7 Amendments of Petri SARVAMAA related to 2017/2164(DEC)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes from the Court’s report that on 22 December 2015 the Commission and the Agency, co-beneficiary and coordinator of three other co-beneficiaries - the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) - signed a grant agreement amounting to EUR 5 500 000 on regional support to protection-sensitive migration management in the Western Balkans and Turkey for a three year period starting on 1 January 2016; notes, however, that cooperation agreements with those three partners which amounted to EUR 3 400 000 were only signed between August and November 2016; takes note that, in two of those agreements, the budgetary commitments, which should have released the funds before entering in the legal commitments, were only signed in October and in December 2016; notes moreover that the budget commitments amounted to EUR 1 200 000, covering only the pre- financing payments; notstresses that such a procedure is in breach of the Financial Regulation’s rules on budgetary management and the late signature of the agreements caused uncertainty for the operational cooperation between partners; notes from the Agency’s reply that in order to document the fact that the legal commitment for all three project partners was made prior to the budgetary commitment, the Agency duly documented this as an exception;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Acknowledges that the Agency is revising in 2017 its entire financial scheme aiming at simplifications, switching from grants to service contracts and introducing flat rates; calls on the Agency to report to the Discharge Authority on the implementation of the new scheme and the results achieved;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes that the level of carry-overs for committed appropriations for Title II (administrative expenditure) was at EUR 6 400 000 (43 % of committed appropriations), compared to EUR 3 200 000 (38 %) in 2015, and therefore high; notes moreover that the carry-overs for Title III (operational expenditure) were also high at EUR 67 300 000 (37 %), compared to EUR 40 200 000 (35 %) in 2015; notes that the main reason is because contracts and operations extended beyond the year-end and that; calls on the Agency mayto consider introducing differentiated budget appropriations to better reflect inevitable delays between legal commitments, contract implementation and operations and the related payments;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes with appreciation that, by the number of all posts occupied, gender balance has been met since the ratio is 50 % female to 50 % male; observes with great concernregrets, on the other hand, that for senior posts it is only 15 % female to 85 % male; calls on the Agency to take all necessary measures and, in cooperation with the Member States, to improves the gender balance in the management board and among the senior management;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Notes from the Court’s report that the Staff Regulations provide that in the case of an external selection procedure, temporary staff can only be recruited at grades SC 1 to SC 2, AST 1 to AST 4 or AD 5 to AD 8; notes that in 2016 the Agency recruited 14 staff at higher AST grades; takes notestresses that the recruitments at these grades are irregular; notes from the Agency’s reply that the motivation for upgrading of 5 AST4 posts to 5 AST5 posts was due to the business needs to run the 24/7 Duty Officers’ service; acknowledges that, given the level of responsibilities in the context of the migratory flows and security challenge at the Union’s external borders, the Agency had to attract qualified and experienced candidates with relevant prior working experience;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Observes with some concern that in 2016 the average sick leave of the Agency’s staff was 11,4 days although the Agency in its calculation did not include the staff who did not take any day off due to sick leave; calls on the Agency to consult with the medical service on how to lower the absence from work due to sick leave;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7
Subheading 7