15 Amendments of Daniel BUDA related to 2017/2010(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas 2015 and 2016 were the two first full years of the Juncker Commission, which took office in November 2014; whereas President Juncker undertook to place subsidiarity at the heart of the European democratic process and ensure full compliance with the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality throughout the legislative process;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the new Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making, signed by the Presidents of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission in April 2016, includes an undertaking by the three institutions to respect and implement the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas in 2015 the Commission received eight reasoned opinions addressing three Commission proposals; whereas this is the lowest number of reasoned opinions received in a calendar year since the subsidiarity control mechanism was introduced by the Lisbon Treaty in 2009;1a whereas the total number of submissions received that year by the Commission was 350; whereas in 2016 the Commission received 65 reasoned opinions addressing 26 Commission proposals; whereas the total number of submissions received that year by the Commission was 620;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas in 2016 the Commission received 65 reasoned opinions addressing 26 Commission proposals; whereas this is 713% more than the eight reasoned opinions received in 2015, and the third highest in a calendar year since the subsidiarity control mechanism was introduced by the Lisbon Treaty in 2009 (after 84 in 2012 and 70 in 2013)2a; whereas the total number of submissions received that year by the Commission increased significantly to 620;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas, in 2016, the European Parliament officially received 410 communications from national Parliaments, 76 of which were reasoned opinions under Protocol 2 to the Treaties, while the remaining 334 were contributions unrelated to the subsidiarity control mechanism; whereas these figures have increased in comparison with 2015, when nine reasoned opinions and 242 contributions were officially forwarded to the European Parliament2a.
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas, in 2015, the Commission launched the ‘Lighten the load - Have your say' website,2a as well as the REFIT Platform (for effective and efficient regulation), giving stakeholders additional opportunities to notify the Commission of any shortcomings regarding existing regulatory measures, including matters relating to subsidiarity and/or proportionality;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas subsidiarity and proportionality are relevant considerationfundamental principles in the context of retrospective evaluations, which assess whether EU actions and suitability checks, which assess whether actions at EU level are still necessary, whether their objective can be achieved more effectively by other means and whether they are actually delivering the expected results in terms of efficiency, effectiveness, coherence, relevance and EU added value;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Welcomes the fact that, in 2016, the Commission continued putting into practice its reinforced Better Regulation agenda by providing more effective guidance on how to assess subsidiarity and proportionality in the policy-making process, as well as new opportunities for citizens and stakeholders to participate; notes in this connection the smooth functioning of the Commission’s 'Lighten the load — Have your say!’ website and the effective and efficient regulation programme (REFIT), which came into effect in 2016;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Notes that, in 2016, the REFIT platform delivered a first set of recommendations to the Commission on how to simplify and reduce regulatory burdens of existing EU legislation, to which the Commission is responding through the implementation of its 2017 Work Programme.
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Praises the Commission’s commitment to ‘evaluate first’ existing policy frameworks to establish whether they are still 'fit for purpose' and in line with the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality before considering potential legislative changes; considers, in this respect, that the European Union and the authorities of the Member States should work closely together to ensure better monitoring, measurement and evaluation of the actual impact of EU regulation on the economy, social structure and environment in the Member States;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the signature by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission in 2016 of athe new Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making; recalls that the Commission is committed to setting out in its explanatory memoranda an assessment of how its proposals are justified in the light of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Invites national parliaments to clearly indicate from the outset thawhether or not their submission is a reasoned opinion under Protocol (No 2) to the Treaties and thewhat legislative proposal(s) it refers to, to clearly state the de facto and de jure reasons for which it considers that the proposal breaches the subsidiarity principle, to include a brief summary of the argumentation, and to respect the eight- week time limit from the date of transmission of the relevant draft legislative act; notes that this will facilitate a timely, efficient and adequate treatment of reasoned opinions by all the institutions involved;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Is of the opinion that, since the adoption of the Lisbon Treaty, the involvement of national parliaments in EU affairsthe EU legislative procedure has developed significantly, including through their linking upthrough contacts with other national parliaments for example; encourages national parliaments to continue and reinforce inter-parliamentary contacts, also on bilateral basis, as a means of enhancing cooperation between Member States, and to do so with a European vision and in a European spiritin line with the letter and spirit of Union principles, based on the rule of law and fundamental rights; underlines that these contacts and enhanced cooperation can facilitate an exchange of best practices concerning the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Recalls that the ‘yellow card’ procedure has been triggered twice in the past (once in 2012 and once in 2013), which, together with this new ‘yellow card’ procedure, proves that the system functions and that national parliaments fulfil an important role in the legislative procedure at Union level and can easily and in a timely fashion participate in the subsidiarity debate when they wish to do so;