Activities of Maria GRAPINI related to 2022/2133(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking for the financial year 2021
Amendments (6)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Notes that there is no harmonised definition of "administrative costs" among the Joint Undertakings, which is a basis for calculating the financial contributions of its members and a precondition for the purpose of comparable figures; calls with this in mind for common guidelines for all Joint Undertakings to take a harmonised approach for the classification of certain administrative cost expenditure categories, such as expenditure for consultations, studies, analysis, evaluations, and technical assistance;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Notes that as part of the assessment of the controls on the operational payments of the Undertaking, the Court of Auditors audited, at the level of final beneficiaries, randomly selected payments under the Horizon 2020 program that had been made in 2021, with the aim of corroborating the error rates calculated from the audits ex post.The Court of Auditors did not identify any errors or control deficiencies in the sampled Undertaking beneficiaries, which is welcome;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Notes that, in 2021, the staff turnover continued to be high with some staff members and one SNE leaving the Joint Undertaking; notes that this was attributable, besides other aspects, to the fact that other Union Joint Undertakings are in the position to offer Temporary Agent posts (TA) instead of Contractual Agent posts (CA); calls for increased efforts in human resources to minimise staff turnover;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19 a. Notes, from the Annual Activity Report 2021, in terms of gender balance, that the Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking has a lower percentage of women on the Governing Board than in the previous year, namely 10% and 13% respectively, taking into account the alternating board members, with the number of women represented in the Representatives Group and in the Scientific Committee being 33%, as in 2019 and 2020; regrets that these numbers have decreased or stagnated compared to previous years and calls for increased efforts in terms of gender balance;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the commitment of the Undertaking to facilitate research and innovation activities to deliver an integrated European railway network by design, eliminating barriers to interoperability and delivering smart, sustainable, and resilient rail system to ensure a harmonised approach to the evolution of the Single European Rail Area so as to ensure connectivity throughout the Union.
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Notes that, following the Court’s observations, that the EU-Rail agrees to pay its employer’s pension contributions in line with the calculation to be provided by the Commission’s services, once de-jure aspects are ascertained and calls for the Commission to take steps to avoid similar issues in the future;