Activities of Nicolás GONZÁLEZ CASARES related to 2019/2085(DEC)
Opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) for the financial year 2018
Amendments (8)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Expresses its satisfaction with the Court of Auditors' declaration that the transactions underlying the Agency’s annual accounts for the financial year 2018 are legal and regular; Stresses the absence of any open observations from the European Court of Auditors;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights that, in spite of the substantially increased budget since 2017 due to its new tasks supporting -in cooperation with the European Border and Coast Guard Agency and the European Maritime Safety Agency- coast guard functions at national and Union level, the Agency achieved a successful implementation of its budget in 2018, with a 99,7 % rate for commitments and 87,6 % for payments, in line with previous exercises; encourages the Agency to continue its efforts to ensure the optimum use of the appropriations allocated;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Considers that the role of the Agency in promoting the creation of the European Border and Coast Guard should in no way undermine the Agency’s core activity as the Union body responsible for organising operational coordination of fisheries control activities and providing assistance in that area to the Member States and the Commission; therefore stresses the need to provide the Agency with adequate financial and human resources commensurate with its growing tasks;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Remarks that the Agency promoted a policy of equal treatment aiming to improve the gender balance among its staff; notes that after the adoption of implementing rules on anti-harassment by the Administrative Board in 2017, the Agency launched and successfully finalised a call for confidential counsellors, organising awareness sessions for staff for prevention of harassment in 2018; notes that, on 31 December 2018, the overall percentage of female staff members was 44 %; regrets that the percentage of female staff grade AD8 or higher was 15 %, 7 percentage points below the level achieved in 2017; calls on the Agency to strengthen its gender balance policy;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Highlights that the Agency adopted in June 2018 a Decision on the publication of information on meetings with organisations or self-employed individuals and that, following the agreement between the European Parliament and the European Commission on the transparency register, the Agency will publish the relevant Executive Director and staff meetings with lobbyists online in the EFCA website;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Remarks that following preparatory work in 2017, the Agency implemented in 2018 an Information Security Management System based on the international standard ISO 27001 aimed at protecting EFCA from technology-based risks and preserving the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Highlights the active role and added value provided by the Agency in the PESCAO project to develop capacities to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activities and to improve the management of fisheries resources in West Africa; highlights the three operations carried out in 2018, involving Senegal, Gambia, Guinea- Bissau, Guinea-Conakry, Sierra Leone, Cape Verde and Mauritania.
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 d (new)
Paragraph 8 d (new)
8d. Acknowledges the quality and importance of the tasks carried out by the Agency and welcomes its consistency and the very good results achieved since it was set up;