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Lead | CONT | HAYES Brian (EPP) | POCHE Miroslav (S&D), CZARNECKI Ryszard (ECR), DLABAJOVÁ Martina (ALDE), OMARJEE Younous (GUE/NGL), TARAND Indrek (Verts/ALE), VALLI Marco (EFD), KAPPEL Barbara (ENF) |
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2017/09/13
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2017/06/19
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 Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking - S2R. 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 S2R JU, 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 S2R JU. The Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking: the S2R JU, located in Brussels (BE), was set up by Council Regulation (EU) No 642/2014 and aims to contribute to the achievement of the Single European Railway Area, to a faster and less costly transition to a more attractive, user-friendly sustainable European rail system. It is set up for a period until 31.12.2024. As regards the JU’s accounts, these are presented in detail in the document published by the Joint Undertaking (please refer to the annual activity report 2016 of the S2R).
- 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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2017/2186(DEC)
2018/01/26
TRAN
10 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Notes that, in 2016, the operational costs (Title 3) represented 87,8 % of the overall S2R JU budget including the expected un-used appropriations not required in the year (Title 4); further notes that, for the operational budget, the S2R JU attained a rate of implementation of 100 % for the commitment appropriations and a rate of payment appropriations of 86,6 %
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Underlines that research and innovation projects should be followed by a higher Technology Readiness Level (TRL) in the demonstration and implementation phase; stresses that the necessity of complementary financing using the relevant funding instruments is key to build a competitive railway system in the future.
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Notes that the S2R JU has set up a risk management policy but has not yet performed a specific anti-fraud assessment, nor has it established an action plan for the implementation of its own anti-fraud strategy; notes also that, since only pre- financing of projects has been paid in 2016, no ex-post controls have been carried out; encourages the S2R JU to adopt, as soon as possible, an ex-post control strategy; asks the S2R JU to provide details on the risk management system, and in particular on how to avoid conflicts of interest;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Is concerned that in its procedure for the procurement services, S2R JU sets a maximum contract budget, which does not seem to be based on a cost estimation process and a reasonable market price reference system; asks the S2R JU to put in place appropriate cost estimation processes before launching procurement procedures in order to ensure the cost-effectiveness of its multi-annual service contracts, as experience shows that most of the bids received were close to the maximum budget;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Is concerned that in its procedure for the procurement services, S2R JU sets a maximum contract budget, which does not seem to be based on a cost estimation process and a reasonable market price reference system; asks the S2R JU to put in place appropriate cost estimation processes before launching procurement procedures
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Stresses that the S2R Joint Undertaking should operate in an open and transparent manner, providing all relevant information available in a timely manner to the competent authorities, establishing a mechanism for consultation with all stakeholders using the goods and services of the railway sector, and ensuring the adequate promotion of its activities, including information and awareness-raising activities aimed at the wider public. The rules of procedure of the bodies of the S2R Joint Undertaking should be made publicly available.
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 b (new) 8b. Notes that, in order to achieve its objectives and to ensure the equitable participation of other undertakings, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and other investors, and with a view to modernising the integrated European railway sector, the S2R Joint Undertaking should provide an EU contribution to its activities through open and transparent procedures, mainly in the form of grants to members, e.g. in the form of public procurement contracts or grants awarded following open and transparent calls for tenders;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Underlines the importance of research and innovation in the rail sector in order to achieve a significant reduction of the life-cycle cost of the railway transport system and to achieve significant increases in capacity of the railway transport system, in reliability and punctuality, as well as in order to remove the remaining technical obstacles to interoperability and to reduce the negative externalities linked to transport; highlights also that the objectives of the S2R JU are to achieve a Single European Railway Area and to enhance the attractiveness and competitiveness of the European railway system;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Underlines the
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Recalls that research and innovation is not an isolated process using a simple rule for process management; stresses therefore that it is significantly important to identify among the research and innovation projects those that are capable to bring innovative solutions to the market; highlights that changes in the Regulation establishing the S2R JU 1a and in its Statutes will be very important for the next S2R JU development in order to improve its efficiency; stresses, in particular that there is a need to foresee the use of the principle of multiannual financing and to adopt flexible timetables for publishing projects proposals. _________________ 1a Council Regulation (EU) No 642/2014 of 16 June 2014 establishing the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking, OJ L 177, 17.6.2014, p.9.
source: 616.818
2018/03/01
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8 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a decision 1 Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Notes that the maximum Union contribution to the activities of the S2R Joint Undertaking is EUR 450 000 000, to be paid from Horizon 2020; notes that the industry members of the Joint Undertaking are to contribute resources of at least EUR 470 000 000, consisting of at least EUR 350 000 000 for in-kind and cash contributions to the operational activities and administrative costs of the Joint Undertaking and at least EUR 120 000 000 of in-kind contributions to the Joint Undertaking’s additional activities;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Notes that the final 2016 budget available for implementation included commitment appropriations of EUR 50 200 000 and payment appropriations of EUR 52 300 000;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Draws attention to the fact that in two cases out of eight, the Joint Undertaking awarded grants to project consortia, despite the fact that the checks of the financial viability of the beneficiaries performed by the Research Executive Agency indicated that the financial capacity of the coordinating industry members of the consortia was weak; notes that this implies an unnecessarily high financial risk for the completion of those projects and the financial risk was particularly high in one case, in which the coordinating partner had been assigned over 45% of the total project funding; calls the Joint undertaking to inform in written the discharge authority about the development of both projects as a part of the discharge follow up; draws attention to the ongoing and substantial need for a proper risk assessment system that should be followed in a comprehensive fashion;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Draws attention to the fact that in two cases out of eight, the Joint Undertaking awarded grants to project consortia, despite the fact that the checks of the financial viability of the beneficiaries performed by the Research Executive Agency indicated that the financial capacity of the coordinating industry members of the consortia was weak; notes that this implies an unnecessarily high financial risk for the completion of those projects and the financial risk was particularly high in one case, in which the coordinating partner had been assigned over 45% of the total project funding; calls on the JU to provide before the end of 2018 the clear reasons why it decided to take such risk; draws attention to the ongoing and substantial need for a proper risk assessment system that should be followed in a comprehensive fashion;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure the direct involvement of the Joint Undertaking in the process of the Horizon 2020 mid-term review in the sphere of further simplifications and harmonisation of joint undertakings;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Recognises the need for the Joint Undertaking to communicate with Union citizens, through the Union institutions, concerning the significant research and collaboration that it is undertaking, stresses the importance of highlighting the real improvements achieved as a consequence of its work, which are an important part of its mandate, as well as the fact that it works with other joint undertakings in promoting public awareness of the benefits of their work. Notes in this respect that also many of the private partners of the JU S2R are endowed with capacities to communicate directly with Union citizens and should be encouraged to participate in such an effort.
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