1. European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the budget of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2005 (C6-0392/2006 - 2006/2159(DEC))
Date: 2007-04-24
Institutions: Committee on Budgetary Control, European Parliament
Subjects: European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, budgetary discharge, financial year, implementation of the budget

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Invites the Agency to respect evaluation criteria in procurement procedures;

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Considers the Agency to be a source of important environmental information for all EU institutions
and policy-making; notes with satisfaction that the Agency has been able to transform some complicated
data into clear conclusions and to communicate them to the public; acknowledges, in particular, the impor-
tance of the report ‘The European environment — State and outlook 2005’
in providing user-friendly
information on the environment and pinpointing the key challenges facing the EU and Member States;

27.
Encourages the Agency to continue its efforts to further develop its communication methods in
order to attract more media coverage for its findings and thus feed public debate on important environ-
mental issues, such as climate change, biodiversity and the management of natural resources;

28.
Points out that the impact of environmental programmes is often hampered by the lack of assess-
ment of environmental impacts of other Community policies; invites the Agency to further develop its work
in the field of environmental impact assessment;

Requests that, before 1 January 2010 and every five years thereafter, the Agency commission an
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independent external evaluation of its achievements on the basis of its founding Regulation and the work
programmes decided by the Management Board; requests that the evaluation assess the working practices
and the impact of the Agency and take into account the views of the stakeholders, at both Community and
national level; requests further that the Management Board of the Agency examine the conclusions of the
evaluation and draft such recommendations to the Commission and Parliament as may be necessary regard-
ing changes in the Agency, its working practices and programmes, that the evaluation and the recommenda-
tions to the Commission and Parliament be made public, for example on their websites, and that the funds
needed to carry out the external evaluation shall be allocated through the budget of the corresponding DG;

Emphasises the role of the Agency in the evaluation of the implementation of EU environmental

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legislation.

P6_TA(2007)0118

Discharge 2005: European Agency for Safety and Health at Work

1.
European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for the implementation of the
budget of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2005
(C6-0392/2006 — 2006/2159(DEC))

The European Parliament,

— having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for

the financial year 2005 (1),

— having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Agency for

Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2005, together with the Agency's replies (2),

— having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

— having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

(1) OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 19.
(2) OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 24.

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— having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial
the European Communities (1), and in particular

Regulation applicable to the general budget of
Article 185 thereof,

— having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2062/94 of 18 July 1994 establishing a European Agency

for Safety and Health at Work (2), and in particular Article 14 thereof,

— having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the
framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC,
Euratom) No 1605/2002 (3), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

— having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

— having regard to the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee

on Employment and Social Affairs (A6-0105/2007),

Grants the director of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work discharge for the imple-

1.
mentation of the Agency's budget for the financial year 2005;

2.

Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3.
Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution that forms an integral part of it to
the director of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, the Council, the Commission and the
Court of Auditors, and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union
(L series).

(1) OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390,

30.12.2006, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 216, 20.8.1994, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1112/2005 (OJ L 184, 15.7.2005,

p. 5).

(3) OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.

2.
European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on closing the accounts of the European Agency for
Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2005 (C6-0392/2006 — 2006/2159(DEC))

The European Parliament,

— having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work for

the financial year 2005 (1),

— having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the final annual accounts of the European Agency for

Safety and Health at Work for the financial year 2005, together with the Agency's replies (2),

— having regard to the Council's recommendation of 27 February 2007 (5711/2007 — C6-0080/2007),

— having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

— having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial
the European Communities (3), and in particular

Regulation applicable to the general budget of
Article 185 thereof,

(1) OJ C 266, 31.10.2006, p. 19.
(2) OJ C 312, 19.12.2006, p. 24.
(3) OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 (OJ L 390,

30.12.2006, p. 1).