Activities of Bart STAES related to 2011/2033(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on budgetary management of European Union pre-accession funds in the areas of judicial systems and the fight against corruption in the candidate and potential candidate countries PDF (263 KB) DOC (166 KB)
Amendments (5)
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Regrets that the Commission does not have a tool to provide an execution rate in an automated manner for the EU pre- accession projects and emphasises that knowledge on execution rate is crucial in order to monitor the efficient implementation of projects and, therefore, in order to point out potential bottlenecks at an early stage; calls on the Commission to centralise data on a regular6 months basis on the execution rate of the projects for which EU pre-accession assistance is allocated;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Recalling that the rule of law is the cornerstone of democratic governance, stresses that the justice system needs to be morefully reliable, independent and predictable in order to ensure that the people and the business community trust the judiciary system ; stresses in this context the need to establish randomcoherent distribution of cases across allthe courts, and to ensure timely justice and ongoing, points out that adequate training of judges, prosecutors and clerks, and is essential, to ensure the unification and easy access of and tof jurisprudence and the publication of all judicial decisions immediately after adoption, as well as the wise use of e- justice;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes that genuine implementation and concrete results in fighting corruption, in particular in the cases of high-level political corruption and corruption in the judiciary, are still a big challenge and that a convincing track record of cases of prosecution and conviction should be built up in order to measure progress; stresses the need for better planning and funding of anti- corruption workactivities, based on the cooperation of a broad range of stakeholders; calls on the Commission to develop a longer-term and broad-based strategic perspective of EU funding for civil society organisations which are working in the areas of transparency and anti-corruption;, as well on a national as European level.
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Notes that pre-accession projects last on averagehave a time span of between one and 3.5 years; acknowledges, based on the external thematic evaluations, that such deadlines are challenging, if not overambitious, given the wide scope of somemost projects and their numerous often complicated components; given the complexity of reforms in the areas of justice and the fight against corruption, and the time consumed solely in pre programming activities, recommends that the Commission define priorities takes adequate measures within the framework of IPA II programming and projects that could benefit fromwhich would lead to a longer timescale (five to seven years), incorporating predetermined and periodical reviewing exercises which would allow for more flexible adjustments, including at the financial lenvel;ope
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Is concerned that ROM reports are considered to be structurally biased in favour of positive ratings and that they are inappropriate for longer-term performance monitoring; stresses that monitoring should track sector performance and not just project results; urges the Commission to develop a comprehensive monitoring action plan including evaluation tools other than ROM reports, such as sector performance assessment frameworks with SMART indicators, in order to make comprehensive monitoring of project outcomes possible over time; would like to be informed on progress made before the end of 2014;