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Awaiting committee decision

2017/2149(DEC) 2016 discharge: European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
Next event: Debate in plenary scheduled 2018/04/18

Role	Committee	Rapporteur	Shadows
Lead	CONT	STAES Bart (Verts/ALE)	SARVAMAA Petri (EPP), LIBERADZKI Bogusław (S&D), MARIAS Notis (ECR), ALI Nedzhmi (ALDE), DE JONG Dennis (GUE/NGL), VALLI Marco (EFD), KAPPEL Barbara (ENF)
Opinion	LIBE	CHRYSOGONOS Kostas (GUE/NGL)

Lead committee dossier: CONT/8/10777

Subjects

8.70.03.06 2016 discharge

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2018/04/18 Debate in plenary scheduled
2017/09/13 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
2017/06/26 Non-legislative basic document published
- COM(2017)0365 summary
  
  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 Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA). 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 Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), 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 European Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA). Fundamental Rights Agency: the Agency, which is located in Vienna (AT), was established by Council Regulation (EC) No 168/2007 and aims to provide the relevant authorities of the Union and its Member States with assistance and expertise when implementing Union law relating to fundamental rights. Its task is to collect information as well as providing expert advice to the institutions on a range of issues. As regards the Agency’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 22 million; made: EUR 22 million. Payment appropriations: available: EUR 28 million; made: EUR 22 million. For further details on expenditure, please refer to the FRA’s 2016 annual report.
- DG {'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/budget_en', 'title': 'Budget'}, OETTINGER Günther

Documents

Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2017)0365

Amendments	Dossier
21	2017/2149(DEC) 2018/01/19 LIBE 12 amendments... Amendment 1 # Auke ZIJLSTRA, Lorenzo FONTANA, Nicolas BAY, Gilles LEBRETON, Janice ATKINSON, André ELISSEN Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the Court of Auditors' conclusions that the annual accounts of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (“the Agency”) present fairly its financial position on 31 December 2016 and that its transactions are legal and regular;deleted Amendment 10 # Maria GRAPINI Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Regrets the fact that the Agency’s mandate still limits its role as regards the support for fundamental rights; stresses that the Agency should be able to offer opinions on legislative proposals and informative documents on its own initiative and that its remit should extend to all areas of rights protected under the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, including issues of judicial and police cooperation in criminal matters; recommends the inclusion of the those thematic areas in the new multiannual financial framework; Amendment 11 # Auke ZIJLSTRA, Lorenzo FONTANA, Nicolas BAY, Gilles LEBRETON, Janice ATKINSON, André ELISSEN Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Notes with concern a significant gender imbalance, in particular in the senior management positions of the Agency; urges the Agency to step up its efforts to correct this imbalance and to communicate the results in due time to the discharge authority.deleted Amendment 12 # Roberta METSOLA Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Notes with concern ~~a significant~~the gender imbalance~~, in particular in~~ within the Agency, in particular when it comes to the senior management positions of; notes the Agency~~; urges the Agency to step up its efforts to correct this imbalance~~'s policy of equal opportunity and diversity through its wide range of measures; urges the Agency to further correct this imbalance, which has improved following a reorganisation at the end of 2016, and to communicate the results in due time to the discharge authority. Amendment 2 # Roberta METSOLA, Petr JEŽEK Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes that the Court of Auditors identified that formal delegations and sub- delegations from authorising officers were not always consistent with the corresponding authorisation rights for transactions in the Agency’s financial systems; notes the immediate correction of the error by the Agency ~~but requests that it also put in place mechanisms to detect and fix such errors much more quickly~~; reminds the Agency to establish the necessary internal mechanisms to ensure that this does not happen again in the future; Amendment 3 # Auke ZIJLSTRA, Lorenzo FONTANA, Nicolas BAY, Gilles LEBRETON, Janice ATKINSON, André ELISSEN Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Notes with concern that, as in 2015, carry-overs of committed appropriations were too high for Title III (operating expenditure) at EUR 5,2 million~~, i.e. 68 %; acknowledges that this year, as in the previous year, this simply reflects the multi-annual nature of the Agency’s activities~~ and stresses that these should be reduced; Amendment 4 # Roberta METSOLA, Petr JEŽEK Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Notes that, as in 2015, carry-overs of committed appropriations were high for Title III (operating expenditure) at EUR 5,2 million, i.e. 68 %; acknowledges that this ~~year, as in the previous year, this simply~~ reflects the multi-annual nature of the Agency’s activities; Amendment 5 # Roberta METSOLA Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. ~~Regret~~Notes that the Commission’s Internal Audit Service (IAS) did not carry out any audit in 2016; ~~note~~recalls, however, that previous audits concluded that the Agency’s internal control system provides a reasonable assurance as regards the achievement of the objectives of the processes audited and that all opened recommendations have been closed; Amendment 6 # Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Soraya POST, Sylvie GUILLAUME Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Welcomes, in line with the Agency’s strategic priority to develop targeted responses to fundamental rights emergencies, the publication by the Agency of monthly reports on the situation in the Member States most affected by the refugee crises and the work of the expert staff deployed to Greece to assist Union and local actors on the ground with fundamental rights expertise; Amendment 7 # Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Soraya POST, Sylvie GUILLAUME Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. Welcomes the fact that the Agency continued its research on the situation of Roma in the Union; welcomes, in particular, in this regard the publication of the Second Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey gathering information on almost 34 000 persons living in Roma households in nine Member States, derived from nearly 8 000 face-to-face interviews with Roma; Amendment 8 # Roberta METSOLA, Petr JEŽEK Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Regrets the fact that the Agency’s mandate still limits its role as regards the support for fundamental rights; stresses that the Agency should be able to offer opinions on legislative proposals on its own initiative and that its remit should extend to all areas of rights protected under the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, including issues of judicial and police cooperation in criminal matters; recommends the inclusion of the those thematic areas in the new multiannual financial framework;deleted Amendment 9 # Auke ZIJLSTRA, Lorenzo FONTANA, Nicolas BAY, Gilles LEBRETON, Janice ATKINSON, André ELISSEN Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Regrets the fact that the Agency’s mandate still limits its role as regards the support for fundamental rights; stresses that the Agency should be able to offer opinions on legislative proposals on its own initiative and that its remit should extend to all areas of rights protected under the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, including issues of judicial and police cooperation in criminal matters; recommends the inclusion of the those thematic areas in the new multiannual financial framework;deleted source: 616.704 2018/03/02 CONT 9 amendments... Amendment 1 # Bart STAES Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1. Grants the Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year ~~2016 / Postpones its decision on granting the Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year~~ 2016; Amendment 2 # Ryszard CZARNECKI, Notis MARIAS, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Richard SULÍK, Raffaele FITTO Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1. ~~Grants the Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year 2016 /~~ Postpones its decision on granting the Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year 2016; Amendment 3 # Bart STAES Proposal for a decision 2 Paragraph 1 1. Approves the closure of the accounts of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights for the financial year ~~2016 / Postpones the closure of the accounts of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights for the financial year~~ 2016; Amendment 4 # Petri SARVAMAA Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Notes that, according to the Court’s report, the level of committed appropriations carried over to 2017 for Title III (operating expenditure) was again very high at EUR 5 200 000 (68 %), compared to EUR 5 700 000 (70 %) for the previous year; acknowledges that, according to the Court, these carry-overs mainly reflect the nature of activities of the Agency which involve financing studies that span over many months, often beyond year-end; Amendment 5 # Petri SARVAMAA Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Notes that 49,3 % of the Agency’s temporary agents are female and 50,7 % are male; regrets, however, the significant imbalance in the Agency’s six senior management positions, with a ratio of one woman to five men; calls on the Agency to ~~do everything in its power to establish~~aim for a more gender- balanced staff composition at the level of senior posts; Amendment 6 # Petri SARVAMAA Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Observes ~~with concern~~ that on average the Agency’s staff was on sick leave for a total of 9,2 days in 2016 and that 97 out of 109 staff took at least one day off as a sick- leave; notes that the Agency organised a staff away day and supports other well- being activities; ~~notes that many of the Agency’s staff participated in the Vienna marathon;~~ calls on the Agency to consult the medical service on how to lower absences from work due to sick leave; Amendment 7 # Petri SARVAMAA Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Notes that in 2016 the Agency received 20 requests for access to documents and that it granted full access to 22 documents, partial access to 120 documents and refused access to 68 documents due to “Protection of privacy and the integrity of the individual” and “Protection of commercial interests”; expects that the Agency, when deciding on limiting the access to documents due to the protection of commercial interests, also considers with ~~utmost~~ seriousness the interests of the citizen and the Union’s commitment to greater transparency, while taking into account all relevant rules and regulations; Amendment 8 # Petri SARVAMAA Motion for a resolution Subheading 6 ~~Performance-based budgeting~~Main achievements Amendment 9 # Petri SARVAMAA Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Notes that the Agency recognises the operational risks due to Brexit as potential loss of competition as a number of operational related contractors are based in the United Kingdom and a loss of skilful British national staff members; calls on the Agency to work in close cooperation with the Commission regarding Brexit negotiations in order to be sufficiently prepared to minimize any negative operational or financial impact that may occur; source: 618.269

Amendments

Dossier

2017/2149(DEC)

2018/01/19 LIBE 12 amendments...

Amendment 1 #

Auke ZIJLSTRA, Lorenzo FONTANA, Nicolas BAY, Gilles LEBRETON, Janice ATKINSON, André ELISSEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the Court of Auditors' conclusions that the annual accounts of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (“the Agency”) present fairly its financial position on 31 December 2016 and that its transactions are legal and regular;deleted

Amendment 10 #

Maria GRAPINI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Regrets the fact that the Agency’s mandate still limits its role as regards the support for fundamental rights; stresses that the Agency should be able to offer opinions on legislative proposals and informative documents on its own initiative and that its remit should extend to all areas of rights protected under the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, including issues of judicial and police cooperation in criminal matters; recommends the inclusion of the those thematic areas in the new multiannual financial framework;

Amendment 11 #

Auke ZIJLSTRA, Lorenzo FONTANA, Nicolas BAY, Gilles LEBRETON, Janice ATKINSON, André ELISSEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Notes with concern a significant gender imbalance, in particular in the senior management positions of the Agency; urges the Agency to step up its efforts to correct this imbalance and to communicate the results in due time to the discharge authority.deleted

Amendment 12 #

Roberta METSOLA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Notes with concern ~~a significant~~the gender imbalance~~, in particular in~~ within the Agency, in particular when it comes to the senior management positions of; notes the Agency~~; urges the Agency to step up its efforts to correct this imbalance~~'s policy of equal opportunity and diversity through its wide range of measures; urges the Agency to further correct this imbalance, which has improved following a reorganisation at the end of 2016, and to communicate the results in due time to the discharge authority.

Amendment 2 #

Roberta METSOLA, Petr JEŽEK

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that the Court of Auditors identified that formal delegations and sub- delegations from authorising officers were not always consistent with the corresponding authorisation rights for transactions in the Agency’s financial systems; notes the immediate correction of the error by the Agency ~~but requests that it also put in place mechanisms to detect and fix such errors much more quickly~~; reminds the Agency to establish the necessary internal mechanisms to ensure that this does not happen again in the future;

Amendment 3 #

Auke ZIJLSTRA, Lorenzo FONTANA, Nicolas BAY, Gilles LEBRETON, Janice ATKINSON, André ELISSEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Notes with concern that, as in 2015, carry-overs of committed appropriations were too high for Title III (operating expenditure) at EUR 5,2 million~~, i.e. 68 %; acknowledges that this year, as in the previous year, this simply reflects the multi-annual nature of the Agency’s activities~~ and stresses that these should be reduced;

Amendment 4 #

Roberta METSOLA, Petr JEŽEK

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that, as in 2015, carry-overs of committed appropriations were high for Title III (operating expenditure) at EUR 5,2 million, i.e. 68 %; acknowledges that this ~~year, as in the previous year, this simply~~ reflects the multi-annual nature of the Agency’s activities;

Amendment 5 #

Roberta METSOLA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. ~~Regret~~Notes that the Commission’s Internal Audit Service (IAS) did not carry out any audit in 2016; ~~note~~recalls, however, that previous audits concluded that the Agency’s internal control system provides a reasonable assurance as regards the achievement of the objectives of the processes audited and that all opened recommendations have been closed;

Amendment 6 #

Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Soraya POST, Sylvie GUILLAUME

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Welcomes, in line with the Agency’s strategic priority to develop targeted responses to fundamental rights emergencies, the publication by the Agency of monthly reports on the situation in the Member States most affected by the refugee crises and the work of the expert staff deployed to Greece to assist Union and local actors on the ground with fundamental rights expertise;

Amendment 7 #

Péter NIEDERMÜLLER, Soraya POST, Sylvie GUILLAUME

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5 b. Welcomes the fact that the Agency continued its research on the situation of Roma in the Union; welcomes, in particular, in this regard the publication of the Second Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey gathering information on almost 34 000 persons living in Roma households in nine Member States, derived from nearly 8 000 face-to-face interviews with Roma;

Amendment 8 #

Roberta METSOLA, Petr JEŽEK

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Regrets the fact that the Agency’s mandate still limits its role as regards the support for fundamental rights; stresses that the Agency should be able to offer opinions on legislative proposals on its own initiative and that its remit should extend to all areas of rights protected under the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, including issues of judicial and police cooperation in criminal matters; recommends the inclusion of the those thematic areas in the new multiannual financial framework;deleted

Amendment 9 #

Auke ZIJLSTRA, Lorenzo FONTANA, Nicolas BAY, Gilles LEBRETON, Janice ATKINSON, André ELISSEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Regrets the fact that the Agency’s mandate still limits its role as regards the support for fundamental rights; stresses that the Agency should be able to offer opinions on legislative proposals on its own initiative and that its remit should extend to all areas of rights protected under the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, including issues of judicial and police cooperation in criminal matters; recommends the inclusion of the those thematic areas in the new multiannual financial framework;deleted

source: 616.704

2018/03/02 CONT 9 amendments...

Amendment 1 #

Bart STAES

Proposal for a decision 1
Paragraph 1

1. Grants the Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year ~~2016 / Postpones its decision on granting the Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year~~ 2016;

Amendment 2 #

Ryszard CZARNECKI, Notis MARIAS, Beata GOSIEWSKA, Richard SULÍK, Raffaele FITTO

Proposal for a decision 1
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Grants the Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year 2016 /~~ Postpones its decision on granting the Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year 2016;

Amendment 3 #

Bart STAES

Proposal for a decision 2
Paragraph 1

1. Approves the closure of the accounts of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights for the financial year ~~2016 / Postpones the closure of the accounts of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights for the financial year~~ 2016;

Amendment 4 #

Petri SARVAMAA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that, according to the Court’s report, the level of committed appropriations carried over to 2017 for Title III (operating expenditure) was again very high at EUR 5 200 000 (68 %), compared to EUR 5 700 000 (70 %) for the previous year; acknowledges that, according to the Court, these carry-overs mainly reflect the nature of activities of the Agency which involve financing studies that span over many months, often beyond year-end;

Amendment 5 #

Petri SARVAMAA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Notes that 49,3 % of the Agency’s temporary agents are female and 50,7 % are male; regrets, however, the significant imbalance in the Agency’s six senior management positions, with a ratio of one woman to five men; calls on the Agency to ~~do everything in its power to establish~~aim for a more gender- balanced staff composition at the level of senior posts;

Amendment 6 #

Petri SARVAMAA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Observes ~~with concern~~ that on average the Agency’s staff was on sick leave for a total of 9,2 days in 2016 and that 97 out of 109 staff took at least one day off as a sick- leave; notes that the Agency organised a staff away day and supports other well- being activities; ~~notes that many of the Agency’s staff participated in the Vienna marathon;~~ calls on the Agency to consult the medical service on how to lower absences from work due to sick leave;

Amendment 7 #

Petri SARVAMAA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Notes that in 2016 the Agency received 20 requests for access to documents and that it granted full access to 22 documents, partial access to 120 documents and refused access to 68 documents due to “Protection of privacy and the integrity of the individual” and “Protection of commercial interests”; expects that the Agency, when deciding on limiting the access to documents due to the protection of commercial interests, also considers with ~~utmost~~ seriousness the interests of the citizen and the Union’s commitment to greater transparency, while taking into account all relevant rules and regulations;

Amendment 8 #

Petri SARVAMAA

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 6

~~Performance-based budgeting~~Main achievements

Amendment 9 #

Petri SARVAMAA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Notes that the Agency recognises the operational risks due to Brexit as potential loss of competition as a number of operational related contractors are based in the United Kingdom and a loss of skilful British national staff members; calls on the Agency to work in close cooperation with the Commission regarding Brexit negotiations in order to be sufficiently prepared to minimize any negative operational or financial impact that may occur;

source: 618.269

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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 Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA).

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 Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), 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 European Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA).

Fundamental Rights Agency: the Agency, which is located in Vienna (AT), was established by Council Regulation (EC) No 168/2007 and aims to provide the relevant authorities of the Union and its Member States with assistance and expertise when implementing Union law relating to fundamental rights. Its task is to collect information as well as providing expert advice to the institutions on a range of issues.

As regards the Agency’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 22 million;
- made: EUR 22 million.
Payment appropriations:
- available: EUR 28 million;
- made: EUR 22 million.
For further details on expenditure, please refer to the FRA’s 2016 annual report.

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