2023/2169(DEC) 2022 discharge: European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (EUROPOL)
Lead committee dossier:
Progress: Procedure completed, awaiting publication in Official Journal
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SARVAMAA Petri ( EPP)
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RÓNAI Sándor ( S&D),
STRUGARIU Ramona ( Renew),
EICKHOUT Bas ( Verts/ALE),
KUHS Joachim ( ID),
CZARNECKI Ryszard ( ECR),
OMARJEE Younous ( GUE/NGL)
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| Committee Opinion | LIBE |
ZDECHOVSKÝ Tomáš ( EPP)
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Konstantinos ARVANITIS ( GUE/NGL),
Saskia BRICMONT ( Verts/ALE),
Assita KANKO ( ECR),
Ramona STRUGARIU ( RE),
Nils UŠAKOVS ( S&D)
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Lead committee dossier:
Subjects
Events
2024/04/11
EP - Text adopted by Parliament, single reading
Documents
2024/04/11
EP - Decision by Parliament
Documents
2024/04/10
EP - Debate in Parliament
Documents
2024/03/14
EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
Documents
2024/03/14
EP - Committee report tabled for plenary
Documents
2024/03/12
CSL - Supplementary non-legislative basic document
Documents
2024/03/04
EP - Vote in committee
2024/02/12
EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2024/01/24
EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2024/01/15
EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2023/11/13
EP - ZDECHOVSKÝ Tomáš (EPP) appointed as rapporteur in LIBE
2023/10/26
CofA - Court of Auditors: opinion, report
Documents
2023/09/12
EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2023/06/28
EC - Non-legislative basic document
Documents
2023/06/28
EC - Non-legislative basic document published
Documents
2023/06/14
EP - SARVAMAA Petri (EPP) appointed as rapporteur in CONT
Documents
- Text adopted by Parliament, single reading: T9-0260/2024
- Decision by Parliament: T9-0260/2024
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A9-0119/2024
- Committee report tabled for plenary: A9-0119/2024
- Supplementary non-legislative basic document: 06180/2024
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE757.246
- Committee opinion: PE756.200
- Committee draft report: PE753.540
- Court of Auditors: opinion, report: OJ C 000 27.10.2023, p. 0000
- Court of Auditors: opinion, report: N9-0096/2023
- Non-legislative basic document: COM(2023)0391
- Non-legislative basic document: EUR-Lex
- Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2023)0391
- Non-legislative basic document published: EUR-Lex
- Non-legislative basic document: COM(2023)0391 EUR-Lex
- Court of Auditors: opinion, report: OJ C 000 27.10.2023, p. 0000 N9-0096/2023
- Committee draft report: PE753.540
- Committee opinion: PE756.200
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE757.246
- Supplementary non-legislative basic document: 06180/2024
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A9-0119/2024
- Text adopted by Parliament, single reading: T9-0260/2024
Votes
A9-0119/2024 – Petri Sarvamaa – Motion for a resolution #
2024/04/11 Outcome: +: 565, -: 18, 0: 16
PPE
The Left
NI| Amendments | Dossier |
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2023/2169(DEC)
2023/12/05
LIBE
13 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Recalls the Court’s observation on the legality and regularity of transactions connected to operational grant to fund the activities of a national police force in a member state; notes that the Court observed that part of the grant, amounting to EUR 0.2 million was irregular; notes Europol’s response reacting that the operational grant concerned the activities of SIUs coordinated by one member state therefore Article 186(4)(c) of the Financial Regulation 2018/1046 and the corresponding specific implementation guidance of the Commission on grant administration, Value Added Tax (VAT) was an eligible cost; welcomes that Europol will assess the eligibility of VAT in operational grants in light of the ECA’s observations;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Notes with concern reports of cases of conflicts of interest of former Europol staff working on issues related to work carried out in the last three years in Europol and lobbying made by those staff within Europol; call on Europol to address those issues with a matter of urgency;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6 b. Express concerns with regards to the findings of the EDPS’s audit report on Europol on 16 December 2022; recalls that upon conducting specific checks of third country nationals’ datasets held by Europol, the EDPS found multiple cases where personal data of minors under 15 years old were retained without clear necessity and proportionality justifications, given the fact that these minors were not directly involved in serious offences; stresses that Europol has the obligation to respect the principle of ‘strict proportionality’ established in Article 30(1) of the Europol Regulation; calls on Europol to comply with the ten recommendations issued by the EDPS.
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3 b. Notes with satisfaction that in 2022, Europol accepted 98 068 operational contributions and supported 2 758 operations; welcomes Europol’s cooperation with Ukraine and the support provided to Member States and bordering countries increased early in the year in the context of the war; also notes support provided in the context of migratory flows from Belarus and welcomes that Europol suspended its cooperation with Russia;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new) 3 c. Recalls substantial increase (+44% compared to 2021), in the number of operations supported by the European Serious Organised Crime Centre (ESOCC) notably to 1 069 exceeding the target set for 2022 (500 operations); welcomes the European Migrant Smuggling Centre (EMSC) which supported several Operational Task Forces (OTF) in connection with migrant smuggling: OTF Flow – focused on the Belarussian route, OTF Dune – focused on small boat trafficking, and OTF Pathfinder – focused on 14 HVTs along the Western - Balkan route;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Notes that on 16 September 2022, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) requested that the Court of Justice of the European Union annul two provisions of the amended Europol Regulation, namely Articles 74a and 74b; further notes the Order of the General Court in Case T-578/22 from 6 September 2023 by which the action brought by EDPS against the amended Europol regulation was deemed inadmissible thereby upholding the objection of inadmissibility raised by the Council; further recalls, as regards any effects of the contested provisions on the EDPS’s decision of 3 January 2022, EDPS cannot rely on them in support of his action, since an administrative decision cannot affect legislative acts, such as the amended Europol regulation, or affect the content thereof; welcomes the efforts by Europol to address EDPS recommendations which
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Welcomes the cooperation between Europol and Frontex, particularly in the context of Frontex’s PeDRA program ‘Processing of Personal Data for Risk Analysis' concerning the information and operational personal data transmition of persons suspected of involvement in cross- border crime and terrorism; recalls that cooperation among Europol and other JHA Agencies is fully transparent and subject to an adequate framework of oversight and accountability; recalls that EDPS audit report recommended Frontex to assess strict neccessity of data sharing with Europol; recalls that Frontex stopped transmitting the data to Europol; welcomes the impementation of joint concept note between the agecies on the exchange of information including operational personal data which establishes a new governance model in line with EDPS recommendation;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Acknowledges that Europol continued to work closely with eu-LISA on establishing automated checks of travel application data from the European Travel Information & Authorisation System (ETIAS) against Europol data; notes that entry into operation of the ETIAS was postponed to November 2023 by the decision of the Council; appreciates that Europol expanded its cooperation with EPPO in 2022 whereas by the end of the year it supported 21 major EPPO operations in the area of tax fraud;
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