8 Amendments of Luke Ming FLANAGAN related to 2018/2152(INI)
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas corruption is widespread across the Member States and represents a serious threat to the financial interests of the union, which in turn poses a threat to trust in public administration;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4 a (new)
Subheading 4 a (new)
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Regrets the fact that the Commission has decided to discontinue the publication of EU Anti-Corruption Reports, thus impairing the assessment of the scale of corruption;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13 b. Deplores the decision of the Commission to include anti-corruption monitoring within the European Semester economic governance process; takes the view that this has further reduced monitoring by the Commission, with data available for only very few countries; further regrets that this change of approach concentrates mostly on the economic impact of the corruption and almost completely overlooks the other dimensions corruption can affect, such as the trust of citizens in public administration and even the democratic structure of the Member States;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)
Paragraph 13 c (new)
13 c. Reiterate its call on the Commission to resume the publication of the anti-corruption report, and to engage in a serious anti-corruption policy, including an in-depth evaluation of the anti-corruption policies in each Member State, proportional to the EU financial support in those Member States;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 d (new)
Paragraph 13 d (new)
13 d. Recalls the Question for Oral Answer O-000021/2018 to the Commission on anti-corruption which recalls that the 2011 Commission anti- corruption package included the EU’s participation in the Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO); regrets that the GRECO negotiations are stalled and that the EU is not fulfilling its duties under the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC); calls on the Commission to reactivate the GRECO negotiations and to assess in a timely manner its compliance with the UNCAC;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Regrets the fact that only a few Member States are using new technologies for all the major steps of the procurement process (e-notification, e-access to tender documents, e-submission, e-evaluation, e- award, e-ordering, e-invoicing, e- payment); calls on the Member States to make all the forms of the public procurement process, as well as publicly accessible contract registers, available online by July 2019;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Welcomes the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of persons reporting on breaches of Union law (COM(2018)0218); hopes that it will significantly improve the safetyprotect the position of whistleblowers within the Union and significantly improve their safety, leading to major improvement of the EU’s financial protection and the rule of law;