Activities of Bas EICKHOUT related to 2023/2148(DEC)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Chemicals Agency for the financial year 2022
Amendments (5)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the Agency's final budget for 2022 was EUR 116 981 740, representing an increase of 5,3% compared to 2021; notes that budget monitoring efforts during 2022 resulted in a commitment appropriation execution rate of 98,6%, and a payment appropriations' execution rate of 85,1%; Notes that the implementation of the budget, while keeping the strict segregation between several pieces of legislation or legislative area, is resulting in unnecessary administrative burden and inflexibility
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses, despite this reversal, the need to address the lack of predictability of the Agency’s fee income and calls on the Commission to present its proposal to strengthen the governance of ECHA and increase the sustainability of its financing model without delay, in line with its commitment expressed in the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability2 and in light of additional legal mandates the Agency is expected to take up; Highlights that persistence of budgetary uncertainty can have negative consequences on the exercise of ECHA's mandate and insists that predictable and sustainable financing is a pre-condition for effective discharge of the Agency's budget and recalls previous calls of the European Parliament to improve the Agency's budgetary certainty; _________________ 2 Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: Towards a Toxic-Free Environment, COM(2020)667, 14 October 2020, p. 16.
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Regrets that ECHA continues to recommend authorising the use of substances of very high concern (SVHC) where there are significant uncertainties. Reminds the Agency of the obligation to verify if granting authorisation is duly justified and in line with the law, and to not support granting authorisations when non-negligible uncertainties remain on the existence of alternatives; Calls on ECHA to ensure the applicant provides sufficient data to exclude any carcinogenicity or long-term toxicity risk of the product.
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10 b. Deplores the very long time to restrict highly hazardous chemicals in the EU and that many uses of these chemicals are granted unjustly long or timeless derogations; calls on the Agency to strictly reference the evidence that it has considered when supporting derogations and to make remaining uncertainties clear;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 c (new)
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10 c. Invites the Agency, in respect of scientific excellence, to conduct its work in line with the Precautionary Principle, which underlines the REACH Regulation (Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006) and the need to protect, as a priority, human health and the environment from hazardous chemicals;