97 — on 9 June 2011 EMa adopted rules relating to articles 11a and 13 of the staff regulations concerning the handling of declared interests of EMa employees (EMa/500408/2011) which officially entered into force, following the agreement of the European commission, on 1 february 2012. these rules were subsequently extended by decision of the Executive director of 1 february 2012 to trainees, national experts on secondment, interims and visiting experts (EMa/78396/2012). recommendation 1 EMa notes the court’s recommendation and would like to emphasise that it is continuously monitoring its handling of conflicts of interests (both from a policy and implementation perspective) and introducing remedial action whenever necessary. documented evidence to support this statement is referred to in various sections of this report. recommendation 2 EMa notes the court’s recommendation but would like to emphasise that, in line with EMa’s founding regulation, scientific committees’ members and experts first need to be nominated after which they need to be included in the European expert list (inclusion is only possible once the nomination form, the declaration of interests and confidentiality undertaking form and the curriculum vitae have been submitted). only when this has been completed they may be appointed for involvement in EMa activities, but prior to such appointment an evaluation by EMa of the individual’s declared conflicts of interests takes place, resulting, where applicable, in restricted or refused involvement, depending on the nature of the declared interest, the timeframe during which such interest occurred and the type of EMa activity. this shows EMa had already acted upon this recommendation prior to the court’s audit field work in october 2011. in addition, since 29 september 2011 EMa has introduced a compulsory screening of the declared conflicts of interests of scientific committees’ members prior to any formal nomination by the competent authority, in order to inform the nominating authority in advance in case of incompatibility of the declared conflicts of interests with the scientific committee membership, or of the extent of the imposed restrictions. in addition, EMa offers to any nominating authority the possibility of pre-screening by EMa of any expert prior to the formal EMa evaluation for involvement in an EMa activity. rEply of tHE EuropEaN MEdICINES agENCy However, EMa is of the view that further broadening this concept of screening as recommended by the court is not feasible taking into account the nomination process laid down in EMa’s founding regulation. rather EMa considers that full transparency in the field of the handling of conflicts of interests, combined with a robust ex-post control check and a Breach of trust procedure add more value to a strengthening of the handling of conflicts of interests. 
97 — EMA antog den 9 juni 2011 bestämmelser som rör artiklarna 11a och 13 i tjänsteföreskrifterna om hantering av intressekonflikter för anställda vid EMA (EMA/500408/2011), som officiellt trädde i kraft den 1 februari 2012 efter godkännande av Europeiska kommissionen. Dessa bestämmelser utvidgades sedan genom verkställande direktörens beslut av den 1 februari 2012 till att även omfatta praktikanter, utstationerade nationella experter, tillfälliga och besökande experter (EMA/78396/2012).