16 Amendments of Lucas HARTONG related to 2011/2202(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the audit of the Court of Auditors stated that, as regards administrative expenditure in 2010, all the institutions satisfactorily operated the supervisory and control systems required by the Financial Regulation andbut only 93 % of the 58 payments audited were free from material error,
Amendment 2 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the Secretary-General certified, on 16 June 2011, only his reasonable assurance that Parliament's budget has been implemented in accordance with the principles of sound financial management and that the control framework put in place provides the necessary guarantees as to the legality and regularity of the underlying operations,
Amendment 3 #
Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. GPostpones its decision to grants its President discharge in respect of the implementation of the European Parliament budget for the financial year 2010;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the audit of the Court of Auditors stated that, as regards administrative expenditure in 2010, all the institutions satisfactorily operated the supervisory and control systems required by the Financial Regulation andbut only 93 % of the 58 payments audited were free from material error,
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the Secretary-General certified, on 16 June 2011, only his reasonable assurance that Parliament's budget has been implemented in accordance with the principles of sound financial management and that the control framework put in place provides the necessary guarantees as to the legality and regularity of the underlying operations,
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas soma considerable number of the issues raised in the course of the discussions on the 2010 discharge in the Committee on Budgetary Control went beyondconcern the specific 2010 issues, and; where included in wide-ranging questions from the Committee,as the present report remains principspecifically focussed on the budget implementation and discharge for the financial year 2010,; whilst acknowledging that approaches to budgetary matters are a subject for wider discussion elsewherereas these issues are thus politically relevant and democratically accountable,
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that this overall high level of implementation is partly due to two targeted transfers made before the end of the financial year 2010 (EUR 9 240 000 for the purchase of a Europe House in Sofia and EUR 10 923 000 for four major IT projects); welcomes the fact that no mopping-up transfers took place between 2010 and 2011; encourages, however, itParliament’s administration and Committee on Budgets to pursue the objective of better and clearer budget planning and discipline in the future and notes that to put buildings, IT or any other important expenditure in the budget would provide more financial clarity; wants to keep ITER in the budget;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
Paragraph 42
42. Notes that, on 5 July 2010, the Bureau adopted Parliament's updated Communication Strategy integrating the project of the House of European History and that, in September 2010, an international jury examined that projects; further notes that use was not made of budget chapter 1 0 6 "Reserve for priority projects under development" for this project as all the appropriations of that chapter (EUR 5 000 000) were transferred to chapter 2 1 0 "Computing and telecommunications"; reiterates its expectation that the cost plan contained in the Business Plan should be strictly adhered to; considers also that the House of European History is a personal prestige project for certain EPP MEPs that has come into being in an undemocratic manner, with citizens having had no opportunity to exert any influence on political decisions taken regarding the House;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44
Paragraph 44
44. Regrets that EuroparlTV cannot be considered to be a success story in view of its very low number of direct individual users (excluding viewers through partnership agreements with regional TVs) in spite of the considerable financing that it received in 2010, amounting to some EUR 9 000 000 (item 3 2 4 6); welcomes the efforts made to reduce this budget by 14 % (to EUR 8 000 000) in 2011 and in the subsequent years; calls however for a cost-benefit evaluation of Europarl TVants EuroparlTV to therefore be shut down as soon as possible as a direct cost saving in the interests of citizens;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
Paragraph 45
45. Notes that the costs relating to the LUX Prize in 2010 were EUR 380 666,.18; is concerned that the costs rose for the event in 2011 to 573 722,.08 (by over 50 %) and; looks forward to a sharp reverse in this trend from 2012 onwardsthis Prize being discontinued as of 2012;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55
Paragraph 55
55. Notes that, in 2010, there were 33 200 missions (official trips) representing a total of 98 629 mission days, most of them involving travel between Parliament's three places of work; reiterates the need to avoid unnecessary missions between the three working places and the costs they entail with more systematic and documentary justifications and better monitoring; requests that the Secretary General report, as part of the discharge procedure, on any savings made as a result of further rationalisation; emphasises once again that Parliament’s part-sessions should be held in one place only rather than in Brussels and Strasbourg;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69
Paragraph 69
69. Notes that, in 2010, the cost of travel of Members and staff amounted to some EUR 107 000 00023 (or 6,.6 % of all total final appropriations) and that a 5 % reduction is now in force; considers that the potential for further reductions through pooled airmiles should be considered, as should the idea of Parliament meeting in one place only;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 70
Paragraph 70
70. Notes that final appropriations for the Travel Agency amounted to EUR 1 438 000 in 2010, with a high commitment rate (94 %); further notes that it obtains negotiated prices from airlines, which means that there is an average price for the best service; stresses however that this does not mean that, for a specific day or journey, it is not possible to get better prices by booking directly with travel operators; calls for an independent inquiry to produce a financial audit of the Travel Agency, its structure and its operation;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading after paragraph 83
Subheading after paragraph 83
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 84
Paragraph 84