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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

2023/05/10

Vote in plenary scheduled

2023/05/09

Debate in plenary scheduled

2023/03/31

EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading

Documents

A9-0088/2023

2023/03/31

EP - Committee report tabled for plenary

Documents

A9-0088/2023

2023/02/28

EP - Vote in committee

2023/02/16

CSL - Supplementary non-legislative basic document

Documents

06247/2023

2023/02/02

EP - Amendments tabled in committee

Documents

PE742.346

2023/01/24

EP - Committee opinion

Documents

PE737.446

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 report tabled for plenary, single reading: A9-0088/2023
Committee report tabled for plenary: A9-0088/2023
Supplementary non-legislative basic document: 06247/2023
Amendments tabled in committee: PE742.346
Committee opinion: PE737.446
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
Committee opinion: PE737.446
Amendments tabled in committee: PE742.346
Supplementary non-legislative basic document: 06247/2023
Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A9-0088/2023

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

source: 739.721

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The Committee on Budgetary Control adopted the report by Mikuláš PEKSA (Greens/EFA, CZ) on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2021, section X - European External Action Service.
The committee responsible recommended that Parliament give discharge to the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European External Action Service for the financial year 2021.
Budgetary and financial management
The report notes that, in 2021, the budget for the EEAS was EUR 767 626 000 , representing an increase of 5.0% compared to 2020. The EEAS also disposed of an amount of EUR 211 200 000 from the Commission to cover the administrative costs of Commission staff working in Union delegations. The EEAS also received contributions to cover common costs of European Development Fund staff in Delegations, which brought the total budgetary amounts (commitment appropriations) managed by the EEAS to EUR 1 091.1 million .
In 2021, 99.4% of the final EEAS budget in commitments was executed, which is higher than in 2020 where 95.0% was executed. For payments 84.5% of the budget for 2021 was executed, slightly higher than 2020, where 82.3% was executed.
The final budget for the EEAS HQ, after transfers, amounted to EUR 295 million, while the final budget for EEAS delegations, after transfers, amounted to EUR 472.6 million.
Internal management, performance and control
Members note that in 2021, the EEAS carried out the largest reorganisation of its service since its creation in 2011, establishing six large geographical departments and an Office of the Secretary-General in order to better reflect the current geopolitical situation.
The COVID-19 pandemic continued to have a significant impact on the working conditions of the EEAS in 2021. It created opportunities for the spread of disinformation and foreign manipulation and interference. In addition, the EEAS has been confronted with several security crises in Afghanistan, the Sahel and Ethiopia, in which it was rather late to inform and react to the changes on the ground, leading to speedy evacuations of Union personnel.
The report is pleased to note that all financial transactions in the EEAS budget recorded in the 2021 financial year are audited by means of random stratified samples based on a methodology similar to that used by the Court.
Human resources, equality and staff well-being
At the end of 2021, the EEAS employed 5 072 staff members, of whom 2 303 (45.4%) worked at EEAS headquarters and 2 769 (54.6%) in the Union's delegations and offices worldwide. Women represented 46.7% of EEAS staff, down slightly from 48.7% at the end of 2020. However, there has been a relative increase in the number of women in all management positions.
Members welcome the appointment of an EEAS Ambassador for Gender and Diversity to raise awareness and consideration in diplomacy, political dialogue and policy-making. They call for effective gender training strategies within the EEAS.
The report notes with satisfaction that all Member States are represented among the staff and that, in particular, the relative number of staff from the Member States that joined in 2004 or later (EU-13) has increased. However, it points out that significant disparities remain in management positions.
Members notes that, in 2021, the number of persons who were absent due to illness increased by 9.3%, while the number of days of absence due to illnesses increased by 36%. They consider that this is a relatively large increase and calls on the EEAS to investigate further if there is anything that can be done in terms of improving physical and mental work conditions to ensure that the situation improves in the coming years.
Ethical framework and transparency
Members welcome the recent adoption by the EEAS of the ‘Principles of Professional Behaviour’. They note that the EEAS offers training in ethics in the framework of Newcomers Welcome Sessions and as part of pre-posting seminars for Union Ambassadors.
The report calls on the EEAS to monitor the positions of former senior staff and heads of delegations , given their sensitive political role. It invites the EEAS to systematically review potentially problematic transitions to the private sector or to third country organisations and to continue monitoring the occupation of former senior officials until the end of the mandatory cooling-off period.
The EEAS should ban all officials who have left the service from lobbying or advocacy.
In the interests of transparency, the EEAS is invited to publish all meetings held with interest groups of any kind, including those involving heads of EU delegations.
The report makes the following observations, inter alia :
- the EEAS should take action to remedy the problems that led to the errors in procurement and to avoid future breaches of procurement rules. The EEAS is encouraged to put in place appropriate measures, such as better training or clarification of guidelines and templates for procurement documentation, to reduce the number of errors in procurement and recruitment procedures organised by EU Delegations and to inform the discharge authorities of the measures taken;
- the EEAS Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution generated more than 16 000 cyber alerts, resulting in the identification of 236 cyber-attacks: the EEAS should continue to focus strongly on cyber security and hybrid threats , in particular those supported by foreign states, and to work with other EU institutions and Member States to identify such threats;
- given the size and complexity of the EEAS building stock , it agrees that in Brussels and in most countries around the world where the Union can foresee to maintain a representation, it is likely that in the long-term savings can be made by owning rather than renting the buildings;
- the EEAS budget for strategic communication and public diplomacy activities in 2021 amounted to over EUR 26.17 million to support communication activities at headquarters and in all EU delegations. Members welcome the fact that communication priorities include areas such as the Union's values and interests, response to international health crises and climate action.

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