3 Amendments of Marie-Christine BOUTONNET related to 2017/2139(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
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1. Appreciates that the budget implementation for the financial year 2016 represents a very high rate of use of final appropriation (98,23 %), even if slightly lower than the 2015 rate (99,1 %), due mainly to the gradual arrival in 2016 of 12 new Judges at the General Court;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
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4. Notes that the 2016 statistics for the three courts which make up the Court of Justice confirm the trend seen in recent years as regards the average duration of proceedings, which remains satisfactory (Court of Justice: 15 months for requests for a preliminary ruling (15,3 months in 2015), 2,7 months for urgent requests for a preliminary ruling (1,9 months in 2015), 19,3 months for direct actions (17,6 months in 2015) and 12,9 months for appeals (14 months in 2015); notes that those statistics contradict the arguments in favour of the Court reforms introduced in 2016 (an increase to the number of judges and the transfer to the Court of the power to rule, at first instance, on disputes between the Union and its staff);
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
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7. WelcomNotes the fact that the Court is working towards a gender balance inefforts to get more women appointed to positions of high responsibility at the Court and that the European Parliament and the Council have indicated, among their objectives, a balanced representation of genders in appointing new Judges to the General Court (as of this date, five women Judges and two women Advocates General are part of the organisation chart of the Court and ten women Judges are part of the organisation chart of the General Court).