Activities of Petri SARVAMAA related to 2022/2101(DEC)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Chemicals Agency for the financial year 2021
Amendments (4)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that the Agency reviewed the programming document for 2019-2023; notes that the Agency achieved 194 out of 214 actions and outputs set in the 2021 work programme and that the 18 actions and outputs not met were mainly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically, to delayed, or less than foreseen, input received from partners; appreciates the KPI’s fulfilled and the fact that the Agency has drawn attention to measures that can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Agency’s work; however points out to the Agency to take note on the indicators that are not achieved or lagging behind.
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Regrets that the high gender imbalance within the Agency’s senior and middle management increased, with 27 (82 %) positions occupied by men and 6 (18 %) by women; notes that the Agency reports, for the management board, a gender balance distribution of 15 men (42 %) and 21 women (58 %) and, for staff overall, 261 men (46 %) and 312 women (54 %); welcomes that in March 2022, ECHA adopted its Charter on Diversity and Inclusion, which aims to increase the ratio of underrepresented genders at both support and management levels; calls on the Agency to take concrete measures to increase gender balance at all levels of hierarchy as soon as possible and report back to the discharge authority;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Insists on the need to put in place more systematic rules on transparency, incompatibilities, conflict of interests, illegal lobbying and revolving doors; notes nevertheless that members of ECHA staff must notify new occupational activities for the first two years after leaving the service of the Agency and that ECHA can forbid the new activity or impose conditions; notes that the ECHA Anti-Fraud Strategy was revised by the ECHA Management Board in December 2016; calls on the Agency to strengthen its internal control mechanisms, including the setting up of an internal anticorruption mechanism;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Welcomes that the Agency introduced a mandate for non-animal methods into its Unit B2; acknowledges that this is a necessary step to the right direction, but it is not sufficient enough; encourages therefore the Agency to work with all stakeholders in order to accelerate the transition to a full use of non-animal methods for chemical safety testing; reiterates that the law requires companies to use alternative methods whenever possible, so companies should only test on animals as a last resort.