8 Amendments of Brice HORTEFEUX related to 2022/2124(DEC)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that Frontex is by large the Agency that received more significant budget increases in the last years; recalls that, with the increase in its staffing and in the amount of official travel, the Agency’s budget has skyrocketed from €118 million in 2011 to €741 million in 2021, and to an annual average of €900 million for the 2021-2027 period;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes the drawing up of a fundamental rights strategy and action plan; regretnotes that the obligation included in Article 110(6) of Regulation (EU) 2019/1896 to deploy at least 40 fundamental rights monitors has been met with significant delay; notes that the number of fundamental rights monitors now stands at 46; deeply deplores that despite the significant overall staff increase for the Agency, the Fundamental Rights Officer still lacks adequate human resources; urges the Agency to provide its fundamental rights officer with adequate resources and staffimplemented, and that there are now 46 such fundamental rights monitors;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the position that the Management Board should play a proactive role in identifying and preventing serious risk of fundamental rights violations; reiterates the importance to implement the standard operating procedures to withdraw the financing of, or suspend or terminate, or not launch Frontex activities infinancing of Frontex’s activities should be guaranteed in the long term, given the successive extensions of its mandate and the aim of establishing a 10 000-strong permanent European border and coases where such risks ariset guard force by 2027;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Expresses its utmost concerns with regard toNotes the allegations of push backs in the context of Frontex operations in Lithuania, Latvia, Croatia, Bulgaria and Greece; reiterates its calls on the Agency to suspend its operations supporting return-related operations from Hungary as long as,competent authorities to investigate the allegations and, as concluded by the Court of Justice of the European Union, the return decisions issued by the Hungarian authorities are incompatiblt the same time, requests that Frontex continue with Directive 2008/115/EC and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Unions operations in those Member States and in Hungary;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Reiterates its profound concerns aboutNotes the findings of the OLAF report of 15 February 2022 on investigations into Frontex, and expresses its utter dismay in the behaviour and actions described in the findings and the lack of accountability; considers that the findings of the OLAF report are a matter of public interest and shcould be made public, without further delayhilst upholding the principle of the protection of personal data and the presumption of innocence;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes that Frontex’ structural problems regarding fundamental rights protection of asylum seekers and migrants, transparency, data protection, and alleged sexual harassment within the Agency led the European Parliament to refuse dischargePoints out that the European Parliament refused to grant discharge in respect of the Agency’s 2020 budget;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Recommends that the Committee on Budgetary Control to postpone granting thegrant discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year 2021, until the structural shortcomings related to respect by Frontex of its fundamental rights obligations have been fully addressed.