9 Amendments of Petri SARVAMAA related to 2012/2214(DEC)
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – indent 4
Paragraph 9 – indent 4
– reported potential conflicts of interest on boards; notably in the Court of Auditors' Special Report No 15/2012 on Management of Conflict of Interest in EASA, ECHA, EFSA and EMA;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes, in this context, the reply of the Network; welcomes the coordinated action of the agencies and their intention to tackle the challenges identified by the Court of Auditors and urges the sNetting up of specialised sub-networks of the Network which will be involved to guarantee technical expertise; commends the identified approach aimwork, as well as the individual agencies, to report back to the discharge authority on the progress of the implementation of the concrete measures to redress the shortcomings identified by the Court of Auditors and the Parliament ing to she discharge best practices and, wherever possible, draft guiprocedure for the financial year 2010; underlines that can be voluntarily adopted by each Agency or that can be a starting point for the Commission for further activities in the area;the responsibility lies with each Executive Director and the Management Board of the Agencies; (Justification: Responsibilities should not be diluted, especially given that the Network is an informal structure without task and/or power making it accountable;)
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses, in this context, that the hierarchy of norms is to be taken into account; believes that sound financial management should take precedence over annuality; recognises, in this context, that the current financial rules place the fee- earning Agencies in an unfavourable position and calls upon the Commission to take this issue into account when the next revision of the rules will take place; (Justification: Giving up the principle of annuality altogether would possibly lead to a situation where these organisations would not have any clear practical guidance over their budget and financial management.)
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Notes that the agencies undergo numerous different audit and control procedures in the course of the year which are often very unevenly distributed and which may create difficulties for the agencies; believes that the matter should be addressed primarily by better coordination of those various audits in order to cover all Agencies, as reflected in action point 53 of the Roadmap; believes that Agencies should be consulted in order to find practical solutions which would not hamper the performance of their core tasks; invites the Court of Auditors, the Commission, and the agencies and the Network to come up with an approach suitable for all involved parties; (Justification: In case of uneven control, the risk is not that Agencies face too much control but that some are not controlled enough)
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Is of the opinion that the added- value of Special Report 15/2012 lies in the regular monitoring of the Agencies' progress regarding the management and prevention of conflicts of interest; invites therefore the Court of Auditors to plan a follow-up Special Report on the issue and to extend the scope of its audit to other Agencies;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. RegretsNotes with concern that according to the findings of the Court of Auditors, at the time of completion of the field work (October 2011), none of the four selected agencies had adequately managed conflict of interest situations, and w. While EMA and EFSA had developed more advanced policies for managing of conflict of interest, particularly in the case of EFSA, the new policies have not had the desired results, whereas ECHA's policies were incomplete and EASA did not have such policies;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24 a. Reminds that a high level transparency is key to mitigate risks of conflict of interest; calls therefore on the Agencies that have not yet done so to make available on their website the list of their Management Boards members, their management staff, external and in-house experts together with their respective declaration of interests and curriculum vitae;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Asks the agencies, in the interests of transparency and democratic scrutiny, including scrutiny by Parliament, to publish the minutes of their management board meetings on their websites;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 b (new)
Paragraph 30 b (new)
30b. Suggests that a member of Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control should be able to attend agency management board meetings as an observer;