Activities of Gheorghe FALCĂ related to 2023/2181(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 2022
Amendments (7)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Welcomes the contribution of the JU to react to the illegal unjustified war of Russian aggression against Ukraine as some traffic flows were affected, necessitating the adaptation of ATC operations of the JU, which led to an increased need for ATCO; welcomes the exclusion of legal entities established in Belarus, Russia or non-government- controlled territories of Ukraine from participating in Horizon Europe;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Notes that at the end of 2022, the JU had fully committed the maximum EU operational contribution of €555.8 million for signed grant agreements and contracts under the Horizon 2020 programme; points out that of this committed amount, around €65.7 million (or 11.8 %) remains to be paid in the coming years for projects and contracts yet to be completed;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes that the JU continued to manage 71 projects in exploratory, industrial and validation research, with 300 different beneficiaries, of which nearly 20% are SMEs, 17% are higher education institutions and 9% are research organisations; recalls that the Undertaking creates new opportunities for SMEs;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Welcomes that the SESAR innovation pipeline was fully activated in 2022 with the launch of five Digital Sky Demonstrators under the Connecting Europe Facility, on green aviation and urban air mobility;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Notes that in 2022, the SESAR 3 JU continued to strengthen its partnership with the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), aiming to foster its cooperation and coordination as part of the service-level agreement (SLA)to task EASA with providing services to the SESAR 3 JU within the area of ATM / air navigation services, including the implementation of the single European sky; stresses the importance of further development in the Single European Sky;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5 c. Salutes the close dialogue since 2011 between the SESAR 3 JU and the European Defence Agency (EDA) which has continued in 2022 focusing in particular on military matters and inputs to the Digital European Sky programme; Notes that EDA now serves as the main interface between the Digital European Sky programme on the one hand, and military aviation and ATM on the other, and is responsible for coordinating military views with regard to the single European sky and SESAR;