Activities of Peter KOFOD related to 2021/2146(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency for the financial year 2020
Amendments (4)
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls of the fact that the European Anti-Fraud Office has initiated an investigation on the Agency; underlines that the outcome of the investigation was still pending by early December 2021; reminds that the Ombudsman conducted two own-initiative inquiries into the complaints mechanism of the Agency and on the compliance by the Agency with its fundamental rights obligations; notes that following those inquiries no instances of maladministration were found and no further inquiries were justified; reiterates the concern on the findings of the Court in its special report 08/2021 entitled ‘Frontex's support to external border management: not sufficiently effective to date’; further recalls of the outcome of the Parliament’s Frontex Scrutiny Working Group andwhich found no evidence of the Agency's involvement in any violation of human rights, as well as the conclusions of the 13 internal inquiries by its management board; welcomes the Agency’s report on the implementation of the conclusions of the extraordinary management board meeting of 6 October 2021 which reflects the 71 recommendations received from the aforementioned reports and audits; notes that the Agency implemented 59 of those actions; calls on the Agency to take all necessary measures towards implementing all the remaining recommendations and to report to the discharge authority over the progress achieved;
Amendment 16 #
4. Welcomes the Agency’s efforts following Parliament’s resolution of 29 April 2021 with observations forming an integral part of the decision on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency for the financial year 2019, namely: (1) the recruitment of the fundamental rights officer, who took office on 1 June 2021, and the appointment of the first 20 fundamental rights monitors; regrets the fact that 15 of those appointments were made at AST level; reiterates that Regulation (EU) 2019/1896 provides for the recruitment of at least 40 fundamental rights monitors by 5 December 2020; urges the Agency to swiftly recruit the remaining 20 fundamental rights monitors and to appoint them at AD level; deeply regrets the delay in the recruitment of the fundamental rights monitors and recalls that this poses a serious risk to operations and reputation of the Agency; welcomes the cooperation between the Agency and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights towards completing the recruitment of the reminding fundamental rights monitors; (2) the appointment of the three deputy executive directors in 2021; and (3) the update of the Standard Operating Procedure for Serious Incident Reporting in May 2021;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Agency to swiftly adopt a detailed procedure for the implementation of Article 46 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1896 and to suspend the Agency's operations supporting return-related operations from Hungary as long as, and as concluded by the Court of Justice of the European Union, the return decisions issued by the Hungarian authorities are incompatible with Directive 2008/115/EC and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Unioncarry on with its support to the Member States in protecting the external borders;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Acknowledges that an analysis of respect for fundamental rights by the Agency was not included in the scope of the Court’s special report 08/2021 since that would require a specific audit in view of the complexity of the matter; asks the Court to carry out such a specific audit in the futureand accepts that it is not within its framework; calls the Agency to swiftly implement recommendation 5 of the Court’s special report, respecting the indicated timeline set out therein.