2022/2130(DEC) 2021 discharge: Clean Hydrogen Joint Undertaking
Lead committee dossier:
Progress: Awaiting Parliament's vote
| Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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CZARNECKI Ryszard ( ECR)
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WINZIG Angelika ( EPP),
HEIDE Hannes ( S&D),
WIEZIK Michal ( Renew),
RIVASI Michèle ( Verts/ALE),
ADINOLFI Matteo ( ID),
OMARJEE Younous ( GUE/NGL)
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| Committee Opinion | ITRE |
Lead committee dossier:
Subjects
Events
2023/05/09
EP - Debate in Parliament
Documents
2023/05/09
Vote scheduled
2023/03/27
EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
Documents
2023/03/27
EP - Committee report tabled for plenary
Documents
2023/02/28
EP - Vote in committee
2023/02/13
CSL - Supplementary non-legislative basic document
Documents
2023/02/02
EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2022/12/13
EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2022/11/15
CofA - Court of Auditors: opinion, report
Documents
2022/09/13
EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2022/07/14
EP - CZARNECKI Ryszard (ECR) 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: A9-0083/2023
- Committee report tabled for plenary: A9-0083/2023
- Supplementary non-legislative basic document: 06252/2023
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE742.334
- Committee draft report: PE738.437
- Court of Auditors: opinion, report: OJ C 433 15.11.2022, p. 0052
- Court of Auditors: opinion, report: N9-0004/2023
- 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 433 15.11.2022, p. 0052 N9-0004/2023
- Committee draft report: PE738.437
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE742.334
- Supplementary non-legislative basic document: 06252/2023
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A9-0083/2023
Votes
Décharge 2021: entreprise commune «Hydrogène propre» (avant le 30 novembre 2021: entreprise commune «Piles à combustible et Hydrogène 2») - A9-0083/2023 - Ryszard Czarnecki - Proposition de résolution #
2023/05/10 Outcome: +: 578, -: 30, 0: 7
PPE
The Left
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2022/2130(DEC)
2023/02/02
CONT
20 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13 a. Notes from the Annual Activity Report 2021 that in terms of gender balance, 44 % of staff were female and 56 % of staff were male, with one third of management positions held by women and two thirds by men; encourages the Joint Undertaking to further improve this balance; regrets that the percentage of women as project coordinators under H2020, in EC advisory groups, expert groups, evaluation panels, individual experts, etc. does not exceed 33 %.
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 b (new) 13 b. notes that the part of the employers' contributions for the staff of the Joint Undertakings corresponding to the ratio of their non-EU subsidised revenues to their total revenues, has not been paid by the Joint Undertakings to the EU pension scheme since 2016, as the Commission has neither foreseen this expenditure in the budget of the Joint Undertakings nor formally requested the payments; calls for the Commission to take steps to avoid similar issues in the future.
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Notes that, in February 2021, the Joint Undertaking on boarded Sysper, and that throughout the year new modules were added;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18.
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Notes, from the Court’s report, that for FP7 interim and final payments, the Joint Undertaking performs ex-post audits at the beneficiaries, whilst for Horizon 2020 payments, the Common Audit Service of the Commission’s DG RTD is responsible for the ex-post audits;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21. Notes that, to assess the operational payment controls of the Joint Undertaking, the Court audited randomly sampled Horizon 2020 payments made in 2021, at the level of the final beneficiaries, to corroborate the ex-post audit error rates (regarding the grant payment transactions tested at the beneficiaries, the reporting threshold for quantifiable errors is 1% of the audited costs);
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 22. Notes, from the Annual Activity Report, because of persistent systemic errors in declared personnel costs, particularly on the part of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and new beneficiaries (who are more error-prone than other beneficiaries), the Joint Undertaking had already strengthened its internal control to address the increased risk regarding SMEs and new beneficiaries. The results of these measures were evident for the first time in 2021 and contributed to significantly lowering the representative error rate from SMEs and new beneficiaries in the last 2 years; welcomes the positive results in terms of reduced error rates and the willingness of the Joint Undertaking to continue with the reinforced risk-based controls in 2022, with aid of the reinforced monitoring tool available in the corporate COMPASS/SyGMa system for H2020 grants management.
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 a (new) 22 a. Emphasises furthermore that streamlining of the H2020 rules for the declaration of personnel costs and wider use of simplified cost options is a precondition to stabilise error rates to below materiality level; welcomes that in 2022 all Joint Undertakings have started implementing actions for error rate reductions in line with the action proposed by the Court including exploring the options of simplified forms of costs such as unit costs, lump sums and flat rates.
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 24 24.
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26.
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Acknowledges that Horizon Europe envisages ambitious goals for the Joint Undertaking, that can only be achieved if effective solutions that address the weaknesses in the internal control systems and prepare for the future challenges arising from increased responsibilities, e.g. in the area of human resources management and planning, are designed and implemented; points out, in this context, that particularly complicated and burdensome calculations and reporting requirements represent a significant risk of error and calls therefore, to explore the possibilities of simplifications wherever possible and compatible with the existing legal framework;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26 26. Notes that Joint Undertaking also ensures the implementation of the research community’s common anti-fraud strategy; notes that the main actions derived from the strategy include the organisation of awareness-raising sessions within the Joint Undertaking and cooperation with OLAF (in the case of risk-based audits conducted by the Common Audit Service or outsourced contractors)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Notes that compared to 2020, the 2021 appropriations decreased by 85% in terms of commitments and by 44% in terms of payments; notes that the decrease in the 2021 budget was due to the lack of calls launched in 2021;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Notes, from the Court’s report, that, at the end of 2021, the Joint undertaking had committed EUR 425.5 million (95%) of EUR 450 million of the maximum EU contribution for signed FP7 grants agreements of which around EUR 3.0 million (0.7%) remains to be paid in the coming years; notes that private members provided in-kind contributions at the same level; notes that the implementation rate
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Notes from the Court’s report that the level of validated private members’ in- kind contributions for operational activities of EUR 38.6 million, is due to the fact that the Joint Undertaking certifies them later in the Horizon 2020 programme, when the final payment for the projects is made and the certificates of financial statement (CFS) are due;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9 a. Notes that there is no harmonised definition of "administrative costs" among the Joint Undertakings, which is a basis for calculating the financial contributions of its members and a precondition for the purpose of comparable figures; calls with this in mind for common guidelines for all Joint Undertakings to take a harmonised approach for the classification of certain administrative cost expenditure categories, such as expenditure for consultations, studies, analysis, evaluations, and technical assistance;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10.
Amendment 8 #
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Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13 a. Notes with concern that during the period from 2018 to 2021 the average annual rate of interim staff for all Joint Undertakings remained high at around 11 % of statutory staff; recalls that the high level of contractual staff tends to increase significantly the Joint Undertaking’s staff turnover rate and further destabilises the staffing situation; emphasises, moreover, that the use of interim staff should remain a temporary solution or it could negatively affect the Joint Undertaking’s overall performance, such as the retention of key competences, unclear accountability channels, possible judicial disputes and lower staff efficiency;
source: 742.334
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