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Regrets that Belgium, Finland and Poland, which the Court of Auditors visited in 2012 in the course of its audits, are characterised by shortcomings in customs surveillance at national level in connection with retrospective audits and risk analysis; calls on the Commission to investigate these shortcomings;
Europaparlamentet konstaterar att överensstämmelseförfarandena tar alldeles för lång tid för att skydda EU-budgeten på ett ändamålsenligt sätt.
Concludes from the above audits and from the Commission’s audits in 2010 and 2011 that similar shortcomings could also exist in other countries, and therefore calls on Member States and the Commission to step up their customs surveillance, especially in the major ports; calls on the Commission to report on the matter during the preparation of the discharge for 2013;
Parlamentet beklagar att den administrativa förmågan har blockerats under flera år och medfört inkomst- och ränteförluster för EU:s budget.
Expresses its concern that EUR 200 million in fines which have been imposed but not yet paid have no cover of any kind;
Europaparlamentet konstaterar att generaldirektören för generaldirektoratet för jordbruk och landsbygdsutveckling har lämnat in en reservation på anseendegrunder om brister i övervakning och kontroll av certifierade ekologiska produkter.
Notes on the basis of the letter of 12 April 2013 [22] from Commissioner Šemeta that at present it is impossible for technical reasons to introduce the modernised Customs Code;
Parlamentet förväntar sig att kommissionen ska vidta avhjälpande åtgärder för att se till att avsaknaden av tillräckliga kontroller inte leder till oskälig snedvridning av konkurrensen mellan ekologiska och konventionella jordbrukare.
Notes the Communication from the Commission ‘action plan on fighting tax fraud and tax evasion’ of 6 December 2012 (COM(2012) 722) and the Commission’s answers of 26 September 2013 (COM(2013) 349);
Europaparlamentet instämmer i reservationerna från GD Jordbruks generaldirektör:
Welcomes the announcement by Commissioner Šemeta that he will forward to Parliament by 1 May 2014 an overview of the measures to combat tax evasion and avoidance;
En reservation med avseende på allvarliga brister i systemet för direktstöd i Bulgarien, Frankrike och Portugal.
Considers that VAT fraud, and in particular the so-called carousel or missing trader fraud, distorts competition, and deprives national budgets from significant resources and is detrimental to the Union budget; calls on the Commission to use all means to enforce the obligation of Member States to provide information in a timely manner to the Commission; welcomes in this regard the promise of the Commissioner to provide Parliament until 1 May 2014 with an overview of the developments of the initiatives taken to tackle tax evasion and avoidance taking place within the Union and in relation to third countries;
En reservation med avseende på samtliga utgifter för landsbygdsutveckling.
Agriculture
En reservation med avseende på brister i övervaknings- och kontrollsystemen för ekologisk produktion.
Market and direct support
på det regionalpolitiska området, energiområdet samt transportområdet
Regrets that the European Agriculture Guarantee Fund (EAGF) payments are not free from material error in 2012, that the supervisory and control systems examined for expensed payments were partially effective and deplores the increase of the most likely error rate to 3,8 %, (2,9 % in 2011);
Europaparlamentet konstaterar att felprocenten inom regionalpolitiken ligger på 6,8 %.
Notes that for a significant number of transactions affected by error, the Court of Auditors considers that the national authorities had enough information to detect and correct the errors concerned; asks the Court of Auditors to give precise information in this regard;
Europaparlamentet konstaterar att vissa kontrollmyndigheter i medlemsstater, enligt både revisionsrättens och kommissionens revisioner, inte genomför sina kontrolluppdrag med den noggrannhet som krävs och att det inte i tillräckligt hög grad är möjligt att se om och i vilket avseende dessa myndigheter förbättrar sina övervaknings- och kontrollsystem på ett hållbart sätt.
Is deeply concerned about the fact that the critical observations made in the annual report of the Court of Auditors for the financial year 2012 and the systematic weaknesses detected by the latter have already been reported by the Court of Auditors in its previous reports, and in particular, as regards the eligibility of permanent pasture, since 2007; notes the Commission’s explanations and calls on the Commission and the Court of Auditors, in the context of the adversarial procedure, to reach agreement on the eligibility criteria for permanent pasture;
Europaparlamentet konstaterar att medlemsstaternas myndigheter har tolkat riktlinjerna på olika sätt, i synnerhet vad gäller statistiska urval och täckningen av kontrollområdet.
Points out, in particular, that the most frequent accuracy errors relate to overstated area declarations and administrative errors, and that the bigger accuracy errors relate mostly to excessive payments for permanent grassland; regrets that overdeclarations in the cross-checks of declared parcels on the basis of the LPIS in certain Member States have not been discovered since the LPIS database is only partially reliable;
Parlamentet är djupt oroat eftersom tjänsten för internrevision vid kommissionen fann betydande variationer i omfattningen och grundligheten av kontrollerna på plats.
Points out that the audit by the Court of Auditors covered cross-compliance requirements and that cases where cross-compliance obligations were not met were treated as error where it was established that the infringement existed in the year in which the farmer applied for aid;
Europaparlamentet konstaterar att kommissionen inte genomför några tillräckliga egna stickprovskontroller hos de nationella förvaltningsmyndigheterna och slutmottagarna.
Points out that the Court of Auditors includes deficiencies in the area of the cross-compliance in their calculation of the error rate while noting that, in the view of the Commission, cross-compliance does not concern the eligibility to payments but only triggers administrative penalties [23];
Europaparlamentet instämmer i reservationen från GD Regionalpolitiks generaldirektör angående förvaltnings- och kontrollsystemen för Eruf/Sammanhållningsfonden/Instrumentet för stöd inför anslutningen för programplaneringsperioden 2007-2013 i 17 medlemsstater (72 program) och 12 program för europeiskt territoriellt samarbete.
Recalls that ‘the error rate must be used with great care and not be treated as an overall assessment of the respect of the cross-compliance obligations by farmers’ because the Court of Auditors has restricted its audit only to certain cross-compliance requirements [24];
Parlamentet instämmer också i reservationen angående förvaltnings- och kontrollsystemen för Eruf/Sammanhållningsfonden/Instrumentet för stöd inför anslutningen för programplaneringsperioden 2000-2006 i 5 medlemsstater (11 program) med avseende på program.
Is deeply concerned about the fact that the Court of Auditors’ audits show once again that the effectiveness of the Internal Management and Control System (IACS) is adversely affected mainly by inaccurate databases used for cross-checks; in particular points out that significant deficiencies were found in the LPIS audited in England and Northern Ireland;
I detta sammanhang påpekar parlamentet särskilt att revisionsmyndigheterna i alla medlemsstater bör ta sin revisionsuppgift mer på allvar för att genomföra hållbara förbättringar av förvaltnings-, övervaknings- och kontrollsystem,
Regrets also that with regard to the accuracy of payments, but also to the quality of the on-the-spot measurements, the Court of Auditors found deficiencies in the three paying agencies audited in England, Northern Ireland and Luxembourg;
kommissionen måste genomföra fler revisioner hos slutliga stödmottagare och beviljande myndigheter under år ”n” i de medlemsstater där svagheter konstaterats i förvaltnings- och kontrollsystemen år ”n-1”,
Shares the concern of the Court of Auditors as regards the change in the approach used by DG AGRI to calculate the residual error rate for decoupled area aid in 2012, as it takes into account the fact that the inspection statistics can be affected by deficiencies impacting their reliability and that they do not cover all components of the residual error rate;
kommissionen måste åta sig att granska alla operativa program minst en gång under loppet av en programplaneringsperiod,
Deplores the fact that the results of this new approach confirm that only limited assurance can be gained from certain Member States’ inspection statistics, from the declarations of the directors of paying agencies and from the work carried out by the certification bodies; calls for this new approach to extend to all CAP expenditure in DG AGRI’s next Annual Activity Report;
kommissionen måste rapportera i god tid före ansvarsfrihetsförfarandet för 2013 om hur termen ”allvarliga brister” ska tillämpas i praktiken i de delegerade akterna och för de finansiella nettokorrigeringar som den genererat.
Regrets that out of seven recommendations issued by the Court of Auditors in its annual reports for the financial years 2009 and 2010, only two were implemented in most respects and four in some respects by the Commission;
Europaparlamentet ifrågasätter inte sitt beslut att bevilja ansvarsfrihet men betonar sina reservationer enligt punkterna 34 och 39 som leder till följande bindande åtaganden
Endorses the recommendation made by the Court of Auditors that the eligibility of land and in particular permanent pasture be properly recorded in LPIS (see paragraphs 3.13, 3.25 and box 3.3 of the Annual Report for 2012); urges the Commission, in cooperation with the Member States, to address the problems with regard to permanent pasture and ensure that it is correctly recorded in the LPIS; urges the Commission to inform Parliament on a six months basis on progress made;
Europaparlamentet uppmanar kommissionen att se till att förfaranden för kontroll av överensstämmelse på jordbruksområdet i normalfall avslutas inom högst två år i enlighet med kommissionens interna riktmärken som antogs för över 15 år sedan.
Asks the Commission and the Member States to take immediate remedial action when administrative and control systems, and/or IACS databases, are found to be deficient or out of date;
Europaparlamentet uppmanar kommissionen att på jordbruksområdet utan dröjsmål finna lösningar på problemen som förekommer i de utbetalande organen, vars kvarstående felprocent ligger över den väsentlighetströskel på 2 % som fastställts av kommissionen.
Deplores in this regard that deficiencies were detected by the Court of Auditors and the Commission in the LPIS systems in Portugal and in France in the course of the 2006/2007 audits, whilst the Director-General of DG AGRI only entered a reservation accompanied by an action plan on these grounds as regards Portugal in his DG’s annual activity report of 2011 and as regards France in 2012;
Parlamentet föreslår att arbetet särskilt ska inriktas på de utbetalande organen i Frankrike, Bulgarien, Rumänien, Portugal och Lettland.
Considers that the adverse effects on effective Union budget protection can result from any delay in making the reservation to be accompanied by a request for an action plan and points out that the Commission bears particular responsibility in this regard;
Europaparlamentet kräver att handlingsplaner genomförs snarast för att åtgärda bristerna i systemet för identifiering av jordbruksskiften.
States with deep concern that the Court of Auditors found systemic deficiencies in the LPIS audited in Italy and Spain in 2008, 2009 and 2010 and that since 2007 deficiencies were found in the LPIS of 12 Member States [25]; notes the reply by the Commission and the Spanish authorities to the effect that, despite the limited extent of the deficiencies, an error correction system is being applied, involving the incorporation of an eligibility coefficient into regulation of the next period;
Om handlingsplanernas tidsfrister inte hålls ska finansiella nettokorrigeringar göras inom ramen för förfarandet för kontroll av överensstämmelse.
Shares the concern voiced by the Court of Auditors as regards the slowness of conformity procedures resulting in financial corrections (point 4.31 of the Annual Report for 2012) and regrets that a sample of conformity procedures showed that in 2012 the actual duration (more than four years) was twice as long as the Commission’s internal benchmark, which therefore ultimately led to a considerable backlog; takes note of the fact that the contradictory procedure, the conciliation mechanism and the calculation of corrections makes it difficult to close conformity clearance procedures in time; expects the Commission to make all efforts to reduce the duration of the conformity procedure in standard cases to maximum two years [26];
Parlamentet noterar att kontradiktoriska förfaranden i allmänhet ska avslutas inom två år.
Urges the Commission and the Member States to ensure that payments are based on inspection results and that on-the-spot inspections are of the quality necessary to determine eligible area in a reliable manner;
Europaparlamentet uppmanar kommissionen att lägga fram lägesrapporter om genomförandet av handlingsplanerna för Frankrike och Portugal senast den 30 juni 2014.
Urges the Commission to ensure that the design and quality of the work performed by the directors of paying agencies and the certification bodies provide a reliable basis for the assessment of the legality and regularity of underlying transactions;
Europaparlamentet anser att det måste finnas möjlighet till successivt stigande korrigerande sanktioner vid upprepade brister i systemen för identifiering av jordbruksskiften, så att de blir betydligt högre än de hittillsvarande schablon- och nettokorrigeringarna.
Rural development, environment, fisheries and health
Parlamentet kräver att kommissionen ska lägga fram ett förslag i detta syfte.
Regrets that the payments in rural development, environment, fisheries and health are not free from material error in 2012, that the supervisory and control systems examined for expensed payments were partially effective or — in one case — not effective, and deplores the increase in the most likely error rate to 7,9 % (7,7 % in 2011);
Europaparlamentet uppmanar GD Jordbruk och landsbygdsutveckling att vidareutveckla och formalisera sin kontrollstrategi, omstrukturera sina riskbedömningar enligt fastställda mål och säkerställa lämplig övervakning genom bättre kvantitativa och kvalitativa resultatindikatorer, vars presentation i den årliga verksamhetsrapporten bör förbättras.
Notes that, for a significant number of transactions affected by error, the Court of Auditors considers that the national authorities had enough information to detect and correct the errors concerned; asks the Court of Auditors to give precise information in this regard;
Som en följd av kommissionens och revisionsrättens rekommendationer kräver Europaparlamentet att medlemsstaterna drastiskt utökar och skärper sina kontroller på primär nivå inom regionalpolitiken.
Points out that, as in 2011, the major component (65 %) of the most likely error rate reported by the Court of Auditors concerns non-area-related measures, and stresses that the reason for most quantifiable errors was that the beneficiaries did not respect the eligibility requirements, in particular those concerning agri-environment commitments, special requirements for investment projects and public procurement rules;
Europaparlamentet uppmanar kommissionen att i generaldirektoratens verksamhetsrapporter uppge i hur stor omfattning medlemsstaternas kontrollstatistik eller kontrollrapporter har granskats, bestyrkts och godkänts, och hur ingående dessa förfaranden har varit.
Is deeply concerned about the fact that once again the Court of Auditors identifies significant problems concerning the implementation of cross-compliance requirements for the identification and registration of animals; calls on the Member States to improve the quality of checks throughout the year without imposing an additional administrative load on the beneficiaries;
Europaparlamentet uppmanar kommissionen att i sina årliga verksamhetsrapporter uppge hur de egna riskanalyserna har inverkat på användningen av den egna kontrollkapaciteten, vilka länder som har berörts och om bristerna har åtgärdats.
Reiterates its regret that in 2012 the Commission applied different methodologies to quantify public procurement errors in the policy areas of agriculture and cohesion, both of which furthermore are not in line with the Court of Auditors’ methodology, and calls on the Commission and the Court of Auditors to harmonise the treatment of public procurement errors in shared management without delay and to report to the discharge authority on the changes;
Parlamentet efterlyser fler direkta urvalskontroller hos de nationella kontrollmyndigheterna och slutmottagarna.
Reiterates its concern about the fact that many errors were detected when beneficiaries were public bodies and that those errors concerned issues such as declaring ineligible VAT or not complying with public procurement rules; calls, therefore, on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that the existing rules are better enforced;
Parlamentet noterar att detta skulle kunna göras genom att omplacera personal och/eller genom att minska antalet granskningar i medlemsstater där felprocenten är låg.
Regrets that the Court of Auditors identified weaknesses [27] in the supervisory and control systems of France, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania for rural development and that the three elements audited were affected by deficiencies: i.e. the administrative and control systems to ensure correct payment, the control systems based on physical on-the-spot checks, and systems to ensure implementation and control of cross-compliance;
Europaparlamentet betonar att riktlinjerna för kommissionens egna granskningar ska utgöra ett åtagande för kommissionen själv.
Notes with concern that the weaknesses detected in 2012 in the above-mentioned Member States were very similar to those found and reported in the six different Member States which were audited in 2011 (Denmark, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Austria and Finland);
Parlamentet uppmanar kommissionen att lägga fram dessa redan i samband med förfarandet för beviljandet av ansvarsfrihet för budgetåret 2013.
Is concerned that ultimately similar errors might exist in all Member States;
Parlamentet efterlyser tydliga uppgifter om i vilken mån medlemsstater och program som tidigare uppmärksammats har omfattats av särskilda granskningar och hur de finansiella nettokorrigeringarna kan påskyndas.
Notes with concern that the most important weakness detected by the Court of Auditors this year concerned ineffective checks of compliance with procurement rules which were apparent in Sweden, Germany (Brandenburg and Berlin), Poland, Bulgaria and Romania, and that overall the audit detected more than EUR 9 million of ineligible expenditure resulting from the non-respect of the procurement rules;
Parlamentet understryker att denna ansats bör komma till uttryck redan i de kommande delegerade akterna och genomförandeakterna.
Regrets that, on account of differences in approach between the Court of Auditors and the Commission on the issue of financial clearance, Parliament cannot assess with accuracy its impact on the legality and regularity of the underlying operations; notes that, according to the Court of Auditors, the results of the conformity audits were not sufficiently taken into account for the financial clearance decision; calls on the Commission and the Court of Auditors, in the context of the adversarial procedure, to reach agreement on the financial clearance procedure;
Europaparlamentet förväntar sig att kommissionen förbättrar sina egna kontroller av kontrollmyndigheternas årliga rapporter så att kontrollanterna utifrån medlemsstaternas kontroller kan dra slutsatser om hur stor roll felprocentsatsernas tillförlitlighet spelar, och förstärker sitt arbete med förklaringen om förvaltningen.
Shares the concerns voiced by the Court of Auditors concerning the weaknesses detected in the conformity audit work as regards quality control, audit documentation and the manner of evaluating evidence and forming conclusions;
Parlamentet anser att man måste ta itu med dessa oförenligheter så snart som möjligt för att minska risken för att svagheter i systemet och/eller fel och oegentligheter inte upptäcks.
Welcomes the fact that the Commission has increased the total amount of financial corrections in recent years whilst reducing the proportion of flat-rate corrections significantly in 2012; recognises at the same time that flat-rate corrections, under certain circumstances, can also be an appropriate means to protect the Union budget
Europaparlamentet är medvetet om att det vid kommande finansiella nettokorrigeringar som omfattas av rättsstatliga kriterier inte kan finnas någon ”automatisk bestraffning”.
Shares nevertheless the concern expressed by the Court of Auditors that the use of flat-rate corrections does not sufficiently take into account the nature and gravity of the infringement and that the length of the procedure is a persistent problem with conformity decisions; deems flat-rate corrections however a necessary tool for situations where a more precise calculation is not feasible; therefore requests that the Commission set out criteria for the calculation of flat rate corrections that will ensure that the nature and gravity of the deficiency is adequately taken into account;
Parlamentet kräver därför att kommissionen gör allt som står i dess makt för att förkorta de kontradiktoriska förfaranden som föregår ett införande av nettokorrigeringar eller avbrutna betalningar.
Is disappointed by the fact that the Court of Auditors found serious deficiencies in the implementation of the reinforcement-of-assurance procedure in 4 of the 5 Member States which applied this new procedure: Bulgaria and Romania for European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and Luxembourg and the United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) for European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF);
Parlamentet efterlyser i detta avseende en rapport och ett förslag från kommissionen, och meddelar redan nu att parlamentet kommer att stödja kommissionen i detta hänseende om medlemsstaterna skulle ha invändningar.
Notes that DG AGRI’s annual activity report contains a reservation for the total EAFRD expenditure for 2012 and that this reservation is due to concerns about the quality of controls in some Member States as well as the error rate reported by the Court of Auditors;
Europaparlamentet uppmanar kommissionen att utöka den årliga rapporten om skyddet av EU:s budget med ett avsnitt om finansiella nettokorrigeringar i varje medlemsstat.
Regrets however that DG AGRI’s reservation for EAFRD suffers from two deficiencies: DG AGRI was unable to provide its own quantified estimate of the residual error rate or to make an assessment for each paying agency on whether or not to apply a higher error rate on the basis on information from its own audits;
Europaparlamentet kräver att kommissionen i detta meddelande ska ange vilka tre medlemsstater som har högst felprocent och finansiella korrigeringar i samband med delad förvaltning, och att dessa sedan ska höras av den ansvarsfrihetsbeviljande myndigheten inom ramen för förfarandet om beviljande av ansvarsfrihet.
Calls on the Member States to carry out their existing administrative checks in an efficient way by using all relevant information available to the paying agencies, as this has the potential to detect and correct the majority of the errors;
Europaparlamentet uppmanar lagstiftaren att vid nästa möjliga tidpunkt såväl tidsmässigt som finansiellt begränsa möjligheten att ersätta projekt som innehåller fel med nya projekt före den 15 februari år ”n+1”.