Activities of Alviina ALAMETSÄ related to 2022/2113(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union Agency for Railways for the financial year 2021
Amendments (5)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes that, following the full transposition of the technical pillar of the fourth railway package in October 2020, the Agency has successfully and in a timely manner delivered authorisations for placing 1260 railway vehicles on the market, 41 single safety certificates for railway undertakings and 2 ERTMS trackside approvals despite the significant increase in the number of applications received in 2021; recalls that the ERTMS is a horizontal priority within the Trans- European Transport Network and the importance of completion of ERTMS by 2030 as a matter of urgency;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Salutes that the Agency has continued to successfully deliver its tasks in the field of EU rail interoperability, safety and harmonisation; welcomes the continuous commitment from the Agency to the objective of creating a Single European Railway Area; recalls the important role of rail in ensuring sustainable travel and freight throughout the Union for decades to come, and the primary importance that should thus be attached to the agency's work;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Commends the Agency continuous effort to improve its efficiency and budget execution through its Strengthening Plan drafted in 2021; notes however that these efforts cannot compensate the insufficient budget of the Agency; notes the systematic budget outruns reported by the agency;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recalls that the Agency has the smallest budget among the transport agencies and that this trend continued even throughout the European Year of Rail, despite the outstanding environmental performance and other benefits of rail transport, which the Commission established as one of its priorities with the Action plan to boost long distance and cross-border passenger rail, as part of the Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy; calls for an increase of the budget of the Agency in order to provide it with the necessary means to enable it to act as an efficient authority and to fulfil its tasks, particularly those with regard to increasing competitiveness, improving safety and cross-border interoperability; demands that the agency's budget progressively matches the level of other transport sector agencies, and that, at the very least, for the next Union budget it is above that of Joint Undertakings in other transport modes, such as SESAR and Clean Sky 2;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Welcomes the efforts made by the agency to improve the gender balance within its Management Boards, Senior Management, and staff in general and commends the improvements achieved on this end so far; notes, however, that there still exists a significant imbalance in the gender ratio at all levels in the agency, and that no clear overview of staff figures at all levels of staff was presented in the consolidated staff figures of agencies; urges the agency to keep working on their improvements in this regard, and looks forward to seeing the results of the gender audit planned for Q4 2022;