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9 Amendments of Ulrike LUNACEK related to 2010/0395(COD)

Amendment 14 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. The budget is the instrument whichAll revenue and expenditure shall be included in the budget and its annexes, including, for each financial year, forecasts and authorises all revenue and expenditure considered necessary for the Union and the European Atomic Energy Community.
2011/06/20
Committee: AFET
Amendment 15 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) transfer payment appropriations within each titlechapter;
2011/06/20
Committee: AFET
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission shall make available, in an appropriate manner, information on the recipients of funds deriving fromand the precise nature and purpose of the measures financed by the budget held by it when the budget is implemented on a centralised basis and directly by its departments or by Union Delegations in accordance with the second paragraph of Article 53, and information on the recipients of funds as provided by the entities to which budget implementation tasks are delegated under other modes of management.
2011/06/20
Committee: AFET
Amendment 19 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 34 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The Commission shall also attach to the draft budget: (a) an analysis of the financial management in the previous year and the commitments outstanding; (b) where appropriate, an opinion on the estimates of the other institutions which may contain different estimates, accompanied by the reasons therefor; (c) any working paper it considers useful in connection with the establishment plans of the institutions and the grants which the Commission awards to the bodies referred to in Article 200 and to the European Schools. Any such working paper, showing the latest authorised establishment plan, shall present: (i) all staff employed by the Union, including its legally separate entities, displayed by type of contract, (ii) a statement of the policy on posts and external personnel, gender balance, (iii) the number of posts actually filled at the beginning of the year in which the draft budget is presented, indicating their distribution by grade and administrative unit, (iv) a list of posts broken down per policy area, (v) for each category of external staff, the initial estimated number of full-time equivalents on the basis of the authorised appropriations as well as the number of persons actually in place at the beginning of the year in which the draft budget is presented, indicating their distribution by function group and, as appropriate, by grade, as well as an estimate based on appropriations requested in the draft budget for such other categories of staff, and (vi) the overall direct and indirect cost of the Union’s obligations towards its staff arising from the application of the Staff Regulations and the annexes thereto, in total and per respective provision; (d) the activity statements containing: (i) information on the achievement of all previously set specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and timed objectives for the various activities as well as new objectives measured by indicators, (ii) full justification of, and the cost- benefit approach applied to, proposed changes in the level of appropriations, (iii) a clear rationale for intervention at Union level in keeping, inter alia, with the principle of subsidiarity, (iv) information on the implementation rates of the previous year's activity and implementation rates for the current year, (v) a list of operations carried out by the entities enumerated in Article 55(1)(b)(i) to (v) justifying the choice of a specific operator for the management of the funds. Evaluation results shall be consulted and referred to as evidence of the likely merits of proposed budget changes; (e) a summary statement of the schedule of payments due in subsequent financial years to meet budgetary commitments entered into in previous financial years.
2011/06/20
Committee: AFET
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 47 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point b
(b) that the limit of the total number of posts authorised by each establishment plan is not exceededinstitution or body has taken part in a benchmarking exercise with other bodies of the Union and other institutions as initiated by the Commission’s staff screening exercise.
2011/06/20
Committee: AFET
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 54 – paragraph 1
1. All financial actors and any other person involved in budget implementation, and management, including acts preparatory thereto, audit or control shall be prohibited from taking any action which may bring their own interests into conflict with those of the Union. Should such a case arise, the person concerned must refrain from such actions and refer the matter to the competent authority.
2011/06/20
Committee: AFET
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 54 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. The competent authority referred to in Article 54(1) shall be the hierarchical superior of the member of staff concerned. The hierarchical superior shall confirm in writing whether or not there is a conflict of interests. If there is, the hierarchical superior shall personally take any appropriate decision.
2011/06/20
Committee: AFET
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 54 – paragraph 2
2. There is a conflict of interests where the impartial and objective exercise of the functions of a financial actor or other person, as referred to in paragraph 1, is compromised for reasons involving family, emotional life, political or national affinity, economic interest or any other shared interest with the beneficiary. Acts likely to be vitiated by a conflict of interests may, inter alia, take one of the following forms: (a) granting oneself or others unjustified direct or indirect advantages; (b) refusing to grant a beneficiary the rights or advantages to which that beneficiary is entitled; (c) committing improper or wrongful acts or failing to carry out acts that are mandatory. A conflict of interests shall be presumed to exist if an applicant, candidate or tenderer is a member of staff covered by the Staff Regulations, unless his participation in the procedure has been authorised in advance by his superior.
2011/06/20
Committee: AFET
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 87 – paragraph 4
4. Pre-financing payments shall be cleared regularly by the responsible authorising officer, by reference to the economic substance and timing of the underlying project. The authorising officer by delegation shall carry out annual eligibility checks. To this effect appropriate provisions shall be included in the contracts, grant decisions and agreements as well as the delegation agreements entrusting implementation tasks to the entities and persons referred to in point (b) of Article 55(1).
2011/06/20
Committee: AFET