Vertaling van "control expenditure spending " (Engels → Nederlands) :

4. Costs incurred by affiliated members as referred to in Article 115a shall be accepted as eligible provided that the affiliated members concerned are identified in the grant agreement or decision and abide by the rules applicable to the beneficiary under the grant agreement or decision, including those concerning the rights of the Commission, OLAF and the Court of Auditors to control the spending of expenditure in accordance with the grant rules.

13. Welcomes the fact that the financial impact of irregularities, as estimated by the Commission, was 27% lower than in 2007; notes, with regard to the legality and regularity of underlying transactions, that the error rate quoted for the cohesion policy area in the Court of Auditors’ 2008 Statement of Assurance (DAS) remains above 5%; is concerned that Italy, Poland, the United Kingdom and Spain reported the largest amount of irregularities; welcomes, at the same time, the good collaboration initiated by some of these Member States with the Commission to resolve these problems and trusts that the other Member States will do likewise; points out that, as highlighted by the Court of Auditors, structural actions are the ...[+++]spending area with the most stringent rules and most complex management procedures in the EU budget and that, as noted by the Commission, finding a high number of financial irregularities in one Member State does not necessarily imply a higher number of errors and instances of fraud than in other Member States but may be the result of more thorough and stringent controls; points out, also, that the Court of Auditors’ report on implementation of the 2008 Budget does not take into account the 2007-2013 programming period, for which new administration and control systems for spending have been introduced; notes the high incidence of errors linked to ineligible spending and breaches of the rules on public procurement and considers it advisable, therefore, for the Commission to introduce precautionary guidelines for the Member States and local authorities to clarify how these rules are to be applied and to avoid the managing authority replacing expenditure refused by the Commission as ineligible with new expenditure that is also ineligible;

13. Welcomes the fact that the financial impact of irregularities, as estimated by the Commission, was 27% lower than in 2007; notes, with regard to the legality and regularity of underlying transactions, that the error rate quoted for the cohesion policy area in the Court of Auditors' 2008 Statement of Assurance (DAS) remains above 5%; is concerned that Italy, Poland, the United Kingdom and Spain reported the largest amount of irregularities; welcomes, at the same time, the good collaboration initiated by some of these Member States with the Commission to resolve these problems and trusts that the other Member States will do likewise; points out that, as highlighted by the Court of Auditors, structural actions are the ...[+++]spending area with the most stringent rules and most complex management procedures in the EU budget and that, as noted by the Commission, finding a high number of financial irregularities in one Member State does not necessarily imply a higher number of errors and instances of fraud than in other Member States but may be the result of more thorough and stringent controls; points out, also, that the Court of Auditors' report on implementation of the 2008 Budget does not take into account the 2007-2013 programming period, for which new administration and control systems for spending have been introduced; notes the high incidence of errors linked to ineligible spending and breaches of the rules on public procurement and considers it advisable, therefore, for the Commission to introduce precautionary guidelines for the Member States and local authorities to clarify how these rules are to be applied and to avoid the managing authority replacing expenditure refused by the Commission as ineligible with new expenditure that is also ineligible;

Therefore, the Council should invite Italy to: (i) achieve the planned fiscal consolidation in 2007 so as to correct the situation of excessive deficit in line with the Council recommendation under Article 104(7); (ii) ensure, after the excessive deficit has been corrected, adequate progress towards the MTO so as to achieve it by the end of the programme period and ensure that the debt-to-GDP ratio is reduced accordingly; (iii) in view of the very high level of debt, fully implement the adopted pension reforms so as to avoid significant increases in age-related spending; and (iv) improve the budgetary process by increasing its transpa ...[+++]rency, spelling out the budgetary strategy with a longer time perspective and effectively implementing mechanisms to monitor and control expenditure, especially health care expenditure.

Among the immediate measures to be taken, as far as we are concerned, is to exclude spending on research, education and health expenditure, spending on certain infrastructures and job-related spending from the assessment of public-sector deficits that are to be brought under control.

I am glad that its expertise has been integrated into the spending departments, who are now fully responsible for authorising and controlling expenditure".