Activities of Saskia BRICMONT related to 2021/2145(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights for the financial year 2020
Amendments (4)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the fact that the Court of Auditors (the ‘Court’) has declared the transactions underlying the annual accounts of the Fundamental Rights Agency (‘FRA’) for the financial year 201920 to be legal and regular in all material respects; welcomes the fact that the budget of FRA increased from EUR 29 million in 2019 to EUR 30 million in 2020 but deplores that this amount is just a returning to the state of 2018; deeply regrets the staff decrease from 114 to 105 (-7.9%) during the same time; repeats its concern that FRA continues to suffer from financial and staff resources constraints; highlights that without adequate financial and staff resources, FRA will not be able to carry out all the tasks assigned to it and fully implement its new mandate; reminds that this can affect the quality of work that FRA provides which has proved to be extremely valuable for Union policy;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Notes with satisfaction that FRA has a very high level of outturn which is above 99.5%; considers it an important indicator of sound financial management and respect of the budgetary principles;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes with satisfaction that FRA responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by publishing six bulletins, which provided a timely and comprehensive overview of the fundamental rights implications of national measures adopted across the Union to safeguard citizens from the COVID-19; recalls, however, that this additional task was not accompanied with additional resources and that, by then, FRA was already suffering from human and financial resources constraints from previous years;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the extension of FRA’s fundamental rights advice to other Union agencies, especially in assisting the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (‘Frontex’) with the deploycompleting the recruitment of the 40 fundamental rights monitors across its operations. and with preparing the legal and operational framework for their deployment to the field; considers that other agencies whose competences are being extended, such as Europol, could be usefully assisted by the FRA; points out that missions of assistance require extra-resources;