Activities of Petr JEŽEK related to 2018/2210(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union agencies for the financial year 2017: performance, financial management and control
Amendments (3)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
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2. AcknowledgeRegrets, however, that for EASO, the Court issued an adverse opinion regarding the legality and regularity of its payments; due to material and systematic instances of non-compliance of payments with EASO’s Financial Regulation and other applicable rules and provisions, mainly related to public procurement and recruitment procedures underlying payments; regreteplores that the combined error from non-compliant payments amounts to at least 7,7 million euros or 10,3 % of the EASO total payments made in 2017, which is a substantial increase on the error rate from 2016; notes the exponential deterioration of the human resource situation in EASO in 2017; regrets that EASO does not currently have the administrative capacity to fill its high number of vacancies causing a significant risk to the continuation of its operations at the current scale; welcomestakes note of EASO’s strong commitment to address its organisational and managerial weaknesses without delay; remindcalls that it was due to suchthese commitments and progress in certain progaresas, that Parliament has granted belated discharge for the 2016 budget of EASO in October 2018;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
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3. Points out that for Frontex, the Court has reported again in 2017 that proof of expenditures claimed by cooperating countries were often insufficient; welcomes the decision of Frontex to introduce a simplified cost reimbursement model to address this issue which has been recurring since 2014; notes as well in this context that the Court reported cancellations of budget appropriations carried over from previous years, which indicates a clearn overestimation of Frontex budgetary needs in these years;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
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4. Stresses that for the development and implementation of IT projects eu-LISA applies an outsourcing model where some 90 % of the related work is carried out by three contractors; acknowledges that IT projects are owned by and under the control of the Agency but fears that a model under which the evolution and development activities for such sensitive IT systems is outsourced to such extend creates risks of over-reliance on contractors; highlights that the small number of staff in key operational units creates risks for the continuity of operations; welcomes the actions taken so far by eu-LISA in this respect and requests that eu-LISA to take adequate long-termput in place adequate measures at both organisational and possibly technological/operational level to mitigate those risks in the long run; requests eu- LISA to ensure that the contractors are not bound by any laws of third countries that could bring them into conflict with the necessary confidentiality arrangements with eu-LISA;