Activities of Saskia BRICMONT related to 2023/2165(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (eu-LISA) for the financial year 2022
Amendments (6)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Regrets that in 2022, an amount of € 17.8 million, representing 4,8 % of the total payment appropriations available, was non-compliant expenditure which exceeded the materiality threshold set for the audit, therefore resulted a qualified opinion on the legality and regularity of payments by the Court; regrets that several 2022 payments were linked to three specific contracts which we were found irregular in 2021;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes with concern the observations of the Court on the legality and regularity of transactions, on management and control systems, and on budgetary management noting that the recurrent high rates of carry-overs, which represents €14,4 million of 2022 commitment appropriations carried over to 2023, contradict the budgetary principle of annularity and are indicative of structural issues in the budget process and implementation cycle; notes with concern that high rates of carry-overs had already been observed in the 2021 by the Court; notes with regret that for six meetings of the evaluation committee no records of meetings had been kept; notes the replies of the eu-LISA stipulating that number of irregular contracts were either revised and amended, or not extended into 2023;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes with regretconcern that, out of the nine observations from the Court dated in 2017, 2018 and 2021, only one was closed; acknowledges that eu-LISA developed an action plan to address the six ongoing observations from 2021; calls for a full implementation of this action plan by the end of 2023;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes with satisfaction the goodthe cooperation of eu-LISA with EU agencies, especially with European Border and Coast Guard Agency on development of ETIAS, with Europol on implementing the SIS Recast, EES, ETIAS, and Interoperability regulations, with Eurojust on the implementation of ECRIS-TCN and e- CODEX, the Interoperability regulations, and the coordination of activities related to the digitalisation of judicial cooperation, with EUAA on implementing the Commission regulation on the 'DubliNet' electronic communications network, with CEPOL on organising joint training courses on the use of JHA systems and with FRA on organising joint training courses highlighting the aspect of fundamental rights in the management of JHA information systems; encourages eu- LISA to continue its cooperation with the EU agencies;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. WelcomNotes the continuing provision of hosting services for the backup systems of Frontex and the European Union Agency for Asylum; welcomnotes the development and implementation of the ‘data-centre-as-a- service’ for centralizing of the operational management, monitoring and capacity planning of the IT infrastructure used by JHA systems; welcomnotes the progress made on the preparations for the future modular data centre which will provide additional buffer capacity and 50% capacity increase for hosting new JHA systems; reminds, however, the importance of compliance with EU legislation notably in terms of data protection;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Regrets that several observations from the Court from previous years are still ongoing; calls on the eu-LISA to follow the observations from the Court and to step up efforts to implement corrective measures to address them; recalls that the European Parliament can use its power not to grant discharge in case recommendations would not effectively be followed up.