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Opinion | LIBE | CHRYSOGONOS Kostas (GUE/NGL) |
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2018/04/18
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2017/09/13
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2017/06/26
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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 the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders (Frontex). 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 Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders (Frontex), 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 Frontex. FRONTEX: the Agency, which is located in Warsaw (PL), was established by Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2004, amended by Regulation (EC) No 863/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council. In 2016, Frontex’s mandate was boosted with the adoption of the European Border and Coast Guard Regulation (EU) 2016/1624. Under the new mandate, the role and activities were significantly expanded with its permanent staff being more than doubled. While the “European Border and Coast Guard Agency” replaces the “European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union”, it has the same legal personality and the same name: Frontex. As regards Frontex’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 256 million; made: EUR 244 million. Payment appropriations: available: EUR 300 million; made: EUR 199 million. For further details on expenditure, please refer to final accounts of Frontex.
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COM(2017)0365
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Documents
- Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2017)0365
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2017/2164(DEC)
2018/01/19
LIBE
21 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Highlights that
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Criticises the irregular recruitment of 14 temporary staff at high AST grades; notes, however, that the Agency experienced difficulties in finding enough suitable candidates with the required profile; requests the Agency to strictly adhere to the Staff Regulations at all times; stresses that the Agency’s staff will more than double from 2016 to 2020; regrets, however, that the increase is not based on a thorough analysis; requests the Agency to better justify its needs in the future based on accurate and verifiable information;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Criticises the irregular recruitment of 14 temporary staff at high AST grades; requests the Agency to strictly adhere to the Staff Regulations at all times; stresses that the Agency’s staff will more than double from 2016 to 2020; regrets, however, that the increase is not based on a thorough analysis; requests the Agency to better justify its needs in the future based on accurate and verifiable information and data;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Regrets that, according to the Court of Auditors’ report, the Agency traditionally experiences difficulties in finding staff with the required profile, partly because of the salary correction coefficient (66,7 %);
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Regrets that the majority of Frontex operational programmes lack quantitative objectives and specific target values for the joint operations; notes with concern that this, together with insufficient documentation from cooperating countries, might hamper the ex post evaluation of the effectiveness of joint operations in the long term; regrets that the actual impact of joint operations is difficult to assess; calls on the Agency to set relevant strategic objectives for its activities and to establish an effective result-oriented monitoring and reporting system with relevant and measurable key performance indicators; recalls that the provisions on information and communication as part of the accountability of Frontex towards the public were considerably modified in the revised Frontex Regulation requiring Frontex to be more transparent about its activities; regrets that Frontex still does not fully live up to these new rules and calls upon Frontex to implement them without delay;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Regrets that the majority of Frontex operational programmes lack quantitative objectives and specific target values for the joint operations; notes with concern that this, together with insufficient documentation from cooperating countries, might hamper the ex post evaluation of the effectiveness of joint operations in the long term; notes, however, that the Agency does list specific objectives and performance indicators in the individual operational plans drafted for internal use for joint operations; regrets that the actual impact of joint operations is therefore more difficult to assess; calls on the Agency to further set relevant strategic objectives for its activities and to establish an effective result-oriented monitoring and reporting system with relevant and measurable key performance indicators;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Notes with concern
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Notes with concern a significant gender imbalance of 93% / 7% in the Agency’s management board and urges the future correction of this indicator ;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7.
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Urges the Agency to provide its Fundamental Rights Officer with adequate resources and staff, in particular for setting up a complaint mechanism and for further developing and implementing the Agency’s strategy to monitor and ensure the protection of fundamental rights; welcomes, in this regard, the fact that the Fundamental Rights Office has received 5 new staff members since 2016.
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes that, as a result of the migration crisis, Frontex faced problems in absorbing additional Union funds granted throughout 2016, leading to considerable difficulties in complying with budgetary and financial rules; stresses the high level of cancelled carry-overs from 2015 for Title III (16
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes that, as a result of the
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes that, as a result of the migration crisis, Frontex faced problems absorbing additional Union funds granted throughout 2016, leading to considerable difficulties in complying with budgetary and financial rules; stresses the high level of cancelled carry-overs from 2015 for Title III (16 %) ; underlines that it originally allocated EUR 20 million from its 2016 budget for expenditure dedicated to ‘hotspots’ but has in the meantime already committed almost EUR 35 million for that purpose; points out that the Agency performed illicit “national returns” until October 2016, which resulted in irregular payments; requests the Agency to significantly improve its financial planning and budget management capabilities in order to avoid these deficiencies;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes that
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes that, as a result of the migration crisis, Frontex faced problems absorbing additional Union funds granted throughout 2016, leading to considerable difficulties in complying with budgetary and financial rules; stresses the high level of cancelled carry-overs from 2015 for Title III (16 %) ; underlines that it originally allocated EUR 20 million from its 2016 budget for expenditure dedicated to ‘hotspots’ but has in the meantime already committed almost EUR 35 million for that purpose; points out that the Agency performed illicit “national returns” until October 2016, which resulted in irregular payments; requests the Agency to significantly improve its financial planning, control and budget management capabilities;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Criticises the
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2018/03/02
CONT
11 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1. Grants the executive director of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Observes
Amendment 2 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 3 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 4 #
Proposal for a decision 2 Paragraph 1 1. Approves the closure of the accounts of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency for the financial year
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Notes from the Court’s report that on 22 December 2015 the Commission and the Agency, co-beneficiary and coordinator of three other co-beneficiaries - the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) - signed a grant agreement amounting to EUR 5 500 000 on regional support to protection-sensitive migration management in the Western Balkans and Turkey for a three year period starting on 1 January 2016; notes, however, that cooperation agreements with those three partners which amounted to EUR 3 400 000 were only signed between August and November 2016; takes note that, in two of those agreements, the budgetary commitments, which should have released the funds before entering in the legal commitments, were only signed in October and in December 2016; notes moreover that the budget commitments amounted to EUR 1 200 000, covering only the pre- financing payments;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Acknowledges that the Agency is revising in 2017 its entire financial scheme aiming at simplifications, switching from grants to service contracts and introducing flat rates; calls on the Agency to report to the Discharge Authority on the implementation of the new scheme and the results achieved;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Notes that the level of carry-overs for committed appropriations for Title II (administrative expenditure) was at EUR 6 400 000 (43 % of committed appropriations), compared to EUR 3 200 000 (38 %) in 2015, and therefore high; notes moreover that the carry-overs for Title III (operational expenditure) were also high at EUR 67 300 000 (37 %), compared to EUR 40 200 000 (35 %) in 2015; notes that the main reason is because contracts and operations extended beyond the year-end
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Notes with appreciation that, by the number of all posts occupied, gender balance has been met since the ratio is 50 % female to 50 % male;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Notes from the Court’s report that the Staff Regulations provide that in the case of an external selection procedure, temporary staff can only be recruited at grades SC 1 to SC 2, AST 1 to AST 4 or AD 5 to AD 8; notes that in 2016 the Agency recruited 14 staff at higher AST grades;
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