5 Amendments of Eleftherios SYNADINOS related to 2016/2182(DEC)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
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1. Recalls that European Chemicals Agency ('the Agency') is a consolidated entity, in accordance with Article 185 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council1 (Financial Regulation), and it is the driving force among regulatory authorities in implementing the Union's chemicals legislation for the benefit of human safety and health and the environment as well as for innovation and competitiveness; notes that the Agency helps companies to comply with the legislation, advances the safe use of chemicals and provides information on chemicals and addresses chemicals of concern; _________________ 1 Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union and repealing Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (OJ L 298 26.10.2012, p. 1).
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
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2. Notes that in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council2 (REACH Regulation), the Agency is financed through fees paid by industry and by an Union´s balancing subsidy as referred to in Article 208 of the Financial Regulation; welcomes emphatically that in 2015 and contrary to the original assumption and provisions, the Agency was fully financed through higher than expected fee income and by using some of the reserve from the income of previous years for its REACH/CLP operations; _________________ 2 Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), establishing a European Chemicals Agency, amending Directive 1999/45/EC and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/93 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1488/94 as well as Council Directive 76/769/EEC and Commission Directives 91/155/EEC, 93/67/EEC, 93/105/EC and 2000/21/EC (OJ L 396, 30.12.2006, p. 1).
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
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4. Welcomes the qualitative improvement of the way in which information on chemicals is presented on the Agency´s website which helps companies and consumers to make more use of ithis accessible medium;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
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5. With regard to biocidal products notes that, as referred to in Article 208 of the Financial Regulation, in 2015 the Agency collected fee income totalling EUR 5 423 667 (in comparison to just EUR 1 265 774 in 2014), while the Union subsidy amounted to EUR 5 789 000 (in comparison to EUR 5 064 194 in 2014) and that additionally, the received EFTA contributions, including Switzerland, totalled in 2015 EUR 307 791;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
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6. Notes that, in 2015, the recruitment target of the Agency was fully achieved with 98% of posts filled at the end of that year for REACH/CLP and Prior Informed Consent (PIC); notes also that the unexpected high workload in the area of biocides posed a challenge due to limited staffing resources as the percentage of posts filled for biocides was 83%; highlights that since the Agency’s total workload has not decreased during 2015, sufficient human and, financial resourceand logistical resources and appropriations should be allocated;