Activities of Inés AYALA SENDER related to 2012/2194(DEC)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2011 PDF (184 KB) DOC (106 KB)
Amendments (12)
Amendment 2 #
Proposal for a decision 1
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. ...Grants the Executive Director of the European Aviation Safety Agency discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency's budget for the financial year 2011;
Amendment 5 #
Proposal for a decision 2
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. ...Approves the closure of the accounts of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2011;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Observes from the AAR that the total consumption of commitment appropriations reached EUR 148 450 44,53, of which EUR 121 966 394,59 has been committed and EUR 26 483 949,94 on credit appropriations from assigned revenue were automatically carried over in accordance with Article 10 of the Agency's Financial Regulation; calls on the Agency to inform the discharge authority of the actions taken to reduce the high level of carryovers as this is at odds with the budgetary principle of annuality and asks the Commission to propose, as soon as possible, a proposal to solve the contradiction between the principle of annuality an the need to finance multiannual certification projects;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Regrets that according to the findings of the Court of Auditors, at the time of completion of the field work (October 2011), the Agency dihad not adequately manage conflict of interest situations; regrets, moreover, that the Agency had no specific policies in place for managing conflicts of interest;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 – introductory part
Paragraph 13 – introductory part
13. NotesWelcomes the fact that the Agency hasis to taken a number of steps, following the Court of Auditors' audit and publication of the Special Report No 15/2012, and in particular:
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 – introductory part
Paragraph 13 – introductory part
13. Notes however that the Agency has taken a number of steps, following the Court of Auditors' audit and prior to the publication of the Special Report No 15/2012, and in particular:
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 – indent 1
Paragraph 13 – indent 1
– on 1 August 2012, the Agency adopted a revised ‘Code of Conduct for the staff of EASA’ (CoC), including a dedicated policy on the prevention and mitigation of conflicts of interest, covering the recommendations of the Court of Auditors and in line with the guidelines of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; the CoC is applicable to all managers, Members of the Executive Committee and staff members having sensitive positions and external experts involved in the Agency's core activities, to complete a Declaration of Interests;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 – indent 2
Paragraph 13 – indent 2
– on 1 August 2012, the Agency created an Ethical Committee to ensure independent, impartial and objective assessment of declarations of interests of Agency staff, to provide support to managers in the assessment of the completed declaration of interest form and to deal with any subject related to the CoCrelated subject brought before the Ethical Committee; the Ethical Committee is now fully operational upon having adopted its rules of procedure, including detailed criteria for the evaluation and assessment of the Declarations of Interests of staff of the Agency; is concerned that the members of the Management Board are not willing to sign a declaration of interest; requests the Agency to inform the discharge authority on this situation, ;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 – indent 3
Paragraph 13 – indent 3
– at present (JanFebruary 2013), the Agency is implementing that CoC, including by means of mandatory training provided by an external consultant for all Agency staff members, as well as regular induction trainings for newly arrived Agency staff;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 – indent 4
Paragraph 13 – indent 4
– on 1 August 2012, a similar code of conduct was released for the Board of Appeal, and training will be provided by an external consulting to the Members of the Board of Appeal before the end of February 2013;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 – indent 5
Paragraph 13 – indent 5
– in June 2012, the Agency released a proposal for a code of conduct for theits Management Board; at present (January 2013),subsequently the Commission has takentook the lead, with the support of the Agency, on that code of conduct to be adopted by the Management Board;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 – subparagraph 2
Paragraph 13 – subparagraph 2
urges the Agency to continue to act on the recommendations of the Court of Auditors in order to avoid any conflict of interests among its various governing and operational structures and to report to the discharge authority on the implementation of the abovementioned policies and procedures, as well as on any further developments as regards the management of conflicts of interest;