4 Amendments of Mick WALLACE related to 2020/2162(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the European Food Safety Authority's ('EFSA's') contribution to the safety of the Union food and feed chain, and its considerable efforts instresses the need to providinge risk managers with comprehensive, independent and up-to- date scientific advice on questions linked to the food chain, communicating clearly to the public on its outputs and the information on which they are based, and cooperating with interested parties and institutional partners to promote coherence and trust in the food safety system;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that EFSA's final budget of for 2019 was EUR 79 986 785, representing an increase of 1 % compared to 2018; notunderlines that the entire sum derives from the Union budget and this contributes to EFSA's independence; notes with satisfaction that the budget monitoring efforts during 2019 resulted in an implementation rate of 100 % for commitment appropriations and 91 % for payment appropriations;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Reiterates its regrets that the research funding from companies falling under EFSA'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 again for this policy to be updated without delay to order to remove the funding threshold from EFSA's independence policy and ensure experts' interests are considered within the context of EFSA's overall remit, in line with the Parliament's repeated requests on the matter;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes the adoption ofat the Regulation (EU) 2019/13812 (the new Transparency Regulation), which seeksis a direct response to the successful European Citizen's Initiative "Stop Glyphosate", was adopted, seeking to improve the transparency of risk assessment in the food chain, and in particular to strengthen the reliability, objectivity and independence of the studies used by EFSA; notes that during 2019, it invested a total of 3,03 full- time equivalents and just over EUR 196 000 on implementing its policy on independence and the management of conflicts of interest; _________________ 2 Regulation (EU) 2019/1381 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on the transparency and sustainability of the EU risk assessment in the food chain and amending Regulations (EC) No 178/2002, (EC) No 1829/2003, (EC) No 1831/2003, (EC) No 2065/2003, (EC) No 1935/2004, (EC) No 1331/2008, (EC) No 1107/2009, (EU) 2015/2283 and Directive 2001/18/EC (OJ L 231, 6.9.2019, p. 1).