Activities of Maria GRAPINI related to 2022/2126(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking for the financial year 2021
Amendments (5)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Notes, from the Annual Activity Report 2021, in terms of gender balance, that the Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking has a lower percentage of women in programme participation, project coordinators, advisors and experts compared to the previous year; regrets that these figures have decreased and calls for increased efforts in terms of gender balance;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9 b. notes that the part of the employers' contributions for the staff of the Joint Undertakings corresponding to the ratio of their non-EU subsidised revenues to their total revenues, has not been paid by the Joint Undertakings to the EU pension scheme since 2016, as the Commission has neither foreseen this expenditure in the budget of the Joint Undertakings nor formally requested the payments; calls for the Commission to take steps to avoid similar issues in the future.
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the fact that, despite the COVID-19 crisis, the programme has entered its delivery phase with 107 demonstrators at completion, 30% completed in 2021 and above 80% of deliverables achieved by end 2021; notes however that delays of 6.5 months on average are expected for one fourth of the demonstrators; suggests that necessary and effective measures should be taken in the future to avoid such delays;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Notes that there is no harmonised definition of "administrative costs" among the Joint Undertakings, which is a basis for calculating the financial contributions of its members and a precondition for the purpose of comparable figures; calls with this in mind for common guidelines for all Joint Undertakings to take a harmonised approach for the classification of certain administrative cost expenditure categories, such as expenditure for consultations, studies, analysis, evaluations, and technical assistance;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Suggests that the Undertaking provide information to private and public stakeholders to support their dialogue with internal and external counterparts on environmental issues, policies, necessary infrastructures and critical success factors for the transition to climate-neutral aviation;