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2006/2153(DEC) 2005 discharge: European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training

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RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead CONT HERCZOG Edit (icon: PSE PSE)
Committee Opinion EMPL OOMEN-RUIJTEN Ria (icon: PPE-DE PPE-DE)
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2008/07/15
   Final act published in Official Journal
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PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2005.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision 2008/507/EC of the European Parliament on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2005.

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Director of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the implementation of the Centre's budget for the financial year 2005.

This decision is in line with the European Parliament’s resolution adopted on 24 April 2007 and comprises a series of observations that form an integral part of the discharge decision (please refer to the summary of the opinion of 24/04/2007).

2007/05/31
   EC - Commission response to text adopted in plenary
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2007/04/24
   EP - Results of vote in Parliament
2007/04/24
   EP - Debate in Parliament
2007/04/24
   EP - Decision by Parliament
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The European Parliament adopted a resolution drafted by Edit HERCZOG (PSE, HU), and granted the director of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training discharge for the implementation of the Centre's budget for the financial year 2005. Parliament then approved closing the accounts of the Centre for the financial year 2005.

The Parliamentary resolution is divided into two parts. The first contained general points, and concerned the majority of EU Agencies requiring individual discharge. The second part contained specific points relating to CEDEFOP.

General points: Parliament considers that the ever-growing number of Community Agencies and the activities of certain of them do not seem to form part of an overall policy framework, and that the remits of some Agencies do not always reflect the real needs of the Union. Accordingly, it invites the Commission to define an overall policy framework for the setting up of new Community Agencies and to present a cost-benefit study before the setting up of any new agency, while being careful to avoid any overlap of activities between Agencies or with the remits of other European organisations. Parliament calls on the Court of Auditors to give its opinion on this cost-benefit study before Parliament takes its decision, and it asks the Commission to present every five years a study on the added value of every existing Agency. ; invites all relevant institutions In the case of a negative evaluation of the added value of an Agency, all relevant institutions are asked to take the necessary steps by reformulating the mandate of that Agency or by closing it.

In view of the constantly increasing number of Agencies, Parliament feels that the Directorates-General of the Commission charged with the setting up and monitoring of Agencies must develop a common approach to the Agencies. It also asks the Commission to improve administrative and technical support to the Agencies. Parliament regretted that the negotiations on the draft interinstitutional agreement on the operating framework for the European regulatory agencies have not yet been concluded, and calls on the Commission, in consultation with the Court of Auditors, to do their utmost to ensure that the agreement is brought to a rapid conclusion. Noting that the Commission's budgetary responsibility calls for closer linking of the Agencies to the Commission, Parliament calls on the Commission and the Council to take all necessary steps to give the Commission a blocking minority in the supervisory bodies of the regulatory Agencies by 31 December 2007 and to provide for such a minority from the outset when new Agencies are set up. It invites the Court of Auditors to create an additional chapter in its Annual Report, devoted to all Agencies to be discharged under the Commission's accounts in order to have a much clearer picture of the use of EU funds by Agencies.

Parliament goes on to ask the Commission to come up with a proposal to harmonise the format of the annual reporting by the Agencies and to develop performance indicators which would allow a comparison of their efficiency. The Commission is urged to monitor and direct the management of the Agencies, especially in relation to the proper application of tender procedures, transparency of recruitment procedures, sound financial management and, most importantly, the proper application of the rules concerning the internal control framework.

Specific points on CEDEFOP: Parliament invites the Centre to avoid a similar situation as for the financial year 2005 where it had an utilisation rate of 90 % of commitment appropriations and approximately 85 % of payment appropriations. It asks the Centre to fine-tune its programming and improve the monitoring exercise throughout the year. The Centre should also remedy the shortcomings in the accounting software (FIBUS) used by it, and maintain the full application of the principle of the segregation of the duties of authorising officer and accounting officer.

Parliament wants the Centre urgently to carry out a risk analysis, to define the nature and frequency of ex post checks, and to describe the management procedures and internal control systems. It also invites the Centre to formulate the exact mandate of the committee to deal with staff complaints, which should in no case act beyond its powers. Furthermore, Parliament insists that the Centre should apply standard recruitment procedures and is worried about the very high rate of irregularities found by the Court of Auditors in the contracts where out of six, all but one were affected by irregularities .

Lastly, Parliament encourages the Centre to continue its efforts to improve further its communications in order to ensure that the public is better informed about its activities.

Documents
2007/04/24
   EP - End of procedure in Parliament
2007/03/30
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
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2007/03/30
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary
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2007/03/26
   EP - Vote in committee
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The committee adopted the report by Edit HERCZOG (PES, HU) granting discharge to the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for 2005. In its accompanying resolution, it made a number of general points concerning the majority of the EU agencies:

- the ever-growing number of Community Agencies and the activities of some of them do not seem to form part of an overall policy framework, and "the remits of some Agencies do not always reflect the real needs of the Union or the expectations of its citizens”;

- the Commission should therefore define an overall policy framework and should present a cost-benefit study before the setting up of any new Agency, and the Court of Auditors should give its opinion on this study before Parliament takes its decision;

- every 5 years, the Commission should present a study on the added value of every existing Agency; where the evaluation is negative in the case of a particular Agency the latter’s mandate should be reformulated or the Agency should be closed;

- the Commission should improve administrative and technical support to the Agencies, given the growing complexity of the Community’s administrative rules and technical problems;

- the Agencies should improve their cooperation and benchmarking with actors in the field;

- the Commission should harmonise the format of the annual reporting by the Agencies to develop performance indicators which would allow a comparison of their efficiency.

In its specific remarks concerning the ECDVT, the committee called on the centre to "fine-tune its programming" and improve the monitoring exercise throughout the year. It also demanded the full application of the principle of the segregation of the duties of the authorising officer and accounting officer. The report expressed concern at the "very high rate of irregularities" with regard to contracts and called on the Centre to remedy the weaknesses in its organisation and tender procedures. Lastly, it encouraged the Centre to continue efforts to improve its communications to ensure that the public is better informed about its activities.

2007/03/08
   EP - Amendments tabled in committee
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2007/03/01
   EP - Committee opinion
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2007/02/27
   CSL - Council Meeting
2007/02/09
   EP - Committee draft report
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2007/02/07
   CSL - Supplementary non-legislative basic document
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Having examined the revenue and expenditure account for the financial year 2005, the balance sheet of revenue and expenditure at 31 December 2005 of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, the Council recommends the European Parliament to give a discharge to the Director of the Centre in respect of the implementation of the budget for the financial year 2005.

In doing so, the Council confirms that EUR 1.1 million (88%) of the EUR 1.3 million in appropriations carried forward from the financial year 2004 to the financial year 2005 have been used. In addition, EUR 1.0 million in appropriations have been carried forward from the financial year 2005 to the financial year 2006 and EUR 1.9 million have been cancelled.

In parallel, the Council makes accompanying comments on the discharge which should be followed up. In particular, it:

notes that the Court has been able to issue a statement of reasonable assurance on the reliability of the Centre's annual accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2005. However, it regrets that in respect of the reasonable assurance as to the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions, taken as a whole, the Court has excluded the transactions concerning the organisation and award procedures of contracts; notes the efforts undertaken by the Centre to improve its management , the Council would like to draw attention to the issues mentioned below; regrets that the Centre did not fully respect the competition rules and failed to justify or document the chosen procedures. The Council stresses the fact that this is detrimental to sound management and budgetary discipline. However, the Council takes note of the measures taken by the Centre during the last quarter of 2005 to remedy the shortcomings identified by the Court and it calls strongly on the Centre to continue its efforts to ensure that the contracts award procedures are strictly applied; highlights that concerning budgetary management , it regrets the under-implementation of the appropriations for operating activities and invites the Centre to improve the programming of its work and to ensure a rigorous monitoring of it, in particular by adopting an activity based-management system as soon as possible; underlines the importance of applying the principle of separation of the duties of authorising officer and accounting officer and takes notes of the steps taken by the Centre to correct the weaknesses pointed out by the Court. It calls on the Centre to follow the Court's remarks concerning the need to carry out a risk analysis, to define the nature and frequency of ex post checks and to provide a description of the management procedures and internal control systems; it notes with concern that, once again, the Centre did not fully respect the recruitment procedure , at the expense of transparency and the quality of the selection. In this respect, the Council recalls the recommendations made in the previous year and expects the Centre to take all the necessary steps to tighten up its recruitment procedures without any further delay; expresses its concern regarding the shortcomings of the accounting software and calls on the Centre to replace it as soon as possible with the new system proposed by the Commission, with the full support and help of the latter.

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2006/12/19
   CofA - Court of Auditors: opinion, report
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This report from the Court of Auditors concerns the annual account of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year ended 31 December 2005.

The Court states that the Centre’s accounts for the financial year 2005 are, in all material respects, reliable. Subject to the reservation concerning irregularities in 5 contracts, the transactions underlying the Centre’s annual accounts, taken as a whole, are legal and regular.

The report shows that the payment appropriations entered in the final budget amount to EUR 17 093 000 with zero appropriations being committed. However, EUR 14 381 000 was paid. EUR 1 014 000 was carried over to 2006 and EUR 1 740 000 were cancelled.

The Court notes that the Centre’s budget for the financial year 2005 shows a utilisation rate of 90 % of commitment appropriations and approximately 85 % of payment appropriations. However, the appropriations for operating activities were under-utilised (cancellations of 15 % of commitment appropriations, 20 % of payment appropriations and 15 % of appropriations carried over), in particular after the reorganisation of the procedures for awarding contracts. The Centre must fine-tune the programming of its work and ensure that it is monitored more rigorously. In this connection, the Court notes that activity-based management has not been introduced, even though the Centre’s financial regulation provides for this form of management with a view to improved performance monitoring.

The Court states that the accounting software (FIBUS) used by the Centre does not allow expired commitments to be blocked and the procedure for the electronic signing of payment orders does not comply with the provisions currently in force. Operations cannot easily be traced within the FIBUS system. The Centre should remedy the shortcomings identified and consider replacing its present accounting software as soon as possible with the new system proposed by the Commission for the Agencies.

Some of the accounting officer’s duties are performed by departments for which the authorising officer is responsible. Closure adjustments of around EUR 700 000 were thus made in the accounts on the initiative of the authorising departments, but these departments did not document them. Application of the principle of the segregation of the duties of authorising officer and accounting officer would have prevented such a situation.

The Centre has neither made a risk analysis to date, nor defined the nature and frequency of ex post checks, and there are no descriptions of the management procedures and internal control systems. In 2005, the accounting officer had still not validated the financial information systems.

As regards staff complaints , the Centre set up an appeals committee in 2000 to deal with these. In one case, this committee, acting beyond its powers, granted allowances that were not envisaged in the rules in force. In 2005, an important management post was filled via an internal selection procedure when an external procedure would have provided a wider range of candidates. Actually only one candidate participated in the selection and was appointed to the post. Moreover, two of the criteria adopted for the evaluation of applications were not applied strictly enough to ensure the quality of the selection in question. The Court reiterates the observation made in its previous annual report on the need for the Centre to tighten up its recruitment procedures.

The Court examined six contracts that were concluded in the financial year 2005. All but one were affected by irregularities. In two of the cases examined, the competition rules had not been observed.

The Court notes that the Centre has set up 17 internet and intranet sites using different types of technology. The management of these sites and the IT systems supporting them is fragmented engendering technical risks and excessive costs.

The Centre responds points by point to the Court’s observations and states that it has taken prompt measures to ensure the strict application of the rules governing procurement procedures, and it strictly limited the use of negotiated procedures. Those measures and the weaknesses of the procurement service affected the level of budget execution.

While ensuring the regularity of procedures, the Centre has progressed in improving its planning and will introduce activity based budgeting. The Centre is considering replacing Fibus with the software

proposed by the Commission. Steps have also been taken to reorganise the Finance/Procurement Service and this will also ensure the clearer separation of functions called for by the Court. The Centre is aware that the correct procedure is for the authorising officers (by delegation) to propose the adjustments in question to the accountant. The Centre is working to improve the situation.

The Centre takes note of the remarks of the Court on the issue of recruitment. The appeals committee has been established by the Governing Board as an organ distinct from the director for dealing with complaints to increase objectivity. The Centre considers that it is correct in law and that it is a reasonable use of the power to designate appointing authorities which belongs to every organisation under the staff regulation. In order to foster competition, the Centre has decided end of 2005 to favour the running of internal/interistitutional and external phases, to increase publicity and to apply EPSO standards for selection. Concerning the two criteria mentioned, the jurisprudence states that it is the responsibility of the jury to appreciate if criteria correspond to the level requested.

Lastly, the Centre has revised and tightened up all procurement and award procedures and taken the necessary measures to adapt the organisation. Checks safeguard that procedures are conducted in a regular way. Specific measures such as suspension of payments and special audits have been taken in regard to former procedures and contracts which have been criticised by the Court or the IAS to contain risks.

2006/11/29
   EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2006/11/22
   EP - OOMEN-RUIJTEN Ria (PPE-DE) appointed as rapporteur in EMPL
2006/10/31
   OS - Non-legislative basic document
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PURPOSE: presentation of the final accounts of the European Centre for the Development for vocational training (ECDVT) for the financial year 2005.

CONTENT: this document published in the Official Journal of the EU sets out a detailed account of the implementation of the 2005 budget, including the revenue and expenditure and the balance sheet for the year concerned.

According to this document, the final budget amounted to EUR 17.1 million (compared to EUR 16.6 million in 2004) including a 96% Community contribution.

As regards the staffing policy, the Centre, which is based in Thessalonica, officially set out 91 posts in the establishment plan. 85 of these positions are currently occupied with + other staff (auxiliary contracts, seconded national experts) totalling 123 assigned to operational, administrative and mixed tasks. Staff expenditure amounted to nearly EUR 9.5 million in 2005.

The Centre’s core mandate is to serve the development of vocational training at Community level. In order to achieve this objective, it has the task of compiling and disseminating documentation on vocational training systems.

During 2005 , the Centre :

- held 90 conferences and seminars with an average of 24 participants;

- carried out 26 studies and 29 projects (2 of which administrative) plus 20 virtual communities (1 of which administrative);

- participated in Maastricht follow-up, Education and Training 2010 programme, Leonardo da Vinci programme, social partners’ joint action framework, Advisory Committee for Vocational Training, Directors- General for Vocational Training, Education and Training 2010 Coordination Group;

- published 60 publications (3 issues of Cedefop info, and 4 issues of the European journal on vocational training;

- circulated 8 582 documents on request, 2 462 subscriptions to the European journal and 7 493 subscriptions to Cedefop info;

- distributed the following electronic publications: 3 160 subscriptions to ETV newsletter; 60 440 registered ETV users; 3 366 490 ETV page views; 7 553 registered members in the virtual communities and 762 participants in the study visits programme.

The complete version of the final accounts may be found at the following address:

http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/index.asp?section=2⊂=5&tab=2

2006/10/30
   EC - Non-legislative basic document published
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PURPOSE: presentation of the final accounts of the European Centre for the Development for vocational training (ECDVT) for the financial year 2005.

CONTENT: this document published in the Official Journal of the EU sets out a detailed account of the implementation of the 2005 budget, including the revenue and expenditure and the balance sheet for the year concerned.

According to this document, the final budget amounted to EUR 17.1 million (compared to EUR 16.6 million in 2004) including a 96% Community contribution.

As regards the staffing policy, the Centre, which is based in Thessalonica, officially set out 91 posts in the establishment plan. 85 of these positions are currently occupied with + other staff (auxiliary contracts, seconded national experts) totalling 123 assigned to operational, administrative and mixed tasks. Staff expenditure amounted to nearly EUR 9.5 million in 2005.

The Centre’s core mandate is to serve the development of vocational training at Community level. In order to achieve this objective, it has the task of compiling and disseminating documentation on vocational training systems.

During 2005 , the Centre :

- held 90 conferences and seminars with an average of 24 participants;

- carried out 26 studies and 29 projects (2 of which administrative) plus 20 virtual communities (1 of which administrative);

- participated in Maastricht follow-up, Education and Training 2010 programme, Leonardo da Vinci programme, social partners’ joint action framework, Advisory Committee for Vocational Training, Directors- General for Vocational Training, Education and Training 2010 Coordination Group;

- published 60 publications (3 issues of Cedefop info, and 4 issues of the European journal on vocational training;

- circulated 8 582 documents on request, 2 462 subscriptions to the European journal and 7 493 subscriptions to Cedefop info;

- distributed the following electronic publications: 3 160 subscriptions to ETV newsletter; 60 440 registered ETV users; 3 366 490 ETV page views; 7 553 registered members in the virtual communities and 762 participants in the study visits programme.

The complete version of the final accounts may be found at the following address:

http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/index.asp?section=2⊂=5&tab=2

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2006/04/20
   EP - HERCZOG Edit (PSE) appointed as rapporteur in CONT

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    • date: 2006-10-31T00:00:00 docs: url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:C:2006:266:TOC title: OJ C 266 31.10.2006, p. 0028-0030 title: N6-0021/2006 summary: PURPOSE: presentation of the final accounts of the European Centre for the Development for vocational training (ECDVT) for the financial year 2005. CONTENT: this document published in the Official Journal of the EU sets out a detailed account of the implementation of the 2005 budget, including the revenue and expenditure and the balance sheet for the year concerned. According to this document, the final budget amounted to EUR 17.1 million (compared to EUR 16.6 million in 2004) including a 96% Community contribution. As regards the staffing policy, the Centre, which is based in Thessalonica, officially set out 91 posts in the establishment plan. 85 of these positions are currently occupied with + other staff (auxiliary contracts, seconded national experts) totalling 123 assigned to operational, administrative and mixed tasks. Staff expenditure amounted to nearly EUR 9.5 million in 2005. The Centre’s core mandate is to serve the development of vocational training at Community level. In order to achieve this objective, it has the task of compiling and disseminating documentation on vocational training systems. During 2005 , the Centre : - held 90 conferences and seminars with an average of 24 participants; - carried out 26 studies and 29 projects (2 of which administrative) plus 20 virtual communities (1 of which administrative); - participated in Maastricht follow-up, Education and Training 2010 programme, Leonardo da Vinci programme, social partners’ joint action framework, Advisory Committee for Vocational Training, Directors- General for Vocational Training, Education and Training 2010 Coordination Group; - published 60 publications (3 issues of Cedefop info, and 4 issues of the European journal on vocational training; - circulated 8 582 documents on request, 2 462 subscriptions to the European journal and 7 493 subscriptions to Cedefop info; - distributed the following electronic publications: 3 160 subscriptions to ETV newsletter; 60 440 registered ETV users; 3 366 490 ETV page views; 7 553 registered members in the virtual communities and 762 participants in the study visits programme. The complete version of the final accounts may be found at the following address: http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/index.asp?section=2⊂=5&tab=2 type: Non-legislative basic document body: OS
    • date: 2006-12-19T00:00:00 docs: url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:C:2006:312:SOM:EN:HTML title: OJ C 312 19.12.2006, p. 0001 title: N6-0001/2007 summary: This report from the Court of Auditors concerns the annual account of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year ended 31 December 2005. The Court states that the Centre’s accounts for the financial year 2005 are, in all material respects, reliable. Subject to the reservation concerning irregularities in 5 contracts, the transactions underlying the Centre’s annual accounts, taken as a whole, are legal and regular. The report shows that the payment appropriations entered in the final budget amount to EUR 17 093 000 with zero appropriations being committed. However, EUR 14 381 000 was paid. EUR 1 014 000 was carried over to 2006 and EUR 1 740 000 were cancelled. The Court notes that the Centre’s budget for the financial year 2005 shows a utilisation rate of 90 % of commitment appropriations and approximately 85 % of payment appropriations. However, the appropriations for operating activities were under-utilised (cancellations of 15 % of commitment appropriations, 20 % of payment appropriations and 15 % of appropriations carried over), in particular after the reorganisation of the procedures for awarding contracts. The Centre must fine-tune the programming of its work and ensure that it is monitored more rigorously. In this connection, the Court notes that activity-based management has not been introduced, even though the Centre’s financial regulation provides for this form of management with a view to improved performance monitoring. The Court states that the accounting software (FIBUS) used by the Centre does not allow expired commitments to be blocked and the procedure for the electronic signing of payment orders does not comply with the provisions currently in force. Operations cannot easily be traced within the FIBUS system. The Centre should remedy the shortcomings identified and consider replacing its present accounting software as soon as possible with the new system proposed by the Commission for the Agencies. Some of the accounting officer’s duties are performed by departments for which the authorising officer is responsible. Closure adjustments of around EUR 700 000 were thus made in the accounts on the initiative of the authorising departments, but these departments did not document them. Application of the principle of the segregation of the duties of authorising officer and accounting officer would have prevented such a situation. The Centre has neither made a risk analysis to date, nor defined the nature and frequency of ex post checks, and there are no descriptions of the management procedures and internal control systems. In 2005, the accounting officer had still not validated the financial information systems. As regards staff complaints , the Centre set up an appeals committee in 2000 to deal with these. In one case, this committee, acting beyond its powers, granted allowances that were not envisaged in the rules in force. In 2005, an important management post was filled via an internal selection procedure when an external procedure would have provided a wider range of candidates. Actually only one candidate participated in the selection and was appointed to the post. Moreover, two of the criteria adopted for the evaluation of applications were not applied strictly enough to ensure the quality of the selection in question. The Court reiterates the observation made in its previous annual report on the need for the Centre to tighten up its recruitment procedures. The Court examined six contracts that were concluded in the financial year 2005. All but one were affected by irregularities. In two of the cases examined, the competition rules had not been observed. The Court notes that the Centre has set up 17 internet and intranet sites using different types of technology. The management of these sites and the IT systems supporting them is fragmented engendering technical risks and excessive costs. The Centre responds points by point to the Court’s observations and states that it has taken prompt measures to ensure the strict application of the rules governing procurement procedures, and it strictly limited the use of negotiated procedures. Those measures and the weaknesses of the procurement service affected the level of budget execution. While ensuring the regularity of procedures, the Centre has progressed in improving its planning and will introduce activity based budgeting. The Centre is considering replacing Fibus with the software proposed by the Commission. Steps have also been taken to reorganise the Finance/Procurement Service and this will also ensure the clearer separation of functions called for by the Court. The Centre is aware that the correct procedure is for the authorising officers (by delegation) to propose the adjustments in question to the accountant. The Centre is working to improve the situation. The Centre takes note of the remarks of the Court on the issue of recruitment. The appeals committee has been established by the Governing Board as an organ distinct from the director for dealing with complaints to increase objectivity. The Centre considers that it is correct in law and that it is a reasonable use of the power to designate appointing authorities which belongs to every organisation under the staff regulation. In order to foster competition, the Centre has decided end of 2005 to favour the running of internal/interistitutional and external phases, to increase publicity and to apply EPSO standards for selection. Concerning the two criteria mentioned, the jurisprudence states that it is the responsibility of the jury to appreciate if criteria correspond to the level requested. Lastly, the Centre has revised and tightened up all procurement and award procedures and taken the necessary measures to adapt the organisation. Checks safeguard that procedures are conducted in a regular way. Specific measures such as suspension of payments and special audits have been taken in regard to former procedures and contracts which have been criticised by the Court or the IAS to contain risks. type: Court of Auditors: opinion, report body: CofA
    • date: 2007-02-07T00:00:00 docs: url: http://register.consilium.europa.eu/content/out?lang=EN&typ=SET&i=ADV&RESULTSET=1&DOC_ID=5711%2F07&DOC_LANCD=EN&ROWSPP=25&NRROWS=500&ORDERBY=DOC_DATE+DESC title: 05711/2007 summary: Having examined the revenue and expenditure account for the financial year 2005, the balance sheet of revenue and expenditure at 31 December 2005 of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, the Council recommends the European Parliament to give a discharge to the Director of the Centre in respect of the implementation of the budget for the financial year 2005. In doing so, the Council confirms that EUR 1.1 million (88%) of the EUR 1.3 million in appropriations carried forward from the financial year 2004 to the financial year 2005 have been used. In addition, EUR 1.0 million in appropriations have been carried forward from the financial year 2005 to the financial year 2006 and EUR 1.9 million have been cancelled. In parallel, the Council makes accompanying comments on the discharge which should be followed up. In particular, it: notes that the Court has been able to issue a statement of reasonable assurance on the reliability of the Centre's annual accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2005. However, it regrets that in respect of the reasonable assurance as to the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions, taken as a whole, the Court has excluded the transactions concerning the organisation and award procedures of contracts; notes the efforts undertaken by the Centre to improve its management , the Council would like to draw attention to the issues mentioned below; regrets that the Centre did not fully respect the competition rules and failed to justify or document the chosen procedures. The Council stresses the fact that this is detrimental to sound management and budgetary discipline. However, the Council takes note of the measures taken by the Centre during the last quarter of 2005 to remedy the shortcomings identified by the Court and it calls strongly on the Centre to continue its efforts to ensure that the contracts award procedures are strictly applied; highlights that concerning budgetary management , it regrets the under-implementation of the appropriations for operating activities and invites the Centre to improve the programming of its work and to ensure a rigorous monitoring of it, in particular by adopting an activity based-management system as soon as possible; underlines the importance of applying the principle of separation of the duties of authorising officer and accounting officer and takes notes of the steps taken by the Centre to correct the weaknesses pointed out by the Court. It calls on the Centre to follow the Court's remarks concerning the need to carry out a risk analysis, to define the nature and frequency of ex post checks and to provide a description of the management procedures and internal control systems; it notes with concern that, once again, the Centre did not fully respect the recruitment procedure , at the expense of transparency and the quality of the selection. In this respect, the Council recalls the recommendations made in the previous year and expects the Centre to take all the necessary steps to tighten up its recruitment procedures without any further delay; expresses its concern regarding the shortcomings of the accounting software and calls on the Centre to replace it as soon as possible with the new system proposed by the Commission, with the full support and help of the latter. type: Supplementary non-legislative basic document body: CSL
    • date: 2007-02-09T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&mode=XML&language=EN&reference=PE384.432 title: PE384.432 type: Committee draft report body: EP
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    • date: 2007-03-30T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A6-2007-97&language=EN title: A6-0097/2007 type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading body: EP
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    • date: 2006-10-31T00:00:00 type: Non-legislative basic document published body: EC docs: title: N6-0021/2006 summary: PURPOSE: presentation of the final accounts of the European Centre for the Development for vocational training (ECDVT) for the financial year 2005. CONTENT: this document published in the Official Journal of the EU sets out a detailed account of the implementation of the 2005 budget, including the revenue and expenditure and the balance sheet for the year concerned. According to this document, the final budget amounted to EUR 17.1 million (compared to EUR 16.6 million in 2004) including a 96% Community contribution. As regards the staffing policy, the Centre, which is based in Thessalonica, officially set out 91 posts in the establishment plan. 85 of these positions are currently occupied with + other staff (auxiliary contracts, seconded national experts) totalling 123 assigned to operational, administrative and mixed tasks. Staff expenditure amounted to nearly EUR 9.5 million in 2005. The Centre’s core mandate is to serve the development of vocational training at Community level. In order to achieve this objective, it has the task of compiling and disseminating documentation on vocational training systems. During 2005 , the Centre : - held 90 conferences and seminars with an average of 24 participants; - carried out 26 studies and 29 projects (2 of which administrative) plus 20 virtual communities (1 of which administrative); - participated in Maastricht follow-up, Education and Training 2010 programme, Leonardo da Vinci programme, social partners’ joint action framework, Advisory Committee for Vocational Training, Directors- General for Vocational Training, Education and Training 2010 Coordination Group; - published 60 publications (3 issues of Cedefop info, and 4 issues of the European journal on vocational training; - circulated 8 582 documents on request, 2 462 subscriptions to the European journal and 7 493 subscriptions to Cedefop info; - distributed the following electronic publications: 3 160 subscriptions to ETV newsletter; 60 440 registered ETV users; 3 366 490 ETV page views; 7 553 registered members in the virtual communities and 762 participants in the study visits programme. The complete version of the final accounts may be found at the following address: http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/index.asp?section=2⊂=5&tab=2
    • date: 2006-11-29T00:00:00 type: Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading body: EP
    • date: 2007-03-26T00:00:00 type: Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading body: EP summary: The committee adopted the report by Edit HERCZOG (PES, HU) granting discharge to the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for 2005. In its accompanying resolution, it made a number of general points concerning the majority of the EU agencies: - the ever-growing number of Community Agencies and the activities of some of them do not seem to form part of an overall policy framework, and "the remits of some Agencies do not always reflect the real needs of the Union or the expectations of its citizens”; - the Commission should therefore define an overall policy framework and should present a cost-benefit study before the setting up of any new Agency, and the Court of Auditors should give its opinion on this study before Parliament takes its decision; - every 5 years, the Commission should present a study on the added value of every existing Agency; where the evaluation is negative in the case of a particular Agency the latter’s mandate should be reformulated or the Agency should be closed; - the Commission should improve administrative and technical support to the Agencies, given the growing complexity of the Community’s administrative rules and technical problems; - the Agencies should improve their cooperation and benchmarking with actors in the field; - the Commission should harmonise the format of the annual reporting by the Agencies to develop performance indicators which would allow a comparison of their efficiency. In its specific remarks concerning the ECDVT, the committee called on the centre to "fine-tune its programming" and improve the monitoring exercise throughout the year. It also demanded the full application of the principle of the segregation of the duties of the authorising officer and accounting officer. The report expressed concern at the "very high rate of irregularities" with regard to contracts and called on the Centre to remedy the weaknesses in its organisation and tender procedures. Lastly, it encouraged the Centre to continue efforts to improve its communications to ensure that the public is better informed about its activities.
    • date: 2007-03-30T00:00:00 type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A6-2007-97&language=EN title: A6-0097/2007
    • date: 2007-04-24T00:00:00 type: Results of vote in Parliament body: EP docs: url: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/sda.do?id=13462&l=en title: Results of vote in Parliament
    • date: 2007-04-24T00:00:00 type: Debate in Parliament body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?secondRef=TOC&language=EN&reference=20070424&type=CRE title: Debate in Parliament
    • date: 2007-04-24T00:00:00 type: Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P6-TA-2007-113 title: T6-0113/2007 summary: The European Parliament adopted a resolution drafted by Edit HERCZOG (PSE, HU), and granted the director of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training discharge for the implementation of the Centre's budget for the financial year 2005. Parliament then approved closing the accounts of the Centre for the financial year 2005. The Parliamentary resolution is divided into two parts. The first contained general points, and concerned the majority of EU Agencies requiring individual discharge. The second part contained specific points relating to CEDEFOP. General points: Parliament considers that the ever-growing number of Community Agencies and the activities of certain of them do not seem to form part of an overall policy framework, and that the remits of some Agencies do not always reflect the real needs of the Union. Accordingly, it invites the Commission to define an overall policy framework for the setting up of new Community Agencies and to present a cost-benefit study before the setting up of any new agency, while being careful to avoid any overlap of activities between Agencies or with the remits of other European organisations. Parliament calls on the Court of Auditors to give its opinion on this cost-benefit study before Parliament takes its decision, and it asks the Commission to present every five years a study on the added value of every existing Agency. ; invites all relevant institutions In the case of a negative evaluation of the added value of an Agency, all relevant institutions are asked to take the necessary steps by reformulating the mandate of that Agency or by closing it. In view of the constantly increasing number of Agencies, Parliament feels that the Directorates-General of the Commission charged with the setting up and monitoring of Agencies must develop a common approach to the Agencies. It also asks the Commission to improve administrative and technical support to the Agencies. Parliament regretted that the negotiations on the draft interinstitutional agreement on the operating framework for the European regulatory agencies have not yet been concluded, and calls on the Commission, in consultation with the Court of Auditors, to do their utmost to ensure that the agreement is brought to a rapid conclusion. Noting that the Commission's budgetary responsibility calls for closer linking of the Agencies to the Commission, Parliament calls on the Commission and the Council to take all necessary steps to give the Commission a blocking minority in the supervisory bodies of the regulatory Agencies by 31 December 2007 and to provide for such a minority from the outset when new Agencies are set up. It invites the Court of Auditors to create an additional chapter in its Annual Report, devoted to all Agencies to be discharged under the Commission's accounts in order to have a much clearer picture of the use of EU funds by Agencies. Parliament goes on to ask the Commission to come up with a proposal to harmonise the format of the annual reporting by the Agencies and to develop performance indicators which would allow a comparison of their efficiency. The Commission is urged to monitor and direct the management of the Agencies, especially in relation to the proper application of tender procedures, transparency of recruitment procedures, sound financial management and, most importantly, the proper application of the rules concerning the internal control framework. Specific points on CEDEFOP: Parliament invites the Centre to avoid a similar situation as for the financial year 2005 where it had an utilisation rate of 90 % of commitment appropriations and approximately 85 % of payment appropriations. It asks the Centre to fine-tune its programming and improve the monitoring exercise throughout the year. The Centre should also remedy the shortcomings in the accounting software (FIBUS) used by it, and maintain the full application of the principle of the segregation of the duties of authorising officer and accounting officer. Parliament wants the Centre urgently to carry out a risk analysis, to define the nature and frequency of ex post checks, and to describe the management procedures and internal control systems. It also invites the Centre to formulate the exact mandate of the committee to deal with staff complaints, which should in no case act beyond its powers. Furthermore, Parliament insists that the Centre should apply standard recruitment procedures and is worried about the very high rate of irregularities found by the Court of Auditors in the contracts where out of six, all but one were affected by irregularities . Lastly, Parliament encourages the Centre to continue its efforts to improve further its communications in order to ensure that the public is better informed about its activities.
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    • date: 2008-07-15T00:00:00 type: Final act published in Official Journal summary: PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2005. LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision 2008/507/EC of the European Parliament on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2005. CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Director of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the implementation of the Centre's budget for the financial year 2005. This decision is in line with the European Parliament’s resolution adopted on 24 April 2007 and comprises a series of observations that form an integral part of the discharge decision (please refer to the summary of the opinion of 24/04/2007). docs: title: Budget 2008/507 url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION&reference=B[%g]-2008-507&language=EN title: OJ L 187 15.07.2008, p. 0078 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:187:SOM:EN:HTML
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