5 Amendments of Ingeborg GRÄSSLE related to 2011/2202(DEC)
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Recalls Parliament’s decision to grant discharge in respect of Parliament’s budget for the financial year 2008, and in particular paragraph 138 of its resolution of 5 May 20101 on granting discharge, in which it calls for cash payments to be completely discontinued; notes in the light of Directive 2005/60/EC on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering and terrorist financing, and with regard to the audit report of the Internal Auditor, that the payment of large amounts in cash entails a very high risk of money laundering and terrorist financing; calls on Parliament’s administration in future to refrain entirely from making cash payments to visitors’ groups in accordance with Article 18 of the Bureau decision on the rules governing the reception of groups of visitors and the Euroscola and Euromed-Scola Programmes; 1 OJ L 252, 25.9.2010, p. 3.
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 a (new)
Paragraph 37 a (new)
37a. Calls in future, where travel is undertaken by delegations, for a detailed statement of costs for all those travelling and the publication of their names; notes that, at the ACP-EU JPA in Kinshasa in November 2010, 46 Members and 25 parliamentary assistants were present, and that the cost to the taxpayer of the assistants participating in the trip totalled EUR 72 250;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 a (new)
Paragraph 43 a (new)
43a. Urges Parliament’s administration to report to Parliament on experience in general with the amended rules governing the size of official visitors’ groups, and in particular on the effects of these rules on organisation and capacity utilisation;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 b (new)
Paragraph 43 b (new)
43b. Calls on Parliament’s administration to examine whether it makes sense, on organisational or capacity utilisation grounds, to increase the size of groups, and, if so, instructs Parliament’s administration to set the minimum group size itself, stating reasons and with due consideration of all interests involved;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 64 d (new)
Paragraph 64 d (new)
64d. Demands in this connection a detailed financial statement of the costs already incurred, and those projected for the next 20 years, in respect of the KAD building in Luxembourg, and insists that the expected total costs of construction, estimated operating costs and other expenditure arising in connection with the construction and operation of this building, be published in detail;