Activities of Dennis de JONG related to 2015/2154(DEC)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT 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 PDF (1 MB) DOC (647 KB)
Amendments (24)
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48
Paragraph 48
48. Underlines that the level of error rate does not necessarily mean a case of fraud, inefficiency, or waste, but an estimate of financial flows that should not have been paid out as they were not used in line with rules and regulations; emphasizes, however, that the sharp increase of serious errors in the context of public procurement procedures is a matter of grave concern, as Member States have had years of experience with the existing procurement rules, and if they already face difficulties with these rules, this does not bode well for when they have to adapt national legislation and procedures to the new directives on procurement and concessions;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 66 a (new)
Paragraph 66 a (new)
66a. Urges the Commission to strengthen the negotiations with the Member States regarding the necessity of publishing national declarations and annual summaries;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 68 a (new)
Paragraph 68 a (new)
68a. Urges the Commission to join the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption (ETS No. 173) of the Council of Europe and speeding up the negotiations on the participation of the Union in the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), in order to contribute to more co-ordinated anti-corruption policies in Europe;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 70
Paragraph 70
70. Stresses that Member States are not following up alleged cases of fraud affecting the financial interests of the Union as submitted to them by OLAF; calls on the Commission to take appropriate measures and on OLAF to continue and accelerate its analysis of the reasons why Member States do not follow up alleged cases, to provide the Parliament with its findings in this respect and to continue to support the Member States in improving their performance in the prevention and detection of fraud against European funds;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 71
Paragraph 71
71. Invites the Commission to develop a system of strict indicators and easily applicable uniform criteria based on the requirements set out in the Stockholm Programme to measure the level of corruption in the Member States and evaluate the Member States’ anti- corruption policies; is concerned about the reliability and quality of data coming from the Member States; calls on the Commission, therefore, to work closely with Member States to guarantee comprehensive, exact and reliable data keeping in mind the goal of full implementation of the Single Audit Scheme; invites the Commission to work out a corruption index to categorise Member States based on the effectiveness of their anti-corruption policies;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 96
Paragraph 96
96. Asks the Commission to provide analysis regarding the future of Union funding evaluating the adequacy of the own resource base, instruments that would strengthen the own resource base, a possible restructuring of the revenue side and the relevance of the Union budget/EU GDP ratio;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 144
Paragraph 144
144. Shares the Commission's opinion that unemployment rates (especially long-term unemployment) and the percentage of young persons not in employment, education or training (NEETs), are indications of mismatch in the labour market., as well as a lack of consumer demand and public investment due to excessive austerity policies;
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 187
Paragraph 187
187. Welcomes the trend for simplification, eliminareduction of gold-plating and improvement of shared management hand in hand with the new elements of cohesion policy for the 2014 – 2020 programming period, which seems to be a methodological best practice and which is reflected in many concrete steps like finding complementarity with the Investment Plan for Europe through a practical coexistence of ESIFs and the EFSI (European Fund for Strategic Investments), doubling the scope for FEI, providing targeted initiatives, for example for SMEs, creating task forces for better implementation, introducing thematic focus on smart growth and implementation of research and innovative strategies respecting the smart specialisation strategies, or cohesion policy contribution to relevant Union policies in the areas of digital economy, energy, social affairs among others;
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 270 a (new)
Paragraph 270 a (new)
270a. Believes that the Commission should pro-actively disclose documents regarding the recommendations of the Ad Hoc Ethical Committee on post-term-of- office jobs of former Commissioners, editing the commercial or personal information in accordance with Regulation 1049/2001;
Amendment 311 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 271
Paragraph 271
271. Calls on the Commission to report onask from Member States that they current status of Member State's legislation concerninglearly indicate any potential conflicts of interests of their candidate member of the Commission and to explain how conflicts of interests and to present recommendre defined in their national legislation; in the case of diverging interpretations, of considering that the same princiflicts of interests between national legislation and the rules the Commission applies should apply to candidate members and members of the Commissionitself in this regard, the latter interpretation should be followed by Member States;
Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 272
Paragraph 272
272. Points out that an important step with regard to conflicts of interest is to increase the transparency of the ad hoc ethical committee of the Commission which reviews situations of potential conflict; notes that only if the opinions of the ethical committee are published proactively, cancalls upon the Commission to proactively publish the opinions of the ethical committee in accordance with Regulation 1049/2001in order to let the public hold the Commission accountable for the decision made;
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 272 a (new)
Paragraph 272 a (new)
272a. Estimates that the Code of Conduct for Commissioners should include a clearer task description of the Ad Hoc Ethical Committee, and include the requirement that the members of the Committee are independent experts;
Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution
New subheading after paragraph 272 and paragraph 272 a (new)
New subheading after paragraph 272 and paragraph 272 a (new)
272a. Transparency Believes that all data on the implementation of the budget within the EU should be transparent and accountable through publication, including the spending of Member States related to shared management;
Amendment 322 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 272 b (new)
Paragraph 272 b (new)
272b. Emphasises the principle that the Commission on all levels should end contacts with unregistered lobbyists;
Amendment 323 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 272 c (new)
Paragraph 272 c (new)
272c. Calls on the Commission to expand the recording of meeting data with lobbyists to everyone involved in the Union's policy-making process by requesting from their DG's regular reports on the meetings taking place within their respective services and by putting this information in an easily accessible manner on the Commission's website;
Amendment 324 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 272 d (new)
Paragraph 272 d (new)
272d. Believes that the Commission should be obliged to record and disclose all input received from lobbyists/interest representatives on draft policies and laws as a 'legislative footprint'; suggests that this legislative footprint should contain detailed information about lobbyists who had a substantial effect on the Commission's proposals;
Amendment 325 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 272 e (new)
Paragraph 272 e (new)
272e. Welcomes the publication of a list of senior officials leaving the Commission and calls on the Commission to include all members of the Cabinet in the definition of senior officials;
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution
New subheading after paragraph 272 and paragraph 272 a (new)
New subheading after paragraph 272 and paragraph 272 a (new)
272a Expert Groups Urges the Commission to follow up on the Ombudsman's recommendations against conflicts of interest in expert groups and to postpone the adoption of new horizontal rules, until the Parliament has been able to express its opinion on the basis of the ongoing work on a joint CONT-JURI own initiative report;
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 280 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 280 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
Urges OLAF to draw up Internal Rules on Whistleblowing in accordance with the new Staff Regulations 2014;
Amendment 348 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 280 a (new)
Paragraph 280 a (new)
280a. States that in OLAF's annual report 2014 the investigative activities and results per sector are specified; requests OLAF to provide in the next annual report detailed information on the type of investigation and results in all sectors;
Amendment 349 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 281
Paragraph 281
Amendment 352 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 283
Paragraph 283
283. Urges all the relevant Union institutions to implement Article 5.3 of the WHO FCTC and Article 8.12 of the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products in accordance with the recommendations contained in the guidelines thereto; urges the Commission to publish immediately the assessment agreements with tobacco companies and an impact assessment on the implementation of the WHO FCTC and the Protocol;
Amendment 354 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 283 a (new)
Paragraph 283 a (new)
283a. Urges the Commission not to have any negotiations with the Tobacco Industry on the renewal of the Agreements, until Parliament has had the opportunity to adopt its final position;
Amendment 356 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 283 b (new)
Paragraph 283 b (new)
283b. Asks the Commission to full betting on the combinations of the Tobacco Directive 2014 and the WHO FCTC and the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products which foresee track and trace provisions and introduce security features facilitating law enforcement, and are the best instruments to fight illicit trade in the EU;