15 Amendments of Virginie ROZIÈRE related to 2015/2089(INI)
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas, more than 20 years after its official creation, the single market still has gaps, primarticularily because the Member States have not fully transposed or correctly implemented Union legislation;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that improving single market regulation should be both a priority and a shared responsibility of the European Union institutions and the Member States; believes that good legislation should contribute to competitiveness, the creation of jobs and, growth, and must do so in a way that stimulates, rather than frustrthe protection of workers, the environment and consumers, and must thus stimulates, the European economy;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that the principles of subsidiarity is an essential element and must represent the starting point forand proportionality are important aspects of the European Union’s policy formulation;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that the deadlines involved in the subsidiarity mechanism are too short to ensure that parliaments always have timepermit national parliaments to cmonsider in detail aspects of implementation itor respect for other practical matters; considers, therefore, that parliaments should be afforded more time to respond; considers, as well, that a stronger ‘red card’ procedure should be introduced, allowing proposals to be rejected on grounds of lack of conformity with subsidiarity subsidiarity principle in initiatives taken by the European Union;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Believes that single market legislation should be to the benefit of competitiveness, innovation, the protection of workers, the environment and consumers, and growth, and views effective impact assessments as an important tool for informing policymakers on how best toa way of designing regulation to achieve these aims and their single market objectives, without supplanting political decisions and analyses;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Considers that in order to be effective as tools, impact assessments should be prepared on the basis of strong evidence; believstresses that careful consideration of scientific advice should form part of the impact assessment process and, in particular, substantiate how or why policy choices have been made in preparatory phasthey should be based on estimates of the additional economic, social and environmental costs the Member States, which will assist the pould incur if there were no soliutical processon at European level;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Reiterates its position that consultation processes should be opened up and expanded to include submissions on draft impact assessments; believes this is equally important for secondary legislation, which is of great consequence for the implementation of single market regulation and which therefore requires greater transparency and scrutiny;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Believes that widtransparency is essential, especially during the consultation is essentialprocess, particularly with regard to informal groupings, such as expert groups involved in standardisation activities; considers the proper balancing of these groups, the publication of documents and evidence, and the invitation to all stakeholders to contribute effectively to the development of policy in this area, to be an important driver for innovation and the strengthening of the single market, particularly with regard to the Digital Single Market agenda;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Believes that the analysis should also undertake to identify instances of gold- plating, which present similar challenges for people and businesses seeking to understand and apply law originating at EU level; stresses in this context that Member States which adopt regulation to attain a higher level of protection of workers, the environment and consumers should not be regarded as practising gold-plating;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Stresses that one-stop shops in support of dispute resolution of the SOLVIT, ECC-Net or FIN-Net type are services which improve the functioning of the internal market; calls on the Commission to deploy resources to publicise these tools and to develop their complementarities;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Urges the Commission to undertake infringement proceedings where evidence exists to demonstrate a failure of implementation and where reasonable efforts to solve problems through tools such as EU Pilot or SOLVIT have failed; considers that while action should be taken in all applicable cases, the Commission could further prioritise action to tackle those infringements that are most significant in economic, social or environmental terms;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Considers, however, that analysis should be improved as regards to whether the legislative steps taken so far have contributed effectively to achieving an aim, and whether they still remain necessary; believes, in this context, that a rolling target for administrative and regulatory burden reduction can make a positive contribution to ensuring that aims are met in the most efficient way possible;
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Notes that the cumulative cost of unjustified regulation often represents a barriers for participants in the single market, particularly for SMEs; welcomes, therefore, the commitment by the Commission to examine this issue; underlines, however, that any such analysis should only address economic factors and should not be equated with a broader impact assessment, which includes assessments of other elementmust take into account not only economic factors but also objectives of protection of workers, the environment and consumers;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Considers also that improving single market regulation does not mean removing all regulation, but rather delivering a competitive regulatory environment that supports employment and, enterprise, workers, the environment and consumers within Europe;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32