8 Amendments of Ingeborg GRÄSSLE related to 2018/2167(DEC)
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50
Paragraph 50
50. Notes that the drivers’ service was brought in-house in 2017 with the main objective of improving the security of Members; observes that this permitted Parliament to conduct security screenings of drivers before employment and to provide continuous training and monitoring of its staff; notes with appreciation that the recruitment of 116 drivers and dispatchers was completed in 2017; requests details of the costs incurred by bringing the drivers' service in-house;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 52
Paragraph 52
52. Regrets that the number of women holding posts at the level of director- general fell from 25 % (3 posts) in 2016 to 17 % (2 posts) in 2017; notes the number of women at director level remained steady from 2016 to 2017 at 30 % (14 posts); calls on the Bureau to implement the higher number of women constantly demanded by the European Parliament within its own ranks;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 67
Paragraph 67
67. Notes that the new Parliament’s travel service will start operating on 1 January 2019; welcomes the fact that the new contract contains strengthened conditions, in particular with regard to ticket pricing and the availability of the travel service’s call centre at all times, including at weekends; stresses again the importance of a simple and user-friendly complaints mechanism to quickly highlight shortfalls, which allows for speedy resolution of any problems; emphasises that attention needs to be paid to the specific requirements of Members and their need for tailor-made services; is doubtful that services will significantly improve since former BCD staff will be taken on by the new travel service;
Amendment 152 #
70. Recalls that these projected future liabilities are spread over several decades but notes that the total amount paid in 2017 by the voluntary pension fund amounts to EUR 17,2 million; notes that at the end of 2017 the Fund had 661 pensioners and 99 dependants;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 71
Paragraph 71
71. Points out that this raises concerns about the possible exhaustion of the fund as the fund that Parliament is guaranteeing the payment of pension rights when and if this fund is not able to meet its obligations; s been selling fixed assets for several years in order to meet its payment obligations to pensioners because the fund's income is not sufficient to cover the increased pension payments; recalls that the provision for pensions and similar obligations has been calculated based on a return of investment of 6,5% per year, which was from the beginning not sustainable;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72
Paragraph 72
72. CWelcomes the modifications to the rules adopted by the Bureau on the 10th of December 2018; calls on the Secretary- General to ensure that a decision isll legally possible measures are taken by the Bureau without delay in order to improve the sustainability of the fund to prevent the fund's early insolvency;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 73
Paragraph 73
73. Calls on the Secretary-General, as well as the Bureau, to exhaust all possible avenues to keep Parliament’s liability to a minimum, as taxpayers’ money is involved; recalls that the fund was set up in 1990 to provide Members with an additional pension scheme because one had previously been lacking; underlines that this is no longer the case and that the Von a voluntary basis; recalls that before the Members statute, which was introduced in 2009, Members were already eligible for a pension equivalent to those of their colleagues in the national parliaments, with the exception of Italian, French and Luxemburgish MEPs, who could therefore contribute to a special pension scheme of the European Parliament, which was created in 1981 solely for the needs of the aforementioned three nationalities; recalls therefore that the Voluntary Pension Fund has always constituted a purely supplementary pension; points out that two thirds of the Members' monthly contribution to the voluntary pension fund, which corresponded to EUR 2 236 in 2006, were already paid from the European Parliament's budget for each member of the Fund; recalls that only two years of contribution to the Fund generates a lifetime pension claim when having reached the retirement age; notes that the highest pension paid in 2018 from the voluntary Ppension Fund constitutes a supplementary pension; fund amounted to EUR 6 262, and that the average pension amounted to EUR 1 934; notes that currently (October 2018) 71 active Members are members of the Voluntary Pension Fund; appeals on the ethical and economic conscience and the common sense of the board of directors, the Bureau and the members of the Fund to support all measures aiming at limiting the deficit of the Fund;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 81 a (new)
Paragraph 81 a (new)
81a. Asks for clarification that all staff with a management position in the Directorate-General for Security and Safety have passed a security clearance procedure;