12 Amendments of Olivier CHASTEL related to 2018/2168(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas all Union institutions ought tomust be transparent and fully accountable to all the citizens of the Union for the funds entrusted to them as Union institto perform their dutiones;
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas Parliament is the sole directly elected body among the Union institutions and has, with the responsibility to grant discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the procedure of giving discharge separately to the individual Union institutions and bodies is a long- standing practice accepted by all the other institutions except the Council, and whereas this procedure has been developed to guarantee transparency and democratic accountability towards Union citizens and to pursue the necessary fight against fraud;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines the role of Parliament within the discharge procedure, as governed by the Treaty and the Financial Regulation; andds that, in full acknowledgment of a distinction between Parliament's and the Council’'s role as an institution giving recommendations in the discharge procedure, a distinction must be maintained in respect of the different roles of Parliament and the Councilbsolutely must be maintained in order to comply with the institutional framework laid down in the Treaties and in the Financial Regulation;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls the difficulties repeatedly encountered in the discharge procedures to date due to the lack of cooperation from the Council and which is the reason whyled Parliament to refused to grant discharge to the Secretary- General of the Council in relation to the financial years 2009 to 2016 and in March 2019 for the financial year 2017;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that the Council replied to the proposal of Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control on the Council discharge procedure on 2 May 2018 with an amended proposal, and that Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control sent its reaction to the Council’s amended proposal on 16 July 2018; urges the Council to react to the latest proposal swiftly so that the new arrangements for the discharge exercise can be applied as soon as possible; stresses that no answer from the Council has been received so far;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Regrets that the request to separate the budget of the European Council and the Council into one budget for the European Council and one budget for the Council, made by Parliament in previous discharge resolutions, has not been considered; insists on this separation which will contribute to better transparency in the financial management of both institutions and improve their accountability; deplores, further, its failure to give sufficient information on real estate policy;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Acknowledges improvements in the Council's process of administrative modernisation, for example that internal rules for reporting serious irregularities are published on the Council’s website along with a guide to ethics and conduct for members of staff of the Council; calls on the Council to raise awareness about these rules and to ensure that all members of staff are properly informed of their rights;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Recalls that the Council agreed on the Commission proposal for a mandatory transparency register on 6 December 2017, but has still not implemented it; calls on theCouncilstrongly deplores the Council's failure to participate in the transparency register scheme; strongly calls on the latter to continue discussions on the technical aspects of the package of instruments regarding the Transparency Register, in order to achieve a political agreement between the three institutions as soon as possible;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Emphasises that Parliament backed the Ombudsman’s proposals in a plenary vote related to the Ombudsman's recommendations to the Council to allow the publicEU citizens to follow the EU legislative process more easily (transparency of the Council legislative process, OI/2/2017/TE); recalls that the Council should systematically record the position of each Member State in preparatory bodies, and should develop a dedicated webpage for each legislative proposal and improve the user-friendliness of the public register of documents;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Insists that an effective budgetary control exercise requires cooperation between Parliament and the Council with due respect for their respective roles; considers that satisfactory cooperation between both institutions in the form of an open and formal dialogue procedure would be a positive sign to send to the citizens of the Union;