Activities of Barbara MATERA related to 2014/2118(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of implementation of the budget of the European Police Office (Europol) for the financial year 2013
Amendments (3)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes, in that connection, that although Europol has made progress over the years in the area of the preparation, implementation and documentation of procurement procedures, the effectiveness of those procedures still needs to be improved, in that selection criteria are still not sufficiently specific and price offers are still not realistic or consistent with established professional requirements; welcomes Europol’s efforts to set up a central procurement entity with responsibility for ensuring that high standards are maintained at all the main stages in the procurement process; takes the view that this will result in better quality control during tender procedures and ensure that the tenders submitted are robust and meet the requirements laid down; notes the information contained in Europol’s answers concerning the review being conducted of recruitment and procurement procedures as a whole, with the aim of refining the current internal organisational set-up;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Applauds the efforts made to improve outturn rates, which have seen the carryover rate for commitment appropriations fall from 19.6 % in 2012 to 11.6 % in 2013; criticises, at the same time, the fact that the carryover rate for appropriations committed under Title II (administrative expenditure) remains very high, at 41 %, although this does represent an improvement over 2012 (49 %); welcomes the fact that Europol has posted its best budget outturn figures since it became a Union agency in 2010 and that it has cut administrative costs by a significant amount (26% over the last three years);
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Welcomes, furthermore, Europol’s adoption of a new code of conduct with a focus on guarding against conflicts of interest – a key issue to which Parliament has drawn attention during previous discharge procedures;