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Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | CONT | POCHE Miroslav (S&D) | HAYES Brian (EPP), MARIAS Notis (ECR), GERBRANDY Gerben-Jan (ALDE), OMARJEE Younous (GUE/NGL), TARAND Indrek (Verts/ALE), VALLI Marco (EFD), KAPPEL Barbara (ENF) |
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Opinion | TRAN | SCHMIDT Claudia (EPP) |
Activites
- 2017/04/27 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
- 2017/04/26 Debate in Parliament
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2017/03/28
Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
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A8-0096/2017
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The Committee on Budgetary Control adopted the report by Miroslav POCHE (S&D, CZ) on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the SESAR Joint Undertaking for the financial year 2015. The committee called on the European Parliament to grant the joint undertaking’s Executive Director discharge in respect of the implementation of the joint undertaking’s budget for the financial year 2015. 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, Members called on Parliament to approve the closure of the joint undertaking’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: Budget and financial management: 2015 was the first year of real transition from SESAR 1 (funded from FP 7 and TEN-T) to SESAR 2 (funded from Horizon 2020). The final budget for SESAR1 for the financial year 2015 included commitment appropriations of EUR 30 229 774 and payment appropriations of EUR 126 733 842. The final budget for SESAR 2020 for the financial year 2015 included commitment appropriations of EUR 51 470 000 and payment appropriations of EUR 10 300 000. The utilisation rates for commitment and payment appropriations were 100 % and 82.3 %, respectively. The payment appropriations rate of 82.3 % was due to delay of two months for the first Horizon 2020. Related unused 2015 payment appropriations were fully reintroduced into the 2016 budget. Other observations: the report also contained a series of observations on procurement and recruitment procedures, the prevention and management of conflicts of interests, calls for proposal, internal audits and control systems. In July 2015, the Commission issued guidelines to the Joint Undertakings related to rules on conflicts of interest, including a common template for the declaration of absence of a conflict of interest. Members urged the Joint Undertaking to reflect those guidelines in its procedures and to report to the discharge authority on the completion of the aforementioned declarations. The report noted that the Administrative Board adopted in December 2015 the ATM Master Plan (2015 Edition) covering both SESAR development and deployment. It welcomed the development of a SESAR vision 2035+. Members welcomed the successful delivery of the work mandated by the Commission concerning the Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) definition phase. Lastly, they highlighted the vital role of the Joint Undertaking in coordinating and implementing research into the SESAR project.
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A8-0096/2017
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2017/03/23
Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
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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 SESAR Joint Undertaking to develop the new generation European air traffic management. 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 SESAR JU, 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 SESAR JU. The SESAR Joint Undertaking: the SESAR JU, located in Brussels (BE), was set up in 2007 by Regulation (EC) 219/2007 for a period extending to 31 December 2017. The aim of this Joint Undertaking is to ensure the modernisation of the European air traffic management system and the rapid implementation of the European air traffic management Master Plan by coordinating and concentrating all relevant research and development efforts in the EU. As regards SESAR’s accounts, these are presented in detail in the document published by the Joint Undertaking (please refer to the final accounts of the SESAR JU).
- 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: A8-0096/2017
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T8-0194/2017
Amendments | Dossier |
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2016/2195(DEC)
2017/02/06
TRAN
10 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Points out that to ensure the proper deployment of SESAR, and in the interest of achieving global interoperability, a specific and ambitious budget, other than the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) budget, should be allocated for its implementation;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 12 12. Highlights the
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Deeply regrets that, as the renewed Eurocontrol/SESAR Joint Undertaking agreement was not signed in 2015, it has not been possible to show a budget for in- kind contribution, a detailed multi-annual budget or report on its implementation other than the EUR 585 million contributions of the Union as fixed in the 2014 amendment of the Undertaking Regulation; insists that a reason why the renewed Eurocontrol/SESAR Joint Undertaking agreement was not signed to be presented to Parliament immediately;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Notes that the Administrative Board has adopted in December 2015 the ATM Master Plan (2015 Edition) covering both SESAR development and deployment; welcomes the development of a
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Welcomes the successful delivery of the work mandated by the European Commission concerning the Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) Definition phase; underlines the importance of a preliminary agreement with the wider Aviation industry on prerequisites for the safe integration of drones into civilian air space; notes also that a
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Welcomes the fact that the Undertaking has adopted in 2015 a multi- faceted approach to effectively review, manage and mitigate risks and that it has verification mechanisms in place to enable proper prevention and management of conflict of interest and expects that the European Parliament, the Council and the public will be annually informed on the results and follow-up of these measures;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9.
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 11. Notes the results of the 2015 Human Resources bench marking exercise: 54% operational posts, 4
source: 599.583
2017/03/06
CONT
8 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Citation 9 a (new) - having regard to the Court of Auditor's Special Report No 15/2012 "Management of conflict of interest in selected EU Agencies";
Amendment 2 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 3 #
Proposal for a decision 2 Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Notes that the lower-than-expected implementation rate for payment appropriations was due to the fact that the launch of the first Horizon 2020 calls was delayed and the related grant agreements could only be signed in early 2016;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11 a. Regrets that despite the Joint Undertaking 's policy on conflicts of interests, there are no declarations of absence of a conflict of interest on the Joint Undertaking's website; reminds that transparency is a core issue for the credibility of the Joint Undertaking's operations and for the public trust in the integrity of its staff and the use of financial and human resources for its operations; calls upon the Joint Undertaking to make immediately available for the public the declarations of absence of a conflict of interest of its executive and administrative staff until June 2017; asks the Joint Undertaking to present by June 2017 the list of the conflicts of interests identified (if any) and how they were handled and finalized;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Notes from the Court’s report that in July 2015, that the Commission issued guidelines to the Joint Undertakings related to rules on conflicts of interest, including a common template for the declaration of absence of a conflict of interest; invites the Joint Undertaking to reflect those guidelines in its procedures; urges, however, the Joint Undertaking to enact the submission of declaration of absence of a conflict of interest; urges the Joint Undertaking to entrust an independent third party with the task of evaluating declarations of the absence of conflicts of interest because the self-evaluation of such an absence in itself is a conflict of interest; asks the Joint Undertaking to report by June 2017 those changes and to indicate who is checking the situations of conflicts of interest; reiterates that transparency is key to the public trust;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Notes from the Court’s report that in July 2015,
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12 a. deplores the fact that the Joint Undertaking has not established rules regarding the protection of whistle- blowers and "revolving doors" and urges the Joint Undertaking to put in place such rules as a matter of urgency; asks the Joint Undertaking to provide by June 2017 details on the whistle-blower cases in 2015 (if any) and how they were handled and finalized; reiterates only integrity and transparency uphold the public trust; urges the Joint Undertaking to put in place measures to prevent "revolving doors" establishing dissuasive sanctions such us the reduction of pensions or prohibition to work at least three years in similar bodies;
source: 599.876
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