Activites

• 2009/09/26 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Budget 2009/683
  • OJ L 255 26.09.2009, p. 0202
• 2009/04/23 Results of vote in Parliament
  • Results of vote in Parliament
  • T6-0305/2009 summary

    The European Parliament adopted a decision on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Community Fisheries Control Agency 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 400 votes to 10, with 22 abstentions, a resolution with observations which form an integral part of the decision to grant discharge.The Parliament points out that:the Agency's budget was EUR 5 million for 2007, more than half of which was managed by the Commission as the Agency only acquired financial independence shortly before the year-end;the ECA observed that the Agency had not established appropriate procedures in order to determine the funds to be carried over (leading to the result that at least EUR 125 000 was carried over without legal commitments);the Agency has not yet sufficiently documented its internal control procedures;the description of the accounting system has yet to be validated.Noting that the Agency’s annual accounts for the financial year 2007 are reliable, and the underlying transactions are legal and regular, the Parliament approves the closure of the Agency’s accounts and refers, for other observations accompanying its decision on discharge, to its resolution on financial management and control of EU agencies - see 2008/2207(INI) - adopted in parallel.

• 2009/04/21 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 2009/03/23 Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
  • A6-0179/2009
• 2009/03/16 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
• #2922
• 2009/02/10 Council Meeting
• 2008/11/20 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2008/07/23 Non-legislative basic document published
  • SEC(2008)2359 summary

    PURPOSE: to present the final accounts of the Community Fisheries Control Agency for the financial year 2007.CONTENT: this document sets out a detailed account of the implementation of the Community Fisheries Control Agency’s budget for the financial year 2007. It notes that the final budget amounts to EUR 5 million (the Agency’s first year). As regards the staffing policy, the Agency, whose head office is in Brussels (Belgium), officially set out 38 posts in its establishment plan (including 17 temporary agents – note that recruitment slowed down in anticipation of the relocation to Vigo in early 2008 and 8 other posts (contract staff).In 2007, the Agency launched its first operational activities in three areas in accordance with the 2007 Work Programme and prepared for operational activities in two more areas:North Sea and adjacent waters: on the basis of the existing cooperation between some Member States (the so called operations ‘Shark’ and ‘Saint Pierre’), in 2007, the CFCA elaborated a Joint Deployment Plan (JDP) together with the Member States surrounding the North Sea;NAFO Regulatory Area (RA): the CFCA ensured throughout 2007 the coordination of inspection and surveillance in the NAFO RA under the NAFO Conservation and Enforcement Measures (CEM) by (NAFO) Community Inspectors, with the presence of one CFCA Coordinator on board the EU-inspection vessel in the NAFO RA chartered by the Commission;Baltic Sea: between May and December 2007, six joint inspection and surveillance campaigns coordinated by the CFCA were carried out. The JISS campaigns were set up in the same way as the ones in the North Sea and each campaign was coordinated by one of the coordination centres of the Member State concerned, with a CFCA coordinator present in the centre in question;Bluefin tuna: in 2007 the CFCA started the preparatory work for the coordination of control, inspection and surveillance activities by Member States;IUU: pending the adoption of new legislation, some preparatory work has been started.The complete version of the final accounts may be found at the following address:http://www.cfca.europa.eu/organisation/CFCA_Final_Accounts_2007.pdf

  • DG {'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/budget/', 'title': 'Budget'}, KALLAS Siim

Documents

• Non-legislative basic document published: SEC(2008)2359
• Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A6-0179/2009
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T6-0305/2009
• : Budget 2009/683
• : OJ L 255 26.09.2009, p. 0202

Amendments

Dossier

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2008/2274(DEC) 2009/02/23 CONT 1 amendments... Amendment 1 # Christofer FJELLNER Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Notes that the ECA considers that the Agency has not yet sufficiently documented the internal control procedures; notwelcomes the Agency's intention to put the organisational structuresfact that the Agency put in place and internal control systems in place in 2008, and requests that the Agency include information about the follow-up action taken in its report on budgetary and financial managementaudit capability and recruited staff responsible for the further development of internal control systems in 2008; source: PE-421.112

History

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