment 381 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 92 – paragraph 1
Part 1 – article 92 – paragraph 1
Each institution shall establish an internal auditing function which must be performed in compliance with the relevant international standards. The internal auditor appointed by the institution shall be answerable to the latter for verifying the proper operation of budgetary implementation systems and procedures. The internal auditor may not be either authorising officer or accounting officer. To avoid a conflict of interest, the Commission's internal auditor shall not have been a senior accounting officer during the twelve months prior to his appointment.
Amendment 382 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 92 – paragraph 3
Part 1 – article 92 – paragraph 3
Amendment 383 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 93 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Part 1 – article 93 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. The confidential contact details for the internal auditor must be made available to anybody involved in expenditure operations. As anybody involved in expenditure operations has the right to contact the internal auditor, means of contacting internal auditors in a confidential and/or anonymous matter will be made available. The internal auditor has the right to keep the identity of his informants confidential. The internal auditor has the right to inform the discharge authority in any case where either his institution did not follow his proposals or where he deems it useful to have a direct channel of information to the discharge authority. The internal auditor or anybody providing him with information may not suffer any negative consequences from that.
Amendment 385 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 94 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Part 1 – article 94 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. See the first subparagraph of Article 92(1) on avoidance of a possible conflict of interest.
Amendment 386 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 100 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Part 1 – article 100 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Candidates or tenderers shall certify that they are not in one of the situations listed in paragraph 1. However, the contracting authority may refrain from requiring such certification for very low value contracts, as specified in the delegated Regulation referred to in Article 199.
Amendment 388 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 105 – paragraph 4
Part 1 – article 105 – paragraph 4
4. All requests to participate or tenders declared by the opening boarda heterogeneous opening board (not consisting of nationals of one member state) as satisfying the conditions laid down shall be evaluated, on the basis of the criteria provided in the documents relating to the call for tenders, in order to propose to the contracting authority the award of the contract or to proceed with an electronic auction.
Amendment 389 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 107 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Part 1 – article 107 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
A list of the names and amounts of every winning tender shall be published after a tenderer has won the bid.
Amendment 390 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 115 – paragraph 3
Part 1 – article 115 – paragraph 3
Amendment 421 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 127 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Part 1 – article 127 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Details of each subcontractor will be known to the relevant institution's accounting officer, who will be able to reproduce data immediately upon request from the Accounting Officer of the Commission and the discharge authority.
Amendment 422 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 129 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Part 1 – article 129 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Prizes are not the Institutions' core business and they shall only make very restricted use of this means.
Amendment 437 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 133 – paragraph 2
Part 1 – article 133 – paragraph 2
2. The report referred to in paragraph 1 shall give an account, both in absolute terms and expressed as a percentage, at least, of the rate of implementation of the appropriations together with summary information on the transfers of appropriations among the various budget items.
Amendment 441 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 136 – paragraph 1 – point a
Part 1 – article 136 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) the balance sheet and the statement of financial performance, which represent the assets and liabilities (including pension liabilities) and financial situation and the economic result at 31 December of the previous year; they shall be presented in accordance with the relevant accounting rules adopted by the Accounting Officer of the Commission;
Amendment 449 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 141 – paragraph 3
Part 1 – article 141 – paragraph 3
3. The figures and the report on implementation of the budget shall at the same time be sent to the Court of Auditors and published on the internet.
Amendment 451 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 142 – paragraph 1
Part 1 – article 142 – paragraph 1
1. The institution's accounting system is the system serving to organise the budgetary and financial information in such a way that figures can be input, filed and, registered and accessed.
Amendment 452 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 145 – paragraph 3
Part 1 – article 145 – paragraph 3
3. The accounting system must be such as to leave a clear audit trail for all accounting entries.
Amendment 453 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 147 – paragraph 1
Part 1 – article 147 – paragraph 1
1. The budgetary accounts provide a detailed record of budgetarythe implementation of the budget.
Amendment 454 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 149 – paragraph 2
Part 1 – article 149 – paragraph 2
2. Each institution shall inform the Court of Auditors and the budgetary authority of any internal rules it adopts in respect of financial matters within a week of adoption of those rules.
Amendment 455 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 149 – paragraph 3
Part 1 – article 149 – paragraph 3
3. The Court of Auditors shall be informed within a week of the appointment of authorising officers, internal auditors, accounting officers and imprest administrators and of delegation decisions under Articles 53, 65, 66, 67 and 92.
Amendment 459 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 152 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Part 1 – article 152 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
1. The Commission, the other institutions, the bodies administering revenue or expenditure on the Union's behalf and the final beneficiaries of payments from the budget shall afford the Court of Auditors all the facilities and give it all the information which the Court of Auditors considers necessary for the performance of its task. They shall place at the disposal of the Court of Auditors all documents concerning the award and performance of contracts financed by the budget and all accounts of cash or materials, all accounting records or supporting documents, and also administrative documents relating thereto, all documents relating to revenue and expenditure, all inventories, all organisation charts of departments, which the Court of Auditors considers necessary for auditing the budgetary and financial outturn report on the basis of records or on the spot and, for the same purposes, all documents and data created or stored on a magnetic mediumdata carrier.
Amendment 461 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 154 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Part 1 – article 154 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
1. The Court of Auditors shall transmit to the institution or the body concerned any observations which are, in its opinion, such that they should appear in a special report. These observations must remain confidential and, that will become public in year n + 1, are subject to an adversarial procedure.
Amendment 462 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 154 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4
Part 1 – article 154 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4
The special reports, together with the replies of the institutions or bodies concerned, shall be transmitted without delay, including translation delay, to the European Parliament and the Council, each of which shall decide, where appropriate in conjunction with the Commission, what action is to be taken in response.
Amendment 466 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 158 a (new)
Part 1 – article 158 a (new)
Article 158a If in any given year the amount of write- offs is higher than the year before, this issue will need to be discussed by the discharge authority.
Amendment 470 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 2 – article 178 – paragraph 11
Part 2 – article 178 – paragraph 11
Trust funds are created for a limited duration determined in their constitutive agreement. This duration may be extended once by a decision of the Commission upon request of the board.
Amendment 472 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 2 – article 195 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Part 2 – article 195 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
If either branch of the budgetary authority intends to issue an opinion, it shall within twofour weeks after receipt of the information on the building project notify the institution concerned of its intention to issue such an opinion. Failing a reply, the institution concerned may proceed with the planned operation under its administrative autonomy, subject to Article 335 of the TFEU and Article 185 of the Euratom Treaty with regard to Union representation.
Amendment 473 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 2 – article 196
Part 2 – article 196
Article 196 Article 196 The delegated Regulation referred to in Article 199 shall include a specific procedure for the selection of natural persons as experts, for assisting the institutions in the evaluation of grant applications, projects and tenders, and for providing opinion and advice in specific cases. These persons shall be paid on the basis of a fixed amount announced in advance and shall be chosen on the basis of their professional capacity. The selection shall be done on the basis of selection criteria respecting the principles of non- discrimination, equal treatment and absence of a possible conflict of interests.