Changes from report parliamentary committee draft to plenary report

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Added9. Welcomes the Centre’s unremitting efforts to highlight the social aspects and societal impact of drugs, promote social re-integration policies for drug users, and approach the topic of drugs with a multi-disciplinary outlook; considers it essential to continue raising awareness of the importance of prevention and innovative mental-health-based approach to drugs policies;

Added10. Welcomes the progress made by the Centre on the joint ‘EU Drug Markets: In-depth analysis’, in collaboration with Europol, with modules on specific drugs released throughout 2022 and with planned releases in 2023; welcomes the work in 2022 on improving the quality and availability of core supply data in collaboration with the Reitox National Focus Points and Europol; welcomes the implementation of all of the Centre’s tasks under the Multidisciplinary Platform Against Criminal Threats operational action plans on cannabis, cocaine and heroin; recalls that drug trafficking has been identified as a main source of profit and a channel of recruitment of organised crime and terrorism, and highlights the contribution of the Centre to a more secure Europe;

Added11. Welcomes the ongoing cooperation between the Centre and European Neighbourhood Policy partner countries at regional level, through the EU4MD technical assistance project, as well as the ongoing implementation of the bilateral project with Georgia (EMCDDA4GE); welcomes the establishment of an official partnership in the Cooperation Programme between Latin America, the Caribbean and the European Union on Drugs Policies;

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Changed10.13. Notes with satisfaction that the Centre has a Strategicstrategic Planplan (Environmental(‘Environmental Strategy 2021-2025)2021-2025’) to become carbon-neutral and that it has included in its annual activity report metrics regarding the Centre’s environmental performance and CO2 footprint, with ever improving yearly results since 2014; welcomes the decision of the Centre’s Director taken in 2022 to obtain the EMAS certification, the process of which iswas expected to be concluded in 2023;

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Changed12.15. Notes that, on 31 December 2022, the establishment plan was 97 % implemented, with 6six officials and 68 temporary agents appointed out of 7seven officials and 69 temporary agents authorised under the Union budget (76 authorised posts in 2022, same as in 2021); notes that, in addition, 27 contract agents worked for the Centre in 2022; welcomes the Centre’s 2022 staff screening exercise and the effective and efficient allocation of its resources with 72,44 % of the Centre’s staff allocated to operational activities, 18,20 % to administrative support and coordination, and 9,35 % to neutral operations; commends the Centre for its low staff turnover rate (2,9 %) in 2022;

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Changed13.16. Notes that the Centre reported to have 2two women (22%)(22 %) and 7seven men (78%)(78 %) in its senior management, while it has 20 women (37%)(37 %) and 34 men (63%)(63 %) in its management board (MB); notes that the staff overall is composed of 36 men (38 %) and 58 women (62%);(62 %); recalls the importance toof ensureensuring staff gender balance and calls on the Centre to take this aspect into consideration with regard to future recruitmentsrecruitment of staff,staff and of appointments within its senior managementmanagement; asks the Commission and nominationsthe withinMember itsStates MB;to take into account the importance of ensuring gender balance when nominating their members to the Centre's management board;

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Changed14.17. NotesTakes fromnote of the Centre’s report with regard to the follow-up measures taken in light of the discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Centre for the financial year 2021 (hereinafter Thethe ‘Centre's report’) the measures it has taken to improve gender balance within the Centre; observes that such measures were taken in the context of the Centre’s recruitment procedures and the dissemination in the Members States of information on the Centre’s selection process; commends the Chair of the Centre’s MBmanagement board for addressing the relevant authorities of the Member States, Norway and Turkey with regard to ensuring gender balance in the nomination of their members of the Centre’s MB;management board; further notes from the Centre’s report, regarding the observation on the non-use of SYSPER, that the Centre has developed and put in place its own information and communications technology tools for digitalised human resources management;

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Changed15.18. Recalls from the Court’s annual report on Union agencies for 2018 the observation regarding the hiring of interim workers through a framework contract without respecting the requirements of Directive 2008/104/EC and the Portuguese labour law; notes from the Court’s report that that observation is closed, whereas the framework contract in question expired in March 2022, and the last payment regarding interim workers took place in January 2022;

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Changed16.19. Notes from the Court’s report that the amount (EUR 75 000) corresponding to a contract concluded in 2022 was not fully covered by a corresponding budgetary commitment, leading to a deficit amounting to EUR 8 000; notes that a similar situation was incurred in 2021 for the same type of contract and in both cases the Centre, according to the Court’s report, werewas not in line with the requirementrequirements oflaid down in Articles 10(3) and 73(2) of the Centre’s Financial Regulation; acknowledges however from the Centre’s reply that the cost for the contract was shared according to the agreements made with two other entities that use the Centre’s premises in Lisbon; observes in this context that the Centre had to bear just a part of the total cost/expenditure for the contract which relied on corresponding budgetary commitments, whilst the remaining costs relied on offsetting/clearing accounting operations as those costs were borne by the two other entities;

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Changed17.20. Acknowledges the Centre’s existing measures and ongoing efforts to secure transparency, prevent and manage conflicts of interest, and provide whistleblower protection; notes that no cases of conflict of interest and whistleblowing were reported, investigated or concluded in 2022; welcomes that the Centre published on its website the declarations of interest and CVs of its senior management staff, management board members and the external experts who are members of the Centre’s scientific committee; recalls that in the case of managementthe boardmembers members,of the management board, a summary of only their current professional activities is available on the Centre’s website; notes the Centre’s commitment to address by the end of 2023 the feasibility of also including in the published CVs the past professional activity of those members;

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Changed19.22. Notes that in 2022, the Internal Audit Service (IAS) carried out two audits for the Centre, namely on international cooperation and on the adequacy of coordination and working arrangements of partner Directorate Generalsdirectorate-generals and other stakeholders, as well as of the Union’s decentralised agencies’ governance framework; notes that for boththe audit projectsresults thefor both audit resultsprojects were notstill yetnot available at the end of 20222022, whenat which point there were no outstanding critical risks andor recommendations from the IAS, except for one outstanding recommendation, on internal communication, from an audit on human resources management and ethics carried out in 2021;

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Changed20.23. Welcomes the result of the 2022 assessment of the effectiveness of the Centre’s internal control systems which is that all components are present and functioning; notes that the assessment identified five Internalinternal Controlcontrol Frameworkframework principles where some improvements may be needed, in relation to control environment, control activities and information and communication; further notes that a comprehensive risk identification and assessment exercise aimed at improving risk management at the Centre was carried out in 2022, with identified risks related to the new mandate of the Centre and its new business model; calls on the Centre to address all the shortcomings identified on the occasion of the various assessments carried out in 2022;

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Changed23.26. Welcomes the significant increase in the Centre’s audience reached in 2022 across all channels; notes, in thisthat context, that the Centre had around 2,62, 6 million unique visitors on the website, a record number (an increase by almost 50 % from 2021), 1,61, 6 million views on its videos (a 15 % increase compared to 2021), and morean increase in followers on two key social media channels, LinkedIn (+57 %) and Instagram (+37 %);

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Added28. Welcomes the resource page, EMCDDA 4 Ukraine, created for professionals working in the drugs field in Europe supporting people displaced from Ukraine;