8 Amendments of David LEGA related to 2020/2140(DEC)
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the new corporate Anti- Fraud Strategy, adopted by the Commission in April 2019, on OLAF’s initiative, with the objective of enhancing the Commission’s knowledge about fraud and its analytical capability to steer anti- fraud action, to ensure cooperation among departments and executive agencies in fighting fraud, and to strengthen the corporate oversight of the fight against fraud; and notes at the same time that the increasing use of financial mechanisms to deliver Union policies in third countries alongside the Union budget risks undermining the accountability and transparency of Union action and spending; insists that the Commission ensures that the delivery of external aid is subject to the rule of law and respect for human rights in recipient countries; stresses, in particular, the need to guarantee that no Union funds are allocated or linked to any cause or form of terrorism and/or religious and political radicalisation;
Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 84
Paragraph 84
84. Finds it worrydeeply concerning that on basis of the 236 transactions examined, 29 errors had not been detected by audit authorities and 64 errors had previously been found by audit authorities and corrections applied by programme authorities (amounting to a total of EUR 334 million for both programming periods taken together), the Court estimates the level of error to be 4,4 %;
Amendment 494 #
b. in its latest AMPR, the Commission considers it an achievement that 79 % of the Union’s total agricultural area was subject to at least one greening obligation in 2018. However, the Court found substantial evidence12 that greening had had little measurable effect on farming practices and the environment. It had led to changes in farming practices on around 5 % of all Union farmland and tended to minimise disturbance to established farming practices. Greening remained essentially an income-support scheme; _________________ 12 Special report No 21/2017 – Greening.
Amendment 638 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 156 a (new)
Paragraph 156 a (new)
156 a. Is concerned about the hate speech and violence taught in Palestinian school textbooks and used in schools by UNRWA; reiterates its position that all schoolbooks and school materials supported by Union funds must be in line with UNESCO standards of peace, tolerance, coexistence, and non-violence; requests that all school material, which is not in compliance with these standards will be removed immediately and requests UNRWA to put in place a coherent control system to review and modify curriculums; underlines that one way of ensuring transparency and conformity of school materials is to publish in an open- source platform all its educational materials for teachers, pupils and students as well as its reviews of host country textbooks to allow review by third parties;
Amendment 641 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 156 a (new)
Paragraph 156 a (new)
156 a. Is concerned about the effectiveness of UNRWA's mechanisms of adherence to UN values in educational materials used and taught by UNRWA staff in its schools, which contain hate speech and incitement to violence. Insists that UNRWA acts in full transparency and publishes in an open-source platform all its educational materials for teachers and students, as well as its reviews of host country textbooks used to ensure that content adheres to UN values and does not encourage hatred. Insists that EU funded educational material must reflect standards of peace, tolerance, coexistence, and non-violence, as was decided upon by Union education ministers in Paris on 17 March 2015.
Amendment 653 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 157
Paragraph 157
157. Regrets that the Union is still practicing budget support to third Countries which is regulated by legal provisions of a broad scope creating a risk of loose interpretation by the Commission regarding the meeting of general conditions; that the Court ‘cannot cover what happens beyond the moment the Commission pays aid to the recipient country, since these funds then merge with that country’s own budget resources’22 ; notes that this risks undermining the level of accountability and transparency of Union action and spending; insists that the Commission ensures that the delivery of external aid is subject to the rule of law and respect for human rights in recipients countries; stresses, in particular, the need to guarantee that no Union funds, by the recipient country and third parties and/or natural persons, are allocated or linked to any cause or form of terrorism and/or religious and political radicalisation; _________________ 22 P.211
Amendment 666 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 163 – indent 6 a (new)
Paragraph 163 – indent 6 a (new)
- thoroughly verify the use of Union funds by third entities, their affiliates, and/or natural persons to ensure that no funds are allocated or linked to any cause or form of terrorism and/or religious and political radicalisation; and to ensure that these Union funds are proactively recovered, and recipients involved are excluded from future Union funding.
Amendment 694 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 170 – indent 5 a (new)
Paragraph 170 – indent 5 a (new)
- thoroughly verify the use of Union funds by third entities, their affiliates and/or natural persons to ensure that no funds are allocated or linked to any cause or form of terrorism and/or religious and political radicalisation; and to ensure that these Union funds are proactively recovered, and recipients involved are excluded from future Union funding.