9 Amendments of Ramona STRUGARIU related to 2023/2131(DEC)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses that the current situation implieallows thate Parliament can onlyto check the reports of the Court and of the Ombudsman as well asbut only the publicly available information on the Council’s website, something thatince the Council continues its malpractice of non- cooperation with the Partiament which makes it impossible for Parliament to make an informed decision on granting discharge;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses that, while the current situation has to be improved through better interinstitutional cooperation within the framework of the Treaties, a revision of the Treaties could render the discharge procedure clearer and more transparent by givinggive Parliament the explicit competence to grant discharge to all Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies individually;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Points outRegrets the serious gender imbalance in the Court, where, at the end of 2022, there were only 9 female members compared to 17 male members; understandsnotes that the difficulties in achieving gender balance in the Court because ofare due to the current nomination procedure; reiterates its call on the Council to reconsider the nomination procedure with the aim of tackling this problem with concrete actions, such as making it compulsory for Member States to nominate at least two candidates of different genders for each vacancy;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27 a. Believes that the use of the unanimity voting procedure in the Council on certain policy areas is paralysing the Union’s decision-making process; calls on the Council to apply the qualified majority voting procedures whenever provided by the Treaties, and to consider the review of the Treaties regulating the voting procedures; believes that the generalised shift to a qualified majority voting procedure in the Council is a crucial step towards more efficient policy-making;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Notes that the Council carried out 64 budgetary transfers in 2022, all on basis of Article 29 of the Financial Regulation, significantly up from 43 in 2021; further notes that six of the transfers involved informing the budgetary authority and that the major reason for those transfers was increased water, gas, electricity and heating costs and higher-than-expected salary increases;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Welcomes that the General Secretariat of the Council has provided a summary of the number and type of internal audits carried out in the General Secretariat in 2022 and a synthesis of the recommendations and the action taken on those recommendations in line with Article 118(8) of the Financial Regulation; notes that the internal auditor has established a three year work programme for the period 2022-2024, which is being broken down into annual work programmes; further notes that seven internal audits were carried out in 2022; notes finallywith concern that, at the end of 2022, only 72 % of the recommendations from the 2019-2021 work programme were implemented and 27 % of the recommendations are still open;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Welcomes that the internal audits were carried out within a wide range of areas; further welcomes that all recommendations concerning six of the seven audits were accepted; noteregrets that the results concerning the audit on the crypto management was not communicated because the audit report was classified; stresses that Parliament has systems to handle classified information and the results of the audit on crypto management could have been communicated using those systems;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
Paragraph 42
42. NotObserves that, according to its financial activity report for 2022, the General Secretariat of the Council had 2 924 occupied posts by 31 December 2022; furthermore notes that the Council website states that the Council Secretariat had 3 108 staff (officials, temporary and contract staff and seconded national experts) on 1 January 2023; calls on the Council to avoid publishing discrepant information in its open sources;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
Paragraph 46
46. Notes that all 27 Member States are represented on the staff but that there are serious geographical imbalances with 527 Belgian members of staff, equivalent to 17 %, while only 0,2 % are Cypriot and 0,3 % Luxembourgish; underlines the importance of a fair geographical balance of the members of staff at all levels, especially at middle and senior management levels, while at the same time fulfilling the requirements in the staff regulation in relation to competences and merits of candidates;