Activities of Alviina ALAMETSÄ related to 2021/2156(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking (now the Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking) for the financial year 2020
Amendments (7)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Congratulates the slight increase of underrepresented Member States’ participants in the 2020 Call, thanks to the efforts made by the Undertaking and the increase of TRL of the Programme; welcomes the ongoing work on collaboration agreements with various European regions and European and international organizations and bodies in order to increase synergies with other Union programmes and funds; welcomes in particular the signature of a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Basque Region on 22 January 2020;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Welcomes the research and innovation efforts of the Undertaking to achieve a more sustainable, reliable and attractive railway system to Europe, thereby contributing to the resilience of the rail sector which enabled maintaining the supply chain during the COVID-19 outbreak;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5 c. Welcomes the fact that the Undertaking carried out a staff survey for the first time and that an action plan was drawn up as a consequence, in order to address the key aspects resulting from it, including the establishment of a “well being training programme” to accompany the staff during the pandemic situation;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5 d. Notes the Undertaking detailed reply in the framework of the 2020 ECA report on the status of the unfulfilled requirement to publish up-to-date CVs or conflict of interest declarations of its Governing Board members on its website, as required by the Governing Board’s Decision 07/2018 adopting the rules on the prevention and management of conflicts of interests applicable to the bodies of the JU;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 e (new)
Paragraph 5 e (new)
5 e. Commends the Undertaking’s continued reporting, since 2018, on its contribution to the attainment of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and in particular through the reduction of the life-cycle cost of the railway transport system as well as the negative externalities linked to railway transport; expects the same level of reporting and overall efforts from bodies related to other modes of transport, with higher negative externalities, as a necessary contribution towards their due internalisation;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 f (new)
Paragraph 5 f (new)
5 f. Welcomes, in coincidence with the designation of 2021 as the European Year of Rail, the Undertaking's upgrade in the new Horizon Europe programme into a new partnership named Europe's Rail, in order to contribute further to a modal shift towards rail, in line with the Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy and the broader European Green Deal objectives;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Highlights the need to employ opportunities for funding of programmes andfurther develop synergies between the new partnership and existing funding mechanisms and to employ opportunities for projects funded under EU programmes such as Connecting Europe Facility, Digital Europe Plan, European Regional Development Fund and Cohesion Fund., as well as InvestEU;