3 Amendments of Cornelia ERNST related to 2018/2209(DEC)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
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2. Welcomes that IT projects were implemented on time, on cost and on budget in 2017; points out, however, that the Agency outsourced 90 % of its projects via three framework contracts; stresses that even if the Agency’s IT projects are under its control, outsourcing its activities to such a large extend creates risks of over-reliance and over-dependency on external contractors; request, therefore, the Agency to devise a long term strategy to mitigate this risk; acknowledges the administrative overhead, technical challenges and additional costs of adopting such a strategy buttechnical challenges of adopting such a strategy but underlines that the high rate of outsourcing defeats the purpose of its existence and stresses that, given the sensitivity of its IT systems, contractor lock-in must be avoided; requests the Agency to present its vendor and contractor strategy to the European Parliament; requests the Agency to take all necessary measures to ensure that contractors having access to sensitive information about IT systems or the data they process are legally bound to stringent confidentiality rules and to demand that such contractors have formal national security clearances at the time of accessing such information; requests the Agency to ensure that its contractors are not bound by any laws of third countries that could bring them into conflict with the confidentiality arrangements established by the Agency;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
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3. Regrets the small number of staff in key operational units, in particular in the Application Management and Maintenance (AMM) unit; points out as well that in the second half of 2017, the head of the AMM unit also occupied ad interim the posts of Head of the Operations Department and Head of the Operations and Infrastructure Unit, thereby combining the three highest management posts in the Operations Department; points out that this is not just a risk from a business continuity perspective but is also a sub-optimalflawed segregation of duties, creating potential operational conflicts of interests; request the Agency to avoid taking unnecessary operational risks due to its human resource constraints and requests it to address those issues without delay;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
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4. Highlights the remark of the Court of Auditors that openly questions the relevance for the Agency of further extending its mandate to include the management of additional IT systems; agrees with the Court that the Agency should in close consultation with the Commission and the Member States prepare a cost-benefit analysis supporting a discussion on its long term evolution; points out that further extension of the mandate of the Agency should not happen to the detriment of on-going developments and thethe availability, stability and security of the operation of the Agency’s current systems that must remain its first priorityIT systems currently operated by the Agency that must remain its first priority, or to the detriment of ongoing developments;