Awaiting Parliament 1st reading / single reading / budget 1st stage
Next event: Indicative plenary sitting date, 1st reading/single reading 2015/04/28
Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | CONT | CZARNECKI Ryszard (ECR) | ZDECHOVSKÝ Tomáš (EPP), VAUGHAN Derek (S&D), ALIOT Louis (NI), DE JONG Dennis (GUE/NGL), VALLI Marco (EFD) |
Opinion | ENVI | LA VIA Giovanni (EPP) |
Activites
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2015/04/28
Indicative plenary sitting date, 1st reading/single reading
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2015/03/30
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 European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). 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 Food Safety Authority (EFSA). 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. EFSA: in 2013, the tasks and budget of this agency were as follows: description of EFSA's tasks: EFSA, which is located in Parma, was established by Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council. Its main aim is to provide scientific opinions and scientific and technical support for the legislation and policies which have a direct or indirect impact on food and feed safety; EFSA's budget for the 2013 financial year: the Authority’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 79 million; - paid : EUR 78 million; - carried-over : 0. § Payment appropriations : - committed : EUR 85 million; - paid : EUR 77 million; - carried-over : EUR 7 million. Please refer also to the final accounts of the EFSA.
- 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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2014/2108(DEC)
2014/12/12
ENVI
5 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Takes note of the two comments made by the Court of Auditors which focus on the internal control system and on the need to include sufficient details on planned procurements and grants in the Authority's annual work programmes in order to allow more effective monitoring of procurements and grants; expresses the hope that the practises implemented by the Authority as part of the 2014 budget cycle will address these shortcomings;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Takes note of the two comments made by the Court of Auditors which focus on the internal control system and on the need to include sufficient details on planned procurements and grants in the Authority's annual work programmes in order to allow more effective monitoring of procurements and grants; strongly urges the Authority therefore to take corrective measures;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Takes note of the two comments made by the Court of Auditors which focus on the internal control system and on the need to include sufficient details on planned procurements and grants in the Authority's annual work programmes in order to allow more effective monitoring of procurements and grants and urges the Authority to act accordingly;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Encourages the Authority to continue paying special attention to the public opinion and to commit itself
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Encourages the Authority to continue paying special attention to the public opinion and to commit itself as much as possible to an openness and transparency; welcomes, in this respect, the implementing rules for its Policy on Independence and Scientific Decision- Making Processes as adopted by the Authority's Management Board in December 2011; welcomes in this context the set of internal mechanisms and improved presentation and accessibility of information and documents on the Authority's homepage; invites the Authority to further strengthen its policy on the management and prevention of conflicts of interests in order to safeguard independence and transparency in all work areas of the Authority covering both external and interim staff;
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2015/03/06
CONT
24 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1. Grants the Executive Director of the European Food Safety Authority discharge in respect of the implementation of the Authority’s budget for the financial year
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Strongly regrets that the main loopholes in the Authority's implementing rules have not been closed despite this review, in particular the fact that the assessment of scientists' interests is performed in reference to the mandate of the panel at stake instead of the Authority's remit - whereas the latter is used as the scope for the declaration of these interests;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 b (new) 8 b. Notes with concern the recent European Ombudsman's ruling concluding that "EFSA should revise its conflict of interest rules, and the related instructions and forms it uses for declarations of interests" to "ensure that those experts who work in academia declare all relevant information to EFSA"; calls on the Authority to have scientists on its panels and working groups disclose the financial arrangements between the departments of the universities they work for and commercial companies when those are in the Authority's remit;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Acknowledges the clarification of the scope of conflicts of interests with new definitions, regarding inter alia the obligation to declare even the smallest amount of economic interests or the practice to allow the experts’ interests to be anonymised only on an exceptional basis, solely to ensure compliance with rules on data protection; However, we regret that the definition of 'interest' (as it is laid down in Article 2, point 3 of the Decision of the Executive Director of the EFSA on Declarations of Interests) does not also include 'any relevant personal interest, be it of a financial or non-financial nature, a personal or family relationship, etc.', as it is laid down in the 2013 Commission Guidelines for Conflict of Interests in EU Decentralised Agencies.
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10.
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Notes from the Authority that for employment it applies a two-year cooling- off period on a risk based approach; calls on the Authority to inform the discharge authority of the results of the ongoing impact assessment on the introduction of further cooling-off periods, which will take place in the framework of the forthcoming policy review starting in 2015, as well as to include in its annual reports the measures taken to enforce the implemented cooling- off period;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Notes from the Authority that for employment it applies a
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Notes from the Authority that for employment it applies a two-year cooling- off period on a risk based approach for experts being employed by the food industry, not for all other forms of collaboration with companies in the Authority's remit; reiterates its call that the Authority should apply a two-year cooling-off period to all material interests related to the commercial agrifood sector, including research funding, consultancy contracts and decision-making positions in industry-captured organisations; calls on the Authority to inform the discharge authority of the results of the ongoing impact assessment on the introduction of further cooling-off periods, which will take place in the framework of the forthcoming policy review starting in 2015; demands that this impact assessment uses as first indicator the Authority's independence from the economic sectors it regulates;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11 a. Deeply regrets, that the Rules of Procedure of the Management Board still stipulate in Art. 1, para. 2 the a non- transparent election procedure as the Management Board elects its Chair and Vice-Chairs by close ballot despite last year's recommendation of the discharge authority, Urges the Agency to change this rule, make each vote transparent and accountable until the end of September 2015 and refrain from any appointment under the current secret procedure;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11 a. Believes that the Authority should pay further attention to public opinion and to commit itself as much as possible to an open and transparent dialogue;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11 a. Congratulates the Authority for adopting the reproducibility of its scientific opinions as a policy objective within its Transparency Initiative, and encourages it to deliver on these very important commitments, in particular providing full and pro-active access to the dataset used for these scientific opinions;
Amendment 2 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15.
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16.
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16 a. Notes with concern that the Agency uses a group of transport services for travel to and from the airport, at cost of 918.668 EUR in 2013; urges the Agency to find less costly solution for this purpose;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 b (new) 16 b. Welcomes the exemplary measures taken by the Agency with regard to cost- effective and environment-friendly solutions for its premises; encourages the Agency to continue the good practice;
Amendment 3 #
Proposal for a decision 2 Paragraph 2 2. Approves the closure of the accounts of the European Food Safety Authority for the financial year
Amendment 4 #
Proposal for a decision 2 Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Notes that although the overall carry-overs have regularly decreased since 2008 from 23% to 11 % and the payment rate increased from 73 % to 91 % further improvements in the monitoring of the budget execution are needed in order to keep the carry-over in line with the budget execution objectives set for the operational activities;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Believes that financial interests in particular should be dealt with the utmost care and that experts should be asked to declare whether their interests were remunerated or not; believes that if this is the case, the amount should be specified; is of the opinion that the current practice of experts anonymising their interests, for instance by using the expression "private company", should not be accepted by the Authority;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Notes from the Authority that following the consultation with key partners in 2014 it has clarified and partially reviewed its implementing rules regarding the Policy on Independence
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Notes from the Authority that following the consultation with key partners in 2014 it has reviewed its implementing rules regarding the Policy on Independence concerning declarations of interests;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Notes from the Authority that following the consultation with key partners in 2014 it has reviewed its implementing rules regarding the Policy on Independence concerning declarations of interests; observes that the revised procedure for screening of annual, special and oral declarations of interests of the members of the Authority’s Scientific Committee, Scientific Panels and Working Groups introduced the criteria on which the screening is based, as well as the role of the screening officer, who has to immediately report any possible conflict of
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