2 Amendments of Renaud MUSELIER related to 2016/2173(DEC)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Highlights the Agency's vital role in ensuring the highest possible level of aviation safety throughout Europe; stresses that a proper coordinated alert system and information structure is needed in Europe, in particular in the context of flights over conflict zones; stresses that, in the context of a fast-developing civil aviation sector, as can be seen from the ever more widespread use of pilotless aircraft, more commonly referred to as 'drones', the Agency should be given the necessary financial, material and human resources to perform its regulatory and executive tasks successfully, in the fields of safety and environmental protection, without compromising its independence and impartiality;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines that the revision of Regulation (EC) No 216/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council1 envisages broadening the scope of competence of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and that, accordingly, the role played by new technologies such as remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) must be taken fully into consideration when new competences are assigned; stresses the importance of allocating adequate funding to the EASA to ensure the successful uptake of these new responsibilities as well as adequate staffing in order to fulfil additional tasks; stresses that the EASA posts (including the related pensions) which are fully financed from industry, and therefore have no impact on the Union budget, should not be subject to any compulsory staff reduction; _________________ 1 .Regulation (EC) No 216/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 February 2008 on common rules in the field of civil aviation and establishing a European Aviation Safety Agency, and repealing Council Directive 91/670/EEC, Regulation (EC) No 1592/2002 and Directive 2004/36/EC (OJ L 79, 19.3.2008., p.1.)