1 Amendments of Markus FERBER related to 2017/2162(DEC)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Welcomes the Agency's role in the follow-up of the development, testing and implementation of European Railway Traffic Management System (ERTMS), as well as in evaluating the specific ERTMS projects; welcomes the start of negotiations between the EU and Switzerland within the framework of the Agreement on the Carriage of Goods and Passengers by Rail and Road with a view to Switzerland's participation in the European Union Agency for railways; stresses that, as the Agency receives greater responsibilities, it will need to be given the necessary financial, material and human resources to perform its new and additional tasks effectively and efficiently; draws attention to the study commissioned recently by the Committee on Budgets on the financing arrangements for European agencies, and to the fact that possibilities should be developed to allow for a greater self-financing of the Agency; notes, with concern, the contradiction between the recently approved legislation extending the scope of the Agency's mission and the budgetary cuts related to the Agency to be implemented within the scope of the multi- annual financial framework 2014-2020;