Activities of Luigi MORGANO related to 2018/2166(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2017, Section III – Commission and executive agencies
Amendments (6)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the results of 30 years of Erasmus, engaging 9 million people (including young people and students) in mobility activity since 1987; stresses the strong European added value of the programme and its role in delivering as a strategic investment in Europe’s young people;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is alarmed by the low take-up and insufficient geographical coverage of the Erasmus+ Student Loan Guarantee Facility; urges the Commission and European Investment Fund to put in place an implementation strategy to maximise the Facility’s effectiveness or, alternatively, to facilitate the redistribution of the unused funds in the programme;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is worried by the still low project success rates under the Europe for Citizens programme and the Creative Europe Culture sub-programme (201% and 1522% respectively in 2017); stresses that a more adequate levels of financing is decisive to tackle this unsatisfactory results;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights the role of EACEA in implementing the three culture and education programmes, expresses however its concern about the EACEA internal control weakness identified by an audit on the Erasmus+ and Creative Europe grant management; calls on EACEA to putnotes that the Commission's Internal Audit Service itself has found weaknesses in EACEA's Erasmus+ grant management process; takes the view, therefore, that the Commission and EACEA should have no difficulty in putting in place the necessary corrective actions, in order to guarantee the highest quality of EACEAtheir implementation of the culture and education programmes;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Notes that the internal control system of the European Schools needs further improvements to meet the recommendation made by the Court of Auditors and the European Commission’s Internal Audit Service (IAS); demands, in particular, further efforts in closing the remaining recommendations related to the management of extra-budgetary accounts; notes that the gradual entry into force of the new Financial Regulation of the European Schools will implicate major challenges for the governance of the European Schools as the functions of Authorising Officer and Accounting Officer will be centralised and Financial control will become an internal control unit, at the service of the Authorising Officer; considers, in this regard, that the restructuring of the different accounting and control functions must be supported by an adequate administrative system; draws attention to the several challenges that lie ahead of the European Schools, such as the Brexit transition and the worsening of the Schools’ overcrowding situation in Brussels;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Recognises that the Court of Auditors has a heavy workload; asks the Court, nonetheless, to publish its own reports on time, and in particular those on the Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union and the European Schools, so that Parliament may have sufficient time to perform properly its own duties of budgetary and political control;