Activities of Pascal DURAND related to 2018/2113(INI)
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Amendments (8)
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Recital M a (new)
Ma. whereas the conditions under which negotiations took place with the United Kingdom on its withdrawal from the European Union were exemplary in terms of their transparency and the involvement of Parliament;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Regrets the fact that the politicisation of the Commission has not been followed by a subsequent Treaty change, which would have enabled the consolidation of the Commission’s role as the European executive branch through the adoption of provisions that would allow holding individual commissioners to account and woulof measures changing its composition and lowering the threshold required for a motion of censure;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Believes the aim of such a review ought to be to transform the Commission into a genuine executive whose members come from a political majority determined by the European elections and are chosen by the President of the Commission for their professional profile and no longer simply on the basis of suggestions by Member States; suggests that the number of Commissioners should be the result of political choices linked to portfolios and no longer be linked to the number of Member States;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Regrets the fact that in the absence of sincere cooperation by the Council, it is not possible to scrutinise the Council's budget through the institutional practice of budgetary discharge by Parliament and that this situation constitutes a serious failure to comply with obligations in the Treaty which stipulate that Parliament shall scrutinise the whole of the Union's budget;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Suggests, so that budgetary control by Parliament may de facto be extended to the whole of the Union budget, starting negotiations between the Council, the Commission and Parliament to ensure Parliament has the right to have access to information on implementation of its budget by the Council, either directly or via the Commission, and that the Council answers written questions from Parliament and attends hearings and debates on the implementation of its budget; considers that should these negotiations fail, Parliament ought to grant discharge to the Commission only and should include in this overall discharge separate resolutions concerning the Union's various institutions, bodies and agencies, thereby ensuring that none of the sections of the EU budget are implemented without due transparency;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on Parliament to reinforce its capacity for assessment of thescrutiny of the preparation and implementation of delegated and implementing acts;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Notes that the transparency and strong involvement of Parliament in the negotiations with the United Kingdom has had a positive impact on their outcome, creating a climate of trust and unity; calls on the Commission to reform its international negotiations practices by drawing inspiration from the working methods set up by the Task Force for the Preparation and Conduct of the Negotiations with the United Kingdom so that the negotiation of other international agreements, including trade agreements, may benefit from the same transparency and inclusiveness;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Undertakes to exercise its prerogatives in order to start up a process of revising the Treaties so the Union may be equipped with a proper constitution establishing a fully functional parliamentary democracy; considers that this democracy should be based on a proper separation of powers, a bicameral parliamentary system in which the Commission would be the government upholding civic, economic, social and environmental rights;