Activities of Younous OMARJEE related to 2020/2170(DEC)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Chemicals Agency for the financial year 2019
Amendments (2)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises that the Agency is partly financed from the fees it receives from companies that request the registration of chemicals as required under Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006; notes that the applicable fees depend on the size of the companies and the volume of chemicals registered (different thresholds); notes that, according to the Court’s report, since the first registrations in 2009, some 26 % of the companies claimed to be micro, small or medium sized; notes with concern, however, that thanks to the Agency’s effective system of ex-post verifications, the Agency has identified that some 50 % of the companies had incorrectly declared their size, resulting in lower fees; stresses that this finding demonstrates the limitations of a system that relies excessively on self-declarations made by applicants; notes that, in order to mitigate this situation, the Agency has, over the years, invoiced fee corrections and administrative charges amounting to EUR 32,2 million, and that the Agency has made considerable progress in recovering undue fee reductions and collecting overdue administrative charges; notes, however, that there is still a considerable verification workload ahead and that the remaining amount of necessary fee corrections was unknown at the end of 2019; calls on the Agency to report to the discharge authority on its efforts, and on the results achieved, to continue to reduce the considerable verification backlog and to implement the fee corrections; asks the Commission to propose measures to solve this situation, avoiding fraud in declaring the size of the applicants and granting a more stable budget planning for the Agency;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Is concerned by the lack of gender balance at the senior management and board management level; invites the Agency to increase its effort to achieve a better gender balance;