11 Amendments of Jean-François JALKH related to 2020/2140(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision 1
Citation 14 a (new)
Citation 14 a (new)
— Having regard to the answer of the Commission to parliamentary question E- 005156/2020;
Amendment 4 #
Proposal for a decision 1
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Grants the Commission discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2019 / Postpones its decision on granting the Commission discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2019;
Amendment 5 #
Proposal for a decision 1
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Deplores the answer of the Commission to parliamentary question E- 005156/2020, which was given on18 February 2021, five months after it was tabled, which in itself already took weeks to table, given the reluctance of the European Parliament´s internal services; rejects the Commission´s qualification of the Commission´s president expenses as confidential under Regulation No 2018/1725, since the question merely inquires whether the apartment of the Commission President in the Berlaymont building has separate counters for gas, electricity and water from the counters of the rest of the building; urges the Commission to answer this question without further delay;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. RegretsTakes note of the adoption of three amending budgets in 2019, adding EUR 0,4 billion to commitment appropriations and EUR 0,3 billion to payment appropriations;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Notes that the current agreement between the Commission, the EIB and the Court concerning audits of operations which are financed or backed by the Union budget expires in 2020; views this an opportunity to ensure that the Court is enabled to have access to information necessary to audit the regularity and also the performance of the EIB activities, which do not fall under a specific Unionits mandate;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
Amendment 388 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 112
Paragraph 112
112. Is of the opinion that, as stated in the Court’s audit on TFIs, there is a risk that traffic forecasts were usually overoptimistic, not well coordinated for half of the projects, not based on sound economic assessments and sometimes very simplistic, and in particular cost-benefit analyses had not been properly used as a tool for policy-making;
Amendment 414 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 119
Paragraph 119
119. Finds it worryingNotes that of the 251 transactions examined7 , 44 (18 %) contained errors while 207 (82 %) were error-free; is concernednotes that based on the 36 errors ECA has quantified and other evidence produced by the control system ECA finds the level of error for ‘Natural resources’ to be close to the materiality threshold; _________________ 7The sample consisted of 136 payments under rural development programmes, 95 direct payments, 14 market measures and 6 payments for fisheries, the environment and climate action.
Amendment 484 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 128 – indent 3 – point e
Paragraph 128 – indent 3 – point e
e. the CAP performance indicators do not measure the efficiency of direct payments. The Court evaluation support studyconcluded that the proportion10 of farms receiving direct payments and generating an income per unit of labour higher than average national labour productivity had decreased from 29 % in 2013 to 26 % in 2015. The study found that 9 % of small farms and more than 30 % of large farms had income per unit of labour above this benchmark; _________________ 10Evaluation study of the impact of the CAP measures towards the general objective “viable food production”, 2020, pp. 108-122.
Amendment 549 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 131
Paragraph 131
131. Notes that, regarding the regularity of transactions, seven (37 %) of the 19 transactions examined by ECA were affected by errors (i.ee.g. overstatement of salary costs);
Amendment 632 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 151 – introductory part
Paragraph 151 – introductory part
151. Welcomes the recommendations issued to DG Home by the Internal Audit Service of DG HOMEthe Commission for 2019 such as: