Activities of Georgios STAVRAKAKIS related to 2011/2201(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2010, Section III, Commission
Amendments (4)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Regrets that Regional policy was part of an error-prone group, which was the most error prone among the policy areas of Union expenditure, with 49 % of the 243 payments audited by the Court of Auditors affected by error; underlines that this levelnotes however that only part of the errors will have a financial impact and that the 49 % frequency is lower than in the 2000-2006 period; underlines that the rate of error has been decreasing as compared to the error rates detected in the 2000-2006 programming period, and that only part of the errors will have a financial impact;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Regrets that Regional policy was part of an error-prone group, which was the most error prone among the policy areas of Union expenditure, with 49 % of the 243 payments audited by the Court of Auditors affected by error; underlines that this level of error has been decreasing as compared to the error rates detected in the 2000-2006 programming period, and that only part of the errors will have a financial impact; calls on the Commission to achieve a trend that shows a consistent decrease in the error rate;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Recalls that an error occurs when a transaction is not carried out in accordance with the legal and regulatory provisions, therefore rendering declared (and reimbursed) expenditure irregular; also notes that an error does not necessarily mean that funds have disappeared, been lost or wasted or that fraud has been committed;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Regrets the deficiencies in the financial engineering instruments' implementation, namely in respect of the lack of compliance with regulatory requirements in making the contribution from the operational programmes to the funds implementing such instruments, as well as deficient reporting and verification requirements in force; calls on the Member States to comply with their reporting obligations;