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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 | ENVI | VĂLEAN Adina-Ioana (EPP) |
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2018/04/16
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2017/09/13
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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 Chemicals Agency (ECHA). 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 Chemicals Agency (ECHA), 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 ECHA. The European Chemicals Agency: the Agency, which is located in Helsinki (FI), was created by Council Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 to manage and steer the implementation of the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation. Main achievements in 2016: these include: further advancement in the integration of REACH and the Classification, Labelling and Packaging (CLP) regulation; publishing its second five years report on the operation of REACH providing input into the second review of the REACH Regulation; the fees and charges collected covered 46% of the Agency’s expenditure including for the first time a high proportion of fees from authorisation applications. Managing the annual budget was more challenging than in previous years, as the magnitude of the fee-based financing was difficult to foresee, particularly for the biocide applications; signing a delegation agreement with the Commission in December 2016 to build an EU-wide observatory for nanomaterials that aims at giving objective and reliable information on markets and safety aspects of nanomaterials in the EU market; maintaining an open dialogue with the EU institutions, in particular the European Parliament. As regards the accounts, ECHA is financed through fees paid by industry and by an EU balancing subsidy. Commitment appropriations: available: EUR 113 million; made: EUR 110 million. Payment appropriations: available: EUR 124 million; paid: EUR 106 million. For further details on expenditure, please refer to the final accounts of the ECHA.
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Documents
- Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2017)0365
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2017/2167(DEC)
2017/12/13
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6 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Calls on the Commission to launch a policy debate with relevant stakeholders in order to review Union legislation related to risk assessment for food, chemicals and related products and the effectiveness of such legislation;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Notes with concern that the Union regulatory agencies responsible for the risk assessment of regulated products, in particular the Agency and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), do not have sufficient resources to effectively fulfil these responsibilities;the Agency and EFSA should therefore be granted sufficient resources in order to carry out their specific responsibilities;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 11. Welcomes the redesign of the Agency’s dissemination portal and the launch of a microsite for informing consumers about chemicals, which were carried out under the Agency’s transparency policy; regrets, however, the Agency’s poor communication and transparency with regard to the explanations given to the public on some of its decisions, in particular the decision taken in November 2017 not to classify glyphosate as a carcinogen, even though the International Agency for Research on Cancer did so in 2015 and the documents published in the ‘Monsanto papers’ reveal that serious suspicion hangs over the work of European agencies;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 11. Welcomes the redesign of the Agency’s dissemination portal and the launch of a microsite for informing consumers about chemicals, which were carried out under the Agency’s transparency policy; notes that for the benefit of those with dyslexia and other such difficulties, this site should also include full audio and audio/visual information;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 12 12. Notes that in 2016 the Agency’s staff followed a mandatory training on prevention of conflicts of interest and a training by the European Anti-Fraud Office on fraud prevention; points out, however, that it has not really been possible to clear up all the suspicions of conflicts of interest, particularly those raised by a large number of non-governmental organisations in March 2017, especially with regard to members of the Committee for Risk Assessment;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 13 13. Welcomes that the Court of Auditors has announced that the transactions underlying the annual accounts of the Agency for the financial year 2016 were legal and regular in all material respects, while noting the Court of Auditors' comments that 'Carry-overs of committed appropriations remained high for Title III (REACH operational expenditure) at 10,1 million euro, i.e. 39 % (2015: 7,3 million euro, i.e. 32 %) and are even higher for Title IV (Biocides operational expenditure) at 1,3 million euro, i.e. 68 % (2015: 1,5 million euro, i.e. 74 %). Such high level of carry-overs is in contradiction with the budgetary principle of annuality.'; recommends that the Agency should take on board the following Court of Auditors' advice: 'The Agency may consider increasing the use of differentiated budget appropriations to better reflect the multi annual nature of operations and unavoidable delays between the signature of contracts, deliveries and payments.';
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