1 Amendments of Ingeborg GRÄSSLE related to 2009/2117(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that the Centre reported EUR 1 580 984.34 in income from interest in 2008; concludes from the financial statements and from the level of the interest payments that the Centre has a permanently extremely high level of cash holdings; notes that on 31 December 2008 the Centre's cash holdings amounted to EUR 48 405 006.88; asks the Commission to examine what scope there is for helping to ensure that the cash holdings are managed entirely on a needs-orientated basis, in accordance with Article 15(5) of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002, and what changes of approach are necessary in order to keep the Centre's cash holdings permanently as low as possible; calls on the Centre to offer its clients cost-covering services in future;