4 Amendments of Auke ZIJLSTRA related to 2016/2160(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 1
1. Notes with satisfactionIs surprised to note that according to the European Court of Auditors (ECA) the overall level of error in Heading 5 (Administration), including the budget of the European External Action Service (EEAS), – whose spending has to be containues to be relatively low (0,6% in 2015)ed – stayed at 0.6 % in 2015, an important fact bearing in mind the sums concerned;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the ECA found certainnoted weaknesses in recruitment procedures of local agents in delegations and in procurement procedures organised by delegations and invitesdemands that the EEAS to improve the quality of its procedures; points out the challenges of operations within a decentralised network of 139 delegations, with limited human resources and in diverse environments, and stresses the necessity to reduce the administrative burden faced by individual delegations; welcomes the pilot project on the regionalisation of the administrative support to Union delegations in Europe and calls for the centralisation of administrative tasks at Headquarters as far as possible;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
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3. Recalls the need to ensure full respect of the staffing formula on the ratio between EEAS staff drawn from Member States and from Union institutions as set out by the Council Decision on the organisation and functioning of the EEAS; welcomes the commitment of the Vice-President/High Representative made to the Parliament to address the existing overrepresentation of national diplomats in the positions of heads of delegations, and to present in the course of 2017 a review of the EEAS human resources policy, looking at issues such as gender balance and mobility of staff between institutionscall for EEAS staff to be drawn from Member States; recalls that Member States are sovereign and that by virtue of such sovereignty 'security and diplomacy' form part of the sovereign powers of each Member State;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
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4. Notes ECA Special Report 07/2016 on the management of buildings by the EEAS; while recognising the challenges of building management in often complex environments; calls ondemands that the EEAS to address the individual cases of unoccupied or unnecessarily large premises that have been identified by the ECA as a matter of priority; calls for a commitment by the High Representative in this respect.