Activities of Claudia SCHMIDT related to 2018/2167(DEC)
Reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2017, Section I – European Parliament PDF (270 KB) DOC (124 KB)
Amendments (12)
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Notes that the revised rules governing the payment of financial contributions for sponsored visitors groups entered into force on 1 January 2017; calls on the Secretary-General to release the assessment of these rules without delay; recalls its request to delete the possibility to appoint APAs as head of a group;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
Paragraph 46
46. Notes that DG PERS’s lead indicator in 2017 is time to deliver; notes with satisfaction that targets and methods of data collection were refined with a general positive assessment of the results; notes that objectives to improve the procedures for recruiting APAs and for admitting children to the Parliament’s kindergarten were not met, but that the difficulties that had been encountered were resolved in 2018; underlines that the process of recruiting APAs at the beginning of the next parliamentary term can be challenging and that delays have to be avoided in the interest of Members and APAs;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 52
Paragraph 52
52. Regrets that the number of women holding posts at the level of director- general fell from 25 % (3 posts) in 2016 to 17 % (2 posts) in 2017; notes the number of women at director level remained steady from 2016 to 2017 at 30 % (14 posts); welcomes that the Secretary-General has given priority to appointing women as Head of Unit, which resulted in nearly doubling the numbers from 21% in 2006 to nearly 40% in 2018;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53
Paragraph 53
53. Notes the Parliament’s zero tolerance policy towards sexual harassment adopted in 2017; notes also that several initiatives were and are being put in place to deal with harassment practices, in particular an updated roadmap for the adaptation of preventive and early support measures to deal with conflict and harassment between Members and APAs, trainees or other staff, an external audit of the Parliament’s internal practices and procedures, the creation of a network of confidential counsellors, and the organisation of a public hearing with experts in harassment in the workplace; expectsnotes that the results of the external audit to be communicated without delay, once availablwere expected by early November 2018 and requests them to be communicated without delay, once available; further expects the full and transparent implementation of the roadmap in accordance with adopted parliamentary resolution, starting or advancing as much as possible already before the end of this legislature;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53 a (new)
Paragraph 53 a (new)
53a. Recommends a thorough revision of the Internal Rules governing missions and duty travel by officials and other servants of the European Parliament and of the Implementing measures for Title VII of the Conditions of employment of other servants of the European Union, in particular as to align the treatment of Accredited Parliamentary Assistants with that of Staff officials;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53 b (new)
Paragraph 53 b (new)
53b. Reiterates its call on the Conference of Presidents and the Bureau to reconsider the possibility for APAs, at certain conditions to be set, to accompany Members in official Parliament Delegations and Missions, as already requested by several Members; calls on the Secretary-General to investigate the budgetary consequences, and the organisation and logistics of these missions;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54
Paragraph 54
54. Notes that the medium-term building strategy was reviseDGINLO had in 2017 with committed appropriations of EUR 267 588 704, corresponding to 6 % increase in relation to 2016 (EUR 251 599 697); is aware that in Brussels the Martens building was concluded and went through fitting and adaptation works, the House of European History was opened, the Trèves I building was purchased and two other sites are being reconstructed and extended; observes that in Luxembourg the KAD project progresses, and that in Strasbourg the Havel building was brought into use in April 2017, followed by the Simone Veil Parlamentarium in July of the same year;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 59 a (new)
Paragraph 59 a (new)
59a. Acknowledges the European Court of Auditors’ findings regarding building management of the Union institutions and notes that European Parliament uses 55% for office space and 45% for meetings rooms and other uses; notes that European Parliament owns 84% of its buildings and underlines that this percentage will increase when the KAD building in Luxemburg is completed;
Amendment 115 #
59b. Is strongly concerned by the fact, that the KAD II building delivery date was initially due to be 2013 but the current estimate for the East construction site is end of 2019 and for the West construction site it is 2022; stresses that the lack of experience as a developer and an unsuccessful first tender for construction works lead to this significant delay; is dismayed that the subsequent increased renting necessity lead to additional costs of EUR 14.4million per year or EUR 86 million over the six-year period;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 59 c (new)
Paragraph 59 c (new)
59c. Notes that the original estimated budget of EUR 317,5 million was revised in 2009 to EUR 363 million; is highly concerned that the project is not yet finished and the final price therefore unknown, even though Parliament intends to keep the costs within the current budget of EUR 432 million;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 59 d (new)
Paragraph 59 d (new)
59d. Expresses concern over the 8 % increase in the price index for construction work between 2012 and 2017, which could lead to further increasing construction costs;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72
Paragraph 72
72. Calls on the Secretary-General to ensure that a decisNotes that, following a proposal by the Secretary-General on 10 December 2018, the Bureau adopted two modification is taken by the Bureau without delay in order to improve the sustainability of the fundo the rules governing the voluntary pension scheme endorsing the increase of the retirement age from 63 to 65 and the introduction of a levy of 5% to pension payments for future pensioners;