Activities of José BLANCO LÓPEZ related to 2014/2075(DEC)
Plenary speeches (1)
Discharge 2013: EU general budget - European Commission and executive agencies (A8-0101/2015 - Ingeborg Gräßle) ES
Amendments (4)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Observes that the Court of Auditors recorded a high overall error rate of 6.7% in respect of payments made in the 'rural development, environment, fisheries and health' areas; notes, however, that the error rate is lower than for the previous financial year (7.9% in 2012); notes that the 'regional policy, transport and energy' areas account for the largest share of the overall error rate recorded by the Court of Auditors, and therefore urges the Court to identify the reasons for that and to put forward corrective action;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Regrets the fact, apart from these observations, that the Court of Auditors has not given more precise details of the outcome of its audits for the specific area of fisheries and maritime affairs, and, in the interests of transparency, calls for that information to be made known;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Acknowledges the corrective actions taken by the Commission in terms of suspension and interruption of payments; recalls that these measures may hinder the smooth implementation of projects as they do not contribute to reaching the goals of cohesion policy, due to the short time required for the proper absorption of Union funds; urges the Commission to undertake interruption and suspension of payments only as a last resort in cases where serious deficiencies in management and control systems are identified; requests that the European Parliament shall participate jointly in adopting decisions on the interruption and/or suspension of payments and that the Commission toshall report to Parliament on the real contribution of interruptions and suspensions of payments to reducing irregularities and errors;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls for impact studies to be conducted prior to any interruption or suspension of payments and for care to be taken to avoid transferring to the regions the burden resulting from management deficiencies at national level, and to avoid inflicting on the regions, and in particular those in socioeconomic difficulties, greater burdens than the ones they are suffering already;