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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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2017/03/23
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2016/10/04
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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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 Police College (CEPOL). 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 Police College (CEPOL), 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 CEPOL. CEPOL: CEPOL which is located in Budapest (HU) since October 2014 was established by Council Decision 2005/681/JHA. Its main task is to provide training sessions, based on common standards, for senior police officers. As regards CEPOL’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 9 million; - paid: EUR 9 million; - carried-over: 0. Payment appropriations: - committed: EUR 10 million; - paid: EUR 8 million; - carried-over: EUR 2 million. For further details on expenditure, please refer to the final accounts of CEPOL.
- 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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- Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2016)0475
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2016/2178(DEC)
2017/01/23
LIBE
22 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Welcomes the solid output of CEPOL; acknowledges the training of 12 992 law enforcement officers, which represents an increase of over 25% in comparison with 2014; welcomes the very high level of satisfaction of training participants, which reached 93% for residential courses, 94% for webinars and 94% for European Police Exchange Programmes; acknowledges that the number of residential activities (85) exceeded the target
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Welcomes that in 2015 the Agency organised webinars to provide law enforcement officials with up-to-date information and best practice on identifying and investigating hate crimes and different forms of gender-based violence, and offered trainings to raise awareness about the challenges experienced by Roma communities and LGBTI persons (such as over- and under- policing and the lack of trust towards members of the police force), and how these can be addressed at the level of law enforcement; calls for the continuation of the provision of trainings in the field of fundamental rights and the related sensitisation of the police force.
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Notes the European Commission grant of 2 500 000 euros to implement a counter-terrorism training capacity building project in four countries in the MENA region; requests a thorough evaluation of the project and its added value for the security of the Union
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Notes the European Commission grant of 2 500 000 euros to implement a counter-terrorism training capacity building project in four countries in the MENA region; requests a thorough evaluation of the project and its added value for the security of the Union
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Notes the European Commission grant of 2 500 000 euros to implement a counter-terrorism training capacity building project in four countries in the MENA region; requests a thorough evaluation of the project and its added value for the security of the Union
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the high implementation rate of the 2015 budget that reached 95.5% out of which 79% has been paid; notes, however, that according to the Court of Auditors, the level of committed appropriations for administrative expenditure carried over from 2014 to 2015 reached 49 % at the end of 2015, which is relatively high, although lower than in 2014 (59%); underlines that the Court noted that the College's audited budgetary implementation report differs from the level of detail provided by most other agencies which demonstrates the need for clear guidelines on the agencies' budget reporting; welcomes, therefore, the commitment of CEPOL to continue to improve its budget management procedures and to better comply with the budgetary principle of annuity provided in the Financial Regulation;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Deplores that, despite the adoption of CEPOL's policy on the prevention and management of conflict of interests in November 2014, the curricula vitae and declarations of interest of its experts are not published on CEPOL's website; reminds CEPOL that it should make them available for the public in order to ensure transparency and uphold EU citizen's trust in the European institutions; calls upon CEPOL to adopt a clear and solid whistleblowing strategy and rules against "revolving doors" according to Article 22c of the EU Staff Regulations, which came into force on 1 January 2014;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Regrets that given the withdrawal of the UK and the impending loss of the UK's contribution, the Agency has not been dissolved in an effort to balance the budget without having to resort to raising additional revenues ;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. Regrets that CEPOL has neither been merged with EUROPOL nor co- located in an effort to reduce the degree of waste of taxpayers' money
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the high implementation rate of the 2015 budget that reached 95.5% out of which 79% has been paid; notes, however, that according to the Court of Auditors, the level of committed appropriations for administrative expenditure carried over from 2014 to 2015 reached 49 % at the end of 2015, which is relatively high, although lower than in 2014 (59%); understands that this is a direct result of the College's relocation from the UK to Hungary in September 2014 and the consequential need to initiate new service and supply contracts; welcomes, therefore, the commitment of CEPOL to continue to improve its budget management procedures and to better comply with the budgetary principle of annuity provided in the Financial Regulation;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the high implementation rate of the 2015 budget that reached 95.5% out of which 79% has been paid; notes, however, that according to the Court of Auditors, the level of committed appropriations for administrative
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the high implementation rate of the 2015 budget that reached 95.5% out of which 79% has been paid; notes, however, that according to the Court of Auditors, the level of committed appropriations for administrative expenditure carried over from 2014 to 2015 reached 49 % at the end of 2015, which is relatively high, although lower than in 2014 (59%);
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the high implementation rate of the 2015 budget that reached 95.5% out of which 79% has been paid; notes, however, that according to the Court of Auditors, the level of committed appropriations for administrative expenditure carried over from 2014 to 2015 reached 49 % at the end of 2015, which is relatively high, although lower than in 2014 (59%);
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the high implementation rate of the 2015 budget that reached 95.5%
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Regrets that, according to the Court of Auditors' report, the College's audited budgetary implementation report differs from the level of detail provided by most other agencies; notes that this difference results from the fact that CEPOL has outsourced the role of Accounting Officer to the Accounting Officer of the European Commission; questions the added-value of this outsourcing if the level of detail in the implementation reports is still lower than for other EU agencies;
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2017/03/06
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10 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision 1 1 Paragraph 1 1. Grants the Executive Director of the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Notes
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 Police College for the financial year
Amendment 4 #
Proposal for a decision 2 Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. 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. Observes that a total of EUR 1 406 984 was carried over to 2016, amounting to 17 % of the overall 2015 budget; notes that, according to the Court’s report, the level of committed appropriations carried over was
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Notes that the cost of the relocation from Bramshill, UK to Budapest, Hungary was estimated at approximately EUR 1 006 515, to be spent during 2014 and 2015; notes moreover that in accordance with the agreement between the Commission and the UK, the amount of EUR 570 283 was financed with 50 % from the UK authorities and with 50 % from the Commission; acknowledges the fact that the UK contribution to the relocation funds was inscribed in the College’s budget as assigned revenue, which was fully used; welcomes the fact that the remaining relocation funds corresponding to 35 % of the final relocation budget were financed with the College’s budget by savings deriving from the lower correction coefficient applied to staff entitlements in Hungary; suggests, however, that the College further reduce the level of committed appropriations to be carried over to the following year and to keep it as low as possible;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Notes
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