Activites

• 2006/12/06 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Budget 2006/828
  • OJ L 340 06.12.2006, p. 0085-0085
• 2006/04/27 Results of vote in Parliament
  • Results of vote in Parliament
  • T6-0171/2006 summary

    The European Parliament adopted a resolution drafted by Umberto GUIDONI (GUE/NGL, IT) and granted discharge to the Director of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addictionon for the implementation of the Centre’s budget for the financial year 2004. In its accompanying comments, Parliament regretted the very high level of transfers made, and urged the Centre to respect more closely the budget originally set by the budgetary authority. It noted the Court of Auditors' finding of a number of anomalies in the management of contracts, and welcomed the steps taken by the Centre to improve the management of contracts. Parliament also made a series of general remarks on the agencies. As well as spending money properly, agencies should also strive to spend money as efficiently and effectively as possible. The Court of Auditors was asked to consider the possibility of extending its specific annual reports on the agencies to include an examination of performance and achievement of objectives. The following aspects should be taken into account: duplication of work among the agencies must be avoided as much as possible and measures designed to improve transparency and communication with the public must be clarified, along with Community affirmative action measures at all levels of recruitment, training and the assignment of responsibilities. Parliament noted that Community agencies did not always have a good image or good press and that many of them did not deserve such a negative image. EU citizens should be made aware of this, and Parliament called on the Commission to act accordingly, using whatever means it considers necessary. Furthermore, the enlargement of the European Union in 2004 had affected the structures and operating arrangements of the Community agencies in many ways, and several of the agencies draw attention to these effects in their activity reports, focusing in particular on the increase in the number of administrators. The Commission needed to assess the problems encountered and recommend the regulatory changes required. The Commission had made a commitment to harmonising the way in which activity reports concerning its directorates-general were presented. Parliament called for a similar approach to be taken in respect of the activity reports of the Communities" agencies, which differed significantly in terms of content. The Commission should point out to the agencies the information and activity indicators that they must provide. Finally, Parliament asked the Commission to improve synergies between agencies by making cooperation more effective, avoiding duplication of work and addressing shortcomings, in particular as regards common areas such as training, the implementation of Community policies across the board, the use of the latest management systems and solving problems relating to sound management of the budget.

• 2006/04/26 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 2006/03/27 Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
  • A6-0097/2006
• 2006/03/21 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
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• 2006/03/14 Council Meeting
• 2006/01/19 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2005/03/01 Non-legislative basic document published
  • N6-0005/2005 summary

    PURPOSE : presentation of the final accounts of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. CONTENT : this document published in the Official Journal of the EU sets out a detailed account of the implementation of the 2004 budget, including the revenue and expenditure and the balance sheet for the year concerned. According to this document, the final budget amounted to EUR 12,2 million (compared to EUR 10,5 million in 2003) including a 96% Community subsidy. As regards the staffing policy, the Monitoring Centre, whose headquarters is based in Lisbon (Portugal), officially set out 77 posts in its establishment plan. 61 posts are currently occupied + 22 other staff (auxiliary contracts, contract staff and employment-agency staff) totalling 83 staff assigned to operational, administrative and IT support tasks and mixed duties. Staff expenditure amounted to EUR 5,8 million.Its main task is to collect data on drugs and drug addiction in order to prepare and publish information that is objective, reliable and comparable at European level. The information is intended to provide a basis for analysing demand for drugs and ways of reducing both it and drug-market-related events in general. The Monitoring Centre runs a computerised network for the collection and exchange of information called the ‘‘European Information Network on Drugs and Drugs Addiction’’ (Reitox);this network connects the national druginformation networks, the specialist centres in the Member States and the information systems of international organisations working with the Monitoring Centre. In 2004, it published :- an annual report on the state of the drug problem in the European Union (20 language versions, publication and interactive website);- bulletin of statistics and interactive website containing over 100 tables;- a general report of activities (annual, EN);- newsletter, Drugnet Europe (4 issues in five languages, 20 products);- policy briefings, Drugs in Focus (3 issues, 21 languages, 63 products);- country situation summaries - for the 25 Member States (interactive website);- publications in the EMCDDA series: 1 Monograph, 2 Risk assessments, 1 Insights;- Snapshot 2004 - report and 10 thematic papers - publication and website;- 20 scientific studies;- presentation brochure (in the ten new languages);- complete restructuring of main website.The total operational expenditure amounted to roughly EUR 3,5 million. A positive balance of EUR 1,9 million was presented for the financial year 2004.The complete version of the final accounts may be found at the following address:http:www.emcdda.eu.int/?nnodeid=6465

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

Documents

• Non-legislative basic document published: N6-0005/2005
• Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A6-0097/2006
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T6-0171/2006
• : Budget 2006/828
• : OJ L 340 06.12.2006, p. 0085-0085

History

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