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12 Amendments of Chris DAVIES related to 2013/2195(DEC)

Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Heading 1
AReservations on agricultural and regional policy, subject to political reservation
2014/02/27
Committee: CONT
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Heading 1 - Subheading 1
Letter of 5 November 2013 from the rapporteur and shadow rapporteurs to the President of the Commissiondeleted
2014/02/27
Committee: CONT
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that, according to the Communication from the Commission on Protection of the European Union budget86 , eight Member States are responsible for 90 % of the financial corrections in the fields under shared management; urges the Commission therefore to direct its particular attention to those countries; __________________ 86 COM(2013) 682, 26 September 2013.
2014/02/27
Committee: CONT
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Heading 1 - Subheading 4
Grounds for the political reservation.deleted
2014/02/27
Committee: CONT
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Acknowledges, as the Commission over and over indicates, that around 80% of the funds are being spend under shared management; nevertheless recalls that TFUE article 317 stipulates that the Commission bears the ultimate responsibility for the implementation of the budget;
2014/02/27
Committee: CONT
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Commission, in its annual activity reports, to indicate how its own risk analyses have influenced the use of its own audit capacities, which countries were concerned and whether the shortcomings were remedied; calls for more direct audits of random samples taken from national granting authorities and final beneficiaries; furthermore urges the Commission to look at positive incentives vis-a-vis Member States that have low error rates for example by adjusting audit sample sizes;
2014/02/27
Committee: CONT
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32a. Calls on the Member States which did not already introduce a voluntary Member State Declaration to do so on the basis of the management declaration as foreseen by Article 59 of the Financial Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012; urges the Commission to establish the template for the management declaration as soon as possible; reiterates in this respect the ongoing work of the interinstitutional working group on Member State Declarations which for its result is very dependent on the new content of the management declarations;
2014/02/27
Committee: CONT
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Heading 1 - Subheading 8
The newly delected Parliament
2014/02/27
Committee: CONT
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
33. Regards the newly delected Parliament as being in a position to investigate the reservations in the fields of agriculture and regional policy and lift them if appropriate progress is made;
2014/02/27
Committee: CONT
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35a. Asks the Commission for a concise and comprehensive action plan that could also be endorsed by the new Commission in order to effectively respond to the reservations expressed in this discharge resolution;
2014/02/27
Committee: CONT
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54
54. Welcomes the fact that the Commission succeeded in rapidly imposing a significant number of financial corrections in 2012 whilst many financial corrections are in general made many years after initial disbursement of funds; is critical of the fact that the EU budget incurs additional administrative costs and losses of revenue and interest due to excessively protracted procedures, considers effective ex-ante controls a better way of protecting the Union budget than ex post financial corrections;
2014/02/27
Committee: CONT
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 65 a (new)
65a. Regrets that the Commission continues to ignore Parliament's long standing request to add the individual Commissioner's signature to the annual activity reports of his/her related Directorate-General for which he/she is responsible; notes that the synthesis report is adopted by the College of Commissioners, but deems this unsatisfactory in the light of democratic accountability principles;
2014/02/27
Committee: CONT