Activities of Ingeborg GRÄSSLE related to 2013/2206(DEC)
Plenary speeches (2)
Discharge 2012 (debate)
Discharge 2012 (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget for the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth European Development Funds for the financial year 2012 PDF (262 KB) DOC (132 KB)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Observes that 1 153 nongovernmental organisations (57% of all NGOs) are operating in the field of Europeaid and 152 (8%) in the field of humanitarian aid (ECHO), receiving EUR 1.52 bn and EUR 960 m respectively in EU funding; notes that EU funding of NGOs has doubled in 10 years; calls on the Commission to provide an overview of the 30 largest and 30 smallest projects being implemented by NGOs using EDF funding, and an overview of how much funding of their own the organisations have invested in each of these projects;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33a. Expresses a political reservation about these appropriations, because their use by authorities in third States cannot be monitored either by the Commission or by the Court of Auditors;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 52
Paragraph 52
52. Takes note of the fact that the Commission, notwithstanding the Parliament'sary resolutions relating toabout the 2010 and 2011 discharge procedures, has not yet made neither thpublic exhaustive performance indicators upon which the budget support to the Republic of Haiti was based, noeither the detailed assessments of the Government of the Republic of Haiti’'s performance upon which the decision to give budget support was based public;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56
Paragraph 56
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 59
Paragraph 59
59. Observes that since the publication of the CONT report, no improvements have taken place, despite the fact that and the Union participatesion in the International Aid Transparency Initiative, some improvements have taken place;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72
Paragraph 72
72. Deplores, as in previous years, the fact that the investment facility is not covered by the Court of Auditors' Statement of Assurance or Parliament's discharge procedure, even though the projects are carried out by the EIB on behalf of and at the risk of the Union, using EDFs' resources; calls therefore for an end to be brought to the Tripartite Agreement during the October 2015 revision and include the investment facility in the normal discharge procedure;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 73
Paragraph 73
73. Asks the Court of Auditors to issue a Special Report on the performance and alignment with Union development policies and objectives of EIB external lending activities before the mid-term review of the EIB’s external mandate and the mid-term review of the Investment Facility, as well as compare the added value with regards the own resources used by the EIB; asks the Court of Auditors, furthermore, to differentiate their analysis between the guarantees granted by the general budget of the Union and by the Member States, the investment facility endowed by the EDF, and the usage of reflows for these investments, and the EIB's use of the various forms of blending used in the EU Africa infrastructural trust fund, the Caribbean investment fund and the investment facility for the Pacific and the usage of reflows for these investments;acility