1 Amendments of Michael THEURER related to 2012/2166(DEC)
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
41. Is deeply worried by the Court of Auditors' conclusion that non-quantifiable errors resulted from the lack of a structured demonstration of compliance with the eligibility criteria because public financial management achievements were not compared with the objectives set for the period under review; calls on the Commission to ensure a rigorous control of recipient countries both before and after the decision to grant budget support, in particular in countries receiving significant financial assistance from Union development funds in which corruption is very much on the increase, however, such as in Pakistan, for instance, whose government is given some EUR 185 million in development assistance by the Union each year, while Pakistan’s score on the Corruption Perception Index (measured by Transparency International) has risen 400% since 2009; calls therefore for more effective Commission control mechanisms in order to ensure that European taxpayers’ money is not misappropriated for funding terrorism or corruption;