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Lead | CONT | VALLI Marco (EFD) | SALAFRANCA SÁNCHEZ-NEYRA José Ignacio (EPP), KOHN Arndt (S&D), CZARNECKI Ryszard (ECR), TAKKULA Hannu (ALDE), DE JONG Dennis (GUE/NGL), JÁVOR Benedek (Verts/ALE), JALKH Jean-François (ENF) |
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Opinion | LIBE | CHRYSOGONOS Kostas (GUE/NGL) |
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2017/09/13
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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2017/06/26
Non-legislative basic document published
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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 Data Protection Supervisor. Consolidated annual accounts of the EU: this Commission document concerns the EU’s consolidated annual accounts for the year 2016, 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. It 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 the EDPS’s appropriations for the financial year 2016: the EDPS was allocated a budget of EUR 9 288 043. This represents an increase of 4.55 % compared to the 2015 budget. Austerity policies were put in place. Most budgetary lines, for the fourth consecutive year, remained frozen to 0% and the overall increase as to EDPS current activities was of 1.30%. Nevertheless, some additional resources were requested for some activities foreseen in the EDPS Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020 (MFF 2014-2020). As regards the budget implementation of the EDPS, the Annual Report 2016 stated that the 2016 was characterised by the following: preparing for and implementing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); improved regulation of data flows; continuation of the small task force created in 2015 which has the responsibility of assessing the necessary legal, operational and budgetary means for the future set up of a new EU body, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB). In line with the GDPR, the new EDPB must be fully operational by May 2018; launch of the Ethics Advisory Group to develop innovative and effective ways of ensuring EU values are upheld in an era of ubiquitous data and intelligent machines; creation of a Digital Clearing House for competition, consumer and data authorities to share information and ideas on how to ensure the individual interest is best served in specific cases.
- DG {'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/budget_en', 'title': 'Budget'}, OETTINGER Günther
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COM(2017)0365
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Documents
- Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2017)0365
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2017/2144(DEC)
2018/01/19
LIBE
17 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Notes that the Court of Auditor annual report on the implementation of the EU Budget does not contain any remarks about the EDPS;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3 b. Welcomes the launch in 2016 of the EDPS Accountability Initiative, designed to equip EU institutions, beginning with the EDPS as a data controller itself, to lead by example in how they comply and demonstrate compliance with data protection rules;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Highlights that the GDPR and the Directive for data protection in the police and justice sectors shall be fully respected and implemented; acknowledges the intention of the
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Encourages the growing contribution of the EDPS to solutions driving innovation and enhancing privacy and data protection
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Encourages the growing contribution of the EDPS to solutions driving innovation and en
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Welcomes the aim of the
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Notes that the Court of Auditor annual report on the implementation of the EU Budget does not contain any remarks about the EDPS; regrets however that no EDPS transaction was selected for audit by the Court of Auditors in 2016 and that therefore the legality and regularity of underlying EDPS transactions was not examined by the Court; stresses that transparency is vital for the appropriate function of the Agency and recommends the Court to also select , for 2017, EDPS transactions;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Notes that the Court of Auditor annual report on the implementation of the EU Budget does not contain any remarks about the EDPS; regrets
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Points out that in its Annual Internal Audit report for the 2016 published end of March 2017, the internal auditor (IAS) identified 5 important Internal Control Systems recommendations dated from previous years and that were still open; notes with great surprise that some of those recommendations relate to information security and business continuity policies;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Points out that in its Annual Internal Audit report for
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Points out that in its Annual Internal Audit report for the 2016 published end of March 2017, the internal auditor (IAS) identified 5 important Internal Control Systems recommendations dated from previous years and that were still open;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Notes with satisfaction that all the Key Performance Indicators set in the EDPS Strategy 2015-2019 met and sometimes exceeded their respective targets in 2016, which shows that the implementation of the Strategy is on track;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Welcomes the ongoing work of IPEN which is a group composed of IT experts from all sectors providing a platform for cooperation and information exchange on engineering methods and tools which integrate data protection and privacy requirements into new technologies, an essential issue in the implementation of the GDPR;
source: 616.696
2018/03/02
CONT
14 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1. Grants the European Data Protection Supervisor discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget for the financial year 2016;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Observes that the 5 % staff reduction agreement has led to institutions increasingly hiring staff with 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 11 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Notes that the Supervisor has published in its annual activity report a chapter about inter-institutional cooperation with other institutions as it was requested in the 2015 discharge; notes that in 2016 the Supervisor signed two new Single Cooperation Agreements; calls to the Supervisor to continue strengthening the inter-institutional cooperation and update the achievements in the next annual activity report;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Regrets the decision of 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, and asks the Committee and the Court of Auditors to perform impact assessments and inform Parliament on the results by the end of 2018;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. 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 their information on possible irregularities affecting the financial interests of the Union, while protecting their confidentiality and offering needed support and advice;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 b (new) 11b. Notes that the Supervisor has published in its annual activity report the progress made in its Strategy 2015-2016; notes that in March 2015 the Supervisor re-evaluated their key performance indicators so as to monitor and adjust the impact of their work and use of resources; observes that the 2016 results show that the implementation of the Strategy is on track and encourages the Supervisor to keep on working in this matter;
Amendment 2 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 3 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1. Grants the European Data Protection Supervisor discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget for the financial year
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A (new) A. whereas in the context of the discharge procedure, the discharge authority wishes to stress the special importance of further strengthening the democratic legitimacy of the Union institutions by improving transparency and accountability and implementing the concept of performance-based budgeting and good governance of human resources;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Notes that in 2016, the Supervisor had a total allocated budget of EUR 9 288
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Welcomes the overall prudent and sound financial management of the Supervisor 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 Supervisor to apply the method to its own budget-planning procedure;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Notes that during the discharge procedure, annual activity reports are currently submitted to the Court of Auditors in June, submitted by the Court of Auditors 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 Supervisor and the Court of Auditors follow 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 of Auditor’s reports on the 1st of July and subsequently vote on the discharge in the plenary session of November, thereby closing the discharge procedure within the year following the accounting year in question;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Supervisor to provide a detailed list of missions undertaken by its members in 2016, indicating the price, the place and the cost of each mission before 30 June 2018; calls for the missions undertaken in 2017 to be included in its next annual activity report;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Supervisor to inform the Committee on Budgetary Control before 30 June 2018 of the amounts paid in 2016 under Service Level Agreements which have fees depending on consumption;
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