Activities of Dennis de JONG related to 2015/2155(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 I – European Parliament PDF (807 KB) DOC (212 KB)
Amendments (21)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Takes note ofEmphasises the Court of Auditors’ recommendation that Parliament reinforce its checks on the costs reimbursed by European political parties to their affiliated organisations and develop appropriate rules for European political parties on public procurement and monitor their application through appropriate checks and better guidance and insists that there will be full transparency on the expenditure by European political parties and that in future the competent committee will examine and discuss this information in detail in the context of the ordinary discharge procedure;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Notes with concern that, as price levels have risen, this has led to unjustified disadvantageous pricing, especially for assistants, interns and visitors; stresses that the increases mean that prices in Parliament are now practically equivalent to the ones in the surrounding restaurants and bars;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Considers that the numerous constituency and plenary weeks represent periods during which the canteens and cafeteria facilities are not fully employed; suggests that the staff of these facilities be employed gainfully elsewhere; calls for a proposal by the administration that aligns procurement and subsidy proceduagreements with the caterers take into account the option of employing the staff of these facilities elsewheres, with the subsidy practices of other international organisations and national parliamentshen during the above- mentioned weeks not all canteens and cafeteria facilities are open;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Stresses that the Court of Auditors report adopted on 11.07.2014 states that the potential saving for the EU budget would be about 114 million EUR per year if the European Parliament centralised its activities; reiterates the call on Parliament and the Council to address, in order to create long term savings, the need for a roadmap to a single seat, as stated by Parliament in several previous resolutions;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Points out that the administrative burden for the offices of Members have also increased more generally and requests a rationalisation of the forms that have to be used for internal parliamentary procedures, such as recruitment of new assistants;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Notes that after considerable delay, internal whistleblowing rules have been adopted and are in force since January 2016; expresses concern at the protection afforded to whistleblowers and calls on Parliament to ensure that their rights are fully upheld; calls on the Bureau to extend internal whistleblowing rules to accredited parliamentary assistants and local assistants;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. RegretNotes that the budget line for the provision of drinking water in meeting rooms will expire in July 2016; regards the availability of mineral water during long meetings as appropriate, both in summer and winter; criticises the excessive savings in service provision (such as paper, coffee, drinking water, canteens); calls for a rethinking of the saving targets for the committee weeks of the Parliament that doesn't harm its working environment;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Recalls that the GEA is intended to cover expenditure in the Member State of election, such as a Members’ office rent, equipment, supplies, documentation or logistical organisation of events; takes note that a comprehensive system of control of the Member's parliamentary mandate allowance would represent 40 to 75 new administrative posts in the area of financial management; regrets that despite various requests the Secretary General did not elaborate a proposal for a more selective control system, for example by concentrating on larger expenditure, or a system of random checks, and requests such a proposal to be elaborated without further delay;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Supports the need for more transparency as regards the GEAfull transparency regarding the GEA in order to allow the European citizens to have an insight on the general expenditure of the Members of the European Parliament; urges the Bureau to revise the list of expenses which may be defrayed from the GEA;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 10
Subheading 10
Transparency Rregister and conflicts of interest
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Welcomes the revised Transparency register approved by Parliament on April 2014fact that the Commission has started a public consultation procedure in respect of the revision of the current Transparency register of the Commission and Parliament, and its extension to the Council; requests that immediately after the public consultation an Inter- Institutional Working Group be set up for preparing proposals concerning the revision of the Register, the accompanying Code of Conduct for interest representatives, and the functioning thereto;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 b (new)
Paragraph 35 b (new)
35b. Urges the Parliament to adopt rules in order to disclose all input received from lobbyists/interest representatives on draft policies, laws and amendments as a 'legislative footprint'; suggests that this legislative footprint should consist of a form annexed to reports, detailing all the lobbyists with whom those in charge of a particular file have met in the process of drawing up each report, clearly indicating which lobbyists had a substantial effect on that file and a second document listing all written input received, online on their official webpage of Parliament, directly linked to the Transparency Register, and for rapporteurs to publish a legislative footprint;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 c (new)
Paragraph 35 c (new)
35c. Calls on the Bureau to create the technical possibility for Members who wish to do so to publish on their official webpage which lobbyists they have met;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 d (new)
Paragraph 35 d (new)
35d. Strongly believes that Article 3 of the Code of Conduct for Members should be rephrased to include a clear ban on Members holding side jobs or other paid work;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 e (new)
Paragraph 35 e (new)
35e. Recalls the judgment of the Romanian court, in which a former MEP was sentenced to 3,5 years in jail following the cash for amendments scandal; strongly condemns such illegal practices;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Calls for a report by the administration on the extent to which -various permanent forums between the beusidnes economic panels - environmental and social associations, NGOs and interest groups organise events ins and financial sectors and Parliament; wonders if there are guidelines that exclude the disproportionate presence of such organisations in Parliament;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42 a (new)
Paragraph 42 a (new)
42a. Is concerned with the lack of actual results of the Parliament's communication activities, considering the ever decreasing turn-out during European elections, as well as the general lack of knowledge in society about the role of Parliament and its activities;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55 a (new)
Paragraph 55 a (new)
55a. Regrets the fact that Parliament has not yet published information on an annual basis about senior officials who left the Parliament's administration, as well as a list of the cases of potential conflict of interest that have been addressed, as required by Article 16, paragraph 4 of the Staff Regulations;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 65
Paragraph 65
65. Notes that according to the Secretary General the average number of hours per week that staff interpreters spent in their booths in 2014 delivering interpretation services was 10,7 hours/week, but that this figure has been contested by the interpretation services themselves;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 67
Paragraph 67
67. Insists that large efficiency gains are still possible in the supply of interpretation, notably by enhancing the efficiency of a service currently hampered by rules dating from 2005 that are no longer compatible with the current meeting patternin seeking additional efficiency gains, solutions be sought that take also into account the social rights of the institutionterpreters;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 68
Paragraph 68
68. Calls upon the secretary general to modernise the framework for the management of interpretation, with a view to increasing individual productivity and to bringing the working practices of interpreters into line with the changed needs of the house, whilst fully respecting their social rights;