Traduction de «Décision de passer outre » (Français → Anglais) :

14. Recalls that following the Bureau's decision of 10 December 2001, with effect from 1 January 2002, under Parliament's Internal Rules the Committee on Budgetary Control is simply informed of withholdings of approval (WOA) by the Financial Controller; notes that of the four WOA's during 2002 three were overruled by the President pursuant to Article 21 of the Internal Rules; expresses concern at the circumstances of WOA n° 02/02 concerning the regularisation of telephone bills charged to the Bonn information office over the period 1992-1998; asks its Secretary-General to consider whether the case ...[+++] merits an administrative inquiry and to inform its competent committee of his conclusions;

11. Welcomes the continuing fall in the number of instances in which the Financial Controller withholds his approval (1999: 12, 2000: 8, 2001: 6, 2002: 4) as evidence that the programme of professional training in the budgetary field for authorising officers is bearing fruit; points out that of those six withholdings in 2001 four were overruled by the superior authority and one (N° 01/04) was referred to OLAF which, after investigation, concluded that there was no evidence of financial irregularity;

13. Notes the conclusion of the Court of Auditors in its communication of 15 November 2002 concerning decisions to overrule withholdings of approval during the financial year 2001 that this aspect of internal control is operating normally in that it has revealed anomalies in administrative management but which do not call into question the legality of expenditure or compliance with public procurement rules; points to the overall opinion expressed in the section of the Court of Auditors annual report for 2001 concerning administrative expenditure (paragraph 7.16) that the audit of the reliability of the accounts did not reveal any eviden ...[+++]ce of material misstatements;

13. Recalls that following the Bureau's decision of 10 December 2001, with effect from 1 January 2002 under Parliament's Internal Rules the Committee on Budgetary Control is simply informed of withholdings of approval (WOA) by the Financial Controller; notes that of the four WOA's during 2002 three were overruled by the President pursuant to Article 21 of the Internal Rules; expresses concern at the circumstances of WOA n° 02/02 concerning the regularisation of telephone bills charged to the Bonn information office over the period 1992-1998; asks its Secretary-General to consider whether the case ...[+++] merits an administrative inquiry and to inform its competent committee of his conclusions;

9. Points out that, in its note on the decisions to overrule the withholdings of approval by the financial controllers of the institutions for 1999, in accordance with Article 39(3) of the Financial Regulation, the Court of Auditors comments on cases 99/7 and 99/9 concerning Parliament, without however taking any account of the arguments on the basis of which the Bureau decided to overrule the withholdings of approval in question; points out that OLAF has been requested to conduct an investigation into this matter and it is now await ...[+++]ing these findings;

The Chairman: Are you going to implement a policy that the regional offices cannot waive these tendering processes and it has to be at a higher level, or will you continue to allow regions to waive the policy when they feel it's desirable?