5 Amendments of Sharon BOWLES related to 2010/0035(NLE)
Amendment 10 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) TWhile the revised governance framework for fiscal statistics has overall functioned well and, in general, has produced a satisfactory outcome in terms of reporting of relevant fiscal data on government deficit and debt. In particular, the, and most Member States have predominantly demonstrated a solid record of co-operation in good faith and an operational ability to report fiscal data of high quality, previous opportunities should have been taken to enhance the quality and scope of data provided to the Commission (Eurostat).
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) In carrying out monitoring visits to a Member State whose statistical information is under scrutiny the Commission (Eurostat) should be entitled to have access to the accounts of government entities at central, state, local and social security levels, including the provision of underlying detailed accounting information, relevant statistical surveys and questionnaires and further related information, including off-balance sheet transactions, respecting the legislation on data protection as well as statistical confidentiality.
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) Public accounts of individual general government units, as well as of public units classified outside general government sector, should be the main object of the controls, and the public accounts should be assessed in terms of their statistical use. Both mid-term analysis and multiannual frameworks should be used to assist budgetary evaluation.
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 – point 2
Article 1 – point 2
Regulation (EC) No 479/2009
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
2. Member States shall as promptly as possible provide the Commission (Eurostat) with access to all the information requested for the needs of the data quality assessment, including statistical information such as data from national accounts, including references to off-balance sheet transactions, inventories, excessive deficit procedure notification tables, additional questionnaires and clarification related to the notifications.
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 – point 3
Article 1 – point 3
Regulation (EC) No 479/2009
Article 11 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Article 11 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
The methodological visits shall only be undertaken in exceptional cases where significanterious risks or problems with the quality of the data have been clearly identifiare suspected.