Translation of "Membre du comité de décision du TACRA " (French → English) :

28. Is seriously concerned by the failure of the Agency and its Management Board to effectively address the matter of conflict of interests; takes note that in April 2012 the Agency adopted a revised policy on the handling of conflicts of interests of Scientific Committee members and experts, as well as a breach of trust procedure for Committee members and experts; insists that implementation and concrete results are the only elements to prove the efficiency of the new policy and procedure; believes that the Agency should verify, during 2012, all declarations of interest of experts and Scientific Committee members; therefore, calls o ...[+++]n the Agency to provide data - figures and names included - following the enforcement of this procedure; calls also on the Agency to have verified at least 75 % of the experts' declarations of interest and at least 75 % of the Scientific Committee members' declarations of interest and to provide the discharge authority with the verification results and with an Action Plan with a calendar concerning the rest of the verification process for declarations of interest by the end of August 2012;

10. Welcomes the new procedure for the appointment of Judges and Advocates-General of the Court of Justice and the General Court as provided for in Article 255 of the TFEU, under which the national governments' decision is to be preceded by an opinion on candidates' suitability to perform their duties given by a panel of seven experts, one of whom is to be proposed by the European Parliament; considers that Parliament's Rules of Procedure must provide for a special procedure for the appointment of this member of the panel by decision ...[+++] of the plenary taken on the basis of the opinion of the responsible committee;

for the purpose of appointing Members, and their alternates, of the Economic and Social Committee and of the Committee of the Regions, after the draft decision has been examined by Coreper.

the measures are justified, it shall immediately so inform the Member State which took the initiative and the other Member States; where the decision referred to in paragraph 1 is attributed to shortcomings in the testing standards, the Commission shall, after consulting the parties concerned, bring the matter before the Committee referred to in Article 18(1) within two months if the Member State which has taken the decision intends to maintain it, and shall initiate the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 18(2)’.

7. Points out, as regards the imperatives of transparency, that Decision 1999/468/EC and the abovementioned agreement with the Commission implementing that Decision require the Commission to forward to Parliament, at the same time as to the members of the committees and in accordance with the same conditions, draft meeting agendas, the draft implementing measures which must be submitted to these committees pursuant to the basic act ...[+++]s adopted under the codecision procedure, details of the outcome of votes, the summary records of meetings and the lists of the authorities to which the persons designated by the Member States to represent them belong; points out, further, that, in accordance with the relevant case law, Parliament may seek access to the minutes of the committees;

The Committee has exercised all the functions hitherto assigned to the Short-term Economic Policy Committee set up by Council Decision of 9 March 1960 on coordination of the conjunctural policies of the Member States , the Budgetary Policy Committee set up by Council Decision of 8 May 1964 on cooperation between the competent government departments of Member States in the field of budgetary policy , and the Medium-term Economic Policy Committee set up by Council Decision of 15 April 1964 setting up a Medium-term Economic Policy Commit ...[+++]tee .