3 Amendments of Michal ŠIMEČKA related to 2022/2110(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the fact that the Court of Auditors (the ‘Court’) has declared the transactions underlying the annual accounts of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (the 'Centre’) for the financial year 2021 to be legal and regular in all material respects; notes, according to its statement of revenue and expenditure that its budget in 2021 increased fromto EUR 2318.9 million to EUR 25 million (+8.69%), representing an increase of 5.13% compared to 2020, while its staff increased from 102 to 110 (+7.84%);
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is concerned about the ongoing observation from the Court in theNotes the Court observation with regards to the extended use of external staff and interim workers; calls on the Centre to rely as much as possible on permanent staff and; welcomes that since the end of 2021, the Centre is no longer employing interim staff; calls once again on the Commission to ensure appropriate human resources allocations for this purpose; welcomes the proposal made by the Commission to transform the Centre in an EU Drugs Agency and calls for an appropriate allocation of resources to achieve this aim;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Welcomes the cooperation between the Centre and European Neighbourhood Policy partner countries at regional level, through the EU4MD technical assistance project, as well as the start of the EMCDDA4GE technical assistance project at bilateral level with Georgia;