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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 | ENVI | LA VIA Giovanni (EPP) |
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2017/04/27
Results of vote in Parliament
- Results of vote in Parliament
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T8-0164/2017
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The European Parliament decided to grant discharge to the Executive Director of the European Centre for disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in respect of the implementation of its budget for the financial year 2015. The vote on the decision on discharge covers the closure of the accounts (in accordance with Annex IV, Article 5 (1) (a) to Parliament’s Rules of Procedure). Noting that the Court of Auditors has stated that it has obtained reasonable assurances that the Centre’s annual accounts for the financial year 2015 are reliable and that the underlying transactions are legal and regular, Parliament adopted by 520 votes to 103 with 5 abstentions, a resolution containing a series of recommendations, which form an integral part of the decision on discharge and which add to the general recommendations set out in the resolution on performance, financial management and control of EU agencies. These recommendations may be summarised as follows: Centre’s financial statements: the final budget of the Centre for the financial year 2015 was EUR 58 451 950 representing a decrease of 3.36 % compared to 2014. Legality and regularity of transactions: Parliament noted that various weaknesses were found affecting the transparency of the Centre’s procurement procedures, including a lack of a clear link with the Centre’s annual work programme, insufficient substantiation of the estimated contract value or absence of a financial benchmark to assess the tenderer’s financial capacity. It acknowledged that prior to the launch of any procurement procedure above EUR 25 000, the Centre now requests a substantiation of estimated contract values. Procurement and recruitment procedures: the Centre’s revised procedure on procurement, contracts and grants is providing an additional quality control mechanism. The Centre was called upon to carry out careful checks on conflicts of interest in relation to tenders, procurement, recruitment and contracts in order to strengthen transparency. The Centre was asked to apply strictly the measures pertaining to discretion and exclusion in public procurement, with proper background checks being carried out in every instance, and to apply the exclusion criteria so as to debar companies in the event of any conflict of interest. Parliament also made a series of observations regarding commitments and the budgetary and financial management, commitments and carry-overs, the prevention and management of conflicts of interests and internal audits and controls. Ebola and other epidemics: Parliament stressed that the Ebola epidemic provided a test case for the Union’s preparedness arrangements and legal framework and that the Health Security Committee met regularly to discuss appropriate measures based on rapid risk assessments and guidance from the Centre. It recalled that the Decision No 1082/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council provides the framework to address, coordinate and manage serious cross-border health threats in cooperation with Member States, the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Centre and other international partners. It also noted that in 2015, there were 88 notifications, which resulted in 280 messages and information exchanges, and 37 different events were addressed, for example, the Ebola epidemic, the influx of refugees, the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), poliomyelitis, the shortage of medical countermeasures, the Zika virus, and the explosion of a chemical factory in China. Communication: Parliament noted that the Centre’s target of 10 % more web visitors in 2015 was not reached, mainly due to an unprecedented increase of web visitors in 2014 during the Ebola crisis. It underlined that the Centre should continue promoting dialogue with stakeholders and citizens and incorporate it as part of the priorities and activities to be implemented.
- 2017/04/26 Debate in Parliament
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2017/03/28
Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
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A8-0082/2017
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The Committee on Budgetary Control adopted the report by Inés AYALA SENDER (S&D, ES) on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) for the financial year 2015. The committee called on the European Parliament to grant the Executive Director of the Centre discharge in respect of the implementation of the agency’s budget for the financial year 2015. Noting that the Court of Auditors stated that it had obtained reasonable assurance that the annual accounts of the Centre for the financial year 2015 were reliable and that the underlying transactions were legal and regular, Members called on Parliament to approve the closure of the Centre’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: Centre’s financial statements: the final budget of the Centre for the financial year 2015 was EUR 58 451 950 representing a decrease of 3.36 % compared to 2014. Legality and regularity of transactions: Members noted that various weaknesses were found affecting the transparency of the Centre’s procurement procedures, including a lack of a clear link with the Centre’s annual work programme, insufficient substantiation of the estimated contract value or absence of a financial benchmark to assess the tenderer’s financial capacity. They acknowledged that prior to the launch of any procurement procedure above EUR 25 000, the Centre now requests a substantiation of estimated contract values. Procurement and recruitment procedures: the Centre’s revised procedure on procurement, contracts and grants is providing an additional quality control mechanism. The Centre was called upon to carry out careful checks on conflicts of interest in relation to tenders, procurement, recruitment and contracts in order to strengthen transparency. The Centre was asked to apply strictly the measures pertaining to discretion and exclusion in public procurement, with proper background checks being carried out in every instance, and to apply the exclusion criteria so as to debar companies in the event of any conflict of interest. Members also made a series of observations regarding commitments and the budgetary and financial management, commitments and carry-overs, the prevention and management of conflicts of interests and internal audits and controls. Members stressed that the Ebola epidemic provided a test case for the Union’s preparedness arrangements and legal framework and that the Health Security Committee met regularly to discuss appropriate measures based on rapid risk assessments and guidance from the Centre. They recalled that the Decision No 1082/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council provides the framework to address, coordinate and manage serious cross-border health threats in cooperation with Member States, the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Centre and other international partners. They also noted that in 2015, there were 88 notifications, which resulted in 280 messages and information exchanges, and 37 different events were addressed, for example, the Ebola epidemic, the influx of refugees, the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), poliomyelitis, the shortage of medical countermeasures, the Zika virus, and the explosion of a chemical factory in China.
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A8-0082/2017
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2017/03/22
Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
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2016/10/04
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2016/07/11
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 Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). 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 Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), 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 ECDC. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control: the Centre, which is located in Stockholm (SE), was set up by Regulation (EC) No 851/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council. Its main tasks are to collect and disseminate data on the prevention and control of human diseases and provide scientific opinions on this subject. As regards the Centre’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 60 million; - paid: EUR 56 million; - carried-over: 0. Payment appropriations: - committed: EUR 71 million; - paid: EUR 55 million; - carried-over: EUR 11 million. For further details on expenditure, please refer to the final accounts of the ECDC.
- 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
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A8-0082/2017
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T8-0164/2017
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2016/12/14
ENVI
12 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Notes that the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (“the Centre”), whose objective is to strengthen the EU's defences against infectious diseases, is almost exclusively financed from the Union budget; notes also that the EFTA Member States contributed 2,97% of the Centre’s 2015 budget; acknowledges that in 2015, the Centre had an outturn of EUR 5 079 604 on a total budget of EUR 58 451 950 cashed from the Commission;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new) 5 c. Recommends the Centre to develop impact indicators; believes that such impact indicators are essential tools in order to measure the effectiveness of the Centre;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Recalls that, as a Union agency, the Centre has a budget which is denominated in euro; however, since it is located in Sweden, and therefore in a non-Eurozone country, a lot of its expenses are incurred in Swedish krona (SEK) ; furthermore, the Centre is exposed to exceptional, unforeseen and unpredictable exchange rate fluctuations since not only does it have bank accounts in Swedish krona but also carries out certain transactions in other foreign currencies;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Recommends, based on the facts available,
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses that the Ebola epidemic provided a test case for the implementation of the Union’s preparedness arrangements and legal framework and that the Health Security Committee met regularly to discuss appropriate measures based on rapid risk assessments and guidance from the Centre;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Notes that with regard to its procurement procedures, the Centre has put specific focus on ensuring consistency in all tender documents; emphasises that the Centre’s revised Committee on Procurement, Contracts and Grants is providing an additional quality control mechanism; calls on the Centre in particular to carry out careful checks on conflicts of interest in relation to tenders, procurement, recruitment and contracts in order to strengthen transparency;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Reminds that the Centre can award grants to institutions and individuals and invites the Centre to promote independent research on those vaccines the safety of which has be questioned in several Member States; points out that transparency of clinical data, pharmacovigilance and monitoring of side-effects arising from vaccines should also be reinforced in cooperation between European Medicines Agency and the Centre;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Recommends the Centre to come forward with a joint strategy document, borrowing from the experience of other Union agencies, which should include monitoring indicators on staff development and outsourcing policy;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Asks the Centre to apply strictly the measures pertaining to discretion and exclusion in public procurement, with proper background checks being carried out in every instance, and to apply the exclusion criteria so as to debar companies in the event of any conflict of interest, this being essential to protect the financial interests of the Union;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. Underlines that the Centre should continue promoting dialogue with stakeholders and citizens and incorporate it as part of the priorities and activities to be implemented;
source: 595.705
2017/03/06
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8 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision 1 1 Paragraph 1 1. Grants the Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control discharge in respect of the implementation of the Centre’s budget for the financial year
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 Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for the financial year
Amendment 4 #
Proposal for a decision 2 Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 3 a (new) - having regard to the Court of Auditors’ special report No 12/2016 on the 'Agencies’ use of grants: not always appropriate or demonstrably effective',
Amendment 6 #
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 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Notes that the Centre has taken specific initiatives in order to increase transparency relating to its contacts with lobbyists, and that an internal procedure on meetings with the pharmaceutical sector is under preparation; calls on the Centre to enact a proactive lobby transparency policy, to refuse meetings with unregistered lobbyists that fall within the scope of the Transparency Register;
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