5 Amendments of Petri SARVAMAA related to 2015/2196(DEC)
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes with concern that the complexity of the Joint Undertaking activities implies that the amount of the contribution to the construction phase of the project by the Joint Undertaking is exposed to significant risks of increase; observes that those risks mainly result from changes in the scope of the project deliverables and delays in the current schedule which was considered to be unrealistic and that the release of a new ITER action plan, including scope, schedule and costs, by the Council of the ITER Organization (“ITER Council”), planned for June 2015, was postponed until November 2015 and is now scheduled for mid-2016; notes, furthermore, that the delay for the construction phase of the project was estimated by the Joint Undertaking at the time of the audit to be at least 43 months; acknowledges that the Joint Undertaking is already adopting a stringent policy regarding the above and is refraining from proceeding with procurement actions until the specifications for contracts are sufficiently stable; notes, moreover, that the Joint Undertaking has reviewed the procurement schedules for all systems to ensure that the activity durations are correct and that the planned work is achievable given the available resources within the organisation15 ; __________________ 15 Follow-up report 2013 Discharge
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Acknowledges that the Joint Undertaking is still developing a central and uniform system to integrate all the operational data and to allow regular monitoring and controlling of estimates, costs and deviations; underlines the importance of having such a system in place; notes, moreover, that the Joint Undertaking has not updated the valuation of the contribution by the Joint Undertaking to the ITER Project beyond the finalisation of the construction phase; acknowledges that the Joint Undertaking has a fully operational system to control and monitor costs at the level of the procurement arrangement and at the level of the system, although it did not yet have in place at the time of the audit all the data at level 6 (contracts); acknowledges that the Joint Undertaking estimated costs concerning projects in the individual project teams rather than in a centralised and uniform manner; notes that the Joint Undertaking employs a number of data management tools to maintain and manage its operational and financial data integrated by a core “Integrated Reporting System”, and that work is progressing to improve its system to manage cost data and deviations;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Notes with concern from the Court’s report that the Joint Undertaking’s internal corporate risk management system identified ten new risks in 2014; notes that out of the 32 actions identified to address the six very high risks, 13 were implemented, nine were in progress, one was cancelled as obsolete, and nine had not been commenced at the time of the audit;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Notes with concern that the Court’s report refers to deficiencies having been found in the assessment of the financial offers by the evaluation committee; observes that, in one case, neither the contract options (amounting to EUR 32 000 000) nor the additional costs to be incurred were taken into consideration in the assessment; notes that, in another case, the offers were not compared against the allocated value from the capped budget or against the cost baseline; points out that in none of the procedures reviewed did the evaluation committee reports state the EAC for these contracts;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Notes from the Court's report that the Joint Undertaking has not yet amended its financial rules in order to reflect the changes brought by the new Financial Regulation20 and the framework financial regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 208 of the new Financial Regulation21 ; acknowledges that the Joint Undertaking has taken measures and started a dialogue with the Commission in order to resolve this issue22 ; __________________ 20 21 22asks the Joint Undertaking to inform the discharge authority of the progress made in this issue; __________________ 20 OJ L 298, 26.10.2012, p. 1. OJ L 298, 26.10.2012, p. 1. 21 OJ L 328, 7.12.2013, p.42 OJ L 328, 7.12.2013, p.42 22 Follow-up report 2013 Discharge Follow-up report 2013 Discharge