Activities of Marian-Jean MARINESCU related to 2021/2154(DEC)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking (now the Innovative Health Initiative Joint Undertaking) for the financial year 2020
Amendments (4)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Notes that there are different procedures across the Joint Undertakings regarding the calculation for the in-kind contributions and calls for a harmonisation of the in-kind contribution calculation across the Joint Undertakings;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes from the Court’s report that the IMI2 Joint Undertaking experiences long project durations due to the nature of its research and that this situation is an example of varying degrees of achievement of contribution targets set by the Joint Undertakings’ regulations in relation to Horizon 2020 activities, and that this presents the risk that the level of administrative resources needed to manage the Joint Undertaking’s funds in a timely manner, may not be sufficient, due to an increasing number of projects from multiple Multiannual Financial Framework programmes being implemented simultaneously; calls on the IMI2 Joint Undertaking for more transparency in the decision making process for its research priorities and for communicating the chosen method in their next annual report;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes from the Court’s report that the IMI2 Joint Undertaking’s practice of reactivating unused payment appropriations from previous years to the extent of open administrative commitments, results in an accumulation of unused payment appropriations and that, aggravated by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, it resulted in a low budget implementation rate for the IMI2 Joint Undertaking’s administrative budget of 51 %; notes the IMI2 Joint Undertaking’s reply that rigid budget planning and the amendment mechanism did not allow appropriate adjustments to be made to the fast changing and uncertain global pandemic-driven crisis situation, and that for 2021 it is planning to carry over a lower amount of administrative payment appropriations than the amount of commitments carried forward to 2021 under Title 2 Infrastructure expenditure, and that it plans to pay the difference out of the current year budget; calls on the IMI2 Joint Undertaking to develop a plan to limit the reactivation of the unused payment appropriations as a way to prevent low budget implementation rate;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Notes that the issue of intellectual property rights needs to be addressed in all contracts which may produce an intended outcome of the performance, or result, such as studies, analysis, or evaluations; notes that it aims at safeguarding the rights of individual creators but also provide details how the rights will be used in the future; notes that since the purchases are done with public money, the results should be transparent and accessible to the public; calls the IMI2 Joint Undertaking for a clarification of the intellectual property rights and more transparency when it comes to the result of the research;