Activities of Younous OMARJEE related to 2020/2194(DEC)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union agencies for the financial year 2019: performance, financial management and control
Amendments (11)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes with satisfaction that, according to the annual report of the Court of Auditors (the 'Court') on Union agencies for the financial year 2019 (the 'Court’s report'), the Court issued an unqualified audit opinion on the reliability of the accounts of all agencies; notes in addition that the Court issued an unqualified opinion on the legality and regularity of the revenue underlying the accounts for all agencies; observes that the Court issued an unqualified opinion on the legality and regularity of the payments underlying the accounts for all agencies, except for the European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) and the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) for which a qualified opinion was issued;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Takes note of the main areas of observation of the Court, which focus on: - public procurement management which remains the most error prone area; - recruitment procedures and conflicts of interest for staff leaving a Union Agency and joining the private sector which need to be managed better by agencies; - budgetary management where the Court identified several weaknesses;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Welcomes the Court publication of the first ever horizontal performance audit on all Union agencies through the 'Special Report 22/2020: Future of EU Agencies - Potential for more flexibility and cooperation';
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8 b. Takes note of the main observations of the Court, in particular the fact agencies deal with topical societal subjects and have an high potential for future development as well as an high grade of expertise;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8 c. Agrees with the Court that despite the fact agencies carry out important tasks in all spheres of our daily life, there is clear difficulty in building trust with individual citizens; in this regards highlights the issue of accountability, transparency and even effectiveness, in addition to the lack of public knowledge since agencies remain largely unknown to citizens and only negative incidents appear in media;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Notes that the Court, while trying to identify the conditions to allow agencies to achieve their objectives, highlights the need for more financial and policy flexibility as well as a more structural and coherent governance model where performance information focus on outputs rather than on their contribution to policy implementation;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Notes that the agencies reported an average of 8,42 days of sick leave per member of staff per year; noteregrets that there is at present no reliable data available to give an overview of sick leave caused by burnout, mainly because several agencies reported that they could not provide the relevant information due to medical confidentiality;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Welcomes the more detailed and structured information provided on the gender balance in the agencies;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16 b. Remains unsatisfied with the gender balance among overall staff, senior management and management boards in most of the agencies; calls on the agencies, as well as the Member States and relevant organisations when it comes to appointing their representatives in the management boards, to increase their efforts to improve gender balance at all levels;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19 a. Calls on all agencies to participate in the interinstitutional agreement on the transparency register for interest representatives under negotiation between the Commission, the Council and Parliament;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19 b. Reiterates its concern that agencies which receive a large part of their revenues as fees paid by the industry are more prone to the risk of the conflict of interests and their professional independence; calls on the agencies and the Commission to reduce dependency on industry fees;