organization and productivity project officer [ organization and productivity project manager ]

Working Party I Organisation / EDP Project Group

Mr. Speaker, on November 11, the Bridgestone company of Joliette won a gold medal at the best business practices show, an event organized by the Mouvement québécois de la qualité to showcase projects that improve productivity.

I. whereas many volunteer-led projects and organisations do not have the resources to access and secure funding under existing EU programmes due to excessive red tape and bureaucracy;

The project, promoted by the Terraprima organisation, has led to improved soil fertility, water retention and erosion resistance as well as helped to increase the productivity of pastures across many parts of Portugal.

145. Notes with concern that, according to the Court, the risk analyses carried out by EuropeAid did not take into account the risks represented by the various types of implementing body (NGO, international organisation, government institution, etc.) and the financing methods used (subsidy, budget support, trust fund, etc.); calls on the Commission to establish greater clarity, through more discriminating reporting, as to the effectiveness of individual assistance instruments; proposes with regard to the issue of aid for developing countries that the introduction of a system of stages be looked into, the aim being that at the first stage, by assisting i ...[+++]ndividual projects, the basic preconditions for granting budget aid, i.e. a form of democratic budgetary control plus independent auditing structures, are also established;