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Lead | CONT | STAES Bart (Verts/ALE) | SARVAMAA Petri (EPP), LIBERADZKI Bogusław (S&D), FITTO Raffaele (ECR), ALI Nedzhmi (ALDE), DE JONG Dennis (GUE/NGL), VALLI Marco (EFD), KAPPEL Barbara (ENF) |
Opinion | EMPL | ROLIN Claude (EPP) |
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2018/04/16
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2017/09/13
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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 European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound). 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. 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 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 cashflows of the EU institutions and bodies, including the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound), 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 Eurofound. Eurofound: the Foundation, which is located in Dublin (IRL), was set up by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1365/75 aims to contribute to the planning and establishment of better living and working conditions in the Union by increasing and disseminating knowledge which is relevant to this subject. As regards the Foundation’s accounts, these are presented in detail in the document on the consolidated annual accounts of the European Union for 2016: Commitment appropriations: available: EUR 21 million; made: EUR 21 million. Payment appropriations: available: EUR 24 million; made: EUR 20 million. For further details on expenditure, please refer to Eurofound’s 2016 annual accounts.
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Documents
- Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2017)0365
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2017/2148(DEC)
2017/12/06
EMPL
17 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Acknowledges that the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (the ‘Foundation’) remained an essential contributor to policy development and that the use of its expertise in key Union policy documents remained significant;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Commends the exemplary high budget implementation rate (100 %); notes, however, that the level of appropriations carried over to 2017 increased for Title III (43 %) compared to the previous year (31 %), mainly in relation to projects going beyond the end of the year;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Commends the high budget implementation rate (100 %); notes, however, that the level of appropriations carried over to 2017 increased for Title III (43 %) compared to the previous year (31 %), mainly in relation to projects going beyond the end of the year; notes the Foundation’s reply distinguishing that these were planned carry-overs and in fact below the initial figure of EUR 3 million;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Welcomes the Foundation’s remedial actions undertaken in relation to salary corrections following Court’s reports ; notes that an audit of the salaries function was undertaken in Q2 2017 in order to provide additional assurance that the appropriate processes and controls are in place and operating well;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4 b. Expresses concern about the negative budgetary impact of the increasing Irish country coefficient which risks to undermine more and more the financial capability of the Foundation to deliver on its mandate; expects action to be taken by the Institutions of the Union to offset the effect;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Welcomes the good cooperation between the Foundation and other EU agencies, especially Cedefop, EU-OSHA, ETF, FRA and EIGE, during the planning and implementation of its work in order to ensure good coordination and synergies in its activities
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Notes how strongly the Foundation has contributed to combating poverty and fraudulent contracting of work in several actions across the Union;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Expresses concern about the negative budgetary impact of the increasing Irish country coefficient which increasingly risks undermining the financial capability of the Foundation to deliver on its mandate and expects action to be taken to resolve this issue;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Acknowledges the work of the Foundation during the four-year work programme 2013-2016 “From crisis to recovery: Better informed policies for a competitive and fair Europe”; welcomes the Foundation
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Acknowledges the work of the Foundation during the four-year work programme 2013-2016 “From crisis to recovery: Better informed policies for a competitive and fair Europe”; welcomes the Foundations analysis and policy input as regards living and working conditions, industrial relations and employment and labour market developments, in particular the Overview report of the sixth European Working Conditions Survey; stresses the necessity to maintain strong cooperation between the Foundation and the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs in order to benefit from the Foundation’s expertise;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Acknowledges the work of the Foundation during the four-year work programme 2013-2016 “From crisis to recovery: Better informed policies for a competitive and fair Europe”; welcomes the Foundations analysis and policy input as regards living and working conditions, industrial relations and employment and
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Acknowledges the work of the Foundation during the four-year work programme 2013-2016 “From crisis to recovery: Better informed policies for a competitive and fair Europe”; welcomes the Foundations analysis and policy input as regards living and working conditions, industrial relations and employment and labour market developments, in particular the Overview report of the sixth European Working Conditions Survey and the New Forms of Employment report;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Welcomes the fact that Parliament, the Commission, and other stakeholders are the main users of knowhow provided by the Foundation, and that they are aware of its quality and interest;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Welcomes the successful implementation of the Foundation’s four- year work programme with a high level of organisational effectiveness, as evidenced by an overall improvement of Foundation’s key performance indicators;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Notes the revision of the Foundation’s founding Regulation No 1365/75/EEC1a and welcomes the inclusion by Parliament and the Commission of an explicit reference to the use of external audit reports and evaluations; ______________ 1aRegulation (EEC) No 1365/75 of the Council of 26 May 1975 on the creation of a European Foundation for the improvement of living and working conditions (OJ L 139, 30.5.1975, p. 1–4)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2 b. Notes the Commission’s Internal Audit Service (IAS) 2016 audit report which highlighted the need to improve the Foundation´s management of projects, mainly in relation to governance arrangements, monitoring and reporting, and welcomes the Foundation’s willingness to implement the agreed action plan in cooperation with the IAS;
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2018/03/02
CONT
14 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1. Grants the Director of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions discharge in respect of the implementation of the Foundation’s budget for the financial year
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15 a. 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 11 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16 a. calls on the Foundation to adopt an ethics code and to inform the discharging authority about alleged and confirmed conflicts of interests, how it has dealt with them, and how it will prevent them in the future;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Subheading 7 Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Notes from the Court’s report that, in its audit report dated December 2016, the internal audit service (IAS) highlighted a need to improve the Foundation’s management of projects, mainly in relation to governance arrangements, monitoring and reporting; notes
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24.
Amendment 2 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 3 #
Proposal for a decision 2 Paragraph 1 1. Approves the closure of the accounts of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions for the financial year
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Notes from the Court’s report that the level of committed appropriations carried forward to 2017 was high at EUR 2 800 000 (43 %) for Title III (operational expenditure), compared to EUR 2 100 000 (31 %) in 2015, mainly in relation to projects (studies and pilot schemes) going beyond the year end; takes note that the Foundation may consider introducing differentiated budget appropriations in order to better reflect the multiannual nature of operations and unavoidable delays between the signature of contracts, deliveries and payments;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Asks the Foundation to keep the volume to be carried over to the next year as low as possible;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Stresses that work-life balance should be a part of the Foundation’s staff policy; stresses that the budget spent per staff on well-being activities amounts to EUR 80,21; observes that the average number of sick leave per staff is 6,5 days - lower than in many other EU Agencies but still worrying, and worthy of examination to see if workplace stress is a factor - and that no member of staff was on full-
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Stresses that work-life balance should be part of the Foundation’s staff policy;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Recalls that staffing cuts have been implemented with great difficulty and reiterates its
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