2 Amendments of Roberta METSOLA related to 2018/2175(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
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1. Stresses that as a result of the new assignments entrusted to the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) to provide the secretariat of the new European Data Protection Board (as part of the application of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council1 ) and of the new Cooperation Board (as part of the application of Regulation (EU) 2016/6794 of the European Parliament and of the Council2 ), the budget of the EDPS increased by 21.93% in 2017 (EUR 11 324 735,00); welcomes in this changing context that in its annual report on the implementation of the budget concerning the financial year 2017, the Court of Auditors (the Court) did not identify any specific issues concerning the EDPS; _________________ 1 Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation (OJ L 119, 4.5.2016, p. 1). 2 Regulation (EU) 2016/794 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 on the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) and replacing and repealing Council Decisions 2009/371/JHA, 2009/934/JHA, 2009/935/JHA, 2009/936/JHA and 2009/968/JHA (OJ L 135, 24.5.2016, p. 53).
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
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2. Regrets however that according to the EDPS annual activity report, only a single payment was examined in 2017 by the Court; points out that even if the budget of the EDPSEDPS is not a decentralised Union Agency and its budget represents a very small percentage of the Union budget, the legality and regularity of EDPS transactions should nevertheless be properly examined by the Court as transparency is vital for the appropriate functioning of this Union body; requests therefore that the Court, as from 2018, issues separate annual activity reports as from 2018 forreports on the annual accounts of this important Union body;