11 Amendments of Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY related to 2018/2166(DEC)
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Regrets that European standards - such as environmental, food quality or safety standards, standards for animal welfare, privacy, agricultural subsidies or rules against money laundering - are often not adequately implemented or respected by Member States due to insufficient supervision of national authorities; recalls the Landscape Review of the European Court of Auditors on the Commission’s responsibility to monitor the implementation of EU legislation; urges the Commission to establish a Union inspection body to strengthen the Commission’s oversight and increase its competences for supervision of the implementation of Union legislation in order to improve monitoring of Member States’ compliance with Union legislation and to enforce, where needed, European standards;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 79
Paragraph 79
79. Points out that aid to non-Union countries used increasingly alternative financing models - trust funds and the Facility for Refugees in Turkey - which increases the complexity of existing financial structures and weakens the role of the European Parliament as part of the EU budgetary authority;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 80
Paragraph 80
80. Points out that pooling resources from the EDF, the EU Budget and other donors in trust funds should not have as consequence that money flagged for the development and cooperation policy do not reach their normal beneficiaries and pursue their original objectives, such as the eradication of poverty and the promotion of fundamental rights;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 80 a (new)
Paragraph 80 a (new)
80a. Points out that the increased use of trust funds also stems from a lack of flexibility currently possible within the Union budget;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 81
Paragraph 81
81. Highlights that the increasing use of other financial mechanisms to deliver EU policies alongside the EU Budget risks undermininges the level of accountability and transparency as reporting, audit and public scrutiny arrangements are not aligned; calls, therefore on the Commission to consider putting an end to trust funds that are unable to attract significant contributions from other donor, especially where their ‘emergency’ nature is not well justified, where they are unable to attract significant contributions from other donors, and where fundamental rights violations risk to happen or third country authorities are involved that do not respect fundamental rights;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 83 a (new)
Paragraph 83 a (new)
83a. Notes that the European Ombudsman has concluded that the Commission should do more to ensure that the EU-Turkey Statement respects EU fundamental rights, and therefore calls on the Commission to systematically include fundamental rights considerations in its decisions under this Facility, including through fundamental rights impact assessments, and continuously report on this to the European Parliament;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 88
Paragraph 88
88. Calls on all European institutions to review, where necessary, nomination procedures, in particular for senior officials, based on the principles of fairness, transparency and equal opportunity, and to report back to the European Parliament by 31 August 2019 on the progress made and take additional measures to improve the transparency of and equality during appointment procedures on the basis of the findings of the European Union’s Ombudsman [Recommendation of the European Ombudsman in joint cases 488/2018/KR and 514/2018/KR on the European Commission’s appointment of a new Secretary-General] and the forthcoming study of the European Parliament on the appointment procedures of the European Union’s institutions;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 116 a (new)
Paragraph 116 a (new)
116a. Points out that impact assessments are an indispensable part of the policy cycle; regrets that on occasion, legislative proposals made by the Commission lack a comprehensive impact assessment; further regrets that in some cases, the Commission has failed to take fundamental rights into account; reiterates that impact assessments should be based on evidence, performed by an independent party and at all times comply with fundamental rights that are enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 116 b (new)
Paragraph 116 b (new)
116b. Reiterates the findings of the European Court of Auditors’ 2017 audit, indicating that the ‘Commission should make better use of its own performance information and develop an internal culture more focused on performance’; consequently, calls on the Commission to incorporate performance based budgeting in their whole policy cycle;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 118
Paragraph 118
118. Recommends that the Court continue to provide a separate chapter for security and citizenship in its annual report and to deepen its analysis in this regard, as the public and political interest in the security and migration part of the Union budget is much higher than its financial share;
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 132 e (new)
Paragraph 132 e (new)
132e. Recalls that in its resolution of 18 April 2018 on the Integrity Policy of the Commission, Parliament expressed its concerns with the appointment procedures for its senior officials; urges the Commission to continue the discussion with Parliament on the implementation of the various recommendations contained in Parliament´s resolution;