12 Amendments of Marian-Jean MARINESCU related to 2015/2200(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision 1
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Grants the Executive Director of the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking (formerly the Joint Undertaking for the implementation of the Joint Technology Initiative on Innovative Medicines) discharge in respect of the implementation of the Joint Undertaking’s budget for the financial year 2014 / Postpones its decision on granting discharge to the Executive Director of the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking (formerly the Joint Undertaking for the implementation of the Joint Technology Initiative on Innovative Medicines) in respect of the implementation of the Joint Undertaking’s budget for the financial year 2014;
Amendment 4 #
Proposal for a decision 2
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Approves the closure of the accounts of the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking (formerly the Joint Undertaking for the implementation of the Joint Technology Initiative on Innovative Medicines) for the financial year 2014 / Postpones the closure of the accounts of the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking (formerly the Joint Undertaking for the implementation of the Joint Technology Initiative on Innovative Medicines) for the financial year 2014;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Notes that the institutions and bodies are required to produce each year a Report on Budgetary and Financial Management and that the information provided by the Joint Undertaking in this report lacked harmonisation and was often incomplete. Guidance is required from the Commission as to the nature and content of the report;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Notes the clean opinion of the Court on the legality and regularity of transactions underlying the annual accounts of the Joint Undertaking for the year 2014 and acknowledges that the Joint Undertaking has met the materiality threshold;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes with concern that the performance of operational ex-ante controls on the payment of project costs was insufficiently documented; the ex-ante control performed by the Joint Undertaking's Scientific Project Officers (SPO) did not clearly identify and comment upon the status of the project (on-going, on-going subject to deficiencies, suspended/cancelled) and its deliverables (no reservations, reservations requiring clarification, major reservations); and payment was made without an official listing of deliverables accepted by the SPO and without any reference to the assessment of deliverables by the SPO;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that the performance of operational ex-ante controls on the payment of project costs was insufficiently documented; the ex-ante control performed by the Joint Undertaking's Scientific Project Officers (SPO) did not clearly identify and comment upon the status of the project (on-going, on-going subject to deficiencies, suspended/cancelled) and its deliverables (no reservations, reservations requiring clarification, major reservations); and payment was made without an official listing of deliverables accepted by the SPO and without any reference to the assessment of deliverables by the SPO; takes note that the Joint Undertaking has established an action plan to address auditors' observations and enhance ex ante control system;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Takes note that the commitment appropriations and payment appropriations for the FP 7 and Horizon 2020 are not presented separately in the report or in the Annual Accounts; calls on the Joint Undertaking to report this data to the dischCourt's report; takes note that in the context of operational budget execution, commitment appropriations presented in the Joint Undertaking's Annual Activity Report and Annual Accounts arge authority in a way that distinguishes FP 7 and Horizon 2020broken down into FP7 and Horizon 2020; calls on the Joint Undertaking to include more information on budget execution (commitment and payments) for FP 7 and Horizon 2020 programmes in the upcoming annual reports;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that Joint Undertaking's programmes funded under FP 7 are still ongoing; takes note that these appropriations remain available until 20167 because of the Joint Undertaking's financial rules which allow Joint Undertaking to re- enter its commitment and payment appropriations up to three years after they have been cancelled from the Joint Undertaking's budget; encourages the Joint Undertaking to carefully conduct its budget planning, taking into due account the parallel process;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Welcomes the fact that the calls for proposals under the FP 7 for the 2008-2013 period resulted in 54 grant agreements totalling EUR 897 000 000, amounting to 93 % of the maximum Union contribution to the Joint Undertaking for research activities;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Points out that as IMI 2 Joint Undertaking took over the activity of IMI Joint Undertaking in MayJune 2014, there is not enough clear information regarding the statuse of play of implementation of IMI Joint Undertaking 's projects (level of payments or payments plans for the next years);
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Welcomes the fact that the declaration of interests of the Acting Executive Director was published on the Joint Undertaking 's website; the names and the Curricula Vitae of the members of the Joint Undertaking 's Governing Board, Scientific Committee and the names of the States Representatives Group are all publicly available via the website; notes that in the case of the Scientific Committee, the members' Curricula Vitae are also available; encourages the Joint Undertaking to publish each Curriculum Vitae on the website;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Regrets that the Joint Undertaking failed to publish a report on the socio- economic impact of its activities; calls on the Joint Undertaking to submit to the discharge authority the abovementioned reportWelcomes the publication by the Joint Undertaking of the preliminary Report on the Joint Undertaking project outputs linked to early socio-economic impacts.