2 Amendments of Markus PIEPER related to 2021/2153(DEC)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes from the Court’s report that the Joint Undertaking’s practice of reactivating unused payment appropriations from previous years to the extent of open administrative commitments, results in an accumulation of unused payment appropriations and that, aggravated by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, this practice resulted in a low budget implementation rate for the FCH2 administrative budget (Title 2) infrastructure and communication expenditure representing around 3 % of the FCH2’s total available payment budget, which was 56 % at the end of 2020; notes the FCH2 reply that the administrative budget showed a consistent high implementation rate between 75 % and 80 % for the previous four years, and that in 2020, however, the situation was different due to the significant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and that cancellation of planned activities of up to 13 % of Title 2 payment appropriations could not be known to their full extent before the end of the year; calls on the FCH2 to report to the discharge authority on that regard;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Notes that the Court audited randomly sampled Horizon 2020 payments made in 2020, at the level of the final beneficiaries to corroborate the ex-post audit error rates, as part of the operational payment controls, and that these detailed audits showed an error above 1 % of the audited costs caused by the application of a wrong exchange rate for the conversion of the declared costs into euro; calls on the FCH2 to report to the discharge authority on that regard;