25 Amendments of Petri SARVAMAA related to 2014/2078(DEC)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas scrutiny is necessary to ensure that Parliament's administration and political leadership is held accountable to Union citizens; whereas there is permanent scope for improvement in terms of quality, efficiency, and effectiveness in the management of public finances;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. RecallsPoints out, however, that this high level of implementation is partly attributable to the practice of making ‘mopping-up’such a high percentage figure in budget execution does not reveal if it contains transfers for the purposes of transferring any appropriations available at year-end to the budget lines for buildings and, in particular, for advance capital payments to reduce future interest payments; wishes therefore to receive the budget execution figure prior to the start of the "mopping- up" procedure;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Reminds its administration that Parliament has repeatedly called for its property policy to be properly budgetised; expects this to happen as of the 2016 budget year;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Points outCriticizes the ever increasing level of carry-overs into 2013 of EUR 305 457 875 (2012: EUR 222 900 384);
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls for a short summary (three pages) of the main criticisms contained in the Internal Audit Service's annual report to be drawn up by 20 May 2015;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Takes notePoints out that as of 31 December 2013 there were 1763 accredited parliamentary assistants employed within the European Parliament; reminds its administration that after five years of implementation of the new Statute for parliamentary assistants an evaluation report should have been prepared by the end of 2014; poiwants out that as of 31 December 2013to be informed about the re were 1763 accredited parliamentary assistants employed within Parliament; asks that itsason for the delay; calls on its administration to inform the Committee on Budgetary Control be informed onabout the evaluation results as soon as possible;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Emphasises that an external ex post evaluation report of the communication strategy for the 2014 elections is expected by June 2015; asks that the Committee on Budgetary Control will be informed on the date of publication; expects a detailed analysis of the funds in the report;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. RecallNotes the establishment of the new Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research which will provide independent scientifacademic advice both for political bodieprincipally to individual Members, thereby supplementing the work of the policy departments which cater for the needs of Pparliament and for individual Memberary bodies;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Welcomes the setting-up of a unit to assess the impact of European legislation; calls for this service to focus on the compromises negotiated by the European Parliament and Parliament amendments to Commission proposals; calls, by 30 October 2015, for an approach to be developed to the prompt assessment of legislation and its impact, for the profile of the service to be raised among Members and for a breakdown of the overall costs to be provided; urges this service to hold regular exchanges of views with the corresponding services in the Commission, the Council and the national parliaments;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Takes note of the creation of Directorate-General for Security and Safety; recalls that the internalisation of Parliament's security services has generated savings of EUR 195 000 in 2013 and is projected to produce savings of more than EUR 11 million over the period 2013- 2016; calls for an evaluation of the quality of the security service before and after the creation of the Directorate-General for Security and Safety to be submitted to the Committee of Budgetary Control by 30 September 2015; insists that a comparative study of the security systems of other institutions be carried out;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Calls for a balance as regards country of origin to be sought among senior officials of Parliament's Administration; expects a report setting out the progress made towards achieving this objective to be drawn up by the end of 2015;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 b (new)
Paragraph 28 b (new)
28b. Asks to be provided, by the end of 2015, with year-on-year breakdowns of trends in staffing levels and staff costs, by grade and level of management; asks Parliament’s Administration to state whether comparable studies of the administrations of international parliamentary assemblies could contain important lessons for Parliament’s work;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. StressesWelcomes the fact that Members must be more transparent about the on-the-side activities they do while in public office; recalls, however, that Members, similarly to Members of national parliaments, do not have an exclusive mandate and may therefore exercise other professional activities; is of the opinion that a more comprehensivedetailed declaration template for Members would help to increase transparency and avoid potential conflicts of interests;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Points to the costs of delegations, joint parliamentary assemblies, ad hoc delegations and election observation missions outside the Union in 2013, which amounted to some EUR 5 794 360; calls for a breakdown of costs in these areas for the period from 2005 to 2015 to be drawn up by the end of 2015;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Notes with concern that the cost of one parliamentary assembly delegation amounted to EUR 493 193; invites the Bureau to develop simple but effective principles for a more economic cost structure for delegation visits, in particular taking account of their political importance, duration and results;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. NotDeplores that the multiannual grants programme 2012 to 2014, aimed at raising awareness on Parliament's role cost some EUR 14 500 000; expresses doubts as to whether that grants programme represents Parliament's core competences and the tasks which stem from its legislative, budgetary and discharge prerogatives; expects that a comprehensivecalls on its administration to provide the Committee on Budgetary Control with an external evaluation of theis grant programme be realisedin time for the 2014 discharge procedure;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 b (new)
Paragraph 39 b (new)
39b. Questions the relevance of the LUX Prize; strongly recommends the Parliament to reconsider the continuation of the Prize;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 d (new)
Paragraph 39 d (new)
39d. Calls for a representative survey of Members to be conducted by the end of the year to determine whether the LUX Prize is well known and how, if at all, it is viewed in their respective Member States;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40
40. Notes that mission expenses in 2013 of the Information Offices amounted to EUR 1 839 696, with missions to Strasbourg accounting for EUR 1 090 290; regrets that the cost of missions from Information Offices to Strasbourg increased by around 7 % from 2012, with a further 2 % increase being due to the creation of the new Information Office in Croatia; asks to be provided with details of the main reasons why information office staff undertook missions to (a) Strasbourg, and (b) Brussels; asks to be provided with a breakdown of the missions undertaken by the staff of each information office in 2005, 2010 and 2015, so that comparisons can be drawn up; insists that priority should be given to the use of videoconferences, making both structural cost reductions to the Parliament's budget and environmental improvements, which do not detract from Parliament's work;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 a (new)
Paragraph 40 a (new)
40a. Points out that the websites of several information offices in the Member States have not been updated since after the elections; draws attention to the implications this could have for Parliament's credibility with the general public; insists that an investigation be carried out on the use of funds allocated to the information offices, with an explanation of the significant variation in internet connection costs between the different Member States;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 e (new)
Paragraph 40 e (new)
40e. Calls for a detailed overview of all external and internal European Parliament related costs for the European House of History, separated according to planning costs (including preliminary planning), investment costs and running costs (including construction and maintenance reserve, personal expenditure, exhibition costs); notes that the Commission supports the funding of the European House of History with an annual allocation of EUR 800 000; points out the European House of History will have positive effects not only for the European institutions but also for the Belgian state, in the form of a new, income-generating tourist attraction; recommends, therefore, that the Belgian state be asked to support the establishment of the European House of History;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44
Paragraph 44
44. Expresses concernDeplores the fact that the number of local assistants employed per Member varied greatly between zero and 43 in 2013; asks for the enhancementmore strict controls of recruitment procedures of local assistants;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55
Paragraph 55
55. Notes that an independent third party ICT security audit was carried out on all parliamentary ICT and telecommunications systems with a view to completing a clear roadmap towards a more robust ICT security policy in 2015; points out the ICT security audit was due in December 2014, reminds that in this recent time of the yellow alert level, this should be a priority, asks that its Committee on Budgetary Control to be informed on the results as soon as the report has been finalised;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 57
Paragraph 57
57. Insists that Parliament collaborates further with the Commission's Directorate- General for Informatics to identify suitable replacements for old ICT tools and infrastructures that go in the direction of open, interoperable and non-vendor dependent solutions with a view to social, ethical and economical responsibilitygetting a cost efficient, high quality IT environment for the European Parliament;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 61
Paragraph 61