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Next event: Debate in plenary scheduled 2018/04/18
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Lead | CONT | STAES Bart (Verts/ALE) | SARVAMAA Petri (EPP), LIBERADZKI Bogusław (S&D), FITTO Raffaele (ECR), ALI Nedzhmi (ALDE), DE JONG Dennis (GUE/NGL), VALLI Marco (EFD), KAPPEL Barbara (ENF) |
Opinion | FEMM | MATERA Barbara (EPP) |
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2018/04/18
Debate in plenary scheduled
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2018/03/20
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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
summary
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 Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE). 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 Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), 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 EIGE. EIGE: the Institute, which is located in Vilnius (LT), was established by Regulation (EC) No 1922/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council. It works to provide evidence, facts and recommendations to address gender inequalities and strengthen the inclusion of a gendered perspective in EU policy making. Main challenges in 2016: 2016 was a demanding year for EIGE as it was requested by key stakeholders to take on additional requests. EIGE’s management has also adopted new working methods to comply with the revised administrative processes proposed for the EU’s decentralised Agencies by the Secretariat General of the European Commission. The EIGE’s Management Board considers that in 2016, the sixth full operational year following EIGE’s administrative and financial independence, the Institute has successfully developed its administrative, financial and operational framework and that EIGE carried out its tasks effectively within the frame of its mandate as specified in the Founding Regulation and its annual work programme. As regards the accounts, the Management Board noted a reasonably high execution of the budget with commitment appropriations up to 98.42 % in 2016 (compared to 88 % in 2011 but slightly below 98.55 % of that of 2015), while payment appropriations in 2016 were 72.83 % (improvement of 5 percentage points compared with 67.64% in 2015). Commitment appropriations: available: EUR 8 million; made: EUR 8 million. Payment appropriations: available: EUR 10 million; paid: EUR 8 million. For further details on expenditure, please refer to EIGE’s consolidated annual activity report.
- 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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2017/12/11
FEMM
9 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas gender equality is one of the values on which the Union is founded and the Union is committed to promote gender mainstreaming in all of its actions as enshrined in Article 8 TFEU;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas gender budgeting is part of the gender mainstreaming strategy;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls that the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) was established in order to contribute to and strengthen the promotion of
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls that the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) was established in order to contribute to and strengthen the promotion of gender equality, including gender mainstreaming in all relevant Union policies and the resulting national policies, the fight against discrimination based on sex, and raising Union citizens’ awareness of gender equality, and welcomes the prioritising of the work on several areas with outputs of high quality and high visibility, without losing focus on gender mainstreaming;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls that the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) was established in order to contribute to and strengthen the promotion of gender equality in the EU, including gender mainstreaming in all relevant Union policies and the resulting national policies, the fight against discrimination based on sex, and raising Union citizens’ awareness of gender equality;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Recalls that the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) was established in order to contribute to and strengthen the promotion of gender equality, including gender mainstreaming in all
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the ongoing cooperation between the EIGE and the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality and welcomes the EIGE’s contribution to the ongoing efforts of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality; calls for further interaction between the legislative and non-legislative priorities of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality and the EIGE’s research, also taking into account the Gender Equality Index developed by the EIGE;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Is of the opinion, on the basis of the
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2018/03/02
CONT
11 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1. Grants the Director of the European Institute for Gender Equality discharge in respect of the implementation of the Institute’s budget for the financial year
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14 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 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 Institute for Gender Equality for the financial year
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. calls on the Institute to keep the volume to be carried over to the next year as low as possible;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Points out that, according to the Court’s report, the Institute launched an open call for tender for a framework contract on the maintenance and update of its gender statistics tools and resources for a maximum amount of EUR 1 600 000 in 2016; highlights moreover that the call was split into two lots without indicating the respective amounts per lot; highlights that, following a question from one tenderer, the Institute clarified on its website that the maximum amount per lot was estimated at EUR 800 000; observes from the Institute’s reply that it was an administrative error due to which the amount specified was not amended accordingly and that it had no budget implication; notes furthermore, with regret, that
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Regrets that, having regard to the number of all posts occupied on 31 December 2016, gender balance
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Regrets that, especially in regard to an Agency with the words 'Gender Equality' in its title, having regard to the number of all posts occupied on 31 December 2016, gender balance has not been achieved
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Stresses that work-life balance should be part of the Institute’s staff policy; stresses that the budget spent on well-being activities amounted to EUR 36 437, corresponding to 2,25 days per staff; observes that the average number of sick days per staff in 2016 was 2,17 days in the case of those not justified by a medical certificate and 8,23 days in the case of those supported by a medical certificate, which combined is a total of 10,4 days per staff, or in excess of two weeks; calls on the Agency to examine the reasons behind those numbers with a view especially to establishing whether workplace stress is a factor;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11 a. Asks the Institute to inform the discharge authority on alleged and confirmed infringements, how it has dealt with these infringements, and how it will avoid them in the future;
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