Comissão do Controlo Orçamental

On 14 July 2022, ECA Member Helga Berger presented special report 11/2022 "Protecting the EU budget - Better use of blacklisting needed" to Members of the CONT and AGRI Committees. Excluding potential fraudsters from EU Funds can be a powerful tool to protect the EU Budget. The current set-up of EDES makes it less effective: just a small number of entities is listed in direct and indirect management, and it is not applied to shared management, the biggest share of EU spending.

On 14 July 2022, ECA Member François-Roger Cazala presented special report 17/2022 "External consultants at the European Commission - Scope for reform" to Members of the CONT and AFCO Committees; on the same topic, CSES experts Jack Malan and Marta Di Mauro presented the preliminary results of the study "The European Commission's use of consultants in preparing legislation", commissioned by the Policy Department on Budgetary Affairs on behalf of the CONT Committee.

On 13 July 2022, in the context of the discharge to the European Boarder and Coastguard Agency (Frontex), the Committee on Budgetary Control had an exchange of views with Frontex Management Board, Frontex acting Executive Director, and the European Commission. In spring 2022, the Parliament decided to postpone the discharge to Frontex for the year 2020; a second vote, now on granting or refusing discharge, will take place in October 2022.