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On the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council - Proposal for a regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse.
Document BUDG-PA-740759 · COM(2022)0209 – C9xxxx/xxxx – 2022/0155(COD)
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- Opinion parliamentary committee draft BUDG-PA-740759
- Date
- 27 January 2023
- Committee
- Committee on Budgets
- Rapporteur
- Niclas Herbst
- Dossier
- 2022-0155
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This is the Committee on Budgets' draft opinion on the proposed regulation to prevent and combat child sexual abuse, which would set up a European Centre (the EU Centre). The rapporteur welcomes the proposal's aims but says the lead committee should handle policy substance. The draft opinion focuses on financial provisions, governance, reporting and evaluation. It proposes amendments to oppose financing the agency by cutting the Internal Security Fund, to give the EU Centre an autonomous budget and recruitment autonomy, and to shift powers from the Executive Board to the Management Board. The amendments also add rules on the Single Programming Document, the annual budget, the consolidated annual activity report, anti-fraud and other strategies, and the appointment of the Executive Director and other officers.
Position. The Committee on Budgets calls on the lead committees to take into account its amendments. The rapporteur proposes to oppose financing the agency by cutting the Internal Security Fund, to give the EU Centre an autonomous budget and recruitment autonomy, and to shift powers from the Executive Board to the Management Board.
Key points
- The rapporteur welcomes the proposal's aims and believes the EU Centre can help implement it, but says the lead committee should deal with policy substance.
- The draft opinion focuses on financial provisions, governance rules, and reporting and evaluation to ensure parliamentary scrutiny.
- It opposes financing the agency's additional resources in heading 5 through a compensatory reduction of the Internal Security Fund envelope.
- It calls for the agency to be resourced in line with its tasks and to have autonomy over contract agent recruitment, noting gaps in the Legislative Financial Statement.
- It clarifies costs for contact officers that the EU Centre can cover and the content and adoption procedure of the Single Programming Document.
- It reallocates tasks from the Executive Board to the Management Board and removes the Commission's veto over administrative and budgetary decisions.
- It adds that the EU Centre should be mainly financed from the Union budget, with appropriations from unallocated margins or special instruments, and have recruitment autonomy.
- It requires the EU Centre to bear analysis costs for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises if compliant with available budgetary resources.
- It gives the Management Board powers to adopt the draft and final Single Programming Document, the annual budget, the consolidated annual activity report, anti-fraud and other strategies, and to appoint the Executive Director and other officers.
- It allows the Management Board to delegate appointing authority powers to the Executive Director and to temporarily suspend such delegation in exceptional circumstances.
- It requires the Management Board to consult the European Parliament before appointing members of the Technology Committee.
- It sets budget rules: the EU Centre's budget is balanced, includes a Union contribution, and is adopted by the Management Board by a two-thirds majority of members entitled to vote.
Who is affected
- The EU Centre: would gain an autonomous budget, recruitment autonomy, and a Management Board with more decision-making powers.
- Providers that are micro, small or medium-sized enterprises: would not bear the costs of data sample analysis if compliant with available budgetary resources.
- The Commission: would lose its veto right over administrative and budgetary decisions and its representatives on the Executive Board would be reduced.
- The European Parliament: would have an independent expert observer with voting rights on the Management Board and would be consulted on the Single Programming Document and Technology Committee appointments.
Figures and deadlines
- Start-up phase for the EU Centre: 2025 to 2029.
- Total annual budget for the EU Centre in 2030 at cruising speed: EUR 28,5 million.
- Estimated annual staff of the EU Centre: 113.
- Correction coefficient in the Netherlands in 2022: 110.3.
- Deadline for sending the consolidated annual activity report: by 1 July each year.
- Deadline for adopting the draft Single Programming Document: by 30 November of each year.
- Deadline for forwarding the Single Programming Document to the European Parliament, Council and Commission: by 31 January of the following year.
- Deadlines for draft estimates: provisional by 31 January each year, final by 31 March each year.
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Short justification
At least one in five children falls victim to sexual violence during childhood. A 2021 global study found that more than one in three respondents had been asked to do something sexually explicit online during their childhood, and over half had experienced a form of child sexual abuse online. Despite the fact that the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse materials are criminalised across the EU by the Child Sexual Abuse Directive, adopted in 2011, the EU is currently still failing to protect children from sexual abuse, and that the online dimension represents a particular challenge.
In this context, the Commission proposal seeks to establish a clear and harmonised legal framework on preventing and combating online child sexual abuse. The Commission suggests establishing a new decentralised agency - the European Centre to prevent and counter child sexual abuse (the “EU Centre”) - to facilitate and support the implementation of its proposal and help remove obstacles to the internal market, especially in connection to the obligations of providers to detect online child sexual abuse, report it and remove child sexual abuse material.
Your Rapporteur welcomes the overarching aims of the proposal and is convinced that the EU Centre can be instrumental in implementation. Nevertheless, in line with his approach to decentralised agency files, he considers that the policy substance of the proposal should be dealt with by the lead committee.
As such, the draft opinion focuses on those areas where the Committee on Budgets can add value, therefore in particular on the financial provisions, governance rules and provisions relating to reporting and evaluation to ensure proper parliamentary scrutiny. Your Rapporteur assesses the proposal notably against the 2019 Schoepflin report, the Joint Statement of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on decentralised agencies of 19 July 2012 and the Common Approach and the Framework Financial Regulation governing decentralised agencies.
According to the Commission proposal, the start-up phase for the establishment of the EU Centre will start in 2025 and last until 2029, with a total annual budget of EUR 28,5 million for the Centre in 2030 at cruising speed. The EU Centre would then have estimated annual staff of 113. The EU budget contribution is to come from the allocations in the Multi-annual Financial Framework (MFF) 2021-27 under the Internal Security Fund.
a) to oppose the Commission’s intention of financing the additional resources for the agency in heading 5 through a compensatory reduction of the Internal Security Fund envelope.
b) to emphasise the need for the agency to be resourced in a manner commensurate with its tasks and responsibilities and to have the necessary autonomy over contract agent recruitment, learning the lessons from the early staffing challenges of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office. This is all the more relevant when looking at the Legislative Financial Statement accompanying the proposal which does not include financial support for infrastructure and operating expenditure such as rental or IT (Title 2), operational expenditure (Title 3) and does not include the impact of the correction coefficient in the Netherlands (110.3 in 2022) on staff expenditure (Title 1).
d) to clarify the content and the adoption procedure of the Single Programming Document, which includes crucial documents for the establishment, implementation and scrutiny of the budget of the EU Centre.
Your Rapporteur also introduces a number of amendments to ensure that all the provisions comply fully with the principles in the Common Approach and the Framework Financial Regulation.
This includes reallocating a number of tasks from the Executive Board to the Management Board and de facto removing the Commission’s veto right over administrative and budgetary decisions. Autonomy in budgetary and administrative decision-making is key for the Agency’s effectiveness.
The Committee on Budgets calls on the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, as the committee responsible, to take into account the following amendments:
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| (59) To support the implementation of this Regulation and contribute to the achievement of its objectives, the EU Centre should serve as a central facilitator, carrying out a range of specific tasks. The performance of those tasks requires strong guarantees of independence, in particular from law enforcement authorities, as well as a governance structure ensuring the effective, efficient and coherent performance of its different tasks, and legal personality to be able to interact effectively with all relevant stakeholders. Therefore, it should be established as a decentralised Union agency. | (59) To support the implementation of this Regulation and contribute to the achievement of its objectives, the EU Centre should serve as a central facilitator, carrying out a range of specific tasks. The performance of those tasks requires strong guarantees of independence, in particular from law enforcement authorities, a governance structure ensuring the effective, efficient and coherent performance of its different tasks, legal personality to be able to interact effectively with all relevant stakeholders and an autonomous budget. Therefore, it should be established as a decentralised Union agency and provided with the necessary human and financial resources to fulfil the objectives, tasks and responsibilities assigned to it under this Regulation, including expenditure related to the making available of technologies and the costs related to the analysis of data samples undertaken for micro, small and medium enterprises. It should be mainly financed by a contribution from the general budget of the Union, with the necessary appropriations drawn exclusively from unallocated margins under the relevant heading of the Multiannual Financial Framework and/or through the mobilisation of the relevant special instruments. In order to ensure that the Agency can respond flexibly to human resource needs, it is in particular appropriate that it has autonomy regarding the recruitment of contract agents. |
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| The costs incurred by the EU Centre for the performance of such an analysis shall be borne by the requesting provider. However, the EU Centre shall bear those costs where the provider is a micro, small or medium-sized enterprise, provided the request is reasonably necessary to support the risk assessment. | The costs incurred by the EU Centre for the performance of such an analysis shall be borne by the requesting provider. However, the EU Centre shall bear those costs where the provider is a micro, small or medium-sized enterprise, provided the request is reasonably necessary to support the risk assessment and compliant with available budgetary resources. |
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| (a) supporting the Commission in the preparation of the guidelines referred to in Article 3(8), Article 4(5), Article 6(4) and Article 11, including by collecting and providing relevant information, expertise and best practices, taking into account advice from the Technology Committee referred to in Article 66; | (a) supporting the Commission in the preparation of the guidelines referred to in Article 3(6), Article 4(5), Article 6(4) and Article 11, including by collecting and providing relevant information, expertise and best practices, taking into account advice from the Technology Committee referred to in Article 66; |
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| 4. Where contact officers are seconded to the EU Centre, the EU Centre shall cover the costs of providing them with the necessary premises within the building and adequate support for contact officers to perform their duties. All other costs that arise in connection with the designation of contact officers and the performance of their tasks shall be borne by the Coordinating Authority that designated them. | 4. Costs that arise in connection with the designation of contact officers and the performance of their tasks shall be borne by the Coordinating Authority that designated them. Where contact officers are seconded to the EU Centre, the EU Centre shall cover the costs of office space in the building and adequate equipment for them to perform their duties. |
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| Without prejudice to the responsibilities of the Executive Director, the EU Centre shall maximise efficiency by sharing administrative functions with Europol, including functions relating to personnel management, information technology (IT) and budget implementation. | deleted |
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| Without prejudice to the responsibilities of the Executive Director, the EU Centre shall maximise efficiency by sharing support functions with Europol, including financial and human resources management and information technology services (IT). |
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| The Management Board shall also include one independent expert observer designated by the European Parliament, without the right to vote. | The Management Board shall also include one independent expert observer designated by the European Parliament, with the right to vote. |
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| (aa) adopt the draft Single Programming Document referred to in Article 66a before its submission to the Commission for its opinion; |
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| (ab) adopt, having requested the opinion of the Commission, the Agency's Single Programming Document by a majority of two-thirds of the members entitled to vote in accordance with Article 56; |
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| (ac) adopt, by a majority of two-thirds of the members entitled to vote, the annual budget of the EU Centre and exercise other functions in respect of the EU Centre's budget; |
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| (ad) assess and adopt, by a majority of two-thirds of the members entitled to vote, a consolidated annual activity report on the EU Centre's activities, including an overview of the fulfilment of its tasks and send it, by 1 July each year, to the European Parliament, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors and make the consolidated annual activity report public; |
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| (ae) adopt an anti-fraud strategy, proportionate to fraud risks taking into account the costs and benefits of the measures to be implemented, an efficiency gains and synergies strategy with other Union decentralised agencies and bodies, a strategy for cooperation with third countries and/or international organisations, and a strategy for the organisational management and internal control systems; |
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| (af) exercise, with respect to the staff of the EU Centre, the powers conferred by the Staff Regulations on the Appointing Authority and by the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants on the Authority Empowered to Conclude a Contract of Employment1a ("the appointing authority powers"); | |
| 1a Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 259/68 of the Council of 29 February 1968 laying down the Staff Regulations of Officials and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Communities and instituting special measures temporarily applicable to officials of the Commission (OJ L 56, 4.3.1968, p. 1) |
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| (ag) adopt appropriate implementing rules for giving effect to the Staff Regulations and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants in accordance with Article 110(2) of the Staff Regulations; |
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| (ah) appoint the Executive Director and remove him/her from office, in accordance with Article 65; |
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| (ai) appoint an Accounting Officer, who may be the Commission's Accounting Officer, subject to the Staff Regulations and the Conditions of Employment of other servants, who shall be totally independent in the performance of his/her duties; |
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| (aj) adopt the financial rules applicable to the EU Centre; |
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| (ak) take all decisions on the establishment of the EU Centre's internal structures and, where necessary, their modification; |
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| (al) appoint a Data Protection Officer; |
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| (am) adopt internal guidelines further specifying the procedures for the processing of information in accordance with Article 51, after consulting the European Data Protection Supervisor; |
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| 1a. With respect to the powers referred to in paragraph 2, points (g) and (h), of this Article, the Management Board shall adopt, in accordance with Article 110(2) of the Staff Regulations, a decision based on Article 2(1) of the Staff Regulations and Article 6 of the Conditions of Employment, delegating relevant appointing authority powers to the Executive Director. The Executive Director shall be authorised to sub-delegate those powers. |
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| 1b. In exceptional circumstances, the Management Board may decide to temporarily suspend the delegation of the appointing authority powers to the Executive Director and any sub-delegation by the latter and exercise them itself or delegate them to one of its members or to a staff member other than the Executive Director. |
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| 2. Each member shall have one vote. In the absence of a member, his/her alternate shall be entitled to exercise his/her right to vote. | 2. Each member shall have one vote. In the absence of a member, his/her alternate shall be entitled to exercise his/her right to vote. The Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson shall take part in the voting. |
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| The Executive Board shall be composed of the Chairperson and the Deputy Chairperson of the Management Board, two other members appointed by the Management Board from among its members with the right to vote and two representatives of the Commission to the Management Board. The Chairperson of the Management Board shall also be the Chairperson of the Executive Board. | The Executive Board shall be composed of the Chairperson and the Deputy Chairperson of the Management Board, two other members appointed by the Management Board from among its members and one representative of the Commission to the Management Board. The Chairperson of the Management Board shall also be the Chairperson of the Executive Board. |
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| The Executive Director shall participate in meetings of the Executive Board without the right to vote. | The Executive Director shall participate in meetings of the Executive Board without the right to vote. The Executive Board may invite other observers to attend its meetings. |
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| 2. The term of office of members of the Executive Board shall be four years. In the course of the 12 months preceding the end of the four-year term of office of the Chairperson and five members of the Executive Board, the Management Board or a smaller committee selected among Management Board members including a Commission representative shall carry out an assessment of performance of the Executive Board. The assessment shall take into account an evaluation of the Executive Board members’ performance and the EU Centre’s future tasks and challenges. Based on the assessment, the Management Board may extend their term of office once. | 2. The term of office of members of the Executive Board shall be four years. |
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| 1. The Executive Board shall be responsible for the overall planning and the execution of the tasks conferred on the EU Centre pursuant to Article 43. The Executive Board shall adopt all the decisions of the EU Centre with the exception of the decisions that shall be taken by the Management Board in accordance with Article 57. | 1. The Executive Board shall: |
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| (a) decide on the matters provided for in the financial rules adopted pursuant to Article 68 that are not reserved to the Management Board by this Regulation; |
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| (b) ensure adequate follow-up to the findings and recommendations stemming from the internal or external audit reports and evaluations, as well as from investigations of OLAF and of EPPO; |
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| (c) without prejudice to the responsibilities of the Executive Director, as set out in Article 64, monitor and supervise the implementation of the decisions of the Management Board, with a view to reinforcing supervision of administrative and budgetary management. |
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| (d) adopt rules for the prevention and management of conflicts of interest in respect of its members; |
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| (e) adopt its rules of procedure. |
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| 3. With respect to the powers mentioned in paragraph 2 point (g) and (h), the Executive Board shall adopt, in accordance with Article 110(2) of the Staff Regulations, a decision based on Article 2(1) of the Staff Regulations and Article 6 of the Conditions of Employment, delegating relevant appointing authority powers to the Executive Director. The Executive Director shall be authorised to sub-delegate those powers. | deleted |
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| 4. In exceptional circumstances, the Executive Board may by way of a decision temporarily suspend the delegation of the appointing authority powers to the Executive Director and any sub-delegation by the latter and exercise them itself or delegate them to one of its members or to a staff member other than the Executive Director. | deleted |
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| The representatives of the Commission shall have a right to vote whenever matters pertaining to Article 62(2), points (a) to (l) and (p) are discussed and decided upon. For the purposes of taking the decisions referred to in Article 62(2), points (f) and (g), the representatives of the Commission shall have one vote each. The decisions referred to in Article 62(2), points (b) to (e), (h) to (l) and (p), may only be taken if the representatives of the Commission casts a positive vote. For the purposes of taking the decisions referred to in Article 62(2), point (a), the consent of the representatives of the Commission shall only be required on the elements of the decision not related to the annual and multi-annual working programme of the EU Centre. | deleted |
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| 1a. Without prejudice to the powers of the Commission, of the Management Board and of the Executive Board, the Executive Director shall be independent in the performance of the duties and shall neither seek nor take instructions from any government nor from any other body. |
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| (d) preparing the Single Programming Document and submitting it to the Executive Board after consulting the Commission; | (d) preparing the Single Programming Document and submitting it to the Management Board after consulting the Commission; |
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| (e) implementing the Single Programming Document and reporting to the Executive Board on its implementation; | (e) implementing the Single Programming Document and reporting to the Management Board on its implementation; |
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| (f) preparing the Consolidated Annual Activity Report (CAAR) on the EU Centre’s activities and presenting it to the Executive Board for assessment and adoption; | (f) preparing the Consolidated Annual Activity Report (CAAR) on the EU Centre’s activities and presenting it to the Management Board for assessment and adoption; |
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| (i) preparing an anti-fraud strategy, an efficiency gains and synergies strategy, a strategy for cooperation with third countries and/or international organisations and a strategy for the organisational management and internal control systems for the EU Centre and presenting them to the Executive Board for approval; | (i) preparing an anti-fraud strategy, an efficiency gains and synergies strategy, a strategy for cooperation with third countries and/or international organisations and a strategy for the organisational management and internal control systems for the EU Centre and presenting them to the Management Board for approval; |
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| (m) implementing the annual work programme of the EU Centre under the control of the Executive Board; | (m) implementing the annual work programme of the EU Centre under the control of the Management Board; |
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| (pa) signing the memoranda of understanding referred to in Article 53(3) and Article 54(2) after having informed the Management Board. |
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| 2. The Executive Director shall be appointed by the Executive Board, from a list of candidates proposed by the Commission, following an open and transparent selection procedure. | 2. The Executive Director shall be appointed by the Management Board, from a list of candidates proposed by the Commission, following an open and transparent selection procedure. |
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| 3. For the purpose of concluding the contract with the Executive Director, the EU Centre shall be represented by the Chairperson of the Executive Board. | 3. For the purpose of concluding the contract with the Executive Director, the EU Centre shall be represented by the Chairperson of the Management Board. |
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| 5. The Executive Board, acting on a proposal from the Commission that takes into account the assessment referred to in paragraph 3, may extend the term of office of the Executive Director once, for no more than five years. | 5. The Management Board, acting on a proposal from the Commission that takes into account the assessment referred to in paragraph 3, may extend the term of office of the Executive Director once, for no more than five years. |
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| 7. The Executive Director may be dismissed only upon a decision of the Executive Board acting on a proposal from the Commission. | 7. The Executive Director may be dismissed only upon a decision of the Management Board acting on a proposal from the Commission. |
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| 2. Procedures concerning the appointment of the members of the Technology Committee and its operation shall be specified in the rules of procedure of the Management Board and shall be made public. | 2. Procedures concerning the appointment of the members of the Technology Committee and its operation shall be specified in the rules of procedure of the Management Board and shall be made public. Before appointing members of the Technology Committee, the Management Board shall first consult the European Parliament. |
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| Establishment and Structure of the Budget | Financial provisions |
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| Single Programming Document |
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| Article 66a | |
| Single Programming Document | |
| 1. By 30 November of each year, the Management Board shall adopt a draft single programming document containing multi-annual and annual programming as well as all the documents listed in Article 32 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/715, based on a draft put forward by the Executive Director, after consulting the Technology Committee, taking into account the opinion of the Commission, and in relation to multiannual programming after consulting the European Parliament. If the Management Board decides not to take into account elements of the opinion of the Commission or of the Technology Committee, it shall provide a thorough justification therefor. The obligation to provide a thorough justification shall also apply to the elements raised by the European Parliament when it is consulted. The Management Board shall forward the Single Programming Document to the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission by 31 January of the following year. The Single Programming Document shall become definitive after final adoption of the general budget and if necessary shall be adjusted accordingly. | |
| 2. The annual work programme shall comprise detailed objectives and expected results including performance indicators. It shall also contain a description of the actions to be financed and an indication of the financial and human resources allocated to each action, in accordance with the principles of activity-based budgeting and management. The annual work programme shall be coherent with the multi-annual work programme referred to in paragraph 4 of this Article. It shall clearly indicate tasks that have been added, changed or deleted in comparison with the previous financial year. Annual or multi-annual programming shall include the information about the the Agency’s planned research, surveys and studies referred to in Article 50(3). | |
| 3. The Management Board shall amend the adopted annual work programme when a new task is given to the Agency. Any substantial amendment to the annual work programme shall be adopted by the same procedure as the initial annual work programme. The Management Board may delegate the power to make non-substantial amendments to the annual work programme to the Executive Director. | |
| 4. The multi-annual work programme shall set out overall strategic programming including objectives, expected results and performance indicators. It shall also set out resource programming including multi-annual budget and staff. The resource programming shall be updated annually. The strategic programming shall be updated where appropriate, and in particular to address the outcome of the evaluation referred to in Article 85. | |
| 5. The multi-annual and annual work programmes shall be prepared in compliance with Article 32 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/715. |
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| Article 66b | |
| Budget | |
| 1. Estimates of all revenue and expenditure for the EU Centre shall be prepared each financial year, which shall correspond to the calendar year, and shall be shown in the EU Centre’s budget, which shall be balanced in terms of revenue and of expenditure. | |
| 2. Without prejudice to other resources, the EU Centre’s revenue shall comprise a contribution from the Union entered in the general budget of the Union. | |
| 3. The EU Centre may benefit from Union funding in the form of delegation agreements or ad hoc grants in accordance with its financial rules referred to in Article 68 and with the provisions of the relevant instruments supporting the policies of the Union. | |
| 4. The EU Centre’s expenditure shall include staff remuneration, administrative and infrastructure expenses, and operating costs. | |
| 5. Budgetary commitments for actions relating to large-scale projects extending over more than one financial year may be broken down into several annual instalments. |
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| 1. Each year the Executive Director shall draw up a draft statement of estimates of the EU Centre’s revenue and expenditure for the following financial year, including an establishment plan, and shall send it to the Executive Board. | 1. Each year the Executive Director shall draw up a draft statement of estimates of the EU Centre’s revenue and expenditure for the following financial year, including an establishment plan, and shall send it to the Management Board. |
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| 2. The Executive Board shall, on the basis of the draft statement of estimates, adopt a provisional draft estimate of the EU Centre’s revenue and expenditure for the following financial year and shall send it to the Commission by 31 January each year. | 2. The Management Board shall, on the basis of the draft statement of estimates, adopt a provisional draft estimate of the EU Centre’s revenue and expenditure for the following financial year and shall send it to the Commission by 31 January each year. |
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| 3. The Executive Board shall send the final draft estimate of the EU Centre’s revenue and expenditure, which shall include a draft establishment plan, to the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission by 31 March each year. | 3. The Management Board shall send the final draft estimate of the EU Centre’s revenue and expenditure, which shall include a draft establishment plan, to the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission by 31 March each year. |
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| 8. The EU Centre’s budget shall be adopted by the Executive Board. It shall become final following the final adoption of the general budget of the Union. Where necessary, it shall be adjusted accordingly. | 8. The EU Centre’s budget shall be adopted by the Management Board by a majority of two-thirds of members entitled to vote. It shall become final following the final adoption of the general budget of the Union. Where necessary, it shall be adjusted accordingly. |
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| The financial rules applicable to the EU Centre shall be adopted by the Executive Board after consultation with the Commission. They shall not depart from Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/71552 unless such a departure is specifically required for the operation of the EU Centre and the Commission has given its prior consent. | The financial rules applicable to the EU Centre shall be adopted by the Management Board after consultation with the Commission. They shall not depart from Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/71552 unless such a departure is specifically required for the operation of the EU Centre and the Commission has given its prior consent. |
| 52 OJ L 122, 10.5.2019, p. 1. | 52 OJ L 122, 10.5.2019, p. 1. |
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| Presentation, implementation and control of the budget |
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| Article 69 | deleted |
| Budget | |
| 1. Estimates of all revenue and expenditure for the EU Centre shall be prepared each financial year, which shall correspond to the calendar year, and shall be shown in the EU Centre’s budget, which shall be balanced in terms of revenue and of expenditure. | |
| 2. Without prejudice to other resources, the EU Centre’s revenue shall comprise a contribution from the Union entered in the general budget of the Union. | |
| 3. The EU Centre may benefit from Union funding in the form of delegation agreements or ad hoc grants in accordance with its financial rules referred to in Article 68 and with the provisions of the relevant instruments supporting the policies of the Union. | |
| 4. The EU Centre’s expenditure shall include staff remuneration, administrative and infrastructure expenses, and operating costs. | |
| 5. Budgetary commitments for actions relating to large-scale projects extending over more than one financial year may be broken down into several annual instalments. |
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European Parliament (2023). “DRAFT OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council - Proposal for a regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse”. Text, 27 January 2023. docId BUDG-PA-740759. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/BUDG-PA-740759 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: EP Open Data API: document record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/documents/BUDG-PA-740759 (CC BY 4.0).
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@misc{epw-text-budg-pa-740759,
author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{DRAFT OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council - Proposal for a regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse.}},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-01-27},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/BUDG-PA-740759}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/BUDG-PA-740759},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Text. docId BUDG-PA-740759. Data: EP Open Data API: document record (CC BY 4.0)}
}