9 Amendments of Ingeborg GRÄSSLE related to 2012/2214(DEC)
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Commends the good cooperation with the responsible committee from the side of the Union Agencies Network (“the Network”), a forum for coordination, information exchange and agreement of common positions on issues of common interest for agencies, and encourages the strengthening of the Network; notes with satisfaction the availability and openness of the directors of the agencies contacted in the framework of the annual discharge procedure; proposes that the Network be supported on an unpaid basis by an external independent coordinator, for example a former Executive Director of one of the agencies, when further discussing and implementing the Roadmap;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. expects the Court of Auditors in its role as an external auditor as a follow-up to Parliament's discharge report in 2010 and its report on the benchmarking of Agencies to consult the Agencies' Network to compose an openly accessible and transparent benchmarking and ranking procedure for Agencies by using important indicators in the fields of good financial and budgetary management, low governance costs as well as efficient operational effectiveness and provide the underlying data in an easily accessible format (e.g. Excel files and/or CSV files);
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. reiterates its call on the Agencies to examine their internal administrative processes with a view to reducing administrative burden; points in particular to procurement and recruitment processes where there might be scope for a significant shortening;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Demands that all Agencies and Joint Undertakings systematically annex a standardised template regarding the publication of their Final Annual Accounts which includes the data presented in their reports on the implementation of the budget and the data presented in their reports on the budgetary and financial management; recommends that all Agencies and Joint Undertakings shall provide this information in a comprehensive, friendly accessible and transparent manner (Excel spreadsheets or Comma-Separated-Values files), to ease the comparison between their budgetary executions and thus enabling the Parliament and the public to comprehensively compare the Agencies and Joint Undertakings expenses;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)
Paragraph 15 c (new)
15 c. requests the Agencies' Network to introduce a detailed, standardised budget line system so that an aggregation and comparison of the Agencies revenues and expenses as well as the implementation and use of appropriations for each budget line can be compared by title, by chapter and by line; furthermore, asks the Agencies' Network to conduct the subsequent comparison and make the conclusions as well as the underlying data freely available in an easily accessible format (e.g. Excel files and/or CSV files);
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 d (new)
Paragraph 15 d (new)
15 d. calls on all Agencies to inform the discharge authority of the number of days of leave authorised to each grade under the flexitime and compensatory leave schemes annually annexed to their annual activity reports;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Believes that common elements between the European Police College (CEPOL) and the European Police Office (EUROPOL) should be further explored and a swift decision should be taken to prevent adverse effects on staff and recruitment procedures; taking into account the fact that in 2014, CEPOL is to leave its current premises; requests that the Commission explore a possible relocation of CEPOL to the premises of EUROPOL and duly present those proposals to Parliament and the Council taking into account the results of the study issued by CEPOL 2011 (contract CEPOL/CT/2010/002) and the Study on the amendment of the Council Decision 2005/681/JHA setting up CEPOL activity from 2012;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33a. Expects closer coordination between agencies, in particular on decisions impacting on the remit of another agency; proposes that the agencies concerned reach agreement among themselves, with the involvement of the relevant stakeholders, in order to avoid competing legislation; calls on the agencies, in such cases, to inform the Parliament committees responsible at all times;