Activities of Ramona STRUGARIU related to 2019/2069(DEC)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for the financial year 2018
Amendments (10)
Amendment 2 #
Proposal for a decision 1
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1. Grants the Director of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction discharge in respect of the implementation of the Centre’s budget for the financial year 2018 / Postpones its decision on granting the Director of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Centre for the financial year 2018;
Amendment 4 #
Proposal for a decision 2
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1. Approves the closure of the accounts of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for the financial year 2018 / Postpones the closure of the accounts of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for the financial year 2018;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
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1. Notes with appreciationWelcomes that the budget monitoring efforts during the financial year 2018 resulted in a budget implementation rate of 100 %, the same rate as in 2017; notes that the payment appropriations execution rate was 98;02 %, representing an increase of 3,31 % compared to the previous year;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
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3 a. Encourages the Centre to pursue the digitalization of its services;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
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6. Notes with satisfaction that the Centre has general provisions in place on building and sustaining a working culture based on dignity and respect to prevent and fight against harassment; acknowledges that it makes confidential counselling available;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
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7. Notes with appreciationWelcomes the fact that the Centre put in place a procurement plan in line with the Centre’s management plan, which was successfully executed in close collaboration with all units;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
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8. Notes that, according to the Court’s report, the Centre did not attract a reasonable number of tenderers in low- value procurement procedures and that in five of these procedures only one candidate submitted a tender and two tenders were submitted in one procedure; notes that, according to the Centre’s reply, it duly invited the number of tenderers required by the applicable financial rules to ensure the necessary level of competition; calls on the Centre to pursue its ongoing efforts to ensure that all public procurement procedures are compliant with the principle of competition and to facilitate the participation in its procurement procedures for low-value contracts;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
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9. Acknowledges the Centre’s existing measures and ongoing efforts to secure transparency, prevent and manage conflicts of interest, and provide whistleblower protection; notes that the CVswith satisfaction that the CVs and declarations of interest of the Director and the members of the scientific committee are published on its website;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
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11. Notes with concern that, according to the Centre, several recommendations included in the 2015 IAS audit on IT project management have been only partly implemented and that, at the end of 2018, two recommendations were still outstanding; notes, however, that these two recommendations were expected to be implemented by mid-2019; calls on the Centre to report to the discharge authority on the progress achieved by June 2020;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
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12. Notes that, according to the Court’s report, pursuant to Directive 2008/104/EC17 and Portuguese labour law, interim workers should work under the same working conditions as workers employed directly by the user undertaking; notes, however, that the contracts did not require the temporary work agencies explicitly to respect those conditions and that there is no evidence that the Centre itself carried out any comparison between the working conditions for its own and interim staff, which causes litigation and reputational risks; notes that, according to the Centre’s reply, ithat the contract between the Centre and the temporary work agency refers to the obligation of the Centre to comply with all aspects of the applicable legislation and that, pursuant to that contract, the temporary work agency is the one exposed to the risks of litigation; highlights however that this type of situation still carries high reputational risks for the Centre; welcomes the fact that the EMCDDA is reassessing its policy for the use of temporary workers to further nationalise the latter in line with its operating needs and the legal framework; calls on the Centre to analyse the working conditions of its interim workers and ensure that they are in line with Union and national labour law; calls on the Centre to report to the discharge authority on the progress achieved by June 2020; _________________ 17Directive 2008/104/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on temporary agency work (OJ L 327, 5.12.2008, p. 9).