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Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | CONT | GERBRANDY Gerben-Jan (ALDE) | SARVAMAA Petri (PPE), AYALA SENDER Inés (S&D), STAES Bart (Verts/ALE), BRADBOURN Philip (ECR), SØNDERGAARD Søren Bo (GUE/NGL), ANDREASEN Marta (EFD), EHRENHAUSER Martin (NI) |
Opinion | TRAN | MEISSNER Gesine (ALDE) |
Activites
- 2013/11/16 Final act published in Official Journal
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2013/04/17
Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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T7-0154/2013
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The European Parliament adopted a decision on discharge to be granted to the Director of the European Railway Agency (ERA) in respect of the implementation of the Agency's budget for the financial year 2011. The vote on the decision to grant discharge covers the closure of the accounts (in accordance with Annex VI, Article 5(1) of the European Parliament’s Rules of Procedure). Noting that the Court of Auditors stated that it has obtained reasonable assurances that the annual accounts of the Agency for the financial year 2011 are reliable and that the underlying transactions are legal and regular, Parliament adopted a resolution containing 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 performance, financial management and control of EU agencies: Financing, budget and financial management: Parliament recalls that the budget for the Agency for the year 2011 was EUR 25 988 665, compared to EUR 24 147 240 in 2010, which accounts for an increase of 7.62% compared to the previous year. Implementation rate of appropriations: It notes that 95% of appropriations were committed and 81% have been used for payments. It acknowledges that the level of payments against budget appropriations improved for all titles, but remained low for Title III with 47% and demands that the Agency take further actions to address this deficiency and report back to the budgetary authority forthwith. Members acknowledge that the appropriations carried forward to 2012 amounted to EUR 3 617 887 and they call on the Agency to take further action to address this deficiency as the situation is at odds with the budgetary principle of annuality. Seat: Parliament takes note that the Agency recognises that the use of two locations leads to inefficiencies and additional costs. It notes, moreover, that all efforts are made by the Agency to minimise the negative impact of the decision on the Agency's seat. It acknowledges that the preparatory phase of the project to increase the capacity of headquarters in Valenciennes was completed. Conflicts of interest: Parliament calls on the Agency to scrutinise and prohibit possible conflicts of interest when hiring experts and staff from the sector it supervises. Lastly, Parliament made a series of observations concerning the internal audit system, staff and the recruitment procedures of this Agency.
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T7-0154/2013
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- 2013/04/16 Debate in Parliament
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2013/03/22
Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
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A7-0103/2013
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The Committee on Budgetary Control adopted the report by Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY (ADLE, NL) on discharge to be granted to the Director of the European Railway Agency (ERA) in respect of the implementation of the Agency's budget for the financial year 2011. Noting that the Court of Auditors stated that it has obtained reasonable assurances that the annual accounts of the Agency for the financial year 2011 are reliable and that the underlying transactions are legal and regular, Members approve the closure of the Agency’s accounts. However, they make 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 performance, financial management and control of EU agencies: Financing, budget and financial management: Members recall that the budget for the Agency for the year 2011 was EUR 25 988 665, compared to EUR 24 147 240 in 2010, which accounts for an increase of 7,62 % compared to the previous year. Implementation rate of appropriations: Members note that 95% of appropriations were committed and 81% have been used for payments. They acknowledge that the level of payments against budget appropriations improved for all titles, but remained low for Title III with 47% and demand that the Agency takes further actions to address this deficiency and report back to the budgetary authority forthwith. Members acknowledge that the appropriations carried forward to 2012 amounted to EUR 3 617 887 and they call on the Agency to take further action to address this deficiency as the situation is at odds with the budgetary principle of annuality. Conflicts of interest: the report calls on the Agency to scrutinise and prohibit possible conflicts of interest when hiring experts and staff from the sector it supervises. Lastly, Members made a series of observations concerning the internal audit system, staff, the seat (the use of two locations leads to inefficiencies and additional costs) and the recruitment procedures of this Agency.
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A7-0103/2013
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2013/03/19
Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
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2012/09/13
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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2012/07/25
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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 Railway Agency (ERA). 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 Railway Agency (ERA). In 2011, the tasks and budget of this agency were as follows: description of ERA's tasks: ERA, which is located in Lille-Valenciennes, was created by Regulation (EC) No 881/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 and its aim is to enhance the level of interoperability of railway systems and to develop a common approach to safety in order to contribute to creating a more competitive European railway sector with a high level of safety; ERA'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 26 million; entitlements established: EUR 25 million; amounts received: EUR 25 million; outstanding: EUR 0 million. The complete version of the Agency's final accounts may be found at the following address: http://www.era.europa.eu/The-Agency/BudgetandAccounts/Pages/home.aspx
- 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 report tabled for plenary, single reading: A7-0103/2013
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T7-0154/2013
- : Decision 2013/592
- : OJ L 308 16.11.2013, p. 0277
Amendments | Dossier |
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2012/2198(DEC)
2012/12/13
TRAN
4 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses the important role the Agency plays in contributing to creating a European railway area without frontiers and guaranteeing a high level of safety, in circumstances in which the European railway market remains fragmented and interoperability of the systems has yet to be achieved;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Recalls that the Agency will have to replace half of its operational staff in the period of 2013-2015; calls on the Agency to manage the length of the contracts of staff on short term employment carefully in order to ensure that pursuing the main tasks of the Agency is not jeopardised; calls on the Agency to improve its staff selection procedures in order to ensure full transparency and equal treatment for all candidates;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. 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 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Recalls the expected proposal of the Commission on ERA enhancing the role of the Agency, in particular by giving it new tasks of issuing vehicle authorisations and safety certificates and strengthening its supervision of national railway rules and over national railway authorities, which do not yet cooperate sufficiently at European level; calls on the Commission to give the necessary tools to support the creation of a true and competitive Single European Railway Area and supports an adequate allocation of resources in order to achieve this goal, especially by ensuring necessary level of budget and staff of the European Railway Agency;
source: PE-501.987
2013/02/27
CONT
10 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Takes note from the AAR that staff had been recruited as planned with a vacancy rate of 2,78 % at the end of the year; notes, moreover, that the total number of staff at the end of 2011 was
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. Acknowledges that the level of payments against budget appropriations improved for all titles, but remained low for Title III with 47 % (39 % in 2010);
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Observes from the Court of Auditors' report that the Agency will have to replace half of its operational staff in the period 2013-2015;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Reiterates that using two locations (Lille and Valenciennes) to carry out its activities exposes the Agency to additional costs; for this reason one location should be urgently reconsidered; notes, moreover, that this observation has been made since 2006 and that no action has been taken by the Council to change the Decision of 13 December 2003
source: PE-497.883
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