Activities of Angelika WINZIG related to 2023/2177(DEC)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking for the financial year 2022
Amendments (10)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Welcomes the JU's objective and role in developing a supercomputing ecosystem in Europe;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that the Court assessed the riske risks in relation to programme implementation as medium due to the high risk thatpossibility of EuroHPC may not achieveing the minimum contributions targets for their private members by the end of the Horizon 2020 programme; noteunderstands that, according to the Joint Undertaking, the lower achievement rates are explained by the involvement of Participating States;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes that, in 2022, the JU only implemented 45% of its administrative commitment appropriations and 37 % of its administrative payment appropriations, partly due to the no achievement of its recruitment plan for 2022 and to the no reallocation of significant amounts of unused payment appropriations of previous years when planning its 2022 budget; understands that the late adoption of its new founding regulation made the achievement of its ambitious recruitment plan impossible;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Notes that in the Joint Undertaking’s 2022 annual accounts, the amounts of contributions recognised per member category (EU and private members) differ significantly among each other, because EU cash contributions are validated and recognised when paid to the JU at the beginning of the project implementation, but members’ in-kind contributions are only recognised after validation of the costs incurred and declared for project implementation; icalls concerned that the JU to address the gap between the recognised amount of cash contributions on the one hand and in-kind contributions on the other hand, was addressed in a suboptimal way in the JU’s 2022 annual accounts by not by providing information on the JU members’ legal commitments at year end, in terms of signed grant agreements and contracts; welcomes the commitment of the JU to fully address the issue in the next year's annual accounts;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Is concerned, moreover, that in its 2022 annual accounts,Calls on the JU did noto disclose important information regarding members’ contributions at programme level, relevant for the complete communication of the JU’s achievements at the year-end; notes, in particular, that the JU did not compare the contributions received from each member category up to the year-end under each programme with the legal contribution targets set for the respective programme;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. NotWelcomes that, at the end of 2022, the JU fully committed the maximum EU operational contribution of EUR 526 million for signed grant agreements and contracts under the Horizon 2020 and CEF 1 programmes; takes note with concern that, of this, around EUR 266.3 million (or 50.6 %) remains to be paid in the coming years for projects yet to be completed;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Is concerned that the JU’s lengthy process for the acquisition of supercomputers significantly affected the implementation of the 2022 operational budget; understands that these delays were also caused by shortages in supply chains and raw materials;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Regrets that the JU’s internal control system has not yet foreseenCalls on the JU to include specific ex-post audits for CEF co-financed expenditure for the acquisition of supercomputers in their internal control system; notes, in addition, that for the Horizon Europe programme, ex-post audits have yet to be carried out, as the first interim payments are only expected in 2024;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Notes, from the Court’s report, that EuroHPC performed on an ad-hoc basis risk-based ex-ante controls on risky projects, and that they had not yetCalls on EuroHPC to implemented a structured risk-based approach to ex-ante controls by the end of 2022,; notes, in particular that the JU had not aligned ex-ante controls to the high- risk factors identified by targeted risk assessments; notes, in addition, that they had not developed internal practical guidance on how to implement a risk-based monitoring, including instructions on how staff should use the risk management module available in COMPASS12 ; _________________ 12 Commission e-grant system.