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Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Opinion | TRAN | MEISSNER Gesine (ALDE) | |
Lead | CONT | GERBRANDY Gerben-Jan (ALDE) | AYALA SENDER Inés (S&D), STAES Bart (Verts/ALE), BRADBOURN Philip (ECR), SØNDERGAARD Søren Bo (GUE/NGL), ANDREASEN Marta (EFD), EHRENHAUSER Martin (NI) |
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2013/04/16
Indicative plenary sitting date, 1st reading/single reading
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2013/03/19
Vote scheduled in committee, 1st reading/single reading
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2013/02/27
Amendments tabled in committee
- PE497.881
- 2013/02/01 Document attached to the procedure
- 2013/01/28 Committee draft report
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2012/09/13
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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2012/09/11
Court of Auditors: opinion, report
- OJ C 388 15.12.2012, p. 0129
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N7-0024/2013
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PURPOSE: presentation of the EU Court of Auditors’ report on the annual accounts of the European Maritime Safety Agency for the financial year 2011, together with the Agency’s reply. CONTENT: in accordance with the tasks conferred on the Court of Auditors by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the Court presents to the European Parliament and to the Council, in the context of the discharge procedure, a Statement of Assurance as to the reliability of the annual accounts of each institution, body or agency of the EU, and the legality and regularity of the transactions underlying them, on the basis of an independent external audit. This audit concerned, amongst others, the annual accounts of the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). In the Court’s opinion, the Agency’s Annual Accounts fairly present, in all material respects, its financial position as of 31 December 2011 and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the year then ended, in accordance with the provisions of its Financial Regulation. The Court also considers that the transactions underlying the annual accounts of the Agency for the financial year ended 31 December 2011 are, in all material respects, legal and regular. The report confirms that the Agency’s 2011 budget amounted to EUR 56.4 million and that the number of staff employed by the Agency at the end of the year was 252. The report also makes a series of observations on the budgetary and financial management of the Agency, accompanied by the latter’s response. The main observations may be summarised as follows: Court’s comments: budget commitments: the Court states that budget commitments were not related to existing legal commitments and the Agency should have decommitted and paid back the amount to the Commission at the beginning of 2012; assets: the Court identified the need to improve the Agency’s asset management. There are unexplained differences between the recorded annual and cumulated depreciation. For internally created intangible assets, accounting procedures and information on costs are not reliable; recruitment: the Court stresses the need to improve the transparency of recruitment procedures. Agency’s replies: the Agency states that it will review its year end procedures in order to ensure outstanding balances on commitments not related to existing legal obligations are decommitted before the closing of the year; differences between recorded annual and cumulated depreciation have been mainly triggered by impairment procedures and inclusion of assets transferred from third parties and already partly depreciated. Guidelines for internally generated intangible assets are being updated along with a proper cost allocation based on "formally accepted milestones" and their related percentage of completion; EMSA endorses the Court's recommendations and has already updated its recruitment procedures accordingly. Lastly, the Court of Auditors’ report contains a summary of the Agency’s activities in 2011. This is focused on the following: organising workshops and other events; training sessions for Port State Control officers; inspections et visits; SafeSeaNet (available 99.4% of time 2010) ; ordering 2 481 satellite images and analysed through CleanSeaNet ; EU Long Range Identification and Tracking Data Centre (LRIT) was available during 99.36% of time throughout the year; 64 drills and 16 exercises with the anti-pollution vessels; EMSA Maritime Support Services operating on a 24/7 basis; THETIS, the information system in support of the new Port State Control inspection 99.07% available throughout the year.
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2012/07/25
Non-legislative basic document
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COM(2012)0436
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PURPOSE: presentation by the Commission of the consolidated annual accounts of the European Union for the financial year 2011, as part of the 2011 discharge procedure. Analysis of the accounts of the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). CONTENT: this Commission document sets out the consolidated annual accounts of the European Union for the financial year 2011 as prepared on the basis of the information presented by the institutions, organisations and bodies of the EU, in accordance with Article 129 (2) of the Financial Regulation applicable to the EU's General Budget, including the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). In 2011, the tasks and budget of this agency were as follows: description of EMSA's tasks: the Agency, which is located in Lisbon, was established by was set up by Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council and its tasks are to ensure a high level of maritime safety and to prevent pollution by ships, provide the Commission and the Member States with technical assistance, and monitor the implementation of Union legislation, as well as to evaluate its effectiveness; EMSA's budget for the 2011 financial year: the Agency’s budget for 2011, as presented in the Commission document on the consolidated annual accounts of the European Union, gives the following figures: forecasted income budget: EUR 57 million; entitlements established: EUR 53 million; amounts received: EUR 53 million; outstanding: EUR 0 million EUR. The complete version of the Agency's final accounts may be found at the following address: http://emsa.europa.eu/emsa-documents/financial-documents.html
- DG {'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/budget/', 'title': 'Budget'}, ŠEMETA Algirdas
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COM(2012)0436
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Documents
- Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2012)0436
- Committee draft report: PE497.833
- Court of Auditors: opinion, report: OJ C 388 15.12.2012, p. 0129
- Court of Auditors: opinion, report: N7-0024/2013
- Document attached to the procedure: 05753/2013
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE497.881
Amendments | Dossier |
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2012/2193(DEC)
2012/12/13
TRAN
3 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Demands that the European Commission scrutinise and prohibit possible conflicts of interest when the Agency hires experts and staff from the sector it supervises;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Notes that the recent revision of the Agency
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Draws the attention of the Agency to the need to improve its asset management as there are unexplained differences between the recorded annual and cumulated depreciation.
source: PE-501.986
2013/02/27
CONT
11 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Notes with concern the Court of Auditors' finding that when the Agency sold two sets of sweeping arms systems for at-sea oil recovery services in December 2011, aiming to obtain at least the equipment's net book value of EUR 319 050 , as a result of the minimum price being wrongly set below net book value, the equipment was sold at a loss of EUR 93 950; believes that as the price obtained was the result of a tender process, this should indicate that depreciation rates used may need examination;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Notes with concern the Court of Auditors' finding that when the Agency sold two sets of sweeping arms systems for at-sea oil recovery services in December 2011, aiming to obtain at least the equipment's net book value of EUR 319 050 , as a result of the minimum price being wrongly set below net book value, the equipment was sold at a loss of EUR 93 950; considers that this is unacceptable and shows lack of regard for taxpayers money;
Amendment 2 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 3 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 4 #
Proposal for a decision 2 Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 5 #
Proposal for a decision 2 Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 6 #
Proposal for a decision 2 Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Notes with concern the Court of Auditors' finding that budget commitments amounting to EUR 0,9 million were not related to existing legal commitments and the Agency should have decommitted and paid back the amount to the Commission at the beginning of 2012; notes, however, that the Agency initiated the process too late and as a result, due to restrictions imposed by the IT system, the funds will be blocked for one year and will only be decommitted and paid back at the end of 2012; considers that this is unacceptable;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Regrets that the Court of Auditors identified the need to improve the Agency's asset management; it found, in particular,
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Acknowledges from the Agency that it has addressed all the issues concerning its asset management, in particular, in the course of 2012, detailed rules and procedures as regards asset management were developed and implemented, the correctness of the inventory was verified and, as foreseen, a full inventory of physical assets has been completed in the course of the second half of 2012; notes that the asset register supporting accrual- based accounting for assets, the Agency's tool to keep track of all its assets, has finally been fully updated;
source: PE-497.881
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