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2022/2090(DEC) 2021 discharge: General budget of the EU - European External Action Service
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Role	Committee	Rapporteur	Shadows
Lead	CONT	PEKSA Mikuláš ( Verts/ALE)	MARINESCU Marian-Jean ( EPP), MANDA Claudiu ( S&D), MITUȚA Alin ( Renew), KUHS Joachim ( ID), CZARNECKI Ryszard ( ECR), FLANAGAN Luke Ming ( GUE/NGL)
Committee Opinion	AFCO
Committee Opinion	AFET	OHLSSON Carina ( S&D)	Angel DZHAMBAZKI ( ECR), Michael GAHLER ( PPE), Ernest URTASUN ( Verts/ALE), Thierry MARIANI ( ID), Katalin CSEH ( RE), Özlem DEMIREL ( GUE/NGL)
Committee Opinion	DEVE

Lead committee dossier:

CONT/9/09826

Subjects

8.70.03.11 2021 discharge

Events

2023/05/08

Indicative plenary sitting date

2023/02/27

Vote scheduled in committee

2022/12/16

EP - Committee draft report

Documents

PE738.392

2022/11/11

CofA - Court of Auditors: opinion, report

Documents

OJ C 429 11.11.2022, p. 0008
N9-0003/2023

2022/10/12

CofA - Court of Auditors: opinion, report

Documents

OJ C 391 12.10.2022, p. 0006
N9-0066/2022

2022/09/13

EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament

2022/09/08

EP - OHLSSON Carina (S&D) appointed as rapporteur in AFET

2022/07/14

EP - PEKSA Mikuláš (Verts/ALE) appointed as rapporteur in CONT

2022/06/23

EC - Non-legislative basic document

Documents

COM(2022)0323
EUR-Lex

2022/06/23

EC - Non-legislative basic document published

Documents

COM(2022)0323
EUR-Lex

Documents

Committee draft report: PE738.392
Court of Auditors: opinion, report: OJ C 429 11.11.2022, p. 0008
Court of Auditors: opinion, report: N9-0003/2023
Court of Auditors: opinion, report: OJ C 391 12.10.2022, p. 0006
Court of Auditors: opinion, report: N9-0066/2022
Non-legislative basic document: COM(2022)0323
Non-legislative basic document: EUR-Lex
Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2022)0323
Non-legislative basic document published: EUR-Lex
Non-legislative basic document: COM(2022)0323 EUR-Lex
Court of Auditors: opinion, report: OJ C 391 12.10.2022, p. 0006 N9-0066/2022
Court of Auditors: opinion, report: OJ C 429 11.11.2022, p. 0008 N9-0003/2023
Committee draft report: PE738.392

Amendments	Dossier
25	2022/2090(DEC) 2022/12/08 AFET 25 amendments... Amendment 1 # Jean-Lin LACAPELLE Draft opinion Paragraph -1 (new) -1 Points out that the fact the EEAS exists is helping to develop the EU’s own unwarranted powers in the field of diplomacy and foreign policy; considers that the existence of this service constitutes in itself an unjustified increase in expenditure for the EU budget; Amendment 10 # Charlie WEIMERS Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. ~~Deplo~~Regrets the ~~remaining lack~~focus ofn diversity, gender and geographical imbalances ~~within the EEAS staff~~; reiterates the importance of ensuring an intersectional distribution, greater diversity, and gender equality, as well as promoting a balance of staff in terms of gender and geographical origin within different categories and grades, particularly at senior management levels; calls on the EEAS to significantly improve the representation of women and marginalised groups across all levels and calls on all Member States to nominate more women and candidates from marginalised groups to seconded positions in the EEAS; draws attention to the remaining overrepresentation of some Member States’ diplomats among the Heads of Delegation and calls for further efforts to address those imbalancemerit based recruitment; calls for further efforts to address the lacking focus on merits; encourages the EEAS to create and share guidelines on best practices on the conducting of recruitment procedures in order to ensure ~~div~~a mersityocratic approach, openness, fairness and transparency; Amendment 11 # Jean-Lin LACAPELLE Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. ~~Deplor~~Notes the remaining lack of diversity, gender and geographical imbalances within the EEAS staff; ~~reiterates the importance of ensuring an intersectional distribution, greater diversity, and gender equality, as well as promot~~understands recruitment within the institutions as being a balance of staff in terms of gender and geographical origin within different categories and grades, particularly at senior management levels; calls on the EEAS to significantly improve the representation of women and marginalised groups across all levels and calls on all Member States to nominate more women and candidates from marginalised groups to seconded positions in the EEAS; draws attention to the remaining overrepresentation of some Member States’ diplomats among the Heads of Delegation and calls for further efforts to address those imbalancessed on merit and qualifications rather than on gender and race alone, especially at senior management level; encourages the EEAS to create and share guidelines on ~~best~~good practices onfor the conduct~~ing~~ of recruitment procedures in order to ensure ~~diversity,~~ openness, fairness and transparency; Amendment 12 # Ernest URTASUN Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Deplores the remaining lack of diversity, gender and geographical imbalances within the EEAS staff; reiterates the importance of ensuring an intersectional distribution, greater diversity, and gender equality, as well as promoting a balance of staff in terms of gender and geographical origin within different categories and grades, particularly at senior management levels; calls on the EEAS to lead by example, as set out in the Gender Action Plan III, and to significantly improve the representation of women and marginalised groups across all levels ~~and~~with the goal to establish gender parity in leadership and management positions, gender-responsive leadership and gender-sensitive recruitment processes as soon as possible; calls on the EEAS to ensure the adequate implementation of UNSCR 1325 and related resolutions; calls on all Member States to nominate more women and candidates from marginalised groups to seconded positions in the EEAS; draws attention to the remaining overrepresentation of some Member States’ diplomats among the Heads of Delegation and calls for further efforts to address those imbalances; encourages the EEAS to create and share guidelines on best practices on the conducting of recruitment procedures in order to ensure diversity, openness, fairness and transparency; Amendment 13 # Katalin CSEH, Nathalie LOISEAU, Klemen GROŠELJ Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Deplores the remaining lack of diversity, gender and geographical imbalances within the EEAS staff and the slow improvement in those matters; reiterates the importance of ensuring an intersectional distribution, greater diversity, and gender equality, as well as promoting a balance of staff in terms of gender and geographical origin within different categories and grades, particularly at senior management levels; calls on the EEAS to significantly improve the representation of women and marginalised groups across all levels and calls on all Member States to nominate more women and candidates from marginalised groups to seconded positions in the EEAS; draws attention to the remaining overrepresentation of some Member States’ diplomats among the Heads of Delegation and calls for further efforts to address those imbalances; encourages the EEAS to create and share guidelines on best practices on the conducting of recruitment procedures in order to ensure diversity, openness, fairness and transparency; Amendment 14 # David LEGA 4. Deplores the remaining lack of diversity, gender and geographical imbalances within the EEAS staff; reiterates the importance of ~~ensuring an intersectional distribution,~~providing opportunities for greater diversity, and gender equality, as well as promoting a balance of staff in terms of gender and geographical origin within different categories and grades, particularly at senior management levels; calls on the EEAS to significantly improve the representation of women and marginalised groups across all levels and calls on all Member States to consider nominateing more women and candidates from marginalised groups to seconded positions in the EEAS; draws attention to the remaining overrepresentation of some Member States’ diplomats among the Heads of Delegation and calls for further efforts to address those imbalances; encourages the EEAS to create and share guidelines on best practices on the conducting of recruitment procedures in order to ensure diversity, openness, fairness and transparency; Amendment 15 # Dacian CIOLOŞ Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Encourages the continuation of efforts to rejuvenate the core EEAS staff and grow a permanent, specialised European Diplomatic Corps through regular specialised open competitions, aimed at recruiting individuals with a diversity of talent, skills and potential; Amendment 16 # Bernhard ZIMNIOK Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. ~~Encourages~~ As the EEAS/EU delegations ~~to engage with local actors, civil society organisations and social partners in third countries to stimulate social dialogue.~~duplicate the work of Member States embassies world-wide, the EEAS/EU delegations shall close and cease to operate as quasi-embassies; Amendment 17 # Jean-Lin LACAPELLE Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. ~~Encourages EU delegations to engage with local actors, civil society organisations and social partners in third countries~~Points out that the EU delegations replicate and tend to replace Member States’ diplomacy and are therefore detrimental to the sovereignty of the Member States; points out that the role of diplomacy is not to stimulate social dialogue. in third countries; Amendment 18 # Ernest URTASUN Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Encourages EU delegations to promote and engage with local actors, civil society organisations and social partners in third countries to stimulate social dialogue; asks the EU delegations to closely monitor the state of democracy in the different countries and to provide logistical and technological support to human rights and indigenous peoples defenders, in particular women. Amendment 19 # Michael GAHLER Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Encourages EU delegations to engage with local actors, civil society organisations and social partners in third countries to stimulate social dialogue and calls on EU delegations to continue their coordinated efforts to increase the visibility of Union-funded projects, especially in candidate countries. Amendment 2 # Bernhard ZIMNIOK, Jean-Lin LACAPELLE Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Highlights that, in the opinion of the Court of Auditors (‘the Court’), the EEAS’s level of error in spending was not material and that the Court has not found any significant issues with its supervisory and control systems; points out, however, that the EEAS needs to provide a higher degree of transparency, especially in regard to accurately disclose the EU missions and their individual spending as well as their failure/success in fulfilling mission mandates; Amendment 20 # Katalin CSEH, Nathalie LOISEAU, Klemen GROŠELJ, Petras AUŠTREVIČIUS Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Encourages EU delegations to engage with local actors, civil society organisations and social partners in third countries to stimulate social dialogue. and dialogue about rule of law, fundamental rights and fight against corruption; Amendment 21 # Michael GAHLER Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Calls for the Union to develop its toolbox for countering foreign interference, propaganda and influence operations, including developing new instruments that allow costs to be imposed on perpetrators and strengthening relevant structures, specifically the EEAS strategic communication task forces; calls the EEAS to ensure adequate levels of cybersecurity for its assets, premises and activities, including its headquarters and the EU delegations. Amendment 22 # Katalin CSEH, Nathalie LOISEAU, Klemen GROŠELJ, Petras AUŠTREVIČIUS Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Acknowledges the EEAS’s efforts on fight against disinformation and foreign interference, welcomes that EEAS strengthened its international cooperation with Member States, Union institutions and the NATO in this regard; is strongly of the opinion that EEAS should not only highlight the disinformation coming from third countries but also reveal sources which are distributing the same or similar style disinformation within the Union as well. Amendment 23 # Charlie WEIMERS Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Urges the EEAS to, without delay, launch effective and wide-reaching communication campaigns targeting diaspora communities in the Union representing the highest proportions of illegal arrivals and strategic communication campaigns targeting potential illegal migrants in source and transit countries with messages deterring potential migrants from considering illegal means of arrival to the Member States. Amendment 24 # David LEGA Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Commends the EEAS for rapid responses on global events; Amendment 25 # David LEGA Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. Reiterates the need to tackle disinformation and combat malicious foreign influence; underlines the importance of the EEAS Strategic Taskforce 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 3 # Dacian CIOLOŞ 1 a. Notes the geopolitical impact of Russian aggression against Ukraine and the resulting increasing need for the Union to mobilise partner countries around the world and build global alliances around Union priorities; highlights the importance of constantly investing in strong political engagement and leverage at bilateral level, as well as in public and cultural diplomacy to promote Union's values, principles and interests, and in strategic communications to combat disinformation; calls for the strengthening of the Political, Press and Information sections in EU Delegations, ensuring they have sufficient and adequate level of staff, expertise and financial resources to help deliver on the Union political priorities; Amendment 4 # Ernest URTASUN Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Urges the EEAS to follow-up without further delay on their announcement to adopt and implement its self-standing implementation provisions on outside activities and assignments, which create a sui generis legal basis for Heads of Delegations to better protect the image and reputation of the Union as a whole; Amendment 5 # Bernhard ZIMNIOK, Jean-Lin LACAPELLE Draft opinion Paragraph 3 ~~3. Welcomes the EEAS’s efforts to ensure gender balance also in higher grades in Headquarters and EU delegations;~~deleted Amendment 6 # Charlie WEIMERS Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Welcomes ~~the EEAS’s efforts to ensure gender balance also in higher grades~~merit-based recruitment in Headquarters and EU delegations; Amendment 7 # Ernest URTASUN Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Welcomes the EEAS’s efforts to ensure gender balance also in higher grades in Headquarters and EU delegations; however, calls for effective gender training strategies in the EEAS; highlights the importance of investing in resources and expertise towards developing training and education strategies focused on applying a gender equality approach to international policies and programs to achieve genuine change of culture within the EEAS; specifies that special attention should be devoted to integrating gender mainstreaming mechanisms, addressing gender budgeting, gender impact assessments and tackling gender-based violence; suggests that a comprehensive training program is adopted for the adequate implementation of GAP III in all levels of the EEAS; Amendment 8 # Katalin CSEH, Nathalie LOISEAU, Klemen GROŠELJ, Petras AUŠTREVIČIUS Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Welcomes the EEAS’s efforts to ensure gender balance also in higher grades in Headquarters and EU delegations, particularly the appointment of the EEAS Ambassador for Gender and Diversity and the #NoWomenNoEUDiplomacy initiative; Amendment 9 # Bernhard ZIMNIOK Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Deplores the remaining lack of diversity, gender and geographical imbalances within the EEAS staff; reiterates the importance of ensuring an intersectional distribution, greater diversity, and gender equality, as well as promoting a balance of staff in terms of gender and geographical origin within different categories and grades, particularly at senior management levels; calls on the EEAS to significantly improve the representation of women and marginalised groups across all levels and calls on all Member States to nominate more women and candidates from marginalised groups to seconded positions in the EEAS; draws attention to the remaining overrepresentation of some Member States’ diplomats among the Heads of Delegation and calls for further efforts to address those imbalances; encourages the EEAS to create and share guidelines on best practices on the conducting of recruitment procedures in order to ensure diversity, openness, fairness and transparency;deleted source: 739.721

Amendments

Dossier

2022/2090(DEC)

2022/12/08 AFET 25 amendments...

Amendment 1 #

Jean-Lin LACAPELLE

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)

-1 Points out that the fact the EEAS exists is helping to develop the EU’s own unwarranted powers in the field of diplomacy and foreign policy; considers that the existence of this service constitutes in itself an unjustified increase in expenditure for the EU budget;

Amendment 10 #

Charlie WEIMERS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. ~~Deplo~~Regrets the ~~remaining lack~~focus ofn diversity, gender and geographical imbalances ~~within the EEAS staff~~; reiterates the importance of ensuring an intersectional distribution, greater diversity, and gender equality, as well as promoting a balance of staff in terms of gender and geographical origin within different categories and grades, particularly at senior management levels; calls on the EEAS to significantly improve the representation of women and marginalised groups across all levels and calls on all Member States to nominate more women and candidates from marginalised groups to seconded positions in the EEAS; draws attention to the remaining overrepresentation of some Member States’ diplomats among the Heads of Delegation and calls for further efforts to address those imbalancemerit based recruitment; calls for further efforts to address the lacking focus on merits; encourages the EEAS to create and share guidelines on best practices on the conducting of recruitment procedures in order to ensure ~~div~~a mersityocratic approach, openness, fairness and transparency;

Amendment 11 #

Jean-Lin LACAPELLE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. ~~Deplor~~Notes the remaining lack of diversity, gender and geographical imbalances within the EEAS staff; ~~reiterates the importance of ensuring an intersectional distribution, greater diversity, and gender equality, as well as promot~~understands recruitment within the institutions as being a balance of staff in terms of gender and geographical origin within different categories and grades, particularly at senior management levels; calls on the EEAS to significantly improve the representation of women and marginalised groups across all levels and calls on all Member States to nominate more women and candidates from marginalised groups to seconded positions in the EEAS; draws attention to the remaining overrepresentation of some Member States’ diplomats among the Heads of Delegation and calls for further efforts to address those imbalancessed on merit and qualifications rather than on gender and race alone, especially at senior management level; encourages the EEAS to create and share guidelines on ~~best~~good practices onfor the conduct~~ing~~ of recruitment procedures in order to ensure ~~diversity,~~ openness, fairness and transparency;

Amendment 12 #

Ernest URTASUN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Deplores the remaining lack of diversity, gender and geographical imbalances within the EEAS staff; reiterates the importance of ensuring an intersectional distribution, greater diversity, and gender equality, as well as promoting a balance of staff in terms of gender and geographical origin within different categories and grades, particularly at senior management levels; calls on the EEAS to lead by example, as set out in the Gender Action Plan III, and to significantly improve the representation of women and marginalised groups across all levels ~~and~~with the goal to establish gender parity in leadership and management positions, gender-responsive leadership and gender-sensitive recruitment processes as soon as possible; calls on the EEAS to ensure the adequate implementation of UNSCR 1325 and related resolutions; calls on all Member States to nominate more women and candidates from marginalised groups to seconded positions in the EEAS; draws attention to the remaining overrepresentation of some Member States’ diplomats among the Heads of Delegation and calls for further efforts to address those imbalances; encourages the EEAS to create and share guidelines on best practices on the conducting of recruitment procedures in order to ensure diversity, openness, fairness and transparency;

Amendment 13 #

Katalin CSEH, Nathalie LOISEAU, Klemen GROŠELJ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Deplores the remaining lack of diversity, gender and geographical imbalances within the EEAS staff and the slow improvement in those matters; reiterates the importance of ensuring an intersectional distribution, greater diversity, and gender equality, as well as promoting a balance of staff in terms of gender and geographical origin within different categories and grades, particularly at senior management levels; calls on the EEAS to significantly improve the representation of women and marginalised groups across all levels and calls on all Member States to nominate more women and candidates from marginalised groups to seconded positions in the EEAS; draws attention to the remaining overrepresentation of some Member States’ diplomats among the Heads of Delegation and calls for further efforts to address those imbalances; encourages the EEAS to create and share guidelines on best practices on the conducting of recruitment procedures in order to ensure diversity, openness, fairness and transparency;

Amendment 14 #

David LEGA

4. Deplores the remaining lack of diversity, gender and geographical imbalances within the EEAS staff; reiterates the importance of ~~ensuring an intersectional distribution,~~providing opportunities for greater diversity, and gender equality, as well as promoting a balance of staff in terms of gender and geographical origin within different categories and grades, particularly at senior management levels; calls on the EEAS to significantly improve the representation of women and marginalised groups across all levels and calls on all Member States to consider nominateing more women and candidates from marginalised groups to seconded positions in the EEAS; draws attention to the remaining overrepresentation of some Member States’ diplomats among the Heads of Delegation and calls for further efforts to address those imbalances; encourages the EEAS to create and share guidelines on best practices on the conducting of recruitment procedures in order to ensure diversity, openness, fairness and transparency;

Amendment 15 #

Dacian CIOLOŞ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Encourages the continuation of efforts to rejuvenate the core EEAS staff and grow a permanent, specialised European Diplomatic Corps through regular specialised open competitions, aimed at recruiting individuals with a diversity of talent, skills and potential;

Amendment 16 #

Bernhard ZIMNIOK

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Encourages~~ As the EEAS/EU delegations ~~to engage with local actors, civil society organisations and social partners in third countries to stimulate social dialogue.~~duplicate the work of Member States embassies world-wide, the EEAS/EU delegations shall close and cease to operate as quasi-embassies;

Amendment 17 #

Jean-Lin LACAPELLE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Encourages EU delegations to engage with local actors, civil society organisations and social partners in third countries~~Points out that the EU delegations replicate and tend to replace Member States’ diplomacy and are therefore detrimental to the sovereignty of the Member States; points out that the role of diplomacy is not to stimulate social dialogue. in third countries;

Amendment 18 #

Ernest URTASUN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Encourages EU delegations to promote and engage with local actors, civil society organisations and social partners in third countries to stimulate social dialogue; asks the EU delegations to closely monitor the state of democracy in the different countries and to provide logistical and technological support to human rights and indigenous peoples defenders, in particular women.

Amendment 19 #

Michael GAHLER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Encourages EU delegations to engage with local actors, civil society organisations and social partners in third countries to stimulate social dialogue and calls on EU delegations to continue their coordinated efforts to increase the visibility of Union-funded projects, especially in candidate countries.

Amendment 2 #

Bernhard ZIMNIOK, Jean-Lin LACAPELLE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Highlights that, in the opinion of the Court of Auditors (‘the Court’), the EEAS’s level of error in spending was not material and that the Court has not found any significant issues with its supervisory and control systems; points out, however, that the EEAS needs to provide a higher degree of transparency, especially in regard to accurately disclose the EU missions and their individual spending as well as their failure/success in fulfilling mission mandates;

Amendment 20 #

Katalin CSEH, Nathalie LOISEAU, Klemen GROŠELJ, Petras AUŠTREVIČIUS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Encourages EU delegations to engage with local actors, civil society organisations and social partners in third countries to stimulate social dialogue. and dialogue about rule of law, fundamental rights and fight against corruption;

Amendment 21 #

Michael GAHLER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Calls for the Union to develop its toolbox for countering foreign interference, propaganda and influence operations, including developing new instruments that allow costs to be imposed on perpetrators and strengthening relevant structures, specifically the EEAS strategic communication task forces; calls the EEAS to ensure adequate levels of cybersecurity for its assets, premises and activities, including its headquarters and the EU delegations.

Amendment 22 #

Katalin CSEH, Nathalie LOISEAU, Klemen GROŠELJ, Petras AUŠTREVIČIUS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Acknowledges the EEAS’s efforts on fight against disinformation and foreign interference, welcomes that EEAS strengthened its international cooperation with Member States, Union institutions and the NATO in this regard; is strongly of the opinion that EEAS should not only highlight the disinformation coming from third countries but also reveal sources which are distributing the same or similar style disinformation within the Union as well.

Amendment 23 #

Charlie WEIMERS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Urges the EEAS to, without delay, launch effective and wide-reaching communication campaigns targeting diaspora communities in the Union representing the highest proportions of illegal arrivals and strategic communication campaigns targeting potential illegal migrants in source and transit countries with messages deterring potential migrants from considering illegal means of arrival to the Member States.

Amendment 24 #

David LEGA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Commends the EEAS for rapid responses on global events;

Amendment 25 #

David LEGA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5 b. Reiterates the need to tackle disinformation and combat malicious foreign influence; underlines the importance of the EEAS Strategic Taskforce 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 3 #

Dacian CIOLOŞ

1 a. Notes the geopolitical impact of Russian aggression against Ukraine and the resulting increasing need for the Union to mobilise partner countries around the world and build global alliances around Union priorities; highlights the importance of constantly investing in strong political engagement and leverage at bilateral level, as well as in public and cultural diplomacy to promote Union's values, principles and interests, and in strategic communications to combat disinformation; calls for the strengthening of the Political, Press and Information sections in EU Delegations, ensuring they have sufficient and adequate level of staff, expertise and financial resources to help deliver on the Union political priorities;

Amendment 4 #

Ernest URTASUN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Urges the EEAS to follow-up without further delay on their announcement to adopt and implement its self-standing implementation provisions on outside activities and assignments, which create a sui generis legal basis for Heads of Delegations to better protect the image and reputation of the Union as a whole;

Amendment 5 #

Bernhard ZIMNIOK, Jean-Lin LACAPELLE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

~~3. Welcomes the EEAS’s efforts to ensure gender balance also in higher grades in Headquarters and EU delegations;~~deleted

Amendment 6 #

Charlie WEIMERS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Welcomes ~~the EEAS’s efforts to ensure gender balance also in higher grades~~merit-based recruitment in Headquarters and EU delegations;

Amendment 7 #

Ernest URTASUN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Welcomes the EEAS’s efforts to ensure gender balance also in higher grades in Headquarters and EU delegations; however, calls for effective gender training strategies in the EEAS; highlights the importance of investing in resources and expertise towards developing training and education strategies focused on applying a gender equality approach to international policies and programs to achieve genuine change of culture within the EEAS; specifies that special attention should be devoted to integrating gender mainstreaming mechanisms, addressing gender budgeting, gender impact assessments and tackling gender-based violence; suggests that a comprehensive training program is adopted for the adequate implementation of GAP III in all levels of the EEAS;

Amendment 8 #

Katalin CSEH, Nathalie LOISEAU, Klemen GROŠELJ, Petras AUŠTREVIČIUS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Welcomes the EEAS’s efforts to ensure gender balance also in higher grades in Headquarters and EU delegations, particularly the appointment of the EEAS Ambassador for Gender and Diversity and the #NoWomenNoEUDiplomacy initiative;

Amendment 9 #

Bernhard ZIMNIOK

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Deplores the remaining lack of diversity, gender and geographical imbalances within the EEAS staff; reiterates the importance of ensuring an intersectional distribution, greater diversity, and gender equality, as well as promoting a balance of staff in terms of gender and geographical origin within different categories and grades, particularly at senior management levels; calls on the EEAS to significantly improve the representation of women and marginalised groups across all levels and calls on all Member States to nominate more women and candidates from marginalised groups to seconded positions in the EEAS; draws attention to the remaining overrepresentation of some Member States’ diplomats among the Heads of Delegation and calls for further efforts to address those imbalances; encourages the EEAS to create and share guidelines on best practices on the conducting of recruitment procedures in order to ensure diversity, openness, fairness and transparency;deleted

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committees/2/rapporteur

name: ANDROULAKIS Nikos date: 2022-09-08T00:00:00 group: Group of Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats abbr: S&D

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forecasts

date: 2023-02-28T00:00:00 title: Vote scheduled in committee

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associated: False

rapporteur: name: PEKSA Mikuláš date: 2022-07-14T00:00:00 group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance abbr: Verts/ALE

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committees/0

type: Responsible Committee

body: EP

committee_full: Budgetary Control

committee: CONT

associated: False

Progress: Awaiting committee decision

Lead committee dossier:

CONT/9/09826

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