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Report 2024/2030(DEC) 2025-04-30

2023 discharge: EU general budget - Agencies

30.4.2025 A10-0065/30

Amendment 30

Dick Erixon, Charlie Weimers, Beatrice Timgren, Sebastian Tynkkynen, Maciej Wąsik, Marion Maréchal, Nicolas Bay, Guillaume Peltier, Laurence Trochu, Mariusz Kamiński, Joachim Stanisław Brudziński

on behalf of the ECR Group

Report A10-0065/2025

Erik Marquardt

2023 discharge: EU general budget - Agencies

2024/2030(DEC)

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17. Takes note of the conclusions of the report on the evaluation of Regulation (EU) 2019/1896 on the European Border and Coast Guard (Frontex)7 and its findings deeming that regulation fit for purpose, including a review of the Standing Corps published in February 2024; notes that while the regulation provides a framework for effective border management, challenges remain in governance, accountability, and efficiency; recognises that the governance structure requires adjustments to ensure that Frontex can fully implement its mandate, including addressing the balance of representation in the management Board, streamlining internal decision-making processes and avoiding overlapping responsibilities; welcomes the new organisational structure adopted by the management Board in November 2023 as a step toward improving governance, strategic coordination and resource allocation; acknowledges the administrative inefficiencies highlighted in the evaluation report, particularly regarding reimbursement procedures and bureaucratic hurdles faced by Member States when deploying personnel to Frontex; calls on the Commission to explore ways to simplify these processes to reduce unnecessary burdens on national authorities; notes the importance of implementing recommendations from the Fundamental Rights Officer’s (FRO) annual report; while recognising the progress that has been made, calls on Frontex to continue to enhance transparency, fully cooperate with investigations and implement measures ensuring fundamental rights protections in all of its activities;

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7 Regulation (EU) 2019/1896 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 November 2019 on the European Border and Coast Guard and repealing Regulations (EU) No 1052/2013 and (EU) 2016/1624 (OJ L, 2019/1896, 14.11.2019, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2019/1896/oj).

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30.4.2025 A10-0065/31

Amendment 31

on behalf of the ECR Group

Report A10-0065/2025

Erik Marquardt

2023 discharge: EU general budget - Agencies

2024/2030(DEC)

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18. Stresses that a balanced approach, combining effective border control with robust fundamental rights safeguards, is key to maintaining a secure Schengen area and a credible migration management framework for the Union; reiterates, therefore, the importance of structural and continuous fundamental rights training for Standing Corps officers (Frontex), ensuring their awareness of and compliance with relevant fundamental rights obligations and standards and with international human rights and humanitarian law8 ; stresses, moreover, the importance of reporting fundamental rights violations, when witnessing such violations, via the issuance of Serious Incident Reports (SIRs);

18. Stresses the need for the agency to return to its core tasks which are key to maintaining a secure Schengen area and a credible migration management framework for the Union;

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8 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:52024DC0075 - part 3.

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30.4.2025 A10-0065/32

Amendment 32

Maciej Wąsik, Dick Erixon, Charlie Weimers, Marion Maréchal, Nicolas Bay, Guillaume Peltier, Laurence Trochu, Joachim Stanisław Brudziński

on behalf of the ECR Group

Report A10-0065/2025

Erik Marquardt

2023 discharge: EU general budget - Agencies

2024/2030(DEC)

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 81

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

81. Welcomes FRA's contribution to the evaluation of the European Border and Coast Guard Regulation (‘the EBCG Regulation’), participation in European Border Coast Agency (Frontex) management board meetings and co-chairing the Frontex Consultative Forum on Fundamental Rights and cooperation with the Fundamental Rights Office at Frontex;

81. Notes FRA's contribution to the evaluation of the European Border and Coast Guard Regulation (‘the EBCG Regulation’), participation in European Border Coast Agency (Frontex) management board meetings and co-chairing the Frontex Consultative Forum on Fundamental Rights and cooperation with the Fundamental Rights Office at Frontex;

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30.4.2025 A10-0065/33

Amendment 33

on behalf of the ECR Group

Report A10-0065/2025

Erik Marquardt

2023 discharge: EU general budget - Agencies

2024/2030(DEC)

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 85

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

85. Highlights as regards EIGE, the importance of resuming actions related to the gender mainstreaming that did not achieve a 100 % success rate, particularly due to procedural reasons;

85. Highlights as regards EIGE, this Institution, rather than focusing on universally shared goals such as equal opportunity and protection under the law, continues to prioritise concepts like “gender identity,” “intersectionality,” and “structural patriarchy,” which represent ideological constructs rather than objective policy concerns; stresses that the EIGE operates as a vehicle for social engineering rather than a neutral agency promoting equality under Union law;

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30.4.2025 A10-0065/34

Amendment 34

Maciej Wąsik, Dick Erixon, Charlie Weimers, Marion Maréchal, Nicolas Bay, Guillaume Peltier, Laurence Trochu, Mariusz Kamiński, Joachim Stanisław Brudziński

on behalf of the ECR Group

Report A10-0065/2025

Erik Marquardt

2023 discharge: EU general budget - Agencies

2024/2030(DEC)

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 108

Motion for a resolution

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108. Supports Frontex’s continued efforts to strengthen its FRO, noting the employment of 46 Fundamental Rights Monitors (FRM) in 2023; stresses the importance of ensuring that all FRMs are recruited in AD grade, to further enhance their capacity and independence; recognises that Frontex has taken significant steps in responding to the opinions of the FRO, particularly on issues such as gender mainstreaming and human trafficking;

108. Notes Frontex’s continued efforts to strengthen its FRO, whose activities should not determine the implementation of Frontex's mandate, which is to help Members States in border protection, return of illigal migrants and secure of the Schengen area;

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30.4.2025 A10-0065/35

Amendment 35

Maciej Wąsik, Dick Erixon, Charlie Weimers, Marion Maréchal, Nicolas Bay, Guillaume Peltier, Laurence Trochu, Joachim Stanisław Brudziński

on behalf of the ECR Group

Report A10-0065/2025

Erik Marquardt

2023 discharge: EU general budget - Agencies

2024/2030(DEC)

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 142

Motion for a resolution

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142. Highlights the positive progress in implementing Fundamental Rights targets, including the ongoing execution of the Fundamental Rights Action Plan and the independent evaluation of the Agency’s compliance with the Fundamental Rights Framework, in line with the EBCG Regulation; welcomes the proactive follow-up by Frontex on complaints related to fundamental rights, with the majority being dismissed for non-admissibility; welcomes Frontex’s reinforced commitment to transparency and accountability;

142. Highlights the positive progress in implementing Fundamental Rights targets, which, however, are not the main task expected by Member States in their requests for Frontex assistance at the borders; notes that the activities of FRO in Lithuania in 2021 determined the presence of Frontex and made the assistance ineffective in the face of hybrid threats from Belarus and Russia; stresses that, as a result, Lithuania, the victim of hybrid attack, has been accused of violating the fundamental rights of aggressive illegal migrants pushing their way across its borders;

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