14 Amendments of Nicola CAPUTO related to 2016/2151(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Takes note of the opinions of the Court of Auditors on the legality and regularity of the transactions underlying the accounts; takes note that the positive trend of recent years in financial management has been maintained, with the accumulated error rate falling to 0.74% in 2015; notes the adverse opinion of the Court of Auditors on payment appropriations, in respect of which the overall error rate was 3.8 %, but lower than in 2014 and with no specific error rate concerning fisheries; calls for fisheries to be dealt with separately and not merged with agriculture, in order to guarantee greater transparency in the area of fisheries;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Points out that DG AGRI did a considerable amount of work in 2015 to ensure that Member State authorities were increasingly able to prevent errors in agricultural spending and implement their rural development programmes; congratulates DG AGRI for the positive impact apparent in the 2015 European Court of Auditors Annual Report and believes its actions should provide a good foundation for the key years in the 2014- 2020 spending period;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Is satisfied with the overall implementation of the LIFE+ operational budget, which amounted to 99,95 % in 2015 for commitment appropriations and 98,93% for payment appropriations; stresses that LIFE+ has helped to increase public awareness and participation in legislation and the implementation of EU environment policy, in addition to improving governance in this sector; notes that in 2015 EUR 225,9 million were committed for action grants, EUR 40 million were used for financial instruments managed by the European Investment Bank and EUR 59,2 million were used for measures intended to support the Commission's role of initiating and monitoring policy and legislation development; notes that EUR 10,2 million were used for administrative support to LIFE and for support to the Executive Agency for Small and Medium- sized Enterprises (EASME);
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. 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 dataCommission should establish a homogeneous and flexible system so that Member States deliver reliable data and improve the instruments and channels they use to transmit information to the Commission;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission to provide all necessary assistance to the Member States to facilitate the transition from direct management to shared management of the EMFF and to ensure that EMFF resources are used properly and fully; therefore welcomes the fact that this issue is taken fully into account in the DG MARE audit programme for 2017;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Underlines that the information provided by independent ex post evaluations was not always sufficiently complete, consistent or comparable, which reduced its usefulness in the decision-making process and negotiations;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Expresses concern at the lack of reliable information on fish stocks and on the fishing effort of domestic fishing fleets, or of other foreign fleets that have also been granted access, as one of the main objectives of the FPAs is only to fish surplus stocks and this was proven as very difficult to implement in practice;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 c (new)
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12c. Urges the Commission to monitor more closely the implementation of sectoral support and takes the view that the trade-related parts of the agreements should ultimately be made conditional upon effective, sufficiently monitored, substantial sectoral support;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls for additional fiscal effort in the field of international fisheries agreements, in view of the major fishing grounds still awaiting new protocols;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Member States to ensure reliable and up-to-date information and images in the Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS) to reduce the risk of errors associated with overstated eligible land; takes the view that the Commission should require Member State action plans to include remedial action to deal with the most frequent causes of error, revise its own strategy for rural development conformity audits, and ensure the correct application of assurance procedure on legality and regularity of transactions;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Takes the view that the integrated administrative control system (IACS), when implemented properly, is an effective tool for limiting irregular agricultural spending and makes a significant contribution to preventing and reducing the levels of error in the schemes to which it applies;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Urges both the Commission and Member State authorities to continue to address and reduce the complexities in relation to direct payments, wherever possible, and in particular if there are many different levels involved in the administration of EAGF and rural development funds within Member States;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Points out that small-scale programmes arouse less interest and/or show persistently high error rates because of their rigidity; suggests that the Commission, therefore, review and simplify 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 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Welcomes the reduction in error rates compared to 2014 and acknowledges the major efforts and resources devoted to achieving this, particularly through information and technical support from the Commission to Member State authorities concerning implementation;