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2021/2124(DEC) 2020 discharge: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

Progress: Procedure completed

RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead CONT ZDECHOVSKÝ Tomáš (icon: EPP EPP) CHINNICI Caterina (icon: S&D S&D), CSEH Katalin (icon: Renew Renew), EICKHOUT Bas (icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE), KUHS Joachim (icon: ID ID), CZARNECKI Ryszard (icon: ECR ECR), OMARJEE Younous (icon: GUE/NGL GUE/NGL)
Committee Opinion ENVI CANFIN Pascal (icon: Renew Renew) Ljudmila NOVAK (icon: PPE PPE), Michèle RIVASI (icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE)
Lead committee dossier:

Events

2022/10/05
   Final act published in Official Journal
2022/05/04
   EP - Debate in Parliament
2022/05/04
   EP - Decision by Parliament
Details

The European Parliament decided to grant discharge to the Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in respect of the implementation of the Centre's budget for the financial year 2020 and to approve the closure of the accounts for that year.

Noting that the Court of Auditors stated that it had obtained reasonable assurance that the Authority's annual accounts for the financial year 2020 were reliable and that the underlying transactions were legal and regular, Parliament adopted, by 564 votes to 75 with 2 abstentions, a resolution containing a series of recommendations which form an integral part of the discharge decision and which complement the general recommendations set out in the resolution on the performance, financial management and control of EU agencies.

Centre's financial statements

The Centre's final budget for 2020 was EUR 62 490 000, representing an increase of 5.55 % compared to 2019.

Budgetary and financial management

The budget monitoring efforts during the financial year 2020 resulted in a budget implementation rate of 96.77 %, representing a decrease of 2.46 % compared to 2019. The payment appropriations execution rate was 75.26 %, also representing a decrease of 6.15 % compared to the previous year.

Other observations

Parliament also made a number of observations concerning performance, staff policy, public procurement, conflicts of interest, internal control and Covid-19.

In particular, it noted that:

- the Covid-19 outbreak in 2020 and the subsequent pandemic have been the most serious public health event that the Centre has had to respond to since it became operational in 2005. Supporting the EU’s response to Covid-19 became the Centre’s principal activity;

- the Centre activated its public health event operations plan on 9 January 2020, which guided the organisation through the emergency situation, and allowed it to redirect the resources needed to tackle the pandemic;

- it also delivered 56 % of the outputs initially planned in its single programming document 2020–2022, and 90 % of the outputs of the Covid-19 work programme approved in May 2020. 35 % of the Centre’s initially planned outputs were postponed to 2021 or cancelled;

- the Centre found it challenging to manage the timeliness, quality and completeness of information received from Member States regarding the pandemic given that different surveillance and testing strategies are used by the Member States which make comparisons and assessments difficult, and that, more generally, the Union’s public health competences are limited, which means that the Centre is to a considerable degree dependent on Member States for its effectiveness. Parliament noted that it took for instance almost a year after the Covid-19 outbreak in Europe before Member States used a common colour code system, and showed commitment to submitting their data to the Centre;

- the Centre is developing an entirely new European surveillance system with the aim of progressively covering Covid-19 and all other diseases and health conditions under the Union’s surveillance, thus reducing the reporting burden for Member States;

- on 31 December 2020, the establishment plan was 96.1 % implemented, with 173 temporary agents appointed out of 180 temporary agents authorised under the Union budget (compared to 180 authorised posts in 2019);

- due to the pandemic, the workload in the Centre significantly increased in 2020. The Centre was provided with increased short-term capacity in 2020 and, at the end of 2020, the Centre was also granted a number of long-term staff posts to be filled during the period 2021 to 2024 due to the prolonged sanitary crisis;

- the Centre concluded a total of 130 contracts in 2020, covering 10 framework contracts, 14 direct contracts and 106 specific contracts;

- 22 potential conflicts of interest were identified and investigated in 2020;

- an internal communications policy is to be developed, including communication on the objectives and responsibilities of internal control;

- the Centre increased its outreach significantly in 2020 in connection with the pandemic. Its website had 32 million page views, compared to 9 million between 2011 and 2019 in total.

Documents
2022/04/07
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
Documents
2022/04/07
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary
Documents
2022/03/31
   EP - Vote in committee
2022/03/29
   EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2022/03/02
   EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2022/02/16
   CSL - Supplementary non-legislative basic document
Documents
2022/01/19
   EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2022/01/14
   EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2021/10/29
   CofA - Court of Auditors: opinion, report
2021/09/29
   EP - CANFIN Pascal (Renew) appointed as rapporteur in ENVI
2021/09/14
   EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2021/07/28
   EP - ZDECHOVSKÝ Tomáš (EPP) appointed as rapporteur in CONT
2021/06/30
   EC - Non-legislative basic document
2021/06/30
   EC - Non-legislative basic document published

Documents

Votes

Décharge 2020: Centre européen de prévention et de contrôle des maladies - Discharge 2020: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - Entlastung 2020: Europäisches Zentrum für die Prävention und die Kontrolle von Krankheiten - A9-0099/2022 - Tomáš Zdechovský - Proposition de résolution (ensemble du texte) #

2022/05/04 Outcome: +: 564, -: 75, 0: 2
DE ES PL FR RO NL IT PT HU BG BE SE EL CZ IE AT DK SK LT HR LV FI SI CY LU MT EE
Total
89
56
46
66
27
27
71
21
19
14
20
20
19
19
13
18
14
12
10
12
8
12
7
6
6
4
5
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Hungary PPE

1

Czechia PPE

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3

Denmark PPE

For (1)

1

Latvia PPE

2

Finland PPE

2

Slovenia PPE

3
2

Luxembourg PPE

2

Malta PPE

For (1)

1

Estonia PPE

For (1)

1
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131

Greece S&D

2

Czechia S&D

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1

Slovakia S&D

2

Lithuania S&D

2

Latvia S&D

2

Finland S&D

1

Slovenia S&D

2

Cyprus S&D

2

Luxembourg S&D

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1

Estonia S&D

2
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94

Poland Renew

1

Italy Renew

3

Hungary Renew

2
3

Ireland Renew

2

Austria Renew

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1

Lithuania Renew

1

Croatia Renew

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1

Latvia Renew

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1

Finland Renew

3

Slovenia Renew

2

Luxembourg Renew

2

Estonia Renew

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1
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65

Spain Verts/ALE

3

Poland Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Netherlands Verts/ALE

3

Portugal Verts/ALE

1

Belgium Verts/ALE

3

Sweden Verts/ALE

2

Czechia Verts/ALE

3

Ireland Verts/ALE

2

Austria Verts/ALE

3

Denmark Verts/ALE

2

Lithuania Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Finland Verts/ALE

3

Luxembourg Verts/ALE

For (1)

1
icon: ECR ECR
55

Germany ECR

1

Netherlands ECR

4

Bulgaria ECR

1

Belgium ECR

2
3

Greece ECR

1

Slovakia ECR

For (1)

1

Lithuania ECR

1

Croatia ECR

1

Latvia ECR

2
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37

Netherlands The Left

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1

Belgium The Left

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1

Sweden The Left

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1

Czechia The Left

1

Denmark The Left

1

Finland The Left

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1

Cyprus The Left

2
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38

France NI

2

Slovakia NI

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2

Lithuania NI

1

Croatia NI

2

Latvia NI

1
icon: ID ID
60

Netherlands ID

Against (1)

1

Czechia ID

Against (2)

2

Austria ID

3

Denmark ID

Against (1)

1

Finland ID

2

Estonia ID

Against (1)

1
AmendmentsDossier
27 2021/2124(DEC)
2021/12/08 ENVI 12 amendments...
source: 702.915
2022/03/03 CONT 15 amendments...
source: 704.725

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)

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  • The European Parliament decided to grant discharge to the Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in respect of the implementation of the Centre's budget for the financial year 2020 and to approve the closure of the accounts for that year.
  • Noting that the Court of Auditors stated that it had obtained reasonable assurance that the Authority's annual accounts for the financial year 2020 were reliable and that the underlying transactions were legal and regular, Parliament adopted, by 564 votes to 75 with 2 abstentions, a resolution containing a series of recommendations which form an integral part of the discharge decision and which complement the general recommendations set out in the resolution on the performance, financial management and control of EU agencies.
  • Centre's financial statements
  • The Centre's final budget for 2020 was EUR 62 490 000, representing an increase of 5.55 % compared to 2019.
  • Budgetary and financial management
  • The budget monitoring efforts during the financial year 2020 resulted in a budget implementation rate of 96.77 %, representing a decrease of 2.46 % compared to 2019. The payment appropriations execution rate was 75.26 %, also representing a decrease of 6.15 % compared to the previous year.
  • Other observations
  • Parliament also made a number of observations concerning performance, staff policy, public procurement, conflicts of interest, internal control and Covid-19.
  • In particular, it noted that:
  • - the Covid-19 outbreak in 2020 and the subsequent pandemic have been the most serious public health event that the Centre has had to respond to since it became operational in 2005. Supporting the EU’s response to Covid-19 became the Centre’s principal activity;
  • - the Centre activated its public health event operations plan on 9 January 2020, which guided the organisation through the emergency situation, and allowed it to redirect the resources needed to tackle the pandemic;
  • - it also delivered 56 % of the outputs initially planned in its single programming document 2020–2022, and 90 % of the outputs of the Covid-19 work programme approved in May 2020. 35 % of the Centre’s initially planned outputs were postponed to 2021 or cancelled;
  • - the Centre found it challenging to manage the timeliness, quality and completeness of information received from Member States regarding the pandemic given that different surveillance and testing strategies are used by the Member States which make comparisons and assessments difficult, and that, more generally, the Union’s public health competences are limited, which means that the Centre is to a considerable degree dependent on Member States for its effectiveness. Parliament noted that it took for instance almost a year after the Covid-19 outbreak in Europe before Member States used a common colour code system, and showed commitment to submitting their data to the Centre;
  • - the Centre is developing an entirely new European surveillance system with the aim of progressively covering Covid-19 and all other diseases and health conditions under the Union’s surveillance, thus reducing the reporting burden for Member States;
  • - on 31 December 2020, the establishment plan was 96.1 % implemented, with 173 temporary agents appointed out of 180 temporary agents authorised under the Union budget (compared to 180 authorised posts in 2019);
  • - due to the pandemic, the workload in the Centre significantly increased in 2020. The Centre was provided with increased short-term capacity in 2020 and, at the end of 2020, the Centre was also granted a number of long-term staff posts to be filled during the period 2021 to 2024 due to the prolonged sanitary crisis;
  • - the Centre concluded a total of 130 contracts in 2020, covering 10 framework contracts, 14 direct contracts and 106 specific contracts;
  • - 22 potential conflicts of interest were identified and investigated in 2020;
  • - an internal communications policy is to be developed, including communication on the objectives and responsibilities of internal control;
  • - the Centre increased its outreach significantly in 2020 in connection with the pandemic. Its website had 32 million page views, compared to 9 million between 2011 and 2019 in total.
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