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to help with the task of enabling the UN peacebuilding architecture to live up to the expectations which accompanied its establishment, by taking forward the recommendations of the PBC review process, also with the aim of further improving the PBC's effectiveness; to support the emergence of a sound overall peacebuilding architecture on the basis of a partnership between developing and developed countries, whilst paying particular attention to improving delivery on the ground, enhancing relations with the IFIs – in order to create jobs and address economic issues - and fostering a more organic relationship between peacekeeping and peacebuilding; to promote a more structured relationship between the PBC, the EEAS’s Managing Directorate for Global and Multilateral Issues, and particularly its Directorate on Conflict Prevention and Security Policy, and the UNGA, the UNSC and the Economic and Social Council with a view to generating greater synergy between peacekeeping and peacebuilding and development actions on the ground; to seek ways of strengthening the PBC's advisory role vis-à-vis the UNSC, to which it is accountable, of enhancing the PBC's cooperation with the Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO) and of strengthening links with regional organisations and IFIs; further, to improve the existing partnership between the PBC and the EU Peace-building Partnership through a bottom-up approach to conflict resolution that takes the activities of non-state actors in peace-building into account,
EN Official Journal of the European Union CE 168/129

Thursday 15 December 2011

Support of an International Day of the Girl

P7_TA(2011)0593

Declaration of the European Parliament of 15 December 2011 in support of an International Day of the Girl

2013/C 168 E/18

The European Parliament,

— having regard to Rule 123 of its Rules of Procedure,

A. recalling the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, which was established in 1911 to acknowledge and commemorate the social, political and economic achievements of women,

B. recalling the United Nations decision, in 1975, to choose 8 March as International Women’s Day, the day on which to celebrate women’s contributions across the world,

C. recognising that across the world, research has shown that girls are more likely to suffer from malnutrition, be subject to violence or intimidation; be trafficked, sold or coerced into the sex trade; be forced into an early marriage; become infected with HIV or suffer life-threatening conditions from a pregnancy which was not of their choosing,

1. Supports the proposal that will be made by Canada at this year’s General Assembly for a UN Resolution that would proclaim 22 September as an International Day of the Girl;

2. Calls on the European Union to support the UN Resolution for an International Day of the Girl;

3. Instructs its President to forward this declaration, together with the names of the signatories (1), to the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, to the Commission, to the Council and to the Parliaments of the Member States.

(1) The list of signatories is published in Annex 1 to the Minutes of 15 December 2011 (P7_PV(2011)12-15(ANN1)).
1.1.

Having regard to the ongoing economic and financial crisis in some Member States; to the problems of excessive budget deficits forcing a number of Member States to implement far-reaching austerity programmes; to social unrest feeding euroscepticism on the one hand, and the growing needs and challenges related to sustainable economic development of the European Union, the implementation of the Europe 2020 Strategy, and to keeping up with global competition on the other hand; COSAC supports the efforts of the EU institutions resulting in the proposed Multiannual Financial Framework for 2014-2020, which will provide a basis for debate and decision in the European Union. However, the result of the discussion has to take into account national budget frameworks and national budget strategies.
1.

Urges the Commission, Council and the parliaments of the Member States to: (a) support the development of science capacity in Africa through greater investment in research infrastructures, with particular focus on radio astronomy projects, (b) promote the science of radio astronomy and the innovation and research potential of radio astronomy initiatives in future Africa-EU partnerships, (c) mobilise EU funding mechanisms, including the Framework Programmes and the Development Cooperation Instrument, to support these objectives;
11.

Underlines the benefits that diversification of energy supply sources and routes can provide in terms of energy security; recalls that the EU and Eastern European partners will in the near future, be needing significant investments in construction and modernisation of existing energy infrastructure; welcomes the European Commission proposal for Trans-European energy infrastructure and highlights the need to coordinate policies and developments in the EU with the Eastern European partners; stresses the necessity to ensure the diversity of energy supply routes; at the same time draws the attention to the fact that the practice of closed borders policy increases artificially the cost of energy networks and prevents and hinders the effective cooperation in the process of diversification of energy supply sources and routes; recalls that the opening of the Southern Gas Corridor shall stay one of the political agenda priorities;
B.

whereas the Council decided on 16 July 2012 to request the extension by two months – i.e. until 28 October 2012 – of the deadline for raising objections to the Delegated Regulation, noting the importance of deciding before 3 October 2012 whether or not to raise any objections to the said Regulation, and whereas it notified Parliament thereof by letter of 17 July 2012;
EN Official Journal of the European Union C 183/15

Communication of the European Parliament concerning the European Citizens’ Prize — CIVI EUROPAEO PRAEMIUM

2013/C 183/07

The Chancellery of the European Citizens’ Prize held its annual meeting on 5 June 2013 with Mrs Anni PODIMATA, Vice-President of the European Parliament, in the chair.

At that meeting the following list of prize winners for 2013 was drawn up.

The prizes will be awarded at public award ceremonies in the Member States where laureates are based, and will be organised by the information offices of the European Parliament. The laureates will also meet at the European Parliament in Brussels for a central event on 16 and 17 October 2013.

CIVI EUROPAEO PRAEMIUM

Laureates/Winners

— Академик Валери Петров

— Alicja Kobus

— Association Vents et marées

— Avvocato di strada Onlus

— Biruta Eglīte

— Boris Pahor

— CISV International

— Dance for Peace, Mehmet Emin Eminoglu & Άντρια Κυπριανού

— Daniel Vogelmann

— Dr. Klaus Wilkens

— Д-р Милен Врабевски, Фондация „Българска памет“

— Elena Nistor

— Elke Jeanrond-Premauer

— Eugenia Bonetti, Presidente «Slaves No More Onlus», missionaria della Consolata, coordinatrice Ufficio Tratta Donne e Minori dell'USMI

— Euregioschool Buurtaal leren door en voor de uitwisseling

— Εθνικό Κέντρο Άμεσης Βοήθειας (EKAB) Κρήτης

— GAA Cumann Lúthchleas Gael

— Gábor Farkas

— Hans Zohren

— Heikki Huttunen/Suomen Ekumeeninen Neuvosto

— Hela Sverige ska leva

— Ioana Avădani

— Jacek Głomb

— Junge Europäische Bewegung

— Kuoreveden nuorisoseura Nysä ry

— Lobby européen des femmes

— Mag.a (FH) Ursula Kapfenberger-Poindl, DI Hermann Hansy, Karl G. Becker, DI Reinhard M. Weitzer, DI Andreas Weiß (allesamt Regionalmanager in Niederösterreich)

— Matthias Zürl

— Ośrodek „Brama Grodzka – Teatr NN”

— Plataforma Afectados por la Hipoteca

— Professor Richard Demarco

— Puttinu Cares Children's Cancer Support Group

— Raoul Wallenberg Egyesület

— Real Academia de la Lengua Vasca – Euskaltzaindia

— streetfootballworld gGmbH

— Teatr Arka

— The AIRE Centre

— Urmo Kübar/EMSL juhataja

— Valeriu Nicolae

— Via Euregio

— Working Together (représentée par M. Laurent Rouillon)

— Youthnet Hellas
4.6.

COSAC highlights that the European Union, as an area of freedom of movement and opened borders, needs to pursue a joint European migration policy with emphasis on both the protection of EU's citizens and external borders, safety and solidarity with refugees, asylum seekers and migrants while respecting human rights and all international treaties and conventions. COSAC strongly supports all initiatives aiming at the protection of the external borders and restoring regularity in the Schengen area and therefore welcomes the creation of the European Border and Coast Guard. COSAC underlines the importance of prompt implementation of the regulation on the European Border and Coast Guard and solving the problem of insufficiently quick returns, by taking full advantage of the EBCG's mandate. In this context, COSAC recalls the need for personnel and material supply for the effective functioning of the European Border and Coast Guard.
1.10.

COSAC supports the Conclusions of the European Council on 20 October 2017 on the assessment of the Brexit negotiations. COSAC highlights that the rights of the EU and the United Kingdom’s citizens living in each other’s territory and the unique circumstances on the island of Ireland should remain among the first dossiers during the Brexit negotiations. COSAC stresses the need to continue to protect the Good Friday Agreement and to avoid a hard border. The financial consequences of Brexit should not undermine the implementation of the existing multiannual financial framework.
Opinion No 9/2001

on a proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the criminal-law protection of the Community's financial interests

(2001/0115 (COD) - COM(2001) 272 final)

(submitted pursuant to Article 280(4) EC)

(2002/C 14/01)

THE COURT OF AUDITORS OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 280(4) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the criminal-law protection of the Community's financial interests,

Having regard to the request for an opinion on the proposal, sent to the Court of Auditors by the Council on 29 October 2001 and received at the Court on 5 November 2001,

HAS ADOPTED THE FOLLOWING OPINION:

The Court of Auditors welcomes the Commission's initiative of a proposal for a Directive on the criminal-law protection of the Community's financial interests, with the aim of replacing and/or integrating the third-pillar instruments with Community acts adopted on the new bases provided by the Treaty of Amsterdam.

The Court notes that this initiative is in line with the recommendation which it made to that effect in its observations on the proposal for a Council Regulation on the protection of the Communities' financial interests and on the proposal for a Council act establishing the Convention on the Protection of the Communities' Financial Interests (observations adopted on 22 February 1995, point 26).

Article 280 EC calls for effective and equivalent protection in the Member States against fraud affecting the financial interests of the Community. In the Court's view, the adoption of new Community legal instruments which aim to implement that requirement has the same purpose as the Conventions and Protocols that are in the process of ratification. The latter will, in any case, cover the same field, albeit on a wider scale.

As it pointed out in the aforementioned observations, the Court considers that a Directive is an appropriate instrument for instituting effective protection of the European Community's financial interests.

In the Court of Auditors' opinion more detail must be provided at certain points, in order to afford the fullest and most effective protection possible for the Community's financial interests. The points in question concern:

- the definition of some of those offences,

- certain aspects of the penalties to be imposed by the Member States.

The Court's proposals for amending the Commission's text in that light are presented in the annexed table, with explanations of the reasons for them.

This Opinion was adopted by the Court of Auditors in Luxembourg at the Court meeting of 8 November 2001.

For the Court of Auditors

Jan O. Karlsson

President

>TABLE>
Corrigendum to Opinion No 5/2020 (pursuant to Articles 288(4) and 322(1)(a), TFEU) on the Commission’s 2020/0006 (COD) proposals of 14 January 2020 and of 28 May 2020 for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the Just Transition Fund (COM(2020) 22 final and COM(2020) 460 final)

( Official Journal of the European Union C 290 of 1 September 2020 )

(2020/C 350/02)

On the cover and on page 1 the title should read:
Resources available to the Foundation (data for 2002)

Competence of the Foundation as defined in Council Regulation

Areas of Community competence deriving from the Treaty

The Community and the Member States, having in mind fundamental social rights… shall have as their objectives… improved living and working conditions… the Community shall support and complement the activities of the Member States in the following fields… (b) working conditions; (c) social security and the social protection of workers; (d) protection of workers where their employment contract is terminated; (e) the information and consultation of workers; (f) representation and the collective defence of the interests of workers and employers, including co-determination; (g) conditions of employment for third-country nationals; (h) the integration of persons excluded from the labour market; (i) equality between men and women… (Extracts from Articles 136 and 137 of the Treaty)

Objectives The aim of the Foundation shall be to contribute to the establishment of better living and working conditions by increasing and disseminating knowledge which is relevant to this subject. In particular, it is required to consider the following areas: — man at work, — organisation of work and particularly job design — problems peculiar to certain categories of workers — long-term aspects of the improvement of the environment — the distribution of human activities in space and in time

Tasks — To foster the exchange of information and experience in these fields — To facilitate contact between universities, study and research institutes, economic and social administrations and organisations — To carry out studies or to conclude study contracts and to provide assistance for pilot projects — To cooperate as closely as possible with existing specialised institutes.

1. Administrative Board — from each Member State: one government representative, one representative from employers' organisations and one workers' representative — Three representatives from the Commission. 2. Director — appointed by the Commission from a list of candidates submitted by the Administrative Board, he implements the decisions of the Administrative Board and directs the Foundation. 3. The Committee of Experts is composed of 15 members appointed by the Council on a proposal from the Commission, gives opinions in particular on the work programme. 4. External audit: Court of Auditors 5. Discharge given by the Parliament on a recommendation by the Council.

Final budget 16,8 million euro (17,39 million euro) including Community contribution: 98,2 % (98,3 %) Staff numbers at 31 December 2003: 88 (88) posts in the establishment plan Posts occupied: 76 (77) +16(20) other posts (auxiliary contracts, national experts on secondment, local staff, employment agency staff) Total staff: 92 (97) Assigned to the following duties: — operational: 60 (61) — administrative: 28 (32) — mixed: 4 (4)
Resources available to the Centre

Competences of the Centre as specified in Council Regulation (EC) No 851/2004

Area of Community competence deriving from the Treaty

A high level of human health protection shall be ensured in the definition and implementation of all Community policies and activities. Community action, which shall complement national policies, shall be directed towards improving public health, preventing human illness and diseases, and obviating sources of danger to human health. Such action shall cover the fight against the major health scourges, by promoting research into their causes, their transmission and their prevention, as well as health information and education. (Article 152 of the Treaty)

Objectives: Strengthen Europe's defences against infectious diseases; specifically, to identify, assess and communicate current and emerging threats to human health from communicable diseases. Therefore the Centre shall operate dedicated surveillance networks, provide scientific opinions, operate the early warning and response system and provide scientific and technical assistance and training.

Tasks: — operate dedicated disease surveillance networks and enhance networking activities. The Centre has a specific role in data collection, validation, analysis and dissemination, — provide authoritative expert advice and scientific opinions and studies in communicable diseases, — operate the Early Warning and Response System (EWRS). Develop procedures for identifying emerging health threats, — strengthen Member States' capacity in preparedness planning and in training, — inform the general public and interested parties of its work.

1. Management Board One member designated by each Member State, two members designated by the European Parliament and three representatives of the Commission. The Board adopts the Centre's annual programme and budget and follows their implementation. 2. Director Appointed by the Management Board on the basis of a list of candidates proposed by the Commission. 3. Advisory Forum A representative of each Member State and three non-voting representatives of the Commission. The Forum is to assure the scientific excellence of the work and the independence of the activities and opinions of the Centre. 4. External Audit Court of Auditors. 5. Discharge authority Parliament on a recommendation from the Council.

2005 final budget 4,85 million euro, including a Community subsidy of 98 % Staff numbers Posts in the establishment plan: 29 posts occupied: 22 +20 other posts. Total staff: 42 assigned to the following duties: operational: 17 administrative: 25
Resources made available to the Authority in 2006

(Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council)

Areas of Community competence deriving from the Treaty

Free movement of goods (Article 37 of the Treaty) Contribution to a high level of protection of health, safety and protection of the environment and of consumers, taking account of any new development based on scientific facts (Article 95 of the Treaty) Common trade policy (Article 133 of the Treaty) Public health (Article 152(4)(b) of the Treaty)

Objectives — To provide scientific opinions and scientific and technical support for the Community's legislation and policies which have a direct or indirect impact on food and feed safety — To provide independent information on risks relating to food safety — To contribute to the achievement of a high level of protection of human life and health — To collect and analyse data needed to allow characterisation and monitoring of risks

Tasks — To issue scientific opinions and studies — To promote uniform risk-assessment methodologies — To assist the Commission — To search for, analyse and summarise the requisite scientific and technical data — To identify and characterise emerging risks — To establish a network of organisations operating in similar fields — To provide scientific and technical assistance in crisis management — To improve international cooperation — To provide the public and interested parties with reliable, objective and easily comprehensible information — To take part in the Commission's rapid alert system

1. Management Board Composition 14 members appointed by the Council (in cooperation with the European Parliament and the Commission) and one representative of the Commission Duties To adopt the work programme and the budget and ensure that they are implemented 2. Executive Director Appointed by the Management Board on the basis of a list of candidates proposed by the Commission, following a hearing before the European Parliament 3. Advisory Forum Composition One representative per Member State Duties To advise the Executive Director 4. Scientific Committee and scientific panels: To draw up the Authority's scientific opinions 5. External audit Court of Auditors 6. Discharge authority Parliament, on the Council's recommendation

Final budget 40,2 million euro (36,9 million euro); Community contribution: 100 % (100%) Staff numbers as at 31 December 2006 Number of posts in establishment plan: 250 (194) Posts occupied: 173 (124) +57 (36) other posts (auxiliary contracts, seconded national experts, local staff) Total staff: 230 (160) Assigned to the following duties: — operational: 150 (104) — administrative: 80 (56)
Products and services provided during the financial year 2006

Resources made available to the Centre in 2006

The representatives of the Member States' governments adopted by mutual agreement a declaration concerning the creation, under the aegis of the Commission's translation departments in Luxembourg, of a Translation Centre for the bodies of the Union, which would provide the necessary translation services for the operation of the bodies and services whose seats were established by the Decision of 29 October 1993 (Council Decision taken on the basis of Article 235 of the Treaty).

Objectives To provide the necessary translation services for the operation of the following bodies: — the European Environment Agency, — the European Training Foundation, — the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, — the European Medicines Agency, — the European Agency for Health and Safety at Work, — the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trademarks and Designs), — the European Police Office (Europol) and the Europol Drugs Unit. Bodies set up by the Council other than the above may use the Centre's services. The institutions and bodies of the European Union which already have their own Translation Services may, if need be, call upon the Centre's services on a voluntary basis. The Centre plays a full part in the work of the Interinstitutional Translation Committee.

Tasks — To make arrangements for cooperation with the bodies and institutions — To participate in the work of the Interinstitutional Translation Committee.

1. Management Board Composition — one representative per Member State; — two representatives from the Commission; — one representative from each body or institution calling upon the Centre's services. Task Adopts the Centre's annual work programme and annual report. 2. Director Appointed by the Management Board on a proposal from the Commission. 3. External control Court of Auditors. 4. Internal audit Commission's internal auditor. 5. Discharge authority Parliament on a recommendation from the Council.

Final budget 40,88 (27,9) million euro Staff as at 31 December 2006 189 (181) posts listed in the establishment plan posts occupied: 169 (163) Assigned to: — operational duties: 80 (114); — administrative duties: 89 (57); — mixed duties: 0 (4).