7 Amendments of Terry REINTKE related to 2016/2097(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Considers that benchmarking the data found in the annual report with comparable data about national spending schemes including on irregularities and fraud could help drawing targeted conclusions on cohesion policy spending including on capacity building needs;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to enhance the harmonisation of classification, detection and reporting of irregularities between Member States; recalls the urgent need to better use available information in the Member States to detect fraud; welcomes, however, the preventive and corrective measures taken by the Commission to avoid fraudulent or not fraudulent irregularities;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Recommends to further promote decentralised approaches for the implementation of cohesion policy programmes and measures in order to increase ownership and responsibility on the ground in proximity to citizens which contributes to avoiding fraud;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to act in full compliance with the provisions setting out the ex-ante conditionalities in cohesion policy, in particular in the field of public procurement, which are an essential pre- requisite for preventing fraudulent and non-fraudulent irregularities in this important field of practical implementation of cohesion policy;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recommends that steps be taken to improve the uptake of simplification measures for 2014-2020 with a view to the post-2020 regulatory framework for ESI Funds as a tool to reduce the risk of irregularities caused by errors; Underlines the importance of applying the single audit principle;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Recommends to the Commission to analyse the benefits of introducing incentives for increasing the efficiency of spending, also in view of avoiding overpriced, wasteful or meaningless projects that are implemented for the sole purpose of absorbing resources;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Recalls the need for better understanding the reasons and possible patterns behind the aggregated data and therefore requests the Commission to name those Member States where accumulation of irregularities and fraud can be recorded.