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Legal Basis RoP 094
Activites
- 2008/07/15 Final act published in Official Journal
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2007/04/24
Results of vote in Parliament
- Results of vote in Parliament
- Debate in Parliament
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T6-0118/2007
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The European Parliament adopted a resolution drafted by Edit HERCZOG (PSE, HU), and granted the director of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work discharge for the implementation of the Agency's budget for the financial year 2005. It then approved closing the accounts of the Agency 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 the Agency.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 concerning the EASHW: Parliament invited the Agency to improve its programming in view of the fact that the commitment rate for appropriations entered in the budget for the financial year 2005 was over 90 % and that the carry-over rate remained high for operating expenditure (Title III) was at 30 %. The cancellation rate for appropriations carried over was close to 15 %. It felt that the Agency to be a source of important information for all EU institutions, for political decision-making, for the business world and for the general public. However, Parliament deplored the fact that there was no risk analysis and no checklists to meet the needs of authorising officers and staff who perform operational checks. It noted that the general implementing provisions concerning the recruitment of staff to the Agency did not specify the criteria to be observed at the various stages of the selection of candidates. Lastly, Parliament considered it regrettable that in public procurement procedures often no supporting evidence was given for the tender evaluation committee's assessments of the quality of the bids, and that the evaluation reports were signed only by the authorising officer responsible and not by all the members of the tender evaluation committee.
- 2007/03/30 Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
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2007/03/26
Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
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2007/02/27
Council Meeting
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2006/11/29
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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2006/10/31
Non-legislative basic document published
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N6-0027/2006
summary
PURPOSE: presentation of the final accounts of the European Agency for Safety and Health 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 13.7 million (compared to EUR 10.7 million in 2004) of which 96% stems from a Community subsidy (DG Employment) and the remaining 3% from DG Enlargement.As regards the staffing policy, the Agency whose headquarters are based in Bilbao, set out 40 posts in its establishment plan of which 32 are currently occupied. 20 other posts (auxiliary contracts, seconded national experts, local staff and employment-agency staff) are also occupied totalling 52 posts assigned to operational, administrative and mixed tasks.Staffing expenditure represented EUR 4 579 000.As regards the Agency’s activities in 2005, further development of focal point networks was made (implementation of 2nd generation network) as well as institutional capacity building in candidate countries (PHARE programme). A European Week 2005 campaign on Noise finished with a European summit in Bilbao. The 3rd generation web-based information services on occupational safety and health was created and a global occupational safety and health portal was launched. Information products were published on good practice in agriculture and risk Observatory information products (e.g. reports on noise, MSD and stress, web information on construction and agriculture, among other topics; identification of emerging biological and chemical risks) were published.The complete version of the final accounts may be found at the following address:http://agency.osha.eu.int
- DG {'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/budget/', 'title': 'Budget'}, KALLAS Siim
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N6-0027/2006
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Documents
- Non-legislative basic document published: N6-0027/2006
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A6-0105/2007
- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T6-0118/2007
- : Budget 2008/517
- : OJ L 187 15.07.2008, p. 0114
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