Translation of "organe parlementaire de contrôle de l'administration " (French → English) :

23. Believes that the long-term success of the ATT is dependent on full transparency and accountability to the competent national authorities, including parliamentary control bodies in exporting and importing countries; calls, therefore, for robust transparency mechanisms, including annual reporting, in order to strengthen the role of parliaments in holding their governments to account for decisions made on arms exports, imports and transfers;

4. Is of the opinion that the European Parliament, national parliaments or specific parliamentary bodies must ensure effective control of the application and enforcement of the Common Position’s agreed standards at national and EU level and of the establishment of a transparent, accountable control system;

Without prejudice to the reporting requirements referred to in Article 28 of this Directive and, where applicable, Articles 10 and 11 of Regulation (EU) No 537/2014, the scope of the statutory audit shall not include assurance on the future viability of the audited entity or on the efficiency or effectiveness with which the management or administrative body has conducted or will conduct the affairs of the entity’.

The Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament, which this year marked the 20th anniversary as a directly elected Parliament under the Single Act, recognises that the Treaty of Maastricht produced a qualitative leap in the rights of European citizenship by offering citizens the possibility of submitting petitions to a parliamentary body, which remains the sole arbitrator, or applying to a more specialised body which, while operating on an extrajudicial basis, follows a procedure, not excluding parliamentary intervention in the event of the Community institution responsible for the instance of ...[+++]maladministration proving reluctant to cooperate.

Moreover, the Treaty of Maastricht produced a qualitative leap in European citizenship by offering all citizens the possibility of submitting petitions to a parliamentary body, which remains the sole arbitrator, or applying to a more specialised body which, while operating on an extrajudicial basis, follows a procedure which does not rule out parliamentary intervention in the event of the Community institution responsible for the instance of maladministration proving reluctant to cooperate.

Among these was one carried out in 1996 on the presence of women in decision- making bodies at all levels of the administrative hierarchy and in Parliamentary commissions; a second on gaps in existing statistics relating to the presence of women in particular in socio-economic institutions, and a third on the influence of the electoral system, on the representation of women in Parliament.