10 Amendments of Constance LE GRIP related to 2014/2253(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9
Citation 9
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the Commission’s 30th and 31st annual reports on the application of EU law, and notes that, according to these reports, the mainfour fields inwith regard to which Member States have failed to correctly implement EU law during the year 2012 weremost often had infringement proceedings launched against them for delays in transposition were, in 2012, transport, protection of health and consumers, protection of the environment, and issues related to the internal market and services, whereas in 2013 the most problematic areas were the environment, protection of health and consumers, the internal market and services, and transport;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the decrease in late transposition infringements in 2012 compared to the previous year was mainly due to the fact that there were less directives to transpose in 2012 compared to the previous years; recognises, however, that the statistics for the year 2013 show a real decrease in late transposition infringements, with the number of such infringements reaching a 5-year low at the end of that year, which could be seen as a positive outcome of the introduction in Article 260(3) TFEU of, in 2013 and, to a large extent, over the past five years, can be explained on the one hand by the increased utilisation of EU Pilot and other mechanisms – including Solvit2 – which are aimed at facilitating problem resolution and promoting respect for the rules, and on the other hand, by the ‘fast-track’ procedure for penalties in cases of non-transposition provided for by Article 260(3) of the TEU;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Points out thatStresses the positive link between the increase in the number of new EU Pilot files during the period under examination and the decrease in the number of open infringement cases show that enforcement of EU law is neither sufficiently transparent nor subject to any real control by the complainants and the interested parties, and regrets; regrets, however, that, despite its repeated requests, Parliament still has inadequate access to information about the EU Pilot procedure and pending cases;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Emphasises that the EU has been set up as a Union based on the rule of law and respect of human rights (Article 2 TEU), reiterates that careful monitoring of Member States’ and EU institutions’ acts and omissions is of utmost importance, and expresses its concern at thepoints out that the high – and increasing – number of petitions to the European Parliament and complaints to the Commission concerning problems supposedly resolved by thereflects a growing engagement and interest among citizens in seeing EU law better implemented by the Member States and in seeing improved monitoring of implementation by the European Commission;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Questions the oft-expressed view of the Commission that the Memoranda of Understanding are not EU acts and that the CFREU is therefore not applicable to them,4 and wishes to point outRecalls that all EU institutions, even when they act as members of groups of international lenders (‘troikas’), are bound by the Treaties and the CFREU; regrets that the annual reviews by the Commission, the ECB and the Council of economic adjustment programmes for members of the euro area have imposed on EU Member States obligations which run contrary to the objectives and values of the Union as expressed in the Treaties and the CFREU; __________________ 4 See, for instance, the Commission’s answers to written questions by Members of the European Parliament: E-7535/2014, E-7778/2014 and E-10616/2014.
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Encourages the EU institutions to continue to assume their duty to respect primary EU law when they create rules of secondary EU law or decide policies in a number of areas, and also to assume their duty to assist, by all means available, EU Member States in their efforts to respect the values and the principles of the Union in times of austerity and budgetary constraints;