Activites

• 2002/06/17 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Budget 2002/451
  • OJ L 158 17.06.2002, p. 0059
• 2002/04/16 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
• 2002/04/10 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T5-0169/2002 summary

    The European Parliament adopted the report by Mr Bart STAES (GREENS, EFA, B) concerning the discharge to the management board of the European Centre for the Development of vocational Training in respect of the implementation of its budget for the 2000 financial year. (Please refer to the previous text). In the resolution attached to its opinion, the Parliament regrets that the Cedefop has failed to take full account of the observations made by the Court of Auditors in its 1999 annual report. However, it welcomes the decision taken by the Greek authorities on 16 May 2001 to transfer to Cedefop ownership of the building and site in Thessaloniki. The Parliament welcomes the Action Plan drafted by the Management Board (29.11.2001) as a follow-up to the final report of the external evaluation of Cedefop and notes that the Action Plan takes into account the Commission's position paper and assesses the validity of all conclusions and recommendations formulated in the evaluation report. Moreover, it welcomes the fact that the Cedefop promises to implement the Action Plan in conformity with the objectives and time-schedule indicated and further welcomes the proposal that the Director will report on progress annually (November meetings) to the Management Board, which will forward the results to the European Parliament. As regards the co-operation with the European Training Foundation (ETF) - Turin, the Parliament notes that the evaluation concludes that co-operation between the two Agencies is satisfactory and that, at present, ETF makes appropriate use of Cedefop as a resource centre. It welcomes the fact that at that, at the request of the Commission, the two Agencies have drawn up a co-operation framework which was agreed by the Cedefop and ETF Boards in March and June 2001 respectively. Further, it welcomes that this joint framework paper sets out the overall objectives of this new co-operation, namely the preparation of the applicant countries for full participation in Cedefop at a time of accession and the means of facilitating the participation and involvement of applicant countries in the policy development of the Community during the transition period.�

• 2002/04/09 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 2002/03/20 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
• 2002/03/19 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A5-0101/2002
• 2002/03/14 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2001/10/10 Non-legislative basic document published
  • N5-0127/2002 summary

    PURPOSE : to present the report from the Court of Auditors on the financial statements of the European Centre for the Development of Professional Training for the financial year ended 31 December 2000. CONTENT : this examination has enabled the Court to obtain reasonable assurances that the annual accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 1999 are reliable and that the underlying transactions, taken as a whole, are legal and reliable. As regards the implementation of the budget and budgetary accounts, definitive appropriations for the financial year amounted to EUR 13,3 million. Almost all of these appropriations were committed and EUR 10,5 million (80%) was paid. Carryovers of appropriations to 2001 amounted to EUR 2,7 million (2,5%). Of this total, EUR 2,2 million (78%) related to operating appropriations under Title III. The carryovers of appropriations from Title III mainly related to the headings 'Dissemination of information' and 'Pilot studies and projects'. Appropriations totalling EUR 3,7 million were carried over from 1999 to 2000. Of this amount, EUR 3,1 million (83%) was paid and EUR 0,6 million (17%) was cancelled. It should be noted that Cedefop has not been fully receptive to the observations made by the Court in its report concerning the financial year 1999, or honoured the undertakings given concerning the procedures which the Centre itself decided to apply to the awarding of contracts, not least in the field of informatics. With regard to the staff, 66 members of staff were transferred from Berlin to Thessaloniki. They were granted the status of permanent employees. As at 1 January 2000, 24 of these members of staff had obtained a transfer to one of the institutions or to another satellite agency, 6 had left the Centre, 11 were in receipt of an invalidity pension and 1 was receiving a retirement pension. Altogether, 42 out of the 66 member of staff transferred had left the Centre. In conclusion, generally speaking, it appears that, since 1996, the Centre has been able to employ the staff it has requested during the budgetary procedure. It has managed to recruit auxiliary employees, local staff and seconded national experts to bolster its staff numbers with the result that total staff numbers tend to exceed the authorised total. When employing staff, the Centre has used an essentially internal recruitment model, even if it has also turned to procedure of external type. Given the upward trend in the number of permanent posts at the Centre, it would perhaps be desirable, in the case of posts concerning support activities that require qualifications of an administrative nature, for it to join forces with the institutions and the other satellite agencies in order to recruit staff on the broadest possible basis. Furthermore, the Centre should improve its staff management and information system.�

Documents

• Non-legislative basic document published: N5-0127/2002
• Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A5-0101/2002
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0169/2002
• : Budget 2002/451
• : OJ L 158 17.06.2002, p. 0059

History

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