2010/2184(DEC)

2009 discharge: Community Fisheries Control Agency CFCA

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2010/2184(DEC) 2009 discharge: Community Fisheries Control Agency CFCA

Role	Committee	Rapporteur	Shadows
Lead	CONT	STAVRAKAKIS Georgios (S&D)	MACOVEI Monica Luisa (EPP), GERBRANDY Gerben-Jan (ALDE), STAES Bart (Verts/ALE), SØNDERGAARD Søren Bo (GUE/NGL)
Opinion	PECH	GALLAGHER Pat the Cope (ALDE)

Lead committee dossier: CONT/7/04067

Subjects

8.70.03.04 2009 discharge

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Activites

2011/09/27 Final act published in Official Journal
- Decision 2011/570
- OJ L 250 27.09.2011, p. 0135
2011/05/10 Text adopted by Parliament, single reading
- T7-0167/2011 summary
  
  The European Parliament adopted by 509 votes to 66, with 35 abstentions a decision on discharge to be granted to the Executive Director of the Community Fisheries Control Agency in respect of the implementation of its budget for the financial year 2009. Noting that the Agency's annual accounts for the financial year 2009 are reliable, and the underlying transactions are legal and regular, Parliament approves the closure of the Agency's accounts. However, it makes a number of recommendations that need to be taken into account when the discharge is granted (in addition to the general recommendations that appear in the resolution on financial management and control of EU agencies - see DEC/2010/2271): performance: Parliament calls, once more, on the Agency to set out a comparison of operations carried out during the year for which discharge is to be granted and in the previous financial year so as to enable the discharge authority to assess the Agency's performance from one year to the next more effectively. They urge the Agency to improve its annual work programme by including specific and measurable objectives; human resources: Parliament calls on the Agency to redress its weaknesses in recruitment planning; internal audit: Parliament notes that the Agency does not have an internal fulltime audit structure but that it shares one with the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) in Lisbon. To this end, a Service Level Agreement between the Agency and EMSA was signed on 17 June 2008. Parliament considers this shared service concept to be a best practice to be promoted by other Agencies.
- Results of vote in Parliament
2011/04/04 Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
- A7-0118/2011
2011/04/04 Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
- A7-0118/2011
2011/03/21 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
- CONT CONT/7/04067 STAVRAKAKIS Georgios S&D
- PECH GALLAGHER Pat the Cope ALDE
2011/03/08 Deadline Amendments
2011/02/03 Committee draft report
- PE450.699
2010/10/20 Court of Auditors: opinion, report
- N7-0007/2011 summary
  
  PURPOSE: presentation by the Court of Auditors of its report on the annual accounts of the Community Fisheries Control Agency (CFCA) for the financial year 2009, together with the Agency's replies CONTENT: in accordance with the tasks and objectives conferred on it by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), the Court of Auditors, in the context of the discharge procedure, addresses to the European Parliament and the Council a Statement of Assurance on the reliability of the annual accounts, as well as of the legality and regularity of the transactions underlying them of each EU institution, body or agency, on the basis of an external, independent audit. This audit also covered the annual accounts of the Community Fisheries Control Agency (CFCA). In the Court's opinion, the Agency's annual accounts presented "fairly, in all material respects", its financial position as of 31 December 2009 and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the year then ended, in accordance with the provisions of its Financial Regulation. The Court also stated that the transactions underlying the annual accounts of the Agency for the financial year ended 31 December 2009 were, "in all material respects, legal and regular". The report again confirmed that the Agency's 2009 final budget amounted to EUR 10.1 million and that it employed 49 agents during the financial year. The report also included comments on the Agency's budgetary and financial management, together with the Agency's replies. The main comments are as follows: The Court's comments: shortcomings in the Agency's 2009 work programme and related activity-based management issues; backlog for filling certain temporary posts at the Agency. The Agency's replies: the Agency is continuously developing and fine-tuning outputs and relevant performance indicators for each policy area (the Agency's Annual report 2009 presents a table with the deliverable of activities and the performance indicators evaluation); the rate of occupation of posts in the establishment plan in 2009 was made in line with budget availability for salaries and other staff costs. (Most of these posts have been occupied in early 2010 as planned in line with the budget.) Lastly, the Court of Auditor's report contained a summary of the Agency's activities in 2009 in the following areas: on the operational level, development of common deployment plans for cod and bluefin tuna in several European fishing areas; support activities to fight illegal unreported and unregulated fisheries; capacity building.
- OJ C 338 14.12.2010, p. 0001
2010/10/07 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
- CONT CONT/7/04067 STAVRAKAKIS Georgios S&D
- PECH GALLAGHER Pat the Cope ALDE
2010/07/20 Non-legislative basic document published
- SEC(2010)0963 summary
  
  PURPOSE: presentation by the Commission of the consolidated annual accounts of the European Union for the financial year 2009, as part of the 2009 discharge procedure. Analysis of the accounts of the Community Fisheries Control Agency (CFCA). CONTENT: this Commission document sets out the consolidated annual accounts of the European Union for the financial year 2009 as prepared on the basis of the information presented by the institutions, organisations and bodies of the EU, in accordance with Article 129 (2) of the Financial Regulation applicable to the EU's General Budget, including the Community Fisheries Control Agency (CFCA). In 2009, the tasks and budget of this agency were as follows: description of CFCA's tasks: the agency, which is located in Vigo, was created by Council Regulation (EC) No 768/2005 of 26 April 2005. Its main task is to organise the operational coordination of fisheries control and inspection activities by the Member States in order to ensure effective and uniform application of the rules of the common fisheries policy; CFCA's's budget for the 2009 financial year: the Agency's 2009 budget amounted to EUR 10.1 million, compared with EUR 8.5 million the previous year. The number of staff employed by the Agency at the end of the year was 49 as compared with 47 the previous year. The complete version of CFCA's final accounts may be found at the following address: http://cfca.europa.eu
2010/07/20 Date
2010/07/20 Non-legislative basic document
- SEC(2010)0963 summary
  
  PURPOSE: presentation by the Commission of the consolidated annual accounts of the European Union for the financial year 2009, as part of the 2009 discharge procedure. Analysis of the accounts of the Community Fisheries Control Agency (CFCA). CONTENT: this Commission document sets out the consolidated annual accounts of the European Union for the financial year 2009 as prepared on the basis of the information presented by the institutions, organisations and bodies of the EU, in accordance with Article 129 (2) of the Financial Regulation applicable to the EU's General Budget, including the Community Fisheries Control Agency (CFCA). In 2009, the tasks and budget of this agency were as follows: description of CFCA's tasks: the agency, which is located in Vigo, was created by Council Regulation (EC) No 768/2005 of 26 April 2005. Its main task is to organise the operational coordination of fisheries control and inspection activities by the Member States in order to ensure effective and uniform application of the rules of the common fisheries policy; CFCA's's budget for the 2009 financial year: the Agency's 2009 budget amounted to EUR 10.1 million, compared with EUR 8.5 million the previous year. The number of staff employed by the Agency at the end of the year was 49 as compared with 47 the previous year. The complete version of CFCA's final accounts may be found at the following address: http://cfca.europa.eu
- DG Budget, ŠEMETA Algirdas

Documents

Non-legislative basic document published: SEC(2010)0963
Non-legislative basic document: SEC(2010)0963
Court of Auditors: opinion, report: N7-0007/2011
Court of Auditors: opinion, report: OJ C 338 14.12.2010, p. 0001
Committee draft report: PE450.699
Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A7-0118/2011
Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A7-0118/2011
Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T7-0167/2011
Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
: Decision 2011/570
: OJ L 250 27.09.2011, p. 0135

Votes

A7-0118/2011 - Georgios Stavrakakis - Single vote

2011/05/10

Position	Total	ALDE	ECR	EFD	GUE/NGL	NI	PPE	S&D	Verts/ALE	correctional
For	509	69	0	12	2	5	219	160	42	3
Against	66	0	44	12	0	10	0	0	0	0
Abstain	35	0	0	1	25	9	0	0	0	1

Amendments	Dossier
1	2010/2184(DEC) 2009 discharge: Community Fisheries Control Agency CFCA 2011/08/02 PECH 1 amendments... Amendment 1 # Ulrike RODUST Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Recalls that a delegation from the Committee on Fisheries visited the Community Fisheries Control Agency in June 2010 and was very satisfied with the general state of the Agency's affairs, particularly the execution of the Joint Deployment Plans; source: PE-458.507

Amendments

Dossier

2010/2184(DEC) 2009 discharge: Community Fisheries Control Agency CFCA

2011/08/02 PECH 1 amendments...

source: PE-458.507

History

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

2012-02-09

activities	added	date 2010-07-20 docs url http://www.europarl.europa.eu/registre/docs_autres_institutions/commission_europeenne/sec/2010/0963/COM_SEC(2010)0963_EN.pdf text PURPOSE: presentation by the Commission of the consolidated annual accounts of the European Union for the financial year 2009, as part of the 2009 discharge procedure. Analysis of the accounts of the Community Fisheries Control Agency (CFCA). CONTENT: this Commission document sets out the consolidated annual accounts of the European Union for the financial year 2009 as prepared on the basis of the information presented by the institutions, organisations and bodies of the EU, in accordance with Article 129 (2) of the Financial Regulation applicable to the EU's General Budget, including the Community Fisheries Control Agency (CFCA). In 2009, the tasks and budget of this agency were as follows: description of CFCA's tasks: the agency, which is located in Vigo, was created by Council Regulation (EC) No 768/2005 of 26 April 2005. Its main task is to organise the operational coordination of fisheries control and inspection activities by the Member States in order to ensure effective and uniform application of the rules of the common fisheries policy; CFCA's's budget for the 2009 financial year: the Agency's 2009 budget amounted to EUR 10.1 million, compared with EUR 8.5 million the previous year. The number of staff employed by the Agency at the end of the year was 49 as compared with 47 the previous year. The complete version of CFCA's final accounts may be found at the following address: http://cfca.europa.eu title SEC(2010)0963 type Non-legislative basic document published celexid CELEX:52010SC0963:EN body type Non-legislative basic document published body EP date 2010-07-20 type Date date 2010-07-20 docs url http://www.europarl.europa.eu/registre/docs_autres_institutions/commission_europeenne/sec/2010/0963/COM_SEC(2010)0963_EN.pdf text PURPOSE: presentation by the Commission of the consolidated annual accounts of the European Union for the financial year 2009, as part of the 2009 discharge procedure. Analysis of the accounts of the Community Fisheries Control Agency (CFCA). CONTENT: this Commission document sets out the consolidated annual accounts of the European Union for the financial year 2009 as prepared on the basis of the information presented by the institutions, organisations and bodies of the EU, in accordance with Article 129 (2) of the Financial Regulation applicable to the EU's General Budget, including the Community Fisheries Control Agency (CFCA). In 2009, the tasks and budget of this agency were as follows: description of CFCA's tasks: the agency, which is located in Vigo, was created by Council Regulation (EC) No 768/2005 of 26 April 2005. Its main task is to organise the operational coordination of fisheries control and inspection activities by the Member States in order to ensure effective and uniform application of the rules of the common fisheries policy; CFCA's's budget for the 2009 financial year: the Agency's 2009 budget amounted to EUR 10.1 million, compared with EUR 8.5 million the previous year. The number of staff employed by the Agency at the end of the year was 49 as compared with 47 the previous year. The complete version of CFCA's final accounts may be found at the following address: http://cfca.europa.eu title SEC(2010)0963 type Non-legislative basic document celexid CELEX:52010SC0963:EN body EC commission DG Budget Commissioner ŠEMETA Algirdas type Non-legislative basic document date 2010-10-07 body EP type Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading committees body EP shadows group EPP name MACOVEI Monica Luisa group ALDE name GERBRANDY Gerben-Jan group Verts/ALE name STAES Bart group GUE/NGL name SØNDERGAARD Søren Bo responsible True committee CONT date 2010-03-23 committee_full Budgetary Control rapporteur group S&D name STAVRAKAKIS Georgios body EP responsible False committee PECH date 2010-11-10 committee_full Fisheries rapporteur group ALDE name GALLAGHER Pat the Cope date 2010-10-20 docs text PURPOSE: presentation by the Court of Auditors of its report on the annual accounts of the Community Fisheries Control Agency (CFCA) for the financial year 2009, together with the Agency's replies CONTENT: in accordance with the tasks and objectives conferred on it by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), the Court of Auditors, in the context of the discharge procedure, addresses to the European Parliament and the Council a Statement of Assurance on the reliability of the annual accounts, as well as of the legality and regularity of the transactions underlying them of each EU institution, body or agency, on the basis of an external, independent audit. This audit also covered the annual accounts of the Community Fisheries Control Agency (CFCA). In the Court's opinion, the Agency's annual accounts presented "fairly, in all material respects", its financial position as of 31 December 2009 and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the year then ended, in accordance with the provisions of its Financial Regulation. The Court also stated that the transactions underlying the annual accounts of the Agency for the financial year ended 31 December 2009 were, "in all material respects, legal and regular". The report again confirmed that the Agency's 2009 final budget amounted to EUR 10.1 million and that it employed 49 agents during the financial year. The report also included comments on the Agency's budgetary and financial management, together with the Agency's replies. The main comments are as follows: The Court's comments: shortcomings in the Agency's 2009 work programme and related activity-based management issues; backlog for filling certain temporary posts at the Agency. The Agency's replies: the Agency is continuously developing and fine-tuning outputs and relevant performance indicators for each policy area (the Agency's Annual report 2009 presents a table with the deliverable of activities and the performance indicators evaluation); the rate of occupation of posts in the establishment plan in 2009 was made in line with budget availability for salaries and other staff costs. (Most of these posts have been occupied in early 2010 as planned in line with the budget.) Lastly, the Court of Auditor's report contained a summary of the Agency's activities in 2009 in the following areas: on the operational level, development of common deployment plans for cod and bluefin tuna in several European fishing areas; support activities to fight illegal unreported and unregulated fisheries; capacity building. type Court of Auditors: opinion, report title N7-0007/2011 url http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:C:2010:338:SOM:EN:HTML type Court of Auditors: opinion, report title OJ C 338 14.12.2010, p. 0001 body type Court of Auditors: opinion, report date 2011-02-03 docs url http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&mode=XML&language=EN&reference=PE450.699 type Committee draft report title PE450.699 body EP type Committee draft report body EP date 2011-03-08 type Deadline Amendments date 2011-03-21 text The Committee on Budgetary Control adopted the report by Georgios STAVRAKAKIS (S&D, EL) on discharge to be granted to the Executive Director of the Community Fisheries Control Agency in respect of the implementation of the Agency's budget for the financial year 2009. Noting that the Agency's annual accounts for the financial year 2009 are reliable, and the underlying transactions are legal and regular, MEPs approve the closure of the Agency's accounts. However, they make a number of recommendations that need to be taken into account when the discharge is granted, in addition to the general recommendations that appear in the draft resolution on financial management and control of EU agencies (see DEC/2010/2271): performance: Members call, once more, on the Agency to set out a comparison of operations carried out during the year for which discharge is to be granted and in the previous financial year so as to enable the discharge authority to assess the Agency's performance from one year to the next more effectively. They urge the Agency to improve its annual work programme by including specific and measurable objectives both at policy area level and at operational activity level, and by establishing SMART indicators. They recall that a delegation from the Committee on Fisheries had visited the Agency in June 2010 and was very satisfied with the overall conduct of this Agency; human resources: Members call on the Agency to redress its weaknesses in recruitment planning; internal audit: Members note that the Agency does not have an internal fulltime audit structure but that it shares one with the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) in Lisbon. To this end, a Service Level Agreement between the Agency and EMSA was signed on 17 June 2008. Members consider this shared service as a best practice to be promoted by other Agencies. Members also call on the Executive Director of the Agency to fully fulfil his obligation to include, in his report to the discharge authority all recommendations made (including the ones which could be possibly refused by the Agency) and all action taken on these recommendations, and the follow-up given to the "very important" recommendations made by the Internal Audit Service (IAS). They also call on the Agency to review its Internal Control System to underpin its Executive Director's annual declaration of assurance and to review all its procedures, both administrative and operational. body EP committees body EP shadows group EPP name MACOVEI Monica Luisa group ALDE name GERBRANDY Gerben-Jan group Verts/ALE name STAES Bart group GUE/NGL name SØNDERGAARD Søren Bo responsible True committee CONT date 2010-03-23 committee_full Budgetary Control rapporteur group S&D name STAVRAKAKIS Georgios body EP responsible False committee PECH date 2010-11-10 committee_full Fisheries rapporteur group ALDE name GALLAGHER Pat the Cope type Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading date 2011-04-04 docs url http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A7-2011-0118&language=EN type Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading title A7-0118/2011 body type Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading date 2011-04-04 docs url http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A7-2011-0118&language=EN type Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading title A7-0118/2011 body EP type Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading date 2011-05-10 docs url http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P7-TA-2011-0167 text The European Parliament adopted by 509 votes to 66, with 35 abstentions a decision on discharge to be granted to the Executive Director of the Community Fisheries Control Agency in respect of the implementation of its budget for the financial year 2009. Noting that the Agency's annual accounts for the financial year 2009 are reliable, and the underlying transactions are legal and regular, Parliament approves the closure of the Agency's accounts. However, it makes a number of recommendations that need to be taken into account when the discharge is granted (in addition to the general recommendations that appear in the resolution on financial management and control of EU agencies - see DEC/2010/2271): performance: Parliament calls, once more, on the Agency to set out a comparison of operations carried out during the year for which discharge is to be granted and in the previous financial year so as to enable the discharge authority to assess the Agency's performance from one year to the next more effectively. They urge the Agency to improve its annual work programme by including specific and measurable objectives; human resources: Parliament calls on the Agency to redress its weaknesses in recruitment planning; internal audit: Parliament notes that the Agency does not have an internal fulltime audit structure but that it shares one with the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) in Lisbon. To this end, a Service Level Agreement between the Agency and EMSA was signed on 17 June 2008. Parliament considers this shared service concept to be a best practice to be promoted by other Agencies. type Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading title T7-0167/2011 url http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/sda.do?id=19904&l=en type Results of vote in Parliament title Results of vote in Parliament body EP type Text adopted by Parliament, single reading date 2011-09-27 text PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the Community Fisheries Control Agency in respect of the implementation of the Agency's budget for the financial year 2009. NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision 2011/570/EU of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Community Fisheries Control Agency for the financial year 2009. CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Executive Director of the Community Fisheries Control Agency for the implementation of its budget for the financial year 2009. This decision is in line with the European Parliament's resolution adopted on 10 May 2011 and comprises a series of observations that form an integral part of the discharge decision (please refer to the summary of the opinion of 10/05/2011). A parallel decision, adopted on the same day, approves the closure of this Agency's accounts. type Final act published in Official Journal docs url http://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=EN&numdoc=32011D0570 title Decision 2011/570 url http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:L:2011:250:SOM:EN:HTML title OJ L 250 27.09.2011, p. 0135
committees	added	body EP shadows group EPP name MACOVEI Monica Luisa group ALDE name GERBRANDY Gerben-Jan group Verts/ALE name STAES Bart group GUE/NGL name SØNDERGAARD Søren Bo responsible True committee CONT date 2010-03-23 committee_full Budgetary Control rapporteur group S&D name STAVRAKAKIS Georgios body EP responsible False committee PECH date 2010-11-10 committee_full Fisheries rapporteur group ALDE name GALLAGHER Pat the Cope
links	added
other	added	body EC dg Budget commissioner ŠEMETA Algirdas
procedure	added	dossier_of_the_committee CONT/7/04067 reference 2010/2184(DEC) title 2009 discharge: Community Fisheries Control Agency CFCA stage_reached Procedure completed type DEC - Discharge procedure final url http://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=EN&numdoc=32011D0570 title Decision 2011/570 subject 8.70.03.04 2009 discharge

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