Activities of Eleonora EVI related to 2021/2167(INI)
Reports (1)
REPORT on the annual report on the activities of the European Ombudsman in 2020
Amendments (7)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas article 10(3) TEU establishes that 'every citizen shall have the right to participate in the democratic life of the Union' and that 'decisions shall be taken as openly and as closely as possible to the citizen';
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
B b. whereas Article 15 TFEU states that ‘in order to promote good governance and ensure the participation of civil society, the Union's institutions, bodies, offices and agencies shall conduct their work as openly as possible’ and that ‘any citizen of the Union, and any natural or legal person residing or having its registered office in a Member State, shall have a right of access to documents of the Union's institutions, bodies, offices and agencies’;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
B c. whereas Article 41 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, focused on the right to good administration, states inter alia that ‘every person has the right to have his or her affairs handled impartially, fairly and within a reasonable time by the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the Union’;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
B d. whereas Article 43 of the Charter states that ‘any citizen of the Union and any natural or legal person residing or having its registered office in a Member State has the right to refer to the European Ombudsman cases of maladministration in the activities of the institutions, bodies, offices or agencies of the Union, with the exception of the Court of Justice of the European Union acting in its judicial role’;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B e (new)
Recital B e (new)
B e. whereas Article 298(1) TFEU establishes that 'in carrying out their missions, the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the Union shall have the support of an open, efficient and independent European administration';
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)
Recital N a (new)
N a. whereas the former European Investment Bank (EIB) Vice-President left the EIB Management Committee in November 2020 and after less than 3 months joined the board of the Spanish multinational utility company Iberdrola; whereas the former EIB Vice-President was in charge of overseeing the EIB’s lending operations in Spain, including Iberdrola; whereas from 2019 onward Iberdrola benefited from massive loans worth 1,39 billion EUR in total, making it one of the top clients of the EIB in recent years; whereas this case demonstrates the unsolved controversial practice at the EIB to allow its Vice-Presidents, nominated by the Member States, to be in charge of overseeing lending into their countries of origin, risking to give rise to conflicts of interest;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18 a. Welcomes the inquiry launched by the Ombudsman on how the EIB handled its former Vice-President’s post- employment application to take a senior position at the Spanish company Iberdrola that had received a massive amount of loans by the EIB; criticises the failure of the EIB to act on Parliament’s request to include in the Code of Conduct of the EIB Management Committee provisions preventing their Members from overseeing lending and the implementation of projects in their countries of origin; calls on the EIB to fully and consistently comply with the Parliament’s demand and strengthen its integrity rules and their enforcement in order to prevent conflicts of interest and reputational damages;