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Notes that in 2013 payments of bilateral assistance to Ukraine, funded from the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) budget, amounted to EUR 152,8 million; notes that 42,5 % of these payments (EUR 64,9 million) are linked to contracts directly managed by the Union delegation to Ukraine; notes that the remaining 57,5 % (EUR 87,9 million) were disbursed in the form of budget support;
pyytää komissiota sisällyttämään seuraavaan SEUT 318 artiklan mukaisesti annettavaan arviointikertomukseen yhteistyössä Euroopan investointipankin kanssa laaditun analyysin Eurooppa-neuvoston kokouksessaan 28. ja 29. kesäkuuta 2012 hyväksymän 120 miljardin euron kasvu- ja työllisyyssopimuksen tehokkuudesta, vaikuttavuudesta ja sen avulla saavutetuista tuloksista;
Emphasises that budget support payments are conditional on the achievement of jointly agreed results and benchmarks; notes that the beneficiary government commits to these results and benchmarks by signing a bilateral financing agreement and if results and benchmarks are not achieved, payments are not disbursed;
on ehdottomasti sitä mieltä, että puheenjohtaja Jean-Claude Junckerin johdolla toimivan komission sisäisessä rakenteessa olisi otettava huomioon, että unionin kasvu- ja työllisyysstrategia ei perustu kunkin yksittäisen pääosaston toteuttamiin toimiin vaan siihen kuuluu seitsemän laaja-alaista lippulaivahanketta, joita kutakin toteuttavat useat pääosastot; katsoo, että komission sisällä näin ollen ehdottomasti tarvittava koordinointi ja yhteistyö ei saisi luoda uusia byrokratian ja hallinnollisten rasitteiden muotoja;
Appreciates that Ukraine currently finds itself in a particularly difficult situation but maintains that this may not be an excuse for not fulfilling the conditions under which budget support is given and, in particular, for not addressing the wide-spread corruption in the country;
kehottaa komissiota hallinnoimaan talousarviota siten, että sellaisten pääosastojen kesken, joiden toimialat ovat samankaltaiset tai lähes identtiset, ei ole temaattisia päällekkäisyyksiä eikä kaksinkertaista työtä;
Calls therefore on the Commission and the Union delegation to Ukraine to be particularly vigilant when disbursing funds and to assure themselves that the funds are invested in the projects they were destined for;
katsoo, että kestävään kehitykseen kohdistuvien vaikutusten arviointia koskevan mallia/ajatusta olisi sovellettava kaikkiin rahoitustuen muotoihin, ei yksin komission menojen yhteydessä vaan kaikissa unionin toimielimissä, elimissä ja laitoksissa; katsoo, että menoja, jotka eivät ole vaikutustenarviointitutkimuksen tai -analyysin mukaisia, ei pidä hyväksyä ja sallia;
Administrative costs of aid delivery
pyytää komissiota toimittamaan parlamentin asiasta vastaavalle valiokunnalle syyskuuhun 2015 mennessä kattavan kertomuksen komission toiminnasta, jolla kansalaisia kannustetaan paljastamaan epäkohtia;
Is concerned about the high administration costs of aid delivery to Central Asia calculated by the Court of Auditors; asks the Commission to inform Parliament about the administrative costs of external aid delivery if they exceed 10 % of the forecasted budget;
Toimeenpanovirastot
Possible embezzlement of Union humanitarian and development aid funds
pitää valitettavana, että Euroopan laajuisen liikenneverkon toimeenpanoviraston tilinpäätöksestä annetun tarkastuskertomuksen [53] mukaan virasto ei kohdista tyydyttäviä ennakkotarkastuksia sen toimitiloihin liittyviin maksuihin, jotka on suoritettu isännöitsijän toimittamien laskujen perusteella, minkä vuoksi virasto maksoi vuonna 2013 aiheettomasti 113513 euroa arvonlisäveroa eikä perinyt sitä takaisin; toteaa, että useimmat asiaan liittyvistä sopimuksista, laskuista ja tositteista eivät olleet viraston hallussa; panee merkille siirtojen suuren määrän osastossa 2 (27 prosenttia eli 666119 euroa) ja toteaa sen herättävän kysymyksiä toimeenpanoviraston varainhoidon moitteettomuudesta;
Takes note that OLAF drafted a report on the humanitarian aid granted to the Sahrawi refugee camp of Tindouf in Algeria (OF 2003/526); calls on the Commission to clarify the measures taken in response to the findings of that report; notes that according to a UNHCR inquiry report [49] the non-registration of a refugee population for such a prolonged period (i.e almost 30 years after their arrival) constitutes ‘an abnormal and unique situation in the UNHCR's history’; urges the Commission to ensure that the Algerian or Sahrawi individuals incriminated by the OLAF report no longer have access to aid funded by Union taxpayers; calls on the Commission to re-evaluate and adapt Union aid to the actual needs of the population concerned and to ensure that the interests and needs of the refugees will not be harmed because they are the most vulnerable to any possible irregularity;
Tupakan salakuljetus
Is worried about the Ghana public payroll fraud case where neither the World Bank nor the United Kingdom as project partners alerted the Commission about the serious concerns they had about weaknesses in controls and the risk of accounting errors and fraud that these presented;
palauttaa mieliin, että komissiota koskevaan vuoden 2012 vastuuvapausmenettelyyn liittyvässä päätöslauselmassa parlamentti vaatii neljän tupakkayhtiön (Philip Morris International Cooperation Inc.
Research and other internal policies
(PMI), Japan Tobacco International Cooperation, British American Tobacco Cooperation ja Imperial Tobacco Cooperation) kanssa tehtyjen nykyisten sopimusten arviointia; toteaa, että asiassa suljetuin ovin järjestetyn kuulemistilaisuuden aikana komissio sitoutui esittämään toukokuuhun 2015 mennessä PMI:n kanssa tehdystä ja pian umpeutuvasta sopimuksesta saatujen kokemusten arvioinnin.
Stresses that the Seventh Framework Programme (7FP) was the main programme financed by the Commission; notes that 809 grant agreements, involving 10345 participants for a total of EUR 3439 million in Union contributions were signed; notes that the 7FP contributes to the Union's efforts to invest in a sustainable competitiveness but points that the Union as a whole is still far from its objective of having at least 3 % of GDP spent on R & D; notes that some progress was made in meeting key performance indicators (gross expenditure on Research and Development (R & D), share of public expenditure on R & D, progress in the implementation of the Innovation Union, share of Union financial contributions to small and medium-sized enterprises, reduction of Time-to-Grant);
Ks. edellä mainittu Euroopan parlamentin päätöslauselma 29. huhtikuuta 2015 tilintarkastustuomioistuimen erityiskertomuksista komissiota koskevassa varainhoitovuoden 2013 vastuuvapausmenettelyssä, osa 1.
Notes that the Court of Auditors audited 150 transactions, namely 89 transactions relating to research (86 for the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) and three for the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6)), 25 transactions for the Lifelong Learning (LLP) and Youth in Action (YiA) Programmes and 36 transactions for other programmes; regrets that the Court of Auditors estimated the most likely error rate at 4,6 % (2012: 3,9 %);
Ks. tilintarkastustuomioistuimen erityiskertomus nro 11/2013, 93–97 kohta.
Observes that the spending in this policy group covered a wide range of policy objectives, such as research and innovation, education, security, migration and measures to combat the effects of the financial crisis; notes that the Commission spent more than 50 % (EUR 5771 million) of the available amount on research; notes that 45 % of the Commission's research budget was implemented by bodies (i.e. agencies, joint undertakings) outside the Directorate-General; notes that almost 90 % of the spending took the form of grants to beneficiaries participating in projects and that in 2013 the Commission concluded 809 grant agreements;
Ks. em. komission 29. syyskuuta 2014 päivätty tiedonanto EU:n talousarvion suojaamisesta vuoden 2013 loppuun saakka (COM(2014) 618), s. 11.
Takes note that the principal risk to regularity remained that beneficiaries include ineligible or unsubstantiated costs in their cost statements, which were neither detected nor corrected by the Commission or Member States' control systems;
Ks. tilintarkastustuomioistuimen vuosikertomus varainhoitovuodelta 2013, 1.14 kohta.
Regrets that 35 % of the estimated error rate is caused by incorrectly calculated or ineligible personnel costs; notes that this includes declaring budgeted rather than actual personnel costs, as well as charging time that was not spent on the projects;
Ks. em. komission tiedonanto COM(2014) 618, taulukko 5.2: peruutuksina toteutetut koheesiopolitiikan rahoitusoikaisut (775 miljoonaa euroa), maaseudun kehittämistä koskevat takaisinperinnät (129 miljoonaa euroa) ja rahoitusoikaisut, jotka on toteutettu purkamalla sitoumus/tekemällä vähennys ohjelman päättyessä koheesiopolitiikan alalla (494 miljoonaa euroa) tai muilla politiikanaloilla kuin maatalous- ja koheesiopolitiikan alalla (1 miljoona euroa).
Regrets that 23 % of the estimated error rate is caused by indirect ineligible costs, 25 % by other ineligible direct costs (VAT, travelling, etc.), and 17 % by non-compliance with public procurement rules;
Komission tiedonanto COM(2014) 618, taulukko 7.2.
Observes that first-time applicants, particularly SMEs, are with a largely unknown risk/error profile; calls on the Commission not to undermine the efforts made to encourage these participants to participate in the programmes, by systematically increasing the level of control or administrative burden on them;
Komission tiedonanto, 11. kesäkuuta 2014, ”Yhteenveto komission hallintosaavutuksista vuonna 2013” (COM(2014) 342), s. 14: kokonaisriskin suuruus koko vuoden 2013 menojen osalta (EU:n ja EKR:n talousarvio).
Management and Control Systems
Yhteenvetokertomuksen liitteen 1 mukaan riskinalainen määrä edustaa tapahtumiin liittyvien sellaisten osien arvoa, joiden ei katsota olevan täysin sovellettavien säädöksiin ja sopimuksiin perustuvien vaatimusten mukaisia sen jälkeen, kun kaikki säännönmukaisuutta koskevien riskien lieventämiseen tähtäävät kontrollit (korjaavat toimenpiteet) on toteutettu.
Calls on the Commission to increase the awareness of auditors for fulfilling their role;
Tilintarkastustuomioistuimen vuosikertomusten esittely talousarvion valvontavaliokunnan kokouksessa 5. marraskuuta 2014, tilintarkastustuomioistuimen presidentti Vítor Manuel da Silva Caldeira.
Takes note of the fact that the Commission conducted in 2013 500 ex post audits and the associated recovery and corrective action, and risk based ex ante checks;
Komission varapuheenjohtajan Kristalina Georgievan vastuuvapausmenettelyn aikana antamat tiedot.
Supports the Court of Auditors' recommendation, accepted by the Commission, to make controls for this policy group more risk-driven, focusing checks on high-risk beneficiaries (for example entities with less experience of Union funding) and reducing the burden of checks on less risky beneficiaries;
Tilintarkastustuomioistuimen erityiskertomus nro 16/2014.
Reiterates the necessity to strike the right balance between fewer administrative burdens and effective financial control;
COM(2013) 362.
Welcomes the fact that in 2014, the time-to-grant time span has dropped from 249 days to 209 days for 94 % of the grant agreements;
Tilintarkastustuomioistuimen vuosikertomus vuodelta 2013, 2.11 kohta, ja tilintarkastustuomioistuimen erityiskertomus nro 11/2013 ”Bruttokansantuloa (BKTL) koskevien tietojen laadun parantaminen: jäsennellympi ja paremmin kohdennettu lähestymistapa parantaisi komission suorittaman tarkastuksen vaikuttavuutta” (vastuuvapaus 2013).
Welcomes the fact that the Commission continued with its communication campaign based on a document listing the 10 most common causes of error, which was distributed to all programme participants in 2012;
Jacek Dominikin lausunto jäsenvaltioiden bruttokansantulon tarkistamisesta, lehdistötiedote, Bryssel, 27. lokakuuta 2014, viimeinen virke.
Observes that by the end of 2013, the undue claimed amounts recovered had reached EUR 29,6 million, while outstanding recoverable amounts had increased from EUR 12 million at the end of 2012 to almost EUR 17 million;
Lausunto nro 7/2014 ehdotuksesta neuvoston asetukseksi Euroopan yhteisöjen omien varojen järjestelmästä tehdyn päätöksen 2007/436/EY, Euratom soveltamisesta annetun asetuksen (EY, Euratom) N:o 1150/2007 muuttamisesta (EUVL C 459, 19.12.2014, s. 1).
Notes that project stakeholders (ITER organisation and the domestic agencies — including Fusion for Europe) have recognised that the current schedule and budget is not realistic, as confirmed by several independent assessments in the last two years (2013-2014); requests to receive a copy of the revised schedule and budget which will be submitted to the ITER Council in June 2015; is concerned by the regular delays in the ITER programme which questions its efficiency and effectiveness; is deeply concerned by the overcosts, which have impacted upon the cost-effectiveness of the programme and put other Union programmes in jeopardy, mainly in the research policy area;
Hyväksytyt tekstit, P7_TA(2013)0078.
Welcomes the fact that the External Borders Fund has helped to foster financial solidarity; criticises the fact, despite this, that further Union added value was limited and that the overall result could not be measured due to weaknesses in the responsible authorities' monitoring and serious deficiencies in the ex post evaluations conducted by the Commission and the Member States;
Ks. tilintarkastustuomioistuimen yleiskatsaus EU:n talousarviohallintoon kohdistuviin riskeihin: EU-varojen optimaalinen käyttö, 2014, s. 67.
Galileo
Euroopan parlamentin ja neuvoston asetus (EU) N:o 1307/2013, 17. joulukuuta 2013, yhteisen maatalouspolitiikan tukijärjestelmissä viljelijöille myönnettäviä suoria tukia koskevista säännöistä ja neuvoston asetuksen (EY) N:o 637/2008 ja neuvoston asetuksen (EY) N:o 73/2009 kumoamisesta (EUVL L 347, 20.12.2013, s. 608).
Notes the Commission replies on the progress made in implementing the Galileo project: four Galileo In-Orbit Validation (IOV) satellites were successfully launched in 2011 and 2012, the Galileo In-Orbit Validation phase was successfully concluded in 2014, the system design, the performance targets and the baseline for system operation were successfully confirmed, the ground infrastructure, with many ground stations worldwide, has been completed for the initial operations, the Galileo Search-and-Rescue capability of the IOV-satellites was successfully demonstrated, the launch of two satellites (no.
Komission jäsenen Hoganin 8. joulukuuta 2014 toimittamat alustavat luvut tuen jakautumisesta jaoteltuna määrän koon mukaan, kun kyseessä on tuottajille neuvoston asetuksen (EY) N:o 1782/2003 (EUVL L 270, 21.10.2003, s. 1) ja neuvoston asetuksen (EY) N:o 73/2009 (EUVL L 30, 31.1.2009, s. 16) mukaisesti maksettu suora tuki.
5 and 6) on 22 August 2014 resulted in an injection of these satellites into incorrect orbit, and since December 2014 the satellites have been gradually moved to a more favourable orbit to allow their best possible use, and the testing of the satellites' navigation payload is on-going; expects to be informed about additional costs for these unforeseen measures;
Virheiden esiintyvyys lisääntyi huomattavasti: se oli 41 prosenttia vuonna 2012 ja 61 prosenttia vuonna 2013.
Notes that in 2013, the Court of Auditors audited eight transactions in the transport sector and found that five of them were affected by one or more errors; draws attention to the increase of the percentage of affected transactions in 2013 (62 %) compared to 2012 (49 %) and is concerned that, as in previous years, the Court of Auditors has found several errors in relation to non-compliance with Union and national procurement rules for the TEN-T projects examined; takes note that as in the preceding year of 2012, once more in 2013, DG MOVE did not issue a reservation related to public procurement errors; insists, therefore, that the Commission undertake the necessary measures in order to exclude such errors in the future; notes that it is of the utmost importance to extend the ex ante and ex post control of the beneficiaries of Commission grants, funding and financing in order to avoid the misuse of the Community allocation of resources and to ensure a verification of performance; emphasises that even if the funding period 2007-2013 is formally over, there is a N + 2 principle for cohesion funding, meaning that many projects are still under construction until the end of this year;
Maatalouden yhteisestä markkinajärjestelystä ja tiettyjä maataloustuotteita koskevista erityissäännöksistä 22. lokakuuta 2007 annetun neuvoston asetuksen (EY) N:o 1234/2007 (yhteisiä markkinajärjestelyjä koskeva asetus) (EUVL L 299, 16.11.2007, s. 1) mukaan tietyillä alueilla voidaan myöntää siirtymäkauden tukea tuottajaryhmien muodostamista varten sellaisten tuottajien kannustamiseksi, jotka haluavat saada tuottajaorganisaation aseman.
Calls on the Commission, for the sake of transparency, to publish an easily accessible annual list of transport projects co-financed by the Union, including the exact funding amount for each individual project; notes that this list of projects shall include all sources of Union funding such as TEN-T, Horizon 2020, Cohesion and Regional Funds;
Unioni voi korvata tällaisen rahoituksen osittain, ja sen maksaminen loppuu, kun tuottajaryhmä on tunnustettu tuottajaorganisaatioksi.
Urges the Commission to report every year how the remarks on the respective budget lines have been taken into account;
Ks. tilintarkastustuomioistuimen vuosikertomus varainhoitovuodelta 2013, 43 kohta.
Recalls that the transport projects in the period between 2007 — 2013 and 2014 — 2020 have been and will be financed by multiple sources, including the CEF, the Cohesion Fund and the European Regional Development Fund; calls on the Commission to seek more synergy between different sources of funding to seek a more efficient allocation of Union funds;
Ks. komission vastaus kirjalliseen kysymykseen nro 11, komission jäsenen Phil Hoganin kuuleminen talousarvion valvontavaliokunnassa 1. joulukuuta 2014.
Environment and public health
Ks. tilintarkastustuomioistuimen vuosikertomus varainhoitovuodelta 2013, 3.23 kohta ja sitä seuraavat kohdat.
Is satisfied with the overall implementation of the budgetary headings for environment, climate action, public health and food safety in 2013; recalls again that only less than 0,5 % of the Union budget is dedicated to those policy instruments, while bearing in mind the clear Union added value in these fields and the support from Union citizens for Union environmental and climate policies, as well as for public health and food safety; regrets that this percentage has fallen to 0,5 % from 0,8 % in 2012;
Ks. maatalouden ja maaseudun kehittämisen pääosaston vuotuinen toimintakertomus vuodelta 2013, liite 10, taulukko 51: uudet avoimet tapaukset vuodesta 2007 lähtien.
Takes note of the presentation of the environment and health policy areas within the Court of Auditors' Annual Report for 2013; is concerned that both policy areas appear again in the chapter also devoted to rural development and fisheries; reiterates its criticism towards this composition of policy areas, and urges the Court of Auditors to revise its approach with the next annual report; refers in this connection to the Court of Auditors' Special Report No 12/2014 entitled ‘Is the ERDF effective in funding projects that directly promote biodiversity under the EU biodiversity strategy to 2020?’, which stresses the need for the Commission to maintain an accurate record of direct and indirect spending on biodiversity, including Natura 2000; urges the Member States to facilitate this process by providing accurate data;
Ks. tilintarkastustuomioistuimen vuosikertomus varainhoitovuodelta 2013, 4.25 kohta.
Acknowledges that the Court of Auditors carries out random checks in the Member States very systematically and establishes the error rate on the basis thereof; notes that the Court of Auditors does not indicate in which Member States or in which areas the greatest problems arise; stresses therefore the need for a clear chain of accountability and, in this context, attaches great importance to the quality of control systems in the Member States;
Ks. tilintarkastustuomioistuimen vuosikertomus varainhoitovuodelta 2013, 4.27 kohta.
Considers the progress in the implementation of 14 Pilot Projects (PPs) and six Preparatory Actions (PAs) amounting altogether to EUR 5983607 as satisfactory; encourages the Commission to continue implementing PPs and PAs as proposed by Parliament;
Vastaus kirjalliseen kysymykseen nro 29, komission jäsenen Phil Hoganin kuuleminen talousarvion valvontavaliokunnassa 1. joulukuuta 2014.
Notes that DG SANCO was responsible for implementing EUR 233928461 on public health budget lines in 2013, of which 98,1 % have been committed satisfactorily; is aware that roughly 77 % of that budget is directly transferred to three decentralised agencies (the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA)) and that all credits were implemented at 100 % except for EMA and EFSA and that this under-execution of EMA and EFSA commitment appropriations corresponds to the outturn of 2012;
Ks. tilintarkastustuomioistuimen erityiskertomus nro 23/2014, s. 22–24.
Culture
Ks. tilintarkastustuomioistuimen jäsenen Rasa Budbergyten lausuma, komission jäsenen Phil Hoganin kuuleminen talousarvion valvontavaliokunnassa 1. joulukuuta 2014.
Welcomes the fact that in 2013, the budget execution rate for the 2007–2013 programmes, in particular Lifelong Learning (LLP), Culture, Media and Youth in Action programmes was 100 %; asks that the budget in the framework of the 2014-2020 Education and Culture programmes be strengthened and increased; is particularly worried that at the end of the year, the mismatch between the adopted commitment and payment appropriations resulted in shortage of payments (amounting in the Erasmus+ programme, for example, to a shortfall of EUR 202 million) with grave negative repercussions on the following year; is strongly concerned and also regrets that a similar situation might develop in the context of the new programmes, especially Erasmus+ and Creative Europe, which would in turn determine a dangerous loss of credibility by the Union and would undermine the citizens' trust in the Union institutions and have disastrous consequences on participants to the programmes;
Ks. vastaus kirjalliseen kysymykseen nro 12, komission jäsenen Phil Hoganin kuuleminen talousarvion valvontavaliokunnassa 1. joulukuuta 2014.
Welcomes the fact that since its launch in 1987, the Erasmus programme has reached and surpassed the 3 million students benchmark; notes the sustained success this Union flagship programme — one that has contributed to European integration and the rising awareness of and sense of belonging to a common European citizenship — has enjoyed since its inception;
Ks. maatalouden ja maaseudun kehittämisen pääosaston vuotuinen toimintakertomus vuodelta 2013, taulukko 2.1.24.
Is concerned that at a European level — as reported in the Eurobarometer Special Report 399 on cultural access and participation from 2013 — public budgets dedicated to the safeguarding and promotion of cultural heritage are noticeably decreasing, as is participation in traditional cultural activities; considers therefore that the new Union instruments to support the European Agenda for Culture — such as the Creative Europe and Horizon 2020 programmes, or the Europeana cultural platform — must be strengthened;
Ks. tilintarkastustuomioistuimen erityiskertomus nro 20/2014, 68 kohta.