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Discharge 2022: European Union Aviation Safety Agency

TA-9-2024-0249 · P9_TA(2024)0249 · PE753.511

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Parliament grants discharge to the Acting Executive Director of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency for the 2022 budget and approves the closure of the Agency's 2022 accounts. Its accompanying resolution notes the Agency's 2022 budget of EUR 224 265 965, a 97,08 % commitment implementation rate and a 97 % implementation rate of its Annual Work Programme. It raises Court of Auditors findings on undocumented checks on fees and charges, an irregular extreme urgency contract and an unjustified exclusion of a bidder, and asks the Agency to act. It calls for continued efforts on gender balance, an internal anticorruption strategy, publication of lobby meetings, and action on open internal audit recommendations.

Key points

  1. Parliament grants the Acting Executive Director of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency discharge for the implementation of the Agency's 2022 budget.
  2. Parliament approves the closure of the Agency's accounts for the financial year 2022.
  3. The Agency's final 2022 budget was EUR 224 265 965, up 10,04 % on 2021, with EUR 39 678 000 from the Union budget and EUR 120 435 031 from fees and charges.
  4. The Court of Auditors found the Agency's annual accounts reliable and the underlying transactions legal and regular.
  5. Budget implementation reached 97,08 % for current year commitments and 87,18 % for payments; the fees and charges result was negative EUR 8,2 million.
  6. The Court found the Agency does not document checks ensuring fees and charges are correctly collected, contrary to Articles 74(5) and 75 of the Financial Regulation; the Agency commits to act.
  7. The Agency met 97 % of its 2022 Annual Work Programme and had 77 % of its key performance indicators on track, and advanced clean aviation, digitalisation and Urban Air Mobility work.
  8. Parliament highlights the Single European Sky, welcomes the Agency's work on Single European Sky 2+, and supports its actions on Ukraine, including conflict zone bulletins and sanctions compliance.
  9. The Agency shares resources with other agencies and bodies and concluded its "Destination: Future-proof" programme, which delivered a 12 % productivity gain and a 36 full-time-equivalent overhead reduction.
  10. The establishment plan was 95,59 % implemented with 651 of 681 temporary agents; the Agency recruited over 60 newcomers and had a 0,1 % turnover rate.
  11. Parliament observes a lack of gender balance in senior and middle management (17 of 22 men) and the management board (59 of 79 men), and calls for concrete action.
  12. The Court found an extreme urgency contract of EUR 1,9 million irregular, with EUR 261 385 of associated payments, and an unjustified exclusion of a bidder; Parliament calls for corrective action.

Who is affected

  • The European Union Aviation Safety Agency and its Acting Executive Director, who receive discharge and must act on the observations.
  • The Agency's staff and management, affected by calls on gender balance, career development and staffing.
  • The Commission and member states, asked to consider gender balance when nominating management board members.
  • The Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, which receive the decisions.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 224 265 965: the Agency's final budget for 2022.
  • 10,04 %: increase in the 2022 budget compared to 2021.
  • EUR 39 678 000: part of the Agency's budget from the Union budget.
  • EUR 120 435 031: revenue from fees and charges.
  • 97,08 %: budget implementation rate of current year commitment appropriations.
  • 87,18 %: current year payment appropriations execution rate.
  • negative EUR 8,2 million: fees and charges budgetary result for 2022.
  • EUR 1,9 million: value of the contract concluded using an extreme urgency procedure.

Legal basis: Article 319 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.