2020/2151(DEC) 2019 discharge: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound)
Lead committee dossier:
Progress: Procedure completed
| Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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BRUDZIŃSKI Joachim Stanisław ( ECR)
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ZDECHOVSKÝ Tomáš ( EPP),
RÓNAI Sándor ( S&D),
CHASTEL Olivier ( Renew),
EICKHOUT Bas ( Verts/ALE),
OMARJEE Younous ( GUE/NGL)
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| Committee Opinion | EMPL |
TOMC Romana ( EPP)
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Dominique BILDE ( ID),
Dragoş PÎSLARU ( RE),
Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ ( ECR)
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Lead committee dossier:
Subjects
Events
2021/09/24
Final act published in Official Journal
2021/04/28
EP - Decision by Parliament
Details
The European Parliament decided by 612 votes to 83, with 3 abstentions, to grant discharge to the Acting Executive Director of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) for the financial year 2019 and to approve the closure of the accounts for the financial year in question.
Noting that the Court of Auditors has stated that it has obtained reasonable assurances that the Foundation’s annual accounts for the financial year 2019 are reliable and that the underlying transactions are legal and regular, Parliament adopted by 598 votes to 86 with 7 abstentions, a resolution containing a series of recommendations, which form an integral part of the decision on discharge and which add to the general recommendations set out in the resolution on performance, financial management and control of EU agencies:
Foundation’s financial statements
The final budget of Eurofound for the financial year 2019 was EUR 21 489 160 representing an increase of 3.51 % compared to 2018.
Budget and financial management
Budget monitoring efforts during 2019 resulted in a budget implementation rate of 99.99 %, representing a slight increase of 0.41 %. Payment appropriations execution rate was 80.92 %, representing a decrease of 1.78 % compared to 2018.
Other observations
Parliament also made a series of observations regarding performance, procurement, staff policy and internal controls.
In particular, it noted that:
- the Foundation’s new founding regulation entered into force on 20 February 2019;
- the delivery of work programme outputs planned for 2019 reached 91 % of achievement (51 of 56 outputs), the Foundation contributed to 212 policy development events (46 % of them at EU level);
- the Foundation should continue to develop its synergies, to exchange information, to share knowledge and to exchange of good practices with other European agencies with a view to improving efficiency with regard to human resources, building management, IT services and security;
- on 31 December 2019 the establishment plan was 97.80 % implemented, with 11 officials and 78 temporary agents appointed out of 91 authorised under the Union budget (compared to 91 authorised posts in 2018);
- gender balance was achieved for senior managers (1 man and 1 woman). However, there is no gender balance at management board level (51 men and 33 women);
- on procurement, the Foundation concluded a framework contract for a maximum amount of EUR 170 000 for the supply of electricity on the basis of a negotiated procurement procedure with a single candidate and without the prior publication of a contract notice.
Documents
2021/04/27
EP - Debate in Parliament
Documents
2021/03/30
EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
Documents
2021/03/30
EP - Committee report tabled for plenary
Documents
2021/03/22
EP - Vote in committee
2021/03/04
EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2021/02/24
EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2021/02/05
CSL - Supplementary non-legislative basic document
Documents
2021/01/11
EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2020/09/30
EP - TOMC Romana (EPP) appointed as rapporteur in EMPL
2020/09/15
EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2020/09/08
EP - BRUDZIŃSKI Joachim Stanisław (ECR) appointed as rapporteur in CONT
2020/06/29
EC - Non-legislative basic document
Documents
2020/06/28
EC - Non-legislative basic document published
Documents
Documents
- Decision by Parliament: T9-0175/2021
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A9-0094/2021
- Committee report tabled for plenary: A9-0094/2021
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE680.797
- Committee opinion: PE660.375
- Supplementary non-legislative basic document: 05793/2021
- Committee draft report: PE657.211
- 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: PE657.211
- Supplementary non-legislative basic document: 05793/2021
- Committee opinion: PE660.375
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE680.797
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A9-0094/2021
Votes
Décharge 2019 : Fondation européenne pour l'amélioration des conditions de vie et de travail - 2019 discharge: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions - Entlastung 2019: Europäische Stiftung zur Verbesserung der Lebens- ud Arbeitsbedingungen - A9-0094/2021 - Joachim Stanisław Brudziński - Proposition de résolution #
2021/04/29 Outcome: +: 598, -: 86, 0: 7
PPE
The Left
NI| Amendments | Dossier |
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2020/2151(DEC)
2021/01/21
EMPL
17 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Expresses its satisfaction that the budget implementation rate stood at 99,9 % in 2019 (compared to 99,96 % in 2018); recognises the Foundation's successful efforts towards optimal use of resources in this regard;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Appreciates Eurofound’s support to trade unions, employers’ organisations, national governments, and European institutions and its cooperation with other Union agencies working in the field of employment, social affairs and inclusion under the remit of DG Employment;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Notes
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Notes with regret from the Court’s report that with regard to a framework contract for a maximum amount of EUR 170 000 for the supply of electricity, the Foundation incorrectly used a negotiated procedure with a single candidate, which resulted in irregular related contracts and associated payments;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Notes with regret from the Court’s report that with regard to a framework contract for a maximum amount of EUR 170 000 for the supply of electricity, the Foundation incorrectly used a negotiated procedure with a single candidate, which resulted in irregular related contracts and associated payments; welcomes the Foundation's reply that the new tender has already been planned for early 2021 and will be of a competitive nature;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Encourages Eurofound to meet its objective to be EMAS certified (the EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) by 2022;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Notes with regret from the Court’s report that with regard to another framework contract, the Foundation should have used an open procedure instead of a negotiated procedure justified by the Foundation on the basis of a budget which was underestimated; notes from the Foundation’s reply that it did a screening of the local market, based the budget on professional advice, publicly advertised the contract and published a contract award notice in the Official Journal;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Welcomes the fact that the Foundation has completed the corrective actions in relation to the Court’s observations from previous years; notes that the Foundation is in the process of implementing actions in response to the recommendations from the Commission made on the basis of the external cross- agency evaluation covering the period 2012 to 2016, and awaits the Foundation’s related reporting in its 2020 Annual activity report;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Appreciates the Foundation’s work to enhance and disseminate knowledge, and to provide evidence and expertise to support policies concerning the improvement of living and working conditions in the Member States of the European Union;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Appreciates the Foundation’s high quality work
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Appreciates the Foundation’s work to enhance and disseminate knowledge, and to provide evidence and expertise to support policies concerning the improvement of living and working conditions in the Union; welcomes in particular the Foundation's recent e- survey, ‘Living, working and COVID-19’, which aims to capture the far-reaching implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for the labour market, working conditions and quality of life across the EU; believes that the Foundation can play a crucial role in further analysing the increase in telework and related impacts on work-life balance and quality of working conditions, dissemination of best practices and assessing possible policy responses; believes that the Foundation, in its future work programme, should analyse policy options to improve the working and living conditions of seasonal and other mobile workers;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Appreciates the Foundation’s work to enhance and disseminate knowledge, and to provide evidence and expertise to support policies concerning the improvement of living and working conditions in the Union; highlights the importance of collaborating with various highly qualified external experts;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Stresses that at the time when the European Commission will launch its Action Plan on the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights and the European Council foresees its endorsement at the Porto Summit in May 2021, Eurofound research reveals the complexity of the social dimension of the European Union and suggests complementing the Social Scoreboard accompanying the European Pillar of Social Rights with additional indicators covering job quality, social justice and equal opportunities, robust social welfare systems and fair mobility; stresses that Eurofound should have the appropriate financial and human resources to develop further those indicators;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Appreciates the Foundation’s support to social partners, national governments and European institutions and its close cooperation with other Union agencies, in particular with Cedefop, EIGE, ETF, FRA, EU-OSHA, which aims to strengthen the synergies between them; considers the Foundation’s active participation in the EU Agencies Network to be important, including with respect to the sharing of services between agencies in geographical proximity or with similar operational requirements;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Notes that the agency’s publications are produced almost exclusively in English and deplores the fact that its work is not translated to make it accessible to the European public in their national languages; calls for its budget to be made contingent upon a language clause to foster greater transparency by ensuring its work may be understood in each person’s language;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Welcomes the fact that Eurofound has for years now extended its cooperation beyond the agencies under the remit of DG EMPL in the context of the EU Agencies Network (EUAN), including EIGE and FRA, for which sharing of services has been a strategic priority for many years to ensure efficient cooperation;
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