6 Amendments of Jutta PAULUS related to 2019/2078(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Notes with concern that the Authority, as one of the Union regulatory agencies responsible for risk assessment of regulated products, does not receive sufficient resources to carry out effectively its responsibilities; insists that the Authority is granted sufficient resources to carry out its tasks;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes that, following adoption of its new policy on independence in 2017, the Authority has in 2018 for the first time included a new annex to its consolidated annual report, dedicated to implementation of the Authority’s policy on independence; notes with satisfaction that the two-year cooling off periods requested by the European Parliament was enforced for the first time during the 2018 scientific panel selection process;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Regrets that, in relation to the two- year cooling-off period, the 2017 independence policy includes the obligation to screen experts' interests only in relation to the mandate of the scientific group to which the expert is applying; calls for the policy to be updated without delay in order to ensure that experts' interests are viewed within the context of the overall remit of the Authority, as repeatedly called for by Parliament;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. Regrets that the research funding from companies in the Authority's remit is not considered relevant to the cooling-off period as long as amounts at stake do not rise above 25 % of the total research budget managed by the expert and/or their research team, and that the threshold is applied to individual sources as opposed to all private sources combined; calls for the funding threshold to be removed from the Authority's independence policy, in line with Parliament's repeated requests on the matter;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7 c. Recalls that the Authority already has the possibility to organise expert hearings to which they can invite any expert, regardless of any conflict of interest, to answer questions posed by a scientific panel without the expert having the right to participate in the panel's deliberations and drafting of the opinion;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 d (new)
Paragraph 7 d (new)
7 d. Recalls that the revised Regulation (EC) No 178/20021a will require the Authority to pro-actively make regulatory data, that has been submitted by applicants, available to be downloaded, printed and searched through in an electronic format; whereas this will allow the Authority to benefit from extended peer review of the scientific community; recalls that this transparency requirement is indispensable for industry-sponsored research but it cannot be used as an argument to refuse academic data using data kept confidential for legitimate reasons, such as patients' personal medical records; _________________ 1aRegulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2002 laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety (OJ L 031 1.2.2002, p. 1).