30 Amendments of Marc JOULAUD related to 2015/2041(INI)
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that the Commission, Parliament and the Council should record and disclose all input received from lobbyists/interest representatives on draft policies, laws and amendments as a ‘legislative footprint’; suggests that this legislative footprint should consist of a form annexed to reports, detailingin detail all the lobbyists with whom those in charge of a particular file have met in the process of drawing up each report and, a s far as possible, reconrd document listing all written input receivedany written proposals for amendment or voting instructions sent unilaterally by external stakeholders;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls onWelcomes the Commission to expand and improve its existing's initiative as laid out in its decision of 25 November 2014 on the publication of information on meetings held between Members of the Commission and organisations or self- employed individuals; considers that the recording of meeting data shouldalls on the Commission to improve this mechanism, in particular bey expandeding it to include everyone involved in the EU’s policy-maklegislative initiative drafting process;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to make all information con lobby influencecerning meetings with lobbyists easily accessible to the public through one centralised online database;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that, among the Members of the European Parliament, those appointed rapporteur or committee chair have a special responsibility to be transparent about their contactshadow rapporteur should act transparently with regard to their relations with lobbyists in view of their role in EU legislation;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Suggests that the Code of Conduct should be amended so as to make it mandatory also for rapporteurs and committee chairs to adopt the same practshadow rapporteurs to record, within the services of exclusively meeting registered lobbyists and publish information on such meetings online and for rapporteurs to publish a legislative footprint; their parliamentary committee, information concerning their meetings with lobbyists, so that it can be included in the online file at the end of the parliamentary committee procedure; encourages rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs to prioritise, as far as possible, meetings with lobbyists who are on the register;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Proposes that information published online concerning appointments of rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs with lobbyists should include the date, venue, name of the organisation with which the meeting is held, its client, should it have one, and the purpose of the appointment;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Encourages Members of the European Parliament to record voluntarily any appointments they have had with lobbyists in connection with their parliamentary duties, either in person or through their offices, and to make them available to the public online;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Insists that registered law firms should declare in the lobby register all clients on whose behalf they perform covered activitieslobbying activities in the EU institutions that fall within the scope of the register;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Asks the Bureau to restrict access to Parliament’s premises for non-registered organisations or individuals by making all visitors to its premises sign a declaration that they are not lobbyists falling within the scope of the register or otherwise declare their registration, or that they are not present in Parliament in their capacity as a lobbyist;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Believes thatEncourages representations of national, regional and local governments should not fall under the EU lobby register if they have their own mandatory lobby register and do not offer workspace for private or corporate actors within their representationsto set up a lobby register where they are fully publicly funded;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Believes that the members of the Advisory Committee chosen from among Members of the European Parliament should be complemented by a majority of externally chosen members who must bare qualified experts in the field of ethics regulation and should be drawn from an open call and include, in addition to members of civil society;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Believes that the Code of Conduct should be amended to provide for a three- year ‘cooling-off period’ during which Members may not engage in lobbying work in the area ofareas directly linked to their parliamentary responsibilities they held;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls for control of the financing of European political parties to be assigned to a neutral bodyinvolve independent external experts;
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls for citizens to have the same right of appeal when requesting information as they enjoy when requesting specific documents, where that information is of proven public interest;
Amendment 333 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Regrets that the Council’s lack of transparency is having a disproportionately large impact in preventing citizens and national parliaments form holding governments accountable owing to a lack of information on the positions of individual Member Statesrom being properly informed about the activities of their governments; believes that this lack of information is fuelling public mistrust of the European Union;
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Believes, therefore, that preparatory meetings within the Council should be as public as meetings of Parliament’s committeesmore information should be made available to the public on the discussions held during preparatory meetings within the Council;
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
Amendment 358 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Calls on the Presidency of the Council to include all trialogue documentdocuments relating to trialogues held behind closed doors in the documents register to allow for access in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001;
Amendment 376 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Deems it unacceptable that Parliament has less, or less open, access to EU documents in trade negotiations than some members of national parliaments;
Amendment 381 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Calls on the Commission to put into practice alltake account of the Ombudsman’s recommendations in favour of more transparency in trade negotiations;
Amendment 393 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40
40. Believes that, when the Commission engages in tradeinternational negotiations, it should publish the negotiation mandates, all negotiating positions, all requests and offers and all consolidated draft negotiation texts prior to each negotiation round before the negotiations begin, so that the European Parliament and, national parliaments, as well as civil society organisations and the wider public, can make recommendations thereon beforend citizens can take note of them; calls on the Commission to ensure public access to other documents connected to these negotiations are closed for comments and the agreement goes to ratification, provided their publication is no longer liable to affect the course of the negotiations or European interests;
Amendment 402 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
41. Calls onRecommends that the Commission to propose an interinstitutional agreement in orinclude these principles in a guider to codify those principles for all trade negotiationsgood practice applicable to future international negotiations undertaken by the EU;
Amendment 408 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41 a (new)
Paragraph 41 a (new)
41a. Welcomes the Commission's efforts to enhance the transparency of international negotiations and to allow Parliament to be properly informed throughout the negotiation process;
Amendment 413 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
Paragraph 42
42. Believes that decisions taken or prepared in the Eurogroup, in the Economic and Financial Committee, ‘informal’ Ecofin Council meetings and Euro summits must become as transparent and accountable as possible, including through the publication of their minutes;
Amendment 437 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
Paragraph 45
45. Believes that the ongoing review of EU election law should include a rule that persons found guiltylimiting the possibility of running for office for persons convicted of corruption against the EU’s financial interests or within Member States may not run for office in the next two terms of the European Parliament;
Amendment 444 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
Paragraph 46
46. Believes that persons or companies led or owned by such persons who are found guilty of corruptionin which such persons exercise effective control who are convicted of corruption or misappropriation of public funds in the EU should, for at least three years, not be allowed to enter into procurement contracts with the European Union or be allowed to profit from EU funds;