Activities of Franziska Katharina BRANTNER related to 2010/0395(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Financial rules applicable to the annual budget (A7-0325/2011 - Ingeborg Gräßle, Crescenzio Rivellini) (vote)
Amendments (10)
Amendment 14 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. The budget is the instrument whichAll revenue and expenditure shall be included in the budget and its annexes, including, for each financial year, forecasts and authorises all revenue and expenditure considered necessary for the Union and the European Atomic Energy Community.
Amendment 15 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) transfer payment appropriations within each titlechapter;
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 2
Article 31 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission shall make available, in an appropriate manner, information on the recipients of funds deriving fromand the precise nature and purpose of the measures financed by the budget held by it when the budget is implemented on a centralised basis and directly by its departments or by Union Delegations in accordance with the second paragraph of Article 53, and information on the recipients of funds as provided by the entities to which budget implementation tasks are delegated under other modes of management.
Amendment 19 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 34 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 34 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 47 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point b
Article 47 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point b
(b) that the limit of the total number of posts authorised by each establishment plan is not exceededinstitution or body has taken part in a benchmarking exercise with other bodies of the Union and other institutions as initiated by the Commission’s staff screening exercise.
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 54 – paragraph 1
Article 54 – paragraph 1
1. All financial actors and any other person involved in budget implementation, and management, including acts preparatory thereto, audit or control shall be prohibited from taking any action which may bring their own interests into conflict with those of the Union. Should such a case arise, the person concerned must refrain from such actions and refer the matter to the competent authority.
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 54 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 54 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. The competent authority referred to in Article 54(1) shall be the hierarchical superior of the member of staff concerned. The hierarchical superior shall confirm in writing whether or not there is a conflict of interests. If there is, the hierarchical superior shall personally take any appropriate decision.
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 54 – paragraph 2
Article 54 – paragraph 2
2. There is a conflict of interests where the impartial and objective exercise of the functions of a financial actor or other person, as referred to in paragraph 1, is compromised for reasons involving family, emotional life, political or national affinity, economic interest or any other shared interest with the beneficiary. Acts likely to be vitiated by a conflict of interests may, inter alia, take one of the following forms: (a) granting oneself or others unjustified direct or indirect advantages; (b) refusing to grant a beneficiary the rights or advantages to which that beneficiary is entitled; (c) committing improper or wrongful acts or failing to carry out acts that are mandatory. A conflict of interests shall be presumed to exist if an applicant, candidate or tenderer is a member of staff covered by the Staff Regulations, unless his participation in the procedure has been authorised in advance by his superior.
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 87 – paragraph 4
Article 87 – paragraph 4
4. Pre-financing payments shall be cleared regularly by the responsible authorising officer, by reference to the economic substance and timing of the underlying project. The authorising officer by delegation shall carry out annual eligibility checks. To this effect appropriate provisions shall be included in the contracts, grant decisions and agreements as well as the delegation agreements entrusting implementation tasks to the entities and persons referred to in point (b) of Article 55(1).
Amendment 293 #
Proposal for a regulation
Part 1 – article 34 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – point d
Part 1 – article 34 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – point d
(d) provide a detailed picture of all staff in place in the Union delegations at the time of presenting the draft budget, including a breakdown by geographic area, gender, individual country and mission, distinguishing establishment plan posts, contract agents, local agents and seconded national experts and appropriations requested in the draft budget for such other types of personnel with corresponding estimates of the equivalent full-time staff that may be employed within the limits of the appropriations requested.