2022/2113(DEC) 2021 discharge: European Union Agency for Railways (ERA)
Lead committee dossier:
Progress: Awaiting Parliament's vote
Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | CONT | CHASTEL Olivier ( Renew) | SARVAMAA Petri ( EPP), MANDA Claudiu ( S&D), EICKHOUT Bas ( Verts/ALE), KUHS Joachim ( ID), CZARNECKI Ryszard ( ECR), OMARJEE Younous ( GUE/NGL) |
Committee Opinion | TRAN | FALCĂ Gheorghe ( EPP) | Maria GRAPINI ( S&D), Kateřina KONEČNÁ ( GUE/NGL), Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA ( ECR), Dominique RIQUET ( RE), Alviina ALAMETSÄ ( Verts/ALE) |
Lead committee dossier:
Subjects
Events
2023/05/09
EP - Debate in Parliament
Documents
2023/05/09
Vote scheduled
2023/03/31
EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
Documents
2023/03/31
EP - Committee report tabled for plenary
Documents
2023/03/22
EP - Vote in committee
2023/02/21
EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2023/02/13
CSL - Supplementary non-legislative basic document
Documents
2023/01/31
EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2023/01/18
EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2022/10/27
CofA - Court of Auditors: opinion, report
Documents
2022/10/07
EP - FALCĂ Gheorghe (EPP) appointed as rapporteur in TRAN
2022/09/13
EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2022/07/14
EP - CHASTEL Olivier (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
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A9-0100/2023
- Committee report tabled for plenary: A9-0100/2023
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE742.585
- Supplementary non-legislative basic document: 06248/2023
- Committee opinion: PE737.397
- Committee draft report: PE737.494
- 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: PE737.494
- Committee opinion: PE737.397
- Supplementary non-legislative basic document: 06248/2023
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE742.585
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A9-0100/2023
Votes
Décharge 2021: Agence de l’Union européenne pour les chemins de fer - A9-0100/2023 - Olivier Chastel - Proposition de résolution #
2023/05/10 Outcome: +: 570, -: 36, 0: 20
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2022/2113(DEC)
2022/12/06
TRAN
24 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Stresses that financial regulation and high management standards has to be respected by all the EU’s institutions
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Welcomes in this regard the work of the Agency on the revision of the TSI package, which shall be delivered in 2022. Salutes the extensive work carried by the Agency in 2021 to assess the VA National Rules and is looking forward to the finalisation of the assessment for the remaining MSs in 2022, as well as to the results in terms of rules reduction over the next years;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6 b. Regrets the limited resources available to perform NSA and NoBo monitoring and provide only targeted scope;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 c (new) 6 c. Recalls that 2021 was also the European Year of rail, and highlighted rail as one of the most sustainable, innovative, and safest transport modes available. Notes that as part of the European Year of Rail, a special EU train travelled across the continent stopping in over 100 cities in 26 countries and this initiative showcased the potential of rail, as well as its achievements in development interoperable railways across Europe, together with the importance of removing any of the persisting cross-border barriers;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 d (new) 6 d. Highlights that the implementation of the 4thRailway Package in particular and the European Year of Rail 2021; calls for more resources for the Agency to be able to effectively deliver on the policy objectives for sustainable transport and mobility; calls for the Management Board to closely follow the implementation of the Strengthening Plan to make sure that the Agency will be granted an adequate level of resources in order to effectively cope with the priorities of work for the years to come, while highlighting its efforts for increasing efficiency;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 e (new) 6 e. Welcomes the publication by the European Commission of an ambitious Action Plan, with the aim to boost long- distance and cross-border passenger rail services, combined with changes to the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) and to increase high-speed rail capacity and improve cross border connectivity and interoperability; Urges that completion of the core TEN-T rail network shall be a key priority; calls for anew European Investment Bank (EIB) support for investment in rail, and measures to prepare the ground for the renaissance of rail;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 f (new) 6 f. Salutes the very high degree of digitalisation, eliminating paper-processes and bringing forward online solutions such as e-procurement, e-invoicing etc. - on digitalisation;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Commends the Agency continuous effort to improve its efficiency and budget execution through its Strengthening Plan drafted in 2021; notes however that these efforts cannot compensate the insufficient budget of the Agency; notes the systematic budget outruns reported by the agency;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Commends the Agency’s efforts to increase IT security as well as the Commission’s decision to allocate EUR 1,30 million to that end;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Recalls that the Agency has the smallest budget among the transport agencies and that this trend continued even throughout the European Year of Rail, despite the outstanding environmental performance and other benefits of rail transport, which the Commission established as one of its priorities with the Action plan to boost long distance and cross-border passenger rail, as part of the Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy; calls for an increase of the budget of the Agency in order to provide it with the necessary means to enable it to act as an efficient authority and to fulfil its tasks, particularly those with regard to increasing competitiveness, improving safety and cross-border interoperability; demands that the agency's budget progressively matches the level of other transport sector agencies, and that, at the very least, for the next Union budget it is above that of Joint Undertakings in other transport modes, such as SESAR and Clean Sky 2;
Amendment 19 #
8. Recalls that the Agency has the smallest budget among the transport agencies despite the outstanding environmental performance and other benefits of rail transport which the Commission established as one of its priorities with the Action plan to boost long distance and cross-border passenger rail; calls for an increase of the budget of the Agency in order to provide it with the necessary means to enable it to act as an efficient authority and to fulfil its tasks, particularly those with regard to increasing competitiveness, improving safety and cross-border interoperability; notes that the European Year of Rail 2021 has allowed to identify a number of areas where more resources are required for the Agency to effectively deliver on its policy objectives;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. suggests the Agency to consider measures to improve the quality of services for rail transport;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Welcomes the efforts made by the agency to improve the gender balance within its Management Boards, Senior Management, and staff in general and commends the improvements achieved on this end so far; notes, however, that there still exists a significant imbalance in the gender ratio at all levels in the agency, and that no clear overview of staff figures at all levels of staff was presented in the consolidated staff figures of agencies; urges the agency to keep working on their improvements in this regard, and looks forward to seeing the results of the gender audit planned for Q4 2022;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Commends the work on drafting the ERA Strengthening Plan. The structure for the Strengthening Plan included the identification of the streams of work for which the Agency does not have sufficient resources in line with the full level of ambition, together with the Agency’s commitments for an efficient and effective use of its human and financial resources;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Underlines that, besides budgetary constraints, the Agency is limited to a ceiling of 151 permanent agents; asks the European Commission to raise this ceiling in the Agency’s next establishment plan;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. urges the Agency to take into account the specific needs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in rail transport and to introduce effective checks to verify the SME status of applicants;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 b (new) 8 b. Notes that due to the evolution of the Agency into an EU authority, the current Agency headquarters' building in Valenciennes no longer satisfies the necessary requirements to offer the conditions to accommodate its staff and activities;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes that the Agency’s final annual budget for 2021 was EUR 32.83 million (EUR 27.06 million from EU subsidy, EUR 4.38 million from fees and charges) and that the implementation rate for current year appropriations was 99.81% in commitments; strongly welcomes the increase of the hourly rate for Authorities task activities from EUR 130 to EUR 239 pursuant to the adoption of implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1903;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Notes that 35 nonconformities have been registered in 2021, with a number of Financial nonconformities decreasing compared to the previous years;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4 b. Notes that out of 175 key performance indicators, 135 were achieved, 22 partially achieved and 18 not achieved;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Welcomes that, following the full
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Welcomes the Agency’s strategic contribution within the field of national rules; highlights particularly the decrease of the number of national rules for vehicle authorisation;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Salutes that the Agency has continued to successfully deliver its tasks in the field of EU rail interoperability, safety and harmonisation; welcomes the continuous commitment from the Agency
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Salutes that the Agency has continued to successfully deliver its tasks in the field of EU rail interoperability, safety and harmonisation; welcomes the continuous commitment from the Agency to the objective of creating a Single European Railway Area and for improving rail transport connectivity;
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