4 Amendments of Sylvie GUILLAUME related to 2017/2178(DEC)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Is concerned that the public procurement procedure launched for the further development and maintenance of the VIS system (EUR 192 million six year contract) without precisely defining the services requested required tenderers to have access to the Biometric Matching Service technology developed by one single company with no obligations to provide commercial access to tenderers; calls on the Agency to avoid being locked- in to any vendors as this would be detrimental to its long term financial interests, damaging the cost-effectiveness of procurement procedures and limiting competitionwhile noting that the services procured need to be tailored to the components actually in use; urges the Agency to conclude agreements with multiple suppliers and to define the services required precisely;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Welcomes the fact that the Agency ensured stable and continuous operations of the systems entrusted to it and provided broad support to the Commission in development of number of key legal proposals (EES,ETIAS, ECRIS TCN, EURODAC Recast and SIS II recast);
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Regrets that the internal whistleblowing procedure has not been implemented yet; notes, however, that the Agency was waiting for guidance or input from the Commission before it could finalise its rules; calls on the Agency for an immediate and effective implementation of the internal whistleblowing procedure;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses with concernNotes that the first annual monitoring report on the implementation of the Agency’s anti-fraud strategy (April 2016) showed a low level of implementation close to 60%, while the next monitoring report (March 2017) showsed a level of quantitative implementation of at least 80%; calls on the Agency to constantly improve the implementation of its anti-fraud strategy;