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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 | TRAN | MEISSNER Gesine (ALDE) |
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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 Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). 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 cash flows of the EU institutions and bodies, including the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), 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 EMSA. The European Maritime Safety Agency: the Agency, which is located in Lisbon (PT), was established by was set up by Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council. The Agency’s tasks are to prevent pollution by ships and provide the Commission and Member States with appropriate technical assistance. 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 80 million; made: EUR 72 million. Payment appropriations: available: EUR 82 million; made: EUR 66 million. For further details on expenditure, please refer to the final accounts of the EMSA.
- 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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2017/2157(DEC)
2018/01/26
TRAN
4 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Welcomes the direct actions taken in line with the Fraud prevention and detection strategy, such as the adoption of the Whistleblower policy, which provides staff with information regarding whistleblowing and ensures the utmost confidentiality and protection to staff who report serious wrongdoings or concerns, as well as the provision of training courses on ethics and integrity for newcomers and refresher courses for existing staff;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Reiterates that the Agency's tasks can be performed more cost-effectively at the European level than at national level, which is the case with its contribution to maritime safety and the prevention of pollution from ships as well as from offshore installations for gas and oil exploitation in Europe; welcomes the fact that the Agency is looking for synergies of actions with other Union agencies in order to gain in effectiveness and efficiency and to reduce costs; in this framework welcomes and encourages the Agency’s collaboration with other European Agencies in support of EU Migration Agenda, such as the provision, by the Agency, of an increasing number of services to FRONTEX in accordance with the renewed and updated three-year Service Level Agreement concluded in 2016; also notes that the Agency has completed the procurement of services of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) for maritime surveillance;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Reiterates that the Agency's tasks can be performed more
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Encourages the Agency to cooperate with other European Agencies in addressing the refugee crisis, including in the performance of critically important activities outside its mandate, such as by contributing know-how, operational support and Agency staff to help tackle the refugee crisis;
source: 616.819
2018/03/02
CONT
11 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1. Grants the Executive Director of the European Maritime Safety Agency discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’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, whilst protecting their confidentiality and offering them the support and advice that they need;
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 Maritime Safety Agency for the financial year
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Notes with concern a significant gender imbalance of 20
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Stresses that the work-life balance should be part of the staff policy of the Agency;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. 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 a significant EUR 7841,70 per staff; observes that the average number of sick leave per staff is 5,9 days;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Welcomes the fact that the Agency has a general implementing rule in place on the prevention of psychological and sexual harassment
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Welcomes the fact that the Agency has adopted a policy for whistleblowers which provides staff with all relevant information on whistleblowing and ensures members of staff who report serious wrongdoings or concerns in good faith that they are afforded confidentiality; notes with satisfaction that no cases were reported in 2016;
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