4 Amendments of Roberta METSOLA related to 2018/2200(DEC)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
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2. Notes than in 2017 the budget of Europol increased from 104 to 118 million Euros and its staff from 737 to 834 full- time equivalents; welcomes in this context of growing activities the lack of remarks of the Court of Auditors regarding the execution of the 2017 budget of Europol; welcomes as well that mostall of the recommendations issued by the Courts of Auditors for previous years have been closed; highlights, in particular, that for 2017 the Court of Auditors does no longer report excessive carry-overs of commitment appropriations from the previous year (2016) to the current year (2017) for Title II (administrative expenditure);
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
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3. Requests Europol to provide more information on the budgetary implications of its Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU), which is not explicitly listed in the budget; questions the legal basis on which the IRU operat as it forms part of its European Counterterrorism Centre (ECTC); reminds that the Europol Regulation, in Article 4(1), makes, as it does not seem to contribute to the investigation and prosecution of criminal offences, but rather contributes to the deletion of allegedly illegal content on the basis of the terms of service of information society services without follow-up by law enforcement reference to referrals to online service providers, whereas Europol in close cooperation with industry actually supports related investigations by competent authorities of criminal offences online, mainly at the request of competent authorities in Member States; calls for an enhanced role of the EU IRU following the recent proposal by the European Commission on a Regulation on preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
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4. RegretWelcomes that, as a result of an effective and transparent recruitment process, Europol has managed to fill all its vacancies; Regrets nevertheless that Europol does not publish vacancy notices on the website of the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) but only on its own website and in social media; acknowledges that the working language of Europol is principally English but points out that the publication of Europol vacancy notices on the EPSO website would be useful and relevant as it would increase transparency and publicity and allow citizens to identify vacancies published by the different Union institutions and agencies collectively; requests Europol to also publish its vacancy notices on the EPSO website;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
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5. Welcomes the commitment of Europol to address the three recommendations identified by the Commission’s Internal Audit Service in their 2017 audit report on “Procurement in the European Police Office”.