14 Amendments of Petri SARVAMAA related to 2017/2136(DEC)
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Points out in particular that for more than three quarters of 2016 expenditure, Commission directorates- general base their estimates of amount at risk on data provided by national authorities, whilst it, regretfully, appears from the AARs of the concerned Commission directorates-general (in particular DG AGRI and DG REGIO) that the reliability of Member States’ control reports still remains a challenge;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. AsksStrongly reiterates its call on the Commission and the Member States once again to put in place sound procedures to confirm the timing, the origin and the amount of corrective measures and to provide information reconciling, as far as possible, the year in which payments is made, the year in which the related error is detected and the year in which recoveries or financial corrections are disclosed in the notes to the accounts;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48
Paragraph 48
48. Recalls that the Union is making increasing use of financial instruments and that the establishment of EFSI creates new governance arrangements with limited public scrutiny; notes, however, the successful implementation and the high amount of private capita leveraged by the Fund, and acknowledges the further enhancements agreed on its transparency upon the negotiations for the extension of the duration of EFSI, referred to as EFSI 2.0;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58
Paragraph 58
58. Notes that the Commission uses two sets of objectives and indicators to measure the performance of its services and of spending programmes; regrets the almost-non-existence of usable and efficient impact and outcome indicators to measure, and to distribute information about, the performance of Union expenditure;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 70
Paragraph 70
70. StresseRegrets that AARs do not include a declaration on the quality of the reported performance data, and that consequently in adopting the AMPR, the College of Commissioners takes overall political responsibility for the management of the EU budget but not for the information on performance and results;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72 – point a – indent 1
Paragraph 72 – point a – indent 1
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 78
Paragraph 78
78. Stresses thatRegrets the Commission inspections found's findings that by October 2017, the UK authorities had not introduced remedial measures to prevent continued traditional own resource losses;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 84
Paragraph 84
84. Points outRegrets that the Commission noted that six Member states - Belgium, Estonia, Italy, Portugal, Romania, and Slovenia - either did not carry out any post- clearance audits or did not provide any information on these audits;
Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 187 – point g
Paragraph 187 – point g
(g) bringing financial engineering instruments under the EU budget, thereby enhancing transparency and accountability and simplifying the overwhelming galaxy of financing instruments;
Amendment 352 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 224
Paragraph 224
224. Points out with concernNotes that according to the Commission: “ the actual impact (of the greening schemes) on environmental outcomes depends on the choices made by Member States and farmers and that so far few Member States made use of the possibilities to limit the use of pesticides and fertilisers in the ecological focus areas”;
Amendment 356 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 232 – point a
Paragraph 232 – point a
(a) the Commission to carefully analyse the causes of the overall decline in factor income since 2013 and to define a new key performance objective, accompanied with outcome and impact indicators, aiming at mitigating the income inequalities between the famers;
Amendment 360 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 232 – point f
Paragraph 232 – point f
(f) the Commission to continue to be vigilant as to the checks performed and the data communicated by the Member States’ authorities, and to take these findings into account when allocating its audit burden based on risk-evaluations;
Amendment 376 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 242
Paragraph 242
242. Noted that DG DEVCO has defined in its annual activity report key performance indicators relating to human development, climate change, gender and error rate but regrets that none of those indicators are able to measure the performance of the development cooperation policy as they only indicate the part of aid allocated to each of the objectives instead of measuring the actual impact, as in the progress achieved to pursue the objectives;
Amendment 450 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 284 a (new)
Paragraph 284 a (new)
284a. Transitional allowances Takes note of the findings and recommendations of the Parliament’s Policy Department D’s study "Transitional allowances for former EU office holders - too few conditions?"; calls on the Commission to take these recommendations into account, and initiate a revision of transitional allowances for former EU Office holders in order to enhance the transparency of the allowances, and the accountability of the EU budget towards the citizens;