9 Amendments of Monika HOHLMEIER related to 2010/2151(DEC)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls the Commission's commitment37 to ensuring that a benchmark of 20% of its allocated assistance under the Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI) is dedicated to basic and secondary education and basic health; calls for reporting against the same benchmark to be provided for the EDFs; calls on the Commission to prioritise support to health systemincrease this share to 25 % in the future, to make support to health systems one of the key priorities and to take full account of the recommendations by the Court of Auditors as formulated in its abovementioned Special Report No 10/2008;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Welcomes the fact that the Court of Auditors considers that the revenue, commitments and payments underlying the accounts of the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth European Development Funds for the year ended 31 December 2009 are in all material respects legal and regular (Statement of Assurance, paragraph VIII); regrets, however, that the Court of Auditors had to draw special attention to the high frequency of non-quantifiable errors affecting commitments and payments but not included in the estimation of total error; recalls, even if the supervisory and control systems of EuropeAid are effective and have significantly improved year after year, that, overall, the Court of Auditors assessed EuropeAid's supervisory and control systems as only partially effective; expects, consequently, from the Commission, a constant follow-up and requests a report on the measures taken to remedy the abovementioned problems;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Recalls that Parliament's assessment of budget support should not focus only on the risks but also on the benefits, as well as on the risks and benefits of alternative aid delivery; considers that traditional project approacheasks the Commission to provide information concerning those cases in which the goals used over several decades have not delivered what was expectt for EU budget support were accomplished and in which recipient countries' specific problems were encountered;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. RecognisesIs aware that budget support can be an effectiveis a controversial development tool offering the advantage of low transaction costs, increased ownership and enhanced dialogue between partners and donors; stresses, at the same time, while at the same time, involving the risk of misappropriation and unwanted use of funds when public finance management by recipient countries does not prove sufficiently transparent, accountable and effective; stresses that budget support is not the right answer to every situation and should not be perceived to be the sole option;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Recalls that Parliament's role as regards budget support is to hold the Commission accountable for the results of spending, and that budget support is an aid instrument which requires a paradigm shift in oversight behaviour, moving from mere control over inputs to the checking of results against indicators, thus ensuring that support spending benefits the population of the recipient country;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Recalls that under the Tenth EDF, as compared with the Eighth and Ninth EDFs, there was a significant increase in the share of cumulative financing decisions accounted for by budget support and structural adjustment; expresses its concern about this development;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. NotesRecalls that the Court of Auditors found in its Annual Report on the EDFs, concerning the financial year 2009 that budget support payments were affected by a high frequency of non-quantifiable errors and that ‘T[t]he main explanation was that the Delegations’ public finance management assessment reports did not explain the criteria against which progress had to be assessed […], the progress made and the reasons why the reform programme may not have been implemented according to the recipient Government's plan‘; urges the Commission to evaluate the budget support payments with even greater rigour and to tighten up its payment procedures from now on;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
41. Expects the next annual report of the EIB to be less theoretical and more practical, in particular onprovide a better insight into the results obtained by the various programs and actions financed either by the Investment Facility or by its stockholders' equity;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44
Paragraph 44
44. Considers it indispensable to conduct an overall audit of all projects financed by the EIBInvestment Facility, which would not be restricted to major projects but would also review all appropriations and guarantees the EIB must write off;