12 Amendments of Benedek JÁVOR related to 2015/2345(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas NGOs are a huge asset to the European Union and play a vital role in the lives of EU citizens, by safeguarding their right to health and to a healnot-for-profit organisations which are independent from public authorities or commercial organisations and that develop activities aiming at enhancing EU public interest are a huge asset to the European Union and play a vital role in the lives of EU citizens, by safeguarding their right to quality, affordable and accessible healthcare, food safety, and by contributing to sustainability, addressing climate change and protecting thye environment ands well as by defending their rights as consumers, and whereas they boost research, innovation and development cooperation; they bridge the gap between the EU and its citizens through people's empowerment, both at a local and a European level.
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. Whereas the financial crisis has limited access to public and private funding while the need for civil society action has increased; notes the diversity of so-called NGOs including in size, area of action and capacity;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Takes the view that the Commission should come up with a clear EU-wide definition of "NGO", foster the independence of NGOs andfrom public involvement in their funding, with a view to dynamising the relationship between citizens and NGOsauthorities or commercial organisations and ensure transparency, accountability, control and traceability of EU public involvement in their funding; points out that NGOs’ primary task ishould be to promote and defend the public interests of civil society, which consists of citizenin its broadest sense, including also future generations and ecosystems; welcomes therefore the proposal of the European Commission within the review of the financial regulations to consider the contribution of volunteers as eligible funding and contributions in kind as co- funding; stresses nevertheless the need to increase the ceiling of indirect expenses;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the fact that the EU has a financial transparency system; emphasises, however, that it does not concern only NGOs; takes the view, therefore, that the information available about NGOs could be made clearer, in order to improve public understanding of their rolefor-profit and non-for- profit recipients of EU grants should be made clearer, in order to improve transparency, accountability and control of EU grant funding;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Takes the view that Financial Transparency System should be improved in order to improve its user friendliness and transparency of EU funding by allowing to identify funding amounts allocated to different categories of beneficiaries, including NGOs, according to different funding programmes; furthermore, it should also give details of the amount and purpose of the grants paid out to each recipient, including commitments and actual disbursements;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Asks the Financial Transparency System to be linked to the Transparency register;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission, with a view to optimising its cooperation with civil societytransparency, accountability and control of EU grant funding, to carry out regular assessments of the way in which funds allocated to NGObeneficiaries are administered, to develop uniform and transparent audit procedures across funding programmes;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Requests the EU logo to be clearly put on the communication tools for each project and/or product financed from an EU grant as well as links to the publicly available information in EU databases about the project on the digital outputs;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view that a single portal giving access to rationalised and simplified subsidy application procedures should be set up for all EU subsidies intended for NGOgrants; stresses the importance of an approach based on interoperability between the directorates- general;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Takes the view that subsidiegrants should be proportional to the other resources available to NGOs, so as to ensure that EU funds are allocated fairly and more appropriatelyallocated fairly throughout the EU, in line with clear political objectives defined in EU legislation and following transparent granting criteria for all recipients;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7