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Markus PIEPER, Markus FERBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3 – introductory part

3. Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not prevent the competent authorities from publishing ~~or making otherwise available to the public~~ information about the outcome of official controls regarding individual operators, provided that the following conditions are met:

2013/12/18
Committee: ENVI

Markus PIEPER, Markus FERBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3 – point a

(a) the operator concerned is given the opportunity to comment on the information that the competent authority intends to publish ~~or make otherwise available to the public,~~ prior to the publication or release;

2013/12/18
Committee: ENVI

Markus PIEPER, Markus FERBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3 – point b

(b) the information which is published or made otherwise available to the public takes into account the ~~comment~~observations expressed by the operator concerned or is published or released together with such ~~comment~~observations.

2013/12/18
Committee: ENVI

Markus PIEPER, Markus FERBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3 – point 3 a (new)

3a. The competent authorities shall be obliged: - to treat as confidential information regarding current legal proceedings; - to refrain from publishing documents relating to derogations; - to refrain from publishing personal data under any circumstances.

2013/12/18
Committee: ENVI

Markus PIEPER, Markus FERBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 3

3. Competent authorities shall be entitled to publish or make otherwise available to the public information about the rating of individual operators based on the outcome of official controls, provided that the following conditions are met: (a) the rating criteria are objective, transparent and publicly available; (b) appropriate arrangements are in place to ensure the consistency and transparency of the rating process.deleted

2013/12/18
Committee: ENVI

Markus PIEPER, Markus FERBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1

1. Competent authorities ~~shall~~may perform official controls using control methods and techniques that shall, as appropriate, include screening, targeted screening, verification, inspections, audits, sampling, analysis, diagnosis and tests.

2013/12/18
Committee: ENVI

Markus PIEPER, Markus FERBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 4

4. The Commission may, by means of implementing acts, lay down rules: (a) establishing the modalities for access by the competent authorities to the computerised information management systems referred to in paragraph 1(b); (b) on the cooperation between operators and competent authorities as referred to in paragraph 3. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 141(2).deleted

2013/12/18
Committee: ENVI

Markus PIEPER, Markus FERBER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 2 – point c

~~(c) uniform specific requirements for inspections on pesticide application equipment and uniform minimum frequency of such controls;~~deleted

2013/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Markus PIEPER, Markus FERBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 1

1. Competent authorities may delegate specific official control tasks to one or more delegated bodies or natural persons in accordance with the conditions provided for in Articles 26 and 27 respectively.deleted

2013/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Markus PIEPER, Markus FERBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 6

6. Samples shall be taken, handled and labelled in such a way as to guarantee their legal, scientific and technical validity. A sufficient amount of the sample taken must be available for a second expert opinion to be delivered. The food/feed producer must be immediately informed by the competent authority if a sample was taken and that a sufficient amount was left for a second opinion.

2013/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Markus PIEPER, Markus FERBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 76 – paragraph 1

1. Member States shall ensure that ~~adequate~~ financial resources which they regard as adequate are available to provide the staff and other resources necessary for the competent authorities to perform official controls and other official activities.

2013/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Markus PIEPER, Markus FERBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 76 – paragraph 2

~~2. In addition to the fees col~~delected ~~in accordance with Article 77, Member States may collect fees to cover costs occasioned by official controls other than those referred to in Article 77(1) and (2).~~

2013/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Markus PIEPER, Markus FERBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 77 – title

~~Mandatory f~~Fees

2013/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Markus PIEPER, Markus FERBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 77 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

1. For the purpose of ensuring that competent authorities are provided with ~~adequate~~ resources for the performance of official controls, the competent authorities ~~shall~~may collect fees to recover a portion of the costs they incur in relation to:

2013/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Markus PIEPER, Markus FERBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 78 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

1. The competent authorities ~~shall~~may collect fees in accordance with Article 77 to recover the following costs:

2013/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Markus PIEPER, Markus FERBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 79

Article 79 Calculation of fees 1. Fees collected in accordance with Article 77 shall be: (a) established at a flat-rate on the basis of the overall costs of official controls borne by the competent authorities over a given period of time, and applied to all operators irrespective of whether any official control is performed during the reference period in relation to each operator charged; in establishing the level of the fees to be charged on each sector, activity and category of operators, the competent authorities shall take into consideration the impact that the type and the size of the activity concerned and the relevant risk factors have on the distribution of the overall costs of those official controls; or (b) calculated on the basis of the actual costs of each individual official control, and applied to the operators subject to such official control; such fee shall not exceed the actual costs of the official control performed and may be partly or entirely expressed as a function of the time employed by the staff of the competent authorities to perform the official controls. 2. Travel costs as referred to in point (e) of Article 78(1) shall be considered for the calculation of the fees referred to in Article 77(1) in a manner that does not discriminate between operators on the basis of the distance of their premises from the location of the competent authorities. 3. Where fees are calculated in accordance with point (a) of paragraph 1, the fees collected by competent authorities in accordance with Article 77 shall not exceed the overall costs incurred for the official controls performed over the period of time referred to in point (a) of paragraph 1.deleted

2013/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Markus PIEPER, Markus FERBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 82 – paragraph 2

2. Enterprises ~~employing fewer than 10 persons and~~ whose annual turnover or annual balance sheet total does not exceed EUR 23 million shall be exempted from the payment of the fees provided for in Article 77.

2013/12/19
Committee: ENVI

Markus PIEPER, Markus FERBER, Peter LIESE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 84 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

Competent authorities ~~shall~~may charge fees to cover the additional costs they have incurred as a result of:

2013/12/19
Committee: ENVI

18 Amendments of Markus FERBER related to 2013/0140(COD)

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