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Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Postpones its decision on g~~Grant~~ing~~s the Director of the European Police College discharge for implementation of the College's budget for the financial year 2007;

2009/02/23
Committee: CONT

Christofer FJELLNER

Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Postpones closing~~Approves the closure of the accounts of the European Police College for the financial year 2007;

2009/02/23
Committee: CONT

Christofer FJELLNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Is deeply concerned that the ECA identified cases where appropriations were used to finance the private expenditure of the College's staff; notes the ECA's judgement that this private use of public funds is material in nature;

2009/02/23
Committee: CONT

Christofer FJELLNER

Motion for a resolution
Subtitle

~~Reasons for postponement of the decision~~deleted on discharge

2009/02/23
Committee: CONT

Christofer FJELLNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. I~~ndicates that the reasons for postponement are as follows: incomplete information provided on the private use of public money detected by the ECA,~~s deeply concerned that the College failured to meet the deadline of June 2008 set in the 2006 discharge resolution to bring its financial management in line with the Financial Regulation, and ~~recurrent breaches of~~that some of the College's practices do not respect basic financial rules;

2009/02/23
Committee: CONT

Christofer FJELLNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Notes that the College violated the principle of unity and accuracy of the budget by not recording EUR 1 500 000 received from the Commission in 2007 to implement MEDA properly;

2009/02/23
Committee: CONT

Christofer FJELLNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Is concerned about the weaknesses in budget management detected by the ECA; notes that only EUR 5 600 000 of the commitment appropriations were used while EUR 1 700 000 were carried over; notes that 20 % of the appropriations carried over from previous years were cancelled;

2009/02/23
Committee: CONT

Christofer FJELLNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Notes that until November 2007 the College did not have a proper commitment accounting system which caused serious difficulties in budget management, for example the creation of new budgetary lines ex nihilo;

2009/02/23
Committee: CONT

Christofer FJELLNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 d (new)

4d. Notes that a paper-based system for commitments entered into force as of 1 January 2008 and ABAC (Accrual Based Accounting) was implemented in June 2008;

2009/02/23
Committee: CONT

Christofer FJELLNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Notes that the ECA was not in a position to provide detailed figures on the amounts and types of expenditure concerning the private use of public funds by the College's staff; notes that the information provided by the College at Parliament's request concerned the use of mobile phones, the use of pool cars, the provision of furniture for the accommodation of staff and free shuttle services for staff members to airports and train stations; notes that, according to the College, the amounts and state of play of recovery are as follows: - use of mobile phones by staff: GBP 3 405 for the period April - December 2007, all costs recovered, - use of pool cars by staff: GBP 1 157 for the period July - December 2007, all costs recovered; the cars have since been sold, - furniture: GBP 6 625 for furniture purchased in 2007; the furniture has since been sold, - free shuttle service for staff to airports and train stations: GBP 9 508 cost identified for 2007; the recovery process has been initiated;deleted

2009/02/23
Committee: CONT

Christofer FJELLNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Is ~~not prepared to accept the submission by the College of incomplete information, in particular as it does not even cover the whole year 2007 or the amounts relating to~~satisfied with the College's close co- operation with the relevant committee of the Parliament in finally providing full information on the usale of ~~the pool cars and the furniture~~public funds;

2009/02/23
Committee: CONT

Christofer FJELLNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Stresses that, as in 2006, despite the fact that the lack of financial reporting was criticised in the ECA annual report and the discharge resolution 2006, the College once more failed to produce a report on budgetary and financial management for 2007, contrary to its own financial regulation;deleted

2009/02/23
Committee: CONT

Christofer FJELLNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Is concerned that the College adopted a revision of its financial regulation in 2008, which contains derogations from the framework financial regulation, notably from procurement rules, without the Commission's prior consent;

2009/02/23
Committee: CONT

Christofer FJELLNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

~~9. Observes that, contrary to its own financial regulation, the College has not sent to the discharge authority a report on internal audits for 2007;~~deleted

2009/02/23
Committee: CONT

Christofer FJELLNER

Motion for a resolution
Title before paragraph 10 and paragraph 10

Further actions to be taken and documents to be presented to Parliament 10. Calls on the College's Director to provide to Parliament's competent committee, by 15 June 2009 at the latest: - a complete report on the amounts and types of private use of public funds, from 1 January 2006 onwards, differentiating between staff who were legally entitled to specific advantages under "old CEPOL" contracts and those who were not, indicating the precise types and amounts, detailing the state of play of recovery, the amounts recovered, and the reasons why certain amounts have not been recovered, - a report on budgetary and financial management for 2007, - a report drawn up by its Director summarising the number and type of internal audits conducted by the internal auditor concerning the financial year 2007, the recommendations made and the actions taken on these recommendations, - the internal procurement guidelines adopted by the Director in 2008;deleted

2009/02/23
Committee: CONT

Activities of Christofer FJELLNER related to 2008/2271(DEC)

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