6 Amendments of Helmut SCHOLZ related to 2015/2156(DEC)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas legal and academic experts agreed on the Parliament’s right to information at the European Parliament workshop on Parliament’s Right to Grant Discharge to the Council held on 27 September 2012;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas without the necessary information, Parliament is not in a position to make an informed decision on granting discharge;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes that the procedure of giving discharge separately to the individual Union institutions and bodies is a longstanding practice; stresses therefore that the Commission, in its reply of 25 November 2011 to the letter from the Chair of the Committee of Budgetary Control, said that it was desirable for the Parliament to continue to give, postpone or refuse discharge to the other institutions, including Council;
Amendment 13 #
1b. Notes further that the Commission in its letter of 23 January 2014 expressed the view that all institutions are fully part of the follow-up process to the observations made by the Parliament in the discharge exercise and that all institutions should cooperate to ensure the smooth functioning of the discharge procedure in full respect of the relevant provisions in the TFEU and in the relevant secondary law; emphasises that the Commission also states in its letter that it will not oversee the implementation of the budgets of other institutions and that giving a response to questions addressed to another institution would infringe the autonomy of that institution to implement its own section of the budget;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Takes the view that this constitutes a serious failure to comply with the obligations laid down by the Treaty, in particular the principle of sincere cooperation between the institutions, and that a solution must be found quickly so that the whole of the Union budget can be scrutinised; in this respect refers also to Article 15 TEU which stipulates that each institution, body, office or agency shall ensure that its proceedings are transparent;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
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 EUnion budget goes unscrutinised; highlights that this change in practise should not reduce the accountability of the individual institutions and bodies in respect to the implementation of their respective sections of the budget;