Activities of Rebecca TAYLOR related to 2013/2077(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on EU Regulatory Fitness and Subsidiarity and Proportionality - 19th report on Better Lawmaking covering the year 2011 PDF (219 KB) DOC (102 KB)
Amendments (10)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 a (new)
Citation 14 a (new)
- having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions of 30 May 2013),
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that legislation proposed and adopted at the European level should be simple, easy to understand and accessible to allffective and efficient, provide a clear added value, be easy to understand and accessible to all as well as deliver full benefits at minimum costs; recognises that the economic crisis has put increased strain on the resources of national administrations, and believes that a commitment towards producing clear and easily transposable legislation would help alleviate some of this stress;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Believes that better lawmaking should be pursued in the spirit of multilevel governance, i.e. through coordinated action by the EU, national institutions and local and regional authorities;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls on the Commission to increase the review of the application of the principle of proportionality, especially with regard to the use of Articles 290 and 291 TFEU on delegated and implementing acts;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 – indent 3
Paragraph 12 – indent 3
– complete the Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme (REFIT) evaluations in key policy areas before the end of the current legislative term; including input from all levels of government in the principal sectors that are of concern to local and regional authorities;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Emphasises the significance of simplification for streamlining the regulatory environment, especially for local and regional authorities, whose resources for the implementation of legislation are often limited and diminishing;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14 b. Understand "goldplating" to be the practice whereby Member States, in transposing EU Directives into national law, go beyond the minimum requirements, therefore calls on Member States to specify, in cases where goldplating is undertaken, the reasons for doing so;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Welcomes the fact that the Commission's impact assessments attempt to cover a wide and comprehensive range of potential impacts, but believes that the system could still be strengthened in a number of ways; such as including the territorial dimension (financial and administrative implications on national, regional and local authorities) in this regard, is encouraged by the Commission's decision to update, consolidate and revise its Impact Assessment Guidelines by June 2014, and reserves the right to make a detailed contribution setting out potential improvements to those guidelines in the coming months;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to strengthen the role and independence of the Impact Assessment Board, and to involve local and regional authority interest in the deliberations as the level of governance most likely to be involved in the implementation, and in particular only to finalise and present legislative proposals where they have been approved with a favourable opinion by the Impact Assessment Board;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Welcomes the positive development of the Directorate for Impact Assessment and European Added Value within Parliament; believes that a systematic approach to the consideration of impact assessments should be adopted throughout Parliament; welcomes the preparation by the Impact Assessment Directorate of short summaries of the impact assessments accompanying Commission proposals, and considers that these should form a essential element of committees' consideration of legislative proposals being debated; proposes that the EP's impact assessments should include a territorial dimension when appropriate; requests the Conference of Committee Chairs to consider how best to implement this recommendation;