Progress: Procedure completed
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CZARNECKI Ryszard ( ECR)
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ZDECHOVSKÝ Tomáš ( PPE),
VAUGHAN Derek ( S&D),
ALI Nedzhmi ( ALDE),
JÁVOR Benedek ( Verts/ALE),
VALLI Marco ( EFDD)
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| Committee Opinion | EMPL |
HARKIN Marian ( ALDE)
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Rina Ronja KARI ( GUE/NGL),
Jean LAMBERT ( Verts/ALE),
Georgi PIRINSKI ( S&D),
Claude ROLIN ( PPE)
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| Committee Opinion | ITRE |
Lead committee dossier:
Subjects
Events
PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) for the financial year 2013.
NON LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2015/1639 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2013.
CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Director of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the implementation of the latter’s budget for the financial year 2013.
This decision is in line with the European Parliament's resolution adopted on 29 April 2015 and comprises a series of observations that form an integral part of the discharge decision (please refer to the summary of the opinion of 29 April 2015).
Amongst Parliament’s main observations, the latter noted with regret that the repair works on the Centre's building continued to be delayed but welcomed the exemplary measures taken by the Centre with regard to environment-friendly solutions.
The European Parliament adopted by 554 votes to 132, with 1 abstention, a decision to grant discharge to the Director of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) for the financial year 2013. The vote on the discharge decision approved the closure of the accounts (in accordance with Annex VI, Article 5(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament).
Noting that the Court of Auditors stated that it has obtained reasonable assurances that the annual accounts of the Authority for the financial year 2013 are reliable, and that the underlying transactions are legal and regular, Parliament adopted by 578 votes to 103, with 9 abstentions, a resolution containing a number of recommendations that form an integral part of the discharge decision and as well as the general recommendations that appear in the resolution on performance, financial management and control of EU agencies :
Centre’s financial statements : Parliament noted that the final budget of CEDEFOP for the financial year 2013 was EUR 17 925 075, representing a decrease of 6.72% compared to 2012. The overall contribution of the Union to the Centre's budget for 2013 amounted to EUR 17 133 900. Commitments and carry-overs : Parliament noted that budget monitoring efforts during the financial year 2013 resulted in a budget implementation rate of 98.95% and that the payment appropriations execution rate was 92.39%. This reduction was due to savings and postponement of recruitment. It also noted a clear reduction in carryovers.
Parliament also noted that the Centre had finally developed processes to monitor and report on legality and regularity and was currently deploying its own anti-fraud strategy . It welcomed the exemplary measures taken by the Centre with regard to cost-effective and environment-friendly solutions and encouraged it to maintain good practice.
It noted only with regret that the repair works on the Centre's building continue to be delayed and should be completed in 2014.
The Committee on Budgetary Control adopted the report by Ryszard CZARNECKI (ECR, PL) on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (ECDVT) for the financial year 2013.
The committee recommended that the European Parliament grant the Director of the Centre discharge in respect of the implementation of the Centre’s budget for the financial year 2013.
Noting that the Court of Auditors stated that it has obtained reasonable assurances that the annual accounts of the Centre for the financial year 2013 are reliable, and that the underlying transactions are legal and regular, Members called on the Parliament to approve the closure of the Centre’s accounts. They made, however, a number of recommendations that needed 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.
Centre’s financial statements : Members noted that the final budget of CEDEFOP for the financial year 2013 was EUR 17 925 075, representing a decrease of 6.72% compared to 2012. The overall contribution of the Union to the Centre's budget for 2013 amounted to EUR 17 133 900. Commitments and carry-overs : Members noted that budget monitoring efforts during the financial year 2013 resulted in a budget implementation rate of 98.95% and that the payment appropriations execution rate was 92.39 %, due to savings and postponement of recruitment. They also noted a clear reduction in carryovers.
Members noted that the Centre had finally developed processes to monitor and report on legality and regularity and was currently deploying its own anti-fraud strategy . They welcomed the exemplary measures taken by the Centre with regard to cost-effective and environment-friendly solutions and encouraged it to maintain good practice.
Having examined the revenue and expenditure accounts for the financial year 2013 and the balance sheet at 31 December 2013 of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop), as well as the Court of Auditors' report on the annual accounts of the Centre for the financial year 2013, accompanied by the Centre's replies to the Court's observations, the Council recommends the European Parliament to give a discharge to the Director of the Centre in respect of the implementation of the budget for the financial year 2013.
The implementation of the budget of the Centre is such as to allow a discharge to be given in respect of that implementation.
The Council welcomes that the observations in the Court of Auditors' report in relation to the financial year 2013 do not call for any comments.
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 European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) .
CONTENT: this Commission document sets out the consolidated annual accounts of the European Union for the financial year 2013 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 Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP).
The document contains the figures on which the discharge procedure is based.
Discharge procedure of the EU agencies : the EU Budget finances a wide range of policies and programmes throughout the EU. In accordance with the priorities set by the European Parliament and the Council in the multi-annual financial framework (MFF), the European Commission carries out specific programmes, activities and projects in the field with the technical support of some specialised agencies.
The consolidated annual accounts of the EU provide information on the activities of the institutions, agencies and other bodies of the EU from a budgetary and accrual accounting perspective.
The consolidated reports on the implementation of the general budget of the EU include the budget implementation of all Institutions. Agencies do not have a separate budget inside the EU budget ; and they are partially financed by a Commission budget subsidy.
Each agency is subject to its own discharge procedure.
CEDEFOP : in 2013, the tasks and budget of this agency were as follows:
description of the Centre's tasks : CEDEFOP, which is located in Thessaloniki, was established by Council Regulation (EEC) No 337/75 . The Centre has the task of compiling and disseminating documentation on vocational training systems and encouraging and supporting a concerted approach to matters relating to the development of vocational training; the Centre's budget for the financial year 2013 : the Centre’s budget for 2013, as presented in the Commission document on the consolidated annual accounts of the European Union, gives the following figures:
§ Commitment appropriations :
- committed : EUR 20 million;
- paid : EUR 20 million;
- carried-over : 0.
§ Payment appropriations :
- committed : EUR 21 million;
- paid : EUR 19 million;
- carried-over : EUR 2 million.
Please refer also to the final accounts of the CEDEFOP .
PURPOSE: presentation of the EU Court of Auditors’ report on the annual accounts of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) for the financial year 2013, together with the Centre’s reply.
CONTENT: in accordance with the tasks conferred on the Court of Auditors by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the Court presents to the European Parliament and to the Council, in the context of the discharge procedure, a Statement of Assurance as to the reliability of the annual accounts of each institution, body or agency of the EU, and the legality and regularity of the transactions underlying them, on the basis of an independent external audit.
This audit concerned, amongst others, the annual accounts of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP).
Statement of assurance : pursuant to the provisions of Article 287 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), the Court has audited:
the annual accounts of the Centre, which comprise the financial statements and the reports on the implementation of the budget for the financial year ended 31 December 2013; the legality and regularity of the transactions underlying those accounts.
Opinion on the reliability of the accounts : in the Court’s opinion, the Centre’s annual accounts present fairly, in all material respects, its financial position as at 31 December 2013 and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the year then ended, in accordance with the provisions of its Financial Regulation and the accounting rules adopted by the Commission’s accounting officer.
Opinion on the legality and regularity of the transactions underlying the accounts : in the Court’s opinion, the transactions underlying the annual accounts for the year ended 31 December 2013 are legal and regular in all material respects.
The Court’s report makes no observations on the budgetary and financial management of the Centre.
Lastly, the Court of Auditors’ report contains a summary of the Centre’s activities in 2013 . This is focused on the following:
Budget : EUR 18.53 million of which the Union subsidy is 97.4%.
Activities :
policy analysis and reporting : Cedefop monitors countries’ progress towards the short-term deliverables agreed in the Bruges Communiqué on enhanced European Cooperation in Vocational Education and Training (2011-2020). Country fiches summarising policy progress were finalised for all EU Member States, Norway and Iceland and were made available to the European Commission, which proposes country specific recommendations for the European semester; common European tools, qualifications and learning outcomes : Cedefop provided policy advice and expertise to EU-level working groups to support the implementation of EU tools; adult learning and transitions : Cedefop’s study Return to Work — work-based learning and the reintegration of unemployed adults into the labour market was debated at the VET conference of the Lithuanian Presidency; skills analysis : Cedefop supported the development of the EU Skills Panorama (EUSP) for which it will take full responsibility as of 2014. Cedefop’s 2013 projections for skill supply and demand in the European Union were released. Roads to recovery: three skill and labour market scenarios for 2025 summarised the key findings; organisational impact : the (external) evaluation of Cedefop for the 2007–2012 period examined whether its work was consistent with European policies and looked at its efficiency and impact and its synergies with four other EU agencies. It highlighted that: Cedefop was highly successful in implementing the objectives in its Founding Regulation.
Documents
- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament: T8-0134/2015
- Committee report tabled for plenary: A8-0079/2015
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE539.760
- Committee opinion: PE541.518
- Document attached to the procedure: 05304/2015
- Committee draft report: PE539.730
- Non-legislative basic document published: EUR-Lex
- Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2014)0510
- Court of Auditors: opinion, report: OJ C 442 10.12.2014, p. 0042
- Court of Auditors: opinion, report: N8-0074/2014
- Court of Auditors: opinion, report: OJ C 442 10.12.2014, p. 0042 N8-0074/2014
- Committee draft report: PE539.730
- Document attached to the procedure: 05304/2015
- Committee opinion: PE541.518
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE539.760
Activities
- Louis ALIOT
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- Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN
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- Jean ARTHUIS
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- Marie-Christine ARNAUTU
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- Jonathan ARNOTT
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- Zigmantas BALČYTIS
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- Hugues BAYET
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- José BLANCO LÓPEZ
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- Steeve BRIOIS
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- Gianluca BUONANNO
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- Salvatore CICU
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- Alberto CIRIO
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- Javier COUSO PERMUY
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- Rachida DATI
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- Mireille D'ORNANO
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- Norbert ERDŐS
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- Georgios EPITIDEIOS
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- José Inácio FARIA
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- Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ
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- Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ
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- Enrico GASBARRA
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- Antanas GUOGA
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- Marian HARKIN
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- Marc JOULAUD
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- Ivan JAKOVČIĆ
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- Philippe JUVIN
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- Barbara KAPPEL
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- Afzal KHAN
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- Giovanni LA VIA
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- Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO
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- Ivana MALETIĆ
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- Dominique MARTIN
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- Notis MARIAS
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- Barbara MATERA
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- Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON
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- Marlene MIZZI
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- Sophie MONTEL
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- Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER
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- Franz OBERMAYR
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- Florian PHILIPPOT
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- Marijana PETIR
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- Andrej PLENKOVIĆ
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- Salvatore Domenico POGLIESE
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- Franck PROUST
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- Liliana RODRIGUES
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- Claude ROLIN
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- Maria Lidia SENRA RODRÍGUEZ
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- Siôn SIMON
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- Davor Ivo STIER
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- Catherine STIHLER
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- Beatrix von STORCH
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- Kay SWINBURNE
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- Eleftherios SYNADINOS
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- Ángela VALLINA
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- Miguel VIEGAS
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Votes
A8-0079/2015 - Ryszard Czarnecki - Décision (ensemble du texte) #
NIA8-0079/2015 - Ryszard Czarnecki - Résolution #
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2014/2087(DEC)
2014/12/10
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3 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Underlines that the Centre’s work
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Underlines that the Centre’s work remains highly relevant to the European vocational education and training (VET) and skills policy agenda; and notes its concern that unless the low demand driving high unemployment is reversed it will foster and perpetuate skill mismatch and skill obsolescence through over qualification and unemployment; acknowledges the Centre’s key achievements in 2013 in its field of activity; furthermore notes that Cedefop will undertake its first pan-European skills survey (eu-SKILL) in 2014;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Highlights the positive experience of some countries with dual education systems; notes, however, that dual education should not be seen as a sure- fire solution to high youth unemployment;
source: 544.284
2015/03/05
CONT
7 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1. Grants the Director of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training discharge in respect of the implementation of the Centre’s budget for the financial year
Amendment 2 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 3 #
Proposal for a decision 2 Paragraph 2 2. Approves the closure of the accounts of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year
Amendment 4 #
Proposal for a decision 2 Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Takes note that the Centre has finally developed processes to monitor and report on legality and regularity and is currently deploying its own anti-fraud strategy;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11 a. Welcomes the exemplary measures taken by the Centre with regard to cost- effective and environment-friendly solutions; encourages the Centre to continue in this good practice;
source: 539.760
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