Activities of Caterina CHINNICI related to 2022/2121(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) for the financial year 2021
Amendments (2)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 2
2. Regrets the reported weaknesses in management and control systems, namely two cases of potential conflict of interest situation in relation to a senior manager taking up a job elsewhere, when Europol did not issue its decision within the deadline and thus effectively authorised the person concerned to take up the new job without any restrictions and in contravention of Article 16 of the Staff Regulations; takes note of the Europol's commitment to adapt its procedures for communicating the decision within the applicable timelines;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Regrets that the observation from the Court stressing that late payments were issued by the Agency in 33% of the cases in 2020 is still ongoing; expresses concern that, according to the Court, similar levels of delays were observed in previous years; shares the opinion by the Court that this recurrent weaknesses exposes Europol to reputational risks; welcomes the fact that Court's observations from 2018 and 2019 regarding contract management and ex- ante controls have been completed; requests the Agency to increase its efforts to address all the observations from the Court;