13 Amendments of Lara WOLTERS related to 2021/2106(DEC)
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reiterates its deep concerns regarding the situation concerning the rule of law in a number of Member States, which is deeply worrying in its own right and may ultimately leads to serious losses for the Union budget and underlines its requests to the Commission to use all available tools to halt the ongoing severe violations of the rule of law and limit the risk of such losses. This should include the immediate and full application of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2092 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2020 on a general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget, by sending a written notification under Article 6(1) of the Regulation to the Member States concerned;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines its strong and repeated requests to the Commission and executive agencies to ensure the protection of the Union budget by making global and systematic use of digital and automatised systems for reporting, monitoring and audit; remarks that this should include the establishment of a mandatory single interoperable database on beneficiaries of funds from all Union programmes; acknowledges that the Commission proposed to make obligatory the use of a single data-mining and risk-scoring tool for funds under shared management and the Recovery and Resilience Facility; notes that this has not been retained in the adopted texts; highlights that such a system should build on unique identifiers for all recipients including information about their ultimate beneficiaries and should also automatically ensure the use of systems such as the date mining tool, ARACHNE, in order to provide for the best possible protection of the Union finances; notes that this digitalisation is overdue and indispensable given the cross- border nature of misuse of funds, fraud, misappropriations, conflicts of interest, double-funding and other systemic problems; underlines that this single datamining tool should be easily searchable and available for OLAF, EPPO and the Commission, in order to enhance the protection of the Union budget and Next Generation EU against irregularities, fraud and conflicts of interest;
Amendment 44 #
11. Calls on the Commission and the budgetary authority to ensure the provision of sufficient funding for audits and controls of Union funds in light of the massive increase of funds to be disbursed during the coming years under the combined MFF and NextGenerationEU instrument;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to continue promoting gender balance and a gender budgeting approach in the allocated funds; calls onwelcomes the Commission to urgently develop a's progress towards gender mainstreaming methodology in order to integrate a gender equality perspective in all policy areasand the development of pilot methodology for the tracking of gender related expenditure under the MFF 2021- 2027; asks the Commission to inform the Parliament about its feasibility test on the EU funding programmes in the context of Draft Budget 2023;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Regrets that the Court for the year 2020 has again issued an adverse opinion on the legality and regularity of the expenditure side of the budget and at the same time acknowledges that the level of error has remained stable at 2,7 % in 2020, which is the same as for the year 2019; underlines, however, that an error rate is not the same as fraud and notes that in 2020 six possible fraud cases were reported by ECA to the Union’s Anti Fraud Office (OLAF) compared to nine in 2019’s; reiterates the need to step-up the efforts in the fight against fraud both at Union and Member State level, in close cooperation with the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) and OLAF;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Notes that the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the relaxation of applicable rules to provide additional liquidity, ands well as to exceptional and necessary flexibility for COVID-19 related expenditure and of administrative rules and controls in the interest of rapid reaction;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Stresses that the combined effect of the new NextGenerationEU instrument and the delays in adoption of legislation risks putting serious pressure on administrative capacities in Member States and the Commission, which again may lead to more errors, less control and increasedpotential losses for the Union budget;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 – point h
Paragraph 34 – point h
h. developto finalise a gender mainstreaming methodology for use across the budget at the latest by the end of 2022, and to follow the recommendations of the Court in its special report on gender mainstreaming in the EU Budget;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58 a (new)
Paragraph 58 a (new)
58 a. Notes with concern that women researchers are underrepresented in Horizon 2020 being only 36% (28% in projects from the European Research Council (ERC), 42 % in Marie- Sklodovska Curie grants and 31%in the other parts of the Programme);
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 59 – point h e (new)
Paragraph 59 – point h e (new)
h e. implement its commitment to gender equality in the Horizon Europe and to report to the Parliament about the proportion of the male and female researchers participating;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 77 b (new)
Paragraph 77 b (new)
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 112 a (new)
Paragraph 112 a (new)
112 a. Expresses its concern over the very high approval rate of transfer requests into private sector positions for former Commission staff, as this increases the likelihood of the occurrence of conflicts of interest; urges the Commission to review its policy in this regard;
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 117 – point e a (new)
Paragraph 117 – point e a (new)