Activities of Nicola CAPUTO related to 2015/2154(DEC)
Plenary speeches (1)
Discharge 2014: EU general budget - European Commission and Executive Agencies (A8-0140/2016 - Martina Dlabajová) IT
Amendments (7)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Takes the view that the Member States should improve the instruments and channels they use to transmit information to the Commission; recommends that the Commission exert greater pressure on Member States to submit reliable data;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Emphasises the need for effective monitoring of EU-funded activities that provide sectoral support in the context of international agreements by using matrices that are as detailed as possible; emphasises, furthermore, that a call needs to be made for the proportion of sectoral support to be increased; firmly believes that the trade-related parts of agreements ought ultimately to be made conditional upon effective, sufficiently monitored, substantial sectoral support;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Takes the view that responsibility for monitoring and supervising paying agencies should be conferred on EU officials working in the Member States themselves, in particular in the case of paying agencies which have not been overly efficient in recent years;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Urges, in extreme cases, that consistently underperforming paying agencies should be stripped of their accreditation;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Emphasises the need to develop a common methodology for calculating the error rate in an effort to guarantee that it is accurate and to ensure that significant disparities do not emerge between the error rate indicated by the Commission and that established by the Court of Auditors;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Emphasises that some programmes, in particular small-scale ones, have attracted less interest and/or show consistently high error rates as a result of their inflexibility; urges the Commission, therefore, to review such programmes with the aim of reducing the red tape associated with them, which would serve both to make them more attractive and to reduce error rates;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Calls on the Commission to submit in good time a detailed plan for reducing red tape in the context of the CAP;