10 Amendments of Jean-Pierre AUDY related to 2011/2224(DEC)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that two-thirds from the Agency's budget come from fees and charges paid by the industry, one-third comes from Union subsidy and the initial European Union contribution to the Agency for 2010 amounted to EUR 32 879 000; notes however that EUR 1 318 000, coming from the recovery of surplus, was added to it which, as a result, makes a total European Union contribution of EUR 34 197 000 for 2010;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that under Article 3 of Commission Regulation N° 593/2007 of 31 May 2007 on the fees and charges levied by the European Aviation Safety Agency15 the revenues from fees constitute assigned revenues which can be carried over by the Agency as long as they have not been used and that the positive budget result f; notes that industry receipts may be related to more the year is put into aan one financial year; notes that the reserve that can be used during the subsequent years is based on the budget result for the year; notes that the amount of the reserve decreased over the last two years from EUR 29 000 000 at the end of 2008 to EUR 21 000 000 at the end of 2010;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls once more on the Agency to improve its monitoring system for certification projects to make sure that, over the entire project duration, the fees levied do not deviate significantly from the actual cosfurther take the adequate measures in order to avoid deficiencies that put at risk the transparency of the procurement process as well as the principle of sound financial management;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Agency to inform the discharge authority on the total value of the Framework Contract and to remedyfurther take the adequate measures in order to avoid deficiencies that put at risk the transparency of the procurement process as well as the principle of sound financial management;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Is concernedNotes that, once more, the discharge authority fiounds deficiencies in staff selection procedures which put at risk the transparency of these procedures; acknowledges from the Court of Auditors that there was no evidence that thresholds for being invited to interview or put on the reserve list have been defined before the examination of the applications started; notes that this could be to cover up a situation of nepotism or conflict of interests; asks that everything be done in order to avoid conflict of interests;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Is concernedNotes that the Agency did not inform the discharge authority of the actions taken to redress this situation and make the selection procedures of its experts/staff more transparent as requested in 2009, and took action only in 2010, after the Court of Auditors re-underlined the issue in its reportlthough understands that the matter was addressed in 2010; stresses, once more, that the impact of these deficiencies is even more crucial when considering that the Agency has the following objectives, namely issuing certification specifications, taking decisions regarding airworthiness and environmental certification and conducting standardisation inspections of the competent authorities in the Member States;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Notes that the Agency's technical staff members arneed to be commonly recruited from national aviation authorities and the aviation industry; understands that the staff members must have sufficient and up-to- date technical experience of working in the field of aviation to perform a technical verification of compliance demonstration documents in order to be able to ensure the adequate level of aviation safety as requested by the applicable Union legislation; is concerned however that this situation could causes conflicts of interest if a staff member recruited from an aircraft manufacturer works and takes decisions at the Agency on the certification of the aircraft he/she used to work on while employed by the manufacturer; is seriously concerned that such cases have the potential to put aviation safety at risk in the cases concerned; could, if not detected and adequately managed, result in a conflict of interests situation; notes however that the Agency has put in place a certification procedure where impartiality of the decision-making process is guaranteed through the collegiality of the technical assessments and the decision-making process itself; also understands that the Agency is in the process to set up an Agency wide policy in the area of code of conduct including identification, prevention, monitoring and dealing with the consequences of potential conflict of interest cases which will help the Agency to further improve the identification and handling of conflict of interests situations in a way that aviation safety is not put at risk at any time;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Agency to take duly into consideration the professional background of its staff members in order to avoid any conflict of interest; is of the opinion that anthe Agency employee should not's conflict of interests policy should elaborate to which extent and under which conditions an Agency employee can be involved in the certification of an aircraft on which they worked prior to joining the Agency;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. UrgesCalls on the Agency to inform the discharge authority and the Commission of such cases of conflict of interest and to immediately appoint an independent expert/staff member to verify the decisions taken in these casesadopt effective processes that duly address potential cases of allegations of conflict of interests within the Agency;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Acknowledges that several ‘"very important’" recommendations from the Internal Audit Service (IAS) aimed at reducing outstanding risks to the Agency are still open; urges, therefore, the Agency to inform the disch and arge authority of progress on these recommendations and on the reasons for delaying the implementation of the IAS recommendations on human resources management (i.e. on appraisal reports of directors and on setting individual objectives)currently under review by the IAS;