Points out that according to the Court of Auditors' annual report for 2013, the shared management areas have an estimated error rate of 5,2 %; notes that all other operational expenditure (which is mostly directly managed by the Commission) has an estimated error rate of 3,7 %; emphasises that both error rates are above the materiality threshold of 2 %; stresses that the shared management areas have an error rate substantially higher than the one for all other operational expenditure;
préconise, compte tenu de la pression des paiements sur le budget, et vu que le règlement (UE, Euratom) no 966/2012 (règlement financier) dispose en son article 140, paragraphe 7, qu'il convient d'éviter les soldes excessifs dans le cas des instruments financiers, que la Commission veille à ce que les concours du budget de l'Union en faveur de ces instruments correspondent à un besoin réel de trésorerie;