Transparency and accountability of non-governmental organisations funded from the EU budget

Tabled by Markus Pieper, Monika Hohlmeier, Jan Olbrycht, Eleni Stavrou, Niclas Herbst, Andrey Novakov, Daniel Buda, Franc Bogovič, Angelika Winzig, Lukas Mandl, Hildegard Bentele, Christian Doleschal, Lena Düpont, Christine Schneider, Markus Ferber, Sabine Verheyen, Michael Gahler, Angelika Niebler, Daniel Caspary, Andreas Schwab, Peter Jahr, Christian Ehler, Sven Simon, Norbert Lins, Peter Liese, Axel Voss, Jens Gieseke, Wolfram Pirchner, Christian Sagartz, Siegfried Mureşan, Petri Sarvamaa, Arnaud Danjean, Dan-Ştefan Motreanu, Herbert Dorfmann, Alexander Alexandrov Yordanov, Andrius Kubilius, Asim Ademov, Romana Tomc, Ljudmila Novak, Karlo Ressler, Milan Zver, Mircea-Gheorghe Hava, Iuliu Winkler, Loránt Vincze, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Ivan Štefanec, Anne Sander, Salvatore De Meo, Michaela Šojdrová, Elissavet Vozemberg-Vrionidi, François-Xavier Bellamy, Cristian-Silviu Buşoi, Rainer Wieland, Gabriel Mato, Seán Kelly, Tomas Tobé, Laurence Sailliet, Marlene Mortler, Ralf Seekatz, Karolin Braunsberger-Reinhold, Marion Walsmann, Tomáš Zdechovský, Sara Skyttedal, Barbara Thaler, Rasa Juknevičienė, Brice Hortefeux, Dolors Montserrat, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Isabel Benjumea Benjumea, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez, Ana Collado Jiménez, Pablo Arias Echeverría, Javier Zarzalejos, Pernille Weiss, Stefan Berger, Geoffroy Didier, David McAllister, Miriam Lexmann, Jörgen Warborn, Henna Virkkunen, Arba Kokalari

Added: 24a. Acknowledges that the Commission provides administrative and financial support for the establishment of information platforms (e.g. the EU Business and Biodiversity Platform for the Nature Restoration Law), but wonders whether, in some cases, the lack of monitoring of the reliability of the information disseminated could encourage one-sided partisan political influence, thus giving the impression that the executive branch is lobbying the legislative branch, which would constitute an improper use of taxpayers’ money, damaging the neutrality of scientific analysis, and may be perceived as a conflict of interest in the EU institutions;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE756.728