1 Amendments of Ingeborg GRÄSSLE related to 2009/2121(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that the Agency's accounts for the financial year 2008 show income from interest in the amount of EUR 519 598.10, of which EUR 472 251.18 has already been paid back to the Directorate-General for Energy and Transport, with the remaining EUR 47 346.92 entered in the accounts as an accrued expense; concludes from the annual closure of accounts and the amount of interest payments that the Agency maintains enormously high cash reserves over long periods; welcomes the fact that as at 31 December 2008 the Agency's cash reserves had been reduced to EUR 3 610 677.41; calls on the Commission to examine ways of ensuring that the principle of needs-based cash management, as laid down in Article 15(5) of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002, is implemented to the full and what changes in approach are needed to ensure that the Agency's cash reserves are kept as low as possible on a long-term basis;