Activities of Ingeborg GRÄSSLE related to 2012/2176(DEC)
Plenary speeches (1)
2011 discharge: European External Action Service (A7-0099/2013 - Ryszard Czarnecki) (vote)
Amendments (14)
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Urges more transparency as to the competences of the EEAS's administrative structure and the reduction of dual competences; requests the publication of the schedule of responsibilities; takes the view that the inefficiency of the current situation risks seriously impairing the reputation of the EEAS;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Notes that 39,5% of Union ambassadors come from the Member States; recalls the agreement that one-third of posts should be filled by staff from Member States; urges thatcalls on the High Representative to end this ‘cherry picking’ and implement the agreement, which means middle and senior posts are to be included in that quota;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Insists on a review of the 36 delegations comprising only an ambassador, with a view either to closing them or to increasing their staff;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Draws attention to the cost-intensiveflating procedure of the annual salary adjustment method for local staff in Union delegations; believes that that methodology can be more efficient and cost-effective; asks the EEAS to use an alternative calculation method by means of an independent and objective selection of reference organisations, which would be simpler and cheaper, instead of a selection made by the employee him or herself; suggests that the United Nations be added as a fixed component; suggests that a locally operating United Nations agency be added as a fixed component and that two Member State embassies and two local employers be included - with, in each case, one to be determined by the employee and one by the employer - in order to obtain and a senior ministry official be includedppropriate average; urges that a mechanism be established to relieve the Union ambassador of his responsibility for tariff negotiations with local staff and for the reference organisations to be chosen for a period of five years;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Calls on the EEAS to ensure that, should there be deflation in a country with an EU delegation, the pay of local staff to be recruited can be adjusted accordingly;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Calls on the EEAS to outsource the settlement of work-related disputes involving local staff in third countries so as to help relieve the pressure on posted staff;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Urges that the EEAS reduce the high absence rate in delegations and provide Parliament with figures of absenteeism on an annual basis; urges in that context that the delegation staff combine their periods of professional training in Brussels with their rest of their leave;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Urges that the EEAS reduce the high absence rate in delegations and provide Parliament with figures of absenteeism on an annual basis; urges in that context that the delegation staff combine their periods of professional training in Brussels with the rest of their leave and that, by revising Annex X to the Staff Regulations (third countries), the number of days of leave and other non-working days locally be brought into line with what is applicable to Member States’ diplomatic representations there;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24 a. is worried about the administrative shortcomings in the Union delegations in Afghanistan, Djibouti, Guyana, Solomon Islands and Zambia; asks for a report on the state of play about these shortcomings including security contracts; expects also a report on the situation about internal control standards in Liberia and Iraq; asks for a state of play about compliance rates of Egypt and Malawi and for an update on security contracts in the Union delegations in the West Bank, Haiti, Saudi-Arabia, Pakistan, Sri-Lanka, Libya and Lebanon;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Believes that the forthcoming review of the EEAS is the forum where a detailed analysis can be made of the compatibility between the resources available and the functions to be carried out by the EEAS and any changes required to ensure the highest level of efficiency in its operations; believes that an evaluation of property in use by the EEAS should involve comparisons with other diplomatic missions in the same location rather than between EEAS facilities in very different countries; calls for a five-year plan to be submitted for EU buildings and staff safety and building security in all third countries with EU representations;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Notes a high volume of travel activities of Union delegation staff to headquarters with various purposes at the European taxpayer’s expense; regrets that ithere is not possible to have an independent inspection authority to evaluate inspection office independent of immediate superiors which verifies the necessity of those official journeys; asks for this proposal to be taken into consideration by the High Representative, in order to limit delegation staff absences from work, and to report to Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control on that matter;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Strongly urges the EEAS, in regard to the travel arrangements of its delegations to its headquarters, to adopt practices similar to those applied by Member States in comparable circumstances; insists that, with regard to flights, the EEAS bring itself into line with Member State practices;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32a. Calls on the EEAS to forward its staff screening report to Parliament;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33a. Insists on an explanation for the recall of the EU ambassador in Libya;