2022/2132(DEC) 2021 discharge: SESAR Joint Undertaking
Next event: Indicative plenary sitting date 2023/05/08
Lead committee dossier:
Next event: Indicative plenary sitting date 2023/05/08
Progress: Awaiting committee decision
Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | CONT | CZARNECKI Ryszard ( ECR) | WINZIG Angelika ( EPP), HEIDE Hannes ( S&D), WIEZIK Michal ( Renew), RIVASI Michèle ( Verts/ALE), ADINOLFI Matteo ( ID), OMARJEE Younous ( GUE/NGL) |
Committee Opinion | ITRE | ||
Committee Opinion | TRAN | FALCĂ Gheorghe ( EPP) | Maria GRAPINI ( S&D), Kateřina KONEČNÁ ( GUE/NGL), Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA ( ECR), José Ramón BAUZÁ DÍAZ ( RE), Alviina ALAMETSÄ ( Verts/ALE) |
Lead committee dossier:
Subjects
Events
2023/05/08
Indicative plenary sitting date
2023/02/28
EP - Vote in committee
2023/02/02
EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2023/01/31
EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2022/12/13
EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2022/11/15
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 - 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
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE742.336
- Committee opinion: PE737.398
- Committee draft report: PE738.439
- 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: PE738.439
- Committee opinion: PE737.398
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE742.336
Amendments | Dossier |
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2022/2132(DEC)
2022/12/07
TRAN
13 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Stresses that the Financial Regulation and high management standards need to be respected by all EU institutions;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Stresses the importance of the Undertaking in the completion of the Digital European Sky; highlights that the 2021-2027 proposals for the European Partnerships of SESAR and CEF are crucial for the future of digitalised and ecological aviation and need to be provided with appropriate financing;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Stresses the importance of Single European Sky 2+ and calls for its timely adoption and implementation. The use of satellites systems for navigation, communications and tracking, and the complete deployment of the Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research (SESAR) will contribute to the completion of the European Digital Single Sky;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Recalls the strategic role of the Undertaking regarding the decarbonisation of the aviation sector, many of their projects being focused on harnessing digital technology in order to support the transition towards a greener aviation sector;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 b (new) 7 b. Welcomes that the overall R&I activities that the SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking will carry out from 2021 to 2031, referred to as the Digital European Sky programme, organised in the SESAR Innovation Pipeline; salutes as well other priorities set for SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking such as: leveraging synergies with other European partnerships and with national or regional ATM modernisation programmes; ensuring the engagement of institutional and industry stakeholders; securing cooperation with third countries and international organisations; promoting the SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking' s activities and results through communication initiatives;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Salutes the smooth transition to the new legal entity SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking and notes that the Undertaking developed several transversal coordination mechanisms, which allowed transparent and structured cooperation and relied on the individual expertise of each of the member of the organisation, in particular, a Transition Coordination Group was established in February 2021;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3 b. Recognises the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 crisis on the sector; notes that the Undertaking implemented a number of measures, including extending the duration of grants where necessary, to allow projects to conclude their validation activities and deliver the technical outcomes in accordance with the timelines of the European Air Traffic Management (ATM) Master Plan; notes that the Undertaking's members and partners were successful in advancing new technologies and procedures through the SESAR innovation pipeline release process, in accordance with the timeline set by the European ATM Master Plan – Europe’s roadmap for the digital transformation of ATM;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new) 3 c. Salutes the organisation of the 1th edition of the SESAR Innovation Days and all the projects dedicated to young scientists;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Welcomes that the Undertaking continued to manage and monitor 71 projects across its three strands of research in 2021 (exploratory research, industrial
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Notes that in the Undertaking's Consolidated Annual Activity Report 2021, the Key Performance Indicator on gender balance either stayed the same or decreased in comparison to the previous year and remained low, with only 24 % of women participants in Horizon 2020 projects; notes that the percentage of women in Commission´s advisory groups, experts groups, evaluation panels, individual experts appears in the Undertaking's Consolidated Annual Activity Report 2021. Suggests that the Undertaking needs to continue to improve its gender balance;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Notes that for Horizon 2020 payments, the Undertaking reported a representative error rate of 0.7 % and a residual error rate of 0.6 % for Horizon 2020 projects, well below the materiality threshold;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6 b. Notes that the Undertaking did not hold a security exercise as called for in the indicator for the assessment of the internal control system implementing the SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking’s internal control strategy;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 c (new) 6 c. Notes that one of the most important goals of the Undertaking is to support a swift transition to greener aviation, in line with the European Green Deal. Laments therefore that from all of its Key Performance Areas, Environment / fuel efficiency (FEFF1) is furthest from completing the overall ambition. And even these relative benefits have been outpaced by sustained growth in air traffic;
source: 739.637
2023/02/02
CONT
19 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13.
Amendment 11 #
14 a. Notes from the Annual Activity Report 2021, in terms of gender balance, that no significant increase of female participation, of female project coordinators in H2020 projects and of female members in advisory groups, expert groups, evaluation panels, individual experts, etc. was achieved compared to the previous year; notes with regret that the share of women participants in H2020 projects has actually decreased compared to the previous year from 30% to 29% in 2021; Notes with regret that according to the Joint Undertaking's Annual Report for 2021, the gender balance on the Administrative Board (1 Woman, 27 Men) is in great need of improvement; regrets these figures and calls for increased efforts in terms of gender balance;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14 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 JU’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 JU’s overall performance, such as the retention of key competences, unclear accountability channels, possible judicial disputes and lower staff efficiency;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16.
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17 a. 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 15 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19.
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 19 19. Notes, from the Annual Activity Report. that the decrease in the error rates in 2021 could be due, among other reasons, to the beneficiaries’ increased knowledge of the eligibility rules and the inherent learning curve, as well as to the results of the communication campaigns, targeted webinars and training, addressed in particular to newcomers and SMEs; stresses that the error rates should be treated with caution, as they may change subject to the availability of additional data from audit results.
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new) 20 a. Emphasises that the Court’s finding confirmed persistent systemic errors for declared personnel costs and that in particular, SMEs and new beneficiaries are more error-prone than other beneficiaries; highlights that these errors are also regularly reported in Court’s previous annual reports since 2017; emphasises therefore 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; emphasises that JU should strengthen its internal control systems to address the increased risk regarding SMEs and new beneficiaries and strongly encourage the use of the Personnel Costs Wizard by certain categories of beneficiaries that are more prone to errors, such as SMEs and new beneficiaries; 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 #
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Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 28.
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 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 4 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 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 5 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7.
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9.
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12.
source: 742.336
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