European Parliament : Amendments 018-019 - European Central Bank Annual Report for 2016 - A8-0383/2017(018-019)

31.1.2018 A8-0383/18

Amendment 18

Pervenche Berès, Jonás Fernández on behalf of the S&D GroupReport A8-0383/2017 Jonás Fernández

European Central Bank Annual Report for 2016 2017/2124(INI)

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

44. Asks the ECB to ensure the independence of the members of its internal Audit Committee; urges the ECB, in order to prevent conflicts of interest, to publish declarations of financial interests for its Governing Council members; urges the ECB to ensure that the Ethics Committee is not chaired by a former President or other past members of the Governing Council of the ECB, nor by anyone liable to conflict of interest; calls the ECB Governing Council to follow the EU Staff Regulations and Code of Conduct and require a two-year professional abstention period for its outgoing members after the conclusion of their mandate; stresses that the members of the Executive Board of the ECB should abstain from being simultaneous members of forums or other organisations which include executives from banks supervised by the ECB;

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44. Asks the ECB to ensure the independence of the members of its internal Audit Committee; urges the ECB, in order to prevent conflicts of interest, to publish declarations of financial interests for its Governing Council members; urges the ECB to ensure that the Ethics Committee is not chaired by a former President or other past members of the Governing Council of the ECB, nor by anyone liable to conflict of interest; calls the ECB Governing Council to follow the EU Staff Regulations and Code of Conduct and require a two-year professional abstention period for its outgoing members after the conclusion of their mandate; stresses that the members of the Executive Board of the ECB should abstain from being simultaneous members of forums or other organisations which include executives from banks supervised by the ECB; takes note of the recommendations of the European Ombudsman of

15 January 2018 regarding the involvement of the President of the European Central Bank and the members of its decision-making bodies in the 'Group of Thirty';

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United in diversity

31.1.2018 A8-0383/19

Amendment 19

Pervenche Berès, Jonás Fernández on behalf of the S&D GroupReport A8-0383/2017 Jonás Fernández

European Central Bank Annual Report for 2016 2017/2124(INI)

Motion for a resolution

New subtitle after paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution

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Additional challenges

United in diversity

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