Awaiting Parliament 1st reading / single reading / budget 1st stage
Next event: Debate in plenary scheduled 2015/04/28
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Lead | CONT | CZARNECKI Ryszard (ECR) | DEUTSCH Tamás (EPP), AYALA SENDER Inés (S&D), THEURER Michael (ALDE), KARI Rina Ronja (GUE/NGL), ŠOLTES Igor (Verts/ALE), VALLI Marco (EFD), ALIOT Louis (NI) |
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Activites
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2015/04/28
Debate in plenary scheduled
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2015/03/31
Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
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2015/03/23
Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
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2014/10/20
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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2014/07/30
Non-legislative basic document published
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COM(2014)0510
summary
PURPOSE: presentation by the Commission of the consolidated annual accounts of the European Union for the financial year 2013, as part of the 2013 discharge procedure. Analysis of the accounts of the EU Institutions: European Council/Council. Legal reminder: the consolidated annual accounts of the European Union for the year 2013 have been prepared on the basis of the information presented by the institutions and bodies under Article 148(2) of the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Union. They were prepared in accordance with Title IX of this Financial Regulation. (1) Purpose: the document helps to bring insight into the EU budget mechanism and the way in which the budget has been managed and spent in 2013, including the different expenses of the European institutions. It should be recalled that only the Commission budget contains administrative appropriations and operating appropriations. The other Institutions have only administrative appropriations. The document also presents the different financial actors involved in the budget process (accounting officers, internal officers and authorising officers) and recalls their respective roles in the context of the tasks of sound financial management. Amongst the other legal elements relating to the implementation of the EU budget presented in this document, the paper focuses on the following issues: accounting principles applicable to the management of EU spending (business continuity, consistency of accounting methods, comparability of information ...); consolidation methods of figures for all major controlled entities (the consolidated financial statements of the EU comprise all significant controlled entities –institutions, organisations and agencies); the recognition of financial assets in the EU (tangible and intangible assets, financial assets and other miscellaneous investments); the way in which EU public expenditure is committed and spent, including pre-financing (cash advances intended for the benefit of an EU organ); the means of recovery following irregularities detected; the modus operandi of the accounting system; the audit process followed by the European Parliament's granting of the discharge. Discharge procedure: the final control is the discharge of the budget for a given financial year. The discharge represents the political aspect of the external control of budget implementation and is the decision by which the European Parliament, acting on a Council recommendation, "releases" the Commission from its responsibility for management of a given budget by marking the end of that budget's existence. When granting discharge, Parliament may make observations which it considers important and often recommends the Commission and the other institutions to take actions concerning these matters. The document also details specific expenditure of the institutions, in particular: (i) pensions of former Members and officials of institutions; (ii) joint sickness insurance scheme and (iii) buildings. The document also presents a series of tables and detailed technical indicators on (i) the balance sheet; (ii) the economic outturn account; (iii) cashflow tables; (iv) technical annexes concerning the financial statements. (2) Implementation of the European Council/Council’s appropriations for the financial year 2013: the document comprises a series of detailed tables, the most important concerning the implementation of the budget. Budget 2013: at the end of 2013, an amount of EUR 507 million was committed. Budget implementation: information concerning the implementation of the budget of the Council and the European Council is drawn from the Financial Activity Report 2013 (Section II - European Council and Council). The budget authority established the overall European Council/Council budget 2013 at EUR 535.5 million. This corresponds to an increase of EUR 1.6 million (0.3%) compared to the 2012. The number of posts in the establishment plan for 2013 for the EC/C was 3153. The global implementation rate of the 2013 budget is 86.7%. The difference between the final budget and implementation can be explained as follows: the total under-spending in the category of establishment plan amounts to EUR 23.6 million; the global implementation of the building related expenditure (without the Europa-Building) resulted in a saving of EUR 2.4 million; in the IT domain the budget implementation was almost 98 %. The under-spending of EUR 800 000 resulted from a smaller need for IT equipment, software and outside consultancy; the underspending in appropriations for interpretation amounts to EUR 11.2 million and EUR 2.5 million in organising meetings and conferences. The document also notes the underspending in furniture, technical equipment and transport costs. The amount available for delegations' travel expenses after transfers amounted to EUR 25.3 million. (3) Budgetary implementation - conclusions: in more general and political terms, the implementation of the Council budget in 2013 was marked by the following: the continuous support to the President of the European Council and to the Council through an appropriate use of financial resources; the need to proceed further with the process of administrative modernisation with the objective to reinforce the quality of its organisation as well as the appropriate use of resources; the adaptation of its organisation to the accession of Croatia in July 2013. Building policy: the project to renovate the Residence Palace and convert it into the seat of the European Council and the Council (Europa Building) continued in 2013 with the actual construction work including, among other things, starting to building up floors, insulation and various technical installations. In 2013, EUR 5 million was committed for the acquisition of the Europa Building. The amount has been carried over to 2014 for the actual payment.
- DG {'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/budget/', 'title': 'Budget'}, GEORGIEVA Kristalina
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COM(2014)0510
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Documents
- Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2014)0510
Amendments | Dossier |
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2014/2079(DEC)
2015/03/05
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15 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Citation 9 a (new) - having regard to the Decision of the European Ombudsman closing her own- initiative inquiry OI/1/2014/PMC from 26 February 2015 on internal rules concerning disclosure in the public interest ('whistleblowing'),
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Is concerned by the delayed adoption of the internal whistleblowing rules; calls on the Council to implement these without further delay.
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16.
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Considers it de
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 a (new) 22a. Is of the opinion that the discharge- related EU legal framework should be revised in order to clarify the discharge making process;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 a (new) 22a. Calls on the institution to include in its Annual Activity Reports the results and consequences of closed OLAF cases, where the institution or any of the individuals working for it were the subject of the investigation;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 b (new) 22b. Is of the opinion that the EP should consider using the annual budgetary procedure to force the Council to respond to Parliament; considers therefore that if the Council does not reply to Parliament after the postponement of the discharge 2013, Parliament should consider introducing reserves in some budget lines of the Council as possible and necessary solution;
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Reiterates its call on the European Council and the Council to send Parliament their annual activity report with a comprehensive overview of all human resources available to both institutions, broken down by category, grade, sex, nationality and vocational training; this table should be automatically included in the annual activity report of the institution.
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9.
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Observes with concern the enormous disparities in translation costs for the different EU institutions; asks consequently that the Interinstitutional Working Group on Translation identify the causes of these disparities and put forward solutions that will bring this imbalance to an end and, produce harmonised translation costs that fully respect quality and linguistic diversity; with this in mind, the Working Group shall relaunch collaboration between the institutions in order to share best practice and outcomes and identify those areas in which cooperation or agreements between institutions may be strengthened; the Working Group shall also aim to establish a unified methodology for presentation of translation costs which all the institutions can use, in order to simplify the analysis and comparison of these costs; the Working Group shall present the results of this work before the end of 2015; calls on all the institutiones to be actively involved in the work of the Interinstitutional Working Group; recalls in this regard the fundamental importance of respect for multilingualism in the EU institutions in order to guarantee all EU citizens equal treatment and equal opportunities;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 b (new) 11b. Considers that at a time of crisis and budgetary cuts in general, the cost of ʽaway daysʼ for staff at the EU institutions has to be reduced and that these should take place, where possible, on the institutionsʼ own premises as the added value derived from these away days does not justify such high costs;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 c (new) 11c. Is concerned by the shortage of women in positions of responsibility in EU institutions; calls on the Council to set in motion an equal opportunities plan referring specially to management posts with the aim of correcting this imbalance as soon as possible;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Demands that the institution's building policy be attached to its annual activity report, especially given that it is important that such costs are properly rationalised and that such costs are not excessive;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Takes note of the zero growth (0,3 %) (EUR 1,6 million) in the Council's budget for 2013; considers it a positive trend and expects it to continue in the coming years;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls on the Council to cooperate with other institutions to come up with a unified
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