The Committee on Budgetary Control unanimously adopted the report by Andrea ČEŠKOVÁ (ECR, CZ) in which it calls on the European Parliament to grant the European Data Protection Supervisor discharge in respect of the implementation of its budget for the financial year 2011.
Members welcome the conclusion of the Court of Auditors that the payments as a whole for the year ended on 31 December 2011 for administrative and other expenditure of the European Data Protection Supervisor were free from material error. They observed that no significant weaknesses had been identified in respect to the audited topics related to the human resources and procurement for the Supervisor.
Members note that, in 2011, the Supervisor had a total of EUR 7 564 137 in commitment appropriations and that the implementation rate of those appropriations was 89.31%. They find this a positive development but call for further efforts to improve the implementation rate and for the changes made to be monitored and expect engagement to exceed 90% next year.
Lastly, the report calls on the Supervisor to include an exhaustive table of all the human resources at the Supervisor's disposal, broken down by category, grade, sex, participation in professional training and nationality in the next annual activity report.