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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 | TRAN | SCHMIDT Claudia (EPP) |
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2017/04/27
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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 Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). 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 cash flows of the EU institutions and bodies, including the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), 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 EMSA. The European Maritime Safety Agency: the Agency, which is located in Lisbon (PT), was established by was set up by Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council. The Agency’s tasks are to prevent pollution by ships and provide the Commission and Member States with appropriate technical assistance. 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 70 million; - paid: EUR 64 million; - carried-over: EUR 6 million. Payment appropriations: - committed: EUR 70 million; - paid: EUR 58 million; - carried-over: EUR 10 million. For further details on expenditure, please refer to the final accounts of the EMSA.
- 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
Amendments | Dossier |
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2016/2172(DEC)
2017/02/03
TRAN
5 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Welcomes the adoption by the Administrative Board of a Fraud prevention and detection strategy, based on the methodology and guidance of OLAF and on the Anti-fraud strategy of DG MOVE, and expects it to be fully and speedily implemented;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Highlights the Agency’s contribution to maritime safety, the prevention of ship pollution in Europe, and the assistance provided to Member States and the Commission under international and Union law; welcomes and encourages the Agency collaboration with other European Agencies regarding the refugees crisis and reaffirms that the Agency has to be given the financial, material and human resources it needs in order to perform its tasks effectively, including when dealing with critically important activities outside its mandate, i.e. contribution with know- how, operational support and staff of the Agency to the refugee crisis; deplores the fact, however, that that support merely encourages illegals to cross over to the Union rather than being safely taken back to where their crossing started;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Highlights the Agency’s contribution to maritime safety, the prevention of
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Notes the results of the second benchmarking exercise on the Agency's posts, with 21,67% of the jobs dedicated to administrative support and coordination, 71,29% to operational tasks and 7,05% to control and financial tasks;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Acknowledges the progress of the Agency with regard to the publication on the Agency’s website of the CVs and declarations of interests of the Administrative Board members and alternates; regrets, however, that declarations of interest have not been provided by all members and alternates as it has been requested by the Parliament and recommended by the Court of Auditors; in
source: 599.581
2017/03/06
CONT
13 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision 1 1 Paragraph 1 1. Grants the Executive Director of the European Maritime Safety Agency discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Notes with concern that the Agency has not taken specific initiatives in order to increase transparency relating to its contacts with stakeholders and lobbyists; calls on the Agency to enact a proactive lobby transparency policy, to refuse meetings with unregistered lobbyists that fall within the scope of the Transparency Register, and to maintain a balance between economic and non-economic actors in their contacts with interest representatives;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Notes with concern that the Agency has not taken specific initiatives in order to increase transparency relating to its contacts with stakeholders and lobbyists; points out that possible conflicts of interest in such contacts should be very closely scrutinised in order better to meet transparency and accountability requirements;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Notes with concern a significant gender imbalance of 20 % / 80 % within the Agency’s Management Board members and alternate members;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Notes with concern a significant gender imbalance in the Agency’s Management Board members; urges the Agency for this imbalance to be corrected and the results communicated to the Parliament as quickly 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 Maritime Safety Agency for the financial year
Amendment 4 #
Proposal for a decision 2 Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) B 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 3 3. Acknowledges the fact that according to the Court of Auditors' annual audit, as well as to the Agency’s annual accounts report, no notable issues as regards the level of carryovers in 2015 were identified; observes that out of the total amount carried forward from 2014 to 2015 (EUR 35 987 101), 46 % were consumed, 50 % remained as “open amount” (amount due, not yet paid) and 4% of the total has been cancelled;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Notes with concern that the declarations of interest of its Administrative Board members are not published on its website and that the Agency has not foreseen any check or update of the declarations of interest of its management board members; calls on the Agency to publish such documents with no exceptions, introduce the regular checks and updates of its management board members' declarations of interest and allows the public the necessary overview on its senior management;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Notes with concern that the declarations of interest of its Administrative Board members are not published on its website and that the Agency has not foreseen any check or update of the declarations of interest of its management board members; encourages the Agency to remedy the situation;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Notes with concern that the declarations of interest of its Administrative Board members are not published on its website and that the Agency has not foreseen any check or update of the declarations of interest of its management board members; regrets that declarations of conflicts of interest of management board members are outstanding; notes that this practice does not further transparency and the declarations should therefore be published without delay;
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