1 Amendments of Satu HASSI related to 2010/2178(DEC)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the need for the European Food Safety Authority's role in providing to ensure its advice is high quality and independent advice to ensur, in order to guarantee compliance with EU safety standards and in ensuring scientific excellence and independence on all matters with a direct or indirect impact on food and feed safety and plant protection; recommends measures to further foster and monitor internal rules on declaration of interests for EFSA staff and experts working for the Authority; invites EFSA to initiate an investigation on potential conflicts of interest in respect of leading scientists, in a way that allows possible omissions in the declaration of interest to be detected and acted on in a timely manner;