4 Amendments of Nedzhmi ALI related to 2017/2140(DEC)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that during the discharge procedure, Annual Activity reports are currently submitted to the Court in June, submitted by the Court to the European Parliament in October and voted in plenary by May; notes that by the time discharge is closed, if not postponed, at least 17 months have passed since the closing of annual accounts; points out that auditing in the private sector follows a much stricter timeline; stresses that the discharge procedure needs to be streamlined and sped up; requests that the Court follows the good example set by the private sector and proposes to set a deadline for the submission of Annual Activity reports on 31 March of the following year, a deadline for the submission for the Court's reports on the 1st of July and subsequently to review the timetable for the discharge procedure as set down in Article 5 of Annex IV to Parliament's Rules of Procedure so that the vote on the discharge can be held in in the plenary part-session of November, thereby closing the discharge procedure within the year following the accounting year in question;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Welcomes the overall prudent and sound financial management of the Court in the 2016 budget period; expresses support for the successful paradigm shift towards performance-based budgeting in the Commission’s budget planning introduced by Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva in September 2015 as part of the “EU Budget Focused on Results” initiative; encourages the Court to apply the method to its own budget-planning procedure;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Observes that the 5% staff reduction agreement has led to institutions increasingly hiring staff on temporary contracts; regrets that internal competitions are organised with the aim and result of retaining staff that have previously held the same position under previous temporary contracts; considers it more cost and time efficient as well as transparent and fair if well- performing staff with temporary contracts would be switched to permanent contracts without the added financial and administrative burden of organising competitions with pre-determined outcomes at the expense of disappointing outside applicants;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Regrets the decision by the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union; observes that at this point no predictions can be made about the financial, administrative, human and other consequences related to the withdrawal, asks the Court to perform impact assessments and inform the Parliament on the results by the end of the year 2018;