Activities of Benedek JÁVOR related to 2015/2181(DEC)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union for the financial year 2014 PDF (296 KB) DOC (100 KB)
Amendments (4)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Observes that Court finds the documentation supporting the expenditure claimed by those countries to be not always sufficient; takes note from the Court’'s report that the audit certificates, which would add further assurance on the legality and regularity of grant transactions, were not requested by the Agency; acknowledges from the Agency that such certificates were already made in 2010; takes noteregrets that, despite a briefing organised for the Agency’'s beneficiaries, the audit certificates were not issued by independent audit bodies and the delay in receiving the final claim was significantly extended; acknowledges thatcalls on the Agency wito fully explore the possibility of cooperation with the audit authorities set up under the External Border Fund and the Internal Security Fund; calls on the Agency and to report back to the discharge authority on the evaluation of such cooperation;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that the annual public statements of commitment were published on the Agency’'s website for the majority of members of its Management Board; takes note that the CVs of the Agency’'s Executive Director and Deputy Executive Director have been published on the Agency’'s website; calls for the publication of the declarations of interest of the Executive Director, the Deputy Executive Director and members of the Management Board; urges the Agency and its Management Board members to make the remaining unpublished statements available as soon as possible;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Takes note that the Agency created a draft set of whistleblowing rules which is expected to be adopted by the end of the first half of 2016; calls on the Agency to also take due account of the Ombudsman's recommendations on this matter; calls on the Agency not to further delay the adoption and to report to the discharge authority on the final adoption of those rules;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Recalls, that the Court noted in 2014 that "The high and constantly increasing number of grant agreements and the magnitude of related expenditure to be verified and reimbursed by FRONTEX raise the question whether more efficient and cost-effective alternative funding mechanisms could be used"; notes furthermore that in the past years the complexity and administrative burden of the current mechanisms has led to the Court not being able to assure the legality and regularity of the transactions; further notes that in 2015 there has been a further increase in the magnitude of operations undertaken by the Agency and a new and specific tasks that it was mandated within the EU Regional Task Force; calls on the Agency to take into account during review and reform its financing mechanisms the concerns expressed above;