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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;
Parlamentet konstaterar att endast 47 % av bidragen från de operativa programmen, eller 6678,20 miljoner euro, har utbetalats till slutmottagarna när det bara är två år kvar till avslutet.
Urges the Commission to report every year how the remarks on the respective budget lines have been taken into account;
Europaparlamentet är oroat över att kommissionen i den konsoliderade årsrapporten 2013 om genomförandet av finansieringstekniska instrument – i enlighet med artikel 67.2 j i rådets förordning (EG) nr 1083/2006 [42] – drar slutsatsen att medlemsstaternas förvaltningsmyndigheter inte lämnade en heltäckande redogörelse av genomförandet av de finansieringstekniska instrumenten och att vissa uppgifter visade på ”felaktigheter” när det gällde uppgifterna för finansieringstekniska instrument i Ungern och Italien.
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;
Grekland
Environment and public health
Europaparlamentet är oroat över genomförandet av de prioriterade programmen i Grekland enligt förvaltningen av insatser.
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;
Parlamentet konstaterar att 48 prioriterade projekt måste påskyndas.
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;
Parlamentet konstaterar att de största problemen enligt kommissionen är a) förseningar i mognadsstadiet, b) förseningar i tillståndsgivning, c) hävning av kontrakt till följd av att uppdragstagaren saknade likviditet, och d) utdragna överklagandeförfaranden i tilldelningsfasen.
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;
Parlamentet uppmanar därför kommissionen att lämna en uppdatering av uppföljningsrapporten om de prioriterade projekten för 2013.
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;
Lago Trasimeno
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;
Europaparlamentet noterar att Olaf utförde ett informationsuppdrag i december 2014 för att diskutera möjliga oegentligheter med unionens bistånd för cykelbanan kring Lago Trasimeno i Italien.
Culture
Kommissionen uppmanas att informera parlamentet om hur detta utvecklats i uppföljningsrapporten om ansvarsfriheten för 2013.
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;
Privatisering av infrastrukturprojekt som finansierats med unionsmedel
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;
Europaparlamentet konstaterar att unionen finansierade moderniseringen av ett vattenförsörjningsnät i Skorkov (Tjeckien) med 1,1 miljoner euro.
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;
Parlamentet är oroat över att de kommunala myndigheterna har lagt ut driften av vattenförsörjningssystemet på ett företag som redan driver det lokala avloppssystemet.
Takes note that the Director-General of Directorate-General for Research and Innovation issued a general reservation with regard to the accuracy of cost claims (EUR 3664 million) for the FP7 in the Directorate-General's annual activity report, although he himself expects the ‘net financial impact of errors’, based on 1552 closed projects, to be around 2,09 %, meaning close to the materiality threshold; considers that such reservations render the term ‘sound financial management’ meaningless; calls therefore on the Director-General to use reservations, in future, in a more specific and targeted way;
Parlamentet konstaterar att det lokala avloppssystemet också medfinansierades med 1,4 miljoner euro från unionsfonder och att priset på dricksvattensförsörjningen ökade med 45 %.
Calls on the Commission to provide information, in time for the 2013 Commission's discharge follow-up report, about the average length of adversarial procedures before recovery in this policy group;
Parlamentet anser att dricksvatten är en kollektiv nyttighet och att alla medborgare behöver ha tillgång till dricksvatten av hög kvalitet och till rimligt pris.
Regrets that the Commission did still not send the list of beneficiaries by country; expects to receive an answer in the 2013 Commission discharge follow-up report;
Europaparlamentet uppmanar kommissionen att informera parlamentet om alla projekt som har privatiserats och där unionen har deltagit med minst 30 %.
Welcomes the fact that the Commission has finally granted the rapporteur access to the audit report on the operational costs for two programmes (Lifelong learning EUR 6,9 million, Youth in Action EUR 1,65 million) running in Turkey in 2012 and 2013; notes that the report was transmitted under the Framework Agreement; is concerned about important weaknesses found but welcomes the measures taken by the Turkish authorities to remedy the situation; asks the Commission to assess whether any financial corrections will have to be imposed;
Europeiska unionens solidaritetsfond
Calls on the Commission to provide supplementary information on spending for the Information and Communication Technologies Policy Support Programme in time for the 2013 Commission's discharge follow-up report; notes that for this programme the amount of payments at risk could be as high as EUR 3,4 million in 2013 resulting in a residual error rate of 2,8 %; notes that in spite of these circumstances the Director-General of Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) did not issue a reservation;
Europaparlamentet noterar kommissionens rapport om Europeiska unionens solidaritetsfond för 2013 [43].
Calls on the Commission to report comprehensively, in time for the 2014 discharge procedure, on the increasing ‘policy-orientation’ of the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation which was triggered by outsourcing the management of two-thirds of the FP7's operational costs to non-Commission bodies;
Europaparlamentet uppmanar kommissionen att noggrant rapportera om de framsteg som gjorts med förvaltnings- och kontrollsystem som ansågs vara delvis ändamålsenliga 2013 i god tid före ansvarsfrihetsförfarandet för 2014 [45].
Asks the Commission to provide, in time for the 2014 discharge procedure, an overview listing the policy progress between FP7 and HORIZON 2020 for researchers and SMEs;
Europaparlamentet uppmanar kommissionen att enligt revisionsrättens rekommendation göra en utvärdering av de ”kontroller på primär nivå” som utförts under programperioden 2007–2013 i enlighet med artikel 32.5 i budgetförordningen.
The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF)
Parlamentet uppmanar kommissionen att infoga en bedömning av tillförlitligheten hos den information som lämnats av medlemsstaternas attesterande organ i GD Regional- och stadspolitiks verksamhetsrapport.
Welcomes the ongoing discussions between OLAF and the OLAF Supervisory Committee (SC) on the revision of the Working Arrangements (WA) and encourages them to reach a common and satisfactory agreement; takes note of the efforts of OLAF to implement the WA; stresses that these efforts should not be disproportionate, considering the resource constraints in the office;
Parlamentet välkomnar de bedömningar som gjorts sedan 2010 genom riktade granskningar av högriskprogram inom ramen för undersökningen ”Bridging the assurance gap”.
Points out that Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 883/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council [50] in force since 1 October 2013 obliges OLAF to guarantee the independent functioning of the Supervisory Committee (OLAF-SC) Secretariat (Recital 40 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 883/2013); is unaware, at this stage, of measures taken to implement this legal obligation; urges the Commission to take immediate steps to remedy the situation;
Europaparlamentet uppmanar revisionsrätten att utarbeta en detaljerad rapport om hur felprocenten utvecklats (per år, per sektorspolitiskt område och per medlemsstat) under hela perioden för den tidigare fleråriga budgetramen (2007–2013).
Calls on OLAF to consult the OLAF-SC in a timely manner prior to modifying instructions to staff on investigation procedures and prior to setting investigation policy priorities;
Europaparlamentet uppmanar kommissionen att kräva att revisionsmyndigheterna intygar riktigheten hos de uppgifter om finansiella korrigeringar som rapporteras av de attesterande organen för varje operativt program.
Regrets the fact that OLAF does not necessarily implement the OLAF-SC's recommendations, sometimes even without giving a justification; calls on the Director-General to improve his cooperation in this respect;
Parlamentet anser att denna detaljerade information bör offentliggöras i bilagan till GD Regional- och stadspolitiks verksamhetsrapport.
Recalls that OLAF opened 423 investigations on 31 January 2012; is concerned about the legality of such a procedure; calls on the OLAF-SC to assess the legality of the 423 investigations opened over night and the outcome of those investigations; also asks the OLAF-SC to assess the statistics on the duration of investigations, to analyse the functioning of the case management system and to report back to Parliament;
Europaparlamentet uppmanar kommissionen att i sin årliga verksamhetsrapport konsekvent uppge skälen till att den inte gör reservationer (eller gör reservationer med mindre ekonomisk effekt) i de fall där detta beror på undantag från kommissionens tillämpliga riktlinjer eller godkända revisionsstrategier.
Calls on the OLAF-SC to also assess the statistics on the duration of investigations, to analyse the functioning of the case management system and to report back to Parliament's competent committee;
Europaparlamentet stöder revisionsrättens rekommendation om att kommissionen bör kräva att medlemsstaterna i sina förvaltningsförklaringar (i enlighet med artikel 59.5 a i budgetförordningen) uttryckligen bekräftar att de kontroller på primär nivå som utförts av förvaltningsorganen och de attesterande organen har varit effektiva.
Asks OLAF to provide more detailed statistics on the frequency of the opening and closing of investigations in its Annual Report;
Europaparlamentet uppmanar kommissionen att be de nationella myndigheterna att lämna återkoppling om huruvida de fastställda projektmålen på området Eruf/Sammanhållningsfonden och ESF uppfylldes.
Asks OLAF to provide more information to Parliament on the practicalities of the procedure of the case selection process, and the length and internal guidelines of the process;
Parlamentet anser att detta bör göras på ett sådant sätt att de registrerade uppgifterna är jämförbara på unionsnivå.
Administration
Parlamentet anser att medborgare som berörs av uppfyllandet av projektmålen bör ges möjlighet att bedöma projekten när de har slutförts.
Points out that over the last four years (2011-2014), 336145 applications were received for all selection procedures launched by the European Personnel Selection Office, that the average cost of processing one application can be estimated at EUR 238 and that less than 10 % of those candidates are finally placed on a reserve list; demands that Union taxpayers' money be saved by cutting red tape and prolonging the validity of the established reserve lists to at least two years; demands the Commission to report on this issue by June 2015;
Europaparlamentet uppmanar kommissionen att klargöra ”felaktigheterna” i de finansieringstekniska instrumenten och att göra en detaljerad bedömning av resultaten i GD Regional- och stadspolitiks verksamhetsrapport för 2014.
Asks that the Commission provide Parliament with information about the highest pension paid in 2013 for Commission officials;
Europaparlamentet uppskattar kommissionens insatser för att övergå till en resultatinriktad kultur.
Is worried about the Court of Auditors' finding that provisions for dealing with poorly performing staff are rarely used; calls on the Commission to fully apply the Staff Regulations;
Parlamentet begär därför att kommissionen (GD Regio) i sin förvaltningsplan och årsrapport ska ta med en utvärdering av sina insatser för att öka effektiviteten, ändamålsenligheten och effekterna av sammanhållningspolitiken.
Asks for information about staff outside the establishment plan and staff costs financed from headings other than ‘administration’; regrets that no consolidated information is provided to the budgetary authority about the total number of such staff or about the associated staff expenditure in the Commission;
Kommissionen uppmanas att vid sidan av inriktningen på budgetgenomförandet stämma av resultaten mot målen och utnyttja utvärderingarna bättre samt stödja medlemsstaterna och deras förvaltningsmyndigheter att maximera sina utvärderingsrapporters kvalitet.
Recalls that Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 723/2004 [51] introduced in Annex 1.A two new grades, AD13 and AD14, accessible to staff without management responsibilities which was limited previously to A4 (being equivalent to AD12); calls on the Commission to update the 2011 report on career equivalence and report on the staff expenditure generated in 2013 by non-management AD13 and AD14 staff;
Parlamentet betonar i detta sammanhang behovet av att i framtiden bedöma och utvärdera projektresultat, avkastning på investeringar och faktiskt mervärde för ekonomin, sysselsättningen och den regionala utvecklingen.
Asks the Commission to provide information about the financing of all social, sports and cultural measures for its staff, including the benefits of those measures on the performance and the integration of expatriates and their families;
Sysselsättning och sociala frågor
Asks the Commission to report on the use of flexitime in the follow-up to the 2013 Commission discharge;
Europaparlamentet betonar att ESF-resurserna i hög grad bidrar till att uppnå sysselsättnings- och socialpolitiska mål.
Is worried about the substantial increase in the number of high officials with grades AD 13 to AD 16; sees a reputational risk for the Union as it is difficult to explain that overtime is not seen to be included in such high salaries;
För rapporteringsåret gjordes betalningar till ett värde av 14,1 miljarder euro tillgängliga i detta syfte, varav 98 % gjordes via ESF.
Notes that the differences in pay levels for civil servants working for Union institutions and for those working for national administrations, remain very high, leading, inter alia, to a lack of mobility between staff at a Union level and at national levels; calls on the Commission to carry out an in-depth study on the reasons for these differences and to develop a long-term strategy to reduce these differences, whilst paying particular attention to the different allowances (family, expatriation, installation and resettlement allowances), annual leave, holidays, travel days, and compensation for over-time;
Parlamentet anser dock att en bedömning av fondens resultat behöver utföras för att mäta fondens ändamålsenlighet för att skapa jobb och få arbetslösa tillbaka på arbetsmarknaden snarare än att mäta utnyttjandegraden.
Points to the notice issued by the Commission Secretariat-General on limiting answers to parliamentary questions, which lays down a 20-line limit; calls on the Commissioners to shoulder their political responsibility and stop allowing themselves to be limited by the Secretariat-General in their answers;
Parlamentet begär att en detaljerad analys av fondens resultat, vilken kommer att vara avgörande för parlamentets politiska bedömning av ESF, ska läggas fram före utgången av året.
Is concerned about the protection afforded to whistle-blowers and calls on the Commission to ensure that their rights are fully upheld;
Parlamentet betonar vikten av ESF för investeringar i åtgärder för jobbskapande och arbetslöshetsbekämpning, humankapital, utbildning och yrkesutbildning, social inkludering och tillgång till sociala tjänster.
Points out that non-governmental organisations (NGOs) received in 2013 almost EUR 9 million from DG Environment, almost EUR 4 million from DG Health and Consumers and EUR 5,7 million from DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion; takes note of a permanent externalisation of Commission tasks; asks the Commission to present to the Parliament the Union added value of the money channelled via these NGOs;
Europaparlamentet påpekar att det enligt förordning (EG) nr 1083/2006 inte är tillåtet att använda medel ur Europeiska socialfonden för att utlokalisera arbetstillfällen från en medlemsstat till en annan.
Calls on the Commission to provide Commissioners who have been in office for less than two years with a transitional allowance for a period which does not exceed their term of office as a Commissioner;
Parlamentet framhåller att kommissionen och medlemsstaterna måste genomföra ordentliga kontroller för att se till att EU-medel inte missbrukas på detta sätt.
Considers that in times of crisis and general budget cuts, expenditure on away days for Union staff should be reduced and that such activities should, as far as possible, be confined to the places of work of the institutions, since the resulting added value does not justify such high costs;
Europaparlamentet konstaterar att medlemsstaterna i sin avsikt att utnyttja EU-medel bör sträva efter att uppnå resultat och de mål som främjas via ESF och får inte äventyra en konsekvent tillämpning av effektiva kontroller, vilka i synnerhet mot slutet av den stödberättigande perioden kan leda till att överträdelse av reglerna inte upptäcks och följaktligen till att man finansierar projekt som är för kostsamma, bristfälligt genomförda eller som sannolikt inte kommer att nå avsett resultat.
Is concerned about the lack of women in positions of responsibility at the Commission; calls on the Commission to launch an equal opportunities scheme designed to remedy this imbalance as soon as possible, particularly at management level;
Europaparlamentet betonar att det är särskilt brådskande att minska ungdomsarbetslösheten.
Getting results from the Union budget
Parlamentet välkomnar att över 12,4 miljarder euro från ESF och sysselsättningsinitiativet för unga har öronmärkts för bekämpning av ungdomsarbetslöshet under den nya programperioden.
Regrets the fact that despite some progress reported by the Court of Auditors [52] the fourth evaluation report as provided for in Article 318 TFEU is not yet a useful contribution to the discharge activity while according to the TFEU, it should be part of the evidence when Parliament gives discharge each year to the Commission in respect of the budget; is concerned that the lack of focus on performance is a major problem of the Union budget;
Parlamentet uppmanar kommissionen att stödja medlemsstaterna i genomförandet av unionsfonderna och se till att pengarna används för de angivna ändamålen.
Notes that in its 2013 report, the Court of Auditors concludes that Member States, when selecting projects under shared management, have focused first on the need to spend the Union money available, rather than on their expected performance; requests that in order to reverse this incentive and to change towards a culture of good performance, an independent high-level working group (including academics) on the performance of the Union budget be convened in order to make recommendations to structurally shift the incentive from spending to good performance, based on an assessment of Union added value, while respecting compliance with the rules; is of the opinion that the findings of this high-level working group should be available in due time before the mid-term review of the current MFF and form the basis for the new MFF programming period;
Parlamentet uppmanar också kommissionen att för programperioden 2014–2020 införa ett system som möjliggör rapportering om integreringen av missgynnade personer eller grupper (dvs. unga, äldre, långtidsarbetslösa och romer) på arbetsmarknaden.