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Lead | CONT | AYALA SENDER Inés (S&D) | ZDECHOVSKÝ Tomáš (EPP), FITTO Raffaele (ECR), ALI Nedzhmi (ALDE), DE JONG Dennis (GUE/NGL), JÁVOR Benedek (Verts/ALE), VALLI Marco (EFD), KAPPEL Barbara (ENF) |
Opinion | LIBE | JEŽEK Petr (ALDE) |
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2017/04/26
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Non-legislative basic document published
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COM(2016)0475
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PURPOSE: presentation by the Commission of the consolidated annual accounts of the European Union for the financial year 2015, as part of the 2015 discharge procedure. Analysis of the accounts of the European Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA). CONTENT: the organisational governance of the EU consists of institutions, agencies and other EU bodies whose expenditure is included in the general budget of the Union. The EU's operational expenditure of these institutions takes different forms, depending on how the money is paid out and managed. From 2014 onwards, the Commission classifies its expenditure as follows: Direct management: the budget is implemented directly by the Commission services. Indirect management: the Commission confers tasks of implementation of the budget to bodies of EU law or national law, such as the EU agencies. Shared management: under this method of budget implementation tasks are delegated to Member States. About 80 % of the expenditure falls under this management mode covering such areas as agricultural spending and structural actions. This Commission document concerns the EU's consolidated accounts for the year 2015 and details how spending by the EU institutions and bodies was carried out. The consolidated annual accounts of the EU provide financial information on the activities of the institutions, agencies and other bodies of the EU from an accrual accounting and budgetary perspective. It is the responsibility of the Commission's Accounting Officer to prepare the EU's consolidated annual accounts and ensure that they present fairly, in all material aspects, the financial position, the result of the operations and the cashflows of the EU institutions and bodies, including the European Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), with a view to granting discharge. Discharge procedure: the final step of a budget lifecycle is the discharge of the budget for a given financial year. It represents the political aspect of the external control of budget implementation and is the decision by which the European Parliament, acting on a Council recommendation, "releases" the Commission (and other EU bodies) from its responsibility for management of a given budget by marking the end of that budget's existence. The European Parliament is the discharge authority within the EU. The discharge procedure may produce three outcomes: (i) the granting; (ii) postponement or; (iii) the refusal of the discharge. The final discharge report including specific recommendations to the Commission for action is adopted in plenary by the European Parliament and are subject to an annual follow up report in which the Commission outlines the concrete actions it has taken to implement the recommendations made. Each agency is subject to its own discharge procedure, including the European Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA). Fundamental Rights Agency: the Agency, which is located in Vienna (AT), was established by Council Regulation (EC) No 168/2007 and aims to provide the relevant authorities of the Union and its Member States with assistance and expertise when implementing Union law relating to fundamental rights. Its task is to collect information as well as providing expert advice to the institutions on a range of issues. As regards the Agency’s accounts, these are presented in detail in the document on the consolidated annual accounts of the European Union for 2015: Commitment appropriations: - committed: EUR 22 million; - paid: EUR 22 million; - carried-over: 0. Payment appropriations: - committed: EUR 28 million; - paid: EUR 22 million; - carried-over: EUR 6 million. For further details on expenditure, please refer to the FRA’s final accounts.
- DG {'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/budget_en', 'title': 'Budget'}, GEORGIEVA Kristalina
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COM(2016)0475
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Documents
- Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2016)0475
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2016/2163(DEC)
2017/01/23
LIBE
18 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Regrets that the Agency's mandate still limits its role in support of fundamental rights; underlines that the Agency should be able to offer opinions on legislative proposals on its own initiative and that its remit should extend to all areas of rights protected under the Charter, including, for instance, issues of police and judicial cooperation;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Welcomes the solid output of the Agency; notes that it organised 60 events bringing together its key partners and stakeholders to discuss fundamental rights issues in various thematic areas; acknowledges that the Agency offered its expertise at 240 presentations and hearings and that it published its research in 32 reports and papers; recalls that the Agency formulated 122 opinions in response to requests from Member States, Union institutions and other international organisations; further welcomes its pro- active approach towards the European Parliament;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Welcomes the
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 – point a (new) (a) Calls on the Agency to adopt internal binding rules for the protection of whistle-blowers according to Article 22c of the EU Staff Regulations which came into force on 1 January 2014.
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 – point b (new) (b) Welcomes the publication of declaration of interests and CVs of its Management Board members and deplores that the CVs of the alternate members of the Management Board from Bulgaria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Croatia, Netherlands, Poland, Council of Europe, UK and the European Commission are not publicly available; recalls that the transparency is a key element for upholding the trust of the Union citizens in Union institutions; calls on the Agency to draft and submit to the discharge authority a track record of cases of conflict of interest identified;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Recommends the inclusion of the proposed new thematic areas of police cooperation and judicial cooperation in criminal matters in the new Multiannual Framework, currently under negotiation. Following the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, police cooperation and judicial cooperation in criminal matters have become part of the law of the Union and are therefore covered by the scope of the tasks of the Agency
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the very low level of cancelled carry-overs (less than 2 %) and the very high level of consumption of its Union subsidies (99 %); agrees that this is an indicator of good planning and management;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Welcomes that during 2015, the Agency strongly focused on fundamental rights challenges
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Welcomes the fact that, during 2015, the Agency strongly focused on fundamental rights challenges arising from the significant increase in refugees and migrants – including refugees crossing borders illegally – coming to the Union; acknowledges especially that the Agency considerably stepped up its activities in the area of immigration and integration of migrants, visa and border control and asylum procedures;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Welcomes that during 2015, the Agency strongly focused on fundamental rights challenges
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Welcomes that in 2015 the Agency continued with its research on the situation of Roma in the Union, and thus contributed to monitoring the efficiency and shortcomings of the integration policies of the Union and those of its Member States; especially welcomes the research-based policy recommendations of the Agency concerning the successful fight against anti-Gypsyism and fight for the social inclusion of Roma.
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2017/03/07
CONT
10 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision 1 1 Paragraph 1 1. Grants the Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Notes with concern a significant gender imbalance in the Agency’s senior management board members; urges the Agency to correct this imbalance and to communicate the results to the European Parliament as soon as possible;
Amendment 2 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 3 #
Proposal for a decision 2 2 Paragraph 1 1. Approves the closure of the accounts of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights for the financial year
Amendment 4 #
Proposal for a decision 2 Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) A a. whereas in the context of the discharge procedure, Parliament stresses the special importance of further strengthening the democratic legitimacy of the institutions of the Union by improving transparency and accountability, implementing the concept of performance-based budgeting and good governance of human resources;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Regrets the fact that the Agency's mandate still limits its role as regards the support for fundamental rights; stresses that the Agency should be able to offer opinions on legislative proposals on its own initiative and that its remit should extend to all areas of rights protected under the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, including, for example, issues of police and judicial cooperation;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Takes note of the fact that the Agency
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Notes with concern a significant gender imbalance in the
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