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Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | CONT | MATHIEU HOUILLON Véronique (PPE) | STAVRAKAKIS Georgios (S&D), STAES Bart (Verts/ALE), SØNDERGAARD Søren Bo (GUE/NGL) |
Opinion | TRAN | JENSEN Anne E. (ALDE) |
Activites
- 2010/09/25 Final act published in Official Journal
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2010/05/05
Results of vote in Parliament
- Results of vote in Parliament
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T7-0121/2010
summary
The European Parliament adopted by 556 votes to 30, with 54 abstentions, a decision on discharge to be granted to the Executive Director of the SESAR Joint Undertaking 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:failure to respect the budgetary principle of annuality: Parliament notes that, in April 2008, the Joint Undertaking's Administrative Board adopted the final budget covering the period August 2007 – December 2008, and that that decision was at odds with the annuality principle; implementation of the budget: Parliament states that the final budget adopted by the Joint Undertaking's Administrative Board in April 2008 proved to be highly unrealistic, as is illustrated by commitment and payment appropriations take-up rates of 1% and 17% respectively. It regrets that, in a number of instances, transaction controls did not operate correctly and that adequate internal controls for contracts and procurement had not been established; recognition of assets: in contrast to very low utilisation rates, the Joint Undertaking had considerable sums in deposits in bank accounts at the year end, thus breaching the principle of budgetary equilibrium. Parliament expressly recommends that the Joint Undertaking formulates a more appropriate accounting policy; SESAR Financial Regulation: Parliament welcomes the Court of Auditors' intention to deliver an opinion on the Financial Regulation. It stresses the importance of that regulation being in line with the framework Financial Regulation for Community bodies and the need to adopt implementing rules for its Financial Regulation; internal control systems: Parliament calls on the Joint Undertaking also to establish without delay appropriate internal control systems in connection with public procurement. It concludes from the annual closure of accounts and the amount of interest payments that the Joint Undertaking maintains high cash reserves over long periods (as of 31 December 2008, the Joint Undertaking's cash reserves amounted to EUR 116 007 569). Noting that the Joint Undertaking’s annual accounts for the financial year 2008 are reliable, and the underlying transactions are legal and regular, Parliament approves the closure of the Undertaking’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
- 2010/03/26 Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
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2010/03/23
Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
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2010/02/16
Council Meeting
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2009/11/12
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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2009/07/23
Non-legislative basic document published
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SEC(2009)1089
summary
PURPOSE: to present the final accounts of the SESAR Joint Undertaking for the year 2008.CONTENT: this document sets out a detailed account of the implementation of the SESAR Joint Undertaking for 2008. It indicates that the final budget for 2007-2008 for the undertaking was EUR 1 560.21 million, with a Community contribution of 10.3 % from the 7th Research Programme. Around 90 % of the funding from Eurocontrol and the other stakeholders will take the form of in-kind contributions. To recall, the SESAR Joint Undertaking was established in February 2007 in order to manage the activities of the SESAR (Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research) project. The SESAR project aims to modernise air traffic management (ATM) in Europe and is divided into three phases: ‘Definition phase’ started in 2005 and led by the European Organisation for Safety of Air Navigation (Eurocontrol), with co-financing from the Community budget through the Trans European Network — Transport programme. The outcome is the European ATM Master Plan, which defines the content, the development and deployment plans of the next generation of ATM systems; ‘Development phase’ (2008-2013) managed by the SESAR Joint Undertaking (see also the Table) and leading to the production of new technological systems, components and operational procedures as defined in the European ATM Master Plan; ‘Deployment phase’ (2014-2020) to be led by industry and stakeholders, for the large-scale production and implementation of the new air traffic management infrastructure. The Joint Undertaking is designed as a public-private partnership. The founding members are the European Community represented by the European Commission, and Eurocontrol represented by its Agency. Following a call for expressions of interest, 15 public and private enterprises from the air navigation industry are candidate members of the Joint Undertaking. These include air navigation service providers, ground and aerospace manufacturing industry, aircraft manufacturers, airport authorities and airborne equipment manufacturers. The SESAR JU started to work autonomously on 10 August 2007. In terms of staff, the joint undertaking, whose is in Brussels, has 23 posts in the establishment plan, of which 14 are occupied with 8 staff seconded from the Joint Undertaking members as part of their in-kind contribution. They are assigned to assigned operational tasks, administrative and support tasks, and mixed tasks. During the year 2007-2008, the joint undertaking mainly carried out the following activities: establishment of the SESAR Joint Undertaking structure including staff recruitment, procedures preparation, policies and processes definition;re-design of the Joint Undertaking structure in order to align it with the new JTIs’ legal model;preparation, negotiation, discussion and launch of the membership process involving 15 candidate members for the realisation of around 300 projects framed in 16 Work Packages;preparation and initial establishment of the Work Programme Management structure;establishment of the framework for international cooperation;launch of operational activities (Industrial Support contract, AIRE initiative);launch of communication activities;launch of 16 procurement procedures for different administrative, technical and operational activities.
- DG {'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/budget/', 'title': 'Budget'}, ŠEMETA Algirdas
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SEC(2009)1089
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Documents
- Non-legislative basic document published: SEC(2009)1089
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A7-0077/2010
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T7-0121/2010
- : Decision 2010/554
- : OJ L 252 25.09.2010, p. 0227
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2009/2188(DEC)
2010/02/03
TRAN
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Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Regrets that, in a number of instances, transaction controls did not operate correctly
source: PE-438.454
2010/03/03
CONT
2 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) source: PE-439.362
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