2022/2098(DEC) 2021 discharge: European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA)
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Lead committee dossier:
Next event: Indicative plenary sitting date 2023/05/08 more...
- Vote scheduled in committee 2023/03/22
Progress: Awaiting committee decision
Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | CONT | STRUGARIU Ramona ( Renew) | SARVAMAA Petri ( EPP), MANDA Claudiu ( S&D), EICKHOUT Bas ( Verts/ALE), KUHS Joachim ( ID), CZARNECKI Ryszard ( ECR), OMARJEE Younous ( GUE/NGL) |
Committee Opinion | LIBE | BRICMONT Saskia ( Verts/ALE) | Caterina CHINNICI ( S&D), Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ ( PPE), José GUSMÃO ( GUE/NGL) |
Lead committee dossier:
Subjects
Events
2023/05/08
Indicative plenary sitting date
2023/03/22
Vote scheduled in committee
2023/01/20
EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2022/10/27
CofA - Court of Auditors: opinion, report
Documents
2022/10/10
EP - BRICMONT Saskia (Verts/ALE) appointed as rapporteur in LIBE
2022/09/13
EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2022/07/14
EP - STRUGARIU Ramona (Renew) appointed as rapporteur in CONT
2022/06/23
EC - Non-legislative basic document
Documents
2022/06/23
EC - Non-legislative basic document published
Documents
Documents
- Committee draft report: PE737.487
- Court of Auditors: opinion, report: OJ C 412 27.10.2022, p. 0012
- Court of Auditors: opinion, report: N9-0002/2023
- 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 412 27.10.2022, p. 0012 N9-0002/2023
- Committee draft report: PE737.487
Amendments | Dossier |
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2022/2098(DEC)
2023/01/19
LIBE
20 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 Asylum Support Office (the 'Office') for the financial year 2021 to be legal and regular in all material aspects; notes that, according to its statement of revenue and expenditure the Office's budget increased
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Is concerned about the accusations of misconduct that have been brought to the attention to OLAF and the EU institutions; requests that allegations of misconduct are thoroughly checked and investigated; underlines that that two recommendations from the Internal Audit Service audit on HR management and ethics, rated ‘important’ and referring to the recruitment process and anti- harassment policy, were implemented after the release of the ‘whistleblower’ note; welcomes the IAS conclusion of 15 November that those recommendations had been adequately and effectively implemented;5a _________________ 5a EUAA - Factual clarification regarding the IAS work. Doriane Givord-Strassel, Director, Internal Audit Service Directorate A, European Commission, 22/11/2022
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Is concerned about the accusations of misconduct that have been brought to the attention to OLAF and the EU institutions; is further concerned about the opening of an investigation by OLAF; requests that allegations of misconduct are thoroughly checked and investigated;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Notes that staff of the European Asylum Support Office sent a complaint to OLAF and the Commission, calling for a probe into its head, whom they accuse of nepotism, misleading reports and mishandling harassment claims; points out that undue salaries have been paid out and that the European Asylum Support Office has hired people linked to corruption cases as well as relatives of some of the Agency’s directors, who got to skip the queue to land jobs;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Regrets that the Office has not updated its policy for the management and prevention of conflict of interest as was recommended by the Court in 2020;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the impact of the Russian war against Ukraine on the activities of EASO and the fact that EASO had to request additional human and financial resources to face the increased demand for assistance from Member States; commends in this regard the prompt actions taken by the Office to support Member States in the implementation of the Temporary Protection Directive, as well as the deployment of a number of staff in the Republic of Moldova, assisting voluntary transfers to Member States and providing useful relevant information to asylum seekers arriving from Ukraine; calls on the Commission to improve its reaction capacity to such situations and allocate in time the necessary resources to respond to such events;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the impact of the Russian war against Ukraine on the activities of EASO and the fact that EASO had to request additional human and financial resources to face the increased demand for assistance from Member States; underlines the fact that the lack of human resources in 2022 limited the ability to perform some of the tasks of the new mandate of the Office, and that the financial effects of the Russian war against Ukraine cannot be reliably estimated;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Welcomes the new updated COI Research Guide on the situation of LGBTIQ persons published in November 2021, which may assist lawyers, legal aid providers and judges working in the asylum procedure;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7.
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Regrets that the Agency has not yet remedied the ECA's observations from its audit reports for the 2017 financial year, where the Court concluded that the procurement procedures for EASO’s rented premises in Lesbos were irregular, and as a result, all subsequent payments on these contracts are irregular; also, the procurement procedure used for the rented premises in Rome was irregular, as a result, all subsequent payments on these contracts are irregular; notes that the Office has failed to remedy this situation;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Recommends that the Committee on Budgetary Control postpone granting the discharge in respect of the implementation of the European Asylum Support Office’s budget for the financial year 2021 until the accusations against it have been resolved;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Welcomes the fact that several issues identified in previous years Court’s observations have been addressed; encourages the Office to fully address the ongoing observations;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Stresses that financial regulation and high management standards has to be respected by all the EU’s institutions;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Is concerned that the Court reported contracts affected by various sorts of public procurement shortcomings, including payments made in the 2021 financial year, stemming from irregular procurement procedures reported in previous years;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Notes however that a high number of management posts are vacant and that many had been occupied by interim staff for more than one year, which is the maximum period allowed by the Union's Staff Regulations; takes note that by November 2022, 3 senior management members were still on interim positions, while 2 had occupied their posts for more than legally permitted; notes from the Office's replies that two senior management positions were under recruitment by the end of 2022; calls on the Office to fully comply with Union Law provisions and refrain from prolonging ad-interim contracts for more than the maximum duration stipulated by the relevant legal provisions; recalls that one of the reasons underlying the dependency on interim staff was the delay of the adoption and entry into force of the Regulation establishing a European Union Agency for Asylum; notes with regret serious lack of foresight of the Commission when designing and allocating these posts to the Office;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Notes however that a high number of management posts are vacant and that many had been occupied by interim staff; recalls that one of the reasons underlying the dependency on interim staff was the delay of the adoption and entry into force of the Regulation establishing a European Union Agency for Asylum , as the agreement did not allow it to extend these contracts until the entry into force of the new legal framework; notes with regret serious lack of foresight of the Commission when designing and allocating these posts to the Office; underlines that the situation created had a negative impact on the recruitment capabilities and the ability of the Office to adequately support Member States, ultimately to the detriment of asylum- seekers and refugees who faced prolonged procedures and inadequate reception conditions; highlights also that these posts had been occupied on an acting basis for more than one year, at odds with the Staff Regulations and also puts strategic continuity of the Office at risk;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Recalls the important role that the Office fulfils in the Common European Asylum System (CEAS), assisting requesting Member States in improving the efficiency and quality of their asylum systems; further recalls that in carrying out its operations, the Office is relatively dependent on Member States’ cooperation, calls on Member States to comply with their obligations as regards national experts in order to avoid the need for the Office to rely on external contractors;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Recalls the important role that the Office fulfils in the Common European Asylum System (CEAS), assisting requesting Member States in improving the efficiency and quality of their asylum systems; notes with satisfaction that in 2021, new operational plans were signed by the Office with Latvia, Lithuania and Belgium;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Welcomes the signature of two operational support plans with Lithuania and Latvia in the third quarter of 2021, in response to the sharp increase of irregular migration flows from Belarus and the ensuing escalation in the number of asylum applications, bringing the total number of countries assisted by the Office to 8 in 2021 (Belgium, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Spain);
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5.
source: 740.772
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