Activities of Derek VAUGHAN related to 2015/2205(DEC)
Plenary speeches (1)
Discharge 2014 (debate)
Reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union agencies for the financial year 2014: performance, financial management and control PDF (381 KB) DOC (114 KB)
Amendments (2)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Welcomes the guidelines for inter- agency procurement procedures and for agencies' participation in Commission-led procurement procedures; acknowledges the benefits not only for agencies but also for the Commission to create synergies and pool procurement procedures within the framework of the Common Approach; regrets in this context that the Commission has plans to introduce administrative fees to the agencies for its services; reminds the Commission that the agencies are paid from the same Union budget and that these fees could result in lower participation in joint procurement procedures; calls on the Commission to reconsider the introduction of fees to agencies for procurement procedures led by the Commission;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Reminds the Court of Auditors that the Parliament, the Council and the Commission agreed in paragraph 54 of the Common Approach that all aspects of outsourced external audits "remain under the full responsibility of the Court, which manages all administrative and procurement procedures required and finances these, as well as any other costs associated with outsourced external audits, from its own budget""; asks the Commission to clarify urgently whether or not this still applies; deeply regrets that the new audit approach involving private sector auditors resulted in an 85% increase in administrative burden on the agencies, equating to more than 13 000 additional hours or an average of 3,5 full time equivalents (FTEs) compared with the previous audit managed by the Court of Auditors; regrets that the time spent on the procurement and administration of audit contracts created more than 1 400 man hours of additional work for the decentralised agencies, and that the total additional expenditure on external private sector audits in 2014 amounted to EUR 550 000; reiterates its call to the Court of Auditors to follow the agreed Common Approach and contract and pay for agencies' external auditors andcalls on the Court of Auditors to provide better guidance to private auditors so as significantly to reduce the augmented administrative burden;