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2021/2149(DEC) 2020 discharge: Joint Undertaking - Aeronautics and Environment (Clean Sky)

Progress: Procedure completed

RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead CONT BRUDZIŃSKI Joachim Stanisław (icon: ECR ECR) MARINESCU Marian-Jean (icon: EPP EPP), CREȚU Corina (icon: S&D S&D), WIEZIK Michal (icon: Renew Renew), RIVASI Michèle (icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE), KUHS Joachim (icon: ID ID), OMARJEE Younous (icon: GUE/NGL GUE/NGL)
Committee Opinion ENVI
Committee Opinion TRAN FALCĂ Gheorghe (icon: EPP EPP) Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA (icon: ECR ECR), José Ramón BAUZÁ DÍAZ (icon: RE RE), Alviina ALAMETSÄ (icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE)
Committee Opinion ITRE
Lead committee dossier:

Events

2022/10/05
   Final act published in Official Journal
2022/05/04
   EP - Debate in Parliament
2022/05/04
   EP - Decision by Parliament
Details

The European Parliament decided to grant discharge to the Executive Director of the Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking (now the Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking) in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Joint Undertaking for the financial year 2020 and approve the closure of the Joint Undertaking’s accounts.

Noting that the Court of Auditors found that the annual accounts of the Joint Undertaking for the financial year 2020 present fairly the financial situation of the Joint Undertaking on 31 December 2020 and the results of its operations, Parliament adopted, by 572 votes to 53 with 14 abstentions, a resolution containing a series of observations which form an integral part of the discharge decision.

Budgetary and financial management

The Joint Undertaking’s final available budget for 2020 (including re-entered unused appropriations of previous years, assigned revenues, and reallocations to the next year) comprised commitment appropriations of EUR 346 723 559 and payment appropriations of EUR 356 604 910. The utilisation rate was 71.66 % for commitment appropriations and 78.41 % for payment appropriations.

By the end of 2020, out of the maximum amount of EUR 1 755 000 000 of Union contribution from Horizon 2020, the EU contributed a total of EUR 1 451 082 877 to the Horizon 2020 operational activities and running costs. The total in-kind contribution from private members to operational activities was EUR 581 335 882, while the total in-kind contribution from private members to additional activities was EUR 1 144 170 000.

Parliament noted that the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a slowdown of the grant agreements for partners and adversely affected the implementation rate of the operational payment budget, which was 82.6 % at the end of 2020 (compared to 2019: 97.2 %). It also noted that the Joint Undertaking more than doubled the payment budget of its infrastructure and communication expenditure (representing around 1.5 % of the Joint Undertaking’s total available payment budget) for the financial year 2020 and that this doubling of the payment budget, together with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on planned costs for IT, communication, event and other external services, resulted in the low implementation rate of 42.7 % at the end of 2020 (compared to 2019: 98.7 %).

Once again, Parliament called for a harmonisation of the calculation of in-kind contributions to the Joint Undertaking.

Other comments

The resolution also contains a series of observations on calls for proposals, performance, staff, procurement and internal controls.

In particular, it noted the following:

- the eleventh call for proposals was launched in January 2020 comprising 35 topics, four of which were thematic topics, and that they involved 128 participations from 17 different countries. 188 eligible proposals were submitted and 36 were retained of which 25 proposals for thematic topics;

- at 31 December 2020, 36 temporary agents’ and 6 contract agents’ positions were filled out as per establishment plan, and, in addition, 1 seconded national expert out of the two under the establishment plan;

- corrective action was taken by the Undertaking to address the systemic errors related to declared personnel costs;

- the Joint Undertaking established its specific Clean Sky 2 Antifraud Strategy and an action plan has been developed to further strengthen the controls to prevent and detect fraud;

- the Internal Audit Service (IAS) finalised an audit, planned in the Strategic Audit Plan 2019-2021, of the implementation phase of grants under the Horizon 2020 programme and that recommendations were issued in regard to the Joint Undertaking’s fraud risk assessment and the anti-fraud controls, a risk-based approach for the ex-ante evaluation of grant payments and reports, and the monitoring of project dissemination, exploitation and communications.

Documents
2022/03/28
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
Documents
2022/03/28
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary
Documents
2022/02/28
   EP - Vote in committee
2022/02/16
   CSL - Supplementary non-legislative basic document
Documents
2022/02/02
   EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2022/01/14
   EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2021/12/20
   EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2021/11/12
   CofA - Court of Auditors: opinion, report
2021/10/11
   EP - FALCĂ Gheorghe (EPP) appointed as rapporteur in TRAN
2021/09/14
   EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2021/07/28
   EP - BRUDZIŃSKI Joachim Stanisław (ECR) appointed as rapporteur in CONT
2021/06/30
   EC - Non-legislative basic document
2021/06/30
   EC - Non-legislative basic document published

Documents

Votes

Décharge 2020: entreprise commune Clean Sky 2 - Discharge 2020: Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking - Entlastung 2020: Gemeinsames Unternehmen Clean Sky 2 - A9-0070/2022 - Joachim Stanisław Brudziński - Proposition de résolution #

2022/05/04 Outcome: +: 572, -: 53, 0: 14
DE FR ES PL RO IT BE NL HU PT CZ BG AT DK SE HR LT IE SK EL FI LV SI CY MT LU EE
Total
88
66
57
47
27
72
20
27
19
21
19
14
17
14
20
12
10
12
12
16
13
8
7
6
5
4
6
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161

Hungary PPE

1

Denmark PPE

For (1)

1

Latvia PPE

2

Slovenia PPE

3
2

Malta PPE

For (1)

1

Luxembourg PPE

2

Estonia PPE

For (1)

1
icon: S&D S&D
130

Czechia S&D

For (1)

1

Lithuania S&D

2

Slovakia S&D

2

Finland S&D

1

Latvia S&D

2

Slovenia S&D

2

Cyprus S&D

2

Luxembourg S&D

For (1)

1

Estonia S&D

2
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92

Poland Renew

1

Italy Renew

3

Hungary Renew

2

Austria Renew

For (1)

1
3

Croatia Renew

For (1)

1

Lithuania Renew

1

Ireland Renew

2

Finland Renew

3

Latvia Renew

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1

Slovenia Renew

2

Estonia Renew

2
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65

Spain Verts/ALE

3

Poland Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Belgium Verts/ALE

3

Netherlands Verts/ALE

3

Portugal Verts/ALE

1

Czechia Verts/ALE

3

Austria Verts/ALE

3

Denmark Verts/ALE

2

Sweden Verts/ALE

2

Lithuania Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Ireland Verts/ALE

2

Finland Verts/ALE

3

Luxembourg Verts/ALE

For (1)

1
icon: ECR ECR
57

Germany ECR

1

Belgium ECR

2

Netherlands ECR

4

Bulgaria ECR

1
3

Croatia ECR

1

Lithuania ECR

1

Slovakia ECR

For (1)

1

Greece ECR

Abstain (1)

1

Latvia ECR

2
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38

France NI

2

Croatia NI

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2

Lithuania NI

1

Slovakia NI

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2

Latvia NI

Abstain (1)

1
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Belgium The Left

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1

Netherlands The Left

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1

Portugal The Left

4

Czechia The Left

1

Denmark The Left

Abstain (1)

1

Sweden The Left

Abstain (1)

1

Ireland The Left

Abstain (2)

3

Finland The Left

For (1)

1

Cyprus The Left

2
icon: ID ID
61

Netherlands ID

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1

Czechia ID

Against (1)

Abstain (1)

2

Austria ID

3

Denmark ID

For (1)

1

Finland ID

2

Estonia ID

Against (1)

1
AmendmentsDossier
25 2021/2149(DEC)
2021/11/26 TRAN 14 amendments...
source: 700.605
2022/02/03 CONT 11 amendments...
source: 703.124

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)

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  • The European Parliament decided to grant discharge to the Executive Director of the Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking (now the Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking) in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Joint Undertaking for the financial year 2020 and approve the closure of the Joint Undertaking’s accounts.
  • Noting that the Court of Auditors found that the annual accounts of the Joint Undertaking for the financial year 2020 present fairly the financial situation of the Joint Undertaking on 31 December 2020 and the results of its operations, Parliament adopted, by 572 votes to 53 with 14 abstentions, a resolution containing a series of observations which form an integral part of the discharge decision.
  • Budgetary and financial management
  • The Joint Undertaking’s final available budget for 2020 (including re-entered unused appropriations of previous years, assigned revenues, and reallocations to the next year) comprised commitment appropriations of EUR 346 723 559 and payment appropriations of EUR 356 604 910. The utilisation rate was 71.66 % for commitment appropriations and 78.41 % for payment appropriations.
  • By the end of 2020, out of the maximum amount of EUR 1 755 000 000 of Union contribution from Horizon 2020, the EU contributed a total of EUR 1 451 082 877 to the Horizon 2020 operational activities and running costs. The total in-kind contribution from private members to operational activities was EUR 581 335 882, while the total in-kind contribution from private members to additional activities was EUR 1 144 170 000.
  • Parliament noted that the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a slowdown of the grant agreements for partners and adversely affected the implementation rate of the operational payment budget, which was 82.6 % at the end of 2020 (compared to 2019: 97.2 %). It also noted that the Joint Undertaking more than doubled the payment budget of its infrastructure and communication expenditure (representing around 1.5 % of the Joint Undertaking’s total available payment budget) for the financial year 2020 and that this doubling of the payment budget, together with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on planned costs for IT, communication, event and other external services, resulted in the low implementation rate of 42.7 % at the end of 2020 (compared to 2019: 98.7 %).
  • Once again, Parliament called for a harmonisation of the calculation of in-kind contributions to the Joint Undertaking.
  • Other comments
  • The resolution also contains a series of observations on calls for proposals, performance, staff, procurement and internal controls.
  • In particular, it noted the following:
  • - the eleventh call for proposals was launched in January 2020 comprising 35 topics, four of which were thematic topics, and that they involved 128 participations from 17 different countries. 188 eligible proposals were submitted and 36 were retained of which 25 proposals for thematic topics;
  • - at 31 December 2020, 36 temporary agents’ and 6 contract agents’ positions were filled out as per establishment plan, and, in addition, 1 seconded national expert out of the two under the establishment plan;
  • - corrective action was taken by the Undertaking to address the systemic errors related to declared personnel costs;
  • - the Joint Undertaking established its specific Clean Sky 2 Antifraud Strategy and an action plan has been developed to further strengthen the controls to prevent and detect fraud;
  • - the Internal Audit Service (IAS) finalised an audit, planned in the Strategic Audit Plan 2019-2021, of the implementation phase of grants under the Horizon 2020 programme and that recommendations were issued in regard to the Joint Undertaking’s fraud risk assessment and the anti-fraud controls, a risk-based approach for the ex-ante evaluation of grant payments and reports, and the monitoring of project dissemination, exploitation and communications.
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