6 Amendments of Ondřej KOVAŘÍK related to 2019/2092(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. AcknowledgUnderlines that, in the opinion of the Court of Auditors, the transactions of the European Securities and Markets Authority (the ‘Authority’) underlying the annual accounts for the year 2018 are legal and regular in all material aspects;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that, as the Authority’s workload is increasingly shifting fromconstantly evolving and includes both regulatory tasks toand the enforcingement and applying Union lawication of Union law; notes that in order to facilitate that evolution, budgetary and personnel resources shouldhave been reallocated internally;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Questions whether the resources allocated to the Authority are sufficient to enable it to fully carry out an increasing number of tasks assigned to it, in particular in the fields of securitisation, Prospectus 3 and Money Market Fund (MFF) where the workload has increased but no new staff have been allocated; questions whether using temporary workers and external consultancies rather than increasing the number of its own staff is the best use of resources in the long-term;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Regrets that opportunities for economies of scale and efficiency gains were not realised due to insufficient use ofthe decision not to have joint procurement procedures between the Authority and the European Banking Authority (EBA) when the Authority moved its seat from London to Paris; calls on the Authority to strengthen cooperation with EBA concerning administrative support services and facility management services, which are not related to the core activities, where feasible;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Observes that the cumulated surpluses over the period 2015 to 2018 resulting from fees paid by credit rating agencies and trade repositories in relation to registration, certification and supervision of these entities amounts to EUR 1,1m; is of the opinion that those surpluses should not be used to finance other activities.