Activities of Indrek TARAND related to 2017/2186(DEC)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking for the financial year 2016 PDF (317 KB) DOC (62 KB)
Amendments (2)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the final 2016 budget available for implementation included commitment appropriations of EUR 50 200 000 and payment appropriations of EUR 52 300 000; notstresses that the utilisation rates for commitment and payment appropriations were 94 % and 82 % respectively which represent a low level especially for payment appropriations; notes moreover that most of the payments made by the Joint Undertaking in 2016 were pre-financing payments for Horizon 2020 projects selected under the 2015 and 2016 calls for proposals;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Draws attention to the fact that in two cases out of eight, the Joint Undertaking awarded grants to project consortia, despite the fact that the checks of the financial viability of the beneficiaries performed by the Research Executive Agency indicated that the financial capacity of the coordinating industry members of the consortia was weak; notes that this implies an unnecessarily high financial risk for the completion of those projects and the financial risk was particularly high in one case, in which the coordinating partner had been assigned over 45% of the total project funding; calls on the JU to provide before the end of 2018 the clear reasons why it decided to take such risk; draws attention to the ongoing and substantial need for a proper risk assessment system that should be followed in a comprehensive fashion;