7 Amendments of Viorica DĂNCILĂ related to 2016/2151(DEC)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls that, as stated in Article 8 TFEU, equality between women and men is one of the values on which the European Union is founded and the Union promotes it; considers that gender equality must be mainstreamed in all policies and therefore this has to be taken into account in the budgetary procedures;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission to use gender budgeting analysis of both new and existing budget lines and, where possible, to make necessary policy changes to ensure that gender inequality does not occur indirectly;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the main sources of errors are those found in the application of rules on eligibility, infringements of public procurement rules and state aid rules, and consequently calls on the Commission to provide timely information and training to authorities with regard to public procurement and state aid rules; underlines that errors made in 2015 may also be corrected before closure; notes with satisfaction the significant improvements in audit authorities’ controls compared to the previous year;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges the Commission through the HLG1 to pay specific attention to national eligibility rules in its audit of national management and control systems, helping Member States to simplify them; urges the Commission to clarify the notion of recoverable VAT by providing guidance; _________________ 1 High Level Group of Independent Experts on Monitoring Simplification for Beneficiaries of the European Structural and Investment Fundscalls on the Commission, Member States and regional authorities to ensure that beneficiaries are provided with consistent information about funding conditions, particularly concerning the eligibility of expenditure and the relevant ceilings for reimbursement;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. welcomes the reduction in the error rate in comparison to previous years and takes note of the significant efforts made and major resources allocated to this, especially in the form of IT and technical support for implementation, but considers that a straightforward error assessment does not in itself constitute an assessment of performance or results;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the Commission’s proposed new approach to error rate analysis; welcomes also the Commission’s new procedure, likely to be applied for the first time in 2016, for prior checks, while retaining the method for dealing with minor errorsbut draws attention to the fact that the specific national context should be born in mind when doing so, while retaining the method for dealing with minor errors; notes the great complexity and lack of clarity of these conditionalities and emphasises that the Commission’s procedure for prior checks should be revised, clarified and simplified, so that the allocation of funds is not affected by the stage reached in their implementation;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes the updating of the Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS), which makes it possible to record areas more precisely and to reduce the risk of errors associated with overstated eligible land; realises that as a result of using this central control system there will inevitably be an increase in error rates over the first few years, because of greater data reliability, as the European Court of Auditors confirms, but that, in the long term, there will be lower error rates in this area; points out that there are already efforts and initiatives at Member State level for further simplification of the CAP while ensuring complete compatibility with GPS measurements;