2023/2181(DEC) | [ParlTrack]

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Welcomes the smooth transition to SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking, operational since 30 November 2021 and acknowledges its effective coordination mechanisms; in particular, commends the creation of the States’ Representatives Group, enabling Member States to have a direct advisory role with regard to the partnership’s priorities, planning, and activities, the formation of the SESAR 3 JU Programme Committee, which guides R&I activities and the establishment of the Scientific Committee;

Amendment 10 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5 c. Salutes the close dialogue since 2011 between the SESAR 3 JU and the European Defence Agency (EDA) which has continued in 2022 focusing in particular on military matters and inputs to the Digital European Sky programme; Notes that EDA now serves as the main interface between the Digital European Sky programme on the one hand, and military aviation and ATM on the other, and is responsible for coordinating military views with regard to the single European sky and SESAR;

Amendment 11 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7 a. Welcomes that corrective action has been take in response to the the ECA’s observation of 2021; Particularly, notes that SESAR 3 has duly paid the relevant employer's contributions to the EU pension scheme for the year 2022, in accordance with the invoices issued by the Commission;

Amendment 2 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Welcomes the contribution of the JU to react to the illegal unjustified war of Russian aggression against Ukraine as some traffic flows were affected, necessitating the adaptation of ATC operations of the JU, which led to an increased need for ATCO; welcomes the exclusion of legal entities established in Belarus, Russia or non-government- controlled territories of Ukraine from participating in Horizon Europe;

Amendment 3 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Stresses the importance of the Undertaking in achieving the Digital European Sky, resulting in 48 selected projects with a total investment of EUR 350 million;

Amendment 4 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Notes that at the end of 2022, the JU had fully committed the maximum EU operational contribution of €555.8 million for signed grant agreements and contracts under the Horizon 2020 programme; points out that of this committed amount, around €65.7 million (or 11.8 %) remains to be paid in the coming years for projects and contracts yet to be completed;

Amendment 5 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Welcomes that the JU continued to manage 71 projects in exploratory, industrial and validation research, with 300 different beneficiaries, of which nearly 20% are SMEs, 17% are higher education institutions and 9% are research organisations; recalls that the Undertaking creates new opportunities for SMEs;

Amendment 6 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Welcomes that the SESAR innovation pipeline was fully activated in 2022 with the launch of five Digital Sky Demonstrators under the Connecting Europe Facility, on green aviation and urban air mobility;

Amendment 7 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Notes that in 2022, the SESAR 3 JU continued to strengthen its partnership with the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), aiming to foster its cooperation and coordination as part of the service-level agreement (SLA)to task EASA with providing services to the SESAR 3 JU within the area of ATM / air navigation services, including the implementation of the single European sky; stresses the importance of further development in the Single European Sky;

Amendment 8 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Notes that, when determining the error rate, SESAR 3 JU considered the outcomes of the remaining three participations that were being finalised; this resulted in a detected error rate of 2.39 %, with a systematic error of 1.69 % and a residual error rate of 1.75 %; The error rates reported for 2022, annual and cumulative, stayed within the materiality threshold;

Amendment 9 #

Corina CREȚU, Maria GRAPINI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5 b. Notes that in Europe, military aviation encompasses hundreds of military areas and dozens of military airfields. An estimated 30 % of European military flights adhere to general air traffic rules, while the remainder operate as operational air traffic. Military flights are carried out for a wide variety of reasons, including as training exercises, to ensure homeland security (including sovereignty missions) and for the management of cross-border crisis operations; emphasizes for this reason, widespread military involvement in SESAR Solutions is paramount to ensure that effective military missions and airspace use can be integrated with other uses of airspace across Europe;

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2024/01/31 CONT 11 amendments...

Amendment 1 #

Corina CREȚU

Proposal for a decision 1
Paragraph 1

1. Grants the Executive Director of the Single European Sky ATM Research 3 Joint Undertaking discharge in respect of the implementation of the Joint Undertaking’s budget for the financial year 2022 / Postpones its decision on granting the Executive Director of the Single European Sky ATM Research 3 Joint Undertaking discharge in respect of the implementation of the Joint Undertaking’s budget for the financial year 2022;

Amendment 10 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)

31 a. Notes that the implementation of the Sysper Job information system module began during 2022; notes from the Consolidated Annual Activity Report, that the SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking will complete Sysper human resources management System in 2023;

Amendment 11 #

Corina CREȚU, Maria GRAPINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33

33. ~~Not~~Welcomes that the JU has taken corrective action in response to the Court’s observation issued in 2021.;

Amendment 2 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas, to increase transparency, the Joint Undertaking should disclose in its annual accounts, relevant information regarding members’ contributions at programme level; whereas, for each programme under which they operate, the Joint Undertaking should present per member category up to the year-end, all relevant information including the legal contribution targets set for the respective programme, the volume of contributions received, and the volume of legal commitments; suggests that the Joint Undertaking continues to improve transparency;

Amendment 3 #

Ryszard CZARNECKI, Joachim Stanisław BRUDZIŃSKI, Cristian TERHEŞ, Jorge BUXADÉ VILLALBA, Pirkko RUOHONEN-LERNER, Elżbieta RAFALSKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Welcomes the smooth transition to SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking and acknowledges its effective coordination mechanisms;

Amendment 4 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Notes, additionally, the involvement of the SESAR to respond to the illegal and unjustified Russian aggression against Ukraine since some traffic flows were affected, requiring the reworking of ATC operations of the JU;

Amendment 5 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1 b. Welcomes the contribution of SESAR to react to the illegal and unjustified Russian war of aggression against Ukraine as some traffic flows were affected, necessitating the adaptation of ATC operations of the JU, which led to an increased need for ATCO;

Amendment 6 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Notes that the ~~Court considered that the~~ gap between the recognised amount of cash contributions on the one hand and in-kind contributions on the other hand, ishould be addressed ~~in a suboptimal way in the JU’s 2022 annual accounts by not~~by providing information on the JU members’ legal commitments at year end, in terms of signed grant agreements and contracts;

Amendment 7 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Notes that the Court considered that ~~the JU~~half of the JUs, including SESAR 3, lacked a structured risk-based approach to ex-ante controls for Horizon 2020 grants;

Amendment 8 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. ~~Agrees fully with the Court that SESAR should~~Calls on the JU to enhance its risk monitoring approach to ex-ante controls to identify potentially risky beneficiaries currently not included in the population (such as beneficiaries that had never been ex-post audited and newcomers) and risky projects;

Amendment 9 #