Activities of Luke Ming FLANAGAN related to 2021/2115(DEC)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2020, Section X – European External Action Service
Amendments (6)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Regrets, despite the Court's general consideration, that its audit has a rather limited scope and conclusions; requests that the audit work for the chapter on Administration be more focused on issues that are of high relevance or even critical for the EEAS
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Notes that in the AST and AST/SC categories the percentage of women decreased to 65.35 % compared to 66.3 % in 2019; stresseregrets that imbalances remained among the different grades, with women representing 66.2 % of staff in the lower grades (AST2 to AST9) but only 33.3 % in the higher grades (AST10 to AST11); points out the gender balance reached with regard to contract agents (59.4 %) and local agents (54.5 %), while the majority of seconded national experts were men (75.2 %);
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47 a (new)
Paragraph 47 a (new)
47 a. Considers that the highest ethical standards should be applied to avoid potential conflicts of interests, taking into account the specificities of work in Delegation to mitigate reputational risk for the Union and the EEAS, particularly for Heads of Delegation;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48
Paragraph 48
48. Notes that the EEAS does not hold meetings with organisations and self- employed individuals qualified as lobbyists in line with Article 11 TEU; strongly encourages the EEAS to nevertheless explore the possibility of joining the Union’s transparency register, on the basis of a service level agreement, in order to improve transparency by disclosing all meetings with all lobby organisations that try to influence the law-making and policy implementation processes of the Union institutions; reiterates its disagreement with the EEAS’ opinion that an obligation to record meetings with lobbyists in third countries would make it difficult for Heads of Union Delegations to engage with the Union's economic interests in third countries; believes that citizens should be allowed to know which organisations Union Ambassadors are meeting;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49 a (new)
Paragraph 49 a (new)
49 a. Emphasises the necessity for the EEAS to fully comply with the Commission's Guidelines on Whistleblowing, in particular to protect whistleblowers in good faith against any form of prejudice.
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 73 a (new)
Paragraph 73 a (new)
73 a. regrets past situations of leakage to the press of confidential reports on elections observation missions and welcomes the solution founds between the EP and EEAS on the transmission of files; expresses confidence that EEAS will keep facilitating the regular exchange of views between the Chief Observers and Deputy Chief Observers and the MEPs, before, during and after an election observation mission;