Activites

• 2004/03/12 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Budget 2003/415
  • OJ L 148 16.06.2003, p. 0059-0059
• 2003/04/08 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
  • T5-0156/2003 summary

    The Parliament adopted the report by María Antonia AVILES PEREA (EPP-ED, Spain) and grants discharge to the Ombudsman in respect of the implementation of the budget for the 2001 financial year. Parliament records its comments in an accompanying resolution. Parliament congratulates the Ombudsman on the volume and the quality of work carried out in 2001. It highlights the fact that the analysis of the complaints shows that 77% of them led to an inquiry against the Commission and that, in most cases, a lack of transparency was involved. Parliament notes with satisfaction the steady improvement in the level of budget execution from 75.72% of appropriations in 1997 to 91.24% in 2001 and 98.18% (estimated) in 2002 and the concomitant rise in the utilisation rate of appropriations carried forward from one year to the next. Lastly, Parliament welcomes the cooperation agreements between the Ombudsman and the European Parliament in administrative and financial matters.�

• 2003/03/24 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A5-0101/2003
• 2002/06/10 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2002/04/30 Non-legislative basic document published
  • SEC(2002)0405 summary

    PURPOSE : to present the balance sheets and the revenue and expenditure accounts concerning the implementation of the 2001 budget : Ombudsman. CONTENT : this document presents the amount of expenditure and the balance sheets of the other institutions of the Union (except the Commission) for 2001. It highlights, in particular, the expenditure of the second budget of the Ombudsman since the separation of its budget from that of the European Parliament. The budget appropriations for 2001 amount to EUR 3.902.316 against EUR 3.914.584 in 2000. This budget amounts to 92.62%. It is characterised firstly by a definite improvement of carryover appropriations (around -10% in 2001) in comparison to the carry over appropriations of the previous financial year. It is also marked by the increase in personnel and also by the hiring of auxiliary staff. The increase in the Ombudsman's workload and the necessity to the deal with an increasing number of complaints explains the need for additional staff. The development of the Ombudsman's annual report also implies an important workload and heavy financial investment (notably for translation). It is for this reason that it has been decided not to publish the report in the Official Journal but rather to make it available for consultation on the Internet (via the Ombudsman's site). Lastly, under-estimation of mission costs and meetings should be noted.�

  • DG [{'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/budget/', 'title': 'Budget'}],

Documents

• Non-legislative basic document published: SEC(2002)0405
• Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A5-0101/2003
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0156/2003
• : Budget 2003/415
• : OJ L 148 16.06.2003, p. 0059-0059

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)