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19. Welcomes the fact that after the former Head of the Legal Service left the Agency in June 2012 to join a US-based law firm having a number of pharmaceutical industry companies as clients as senior counsel, the Executive Director of the Agency launched a review of his work as Head of the Legal Service, Chair of the Joint Committee, Chair of the Disciplinary Committee and as a member of the Advisory Committee on Procurement and Contracts; acknowledges that no evidence of conflicts of intere ...[+++]st nor breach of obligations provided in Articles 11 and 11a of the Staff Regulations could be identified; welcomes the fact that in accordance with Article 16 of the Staff Regulations, the Executive Director imposed some restrictions to the activities of the former Head of Legal Service for a period of two years following his leaving the Agency; calls on the Agency to provide the discharge authority with detailed information on those restrictions;

29. Recalls that, following the employment of the Agency's former Executive Director by a consultancy that advises, among others, pharmaceutical companies almost immediately after he left the Agency, the discharge authority raised concerns over the actual independence of the Agency and the way in which its Management Board implemented Article 16 of the Staff Regulations; is furthermore concerned by the allegations that the Agency's former Executive Director created his own consultancy firm while still in office; calls on the Agency to provide the discharge authority with fu ...[+++]rther information on this matter by 30 June 2012;

29. Recalls that, following the employment of the Agency's former Executive Director by a consultancy that advises, among others, pharmaceutical companies almost immediately after he left the Agency, the discharge authority raised concerns over the actual independence of the Agency and the way in which its Management Board implemented Article 16 of the Staff Regulations; is furthermore concerned by the allegations that the Agency's former Executive Director created his own consultancy firm while still in office; calls on the Agency to provide the discharge authority with fu ...[+++]rther information on this matter by 30 June 2012;

18. Takes note of the employment of the Agency's former Executive Director by a consultancy that advises, among others, pharmaceutical companies on developing new medication and reducing the period to their market introduction; stresses that this move casts some doubt on the actual independence of the Agency; notes that Article 16 of the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union grants wide discretionary power on the Management Board to allow or forbid this ty ...[+++]pe of employment; notes that after consenting to the future employment of the Agency's former Executive Director, the Management Board eventually decided to set limitations with regards to his new and future professional activities; asks, nevertheless, that the Agency provides the discharge authority, by 30 June 2011, with a report that lists all comparable cases that have occurred since the creation of the Agency and explains thoroughly the Management Board's decision in each case;