Activites

• 2014/04/03 Vote in plenary scheduled
• 2014/04/02 Debate in plenary scheduled
• 2014/03/20 Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
  • A7-0202/2014
• 2014/03/18 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
• 2013/10/22 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2013/07/26 Non-legislative basic document published
  • COM(2013)0570 summary

    PURPOSE: presentation by the Commission of the consolidated annual accounts of the European Union for the financial year 2012, as part of the 2012 discharge procedure. Analysis of the accounts of the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Fuel Cell Joint Undertaking (FCH JU). CONTENT: this Commission document sets out the consolidated annual accounts of the European Union for the financial year 2012 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 FCH Joint Undertaking. In 2012, the tasks and budget of the Joint Undertaking were as follows: description of the tasks of the Joint Undertaking: the FCH Joint Undertaking, located in Brussels, was set up in 2008 by Council Regulation (EC) No 521/2008 for the period up to 31 December 2017. The objectives of the FCH JU include supporting research, technological development and demonstration activities in the Member States and countries associated with the Seventh Framework Programme in a coordinated manner together with industry and research organisations in order to focus on developing market applications and hence facilitating additional industrial efforts towards a rapid deployment of fuel cells and hydrogen technologies; budget of the Joint Undertaking for the 2012 financial year: the maximum indicative contribution of the EU amounts to EUR 470 million to be paid from the budget of the Seventh Research Framework Programme up to 2017. At 31 December 2012, the Commission held 80.6% of the ownership participation in FCH. The cumulative unrecognised share of losses is EUR 12 million. Please also consult the final accounts of FCH Joint Undertaking.

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

Documents

• Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2013)0570
• Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A7-0202/2014

Amendments

Dossier

7

2013/2252(DEC) 2014/02/26 CONT 7 amendments... Amendment 1 # Ryszard CZARNECKI, Marta ANDREASEN, Andrea ČEŠKOVÁ, Derk Jan EPPINK, Philip BRADBOURN Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1. GPostpones its decision on grantsing the Executive Director of the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking discharge in respect of the implementation of the Joint Undertaking's budget for the financial year 2012; Amendment 2 # Ryszard CZARNECKI, Marta ANDREASEN, Andrea ČEŠKOVÁ, Derk Jan EPPINK, Philip BRADBOURN Proposal for a decision 2 Paragraph 1 1. ApprovPostpones the closure of the accounts of the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking for the financial year 2012; Amendment 3 # Elena BĂSESCU Motion for a resolution Citation 12 a (new) - having regard to the previous discharge reports of the Parliament; Amendment 4 # Monica MACOVEI Motion for a resolution Subheading 2 a (new) Prevention and management of conflicts of interests and transparency Amendment 5 # Monica MACOVEI Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Observes that the CVs and Declarations of Interests of the members of the Management Board, the Executive Director and senior management members are not publicly available; calls on the Joint Undertaking to remedy the situation as a matter of urgency; urges the Joint Undertaking to develop and adopt a comprehensive policy on the prevention and management of conflicts of interests; Amendment 6 # Monica MACOVEI Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Regrets that the declarations of interests and CVs of members of the management board, management staff and external and in-house experts of the Joint Undertaking are not publicly available; believes that a high level of transparency is a key element in order to mitigate the risks of conflicts of interests; calls, therefore, on the Joint Undertaking to make its policy and/or arrangements on the prevention and management of conflicts of interests and its implementing rules, as well as the list of the members of the management boards, management staff and external and in-house experts, together with their respective declarations of interests and CVs available on its website; Amendment 7 # Monica MACOVEI Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 b (new) 19b. Invites the Court of Auditors to monitor the Joint Undertaking's policies as regards the management and prevention of conflicts of interests by drafting a Special Report on the matter by the next discharge procedure; source: PE-528.207

History

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