8 Amendments of Ingeborg GRÄSSLE related to 2012/2168(DEC)
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Notes the Secretary-General’s reply indicating that European Parliament allowances covered 1 599 accredited assistants’ contracts and 2 868 local assistants’ contracts in 2011; is surprised that almost twice as many local assistants were employed as accredited assistants, even though the bulk of an MEP’s legislative work is done in Strasbourg and Brussels;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
Paragraph 42
42. Welcomes the faNotes that the Parliament expects that the internalisation of the security services will reduce costs in Brussels and Strasbourg by EUR 16 000 000 in the period up to 2015 and by EUR 6 000 000 for each year thereafter; demands a yearly report with detailed information on the development of the costs of the security service, including the accrued costs for pensions of staff employed on the matter, and the measures taken to ensure the scope and quality of the service;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42 a (new)
Paragraph 42 a (new)
42a. Notes the Secretary-General’s reply indicating that the cost of delegations, which can be as much as EUR 5 300 per MEP per day, is largely made up of transport costs; emphasises that the work associated with parliamentary activity is essentially done in Strasbourg and Brussels; suggests that the cost of delegations’ travel to third countries be made subject to an annual ceiling per Member;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42 a (new)
Paragraph 42 a (new)
42a. Notes that more than a 1500 staff have their children enrolled in the European Schools, and is therefore surprised to learn that the Parliament does not play any role what so ever in the Governance of the European School system;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42 b (new)
Paragraph 42 b (new)
42b. Calls on the Secretary-General to investigate which role the Parliament could play in the governance of the European School system, given the high number of staff who rely on them for educating their children, and report back to the competent committee before the end of the year;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Recalls that the amount of EUR 85,9 million repaid by Belgium to the Parliament at the beginning of 2010 and earmarked for building projects is to be considered as external assigned revenue under Article 21 of the Financial Regulation;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69 a (new)
Paragraph 69 a (new)
69a. Welcomes the new procedure enabling the recovery of overpayments following payments for hosting visitor groups; considers it a pity that the option of payment by bank transfer should be available only for transfers to personal accounts, with no provision for transfers to the accounts of organisations; is concerned about the significant security risk entailed in making cash payments to visitor groups, the sums in question being as much as EUR 30 000 plus, with Parliament distributing up to EUR 388 000 in a day; points out that Directive 2005/60/EC on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering and terrorist financing requires particular care to be taken with transactions involving sums of more than EUR 15 000, an amount that is regular exceeded in Parliament’s payments to visitors;