As rapporteur, the MEP urged for the digitalisation of access to European funds in order to increase transparency, facilitate the use of European resources, ensure the fairness of the evaluation and procurement process and allow greater predictability of implementation.
He reminds us of the European auditors’ report which reveals major problems in the area of digitalisation.
”There are major delays, we have a fragmented and difficult system, and public information is limited and slow”, Negrescu recalled.
In this context, he urged the European Union to ”invest more in training the staff who use this infrastructure, to make the platforms more accessible and more high-quality, and to ensure that the human dimension remains present beyond the digital systems”.
In fact, ”transparency of the European budget and the efficient use of European money throughout the European Union” is one of the priorities of Negrescu’s mandate.
In its latest report, the European Court of Auditors regrets that the European Commission’s ambition to become ”truly digital” is not yet a reality.
The auditors point out that both the European Commission and all bodies responsible for managing EU funds are having difficulties when it comes to digitalisation.
In their view, ”transparency could be improved greatly, and the EU budget thus protected, by introducing a unique identifier for contractors and beneficiaries of EU funds in order to be able to search across the different tools and systems”.
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