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MNENJE (COM(2022)0209 – C90174/2022 – 2022/0155(COD))

O predlogu uredbe Evropskega parlamenta in Sveta o določitvi pravil za preprečevanje spolne zlorabe otrok in boj proti njej

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Odbor za proračun · Rapporteur: Niclas Herbst

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The Committee on Budgets gives its opinion on the Commission proposal for a regulation on preventing and combating online child sexual abuse, which would set up a new EU centre. It welcomes the proposal's main aims but says the lead committee should handle the political content. The opinion focuses on the budget, governance and reporting rules, and tables 69 amendments to the proposal. It opposes funding the agency by cutting the Internal Security Fund, wants funding matching its tasks and autonomy in hiring, and seeks clarity on liaison officers' costs and the single programming document. It also proposes shifting tasks from the executive board to the management board and removing the Commission's veto over administrative and budgetary decisions.

Committee position. The Committee on Budgets welcomes the proposal's main aims but says the lead committee should handle the political content. It proposes 69 amendments on financial provisions, governance and reporting, opposing funding the agency by cutting the Internal Security Fund and seeking to remove the Commission's veto over administrative and budgetary decisions.

Key points

  1. The rapporteur welcomes the proposal's main aims and believes the EU centre can help implement it, but says the lead committee should deal with the political content.
  2. The opinion focuses on financial provisions, governance rules and reporting and evaluation rules, to ensure parliamentary scrutiny.
  3. Under the Commission proposal, the centre's start-up phase runs from 2025 to 2029, its total annual budget reaches EUR 28.5 million in 2030, and it is expected to employ 113 people a year.
  4. The contribution would come from the Internal Security Fund under the 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework.
  5. The rapporteur opposes the Commission's plan to fund extra money for the agency in heading 5 by cutting the Internal Security Fund.
  6. The rapporteur says the agency must get funding matching its tasks and responsibilities and must have autonomy to hire contract staff, drawing on the European Public Prosecutor's Office's early staffing problems.
  7. The rapporteur notes the financial statement lacks support for infrastructure and operating costs such as rent or IT (heading 2), operating expenditure (heading 3), and does not account for the Netherlands correction coefficient (110.3 in 2022) on staff costs (heading 1).
  8. The rapporteur wants clarity on the costs of liaison officers that the EU centre may cover.
  9. The rapporteur wants clarity on the content and adoption procedure of the single programming document, which contains key documents for setting, implementing and monitoring the centre's budget.
  10. The rapporteur proposes aligning all provisions with the common approach and framework financial regulation, moving many tasks from the executive board to the management board and effectively removing the Commission's veto over administrative and budgetary decisions.
  11. The Committee on Budgets asks the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, as lead committee, to take account of 69 amendments.

Who is affected

  • The EU centre for preventing and combating child sexual abuse: its budget, staffing, governance and reporting rules would change.
  • The Commission: its plan to fund the agency by cutting the Internal Security Fund is opposed, and its veto over administrative and budgetary decisions would be removed.
  • The lead committee (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs: asked to take account of the amendments.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 28.5 million: the centre's total annual budget in 2030.
  • 113 people a year: the centre's estimated staffing.
  • 2025 to 2029: the start-up phase for setting up the EU centre.
  • 2021-2027: the multiannual financial framework from which the Internal Security Fund contribution comes.
  • 110.3 in 2022: the Netherlands correction coefficient not accounted for in staff costs.