1 Amendments of Antonyia PARVANOVA related to 2013/2233(DEC)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recognises the two comments made by the Court of Auditors which focus on the physical inventory and on the budgetary management; is at the same time also aware of the Agency's reply; points out that the carry-overs derive partly from the multi-annual nature, of IT development projects, partly from translations not delivered by year-end and the start of new biocides and PIC activities in the second half of the year; and welcomes therefore the agency's attempts to maximise the synergies between its tasks by making the best possible use of IT tools; reminds however the Agency to respect the annuality principle of the budget as close as possible; asks the Agency to complete as soon as possible the asset inventory exercise and to enforce the asset inventory management with the new version for ABAC assets; recognises at the same time that some shortfalls are legacy driven and arise from the set-up stage of the Agency when laptops and computers were provided through Commission framework contracts and have been used by Commission staff seconded to the Agency at that time; would like to mention that according to the Agency the untraced laptops from the early days have an overall residual value of EUR 5000;