4 Amendments of Roberta METSOLA related to 2018/2210(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Acknowledges, however, that for EASO, the Court issued an adverse opinion regarding the legality and regularity of its payments due to material and systematic instances of non-compliance of payments with EASO’s Financial Regulation and other applicable rules and provisions, mainly related to public procurement and recruitment procedures underlying payments; regrets that the combined error from non-compliant payments amounts to at least 7,7 million euros or 10,3 % of the EASO total payments made in 2017; notes the exponential deterioration of the human resource situation in EASO in 2017; regrets that EASO does not currently have the administrative capacity to fill its high number of vacancies causing a significant risk to the continuation of its operations at the current scale; welcomes EASO’s strong commitment to address its organisational and managerial weaknesses without delay; reminds that due to such commitments and certain progress, Parliament has granted belated discharge for the 2016 budget of EASO in October 2018;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that for Frontex, the Court has reported again in 2017 that proof of expenditures claimed by cooperating countries were often insufficient; welcomes the decision of Frontex to introduce a simplified cost reimbursement model to address this issue recurring since 2014; notes as well in this context that the Court reported cancellations of budget appropriations carried over from previous years, which indicates a clear overestimation of Frontexthe overestimation by public administrations of EU Member States and other cooperating countries of the Agency's budgetary needs;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Takes note that CEPOL remains the only JHA agency which has delegated its accounting functions to the Commission accounting officer on a contractual basis; encourages the other agencies to do the same as this will increase the effectiveness of the preparation of the accounts and ensure the reliability thereof;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that for the development and implementation of IT projects eu-LISA applies an outsourcing model where some 90 % of the related work is carried out by three contractorhad to make extensive use of external contractors for the operational management of the systems entrusted to the Agency through three framework contracts because it lacks the necessary human resources; acknowledges that, even though the IT projects are owned by and under the control of the Agency but fears that a model under which the evolution and developme, the use of external cont ractivities for such sensitive IT systems is outsourced to suchors to such a large extendt creates risks of over-reliance on contractorsand over- dependency on them; highlights that the small number of staff in key operational units creates risks for the continuity of operations; requests eu-LISA to take adequate long-term measures at both organisational and possibly technological/operational level to mitigate those risks in the long run; requests eu- LISA to ensure that the contractors are not bound by any laws of third countries that could bring them into conflict with the necessary confidentiality arrangements with eu-LISA;