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Lead | CONT | STAES Bart (Verts/ALE) | SARVAMAA Petri (EPP), LIBERADZKI Bogusław (S&D), ALI Nedzhmi (ALDE), DE JONG Dennis (GUE/NGL), VALLI Marco (EFD), KAPPEL Barbara (ENF) |
Opinion | EMPL | ROLIN Claude (EPP) |
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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 European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA). 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 Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA), 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 Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA). The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work: the Agency, which is located in Bilbao (ES), was established by Council Regulation (EC) No 2062/94. Its main aim is to contribute to the improvement of working life in the EU by developing, analysing and disseminating information on occupational safety and health (OSH). As regards Agency’s accounts, these are presented in detail in the document on the consolidated annual accounts of the European Union for 2016. The high implementation rate of the 96.3% of the budget was welcomed. Commitment appropriations: available: EUR 17 million; made: EUR 16 million. Payment appropriations: available: EUR 21 million; made: EUR 15 million. For further details on expenditure, please refer to the final accounts of the EU-OSHA.
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COM(2017)0365
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Documents
- Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2017)0365
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2017/2152(DEC)
2017/12/06
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4 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Appreciates the Agency’s activities and analysis on occupational safety and health which contribute to the EU policy making aiming to promote healthy and safe workplaces across the Union; notes its on- going work packages on supporting medium, small and micro enterprises (MSEs), with MSE-specific tools and guidelines to address knowledge gaps and facilitate better OSH compliance;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Notes that the level of committed appropriations carried over to 2016 was high for Title II (30,2 %) and increased compared to the previous year (26 %); notes that these carry overs mainly concern IT services which had not yet been fully delivered or been invoiced by the end of the year; notes that the level of committed appropriations carried over to 2016 was also high for Title III (4
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Welcomes the Agency’s follow-up measures in relation to the comments of the discharge authority made regarding the implementation of the budget of previous years; further welcomes the Agency’s rapid application of the Court’s advice regarding ICT and consultancy framework contracts as an area to improve in the discharge for 2016;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Notes the revision of the Agency’s founding Regulation (Council Regulation (EC) No 2062/941a), and welcomes the inclusion by Parliament and the Commission of an explicit reference to the use of external audit reports and evaluations; __________________ 1a Council Regulation (EC) No 2062/94 of 18 July 1994 establishing a European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (OJ L 216, 20.8.1994, p. 1).
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2018/03/02
CONT
15 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1. Grants the Director of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Stresses that the work-life balance should be part of the staff policy of the Agency;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Notes that the new conflict of interests declarations and summaries of CVs are in the process of being collected and analysed, since a new board has been in place from late 2016
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15.
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15.
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15 a. Observes that there is a need to establish an independent body, with sufficient budgetary resources, in order to deal with disclosure, advice and referral; notes that the purpose of such a body would be to help whistleblowers use the right channels to disclose their information on possible irregularities affecting the financial interests of the Union, while protecting their confidentiality and offering necessary support and advice;
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 Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial year
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Notes from the Court’s report that the level of committed appropriations carried over to 2017 was high for Title II (administrative expenditure) at EUR 417 279, i.e. 30 % (2015: EUR 364 740, i.e. 26 %); notes that those carry-overs mainly concern IT services which had not been fully delivered or invoiced by the end of the year; notes, moreover, that the committed appropriations carried over under Title III amounted to EUR 3 370 616, i.e. 43 % (2015: EUR 3 383 052, i.e. 41 %); notes that those carry-overs mainly concern research projects and studies with a duration of more than one year; acknowledges from the Court that the Agency may consider introducing differentiated budget appropriations to better reflect the multi-annual nature of operations and unavoidable delays between the signature of contracts, deliveries and payments; notes from the Agency’s reply that it will study this possibility
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Notes with approval that during the financial year 2016, 11 budgetary transfers, totalling EUR 319 240, were carried out in order to reallocate resources from areas where budgetary savings were identified towards areas of scarce resources, to ensure the achievement of the year’s objectives;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Notes from the Court’s report that, in 2014, the Agency signed a framework contract (FWC) for the provision of IT consultancy services in the period 2014 to 2017 for a total amount of EUR 1 100 000; notes with regret that although specific contracts signed in 2016 to implement this FWC clearly define project deliverables, consultants were engaged on an open “time and means” basis where price is not fixed and directly linked to the delivery, but instead results from the number of working days spent; notes moreover that in 2016 some 50 % of the IT consultancy services were carried out offsite the Agency’s premises, limiting the Agency’s means to monitor the efficient implementation of the contracts; notes that payments made under this framework contract in 2016 amounted to
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Regrets that among the number of posts occupied on 31 December 2016 gender balance has not been achieved, with a ratio of 72 % female to 28 % male; notes, however, that there is gender balance (50:50) at senior management level;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Regrets that among the number of posts occupied on 31 December 2016 gender balance has not been achieved, with a ratio of over two to one, 72 % female to 28 % male; notes that this issue needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Stresses that the work-life balance should be part of the staff policy of the Agency; stresses that the budget spent on well-being activities amounts to approximately EUR 194 per staff corresponding to three days per staff; observes with concern that the average number of days' sick leave is 11 days per staff, namely, more than two working weeks; stresses that the high number days' sick leave must be investigated and the reasons therefor established and addressed;
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