Examples of using Procurement errors in English and their translations into Slovak
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(22) This comparator takes account of the updated approach to procurement errors.
Data related to public procurement errors within Member States is often scattered across several institutions.
This was due to the fact that we found very few public procurement errors this year.
For ERDF and the Cohesion Fund, public procurement errors have contributed approximately to 41% of the cumulative quantifiable errors found.
The Commission is also already analysing, in a comprehensive way, public procurement errors in the area of cohesion policy.
This year the most interesting presentations for me at eBF were the case studies in the public sector andanother very interesting block was about critical procurement errors.
Public procurement errors relate to non-compliance with internal market rules, and are not specific to cohesion policy, as shown in other chapters of this report.
Since then, the data reported by Member States via the IMS have neverbeen used by the Commission to analyse public procurement errors.
The information contained in the IMS about public procurement errors does not, however, allow for a meaningful analysis of the nature, extent or underlying causes of errors. .
Observations 29 45 Up to now,the Commission has carried out one horizontal analysis focusing on public procurement errors, in May 201124.
Serious procurement errors affecting the conditions for payments have traditionally been one of the main reasons for qualified audit opinions and observations by the Court.
The estimated levels of error for 2012 and2013 have been adjusted using our updated approach for quantifying serious public procurement errors.
Proportionality for financial corrections linked to public procurement errors is introduced to avoid that such errors are always considered as affecting 100% of aid concerned.
This year-on-year comparison is based onfigures that have been calculated applying our updated approach to procurement errors(see Box on page 10).
The Commission notes that in its special report on public procurement errors in the area of Cohesion the Court calls on the Member States to improve their administrative capacity in this area.
(17) This comparator figure takes account both of the reclassification of budget lines to ensure that chapters reflect MFF headings andof the updated approach to procurement errors.
These procurement errors include:(a) unclear selection criteria or the use of a wrong type of procurement procedure(16);(17) The audited amount of the project is 1,6 million euro with an error rate of 81,7%.
The estimated levels of error for 2013 have been adjusted to allow comparison andon the basis of the updated approach to quantifying serious public procurement errors. Diagram 7.
Public procurement errors can mean that the objectives of public procurement rules- promoting fair competition and ensuring that contracts are awarded to the best qualified bidder- have not always been achieved.
For example, systems have been updated so that expenditure which was identified by the audit authority,the Commission or the Court to be irregular due to public procurement errors is automatically not submitted to the Commission for payment.
Whilst the Commission has acertain amount of data available about public procurement errors from across the area of cohesion policy, it has not yet developed a robust, comprehensive database of all public procurement errors. .
Observations 27 38 The Court found the following in the four Member States visited that:(a) Member States' authorities implementing cohesion policy rarely investigated the underlying causes of errors;(b)only in Italy has there been any analysis focusing specifically on public procurement errors.
While 60 out of the 69 audit authorities whichresponded to the survey stated that they analyse public procurement errors, only 14 were able to provide structured data regarding public procurement errors detected in recent years.
EN 10.11.2015 Official Journal of the European Union C 373/19 Graph 1.2- The estimated level of error(most likely error, MLE)(2012-2014)(1)(1) The estimated level of error for 2012 and 2013 has been adjusted so as totake into account the updated approach to quantifying serious public procurement errors(see paragraph 1.13).
Member States' use ofexisting or new databases to analyse public procurement errors is a recent development(see paragraph 41), and the Commission has yet to develop a database of irregularities, including those arising in public procurement. .
Observations 30 The Commission and Member States have started to implement actions to address the problem, but there is still a long way to go 49 The Court sought to determine whether the Commission and Member States have takenappropriate actions to address the problem of public procurement errors in the area of cohesion policy.
At the time of issuing its reservation, by 31 March 2013, DG Mobility andTransport had received three Preliminary Findings from the Court concerning public procurement errors in TEN-T projects, two of which had been analysed and contested by DG Mobility and Transport in February 2013.
Commission work on the problem of public procurement errors in cohesion prior to 2010 included ad hoc corrective actions, including financial corrections, targeted at specific Member States and the issuance of guidance to Member States on the application of financial corrections in respect of public procurement errors. .
The Commission also notes that the Discharge Authority called on the Commission andthe Court to harmonise their methodologies to quantify public procurement errors(European Parliament decision of 17 April 2013 on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2011).
We use standard statistical techniques to draw this sample and to estimate the level of error(see Chapter 1 Annex 1.1 to the 2014 Annual Report).* The estimated levels of error for 2013 have been adjusted so as to allow comparison with the new MFF headings, andon the basis of the updated approach to quantifying serious public procurement errors.
