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Activities of Gilles LEBRETON related to 2020/2133(INI)

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Amendments (3)

Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that within the EU institutions different legislative measures aimed at preventing conflicts of interest contain varying definitions of the term ‘conflict of interest’; believes therefore that the term should be understood to mean a conflict between the public duty and private interests of a public official or a public decision-maker, in which the public official or public decision-maker has private- capacity interests which could improperly influence the performance of their official duties and responsibilities; notes, however, that a definition of this kind has an evolving nature and that full transparency does not necessarily guarantee the absence of any conflict of interest, nor does it guarantee public trust;
2020/11/25
Committee: JURI
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Considers that for proper expertise to be acquired, the future ethics body should be given broad investigative powers and have a permanent, independent and collegiate structure, and that its composition could be based either on specific institutional positions, such as that of the President of the Court of Justice, or on the nomination of experts by each EU institution;
2020/11/25
Committee: JURI
Amendment 70 #
8a. Stresses, in particular, that this body should examine possible conflicts of interest of Commissioners throughout, and at the end of, their term of office;
2020/11/25
Committee: JURI