Activities of Jasenko SELIMOVIC related to 2017/2179(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union agencies for the financial year 2016: performance, financial management and control
Amendments (4)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. WelcomesNotes that at the end of 2016 the Agencies employed more staff compared to 2015, in large part because of the Agency’s new tasks; welcomes, in this respect, the cooperation among the Agencies within and beyond the framework of the EU Agencies Performance Development Network, allowing to build synergies and to exchange ideas and best practices, and aiming to achieve more balanced governance, improved efficiency, reduced costs and greater coherence betweenamong them;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Encourages a renewed, cost- effective and performance-oriented approach to structure the management and the activity of the agencies, in particular to take into account the possible effects of United Kingdom's withdrawal from the Union and the related transfer of the London-based agencies; suggests taking into account the good practices that the Court has identified in third-country administrations, such as the publication of a Performance Plan for the fiscal year N+2 to quantify the progress towards each agency’s goals;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Recognises the progress made by the agencies in harmonising IT solutions to budget management and accounting systems; endorses the Court's recommendation to pursue a higher degree of IT solutions in key areas such as human resources management and procurement or contract management to reduce internal control risks and strengthen IT governance;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Acknowledges the efforts of the agencies to balance their multiannual strategies to reflect the political priorities and goals represented by the Europe 2020 strategy; recognises that the multiannual nature of operations raises difficulties as one of the main source of carry-over of committed budget appropriations; regrets the high incidence of that phenomenon, together with cancellations of budget appropriations carried over; endorses the Court's recommendation of tackling overestimation of budgetary needs and planning weakness with differentiated budget appropriations as provided by the Financial Regulation.