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Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4

Conflict of interest and Transparency

2013/02/27
Committee: CONT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Regrets that according to the findings of the Court of Auditors, at the time of completion of the field work (October 2011), the Authority did not adequately manage conflict of interest situations; notes, however, that in the meantime the Authority had already developed advanced policies for managing conflicts of interest;

2013/02/27
Committee: CONT

Monica MACOVEI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9 a. Acknowledges the Authority's efforts to improve its prevention and management of conflict of interests; notes however that the independence and competence of its external experts remain questioned by watchdog NGOs or even fellow food safety experts as for instance in the case of the working group on endocrine disruptors experts; underlines that as a consequence the Authority's work is challenged such as during the Joint JRC-NIEHS Workshop on Low Dose Effects of Endocrine Active Chemicals in Berlin in December 2012;

2013/02/27
Committee: CONT

Monica MACOVEI, Petri SARVAMAA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9 b. Is of the opinion that watchdog NGOs can provide additional valuable inputs to the Authority in order to assess its expert's independence; encourages therefore the Authority to engage in a constructive dialogue with these NGOs;

2013/02/27
Committee: CONT

Monica MACOVEI, Petri SARVAMAA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)

9 c. Notes that the Management Board elected its Chair in a publicly-held meeting; recalls however that in the 2010 discharge procedure the Parliament called for an open ballot for electing the Management Board's Chair and expects its request to be implemented;

2013/02/27
Committee: CONT

Monica MACOVEI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Notes that the guidelines of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, on which the Court of Auditors has based its work on the Special Report No 15/2012, while offering an international benchmark on the issue, are not designed for an agency, and they do not meet the specific needs of the decentralised agencies; commends the Commission's intention to come up with guidelines on the management of conflicts of interest, as provided for in its ‘Roadmap on the follow-up to the Common Approach on EU decentralised agencies’;deleted (Justification: this paragraph is better placed in the horizontal report rather than in a specific report)

2013/02/27
Committee: CONT

Monica MACOVEI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10 a. Underlines the Authority's commitment to launch in October2012 its first evaluation of a random sample of declarations of interest to verify their coherence with its newly adopted independence policy and implementing rules; notes however that protocols still needed to be completed, which led to the postponement of the evaluation; calls on the Authority to inform the discharge authority on the reasons behind this delay and on the calendar foreseen for the organisation of the evaluation;

2013/02/27
Committee: CONT

Monica MACOVEI, Petri SARVAMAA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

112 a. Welcomes that the curriculum vitae of the Authority's Executive Director, Senior management and panel experts are now available on its website together with their respective declaration of interest; notes the Authority's efforts for greater transparency but remains of the opinion that these provisions should also apply to any in-house expert, as expressed during the 2010 discharge procedure; understands that work on this issue is ongoing; calls on the Authority to inform the discharge authority of the progress made on this matter as soon as possible; Or. en OJ L 350, 20.12.2012, p. 77.

2013/02/27
Committee: CONT

8 Amendments of Monica MACOVEI related to 2012/2196(DEC)

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