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2018/2169(DEC) | [ParlTrack]
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2018/2169(DEC) 2017 discharge: EU general budget, Court of Justice
Committee Opinion JURI SVOBODA Pavel ( PPE) Mady DELVAUX ( S&D), António MARINHO E PINTO ( ALDE)
CONT/8/14147
The European Parliament decided by 518 votes to 107, with 11 abstentions, to grant discharge to the Registrar of the Court of Justice for the implementation of the Court’s budget for the financial year 2017.
Parliament noted with satisfaction that the Court of Auditors had observed that no significant weaknesses in respect of the audited topics relating to human resources and procurement for the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).
The payments as a whole for the year ended on 31 December 2017 for administrative and other expenditure of the Court of Justice were free from material error.
Parliament noted that in 2017, the CJEU had appropriations amounting to EUR 399 344 000 (EUR 380 002 000 in 2016) and that the implementation rate was 98.69 % (98.23 % in 2016) in 2017. Noting that the CJEU overestimated its commitments for various budget lines and reduced its request for appropriations for Members’ missions when drawing up its 2019 estimates. Members called on the CJEU to pursue its efforts to ensure sound financial management in order to avoid significant discrepancies between commitments and payments.
The resolution noted that the total number of cases brought before the CJEU in 2017 (1656 cases) was higher than in 2016 (1604 cases) and that the number of cases completed in 2017 remained at a high level (1594 cases as compared to 1628 cases in 2016). The average duration of proceedings decreased from 16.7 months in 2016 to 16.3 months in 2017). Members acknowledged the efforts of the CJEU to improve efficiency in the handling of cases while not compromising the quality, efficiency and independence of its judgements.
Staff reductions have put significant pressure on some support services such as the internal linguistic production capacity which has led to an increased collaboration with freelance translators.
Parliament noted that the British members of the Court of Justice and the General Court will cease to exercise their functions when the United Kingdom withdraws from the European Union. The volume of litigation could increase in the short and medium term in view of legal problems which may be generated by a withdrawal agreement and the corresponding provisions of United Kingdom law.
The Court had 63 British members of staff in 2017, among which 36 officials, 24 temporary agents and three contract agents. Members welcomed the intention of the CJEU to follow a case by case approach when deciding on the extension of contracts for British contract and temporary agents after the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.
T8-0247/2019
The Committee on Budgetary Control adopted the report by Arndt KOHN (S&D, DE) recommending the European Parliament to give discharge to the Registrar of the Court of Justice in respect of the implementation of the Court’s budget for the financial year 2017.
Members noted with satisfaction that the Court of Auditors observed that no significant weaknesses in respect of the audited topics relating to human resources and procurement for the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).
Members noted that in 2016, the CJEU had appropriations amounting to EUR 399 344 000 (EUR 380 002 000 in 2016) and that the implementation rate was 98.69 % (98.23 % in 2016) in 2017.
Noting that the CJEU overestimated its commitments for various budget lines and reduced its request for appropriations for Members’ missions when drawing up its 2019 estimates.
Members called on the CJEU to pursue its efforts to ensure sound financial management in order to avoid significant discrepancies between commitments and payments.
The report noted that the total number of cases brought before the CJEU in 2017 (1656 cases) was higher than in 2016 (1604 cases) and that the number of cases completed in 2017 remained at a high level (1594 cases as compared to 1628 cases in 2016). The average duration of proceedings decreased from 16.7 months in 2016 to 16.3 months in 2017). Members acknowledged the efforts of the CJEU to improve efficiency in the handling of cases while not compromising the quality, efficiency and independence of its judgements.
Members noted that the British members of the Court of Justice and the General Court will cease to exercise their functions when the United Kingdom withdraws from the European Union. The volume of litigation could increase in the short and medium term in view of legal problems which may be generated by a withdrawal agreement and the corresponding provisions of United Kingdom law.
The report noted that they had 63 British members of staff in 2017, among which 36 officials, 24 temporary agents and three contract agents. Members welcomed the intention of the CJEU to follow a case by case approach when deciding on the extension of contracts for British contract and temporary agents after the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.
PE634.530
The Court did not identify any specific problems concerning the Court of Justice of the European Union.
PE626.818
PE628.681
The audit also focuses on the budget implementation of the Committee of the Court of Justice .
The Court did not detect any specific problem regarding the Court of Justice.
Analysis of the accounts of the EU Institutions: European Court of Justice .
Implementation of the Court of Justice’s appropriations for the financial year 2016 : the document noted that in 2017 the Court’s budget was EUR 399.3 million , with an implementation rate of final appropriations of 98.69%.
Almost 76 % of the budget was allocated to expenditure on the Members and staff, with almost the entire balance being spent on infrastructure, including buildings and information technology.
As regards the expenditure of the Court of Justice, the information taken from the Court's 2017 Annual Activity Report states that:
the Court's activity has been very active : the number of cases submitted to the Court is up compared to 2016 (1656 cases) and a total of 1594 cases have been closed; the statistics concerning the length of the proceedings are very positive; the scale of the increased productivity achieved by the Court, thanks to the coordinated efforts of the courts and of all the support services which made it possible, over the period 2010-2017, for the number of cases closed to rise by 30% with an increase in the number of new cases of 18% in the same period, although the number of staff in the support services fell; at the Meeting of Judges held in March 2017, it was decided to create the ‘ Judicial Network of the European Union ’ covering the constitutional and supreme courts of the Member States, a network coordinated by the Court; the Court is continuing the project for the 5th extension of its buildings which should, in 2019, enable it to reunite its staff on one site (vacating the last building that is still rented) and, thereby, increase the efficiency of its services.
Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T8-0247/2019
Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A8-0098/2019
Amendments tabled in committee: PE634.530
Committee draft report: PE626.818
Committee opinion: PE628.681
A8-0098/2019 - Arndt Kohn - Résolution 26/03/2019 17:38:54.000
2019/03/26 Outcome: +: 518, -: 107, 0: 11
Alessia Maria MOSCA, Andrea COZZOLINO, Brando BENIFEI, Caterina CHINNICI, Cécile Kashetu KYENGE, Damiano ZOFFOLI, Daniele VIOTTI, David Maria SASSOLI, Elena GENTILE, Elly SCHLEIN, Enrico GASBARRA, Giuseppe FERRANDINO, Goffredo Maria BETTINI, Isabella DE MONTE, Luigi MORGANO, Massimo PAOLUCCI, Mercedes BRESSO, Michela GIUFFRIDA, Nicola CAPUTO, Nicola DANTI, Paolo DE CASTRO, Patrizia TOIA, Pier Antonio PANZERI, Pina PICIERNO, Renata BRIANO, Roberto GUALTIERI, Sergio Gaetano COFFERATI, Silvia COSTA, Simona BONAFÈ
Dominique BILDE, Dominique MARTIN, France JAMET, Gilles LEBRETON, Jacques COLOMBIER, Marie-Christine ARNAUTU, Marie-Christine BOUTONNET, Mylène TROSZCZYNSKI, Philippe LOISEAU, Steeve BRIOIS
A8-0098/2019 - Arndt Kohn - Résolution
Christelle LETARD-LECHEVALIER, Dominique BILDE, Dominique MARTIN, France JAMET, Gilles LEBRETON, Jacques COLOMBIER, Marie-Christine ARNAUTU, Marie-Christine BOUTONNET, Mylène TROSZCZYNSKI, Philippe LOISEAU, Steeve BRIOIS
42 2018/2169(DEC)
2018/11/19 JURI 14 amendments...
1a. Points out that the CJEU shall deliver justice of irreproachable quality, in a reasonable time, whilst as an EU institution also ensuring it uses the public funds at its disposal as efficiently and as effectively as possible, and according to the principles of sound financial management;
8a. Welcomes, in this regard, the enhanced efficiency of the CJEU as a result of coordinated efforts by the courts and all ancillary services, resulting in a 30% increase in the number of cases closed between 2010 and 2017, despite an 18% caseload increase over the same period, compounded by staff cuts between 2013 and 2017;
8a. Concludes that the CJEU could further enhance these positive results by considering a move towards more active individual case management, using tailored time-frames and monitoring the actual use of the human resources employed; Stresses that measuring performance on this basis, instead of using indicative time-frames to be respected on average, would inform management of both problem cases and elements of good practice; underlines that this information could also be used to improve reporting on performance to enhance accountability, providing insight on the proper functioning of the CJEU and on the use of its resources available;
9a. Expresses concern that yet, in contrast to related concepts such as legitimacy, responsiveness, or transparency, accountability has – so far – been of little relevance in framing the Court’s authority;
9b. Notes that cases of corruption, improper behaviour, alcohol excesses, or refusal to work by members of the Court, which would prompt cries for judicial accountability, have been largely absent from its history; stresses that the rules on deprivation of office of a judge or Advocate General have never been applied in practice;
10a. Considers it essential for Union institutions to be representative of EU citizens and accordingly underlines the importance of the objective set by Parliament and Council of achieving balanced representation of men and women in the appointment of General Court judges.
2a. Stresses that introducing performance-based budgeting should not apply only to the Court of Justice's budget as a whole but should include the setting of specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time-based (SMART) targets to individual departments, units and staffs' annual plans and to set relevant indicators for drawing up the institution's estimates; calls therefore on the Court of Justice to introduce the principle of performance-based budgeting more widely in its operations;
3a. Points out that the task of the CJEU is to deliver justice of irreproachable quality within in a reasonable time, while fulfilling its responsibility as an EU institution to use the public funds at its disposal as efficiently and as effectively as possible, in line with the principles of sound financial management;
5a. Welcomes the recommendation by the Court of Auditors that the CJEU should consider the adoption of more active case management procedures based on an individual approach and realistic deadlines, while closely monitoring manpower deployment and adopting additional administrative streamlining methods.
5a. Welcomes the EU decision [regulation (EU, Euratom) 2015/2422] to reform the judicial structure of the CJEU, notably by doubling the number of Judges in the General Court by 2019, while subsuming the work of the Civil Service Tribunal into the General Court as from 1st September 2016; believes that these measures will reduce the backlog of pending cases, engender a positive impact on the quality of the judgments, and increase flexibility and rapidity by allocating Judges to the Chambers according to the caseload in different areas;
6a. Points out that the total number of cases brought before the courts in 2017 (1656 cases) is higher than in 2016 (1604) and welcomes the improvements achieved regarding the length of proceedings;
7a. Welcomes the fact that the Court of Auditors’ recommendation that the time-frames should be further refined by taking into account the specific nature of each type of proceedings and the complexity of the cases;
7b. Reiterates that, in order to improve case and budgetary management, the CJEU should seriously consider: measuring performance on a case-by-case basis by reference to a tailored time- frame, taking account of the actual resources employed, continuing the improvements made in terms of reporting on performance by moving toward the development of a system of reporting on the specific numbers of cases meeting expected time-frames rather than average length of types of cases, implementing a policy allowing for a more flexible allocation of existing référendaires to help mitigate problems arising from factors related to the management of resources or organizational issues, further raising the awareness of the Member States and the Council of the importance of the timely nomination and appointment of Judges, completing the cost-benefit analysis of the impact (organisational, budgetary and in terms of case duration) of a change of the current practice in the General Court to use languages other than French for deliberation, implementing a fully integrated IT system to support case management;
7c. Welcomes the suggestion, in the context of discussions on the IT resources available to the Courts in the short and medium terms, that it study, or even implement, an integrated IT system which has regard for the particular nature of judicial work and the specific characteristics of each Court;
source: 630.588
2019/02/12 CONT 28 amendments...
1. Grants the Registrar of the Court of Justice discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Court of Justice for the financial year 2017 / Postpones its decision on granting the Registrar of the Court of Justice discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Court of Justice for the financial year 2017;
6. Notes with concern that the CJEU overestimated its commitments for various budget lines under Chapter 14 ‘Other staff and external services’, inter alia for missions (budget line 162), having committed EUR 342 000 in 2017 whereas payments only amounted to EUR 204 795,27, and overestimated further training (budget line 1612), having committed EUR 1 457 644,07, whereas payments only amounted to EUR 579 000,04; notes that the CJEU reduced its request for appropriations for Members’ missions to EUR 299 750 when drawing up its 2019 estimates in response to the observation of the Parliament in its discharge report for the year 2016; calls on the CJEU to pursue its efforts to ensure sound financial management in order to avoid significant discrepancies between commitments and payments;
6a. Takes note that the rate of implementation of the final appropriations from the chapter related to meetings and conferences in 2017 was 81,40%, compared with a rate of 95,5% in 2016; calls on the CJEU to keep working on this issue in order to again reach at least the same rate of implementation of the final appropriations for that chapter as the rate reached in 2016;
9. WelcomesTakes note of the intention of the CJEU to streamline its procedures in order to publish its Annual Activity Report by 31 March 2019 with a view to optimising and speeding up the discharge procedure;
10. WelcomAcknowledges the fact that the CJEU has started its work on developing an Integrated Case Management System (ICMS) which will replace a set of applications developed over the past 25 years and which will include a component on the computerisation of performance indicators and reporting instruments;
12. Notes that the total number of cases brought before the CJEU in 2017 (1656 cases) was higher than in 2016 (1604 cases) and that the number of cases completed in 2017 remained at a high level (1594 cases as compared to 1628 cases in 2016); notes with concern that the average duration of proceedings increased from 15 months in 2016 to 16,3 months in 2017); welcomes the efficiency improvements which led to an increase of the annual number of completed cases by 29,6 % over the period 2010-2017, while the number of new cases steadily increased;
12. Notes that the total number of cases brought before the CJEU in 2017 (1656 cases) was higher than in 2016 (1604 cases) and that the number of cases completed in 2017 remained at a high level (1594 cases as compared to 1628 cases in 2016); notes that the average duration of proceedings indecreased from 156,7 months in 2016 to 16,3 months in 2017); welcomes the efficiency improvements which led to an increase of the annual number of completed cases by 29,6% over the period 2010-2017, while the number of new cases steadily increased;
24. Reiterates that geographical balance, i.e. the distribution of staff by nationality based on the share of the given Member State’s population as a proportion of the overall Union population, in particular in management positions, should be closely monitored; notesreiterates its concern that only 15 out of 56 Hheads of Uunit ofat the CJEU and 2 of its 13 Directors were from Member States that have joined the European Union since May 2004; notes also that 31 % of the staff of the CJEU come from those Member States; encourages the CJEU to develop a policy to improve on the geographical imbalance and report back to the discharge authority;
25. Welcomes the increase of remunerated traineeships at the CJEU from 57 in 2016 to 82 in 2017; welcomes, moreover, that the CJEU has requested anconsiders that there is no need to further increase the number of remunerated trainees; therefore calls for the additional amount of EUR 550 000requested in the 2019 budget; regrets, however, that 215 trainees assigned to Member’s cabinet in 2017 were still not remunerated; calls on the CJEU to ensure an appropriate allowance being paid to all trainees in order to provide sufficient rei for the remuneration of interns not to be granted in order to avoid excessive expenditure; regrets, however, that the 215 trainees assigned to the cabinets of membuersement for the trainees’ efforts and not to reinforce discrimination on economic grounds continued not to receive remuneration;
25. Welcomes the increase of remunerated traineeships at the CJEU from 57 in 2016 to 82 in 2017; welcomes, moreover,notes that the CJEU has requested an additional amount of EUR 550 000 in the 2019 budget; regrets, however, that 215 trainees assigned to Member’s cabinet in 2017 were still not remunerated; calls on the CJEU to take timely action to ensure an appropriate allowance being paid to all trainees in order to provide sufficient reimbursement for the trainees’ efforts and not to reinforce discrimination on economic grounds;
27. Notes with concern that chauffeurs drove to the home countries of the members of the CJEU without having the member on board on 26 occasions and that 53 nights were reimbursed to the drivers in relation to those trips; notes, moreover, that 22 flights, five trips by train and one boat trip were scheduled for chauffeurs in order to do official missions with a member in his or her home country; underlines that chauffeurs should accompany members in the home country only in duly justified cases;
27. Notes that chauffeurs drove to the home countries of the members of the CJEU without having the member on board on 26 occasions and that 53 nights were reimbursed to the drivers in relation to those trips; notes, moreover, that 22 flights, five trips by train and one boat trip were scheduled for chauffeurs in order to do official missions with a member in his or her home country; underlinstresses that chauffeurs should accompany members in the home country only in duly justified cases;
28. Notes that a list of external activities of the members of the CJEU was published on the website of the CJEU; regrets that despite the discharge authority's specific calls on numerous occasions this list is unspecific about the purpose, the date, the venue and the travel and subsistence costs of the listed events and whether they were paid by the CJEU or by a third party; calls on the CJEU to continue publishing a list of external activities of its members and be more specific about the above mentioned aspects; ask the CJEU to offer an explanation on the reasons ignoring the repeated calls of the discharge authority;
28a. Reiterates its opinion that the CJEU should produce minutes of meetings held with professional associations and civil society actors and lobbyists, where this does not undermine the confidentiality of ongoing cases;
29. Reiterates its call on the CJEU to publish CVs and declarations of interest for all its members on the websiteUrges the CJEU once again to publish on its website the CVs and declarations of interest for all its members, indicating whether they belong to other organisations; notes that short biographies of each member are published on the website, which do not however contain information on membership of any other organisations; notes that, under the new Code of Conduct for Members, members are required to submit a declaration of their financial interests to the President of the Ccourt of which they are a member s upon taking up their duties in line with the new Code of Conduct for members; calls on the CJEU to publish thosesuch declarations on its website;
29. Reiterates its cCalls on the CJEU to publish CVs and declarations of interest for all its members on the website; notes that short biographies of each member are published on the website, which do not however contain information on membership of any other organisations; notes that members are required to submit a declaration of their financial interests to the President of the Court of which they are a member on taking up their duties in line with the new Code of Conduct for members; calls on the CJEU to publish those declarations on its website forthwith;
31. Notes with concern that the CJEU’s administration is preparinghas still not prepared the new rules on revolving doors for members of staff; reiterates its call onurges the CJEU to quickly establish and implement strict obligations in this regard;
31a. Asks the CJEU to put in place clear and robust rules for sponsoring that guarantee equal treatment of events after noting that the CJEU denied carrying out any sponsoring activities even though the CJEU provided the 18th congress of the International Federation of European Law (FIDE), held in May 2018 in Portugal, with 12 interpreters for a cost of EUR 10 859,05;
32. WNotes that no cases of whistleblowing were reported in 2017; welcomes the adoption of new internal rules on whistle-blower protection in 2017; calls on the CJEU to ensure that all staff is properly informed of its rights, such as during induction upon arrival of new staff;
36a. Is of the opinion that the significant costs of visits to the CJEU can be reduced by increasing dialogue with European citizens through social media, which is an immediate and effective means of communication;
Raffaele FITTO, Ryszard CZARNECKI, Richard SULÍK, Beata GOSIEWSKA
2. Welcomes the factNotes that, on the basis of its audit work, the Court of Auditors concluded that the payments as a whole for the year ended on 31 December 2017 for administrative and other expenditure of the CJEU were free from material error;
3. Notes that appropriations amounted to EUR 399 344 000 (EUR 380 002 000 in 2016) and that the implementation rate was 98,69% (98,23% in 2016) in 2017; notes the high budget implementation rate for both Title 1 (persons working with the institution) and Title 2 (buildings, furniture, equipment and miscellaneous operating expenditure) amounting to 98,6% and 99,1% as compared to 98,1% and 98,6% in 2016; urges that administrative expenditure by the EU institutions be streamlined and reduced as much as possible in order to send a message of fellowship with European citizens;
4. NoteRegrets that appropriations carried over from 2016 to 2017 were EUR 22 240 120,22, of which 86,26% (EUR 19 188 159,20) was used in 2017 as compared to 90% in 2016;
5a. Takes note that in 2017 the CJEU allocated EUR 850 000 to meet the payment of damages, awarded by the General Court on the basis of a failure to adjudicate within a reasonable period of time in the context of three cases closed by the General Court in 2011 and 2013;
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name:	SVOBODA Pavel date:	2018-09-24T00:00:00 group:	European People's Party (Christian Democrats) abbr:	PPE
date:	2018-07-12T00:00:00 docs:	url:	https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:C:2018:357:TOC title:	OJ C 357 04.10.2018, p. 0001 title:	N8-0013/2019 summary:	PURPOSE: presentation of the Annual report of the Court of Auditors on the implementation of the budget concerning the financial year 2017. CONTENT: the Court of Auditors published its 41th annual report on the implementation of the general budget of the Union for the year 2017. This report follows a five-part structure: - the statement of assurance (DAS) and a summary of the results of the audit on the reliability of accounts and the regularity of transactions; - the analysis of budgetary and financial management; - the Commission’s performance reporting framework; - the findings on EU revenue; - the presentation of the main headings of the current multiannual financial framework (MFF), the results of the testing of the regularity of transactions. The Court concludes that payments for 2017 are legal and regular, with the expenditure recorded in 2017 covering spending on a reimbursement basis. It believes that the EU accounts present a true and fair view of the EU’s financial position. The report also assessed the potential impact on the 2017 accounts of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union. On 29 March 2017, the United Kingdom (UK) formally notified the European Council of its intention to leave the European Union (EU). On 22 May 2017, the negotiations started for the withdrawal agreement between the EU and the UK. Part Five (Financial Provisions) of the draft withdrawal agreement of 19 March 2018 concerning the financial settlement states that the UK will pay all its obligations under the current and previous Multiannual Financial Frameworks as if it were still a Member State. Based on this, the Court concluded that the accounts as at 31 December 2017 correctly reflect the withdrawal process. The audit also focuses on the budget implementation of the Committee of the Court of Justice . The overall audit evidence indicates that the level of error in spending on ‘Administration’ was not material. For this MFF heading, the testing of transactions produced an estimated overall level of error of 0.5 % The Court did not detect any specific problem regarding the Court of Justice. type:	Court of Auditors: opinion, report body:	CofA
date:	2018-12-11T00:00:00 docs:	url:	http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&mode=XML&language=EN&reference=PE628.681&secondRef=02 title:	PE628.681 committee:	JURI type:	Committee opinion body:	EP
date:	2018-12-13T00:00:00 docs:	url:	http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&mode=XML&language=EN&reference=PE626.818 title:	PE626.818 type:	Committee draft report body:	EP
date:	2019-02-11T00:00:00 docs:	url:	http://register.consilium.europa.eu/content/out?lang=EN&typ=SET&i=ADV&RESULTSET=1&DOC_ID=5824%2F19&DOC_LANCD=EN&ROWSPP=25&NRROWS=500&ORDERBY=DOC_DATE+DESC title:	05824/2019 summary:	Based on the observations contained in the report by the Court of Auditors, the Council called on the European Parliament to grant discharge to all of the EU institutions in respect of the implementation of their respective budgets for the financial year 2017. However, it considered that budget implementation required a series of comments from the Council which should be fully taken into account by the Commission. The Council welcomed the fact that the administrative and related expenditure of the EU institutions remained, as in previous years, free from material error with an estimated level of error of 0.5 %, which while being well below the materiality threshold is higher by 0.3 % compared to the Court's findings for 2016 (0.2 %). It noted with satisfaction that no serious weaknesses were identified by the Court in the supervisory and control systems and in the examined annual activity reports. The Council took note that, as in previous years, there was a small number of errors relating to staff costs and some weaknesses in the Office for Administration and Payment of individual entitlements' (PMO) management of family allowances. It called on the Commission to improve its procedures to avoid errors related to staff expenditure. The Court did not identify any specific problems concerning the Court of Justice of the European Union. type:	Supplementary non-legislative basic document body:	CSL
date:	2019-02-12T00:00:00 docs:	url:	http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&mode=XML&language=EN&reference=PE634.530 title:	PE634.530 type:	Amendments tabled in committee body:	EP
date:	2018-06-28T00:00:00 type:	Non-legislative basic document published body:	EC docs:	url:	http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/docs_autres_institutions/commission_europeenne/com/2018/0521/COM_COM(2018)0521_EN.pdf title:	COM(2018)0521 url:	https://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!DocNumber&lg=EN&type_doc=COMfinal&an_doc=2018&nu_doc=0521 title:	EUR-Lex summary:	PURPOSE: presentation by the Commission of the consolidated annual accounts of the European Union for the financial year 2017, as part of the 2017 discharge procedure. Analysis of the accounts of the EU Institutions: European Court of Justice . CONTENT: the organisational governance of the EU consists of institutions, agencies and other EU bodies whose expenditure is included in the general budget of the Union. This Commission document concerns the EU's consolidated accounts for the year 2017 and details how spending by the EU institutions and bodies was carried out. The consolidated annual accounts of the EU provide financial information on the activities of the institutions, agencies and other bodies of the EU from an accrual accounting and budgetary perspective. It is the responsibility of the Commission's Accounting Officer to prepare the EU's consolidated annual accounts and ensure that they present fairly, in all material aspects, the financial position, the result of the operations and the cash flows of the EU institutions and bodies with a view to granting discharge. Discharge procedure : the final step of a budget lifecycle is the discharge . It is the decision by which the European Parliament ‘ releases ’ the Commission from its responsibility for management of a given budget by marking the end of that budget's existence. It is granted by the European Parliament on the recommendation of the Council. The decision is based in particular on the European Court of Auditors reports, in particular its annual report, in which the Court provides a Statement of Assurance (DAS) on the legality and regularity of transactions (payments and commitments). The procedure results in the granting, postponement or refusal of discharge. The final discharge report including specific recommendations to the Commission for action is adopted in plenary by the European Parliament and are subject to an annual follow up report in which the Commission outlines the concrete actions it has taken to implement the recommendations made. All EU institutions and other agencies, bodies and joint undertakings are subject to their own discharge procedures. Implementation of the Court of Justice’s appropriations for the financial year 2016 : the document noted that in 2017 the Court’s budget was EUR 399.3 million , with an implementation rate of final appropriations of 98.69%. Almost 76 % of the budget was allocated to expenditure on the Members and staff, with almost the entire balance being spent on infrastructure, including buildings and information technology. As regards the expenditure of the Court of Justice, the information taken from the Court's 2017 Annual Activity Report states that: the Court's activity has been very active : the number of cases submitted to the Court is up compared to 2016 (1656 cases) and a total of 1594 cases have been closed; the statistics concerning the length of the proceedings are very positive; the scale of the increased productivity achieved by the Court, thanks to the coordinated efforts of the courts and of all the support services which made it possible, over the period 2010-2017, for the number of cases closed to rise by 30% with an increase in the number of new cases of 18% in the same period, although the number of staff in the support services fell; at the Meeting of Judges held in March 2017, it was decided to create the ‘ Judicial Network of the European Union ’ covering the constitutional and supreme courts of the Member States, a network coordinated by the Court; the Court is continuing the project for the 5th extension of its buildings which should, in 2019, enable it to reunite its staff on one site (vacating the last building that is still rented) and, thereby, increase the efficiency of its services.
date:	2019-02-27T00:00:00 type:	Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading body:	EP docs:	url:	http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A8-2019-0098&language=EN title:	A8-0098/2019 summary:	The Committee on Budgetary Control adopted the report by Arndt KOHN (S&D, DE) recommending the European Parliament to give discharge to the Registrar of the Court of Justice in respect of the implementation of the Court’s budget for the financial year 2017. Members noted with satisfaction that the Court of Auditors observed that no significant weaknesses in respect of the audited topics relating to human resources and procurement for the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The payments as a whole for the year ended on 31 December 2017 for administrative and other expenditure of the Court of Justice were free from material error. Budgetary and financial management Members noted that in 2016, the CJEU had appropriations amounting to EUR 399 344 000 (EUR 380 002 000 in 2016) and that the implementation rate was 98.69 % (98.23 % in 2016) in 2017. Noting that the CJEU overestimated its commitments for various budget lines and reduced its request for appropriations for Members’ missions when drawing up its 2019 estimates. Members called on the CJEU to pursue its efforts to ensure sound financial management in order to avoid significant discrepancies between commitments and payments. Court cases The report noted that the total number of cases brought before the CJEU in 2017 (1656 cases) was higher than in 2016 (1604 cases) and that the number of cases completed in 2017 remained at a high level (1594 cases as compared to 1628 cases in 2016). The average duration of proceedings decreased from 16.7 months in 2016 to 16.3 months in 2017). Members acknowledged the efforts of the CJEU to improve efficiency in the handling of cases while not compromising the quality, efficiency and independence of its judgements. Staff Staff reductions have put significant pressure on some support services such as the internal linguistic production capacity which has led to an increased collaboration with freelance translators. Brexit Members noted that the British members of the Court of Justice and the General Court will cease to exercise their functions when the United Kingdom withdraws from the European Union. The volume of litigation could increase in the short and medium term in view of legal problems which may be generated by a withdrawal agreement and the corresponding provisions of United Kingdom law. The report noted that they had 63 British members of staff in 2017, among which 36 officials, 24 temporary agents and three contract agents. Members welcomed the intention of the CJEU to follow a case by case approach when deciding on the extension of contracts for British contract and temporary agents after the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.
date:	2019-03-26T00:00:00 type:	Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading body:	EP docs:	url:	http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P8-TA-2019-0247 title:	T8-0247/2019 summary:	The European Parliament decided by 518 votes to 107, with 11 abstentions, to grant discharge to the Registrar of the Court of Justice for the implementation of the Court’s budget for the financial year 2017. Parliament noted with satisfaction that the Court of Auditors had observed that no significant weaknesses in respect of the audited topics relating to human resources and procurement for the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The payments as a whole for the year ended on 31 December 2017 for administrative and other expenditure of the Court of Justice were free from material error. Budgetary and financial management Parliament noted that in 2017, the CJEU had appropriations amounting to EUR 399 344 000 (EUR 380 002 000 in 2016) and that the implementation rate was 98.69 % (98.23 % in 2016) in 2017. Noting that the CJEU overestimated its commitments for various budget lines and reduced its request for appropriations for Members’ missions when drawing up its 2019 estimates. Members called on the CJEU to pursue its efforts to ensure sound financial management in order to avoid significant discrepancies between commitments and payments. Court cases The resolution noted that the total number of cases brought before the CJEU in 2017 (1656 cases) was higher than in 2016 (1604 cases) and that the number of cases completed in 2017 remained at a high level (1594 cases as compared to 1628 cases in 2016). The average duration of proceedings decreased from 16.7 months in 2016 to 16.3 months in 2017). Members acknowledged the efforts of the CJEU to improve efficiency in the handling of cases while not compromising the quality, efficiency and independence of its judgements. Staff Staff reductions have put significant pressure on some support services such as the internal linguistic production capacity which has led to an increased collaboration with freelance translators. Brexit Parliament noted that the British members of the Court of Justice and the General Court will cease to exercise their functions when the United Kingdom withdraws from the European Union. The volume of litigation could increase in the short and medium term in view of legal problems which may be generated by a withdrawal agreement and the corresponding provisions of United Kingdom law. The Court had 63 British members of staff in 2017, among which 36 officials, 24 temporary agents and three contract agents. Members welcomed the intention of the CJEU to follow a case by case approach when deciding on the extension of contracts for British contract and temporary agents after the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.
2018/2169(DEC)
2017 discharge: EU general budget, Court of Justice