8 Amendments of Terry REINTKE related to 2015/2128(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Annual Report as the first by this Commission; stresses that the protection of the EU’s financial interests is at the core of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union; notes that through a number of measures the Commission and the Member States have increased their effectiveness in fighting the overall rate of fraudulent or non-fraudulent irregularities in order to ensure that EU funds are protected from fraud; noteshowever, is concerned about a total of 1 649 cases of irregularities reported as fraudulent, this being 2 % more than in 2013 and representing EUR 538 million in EU funds;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Underlines the need to introduce a method that allows taking track from the fraudulent cases as reported to the amounts recovered, in order to be able to draw conclusions on the figures presented in the reporting of OLAF;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Notes that the failure to comply with public procurement rules has been a significant source of error, amongst others the avoidance of public procurement, splitting of contracts into smaller tenders to avoid exceeding thresholds and the use of inappropriate procedures; reminds that the new public procurement directives have to be implemented by the Member States by April 2016;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the Commission to develop a database on irregularities, capable of providing a basis for meaningful analysis in a comprehensive way of the frequency, seriousness and causes of public procurement errors; calls on the relevant authorities in Member States to develop and analyse their own data bases on irregularities in the area of cohesion policy, including those arising from public procurement, and to cooperate with the Commission to provide such data in a form and at a time that facilitates the Commission's work;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Calls on the Commission to ensure full application of the rules governing the ex-ante conditionalities, including on public procurement, that have to be fulfilled by the end of 2016;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that measures to detect irregularities continue to vary significantly between Member States, mainly on account of differing definitions of irregularities; is of the opinion that the Commission shall develop a horizontal policy on fight against fraud and corruption within Cohesion Policy; welcomes the preventive and corrective measures taken by the Commission to avoid fraudulent irregularities, including by interrupting 193 payments under the cohesion policy;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that the Common Provisions Regulation requires managing authorities to put in place effective and proportionate anti-fraud measures; calls on the Commission to reinforce preventive action, in particular by strengthening the technical and administrative capacities of managing authorities to ensure more robust control systems able to reduce the risks of fraud and increase detection capacity; recalls the importance of the involvement of partners, especially in the monitoring committees, and their crucial role in the fight against fraud and for transparency and prevention of conflict of interest;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Council to support the establishment of an independent European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) provided that the relationship between the EPPO and other existing EU bodies is further defined and clearly demarcated in order to avoid an inefficient overlapping of competencies;