15 Amendments of Sophia IN 'T VELD related to 2015/2287(INI)
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recalls that any decision denying public access to documents must be based on clearly and strictly defined legal exemptions, accompanied by reasoned and specific justification, allowing the citizen to understand the denial of access, and to make effective use of the legal remedies available;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Urges the Commission to designate a Commissioner to be responsible for transparency and public access to documents; calls upon the Commission Vice-President to present an ambitious plan of action regarding transparency and public access to documents in the meantime and within the shortest delay, for transparency is the cornerstone of better regulation;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Deplores the fact that it is still difficult for citizens to gain access to information held by EU institutions, the reason being that there is no effective citizen-oriented interinstitutional policy based on complete transparency, communication, and direct democracy; urges the institutions to take a proactive attitude bly disclosinge as many of their documents as possible in asthe most simple and accessible a way as possible for the public, having documents translated into all of the EU official languages, and establishing proper information access arrangements allowing for the needs of people with disabilities;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Deplores the fact that the EU institutions and bodies have not followed up the Parliament's recommendation of its previous resolution on public access to documents that each EU institution or body appoint from within its management structures a Transparency Officer, to be responsible for compliance and for improving practices; urges the institutions to do so within the shortest delay;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls upon the EU institutions, bodies and agencies to adopt faster, less cumbersome and more accessible procedures for handling complaints against refusals to grant access, as to reduce the need for litigation;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Urges the Parliament to proactively disclose feedback notes from parliamentary committee coordinators' meetings, as recommended by the European Ombudsman;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Urges all the institutions, pending its desired revision, to apply Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 into the proper mannerletter and spirit of the Regulation and the subsequent jurisprudence; calls on the Council in particular to revise its rules, with a view to ensuring that all discussions, documents, and information are made public, and to produce transcripts of its public meetings;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the EU institutions, bodies and agencies to adopt the recommendations put forward by Parliament in its previous resolution on public access to documents;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on all institutions to evaluate and, where necessary, review their internal arrangements for reporting wrongdoing, and calls for the protection of whistleblowers; calls, in particular, on the Commission to report to Parliament on its experiences with the new rules on whistleblowing for EU staff adopted in 2012 and with their implementing measures; calls on the Commission to come forward with a proposal to protect whistleblowers, not only morally but also financially, in order to properly protect and support whistleblowers as part of the democratic system;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Reiterates its position that clear and uniform rules should be established for the classification and declassification of documents, and that an independent oversight authority should oversee the classification and declassification processes within the EU institutions;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Reiterates its call on the institutions to assess and publicly justify requests for in camera meetings in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission, the Council and Parliament, to ensure greater transparency of informal trilogues, by holding meetings in public, publishing documentation including calendars, agendas, minutes, documents examined, amendments, decisions taken, information on Member State delegations and their positions and minutes, in a standardised and easily accessible online environment, by default and without prejudice to the exemptions listed in Article 4(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Deplores the fact that citizens have no power to supervcrutinise trilogue negotiations; expresses concern atwith the abuses to which this legislative practice might lead, in particular aswith regards to the role of lobbies and possible disparities in the treatment of personsintroduction of new elements of legislation during trilogues without a Commission proposal or Parliamentary amendment seekrving to keep abreast with developments in European legislationas a basis, through which the ordinary legislative procedure and public scrutiny can be circumvented;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Deplores the fact that, due to leaking of formal and informal trilogue documents, unequal access to documents, and therefore to the legislative process, is enjoyed by the knowledgeable and well connected interest groups; notes that document leaking would occur to a lesser extent once trilogue documents will be proactively published on an easily accessible platform without delay;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Points out to the Commission that it is required to inform Parliament fully and immediately at every stage while negotiations are taking place, and to assess at every stage which documents and information can proactively be made public;