Activities of Angel DZHAMBAZKI related to 2023/2120(INI)
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Amendments (11)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas in 2022, the greater partvast majority of the inquiries concerned the Commission (197 inquiries or 57.1 %), while the next largest numbers concerned the European Personnel Selection Office (22 inquiries or 6.3 %), Parliament (19 inquiries or 5.5 %), and the European External Action Service (16 inquiries or 4.6 %); whereas the remaining inquiries were distributed as follows: the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) (14 inquiries or 4.3 %), the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (7 inquiries or 2 %), other EU institutions or bodies (46 inquiries or 13.5 %), and other EU agencies (23 inquiries or 6.7 %);
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas the Ombudsman found maladministration in how the Commission handled the issue of text messages between the Commission President and the CEO of a pharmaceutical company;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K b (new)
Recital K b (new)
Kb. whereas in 2022 the Ombudsman processed almost 1500 complaints that did not fall within her mandate such as those related to the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K c (new)
Recital K c (new)
Kc. whereas the Ombudsman has strongly criticised the EU’s response to the Qatargate corruption scandal in the European Parliament;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Welcomes the continuous efforts of the Ombudsman to improve lobbying transparency and ethics, in particular strengthening the Code of Conduct for Commissioners, public record of meetings between Commissioners with lobbyists and proactive publication of Commissioners’ travel expenses;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Underlines that Qatargate shed a new light on the lobbying and policymaking in the EU; welcomes Ombudsman’s critical assessment of the scandal and poor EU’s response to it;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Welcomes the publication by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, in collaboration with the European Ombudsman’s Office, of the policy paper entitled ‘Towards good practice principles for government transparency in the use of recovery funds’, which provides guidance to governments on ensuring transparency and accountability in the use of COVID-19 recovery funds; welcomes in this regard the Ombudsman’s efforts to improve the transparency standards in terms of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF);
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. NotAcknowledges the Ombudsman’s work in issuing practical recommendations for the EU administration on the recording of work-related text and inquiry on the text messages between the Commission President and the CEO of a pharmaceutical company; welcomes the Ombudsman’s recommendations to combat similar cases of maladministant messagesration and stresses the importance for the EU institutions of following these recommendations in order to bring the practices of the EU administration into line with modern communication methods; welcomes the Commission’s response that it will issue further guidance on modern communication tools such as text messagesunderlines the particular importance of recognising that work-related text and instant messages are ‘documents’ within the meaning of Regulation 1049/2001 on public access to documents and respecting this principle;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Encourages the Ombudsman to continue the exchanges on experiences and best practices with national ombudsmen through the European Network of Ombudsmen (ENO); appreciates that the 2022 ENO annual conference focused on best practices for helping refugees, in particular in the context of the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and addressed the effects of the digitalisation of public services on citizens’ rights; commends the addition of the Ukrainian and Moldovan ombudsman’s offices to the ENO;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Welcomes continuous efforts of the Ombudsman to further improve visibility of its activities, including via online tools, including the multilingual website offering assistance in all 24 official languages of the EU;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Encourages the fruitful dialogue between the Ombudsman and the Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament; underlines that the intensive collaboration between these two bodies helps to increase the democratic accountability of the EU institutions and bringing them closer to the citizens;