Activities of Miroslav POCHE related to 2015/2204(DEC)
Plenary speeches (1)
Discharge 2014: ECSEL Joint Undertaking (A8-0119/2016 - Marian-Jean Marinescu) CS
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the ECSEL Joint Undertaking (formerly the ENIAC Joint Undertaking and the ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking) for the financial year 2014 PDF (285 KB) DOC (98 KB)
Amendments (8)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the Court's report is based on too many general remarks to the detriscope of the Court's specific annual report is based on the reliability of the accounts and the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions, together with elements of viable, specific ones; therefore calls for an budgetary and financial management, internal control systems, and other matters; wishes to obtain auddit with a more accentuated focusional information on the annual financial performance, on the implementation status of multiannual projects (including a clear presentation of the implementation of the budget for the respective year and for previous years ) and the results andof its implementation;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Regrets the absence ofNotes that the ECSEL Joint Undertaking has included information regarding in-kind and cash contribution; calls on the Cous in its financial statement and Annual Activity Report; to include in future reports provisions regardakes note that the Court has reviewed this information ing the evaluation procedure and level of in-kind and cash paid contribution for FP7 and H2020 separatelcontext of its work on the ex-post audits and encourages the court to further report significant findings where necessary;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that the Joint Undertaking’'s programmes funded under FP7 are ongoing; takes note that those appropriations remain available until 2016 because of the Joint Undertaking’'s financial rules which allow its commitment and payment appropriations to be re- entered up to three years after they have been cancelled from the Joint Undertaking's budget; encourage the Joint Undertaking to conduct its budget planning carefully, taking into due account the parallel process;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Notes form the Court's report that the Joint Undertaking did not assess the quality of the audit reports received from the NFAs concerning the costs relating to completed projects; notes, furthermore, that, after an assessment of the audit strategies of three of the NFAs, it was not possible to conclude whether ex-post audits are functioning effectively due to different methodologies used by NFAs which did not allow the Joint Undertaking to calculate either a weighted error rate or a residual rate error; this technical difficulty does not result, however, in a negative opinion of the ECA, but understandably prevents it from confirming the legality and regularity of the transactions without formulating a reservation; notes also that the Joint Undertaking has confirmed that its extensive assessment of the national assurance systems concluded that they can provide a reasonable protection of the financial interests of its members;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that the Joint Undertaking is of the opinion that the national procedures provide reasonable assurance with regard to the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions in spite of several reports from different Union institutions, including the discharge authority; calls on the Joint Undertaking to assess the procedures followed in order to avoid that the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions be put into ques, following the assessment of the procedures applied by the National Authorities, to invite the National Authorities to produce a written statement that the implementation inof the future and report to the discharge authority the outcome of such assessmentnational procedures provides a reasonable assurance on the legality and regularity of transactions24 ; __________________ 24 ECSEL AAR - p.33.
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Notes that a substantial amending budget increasing commitment appropriations to EUR 158 200 000 was implemented by the governing board by the end of the financial year; invites the Joint Undertaking to provide the discharge authority with detailed information on the criteria followed to execute such significant financial decision25 due to the success of the call, and the quality of the selected projects which enabled the EU and the Member States to increase the public funding in accordance with the plans fixed by the budgetary authority; __________________ 25 ECA report.
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Notes that the Joint Undertaking failed to distinguish in its annual acno clear separation was made between FP 7 and Horizon 2020 implementation information due to the fact that no counts the amount of commitments and payments appropriations allocated to each FP7 and H2020; calls on the Joint Undertaking to provide the discharge authority with such information27 racts relating to the implementation of H 2020 have been signed by the end of year 2014, and thus no payments have been made; asks the Court to provide separate information on budgetary implementation for FP7 and Horizon 2020 in its report for 2015; calls on the Joint Undertaking to provide this information in its Report on Budgetary and Financial Management for 2015; __________________ 27 ECSEL AAR - p. 41.
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Notes with satisfaction that a comprehensive policy to prevent conflicts of interest has been adopted by the Joint Undertaking; recalls, however, that the declarations of conflict of interest of the member of the governing board have not been made publicly available;