2021/2139(DEC) 2020 discharge: European Training Foundation (ETF)
Lead committee dossier:
Progress: Procedure completed
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ZDECHOVSKÝ Tomáš ( EPP)
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CHINNICI Caterina ( S&D),
MITUȚA Alin ( Renew),
EICKHOUT Bas ( Verts/ALE),
KUHS Joachim ( ID),
CZARNECKI Ryszard ( ECR),
OMARJEE Younous ( GUE/NGL)
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| Committee Opinion | EMPL |
TOMC Romana ( EPP)
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Peter KOFOD ( ID),
Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ ( RE),
Elżbieta RAFALSKA ( ECR)
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Lead committee dossier:
Subjects
Events
2022/10/05
Final act published in Official Journal
2022/05/04
EP - Debate in Parliament
Documents
2022/05/04
EP - Decision by Parliament
Details
The European Parliament decided to grant discharge to the Interim Director of the European Training Foundation (ETF) for the financial year 2020 and to approve the closure of the accounts for that year.
Noting that the Court of Auditors had stated that it had obtained reasonable assurance that the Agency's annual accounts for the financial year 2020 were reliable and that the underlying transactions were legal and regular, Parliament adopted, by 550 votes to 54 with 33 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.
Foundation's financial statements
The Foundation's final budget for the year 2020 was EUR 20 957 000, an increase of 2% compared to 2019.
Budgetary and financial management
Parliament noted that budget monitoring efforts during the financial year 2020 resulted in a high budget implementation rate of 99.88 %, representing a slight decrease of 0.08 % compared to 2019. The payment appropriations execution rate was 95.65%, representing a decrease of 0.25% compared to the previous year.
The particular importance of further strengthening the democratic legitimacy of the Union institutions by improving transparency and accountability and implementing the concept of performance-based budgeting and good governance of human resources was stressed.
Other observations
Parliament also made a series of observations concerning performance, staff policy, public procurement, internal controls and Covid-19.
In particular, it noted that:
- the Foundation achieved an 86,84 % activity completion rate, a slight decrease compared to 2019, with a timely completion rate of 75,94 %;
- on 31 December 2020, the establishment plan was 98.8 % implemented, with 85 temporary agents appointed out of 86 temporary agents authorised under the Union budget (compared to 86 authorised posts in 2019). The Foundation should ensure better gender enhance and geographical balance of its staff;
- the Foundation should avoid digital overloading and ensure that staff should work only within working hours;
- e-procurement progressed with the receipt of electronic invoices (54 % of incoming invoices were received electronically in 2020 versus 42 % in 2019) and the receipt of electronic tenders for all open tenders (e-tendering and e-submission);
- various measures were set up in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, such as permitting telework and limiting the access to the Foundation building for the majority of 2020, providing means and tools to support coping with change and disruptive social and working environments, and reprioritising the activities in the work programme 2020;
- the implementation rate of the work programme was at 87 %, according to the Foundation due to the fact that many actions were postponed from the second to the last quarter of the year which put a strain on the implementation capacity of the Foundation and on partner countries with some actions carried forward into 2021.
Documents
2022/04/07
EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
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2022/04/07
EP - Committee report tabled for plenary
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2022/03/31
EP - Vote in committee
2022/03/29
EP - Amendments tabled in committee
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2022/03/02
EP - Amendments tabled in committee
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2022/02/16
CSL - Supplementary non-legislative basic document
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2022/02/15
EP - Committee opinion
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2022/01/17
EP - Committee draft report
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2021/10/29
CofA - Court of Auditors: opinion, report
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2021/10/01
EP - TOMC Romana (EPP) appointed as rapporteur in EMPL
2021/09/14
EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2021/07/29
EP - ZDECHOVSKÝ Tomáš (EPP) appointed as rapporteur in CONT
2021/06/30
EC - Non-legislative basic document
Documents
2021/06/30
EC - Non-legislative basic document published
Documents
Documents
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament: T9-0163/2022
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A9-0105/2022
- Committee report tabled for plenary: A9-0105/2022
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE729.973
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE704.740
- Supplementary non-legislative basic document: 06003/2022
- Committee opinion: PE699.141
- Committee draft report: PE698.981
- Court of Auditors: opinion, report: OJ C 439 29.10.2021, p. 0003
- Court of Auditors: opinion, report: N9-0044/2022
- Non-legislative basic document: COM(2021)0381
- Non-legislative basic document: EUR-Lex
- Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2021)0381
- Non-legislative basic document published: EUR-Lex
- Non-legislative basic document: COM(2021)0381 EUR-Lex
- Court of Auditors: opinion, report: OJ C 439 29.10.2021, p. 0003 N9-0044/2022
- Committee draft report: PE698.981
- Committee opinion: PE699.141
- Supplementary non-legislative basic document: 06003/2022
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE704.740
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE729.973
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A9-0105/2022
Votes
Décharge 2020: Fondation européenne pour la formation - Discharge 2020: European Training Foundation - Entlastung 2020: Europäische Stiftung für Berufsbildung - A9-0105/2022 - Tomáš Zdechovský - Proposition de résolution #
2022/05/04 Outcome: +: 550, -: 54, 0: 33
PPE
The Left
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2021/2139(DEC)
2021/12/09
EMPL
9 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Welcomes in particular the Foundation's ongoing initiative ‘Skills for Enterprise Development’ addressing the need for skills adaptation and enhancement, enabling enterprises to respond and manage challenges, including those resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, contribute to greener, inclusive and innovative societies and boost sustainable competitiveness and resilience;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Appreciates the Foundation activities in helping t
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Recognises that the Foundation’s objectives and actions are closely aligned with Union policies and activities in the field of vocational education and training, human development, skills and migration; welcomes the Foundation’s continued cooperation and sharing of resources with other agencies, in particular with CEDEFOP and Eurofound, which enables significant knowledge sharing; stresses the Foundation’s importance, autonomy and added value in its field of expertise;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Recognises that the Foundation’s objectives and actions are closely aligned with Union policies and activities in the field of vocational education and training, human development, skills and migration; welcomes the Foundation’s continued cooperation and sharing of resources with other agencies, in particular with Cedefop and Eurofound, which enables significant knowledge sharing; stresses the Foundation’s importance, autonomy and added value in its field of expertise;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Notes that the Foundation still has to take action to respond to the Court’s observations of 2018 as regards the use of mostly non-competitive price elements in award criteria for a public procurement procedure for a temporary-agency services; stresses that the Foundation should respond to the Court’s observation and use award criteria that focus on competitive price elements;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Underlines the need to avoid digital overloading and emphasizes that staff should only work within working hours; welcomes the Foundation's new tools that were recently uploaded for the delivery of messages within working hours; calls on the other agencies to follow this as a good practice;
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