6 Amendments of Konstantinos ARVANITIS related to 2020/2194(DEC)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the important role that Union agencies play in helping Union institutions to design and implement policies, especially by carrying out specific technical, scientific and managerial tasks; expresses its satisfaction with the high quality work performed by the agencies working in the area of employment, social affairs and inclusion; underlines in this regard the need to equip the Union agencies at a level commensurate to the assigned tasks, with a sufficient number of in-house staff, employed in a stable manner and having sufficient material resources, ensuring their pre-eminence over private contractors; reiterates that the proper functioning of the executive agencies also requires a high-quality social dialogue, closely involving the local staff committees;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes and encourages the cooperation among the agencies within and beyond the framework of the EU Agencies Network (EUAN), which constitutes an important inter-agency cooperation platform to ensure efficient communication between the agencies and relevant stakeholders, allowing to build synergies and to exchange ideas and best practices and aiming to achieve more balanced governance, and greater coherence between them; stresses the necessity of improving cooperation between the agencies and Union institutions, avoiding the externalisation of services that can be provided by them;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the EUAN to develop a general policy to not replace permanent staff by more expensive external consultants;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that the yearly exchange of views regarding the annual work programmes and the multiannual strategies of the agencies in the committees responsible is instrumental in ensuring that the programmes and strategies are aligned to the actual political priorities, especially in the context of the implementation of the principles enshrined in the European Pillar of Social Rightmphasises that the principles of political priorities should be based on investment in social security and not on competition and austerity policies;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Encourages the Union agencies to consider adopting a fundamental rights strategy, including a reference to fundamental rights in a code of conduct that could define the duties of their staff and training for staff; setting up mechanisms ensuring that any violation of fundamental rights be detected and reported, and that risks of such violations be swiftly brought to the attention of the main bodies of the agency concerned; establishing, whenever relevant, the position of a fundamental rights officer, reporting directly to the management board to ensure a certain degree of independence vis-á-vis other staff, in order to ensure that threats to fundamental rights are immediately addressed, and that a constant upgrading of the fundamental rights policy within the organisation takes place; developing a regular dialogue with civil society organisations and relevant international organisations on fundamental rights issues; making compliance with fundamental rights a central component of the terms of reference of the collaboration of the agency concerned with external actors, including in particular members of national administrations with whom they interact at operational level;