6 Amendments of Roberta METSOLA related to 2018/2209(DEC)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. welcomes the continuous development of the Agency's internal capabilities with regard to budget planning and the monitoring of its execution to ensure the sound management of the Agency’s financial resources; welcomes that the overall execution level of commitments and payments totalled 100%;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. regrets that the Agency lacked the human resources it needed to fulfil its operational and horizontal functions without recourse to external contractors; calls on the Agency to continue its efforts to ensure staff retention and development within the Agency; welcomes how the Agency handled the substantially increased workload in 2017 despite the high turnover in expert staff;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes that IT projects were implemented on time, on cost and on budget in 2017; points out, however, that the Agency outsourced 90 % of its projects viahad to make extensive use of external contractors for the operational management of the systems entrusted to the Agency through three framework contracts; stresses that even if the Agency’s IT projects are under its control, outsourcing its activitiethe use of external contractors to such a large extendt creates risks of over- reliance and over-dependency on external contractorsthem; requests, therefore, the Agency to devise a long term strategy to mitigate this risk; acknowledges the administrative overhead, technical challenges and additional costs ofstaff and budget needed to adopting such a strategy but stresses that, given the sensitivity of its IT systems, contractor lock-in mustover-dependency on external contractors should be avoided; requests the Agency to present its vendor and contractor strategy to the European Parliament; requests the Agency to take all necessary measures to ensure that contractors having access to sensitive information about IT systems or the data they process are legally bound to stringent confidentiality rules and to demand that such contractors have formal national security clearances at the time of accessing such information; requests the Agency to ensure that its contractors are not bound by any laws of third countries that could bring them into conflict with the confidentiality arrangements established by the Agency;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Regrets the small number of staff in key operational units, in particular in the Application Management and Maintenance (AMM) unit; points out as well that in the second half of 2017, the head of the AMM unit also occupied ad interim the posts of Head of the Operations Department and Head of the Operations and Infrastructure Unit, thereby combining the threree of the highest management posts in the Operations Department; points out that this is not just a risk from a business continuity perspective but is also a sub-optimal segregation of duties, creating with potential operational conflicts of interests implications; request the Agency to avoid taking unnecessary operational risks due to its human resource constraints and requests it to address those issues without delay;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Highlights the remark of the Court of Auditors that opthe Agenlcy questions the relevance for the Agency of further extendcurrently manages three separate, non-integrated large-scale IT systems all dealing wits mandate to include the management of additional IT systemsh data in the Union’s policy area of freedom, security and justice; notes the risks arising from the prevention of the Agency to ensure economies of scale and synergies if systems operated by it continue to be run separately; agrees with the Court that the Agency should work in close consultoperation with the Commission and the Member States prepare a cost-benefit analysis supporting a discussion on its long term evolution; points out that further extension of the mandate of the Agency should not happen to the detriment of on-going developments and the stability and security of the operation of the Agency’s current systems that must remain its first priorityto tackle and successfully address these risks; believes that the interoperability between systems would solve these problems;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the commitment of the Agency to address the recommendation of the Internal Audit Service report on ‘Audit on the controls over the procurement process in eu-LISA’, issued in December 2017; stresses the importance of the Agency to deliver on its commitment.