Activites

• 2015/04/28 Debate in plenary scheduled
• 2015/03/23 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
• 2014/10/20 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2014/07/30 Non-legislative basic document published
  • 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 Data Protection Supervisor. 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 EDPS’s appropriations for the financial year 2013: the document comprises a series of detailed annexes, the most important concerning the implementation of the budget. As regards the EDPS’s expenditure, the information is drawn from the Report on the Annual Accounts of the European Data Protection Supervisor 2013. The appropriations available for 2013 amounted to 7.66 million with 95.1% of these committed. (3) Budgetary implementation - conclusions: in more general and political terms,  the implementation of the EDPS’s budget in 2013 was marked by the following: in the consultation area, advising on new legislative measures, the review of the EU legal framework for data protection; the Digital Agenda and the privacy risks of new technologies were also significant features of 2013; the implementation of the Stockholm Programme in the area of freedom, security and justice and issues in the internal market, such as financial sector reform, and in public health and consumer affairs, also had an impact on data protection. The EDPS also increased cooperation with other supervisory authorities, particularly with regard to large-scale IT systems (SIS, VIS and Eurodac); in the supervision of EU institutions and bodies, when processing personal data, the EDPS interacted with more data protection officers in more institutions and bodies than ever before. In addition, it has completed a number of surveys showing that most EU institutions and bodies, including many agencies, have made good progress in complying with the Data Protection Regulation, although there are still some which should increase their efforts. The key EDPS figures in 2013 are: 91 prior-check Opinions adopted, 21 non-prior check Opinions, 78 complaints received, 30 admissible, 37 consultations received on administrative measures, 8 on-the-spot inspections (including 2 fact finding visits) and 3 visits carried out, 1 set of Guidelines published on the processing of personal data in the area of procurement, 20 legislative Opinions published, 13 sets of formal comments, 33 informal comments.

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

Documents

• Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2014)0510

Amendments

Dossier

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2014/2085(DEC) 2015/01/13 LIBE 2 amendments... Amendment 1 # Lorenzo FONTANA Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Considers, in general, that the European Data Protection Supervisor should pay greater attention to tche principle ofcking and planning for sound financial management, i.e. towhich involves using appropriations economically, efficiently and effectively in carrying out his remit. Amendment 2 # Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Considers, in general, that the European Data Protection Supervisor should pay greater attention to the principle of sound financial management in respect of the budgetary principle of annuality, i.e. to using appropriations economically, efficiently and effectively in carrying out his remit. source: 541.402 2015/03/06 CONT 8 amendments... Amendment 1 # Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ 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 2 # Richard ASHWORTH, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Richard SULÍK Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1. Grants the European Data Protection Supervisor discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Data Protection Supervisor for the financial year 2013 / Postpones its decision on granting the European Data Protection Supervisor discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Data Protection Supervisor for the financial year 2013; Amendment 3 # Tamás DEUTSCH Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Takes note of the Supervisor's commitment to continue improving its system for the timely monitoring and control of the recruitment and procurement procedures, supports the Supervisor to continue to monitor the management of allowances and improve its performance levels; Amendment 4 # Zigmantas BALČYTIS Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Takes note that a new tool has been recently approved and will be implemented in 2015: Activity-based Costing, which aims to increase efficiency in the allocation of resources; Amendment 5 # Tamás DEUTSCH Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10 a. Demands that the Supervisor's building policy be attached to the annual activity report, especially given that it is important that such costs are properly rationalised and that such costs are not excessive; Amendment 6 # Tamás DEUTSCH Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Reiterates last year's request to have an exhaustive table of all the human resources at the Supervisor's disposal, broken down by category, grade, sex and nationality in the nextwith a break- down according to grade, sex and nationality, this table should be automatically included in the annual activity report of the institution; Amendment 7 # Tamás DEUTSCH Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Calls on the Supervisor 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 8 # Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12 a. Is concerned by the delayed adoption of the internal whistleblowing rules; calls on the Supervisor to implement these without further delay; source: 539.829

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