Translation of "Présidente du Conseil synodal " (French → English) :

Speaker of the Federation Council.

7. Has already addressed certain shortcomings in connection with conflicts of interest, declarations of interests and transparency; stresses that the former Chairperson of the Management Board of the Authority failed, in 2010, to declare her membership of the board of the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), even though the ILSI is financed by undertakings in the food, chemicals and pharmaceuticals sectors; notes that the members of the Authority’s Management Board are not appointed by the Executive Director and, hence, cannot be dismissed by the Executive Director;

6. Welcomes the organisation of a mandatory session on ethics and integrity for all members of the Management Board scheduled for October 2012, and calls on the Management Board to enforce effectively its code of conduct and to adopt provisions to prevent and penalise revolving-door cases in the future, in order to avoid situations similar to that which affected its former Chairperson in 2010;

It follows an application by the European Commission on behalf of the EU for permanent observer status on the Arctic Council co-signed by Vice President Ashton and Commissioner Damanaki as well as a visit by High Representative / Vice President Ashton to the Arctic (Rovaniemi, Kiruna and Svalbard) in March 2012.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the Council, the Commission, the parliaments and governments of the Member States, the Parliamentary Assemblies of the OSCE and the Council of Europe and the Parliament and Government of Belarus.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the High Representative / Vice-President, the Council and the Commission, to the Governments and the Parliaments of the Member States, to the Egyptian Government, to the UN Secretary General and the UN Human Rights Council.