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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 | 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 Eurojust. 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 Eurojust, 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 Eurojust. Eurojust: Eurojust which is located in The Hague (NL), was set up by Council Decision 2002/187/JHA with a view to stepping up the fight against serious organised crime and to improve cooperation between the competent authorities of the Member States, in particular by facilitating the execution of international mutual legal assistance and the implementation of extradition requests. As regards Eurojust’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 44 million; made: EUR 44 million. Payment appropriations: available: EUR 47 million; made: EUR 39 million. For further details on expenditure, please refer to the final accounts of Eurojust.
- 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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2017/2155(DEC)
2018/01/19
LIBE
11 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses the recommendation of the Court of Auditors of 2011 regarding re- redefinition of respective roles and responsibilities between the Administrative Director and the College to avoid the overlaps of responsibilities; regrets that no corrective measures has been taken by Eurojust since 2011 since the new Eurojust Regulation was still under consideration by the legislator end of 2016 and recommends avoiding future delays in taking corrective action;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Urges Eurojust to step up its efforts for finalising clear internal rules on the protection of whistleblowers, who must benefit from the presumption of good faith until the verification of the information;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses the recommendation of the Court of Auditors of 2011 regarding
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Welcomes the strengthening of the Eurojust’s position as the centre for judicial cooperation and coordination against cross-border crime, of serious types of organized crime and as a centre of judicial expertise within the Union; highlights the launch of the European Judicial Cybercrime Network; notes that Eurojust received requests for assistance in 2306 cases (+4%), that it organised 249 coordination meetings on 288 cases and provided support to 148 joint investigation teams, including financial support to 90 of them (+32%); notes the publication of the forth Eurojust report “Foreign Terrorist Fighters: Eurojust’s Views on the Phenomenon and the Criminal Justice Response” of December 2016;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Welcomes the strengthening of
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Deplores that Eurojust faced budgetary availability issues due to known structural problems with its funding and that for the second successive year was forced to resort to mitigation measures subject to an amending budget, leading to the postponement of some of its ongoing activities and the deferral of valuable technological developments; points out in this regard that Eurojust has an ongoing dialogue with DG Justice and DG Budget in order to secure a proper level of funding for the coming years.
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Urges Eurojust to step up its efforts for finalising clear internal rules on the protection of whistleblowers; notes, however, that Eurojust was waiting for guidance or input from the Commission before it could finalise its rules;
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2018/03/02
CONT
20 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1. Grants the Administrative Director of Eurojust discharge in respect of the implementation of Eurojust’s budget for the financial year
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Regrets that
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Notes that on average Eurojust’s staff was on sick leave seven days per member of staff in 2016; observes
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Notes with concern that from 13 April 2015 to 13 April 2017 the network of confidential counsellors has been approached by 26 members of staff; notes that out of the 26 contacts, 16 cases were closed after only one session; notes again with concern however that 9 cases have been classified
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Acknowledges the fact that Eurojust’s draft internal rules on the protection of whistleblowers were prepared in 2016 and a first discussion took place in the College on 4 October 2016; notes with concern however that the adoption of the internal rules was put on hold when, at the beginning of 2016, the Commission informed agencies that a model decision for the agencies is being prepared; looks forward to the finalisation of the draft and its implementation by Eurojust;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Expresses the need to establish an independent disclosure, advice and referral body with sufficient budgetary resources, in order 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 needed support and advice;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Notes that Eurojust maintains a register of declarations of absence of conflict of interest signed by management board members which is regularly updated but
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Notes that Eurojust maintains a register of declarations of absence of conflict of interest signed by management
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Acknowledges from Eurojust’s annual report the fact that the Commission’s Internal Audit Service (IAS) conducted an audit on “Monitoring and Reporting/Building Blocks of Assurance” in January 2016; notes that the IAS issued two recommendations categorised as “very important” and four recommendations rated as “important”; notes with satisfaction that Eurojust implemented corrective action for these
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 25 25. Notes with satisfaction that Eurojust has in cooperation with Europol formalised a combined approach for the ISO14001/EMS Certification;
Amendment 2 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Notes with concern - given the fast-reducing time frame - from Eurojust’s answers that for the time being there is no information exchange between Eurojust and the Commission with regard to the preparation for carrying out Eurojust's future activities after Brexit; calls on both Eurojust and the Commission to ensure an efficient flow of the necessary information bearing in mind that a cooperation agreement with the United Kingdom will need to be put in place;
Amendment 3 #
Proposal for a decision 2 Paragraph 1 1. Approves the closure of the accounts of Eurojust for the financial year
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Notes that, according to the Court’s report, the level of committed appropriations carried over for Title II (administrative expenditure) was high at EUR 6 446 530 (40 %) compared to EUR 1 600
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Asks the Court to keep the volume to be carried over to the next year as low as possible;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Notes that Eurojust signed 30 contracts with a value above EUR 15 000, representing an increase of 30 % compared with 2015; observes that open procurement procedure was used for 80 % of the contracts, representing 92,50 % of the procured amount;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Notes that Eurojust’s vacancy rate at 31 December 2016
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Regrets that by the number of all posts occupied on 31 December 2016, gender balance
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