Activites

• 2015/04/29 Vote in plenary scheduled
• 2015/04/28 Debate in plenary scheduled
• 2015/03/30 Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
  • A8-0076/2015
• 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 European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA). 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 Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA). 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. EU-OSHA: in 2013, the tasks and budget of this agency were as follows: description of the Agency's tasks: the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, which is located in Bilbao, was established by Council Regulation (EC) No 2062/94. The Agency's task is to collect and disseminate information on national and Union priorities in the field of health and safety at work and to promote cooperation and the exchange of information, including information on training programmes; the Agency's budget for the 2013 financial year: the Agency’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 17 million; - paid : EUR 15 million; - carried-over : EUR 2 million. §         Payment appropriations : - committed : EUR 21 million; - paid : EUR 14 million; - carried-over : EUR 6 million. Please refer also to the final accounts of the EU-OSHA.

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

Documents

• Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2014)0510
• Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A8-0076/2015

Amendments

Dossier

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2014/2100(DEC) 2014/12/16 EMPL 3 amendments... Amendment 1 # Claude ROLIN Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Acknowledges the high implementation rate of the budget (99%) in 2013 indicating that commitments were made in a timely manner; notes however the once again high level of carry-over in Titles II (30%) and III (46%); takes note of the Court’s explanation for the carry-over, confirmed by the Agency and notes there was no unforeseen carry -over; Amendment 2 # Marian HARKIN Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Welcomes the Agency’s completed corrective actions in relation to the Court’s comments made in the previous years, in particular significant improvements in the implementation of the annual work programme, the listing of activity based budgeting in 2013 and issues in regard to recruitment and salaries; Amendment 3 # Marian HARKIN Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Welcomes that the Agency finally moved to the new premises on 1 January 2014 and notes the significant decrease in rent costs, following the conclusion of the seat agreement with the Spanish authorities. source: 544.282 2015/03/06 CONT 6 amendments... Amendment 1 # Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1. Grants the Director of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year 2013 / Postpones its decision on granting the Director of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year 2013; Amendment 2 # Richard ASHWORTH, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Richard SULÍK Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1. Grants the Director of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year 2013 / Postpones its decision on granting the Director of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year 2013; Amendment 3 # Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ Proposal for a decision 2 Paragraph 2 2. Approves the closure of the accounts of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2013 / Postpones the closure of the accounts of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2013; Amendment 4 # Richard ASHWORTH, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Richard SULÍK Proposal for a decision 2 Paragraph 2 2. Approves the closure of the accounts of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2013 / Postpones the closure of the accounts of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2013; Amendment 5 # Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Acknowledges from the Agency that its Governing Board adopted the Agency’s conflicts of interests policy in November 2014; notes, moreover, that the policy includes provisions regarding the publication of CVs and the declarations of interests of the Director and of Senior Management; observes that these documents were mostly made publicly available; calls on the Agency to fully comply with the measures adopted in its policy on confUrges the Agency to provide a track record of all the conflict of interest cases until the end of September 2015; Observes with concern that the obligation to publish CVs and Declaration of Interests is not applicable to experts; calls upon the Agency to also extend this obligation to experts; Requests the Agency to adopt comprehensive policies for the management of conflict of interest situations such as: divestment of the interest by the public official, recusal of the public official from involvement in an affected decision-making process, restriction of access by the affected public official to particular information, rearrangement of the publict of interestsficial's duties or resignation of the public official from their office; Amendment 6 # Zigmantas BALČYTIS Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9 a. Notes that existing procedures regarding the prevention of conflict of interest for the Agency's staff are under revision and they will be completed in 2015; calls on the Agency to inform the discharge authority about the results of this revision as soon as it is completed; source: 539.755

History

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