7 Amendments of Ryszard CZARNECKI related to 2018/2177(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision 1
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Grants the Commission discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh European Development Funds for the financial year 2017 / Postpones its decision on granting the Commission discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh European Development Funds for the financial year 2017;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Recalls the Commission to pay stricter attention to the recurrent weaknesses of its ex ante checks system and to implement measures to avoid the accounted failure of certain ex ante controls, while noting that the Court underlined that in some error cases the Commission had sufficient information from its information systems to prevent, detect and correct before making the expenditure, the estimated level of error would have been consequently 1,8 percentage points lower;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Believes that the ROM instrument should be used proactively and more rapidly when critical situations occur or persist; emphasises that corrective measures should be taken without delay and the nature of deficiencies at the design level should be structurally assessed; stresses the indispensability of providing Parliament and the budgetary control authority with a clear view of the real extent to which the Union’s main development objectives have been achieved;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Takes note of the statement of the evaluation of the eleventh EDF that (i) ‘there is a real threat that EDF will be pushed into responding to agendas that distance it from its primary objective of poverty alleviation, which are difficult to reconcile with the EDF’s core values and compromise what it does well’ and (ii) that ‘despite consultations, government and [civil society organisation] views (with some notable exceptions such as in the Pacific region), have rarely been taken account of in programming choices’; considers however that peace building and addressing root causes of migration are fundamental aspects of sustainable development;
Amendment 17 #
– considers there is still a need for a more systematic approach to the communication of EU grant-funded activities to enhance EU visibility, and to strengthen transparency and accountability along the chain of funding;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Believes that enough local ownership and partners involvement should be ensured in the operational governance and policy design to avoid a too centralised modus operandi with a prominent role for donors while consistently respecting the principle of management by results;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Invites the Commission to further elaborate on, and clarify, the exact scope and meaning of its margin of flexibility or of interpretation in assessing whether the general eligibility conditions for the making of disbursements to a partner country have been met, with respect to the so called ‘differentiation and dynamic approach to eligibility’; is concerned by the final use of the funds transferred and the lack of traceability when the Union’s funds are merged within the partner country’s budget resources;