18 Amendments of António Fernando CORREIA DE CAMPOS related to 2010/2079(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas a strong research base is required to foster a more innovative Europe in support of a knowledge-based economy,
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Considers that EU monitoring and financial control should be primarily aimed at safeguarding public funds and combating fraud, whilst distinguishing clearly between fraud and errors; asks the Commission to include the definition of "error" in all binding legal documents;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Believes that European research funding should be more trust-based and risk- tolerant towards participants at all stages, with flexible EU rules that can be applied in accordance with national regulations and practices while ensuring accountability and adequate management of funds;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Requests that beneficiaries who receive grants under FP should be informed about the Commission relevant audit strategies; recommends disseminating these strategies via the National Contact Points and include them in Cordis;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Believes that the advantages of having a Certificate on the Methodology of the Costs approved by the Commission should be far more disseminated;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Agrees and recommends broader acceptance of usual accounting practices for the eligible costs of participants once they have been clearly defined and agreed upon, especially for average personnel cost methodologies, provided that these procedures are in accordance with national rules and certified by, national authorities, leaving enough flexibility to each beneficiary to use either actual personnel costs methodology or average personnel costs methodology;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Supports the reduction in combinations of funding rates and methods for defining indirect costs across the different instruments and between activities (management, research, demonstration and dissemination); acknowledges that neither the current differentiation between universities/research centres, industry and SMEs nor the differentiation between activities (management, research, demonstration and dissemination) should be abolishshould be maintained;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Supports the acceptance of average personnel costs only if based on a sufficient number of categories according to the organisation’s structure and individuals’ payrolls;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Welcomes the overall trend towards shortening the average time-to-grant and time-to-pay but expresses some reservations about the generalisedand supports a wider use of larger-scope calls and calls with cut-off dates, as a means to decrease uncertainty on funding opportunities for SMEs and encourage participation;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Welcomes the proposal of the Commission on removing the legal requirement for an opinion by committees of Member State representatives on the selection decisions on individual projects as a way to significantly decrease time-to- grant and administrative burden;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Calls for substantive improvement of the clarity and accessibility of guidance documents (e.g. financial rules),, which should be compiled in a handbook and translated into the EU official languages;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33a. Considers that each of the documents provided by the Commission should clearly establish its legal status, specifying both who is bound by their contents and also how they are bound;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 a (new)
Paragraph 34 a (new)
34a. Stresses the need for increased transparency concerning the process of topic selection for calls which should ensure relevant stakeholder participation;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 b (new)
Paragraph 34 b (new)
34b. Recommends the creation of a more transparent, coherent, and harmonised peer review system based on merit;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Recommends a reduced set of rules and common principles for funding to govern EU funding for R&D and calls for coherence and harmonisation in the implementation and interpretation of the rules and procedures; stresses the need to apply this common set of rules across the whole FP and associated instruments and within the Commission, regardless of the entity or executive agency in charge of implementation;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40
40. Invites the Commission to assess the usefuleffectiveness of each individual instrument, within each programme, to select those that have a distinctive role in supporting R&D and to increase cowards the achievement of specific policy goals and calls for the reduction of the diversity of instruments whenever effectiveness or dination between them according to areas of interestsstinctive contribution is not clearly demonstrated, whilst maintaining enough flexibility to accommodate projects’ specificities according to size;