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Lead | CONT | FJELLNER Christofer (PPE-DE) | |
Opinion | LIBE | DÜHRKOP DÜHRKOP Bárbara (PSE) |
Legal Basis RoP 094
Activites
- 2009/09/26 Final act published in Official Journal
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2009/04/23
Results of vote in Parliament
- Results of vote in Parliament
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T6-0295/2009
summary
Against the opinion of the committee responsible, the plenary finally decided by 226 in favour, 230 against and 9 abstentions, to reject the proposal to postpone its decision concerning granting the Director of the European Police College discharge and decided to grant the Director of the College discharge in respect of the implementation of its budget for the financial year 2007. The decision to grant discharge is also an approval of the closure of the accounts of this EU agency.Moreover, the Parliament adopted by 403 votes to 37, with 11 abstentions, a resolution with observations which form an integral part of the decision to grant discharge.Noting that the European Court of Auditors (ECA), in its report on the annual accounts of the College for the financial year 2007, qualified its opinion with regard to the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions on the basis that the system of procurement did not comply with the provisions of the Financial Regulation, the Parliament calls on the College to strictly comply with the Financial Regulation and EC public procurement legislation and to improve its financial management, as it is the second consecutive year in which the ECA raises similar/identical concerns.The Parliament is also deeply concerned that the Court of Auditors identified cases where appropriations were used to finance the private expenditure of the College's staff. According to the Parliament, this private use of public funds is material in nature. Steps should be taken, therefore, to ensure complete reimbursement of these funds. In the light of several amendments adopted in plenary, the Parliament is concerned by a situation where its responsible committee received incomplete information provided on the private use of public money detected by the ECA, by the College's failure to meet the deadline of June 2008 (set in the 2006 discharge resolution) to bring its financial management into line with the Financial Regulation, and by recurrent breaches of basic financial rules.It also appears that the College violated the principle of unity and accuracy of the budget by not recording EUR 1.5 million received from the Commission in 2007 to implement MEDA properly. The Parliament is also concerned about the weaknesses in the College’s budget management (20% of the appropriations carried over from previous years were cancelled).As far as the question of misuse of public funds is concerned, the Court of Auditor’s report showed that these expenditures related to the financing of mobile telephone calls, use of pool cars by staff, purchase of furniture for staff accommodation and fee shuttle service of staff to airports and train stations. Although the Parliament notes that measures have been taken to recover all the amounts due, it also points out that it is not prepared to accept the submission by the College of incomplete information.In addition to this, the Parliament is concerned that, although this was already highlighted in the Court of Auditors annual report and the discharge resolution 2006, the College adopted implementing rules for the financial regulation only in February 2008, i. e. more than two years after it became an agency.Contrary to its committee responsible, the plenary no longer requires the College to present documents and reports on its financial management by 15 June 2009. However, the Parliament calls on the College to fully cooperate with OLAF as part of the internal investigation concerning the College to enable OLAF's agents to carry out their duties. The Parliament also asks the College, OLAF and the Commission to inform the discharge authority of the results of the OLAF investigation without delay as soon as they are available.In addition to these recommendations, the Parliament refers to the recommendations that appear in its resolution on financial management and control of EU agencies - see 2008/2207(INI) - adopted in parallel.
- 2009/04/21 Debate in Parliament
- 2009/03/20 Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
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2009/03/16
Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
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2009/02/10
Council Meeting
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2008/11/20
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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2008/07/23
Non-legislative basic document published
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SEC(2008)2359
summary
PURPOSE: presentation of the final accounts of the European Police College for the 2007 financial year.CONTENT: this document sets out a detailed account of the implementation of the College’s budget for 2007. It indicates that the College’s final budget amounted to 7.5 million in 2007 (compared to EUR 5 million in 2006) – 100% of which is derived from a Community subsidy.As regards the staffing policy, the College, whose headquarters are in Bramshill (UK) officially had 22.5 posts provided for in the establishment plan, of which only 12 were occupied in 2007 and 9 further posts (seconded national experts and contract staff, etc) amounting to 21 effective posts. In 2007, CEPOL’s main activities consisted of:Courses, seminars and conferences: 85 conferences.Training and research2 working groups for training involving 49 tutors from all the Member States;recommendation on trainers and course standards has been adopted;European approach for police science adopted;reference groups for the e-Network and for E-learning have been established;e-doc database and CEPOL’s glossary have continued to be developed.External relationsagreements signed with Eurojust, Frontex and Europol;organisation of two specific activities for candidate countries;launch of the Euromed II project;preliminary contacts initiated for cooperation with international (OSCE, Interpol) and national organisations (Russia, European Neighbourhood Policy countries).Full details of the College’s accounts are available from the following address: http://www.cepol.europa.eu/index.php?id=final-accounts
- DG {'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/budget/', 'title': 'Budget'}, KALLAS Siim
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SEC(2008)2359
summary
Documents
- Non-legislative basic document published: SEC(2008)2359
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A6-0160/2009
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T6-0295/2009
- : Budget 2009/663
- : OJ L 255 26.09.2009, p. 0157
Amendments | Dossier |
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2008/2271(DEC)
2009/02/23
CONT
15 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Is
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Is concerned that the College adopted a revision of its financial regulation in 2008, which contains derogations from the framework financial regulation, notably from procurement rules, without the Commission's prior consent;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Title before paragraph 10 and paragraph 10 Amendment 2 #
Proposal for a decision Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Is deeply concerned that the ECA identified cases where appropriations were used to finance the private expenditure of the College's staff; notes the ECA's judgement that this private use of public
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Subtitle Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. I
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Notes that the College violated the principle of unity and accuracy of the budget by not recording EUR 1 500 000 received from the Commission in 2007 to implement MEDA properly;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Is concerned about the weaknesses in budget management detected by the ECA; notes that only EUR 5 600 000 of the commitment appropriations were used while EUR 1 700 000 were carried over; notes that 20 % of the appropriations carried over from previous years were cancelled;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 c (new) 4c. Notes that until November 2007 the College did not have a proper commitment accounting system which caused serious difficulties in budget management, for example the creation of new budgetary lines ex nihilo;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 d (new) 4d. Notes that a paper-based system for commitments entered into force as of 1 January 2008 and ABAC (Accrual Based Accounting) was implemented in June 2008;
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