5 Amendments of Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ related to 2021/2106(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that for expenditure specifically for Heading III (Security and Citizenship) the Court of Auditors (the ‘Court’) chose to examine a sample of 27 transactions designed to contribute to the Court's overall statement of assurance; deeply regrets that the Court did not estimate the error rate for Heading III as, while taking into account the Court’s explanation that the audit scope was not designed to be representative for this Heading; regrets this choice by the Court despite multiple calls from Parliament to calculate the estimated level of error; deplores the fact that eight out the 27 transactions examined by the Court contained errors among which four contained quantifiable errors which had a financial impact on the amounts charged to the Union budget and four showed non- compliance with legal and financial provisions; highlights that such cases may have an important negative reputational impact; urges the Commission to address that situation and and may eventually undermine compliance with the principles of sound financial management of Union spending; urges the Member States to address the causes which led to these situations of non-compliance and asks the Commission to report to the discharge authority about the progress achieved;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the fact that the Court did not find major flaws in the Commission’s clearance procedures regarding the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) and the Internal Security Fund (ISF); notes with concern that for both the AMIF and the ISF significant amounts remain undisbursedwelcomes that Member States stepped up their national programmes in 2020, but notes with concern that for both the AMIF and the ISF significant amounts, corresponding to roughly 50 % of the available budget for those programmes, remain undisbursed; acknowledges that the significantly lower level of payments disbursed for Union actions compared to previous years resulted from advance payments and delayed project activities caused by pandemic-related restrictions; calls on the Commission to further engage in dialogue with the relevant national authorities and identify areas where it could offer support; reiterates, nevertheless, furthermore its call on Member State authorities to increase their efforts for accessing funding available under those programmes with a view to contributing to the achievement of their important policy objectives;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. NotWelcomes that, according to the Commission 2020 Annual Activity Report, the average residual error rate across the AMIF and the ISF is 1,37 %, well below the material threshold of 2 %; recalls, however, that that data refers only to detected errors and that the Court has previously identified shortcomings in the error detection mechanisms of the Commission for funds under shared management; calls on the Commission to increase, in accordance with the findings of the Court, to maintain its efforts toin improveing the error and irregularities detection rate and urgescalls on Member States to improve the reliability of data transmitted to the Commission with respect to error rates for all funds under shared management;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Regrets that the residual error rate has increased by comparison to the previousremained almost in the same range as last year (2,69 % in 2020 as compared to 2,65 % in 2019) for grants under direct management of the Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers (DG JUST); notes that the main cause of error is the lack of supporting documents which has even worsened in 2020 by the fact that due to the COVID-19 crisis the audits had to be performed remotely without access to the bookkeeping of the beneficiaries; calls on the Commission to address this issue and make use of digital tools that allow remote access to bookkeeping of beneficiaries; welcomes the corrective action plan outlined by DG JUST; recalls the importance of monitoring visits for ensuring sound financial management;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Notes that based on Article 22 of the Recovery and Resilience Facility Regulation the Member States are responsible to ensure the protection of the financial interests of the Union; notes that the Commission plays an important role in ensuring that national audit systems provide for credible, reliable and relevant information; stresses that the Member States and the Commission's administrative capacities need to be scaled up to ensure sound financial management; notes that the Commission is responsible to provide technical assistance and advisory services to improve the respective administrative capacities in the Member States; calls on the Commission to provide the discharge authority with an overview of the specific measures that have been taken to ensure an appropriate staffing in the Commission and the Member States;