Activities of Barbara KAPPEL related to 2016/2187(DEC)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority for the financial year 2015 PDF (305 KB) DOC (64 KB)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority for the financial year 2015
Amendments (9)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes from the Court’s report that, in respect of the two comments regarding carry-overs, transfers and budget management made in the Court’s 2014 report, the status of the corrective actions is marked in the 2015 Court’s report as “Ongoing”; calls for all recommendations to be implemented as soon as possible and for the discharge authority to be kept informed;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the level of committed appropriations carried over fobudget allocated under Title III (operational expenditure) was atamounted to EUR 2 300 000 (45 % of expenditure), compared to EUR 4 700 000 (66 % of expenditure) in 2014; acknowledges that those carryovers were predominantly related to specific contracts for the Authority’s multi-annual IT programme supporting the implementation of Solvency II and to contracts signed late in the year; moreover acknowledges from the Authority that the carryover appropriations were to be reduced from 2016 onwards to a satisfactory level with the advanced implementation of the Authority’s IT Programme; points out that carryovers are often partly or fully justified by the multiannual nature of agencies’ operational programmes and do not necessarily indicate weaknesses in budget planning and implementation nor are they always at odds with the budgetary principle of annuality, in particular if they are planned in advance by the Authority and communicated to the Court; calls for the continued reduction as far as possible in the level of committed appropriations to be carried over to the following year by means of all available measures, for example by adopting best practices used in other agencies;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the level of committed appropriations carried over for Title III (operational expenditure) was at EUR 2 300 000 (45 % of expenditure), compared to EUR 4 700 000 (66 % of expenditure) in 2014; acknowledges that those carryovers were predominantly related to specific contracts for the Authority’s multi-annual IT programme supporting the implementation of Solvency II and to contracts signed late in the year; moreover acknowledges from the Authority that the carryover appropriations were to be reduced from 2016 onwards to a satisfactory level with the advanced implementation of the Authority’s IT Programme; points out that carryovers are often partly or fully justified by the multiannual nature of agencies’ operational programmes and do not necessarily indicate weaknesses in budget planning and implementation nor are they always at odds with the budgetary principle of annuality, in particular if they are planned in advance by the Authority and communicated to the Court; asks the Agency to keep volume to be carried over to the next year as low as possible;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes with satisfaction that the Agency is working to develop more sophisticated and less output-focussed key performance indicators, which would provide a more valuable basis to assess whether the Authority is achieving its strategic ambitiongoals;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes with concern that, with the exception of the CVs of the Senior Management Board, the CVs and the declarations of interest of the Authority’s Management Board members and of the Senior Management Board are not published on the Authority’s website; regrets that declarations of conflicts of interest of management board members and senior managers are outstanding; notes that this practice does not further transparency and the remaining declarations should therefore be published without delay;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes with satisfaction that measures to increase transparency in dealing with lobbyists and stakeholders are included in the Authority’s ethics rules and that, through those rules, staff are advised and guided on how to avoid being unduly influenced by any stakeholder or group of stakeholders; observes also that from July 2016 the Authority publishes on its website details on its meetings with external stakeholders, media representatives and other Institutions and relevant activities; asks the Authority to inform the discharge authority on ethics rules alleged and confirmed infringements, how it has dealt with these infringements, and how it will avoid them in the future;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Believes that the EIOPA budget still has rationalisation potential; stresses, therefore, that any potential increases in EIOPA's means should be accompanied by adequate rationalisation measures and defended and explained thoroughly in a clear, detailed and understandable defence report before the European Parliament and made publically available;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Highlights the importance of contributions of national competent authorities in guaranteeing national interests; points out that the banking industry already contributes heavily to regulation and supervision (e.g. SSM fees 2016: € 404.5 million; SRB contributions 2017: € 90.7 million);
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Acknowledges a deteriorating profitability of EU banks as pointed out in the Eurofi Financial Forum 2016 in Bratislava and stresses the financial impact of low and negative interest rates; takes note that any possible shift in financing arrangements by market participants should be postponed until the systemic risk sensitivity in the aftermath of the crisis has been solved;