European Parliament legislative resolution of 24 April 2007 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on payment services in the internal market and amending Directives 97/7/EC, 2000/12/EC and 2002/65/EC (COM(2005)0603 - C6-0411/2005 - 2005/0245(COD))
Date: 2007-04-24
Institutions: Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: approximation of laws, consumer protection, electronic money, free movement of capital, free movement of goods, free movement of persons, freedom to provide services, payment, services contract, single market

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Tuesday 24 April 2007

15.
Calls upon the Agencies to improve their cooperation and benchmarking with actors in the field;
urges the Commission to adopt any measures it considers necessary to help the Agencies enhance their
image and raise the profile of their activities;

Calls upon the Commission to come up with a proposal to harmonise the format of the annual
16.
reporting by the Agencies and to develop performance indicators which would allow a comparison of
their efficiency;

Invites the Agencies to present at the beginning of every year performance indicators against which

17.
they could be measured;

Invites all Agencies to increasingly use SMART objectives which should lead to more realistic plan-

18.
ning and implementation of goals;

19.
Agrees with the Court of Auditors that the Commission also bears responsibility for the (financial)
management of the Agencies; therefore, urges the Commission to monitor and where necessary direct and
help the management of the different Agencies, especially in relation to the proper application of tender
procedures, transparency of recruitment procedures, sound financial management (underspending and over-
budgeting) and most importantly the proper application of the rules concerning the internal control frame-
work;

Considers that the Agencies' work programmes should express their contributions in operational and
20.
measurable terms and that due consideration should be given to the Commission's Internal Control Stan-
dards;

Specific points

21.
Notes that the implementation of the budget for the financial year 2005 was marked by a low rate of
commitment (70 %) and a substantial rate of carry-over (more than 40 % overall and up to almost 80 % for
operating expenditure) and that this situation was in part due to problems inherent in the Agency's start-up
period and to the fact that it did not start becoming operational until the second half of 2005;

22.
Notes that no activity-based management has been brought in, despite the Agency's financial regula-
tion making provision for its introduction, on the lines of that applied to the general budget, with a view to
improving the monitoring of performance.

P6_TA(2007)0128

Payment services in the internal market ***I

European Parliament legislative resolution of 24 April 2007 on the proposal for a directive of the
European Parliament and of the Council on payment services in the internal market and amending
Directives 97/7/EC, 2000/12/EC and 2002/65/EC (COM(2005)0603 — C6-0411/2005 —
2005/0245(COD))

(Codecision procedure: first reading)

The European Parliament,

— having regard to the Commission proposal

to the European Parliament and to the Council

(COM(2005)0603) (1),

— having regard to Article 251(2), Article 47(2), first and third sentences, and Article 95 of the EC Treaty,

pursuant to which the proposal was submitted by the Commission (C6-0411/2005),

(1) Not yet published in OJ.

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— having regard to the letter of 1 March 2007 sent to the President of the Parliament by the chairman of
the working party set up under Article 29 of Directive 95/46/EC regarding the issues connected with
data protection, especially in the operation of the SWIFT system,

Tuesday 24 April 2007

— having regard to Rule 51 of its Rules of Procedure,

— having regard to the report of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the opinions of
the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and the Committee on Legal Affairs
(A6-0298/2006),

1.

Approves the Commission proposal as amended;

Calls on the Commission to refer the matter to Parliament again if it intends to amend the proposal

2.
substantially or replace it with another text;

3.

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission.

P6_TC1-COD(2005)0245

Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 24 April 2007 with a view to the
adoption of Directive 2007/…/EC of the European Parliament and Council on payment services in
the internal market amending Directives 97/7/EC, 2002/65/EC, 2005/60/EC and 2006/48/EC and
repealing Directive 97/5/EC

(As an agreement was reached between Parliament and Council, Parliament's position at first reading corresponds to the
final legislative act, Directive 2007/64/EC.)

P6_TA(2007)0129

Quota system in relation to the production of potato starch *

for a Council
European Parliament
regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1868/94 establishing a quota system in relation to the
production of potato starch (COM(2006)0827 — C6-0046/2007 — 2006/0268(CNS))

legislative resolution of 24 April 2007 on the proposal

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

— having regard to the Commission proposal to the Council (COM(2006)0827) (1),

— having regard to Article 37 of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Council consulted Parliament

(C6-0046/2007),

— having regard to Rule 51 of its Rules of Procedure,

— having regard to the report of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (A6-0137/2007),

(1) Not yet published in OJ.