Activities of Rina Ronja KARI related to 2015/2205(DEC)
Plenary speeches (1)
Discharge 2014 (debate) DA
Amendments (6)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Takes note that a high level of cancellations of carry-overs from previous years was noted by the Court of Auditors only in eight cases; observes that such carry- overs indicate that the appropriations carried over were made on the basis of over-estimated needs or were otherwise not justified; urges these agencies to take action to avoid this issue in future; acknowledges from the Network that the level of cancellation is indicative of the extent to which the agencies have correctly anticipated their financial needs and is a better indicator of good budgetary planning than the level of carryovers; acknowledges from the Network that the agencies concerned have implemented various measures to improve their budgetary monitoring systems and address this issue;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Expresses its concern towards those Agencies which are partly financed by fees paid by industry, whereas these financial ties may affect their independency; calls upon all Agencies to install measures that safeguard the independency of their internal and external policies;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Takes note of the Network's opinion regarding the merging of Agencies; recalls the remit of the Inter-Institutional Working Group on decentralized agencies to consider efficiencies in this regard; encourages the Network to initiate a long term impact analysis on the merging of EU decentralized Agencies that operate in the same broad policy domain or perform similar tasks;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Recalls that paragraph 27 of the interinstitutional agreement6 calls for a progressive reduction of staff by 5 % in all institutions, bodies and agencies to be effected between 2013 and 2017; welcomes the fact that most agencies have already met or exceeded the 5 % reduction based on their respective 2012 establishment plans; recalls that the Commission started to implement the 5 % reduction in its 2013 establishment plan, basing the calculation on the level of posts in 2012; deeply regretstates that the Commission applied an additional levy of 5 % of staff to the agencies in order to create a redeployment pool from which it would allocate the posts to the agencies with new tasks entrusted to them or in a start-up phase; acknowledges from the Network that with the additional levy, fulfilmentcalls upon the Commission to run a SWOT analysis ofn the aAgencies’, taking into account their mandates and annual work programmes, is proving increasingly difficult; calls on the Commission to look into other options to make these posts available, in order not to hinder the agencies' ability to fulfil their mandaten order to come to an informed decision which Agencies need more staff and which do not; __________________ 6 Interinstitutional agreement of 2 December 2013 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline, on cooperation in budgetary matters and on sound financial management (OJ C 373, 20.12.2013, p. 1).
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Calls upon all European Agencies to use the framework to be created by the new Inter Institutional Agreement on a Mandatory Transparency Register and use it as a guiding instrument for their interaction with organisations and self- employed individuals engaged in EU policy-making and policy implementation in order to create more transparency on lobby activities;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Notes that the principle of “value for money” and “EU added value” also holds for agencies while ensuring that citizens are well informed of the results of the agencies’ activities; notes that achieving results is important; emphasizes that many Agencies do not explicitly include in their annual reports information on the effectiveness and efficiency of their activities in an accountable manner; reiterates that it is important for the Network to become a member of the new Inter-institutional Working Group on Performance in order to reach a common understanding of performance-based and results-oriented budgeting principles, as well as to identify possible improvements to the performance models currently applied in the agencies; requests that the Court of Auditors provide an evaluation of the agencies' performance and results in time for the review of the 2016 Multiannual Financial Framework;