Activities of Maria GRAPINI related to 2022/2132(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Single European Sky ATM Research 3 Joint Undertaking for the financial year 2021
Amendments (5)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 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 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes that the Undertaking continued to manage and monitor 71 projects across its three strands of research in 2021 (exploratory research, industrial research and validation, and very large- scale demonstrations), with 300 different beneficiaries of which nearly 20% are SMEs, 17% are higher education organisations or universities and 9% are research organisations and recommends measures to increase the number of SMEs in the general number of projects managed by the Undertaking;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses the importance of the Undertaking in the completion of the Digital European Sky; highlights that the 2021-2027 proposals for the European Partnerships of SESAR and CEF are crucial for the future of digitalised and ecological aviation and need to be provided with appropriate financing;
Amendment 11 #
14 a. Notes from the Annual Activity Report 2021, in terms of gender balance, that no significant increase of female participation, of female project coordinators in H2020 projects and of female members in advisory groups, expert groups, evaluation panels, individual experts, etc. was achieved compared to the previous year; notes with regret that the share of women participants in H2020 projects has actually decreased compared to the previous year from 30% to 29% in 2021; Notes with regret that according to the Joint Undertaking's Annual Report for 2021, the gender balance on the Administrative Board (1 Woman, 27 Men) is in great need of improvement; regrets these figures and calls for increased efforts in terms of gender balance;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. 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.