Procedure completed
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Opinion | CONT | HERCZOG Edit (PSE) |
Activites
- 2008/07/10 Final act published in Official Journal
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2008/07/09
End of procedure in Parliament
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2008/07/09
Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
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2008/04/10
Results of vote in Parliament
- Results of vote in Parliament
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T6-0111/2008
summary
The European Parliament adopted, by 583 votes to 16 with 17 abstentions, a legislative resolution amending the draft Commission regulation amending Regulation (EC) N° 1653/2004 on a standard financial regulation for the executive agencies pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) N° 58/2003 laying down the statute for executive agencies to be entrusted with certain tasks in the management of Community programmes. The report was tabled for consideration in plenary by Ingeborg GRÄSSLE (EPP-ED, DE), on behalf of the Budgets Committee. The main amendments – adopted in the framework of the consultation procedure - were as follows:-a new recital states that, in consideration of the difference in deadlines for the European Parliament's discharge decision in respect of the general budget, which is 15 May of year n+2, and its discharge decision in respect of the executive agencies, which is 29 April of year n+2, all actors involved should try to avoid difficulties in practice and strive for a harmonisation of the legal bases; -it should be clarified that the management board or steering committee - which is appointed by the Commission, the Commission being therefore responsible for ensuring that the board members possess the necessary qualifications and are not subject to any conflict of interest - bears certain responsibilities for budget and control issues and should therefore be accountable to the discharge authority;-the Commission shall ensure that the standard financial regulation for EAs deviates from the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities only if the specific operating requirements of the executive agencies so require; -the appropriations available at 31 December arising from the assigned revenue shall be carried over automatically. The appropriations available corresponding to assigned revenue carried over must be used first; -the summary of the budgets and amending budgets shall contain certain prescribed items; -Members clarified the duty of publication, so that the budgetary authority can gain a genuine overview of the development of the agency’s budget. They ensured that ‘reasons for confidentiality’ are allowed, but that they do not lead to evasion of the fundamental duty of publication; - the establishment plan referred to in Article 21 shall show next to the number of posts authorised for the financial year, the number authorised for the preceding year and the number of posts actually filled, as well as the number of contract staff and national experts. By analogy, the well-founded estimate of the number of contract staff planned and provisionally budgeted for the financial year shall also include the number of contract staff estimated for the preceding year and the number of staff actually employed. The establishment plan shall constitute an absolute limit for the agency; no appointment may be made in excess of the limit set;-it is stressed that the authorising officer (i.e. the director of the agency) continues to be ultimately responsible; the fact that he has delegated the task does not mean that he has delegated the responsibility; -the budgetary authority should be enabled to monitor the use of external experts by the executive agencies;-the European Parliament, upon a recommendation from the Council, which shall decide by qualified majority, shall give a discharge to the director in respect of the implementation of the administrative budget for year N by no later than 29 April of year N+2. The director shall inform the management board of the observations of the European Parliament contained in the resolution accompanying the discharge decision.
- 2008/04/09 Debate in Parliament
- 2008/03/07 Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading
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2008/02/28
Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
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2007/09/27
Referral to associated committees announced in Parliament
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2007/06/28
Council Meeting
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2007/05/10
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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2007/04/25
Legislative proposal published
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SEC(2007)0492
summary
PURPOSE: to amend Regulation (EC) No 1653/2004 on a standard financial regulation for the executive agencies pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 58/2003 laying down the statute for executive agencies to be entrusted with certain tasks in the management of Community programmes.PROPOSED ACT: Commission Regulation.CONTENT: following the adoption of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 amending Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities, it is necessary to adapt Commission Regulation (EC) No 1653/2004 on a standard financial regulation for the executive agencies pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 58/2003 laying down the statute for executive agencies to be entrusted with certain tasks in the management of Community programmes in order to align it with the Financial Regulation.Other amendments became necessary in the light of experience gathered by the existing executive agencies:- it should be clarified that sound financial management requires effective and efficient internal control and that the main features and objectives of internal control systems should be defined;- the publication of the administrative budget of agencies should be simplified while preserving the prerogatives of the budgetary authority and the Court of Auditors;- the procedure regarding transfers to be adopted by the directors of agencies has proved to be unclear and time consuming in practice and should therefore be streamlined and accelerated;.- clarification regarding conflict of interest situations, new provisions regarding ex ante verification of similar individual transactions relating to certain routine expenditure items, provisions on the liability of authorising officers and the use of a direct debit system should also be introduced into the standard financial regulation;- the accounting officers’ responsibility for certifying the accounts on the basis of the financial information supplied to them by the authorising officers should be clarified. To this end, the accounting officer should be empowered to check the information received by the authorising officer by delegation and to enter reservations, if necessary;- given that executive agencies are authorising officers by delegation of the Commission, internal control issues regarding the implementation of the operational appropriations by their directors are part of the reports established pursuant to Article 86 paragraphs 3 and 4 of the general Financial Regulation. In order to streamline reporting mechanisms and avoid diffuse information flows, the report of the internal auditor regarding the administrative appropriations of executive agencies should become part of the internal auditor’s report pursuant to paragraph 3 of the general Financial Regulation. For the same reason, the Commission should include the reports established by the agencies in accordance with Article 49, fourth paragraph in its report pursuant to Article 86(4) of the general Financial Regulation which is transmitted to the discharge authority;- the conditions for the use, by the executive agencies, of Commission services and offices, interinstitutional European offices and the Translation Centre for bodies of the European Union established by Council Regulation (EC) No 2965/94 setting up a Translation Centre for bodies of the European Union should be clarified. A provision for the selection of experts, similar to the one introduced in the general Financial Regulation, should be inserted.
- DG {'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/budget/', 'title': 'Budget'}, GRYBAUSKAITĖ Dalia
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SEC(2007)0492
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Documents
- Legislative proposal published: SEC(2007)0492
- Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A6-0068/2008
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T6-0111/2008
- : Regulation 2008/651
- : OJ L 181 10.07.2008, p. 0015
Amendments | Dossier |
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2007/0901(CNS)
2008/02/14
BUDG
2 amendments...
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act Article 1 - point 5 - point a Regulation 1653/2004 Article 20 - paragraph 2 The budget and amending budgets, as finally adopted, shall be transmitted for information to the budgetary authority, the Court of Auditors and the Commission and published on the website of the agency concerned. A summary of the budgets and amending budgets shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union within three months of their adoption. This summary shall contain the following items: revenue and expenditure, stating changes in relation to the previous year; the five main expenditure budget lines for the administrative and operational budgets; the five main revenue budget lines; and the establishment plan including officials and temporary staff, as well as an overview of contract staff and national experts, and stating changes in relation to the previous year.
Amendment 23 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act Article 1 - point 21a (new) Regulation 1653/2004 Article 66 - paragraph 1 source: PE-402.558
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