Amen­de­menten Hazekamp op ontwerp­advies over de kwijting van 2020: Europese Auto­riteit voor voed­sel­vei­ligheid

Draft opinion on 2020 discharge: European Food Safety Authority of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.

Amendment 1
Anja Hazekamp, Mick Wallace

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

Draft opinion

1. Welcomes the contribution of the European Food Safety Authority (the 'Authority') to the safety of the Union food and feed chain, and its considerable efforts in providing risk managers with comprehensive, independent and up-to-date scientific advice on questions linked to the food chain, communicating clearly to the public on its outputs and the information on which they are based, and cooperating with interested parties and institutional partners to promote coherence and trust in the food safety system;

Amendment

1. Welcomes the contribution of the European Food Safety Authority (the 'Authority') to the safety of the Union food and feed chain and to improving animal welfare, urges the Authority to step up its efforts in providing risk managers with timely,
comprehensive, independent and up-to-date scientific advice on questions linked to the food and feed chain, and to communicating more
clearly to the public on its outputs and the information and sometimes lack thereof
on which they are based, to promote coherence and trust in the food safety system;

Amendment 2
Anja Hazekamp, Mick Wallace

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

Amendment

1 a. Believes that the Authority should continue to pay special attention to the public opinion, and commit itself to increased openness, transparency and scrutiny to and by the public and independent scientists;

Amendment 3
Anja Hazekamp

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

Amendment

1 b. Reiterates its regrets that the Authority, in relation to the two-year cooling off period, still includes in its independence policy the obligation to screen experts' interests only in relation to the mandate of the scientific group to which the expert is applying, and reiterates its regrets that the research funding from companies in the Authority's remit is not considered relevant to the cooling off period as long as amounts at stake do not rise above 25 % of the total research budget managed by the expert and/or their research team, and that the threshold is applied to individual sources as opposed to all private sources combined^1a; highlights that the Authorities refusal to address these two very serious issues in relation to the Authorities prevention and management of conflicts of interests is unacceptable and needs to be resolved immediately;

^1a European Parliament decision of 28 April 2021 on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Food Safety Authority for the financial year 2019, P9_TA(2021)0186

Amendment 4
Anja Hazekamp, Mick Wallace

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

Amendment

5 a. Recalls that, in 2020, Parliament adopted two objections to extensions of approval periods of active ingredients used in pesticides which meet the cut-off criteria and should therefore not be authorised for use in the EU^1a, ^1b; urges the Authority to speed up its assessment of all draft review reports of active ingredients and to do all it can to speed up the reassessment process by the Rapporting Member States in order to avoid any new extensions of hazardous pesticides, stresses that the backlog in reassessing biocides is of particular concern as well and increased efforts are needed to resolve this;

^1a European Parliament resolution of 10 June 2021 on Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/745 of 6 May 2021 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 as regards the extension of the approval periods of the active substances aluminium ammonium sulphate, aluminium silicate, beflubutamid, benthiavalicarb, bifenazate, boscalid, calcium carbonate, captan, carbon dioxide, cymoxanil, dimethomorph, ethephon, extract from tea tree, famoxadone, fat distillation residues, fatty acids C7 to C20, flumioxazine, fluoxastrobin, flurochloridone, folpet, formetanate, gibberellic acid, gibberellins, heptamaloxyloglucan, hydrolysed proteins, iron sulphate, metazachlor, metribuzin, milbemectin, Paecilomyces lilacinus strain 251, phenmedipham, phosmet, pirimiphos-methyl, plant oils/rape seed oil, potassium hydrogen carbonate, propamocarb, prothioconazole, quartz sand, fish oil, repellents by smell of animal or plant origin/sheep fat, S-metolachlor, Straight Chain Lepidopteran Pheromones, tebuconazole and urea, P9_TA(2021)0285

^1b European Parliament resolution of 26 November 2020 on Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1511 of 16 October 2020 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 as regards the extension of the approval periods of the active substances amidosulfuron, bifenox, chlorotoluron, clofentezine, clomazone, cypermethrin, daminozide, deltamethrin, dicamba, difenoconazole, diflufenican, fenoxaprop-P, fenpropidin, fludioxonil, flufenacet, fosthiazate, indoxacarb, lenacil, MCPA, MCPB, nicosulfuron, paraffin oils, picloram, prosulfocarb, sulphur, triflusulfuron and tritosulfuron, P9_TA(2020)0325

Amendment 5
Anja Hazekamp, Mick Wallace

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

Amendment

5 b. Stresses that under no circumstances the approval period of Glyphosate should be extended after its expiration date of 16 December 2022;

Amendment 6
Anja Hazekamp, Mick Wallace

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)

Amendment

5 c. Demands a full, independent and completely transparent risk assessment of glyphosate, taking into account all available scientific evidence from international organisations such as the IARC and from peer-reviews independent scientific literature, as well as the sustainability goals of the Green Deal and the Farm to Fork Strategy;

Amendment 7
Anja Hazekamp, Mick Wallace

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

Draft opinion

7. Notes with satisfaction that the Authority is moving towards cutting-edge technologies, incorporating new approach methodologies and artificial intelligence to avoid animal testing methods;

Amendment

7. Notes with satisfaction that the Authority is moving towards cutting-edge technologies, incorporating new approach methodologies and artificial intelligence to avoid animal testing methods, encourages the Authority to even further increase its efforts to protect animal welfare and promote the use of non-animal testing methods, also in its cooperation with other institutions;

Amendment 8
Anja Hazekamp, Mick Wallace

Draft opinion
Paragraph 11

Draft opinion

11. Recommends, based on the facts available, that discharge be granted to the Executive Director of the European Food Safety Authority in respect of the implementation of the Authority's budget for the financial year 2020.

Amendment

11. Recommends, based on the facts available, that discharge should not be granted to the Executive Director of the European Food Safety Authority in respect of the implementation of the Authority's budget for the financial year 2020.