Activities of Anneli JÄÄTTEENMÄKI related to 2018/2198(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Chemicals Agency for the financial year 2017
Amendments (2)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes that the fees paid by industry vary substantially year by year, which complicates budget planning and that fees paid with regard to one regulation can only be used in that section of the Agency’s budget, which can mean surplus in one section and deficit in other sections of the budget; recommends it to be considered whether collected fees could be transferred to the Union budget while the Agency would be fully financed by the Union budget through one subsidy amount covering all regulations that the Agency implements.
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Acknowledges the challenges for ECHA in verifying the correctness of its fee income, in particular with respect to the substantial fee reductions provided for in the law for SMEs; welcomes in this respect the Agency's proactive approach but recalls that a financial ex-post verification of each registrant's size is not specified in legislation as a core task of ECHA and that the agency has not been staffed to carry out this financial work; calls on the Commission to ensure that ECHA is properly resourced to ensure the effective and proportionate verification of its fee income in a timely manner;