1 Amendments of Simona BONAFÈ related to 2020/2162(DEC)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Invites the European Commission to grant EFSA, in duly justified cases, a set of means to use their budget in the most impactful way which would, inter alia, include the option of hiring contract agents in excess of the establishment plans, for a limited period of time and without exceeding EFSA’s agreed annual budget envelope; considers that such flexibility would allow an acceleration of the recovery of the cumulated backlog of increased work in different areas, mainly due to a big gap in human resource capacity;