11 Amendments of Rosa D'AMATO related to 2015/2154(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Regrets that no hearing of the Commissioner for Transport, Violeta Bulc, took place before the parliamentary Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT);
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes, that the Annual report of the Court of Auditors ("the Court") of 10 November 2015 on the implementation of the 2014 budget of the European Union found the error rate in Cohesion Policy to be estimated at 5,7%, comprising 6.1 % of estimated level of error for regional and urban policy and 3.7 % for employment and social affairs, which represents an increase as compared to 2013 (5,3%); expresses its concern at this increase, which is especially significant as far as errors with financial implications and serious negative effects on the budget are concerned;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Is concerned about the budget cuts in the transport sector that were subsequently made in order to establish the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI) and that there continues to be an unequal distribution of funding from a geographical point of view;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Regrets the continuing use of transport funds for major projects that have a significant and detrimental impact on the land that is not commensurate with real benefits for the population, health and the environment and does not take into account the will of the local people;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to make public all its ex ante assessments and to disclose social, health and environmental impacts;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Notes that the main source of error continues to be infringement of public procurement rules, accounting for nearly half of the estimated level of error, with cases of serious failure to comply with public procurement rules identified, by the Annual report of the Court of Auditors on the implementation of the 2014 budget of the European Union , in unjustified direct award of contracts, additional works or services, unlawful exclusion of bidders, as well as cases of conflict of interest and discriminatory selection criteria;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission to make public all the documentation relating to the Lyon-Turin project and to consider submitting a proposal to make it compulsory for all accounting and planning documents concerning major infrastructure work to be published, including documentation on subcontractors;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Regrets that the Commission has so far denied access to documents relating to projects in the transport sector that have been financed by EU funds;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Takes the view that the Commissioner should ensure total transparency in the management of funds, ensuring that the public interest is protected and always, in all circumstances, takes precedent over any private interest;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Member States to use all the information available to prevent, or detect and correct the errors before claiming reimbursement from the Commission, stressing that if all this information had been used to correct errors before declaring the expenditure to the Commission, the estimated level of error for expenditure under economic, social and territorial cohesion would have been 1.6 percentage points lower;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Invites the Commission to further strengthen the control system for audit authorities, ensuring adequate checks of compliance with state aid and public procurement rules and the provision of specific information on audits of operations;