5 Amendments of Andrea ČEŠKOVÁ related to 2011/2207(DEC)
Amendment 3 #
Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Grants the Secretary-General of the Committee of the Regions/Postpones discharge in respect of the implementation of the Committee of the Regions budget for the financial year 2010;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Committee of the Regions (CoR), as a body designed to offer a relatively small number of bodies privileged access to the Union's legislative and policy-making processes, to fund its activities by means of subscription for those local and regional institutions that believe it serves a valuable purpose;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the CoR to undertake a comprehensive spending review based on the principle of zero-based budgeting to identify savings, rather than simply adding a nominal percentage increase for inflation to existing budgets during each budget cycle;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – indent 4
Paragraph 9 – indent 4
– look into how the CoR's political mechanisms might benefit from the improved efficiency, including possible reductions in travel expenses, that might be achieved with the use of video- conferencing,
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union highlights the importance of the subsidiarity principle, thus strengthening the role of the CoR; in this context, congratulates the CoR, in particular for its work on the ‘Europe 2020’ strategy and on multi-level governance;