Activites

• 2017/04/27 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T8-0181/2017 summary

    The European Parliament decided to grant discharge the Director-General of the Euratom Supply Agency (ESA) in respect of the implementation of the budget for the financial year 2015. The vote on the discharge decision covers the closure of the accounts (in accordance with Annex IV, Article 5(1)(a) to its Rules of Procedure). Noting that the Court of Auditors issued a statement of assurance as to the reliability of the accounts and the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions for the financial year 2015, Parliament adopted by 496 votes to 111, with 11 abstentions, a resolution containing 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 resolution on performance, financial management and control of EU agencies. These recommendations may be summarised as follows: Agency’s financial statements: Parliament noted that the final budget of the Agency for the financial year 2015 was EUR 125 000, representing an increase of 20.19 % compared to 2014. Budget and financial management: it also noted that budget monitoring efforts during the financial year 2015 resulted in a commitment appropriations execution rate of 98.92 %, representing an increase of 7.84 % compared to 2014. Parliament made some comments as regards the Agency’s staff. It also noted that in 2015, the Agency prepared and presented to its advisory committee a draft proposal to amend its rules in order to bring them into line with current market practices. It stressed that if adopted, this would be the first revision of the rules since 1975. It called on the Agency to inform the discharge authority of further developments regarding the amendment of its rules.

• 2017/04/26 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 2017/03/30 Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
  • A8-0126/2017 summary

    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 Euratom Supply Agency for the financial year 2015. The committee called on the European Parliament to grant the Director-General of the Agency 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 Agency 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 Agency’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: Agency’s financial statements: Members noted that the final budget of the Agency for the financial year 2015 was EUR 125 000, representing an increase of 20.19 % compared to 2014. Budget and financial management: they also noted that budget monitoring efforts during the financial year 2015 resulted in a commitment appropriations execution rate of 98.92 %, representing an increase of 7.84 % compared to 2014. Lastly, Members noted that in 2015, the Agency prepared and presented to its advisory committee a draft proposal to amend its rules in order to bring them into line with current market practices. They stressed that if adopted, this would be the first revision of the rules since 1975. They called on the Agency to inform the discharge authority of further developments regarding the amendment of its rules.

• 2017/03/22 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
• 2016/10/04 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2016/07/11 Non-legislative basic document published
  • COM(2016)0475 summary

    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 Euratom Supply Agency (ESA). 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 Euratom Supply Agency (ESA), 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 ESA. The Euratom Supply Agency: the ESA, which is located in Luxembourg (LU), was established by Council Decision 2008/114/EC, Euratom in order to provide expertise, information and advice to the EU on the market in nuclear materials and services and monitor the market in this area. As regards the Agency’s accounts, these are presented in detail in the final accounts of the ESA.

  • DG {'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/budget_en', 'title': 'Budget'}, GEORGIEVA Kristalina

Documents

• Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2016)0475
• Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A8-0126/2017
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T8-0181/2017

Amendments

Dossier

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2016/2183(DEC) 2017/03/07 CONT 6 amendments... Amendment 1 # Inés AYALA SENDER Proposal for a decision 1 1 Paragraph 1 1. Grants the Director -General of the Euratom Supply Agency discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year 2015 / Postpones its decision on granting the Director General of the Euratom Supply Agency discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Agency for the financial year 2015; Amendment 2 # Ryszard CZARNECKI, Raffaele FITTO, Notis MARIAS Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1. Grants the Director General of the Euratom Supply Agency discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year 2015 / Postpones its decision on granting the Director General of the Euratom Supply Agency discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Agency for the financial year 2015; Amendment 3 # Inés AYALA SENDER Proposal for a decision 2 2 Paragraph 1 1. Approves the closure of the accounts of the Euratom Supply Agency for the financial year 2015 / Postpones the closure of the accounts of the Euratom Supply Agency for the financial year 2015; Amendment 4 # Ryszard CZARNECKI, Raffaele FITTO, Notis MARIAS Proposal for a decision 2 Paragraph 1 1. Approves the closure of the accounts of the Euratom Supply Agency for the financial year 2015 / Postpones the closure of the accounts of the Euratom Supply Agency for the financial year 2015; Amendment 5 # Benedek JÁVOR 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 # Zigmantas BALČYTIS Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Notes that budget monitoring efforts during the financial year 2015 resulted in a commitment appropriations execution rate of 98,92 %, representing an increase of 7,84 % compared to 2014; notes that the payment appropriation execution rate was 62,86 %, representing a decrease of 18,27 % compared to 2014; urges the Agency to respect the principle of annuality to the maximum extent possible in the future; source: 600.892

History

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