Activities of Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ related to 2023/2172(DEC)
Opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency for the financial year 2022
Amendments (13)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Welcomes the Frontex cooperation with the Discharge authority and progress made following up the recommendations and observations issued in the its Discharge report for 2020; welcomes the interim and new management efforts to ensure business continuity in the Frontex, enhance oversight and accountability, improve the management culture, strengthen the fundamental rights framework, and improve stakeholders trust especially during the transition period;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Highlights the importance of a strong, effective and well-functioning Frontex, able to assist Member States to manage the common external borders of the European Union and to ensure an integrated border management with a view to managing those borders efficiently and in full compliance with fundamental rights, and to increasing the efficiency of the Union return policy; stresses that effective management of the external borders is of crucial importance for the protection of the Schengen as an area of freedom, security and justice; stresses that close cooperation and agreements with third countries in aspects like readmission agreements, technical assistance, training, and return activities, together with development aid are important to guarantee an efficient European Union border management;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Welcomes the substantial increase in Frontex’ support to the effective return of 24 868 third-country nationals provided to Member States; appreciates that the FRO provided Frontex’ International and European Cooperation division (IEC) preliminary assessments on fundamental rights implications of Frontex ongoing and planned structured cooperation with several of the third countries, including with Mauritania;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Welcomes operational results achieved under all maritime joint operations during 2022 especially the detection of 1,105 facilitators, 11 traffickers of human beings and a wide variety of other types of cross-border crimes, illegal goods and substances;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes that in 2022 the Frontex went through significant managerial changes, including a new deputy fundamental rights officer (DFRO), a new chair of its Management Board, threewo new deputy executive directors and the appointment of a new executive director; further welcomes steps taken by Frontex to undergo a transition process and to improve the management culture and promote staff well-being ;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Welcomes the organisation of inaugural meeting of the Fundamental Rights Action Plan Focal Points on 11 May 2022l; recalls that out of the 87 activities foreseen by the action plan to mainstream fundamental rights across all activities of the Agency, eight have been fully implemented; 56 have been implemented and were ongoing (are implemented on a systematic manner and a rolling-basis); 17 were partially implemented; and two were delayed;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Notes the Court's emphasis on matter paragraph related to the incorrect calculation of contributions from Schengen associated countries (SAC); is concerned that the agreements between the EU and the SAC serving as legal basis for calculating their contributions to EU budget are unclear and allow divergent interpretations resulting in a lower contribution by SAC; recalls that this is an established practice for calculations of the SAC contributions endorsed by the Management Board, Commission and CAS; calls the Commission to examine these agreements as there is no single automatic formula for setting the contributions to the EU and agencies budgets;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5 c. Further notes the second Court's emphasis on matter paragraph which related to certification of the accounts where the accounting officers declared inability to validate the accounting system due to missing information relating to an IT system (Mission Management System), owned by the Commission, which supplies accounting data
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Recalls that OLAF is currently conducting an investigations on Frontex; requests that allegations of misconduct are thoroughly checked and investigated; calls on the Agency to ensure the full and sincere cooperation with OLAF throughout all stages of the investigation and to regularly report to the European Parliament about the progress of the state and outcome of the investigation; welcomes the preparation of an action plan to follow up on the issues raised in the OLAF report presented to the Management Board in January 2023;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. Welcomes the development and continues implementation of comprehensive action plan to address the recommendations issued to Frontex in November 2020 and 15 June 2021 by European Ombudsman aimed at the effectiveness and transparency of Frontex' complaints mechanism, role and independence of Frontex's FRO, compliance with fundamental rights obligations and accountability;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7 c. Recalls the substantial increase in the demand and complexity of advice requests concerning applicable data protection rules from various stakeholders engaged with Agency’s activity ; recalls the Decision of EDPS in relation to two Management Board decisions; welcomes that the Agency addressed all recommendations and created an implementation plan to address the remaining issues;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 d (new)
Paragraph 7 d (new)
7 d. Welcomes the cooperation between Europol and Frontex, particularly in the context of Frontex’s PeDRA program ‘Processing of Personal Data for Risk Analysis' concerning the information and operational personal data transmition of persons suspected of involvement in cross- border crime and terrorism; recalls that cooperation among Frontex and other JHA Agencies is fully transparent and subject to an adequate framework of oversight and accountability ensured; recalls that EDPS audit report recommended Frontex to assess strict neccessity of data sharing with Europol; recalls that Frontex stopped transmitting the data to Europol; welcomes the impementation of joint concept note between the agecies on the exchange of information including operational personal data which establishes a new governance model in line with EDPS recommendation;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 e (new)
Paragraph 7 e (new)
7 e. Recalls that Frontex constitutes the main guarantor for strong and protected European external borders while upholding fundamental rights and international protection obligations; notes that Agency Management Board Working Group on Fundamental Rights Art 46 issued series of recommendations concerning serious incident reports (SIRs) reported by FRO in relation to Greece of which 4 were fully implemented and progress made on the remaining; welcomes the constructive cooperation by the Greek authorities and further progress on the fullfilment of the Implementation Plan; calls on the Agency to continue informing the Parliament on the progress made;