Activities of Isabel GARCÍA MUÑOZ related to 2020/2149(DEC)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2019, Section X – European External Action Service
Amendments (10)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes with satisfaction that, according to the observations of the Court of Auditor’s (‘the Court’s’) annual report related to Chapter 9 'Administration - MFF heading 5', no specific issues were identified in the sample of transactions concerning the EEAS for the third consecutive year and no material level of error was identified in the EEAS’s annual activity report;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Observes that at the end of 2019, the proportionof Member State diplomats in the total administrator population amounted to 33,37 %, representing a slight decrease compared to 33,76 % in 2018 with; notes the following slight fluctuations between 2014-2017: 32,83 % end 2017, 31,7 % end 2016, 32,9 % in 2015 and 33,8 % in 2014; invicongratulates the EEAS tofor staying in line with the staffing formula as set out in Decision 2010/427/EU6 , namely a ratio of one third of staff from Member States and two thirds from Union’s institutions; _________________ 6 Council Decision 2010/427/EU of 26 July 2010 establishing the organisation and functioning of the European External Action Service (EEAS) (OJ L 201, 3.8.2010, p. 30).
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes the geographical imbalances in the composition of the EEAS staff; stresses that the EEAS, like all European institutions, must ensure that all Member States are proportionally represented whenever possible, while at the same time respecting the competences and merits of the candidates; calls on the EEAS to enhance the geographical balance in order to have a proper representation of nationals from all Member States, reflecting the diversity of Member States; welcomes the EEAS’ efforts informing the Human Resources Network of EU Member States about the staff composition, publishing the vacancies and promoting national efforts to increase the number of candidates;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Observes that the number of seconded national experts from Member States started to slightly increase after two years of stabilisation, from 449 in 2017- 2018 to 461 in 2019, while noting an evolution towards more specialised profiles for civilians SNEs; notes with satisfaction the new internal policy on SNEs adopted in 2019 and several measures to rebalance the share of the SNEs' population, in addition to limiting the creation of new SNEs posts to specialists in specific areas;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes with satisfaction the upward trend with regard to the proportion of women reaching management positions with 30,3 % (or 81 positions) compared to 27,1 % in 2018 and 24,5 % in 2017; takes also note of the increasing trend of the share of women posted as Heads of Delegation from 19,5 % in 2015 to 27,7 % in 2019 (or 38 postings out of 137); reiterates its support for the EEAS in continuing its efforts with Member States to introduce more women candidates; notes that overall women represented 47,7 % of EEAS staff; recalls that gender balance should also be considered with regard to the EU special representatives, two out of eight EU special representatives being women;
Amendment 17 #
10. Notes that the total budget of the EEAS for 2019 amounted to EUR 694,8 million (i.e. an increase of 2,4 % compared to 2018) with the following split, namely EUR 249,7 million for EEAS headquarters and EUR 445,21 million for the Delegations;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Observes that the headquarters’ budget amounted to approximately EUR 250 million out of which EUR 161,8 million (i.e. 64,8 %) concerned the payment of salaries and other entitlements of statutory and external staff, EUR 32 million (i.e. 13 %) were for buildings and associated costs, and EUR 35,3 million (i.e. 14 %) were related to IT computer systems including classified information systems, equipment and furniture;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Encourages the EEAS therefore to continue discussing with the European Commission ways to streamline the budget nomenclature and lines when possible in order to facilitate the overall EEAS budget management; is of the opinion that the upcoming MFF and the related evolution in their design and structure should speed up this process of budgetary simplification and rationalisation; considers that such an evolution is likely to improve budgetary costs control and minimize the risk of error; acknowledges the proposal made by the EEAS in early 2020 for a far-reaching simplification; acknowledges that this proposal has been postponed to 2022 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic but that the EEAS has submitted another simplifying proposal to the Commission in September 2020;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Notes the rate of anomalies detected in ex ante verifications of commitments and payments (respectively, 308 errors out of 1193 and 394 out of 2119); is concerned that in both cases errors are of an administrative nature i.e. incorrect amounts for commitments or missing supporting documents for payments presented for ex-ante financial verification; acknowledges the implementation, from January 2020, of a revised list of anomaly codes aiming at better defining the error typology;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49
Paragraph 49
49. RegretNotes the fact that there is an increase in cases reported to the mediation service, reaching 183 in 2019 (compared to 135 cases in 2018) concerning either unsolved disagreements around rights and obligations or different kinds of conflict at work, reaching 183 in 2019 (compared to 135 cases in 2018); understands that the increase of the cases brought to the mediation service is a sign of a proper functioning; acknowledges the adoption of a new Decision on the EEAS Mediation Service in 2020 in order to strengthen the mechanisms in place;