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Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | CONT | CZARNECKI Ryszard (ECR) | ZDECHOVSKÝ Tomáš (EPP), VAUGHAN Derek (S&D), ALI Nedzhmi (ALDE), DE JONG Dennis (GUE/NGL), JÁVOR Benedek (Verts/ALE), VALLI Marco (EFD) |
Opinion | LIBE | GUILLAUME Sylvie (S&D) |
Activites
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2015/04/29
Vote in plenary scheduled
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2015/04/28
Debate in plenary scheduled
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2015/03/30
Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
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A8-0080/2015
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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 Police Office for the financial year 2013. It called on the European Parliament to grant the Director of EUROPOL discharge in respect of the implementation of the Office’s budget for the financial year 2013. Noting that the Court of Auditors had stated that it had obtained reasonable assurances that the Office’s annual accounts were reliable and that the underlying transactions were legal and regular, Members called on Parliament to approve the closure of the accounts of EUROPOL for the financial year 2013. At the same time, they made 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. EUROPOL’s financial statements: Members noted that the final budget of the “the Office for the financial year 2013 was EUR 82 520 500, representing a decrease of 1.94% compared to 2012. Commitments and carryovers: Members noted that budget monitoring efforts during the financial year 2013 resulted in a budget implementation rate of 98.6% and that the payment appropriations execution rate was 87.2%. They acknowledged that the level of committed appropriations carried over decreased but that the level of carry-overs of committed appropriations was still high at 41% for administrative expenditure. They called on the Office to increase its efforts to reduce future carry-overs. Members also made a series of observations on procurement procedures, recruitment, internal audits and the prevention and management of conflicts of interests. With regard to the legality and regularity of transactions, Members observed that the effectiveness of the procurement procedures in 2013 was affected by some decisions not being based on sufficiently specific selection criteria or realistic price offers, as well as by not being in accordance with the established professional requirements. They called on the Office to inform the discharge authority on the outcome of the review and planned improvements to the procurement process. The committee recalled the Court’s comment in its 2011 report that the Office's Financial Regulation referred to detailed rules and procedures laid down in the Office's Implementing Rules which had not yet been adopted. It urged the Office to take corrective actions in this regard. Lastly, Members noted that it was envisaged that the Europol Pension Fund would be consolidated with the annual accounts of the Office with effect as of 1 January 2016.
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A8-0080/2015
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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
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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 European Police Office (EUROPOL). 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 Police Office (EUROPOL). 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. EUROPOL: in 2013, the tasks and budget of this agency were as follows: description of EUROPOL's tasks: the European Police Office (the Office), which is located in The Hague, was established by Council Decision 2009/371/JHA. The objective of the Office is to support and strengthen action by the competent authorities of the Member States and their mutual cooperation in preventing and combating organised crime, terrorism and other forms of serious crime affecting two or more Member States; EUROPOL’s budget for the 2013 financial year: EUROPOL’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 84 million; - paid : EUR 82 million; - carried-over : 0. § Payment appropriations : - committed : EUR 100 million; - paid : EUR 87 million; - carried-over : EUR 10 million. Please refer also to the final accounts of EUROPOL.
- 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
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A8-0080/2015
Amendments | Dossier |
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2014/2118(DEC)
2015/01/13
LIBE
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Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Notes, in that connection, that although Europol has made progress over the years in the area of the preparation, implementation and documentation of procurement procedures, the effectiveness of those procedures still needs to be improved, in that selection criteria are still not sufficiently specific and price offers are still not realistic or consistent with established professional requirements; welcomes Europol’s efforts to set up a central procurement entity with responsibility for ensuring that high standards are maintained at all the main stages in the procurement process; takes the view that this will result in better quality control during tender procedures and ensure that the tenders submitted are robust and meet the requirements laid down; notes the information contained in Europol’s answers concerning the review being conducted of recruitment and procurement procedures as a whole, with the aim of refining the current internal organisational set-up;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Applauds the efforts made to improve
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Welcomes, furthermore, Europol’s adoption of a new code of conduct with a focus on guarding against conflicts of interest – a key issue to which Parliament has drawn attention during previous discharge procedures;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Considers, in general, that the Europol
source: 541.406
2015/03/06
CONT
5 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1. Grants the Director of the European Police Office discharge in respect of the implementation of the Office’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 Police Office for the financial year
Amendment 4 #
Proposal for a decision 2 Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12 a. Reminds of the Court’s observation in 2011 that the Office's Financial Regulation refers to detailed rules and procedures laid down in its Implementing rules which have not yet been adopted; urges the Office to take corrective actions in this regard;
source: 539.784
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