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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
2023/03/02
Committee: LIBE
Dossiers: 2022/2121(DEC)
Documents: PDF(133 KB) DOC(66 KB)
Authors: [{'name': 'Saskia BRICMONT', 'mepid': 197470}]

Amendments (6)

Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. RegretNotes 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;
2023/01/19
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. RegretNotes 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 notes 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; requests the Agency to increase its efforts to address all the observations from the Court;
2023/01/19
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that on 16 September 2022, the EDPS requested that the Court of Justice of the European Union annul two provisions of the revised Europol Regulation, namely Articles 74a and 74b, as they seriously undermine legal certainty for individuals’ personal data and threaten the independence of the EDPS; reminds that articles 74a and 74b have the effect of legalising retroactively Europol’s practice of processing large volumes of individuals’ personal data with no established link to criminal activity, which the EDPS found to be in breach of Europol’s Regulation;deleted
2023/01/19
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Is concerned about the enhanced and non-transparent cooperation between Europol and Frontex; rReminds the reports about Frontex’s PeDRA program ‘Processing of Personal Data for Risk Analysis', which allows Frontex border guards to collect sensitive personal data from migrants and asylum seekers to process and share it with Europol and security agencies of Member States, and to scan social media profiles; requests that cooperation among JHA Agency is fully transparent and accountability ensured; calls on the Agency to take measures to ensure full compliance with EU transparency rules as well as with fundamental rights and data protection standards;
2023/01/19
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Is concerned aboutNotes the individual complaints introduced against Europol for access to personal data and the lack of follow up done by the Agency to those requests, conducing to an order by EDPS; is extremely concerned by the deletion of those data by the Agency without allowing the data subject to access in spite of EDPS decision; notes the deletion of those data;
2023/01/19
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Recommends the Committee on Budgetary Control to postpone granting the discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year 2021, until the Court of Justice of the European Union delivers its judgement;.
2023/01/19
Committee: LIBE