On discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for the financial year 2022
LIBE-PA-756194
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs · Rapporteur: Tomáš Zdechovský
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This is the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs' draft opinion on discharge for the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction's 2022 budget. It asks the Committee on Budgetary Control to include its suggestions in its motion for a resolution.¶ The committee welcomes the Court of Auditors' declaration that the Centre's 2022 transactions were legal and regular, and welcomes the Centre's publications, training, cooperation projects and work with other agencies.¶¶¶
Committee position. The committee proposes that the Committee on Budgetary Control incorporate its suggestions into its motion for a resolution, welcoming the Court of Auditors' declaration and the Centre's activities, and recalling the link between drug trafficking and organized crime and terrorism.¶¶¶
Key points
- The committee calls on the Committee on Budgetary Control to incorporate its suggestions into its motion for a resolution.¶
- It welcomes the Court of Auditors' declaration that the Centre's 2022 transactions were legal and regular in all material respects.¶
- It welcomes the European Drug Report 2022, the Statistical Bulletin 2022 and the EU Early Warning System on new psychoactive substances, run by the Centre for 25 years in 2022.¶
- It welcomes drug-related training with 609 law enforcement professionals, delivered with CEPOL, and considers it essential to continue raising awareness of prevention and innovative mental-health-based approaches.¶
- It welcomes progress on the joint EU Drug Markets: In-depth analysis with Europol, work on core supply data with Reitox National Focus Points and Europol, and implementation of tasks under the Multidisciplinary Platform Against Criminal Threats operational action plans on cannabis, cocaine and heroin.¶
- It recalls that drug trafficking has been identified as a main source of profit and a channel of recruitment of organized crime and terrorism, and highlights the Centre's contribution to a more secure Europe.
- It welcomes the resource page EMCDDA 4 Ukraine, created for professionals working in the drugs field in Europe supporting people displaced from Ukraine.¶
- It welcomes cooperation with European Neighbourhood Policy partner countries through the EU4MD project, the bilateral project with Georgia EMCDDA4GE, and the establishing of official partnership in the Cooperation Programme between Latin America, the Caribbean and the European Union on Drugs Policies.¶
- It welcomes the Centre's cooperation with other agencies, its contribution to the JHA agencies' network, and its continuous cooperation with national drugs agencies, third countries and international organizations such as UNODC and the WHO.¶
Who is affected
- The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction: its 2022 budget implementation is the subject of the discharge procedure.¶¶
- The Committee on Budgetary Control: asked to incorporate the suggestions into its motion for a resolution.
- Law enforcement professionals and technical cooperation project partners: participated in the Centre's drug-related training.¶
- People displaced from Ukraine and professionals working in the drugs field in Europe: supported by the EMCDDA 4 Ukraine resource page.¶