2021/2140(DEC) 2020 discharge: European Union Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems in the area of freedom, security and justice (eu-LISA)
Next event: Indicative plenary sitting date 2022/05/02
Lead committee dossier:
Next event: Indicative plenary sitting date 2022/05/02
Progress: Awaiting committee decision
Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | CONT | ZDECHOVSKÝ Tomáš ( EPP) | CHINNICI Caterina ( S&D), STRUGARIU Ramona ( Renew), EICKHOUT Bas ( Verts/ALE), KUHS Joachim ( ID), CZARNECKI Ryszard ( ECR), OMARJEE Younous ( GUE/NGL) |
Committee Opinion | LIBE | STRUGARIU Ramona ( Renew) | Malin BJÖRK ( GUE/NGL), Caterina CHINNICI ( S&D), Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ ( PPE), Saskia BRICMONT ( Verts/ALE), Peter KOFOD ( ID), Joachim Stanisław BRUDZIŃSKI ( ECR) |
Lead committee dossier:
Subjects
Events
2022/05/02
Indicative plenary sitting date
2022/01/17
EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2021/10/26
EP - STRUGARIU Ramona (Renew) appointed as rapporteur in LIBE
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
- Committee draft report: PE698.982
- Non-legislative basic document: EUR-Lex
- Non-legislative basic document: COM(2021)0381
- Non-legislative basic document published: EUR-Lex
- Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2021)0381
- Non-legislative basic document: EUR-Lex COM(2021)0381
- Committee draft report: PE698.982
Amendments | Dossier |
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2021/2140(DEC)
2022/01/18
LIBE
21 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the fact that the Court of Auditors (the ‘Court’) has declared the transactions underlying the annual accounts of the European Union Agency for the Operational Management of Large- Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (the ‘Agency’) for the financial year 2020 to be legal and regular in all material respects and that its financial position at 31 December 2020 is fairly presented; highlights that in 2020 the Agency's budget increased from EUR 219 million to EUR 256 million (an increase of 16,9 %) and its staff from 223 to 274 (an increase of 22,9 %);
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Welcomes the fact that the Agency has correctly implemented the Court's recommendation concerning the proper assessment of applications in recruitment procedures;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Welcomes that despite the COVID- 19 pandemic, which influenced the Agency's business continuity, the Agency ensured the uninterrupted availability of the existing large-scale IT systems (SIS, VIS, Eurodac) and made further progress with the implementation of EES, ETIAS and the interoperability package;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Welcomes that the Agency improved its cooperation with other Union agencies, especially with the European Asylum Support Office (now the European Union Agency for Asylum), the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL), the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust) and with the European Border and Coastguard Agency; encourages the Agency to keep exploring possibilities for further cooperation;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Calls on the Agency to take measures to ensure full compliance with Union transparency rules as well as with fundamental rights and data protection standards; considers that the disclosure of meetings and interactions between the Agency and third parties is required to ensure enhanced transparency;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Welcomes the progress made regarding the Court’s observations and Parliament's discharge reports from previous years; recalls that four remaining observations are still ongoing, one of them not being under the control of the Agency;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4 b. Appreciates the Agency's annual assessment of its internal control system which showed that its internal control system is present, functioning and overall effective; calls on the Agency to analyse and to address identified weaknesses in the internal control principles;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4 b. Regrets the lack of gender balance and diversity in the Management board and within the staff of the Agency;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Regrets the fact that the budget implementation was less than planned; calls on the Agency, together with the Commission, to improve alignment of budgetary planning with the timing of the related legal acts; acknowledges that the Agency made steps to improve the situation;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 c (new) 4 c. Notes that the gender balance reported for 2020 in senior management is two men (100%) and no women; notes that the gender balance on the management board is 44 mean (81,5 %) and 10 women (18,5 %); notes that the staff overall is composed of 184 men (69,7 %) and 80 women (30,3 %); reminds the Member States to consider gender balance when nominating members to the management board of the Agency;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 c (new) 4 c. Welcomes the launch of a new approach towards the procurement of engineering services, expected to generate efficiency gains in the years to come;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1 b. Stresses that the Agency offers an important contribution to a safer Union by ensuring the highest levels of information security and data protection for the information entrusted to it, providing high-quality services and helping to align Member States’ technological capabilities with their needs; draws attention to the need to take all the necessary measures to avoid any risk to the information processed; notes that the Agency's capacity to both improve existing and develop new information systems was enhanced by its new mandate which entered into force in December 2018; welcomes the continued efforts made by the Agency to adapt to that new mandate in 2020;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Acknowledges that the Court issued a qualified audit opinion with respect to the legality and regularity of the payments underlying the accounts of the Agency for the 2020; notes the Court’s explanation that the qualified opinion was issued in relation to two payments that were considered not compliant to the provisions of framework contracts, amounting in total to EUR 10 405 074 in 2020, representing 4,1 % of the total payment appropriations
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Acknowledges that the Court issued a qualified audit opinion with respect to the legality and regularity of the payments underlying the accounts of the Agency for the 2020; notes the Court’s explanation that the qualified opinion was issued in relation to two payments that were considered not compliant to the provisions of framework contracts, amounting in total to EUR 10 405 074 in 2020, representing 4,1 % of the total payment appropriations available in 2020 which exceeds the materiality threshold set for the audit; takes note of the Agency’s reply that the largest irregular payment was connected to an administrative omission regarding the acquisition of software different from the software offered by the contractor in the tender for the associated framework contract; notes the Agency’s explanation that the need to change one of the auxiliary software products used in the operation of the shared biometric matching System (sBMS) was of a pure operational nature, with the purpose of reducing the duplication of training and support efforts,
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Acknowledges that the Court issued a qualified audit opinion with respect to the legality and regularity of the payments underlying the accounts of the Agency for the 2020; notes the Court’s explanation that the qualified opinion was issued in relation to two payments that were considered not compliant to the provisions of framework contracts, amounting in total to EUR 10 405 074 in 2020, representing 4,1 % of the total payment appropriations available in 2020; takes note of the Agency’s reply that the largest irregular payment was connected to a
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Regrets that several of the Court's observations previous years are still outstanding; calls on the Agency to step up its efforts to implement corrective measures regarding the Court’s outstanding observations;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Welcomes the significant decrease in carry-overs as compared to the Agency’s very low budget implementation in 2019 (55 % of appropriations in the final adopted budget); regrets that the rate of carry-overs remain substantial compared to the total budget, especially with regards to
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Welcomes the
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