Progress: Procedure completed
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MARTIN Hans-Peter ( NA)
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| Committee Opinion | TRAN |
ROMAGNOLI Luca ( NA)
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PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2006.
LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision 2009/223/EC of the European Parliament on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2006.
CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Executive Director of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year 2006.
This decision is in line with the European Parliament’s resolution adopted on 22 April 2008 and comprises a series of observations that form an integral part of the discharge decision (please refer to the summary of the opinion of 22/04/2008).
The European Parliament adopted, by 621 votes in favour, 37 against and 18 abstentions, a Decision to grant the Executive Director of the European Aviation Safety Agency discharge in respect of the implementation of its budget for the financial year 2006. The decision to grant discharge also constitutes closure of the accounts of this EU agency.
At the same time, the Parliament adopted, by 623 votes in favour, 39 against and 17 abstentions, a Resolution containing the comments which form part of the decision giving discharge. The report had been tabled for plenary by Hans-Peter MARTIN (NI, AT) on behalf of the Committee on Budgetary Control.
As is the case for all EU agencies, the Parliament's Resolution is divided into two parts: part one contains general comments on EU agencies, while part two focuses on the specific case of the Agency.
1) General comments on the majority of EU agencies: the Parliament notes that the budgets of the 24 agencies and other satellite bodies audited by the Court of Auditors totalled more than EUR 1 billion and that the number of agencies is constantly increasing. The number of agencies subject to the discharge procedure evolved from 8 in 2000 to 20 in 2006. It concludes therefore that the auditing/discharge process has become cumbersome and disproportionate compared to the relative size of the agencies and that, in the future, this type of procedure should be simplified and rationalised for decentralised agencies.
On the basis of the financial analysis, the Parliament is of the following opinion:
Fundamental considerations : given the constantly increasing number of agencies, the Parliament requests that, before the creation of a new agency, the Commission provide clear explanations regarding agency type, objectives of the agency, internal governance structure, products, services, clients and stakeholders of the agency, formal relationship with external actors, budget responsibility, financial planning, and personnel and staffing policy. It also requests that each agency be governed by a yearly performance agreement which should contain the main objectives for the coming year and that the performance of the agencies be regularly audited by the Court of Auditors (and extend the financial analysis of expenditure to also cover administrative efficiency and effectiveness). More generally, the Parliament takes the view that, in the case of agencies, which are continually overestimating their respective budget needs, technical abatement should be made on the basis of vacant posts in order to reduce the assigned revenue for the agencies and therefore also lower administrative costs of the EU. It recalls that it is a serious problem that a number of agencies is criticised for not following rules on public procurement, the Financial Regulation, the Staff Regulations etc., and consider that the principal reason for this is that most regulations and the Financial Regulation are designed for bigger institutions rather than for small agencies. Therefore, it is necessary to seek a rapid solution in order to enhance the effectiveness of the legislation by grouping the administrative functions of various agencies together or by establishing implementing rules which are better adapted to the agencies. The Parliament also insists that the Commission, when drafting the Preliminary Draft Budget, take into consideration the results of budget implementation by the individual agencies in former years and revise the budget requested by the particular agency accordingly. If the Commission does not undertake this revision, the Parliament invites the competent committee to revise, itself, the budget in question to a realistic level . At the same time, the Parliament recalls that it expects the Commission to present every five years a study on the added value of every existing agency and to not hesitate to close an agency if it is deemed useless by the analysis. Such an assessment is expected as soon as possible given that this type of assessment has yet to be presented. Furthermore, the Parliament insists that recommendations of the Court of Auditors should be promptly implemented and the level of subsidies paid to the agencies should be aligned with their real cash requirements.
Presentation of reporting data : noting that there is no standard approach among the agencies with regard to the presentation of information, the Parliament recalls that it already invited the directors of the agencies to accompany their annual activity report with a declaration of assurance concerning the legality and regularity of operations, similar to the declarations signed by the Directors General of the Commission. It therefore asks the Commission to amend its standing instructions to the agencies and to produce a harmonised model for presenting information, including: i) an annual report intended for a general readership on the body's operations, work and achievements; ii) financial statements and a report on implementation of the agency’s budget; iii) an activity report of the Directors of the agency (as requested by the Parliament since 2005); iv) a declaration of assurance signed by the body's director.
General findings by the Court of Auditors : the Parliament refers to certain recurring findings by the Court, including the disbursement of subsidies paid by the Commission (not sufficiently justified estimates of the agencies' cash requirements), the non implementation of the ABAC accounting system by some agencies or the accrued charges for untaken leave which are accounted for by some agencies. It calls for rapid measures in these areas as well as improvements to the internal audit procedures of the agencies. The Parliament also calls on the agencies to consider an inter-agency disciplinary board, as some individual agencies have difficulty in setting up their own disciplinary boards due to their size. Draft inter-institutional agreement : the Parliament recalls the Commission's draft Interinstitutional agreement on the operating framework for the European regulatory agencies (see ACI/2005/2035 ), which was intended to create a framework for the creation, structure, operation, evaluation and control of the European regulatory agencies, and awaits its adoption as soon as possible. It particularly welcomes the Commission's commitment to bring forward a Communication on the future of the regulatory agencies during the course of 2008.
2) Specific points concerning the European Aviation Safety Agency : the Parliament notes that the Agency carried over some 40% of commitments for administrative expenditure and more than 50% for operational expenditure. It also notes that more than 15% of appropriations were cancelled. However, it acknowledges the Agency’s justification that the high level of carry-overs was due to the significant outsourcing of its activities to the Member States' National Aviation Authorities.
The Parliament is also concerned by the fact that the Agency’s certification activities cost approximately EUR 48 million whereas revenue only amounted to EUR 35 million. Therefore, the current fees scheme must be reviewed in order to ensure that the Agency's costs for certification activities are covered. It is also necessary to review the Agency's fee structure so as to bring costs and revenue for certification activities into balance. In addition, the Parliament notes the statement in the Agency's Activity Report that the uncertainty affecting the operating budget for the Agency has continued, due chiefly to low income from fees.
At the same time, the Parliament notes that the Agency’s short-term receivables amounted to EUR 14 million, of which 20% were more than three months old. The Agency must, therefore, implement an effective claim management system.
The Committee on Budgetary Control adopted the report by Hans-Peter MARTIN (NI, AT) recommending that the Parliament grant the Executive Director of the European Aviation Safety Agency discharge in respect of the implementation of its budget for the financial year 2006.
The parliamentary committee notes that the final annual accounts of the Agency are as annexed to the Court of Auditors report.
MEPs make a series of general comments on the EU agencies before focusing on the individual case of the Agency.
1) General comments on the majority of EU agencies : MEPs note that the budgets of the 24 agencies and other satellite bodies audited by the Court of Auditors totalled more than EUR 1 billion and that the number of agencies is constantly increasing. The number of agencies subject to the discharge procedure evolved from 8 in 2000 to 20 in 2006. They conclude therefore that the auditing/discharge process has become cumbersome and disproportionate compared to the relative size of the agencies and that, in the future, this type of procedure should be simplified and rationalised for decentralised agencies.
On the basis of the financial analysis, MEPs are of the following opinion:
Fundamental considerations : given the constantly increasing number of agencies, MEPs request that, before the creation of a new agency, the Commission provide clear explanations regarding agency type, objectives of the agency, internal governance structure, products, services, clients and stakeholders of the agency, formal relationship with external actors, budget responsibility, financial planning, and personnel and staffing policy. They also request that each agency be governed by a yearly performance agreement which should contain the main objectives for the coming year and that the performance of the agencies be regularly audited by the Court of Auditors (and extend the financial analysis of expenditure to also cover administrative efficiency and effectiveness). More generally, MEPs take the view that, in the case of agencies, which are continually overestimating their respective budget needs, technical abatement should be made on the basis of vacant posts in order to reduce the assigned revenue for the agencies and therefore also lower administrative costs of the EU. They recall that it is a serious problem that a number of agencies is criticised for not following rules on public procurement, the Financial Regulation, the Staff Regulations etc., and consider that the principal reason for this is that most regulations and the Financial Regulation are designed for bigger institutions rather than for small agencies. Therefore, it is necessary to seek a rapid solution in order to enhance the effectiveness of the legislation by grouping the administrative functions of various agencies together or by establishing implementing rules which are better adapted to the agencies. MEPs also insist that the Commission, when drafting the Preliminary Draft Budget, take into consideration the results of budget implementation by the individual agencies in former years and revise the budget requested by the particular agency accordingly. If the Commission does not undertake this revision, MEPs invite the competent committee to revise, itself, the budget in question to a realistic level. At the same time, MEPs recall that they expect the Commission to present every five years a study on the added value of every existing agency and to not hesitate to close an agency if it is deemed useless by the analysis. Such an assessment is expected as soon as possible given that this type of assessment has yet to be presented. Furthermore, MEPs insist that recommendations of the Court of Auditors should be promptly implemented and the level of subsidies paid to the agencies should be aligned with their real cash requirements. Presentation of reporting data : noting that there is no standard approach among the agencies with regard to the presentation of information, MEPs recall that they already invited the directors of the agencies to accompany their annual activity report with a declaration of assurance concerning the legality and regularity of operations, similar to the declarations signed by the Directors General of the Commission. They therefore ask the Commission to amend its standing instructions to the agencies and to produce a harmonised model for presenting information, including: i) an annual report intended for a general readership on the body's operations, work and achievements; ii) financial statements and a report on implementation of the agency’s budget; iii) an activity report of the Directors of the agency (as requested by the Parliament since 2005); iv) a declaration of assurance signed by the body's director. General findings by the Court of Auditors : MEPs refer to certain recurring findings by the Court, including the disbursement of subsidies paid by the Commission (not sufficiently justified estimates of the agencies' cash requirements), the non implementation of the ABAC accounting system by some agencies or the accrued charges for untaken leave which are accounted for by some agencies. They call for rapid measures in these areas as well as improvements to the internal audit procedures of the agencies. MEPs also calls on the agencies to consider an inter-agency disciplinary board, as some individual agencies have difficulty in setting up their own disciplinary boards due to their size. Draft inter-institutional agreement : MEPs recall the Commission's draft Interinstitutional agreement on the operating framework for the European regulatory agencies (see ACI/2005/2035 ), which intended to create a framework for the creation, structure, operation, evaluation and control of the European regulatory agencies and insist that it be completed as soon as possible. They particularly welcome the Commission's commitment to bring forward a Communication on the future of the regulatory agencies during the course of 2008.
2) Specific points concerning the European Aviation Safety Agency : MEPs note that the Agency carried over some 40% of commitments for administrative expenditure and more than 50% for operational expenditure. They also note that more than 15% of appropriations were cancelled. However, they acknowledge the Agency’s justification that the high level of carry-overs was due to the significant outsourcing of its activities to the Member States' National Aviation Authorities (as well as the delayed reception of invoices).
MEPs are also concerned by the fact that the Agency’s certification activities cost approximately EUR 48 million whereas revenue only amounted to EUR 35 million. Therefore, the current fees scheme must be reviewed in order to ensure that the Agency's costs for certification activities are covered. It is also necessary to review the Agency's fee structure so as to bring costs and revenue for certification activities into balance. In addition, MEPs note the statement in the Agency's Activity Report that the uncertainty affecting the operating budget for the Agency has continued, due chiefly to low income from fees.
At the same time, MEPs note that the Agency’s short-term receivables amounted to EUR 14 million, of which 20% were more than three months old. Therefore, the Agency must implement an effective claim management system.
Based on the observations contained in the revenue and expenditure account and the balance sheet of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2006, as well as on the Court of Auditor’s report and the Agency’s replies to the Court’s observations, the Council recommends that the Parliament grant the Director of the Agency discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget for the financial year 2006.
In doing so, the Council confirms that EUR 6.3 million (96%) of the appropriations carried over from 2005 to 2006 (EUR 6.6 million) was used, that the appropriations carried over from 2006 to 2007 amount to EUR 19.3 million and that a total of EUR 3.7 million was cancelled.
Recalling that the Court of Auditors was able to obtain reasonable assurance that the Agency’s annual accounts were, in all material aspects, reliable, the Council believes that there is a certain number of observations that must be taken into consideration when providing the discharge on the implementation of the 2006 budget, particularly regarding the following points:
Management of the Agency: the Council emphasises that certain factors, notably high carryover rates, high rates of cancellations and a significant number of vacant posts, require further improvements to the management of the financial, budgetary and human resources of the Agency and calls on the Agency to rectify this situation as soon as possible; Receivables: the Council notes the Court’s observation that collected revenue was insufficient to cover the cost of the Agency’s certification activities. Following the adoption of Regulation (EC) N° 593/2007, which entered into force 1 June 2007, the Council hopes that this issue will be resolved. In the meantime, it encourages the Agency to continue its efforts aimed at implementing an effective claim management system in order to rectify the shortcomings noted by the Court; Procurement: the Council also notes that the Court revealed that, in two instances, recourse to the negotiated procedure was not justified for procurement and encourages the Agency to improve its programming and, therefore, to respect the principle of open competition concerning the management of public markets; Presentation of the budget: the Council notes its satisfaction with the greater transparency in terms of creating reports, due to the separate mention of assigned revenues in the presentation of the implementation of the budget.
PURPOSE: to present the report of the Court of Auditors on the 2006 accounts of the European Aviation Safety Agency.
CONTENT: the report notes that the appropriations entered in the Agency’s budget for the financial year in question amount to EUR 65.663 million in payment appropriations, of which EUR 60.312 million was committed (as commitment appropriations in the context of differentiated appropriations) and EUR 42.714 million was paid as payment appropriations. Out of this general amount, EUR 19.251 million was carried over to 2007 (payment appropriations) and EUR 3.698 million was cancelled.
The Court notes that the accounts for the financial year are reliable in all material aspects and that the underlying transactions of the Agency’s accounts are, on the whole, legal and regular.
Analysis of the accounts by the Court: the Court states that, at the end of 2006, the appropriations carried over for title II (administrative expenditure) were about 40 % of the commitments and for title III (non-differentiated operational expenditure) were about 50 %. For the same titles, more than 15 % of the appropriations were cancelled. Contrary to its financial regulation, the Agency used its differentiated payment appropriations carried over from 2005 despite the fact that it had enough payment appropriations for 2006. Thus, the budgetary principle of annuality was not strictly observed.
For its 2006 certification activities, the Agency’s cost analysis system showed costs of about EUR 48 million versus revenue of about EUR 35 million. According to the Court, the Agency, in cooperation with the Commission, must review the current fees scheme in order to ensure that the Agency’s costs for the certification activities are covered by its fees.
Furthermore, the Court notes that the short-term receivables amounted to approximately EUR 14 million, of which 20 % were more than three months old. The Agency has not yet implemented an effective claim management system, possibly including interest on late payment.
Finally, for a contract with an external consultant (value = EUR 221 000) and for the renewal of an agreement for travel services signed in 2004 (annual market value of approximately EUR 1.5 million), the Agency had recourse to the negotiated procedure for reasons of urgency, which were not justified and rather reflected insufficient programming.
The Agency’s replies: the Agency considers the criticisms point by point and notes that the carried over differentiated payment appropriations were related to activities to be paid by the fee income. The Agency had to use differentiated payment appropriations carried over from 2005 because the 2006 fee income was insufficient to cover the cost of its certification activities and to offset the impact of the change from differentiated to non-differentiated appropriations from 1 January 2007 (the Financial Regulation does not provide a procedure for making such a change).
In terms of the costs of certification, the Agency notes that the new fees and charges regulation (EC) No 593/2007, which entered into force on 1 June 2007, should generate revenue sufficient to cover the cost of the certification activities. The Agency also states that it has decided to implement, during 2007 and 2008, an integrated management system that will further increase the level of detail in monitoring the cost of its activities.
The agency also specifies that, during 2006, the follow up of receivables was impacted by the burden of old 2005 recoverable amounts for which sufficient information was not always available. The Agency notes that it is continuing its efforts to make this information more reliable and to reduce the delays in the collection of receivables. Moreover, since December 2006, the Agency has been sending out systematic reminders and is charging interest in case of late payment.
Lastly, the Agency takes note of the Court’s observation concerning the management of short-term receivables.
PURPOSE: presentation of the final accounts of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2006.
CONTENT: this document sets out a detailed account of the implementation of the 2006 budget, including the revenue and expenditure and the balance sheet for the year concerned.
According to this document, the final budget amounted to EUR 66.8 million including EUR 33.2 million of revenue from fees and charges and EUR 31.4 million from Community subsidy as well as a contribution from the Federal Republic of Germany (Ministry of Transport) of EUR 1.2 million.
As regards the staffing policy, the Agency, whose head office is now based in Cologne (Germany), set out a total of 328 posts in the establishment plan. 276 of these posts are currently occupied + 33 other posts totalling 309 assigned to operational, administrative and mixed tasks. Staff expenditure in 2006 accounted for EUR 23.595 million (final budget appropriations paid).
During 2006, the Agency carried out the following activities:
Opinions : 5 opinions concerning amendments to Regulations (EC) Nos 1592/2002, 1702/2003 and 2042/2003.
Rulemaking decisions :
3 amendments of CS 25, CS-P and CS-ETSO certification specifications; 6 amendments of Acceptable Means of Compliance and Guidance Material for Regulations (EC) Nos 1702/2003 and 2042/2003; 1 decision on the organisation of approval numbers.
International cooperation :
1 agreement protocol concluded with China on the final production line of the Airbus A320 in China and 1 cooperation agreement signed with China on Airbus products in general; 1 cooperation agreement concluded with Japan for the export of European products; 13 cooperation agreements concluded with every non-EU ECAC country within the context of the continuation of the SAFA programme; Extension of the cooperation agreement with the Aeronautical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States on Beriev products;
Certification decisions :
Type certificates: 70 Supplementary type certificates: 803 Airworthiness directives: 382 European Technical Specifications: 178 Acceptable means of compliance: 97 Major changes: 1 125 Minor changes: 1 830 Major repairs: 1 009 Minor repairs: 372 AFM/RFM (= Flight Manual Revisions): 430 Approval of design organisations: 377 Approval of maintenance organisations (bilateral): 1 293 Approval of maintenance organisations (foreign): 201 Approval of maintenance training organisations: 16 Approval of manufacturing organisations: 6
Standardisation inspections (number of countries by type):
Approval of manufacturing organisations: 12 countries
Approval of maintenance organisations: 26 countries.
The complete version of the final accounts may be found at the following address: http://www.easa.eu.int/level1/enlangverstempl.html
PURPOSE: presentation of the final accounts of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2006.
CONTENT: this document sets out a detailed account of the implementation of the 2006 budget, including the revenue and expenditure and the balance sheet for the year concerned.
According to this document, the final budget amounted to EUR 66.8 million including EUR 33.2 million of revenue from fees and charges and EUR 31.4 million from Community subsidy as well as a contribution from the Federal Republic of Germany (Ministry of Transport) of EUR 1.2 million.
As regards the staffing policy, the Agency, whose head office is now based in Cologne (Germany), set out a total of 328 posts in the establishment plan. 276 of these posts are currently occupied + 33 other posts totalling 309 assigned to operational, administrative and mixed tasks. Staff expenditure in 2006 accounted for EUR 23.595 million (final budget appropriations paid).
During 2006, the Agency carried out the following activities:
Opinions : 5 opinions concerning amendments to Regulations (EC) Nos 1592/2002, 1702/2003 and 2042/2003.
Rulemaking decisions :
3 amendments of CS 25, CS-P and CS-ETSO certification specifications; 6 amendments of Acceptable Means of Compliance and Guidance Material for Regulations (EC) Nos 1702/2003 and 2042/2003; 1 decision on the organisation of approval numbers.
International cooperation :
1 agreement protocol concluded with China on the final production line of the Airbus A320 in China and 1 cooperation agreement signed with China on Airbus products in general; 1 cooperation agreement concluded with Japan for the export of European products; 13 cooperation agreements concluded with every non-EU ECAC country within the context of the continuation of the SAFA programme; Extension of the cooperation agreement with the Aeronautical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States on Beriev products;
Certification decisions :
Type certificates: 70 Supplementary type certificates: 803 Airworthiness directives: 382 European Technical Specifications: 178 Acceptable means of compliance: 97 Major changes: 1 125 Minor changes: 1 830 Major repairs: 1 009 Minor repairs: 372 AFM/RFM (= Flight Manual Revisions): 430 Approval of design organisations: 377 Approval of maintenance organisations (bilateral): 1 293 Approval of maintenance organisations (foreign): 201 Approval of maintenance training organisations: 16 Approval of manufacturing organisations: 6
Standardisation inspections (number of countries by type):
Approval of manufacturing organisations: 12 countries
Approval of maintenance organisations: 26 countries.
The complete version of the final accounts may be found at the following address: http://www.easa.eu.int/level1/enlangverstempl.html
Documents
- Final act published in Official Journal: Budget 2009/223
- Final act published in Official Journal: OJ L 088 31.03.2009, p. 0201
- Commission response to text adopted in plenary: SP(2008)3169
- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament: T6-0155/2008
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A6-0118/2008
- Committee report tabled for plenary: A6-0118/2008
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE402.778
- Committee opinion: PE398.627
- Committee draft report: PE396.700
- Supplementary non-legislative basic document: 05843/2008
- Court of Auditors: opinion, report: N6-0004/2008
- Court of Auditors: opinion, report: OJ C 309 19.12.2007, p. 0001
- Non-legislative basic document: EUR-Lex
- Non-legislative basic document: SEC(2007)1055
- Non-legislative basic document published: EUR-Lex
- Non-legislative basic document published: SEC(2007)1055
- Non-legislative basic document: EUR-Lex SEC(2007)1055
- Court of Auditors: opinion, report: N6-0004/2008 OJ C 309 19.12.2007, p. 0001
- Supplementary non-legislative basic document: 05843/2008
- Committee draft report: PE396.700
- Committee opinion: PE398.627
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE402.778
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A6-0118/2008
- Commission response to text adopted in plenary: SP(2008)3169
Votes
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IND/DEMRapport Martin H.P. A6-0118/2008 - résolution #
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52 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision on discharge Paragraph 1 Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 Amendment 2 #
Proposal for a decision on the closure of accounts Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Recital O O. calling on the Director of the agency to propose, by 1 June 2008 at the latest, practical measures to achieve savings, above all in the area of administrative costs; to explain in detail why administrative costs are unacceptably high; to explain in detail why staff expenditure per post increased by 44% between the financial year 2006 and the 2008 preliminary draft budget; to explain in detail why the subsidy from the Community budget has continued to increase enormously over the period between 2003 and 2008; to explain in detail why the cost of staff privileges
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 36 36. Requests that the performance of the agencies be regularly (and on an ad hoc basis) audited by the Court of Auditors or another independent auditor; considers that this should not be limited to traditional elements of financial management and the proper use of public money, but should also cover administrative efficiency and effectiveness and should include a rating of the financial management of each agency;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 36 a (new) 36a. Takes the view that in the case of agencies which are continually overestimating their respective budget needs, technical abatement should be made on the basis of vacant posts; is of the opinion that this will lead in the long run to less assigned revenue for the agencies and therefore also to lower administrative costs;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 36 b (new) 36b. Notes that it is a serious problem that a number of agencies is criticised for not following rules on public procurement, the Financial Regulation, the Staff Regulations etc.; considers that the principal reason for this is that most regulations and the Financial Regulation are designed for bigger institutions and that most of the small agencies do not have the critical mass to be able to cope with these regulatory requirements; therefore asks the Commission to look for a rapid solution in order to enhance the effectiveness by grouping the administrative functions of various agencies together, in order to achieve this critical mass (taking into consideration the necessary changes in the basic regulations governing the agencies and their budgetary independence), or urgently to draft specific rules for the agencies (in particular implementing rules for the agencies) which allow them to be in full compliance;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 36 c (new) 36c. Insists that the Commission, when drafting the Preliminary Draft Budget, take into consideration the results of budget implementation by the individual agencies in former years, in particular in year n-1, and, revise the budget requested by the particular agency accordingly; invites its competent committee to respect this revision and, if not undertaken by the Commission, to revise itself the budget in question to a realistic level matching the absorption and implementation capacity of the agency in question;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 36 d (new) 36d. Recalls its decision on discharge in respect of the financial year 2005, in which it invited 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 to take the necessary steps by reformulating the mandate of that agency or by closing it; notes that there has not been one single evaluation undertaken by the Commission in 2007; insists that the Commission should present at least 5 such evaluations before the decision on discharge in respect of the financial year 2007, starting with the oldest agencies;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 36 e (new) 36e. Is of opinion that recommendations of the Court of Auditors should be promptly implemented and the level of subsidies paid to the agencies should be aligned with their real cash requirements; considers further that the amendments to the general Financial Regulation should be incorporated into the agencies' framework financial regulation and into their various specific financial regulations;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 36 f (new) 36f. Is concerned that a significant number of staff is employed on a temporary basis in a way that could undermine the quality of their work; therefore asks the Commission to improve its monitoring of the implementation of the Staff Regulations by the agencies;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37 Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 38 Amendment 42 #
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 39. Calls on the Commission to submit as quickly as possible a proposal to abolish or drastically cut back privileges
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 40 Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 61 Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 62 Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 63 Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 64 Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 65 Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 66 Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 source: PE-402.778
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