2 Amendments of Mireille D'ORNANO related to 2017/2167(DEC)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes the redesign of the Agency’s dissemination portal and the launch of a microsite for informing consumers about chemicals, which were carried out under the Agency’s transparency policy; regrets, however, the Agency’s poor communication and transparency with regard to the explanations given to the public on some of its decisions, in particular the decision taken in November 2017 not to classify glyphosate as a carcinogen, even though the International Agency for Research on Cancer did so in 2015 and the documents published in the ‘Monsanto papers’ reveal that serious suspicion hangs over the work of European agencies;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that in 2016 the Agency’s staff followed a mandatory training on prevention of conflicts of interest and a training by the European Anti-Fraud Office on fraud prevention; points out, however, that it has not really been possible to clear up all the suspicions of conflicts of interest, particularly those raised by a large number of non-governmental organisations in March 2017, especially with regard to members of the Committee for Risk Assessment;