[open-government] Fwd: [EPFSUG] Klaus Welle and the EP FOSS Report

Sat Mar 9 08:21:32 UTC 2013

AM 48 should pop up here soon: http://parltrack.euwiki.org/dossier/2012/2168%28DEC%29

//Erik

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Subject: 	[EPFSUG] Klaus Welle and the EP FOSS Report	 
Date: 	Sat, 9 Mar 2013 08:50:59 +0100	 
From: 	JOSEFSSON Erik <erik.josefsson%europarl.europa.eu at epfsug.eu> <mailto:erik.josefsson%europarl.europa.eu at epfsug.eu> 	 
Reply-To: 	epfsug at epfsug.eu	 
To: 	<epfsug at epfsug.eu> <mailto:epfsug at epfsug.eu> 	 

HELO,

A renewed request for a full FOSS report has been tabled to the 2011 Discharge:

	Requests for the second time, after this paragraph was adopted already in 2010 discharge procedure, a full report on how Parliament's Free Software projects have developed with regards to use and users in Parliament, citizen interaction and procurement activities; invites for the second time to investigate, in a full study, Parliament's obligations under Rule 103 of its Rules of Procedure with regard to Free Software and Open Standards;

See amendment 48 to the draft report on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2011, Section I - European Parliament (COM(2012)0436 - C7-0225/2012 - 2012/2168 (DEC)) (attached).

Please note the context. It is tabled to the second section, but not as a task to DG ITEC but to the Secretary-General himself!

	2. MOTION FOR A EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RESOLUTION
	with observations forming an integral part of its Decision on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2011, Section I - European Parliament (COM(2012)0436 - C7-0225/2012 - 2012/2168(DEC))

	The European Parliament,

	- having regard to the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2011,
	[...]
	A. whereas the President adopted Parliament's accounts for the financial year 2011 on 11 July 2012,
	[...]
	Added value of Parliament's discharge procedure
	1. Highlights the added value of the parliamentary procedure leading up to the annual Parliament discharge; reiterates that the Parliament discharge is an additional possibility for exercising, in public, a critical scrutiny of the institution's financial management, thereby facilitating Union citizens' understanding of Parliament's particular governance structure and working methods;
	[...]
	Follow-up by the Secretary-General to the 2010 discharge resolution
	[...]
	36. Welcomes the formal decision to discontinue the Prize for Journalism that in 2011 represented an expenditure of EUR 154 205 as proposed by the Committee on Budgetary Control and voted in Plenary in the 2010 discharge report; acknowledges that contacts with journalists were reinforced in the Member States by organising thematic seminars in the capital cities, thereby using the Parliament's existing administrative capacity, while providing journalists with an opportunity to exchange views with Members and to acquire a complete understanding of Parliament's structure and role in the legislative process;

	36a. Requests for the second time, after this paragraph was adopted already in 2010 discharge procedure, a full report on how Parliament's Free Software projects have developed with regards to use and users in Parliament, citizen interaction and procurement activities; invites for the second time to investigate, in a full study, Parliament's obligations under Rule 103 of its Rules of Procedure with regard to Free Software and Open Standards;

The amendment is not yet adopted in the Committee on Budgetary Control :-)

//Erik

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