2023 discharge: General budget of the EU - Commission

Tabled by Virginie Joron, Julien Sanchez, Mathilde Androuët, Anders Vistisen

… actions of one Union institution should affect the independence of another institution; Added: in this respect, deplores the fact that LIFE funds have been allocated to entities engaged in direct lobbying of EU institutions, in contradiction with the principles of sound financial management, transparency and separation of powers; Considering that details of grant contracts and the results of actions should be public, except in cases of national security, deplores the fact that the Commission grants access to only one contract out of all the projects it funds to members of the Committee on Budgetary Control; urges the Commission to step up ex-ante and ex-post checks on LIFE beneficiaries to ensure that funds are used in accordance with the EU's financial regulations and the Interinstitutional Agreement on " better law-making"; invites the Commission to make full use of the conclusions and recommendations of the European Court of Auditors' reports on the transparency of NGO funding to reform its mechanisms for awarding and monitoring grants, and to make its actions and funding transparent and easily accessible, since the financial transparency system is currently incomplete, updated late and contains unreliable data; urges all other institutions to respect the role of the Parliament as …

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE772.532