EC asks court to have more int
EC asks court to have more in mind the corruption in aid budget. Brussels, Feb 16 () .- The Court of Auditors EU today asked the European Commission (EC) that values risks better corrupcin on governments when allocating grants to the general budget of countries of Latin America, Africa and Asia as a contribution to its development.
This body control the costs of the European Union (EU) in Brussels today present a report on the effectiveness of the Commission Gestin, global agenda powerleveling, budgetary support in developing countries.
The CONCLUSION of the study is that the EC has made "considerable efforts" to develop and improve its assistance to state budgets, but have identified some "weaknesses" in the Gestin planificaciny programs.
The Court considers that the EC has not yet developed a "slider" gestiny Evaluation of risks in the programs, given the "risks IMPLIED" a bad progestin even corrupcin, sto credits, , "when large sums of money channeled directly to the public in budget travs passes in development."
In this regard, calls for added protection against "loss, waste or inefficiency" of funds.
The Court also determined that "it is not clear" the logic of the EC at the time of giving financial support to each country, and underlined that must "prove" that the money allocated to each, ffxiv gil, program SPECIFIC is appropriate in light of its objectives.
"Do not say that the Commission does not ignore the corruption, but should better integrate that into your evaluation of risks," he said at a press conference one of the investigators, Gerald Locatelli, who admitted that the EC has already implemented some anti-fraud agencies or courses of formation.
In the case of Nicaragua,, sto energy credits , the country that receives more aid Latinoamrica the Commission, the Court believes there are flaws in the selecciny formulacin of objectives (the program that supports the EC focuses on rural areas but does not define SPECIFIC goals), but otherwise it is an example of the conditions imposed on the disbursement of funds in this country.
Paraguay The program also is subject to criticisms, the Court considered that the EC is not enough risk eval trust or misuse of funds, or that the dialogue with that country not est sufficiently "structured."
Budget support is the prrred aid modality of the European Commission, about half of no more than ten European Development Fund (about 11,000 million) was disbursed in this way between 2008 and 2013, said the Tribunal.
The EC did between 2003 and 2009, 75.5 million euros for the general budget and 92.9 million budget by sector of Nicaragua, 60.5 million and 34 million budget by sector in Honduras, 96.5 million budget sectors of Bolivia, or 24 million and 54 million budget by sector of Paraguay.