Text · Opinion parliamentary committee draft
On discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2022, section III - Commission
Document REGI-PA-755040 · 2023/2129(DEC)
- Kind
- Opinion parliamentary committee draft REGI-PA-755040
- Date
- 7 November 2023
- Committee
- Committee on Regional Development
- Rapporteur
- Younous Omarjee
- Dossier
- 2023-2129
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- 2023/2129(DEC)
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The Committee on Regional Development sets out its suggestions to the Committee on Budgetary Control for the 2022 discharge of the Commission's budget, focusing on cohesion spending. It notes that cohesion spending is reimbursement-based and error-prone, and that the closure of the 2014-2020 period, CRII(+), CARE, REACT-EU and the RRF have increased pressure on managing authorities and beneficiaries. It says the main problems are overly complex rules and administrative burden, and the effective targeting of funds, and calls for a strengthened EPPO to allow further simplification. It flags the discrepancy between the Commission's and the Court of Auditors' error estimates, the risk of decommitments, and delays in the 2021-2027 cohesion funds caused by prioritising the RRF.
Position. The rapporteur proposes that the Committee on Regional Development call on the Committee on Budgetary Control to incorporate these suggestions into its motion for a resolution on the 2022 discharge, focusing on cohesion spending, simplification, the EPPO, error estimates, decommitments and RRF-related delays.
Key points
- Calls on the Committee on Budgetary Control to incorporate these suggestions into its motion for a resolution on the 2022 discharge.
- Notes that cohesion spending is reimbursement-based, complex and more prone to error, and that the 2014-2020 closure, CRII(+), CARE, REACT-EU and the RRF may have increased errors.
- Says the most pressing cohesion issues are overly complex rules and disproportionate administrative burden, and the effective targeting of funds, while supporting authorities and beneficiaries to comply.
- Highlights the EPPO's role in protecting the EU budget and stresses the need to give it the necessary means, saying a strengthened EPPO would allow further simplification of cohesion rules.
- Notes that the Commission's error estimates are above the materiality threshold but lower than the Court's, and is worried about the growing discrepancy between the two institutions in cohesion.
- Draws attention to the increased risk of decommitments and urges the Commission to keep working with member states and regions to speed up and ease the closure of the 2014-2020 period.
- Is concerned that prioritising the RRF in member states is causing delays in implementing funds under the CPR 2021-2027.
Who is affected
- Managing authorities and beneficiaries, who face pressure and errors from complex cohesion rules and parallel funds.
- The Commission, urged to cooperate with member states and regions on the 2014-2020 closure.
- The EPPO, which the committee says needs the necessary means to carry out its duties.
- Member states, whose prioritisation of the RRF is causing delays in the CPR 2021-2027 funds.
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Suggestions
The Committee on Regional Development calls on the Committee on Budgetary Control, as the committee responsible, to incorporate the following suggestions into its motion for a resolution:
1. Reminds that cohesion spending is reimbursement-based and hence very complex and more prone to error than other spending areas; acknowledges that the proximity of the closure of the 2014-2020 period, the flexibilities and additional funding made available through CRII(+), CARE and REACT-EU and the parallel implementation of the RRF may have contributed to increasing the pressure on the managing authorities and beneficiaries and thus the number of errors;
2. Reminds that, without prejudice to the need to support the authorities and beneficiaries to better comply with spending rules and minimise errors, the most pressing issues to be addressed in the area of cohesion policy are, on the one hand, the overly complex rules and procedures and the disproportionate administrative burden they entail and, on the other hand, the effective targeting of the funds;
3. Highlights the role of the EPPO in protecting the EU budget; reminds that, in her appearance before the Committee on Regional Development on 25 May 2023, the European Public Prosecutor noted that the management and control system for EU expenditure currently in place is not designed to detect fraud and that audits or administrative investigations rarely detect financial crime; stresses the need to provide the EPPO with the necessary means to carry out its duties; is of the opinion that a strengthened EPPO would make it possible for the legislator to further simplify the regulatory framework for cohesion;
4. Notes that the Commission’s error estimates are above the materiality threshold but are significantly lower than the Court’s; draws attention to the different methodologies applied by the two institutions; is worried about the growing discrepancy between the assessments provided by the Court of Auditors and the Commission, especially in the area of cohesion;
5. Draws attention to the increased risk of decommitments in the coming years and urges the Commission to continue its cooperation with the Member States and the regions to both speed up and ease the good closure of the 2014-2020 programming period;
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European Parliament (2023). “DRAFT OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2022, section III - Commission”. Text, 7 November 2023. docId REGI-PA-755040. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/REGI-PA-755040 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: EP Open Data API: document record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/documents/REGI-PA-755040 (CC BY 4.0).
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@misc{epw-text-regi-pa-755040,
author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{DRAFT OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2022, section III - Commission}},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-11-07},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/REGI-PA-755040}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/REGI-PA-755040},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Text. docId REGI-PA-755040. Data: EP Open Data API: document record (CC BY 4.0)}
}