Activities of György SCHÖPFLIN related to 2015/2156(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the 2014 discharge: EU general budget - European Council and Council
Amendments (4)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Takes the view that, by giving budgetary discharge separately to the individual Union institutions and bodies, Parliament has departed from the procedure laid down by the Tit is Parliament’s prerogative to grant discharge pursuant to Articles 316, 317 and 319 TFEU, in line with current interpretatyion and that this practice is valid only if ipractice, namely to grant dis consistent with the Treaty provisions which confer on Parliament the power and the duty to scharge to each heading of the budget individually in order to maintain transparency and democruatinise the whole of the Union budgetc accountability towards Union taxpayers;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises that since 2009 the Council has refused to cooperate with the discharge procedure as implemented by Parliament, failing to provide the necessary information, answer written questions and attend hearings and debates on the implementation of its own budget, and that, as a result, more than EUR 3 billion in public funds have been spent without proper scrutiny;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Council and Commission to enter into negotiations with Parliament with a view to ensuring that the latter can exercise its right of access to information concerning the implementation of the Council’s budget, either directly or through the Commission;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view that, if these negotiatReminds the Council of the Commission’s fail or if the Council refuviews, expressed in its letter of 23 January 2014, that it will not oversese to open negotiations, Parliament should consider giving discharge only to the Commisshe implementation of the budget of the other institutions and that giving a response to questions and including in that global discharge separate resolddressed to another institution would infringe the autions for each Union institution and body, thereby ensuring that noomy of that institution in the implementation of its own section of the EU budget goes unscrutinised;