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glæder sig over Kommissionens klare udmelding i statusrapporten af 22. januar 2014 vedrørende udviklingen i Bulgarien; er meget bekymret over de manglende fremskridt under den nu syv år gamle samarbejds- og verifikationsmekanisme, den fortsat meget udbredte korruption og den generelle vanskelighed med at fordele ansvar og korrigere fejl; opfordrer Kommissionen til at indtage en konsekvent holdning i forhold til Bulgarien og at foretage en alvorlig undersøgelse af, om det i et sådant miljø overhovedet er muligt at anvende EU-midler i overensstemmelse med reglerne;
Notes the need for integrated approach and complementarity of measures tackling youth unemployment at Union and national level as well as with other Union funded programmes and instruments that could help decrease the levels of youth unemployment, such as Horizon 2020, Erasmus+ and Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs; considers that this will ensure the effective and efficient use of Union funds and the added value of national policies to efforts at Union level;
Langsommelige fremskridt i Rumænien
Demands, for example, clarification regarding a major case of fraud in connection with the ESF in Spain; notes that the fraud involved the organisation of educational and training events that are alleged to have been entirely fictional, held over the internet with non-existent participants, with the level of grants depending on the number of registered participants; is concerned, since several million euros are involved; expects the Commission to provide information that might explain why this case was not noticed by any of the bodies responsible for control in the hierarchy of control obligations established by the regulation governing the fund (Madrid Court of Auditors, Spanish Court of Auditors, European Commission – DG EMPL, European Court of Auditors), and whether OLAF was involved; demands clarification as to whether the European Court of Auditors was aware of this case; demands to know how many similar cases have occurred in the past (cases in the Netherlands, for example, and in other Member States);
glæder sig over konklusionerne i Kommissionens statusrapport af 22. januar 2014 vedrørende udviklingen i Rumænien; er meget bekymret over de langsommelige fremskridt i Rumænien under samarbejds- og verifikationsmekanismen; gør opmærksom på forslag om ændring af straffelovgivningen vedrørende interessekonflikter for tjenestemænd, der er valgt lokalt, samt et amnesti for parlamentsmedlemmer i tilfælde af korruption; mener, at det i betragtning af denne udvikling næppe er muligt i et sådant miljø at anvende EU-midler i overensstemmelse med reglerne;
Reiterates its call to monitor the financial instruments, particularly ESF, European Globalisation Fund, relevant components of the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance and the European Progress Microfinance Facility, and measure their performance against the specific policy goals laid down by the EU 2020 strategy, as well as in the annual European Semester policy process;
bemærker, at Kommissionen grundlæggende ikke er i stand til at sige noget om foranstaltninger i EU-budgettet til fordel for romaernes integration i deres hjemlande; kritiserer, at Kommissionen til trods for romastrategien fra 2010 ikke har søgt at finde frem til en måde, hvorpå den kan fremlægge bevis for foranstaltningerne til fordel for romaerne; kritiserer Kommissionens utilstrækkelige dataindsamling i ESF, der ikke gør det muligt at vise EU's borgere og skatteydere, hvad der er blevet opnået med ESF- og strukturfondsmidler med hensyn til integrationen af romaer; minder Kommissionen om, at den har en forpligtelse til at redegøre for brugen af Unionens skatteindtægter på romaer;
Criticises the fact that the Treaty establishing the European Stability Mechanism lacks sufficient provisions for ensuring effective external audit; regrets that in Article 24 (Board of Auditors) of the by-laws of the Treaty, only one member can be nominated by the Court of Auditors, while two members can be nominated upon the proposal of the Chairperson;
noterer sig, at der kommer stadig flere klager fra civilsamfundets organisationer, der bl.a. arbejder med romaer, og som føler sig udelukket fra adgangen til EU-midler pga. en stor bureaukratisk byrde; opfordrer Kommissionen til at støtte disse organisationer i den overordnede proces;
Is concerned by the regulation of paragraph 6 of Article 24 of the by-laws of the Treaty with the agreed procedure only to inform Parliament by sending the Board of Auditors’ annual report to Parliament; underlines the right of Parliament to have a debate on the annual report with the Board of Auditors, in the presence of the Board of Governors of the ESM;
IT-politikker
External relations
opfordrer Kommissionen til at undersøge velreviderede open source-løsninger til e-mail og kalenderfunktioner, herunder software til slutbrugere; erindrer Kommissionen om, at andre dele, som normalt ikke er synlige for slutbrugeren, såsom firewalls, webservere osv. kan anskues fra et open source- og sikkerhedsperspektiv, hvis et offentligt udbud er baseret på funktionsspecifikationer snarere end varemærker;
Notes with concern that the Court of Auditors estimates the most likely error rate for the external relations, aid and enlargement policies to be 3,3 % (1,1 % in 2011);
er bekymret over situationen, hvor EU-institutionerne reelt er stavnsbundet til bestemte softwareleverandører; beklager, at Kommissionen trods denne erkendelse ikke i løbet af 2012 har taget skridt i retning af at udforme åbne, offentlige udbud på IKT-området baseret på gennemsigtige kriterier og funktionelle specifikationer frem for varemærker;
Stresses that the rise in the error rate must also be interpreted in the light of the new sampling approach developed by the Court of Auditors, the Court’s sample including in 2012 only interim payments, final payments and the clearance of advances;
erindrer om, at størrelsen af SACHA II-kontrakten og hele det sæt af specifikke mærkevareprodukter, der defineres i denne, var så omfattende, at kun et meget begrænset antal kontrahenter (to) havde mulighed for at deltage i det åbne offentlige udbud; opfordrer indtrængende Kommissionen til at udforme mindre åbne, offentlige udbud for at give flere aktører mulighed for at deltage i sådanne indkøbsprocedurer og opnå en større mangfoldighed i udbuddene;
Points out with concern that all of the errors detected by the Court of Auditors had in principle been subject to the Commission’s check and that none had been prevented or detected;
opfordrer indtrængende Kommissionen til at sikre, at alle konsolideringsbestræbelser vedrørende IKT-arkitekturen går i retning af anerkendte åbne standarder, der anvendes af flere leverandører, og som kan indføres ved hjælp af open source-software; minder om, at det er nemmere at sikre, at udenlandske interesser ikke får adgang til e-mails, der lagres internt, på grund af den geografiske placering;
Recalls that the methodological change in the sampling approach of the Court of Auditors makes it possible to compare the error rate in shared management (5,3 %) and in centralised management (4,3 %), and points out in this regard that the score of the Commission in the field of external relations is rather good;
Undersøgelser og rådgivning fra eksterne leverandører
Points out that the residual error rate noted by the Moore and Stephens audit report commissioned by EuropeAid is higher, at 3,63 %, than the annual error rate estimated by the Court of Auditors; stresses that it contradicts the argument put forward by the Commission that the error rate is necessarily lower at the end of a period as errors are corrected;
bemærker, at Kommissionen ikke kunne fremlægge en tydelig og præcis liste for Parlamentet i et maskinlæsbart format fra Kommissionens ABAC-system, såsom en Excel-tabel eller en CSV-fil, der indeholder emnerne for alle undersøgelser, samt det specifikke spørgsmål om eventuel ekstern rådgivning/vejledning, som eksterne leverandører har udført for Kommissionen, med angivelse af navnene på disse leverandører samt det land, hvor den pågældende leverandør har sit hjemsted, med angivelse af datoen, hvor den anvisningsberettigede har forpligtet budgetbevillingerne til undersøgelserne eller den eksterne rådgivning opdelt på år startende med 2009 og sluttende med 2013; forventer, at listen sendes til Budgetkontroludvalget inden den 1. maj 2014;
Urges the Commission to efficiently correct the errors detected and to perform the recoveries efficiently;
Opnåelse af resultater ved hjælp af EU-budgettet
Notes that the relatively good score of the Commission in the external relations area could be at least partly explained by the fact that in two areas – budget support and Union contributions to multi-donor projects carried out by international organisations such as the United Nations – the nature of the payment conditions limits the extent to which transactions are prone to errors;
Forvaltningsplaner og de årlige aktivitetsrapporter
Notes with satisfaction that the supervisory and control system of DG ELARG has been declared by the Court of Auditors to be effective although the method used for the calculation of the residual error rate has still to be ameliorated;
bemærker, at de mål, der er fastsat i artikel 38, stk. 3, litra e), i finansforordningen (EU, Euratom) nr. 966/2012, og som skal måles ved hjælp af indikatorer, i høj grad anvendes af generaldirektørerne som mål i deres forvaltningsplaner, og gør opmærksom på, at generaldirektørerne i deres årlige aktivitetsrapporter skal aflægge rapport om, hvilke resultater der er opnået, og hvorvidt disse resultater har haft den ønskede virkning;
Regrets that shortcomings persist in EuropeAid’s ex ante checks and in the supervisory and control system and that, according to the findings of the Court of Auditors, the Commission’s 2011 reorganisation continues adversely to affect the activity of its Internal Audit Capacity; regrets that the supervisory and control systems of EuropeAid are only partially effective, which means that they fail to detect and correct material errors;
glæder sig over, at Kommissionen med henblik på at reducere antallet af mål og indikatorer i sit arbejdsdokument (del 1) til budgetforslaget 2014 (se COM(2013) 450) har indført sammenfatninger af programmer for aktionsudgifterne;
Endorses the recommendations of the Court of Auditors that the Commission should ensure timely clearance of expenditure, promote better document management by implementing partners and beneficiaries, improve the management of contract awarding procedures by setting out clear selection criteria and documenting the evaluation process better, enhance the quality of expenditure checks carried out by external auditors and apply a consistent and robust methodology for the external relations directorates-general to calculate the residual error rate;
er enig i Revisionsrettens kritik (årsberetning for 2012, punkt 10.9) af, at de målsætninger, der er taget direkte fra politikdokumenter på højt plan eller lovtekster, ofte ikke er fokuserede nok til at være anvendelige i forvaltningsplaner og årlige aktivitetsrapporter;
Welcomes the performance audits produced by the Court of Auditors, in particular in its special reports concerning the European Union’s aid to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt and Palestine, as they assess whether the management of the Commission accords with the principles of efficiency, effectiveness and economy; suggests, in light of these reports, that the Commission and the Court of Auditors work closely together to further develop both measurable indicators and the methodology of performance audits, regarding Union funded projects with a high political nature, such as those oriented towards strengthening the respect for human rights, the rule of law and democracy, where a decision to continue or discontinue a project does not only depend on actual results in a given time frame;
understreger, at disse »målsætninger, der er taget fra overordnede politiske dokumenter« ofte vedrører politikområder, som ikke fuldt ud henhører under Unionens ansvarsområde; opfordrer derfor generaldirektørerne til at fastsætte mål, der stemmer nøje overens med Unionens beføjelser og overholder nærhedsprincippet fuldt ud;
Supports the Commission’s continuing efforts to shift from an input-based to a performance- and impact-oriented approach and urges the adoption of specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and timed benchmarks for all programmes in Heading 4 as advocated by the Court of Auditors; expresses its hope that these programmes will not be affected by the same shortcomings as those audited in this year’s report;
beklager, at evalueringerne ikke har været en nyttig kilde til dokumentation til støtte til rapporteringen om de politiske resultater i de årlige aktivitetsrapporter, og at dette hovedsagligt skyldtes, at der ved evalueringerne er blevet fokuseret på operationelle spørgsmål frem for resultatet, eller at Kommissionen har været i tvivl om kvaliteten af de oplysninger, den har modtaget fra myndighederne i medlemsstaterne;
Notes the problems the Court of Auditors has identified with regard to the management of social allowances and urges the Commission to implement all recommendations; welcomes the steps the Commission has taken so far and encourages it to speed up the roll-out of its new programme to resolve it;
beklager, at Kommissionen i stedet for at fokusere på opnåelse af Unionens hovedmål og effektiviteten af dens politikker fremlagde en række sammenfatninger af evalueringer, der dækkede EU's programmer for alle politikområder og deres udgiftsstørrelse i FFR for 2007-2013 i henhold til budgetposterne;
Development and Cooperation
minder om, at Parlamentet den 17. april 2013 indtrængende opfordrede Kommissionen til at ændre strukturen i evalueringsrapporten i henhold til artikel 318, »således at der skelnes mellem interne og eksterne politikker og, i den del der vedrører interne politikker, at fokusere på Europa 2020-strategien (…) Kommissionen bør lægge vægten på de fremskridt, der er gjort med opfyldelsen af flagskibsinitiativerne« [45];
Appreciates that more than 1350 projects were evaluated in 2012 in view of relevance and project design, efficiency, effectiveness, impact and sustainability under the Commission’s Results Oriented Monitoring system; notes a decrease of projects with major problems from 8 % (in 2010 and 2011) to 5 % in 2012 [36];
glæder sig over, at Kommissionen vil forbedre resultatrapporteringen i de årlige aktivitetsrapporter fra dens generaldirektorater, skabe en tættere forbindelse mellem de årlige forvaltningsplaner, de årlige aktivitetsrapporter og evalueringsrapporten i henhold til artikel 318 og vedtage evalueringsrapporten samtidig med den sammenfattende rapport;
Notes with concern that the number of cases OLAF started investigating in relation to EuropeAid/DG DEVCO managed projects has increased from 33 (in 2011) to 45 in 2012 while acknowledging that the number of new cases remained still lower than in any year between 2005 and 2010;
glæder sig over, at Kommissionen vil udarbejde og opdele sin evalueringsrapport på grundlag af den nye resultatramme, der blev indført med den flerårige finansielle ramme 2014-2020; understreger dog på ny, at en sådan resultatramme bør omfatte følgende tre hovedelementer: opnåelse af programmets mål (resultater), forsvarlig programforvaltning af Kommissionen og medlemsstaterne, og hvorledes programresultater og forsvarlig økonomisk forvaltning bidrager til Unionens hovedmål;
Welcomes the Commission’s ‘Transparent Aid’ initiative [37] providing comprehensive and timely information about humanitarian and development aid and potentially helping to reduce double funding;
erindrer om, at Kommissionen for at sikre en forsvarlig økonomisk forvaltning af EU- midler administrerer den centrale database om udelukkelser — en database med enheder, der er udelukket fra EU-finansiering på grund af f.eks. insolvens, retskraftige strafferetlige domme for svig, korruption, beslutninger truffet af en kontraherende myndighed om alvorlige faglige fejl og interessekonflikter; beklager, at den centrale database om udelukkelser ikke er tilgængelig for offentligheden eller for Parlamentets medlemmer; erindrer om, at en tilsvarende database over udelukkede virksomheder, som administreres af Verdensbanken, er offentlig; opfordrer Kommissionen til at gøre den centrale database over udelukkelser offentlig.
Welcomes the introduction by EuropeAid/DG DEVCO, in 2012, of a coherent methodology for the calculation of the estimated residual error rate (RER), i.e. the level of errors which have evaded all checks to prevent, detect and correct errors; is satisfied that the Court of Auditors found the methodology used to estimate the RER appropriate and useful;
EUT C 331 af 14.11.2013, s. 10.
Expresses concern however about the level of the RER, estimated to be 3,6 % for EuropeAid/DG DEVCO, and calls on the Commission to reinforce efforts to better analyse, document and explain the main types of errors and to take appropriate measures, including consultation with relevant stakeholders, to reduce errors in the future in particular in the relation to payments to international organisations which accounted for 38 % of the overall RER [38];
EFT L 11 af 16.1.2003, s. 1.
Research and other internal policies
EUT L 347 af 20.12.2013, s. 320.
Observes that the main funding instruments in this policy group are the Research Framework Programmes amounting to EUR 7957 million or 68 % of operational expenditure and the Lifelong Learning Programme amounting to EUR 1529 million or 13 % of operational expenditure;
Rådets forordning (EU, Euratom) nr. 1311/2013 af 2. december 2013 om fastlæggelse af den flerårige finansielle ramme for årene 2014-2020 (EUT L 347 af 20.12.2013, s. 884).
Observes that, of the 150 transactions audited by the Court of Auditors, 73 (49 %) were affected by errors; notes that, on the basis of the errors which it has quantified, the Court of Auditors estimates the most likely error rate to be 3,9 %, and that, according to the Court of Auditors, cleared advances – a new component of the sample for 2012 (see points 1.6, 1.7 and 1.15 of the Annual Report) – account for 2,1 %; observes that this means that this area of auditing (research and other internal policies) is around the materiality threshold;
COM(2013) 682 af 26.9.2013.
Notes that the Court of Auditors describes the supervisory and control systems for the Framework Programmes of Research which it has audited as partially effective, while it rates the audited supervisory and control system for the Lifelong Learning Programme as effective;
COM(2013) 934 af 13.12.2013.
Stresses that the errors have been the same for years: primarily the charging of ineligible costs;
Arbejdsdokument fra Kommissionens tjenestegrene — Summary of Executive Summaries Internal Audit Engagements finalised by the IAS in 2012 (SWD(2013) 314), s. 22, samt den årlige aktivitetsrapport fra Generaldirektoratet for Landbrug og Udvikling af Landdistrikter, s. 6.
Welcomes the fact that the annual activity reports of the directorates-general which the Court of Auditors has analysed contain an appropriate assessment of financial management in terms of the regularity of the underlying transactions: notes that the information submitted largely confirms the observations and conclusions of the Court of Auditors;
Den Europæiske Revisionsrets pressemeddelelse ECA/13/47 om særberetning nr. 16/2013 om »én enkelt revision«, 18. december 2013.
Considers it incomprehensible that the Court of Auditors still finds a significant error rate in the cost statements drawn up by independent auditors; considers, therefore, that the Commission and Member States should supply auditors with all the necessary background material and training material to facilitate correct auditing of cost statements; stresses that certified cost statements make sense only if the Commission can rely on them;
KOM(2005) 12 af 26.1.2005, s. 6.
Joins the Court of Auditors in welcoming the simplification measures introduced by the Commission from 2011 (e.g. for the methods used by beneficiaries to calculate average staff costs) and the report on the subject submitted by the Commission [39]; calls on the Commission to update this report for the 2013 discharge procedure;
Europa-Parlamentets beslutning af 4. februar 2014 om Revisionsrettens fremtidige rolle.
Stresses the importance of the Court of Auditors’ Special Report 2/2013, ‘Has the Commission ensured efficient implementation of the seventh framework programme for research?’, which Parliament has analysed on 3 April 2014 [40];
Procedure for udnævnelse af medlemmer af Den Europæiske Revisionsret: Europa-Parlamentets høring (Vedtagne tekster, P7_TA(2014)0060).
Learns from the 2012 activity report for research and innovation that the prime concern in the administration of research is to strike an acceptable balance between the attractiveness of the programme to participants and the justified requirements of financial control; notes that, in this connection, the Director-General stated that a procedure designed to attain a residual error rate of 2 % under all circumstances is not viable [41];
COM(2013) 682/2 af 30.9.2013.
Is concerned that the Court of Auditors, as in relation to the 2011 financial year, has identified substantial quantifiable errors in projects under the programme in support of Information and Communications Technologies; notes that the Commission has devised a special audit strategy for non-research projects, in accordance with which – up to 2017 – 215 audits of non-research projects are to be performed; calls on the Commission to report whether the wrongly paid EUR 470000 has been recovered;
Se punkt 4 og 5 i meddelelsen (COM(2013) 682/2).
Notes that up to the end of 2012, in relation to the 6th framework programme, 78 % of the projected corrections were made; 1506 out of a total of 7101 corrections were still pending; of these, 1336 relate to audits closed in 2011 or earlier; calls on the Commission to report on the status of projected corrections relating to FP6;
Undersøgelse til kvantificering og analyse af momsgabet i de 27 EU-medlemsstater — endelig rapport (TAXUD/2012//EN/316) http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/taxation/vat/key_documents/reports_published/index_en.htm
Is concerned that the inadequate progress in introducing the Schengen Information System II (SIS II) has led the Director-General for Home Affairs to include a reservation in his activity report; calls on the Commission to report on the progress in introducing SIS II;
EUT L 347 af 11.12.2006, s. 1.
OLAF
Fodnote 15, punkt 3.9 i årsberetningen for regnskabsåret 2012.
Observes that the President of the Commission still has not accounted to Parliament in plenary for the loss of office of Health Commissioner John Dalli on 16 October 2012; insists on the necessity of respecting the presumption of innocence and notes that the serious accusations of corruption levelled at the Commissioner by the tobacco industry, which he has always rejected, remain unproven to this day;
Litauen, Slovakiet, Cypern, Malta, Italien, Spanien, Det Forenede Kongerige, Frankrig, Grækenland, Portugal, Østrig, Sverige (se årsberetningerne siden 2007).
Draws attention to the reversal of the burden of proof in this case, such that the focus is not on the culpability of the accused but it is necessary for the accused himself to seek to prove his innocence before a series of courts; draws attention to the fact that Mr Dalli has contested the voluntary character and the lawfulness of his resignation before the General Court of the European Court of Justice which might result in an award of damages to the detriment of the taxpayer and has also launched an action in defamation against Swedish Match before the Belgian authorities;
Se også svar på skriftlig forespørgsel til kommissær Cioloș nr. 12, høring den 17. december 2013: gennemsnitlig varighed af revisioner med finansielle korrektioner efter forligsproceduren 1124 dage.
Calls for complete clarification and for full and prompt cooperation by the Commission with the courts in Belgium and Malta in the Dalli case and for an independent inquiry into the methods used by OLAF in this case;