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Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | CONT | BLAK Freddy (PSE) | |
Opinion | DEVE | SAUQUILLO PÉREZ DEL ARCO Francisca (PSE) |
Legal Basis RoP 094
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- 2002/06/17 Final act published in Official Journal
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2002/04/10
Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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T5-0165/2002
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By adopting the report by Mr Freddy BLAK (EUG/NGL, DK), the European Parliament voted to clear the accounts of the 6th, 7th and 8th European Development Fund which covers expenditures in the year 2000. In a resolution annexed to its opinion, the European Parliament made a certain number of observations. Firstly, Parliament is concerned about delays in the implementation of programmes and notes that payments for the year only amount to EUR 1,548 million against a commitment figure of EUR 3,758. For the future, therefore, Parliament is recommending that the granting of further aid should be conditional on effective administrative reforms. There is criticism of the decision to increase the spending for the Brussels based ACP secretariat to EUR 18 million for the 2000-2004 period, without a fixed objective. More specifically, with regard to the monitoring of aid, Parliament stresses that a transparent information system which complies with Development assistance Committee (DAC) standards is a first step towards an approach more closely geared to results, and stresses that indicators showing development results in relation to the objectives must be a priority for the Commission. It reaffirms its view that the granting of further aid should be made conditional upon the submission and effective implementation of reform programmes to improve the quality of public financial management in the beneficiary countries and it highlights the importance of the following points: - ongoing assessment of implementation of the measures designed to reform the public administration, - monitoring of the progress achieved in key sectors (health and education) with the aid of meaningful indicators (e.g. increase in the number of teachers or doctors); - annual audit of accounting and sound management of resources on the basis of samples; - clearly defined sanctions (reduction or suspension of payments) in cases where the agreed reform measures are not complied with. It also stresses that the Commission has to increase and improve its audit capacities in a very substantial manner in order to meet these requirements. Moreover, it calls on the Commission to provide a more persuasive explanation as to why the cases of ineligible expenditure amounting to some EUR 14 million identified in a Court of Auditors study, have not yet been brought to a satisfactory conclusion. It asks the Commission to suspend payments to Senegal until a verdict from the Senegalese Court has been enforced regarding the misappropriation of around EUR 6 million of funds from the seventh EDF uncovered by an audit in 1995. With regard to the Centre for Development of Enterprise (CDE), the Parliament notes that the EDF contribution for the CDE in 2000 was EUR 18 738 and it deplores that there have been serious problems with the management of the Centre including lack of monitoring of contracts, high representation expenses and costly travel arrangements during the period 1997-1999; regrets that the report on the audit of the 1999 financial year by the auditors appointed by the ACP-EC Committee of Ambassadors revealed that overall there was no improvement in the financial management ofthe Centre in 1999. The resolution welcomes the fact that the Commission has initiated an additional audit for the period 1997/98/99. Parliament informs the Commission that it will come back to the matter in the framework of the 2001 discharge. With regard to the access to documents, the Parliament notes that the EDF 2000 discharge exercise has once again shown that the rules in the existing Framework Agreement concerning access to confidential documents are unsatisfactory for Parliament as discharge authority it states that the rules - are unclear concerning different levels of confidentiality. Parliament asserts that it needs to have access to complete original documents without prior alterations or obliterated text. Lastly, Parliament asks the Commission to report on steps taken to act on the observations in this resolution by 31 May 2002 and asks it Committee on Budgetary control to analyse this information and draw up a follow-up report to the discharge resolution 2000.�
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T5-0165/2002
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- 2002/04/09 Debate in Parliament
- 2002/03/19 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
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2001/06/11
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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2001/05/18
Non-legislative basic document published
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COM(2001)0233
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PURPOSE : to present the balance sheets and accounts of the 6th, 7th and 8th European Developemnt fund for the financial year 2000. CONTENT: the balance sheets and revenue and expenditure accounts were drawn up in accordance with the Financial Regulations applicable to the 6th, 7th and 8th EDFs. The relevant documents must be presented to the European Parliament, the Council and the Court of Auditors as provided for in Article 71 of the Financial Regulation applicable to the 7th EDF and Articles 66, 67 and 68 of the Financial Regulation applicable to the to the 8th EDF. These Financial Regulations stipulate that the accounts be kept according to the following principles: - Universality: all operations pertaining to each Fund are recorded. Each country has a separate record. There is a single treasury. - Justification: all operations are substantiated by supporting documents. - No set-off policy: there is no set-off between revenue and expenditure. - Calendar year: the accounts are kept by calendar year. All expenditure and revenue is registered according to the value date given on the bank statement. The balances thus established are not adjusted at the year-end. - Double-entry bookkeeping: each operation is registered to the debit of one or more accounts and to the credit of one or more accounts, so that the total amount registered on the debit side is equal to the total amount registered on the credit side. With regard to the unity of currency, the accounts for the various EDFs are kept in euro. Assets denominated in currencies belonging to the euro zone are converted in accordance with the exchange rates fixed by the European Central Bank at 31 December 1998. In addition, the Member States' contributions for an EDF must be used up before the contributions relating to the following EDF are called in. Expenditure takes into account all payment orders executed by banks up to 31 December 2000. However, in the case of local expenditure in the ACP States and for those payments for which information was not communicated to the Commission's accounting departments before the end of the financial year, payments are based on the information received for the latest period prior to 31 December. EDF appropriations are not subject to any time limit. Once granted, they are available until they are used up or reassigned. Consequently, expenditure and revenue are booked at the time of payment or actual receipt. �
- DG [{'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/budget/', 'title': 'Budget'}],
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COM(2001)0233
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Documents
- Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2001)0233
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A5-0088/2002
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0165/2002
- : Budget 2002/446
- : OJ L 158 17.06.2002, p. 0026
- : Budget 2002/447
- : OJ L 158 17.06.2002, p. 0034
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