Activities of Bert-Jan RUISSEN related to 2021/2127(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) for the financial year 2020
Amendments (4)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Acknowledges that the financial year 2020 was dominated by the COVID- 19 pandemic; notes that this crisis has had a strong impact on the implementation rate of the Agency’s work programmed, which dropped from 99 % in 2019 to 90 % in 2020; notes, however, that in spite of the circumstancesquestions the need, in spite of the reduced workload, for the Agency managed to implement its budget at a rate of 97,3 % for commitments and 81,2 % for payments;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls the importance of fisheries control in achieving the objectives of the common fisheries policy (CFP); acknowledges the Agency’s vital contribution to implementing these goals; stresses that it is the Member States that are primarily responsible for the control of fishing activities, while the Agency’s tasks are supportive in nature; stresses that the revision of the Regulation governing fisheries control will strongly increase the Agency’s supportive workload; emphasises the incoherence of seeking to tackle growing obligations without sufficient resources to do so; stresses, therefore, that the financial and human resources available to the Agency need to be increasedsufficient in the coming years;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Highlights the assistance provided by the Agency to the Commission with regard to cooperation with third countries and the Agency's crucial role in securing a level playing field with all coastal states; stresses, in that regard, the need to increase the resources allocated to the Agency with a viewcalls for the necessary steps to be taken to makinge it possible to handle the increased workload caused by the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union and any potential consequences of the new relationship with the United Kingdom for the fisheries control framework;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Takes note of the Agency’s policy of promoting equal treatment of staff and of its goal of gender equality in terms both of numbers and of grades and responsibility levels;; strongly deplores the fact that women account for only 30 % of staff employed at grade AD 8 or higher; welcomes the recent nomination of Susan Steele as the new executive director of the Agency, notes however that her nomination does not enable parity to be attained at management level, since all heads of unit positions are held by men; calls on the Agency to keep up its efforts with regard to its gender parity policy;