Activities of Marta ANDREASEN related to 2011/2201(DEC)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2010, Section III – Commission and executive agencies PDF (684 KB) DOC (542 KB)
Amendments (8)
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes the emphasis of matter in relation to a change in the Commission's accounting policy with regard to financial engineering instruments (FEIs), which shows that risks of material misstatements remain, although the accounts have received an unmodified opinion since 2007; calls on the Commission to review regularannually whether the new treatment adopted reflects fairly the underlying reality;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Is worried about this 12 % increase because it reverses the positive trend observed in the past few years;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Notes that the AAR of DG Human Resources provides the following figures for 2010: - 60 appeals were brought before the Civil Service Tribunal by members of the staff; - 767 pre-litigation cases were submitted under Articles 24 (the right for an official to be assisted in proceedings against any person threatening or attacking) and 90 of the Staff Regulations (requests submitted to the Appointing Authority to take a decision and complaints against an act adversely affecting an official); - the discharge year 2010 saw a significant rise in the number of complaints lodged under Article 90(2) (from 490 in 2009 to 653 in 2010); notes that according to the Commission's answer to a written question, between 2006 and 2010 61 complaints were lodged under Article 24 of the Staff Regulations and 28 cases were opened, and that in the same five years zero cases of harassment were acknowledged to have taken place; invites the Commission to specify the categories of Article 24 and Article 90 complaints;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48
Paragraph 48
48. Notes that a high level of outstanding commitments might indicates difficulties experienced by Member States in absorbing the amounts committed;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 63
Paragraph 63
63. Notes that the Court of Auditors applies a common methodology to categorise and quantify public procurement errors in the area of shared management; deplores the fact that the Commission does not follow a harmonised methodology in the different areas of shared management; is worried that different approaches in shared management could undermine the credibility of the control and audit of shared management expenditure; calls therefore on the Commission and the Court of Auditors to harmonise the treatment of public procurement errors in all shared management policy areas;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 104
Paragraph 104
104. Notes that the Court of Auditors considers that ‘the Director-General's declaration and annual activity report only give a partially fair assessment of financial management in relation to regularity for the EDFs and the General Budget of the European Union’ (Annual Report, point 5.34, emphasis added);
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas Europe is faced with a severe budgetary and financial crisis which can lead to aonly increase the already existing crisis of confidence in the Union and whereas it is important that the Commission is a leading example for good public management,
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas the Union more than ever needs a strong, independent and efficient truly external auditorbody of auditors, which means that the Members should never be appointed on a political but only on a professional basis,