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OPINION (2024/2030(DEC))

On discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union agencies for the financial year 2023

FEMM-AD-765344

Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality · Rapporteur: Lina Gálvez

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The Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality gives its opinion on granting discharge to the Director of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) for the 2023 budget, and suggests amendments to the lead committee. It stresses EIGE's role in gender equality, notes its high budget execution and understaffing, and calls for adequate resources and further work on gender-based violence, pay gaps, and intersectionality.

Committee position. The committee proposes that discharge be granted to the Director of EIGE for the 2023 budget, while making several recommendations for future work and resources.

Key points

  1. Calls on the lead committee to incorporate the opinion into its motion for a resolution.
  2. Underlines that EIGE needs sufficient and stable financial and human resources to fulfil its tasks.
  3. Notes EIGE's high budget execution in 2023: 98% commitment appropriations, 83% payment appropriations, and 92.76% of work programme objectives achieved.
  4. Calls on EIGE to prioritize research on reducing the gender pay gap, increasing women's access to quality jobs, and ensuring economic independence.
  5. Highlights the importance of resuming gender mainstreaming actions that did not achieve full success, especially those due to procedural reasons.
  6. Calls on EIGE to further develop work on violence against women, noting that some groups, such as women with disabilities, are more vulnerable.
  7. Notes that women and girls with disabilities are at higher risk of transport poverty due to limited affordability, availability, and accessibility.
  8. Acknowledges persisting understaffing and stresses calls for EIGE to be granted necessary budget and staff allocations.
  9. Calls on EIGE to adopt an intersectional framework in research and policymaking to address compounded disadvantages faced by marginalized groups.
  10. Is of the opinion that discharge can be granted to the Director of EIGE for the 2023 budget.

Who is affected

  • EIGE: receives calls to prioritize certain research areas, adopt an intersectional framework, and is recommended for discharge.
  • Women and girls with disabilities: identified as more vulnerable to violence and transport poverty.
  • Marginalized groups including women of color, migrants, persons with disabilities, and LGBTIQA+ individuals: targeted for intersectional research and disaggregated data.

Figures and deadlines

  • 98% commitment appropriations and 83% payment appropriations in 2023.
  • 92.76% of work programme objectives achieved.
  • Gender pay gap in the EU is 13% and pension gap is 29%.
  • 8.5% increase in staff costs, 2.7% indexation of salaries, average staff of 45.

Legal basis: Article 8 TFEU