Activities of Andrea ČEŠKOVÁ related to 2012/2172(DEC)
Reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2011, Section VI – European Economic and Social Committee PDF (144 KB) DOC (77 KB)
Amendments (11)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Takes note of the replies given to the Court of Auditors' observations and requests to be further informedation given on the update of the guidelines applicable to the grading and recruitment of staff;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that in 2011 the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) had available commitment appropriations of EUR 128 600 000 (EUR 123 173 749 in 2010), with an utilisation rate of 95,4%, lower than the rate of 98% of 2010; this is mainly due to the Council's decision not to adopt the Commission's proposal for salary adjustments for 2011; stresses that the EESC budget is purely administrative, with a large amount used on expenditure concerning persons working within the institution and the remaining amount relating to buildings, furniture, equipment and miscellaneous running costs;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Reiterates the call for aWelcomes the strengthening of cooperation between the EESC members and Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control, in particular in relation to the discharge exercise;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Notes with satisfaction that the EESC–CoR Cooperation agreement is estimated to make savings/synergies in the order of around EUR 40 million; considers that it would be interesting to have a more recent evaluation of this agreement's benefits since the data above are from the year 2005 and did not take into account the situation in the EU27;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Congratulates both the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions for receiving EMAS and ISO-14001 certification; regrets however that no information was providasks to be informed in the annual activity reports on the energy used from renewable sources as requested in last year's Parliament discharge resolution;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Is pleased with the achievements in the area of translation following the renewed EESC-CoR Cooperation agreement; notes, however, that in 2011 there was a higher demand for translation from external translators compared to previous years; calls onencourages the EESC to set a better timetable formake further efforts to better planning the translation demandpicks;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Considers positive the decrease of the unused rate of interpretation services requested from 12.3% in 2010 to 8,9% in 2011; note however that it continues being a very high rate of unused services and askwelcomes the EESC for providing this very useful information; notes however that the rate of unused services continues to be high and invites the EESC to tmake the necessary measurefurther efforts to diminish drastically this figure;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Takes note of the very high execution rate of the communication budget which was in 2011 of EUR 1.712.535; welcomes its decrease for the period of 2012 and 2013 to the amount of EUR 1.597.200; congratulates the EESC for all the initiatives and events that are created to promote its work and to build bridges between the civil society and Union institutions; is of the opinion that the EESC, as all the other institutions, can communicate effectively with less means;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Wishes to see information included in the annual report on the manner in which the EESC will participate in the running of the Council'semployees may use of the pre- school facility andies; takes note onf the conditions under which EESC employees may make use of that facilityunexpected end of the agreement with the Council for the EESC staff to use its child care facilities and invites the Committee to look at possible solutions;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Wishes to see more detailed information included in the EESC's annual report on the provision of space for meetings organised by external civil- society organisations working in partnership, as well as on the benefits and costs for those organisations and the way in which they are selected; welcomes the precise criteria set to choose the organisation and the event that has to be related to the Union, not having commercial purpose or pursuing a political objective and has to highlight the EESC's role;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Acknowledges the projects developed to modernise document management and the IT infrastructure; believes that the document management reform is developing well and will contribute for improving the EESC performance; hopes that the IT reform will achieve the same results; asks these projects to be followed up in the 2012 annual activity report; (that it is the paragraph 22)