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Lead | CONT | VALLI Marco (EFD) | SALAFRANCA SÁNCHEZ-NEYRA José Ignacio (EPP), SALAFRANCA SÁNCHEZ-NEYRA José Ignacio (EPP), KOHN Arndt (S&D), KOHN Arndt (S&D), CZARNECKI Ryszard (ECR), TAKKULA Hannu (ALDE), TAKKULA Hannu (ALDE), DE JONG Dennis (GUE/NGL), DE JONG Dennis (GUE/NGL), JÁVOR Benedek (Verts/ALE), JÁVOR Benedek (Verts/ALE), JALKH Jean-François (ENF) |
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2017/06/26
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COM(2017)0365
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PURPOSE: presentation by the Commission of the consolidated annual accounts of the European Union for the financial year 2016, as part of the 2016 discharge procedure. Analysis of the accounts of the EU Institutions: European Court of Auditors. Legal reminder: the consolidated annual accounts of the European Union for the year 2016 have been prepared on the basis of the information presented by the institutions and bodies under Article 148(2) of the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Union. Consolidated annual accounts of the EU: this Commission document concerns the EU's consolidated accounts for the year 2016 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 also presents the accounting principles applicable to the European budget (in particular, consolidation). The document also presents the different financial actors involved in the budget process (accounting officers, internal officers and authorising officers) and recalls their respective roles in the context of the tasks of sound financial management. Audit and discharge: the EU’s annual accounts and resource management are audited by the European Court of Auditors, its external auditor, which as part of its activities draws up for the European Parliament and the Council: an annual report on the activities financed from the general budget, detailing its observations on the annual accounts and underlying transactions; an opinion, based on its audits and given in the annual report in the form of a statement of assurance, on (i) the reliability of the accounts and (ii) the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions involving both revenue collected from taxable persons and payments to final beneficiaries. The European Parliament is the discharge authority within the EU. The discharge represents the final step of a budget lifecycle. It is 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. This discharge procedure may produce three outcomes: (i) the granting; (ii) postponement; (iii) or the refusal of the discharge. (2) Implementation of Court of Auditors’ appropriations for the financial year 2016: the CoA’s budget is entirely administrative expenditure. In 2016 it accounted for around EUR 137.6 million, representing less than 0.1 % of total EU spending or around 1.5 % of total administrative spending. The overall rate of implementation was 99 %. As regards the Court of Auditor’s expenditure, the information is drawn from the Court of Auditors 2016 Annual Activity Report and highlighted that 2016 was marked by: the production of 52 specific annual reports on the EU’s various agencies and bodies located across the Union; 36 special reports examining the effectiveness of diverse management topics and budgetary areas such as climate change, maritime transport, migration or banking supervision; 2 opinions on new or updated EU laws with significant financial management implications and a briefing paper on the mid-term review of the multiannual financial framework 2014-2020; the election of a new president, Klaus-Heiner Lehne (Germany); reform of the system of audit chambers and committees by creating a fifth chamber responsible for auditing the EU’s financing and administration; putting in place a high-quality system of environmental management for buildings, which led to a positive environmental assessment by experts. External audit of the ECA: the ECA’s annual accounts are audited by an independent external auditor (PricewaterhouseCoopers Sàrl).
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COM(2017)0365
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Documents
- Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2017)0365
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2018/03/02
CONT
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Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1. Grants the Secretary-General of the Court of Auditors discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Court of Auditors for the financial year
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Takes note of the Court’s opinion No 1/2017 on the revision of the Financial Regulation where it is proposed to update the arrangement for the audit of the decentrali
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Regrets that the extent of considerations in Chapter 10 of the annual report remains limited; asks the Court to provide more detailed data on each institution in order to achieve a better view of the weaknesses of the administrative expenditures; considers that country specific reporting by the Court for every Member State would be welcome in the foreseeable future;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Observes that the Court is complying with the interinstitutional agreement to reduce staff by 5% over a
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Observes with concern that the Court is complying with the interinstitutional agreement to reduce staff by 5% over a period of five years; asks to be informed
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Observes that the 5% staff reduction agreement has led to institutions increasingly hiring staff on temporary contracts; regrets that internal competitions are organised with the aim and result of retaining staff that have previously held the same position under previous temporary contracts; considers it more cost and time efficient as well as transparent and fair if well- performing staff with temporary contracts would be switched to permanent contracts without the added financial and administrative burden of organising competitions with pre-determined outcomes at the expense of disappointing outside applicants;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Regrets that within the members of the Court there was a gender imbalance of three women to 25 men; welcomes that the number of women went up to four in 2016; reiterates its support for the criteria for appointment of Members of the Court endorsed in its resolution on the future role of the Court of Auditors adopted on 4 February 20141a; _________________ 1a Text adopted, P7_TA(2014)0060
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Takes note of the creation of a post- graduation university diploma in “Audit of public organisations and policies” and a master’s degree programme on “Management of public organisations” in cooperation with the University of Lorraine; asks the Court to provide the discharge authority with further information about the agreements related to the creation of these programmes and the results aimed for, and to clarify whether the course laureates are being oriented towards a career in Union institutions and bodies;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Takes note of the creation of a post- graduation university diploma in “Audit of public organisations and policies” and a master’s degree programme on “Management of public organisations” in cooperation with the University of Lorraine
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Notes the increased amount of outsourced translation in 2016, particularly in August; takes note of the Court’s justification and
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Expresses the need to establish an independent disclosure, advice and referral body with sufficient budgetary resources, in order to help whistle-blowers use the right channels to disclose information on possible irregularities affecting the financial interests of the Union, while protecting their confidentiality and offering needed support and advice;
Amendment 2 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1. Grants the Secretary-General of the Court of Auditors discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Court of Auditors for the financial year
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) 20a. Regrets the decision by the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union; observes that at this point no predictions can be made about the financial, administrative, human and other consequences related to the withdrawal, asks the Court to perform impact assessments and inform the Parliament on the results by the end of the year 2018;
Amendment 3 #
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Amendment 4 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1. Grants the Secretary-General of the Court of Auditors discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Court of Auditors for the financial year
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 3 a (new) Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 3 a (new) - having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 4 February 2014 on the future role of the Court of Auditors. The procedure on the appointment of Court of Auditors’ Members: European Parliament consultation (2012/2064(INI))1a _________________ 1a Text adopted, P7_TA(2014)0060
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A (new) Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Notes that during the discharge procedure, Annual Activity reports are currently submitted to the Court in June, submitted by the Court to the European Parliament in October and voted in plenary by May; notes that by the time discharge is closed, if not postponed, at least 17 months have passed since the closing of annual accounts; points out that auditing in the private sector follows a much stricter timeline; stresses that the discharge procedure needs to be streamlined and sped up; requests that the Court follows the good example set by the private sector and proposes to set a deadline for the submission of Annual Activity reports on 31 March of the following year, a deadline for the submission for the Court's reports on the 1st of July and subsequently to review the timetable for the discharge procedure as set down in Article 5 of Annex IV to Parliament's Rules of Procedure so that the vote on the discharge can be held in in the plenary part-session of November, thereby closing the discharge procedure within the year following the accounting year in question;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Welcomes the overall prudent and sound financial management of the Court in the 2016 budget period; expresses support for the successful paradigm shift towards performance-based budgeting in the Commission’s budget planning introduced by Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva in September 2015 as part of the “EU Budget Focused on Results” initiative; encourages the Court to apply the method to its own budget-planning procedure;
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