1 Amendments of Piernicola PEDICINI related to 2014/2108(DEC)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Encourages the Authority to continue paying special attention to the public opinion and to commit itself as much as possible to anto guaranteeing even greater openness and transparency; welcomes, in this respect, the implementing rules for its Policy on Independence and Scientific Decision- Making Processes as adopted by the Authority's Management Board in December 2011; welcomes in this context the improved presentation and accessibility of information and documents on the Authority's homepage; calls on the Authority's Board of Management to introduce a mechanism for the automatic removal of members of the assessment panel should previously unregistered conflicts of interest come to light with regard to them; urges the Authority to consider the possibility of introducing contractual clauses to ensure compliance with the rules concerning conflict of interest, including the appointment of experts after they leave the EFSA; also calls for provisions to ensure that members of the panel are excluded from the assessment of products of companies with which they have had professional relations;