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6 Amendments of Charles GOERENS related to 2015/2156(DEC)

Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
B. whereas, under the terms of Article 319 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the European Parliament, acting on a recommendation from the Council, gives a discharge to the Commission after examining the accounts, the financial statement and the evaluation reports concerning the Union budget as a wholehas the sole responsibility to grant discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union;
2016/01/27
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas following Article 335 TFEU each of the Union institutions has administrative autonomy, and according to Article 55 of Regulation (EU, EURATOM) No 966/2012 of the European Parliament and the Council1a (Financial Regulation) the institutions are individually responsible for the implementation of the sections of the budget relating to them; ___________ 1a Regulation (EU, EURATOM) No 966/2012 of the European Parliament and the Council of 25 October 2012 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union and repealing Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (OJ L 298, 26.10.2012, p.1).
2016/01/27
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Takes the view that, by giving budgetary discharge separately to the individual Union institutions and bodies, Parliament has departed from the procedure laid down by the Treaty and that this practice is valid only if it is consistent with the Treaty provisions which confer on Parliament the power and the duty to scrutinise the whole of the Union budget;deleted
2016/01/27
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Council and Commission to enter into negotiations with Parliament with a view to ensuring that the latter can exercise its right of access to information concerning the implementation of the Council’s budget, either directly or through the Commission;
2016/01/27
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view that, if these negotiations fail or if the Council refuses to open negotiations, Parliament should consider giving discharge only to the Commission and including in that global discharge separate resolutions for each Union institution and body, thereby ensuring that no section of the EU budget goes unscrutinised;deleted
2016/01/27
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Takes the view that a Treaty revision will ultimately be required in order to ensure that the discharge procedure is clear, democratic and transpar, because all EU institutions and bodies manage their budgets independently, the European Parliament is tasked with the explicit competence to grant discharge to all institutions and bodies of the Union individually and the latter should be obliged to fully cooperate with Parliament;.
2016/01/27
Committee: AFCO