Activities of Alicia HOMS GINEL related to 2020/2194(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union agencies for the financial year 2019: performance, financial management and control
Amendments (7)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the important role that Union agencies play in helping Union institutions to design and implement policies, especially by carrying out specific technical, scientific and managerial tasks; expresses its satisfaction withwelcomes the importance and the high quality work performed by CEDEFOP, Eurofound, EU-OSHA and ETF, the agencies working in the area of employment, social affairs and inclusion; highlights the need of ensuring adequate human and financial resources allowing them to continue implementing their work programmes with a very high activity completion rate;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes and encourages thean ever closer cooperation among the agencies in the area of employment, social affairs and inclusion to ensure synergies, complementarity and sharing resources within and beyond the framework of the EU Agencies Network (EUAN), which constitutes an important inter-agency cooperation platform to ensure efficient communication between the agencies and relevant stakeholders; stresses the importance and added value of each agency in their field of expertise and their autonomy;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Acknowledges that the four agencies have held specific meetings together to align their performance indicator methodologies as a follow-up to the Commission’s recommendation received in 2019 based on the 2017 four- agency evaluation (recommendation 5 of SWD(2019) 159);
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that, similarly to previous years, most of the observations the Court has made in its Annual report on EU agencies for the financial year 2019 concern shortcomings in public procurement procedures; encourages the Union agencies to further improve their public procurement procedures, ensuring full compliance with the applicable rules, the principles of transparency, proportionality, equal treatment and non- discrimination and best value for money procurements;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recalls that the European Labour Authority (ELA) was created in March 2018 and started its operation in October 2019; highlights the importance of making the ELA fully operational without undue delay in order to improve the application and enforcement of Union law relating to labour mobility and social security coordination so as to ensure fair mobility and the effective cross-border enforcement of workers’ rights; stresses the need of ensuring sufficient financial resources in this regard;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Points out that ELA will help ensure that Union rules on labour mobility and social security coordination are enforced effectively and fairly, will assist national authorities in cooperating to enforce these rules, and make it easier for citizens and businesses to benefit from the internal market; is of the opinion that, although the four agencies (EUROFOUND, CEDEFOP, ETF and EU-OSHA) are predominantly research- centred, they could usefully support and contribute to the work of ELA;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Recalls that gender balance must be ensured within the Union agencies in accordance with the basic regulations establishing them;