Activites

• 2015/04/29 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T8-0137/2015 summary

    The European Parliament adopted by 551 votes to 136, with 4 abstentions, a decision to grant discharge to the Executive Director of the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) 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 Office for the financial year 2013 are reliable, and that the underlying transactions are legal and regular, Parliament adopted by 566 votes to 108, with 12 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: Office’s financial statements: Parliament noted that the final budget of the Office for the financial year 2013 was EUR 10 500 000, the entire budget deriving from the Union budget. Carryovers: It noted that budget monitoring efforts during the financial year 2013 resulted in a budget implementation rate of 87.34%, and that the payment appropriations execution rate was 87.18 %. It noted with concern that the budgetary needs were overestimated by 13 % and that committed appropriations carried over were at 24 % of the total committed appropriations, of which 13 % were not covered by a legal commitment. It took note of the carry-overs of committed appropriations and the measures taken by the Office in order to reduce and safeguard the level of commitment appropriations carried over. Parliament also made a series of observations on the prevention and management of conflicts of interests, recruitment, procurement procedures and internal audits. As regards the reliability of the accounts, Parliament is concerned from the Court’s report that the basis for an accrual amounting to EUR 40 000 relating to expenses and allowances for staff who entered into service in 2013 was not made available in the course of the audit. Overall, Parliament called on the Office to make both its conflicts of interests policy and the conflicts of interests forms signed by the members of the Management Board and the Executive Director publically available.

• 2015/04/28 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 2015/03/30 Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
  • A8-0085/2015 summary

    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 Asylum Support Office (EASO) for the financial year 2013. The committee recommended that the European Parliament grant the Executive Director of the Office discharge in respect of the implementation of the Office’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 Office 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 Office’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. Office’s financial statements: Members noted that the final budget of the Office for the financial year 2013 was EUR 10 500 000, the entire budget deriving from the Union budget. Carryovers: Members noted that budget monitoring efforts during the financial year 2013 resulted in a budget implementation rate of 87.34%, and that the payment appropriations execution rate was 87.18 %. They noted with concern that the budgetary needs were overestimated by 13 % and that committed appropriations carried over were at 24 % of the total committed appropriations, of which 13 % were not covered by a legal commitment. They took note of the carry-overs of committed appropriations and the measures taken by the Office in order to reduce and safeguard the level of commitment appropriations carried over. Members also made a series of observations on the prevention and management of conflicts of interests, recruitment, procurement procedures and internal audits. Lastly, they called on the Office to make both its conflict of interest policy and the conflict of interest forms signed by the Management Board Members and the Executive Director publically available.

• 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 Asylum Support Office (EASO). 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 Asylum Support Office (EASO). 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. EASO: in 2013, the tasks and budget of the Office were as follows: ·        description of the tasks of the Office: the Office was set up under Regulation 439/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council. Its main aim is to help to improve the implementation of the Common European Asylum System (the CEAS), to strengthen practical cooperation among Member States and to provide and/or coordinate the provision of operational support to Member States subject to particular pressure on their asylum and reception systems; ·        EASO’s budget for 2013: the accounts of the Office for the year 2013 as presented by the Commission in its document on the consolidated annual accounts of the European Union are as follows: §         Commitment appropriations : - committed : EUR 12 million; - paid : EUR 10 million; - carried-over : 0. §         Payment appropriations : - committed : EUR 12 million; - paid : EUR 11 million; - carried-over : EUR 1 million. Please refer also to the Final Accounts of the European Asylum Support Office.

  • 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: A8-0085/2015
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T8-0137/2015

Amendments

Dossier

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2014/2126(DEC) 2015/01/13 LIBE 2 amendments... Amendment 1 # Barbara MATERA Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Considers, in particular, that budgetary planning could be improved, but welcomes the fact that both the overestimation of budgetary needs and carry-overs of committed appropriations were significantly lower than in 2012; welcomes the fact that the EASO tool on board all of the Court of Auditors’ recommendations on raising internal control standards. Amendment 2 # Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Considers, in general, that the EASO should pay particulagreater attention to ensuringthe principle of sound financial management in respect of the budgetary principle of annuality, i.e. to using its appropriations economically, efficiently and effectively in the performance of its dutiescarrying out its remit. source: 541.401 2015/03/05 CONT 5 amendments... Amendment 1 # Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1. Grants the Executive Director of the European Asylum Support Office discharge in respect of the implementation of the Office’s budget for the financial year 2013 / Postpones its decision on granting the Executive Director of the European Asylum Support Office discharge in respect of the implementation of the Office'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 Executive Director of the European Asylum Support Office discharge in respect of the implementation of the Office’s budget for the financial year 2013 / Postpones its decision on granting the Executive Director of the European Asylum Support Office discharge in respect of the implementation of the Office'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 Asylum Support Office for the financial year 2013 / Postpones the closure of the accounts of the European Asylum Support Office 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 Asylum Support Office for the financial year 2013 / Postpones the closure of the accounts of the European Asylum Support Office for the financial year 2013; Amendment 5 # Zigmantas BALČYTIS Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Notes that the budget monitoring efforts during the financial year 2013 resulted in a budget implementation rate of 87,34 % and that the payment appropriations execution rate was 87,18 %; underlines that the Office improved remarkably its payment appropriations execution rate compared to the previous year; source: 539.773

History

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