Text · Opinion parliamentary committee draft
On discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the EU agencies for the financial year 2023
Document FEMM-PA-765344 · 2024/2030(DEC)
- Kind
- Opinion parliamentary committee draft FEMM-PA-765344
- Date
- 14 November 2024
- Committee
- Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality
- Rapporteur
- Assita Kanko
- Dossier
- 2024/2030(DEC)
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- BUDG
- Reference
- 2024/2030(DEC)
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The Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality calls on the Committee on Budgetary Control to incorporate its opinion into the discharge resolution for EU agencies for 2023, focusing on the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE). It expresses concerns that EIGE's mission was diverted by its focus on the European Green Deal, notes staff cost increases and understaffing, and suggests prioritizing work on violence against women and girls.
Position. The opinion proposes that the Committee on Budgetary Control incorporate these concerns and suggestions into its discharge resolution, focusing on EIGE's mission and priorities.
Key points
- Calls for the opinion to be incorporated into the motion for a resolution on discharge for EU agencies for 2023.
- Recalls that Article 8 TFEU mandates the Union to eliminate inequalities and promote gender equality, with EIGE supporting institutions and Member States.
- Notes EIGE's 2023 focus on the European Green Deal and gender-based violence, and that crises exacerbate women's vulnerability and violence.
- Questions the effectiveness of EIGE's actions on the European Green Deal, which needs revision to set achievable targets for equality.
- Has serious concerns that EIGE's mission was diverted from improving equality by its focus on the European Green Deal.
- Points out that EIGE achieved 92.76% of its work programme objectives.
- Notes the 8.5% increase in staff costs due to inflation and 2.7% indexation, with average staff at 45.
- Acknowledges two contract agents funded by IPA agreement with the Commission's Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations.
- Suggests EIGE focus its work programme on violence against women and girls, deprioritizing Green Deal actions given staff capacities.
- Acknowledges specific measures taken in financial management for proper implementation of interinstitutional framework contracts.
Who is affected
- EIGE: advised to refocus work programme on violence against women and girls, deprioritizing Green Deal actions.
- Union institutions and Member States: supported by EIGE in achieving gender equality.
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Opinion
The Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality calls on the Committee on Budgetary Control, as the committee responsible, to incorporate the following into its motion for a resolution:
A. whereas Article 8 TFEU mandates the Union to aim to eliminate inequalities and to promote equality between men and women in all its activities; whereas equality is a fundamental right under the Treaty of Lisbon and a priority for the Union with the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) supporting Union institutions and Member States in achieving that aim;
B. whereas in 2023 EIGE’s work focused on two thematic priorities: the European Green Deal and gender-based violence; whereas crises exacerbate women’s vulnerability and exposure to violence, intensifying existing structural inequalities and aggravating all types of gender-based violence, including physical, sexual and psychological; whereas the effectiveness of EIGE’s actions on the European Green Deal, which needs to be revised and updated to set achievable targets in general to achieve equality and support women, especially in the Union, is questionable;
1. Has serious concerns that EIGE’s mission was diverted from improving equality by its focus on the European Green Deal; points out that EIGE achieved 92,76 % of its work programme objectives;
2. Notes that the 8,5 % increase in EIGE’s staff costs can be attributed to the continued high inflation rate as well as a 2,7% indexation of salaries, and that the average number of staff remained at 45; notes that two contract agents were engaged and funded by the IPA contribution agreement with the Commission’s Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations; acknowledges the persisting understaffing of EIGE and suggests that EIGE focus its work programme on violence against women and girls while deprioritizing actions related to the European Green Deal where necessary in light of current staff capacities;
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European Parliament (2024). “DRAFT OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the EU agencies for the financial year 2023”. Text, 14 November 2024. docId FEMM-PA-765344. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/FEMM-PA-765344 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: EP Open Data API: document record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/documents/FEMM-PA-765344 (CC BY 4.0).
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@misc{epw-text-femm-pa-765344,
author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{DRAFT OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the EU agencies for the financial year 2023}},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-11-14},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/FEMM-PA-765344}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/FEMM-PA-765344},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Text. docId FEMM-PA-765344. Data: EP Open Data API: document record (CC BY 4.0)}
}