5 Amendments of Ramona STRUGARIU related to 2019/2073(DEC)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes with concern that budget monitoring efforts during the financial year 2018 resulted in a budget implementation rate of 89,14 %, representing a decrease of 1,91 % compared to 2017; notes furthermore that the payment appropriations execution rate was 73,64 %, representing a decrease of 2,98 % compared to 2017; calls on the Agency to improve its budget implementation and payment appropriation execution rate;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Encourages the Agency to pursue the digitalisation of its services;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Acknowledges the Agency’s existing measures and ongoing efforts to secure transparency, prevent and manage conflicts of interest, and provide whistleblower protection; notes withis highly concerned that, in 2018, the Agency received 21 reports on cases of whistleblowing from an external source raising the problem of maladministration at the Agency, 5 of which were closed in 2017 and 17 cases are still ongoing; calls on the Agency to address the cases and the problems with the matter of urgency and report to the discharge authority on any developments in that regard; welcomes that the Agency has in place declaration of conflict of interest for management board members, for senior management and for experts and makes it available online;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Notes that the Court issued an emphasis of matter paragraph in relation to the two London-based agencies, concerning the United Kingdom’s decision to withdraw from the European Union; notes that the seat of the Agency moved to Amsterdam in March 2019 and that the Agency’s accounts at 31 December 2018, included provisions for related costs amounting to EUR 17 800 000; regrets that the lease agreement for the London based premises sets a rental period until 2039 with no exit clause; also regrets that on 20 February 2019, the High Court of Justice of England and Wales ruled against EMA’s request to cancel the lease; notes, however, that the lease agreement allows reassignment or subletting of the premises to third parties, subject to the landlord’s consent; deeply regrets that the notes to the accounts at 31 December 2018 disclosed an amount of EUR 468 000 000 remaining rent until 2039, of which an amount of EUR 465 000 000 for the lease period after the Agency’s planned move to Amsterdam is disclosed as a contingent liability; urges the Agency to do its utmost to minimise the financial, administrative and operational impact of the unfavourable lease agreement and to report to the discharge authority on the developments in this regardhighlights that although the Agency’s sublease was concluded with effect from 1 July 2019 the future net cost of the uncancellable lease agreement was unknown; urges the Agency to do its utmost to minimise the financial, administrative and operational impact of the unfavourable lease agreement; calls on the Agency to involve the Commission’s legal service and the negotiating team for the United Kingdom's decision to withdraw from the European Union into the legal problem as it raises the legal and financial responsibility of the government of the United Kingdom for invoking Article 50 of the TEU as the High Court did not recognise the situation as a force majeure; calls on the Agency to report back to the discharge authority on the matter;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Is concerned that the Agency, being a Union public health agency, will have to manage commercial property in a third country and will remain liable for paying rent until June 2039; requests that solutions to release the Agency from its contractual and financial liabilities in respect of its former UK premises are sought in the ongoing negotiations between the Union and the UK if responsibility cannot be established;