Activities of Inés AYALA SENDER related to 2014/2083(DEC)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2013, Section VII – Committee of the Regions PDF (137 KB) DOC (68 KB)
Amendments (10)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Expresses concern at the shortage of women holding senior Committee posts (67% – 33%); calls for an equal opportunities plan to be set in motion, particularly as regards management positions, with the aim of correcting this imbalance as quickly as possible;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes with satisfaction that the recommendations and requirements made by Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control are recorded by the budget service of the Committee in a central database and that the progress of implementation is regularly monitored; welcomes the fact that a committee, consisting of five members and an outside expert, has been set up for internal audit purposes and that ECA and EP recommendations are thus being taken into account;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Welcomes the new activity-based budgeting system that the Committee has put into operation, as it is better suited to the specific features of smaller institutions and can thus give a more complete picture of costs and projected activities; calls on the Committee to assess the advantages that it has ascertained when implementing the new system;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Expects that the interinstitutional cooperationTakes note of the Cooperation Agreement between the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), the Committee and Parliament in the matter of human resources will contribute positively to the further rationalisation of resourcesof the Regions (CoR), and the European Parliament, which was eventually signed on 5 February 2014 and has led first of all to the transfer of large numbers of Committee staff to the new European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS); expects that the agreement will evolve in a balanced way, benefit all three institutions equally, and contribute positively to the further rationalisation of resources; calls on each of the institutions, at the end of the first year of their collaboration, to make an individual assessment of the impact that the agreement is having in terms of human resources, expenditure, synergies, added value, and substance;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Takes note of the Committee’s intention to rationalise translation requests and to standardise some types of documents; supports this initiative and asks to be fully informed of its implementation; notes with concern that some of the Committee’s in-house translation staff have been transferred to the new European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), following the Cooperation Agreement between the EP, the EESC, and the CoR signed on 5 February 2014; calls on the Committee to conduct a specific study gauging the impact of this cut on the quality and efficiency of its translation services;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Notes with concern that translation costs vary enormously from one EU institution to another; asks consequently that the Interinstitutional Working Group on Translation determine the causes of these disparities and put forward solutions with a view to ending the inequality and harmonising translation costs, without in any way impairing quality and linguistic diversity; believes that, with that end in view, the working group should relaunch interinstitutional collaboration in order to share best practice and outcomes and determine those areas in which interinstitutional cooperation or agreements could be strengthened; believes that the working group should also aim to establish a unified methodology, common to all the institutions, for the presentation of translation costs in order to simplify cost analysis and comparison; calls for the working group to present the results of this work before the end of 2015; calls on all the institutions to play an active part in the proceedings of the interinstitutional working group; points to the fundamental importance of preserving multilingualism in the EU institutions in order to ensure that all EU citizens can enjoy equal treatment and equal opportunities;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Considers that at a time of crisis and budget cuts in general, the cost of staff ‘away days’ at the EU institutions has to be lowered and that these events should take place, wherever possible, on the institutions’ own premises, as the resulting added value does not justify such high spending;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Points to the need to raise the Committee’s profile by stepping up the necessary information and communication policy;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Notes that the next mid-term review of the new cooperation agreement between the EESC and the CommitteeR will be the appropriate moment to evaluate the agreement and correct any shortcomings identified;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Requests detailed information on the results of the mid-term review and expects that this evaluation will also include a joint assessment of the budgetary savings resulting from the cooperation;