Activites

• 2010/09/25 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Decision 2010/516
  • OJ L 252 25.09.2010, p. 0136
• 2010/05/05 Results of vote in Parliament
  • Results of vote in Parliament
  • T7-0102/2010 summary

    The European Parliament adopted by 558 votes to 25, with 56 abstentions, a decision on discharge to be granted to the Executive Director of the European Aviation Safety Agency in respect of the implementation of its budget for the financial year 2008.Furthermore, Parliament adopted a resolution with observations which are an integral part of the decision to grant discharge.The main points are as follows:performance: Parliament stresses how important it is for the Agency to set objectives and indicators in its programming so as to assess its achievements. It calls on the Agency to consider making a Gantt diagram part of the programming for each of its operational activities, with a view to indicating the amount of time spent by each staff member on a project and encouraging an approach geared towards achieving results. It also calls on it to set out a comparison of operations carried out during the year for which discharge is to be granted and in the previous financial year so as to enable the discharge authority to assess its performance from one year to the next more effectively; fees and charges Regulation: noting that 2008 was the first full year of implementation of certification tasks for the fees and charges levied by the Agency, Parliament calls on it to establish a monitoring system at the level of certification projects to make sure that, over the entire project duration, the fees levied do not deviate significantly from the actual cost. It regrets that, in 2008, the system of annual flat fees generated income which was significantly above the actual costs of the services rendered. It therefore calls upon the Agency to put forward, as a matter of urgency, a detailed plan to guarantee that this does not recur in future years; carryover of appropriations: Parliament draws attention to the fact that the Agency carried forward to 2009 a high level of appropriations for operating expenditure (more than EUR 53 million, which is 79% of the operating appropriations). It stresses also that this situation reveals weaknesses in the enterprise resource planning system and therefore calls for much more realistic forecasts to be presented to the Commission and Parliament. It notes that the Agency maintained very high cash reserves (amounting to EUR 57.245 million) and calls for the level of these cash holdings to be kept as low as possible. It notes that, furthermore, 15% of staff-related expenditure was transferred to operating expenditure, which indicates unrealistic planning; other improvements to be made by the Agency: Parliament calls specifically on the Agency to improve its recruitment planning so as to be more realistic and to put an end to the shortcomings affecting the establishment of the budget and the monitoring of the enterprise resource planning system; internal audit: lastly, Parliament calls on the Agency to implement the recommendations made by the Internal Audit Service (IAS) in order to tackle, in particular, the problems of budgetary uncertainty.Noting that the Agency’s annual accounts for the financial year 2008 are reliable, and the underlying transactions are legal and regular, Parliament approves the closure of the Centre’s accounts. However, it makes a number of recommendations that need to be taken into account when the discharge is granted, in addition to the general recommendations that appear in the draft resolution on financial management and control of EU agencies (see 2010/2007(INI) adopted in parallel).

• 2010/04/21 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 2010/03/25 Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
  • A7-0068/2010
• 2010/03/23 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
• #2994
• 2010/02/16 Council Meeting
• 2009/10/07 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2009/07/23 Non-legislative basic document published
  • SEC(2009)1089 summary

    PURPOSE: to present the final accounts of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2008.CONTENT: this document sets out a detailed account of the implementation of the European Aviation Safety Agency’s budget for the financial year 2008. It notes that the final budget amounted to EUR 100.9 million, including EUR 67.2 million of revenue from fees and charges (67%), EUR 30 million from Community subsidy (30%) as well as a contribution from EFTA and Switzerland of EUR 1.4 million. As regards the staffing policy, the Agency, whose head office is now based in Cologne (Germany), set out a total of 452 temporary members of staff in the establishment plan. 403 of these posts are currently occupied with 39 other posts (seconded national experts, special advisor contract and auxiliary staff).In 2008, the Agency’s main activities focused on the following:Opinions: 6 Opinions for amendments to Regulations (EC) No 216/2008, (EC) No 1702/2003 and (EC) No 2042/2003.Rulemaking Decisions: 11 Decisions related to certification: Specifications and Acceptable Means of Compliance and Guidance Material.International Cooperation18 Working Arrangements with Administration of Civil Aviation of China, General Authority of Civil Aviation of Saudi Arabia, Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore and the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority.1 Modification to the Working Arrangement between Japanese Civil Aviation Bureau and EASA.2 Implementing Procedures to the Working Arrangement between Interstate Aviation Committee and EASA.1 Implementing Procedure to the Working Arrangement between the General Civil Aviation Authority of the United Arab Emirates and EASA.1 Memorandum of Understanding with Civil Aviation Authority of Pakistan.Certification decisions at 31 December 2008Type Certificates: 8Supplemental type certificates: 764Airworthiness directives: 216Alternative Method of Compliance: 84European Technical Standard Order Authorisation: 281Major changes: 932Minor changes: 2 241Major repairs: 82Minor repairs: 148Aircraft flight manual: 468Approval of flight conditions: 296Approval of Design organisations: 509Approval of Maintenance organisations (bilateral): 1 372Approval of Maintenance organisations (foreign): 233Approval of Maintenance training organisations: 28Approval of Manufacturing: 20Standardisation inspections (number of countries by type) at 31 December 2008In the field of Maintenance (CAW): 27In the field of Production (IAW): 12The complete version of the final accounts may be found at the following address: http://www.easa.europa.eu

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

Documents

• Non-legislative basic document published: SEC(2009)1089
• Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A7-0068/2010
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T7-0102/2010
• : Decision 2010/516
• : OJ L 252 25.09.2010, p. 0136

History

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