2020/2149(DEC) 2019 discharge: General budget of the EU - European External Action Service
Next event: Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading 2021/03/01
Lead committee dossier:
Next event: Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading 2021/03/01
Progress: Awaiting committee decision
| Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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MITUȚA Alin ( Renew)
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LENAERS Jeroen ( EPP),
GARCÍA MUÑOZ Isabel ( S&D),
PEKSA Mikuláš ( Verts/ALE),
CZARNECKI Ryszard ( ECR),
FLANAGAN Luke Ming ( Confederal Group of the European United Left)
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| Committee Opinion | AFCO | ||
| Committee Opinion | AFET |
ANDROULAKIS Nikos ( S&D)
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Angel DZHAMBAZKI ( ECR),
Urmas PAET ( RE),
Ernest URTASUN ( Verts/ALE),
Thierry MARIANI ( ID),
Özlem DEMIREL ( GUE/NGL),
Vangelis MEIMARAKIS ( PPE)
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| Committee Opinion | DEVE |
Lead committee dossier:
Subjects
Events
2021/03/01
EP - Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
2021/02/05
CSL - Supplementary non-legislative basic document
Documents
2021/02/05
EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2021/01/27
EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2020/12/15
EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2020/09/15
EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
2020/09/10
EP - ANDROULAKIS Nikos (S&D) appointed as rapporteur in AFET
2020/07/10
EP - MITUȚA Alin (Renew) appointed as rapporteur in CONT
2020/06/29
EC - Non-legislative basic document
Documents
2020/06/29
EC - Non-legislative basic document published
Documents
Documents
- Supplementary non-legislative basic document: 05792/2021
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE680.753
- Committee opinion: PE660.190
- Committee draft report: PE655.988
- Non-legislative basic document: COM(2020)0288
- Non-legislative basic document: EUR-Lex
- Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2020)0288
- Non-legislative basic document published: EUR-Lex
- Non-legislative basic document: COM(2020)0288 EUR-Lex
- Committee draft report: PE655.988
- Committee opinion: PE660.190
- Supplementary non-legislative basic document: 05792/2021
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE680.753
| Amendments | Dossier |
| 75 |
2020/2149(DEC)
2020/12/14
AFET
21 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Notes growing instability and the rise of unprecedented challenges in the international environment, which increased demands on the Union to act as a global player; highlights the European External Action Service’s (EEAS) central role in conducting the external policy of the Union, together with the Special Envoy for the promotion of freedom of religion or belief, and in cooperation with the European Parliament’s Intergroup on Freedom of Religion or Belief and Religious Tolerance; notes that the EEAS’s enhanced role has not been underpinned by a corresponding staff increase; calls for sufficient human resources to be made available, particularly through greater efficiency, in order not to put at risk the Union’s effectiveness on the international scene;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Stresses the significance of the culture of security and safety across all entities by ensuring that the EEAS has adequate personnel, procedures, infrastructure, tools (including IT) and budget to perform its critical and essential functions in the event of unexpected or crisis situations; calls on reducing the security risks, especially related to cybersecurity by increasing safety measures protecting the EEAS’s digital infrastructure from external threats and attacks;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Stresses the need to communicate strategically, to fight foreign propaganda and to expose disinformation and malicious foreign influence; underlines the importance of the EEAS Strategic Communication Task Force and calls for the broadening of its mandate, including in relation to state sponsored disinformation originating in China and in Russia, and providing it with further necessary financial and human resources; stresses that strategic communication must include fighting disinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Stresses the need to fight foreign propaganda and to expose disinformation and malicious foreign influence; underlines the importance of the EEAS Strategic Communication Task Force and calls for the broadening of its mandate, including in relation to state sponsored disinformation originating in China and the Middle East, particularly Iran, and providing it with further necessary financial and human resources;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Stresses the need to fight
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Stresses the need to fight foreign propaganda and to expose disinformation and malicious foreign influence; underlines the importance of the EEAS Strategic Communication Task Force and calls for the broadening of its mandate, including in relation to
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Notes that a host of EEAS notices and documents are available in English only; notes also that working meetings are held without interpretation; calls for the EEAS to abide by the principles, rights and obligations enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights; calls accordingly for the EEAS to provide the human resources needed to abide by multilingualism by increasing the number of translators and interpreters;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Regrets that only 1 recommendation out of 8 of the 2016 report of the European Court of Auditors on the European External Action Service's management of its buildings around the world has been fully implemented and 3 have been implemented in most respects; calls for the swift full implementation of all the remaining recommendations;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Notes that the EEAS carries a vital role in ensuring the coherence of the Union’s foreign policy; also highlights the need to provide the necessary resources for a successful implementation of an efficient EU Common Security and Defence Policy;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Emphasises the growing need for a coherent updated EU-Arctic policy; notes that the new NDICI instrument opens up opportunities to finance the Arctic region;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Calls on the EEAS to create posts for local agents responsible for reporting on legislative work in countries of strategic interest, particularly accession countries and those of the Eastern Partnership, in order to increase the Union’s understanding of the neighbourhood and its approximation to the acquis; calls on the EEAS to take action to resolve the problems leading to the procurement errors identified and to prevent future infringements of the relevant rules;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes the persisting gender and geographical imbalances within the EEAS staff, despite positive trends in recent years; reiterates the importance of ensuring a balanced distribution of staff in terms of gender and geographical origin within different categories and grades, particularly at middle and senior management levels; is appalled by the fact that women make up only 26% of the EEAS workforce in middle management and 31.3% in senior management, and that the last top appointments resulted in an all-male leadership of the EEAS; calls on the EEAS to swiftly work towards the objective of 50% of women in senior and middle management positions, as set out in the Gender Action Plan III, including through a clear timeline and measures that set out when and how to achieve this objective; calls on the HR/VP to implement his stated commitments to gender equality and women’s representation in his own service; points also to persisting over-
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes the persisting gender and geographical imbalances within the EEAS staff, despite positive trends in recent years; reiterates the importance of ensuring a balanced distribution of staff in terms of gender and geographical origin within different categories and grades, particularly at middle and senior management levels; points also to persisting over- representation of some Member States’ diplomats among the Heads of Delegation; calls for further efforts to address those imbalances; highlights the fact that an improvement of the geographical and gender balance in the EEAS would contribute to improving the Union’s coherence in external action initiatives;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes the persisting gender and geographical imbalances within the EEAS staff, despite positive trends in recent years; reiterates the importance of ensuring a balanced distribution of staff in terms of gender and geographical origin within different categories and grades, particularly at middle and senior management levels and calls for increased transparency in the decisions on the appointments of middle and senior management; points also to persisting over-
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes the persisting gender and geographical imbalances within the EEAS staff, despite positive trends in recent years; reiterates the importance of ensuring a balanced distribution of staff in terms of gender, religion and geographical origin within different categories and grades, particularly at middle and senior management levels; points also to persisting over-
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Emphasises the need to ensure the coherence of EU’s foreign policy, there is also a need to provide necessary resources for a successful implementation of an efficient EU Security and Defence Policy;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses the importance of continuing to improve the rationalisation and modernisation of the financial and administrative management; welcomes the ongoing discussions on the EEAS budget simplifications
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses the importance of continuing to improve the rationalisation and modernisation of the financial and administrative management;
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2021/02/08
CONT
54 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Notes with satisfaction that, according to the observations of the Court of Auditor’s (‘the Court’s’) annual report related to Chapter 9 'Administration - MFF heading 5', no specific issues were identified in the sample of transactions concerning the EEAS for the third consecutive year and no material level of error was identified in the EEAS’s annual activity report;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Calls on the EEAS to report on the distribution of nationalities in the selection committee responsible for hiring; invites the EEAS to consider developing further instruments to ensure proportion between merit-based and geographically balanced recruitment; asks the EEAS to provide statistics of the staff according to their nationality for the year 2019;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Observes that the number of seconded national experts from Member States started to slightly increase after two years of stabilisation, from 449 in 2017- 2018 to 461 in 2019, while noting an evolution towards more specialised profiles for civilians SNEs; notes with satisfaction the new internal policy on SNEs adopted in 2019 and several measures to rebalance the share of the SNEs' population, in addition to limiting the creation of new SNEs posts to specialists in specific areas;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Welcomes the efforts of the EEAS working on a Disability Roadmap and development of the EEAS Disability Policy, asks the EEAS to inform the discharge authority on the development and execution of these policies, stresses the importance of promoting a more inclusive working environment through these policies;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Notes with satisfaction the upward trend with regard to the proportion of women reaching management positions with 30,3 % (or 81 positions) compared to 27,1 % in 2018 and 24,5 % in 2017; takes also note of the increasing trend of the share of women posted as Heads of Delegation from 19,5 % in 2015 to 27,7 % in 2019 (or 38 postings out of 137); reiterates its support for the EEAS in continuing its efforts with Member States to introduce more women candidates; notes that overall women represented 47,7 % of EEAS staff; recalls that gender balance should also be considered with regard to the EU special representatives, two out of eight EU special representatives being women;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Notes the upward trend with regard to the proportion of women reaching management positions with 30,3 % (or 81 positions) compared to 27,1 % in 2018 and 24,5 % in 2017; takes also note of the
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Acknowledges the operational difficulties encountered by the EEAS in the financial management of the EU network of Delegations due to various crisis situations; recognises that those difficult situations can lead to significant budgetary impact, namely in the management of certain administrative expenditure and costs such as security and evacuation costs, and further logistical costs linked to the COVID 19 pandemic; asks the EEAS to swiftly inform the Parliament Committee on Budgetary Control of the budgetary impacts and expenses incurred because of the pandemic;
Amendment 17 #
10. Notes that the total budget of the EEAS for 2019 amounted to EUR 694,8 million (i.e. an increase of 2,4 % compared to 2018) with the following split, namely EUR 249,7 million for EEAS headquarters and EUR 445,
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Observes that the headquarters’ budget amounted to approximately EUR 250 million out of which EUR 161,8 million (i.e. 64,8 %) concerned the payment of salaries and other entitlements of statutory and external staff, EUR 32 million (i.e. 13 %) were for buildings and associated costs, and EUR 35,3 million (i.e. 14 %) were related to IT computer systems including classified information systems, equipment and furniture;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Notes with satisfaction that, according to the observations of the Court of Auditor’s (‘the Court’s’) annual report related to Chapter 9 'Administration - MFF heading 5', no specific issues were identified in the sample of transactions concerning the EEAS for the third consecutive year and no material level of error was identified in the EEAS’s annual activity report;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Acknowledges that the number of budget lines used to finance the operations related to Commission staff in the delegations (34 different lines originating in various Headings of the Commission budget, plus the EDF Funds) increases the complexity of budget management; invites the EEAS to consider better structuring its budget reporting to loosen the complexity;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Encourages the EEAS therefore to continue discussing with the European Commission ways to streamline the budget nomenclature and lines when possible in order to facilitate the overall EEAS budget management; is of the opinion that the upcoming MFF and the related evolution in
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Calls on the EEAS to
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24. Believes that digitalisation of procurement and budget management is key; recalls that ‘Document management’ one of the weakest components identified in the previous internal control survey, deserves regular attention from all EEAS stakeholders for the benefit of institutional memory and the traceability of management operations; therefore, calls on the EEAS to improve its digital systems and document management, introducing advanced management and archiving tools, as well as paperless document management processes where possible;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 a (new) 24 a. Welcomes that the EEAS uses free and open-source software whenever possible; encourages the EEAS to prioritise open-source technologies in order to prevent vendor lock-in, retain control over its own technical systems, provide stronger safeguards for user’s privacy and data protection and increase security and transparency for the public;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 b (new) 24 b. Encourages the EEAS to follow the EDPS recommendations to renegotiate the Inter-Institutional Licensing Agreement and implementation contract, signed between the Union institutions and Microsoft in 2018, with the objective to achieve digital sovereignty, avoid vendor lock-in and lack of control, as well as to ensure the protection of personal data;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Notes the rate of anomalies detected in ex ante verifications of commitments and payments (respectively, 308 errors out of 1193 and 394 out of 2119); is concerned that in both cases errors are of an administrative nature i.e. incorrect amounts for commitments or missing supporting documents for payments presented for ex-ante financial verification; acknowledges the implementation, from January 2020, of a revised list of anomaly codes aiming at better defining the error typology;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Notes the rate of anomalies detected in ex ante verifications of commitments and payments (respectively, 308 errors out of 1193 and 394 out of 2119); is concerned that in both cases errors are of an administrative nature i.e. incorrect amounts for commitments or missing supporting documents for payments presented for ex-ante financial verification; calls on the EEAS to investigate and resolve cases of administrative errors and report back to the Parliament on its achievements;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Notes the rate of anomalies detected in ex ante verifications of commitments and payments (respectively, 308 errors out of 1193 and 394 out of 2119); is concerned that in both cases errors are of an administrative nature i.e. incorrect amounts for commitments or missing supporting documents for payments presented for ex-ante financial verification; calls for the implementation of measures that would contribute to a reduction of the level of errors in general terms;
Amendment 29 #
28 a. Asks the EEAS to continue providing for a follow-up report for the financial year 2019 in compliance with Article 262 of the Financial Regulation;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Notes the Court’s general observations on the increase in the number of contract staff and the related budget appropriations from 2012 to 2018;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 29. Notes with appreciation the reinforcement of the EEAS’s strategic communication capacity and toolkit in order to tackle disinformation threats and hybrid threats, with the setting-up of three task forces for the East, Western Balkans and South and the EEAS’;s participation in the rapid alert system established among the Union institutions and Member States; invites the EEAS to pursue the development of such a policy with the Parliament’s new special committee on foreign interference in order to refine its capacity response; recognises and welcomes the cooperation between the EEAS and numerous European Parliament Liaison Offices (EPLO) to combat disinformation during the European election campaign 2019;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 a (new) 29 a. Reminds of the common failure of the EEAS and the Commission to provide efficient budget support addressed to Morocco, namely due to sub-optimal focus and design of the support, difficulties in implementing and absence of significant impact for budget support programmes; therefore calls on the EEAS and the Commission to stop the practice of the budget support to the third countries regulated by legal provisions of a broad scope creating a risk of loose interpretation by the institutions regarding the meeting of general conditions;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 30. Underlines that the spread of deliberate, large-scale systematic disinformation is an acute strategic challenge for the Union’s public diplomacy for which adequate financial, IT and human resources should be devoted in the short
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 a (new) 30 a. Is concerned by the findings from renown researchers that the EU Disinformation Review (EU vs Disinfo), operated by the EEAS, would allegedly not respect the International Fact- Checking Network’s code of principles because its methodology is not transparent, it would violate the right to freedom of expression and of the press by labelling publishers and media outlets that report on third party opinions as “disinforming outlets”, as well as it would fail to provide objective impartiality, as it does not provide the right to be heard; asks the EEAS to provide more information to the Parliament on the compliance of its review methodology with Union law and international standards;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 a (new) 30 a. Stresses the need to communicate strategically, to fight malicious interference, including foreign disinformation, espionage, and propaganda; underlines the importance of the EEAS Strategic Communication Task Force, and calls for the creation of dedicated Strategic Communication Task Forces on interference emanating from China and the Middle East, in particular from Iran, and providing them with further necessary financial and human resources;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 b (new) 30 b. Notes that the EEAS makes use of the following proprietary social media channels: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, for which the number of followers increased significantly in 2019; encourages the EEAS to establish a presence on free and open-source social media networks, such as Mastodon, to achieve further transparency and broader outreach;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 31. Notes that only two delegations provided motivated reservations, i.e. the Delegation to Syria (since 2017) and the Delegation in Djibouti in relation to the management of their administrative expenditure, in particular linked to procurement issues; calls on EEAS to undertake necessary steps to examine these issues;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32 32. Calls on the EEAS to provide further information in the EEAS annual activity report on the Inspections programme in order to get an overview of the performance and the functioning of the EU Delegations; considers also that it will be useful to better illustrate the articulation of inspections of Delegations with the EEAS assurance framework and to show how the use of the outcomes and recommendations of inspections contributed to greater coherence, homogeneity and efficiency in the Delegations’ working methods; highlights the importance of analysing the effectiveness and correctness of financial management in the respective Delegations;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 33. Welcomes the fact that the EEAS is continuously adapting its anti-fraud strategy in conjunction with all the RELEX directorates general and with a dedicated format with OLAF; believes that all necessary efforts have to be made to share and exchange information on their operational challenges to better identify risky areas in their activities and programmes; calls on the EEAS to identify any possible specific policy fields where tighter collaboration with OLAF might be needed to ensure an effective fraud prevention
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 33. Welcomes the fact that the EEAS is continuously adapting its anti-fraud strategy in conjunction with all the RELEX directorates general and with a dedicated format with OLAF;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Notes the Court’s general observations on the increase in the number of contract staff and the related budget appropriations from 2012 to 2018; observes that for the EEAS, such an increase was due to new tasks reflecting the placing of new operational and political responsibilities on the EEAS, in particular in the areas of the common security and defence policy, the implementation of the action plan against disinformation as well as the urgent priority to reinforce physical and IT security in EU Delegations; observes for the EEAS an overall increase in contract staff from 322 to 444 (i.e. a
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37 a (new) 37 a. Encourages the EEAS to urgently devote efforts to organise systematic trainings and awareness sessions in the field of proper conduct (ethics, anti-fraud, anti-corruption, anti-harassment, confidentiality levels) to its staff; believes such session should be part of compulsory on-boarding trainings for newly recruited staff;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 38 a (new) 38 a. Strongly recommends for the EEAS to join the EU Transparency Register, on the basis of a service level agreement, in order to improve transparency by disclosing all meetings with all lobby organisations that try to influence the law-making and policy implementation process of the Union institutions; does not agree with the EEAS’ opinion that an obligation to record meetings with lobbyists in third countries, would make it difficult for Heads of Union Delegations to engage with Union's economic interests in third countries; believes that citizens should be allowed to know which organisations Union Ambassadors are meeting;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 39. Underlines that post-public employment and ‘revolving door’ conflict of interests situations is a recurring issue in
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 39. Underlines that post-public employment and ‘revolving door’ conflict of interests situations is a recurring issue in the EU institutions; calls for the EEAS for the effective and consistent application of the Staff Regulations, in particular Article 16 thereof, in order to prevent conflicts of interests, in particular – but not only – concerning senior officials and seconded national experts;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 40 40.
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 a (new) 41 a. Underlines that Article 16 enables Union institutions to turn down a former official's request to take a specific job if restrictions are not sufficient to protect the legitimate interests of the institutions; fears that it is often not possible to enforce conditions imposed upon post-public employment activities; encourages Union institutions and agencies, therefore, to consider the full range of tools made available under Article 16 of the Staff Regulation;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 43 43. Encourages the EEAS to continue in this direction of pooling of means with Member States in the management of buildings and to further developing local co-operation, with specific attention to be devoted to best value for money, security issues and the Union’s image and visibility, as well as budget optimisation;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44 44. Notes with appreciation that this increase in colocations has been coupled with a consolidation and standardisation of the system of recovery of costs through further centralisation of incurred colocations’ revenues and the application of administrative fees in the agreed service level agreements; observes that approximately EUR 10 million of revenues were generated in 2019; calls on the EEAS to present an overview of the allocation of this revenues to ensure transparency;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44 a (new) 44 a. Regrets the findings of the Court of Auditors, that only as mall number of Union delegations are fully accessible to disabled people, asks the EEAS to consider where technically and financially possible and where required by local legislation to adapt their offices to improve the accessibility for people with reduced mobility;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 48 48. Invites the EEAS to make further progress in relation to the remaining open recommendations on the need to obtain a portfolio overview by monitoring market rates for offices and residences and to start designing a medium-long-term plan in addition to its current Annual Working Document; recalls that the 35m2 office space per member of staff should remain and serve as a recurrent benchmark and access for those with disabilities should be systematically assessed in upcoming building planning or relocations; calls on the EEAS to keep Parliament informed about any further improvements;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Observes that at the end of 2019, the proportionof Member State diplomats in the total administrator population amounted to 33,37 %, representing a slight decrease compared to 33,76 % in 2018 with; notes the following slight fluctuations between 2014-2017: 32,83 % end 2017, 31,7 % end 2016, 32,9 % in 2015 and 33,8 % in 2014;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 49 49.
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 49 49.
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 50 50. Regrets the fact that there are still unpaid trainees in EU delegations; encourages the EEAS to take step to assure that trainees have means to support themselves; urges the EEAS to follow the recommendation of the European Ombudsman to pay all trainees an appropriate allowance;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 50 50.
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 51 51. Notes with appreciation that in
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Notes the geographical imbalances in the composition of the EEAS staff; stresses that the EEAS, like all European institutions, must ensure that all Member States are proportionally represented whenever possible, while at the same time respecting the competences and merits of the candidates; calls on the EEAS to enhance the geographical balance in order to have a proper representation of nationals from all Member States, reflecting the diversity of Member States; welcomes the EEAS’ efforts informing the Human Resources Network of EU Member States about the staff composition, publishing the vacancies and promoting national efforts to increase the number of candidates;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Notes the geographical imbalances in the composition of the EEAS staff, especially as regards to top grading posts; stresses that the EEAS, like all European institutions, must ensure that all Member States are proportionally represented while at the same time respecting the competences and merits of the candidates; calls on the EEAS to enhance the geographical balance in order to have a proper representation of nationals from all Member States, reflecting the diversity of Member States;
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