1. The Management Board shall, by 30 November each year, adopt a document containing Europol's multiannual programming and annual work programme, based on a draft put forward by the Executive Director, taking into account the opinion of the Commission and, as regards the multiannual programming, after having consulted the JPSG.

11. Calls on the Commission to introduce specific administrative provisions for infringement proceedings based on Article 258 TFUE, in order to prevent any possibility of abuse of power and arbitrary decisions; considers that such a provision should regulate the whole relationship between the Commission and a citizen or undertaking that submits a complaint which may lead to an infringement procedure, thereby strengthening primarily the position of the individual complainant; regards it as particularly advisable that Parliament's Committee on Petitions be provided with clear information on the stages reached in infringement procedures c ...[+++]overed by an open petition in order to ensure parliamentary scrutiny of the fundamental right to petition the European Parliament;

Finally, how can we make our peoples understand that an administrative authority over which there is no parliamentary control should alone take a decision of such importance that thousands of workers’ families are now awaiting it with bated breath and with anguish in their hearts?

K. whereas, in addition, the lawful operations of intelligence services are consistent with fundamental rights only if adequate arrangements exist for monitoring them, in order to counterbalance the risks inherent in secret activities performed by a part of the administrative apparatus; whereas the European Court of Human Rights has expressly stressed the importance of an efficient system for monitoring intelligence operations, so that there are grounds for concern in the fact that some Member States do not have ...[+++]parliamentary monitoring bodies of their own responsible for scrutinising the secret services,

K. whereas, in addition, the lawful operations of intelligence services are consistent with fundamental rights only if adequate arrangements exist for monitoring them, in order to counterbalance the risks inherent in secret activities performed by a part of the administrative apparatus; whereas the European Court of Human Rights has expressly stressed the importance of an efficient system for monitoring intelligence operations, so that there are grounds for concern in the fact that some Member States do not have ...[+++]parliamentary monitoring bodies of their own responsible for scrutinising the secret services,

It follows from this that parliamentary controls of data processing at Europol level must begin with the Director and the Management Board.