Activities of Jens ROHDE related to 2017/2186(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking (S2R JU) for the financial year 2016
Amendments (4)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that, in 2016, the operational costs (Title 3) represented 87,8 % of the overall S2R JU budget including the expected un-used appropriations not required in the year (Title 4); further notes that, for the operational budget, the S2R JU attained a rate of implementation of 100 % for the commitment appropriations and a rate of payment appropriations of 86,6 % ; notes that the payment appropriations were used for the pre-financing of the grants resulting from the 2015 and 2016 calls for proposals;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that the S2R JU has set up a risk management policy but has not yet performed a specific anti-fraud assessment, nor has it established an action plan for the implementation of its own anti-fraud strategy; notes also that, since only pre- financing of projects has been paid in 2016, no ex-post controls have been carried out; encourages the S2R JU to adopt, as soon as possible, an ex-post control strategy; asks the S2R JU to provide details on the risk management system, and in particular on how to avoid conflicts of interest;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Is concerned that in its procedure for the procurement services, S2R JU sets a maximum contract budget, which does not seem to be based on a cost estimation process and a reasonable market price reference system; asks the S2R JU to put in place appropriate cost estimation processes before launching procurement procedures in order to ensure the cost-effectiveness of its multi-annual service contracts, as experience shows that most of the bids received were close to the maximum budget;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Underlines the importance of research and innovation in the rail sector in order to achieve a significant reduction of the life-cycle cost of the railway transport system and to achieve significant increases in capacity of the railway transport system, in reliability and punctuality, as well as in order to remove the remaining technical obstacles to interoperability and to reduce the negative externalities linked to transport; highlights also that the objectives of the S2R JU are to achieve a Single European Railway Area and to enhance the attractiveness and competitiveness of the European railway system;