6 Amendments of Isabel GARCÍA MUÑOZ related to 2020/2165(DEC)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Notes with concern the uneven gender balance reported for 2019 for senior managers (89 % male and 11 % female) and the management board (70 % male and 30 % female); asks the Commission and the Member States to take into account the importance of ensuring gender balance when nominating their members to the Agency’s management board;
Amendment 8 #
5 b. Notes that the Agency has adopted the policy on protecting the dignity of the person and preventing harassment, confidential counsellors are promoted and staff are encouraged to address their issues to them; notes that one alleged harassment case was reported, but none was investigated nor taken to court;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes that the Agency has published the declarations of interests of the management board and senior management, and the CVs of its management board members and of its executive director on their website; calls the Agency to publish the CVs of its senior management and to report to the discharge authority on the measures taken in that regard;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Points out the role of the Agency in ensuring the safety and interoperability of the European railway system and in improving the competitiveness of railway with respect to other modes of transport, reducing administrative and technical obstacles, promoting market access and guaranteeing non-discrimination, making more efficient use of public funds in public rail transport services and improving infrastructure governance; supports the Commission's vision of a European rail system that is a world leader in terms of safety performance; calls for an increase of the budget of the Agency in order to provide it with the necessary means to enable it to act as an efficient authority and to fulfil its tasks, particularly those with regard to increasing competitiveness, improving safety and cross-border interoperability;
Amendment 12 #
12 b. Welcomes the fact that, by 16 June 2019, the Agency had successfully started to perform its role as the EU authority responsible for issuing authorisation for placing railway vehicles on the market, single safety certificates for railway undertakings and ERTMS trackside approvals, in the legal framework of the 4thRailway Package; notes that those two missions were conducted in relation to the eight Member States that transposed the technical pillar of the 4th Railway Package in 2019; welcomes the continued development of the ‘one-stop shop’; insists on the need for the Agency to be given the necessary financial, material and human resources alongside greater responsibilities are attributed to the Agency in order to carry out these new and additional functions in an efficient and effective way;