5 Amendments of Saskia BRICMONT related to 2022/2117(DEC)
Amendment 4 #
2. Regrets the fact that the Court issued a qualified audit opinion with respect to the legality and regularity of the payments underlying the accounts of eu- LISA both for 2020 and for 2021; notes the Court’s explanation that the qualified opinion was issued in relation to six payments that were considered not compliant to the provisions of framework contracts, and other payments identified outside the initial sample affected by the same non-compliance, amounting in total to EUR 18.11 million in 2021, representing 6,2 % of the total payment appropriations available in 2021; takes note that the new tasks of eu-LISA contains short deadlines and that the Commission adopted a more flexible approach to the budget assigned to the eu-LISA for new tasks; reminds, however, the importance of compliance with framework contracts to avoid reputational risks and considers that any suggestion to reduce the overall operational costs of eu-LISA should be planned in advance;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the eu-LISA signed a specific contract of €40 million to implement a framework contract related to large-scale IT systems, without specifying the details of the services acquired and with an extended duration; highlights the repeated concerns by the Court about the risk associated with the practice of giving resources to eu-LISA before the adoption of legislation, including delegated and implementing regulations, defining the requirements for the IT systems to be developed; calls on the Commission to take into account the concerns by the Court and ensure that the situation is addressed;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is concerned that eu-LISA amended the value of three contracts, two in 2021 and one 2019, which increased the maximum amount of the contracts by 50 % (€70.4 million, €20 million and €40 million respectively); stresses that the three contracts correspond to the Implementation and Maintenance of the Entry Exit System (EES), the provision of the Common Shared Infrastructure (CSI) and the Maintenance of the Schengen Information System (MWO SIS II); shares the opinion by the Court that eu-LISA should improve the contracts management to ensure that specific contracts are always aligned with the framework contracts;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Notes that according to eu-LISA, irregularities identified regarding the legality and regularity of the payments do not have a financial impact, but are rather non-compliance with rules affecting some specific tenders, and that in almost all cases, the issue was the flexibility allowed under the financial rules, which the Court considered to have been exceeded; shares the opinion by the Court the flexibility allowed under the financial rules is excessive and requests that measures are put in place to ensure legal certainty;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes the Court’ ongoing observations from 2018, 2019 and 2020 on the budgetary management; regrets that the rate of carry-overs remain substantial compared to the total budget (€11.41 million of 2021 commitment appropriations have been carried over to 2022); stresses that recurrent high rates of carry-overs contradict the budgetary principle of annuality and are indicative of structural issues in the implementation of the budget;