2023 discharge: General budget of the EU - Agencies

Tabled by Virginie Joron, Fabrice Leggeri, Nikola Bartůšek, Julien Sanchez, Anders Vistisen

18. Removed: Stresses that a balanced approach, combining effective border control with robust fundamental rights safeguards, is key to maintaining a secure Schengen area and a credible migration management framework for the Union; reiterates, therefore, the importance of structural and continuous fundamental rights training for Added: Regrets and denounces the intrusion of the ideology of politically left-wing NGOs, supported by the Commission, which have imposed themselves in recent years, increasing the number of staff mandated to monitor fundamental rights and providing training in this area to Standing Corps officers (Frontex), Removed: ensuring their awareness of and compliance with relevant fundamental rights obligations and standards and with international human rights and humanitarian law8 ; stresses, moreover, the importance of reporting fundamental rights violations, when witnessing such violations, via the issuance of Serious Incident Reports (SIRs); 8 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:52024DC0075 - part 3. Added: thus diverting the Frontex agency from – and sometimes even hindering – its core mission; regrets that expenditure on remuneration in 2023 for the Fundamental Rights Office (headquarters and monitors) amounted to as much as EUR 4 367 527 (+78 % in one year) and that expenditure related to fundamental rights activities amounted to EUR 105 083 in 2023 (up 21 % in one year);

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE772.537