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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 Training Foundation (ETF). 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 Training Foundation (ETF), 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 Training Foundation (ETF). European Training Foundation: the Foundation, which is located in Turin (IT), was created by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1360/90. Its objective is to contribute to improving human capital development in the following countries: the countries eligible for support under Council Regulation (EC) No 1085/2006 and Regulation No 1638/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council and subsequent related legal acts. It aims in particular to provide advice on human capital development issues in the partner countries and promote knowledge and analysis of skills needs in national and local labour markets. As regards the EFT’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 21 million; made: EUR 21 million. For further details on expenditure, please refer to the final accounts of the Foundation.
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COM(2017)0365
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Documents
- Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2017)0365
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2017/2156(DEC)
2017/12/06
EMPL
6 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Welcomes the high achievement rate of its planned activities in 2016 (94%), but notes that it slightly decreased in comparison to 2015 (96%); notes the considerable improvement in the time delivery rate (90 %) compared to
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Is concerned by the Court’s observation that the situation regarding the Foundation’s premises is unsatisfactory and puts activities at risk of disruption; notes the urgent need for the host country to find a solution to this matter; calls on the Foundation to update Parliament on the progress of the ongoing tendering procedure;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Is concerned by the Court’s observation that the situation regarding the Foundation’s premises is unsatisfactory and puts activities at risk of disruption; notes the urgent need for the host country to find a solution to this matter, as appropriate facilities are guaranteed under the host agreement until 2027;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Welcomes the cooperation with other EU agencies - in particularly Eurofound and Cedefop - on the external dimension of EU policies that contribute to development of human capital.
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Welcomes the findings of the external evaluation carried out on behalf of the Commission, which found that governance of the Foundation was efficient and effective, and that its considerable reorganisation since 2011 positively impacted its work; notes the recommendation that the Foundation could further improve its monitoring capacity to better illustrate its activities, and welcomes the Foundation’s plan to implement those suggestions;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 b (new) 7 b. Welcomes the Foundation’s follow-up measures in relation to the comments of the discharge authority made in 2013 regarding EUR 7,5 million in accounts at a single bank with a low credit rating (F3, BBB) which has now been significantly reduced to EUR 1,8 million;
source: 613.591
2018/03/02
CONT
12 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1. Grants the Director of the European Training Foundation discharge in respect of the implementation of the Foundation’s budget for the financial year
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12 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 Subheading 7 Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Regrets, however, that the Agency does not use the activity/output indicators to improve the use of the KPIs and recommends that this policy should change;
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 Training Foundation for the financial year
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Observes from the Establishment plan that 89 posts were occupied on 31 December 2016, compared to 90 in 2015; regrets that by the number of posts occupied on 31 December 2016 gender balance has not been achieved, since the ratio is over two to one, 67,94 % female to 32,06 % male; recommends that this imbalance should be addressed as a matter of urgency;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Stresses that the work-life balance should be part of the staff policy of the Foundation; stresses that the budget spent per staff on well-being activities amounts to EUR 883 and two staff away days were organised in 2016;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10 a. Deplores the fact that declarations of conflicts of interest of various management board members are pending or are not available to the public; notes that this practice does not further transparency and the remaining declarations should therefore be published without delay;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Regrets that the transparency register is not applicable to the work of the Foundation and recommends that this policy should be changed, on a voluntary basis with immediate effect but on a legislative basis in the medium to long term;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11.
source: 618.262
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