Activities of Zigmantas BALČYTIS related to 2015/2154(DEC)
Plenary speeches (1)
Discharge 2014: EU general budget - European Commission and Executive Agencies (A8-0140/2016 - Martina Dlabajová) LT
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2014, Section III - Commission and executive agencies
Amendments (3)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes with concern the errors identified in the context of expenditure verification for grant contracts, which make up more than 50% of errors identified by the ECA in Heading 4; notes that the most significant type of error concerns ineligible expenditures; stresses the importance of preventing or detecting and correcting the errors before accepting the expenditures, through a better implementation of the ex-ante control; notes with particular concern EuropeAid's failure to detect errors; urges the Commission to ensure that the efforts made thus far to solve these problems with expenditure verification are intensified and to follow up fully on the recommendation on grant supervision made by the ECA in its 2011 annual report;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. RWelcomes the establishment of the Mission Support Platform (MSP) and reiterates its call on the Commission to take steps towards establishing a genuine Shared Services Centre (SSC), together with an Integrated Resource Management System (IRMS) as a way to improve the speed of deployment and cost-efficiency of missions; proposes that the CSDP Warehouse be upgraded and serve also existing CSDP missions and be managed by the future SSC.
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 68 a (new)
Paragraph 68 a (new)
68a. Calls on the Commission to assume full responsibility for the recovery of funds unduly paid into the Union's budget and to establish uniform reporting principles in all Member States with a view to ensuring comparable, reliable and adequate data collection;