European Parliament
João Ferreira  (GUE/NGL ),
in writing.
(PT)
We support the rapporteur’s position on delaying discharge for the European Environment Agency (EEA) for the financial year 2010. We believe that conflicts of interest involving senior agency officials and the uncertainty over the real value of the reports it has produced should be clarified. These conflicts relate to the build-up of management functions in organisations that have projects funded by the EEA. We also support the call for greater transparency in terms of preventing and combating conflicts of interest. Some of the proposals made by the rapporteur are along these lines, such as the proposal to publish senior EEA officials’ declarations of interest on the agency’s website.

