EU Agencies: Improved cooperation needed for better performance
19/03/2013
The European Parliament's Budgetary Control Committee today voted on 30 reports related to the 2011 accounts of the EU decentralised Agencies and the 7 Joint Undertakings. The Committee adopted suggestions by Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY...
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Budget Control Committee should have access to OLAF dossier on Dalli
16/11/2012
Michael Theurer (FDP, Germany), chairman of the Budget Control Committee, considered "unacceptable" that the request of the European Parliament to have access, under appropriate conditions, to the OLAF file that led to the...
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Liberals and Democrats call for better control on spending of EU funds
06/11/2012
Today the European Court of Auditors (ECA) presented its report on the spending of EU funds in 2011 to the Budgetary Control Committee of the European Parliament.
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Approval of accounts European Environmental Agency fully justified say Liberals and Democrats
23/10/2012
Liberals and Democrats in the European Parliament (ALDE) welcome the outcome of today's plenary vote on the approval of the 2010 expenses of the European Environmental Agency (EEA).
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Member States must come clean on use of taxpayers' money
10/05/2012
After six years of political pressure by the Group of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) the European Commission today finally showed some willingness towards ensuring more transparency and better accountability of the management of...
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Liberals say EU funds must be better managed by Member States
26/03/2012
Liberal and Democrat MEPs today reiterated their demand for more political accountability in the Member States for money spent by their own authorities. Jan Mulder (Netherlands, VVD), ALDE coordinator of the Budgetary Control...
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Reforming Financial Regulations: The EU budget can guarantee the EFSF and be replenished by the surplus of the previous year
26/10/2011
In its technical aspects, the recasting of the Financial Regulations, approved today during the first reading by the European Parliament in the Strasbourg plenary session, simplifies procedures and lays the foundation for a new...
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The Council can not escape parliamentary scrutiny for the proper management of its budget
25/10/2011
Liberals and Democrats supported the refusal to discharge the Council for the implementation of its budget in 2009 as decided in today's European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg. The Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)...
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Discharge: Parliament grants conditional discharge to Commission for 2009 budget
10/05/2011
Today's debate and vote on discharge reports for the 2009 financial year took place in the Parliament's Strasbourg plenary session in a very particular political context with negotiations on the post-2013 multiannual financial...
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Member States are preventing the efficient use of EU funds
25/01/2011
The European Parliament's budgetary control committee is in the final stages of drafting its report on the 2009 discharge procedure into sound financial management under the leadership of Jorgo Chatzimarkakis (FDP, Germany),...
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