3 Amendments of Saskia BRICMONT related to 2019/2088(DEC)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Regrets the Court’s finding of weaknesses in contract management as well as ex ante controls linked to the fact that the Agency’s irregularly prolongation and amendmented the duration of a framework contract onfor the provision of business travel services after iby signing an amendment after the contract had expired; notes that the amendment introduced new price aspects not covered by the incompetitialve public procurement procedure and that the irregular payments in relation to the contract amounted to 22,188 EUR in 2018; takes note of Europol’s objection to the Court’s finding regarding contract management and ex ante controls and its commitment to due diligence as well as to sound financial management but stresses that such irregularities should be avoided in the future; urges the Agency to betterfully respect the Financial Regulation in order to strengthen its internal financial management controls accordingly;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that the Court has identified a horizontal trend across agencies in the use of external staff hired in IT consultancy roles; calls for this dependency on external recruitment in this important area to be addressed; encouragerequests the Agency to act on the single outstanding recommendation of the Court, namely to publish its vacancy notices on the website of the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) and to take note of the observations by the Court;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Requests the Agency to review its linguistic policy and calls on the Budgetary Authority to provide sufficient financial resources to allow for the translation of Europol’s official reports into all official Union languages, given the importance of its work for European citizens, the obligation to ensure full transparency with regard to its activities and the fact that the Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny Group composed of national and European parliamentarians from all Member States should be able to do its work properly.