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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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2015/04/28
Debate in plenary scheduled
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2015/03/23
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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
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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: Economic and Social Committee. 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 Economic and Social Committee’s appropriations for the financial year 2013: the document comprises a series of detailed annexes, the most important concerning the implementation of the budget. The appropriations available for 2013 amounted to EUR 126 million with 93.9% committed. Additional information on the management of resources of the Committee can be found in the Economic and Social Committee Annual Activity Report 2013. (3) Budgetary implementation - conclusions: in more general and political terms, the implementation of the Committee’s budget in 2013 was marked by the strengthening of the democratic legitimacy and effectiveness of the European Union by enabling civil society organisations from the Member States to express their views at European level. This Committee also fulfilled three key missions: helping to ensure that European policies and legislation tie in better with economic, social and civic circumstances on the ground, by assisting the European Parliament, Council and European Commission, making use of EESC members' experience and representativeness, dialogue and efforts to secure consensus serving the general interest; promoting the development of a more participatory European Union which is more in touch with popular opinion, by acting as an institutional forum representing, informing, expressing the views of and securing dialogue with organised civil society; promoting the values on which European integration is founded and advancing, in Europe and across the world, the cause of democracy and participatory democracy, as well as the role of civil society organisations.
- 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
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2014/2082(DEC)
2015/03/06
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20 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 (‘whistle-blowing’),
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Notes that the next mid-term review of the new cooperation agreement between the EESC and the CoR will be the appropriate moment to evaluate the agreement and correct any shortcomings identified;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Requests detailed information on the results of the mid-term review and expects that this evaluation will also include a joint assessment of the budgetary savings resulting from the cooperation;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Notes with concern that translation costs vary enormously from one EU institution to another; asks consequently that the Interinstitutional Working Group on Translation determine the causes of these disparities and put forward solutions with a view to ending the inequality and harmonising translation costs, without in any way impairing quality and linguistic diversity; believes that, with that end in view, the working group should relaunch interinstitutional collaboration in order to share best practice and outcomes and determine those areas in which interinstitutional cooperation or agreements could be strengthened; believes that the working group should also aim to establish a unified methodology, common to all the institutions, for the presentation of translation costs in order to simplify cost analysis and comparison; calls for the working group to present the results of this work before the end of 2015; calls on all the institutions to play an active part in the proceedings of the interinstitutional working group; points to the fundamental importance of preserving multilingualism in the EU institutions in order to ensure that all EU citizens can enjoy equal treatment and equal opportunities;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 b (new) 16b. Considers that at a time of crisis and budget cuts in general, the cost of staff ‘away days’ at the EU institutions has to be lowered and that these events should take place, wherever possible, on the institutions’ own premises, as the resulting added value does not justify such high spending;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18.
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 a (new) 18a. Demands that the EESC’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 16 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Deplores the European Civil Service Tribunal judgment published on 22 May 2014 condemning the EESC for breaching the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union when dismissing one of its staff members in 2013;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Is concerned by the delayed adoption of the internal whistle-blowing rules; calls on the EESC to implement these without further delay.
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Notes that the internal audit service is composed of a staff of three; extended sick leaves significantly reduced the available work force in 2013; calls on the EESC to reinforce the internal audit service and to expand the scope of audit investigations.
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Calls on the EESC 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 2 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Points to the need to raise the EESC’s profile by stepping up the necessary information and communication policy.
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Stresses, however, that the EESC budget is purely administrative, with a large amount being used on expenditure concerning persons working within the institution and the remaining amount relating to buildings, furniture, equipment and miscellaneous running costs; takes note of the EESC explanation for the utilisation rate decrease being due to precautionary measures; considers it necessary, however, to ensure in future that there will be no budget increases without proper justification; calls, therefore – barring major changes in the EESC’s operation – for its budget to remain frozen until the annual utilisation rate has risen to at least 99.8%;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Welcomes the EESC’s intention of planning its work more efficiently within the legislative process, without necessarily increasing the number of opinions, laying emphasis instead on the quality of its opinions;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Notes that the use of external translation has decreased to 2.9% in 2013, compared with 4.5% in 2012; finds, however, that the productivity of the internal translation service has also decreased; notes with concern that a substantial proportion of the EESC’s in- house translation staff have been transferred to the new European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), following the Cooperation Agreement between the EP, the EESC, and the CoR signed on 5 February 2014; calls on the EESC to conduct a specific study gauging the impact of this cut on the quality and efficiency of its translation services;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Calls on the EESC to cooperate with other institutions to come up with a unified methodology of presenting the translation and interpretation costs in order to simplify the analysis and comparison of the costs, with the European Court of Auditors having a leading role in this matter.
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11.
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Expresses concern at the shortage of women holding senior EESC posts (61% – 39%); calls for an equal opportunities plan to be set in motion, particularly as regards management positions, with the aim of correcting this imbalance as quickly as possible;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 source: 539.830
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