11. Welcomes the Agency's initiative to publish on its website the declarations of interests of its staff occupying management positions and of the experts involved in the evaluation of medicinal products; notes with interest that the list of experts also indicates their risk level in terms of conflict of interest; welcomes the Agency's commitment to publish next to the declarations of interest the professional and educational profiles of the scientific experts belonging to its Expert Database from the first quarter of 2013 and will follow closely the publication process during the future discharge procedures;

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;

It also ensures that, when using delegated powers, the Commission will consult a variety of experts – Commission experts, Member State experts, non-governmental experts and Parliament’s experts.

I'd start there, and I would further provide resources to groups that want to participate in it, because it's not the kind of process that you can participate in without expert help (1215) Mr. Inky Mark: Well, I hate to disappoint you, but we'll be lucky if we get the regulations before this standing committee before they're enacted.

For this purpose, both the Head of the Unit to which it is intended to assign the national expert, and the national expert must declare in writing that there is no risk of a conflict of interests between the tasks the national expert performs for his/her employer or the professional activities of his/her close family, and the tasks entrusted to him or her as a seconded national expert.

The good news is that we are introducing new fleets so quickly that at times I am sending them into Afghanistan to let the smart young men and women in uniform to figure out, with a bit of assistance from technical experts from the industry, how to use them better, faster and smarter.