Activities of Henrike HAHN related to 2022/0009(COD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Union Drugs Agency
Amendments (16)
Amendment 20 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) In order to help Union funding for security research to develop its full potential and address the needs of drugs policy, the Agency should assist the Commission in identifying key research themes, and in drawing up and implementing the Union framework programmes for research and innovation that are relevant to the Agency’s objectives. Where the Agency assists the Commission in identifying key research themes, and in drawing up and implementing a Union framework programme, it should not receive funding from that programme in order to avoid a potentialand take all necessary measures to avoid conflicts of interest. Finally, the Agency should participate in Union-wide initiatives addressing research and innovation to ensure that technologies necessary for its activities are developed and available for use. Planned research and innovation activities should be set out in the single programming document containing the Agency's multiannual and annual work programme.
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 27
Recital 27
(27) The Management Board should be assisted by an Executive Board to prepare its decisions. The Agency should be headed by an Executive DirectorAgency should be organised as follows: A Management Board, composed of representatives from the Member States and the Commission and an expert appointed by the European Parliament, should be responsible for overseeing the work of the Agency. It should be assisted by an Executive Board to prepare its decisions. The Member States, the Commission and the European Parliament should ensure gender balance in their appointments and particularly regarding the composition of the Management Board as a body. It should be possible for the Executive Board to take specific decisions in clearly defined cases. The Agency should be headed by an Executive Director, who should be responsible for the day-to-day management of the Agency. A Scientific Committee should continue assisting the Management Board and the Executive Director with regard to relevant scientific matters.
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 27 a (new)
Recital 27 a (new)
(27 a) The Executive Director should be appointed by the Management Board based on a shortlist drawn up and published by the Commission and having obtained the consent of the European Parliament. In drawing up the shortlist, the Commission should ensure gender balance. The Executive Director should present the annual report of the Agency to the European Parliament and to the Council. Furthermore, the European Parliament and the Council should be able to invite the Executive Director to report on the performance of his or her duties.
Amendment 23 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 27 a (new)
Recital 27 a (new)
(27 a) In order to ensure the independent functioning and integrity of the Agency, the Management Board should adopt practical arrangements for the prevention and management of conflicts of interest, giving due consideration to the recommendations of the European Ombudsman. Those arrangements should ensure in particular that senior representatives of the Agency do not undermine its integrity during or after their term of office.
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29
Recital 29
(29) The Agency should be properlyvided with the necessary human and financial resourceds to carry out its tasks andfulfil the objectives, tasks and responsibilities assigned to it under this regulation. It should be granted an autonomous budget. It should be mainly financed by a contribution from the general budget of the Union, with the necessary appropriations drawn exclusively from unallocated margins under the relevant heading of the multiannual financial framework and/or through the mobilisation of the relevant special instruments. The Union budgetary procedure should be applicable as far as the Union contribution and any other subsidies chargeable to the general budget of the Union are concerned. The auditing of accounts should be undertaken by the Court of Auditors of the European Union.
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 1
Article 21 – paragraph 1
1. The Agency shall assist the Commission and the Member States in identifying key research themes, and in drawing up and implementing the Union framework programmes for research and innovation activities that are relevant to achieve its general and specific tasks set out in Articles 4 and 5. Where the Agency assists the Commission in identifying key research themes, drawing up and implementing a Union framework programme, the Agency shall not receive funding from that programme. The Agency shall take all necessary measures to avoid conflicts of interest.
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 2
Article 21 – paragraph 2
2. The Agency shall proactively monitor and contribute to research and innovation activities to achieve its general and specific tasks set out in Articles 4 and 5, support related activities of Member States, and implement its research and innovation activities regarding matters covered by this Regulation, including the development, training, testing and validation of algorithms for the development of tools. The Agency shall disseminate the results of that research to the European Parliament, to the Member States and to the Commission in accordance with Article 49.
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 1 – point n
Article 24 – paragraph 1 – point n
(n) adopt its rules of procedure, including practical arrangements for the prevention and management of conflicts of interest;
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 a (new)
Article 28 a (new)
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1
Article 30 – paragraph 1
1. The Scientific Committee shall consist of at most fifteen scientists appointed by the Management Board in view of their scientific excellence and their independence and ensuring gender balance, following the publication of a call for expression of interest in the Official Journal of the European Union and after having consulted the competent committee of the European Parliament. The selection procedure shall ensure that the specialist fields of the members of the Scientific Committee cover the most relevant fields linked to the objectives of the Agency.
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1
Article 30 – paragraph 1
1. The Scientific Committee shall consist of at most fifteen scientists appointed by the Management Board in view of their scientific excellence and their independence, following the publication of a call for expression of interest in the Official Journal of the European Union. The selection procedure shall ensure that the specialist fields of the members of the Scientific Committee cover the most relevant fields linked to the objectives of the Agency and shall pay due attention to gender balance.
Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 35 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
By 15 December of each year, the Management Board shall adopt a draft single programming document containing multi-annual and annual programming as well as all the documents listed in Article 32 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/71565 , based on a draft put forward by the Executive Director, after consulting the Scientific Committee, taking into account the opinion of the Commission, and in relation to multiannual programming after consulting the European Parliament. It shall forward if the Management Board decides not to take into account elements of the opinion of the Commission or of the Scientific Committee, it shall provide a thorough justification. The obligation to provide a thorough justification shall also apply to the elements raised by the European Parliament when it is consulted. The Management Board shall forward the single programming document to the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission by 31 January of the following year. _________________ 65 Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/715 of 18 December 2018 on the framework financial regulation for the bodies set up under the TFEU and Euratom Treaty and referred to in Article 70 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council, (OJ L 122, 10.5.2019, p. 1).
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 35 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Annual or multi-annual programming shall include the information about the implementation of the international cooperation framework referred to in Article 20 and the actions linked to this strategy. It shall also include the Agency's planned research and innovation activities referred to in Article 21.
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 – paragraph 3 – point a a (new)
Article 36 – paragraph 3 – point a a (new)
(a a) The amount and origin of any revenue referred to in points (b) and (d) of the first sub-paragraph of this paragraph shall be included in the annual accounts of the Agency and clearly detailed in the annual report on the Agency's budgetary and financial management referred to in Article 40(2).
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 43 – paragraph 2
Article 43 – paragraph 2
2. The Executive Director shall be appointed by the Management Board, from a list of candidates proposed by the Commission, following an open and transparent selection procedure. The Commission shall pay due attention to gender balance when drawing up the list of candidates.
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 43 – paragraph 2
Article 43 – paragraph 2
2. The Executive Director shall be appointed by the Management Board, from a list of candidates proposed by the Commission, following an open and transparent selection procedure. The Commission shall ensure gender balance when drawing up the list of candidates.