56 Amendments of Ingeborg GRÄSSLE related to 2013/2195(DEC)
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses that the application of net financial corrections in the field of agriculture does not yet constitute the anticipated progress, as (a) the Commission’'s existing internal ruleindicative benchmarks already stipulate that the duration of conformity procedures must not exceed two years and (b) the so-called ‘'new’' criteria and methodology for applyingdetermining the proportionality of the financial corrections to be applied, as mentioned in Annex I to the Communication refer explicitly to guidelines that will be based on the existing ones adopted by the Commission as long ago as 23 December 1997; is surprised that for almost 20 years the Commission has not been able to bring the duration of the clearance procedures below the self-inflicted benchmarks; considers it necessary, however, for the conformity procedure to have its full effect to accelerate the procedure and to further improve the criteria and methods for the application of financial corrections beyond the new guidelines foreseen;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Heading 1 - Subheading 4
Heading 1 - Subheading 4
Grounds for the political reservationdemanding formal commitments by the Commission and Member States.
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Is not prepared to accept the situation that for years the majority of the errors identified by the Court ought to be have been identified by the Member States themselves; considers, therefore, that in some Member States the control statistics, audit results and procedures constitute an inadequate basis for assessments and financial corrections by the Commission;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Regards political reservations as a new and effective budgetary control instrument, being a commitment by Parliament to monitor closely the measures taken by the Commission and Member States to eliminate these problems, so as to justify in the eyes of the public in particular the decision to grant discharge;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Notes that the Internal Audit Service of the Commission (IAS) found that the audit strategy of DG AGRI was not sufficiently formalised, namely that there were gaps in the definition of the audit universe, the setting up of quantitative and measurable objectives (e.g. audit coverage), and the related capacity analysis; is worried about the IAS's finding that audit plans were not sufficiently supported by risk assessments and that there was a significant audit backlog (13 % of engagements of 2007- 2010 still open), despite DG AGRI's efforts to reduce it;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Notes that the Director-General for DG AGRI has maintained a reputational reservation concerning deficiencies in the supervision and control of certified organic products; expects remedial action of the Commission to ensure that the absence of sufficient controls does not lead to unfair distortion of competition between organic and conventional farmers;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Notes that Member States' authorities have interpreted guidance in different ways, in particularly as regards statistical sampling and coverage of the audit universe; is deeply worried since the Internal Audit Service of the Commission found significant variations in the extent and depth of on-the-spot tests;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Heading 1 - Subheading 6 a (new)
Heading 1 - Subheading 6 a (new)
in the field of the European Anti-fraud Office (OLAF)
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. is worried about the high financial indicators for opening an investigation included in the Investigative Policy Priorities of OLAF for the years 2012 and 2013 that are in the Customs sector: EUR 1 million, in the Agriculture sectors: EUR 100 000 for SAPARD and above EUR 250 000 for Agriculture; in the Structural Funds: EUR 500 000 in the European Social Fund as well as in the Cohesion Fund and EUR 1 million in ERDF, in the external aid and centralised expenditure sectors: EUR 50 000 and also in the Union staff sector: EUR 10 000; criticises that it is in the responsibility of the managing DGs to care about possible fraud cases below these financial indicators without having qualified staff at their disposal; sees taxpayers money and the financial interest of the Union endangered;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. notes that it has not received eight months after the adoption of Parliament's resolution1a on the protection of the financial interest 2011 in plenary, the legal analysis of the legality of recordings of private phone conversations during administrative investigations concerning members of the Union institutions and Union officials conducted by OLAF requested in paragraph 75; _____________ 1a Texts adopted, P7_TA(2013)0318.
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls on the Commission, in the field of agriculture, to resolve without delay the problems occurring in Paying Agencies whose residual risk of error lies above the materiality threshold of 2 % as identified by the Commission; suggests to focus its efforts especially on the Paying Agencies in France, Bulgaria, Romania, Portugal and Latvia;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls, in order to remedy shortcomings in LPIS systems, for conformity procedures to be shortened andthat action plans to bare implemented promptly when deficiencies are detected; calls, in the event of failure to comply with the deadlines, for net corrections to be made in the action plans in the Member States concerned as part of the confiormity clearance procedure;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls on DG AGRI to develop and formalise its control strategy, re-engineer its risk assessments according to the targets established, and ensure proper monitoring through better quantitative and qualitative key performance indicators whose disclosure in the AAR should be improved;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. expects that the Commission improves its own checks on the audit authorities' annual control reports, to ensure that auditors are able to reach conclusions on the impact of the reliability of error rates from Member States' audits and to strengthen its assurance process; is of the opinion that these inconsistencies need to be addressed as soon as possible to minimise the risk of non-detection of system weaknesses and/or errors and irregularities;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32a. Calls on the Commission to establish a registry for all Union funds going to media in the Member States from the structural funds or agricultural funds including rural development;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 b (new)
Paragraph 32 b (new)
32b. Calls on the Commission to apply Article 32(5) of the new Financial Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 if the level of error is persistently high, and consequently to identify the weaknesses in the control systems, analyse the costs and benefits of possible corrective measures and take or propose appropriate action in terms of simplification, improvement of control systems and redesign of programmes or delivery systems;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 c (new)
Paragraph 32 c (new)
32c. Urges the Commission to tackle the problem of 'frontmen' being used for the purpose of obtaining public contracts and calls for every stage of public procurement procedures to be published on Internet, ensuring maximum transparency, and identifying subcontractors also;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 d (new)
Paragraph 32 d (new)
32d. Calls on the Commission to examine its internal shared management arrangements and make recommendations to the European Parliament regarding the appointment of EU officials at the head of national payment, management and audit authorities in the Member States with responsibility for the disbursement of EU funds;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Calls on the newly elected Parliament to raise the issue of the weaknesses in the fields of agricultural and regional policy indicated here at the hearUrges the next Parliament to follow up on the remedial measures referred to under points [22]-[30] and to ensure that the designated members of the new Commission commit formally, during their hearing, to implement these priority actions in full and within the defined timeframe; (The reference to poingts of the designa[22] - [30] in the suggested amembndment above refers tof the new Commission and to demand appropriate pledges in order to improve protection of the EU budget;text under the subheading 'Measures to be taken' and is intended to be dynamic and should be adjusted after adoption with the corresponding numbers of the paragraphs.)
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69
Paragraph 69
69. Points out that as of 31 June 2013 gross pre-financing amounted to EUR 80.1 billion at the end of 2012 and insistof which 75 % (approximately EUR 61 billion) were older than 18 months and 20 % (EUR 16 billion) were older than six years; notes that unnecessary extended periods of pre- financing can lead to an increased risk of error or loss; notes that under shared management pre-financing payments are not conditioned by the existence of a guarantee; suggests therefore that the Commission should provide in the reports of the accounting officer a breakdown of pre-financing payments by year of their accrual and by Member State
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69 a (new)
Paragraph 69 a (new)
69a. is worried since EUR 4,8 billion from the previous programming period 2000- 2006 was paid from the Union budget as pre-financing to projects in the structural domain as of 31 June 2013, which neither have been cleared nor had the amounts been recovered by the Commission or the Member States; demands information on the state of play of those projects and information about the schedule for recovery or clearance of those funds;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69 b (new)
Paragraph 69 b (new)
69b. demands a detailed breakdown and a detailed explanation of the EUR 2,3 billion of pre-financing that: (a) had been adjusted due to technical corrections made to the opening balance when accruals-based accounts were first prepared or (b) had been transferred from the Commissions balance sheet to other Union bodies (agencies and joint undertakings) at the time of their creation;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69 c (new)
Paragraph 69 c (new)
69c. is worried that the Commission received in the development and cooperation area only guarantees for a total of EUR 700 million while an amount of EUR 10,1 billion in pre-financing has already been paid; expects the Commission to undertake the necessary steps to minimise the credit risk; is convinced that NGOs, international organisations and other beneficiaries of grants or contracting parties should be subject to guarantee requirements for pre- financed amounts;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 74 a (new)
Paragraph 74 a (new)
74a. requests the Commission to forward each year to the Parliament the annual summaries of the final audit reports and of the controls carried out by the Member States pursuant to Article 59(5)(b) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 at the latest two months after their receipt by the Commission under the necessary safeguards laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement between Parliament and the Commission; notes that Parliament's competent committee received those annual summaries for the financial year 2012 only on 19 February 2014;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 87 a (new)
Paragraph 87 a (new)
87a. Considers that VAT fraud, and in particular the so-called carousel or missing trader fraud, distorts competition, and deprives national budgets from significant resources and is detrimental to the Union budget; calls on the Commission to use all means to enforce the obligation of Member States to provide information in a timely manner to the Commission; welcomes in this regard the promise of the Commissioner to provide Parliament until 1 May 2014 with an overview of the developments of the initiatives taken to tackle tax evasion and avoidance taking place within the Union and in relation to third countries;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 121
Paragraph 121
121. Shares nevertheless the concern expressed by the Court of Auditors that the use of flat-rate corrections does not sufficiently take into account the nature and gravity of the infringement and that the length of the procedure is a persistent problem with conformity decisions; deems flat-rate corrections however a necessary tool for situations where a more precise calculation is not feasible; therefore requests that the Commission set out criteria for the calculation of flat rate corrections that will ensure that the nature and gravity of the deficiency is adequately taken into account;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 128 a (new)
Paragraph 128 a (new)
128a. Notes that the amounts declared irrecoverable from the EAGF due to insolvency of the beneficiary amount to EUR 351,6 million since 2007 as reported by the Commission; notes also that a further EUR 6 million have not been recovered since 2007 for the reason that the costs exceeded the benefits of the recovery; expects the Commission to provide those amounts each year in its Annual Activity report and elaborate ways how Member States can diminish the risk of funding beneficiaries at the brink to insolvency;
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 128 b (new)
Paragraph 128 b (new)
128b. Notes that in accordance with Article 33(7) of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 (EAFRD) a Member State may decide to halt the recovery procedure subject to the conditions laid down in Article 32(6) of that Regulation, only after closure of the programme; notes that all amounts in relation to EAFRD debts declared irrecoverable in the financial years 2007-2012, i.e. EUR 0,9 million of debts, do not have any valid justification; asks the Commission to explain what it is planning to do in this regard;
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 128 c (new)
Paragraph 128 c (new)
128c. Observes that some Member States ran multiannual programs in the MFF 2007-2013 and some Paying Agencies were obliged to undertake recoveries from beneficiaries even when small amounts of no more than some Cents were concerned (since Article 33 (7) in connection with Article 32 (6) of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 was only applicable after closure of a rural development program); is worried since for these small amounts costs for the recovery clearly exceeded the amounts to be recovered; notes that for the financial year 2013 and 2014 no changes are in sight for the Member States concerned; notes that the Commission was informed about the problem early on; is surprised that the Commission has not reacted faster to remedy the embarrassing situation for the Union; calls on the Commission to take a more pro-active approach in solving such nuisances in the coming MFF when they come to the Commission's attention;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 133
Paragraph 133
133. Stresses nevertheless that these commitments concernNotes that all financial corrections ing the application offield of agriculture are net financial corrections do not represent considerable progress since (a) the current internal rules of the Commission already stipulate that the duration of; considers it necessary, however, for the conformity procedures should not exceed to have its full effect two years106 and (b) the so-called new 'criteria and methodology for applying financial corrections' mentioned in Annex I to the Communication on the application of net financial corrections on Member States for Agriculture and Cohesion policy, COM (2013) 934, refer explicitly toaccelerate the procedure and to further improve the criteria and methods for the application of net financial corrections beyond the new guidelines foreseen that will be based on the existing ones adoptedguidelines as decided on by the Commission already on 23 December 1997107;, ______________ 106 The Commission has set an indicative internal target by which it aims to complete the conformity clearance procedure. It provides for the entire procedure to be completed within 450 days after the audit took place (without conciliation) and 645 days if the Member State requests conciliation. See ECA special report 7/2010, ‘Audits of the clearance of accounts’, paragraphs 68 to 73 and 98. 107 The precise description for each CAP measure of the key and ancillary controls and the level of flat rates to be applied for each situation resulting from the criteria described in the annex should be fixed in Commission guidelines based on the existing ones which are solidly established and have allowed the Commission to obtain positive rulings from the Court of Justice on most of the cases contested by the Member States.
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 134
Paragraph 134
134. Stresses in particular that the shortening of the conformity procedure leading to financial corrections announced by the Commission cannot be evaluated before mid-2016, which means that Parliament will engage with the matter in the course of the discharge procedure in 2017/2018; stresses that this makes it extremely difficult for the discharge authority to reach objective conclusions as to whether or not the discharge can be granted; acknowledges, however, that the Commission has devised a reliable approach, and recalls that the same conclusions should be drawn regarding the rural development situationonly as soon as in the course of the discharge procedure in the years 2017 and 2018;
Amendment 338 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 160 a (new)
Paragraph 160 a (new)
160 a. Appreciates the work of the Task Force for Greece; notes that of the 181 priority projects identified by the Group the following projects amounting to EUR 415,7 million are at risk: - New port of Igoumenitsa, phase C with an approved volume of EUR 81,25 million - Suburban train section Piraeus-3 Gefyres with a co-financed budget of EUR 70 million - Construction of pier in Symi port with an approved volume of EUR 4,1 million - National Registry with an approved volume of EUR 41,9 million - Cadastre with a co-financed budget of EUR 130 million - E-ticket with an approved volume of EUR 34,76 million - Rehabilitation of Karla lake with an approved volume of EUR 41 million - Improvement of the access road to the landfill of the 2nd Geographical unity of the Perfecture of AitoloAkarnania with an approved volume of EUR 11,4 million - Improvement - Widening of Provincial Road Velo - Stimagka - Koutsi – Nemea with an approved volume of EUR 7,1 million - Replacement of the central water mains of Zakynthos with an approved volume of EUR 9,6 million requests the Commission to inform Parliament in detail about the problems encountered with those projects;
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 160 b (new)
Paragraph 160 b (new)
160b. Requests that the Commission evaluate the possibility to establish a Task Force for all Member States that struggle with the implementation of Union funds;
Amendment 362 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 177 a (new)
Paragraph 177 a (new)
177a. Demands clarification regarding a major case of fraud in connection with the ESF in Spain; notes that the fraud involved the organisation of educational and training events that are alleged to have been entirely fictional, held over the Internet with non-existent participants, with the level of grants depending on the number of registered participants; is concerned, since several million euros are involved; expects the Commission to provide information that might explain why this case was not noticed by any of the bodies responsible for control in the hierarchy of control obligations established by the regulation governing the fund (Madrid Court of Auditors, Spanish Court of Auditors, European Commission – DG EMPL, European Court of Auditors), and whether OLAF was involved; demands clarification as to whether the European Court of Auditors was aware of this case; demands to know how many similar cases have occurred in the past (cases in the Netherlands for example, and in other Member States);
Amendment 375 #
Motion for a resolution
Heading 7 - Subheading 1 a (new)
Heading 7 - Subheading 1 a (new)
Key performance indicators and EAMRs
Amendment 376 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 188 a (new)
Paragraph 188 a (new)
188a. Points out that international organisations can receive contracts directly from the Commission under certain conditions, without tender procedures, and this gives international organisations a considerable competitive advantage; considers the procedure through which the International Management Group (IMG) acquired the status of an international organisation to be questionable; points out that, in 2004 and again in 2008, the IMG was awarded this status by the Director-General of EuropeAid acting alone, in purely internal Commission procedures; regards this as justification of tendering errors; points out that a 'four-pillar assessment' was not carried out until 2010, by the firm Ernst & Young, which did not however correspond to an audit in line with internationally recognised auditing standards and did not go beyond the simple collection of information provided by the auditee itself; calls for detailed clarification as regards the legal basis on which the status of international organisation was granted in 2004, apart from the founding document dating from 1994, and information explaining why the 'four-pillar assessment' was carried out retrospectively in 2010;
Amendment 377 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 188 a (new)
Paragraph 188 a (new)
188a. Points out that the data quality of the key performance indicators (KPIs) within the External Assistance Monitoring Reports (EAMRs) submitted to DG DEVCO by the Heads of Union Delegations are of low quality, because: - some delegations were not required to provide data for certain KPIs; - some delegations did simply not comply to provide the KPI data requested; - system settings rounded figures automatically and made aggregation error prone; - the system was prone to human errors in calculations; - there was no common understanding of how to calculate certain KPIs; - the KPIs were not clearly defined;
Amendment 378 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 188 b (new)
Paragraph 188 b (new)
Amendment 379 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 188 b (new)
Paragraph 188 b (new)
188b. Points furthermore out that the concept of KPIs is systematically flawed, since the KPIs can by definition not be aggregated, compared and they make it impossible to draw firm and valid conclusions from them;
Amendment 380 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 188 c (new)
Paragraph 188 c (new)
188c. Notes that the Commission plays an active part in the International Management Group's Steering Committee; calls on the Commission to provide Parliament with a list of names of Commission staff who have attended meetings of the Steering Committee since 2000, as well as information showing when and how often these meetings took place and whether any kind of payment was made; calls, further, for the composition of the Steering Committee and minutes of its meetings to be forwarded to Parliament;
Amendment 381 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 188 c (new)
Paragraph 188 c (new)
188c. Expects that the Commission provides and presents during 2014 to the responsible committees in Parliament the overhauled system of KPIs; demands that the revised KPIs be aggregated and compared across delegations and years; expects furthermore that the Commission provides Parliament until the end of 2014 with a benchmarking report comparing the performance of Union Delegations along the revised system of KPIs;
Amendment 382 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 188 d (new)
Paragraph 188 d (new)
188d. Refers to the appointment procedure of the General Manager who "shall be appointed by a two thirds majority of the Standing Committee. The term of the Office will be one year [and] renewable [...].The General Manager shall serve under a contract signed either by the State or the institution seconding him to IMG or by the Presidency of IMG. In this last case the contract shall be approved by the Standing Committee" (see Article 12 Statute of IMG); asks the Commission to inform Parliament about the appointment procedure of the current General Manager, his remuneration, how long he is already in office and when his contract will end;
Amendment 383 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 188 d (new)
Paragraph 188 d (new)
188d. Suggests that the Commission develops furthermore a system to rank delegations according to their performance in each year and presents during 2014 an action plan to achieve this goal;
Amendment 384 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 188 e (new)
Paragraph 188 e (new)
188e. Points out that conflicts of interest might occur because of close family links between staff members of the Finance and Contract section in Union Delegations and IMG as beneficiary; recalls Parliament's demand to have access to the CVs of the persons concerned and asks therefore the Commission again to forward these CVs confidentially to the Parliament;
Amendment 385 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 188 e (new)
Paragraph 188 e (new)
188e. Expects that the Commission will provide the KPIs to Parliament in a machine readable format such as Excel tables or CSV-files together with the EAMRs so that they can be easily analysed;
Amendment 386 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 201
Paragraph 201
201. Observes that the President of the Commission still has not accounted to Parliament for the removal fromin plenary for the loss of office of Health Commissioner John Dalli on 16 October 2012 and; insists on the necessity of respecting the presumption of innocence and notes that the serious accusations of corruption levelled at the Commissioner by the tobacco industry, which he has always rejected, remain unproven to this day;
Amendment 398 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 205
Paragraph 205
205. Notes with concern the large number of suspected fraud cases which the Commission has reported to OLAF but which OLAF hasdismissed and referred back to the Commission; observes that no record is kept of the follow-up measures taken by the Commission; calls on OLAF at least to monitor the follow-up measures to these cases; calls for an analysis of the suspected fraud cases dismissed and referred back to the Commission in 2012 and 2013;
Amendment 401 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 206 a (new)
Paragraph 206 a (new)
206a. Requests that the Commission provide the Committee on Budgetary Control with a non-redacted version of the document D/000955 from the 5 February 2009 produced by OLAF on the misuse of Union funds by a high-ranking member of a Union institution;
Amendment 402 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 206 b (new)
Paragraph 206 b (new)
206b. Expects to be informed by the Commission about all Clearing House meetings in 2012 and 2013 in regard to the participants at these meetings and the agendas; is worried about the independence of OLAF and requests that the Supervisory Committee analyse how far the Clearing House meetings endanger the independence of OLAF;
Amendment 415 #
Motion for a resolution
Heading 14 a (new)
Heading 14 a (new)
Studies and advice/consultation from external providers
Amendment 416 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 223 a (new)
Paragraph 223 a (new)
223a. Notes that the Commission was not able to provide Parliament with a clear, concise list in a machine readable format from the Commissions ABAC system such as an Excel table or a .CSV-file that includes the topics of all studies as well as the specific issue of any external advice/consultation carried out for the Commission by external providers with the names of these providers as well as the country where the respective provider has its seat while also indicating the date the authorising officers committed the budget appropriations for the studies or the external advice broken down by years starting in 2009 ending 2013; expects that list to be submitted to the Committee on Budgetary Control until 1 May 2014;
Amendment 420 #
Motion for a resolution
Heading 14 b (new)
Heading 14 b (new)
European Schools
Amendment 421 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 223 b (new)
Paragraph 223 b (new)
223b. Notes that in June 2012 the accountant of the Brussels I School was removed from his post; expects that the Commission provides Parliament's Budgetary Control Committee with a detailed and comprehensive report on the irregular payments made and the follow- up of the case;
Amendment 422 #
Motion for a resolution
Heading 14 c (new)
Heading 14 c (new)
Regulation on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH)
Amendment 423 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 223 c (new)
Paragraph 223 c (new)
223c. Requests that the Commission provide a report on the problems encountered during the implementation process of REACH and the steps undertaken to dissolve those problems;