Activities of José Manuel FERNANDES related to 2020/2190(DEC)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh European Development Funds for the financial year 2019
Amendments (13)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas Parliament will only be able to exercise properly its role as discharge authority if it is kept regularly and comprehensively updated by the Commission, with detailed information regarding EDF-funded projects and their recipients;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are core objectives to be pursued in cooperation instruments in both the public and private sector;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the alignment of Union development cooperation with partner countries’ own development priorities is a key element of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; whereas cultural and linguistic affinities between Member States and partner countries may encourage adherence to the SDGs set out in the 2030 Agenda;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas policy coherence and complementarity of various external policies should be carefully looked at, especially when several policies are being implemented in a single partner country, with the view to promoting cooperation between the public and private sectors, encouraging synergies and trade-offs between existing policies and to avoiding as much as possible unnecessary administrative burden;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas the standardisation of communication channels between partner countries, EDF-funded entities and the EU would facilitate Commission monitoring activity;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5
Subheading 5
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Notes that the Court found that the Commission and its implementing partners committed more errors in transactions relating to programme estimates, grants, contribution agreements with international organisations and delegation agreements with Member States’ cooperation agencies than they did with other forms of support, such as those covering works, supply and service contracts; notes that of the 65 transactions of that type examined by the Court, 25 (38 %) contained quantifiable errors, which accounted for 71,7 % of the estimated level of error; calls on the Commission to publish comprehensive, updated and detailed information regarding funded projects and recipients, enhance its risk-based approach and invest control capacity in areas that are more error prone;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Commission to proceed with a pre-established format for communication between partner countries, EDF beneficiaries and the EU with a view to reducing the errors found by the Court;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Notes the Court’s observation, as in previous years, that the frequency of identified errors, including some contained in final claims which had been subject to ex-ante external audits and expenditure verifications, points to weaknesses in those checks; notes that this is not only problematic in terms of the effectiveness of the checks but also in terms of the efficiency of the management and control system because the checks performed did not prevent or correct the error; calls on DG INTPA to continue efforts to improve the assessment of both effectiveness and efficiency of its control system by identifying key performance indicators for both, to set realistic and ambitious targets and to monitor and improve its control system; calls, furthermore, on the Commission to set up a platform covering EDF-funded projects by country, focusing on the final recipients, general and specific project goals and, above all, their practical results in terms of the desired increase in development indices;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Notes that, in terms of relative contribution to the SDGs, budget support programmes strongly contribute to SDG 16 (peace, justice and governance), SDG 17 (partnerships), SDG 5 (gender equality) and SDG 1 (no poverty); welcomes the strong multi-dimensional scope of budget support programmes and considers that they should support entrepreneurship and private initiative in order to leverage economic and social development as advocated in SDG 9 ( build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation and foster innovation) and 17 (strengthen the means of implementation and revitalise the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development);
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Welcomes the results achieved as regards the intention for inclusive public policies to promote shared growth and to help tackle social or geographical disparities (SDG 10), where statistics indicate that the income share of the bottom 40 % of the population in countries receiving Union budget support increased from 15.6 % to 17.4 % of gross national income between 2004 and 2019, while it decreased slightly in other developing or emerging countries; considers it also essential to raise awareness among local interlocutors about the growing importance of private partners in economic, social and territorial development;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Calls for close monitoring and thorough policy dialogue with partner countries regarding objectives, progress towards agreed results and performance indicators; calls once more on the Commission to better define and measure expected development impact and, especially, to improve the control mechanism with regard to the conduct of the beneficiary state in the areas of corruption, respect for human rights, good governance and democracy; stresses the need to include the private sector in this strategic dialogue; remains deeply concerned about the use that could be made of Union budget support in recipient countries where there is no or only limited democratic control;